The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1926, Page 1

ENB NAMENLI RNA The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. THE DAILY WOPKER. Rotered as Gecond-clas matter September £1, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, iets, under the Act of March 3, 1819, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1926 a> U.S. WAR MV FERDIE NOT SO. | mazvo ras | HL BUT MARIE “| 9 Be in Seclusion "Till ‘the chamber of com- rbd Henry Ford, an- Boat Sails organized labor. “exposed” Ford’s five- BULLETIN | (Special to The Dally Worker) He said that “Ford | jay week plan as a advertising when he fo cut down produc- | 1 oNDON, Nov. 19—An atmosphere of mystery as to the exact reasons for Queen Marie's abandonment of ther American tour was created this afternoon when the following tele gram was received here from the for- Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER In Chicago, by mati, $8.00 per year. PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. “ |} "Vol. I. No. 265 Price 5 Cents U.S. VIOLATES SOVEREIGNTY OF LATIN COUNTRY Land Marines for War in Republic (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Nov. 19.—Declar- jing that the United States has no |more right to intervene in Nicaragua | than any other country, General Obre- | gon, perhaps the most powerful pollt- | eal figure in Mexico said: “The con- | flict there Ie domestic. Any inter- | vention Is In violation of Nicaragua's Subscription Rates: N HITS NE ¥ We Must Raise $3,000 by |WOOD'S ACTION DIAZ WOULD GIVE U. S. BANKERS CONTROL OF - ~ NICARAGUAN FINANCES (Speciat to The Daily Worker) MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 19.— | As if he is anxious to demonstrate his servility to American capitalists as soon as possible after they en- gineered his election as president, President Diaz has offered to sell to the Guaranty Trust company of New York controlling interest on the | Nicaraguan National bank. The bank is owned by the Nicara- | guan government. Diaz, it is announced, has made a definite offer to the New York capitalists to sell them 51 per cent of the bank’s stock. The bank has paid 16 2-3 per cent dividends on the atock. Diaz excuse for the sale is that EDGERTOR, ARCH-ENEMY LAUNCHES AN IS ATTEMPT T0 ROB FILIPINGS U. S. Capitalists Will Get Hage Holdings WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 18— “Governor General Wood's action In abolishing the board of control of corporations owned by the Philippine government constitutes one of the most regrettable chapters ‘in the his tory of the American occupation of the Philippines,” V. G. Bunuan, direc- ~ Tuesday to Keep Our Daily _. By G. E, RUTHENBERG, General Secretary , Workers (Communist) Party. & DAILY WORKER must raise $3,000 by Tuesday, Novem- ‘ ~ 23, thru contribution to the Keep The DAILY WORKER und. : in order to meet notes falting due, which were given in pay- | . ment for supplies, payrolls of our printing plant and paper bills, which invelve the life of our paper, $3,000 must be secured in| addition to the regular income of The DAILY WORKER. These Pg, apoiaie cannot be postponed, We must pay them not later than Tuesday in ‘order to Keep The DAILY WORKER. * The only way the money can be raised is thru the party members and sympathizers intensifying their work for The DAILY WORKER and raising and sending in the contributions to Ford workers much money as they king,” sald Edgerton. Then, aftePTattacking Ford’s plan, N ‘The DAILY WORKER by Tuesday of at least $3,000, Every resource of the drawn, upon to raise this y and party members must be 000. Every pa unit which has money in its treasury must send the funds to The DAILY WORK- ER, whether these funds are contributions to the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund or not, and then raise the mone to re- Pent it thru the sale of the Keep The DAILY WORKER certi- There are resources far in excess of the $3,000 required to The DAILY WORKER thru the crisis in the party. The be drawn upon in full in order to pull The DAILY WORKE of its present dangerous situation. We has been dragging too much, the total reached being the $20,000 P ‘emphasize the seriousness of the situation and the need iof prompt action. The Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign still below mark in place of the campaign nearing its close with completion of the $50,000 fund. we can put new spirit in the campaign, The consequence is that unless immediately raising the $3,000 to meet the crisis Tuesday and then go forward with campaign with greater interest, that we are winning the struggle for The DAILY WORKER. This statement should be sufficient to stir every in danger of not member of the party and supporter of The DAILY WORKER into action. We must have Quick Action TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. td EVERY MEMBER OF THE PARTY AND THE SUPPORT- ERS OF THE DAILY WORKER SHOULD IMMEDIATELY RUSH IN ALL THE FUNDS THEY CAN RAISE. EVERY