The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1926, Page 1

iN 4 it The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government beens Vol. Ill. No. 272. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, pS if Wamanend Alden mail, September 18 September 25 October 2 .... October 9 .. October 16 October 23 October 30 November 6 November 13 . November 20 . November 27 . Party Nuclei: By T. J. OFLA AERTY H L, MENCKEN tells us in his | * “Americana” how a horde of Nordics in a Maine village cut loose and cplit the atr with sounds of bawdy revelry in honor of a cow that was given a free trip to the town by the Yocal chamber of commerce, presumab- ly for the encouragment of bovine pul- chritude. But the, politicians from the @Goriferous stockyards of Chicago vied with the perfumed citizens of Lake Forest last Saturday in putting on their best babbitarian big and tucker to hail a combat between two arms of American imperialism’s war machine, on the gridiron, the object of the struggle being to’ kick, push, throw, or by apy other legal means to advance a piece of inflated pigskin from one side of a designated area to another, see 8 many otherwise quite normal and pertly intelligent persons of my acquaintance show unusual c@rebral animation on the occasion of such a conflict I am not trying to convey the impression that athletic events are to be sneered or sneezed at. What I would like to succeed in doing is to draw. the analogy between the Nordic cow and her utilization by a chamber of commerce for the encouragement of cattle breeding among the farmers and the transportation of Wost Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen for the encouragement of cannon-fodder breeding among the inhabitants of the middle west, Cit. & Y both efforts were successful, The cow had a good time and 0 had the gridiron warriors. Bo had others if we are to give credence to stories of wild times in the big hotels. No honest lover of foothall--4f there yet breathes such ap Pdividuel—could consider inst Satur day's pame @ sporting contest between (Comtinned on page 2) = id Faster Work Necessary to Keep The Daily Worker! The contributions to the KEEP THE DAILY WORK- ER FUND week by week have been as follows: issabssetceeta sone $ 339.50 The total is equal to $5 from 4,327 members. We must mobilize the remaining 5,673 members to raise their $5 quota for The DAILY WORKER. WE MUST COMPLETE THE $50,000 FUND TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER! Quick Action Is Needed! Daily Worker Committees: Visit every nucleus and check the contributions raised by each member. "a Examine the record of each member in raising his quota to keep The DAILY WORKER. Every Party Member, Every Supporter of The DAILY WORKER: Start Decem- ber with harder, faster work to complete the $50,000 fund without which we cannot keep The DAILY WORKER for 1927. GET FINES FOR | Plarino and Nick Stevens, In Chicago, by = Ps TT mail, $8.00 per $6.00 ber year, ALY Batered se Gecoud-class matter September 21, 1923, at the $$$. S acnaadeiiamaiieeeeed WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1926 <q» GHTENS GRIP Pubit: REE. es cs eile inauss. tndos Wha at it March ', 1870, PUBLISHING CO. shed Daily exoept 1113 ‘ashing on Blvd., 512.10 1,021.03 1,966.30 3,830.29 3,460.37 2,514.64 1,348.43 2,659.03 1,916.97 2,076.19 $21,644.85 POSTING BILLS ON CELEBRATION Workers Made Victims of Dead Law Arrested on Noy. 6 charged with violating a city ordimance, which is never énforced, against posting leat- lets on-city poles, two workers were fined $10 each in police court Mon- day morning. The posters they put on the poles were those advertising the Chicago celebration of the Rus- sian revolution anniversary. In spite ofthe fact that on the same poles the workers used to ad- vertise the workers’ affair, there were posters advertising political can- didates, the two were arrested by police. The workers fined were Dennis interna- tional Labor Defense, thru Attorney David J, Bentall, handled the defense. The judge fined the two the mini- mum and remitted court costs, de- claring that was the “best” he could do. out that the law is never enforced, the judge said that he could not con- sider that, ‘but must assess the fine when the law is enforced. 0, BE JUBILANT! POPE GRANTS WAGE INCREASE TO HARD-UP CARDINALS (Special to The patty Werker) ROME, Nov. 29.