The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1926, Page 1

Tee DAILY WORKER Ralses the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government fk LTRS CEOS EE RAE SA oa Vol. Ill. No. - 273. Subscription Rates: ~—6ORE: Sonn. 2,000 SHORT tk in tie all BETO rae by Outside hicago, by mail, Sas Mitared as Sescnd-class matter eptember 4, 1938, a4 T0RM Peet Ofllos at Chicaga, Diincte, under the Ast ot March 8, 198 mail, $8.00 per year, $6.00 per year. THURSDAY, Y, DECEMBER 2, 1926 * G00 MARK FOR NOVEMBER TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS CONTRIBUTIONS NOV. 29. CONTRIBUTIONS NOV. 30 TOTAL NOV. 30. TO NOV, 27........ $21,644.86 289.70 984.47 +$22,91 9.03 By C. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. HE Keep The DAILY WORKER still over $2,000 short of the half-way mark in raising the $50,000 fund. ‘here for selling the road’s securities at | That shows the necessity of more energetic organization work within! less than the market value authorized the party to stimulate and put new life into the work of collecting the fund by the Interstate Commerce Commis- | Fund closes the month of November upon which the future of The DAILY WORKER depends. B iste last few days have shown some intensification in the campaign te! Keep The DAILY WORKER, but not sufficient to give promise that) the $50,000 fund will be completed quickly enough to pull The DAILY WORKER out of the financial crisis which sell exists and to create a guarantee for its appearance in 1927. The work which stands before the party organization is to throw all the strength of the party into the campaign for The DAILY WORKER and to drive forward faster to ralse the remaining $27,000 of the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund. This can only be achieved thru greater organization. It cannot be| done by part of the party. It requires the whole strength of the party behind | the Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign. This strength can be mobil-| izea if a series of Keep The DAILY WORKER committees are organized thruout the party, which will have as their work to visit every party nucleus and draw every party member into the fight for The DAILY WORKER. WE must complete the Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign by the third birthday of The DAILY WOBKER—January 13. The Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund must reach the $50,000 mark by that time. LET US THROW ALL OUR FORCES INTO THE FIGHT TO GIVE THE DAILY WORKER THE GUARANTEE OF BEING ABLE TO CARRY | ON THE STRUGGLE FOR THE REVOLUTIONIZING OF THE AMERI-| CAN WORKERS DURING 1927 BY RAISING THE $50,000 BY JANUARY 13, THE SLOGAN, “A $50,000 KEEP THE DAILY. WORKER.FUND ON THE THIRD BIRTHDAY OF THE DAILY WORKER” MUST BE THE) CENTER OF THE CAMPAIGN FROM NOW ON. WE CAN REALIZE THIS SLOGAN IF WE BRING ALL OUR PARTY | fortifications have been erected, the STRENGTH INTO ACTION. THE MOBILIZING OF THAT STRENGTH iS ON THE ORDER OF THE DAY FOR THE PARTY. Sg Oe. Sten’ By T. J. OFLA ERTY OBERT, E. CROWE has crime on the go” was the slogan of the | Crowe republican faction of the re- publican party of Cook county two} years ago when the labor-hating dis- trict attorney was running for re-elec- | In those | tion. He won at a gallop. Gays his picture got into the papers at least once a day. He was pictured as & hard-boiled foe of evildoers, no mat- ter whence they came. Today the same man is being exposed in the capitalist papers as a partner of boot- leggers, gangsters and the underworld. The federal government is investigat- ing crime in Cook county and Crowe’s former newspaper supporters are jab- bing him in the ribs. s hoe HE lay public might think the press just discovered Crowe’s connec- tion with gangsterism. Not a bit of it. The motive for the campaign is the new political alignment in Cook county. The Hearst papers would ex- pose Randolph himself for the sake | of a few thousand increased cireula- tion, The more responsible but no less reactionary papers like the News | (Continued on page 6) The December issue of the Amer- ican Worker Correspondent will be out this week. Get a copy, sub- scribe! RUSH FUNDS TO SAVE BANKING SYSTEM IN IOWA '31 Banks om Doors Within 3 Weeks i (Special to The Daily Worker) DES MOINES, Ia., Nov. 30.