The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1926, Page 2

aunion meetings and t 4 * i rage Two THE DAILY fees CONTRACTING — BREAKS BOWN UNION FRONT Practice Extending in| Anthracite Mines By ART SHIELDS, | Federated Press, SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 22. —(FP)— Extension of the contractor system this summer and fall in the big rail- road company mines in the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre district is breaking down union standards and undermin- ing the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica. Worst offenders are the Hudson | Coal, Pennsylvania Coal, Glen Alden Coal and Scranton Coal companies. More and more of the tonnage is being faken away from the individual miner and labor and turned over to these contractors who hire and fire at their own sweet will. All of the new mechanical ers that began to be introduced t ar are adopted by contractors. And a considerable minor- ity of the old fashioned kind of mining is now done thru contractors employ- ing from eight to a hundred and fifty men. The eontractor takes over se eral working places and sometimes several whole tions of a vein on a | tonbage and yardage basis and hires his labor on a day rate. Some of the | contractors are such big operators that they employ straw bosses known } as “pusher men” to speed the men | up, | Tony Rose. | Rose, one of the biggest Penn- coal contractors, operates s ions of the No. 6 Big Vein on an open st basis, Any of his hundred and fifty miners and laborers face dis- | another a eoal contractor, with ired men, is more toler- He permits his employes to be- | jong to the United Mine Workers as | long as they do not “agitate” for un- But thos their men to support | interests at lo “contrac gang” are often a powerful political machine in the union. Contractors have & seek control of the union and thus stifle protests. The contractors got special privileges in the collieries for which they are reputed to grease the palms of superintendents, They get ears when the individual miner and laborer can’t get them. They get favor- ed places to work in where the money is big. Sometimes they show as much as $750 net for a two weeks’ pay, Revolt in Union. Revolt against the contractors breaks out in union meetings. Earlier in November Marko Klinczh, a rank and file mine laborer at the Mayfield colliery (Pennsylvania Coal) was shot dead at his local meeting. The victim was a co-worker in the mine with Joseph Dzwonczyk, a miner, president of the local union. Dzwoncyzk was fighting the contractors’ privileges. The contractor gang brot charges against him in the local but failed to press them the evening they were to be heard. Instead guns blazed out, the shots missing the president but slaying his laborer. Many women and girls were present in the hall at the time and there was wild confusion. Later the police arrested Louis Con- sagra, a mine contractor and his two nephews. “Santo” Consagra and Jos- eph Tuzzi for the shooting. Louis Oonsagra had been suspected six years years ago of a killing in the 1920 strike against the contractors. That 1920 strike, led by Alex Camp- bell, lasted three months, At the end the contractor gang of 33 who ruled the Pennsylvania colleries was broken. Some contractors were driven out of the Pennsylvania coal towns. Others had to become individual miners, All coal contracting was abolished tho the system continued for tock work. In the last three years the system has come back, and has been gaining speed in the last few months, GINSBERGS fon standards, tractors expect the contractors reason to | DesVerney tolerant con- | Pullman Co. Disturbed .as Workers Flock to Porters Brotherhood (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Nov . Pullman Co. offic are disturbed by the number of men old in service who are joining the Car Porters, declares W. H, DesVer- ney, organizer, who has been working in the middle west. The resignaNon from service of B J. Bradley, one of the most popular and influential men in the district, to | Louis union | take charge of the St, office was a bomb shell to the com- pany, DesVerney, Bradl d seen 17 years service. s one of the old timers himself, zation in St, Louis eae DOHENY, FALL 60 ON TRIAL IN OWL. ‘CONSPIRACY CASE Battalion a Lawyers Defend Couple (Special to Th WASHINGTON, year-old trial of legal fencing ended in the small, drab courtroom of Jus- | tice Hoehling as Albert B, Fall and Edward L. Doheny, both grey haired, | both nationally known, went on trial on charges of conspiracy to defraud |the government out of its naval oil reserves. Many