The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1926, Page 6

THE DAILY WORKER See | Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Phone Monroe 4713 el SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): $S.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $ three months $2.00 three months ———___. es Ww. ———e Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE BERT MILLER — Editors -Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at ,Chi- cago, Ih, under the act of March 3, 1879. ing rates on application, ——) Adverti: Persecution and Demoralization—the Policy of John L. Lewis Alex Howat again has been ruled off the ballot as candidate for ilistrict president in District 14 (Pittsburgh, Kansas) by Interna- tional America. No reasons were given for this arbitrary ruling. Howat, work- ing in a coal mine for much longer than the length of time required | to qualify as candidate according to the constitution of the union, *| member in good standing, and receiving nominations from unions} representing 90 per cent of the membership of the district, has been victimized again by the president of his union. burgh is to the effect that those local unions -which supported Hfowat have been disfranchised. For five years the persecution of Alex Howat has gone on un- abated altho to this day not a single official charge has been made against him. Howat, Dorchy and the rest of the officials of District 14 who fought and defeated the infamous Kansas industrial court law and went to jail because of their fight, were expelled from the | union, removed from their official positions (Howat and Dorchy | were in jail when this was done) and have been denied all rights} in the union since that time except that of digging coal in the thirty- inch Kansas seams—and paying dues and assessments. The American labor movement does not record a single similar ease of persecution of militant union men by the officials of their | } union. | WE DAILY WORKER The Ca [Editor's Not This is the fourth of the series of articles on the discussions and resolution of the November meeting of the cen- | tral committee, of the Workers (Communist) Party, which laid out the program for the party for the period just ahead.] | JN the article on the achievements of the Workers (Communist) Party the progress made in. crystallizing the movement for independent politi- |cal action thru the formation of a la- | bor party were cited among the gains Jot the party during the last year. The - |campaign for the formation of a labor | party remains a major point in the program for the party work in the immediate future. The central committee resolution trankly admits the fact that, altho the use of the governmental power against | the workers has become more open | ers, | take the leadership in developing this resistance. The basis of this cam- paign must be the concrete actions of the government in support of the | capitalists and against the workers. There have been a long series of at- arms of the government have partici- pated, i The-revision of the income tax law by the last congress was made in a form to lift the burden of taxation from the big capitalists, leaving the burdens on the worker as before, The proposal of President Coolidge to return to the capitalists the surplus in the treasury estimated at from $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 is another | example of how the capitalists use the government in their interests. The funding of the war debts made a gift of billions of dollars to the cap- italist countries of Europe at the ex- pense of the workers and farmers of mpaig 28030 BI it is }clearing the way for new loans and |cal action grows. The history of the | investments by the international bank- | years 1923-1924 shows an intensific |ing houses of Wall Street from which |lion of the moyement for the forma- for the Labor Party |There {s sufficient sentiment for the | | formation of a labor party to develop By C. E. Ruthenberg General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. the central commitiee resolutions. | living icra og a city and to for- late a program in relation to city ynment which will make the work- they are drawing big profits. The passage of the Watson-Parker |bill practically robbed the railroad workers of the right to strike and re- presents the first legislative action to wrest the strike weapon from the | hands of the workers, Pending bills jin congress propose extension of this |law to the mining industry, The injunction has been given new teeth by the courts in the garment | workers’ strike in New York and thru injunction against the subway | the workers, which makes {t illegal to or- |ganize a workers’ union against the company union, | The supreme court decision in the |Dorchy case makes certain kinds of | strikes illegal thus making the first step to outlaw the right to strike by | action of the courts, In the Passaic strike as well as the President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of | and aggressive, in the last election |New York garment workers’ strike mpaign no effective