UNIT OF THE PARTY SHOULD SEND ALL THE MONEY THEY HAVE ON HAND: _ EVERY PARTY MEMBER coute SHOULD BE MOBILIZED TO ‘CT ALL THE MONEY POSSIBLE OVER SUNDAY AND RUSH IT TO THE DAILY WORKER. r 1S IS AN EMERGENCY CALL FOR ACTION WHICH WILL TEST THE SUPPORT THE PARTY CAN GIVE TO THE} DAILY WORKER. THE RESPONSE IN THE FORM OF RAISING THE $3,000) NEEDED, BY TUESDAY WILL TELL WHETHER WE ARE ABLE TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER, Released After 16 Years in Jail, She Is Thrown Back Again {Special 'to The Dally Worker) , Mo., Nov. 19. — After a six- teen-year absence spent behind pris- @ bars, Mrs. Hettie Daugherty re- turned to her home town here today, and within hour was thrown in jail again. Ostensibly, Mrs. Daugherty, now 41 years old, is held for trial on a bur- @ary charge kept in file during her absence, Many belleve, however, she is in jail because she defied a warn- ing nover to return here and because Mt is feared she came back for ven- geance on those who caused her to bo sentenced to the Missouri peniten- tary. We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friends— tend Us name and address, Powdered Coal May Be Used Instead of Gas for Autos, Says Trent PITTSBURGH, Nov, 19.— Automo- biles in the future may use pulverized coal instead of gasoline, Walter E. Trent, New York consulting engineer, told the International Conference on Bituminous Coal, in session here to- day. tor of the Washington office of the Philippine Commission of Independ- enee, declared In a statement issued here today. Wood's action Is part of a plot to sell large corporations, belonging to the Phillppine people, to American capitalists, Bunuan pointed out, de- claring that the Filipino members of the board have successfully blocked this attempt and for that reason the hoard was abolished. The Philippine government has in- vested $28,000,000 in enterprises. | These enterprises were controlled by \the board of control, consisting of the governor general, representing... the United States, and the speaker of the representing the people. Is Now Dictator. | “By abolishing the board Wood now becomes dictator over these corpora- | tions and may do with them now as jhe pleases,” said Bunuan, “His action is unwarranted by law land constitutes usurpation of the leg» islative and judicial functions, Stat- utes creating the board have been in force and acted upon by government executives for more than ten yéars, the last five daring the administration Violates Constitution Principies. “The governor general, with one stroke of the pen, thru a mere execu- tive order, has set aside a law, disre- garding the well-established principles of constitutional government, which the United States itself is trying to impress in the Philippines. “But the most unfortunate phase of Governor Wood's conduct in this mat- ter is his transmitting to the legisla- ture the opinions of the acting attor- ney general of the United States and judge advocate general, upon which he based his action, immediately after, and not before, the closing session of the “legislature, which, according to the formers’ ruling, may create an- other board thru which the Filipino people could, as heretofore, be repre- sented. CANTONESE ARMIES MOVE IN FULL FORCE ON MILITARIST STRONGHOLD (Speelai to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 19.—A large body of Cantonese troops, under General Chiang Kai Shek, equipped with artil moving against Nanking In ful! force, lery and aeroplanes, ie reported to be Nanking Is a base for the combined allied militarist forces under Wu Pei-fu. . Gall for the Fourth National Conference of the Needle: Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational Leazue TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK CITY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, JANUARY 1 AND 2, 1927. N the last two years the left wing in the néedle trades industry has Decome a power to be reckoned with, not only by the bureaucracy, but by the entire employing class of our in- dustry. We have seen, year by year, the bureaucracy of the needle trades unions, once considered amongst the most progressive in the labor move- ment, degenerate into aides and labor Bpecialisty of the employers, as exem- plifled by Hillmanism in the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, by Schachtman’s role iu the recent furrters’ strike, and by the under- handed fight against and sabotage of the clankmakers’ strike by the right wing officlaldom, But, while in the rest of the Ameri- gan labor movement the decadence eaused by the corrupt class-collabora- tlonist bureaucracy {s still dominant, causing the loss of negrly two million mombors in the ranks of organized la- bor, among the garment workers strong sections under the leadership ee ee ee ing tn fighting array to give battle to tho employers in order to ragaia con- trol over labor conditions in the in- dustry and to secure improvements, if aes fighting unionism once more