Lawyers. Fall and Doheny, central figures in -|the famous case, sat close together, flanked on either side by one of the | greatest arrays of legal talent ever gathered in a Washington court. Two tables, running half the length of the room, were necessary for the lawyers. Corporations Are at Least Frank in Their Demand for Tax Cuts (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. — That there is little demand for further re- juction of the normal income tax rate on individuals, but that corporations need an immediate cut in tax rates, is the plea of the American mining ngress;? thru its official journal, on the eve of its annual meeting in tte, capital. It pleads for a cut from 13% per | cent to 10 per cent in the corpora- tion tax. “It has been the opinion of many authorities on federal taxation that too few individuals pay taxes to the federal government,” says the mine owners’ statement; “that it would be a good thing for the country, particu- larly in respect of the attitude of the people toward their franchise respon- sibilities, if more individuals had to pay some tax . Congress should be impressed with this, that because of the diffusion of stock ownership in corporations, a reduction in the corporation rate will afford relief to a larger number of individuals than would a further reduction in individ- ual rates.” No proof of hig aa claim is offered. Polish Paice Kink Gets Out Special Issue for Union Miners Trybuna Robotnicza, Polish weekly newspaper published in Chicago, makes the following announcement: To the comrades who are working in coal mines Trybuna Robotnicza of November 27 will be a special miners’ issue, This issue will contain articles about the conditions existing in the mining fields, in the miners’ union, about the Jacksonville agreement, the treachery of the John L, Lewis ma- chine, the list of progressive candi- dates in the forthcoming union elec- tions, and John Brophy’s election pro- gram; also many pictures and car- toons, We call upon readers of The DAILY WORKER to send bundle orders and distribute this paper among the Pol- ish miners as widely as possible. The price is 2 cents per copy. Those com- rades who are not able to pay for it may send an order and we will glaflly send a few copies without charge. Send orders to Trybuna Robotnicza, Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. the conditions of the young workingclass! HARLEM Workers, help build the movement that will fight to improve COME TO THE CONCERT AND BALL. to celebrate the “Build the League and Pioneer Campaign” FRIDAY, NEW YEAR'S EVE., DECEMBER 31, 1926 116th Street and Lenox Avenue. Tickets in Advance 50 Cents; At the Door, 75 Cents. Arranged by the Young Workers League and the Pioneers of America. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ml, The size of The DAILY WORK. ER depends on you. Send a sub. workers and children of the CASINO Brotherhood of Sleeping | He reports over 70% organi- | BLANK SHELLS, HARMLESS BOMB USED ON DUCE | \Confession R Reveals Fascist Tricks | i | (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Nov. 22.—There can no long- jer be any doubt about the status of Col. Riccioti Garibaldi. By his own confession, the grandson of the great | Jue liberator now held by the| rench police In conjunction with piesa plots hatched on French soll, has revealed that he was working in | league with the fascisti in framing up bogus attempts upon the Ilfe of Premier Mussolini. When confronted with document- ary evidence showing that he was ae to have received thousands of lars from Rome, Garibaldi con- totasa, But he protested that his motives were misunderstood. He claims it was his ~ yose to use the funds given i by the fascisti ) against the fascisti themselves’ and sald he remains loyal to the anti- fascist cause. The examining inspector, however, showed thet all of Garibaldi’s acts were plainly in the service of the fas- |cisti and that he could produce no evidence to show that any of his ac- tivities were a help to the anti-fascist movement, altho he said Ricciotti might be the victim of his own mud- dle headedness. Blank Shells. | Garibaldi said he knew all the de- | tails of the attempted “assassina- ;tion” of Mussolini by the English | woman, Violet Gibson. He claimed |that blank cartridges were used in her gun and that Mussolini’s wound | was feigned. The fascisti themselves put Gibson-up to the attempt, he| said: | | With'regard to the so-called bomb- |ing in September, when Sino Lucettt | threw a “bomb” at Premier Musso- | in, Garibaldi disclosed the following | |facts: Lucetti’s movements were closely watched by