resistance t0| ine police power was used to arrest | is attack developed among the work- | hundreds of workers at one swoop in | It is the work of our party to | the effort to help the employers break | these strikes, While President Coolidge proposes jto return hundreds of millions of | dollars to the big capitalists as rebate \in taxes, thus swelling their enormous | profits, the farmers have fought in News from Pitts-|‘2¢ks against the workers, in which | vain for government aid in meeting | the legislative, executive and judicial \the unbearable conditions in many | | sections of the agricultural produc- | ti on. These facts furnish the material for our agitation for the formation of a tion of a labor party in the year be- } fore and of the presidentia] election. In the northwestern farming states in which state farmer-labor parties | were in the field in the last election, |a movement for the crystallization of |the farmer-labor movement on a na- Our! party must now begin work {upon its program to develop a broad | {movement for the formation of labor |parties in the great industrial states, which will ally themselves with the farmer-labor movement for a national campaign in the interest of the work- ers and farmers in the 1928 president- ial election. The LaFollette progressive move- | ment, which was able to sweep into its wake the growing movement for a class party of workers in alliance | with the farmers in 1924 has disinte- grated. The experience of 1924 will make it more difficult to wreck the | movement for a labor party thru the same means. While efforts will again develop along this line, there is no dominating personality with the pres- tige of LaFollette to create illusions in the minds of the workers. The last national convention of the party outlined the program for the building of the labor party in propos- ing the formation of trade union com-! mittees for the formation of a labor | party wherever support for such a |movement can be secured. We must | take the initiative in creating labor | a movement broader than that of 1923- 1924, This sentiment must “be given | organizational expression thru the in- | itiative of the party. The formation of a network of labor party commit- tees will achieve that aim, and the party must take up’the work of form- tional scale is already taking form. |Ing such committees in ‘earnest. eee The Municipal Elections. URING the year 1927 city elections will take place in many of the states, made the means of carrying on the agitation and organization work for the formation of a labor party. The district organizations of the | party must at once secure information in regard to the states in which city elections take place during next year | and raise the slogan of “A United La- bor Ticket in the City Election’ in every city in which such elections are | to be held. The time to take action in order to place united labor tickets in the field These elections must also be | ers willing to fight for a city govern- jment representing their class inter- ests, | The workers will not, however, be | drawn into a city election campaign in support of a labor ticket on the basis of abstractions. We can only |draw them into the struggle on a |clearly formulated program in their |juterests as against the program of {the capitalist parties, or the “non-par- |tisan good men.” | Our party organizations must study ‘the life of the cities in which they exist, They should “utilize every question which arises, housing, transportation, health regulations, recreation centers, of police power against strikers, ete., |to expose the rule of the capitalists jand their profiteering at the expense |of the workers and formulate pro-q |srams of workers demands on these | questions. The issues which*arise in | the cities touch the workers closely ” | and these issues furnish important ma- | terial for developing the movement for i independent political struggle. «ee in the city elections IS NOW. There hege has been too much lack of prepara- | tion for election campaigns by the | party. In the last elections we failed | to place candidates on the ballot in many states because the party did | not make preparations early enuf. The party must learn that the elec- tion campaigns are of the utmost im-| committees for the formation of a Ja- portance in establishing contact with | bor party, second, thru raising the the workers and to carry on .Commun- | slogan of a united labor ticket in the ‘ Forward ih the Campaign for @ Labor Party. NERGETIC action by the party im support of the program for the la- | bor party campaign, first, thru the for- mation of the network of trade union labor party which will fight in the | Party committees in the local unions, | interests of the workers and farmers |i the central labor bodies where fav- against the capitalist government. It | Orable action can be secured, or city b is the work of our party to drive home the lessons of these actions and to break workers away from the parties of their class enemies—the republican and democratic parties, | eee | The Coming Presidential Election. HE past