The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government “ol. iil No, 271. CAN AND TUESDAY TO REACH THE ~~ $25,000 MARK FOR THE KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FUND ! Contributions to Nov. 20:.......... Contributions Nov. 22 ( Monday)... Contributions Nov. 23 ( Tuesday). Contributions Nov. 24 ( Wulacedas). Contributions Nov. 26 (Friday). . Contributions Nov. 27 ( Saturday). 300.90 TOTAL to Nov. 27...........$21,635.89 By C. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary Workers (Communist) Party. HE contributions to the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund must be boosted by $3,365 on Monday and Tuesday in order to reach the half-way mark in raising the $50,000 fund to Keep The DAILY WORKER, The contributions received by The DAILY WORKER during the latter part of last week show a falling off in the work for the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund. $1,500 was received during the first three days of the week and only $500 for the last three days. : seems that the supporters of The DAILY WORKER wished to give The DAILY WORKER something to be thankful for before Thanksgiving Day, and let up in their effort to boost the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund. The DAILY WORKER would have been more thankful if the returns for the week- end had kept up to the pace during the first three days of the week. The DAILY WORKER is still in danger. The work of ralsing the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund has not gone forward fast enough to overcome the crisis against which The DAILY WORKER Is struggling. The Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign has been under way for ten weeks. If the fund had been completed during these ten weeks The DAILY WORKER would have overcome the dangerous financial situation and had a reserve for the future. The fact that only $21,635.89 was raised during these ten weeks has left The QAILY WORKER little better off than at the beginning of the cam- paign, K io? deficit. during these ten weeks-has used up the funds raised. “inorder to pull ‘The DAILY WORKER out of this situation the work of raising the balance of the $50,000 fund must be taken up with greater energy. It Is only if all the party members and supporters of The DAILY WORKER are mobilized for an intensive drive to raise the balance of the fund during the next months, that we can win the struggle to Keep The DAILY WORKER. Het far the Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign has been without or- Yanized support, except in two or three districts of the party. The prompt organization of Keep’ The DAILY WORKER committees in every unit of the party and the greatest activities of these committees to organize support for and collect the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund is the requirement of the hour, WE MUST COMPLETE THE $50,000 FUND TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. WE MUST IMMEDIATELY ORGANIZE THE FULL STRENGTH OF THE PARTY FOR THE WORK OF RAISING THE BALANCE OF THE FUND. WE MUST SEE THAT EVERY MEMBER OF THE PARTY RAISES THE $5.00 QUOTA HE HAS BEEN ASSESSED Es RAISE FOR THE KEEP THE*DAILY WORKER FUND. THESE ARE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER AS THE VOICE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS’ MOVE- *[CLOAKMAKERS OF N.Y. DENOUNCE RIGHT WHGERS General Strike Commit- tee Issues Defy © + 998.00 151.51 By T. J. “OFLA daERTY N Anglo-German coal war is prophesied by the Westminster Gazette. In fact the war is on now. While the British capitalists were burning up money to defeat the miners tye German coal owners were busy |» capturing British coal markets. They intend to keep them. This is how wars are bred. The British capitalists will soon, learn that the luxury of de- Subscription Rates: Hse icy mall 38.00 defeating the miners was a costly one. he 07 ‘AD the workers of other countries | Supported the British miners as the Soviet workers did, the British min@ strike would have smashed the coal owners and world labor would be immensely strengthened. As it is the miners suffered defeat and capitalists ail over the world will take the defeat 4g a suggestion to cut wages. Already in the non-union mine fields of the United States the employers have an- nounced that the finish of the British strike forees them to reduce wag There you are! Even from the pure bread and butter standpoint interna- ‘tional solidarity is a paying proposi- tion. BRITISH publishing firm got out a book alleged to be written by a} retired diplomat. It contained in- | tinrate pictures of prominent states- men and also of British royalty. The wuthor states that while British armies were being pushed to the chan- nel by the Germans, British states-) ‘men were indulging in debaucheries in (Contifiued on page 2) (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—The general | strike committee of the Cloak and Dress Makers’ Union of New York has issued an official statement which an- ew the attacks of the right wing Jewish Daily Forward and its sat- ellites in the needle trade unions with regard to the settlement just conclud- ed by the cloakmakers after 19 weeks of struggle with the bosses. The statement begins by pointing to the chains that were forged on the membership by the former right wing administration of the New York Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union and the interna- tional officials of that union. by allow- ing @ state body, known as the gov- ernor’s commission, to decide on wage and condition terms for the cloak- makers, The struggle of the 40,000 strikers in New York was as much a fight against compulsory arbitration as represented by the governor's commis- sion as it was for better working con- |dittons and higher wages. The strike, in addition to other gains referred to in the statement, ‘freed the cloak (Continued on* page 3) THE DAILY ‘Wo “Sel KER. Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ianois, under the Act of March 3, 187% $8.00 per year, $6.00 per tas aml ae 2 Erte a HUGE MEETING LAUDS FIGHT ON FRAME-UP “Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die!” A slender figure speaking in the monotonous singsong which is the Chinese language to the American ear, brought to the 3,000 workers assemb- led in Ashland Auditorium Friday night under auspices of the Chicago conference to protest the legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, the greeting and pledge of support of 250,000,000 workers and peasants organized be- hind the Canton (Kuomintang) gov- ernment, Sze Toa Chan, minister of educa- tion of the Canton government, in the United States on an official mission, personifying at this great working class meeting the second greatest mass force in the world today, speaking in the name of a government which is the mighty arm of the Chinese libera- tion movement that already has re- stored three-fifths of China to its people after wresting it from the world’s imperialists, was living proof, given in a dramatic form that the la- bor movement experiences too seb dom, of the globe-encircling sweep of the movement represented by the In- ternational Labor Defense. Perfect quiet, in which one could hear only the words of the speaker and the breathing of one’s ‘seatmate, broken finally by the stormiest burst of applause of the evening, was evi- dence furnished by the audience that without anything other than the simple sentences of Sze Toa Chan it had sensed the tremendous import- ance to labor of ‘the things he said andgrepresented, Flynn Outlines Program. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, national chairman of the International Labor Defense, probably the most brilliant and convincing woman speaker in America, following Sze Toa Chan, took the enthusiasm of the audience and gave it concrete expression. She brought greetings from the meeting of 13,000 workers in Madison Square Garden, organized by the New York Sacco-Vanzetti conference as well as greetings from Sacco and Vanzetti, “Liberty or Death!” “Sacco and Vanzetti,” she said, ‘have refused to appeal for a ¢ommu- tation of their death sentence to life imprisonment. They realize that they are no longer individuals but that they have come to symbolize the martyr- dom of the masses. They say now, after six and one-half years of in- credible suffering, always in the shadow of the electric chair, ‘give us liberty or give us death!’ “They know that their deaths at the hands of the state of Massachus- setts will be something of far more importance than the death of two Italian workers, It will be the Amer- ican labor movement that will go to the electric chair together with Sacco and Vanzetti.” National Conference Endorsed. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn outlined the plans for a national Sacco-Vanzetti conference to coincide with the ruling of, the Massachusetts supreme court on the new appeal which, she said, “we know now will simply uphold the decision of Judge Thayer so that the face of the state courts can be saved.” “Sacco and Vanzetti’ must ‘not die but only labor can save them,” the speaker concluded, and the applause (Continuea on page 2) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1926 HE Washing'.on Blvd., 290 Put a PC JAPANESE WHO KILLED SOCIALIST, WOMAN AND CHILD, IS OUT OF JAIL (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKYO, Noy. 28.—After serving but three years of the very lenient Sentence of seven and a half years, Captain Amakasu is tree. His crime was. that of strangling to death, just after the earthquake of 1923, a socialist, his woman com- panion, and the woman’s ten-year- old nephew. He left the prison in disguise, fearing vengeance. His Plea in defense at the time of his trial was that he felt it his duty to kill the socialist and his*companion, and that he then killed the child as being a witness to the first crime. Captain Amalie. it is reliably re- ported, has ver heard of ¢he Sacco-Vanzetti_ case. 1,400 MINERS ON STRIKE 1N. BARRE Compuiticl Refuses to Adjust Grievances By a Wor Correspondent. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Nov. 28._ Fourteen hundred miners at the Pros- pect and Henry mines of the Lehigh Valley Coal company have gone on strike following refusal of the com- Pany to adjust levances arising out of the loading of coal cars. The workers have been docked from two to three cars of | week because of the method of loading required by the company. The miners demand that topping of loaded cars be six inches from the face, instead of at the breaker, 4 practice which now allows much coal to fall off the cars, for which the/ workers receive no pay. Refuse to Meet Committee. When the company refused to meet the local union’s grievance commit- tee the strike was called. The com- pany officials declared they wouid meet only with Rinaldo ,Cappelliniy President of District No. 1, United Mine Workers. Cappellini was invit- ed by the local union to attend the special meeting, and after promising to attend failed to show up. Cappellini Denounced. Cappellini’s action and the declara tion of the company that they would meet Cappellini is causing feeling to tun high here against the district president. He is charged with being more friendly to the company than to the unionists. The local union officials declare the men will remain on strike until their demands are met and the local com- mittee recognized. FINNISH GOVERNMENT IS FORGED TO RESIGN OVER MILITARY IRREGULARITIES (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 28.—Premier Kal- lio and the Finnish government have resigned, following a defeat in the diet on a no-confidence motion con- cerning alleged irregularities in the Finnish army, according to a Cen- tral News dispatch from Stockholm, The November Meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers Party In today’s issue of The DAILY WORKER we publish the second of a sories of articles by C. E. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party on the resolution and discussions of the Central Committee during its sessions November 10, 11, and 12. These articles should be read by every member of the Workers (Communist) Party and those who are sympathetic to the building of a revolution- ary workers’ movement in the United States. The articles by Com- rade Ruthenberg whioh started in last ie are as follows: The Opportunities for Building the Revolutionary Movement. The Achievements of the Workers (Communist) Party. Organization of the Unorganized and the Work in the Trade Unions. The, Reorganization of the Party—A New.Weapon fer the Revolutionary Movement. 1 2 3. 4. A Labor Party in the 1928 Elections. 5. 6. How to Strengthen the Party. The Passaic Textile Mil Owners Can Be Beaten FE mill owners of Passaic, undoubtedly with the advice and aid of their agents in the labor movement, are making stren- uous efforts to settle the strike without conceding the right to organize to the great majority of the workers. ; We are in possession of information that today the Botany mill will post notices of a ten per cent increase in wages, Other information which is in line with recent attempts to make a settlement on the basis of organization of skilled work- ers such as loomfixers and spinners in the Botany mills, leaving the unskilled workers who are the majority of the strikers out of consideration, points conclusively to an extremely unhealthy condition in the official conduct of the strike. ; This policy, which would amount in practice to the creation of a separate local union of the United Textile Workers, com- posed of skilled strikebreakers now in the mills, means to de- moralize the strike completely, drive a wedge between skilled been the backbone of the strike, for a union nothing more than a company union from the start. The offer of a ten per cent increase by the Botany (whgse advertisement, by the way, is still carried by the official organ of the U. T. W. and the American Federationist) is an indication that the mill owners have weakened and with the improvement in business conditions in the textile industry, they want their working forces back in the mills. 3 } But they are not yet willing to concede the right to organize and guarantee no discrimination against strikers. nates The task of the U. T. W. officials in charge of the strike is to explain this to the workers, start a new offensive against the |i millowners by intensifying and extending the strike, and put forward the demands mentioned above. _ i It is necessary to strengthen the strike lines, see that no talists. ; The Passaic strike can be won if the U..T. W. leadership | ally in the whole labor movement the relief machinery which can bring in the money and supplies necessary if it is used to ifs capacity with full official support. Above all there must be no desértiéi Of the mass of ‘un- skilled textile workers whose struggle has made a new and glori- ous chapter in American labor history. :3 Let there be an end to the playing of politics in the ranks of the two capitalist parties in Washington, let President Green |of the American Federation of Labor and President McMahon |of the United Textile Workers come to the Passaic battlefield, | | pledge the full support of the trade union movement to a mass | iy the strike will be won. GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES IN FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY BALK CAPITALIST STABILIZATION : (Special Cable t0 7 to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 28.