the Italian police from the time he left France to per- form the “deed”. The “bomb” that was placed in his hands was of a {harmless kind. Mussolini himself} knew about ‘the would-be assassina- | tion. Boy “Assassin” Trained. Garibaldi also claimed that his fas- ist fellow conspirators drilled the | Mussolini recently, for many weeks. “The revolver that was put into the | boy’s hand was loaded with blank shot” the colonel said. ie ak Italy in Grip of Terror. alee to The Daily Worker) ION, Nov. 18. — All Italy is in ae yi of a “reign of terror” insti- tuted by Benito Mussolini in an hys- terical attempt to crush all opposition to fascism, according to reports leak- ing past the strict fascist censor, Murders have been committed with official sanction, wholesale arrests have been made, opposition leaders flogged, priate homes invaded, and other outrages have occurred thruout the nation. Arrest Deputies, Opposition members in the chamber of deputies have been expelled, and following expulsion were ordered ar- rested by Mussolini. Many are already thrown into jail, awaiting “fascist justice.” i At Vittorio, 30 republicans were ejected from their homes in the mid- dle of the night, seized by mobs of “blackshirts,” and flogged. At Como, republicans were forced to march thru the streets, amid hootings of the mobs, with their faces painted, Murder Former Minister, | eighteen-year-old boy that fired hed | Cavazoni, a former cabinet member, was murdered by a mob at Bergamo. Cavazoni was taken from his home and beaten mercilessly. A rope was placed around his neck and he was dragged to a gallows, Their intention of lynching him was not carried out, but Cavazoni succumbed to the severe blows he received. The Rome residence of Gount Sforza, former foreign minister, was raided by mobs of fascists and des* troyed, News of other outrages vontinue to pour in, but details are lacking, Dissolve Societies. All societies and organizations in Italy, suspected of antifascist tend- encies, have been ordered dissolved by official decree, In Paris, fascisti invaded the offices of the royalist, newspaper, L'Action Francaise because of unfriendly state- ments published in the paper. Shots were fired and one fascist was wound- ed, The mob attempted to destroy the newspaper building, Congress Urged for Big Military Appropriation WASHINGTON, Nov, 21.—A large appropriation by congress to make ‘United States harbors “safe from naval attacks” was urged by the an- nual report of Maj. Gen, Edgar Jad- win, chief of army engineers, Jadwin declared that “piecemeal” |jappropriations were inadequate and expensive to the government and fa vored a huge appropriation act at one time to take care of all the wants jot the military defense, i GOVERNMERT SUES ARMS MANUFACTURER WHO SOLD DEFECTIVE WAR WEAPONS (Special to The Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, 0., Nov. 22.—Suit for $129,444.51 was filed by the gov- ernment here today against the Na- tional Malleable and Steel Castings company of Cleveland, It being al- leged that the government paid that sum for a shipment of trench mor- tar shells during the war which later were found defective, The defendant company, which also has branches in Chicago, To- ledo and Indianapolis, is alleged to have made a delivery at Indianap- olis on De@ember 31; 1917, of 183,161 of the stokes casings on a contract calling for 1,150,000 of the shells. They were found, it was cited, to be improperly annealed, Complete Plans for Sacco-Vanzetti Meet in Chicago, Friday Plang for one of the largest meet- ings held in Chicago for a long time are being completed by the Chicago Sacco-Vanzetti committee. The meet- ing will take place at the Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren on Friday, Nov, 26, 8 p. m., and from the advance sale of tickets it is plan- ned to accomodate the overflow au- diences which will undoubtedly come there in nearby assembly rooms, Unions thruout the clty have al- ready purchased large amounts of tickets in bloc, some unions of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of |Chicago having already bought up- | wards of 7,000 tickets. Thousands of other tickets are being bought by other labor bodies. The entire Chicago labor movement is backing thi: test meeting to prove the unbroken solidarity of the workers of this city with the cause of the two innocent Italian workers who are being men- aced with legal assassination in Mass- achusetts, Besides the speakers, the local con- ference committee has secured the support of prominent liberal and labor men of the city who will cooperate in the meeting. Thesé will