The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1926, Page 5

1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY een | PRIZES TO BE OFFERED THIS WEEK Three books that will be an asset to every, worker's library are to be given next week for the best worker correspondence story sent to The DAILY WORKER. The prizes are: L PEyeraperaie dehy OF POLITICAL EDUCATION, by A. Berdnikov and A. Svetiov. This Is a new book of such great value that every worker should have it In his library. Hpi une FOR THE NEW AGE, by Simon Felshin. The work of a young revolutionary poet whose verse carries the courageous splrit of the coming new order. Cloth bound. RUSSIA TODAY, the report of the British Trade Union Delegation. Every worker correspondent should send in a story this week. Workers in every section of the country are eager to learn of con- ditions in American industry. The worker knows them, We are count- ing on you, workers, to tell us about them. Send in that story, today! WILL TAKE PICTURE OF WORKERS CORRESPONDENCE CLASS HERE TO SEND TO GROUPS IN SOVIET UNION Worker correspondents in Russia pictures of worker correspondents in and other countries are clamoring for America. Russian worker correspond- ents have already sent group pictures to the United States and want the American workers to reciprocate. Because of this the Chicago class in work- er correspondence at the last meeting decided that a picture should be taken of the class and sent to the foreign workers, Join Class Now. It is the desire of the class that as many worker correspondents as pos- sible should be represented in the pic- ture. So a call is sent out now to all Chicago workers who have delayed joining the class to do so at once to be represented in the group. The pic- ture will be taken either this Friday night or next Friday night. But every worker who wants to join the class should come this Friday. SS The class meets at 6:30 in the edi- torial offices of The DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Blvd. It lasts until 8:30 o'clock, which leaves enough time to members who have other meet- ings on that night to attend them also. The purpose of the class is to train workers in ‘writing for newspapers. Every worker who wants to receive this training should become a member. HOW THE WORKERS ARE “BENEFITTED’ BY HOSPITAL IN GARMENT FACTORY By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—The National Cloak and Suit Co. has a hospital. Here is an example of how much good it is to the workers. Two girls are filing the order sheets; the section head is there every five minutes to drive them ahead of time. In the afternoon one of them took sick. Bhe called the section head and asked permission to leave for the ‘hospital. “The reply was that she has to ask the floor head. The floor head was not in. At the same time the section head did not forget his usual order, “Go on, girls, do not get behind time.” The sick girl could not work. She kept on asking permission to go to the hospital. The head did not reply. “He is out of hearing,” another girl remarked, “leave the work and go down, now there is a hospital, let us make use of it.” The sick girl kept on asking the head. Instead of answering, he kept speeding her up. She sprang up, “I am going down, I cannot work,” she cried, In a few minutes the girl was back. When asked whether she felt bet- ter, she answered, “I could not take rush me afterward.” a proper rest, thinking how he would This is how we get to the hospital and the treatment they give us. “Prosperity” of L. A. Seems to Be All Bunk, After All, Drives Show By L, P, RINDAL (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Nov, 29, — The “prosperity” of Los Angeles is so great that 154 charitable, relief and welfare agencies have been created here, The Community Chest drive, now going on, in so far a faflure, ‘The mayor's proclamation for “Com- munity Chest Day” says “It is a great humanitarian campaign to relieve the suffering of the sick and the crippled, to bring sunshine into the lives of thousands upon thousands of orphans, homeless old men and women, work- ing mothers, thus mending many a shattered hope and broken spirit—’ At the Shriners’ convention, a year or so ago, Mayor Cryer told the visi- tors that this city was an “oasis of abundance,” New York Workers Welcome Cline With Reception and Dance By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Nov, 29,'— Charles Cline, class-war prisoner, just re- leased after serving time in a Texas penitentiary for 13 years on a frame- up because of his labor activities, was