political developments in this country show that with the committees made up of trade pnion- | ists who support the labor party out- |side of the central labor body where | these organizations do not support the | movement, and trade union commit- | tees for a labor party on a state scale, as in Massachusetts, | The formation of hundreds of such | committees thruout the country will | prepare the ground for tie realization | 2 - 5 i {this country, strengthening the cap- approach of the presidential election | of the slogan “A Labor Party in the | John L. Lewis has violated the laws of the union in the most :talist system in these countries and /the interest of the workers in politt-| 1928 Elections,” which was raised by A Workers’ Experience During General Strike in Great Britain outrageous manner in order that the Kansas coal barons may con- tinue to have a supine union officialdom to deal with and that Alex Jiowat may not be able to head either a district or a national ticket against the Lewis machine. The United States supreme court has upheld the decision of -the Kansas court which sent Howat and Dorchey to jail. Under the circumstances, even if Howat were not the militant fighter that he is, he is entitled to receive a vote of confidence from the miners: and the union for whom he fought so long and well and for whom he is} still fighting. | The action of President Lewis in instructing the district offi | cials not to place Howat’s name on the ballot is not only in defiance of the constitution of the U. M. W. of A. but is nothing less than an} “"rTrrndorsement of the supreme court decision. i John L. Lewis deserves defeat in the coming union election for | his persecution of Alex Howat and the Kansas miners if for no other reason. But there are other reasons and plenty of them. One is that the policy of the Lewis machine has lost more than 200,000 members for the miners’ union in the last two years and allowed the coal operators to do as they please with the miners even in the inion fields. Every miner who has the interest of his union at heart. will work and vote for the “Save the Union” ticket headed by John Brophy and do his utmost to defeat a machine which regards the union as its personal property, persecuted systematically all mem- bers who demand a fighting policy and which has lost the con- fidence of the coal miners of this country—organized and unor- ganized. The lini Vile Threaten China The revolutionary armies of Canton, out to crush the tools of n imperialism in China and to unify the nation under a lead- ership representative of the elements that desire to give the masses un opportunity to better themselves economically and intellectually, are overcoming every obstacle placed in the way of their forward march, Two-fifths of that mighty country is now in their possession. The reactionary tuchuns are in a state of panic and so are the foreign imperialists. The British cabinet holds an extraordinary meeting to consider the situation. The United States rushes more warships to Hankow. Strawn, Coolidge’s special ¢ Silas nt to China, reports that the United States must maintain a “toe-hold” in that country, Japan is considering the loan of $10,000,000 to the Chinese gov- ernment which no longer exists. Chang-Tso-Lin, the bandit of Manchuria, in an interview to an -\merican newspaper declares that he is now a capitalist. crusader against the “red menace” let loose by the Cantonese. Chang knows his onions. This is usually good collection stuff at a bankers’ meeting. As the Cantonese advance they organize the masses behind them and particularly the working class. The unions spring up like mush- rooms in the wake of the victorious southern armies and wage de- mauds follow organization, Ilere is a new threat to foreign imperialism, It is no longer 2 question of one group of tuchuns succeeding another group. Canton means mass organization and mass organization bodes evil to the robber imperialists. Hence the panie over developments in China. Perhaps the imperialist powers will not find it very easy to infervene on a large seale against the Chinese revolutionary nation- ulis But they are desperate and desperate situations demand desperate methods, The United States may have been satisfied in the past with angling for the Chinese market and let things go at that. But China is near the Philippines and the brotherly greeting of the Cantonese General Chiang Kai Shek to the exploited Filipinos, call ing their attention to American imperialism is not condueive to nourishing kindly thoughts for Canton and Chinese unifitation in the hearts of our ruling classes. “China for the Chinese” must be the watchword of American la- hor. The American working class must-make it clear to Washington that the guns of American battleships must not be permitted to help blast the Chinese armies.of {reedom.into eternity. 