The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1926, Page 3

~ lace. 1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 "1927 LEWIS MACHINE IN DISTRICT 5 TRIES TRICKERY Miners Spoil Ruse _ of Officials By a Worker Correspondent, NEW KENSINGTON, Pa,, Nov. 19. —A mass meeting was arranged by the “Brophy for President Committee” ~ of Sub-District 7, District 5, United Mine Workers of America, for last Sunday, Nov, 14, at 2p, m. The Im- perial Theater of this city was rented and a deposit given. The Burgess promised a representativp of\the ar- rangements committee not to interfere with the meeting, adding that no writ- ten permit is needed for a Sunday meeting, but that his promise is suf- ficient. Brother Frank Keeney, for- mer president of District 17, U. M. W. of A., wals advertised to speak on the coming elections in the miners’ union. Keeney is supporting the Save- the-Union ticket headed by John Brophy. Officials Capture Hall. Much to the surprise of the arrange- ments committee, they found the hall occupied by district officers headed by Pat Fagan when they arrived to open the hall. Asking what they meant, they were told that officials rented the hall and paid for it. They also claim that they secured a written permit from the Burgess to hold a meeting. The committee took the matter up with the manager of the Imperial Theater, who promised that the hall would be vacated by the district of- \ficials at 2 p. m. This, however, was not done. He again promised to have the hall vacated at 20 minutes to 3 sharp. At this time the question was raised that a meeting cannot be held by the pro- gressives because they failed to pro- duce a written permit. Two represen- tatives of the “Brophy for President Committee,” together with Jack Nas- sen, one of the district officers, and two policemen, proceeded to the Bur- gess in regards to a permit. The Bur- gess, as expected, could not be located. Powers Hapgood Gets Floor, Meanwhile large numbers of miners began pouring into the hall, coming from all parts of the Allegheny Valley. Keeney was unable to be there, and Powers Hapgood came to take his The miners began to demand of the district officials that Powers Hapgood be given the floor. The of- ficials were finally compelled to give in to this demand and Powers Hap- good was given the floor. He spoke for about one hour and a half, Officers Indulged in Personal Attacks. Powers Hapgood, in a brilliant speech, pointed out how the strikes of 1919-1922 were betrayed by the pres- ent leadership of the U. M. W. of A. and gave a detailed explanation of the advantages of the Brophy program to Save the Union. He was greeted with An extraordinarily timely-discus- sion of the tendencies in Russia's internal and international policy as affecting its economic development. 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RQ PRIZE—“Government-Strikebreaker,” by Jay Lovestone, How the Present government fights against the workers, EVERY WORKER SHOULD SEND IN A STORY THIS WEEK! REMEMBER: WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! continuous applause, The district of- ficlals failed to reply to the points mentioned by Hapgood, but, instead, indulged in a bitter attack against in- dividual candidates and supporters of the John Brophy ticket. The applause recelved by Powers Hapgood showed that at least 95 per cent of the meet- ing was in favor of the Save the Union program, and candidates, Try to Start Fist Fight, At one point, when David Fowler of Scranton indulged in personal attacks against the progressives, one of the minerg asked why he didn’t speak about the policies of John L. Lewis, instead of attacking certain individ- uals. This wag too much for thts of ficial and he jumped down half the steps, threatening to beat up the man who dared to ask him such a question. He changed his mind, however, and returned to his original place to: con- tinue his speech, The rank and file compelled him to sit down and the meeting was ad- jJourned amid a stormy uproar against the district bureaucracy, Old Forge Miners . Greet Alex Howat with Enthusiasm By a Worker Correspondent. OLD FORGE, Pa., Nov. 19, — Alex Howat spoke to a large miners’ mass meeting here Sunday in behalf of Brophy campaign. Other speakers were Brennan, Argoni in Italian, Your- ish in Polish and Toohey. The crowd of 400 miners waited two hours overtime for Howat and the party to arrive from the Scranton meeting but not a ane man broke ranks. As Howat stepped from the auto in front of Columbia Hall the hundreds of miners gathered outside cheered again and again, The miners of this town remembered Alex when he was here three or more years ago. Brennan closely analyzed and interpreted the anthracite contract and conclusively proved to the satisfaction of all pres- ent the