—With 31 banks having closed their doors in |Towa in the last three weeks, 19 of | which failed in one day last week in | two counties alone, reserve funds are being rushed to the state to prevent the entire banking structure from col- lapsing. State bank officials are attempting to placate the depositors with state- |ments that the banks had “merely closed for reorganizaion.” They pre- | dicted that three of the 19 that closed }in Palo Alto and Kossuth counties in |a single day would reopen soon. They (declined to name the banks that would | reopen, however, The only statement the officials | would make was the following: “Bank- ing conditions in Iowa are better than \they have been for six years and there ‘is no occasion for any extended com- ment generally, for conditions are | good.” | Whether or not they can make the depositors in the failed banks believe this is another matter. api oe. CHICAGO CONGRESSMAN ANNOUNCES OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED LAWS AGAINST FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS On the eve of his return to congress for the short session which convenes next Monday Congressman A. J. Sa- bath, democrat, of the Fifth Illinois district, announced himself as unal- . terably opposed to the suggested anti- foreign-born legislation, such as regis- tration, photographing and fingerprint- “ing of aliens, He said: “You may quote me as being utterly opposed to any such leg- islation, Such extreme methods of registration and control of passports prevailed in Russia under the now de- posed czars and in Prussia under the late kaiser, but those countries have bolished this practice. Why should take it up? is “The danger is that it such methods, are applied to aliens they will later be extended to native-born Americans, and we shall have established a spy system greater and more oppressive than any which prevailed in the old world, “Lam strongly opposed to all legis lation of that nature.” Congressman Sabath's district is in the southwest part of Chicago, where there is a large Czecho-Slovakian and Jewish population, Sabath himself was born in Czecho-Slovakia. He came to the United States and to Chi- cago in 1881. For twelve years he was a judge of the municipal court, and has been a member of congress ever since his election te the sixtieth congress, nearly a score of years ago. RUMANIAN CABINET FEARS CRISIS IF FERDINAND DIES AND CAROL WON'T RETURN (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 30.—The Rouman- jan cabinet has designated Profes- sor Jorga to go to Paris to conter with Prince Carol relative to the crisis belleved impending in Rou- mania because of the Illness of | King Ferdinand, according to an exchange dispatch from Vienna. Carol recently renounced his rights to the Roumanian throne. Raliroad and Manager Fined. | NEW YORK—The Alaska Anthra- | |cite Railroad Co. and its general man- | lager, Charles B. Davis, after entering pleas of guilty, were fined $5,000 each | in the United States district court | | sion, FRENCH UNREST FLARES: ITALY ~ ARWIING BORDER | See German Combine EB" me + U. S. DESTROYERS TO THE DAILY WORKER. Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washing’on Bivd., HOWAT WARNS OF DANGER 10 MINERS’ UNION Speaks ‘ Huge Throng at Springfeld, Ill. F pie? to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ili. — On the even- ing of Nov, 28, miners of sixteen | mines around this city faced a blind- | ing rain-storm, to come into town and pack clear to the roof the circuit | court room, ‘Where Alexander Howat was the main speaker, telling how to save the union, “If you believe in me, as you be- lieved in me five years ago,” said Howat, “them believe me when I say to you that thé miners’ union is in grave danger, jand that the best thing to do at this time is to elect John Brophy president, and help him carry out the ‘Save the Union’ program he has announced, “We need to organize the unorgan- ized, and I believe he can do it. We need nationalization of the mines; con- ventions of the U. M. W. A. have voted for a ipaign for that, but Lewis will do nothing. Brophy will. He is the man who will gain back the confidence of the non-union miners, whose support we must have in any successful strike, even to get a decent contract next. | Against France (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 30.