4 ist agitation, and to ‘take full advan- | city elections, will bring a big for- tage of the opportunity they offer. | ward movement in the campaign for The workers cannot be mobilized | the formation of a labor party. It will for independent political action in the | create solid foundation for the actual city elections upon national issues. It 'formation of a labor party and pre- is a weakness of our party that it does | pare the ground for the actual realiza- not concern itself sufficiently with the issues affecting the life of the work- ers in the cities. Most of our party organizations know little and concern themself less with the political issues of the cities in which they exist, It is easy to throw out the slogan, A Work- ers’ and Farmers’ Government, but it is much more difficult to study the The following account of the Brit- ish General Strike that began on May First last was written by a British worker who actively par- ticipated in the struggle In one of the industrial centers of the Isles. The record of the great battle here given, with local details and angles lacking in previous larger accounts, affords many lessons for workers who have yet to go thru this stage of the class struggle. eee By PAT DEVINE. HE ‘first day of May celebrations in Britain were held with the threat of a miners’ strike hanging over the country. On every platform there were speakers advising the workers to prepare to assist the miners and advocating that a general strike be called if mine owners persisted in their attempts to reduce the miners’ standard of life. Withal, there were few sanguine enough to expect. that the general strike would be called. The Communists and left wingers urged the workers and the leaders to go into the fight in earnest. The mod- serates or right wingers urged patience, saying everything would come all right—that a way out would be found. In view of the Emergency Powers |Act, proclaimed by the govern- ment the night previous, the Commu- nists were lHstened to with more a | tention than the moderates. The en- showed the feelings of the masses on the question—at all costs the miners must not be allowed to fight alone. The experience of the past had thrust upon the workers the realization of the fact that a defeat to the miners was a defeat to the whole movement. At Fever Heat, LL day the enthusiasm was at fe- ver heat. Towards six o'clock, when meetings were over, the news came through that the general strike had been called. August 4th, 1914 was a memorable day in the history of the world, but May 1, 1926 will go down in working class history as the mile- stone, declaring to the world that solidarity had been accepted by the workers, Electricity was in the air. Rebels of 20 and 30 years’ standing were reinvigorated; new enthusiasm captured everyone. Those workers who in every country submerge their views during peaceful times all came to the fore to proclaim their solidar- ity. I heard more plans for the carry+ ing on of the strike that night than ever before, or I suppose ever again, The day. before the revolution in ‘Russia could not have been a greater tonic to the revolutionary workers, At Motherwell, 1 was a member of the Trades and Labor Couneil of Motherwell and Wishew at the time; also a member of the Parish Council, which governed outdoor relief to the destitute poor. A special meeting was called to which every working, Glass body in the local ity was invit Political parties, in- cluding Independent Labor Party and ithe Communist Raxty, were also invyif- ridiculous,” thusiasm that day all over Britain | ed. The significance of the invitation of the Communist Party cannot be overlooked. A decision of the Labor Party executive committee, at meet- ings held two-or three years before, had definitely laid it) down that no> Communist could beaanember of the Labor Party or affiliated body. With the seriousness of the general strike | | that decision and invited the C. P..to that miost important meeting, because they recognized that all the good work- ing class elements must be harnessed into the struggle. Ne chairman called the meeting to- gether and commented upon the fact that it was the largest meeting ever held by the Trades Council, Un- ‘ions which formerly were always ab- |sent had sent their full quota of dele- gates. At former meetings, three- ‘fourths of the time was wasted in luseless discussion. ‘discussion was conspicuous by its ab- sence. A motion was made by a Com- munist that the Trades and Labor |Council become a council of action, ‘composed of the exeéutive committee, ‘representative of every trade union, ‘co-operative society, town and parish ‘council. The motion was |with great enthusiasm. The first business ‘was to organize meetings for the whole locality during the week. Three meetings per day were arranged with’ local men as speakers. This was the first lesson of the general strike. guns or crack- lerjack orators are tial, but in ‘time of crisis a plentiful supply of lo- \cal speakers i# imperative. \Asks for Appointed Judges; Fewer Laws Another attack on the right of the people to elect judges came in an ad- \dress at the La Salle Hotel, when |Charles 8. Whitman, president of the ‘American Bar Association and former ,Sovernor of New York, told the mem- jbers of the Illinois Bar Association that in his opinion the appointment