contract is saturated and reek- ing with arbitration of the worst kind. He called for sypport of Brophy and Stephenson and to fight for the “Save the Union” program, Expose Rum Graft in Cleveland and Higherups By a Worker seb Ouergapehdont. * CLEVELAND, Noy, 19. — After a long period of graft in enforcing the dry law, an exposure is promised. Justices of the peace have been getting so much for each case, which has been one of their main sources of income, especially when it was not possible to arrest a man for any other offense, Without warrant, homes have been invaded, cases have been fixed, ex- convicts, crooks and vicious charac- ters have been employed as dry agents, exorbitant and unreasonable fines have been fixed by justices and mayors and various other methods are ‘| being ascribed to the officialdom, An investigation is being made by the federal govérnment, and it is ex- pected that the smell will reach to heaven, Prolet-Tribune Will Be Out Tonight at Workers’ House ‘The next issue of Prolet-Tribune, the Russian living newspaper of the Novy Mir worker correspondents will be out Saturday, Nov. 20, at.8 p, m., at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. Admission will be 25 cents. _ All workers who understand the Russian language are invited to attend. Use your brains and your en to ald the workers In The book of the year— | Judi hi of seventeen leading American artists, Over seventy cartoons size 9x12—bound in attractive brown board covers $1.00 DAILY WORKER ONLY RELIABLE PAPER, HE FINDS Urges Exploited Work- ers to Realize It By JOHN L. SNYDER, (Worker Correspondent) FORDSON, Mich., Nov. 19.—At one time I was a subscriber to the Weekly People, organ of the now dead social- ist labor party. My last donation to the support of that organization was about two years ago—flowers for its grave, It was dead to me then, and more so now, so far as the class strug- gle and the revolutionary labor move- ment is concerned. A I then began to read The DAILY WORKER, as I was always interested in the labor movement thruout the world, and I found it to be the only reliable paper for the exploited work- ers and farmers in the United States. Bought It at Stands, But all’this time I had to depend on getting it from the newsstand, as I was. unable«to be @ regular sub- scriber, for the edonomic of us are up against in s steady work, With me, as with most of us rebels, it was the old saying that if I didn’t like it here, I could quit and go somewhere e! “Good” Job, I am a baker by trade, and people must eat, so I was not long out of a job. I have a good job now; it pays $40 for a week of six days. But again here is the joker—I only work four days a week, so I don’t make that $40, 80 you can see what I mean by a good job, I work for the Schaeffer Box Lunch Co. as second baker, We put up lunches for the slaves in the Ford River Rouge plant in Fordson, There are about 30 working in this place, two, bakers, two cooks, a few wagon boys, and about fifteen girls who wrap lunches.’ The girls or women (most of them are married) are getting $18 a week for a ten-hour day. Of course they, too, are working only four days a week, A Boss’ Trick. A few weeks ago the company cut out giving the pies in with the lunches, thus saving themselves about $300 a week, And that enabled them to about $200 worth of extra ple: week. We thought it would be a good time to ask the boss for a raise, so I got busy and had the bunch all worked up for a raise in wages, But they are meek, and winter is coming on. They kept quiet, so I told them I was going to ask the boss myself. The boss, Mr, John Schaeffer, is one of those political bosses in Fordson, known to be a good fellow—to his class, Most of his sons hold public office, Hard Luck Tale, When I asked Aim for the raise he told me a sad story. Since they stopped putting the pies in the lunches, they were selling fewer lunches to the tune of about $100 a week, He was losing money and couldn’t see how he could give us more money now, but he would see that we got a raise after Christmas— if things picked up. I would probably have cried over his plight, it I had not known some- thing about economics. We are not organized yet and I am the only com- rade in the shop at this writing. Christmas is only a short time away, and then .we will gef a bonus or a raise, maybe! This {s the situation in my place, with lots of hard work ahead of me to get slaves into a movement that will bring them out of their slumbers, I hope that you will publish this in the worker correspondence column, 80 that I can show them that The DAILY WORKER is their paper, ve. 