welcomed by New York workers at a reception and dance given in his honor by the New York section of the Inter- national Labor Defense at Manhattan Lyceum, Richard Brazier, a member of the New York district I, L, D, executive committee, was chairman and Cline himself was the main speaker, Every Worker should read The American Worker Correspondent, The latest lasue will be off the prese this [werk Send in your subscription now. 50 cents a year, EDISON WORKERS ARE VICTIMS OF COMPANY SPIES Are Afraid to Commit | Selves on Union By a Worker Correspondent, * NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Angel Morra, organizer for the International Broth- erhood of Hlectrical Workers, says he is handicapped in organizing the New York Edison electrical workers. He claims it is due to two reasons, an | | efficient spy system and workers’ fear of their jobs. All means of organizational work, even when carried on under cover, are exposed by the spy system. . Any | worker who has even an interest in the union is found out by the com-| pany and discharged. | The spy system causes distrust be- | tween the workers, so they are afraid | to commit themselves on the union. ganization work. Morra aéso states tional wage for this work, payable at | their residence by a messenger. | | ‘ | Seattle Kuomintang 1 Celebrates Birthday | of Dr. Sun Yat Sen! By a Worker Correspondent. of Dr. Sun Yat Sen was celebrated here by the local branch of the Kou- minchang party. Addresses were made by several students of the Uni- versity of Washington, who are here under the provisions of the Boxer | indemnity fund. Carl Brabnin of the Seattle Labor College extended greet- ings for American supporters of the Chinese nationalist movement. A pro- gram of Chinese music, pantomime and amateur dramatics followed. Earlier in the evening a local radio | broadcasting station put on an hour’s | program covering the life and work of Sun Yat Sen. Denver Workers Open New Lyceum Building By a Worker Correspondent, DENVER, Nov, 29, — Sunday, the 21st, was a red letter day for the the Jewish portion, in that they as- sembled to the number of 1,000 in their beautiful new lyceum building in West Denver, A few years ago the Lyceum Asso- ciation was organized by a handful of Jewish workers on the west side, and they soon purchased a lot on which an old church was standing. It was converted into a meeting hall. Then, about @ year ago, the members decided that @ new structure must replace the old and delapidated building, which had grown too small for the crowds that had been gathered there. Thru picnics, bazaars and various meetings money was collected for the purpose. Most of the new building was erect- ed by the members of the Lyceum themselves, who have worked day and night at the task, The structure, as completed, is valued at $30,000, After applying the $2,500 which was col- lected at the celebration on the 21st, the debt remaining on the property will be but $10,000, which the enthu- siastic members claim will be paid off within the next few years. The dedicatory celebration lasted from 2 p. m, until midnight and in- cluded a banquet, dancing and speeches, Ear] R, Hoage, president of the Col- orado Federation of Labor, congratu- THE DAILY WORKER Page Five CHICAGO LABOR, IN GREAT MEETING, PASSES'RESOLUTION OF PROTEST AT — LEGAL MURDER OF SACCO AND VANZETT! At the meeting at Ashland Audi-;to further the ends of justice and early torium, held tinder the auspices of the | Telease of the defendants, Sacco-Vanzetti Conference of Chicago,| We further pledge ourselves to urge he followi: 1 the congressmen and senators of Tili- | Oe mr aon, Maw Adopted nois to present ‘resolutions in congress | unanimously by a rising vote: to investigate the participation of the} Whereas, the Sacco and Vanzetti| department: of) justice in the Sacco- | case that has held the attention of the | V@nzetti case. We are of the firm con- i |viction that such an investigation will | world for the past six years is about | expose the conspiracy and hasten the | to come to a close with imminent dan-| freeing and release of these two de- | ger of two innocent men having their | tendants. lives snuffed gut, and we believe this} is @ conspiracy ito feed the appetites | TORNADOES TAKE HEAVY TOLLS IN SOUTHWEST AREA | Life and Propiity Taken in Many States DETROIT SKY-PILOTS ARE DISTURBED AS GOVERNOR ‘FORGETS’ GOD IN THANKS DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 29.