either attend the meeting and otcupy special seats on the platform_or send special mes- sages of greeting and solidarity. Among | them are the Reverend Dr. Norman B. Barr, of Olivet Institute, Dr. John A. Lapp, of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Chicago Liberal Club, Fred A, Moore, of the Chicago Forum Council, Miss Jane Addams, of the Hull House, Clarence Darrow, William H. Henry, national \secretary of the Socialist Party, and William Z, Foster, Others who have been invited include Graham Taylor, Mary McDowell, Pro- fessor Ernest Burgess, Professor Paul Douglas, Professor Thomas D, Elliott, Shailer Mathews, Prestown Bradley and others. Some 20,000 tickets are already out and it is expected that a record crowd will turn out to hear tne speakers. John Fitzpatrick.president of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor; Vincenzo Vacirca, editor of the New York Ital- jan labor daily, 11 Nuovo Mondo; Eli- zabeth Gurley Flynn, national chair- man of International Labor Defense; Dr.. Charles Clayton Morrison, of the Christian Century will be the speak- ers under the chairmanship of Anton Johannsen, of the Chicago Federation of Labor. Wrangle of Farmers Winds Up in Murder PEORIA, Ill, Nov, 21, — Homer Driscoll, 29, farmer, was held today for the murder of Andrew Podjunas, 44, whose shot-riddled body was found in @ corn field by his wife, An argument over the use of a driveway which led. into the two farm yards is believed to have been the cause of the shooting, Legal Fight Outlives Rooster. WAUKEGAN, IIL, Nov, 21, — Six years of legal fighting was ended here today when Lenora Kingsley, 12> was given $1,200 for.the loss of an eye pecked out by a rooster on the farm of Emil Weinechi,-a distant relative, near Barrington, The settlement was made out of circuit court where Leonard Kingsley, Lenora’s father, was suing Weinecki for $20,000. The y were guests at the time of th t. Conspirators Must Stand Trial. Federal Judge Fitzhenry yesterday overruled demurrergs in the Druggan- Lake jail liberty conspiracy case and ordered the defendants to enter pleas, Two of the defendants, Sheriff, Hoff- man and Warden Westbrook, have al- ready served jail sentences for con- tempt of court in the game case, which involved permitting Druggan and Lake, two millionaire beer barons, to walk in and out of jail at their pleas- ure. Renews Muscle Shoals Lease. WASHINGTON, Noy, 21. — Secre- tary of War Davis today approved the renewal for one year of the lease to the Alabama Power company of the steam power plant at*Nitrate Plant No, 2, Muscle Shoals, Why not a small bundie of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular: ly to take to your thide union meeting? WRITE AB YOu FIGHT: EVOLUTION rumbles ‘on in the Orient, Ever forward! Out of the thunder of the north- ward moving revolutionary armies of the South Chinese Republic a voice speaks clearly and confidently. It is the voice of the youthful general, Chang Kai Shek, and he ‘declares with a note of defiance to world imperialism, clear and unmis- takable, that all treaties hitherto imposed on China must be scrapped, that all extraterritorial foreign con- tcessions must be wiped out, foreign judicial jurisdiction must be abolish- ed and, then adds: “This revolution proposes the downfall of- imperialism, not as it is confined to China alone, but eur opposition to it must spread to other coun- tries under the imperialist yoke.” ° That is encduragement for all the victims of imperialism in the Far East. It will help steel the mild protestings of the Filipinos, it will inspire the growing militancy of Australian labor, it will be a more brightly burning beacon Hght for India’s suffering millions, it will hearten the victims of Dutch op- pression in Java and thruout the East Indies, it will rouse for new struggles the people of Afghanistan, of Persia, of Syria and on into Egypt and the other countries of Africa. American labor, too, must learn where its interests lie. ee The declaration just issued by General Chang Kai Shek shows con- clusively that the Chinese revolu- tion feels the earth solid beneath its feet, that it is confident of quickly terminating the struggle to drive the last pro-imperialist “war lord” into the Pacific, and, most ‘important, that there is inherent in the revolu- tion sufficient strength to combat . and overcome any armed force that the foreign imperialists may hurl against it. China’s national revolution speaks out with all the self-assurance today that was shown by the Bolshevik Revolution of .the Russian workers and peasants in November 7, 1917, that launched the world