makes its appearance in the needle industry. The struggle last summer in the I, L, G..W. U., headed by Lo- cals 3, 9 and 22, combined in the joint action committee, shows that the left wing has learned to fight the reaction- ary bureaucracy successfully. The splendid. struggle of the furriers proves that the left wing has learned 4 great deal as to how not only to fight but to win against both-the employ- ers and the bureaucracy combined. However, our experiences in these big struggles in the fur and cloak in- dustries have also demonstrated that the employers have grown far too strong for the unions to gain real im- provements for the workers when each trade fights separately. It should be clear to everyone that If the unions want to make the necessary progress in improving the conditions of the Workers and re-establishing their con- trol, they must amalgamate into one industrial union with separate depart- ments for the vartoug trad Only with such additional strength can they meet the strong position of the em- ployer — 4 T has also become clear in these struggles that the right wing, in one form or another, acts as the ally and adviser of the bosses in the course of the struggle. And, added to the difficulties that the militant union faces during @ strike under conditions above referred fo, all the more danger- ous are the traitors within the union's ranks, who, by giving the employers exact information and by playing into their hands, are capdble of taking ad- vantage of the weak points of the workers for the benefit of our ene- mies, It must be emphasized, therefore, that the struggle against the right wing must continue even sharper than ever. Amalgamation of the needle trades unions into one industrial union and complete elimination of right wing policies and right wing control must be tho watchword of the left wing in the present struggle to strengthen th? unions and improve conditions for the workers in our in- dustry. HE strongest potat of the right wing in the needle trades is to be found in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. ‘There the bureaucracy has made a united front with the employ- house and president of the wean) pretending 80 on behalf of the workers, Edgerton relapsed into his usual state, ahd attacked the work- ers. “Wor who do six days in eign ministry of the Roumanian gov- ernment: “His majesty’s state of health Is satisfactory. New York reports false.” five, cheat their employers when they work six days and are paid for H MINERS VOTE TO FGHT 10 rhe Daily Worker) LONDON, Vv. 19—The British miners have t the governmen* proposals for €nding the coal strike which hag been In effect since May 1. joted 460,806 to of Governor Wood. ‘These statutes | Bit a Preernt the gov- have neither been repealed by. th ernment's, 18, despite the fact. fegislaturé, declared void by the that their “conference had nor annulled) by congress, notwith-j recommended “the acceptance of the standing such reports have been government's pian. | mades The delegate “conference of the today decided ‘to adjourn to permit the executive to formulate new rec- ommendations for peace. The announcement of the ininers’ rejection came as a considerable | shock to government circles, where it had been confidently expected that the proposals would be accepted. The government proposals created a national tribunal to adjust differ- j ences, but it provided for decreases in | wages and longer working hours and was generally characterized by the miners as an “abject surrender,” which they refused to accept. The rejection of the proposals may now stiffen the policy of the execu- tive of the miners’ federation and in- duce them to hold out for terms which they would not have dared to ask for heretofore. ‘Three Hurt In Wreck. BLUFFTON, Ind., Nov. 19.—Three men were dangerously injured here today when two interurban Indiana union traction freight trains collided head-on seven miles south of here, and burst into flames. William Robbins, Bluffton; Ernest Muncele, the injured, were dragged to safety just before the blaze started. methods unheard of in our struggle in the rest of the industry. Complete surrender to te employer, disregard for the workers’ demands and, needs, and dictatorship against the member- ship—expulsions, graft, corruption— hold sway in that organization. Amal- gamation and militant struggle for bet- ter conditions will be seriously handi- capped as long as the corrupt fascist bureaucracy remaing in control of the Amalgamated. The entire strength of the left wing, therefore, must be concentrated to fight this bureaucracy and to fight them on a national scale. Considerable support of the Amal- @amated bureaucracy and also the packing of conventions in the other trades is realized thru control of locals outside of the big cities and the left wigs must learn how to use its strength in the big centers for the purpose of assisting in organizing our movement nationally thruout the need- le industry. In all the years of reac- tionary control of our unions the work. ers have been demoralized, the unions have been put asleep with the policy of class-collaboration to such an ex- tent that they are not only neglect ing to organize the growing number of new workexs in the industry, but ors “against the left wing und used jure even losing heavily in member. % ‘|illmess which has ment was made to-| miners’ -federation which met here | see BERLIN, Nov. 19.