—Unrest that has prevailed here in regard to fascist Italy since the exposure of the Gari- baldi incident has been quickened by unimpeachable reports of military ac- tivity of Italiang on. the French fron- | tier. Italians have stationed 150 guns eae coth San Remo and Ventimigiiay military roads‘have been bullt thru the mountains leading to France, and new reports state. Altho hushed up by authorities, it is known that fascists crossed the border a few weeks ago on a military raid. French military leaders have taken cognizance of the developments and forts on the French side have been rearmed, reoccupied and reprovision- ed. A regiment of infantry from Mar- seilles has been sent to Saint Martin Vesuble to be closer to Italian mili- tary locations. Send Spies to Riviera. According to La Presse, General Mangin, commander-in-chief of the fifteenth army corps, has requested the minister of war to have Frenca spies center their attention on the Riviera district, where Italian agents are now very active. Several of It- aly’s prominent spies have been seep recently in Mentone, and this, it is felt, forecasts the uncovering of 4 new espionage bloc of Italian agents. Italy and*Germany Combine. News of political intrigue involving Mussolini and Germany is also contrib- uting to general apprehension of the outcome of the present situation? Jt ‘along the French-Italian border bi be will How Lewis “Served” “The old horse from Kangas, the man who broke down the com- ed into law ler the name of ‘indus- trial courts,’ ed Lewis, the man who has id him for five years, with seru fairness, that if he is re-elected, re as he did in the said Howat, “What to do? LOSE AN- OTHER 200,000 MEMBERS FROM THE UNION? * “The men -in the non-union fields have been lied to, and betrayed. The orders from the international head- quarters compelling officials of Dis- | trict No. 2 to’ sign up with the coal (Continued on page 5) WILL ORGANIZE EUROPEAN TRADE TRUST TO COMBAT DOMINATION OF AMERICA LONDON, Nov, 30.—British and German industrialists are moving to- ward the formation of a huge Euro- pean industrial combination for the .purpose of destroying America’s domination of world trade. A con- ference between leading representa- tives of the Federation of British Industries and Federation of Ger man Industries will be held this week In London to discuss plans for the organizing of a trust, it is re- llably understood, The discussions at the conference are to be secret. is definitely understood that Mussolini has made overtures to Foreign Min- ister Stresemann of Germany: that may lead to a new treaty between Germany and Italy. An attempt to maintain utmost secrecy as to details of the negotiations is being made, but enough has leaked out to reveal that Mussolini is desirous of promoting an “understanding” between Italy and Germany. .It is understood that Mus- solini has offered Germany an “arbi- tration” treaty containing in it a neu- trality clause. This is viewed with German delegates wil! tell the British capitalists that unless such a trust is formed Germany will not be able to pay its reparations under the Dawes scheme, because it can- not compete with American exports without assistance from England. Great Britain is feeling keenly American competition id is be- Neved to be equally as desirous to form such a combination to maintain its world trade position. suspicion, since Italy is one of the guarantors of the Locarno treaty. France Threatened, Both Italy and Germany have eon- cessions they want to demand from France, and the latest tactics ts seen as an attempt to form a combine to bring greater pressure on the Preach government. . France is looking to Great Britain for aid in case this occurs, feeling that Great Britain will stick by her. The whole affair is smacking of the old political intrigue that the nations are supposed to have discarded when they acepted the league of nations. Unemployment in Cleveland, CLEVELAND, Novy, 30.—In spite of the fact that a few more jobs are open at the present time, as compared with the past few months, the number of men applying for work is con;inually increasing, according to the report of the American. Plan Association, The demand for »workers is not so great as in the latessummer or early fall, Thig is)the\ report in spite of the fact that.the,apen shoppers claim that Canadian Government Urges Rail Owners to Settle with Unions OTTAWA, Nov. 30.—C, A. Dunning, minister of ratlwa; has called up on the railroad owners to resume ne- gotiations with the railroad brother- hoods, which were broken off by the owners, in an effort to avoid a strike on the railways. Dunning called E. W. Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific, and Henry Thorton, president of the Canadian National, into con- ference to impress upon them the gov- ernment’s desire to avoid trouble. “A strike at this time would be disastrous to the national life,” Dunn- ing declared. He offered no program of settle ment but said that the owners should explore every possible avenue gf set- thement. Every Worker should read The American Worker Correspondent. The latest iseue willbe off the press this week. Send inyour subscription now. business Js am the “upgrade,” d | 80 cente a year... | forgot that in the last two years wages pulsory a m scheme of the coal el 1 # operators #1 which they had enact-|,5¢ the intensification of the exploita- COLLAPSE OF FASCISM IN ITALY APPROACHES; BUCHARIN SUMS UP DISCUSSION ON WO WORLD SITUATION | (Special Cable to The The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U. has now an opportunity |resistance of the workingclass, J | already noticable within fascism. satisfaction of the petit-bourgeois with the policy of the fascist | party of doing the work of the big bourgeoisie, the financiers and | | industrialists.” So was the impending doom seppe Ercoli, of the Italian Communist Party, the enlarged plenum of the executive committee of the Com-|been landed ‘from river gunboats at He was the last speaker in the debate on munist International. Nikolai Bukharin’s report on the S. S. R., Nov. imilar to that of 1919 to become the | iggest factor in the political life of Italy. cet terror is due to the fear 30.—‘The Italian proletariat | The increase in the of the fascisti of the growing } A process of decomposition is This is partly due to the dis- of fascism delineated by Gius- speaking before international situation and de- | Chicago, ill clared that the Italian delega-¢ tion shared the views of Bukha- rin on these, questions. When Bukharin arose to make & two hours’ speech summing up the debate jon his report, he was met by loud ap- | plause, Replying to the French dele- gate Trient (who had declared the | possibility of a European imperialist | bloc against the U. §.), Bukharin stated that the French comrade had mistaken tendencies for accomplished facts, He loses sight, Bukharin went on, of most important developments which show irreconciliable, conflicting interests within Europe making the prospects of war between European | capitalist powers nearer than the pros- pects of a European-American war. American “Progress.” Trient is under the influence of American “progress,” chairman Buk- harin continued, and when Trient said that “Fordism” meant not only ration- alization but also higher wages, Trient | have not been higher and he also for. tion of labor. The coalition of all capitalist states owing to the strong contradictions among the bourgeoisie and between them and the proletariat, is neither possible or practical and Trient is wrong because he overlooks these contradictions, Bukharin said. The World Crisis. Regarding the actual crisis of cap- italism, Bukharin continued, the so- cialdemocrats consider the crisis normal, while the Communists stress the existence of the strongest ele- ments of the post-war crisis and the | war influence. The Communists do| not deny the growth of the production | apparatus within capitalism but make | a difference between the estimation of | the productive apparatus and produc- tive capacity, * Bukharin pointed out the correct: | ness of the thesis that capitalism was | actually playing an wunprogressive | role: rivalry between capitalist and | socialist methods of production (So- viet Union and the west) are already | existing; capitalism can introduce | (Continued on page 2.) FALL TRIED 10 RETURN MONEY DOHENY ‘LOANED’ Wanted to Do So Before Inquiry Came WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Albert B. Fall wag directly ‘identified as the guiding gentus in'the negotiations leading up to the naval reserve leases accorded Doheny at the trial now on. Edward C. Finney, assistant secre- tary of the interior, made this state- ment to the jury. Inquiring into a letter from Doheny to Fall, dated Nov. 28, 1921, suggest- ing the naval reserve leases which passed over Finnéy’s desk, Owen J. Roberts, government counsel, asked who, at that time, was handling the matter of oil. leases. “Why, the secretary (Fall),” replied Finney. Fall endeavored unsuccessfully to discharge his $100,000 obligation to BE. L. Doheny before the transaction became known to the senate investi- gating committee, it was testified to- day by Fall's son-in-law, C. C. Chase. Chasse, first witness called to- day in the trial of his father-in-law and Doheny for alleged conspiracy to defraud the government in oil leases, testified that in November of 1923, Fall endeavored to obtain a loan of $100,000 from Price McKinney af Cleveland, but without success, Love Baiked, Takes Life. MARYVILLE, Mo, Noy, 30.