—Due to the In creased cost of living the pope has doubled the salary of cardinals, from 20,000 to erro lire a year, approximately 9860, ult Ais) been maintained that many the cardinals were unable to Shas more than a bare éxistence | saterion When Attorney Bentall pointed |- BRITISH FIRMS SIGN MEXICAN Play Own Game in the | U. S.-Mexican Fight | | (Spectht to The Dally Worker) | at WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The Mex- ican embassy has made public tele- | grams from its government announc- ling that all British oif concerns in | Mexico have agreed to apply for con- | cessions im compliance with the oil jand land laws which ‘go Into effect | Jan. 1. The total acreage upon which | confirmation was asked by the British | companies is 200,000,000 acres. Some |of the smaller American companies | are Included. This fact is going te make the pressing of the State Department for a@ suspension of the Mexican laws, which it calls “cofifiscatory,” oex- tremely embarrassing. The action of the British companies is plainly a strategem being employed by them in the world-wide struggle for oil that @xists between that country and the United States. British Strategy. Britain does not stand to lose much. It has applied for the 50-year conces- sions from Mexico and will be able to operate after Jan. 1. The United States, on the other hamd, has made known its intention of breaking off relations with Mexico over this ques- tion. In all probability, American oil | operations will come to a stop if this course is pursued. While the United States will be fighting strictly for Wall Street in- terests .by using state pressure to the fight continues between Mexico and the United States over a long pe- riod of time, the British companies will benefit by having the U, 8S. companies eliminated from competi- tion with them in Mexico. PT na Boca Boylan Bill to Come Up. WASHINGTON, Noy. 29.— Repre- sentative John J. Boylan of New York made the announcement today that he would demand action by the foreign affairs committee in the house on @ bill he submitted and will amplify to include the present situation, with re- gard to Mexico. The bill advocates the breaking of relations with Mexico over the ques- tion of “religious liberty,” with ref- erence to the catholic controversy. Boylan said he would enlarge the bill to give as additional reasons for the proposed break, the enforcement of the oil and land laws by Mexico. Boylan charges the Mexican govern- ment with being “bolshevik” and un- der the control of Communists. Congress May Limit Doctor, But Who Will Control Bootlegger? WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Congress has the right to declare how much medicinal liquor a doctor can pre- seribe for his patient, ‘the supreme court held, in effect, today. The court declared valid that part of the Volstead law which places a limitation on the prescription of liquor for patients, The decision was handed down in an appeal case brought by Dr. Samuel W. | Lambert, New York, who contended congress exceeded its powers in limit- ing doctors to one pint every ten days, Foster to Speak to T. U. E. L. Wednesday William Z. Foster will be the prin- cipal speaker at the regular meeting of the Chicago Trade Union Educa tional League at Mirror Hall, 1140 N. Western Ave., next Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 8 p. m. The meeting will also elect a city executive committee for the coming year and make arrange ments for the annual T, U. B, .|New Year's ball. Bodies of Workers Taken from Tunnel OAKLAND, Nov. 29.—All ten bodies of the men who were trapped and drowned im the Claremont tunnel, 15 miles from bere, on Thursday had beon recovered today. The last five Dodiog,..were taken from the tunnel vyeaterdny, LAND DEMANDS POLISH PARLIAMENT 1S SHORN OF ALL POWERS BY PILSUDSKI REGIME (Special to he Deity Worker) WARSAW, No vs 29.—Marshal Pil- sudski’s di ip over Poland is now 80 complete that the Sejm, Polish parilament, is nothing more than a name. Pilsudski is now rid- ing rough-shod dver the wishes. of the represe and ig com- pletely ignoring: parliament. Realizing its position the Sejm at- tempted to dissolve itself on motion of the left parties, but even this was prevented. Pilsudski does not want the parliament to dissolve now, since he feela he”has complete con- trol. : The bier affairs are be- ing conducted icretly, and the | Sejm learns nothing except about budgetary and Fouti ne matters. Ask Grete te to Support Stand for Union (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Nov. 29.