— The condition of King Ferdinand of Roumania, Is improved, according to reports receiv. ed from Bucharest today. The king’s been previously diagnosed as intestinal infection has now been diagnosed as tumor of the intestines by Dr. Specialist who has been summoned to Bucharest, according to reports here. King Ferdinand has been able to perticlpate in official functions. so | Leaves Cincinnati. GINONNATI, ‘0., Nov. 19. Queen Marte left here on her special train Thursday midnight for the east. The party will arrive in Jersey City at 9 |@. m. Saturday and will motor to the j home of Charles E. Mitchell, New | York banker, where Queen Marie will | stay in seclusion until the departure of the Berengaria on Wednesday. ! Mayor Reileved. Baudot, a French] it will “prevent robberies,” and In- crease the bank's capital. j The terms are not announced. | 18,000 WORKERS: JAM GARDEN FOR SACCO PROTEST | Foster, Panken, Flynn Speak By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special to The Daily Workers | NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 19.— bled at Madison Square Garden at the jcall of the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency | Committee, passed unanimously reso- | or Manghall of Cleveland has given a sigh of relief. The announcement that. Queen Marie will not visit the > efty, Where” workers’ organiza- tions were preparing to meet her with !a demonstration of protest is taken | here as an indication that: the queen feared the consequences of what | Would certainly have been an inglori- | ous entry to the city. 2 | The resolution of the Hungarian | Societies that caused a storm in the city council when a member attempt- ed to read it has found its protest echoed by enthusiastic preparations, led by International Labor Defense, | to give Queen Marie the “welcome” | of her trip. Tf reports that Prince Nicholas will rangements will be altered to greet him as the representative of Rou- manian suppression and absolutism instead of his mother. A mass meeting of protest, in which American representatives of (Continued on page 6) act as the queen’s proxy in visiting | Detroit and. Cleveland are true, ar-} vestigation of the case and authériz- jed the committee to arrange withit mon m delegation of trade senor: m3 wah unos Gov. Fuller of | Massachusetts, to demand a new trial. Also a plan for a national congress ‘in New York City within two months to continue the demand for a new | trial. Many trade unions attended the | Elghte®n thousand workers assem-/ sovereignty.” This was Obregon’s answer to charges made by the State Depart- ment of the U. S. that Mexico was “interfering” in Nicaraguan affairs At the same time that reports from that country said U. S. marines were being landed in force, the morning Excelsior carried Washington advices Saying that the State Department re sented Mexican influence in Nicara gua. a vee (Special to The Daily Worker) BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua, Nov. 19. —Rear Admiral. Julian Latimer, aboard his flagship in harbor here, |has delivered an ultimatum on behait of the United States department of | State to the rebel leader Moncada in |which he delivered an open threat of military action in behalf of the Diaz jgovernment unless the rebels taid down their arms. United States marines have occu Died Bluefields and are equipped for war, It is not yet known what stand the rebels will take in the face of the military intervention of the United | States backed by the presence of a CLEVELAND, Ohio., Nov. 19--May-| tutions demanding a congressional in-| fleet in Nicaragua waters and @ stronx | force of marines. see (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dy C.) Nov. 19 Using the “red menace of Mexico” as its exeuse and the Diaz hand-made government of Nicaragua as {te tool jthe state department, with the able j assistance of the department of war, jis making full preparations for the oc meeting in a body bringing their own banners with them. It was a real united front demonstration, official representatives of both the Workers (Communist) Party and the Socialist |Party speaking from the same plat- |form. William Z. Foster represented |the Communists and Judge Jacob Panken the socialist party. Read Messages. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who pre- |sided, read communications from Clarence Darrow; John Vanvaren- | Wek, president of the State Federa- |tion of Labor and Congressman F. H. La Guardia, who were not able (Continued on page 6) 1 17 KILLED, 60 INJURED IN OIL TANKER BLAST NEAR BALTIMORE (Special to The Daily Worker) BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 19.