social re- volution. * The declaration by General Chang Kaj Shek, that the American capital- ist news agency, the Associated Press, carries as the day's most im- portant news to great number of the newspapers of this country, is not the individual opinion of this revolution leader, It is the expres- sion of the revolutionary movement itself. This is clearly shown by a comparison of this statement with the official proclamations issued by the Kuomintang, the party of the revolution. In a recent proclama- tion to the Hang-Kong strikers, the central executive committee of the Kuomintang, declares: “Fifteen years ago the Manchu Dynasty was-overthrown and a re- public was established, But during these 15 years our country was @ republic in name only, in reality it was under the domination of im- perialism, militarism and reaction. The militarists carried on incessant civil wars which devastated and im- poverished our people, while the imperialists kept us in the state of a subjected race, dividing us thru our own reactionaries and dominat- ing us economically and politically. Against these scourges of our coun- try the Kuomintang carried on a continual struggle to liberate our country, .. “Today, two and a half years after the first congress of the Kuomin- tang, the central executive commit- tee of the party solemnly proclaims before the revolutionary world that in entrusting the banners of the na- tional revolution to the masses of Police Catch Somebody. RAST ST. LOUIS, IIL, Nov, 18, — A highwayman, killed by a police bullet was identified at a hospital here today as Kenneth Koshi of Indianapolis. Koski’s companion, who was captured by police after a chi gave the name of Thomas Hurley, 28, of Toledo, Both were sought in a stree@holdup, SEND IN A SUB TODAY, PRINTING ORDERS SOLICITED to Help The Daily Worker Reasonable Rates Hicu Grape CommerrctaL Printina op Aty Kinps Newspaper, Magazine and Book Printing a Specialty. PRICES QUOTED ON REQUEST, DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY 4 1113 West Washington Blvd. Chicago, Il, ' q raising a special fund Revolutionary Army Struggles for the Downfall of Imperialism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. the people, our expectations have been fully justifled. Today the Na- tidnal Reyolutional Movement rests upon the firm foundation of the , people and in proportion as this foundation deepens, widens and grows stronger we get nearer and nearer to our goal. “The power of the National Re- ° volution is no longer confined to the province of Kwangtung. Every day brings us the gladsome news that our armies together with the revolu- tionary forces of the people are gaining more and more ground against militarism, imperialism and reaction, While the goal of the National Revolution is still far we have many reasons to rejoice at the progress we are making. . . “The new policy means that much effort must be used in the re-estab- lishment and strengthening of the péople’s organizations thruout the country, and in securing revolution- ary provincial and district govern- ment in the places which have al- ready been occupied or will be oc- cupied in the future, When all this is done, then the anti-imperialist front will become unshakable and its final victory assured. Then the independence and liberty of China, the welfare of the suffering masses will be secured. “Comrades! Today, we are re- organizing to prepare ourselves and the whole country for a new ad- vance against imperialism, militar- ism and reaction. “Long live the Hongkong-Canton strikers! “Long live the Revolutionary Pa- triots, who have loyally supported the anti-imperialist boycott and strike! “Long live the National Revolu- tion.” ee It is on the basis of such Kuomin- tang policies that General Chang Kaj Shek speaks declaring that: “The present revolution will not end until extraterritoriality rights and concessions and unequal treaties have all been abolished, After the success of the present revolution in China, all treaties with all powers will be abrogated instantly, and China will refuse to recognize any treaties whatsoever made with any powers by former governments of China. “Conquering of the northern mil- itarists is but a step in the revoM- tionary army program, “Within a month we will have established the capital of China at ‘Wuchang, removing the government bureaus there from Canton.” . se China thus rises to demand her Place in the sun, To do so shakes the pillars of the world imperialist structure, challenging its very exist- ence, This includes the United States and that is why every word that General Chang Kai Shek utters