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 voort Concert Trios Little Joe i er Ann Ke vivian jorin 01 jevers. be yD amo Cafe Dang Orchestra, ieo-Atame Entortainere. igo NOVEMBER 14, Aira th oie ee “7:48—Belden Baptist Church, ‘ ‘ ME a WORKER ‘i ms E 10 BUY, 8 Al ARE NOT NGUE-TED, KEEP OUT (Special to The the Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Noy. 19, — How well an applicant for admission to the United States le tongue-tied Is the present criterion In the rulings of the state department. If a Com- munist odmes to trade or to study, he apparently gete In, for, according to Charles Recht, counsel for the Soviet government, there are al- ready 1,077 non-quota Russians In this land of the free. But Madam Kollantal, the Russian minister to Mexico, cannot even Cross the coun- try on heP way from Europe to her mission. She might say something en route, © @ ¢ hand Is Senator Borah, to bring before the for lon relations committee of the sen- a the question of defining the authority of’ the secretary of state In such cases, Then there is Mary Kilbreth (an apt name for a jencer), president of the Woman Patriot Publishing Co., shouting that under acts of congress, which she cites by dates; the secretary has no discretion at all—he must exelude anything that looks at all like a Communist. “The President him- self,” she argues, “has no legal power or fight to suspend or nullify the mandatory -provisions of the allen exelusion act.” Méanwhile; Doctor Kellogg asks _the applicant for admission to stick out his tongue. If it is red, It is a sign of Intellectual bad health and a malnutrition of capitalistic psychol- ogy—and the olga slams, - * CLEVELAND ‘DADS’ REFUSE TO HEAR REPORT ON MARIE 'HOW U.S, YOUTH IS TARGET FOR 100% BUNCOMBE “Education Week” Is Sign for Unloading By L. P. RINDAL. f (Worker Correspondent) ber 11 was Armistice Day, Last week was American Hducation Week, as well as the week of the ninth anniver- sary of the Russian revolution, Armistice Day is the most glorious day of days for Wall Streét, interna- tional bankers, ammunition makers, poison-gas artists, army and navy of- ficers, “greenish” labor “leaders,” mil- reactionary press, bible-pounders, K. K. K,, and other pa(y)triotic patriots, The creation of a war spirit—trorh a capitalistic point of view-in the funtrained minds of school children and youth in general is the principal object of the militarists in this “peace- ful” Jand of the free, When this is done the youngsters are fit to become cannon fodder, strikebreakers, murderous gun-un- fers during labor conflicts, war prof- iteefs, one-lollar-a-year grafters, po- licemen and stoolpigeons. Anti-Labor Poison, The November issue of The Young Comrade explained the real meaning of American Education Week, Some of its slogans are “liberty is not the right of one, but of all;” “make democ- racy the same for the world,” “equal opportunity for all,’ etc. The sum of all this is bunk because “the teach- ets collect all their forces and start a campaign to dope the children with anti-labor poison so as to make them good slaves of the bosses. ‘Of course they do this all year round, but dur- ing American Education Week they have a special drive or campaign for doping or workers’ children.” Different In Sovietiand: The same article also pointed out Protest Meeting Held ON | the significance of the Russian revo- _ Action By a Worker Correspondent. CLEVELAND, Noy, 19, — The city | Teach the workers. council went «into an uproar, when Councilman Peter Witt, independent, tried to reada memorandum prepared by a committee of Hungarians of this city, protesting against the subser- vience of American citizens to the Rowmanian queen. The Hungarian committee Nad tried to get the clerk of the chamber to accept the miemor andum, but he refused. As it seemeti impossible to get the memorandu’ fore the council in the regular ner, the committee called upon one of the independents, and when the latter was refused the right to read the document, Witt went into the breach, and the fight began. The city mayor and city manager together with the clerk decided that lution, It said, in effect, that in America the fat of the land goes to the parasites—only the crumibs, if any, Only %n Soviet- and, with workers’ rule and where the master class bosses have been kicked out, is there liberty, democracy, opportunity and justice for the work- ers, Sky-Pilots Want Bible in Schools, A proposition, the bible in public schools, carried in Los Angeles county, was voted down, however, as a state law. So the Aimeeites, “Fight- ing Bobs,” popery followers, pillow- case knights, mission stiffs and other hallelujah screamers, did not. succeed —this time—to-Bryanize Busickized California info an anti-Darwin-monkey- evolution Tennessee. But the danger of next time is still with us, the danger of hypocritical godliness, sheepish fgnorance and slav- there were things !n the document | ish submissiveness in the ranks of the