—What is thanksgiving with God left out? This was the disturbing reaction of Detroit clergy to Governor Alex J. Groesbeck’s omission of the word “God” from the annual Thanksgiv- | ing proclamation, | The proclamation is said to be the | first in which a governor has not asked the people of his state to thank God for the various blessings enjoyed during the past year. The Rev, Chester B, Emerson of the North Woodward Avenue €on- Blizzard in lowa. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iow: Eastern Iowa was literally bur’ der a blizzard this morning as rain turned to snow. ** Headed Northeastward. WASHINGTON, Noy, 29. The |plot, and of labor baitens,tiand Whereas, the American labor move- ment from coast to coast and millions| of sympathizers thruout the world are not only ’@0nvinced of Sacco and | Vanzettt’s inndeence, but honestly be- lieve that agetits of the department of justice in Washington have lent them- selves to help*eatry out this diabolical aie Whereas, the attorneys for the de- fense have presented to the court new evidence upon which they base their demand for a tew trial, to wit: One affidavit from Gelestino Madeiros who |in ‘substance ‘testifies that the Morelli| This factor alone has restricted or- |8*2& of bandits committed the crime| charged to thé ‘defendants; two affi- that some of the spies get an addi-|(4vits from ‘former department of| justice agents‘-Latherman in the service of the department of justice thirty-six years, and Mr, Meyand, in the same service eight years. Both of these former agents testify in their affidavits that: they made every effort to obtain evidence that would warrant the oe of Sacco and Van- | zetti. lg jthey were instructed to assist this SEATTLE, Nov. 29.—The birthday /frame-up to railroad Sacco and Van- Fail to ‘get this evidence, zett! to the electric chair; therefore be it Resolved, that the organized trade unionists ané@‘other Chicago friends in mass meéting assembled, pledge their individtal'support to the Sacco and Vanzetti defense and demand that a new trial” be granted to these de- fendants. We ftirther demand an im- mediate thoro fnvestigation by con- \gress into the ‘part played by the de- WORKERS (COMMUNIST) || PARTY GREETS WORKERS’ | | SACCO-VANZETTI PROTEST Great enthusiasm greeted the reading of the accompanying mes- Sage of the Workers (Communist) Party to the Sacco-Vanzetti protest | meeting held in Chicago: To the Workers of Chicago as- sembled in support of ‘the move- ment to save Sacco and Vanzetti. | The Workers (Communist) Party extends its greetings to the work- ers of Chicago assembled in sup- port of Sacco and Vanzettl. Sacco and Vanzetti are in dan- ger of losing their lives because they dared support the revolution- ary movement of the workers against the capitalist system. They are to be murdered by the lackeys of capitalism because they raised their voices in protest and organiz- ed the workers against the exploit- ation and oppression of the workers by the capitalists. The Workers (Communist) Party has from the beginning supported the movement of labor to fight for the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti. It has used all its strength to bring | before the workers the truth about | their pérsecution and to mobilize | the vast strength of labor in their defense. The Workers (Communist) Party pledges itself anew to the struggle to save these revolutionary fighters. \t calls upon all workers to rally to their defense. It calls upon all work- jcinet worker, gregational church declared the res- | olution “the most arrogant message ever penned.” The Rev. Mark F. Sanborn of the First Baptist church and the Rev. Edgar DeWitt Jones of the Central Christian church were other “men of the cloth” who criticized the proc- lamation. “The recognition of God in Thanksgiving is historical,” the Rev. Mr; Jones said. “Without thanks to God the holiday is meaningless.” The Rev. Mr. Sanborn said: “If the omission was intentional the proclamation is pathetic.” Reed Drops Probe in Reported Kansas City Slush Fund Exposure KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 29. — Senator Reed’s one-man “slush fund” investigating co: ailed to bring out evidence of charges that a $250,000 to $750,000 fund had operated in Kansas City during the recent election on behalf of the candidacy of Harry B. Jawes, democrat, for the United States senate, Harry R. Walmsley, republican pre- who wrote to Senator Norris of Nebraska declaring it was “common gossip” in Kansas City that the Stree} Railways company had pledged we a fund in return for ex- tension of franchise, was unable to} give Senator Reed any definite in- formation about the alleged