—Counter- ing the att pf the Botany MNis to break the ‘of the textile strik-/ ers by announ a ten cent in- crease in ges to workers In its force Mexico to suspend the oil laws|“@!ked out of the or to modify them, if the state de-| months ago, met in mass meeting and partment, succeeds, and this is doubt-| #dopted a ful, the British companies will also | Green of the benefit by having their titles main-| Laber, ‘|| tained along with the American. mills, fifteen hundred strikers who same mill ten jetter to. Wiillam! lean Federation of their ranks hearted “gupport ‘the labor move- ment. .The workers immediately saw the FALL DEFEATED AN IMPORTANT LEGAL BATTLE Senate Testimony Will Be Admitted (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov, 29.—The gow ernment scored a decisive victory to- day in its first big test of strength with the “million dollar” legal defense of ex-Seeretary of the Interior Albert 8. Fall and Edward L. Doheny, on trial for alleged conspiracy to defraud the government gut of naval oil re- serves. Justice A. A. Hoehling, in a lengthy opinion read at the opening of the trial this morning, held that Doheny’s testimony before the special investi- gating committee three years ago con- cerning the $100,000 he “loaned” to Fall was admissible as evidence In the present trial, Doheny testified before the senate committee that he had let Fall have the $100,000, instead of E. B. McLean, the Washington and Cincinnati pub- lisher, whom Fall had said loaned him the money, Defense Fights Evidence. Defense counsel bitterly conteated the admissibility of this evidence be- fore the jury that is now trying Fall and Doheny on criminal charges, They | contended that to allow Doheny’s story to go before the jury constituted ) grounds for “a reversible error” when and if the case is appealed. Their | argument was based on that part of the federal code which says that the testimony of a witness before a com- mittee of congress shall not be used | against him in a subsequent criminal proceeding. Was Voluntary Witness. , Goyernment counsel contended the statute didnot cover this particular case, as Doheny had heen a voluntary |>#8sador to the U. S., and two other | witness before the senate committee, move of gthe Botany bosses for what} it is. The ten per cent increase was | to have been a bait to lure the work-| ers back into the: mills individually. | It carried with & no recognition ot | the union. The letter to Green, adopt-| and had given the story to the com- mittee by his own volition. is Blow to Defense. SOVIETS AND TURKEY MADE NO AGREEMENT FOR PAN-ASIATIC LEAGUE (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Nov. 29, — “We made Mo agreements against any third power. We have mo time to threaten anybody,” declared for- eign minister, Chicherin, today in a statement recapitulating the re sults obtained from his recent meet- ing at Odessa with the Turkish foreign minister, Tewfik Rusdi | any other leagues,” minister added. the foreign PEKING CABINET, WAR LORD TOOL, GIVES UP GHOST Canton Power Grows as Militarists ‘Weaken (Special to The Dally Workers | jernment is broke and has resigned. | The resignations have been forwarded | the | to the five northern war lords, most Important of whom are Chang Tso Lin and Wu Pei Fu, the real pow- whose troops are in contro! of the | capital, It is well known that |“shadow” government has been oper- jest resources. Government revenues jare actually in the hands of the mili-| jtarist chiefs and the Peking cabinet | has been progressively starved until it | could carry on no longer. Koo, Two Others Left. ‘Wellington Koo, former Chinese am) ministers are the only ones left te) carry .on the so-called government. | The powers have been aware for a Jlong time of the extreme weakness junday by THE DAILY WORKER | Bey. | “We created no Pan-Aslatic or | j | The ers in the direction of Peking affairs) the Peking | ating for many months on the slender- | NEW YORK EDITION ——S=——— Price 3 Cents Chicago, Ill. ON SHIPSTED Set eee F-LP. SENATOR AT WHITE HOUSE WITH OLD GUARD | Accepts Cal Coolidge’ s Invite to Breakfast (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov, 29.— “old guard” in the republican party is happy here today over hav- ing lured Hendrik Shipsted, the Min- nesota farmer-labor senator, Into a breakfast conference held at the in- 7 | vitation of President Coolidge at the White House. The charges of bribery and corrup tion hurled at the republican forces jin Maine, where an ¢ n is being held today, created a situation where Shipsted’s vote may b deciding factor between the « ats and the republicans when the senate con- venes @ week from today. Seek G. O. P. Unity The ostensible purpose of the gath- ering about the White Hou fast table was to afford the an opportunity to discuss wi | publican leaders of the senate the le PEKING, Nov. 29.