should be of tremendous interest to the whole American working class. The Chinese revolutionary general says: “We consider America an imperialist, because she has not given the Philippines free- dom. Any country holding territory outside its natural boundaries has an imperial- ist nature and must relin- quish claims to such territo- ry.” That draws the whole Ausarigas working class into the oriental situa- tion, because American workers will be called to arms, to fight for Wall Street, to retain the Philippines un- der its imperialist flag, American © labor, however, must instead join the Chinese workers in their strug- gle “for the downfall of imperial- ism.” (GUATEMALA IS NEW CAUSE OF U.S. CONCERN Nicaragua Quelled by Force; Guatemala Next (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov, 22.—With the rebel forces in Nicaragua intimidated by the presence of a large naval force and that country well under the domi- nation of United States interests, the eyes of Washington are now roving to Guatemala, where elections are to be held shortly. While the two contestants for the Guatemalan presidency are both of a type to cause American fruit and bank- ing interests no particular concern, the fact that the country is bounded on the north and west by “bolshevist” Mexico is considered reason for watch- ing events with great care. Harmless Candidates, The two candidates for the presi- dency are General Ghocon and Gen- eral Ubico. Both are susceptible to the power of the New York financiers, whose money ig a big factor in Guate- mala, and neither js likely to take any steps that.could be looked upon as hostile to the United States. Diplo- macy has already seen to that, But the Guatemalan labor movement is decidedly sympathetic to the anti- imperialist declarations of Mexico. The fact that a large portion of the population works directly or indirectly for American investors in the banana forests and mines of the country and that these workers are beginning, un- der the lead of the Mexican labor movement, to resent the presence of foreign exploiters is reason enough for Washington to be on the alert. Fleet Ready. At the state department is was said that Admiral Latimer’s Carribean fleet was cruising in Central American wa- ters and is prepared to “protect Amer- ican interests” at any point required. One of these points is Guatemala. Mexico’s reply to the note of the United States with regard to the land and oil laws is said to be of a ‘sharp nature and entirely upholds the pre- vious stand of the Calles government that the laws are to be vigorously en- forced and their retroactive clauses observed, There is some hint of an ultimatum being forwarded to Mexico on this question. The state department is’ still work- ing in Nicaragua with a view towards the building of a proposed new canal thru that country. No secret is made of the fact that one of the reasons for the drive against Mexico over the question of the latter country’s in- fluence in Nicaragua hinges on the canal project.’ The United States many years ago bought complete rights to the canal. But official Wesh- ington is resentful of Mexico because it is desired to secure unrestrained United States control in Nicaragua as a protection for the important canal project. ’ eee U. S. Hypocrisy Assailed. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22.—The of- ficial government organ, Excelsior, takes occasion in its issue of Sunday to rap what it calls United States hypocrisy with regard to Nicaragua. The paper says: “The present exhibition of dollar di- plomacy is even more vulgar than pre- vious amazing performances. The White Housé's recognition of the spu- rious Diaz government of Nicaragua is so inconsistent as merely to become an absurdly irritating farce. Secre- tary Kellogg’s assumption of concern at imaginary Mexican interference in Nicaragua & rabid exhibition of hypoerisy, because Diaz, the White House’s Nicaraguan president, has been the puppet of American cepital- ism in Nicaragua.” HELP SEND THE DAILY an TO STRIKERS = The best time to interest DAILY WORKER is while they are on strike. have the money to pay for it, and The DAILY WORKER isn’t flush enough with cash to send it free. of The DAILY WORKER is therefore ith which to pay for The DAILY WORK- ER to be sent to all strikers that ask for it. Help reach as many as possible by sending a donation. The Hastern Agenc workers in the message of The Yet thy seldom ——— — — — — USE THIS BLANK — — — — — — — Herewith | contribute $.. to be sent to workers on strike. ‘ Street and number .... 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