fund upon | which has letter was based. | After 45 minutes of questioning, storm now hovering west is moving nor tended by rains which will be fol- lowed by ‘snow flurr’ in the Ohio valley and lower Jake region, th weather buregu- announced tode Minnesota wag expected to zero weather. Indiana, Illinois, of Michigan, parts of Wiscon Eastern lowa will have temp below 25 above zero, it was pri by government forecaster C nell er the middle eastward, a Boston Streetcar Men Get Uniforms, BOSTON, Nov. 29 forms supplied unde ment je by the union and the Bost . way Co. are going out to the workers involved. The free unifor are a gain from the direc nega agreement reached in contract made with years, The Story of a great struggle of 16,000 unorgan- ized textile workers hy the leader | with the program as outlined by our |fellow workers in New York City at workers and their friends, especially )2r°test fully partment \of Justice. We believe the investigation “Will disclose a criminal plot against labor that has all the ear marks of a tition of the Mooney case, and be ff further Resolved, that we are in full accord ers to demand their freedom with such a mighty voice,-backed by the organized strength of the workers, that the capitalists and their lack- eys will not dare to carry thru their Purpose to judicially murder Sacco and Vanzetti. Free Sacco and Vanzetti! Save Sacco and Vanzetti by mob- their mass meeting held in Madison Square Garé j November 17, 1926,| jjizin » f @ the whole strength of labor and urge the organization of a rep-| in the fight for their lives, resentative tion t0 present thjs Fraternally yours, Central Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, C. E. Ruthenberg, General Secretary. governor of Mass rs@ the plan to hold New York City chusetts @ national con, divulging no tangible evidence, Sen- | a |ator Réed dismissed his “witness” and |deciared he would “wash his hands of the whole affair.” Illinois River Again at Flood Stage, Low Ground Families Flee BEARDSTOWN, Ill, Nov, 29.—Fam- ‘ilies on low ground here were forced from their homes Tuesday morning as the waters of the rising Illinois river ‘I Don’t Care How It Ends, If It Only Ends ‘Says Sacco After Spending Six and Half Years in the Old Dedham Jail By JOHN DOS PASSOS, Federated Press, DEDHAM; Mass., Nov. 29.—It was mealtime when I went to see Sacco. ‘The other prisotiers filed by us as we sat on the bench talking; young men mostly, walking heavily with their hands in their armpits. Dédham jail is a model jail, a bMght clean polished bird cage. trees and’ the sky and clouds. Be Six Sacco hi Thru the bars you can see \ and a Half Years There. been six and a half years in Dedham jail, six and a half years in a cell twenty-three hours of the day and six and a half years of walking in ® file with his, hands in his armpits. A prisoner awaiting sentence is given no work to do. The only break was when he was sent to the state hospital for the insane, when he collapsed after a 31-day hunger strike, “I don’t care how it ends, if it would only end,” he says, They had told me that Sacco was broken by the ordeal; but not at all. He is atill able to laugh and joke and tell stories, There is still an occa- sfona] flush of color in his waxy prison cheeks. We talked about how amaz- lated the members in the name of the 36,000 organized workers, in hig or- ganization, He was followed in his talk by Wm, Dietrich, secretary of the Workers’ Party, representatives of sev- eral unions, and Mr, Duboff of the Workmen's Circle. Wm, L, Tuech- mann, president of the Lyceum Asso- ciation, made the principal address of the evening, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! The American Worker Correspond- ent is the worker correspondent’s own magazine. It will be off the press this week. Every worker should send in his subscription today. 60 cents a Introducing Comrade Shears! Meet this comrade. He’s the fellow who sends us clippings from all parts of the country—on all topics of interest to the labor and radical movement: articles, editorials, and cartoons—from newspapers and magazines, and radical. MEET COMRADE SHEARS AND BECOME A ‘ COMRADE SHEARS YOURSELF! ¢ Clip and ship and help to make The DAILY WORKER a bet- ter workingclass daily. Here’s Another Job for Comrade Shears! Every day there are articles, news stories and cartoons that your shop-mates will enjoy. Whenever you see something you think they will like—get out your shears! Cut it out and PASTE IT UP IN THB SHOP (and in the trade union hall)—mark it} . Every once in a while Comrade ate Sa