that would offend the ear, references to the beating of stripped women, ete. Hence they décided that the document should not be read. Despite the pro- tests of Witt, and his repeated efforts to get the ddcument before the body in order to determine whether it was acceptable of not t, he was stopped and threatened ith violence by ° the sergeant-at-arms, Hold Protest Meeting. As a result/of this little bit of Rou- manian method in the city council, a protest meeting was held tonight, at which several liberals and I. Amter, district secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, spoke. After a report of the fracas was made, the independent councilman made an “election” speech, in which he de- clared he would not make & speech— and succeeded in doing it. Expose Movie. Amter exposed the whole sitiation in Roumania, the losses during the war, the present condition of the work- ers and peasants, the persecution of the national minorities, the desire of Bessarabia to be attached to the So- viet Union, “At the mention of the name “Cotzofanesti,” the audience went into an‘aproar of applause, Am- ter showed what the loan of $100,000,- 000 would be used for—for war and repressive ptrposes, “It war comes, the United States will be responsible, for had the Amer- ican government not guaranteed the loan, Roumania would be in no posi tion to arm, ' Back of it all is oll, The United States needs ofl, the Standard Oil Co, has procured what it wants and the $100,000,000 has been ad- vanced.” 1% Among the other speakers were: Comrades B, Kovacs and J. E. Takacs, Alex Howat to Hold Forth in District 2 PORTAGE, Pa. Nov. 19. — Alex Howat, former president of District 14, United Mine Workers of America, who broke the infamous Kansas indus- trial court, will speak on the coming elections in the miners’ union in Port. age, Pa., at the Miners’ Hall Sunday, November 21, 2:30 p.m. The meet- ing is arranged by Local Union 570, He is also expected to address a meeting in Barnesboro, Pa., while vis- iting this district, ‘Howat is well known in this district and large crowds are expected to attend the meeting. Use your braine and your pen to ald the workers in the class struggle. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT exploited workers’ children. Holy roll- ers, hallelujah actresses and silver tongued fundamentalists in the form of @lorida real estate sharks ate wel come to théir pie feasts in gilded cas- tles, if any, in the skies, ~ But disbe- lievers shall inhabit the earth and— some day—inherit all its fullness. They are ruling one-sixth part of this globe now—Sovietland, Aimee Rides for Fall. Even the evangelist herself may have an accident some of these day if she don’t quit riding mules. She had been riding, safely, on the backs of suckers for years-+they don’t kick, but mules do. She was kicked off the saddle recently~—hustily, ungracefully, without her consent or forewarning at all, and right before the camera at that.. 80 the royal horses of England, kicking the Prince of Wales, have nothing on the Missourian mule. Mules may be democratic, but rather than bend their knees before celebri- ties they kick. The writer is not par- ticularly interested in fundamental- ists, broken, necks, but why don’t the workers throw their masters off their bended backs and the bible-pounders out of public schools? They ought to have as much sense as a mule, any- way, ‘Indiscretion’ Caused School Board to Stop Promotion of Teacher NEW YORK, Nov. 19. — “Indiscre- tion. in the use of language” was given ag the reason for the refusal of the New York board of superintendents to promote, Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz by Dr. William O’Shea, member of the board, O’Shea said that he voted to promote Lefkowitz, but believed the other members also had @ right to vote against promotion because they thought he was a radical, The “indiscretions” charge against the teacher were that in referring to the republican party and democratic party he used the terms ‘Gyp, the blood’ and ‘Tony, brass-knuckled phi- losopher, and in speaking of the United States ag ‘the so-called great- est republic in the world,’ sild O'Shea, These were “committed” five years ago. Danish Ship on Rocks.. SANTANDER, Spain, Nov. 19.—The Danish sailing vessel Viking, which was making ‘a trip around the world, wont on the rocks near San Pedro del Mar, Henniel Ventegot, owner of the vessel, wag saved but his com- panion Ehn Hansen wag drowned, LOS ANGILES, Nov, 19.