—Be- cause her parents would not consent to her marriage to'Ray Stewart, her 16yearold sweetheart, Grace Line- baugh, 16, committed suicide by pol son before the youth dad her family. Revolution in China Nearing Final Victory (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Nov. 30.— Greeting the Chinese revolutionary movement in his person, the plen- um of the executive committee of the Communist International gave a tremendous ovation to Tan Ping Hsiang, representative of the Com- munist Party of China, as he rose to make a report that was to lead off the discussion on the far eastern question now before the plenum. In his speech, Tan Ping Hslang divided the Chinese revolution into three periods: The first period ex- tended from the Shanghai strike of 1925 to the revolt of Kuo Sun Lin against the Manchurian war lord, Chang Tso Lin, This period ad- vanced the revolution against the militarist reaction. The second period extended from the counter. attack of the militarists and imper- ialists ending in the defeat of ‘Kuo Sun Lin until the beginning of the northern expedition of the Canton- ese. The third period, stlif pro- ceeding, extends from the first victories of the Cantonese troops and marks the rise of the revolu- tionary forces on a national scale. Reshifting in China. Tan continued, the Cantonese successes have been an enormous Influence In the reshifting of public forces: the left-wing Kuomintang thas been strengthened, the cen- trists have moved to the left wing and the right-wing Kuomintangers after abortive attempts to splitare now striving to rejoin the Kuomin- tang. The leaders of the People’s armies have endorsed the Kuomin- tang platform, the labor and trade union movements have been reviv- ed despite persecution, the peas- ante’ movement in the territory oc- cupied by the Cantonese is ‘making great headway, while the peasants (Continuea on page 2) NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents ‘GENERAL STRIKE CALLED AGAINST FOREIGN TRADE Canton Army Marches on Shanghai (Special to The Daily Worker) HANKOW, Nov. 30. — American, British and French blue-jackets have anchor in Hankow and are stripping the foreign concessions for military jaction. The action follows the dec- | laration of a general strike by Chi- nese labor unions against the foreign concessions. The American destroyers, Pope and Tuxton are steaming up the Yangtze and will land an additional party of 100. The naval forces were asked |by Consul Keneral Lockhart in a | communication to the American na val base at Shanghai. Strike General by Dec. 4. The strike of the Chinese workers jhas been peaceful tended by ‘threats of violenc Th have al jready begun to walk out of the fac- | tories, newspaper pla: and offices |controlled by the Japanese and Bri- The servants are coming out and the strike will become by Dec. 4, it is announced in trade union quarters. Hankow trade unions have set Dec. 4, as the date when a general strike j will be declared of all si ts and office workers in the forei sions. There are indications strike will be extended three other treaty p: the Cantonese, Kiukii jand Yochow. The strike has already | been declared im the Japanese con- cession. Shops are not allowed to sell the Japanese food and all servants have been withdrawn from service. There is much. resentment against the bru- fal execution of a soldier and a civil- ian in the French concession for “cre- ating a disturbance.” The British community is very much alarmed and has sent radios jto London asking for armed assist- jance against t strike. In both the American and British quarters, arm- ed patrols are on guard The Chinese police of the German concession, jthe English, former which separates French and Japanese | communities, held a, meeting and for- | mulated demands. It is expected they | will rike. Armed civilians, includ- jing Americans, are patrolling these | quarters. eee Cantonese Drive Northward. AMOY, Nov. 30.—The Chinese na val contingent at Amoy, 100 miles (Continued on page 2) Congress Meets Next Week > AS