—A terrific explosion aboard the Norwegian oll tanker Mantilla, docked at Sparrow's Point, this afternoon is reported to A call was received in Baltimore were sent. ship. The coming struggle in the dress industry, with the large number of big unorganized markets outside of New York, will be the first one that will bring the problem of organizing the unorganized, big organization drives, the country-wide methods to the fore, The conference will have to serve as a rallying point in order to meke this big struggle, in an in- dustry that is so largely unorganized, & success, HE complicated problems of our in- dustry that could not be solved as a result of the recent struggles in our industry, such as the jobber-contractor problem, the ever-increasing drift of production outside of the big unton- ized centers, the drive on the part of the employers for increased produc- tion, the role of the right wing ag seen in the new light of our experiences in the recent strikes-—all these are matters of such vital concern to the needle trades workers that our na- tional conference must find the proper definition for all of them, if militant unionism as embodied by the left wing is to continue to make progress. The role of the capitalist govern- ment, local, demonstrated particularly in the ue, Vermillion and ‘John “Hutchinson, of have killed seventeen men and Injured more than fifty others, for aid and doctors and ambulances cloakmakers’ strike in the forced ar- bitration proposals of the governor of the state of New York, combined with the support of these proposals by the right wing machine, and the wholesale injunctions issued subsequently as a result'of the refusal of the union to accept this arbitration, the interfer- ence with picketing, the use of the so-called industrial squads (gangsters) by the city government against strik- ers—the whole line of collaboration of the bureaucracy with the capitalist parties to defeat the left wing in in- ternal union and economic struggles, raises before us not only the question of tactics and methods to minimize these dangers but the political prob- lem of developing working-class soli- darity on the political fleld and its or- ganized expression into a labor party, instead of the unions remaining a kite to’ the capitalist political ma- chines, HE needle trades section of the Trade Union Bducational Leagde, which has acquired tremendous moral influence among the needle trades workers, has to set its house in order also internally. We have not yet by far succeeded in organizing all our state and, national, as | adherents, particularly tn the centers s Among outside of New York City, pte i chiens tele tes cupation of Nicaragua by United ; States troops and the subjection of he Central America republic to un. disputed rule, The trick of U. S. diplomacy in feigning enmity for former President Chamorro, while at the same time it was in league with him for the set- ting up of the Diaz government that has become a mere branch of the state department, is fooling no one in Cen- tral America, The rebels under Mon- cada, who resent the interference of the United States and declare that the hand-picked Diaz government has no right to office, have the unquestioned sympathy, not only of the population of Nicaragua but of the whole of Latin-America, familiar for many years with American and British in- trigue, a brazen sample of which is to be seen in the recent Nicaraguan events. Smoke Screen. The charge that the Calles govern- ment has given assistance and arms to the Nicaraguan rebels is plainly a smoke screen raised by state d& partment propaganda to.cover, first, the invasion of Nicaragua and second, (Continued on page 2) many of the workers the impression has been spread by the right wing that the league is only for Workers’ Party members. We must make clear that the Trades Union Educational League ig an organization based upon an elementary progressive trade union program and that all workers who agree with this simple program are welcome in the ranks of the league. N the basis of the foregoing, the following agenda, subject to amendments by the conference, {s aub- mitted for consideration and discus- sion by all groups: (1) The cloakmak- ers’ settlement; (2) the furriers’ set- tlements; (3) the coming dressmakers’ strike; (4) amalgamation ag an im- mediate task; (5) struggle against the A, C. W. bureaucracy; (6) struggle against the right wing; (7) political action against gangsterism, industrial squads, injunctions, police, ete.; (8) jobber-contractor problem; (9) 40-hour week; (10) strike strategy and set- tlement policy ia present period; (11) shop delegate system; (12) labor banking and insurance; (13) broaden- fog the T. U. B. L.; (14) means to finance left wing activities; (15) the “Needle Worker.” National Committes, Needle Trades Section, T, U. EL.