--Novem- | itaristic teachers, the “Brisbunk”-ized | i | TSR ae Three ANEW NOVEL: phon Sinclair qCopyright, 1926, by Uptom Simociair) They were at the Monastery, and had been dancing, and went out upon ‘one of the loggias, or platforms, or terraces, or whatever you call the outside of a cathedral. There was a moon shining down—the same that had shone on Bunny and Hunice, and on Bunny and Ethel Goodrich. There was organ music inside, and the scent of flowers outside, and Bunny was thinking to himself, “What am I going to do about this?” It couldn’t go on, that was certain; he had got so that he was trembling all over. And yet, somehow, he seemed to be tongue-tied. So far, all the girls had had to propose to him, and it was quite absurd. What the dickens was the matter with him? Inea faltering voice he suggested, ‘“Let’s dance.” Vee stood up, and he stood up; they had danced out onto this loggia, or terrace or platform, and now they would dance back, and he would be, literally, just where he had been before. No, that wouldn’t do! He had a sudden fit of desperation; and instead of the particular kind of embrace which has to do with dancing, he put his arms about her in a way that made it impossible for her to dance. This was a ¢rude procedure, no credit to a junior class- man and leader of fashion in a high-toned university. Bunny knew it, and was in a panic. She would not understand—she would be angry, and send him away! But, no, she was not angry; and somehow, she was able to understand, There is an old saying, that fingers were made be- fore forks, atid in the same way it is true that embraces were made a long time before words, Bunny became aware that his clasp was being returned—and by a pair of capable arms, that were able to hold a girl upside down in the air and carry her down a beach! It was all right! “Oh, Vee! he whispered. “Then you do care for me!” Her lips met his, and they stood there in the moonlight, locked together, while the organ music rose to @ shout. “Vee, I was so scared!” And she laughed. But suddenly she drew back her head. “Bunny, I want fo talk to you. - There’s something I must Say. Let me go, and sit down, please—no, in that chair over there! I want us to talk quietly.” There was fear in her voice, and he did what she asked. “What is it, Vee?” -“T want us to be sensible, and know what we're doing. It seems to me hardly anybody I know can be happy in love; and I I'm saying. 1 want us to decide in cold blood.” “You'll have to get a new God!” Bunny had managed to recover the use of his tongue. “T want us to promise to be happy! Any time we can’t be happy, let’s quit, and not have any fuss! Let’s be sensible, and not go crazy with jealousy, and torment each other.” “You'll be a plenty for me,” declared Bunny. “I surely won't make you jealous!” “You don’t know what you’ll do! Nobody ever knows! It’s the devil’s own business—oh, you’ve no idea what I’ve seen, funny! You're nothing but a babe in arms.” “You'll be good to me, Vee, and raise me up!” “How do you know what'I’ll do? How do you know any- thing about me? You want me, without really knowing what I am or what I’ll do! I could have told you a million lies, and how would you have known? The next woman that comes along shea you a million and one, and how will you know about her?” “That’s too easy, Vee—you’ll tell me!” He sank down on his knees before her, and took one of her hands, intending to comfort her; but she pushed it away. “No, I don’t want you to do that. I want you to think about what I'm saying. I want us to decide in cold blood.” “Bunny, a Man and a woman ought to tel each other the truth—all the time. They ought to trust each other that much, no matter how much it hurts. Isn’t that so?” “You bet it’s so.” “Tf that means they give each other up, all right—but they have no/business holding each other by lies. Will you make that bargain, Bunny?” “I will.” “And I want you to know, I don’t want any of your money.” “T haven't got any money, Vee—it’s all Dad’s. That is the first painful truth.” “Well, I don’t want it. I’ve got my own, and Pll take care of myself. I’ve got a job, and you’ll have yours, and we'll let each other alone, and meet when it makes both of us happy.” “That’s too easy for a man, Vee!” “It'll be a game, and those are the rules, and if we break the rules, it’s cheating.” Bunny could assure her that he had never cheated in a game, and would not cheat in this one. So he overcame her fears, “You silly boy!” and she was in his arms again, and they were exchanging those ravishing kisses, of which for a time it seems impossible ever to have enough, Presently she whispered, “Someone will come out here, Bunny. Let me go in, and I'll dance a bit, and then make my excuses and get away,.and you come up to my room.” (Continued Tomorrow.) The Best Place to Buy Your CARPETS LINOLEUM RUGS FURNITURE OSCAR |. BARKUN’S 5 STORES 1600 W. Roosevelt Rd. Phone Seeley "7722 1618 W. Chicago Avenue Phone Monroe 6264 2408 W. North Avenue Phone Humboldt 4983 2635 W. North Avenue Phone Humboldt 6941 4247 W. 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