—“‘Two important obstacles to the stabilization of world capitalism are the antagonistic fight for world supremacy between the United States and Great Brit- ain and the decomposition of the British Empire,” said M. N. Roy, delegate from the Communist Party of India to the en- larged session of the executive committee of the Communist In- ternational. Roy declared fhat the imperial conference just concluded in London wag unable to solve the difficulties attendant upon the adjustment of internal imperial relations and that the English bourgeoisie were forced to make concessions to the dominions on the question of their independence. In the colonies, India and Egypt, other new conflicts’ of interest are looming. The essential element, said Roy, of the revolutionary situa- tion is the world fact that the growth of these imperialist weak- E DAILY WORK and unskilled and to sacrifice the unskilled workers who have | which could be | stampede into the mills takes place on the part of workers who A after ten months of struggle may be fooled by the ten per cent|' increase into believing in the good intentions of the textile capi- | will put forward a militant program and set in motion energetic- | meeting of the strikers, carry out this pledge in letter and spirit, | EIGHT WORKERS ARE ON JURY THAT WILL DECIDE TEAPOT DOME OIL CASE % (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—Eight of the “twelve good men and true” who will decide the fate of Albert B, Fall and Edward Doheny in the Teapot Dome case are workers. Half of the jurors are less than 30 years old, The jurors are: Clinton Carver, 26, electrician; Henry D. B: » 24, express man; George B. Cobb, 29, railway clerk; Herbert A, Via, 41, cigar store olerk; Wingfield Martin- dill, 23, clerk; Steven Vermillion, 23, clerk; Christian Vogel, 44, res- taurant steward; Chester F. Parker, Henry J. Briggs, 35, jon Snow, 30, artist; Alfonso E. rker, 43, merchant. “nesses and rivalries between imperialist nations result in in- ternational wars that force civil war in all capitalist countries. Willie Gallacher, of England, was chairman during the session when Roy spoke. Fila (Austria), continuing the de- bate on the reports of Bukharin and |Kuusinen (report of opening appeared (Continued on page 6) nounced, No official estimate of the amount the million: NEW YORK | #0 TION Price 3 Cents R Chicago, Ill. LONESE SWEEP TOWARDS SHANGHAI $3,365 MUST BE RAISED MONDAY REVOLUTIONSTS IN DRIVE DOWN VANGTZE VALLEY Anwhei Province Fled by Sun's Troops (Special to The HANKOW, Nov. tory has been added t ments of the Canto army in its march down th | Kian river valley toward the present military ok young General Chiang | king, capital of Anw | abandoned by Marshal Sun Fang and adds another of former militarist-co |tory to the increasing ju: |the .Canton republican gov. soon to be moved to Wuchang. After weeks of effort to h advance vince, was Chuan large stretch oiled terri- on of ment, of 2 was forced t centers of Hank Shanghai is 1 eration of y general staff. 6 @ Food Problem for Foreigners. HANKOW, Noy. 28.—The long con- which has serio: | the continuance of for along th © spread up the Yangtze y to Hankow and Wuchang and now perilously threaten the foreign quart nt ter cities with The chief’ diffientty uf these concessions in the fate of the strikes is the problem of fodd and servants. Commerce Chamber Meets. In Hankow, the executive committee of the American Chamt of Com }merce met with the Un 2 Consul Genera] Frank P. Lockhart and Rear-Admira] Her H. Hough, com- mander of the Y angt ze patrol to de vise means of conti the food supply to the foreig ession cut off by the strike of food-handlers and servants. A meeting men expres: ity to procure ‘The British pods we to Shan, upon food an sending od store rendered doubt he military cam Canton down the (Continued on page 2) even "the se plans ar: ful of execution by paign of the Duluth chu ‘iene for Iron Miners, Victims of Disaster DULUTH, Minn., Nov. 28.—The fre- quently recurring disasters the iron mines of Minnesota and chigan has moved the Duluth Trades and Labor Assembly to actign resolution passed by the head-of-the-lakes city jlabor body condemns the innumerable mine accidents as preventable and charges the death of hundreds of min- ers to the negligence of the iron com panies, most of them subsidiary to the United States Stee The resolution makes particular ret- erence to the unjust settlement made by the Oliver Mine Co. to the men who were entombed for 131 hours in the Pabst mine in Ironwood, Mich. It supports the move made by a group of Ironwood sympathizers, among whom are lawyers and newspaper men for a federal investigation, aud Petitions Minnesota senators and con- gressmen to bring the matter to the attention of Washington authorities, NINETEEN BANKS IN TWO COUNTIES OF IOWA CLOSE DOORS IN ONE DAY; DEPOSITORS WILL LOSE MILLIONS DES MOINES, lowa, Nov. 28.—Nineteen ba banks in Kossuth and Palo Alto counties did not open for business Friday, the ate banking department an- The closed institutions include state, national and private institutions. of money on deposit in the closed insti- tutions was available today, but unofficial estimates placed the amount in The closing of the banks, according to reports to the state banking de- Use your brains and your pen to ald | partment, was the result of a concerted action on the part of bankers in the two counties, it le stated that the action Is purely local, the workers In the class struggle, ematical dpomeen HaA Wee Darren ¥