—The Peking gov-| gislative program for the short ses- sion, beginning next Monday Actually it was regarded as an- other administration step toward the elimination of republican factional ism, and the establishment of party harmony against the time in the sev- jentleth senate when republican har mony will be sorely needed Shipsted’s inclusion among | breakfast guests caused consider: comment in political quarters. It was sald to be the first time the farme |laborite has ever sat at the W! | House table. Recently he was ° vited” by republican leaders of the senate, informally, to become affiliated with the republicans of the upper chamber. The Gang's Al! Here. Others at the table this morning in- cluded Curtis of Kansas, the republi can leader; Capper of Kansas, Dale | Of Vermont, Bingham of Connecticut, Goff of West Virginia, Shortridge of Had Judge Hoehling ruled in favor | jof the Peking cabinet and have, while California, Gooding of Idaho, Couzens of Fall and Doheny the government's | hands would have been tied by a legal observing certain formalities, nego- ‘tiated directly with the war lords of | ed by the workers with great enthu-| |technicality preventing it from sub- | the provinces. siasm, exposed the bosses’ ruse and _ reiterated the determination of the | strikers to fight’for recognition of their union. To Send Committee. Another meeting) is to be held Mon-/ day night at which the strikers will/ elect a committee to visit the bossea and lay the demands of the strikers before them. The demands are that the ten per cent increase be granted | with no discrimination to all work-| ers and that the strikers be allowed | freely to elect a grievance committee | from their union to negotiate with the Botany officials. Gustave Deak, president of Local No. 1603, United Textile Workers of | America, issued the following formal statement: Must Have Recognition. “The union considers the restoration | of the wage out as a concession forced | upon Botany management by the splendid fight of the strikers. The| major demand of the strikers, how-/ ever, ts the recognition of the union and no satisfactory: cessation of the struggle can be had until this demand | 8 met. | “The executive committee of the union has already had this matter un- der advisement and a special sub-com- mittee was elected to visit the office of the United Textile Workers of America and there confer with Presi- dent McMahon.” The December issue of the Amer ican Worker Correspondent will be out this week. Get a copy, sub- scribe! ALBANIAN REVOLUTION IS NOT ENDED; ITALIAN WARSHIPS MAKE THREAT (Special to The Daily Worker) VIENMA—The revolution In Al- banla is far from at an end, acoord- ing to reports of travelers. All communication with Scutari ie out off and it Is befieved that the city has been taken by the reboln. Five Italian deetroyers and one cruiser have arrived at Brindisl, Italy and others are expected. Without official announcement on mitting any direct evidence showing | that Doheny bribed Fall. Without submitting Fall's testimony before the senate committee two years ago there would be no way of bringing into the | trial the story of the “little black bag.” The defense is now considerably <Gparinnedt Oa pags on page 2) UNEMPLOYMENT SPECTER IS NEW FRENCH MENACE Lay Wades. Off in the) Metal Industry PARIS, Nov. 29. — The specter of unemployment ts beginning to raise its head in France following a long period of inflation in which industrial activity has managed to keep not only French but many additional foreign workers on the job. Beginning to appear several weeks ago in an alarming manner in the Paris region, | unemployment is now showing rapid growth. It is in the metal industries, par- ticularly the automobile that lay-offs are occurriag in large numbers. The reason for it is lack of orders. There are no prospects in sight of a recov- ery of business in heavy metals and) the menace of unemployment that ac- companies a recession ig becoming greater day by day. A bill for unemployment relief has been pending before the French chamber for two years but has been allowed to hang. Very few firms have unemployment insurance or funds and the reaction, as the crisis grows, is bound to be shafp. The foreign