him—OUT IT OUT! en PR siedeh. IM cud. photographs conservative e things to clip. When you see, year. Spend a Pleasant Evening in the Reading Room of the WORKERS (Los Angeles, Cal.) BOOK SHOP $22 WEST SECOND 8T. convenience. There is also .a splendid selection of books for your purchase, Hours—9 A, M. to 10 P. M, Sundays—1 P. M. to 6 P, M. Tel. Metropolitan 3266 coll ing was the amount of agony 4 man could stand, A dog under the same conditions would have been dead long ago, But he didn't say much about the case. He Was sick of talking about the case, ‘of thinking about the case. He told the about when he'd been a kid in’a little town in southern Italy before he’ come to America. His life before tie had fallen into the ghastly trap in Brockton that May evening six and a half years ago had been pretty happy on the whole, He liked to talk about it, Tells Background, Hig father was'a wine and oil mer- chant. Sacco worked for him when he was little in*the vineyard and the dry sunny olive Orchards. But better than school or Work in the flelds he liked machinery. When he was 15 he got a job sto! the donkey engine that ran the big‘thresher that threshed all the wheat in the region. It was about that time ha he began to dream of coming to America, the land of machinery, When he was 17 he came to America with his brother. ‘His first Job was as water boy with a road gang. When they let him work on the steam roller he was absolutely happy. He loved the land of machin- ery, When winter came on he got a Job in the Hopedale mills, and event- ually, finding that an unskilled laborer was everybody's doormat, learned to run an edging machine in a shoe tac- Driftedt6 Anarchists, From then onthe was pretty pros- Derous. He was'married and had a son, He was malting good money, He began to think about the people who | weren't so well off as he was. He had been brought up in an atmosphere of | Political talk, His father, back in| Torrgmaggiore, had been a Fepubli- | can; his brother, later mayor of the | town, a socialist. When Sacco lived in Milford he went to socialist meet- ings. But he found more intelligent men among the anarchists, They were more awake, more anxious to improve themselves, he said. Arrested for Speech, So little by little he found himself allied with the local Italian anarch- ist groups, meeting Sundays and even- ings at the Circolo de’ Studie Sociale. He was active in the Hopedale strike, was arrested for making a speech dur- ing the agitation in sympathy with the Minnesota strike in 1916. So it was inevitable that he should have been one of the first to agitate for a pro- test against the arrest of Salsedo and Elia in the red raids of 1920. He had a draft of a handbill for a meeting of protest against Salsedo’s murder when he was arrested with Vanzetti that May night in a Boston streetcar, Since then , . , six and a half years of jail. Twenty-three hours a day alone in a cell. “I don't care how it all ends, if it only ends,” he says, Commutation? Pardon? dare mention them to him, “If we had been convicted of radi- caliam it would have been all right,” he said. “But why convict us of mur- der?” Lloyd George to Send Speech to Farm Bureau David Lloyd George, war-time pre- mier of Great Britain, will deliver a Special message at the eighth annual American Farm Bureau Federation convention Dec, 6, 7 and 8 in Chi- I didn’t cago. 4 Invited to deliver the main conven- tion address, Lloyd G , he m +a fn ag a sel, van but |] By W. H. Bumett | Cloth 9s.2s || uid send a written addrosp | crept up around the foundations. The river was at a stage of 19.3 feet and is expected to reach 21 feet, which will flood many streets and cause many more residents to evacuate their homes. Workmen were blocking sewer in- lets in an effort to prevent flooding of streets, . Backing up of water on the state hard road thru the city is imminent. The, American Worker Correspond-/ ent will be out this week! Send In your subscription now. 50 cents a year. A Splendid New Book— ih ~ a heges pai ster 5 See THE PEASANT WAR IN GERMANY— . By Friedrich Ungels Translation’by, MOISSAYE OLGIN || ERE is a splendid work that is now available to American readers, A study of the peasant revolts and their relation to the reformation, The contrasting fig- ures of Thomas Muenzer, rebel leader and Martin Luther. Here is history written by a great writer and\ thinker presented in most interesting form for every worker, Just Off The Press Cloth $1.50 Read Also These New Publications LEFT WING UNIONISM— By D. J. 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