workers, of whom large numbers are at work in France, are likely to receive the brunt of the blow. It will doubtless be the policy of the French bosses to lay oft these workers first. There is much alarm over the bal- ance of trade in France which is just one more indicatiow of the speed with which the crisis is approaching. Ger- many, in the past year, has more than doubled her exports to France while export of French goods to Germany aro ‘proportionally much smiilier. The ‘tame applies to the foreign trade with the U. & vatret sw 4 |; But money {s not the only reason for the resignation, The march of the Cantonese: down the Yangtze valley | has much to do with the governmental panic that reigns in Peking. Reports from Amoy tell of another important city falling to the revolutionaries. Foo Chow, an important treaty port jot 700,000 population, has been cap-| {tured from Marshal Sun Chuang Fang, | | "ee continues to retreat. The Cantonese are now in control lof seven large provinces with a popu- | lation of over 200,000,000. Their ac tivities extend to all parts of China | and the sympathies of the masses are | unquestionably with Canton. There) seems to be no prospect of stopping | the revolutionary determination of the | | Southerners, who have set as their goal the conquering of the whole of China for the republic on an anti-| imperialist and antt-militarist | | | we Powers to Stay in China, WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.--The re iport of thirteem large nations, whose representatives under the chairman- ship of Silas Strawn of the United | States consulted in China for many months on the question of extra-ter- ritorial rights, has been made public cided not to relinquish their hold in ithe various parts of China in which | they have established concessions. The commission report gives as the {chief reason for the refusal of the, powers to withdraw the extraordinary | powers they have assumed on Chinese | territory, the inability of the Chinese (Continuea on page 2) FIRST COMMUNIST 10 BE ELECTED ON CONTINENT WINS IN WINNIPEG RAGE By LESLIE “MORRIS, (Special to The Daily Worker) WINNIPEG, Man, Noy. 29.—For the first time in North America a Communist, running on a straight Communist platform has won an election. W. M. Kolysnik, candi- date for alderman in ward three, and declares that the powers have de- | | of Michigan, Sackett of Kentucky, | and Stewart of Iowa, who is to oc- | cupy the seat of the late .. Senator Cummins for the short session Senator Couzens’ presence also ell- cited some comment, 2 frequent- ly has been on the with the administration, and ha t some sanguinary batt] with Secretary of the Treasury Mell< He has been ir- (Continued on , 2.) NAVY ACTS PART OF ‘ARBITRATOR’ IN NICARAGUA \Rebel Lendue . Boards U.S. Flagship (Speclat to TI plat: | form. | Daily Worker) MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 29:— | For the second time since the placing {of the United States tool Diaz in the presidential chair and the consequént | Tebellion of the liberal force n the interior, the: liberal r, General Moncada has been called aboard the flagship of Rear Admiral Julian Lati- mer with « view to forcing the lib- erals to lay down their arms and ac cept the Diaz regime Navy Lands, Just after the fake election of Diaz | by the machinegun controlled cham: | ber ot deputies and the arrival of the United States naval forces off | Blueflelds, Moncada and a number of Mberal leaders, were brought aboard the cruiser Rochester. They refused to accede in Rear Admiral Latimer’s request that they support Diaz and left the warship with the declaration that they would fight. In the meantime, more troops were landed from the U. S. ships and U. 8. naval authorities issued state ments in which they implied their determination to wipe out the rebels They blockaded the coast and om Several occasions held up oats be- ing used by the liberals In their cam paign against Ding. Rebels Overwheimed. The appesrance of Moncada oa board the Rochester again Is evidence of the fact that the liberals are realix- was elected to the municipal coun- ojl by a majority of 207 votes. Durward, candidate of the Inde pendent Labor Party was eliminate ed when Kolysntk, running as» Communist, polled 2078 ballets. ing the hopelessness of their fight Against Diaz because it means as well a fight against the United States navy which is the real. power here. a pel ther Reg a american Worker Correspondent, it’s only 8 cents, be wy, i ne er ere ec A a