of Judges, as is the case in the federal courts, would be preferable to their ‘election, as is now done in the sev- eral states. He held up the Supreme Court of the United States as a glow- ing example of an appointed bench. | “With 6,024 laws put on the statute books in a year,” said, “the old adage that ‘I the law ex- ouses: ne,’ has grotesquely of es 4 so obvious, the workers forgot about | At this meeting | carried | Strike Organization, HE next business was the decision | + that the Council of Action cut itself | up into committees. The following committees were appointed: Picket Committee, composed of the) most influential local trade unionists for the purpose of maintaining the 100 |per cent strike. Food Committee, composed of co-op- erative delegates, bakers’ delegates and distributive workers and local | councillors, for the purpose of arrang- | ing for feeding if distress reared its head. Transport Committee, composed of delegates from the N. U. R. (National Union of Railwaymen) and Transport | Unions, for the purpose of keeping | blackleg transport off the highways and in order to issue permits to ve- hicles on T. U. busifiess or carrying food supplies. ‘ Publicity Committee, composed of all comrades able to talk at public meetings, able to write pithy articles for local bulletins, able to chalk pave- ments, etc., etc. for Various meetings. HERE were also appointed two del- | egates to attend Lanarkshire Joint Council of Action meeting; also a run- to maintain close contact with head- quarters. A special appeal was then made for all comrades with motor ‘cars, motorcycles and bicycles, to | place themselves at the disposal of the |Council for Action during the crisis. |When all the preliminary arrange- ments had been made, the C, O. A, ad- journed till Monday 11 a. m. (Continued tomorrow) Cheap Teneewnk Takes Toll of Workers’ Life EW YORK, Nov, 30. — Samuel einer, 35, and his sons, Hyman, 10, and Isadore, 7, were burned to death in a fire which swept a Cherry street tenement early today. Mrs. Mary Gelfand, 40, sprained her wrist when she jumped from a win- dow, and Michael Donato, 41, was burned severely, The fire was accompanied by a imysterious explosion, and officials be- |gan an investigation of its origin, | Weiner died saving his wife and \three of his children. ‘They, with 75. other tenants, escaped on ladders and |tion of the slogan: “A Labor Party in the 1928 Election.” The party must put all its strength behind this campaign and move for- ward to achievement of its goal, the first big step in the revolutionizing of the American workers, thru build- ing a broad mass party to fight the political battles of the workers. BIG BUSINESS CALLS The Military Training Camps Asso- ciation, according to an announcement from their office in the Tower building of’ this city, is prepared to ask con- | gress for appropriations to cover the cost of training 40,000 men, as agains’ 34,000 last summer. In order to plan | for this increased attendance a meet- | ing is called for Dec, 4, at the Univer- | sity Club,-when representatives of the secretary Of war and the adjutant gen- eral will be present. It is perhaps not generally under- | stood that. the Military Training | Camps Association is a non-govern- | ment, civilian organization. The gov- ernment itself provides the funds for running the fifty citizens’ military training camips..,. The association is the “runner-up” for these camps. It supplies the prop- aganda material, posters, publicity, impressing it upon the youth that a free summer vacation can be had at Uncle Sam's expense, And who supplies the association with its funds for this propaganda? Not the government. A reference to the list of sponsors of the association CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1.) and Tribune are at odds with Crowe because of his alliance with William Hale Thompson, who was hounded out of the mayor’s office by those papers a few years ago. ge Pd 'HILE.Crowe was making war on trade unionism in Chicago, as a tool of the Committee to Enforce the Landis Award, the ‘Tribune and News could ignore his connection with the jlate Dean O’Baniion ‘and the gang- |sters of Cicero ‘and South Chicago. Bui Crowe has served their purpose and uow they are looking for a more capitalists usually treat the boys who do their dirty work. Still Mr. Crowe no doubt will be able to see the world after he is retired from office, which is more than can be said for the aver- age worker who is retired from a job. oe Poraen. warships rushing to China, American marines in Nicaragua, Washington threatening to break off relations with Mexico, Italy and France growling at each other over a frontier, a court brawl in Roumania over the throne and many other dis- turbances inclines us to the belief that tue last war was not the one that will end war, We are inclined to attach more importance to the concluded plenum of the Communist Interna- tional as a peace agency than all the capitalist conferences ever held. The war to énd war must overthrow the capitalist system, ee ee RENCH statesmen, having failed to induce Andrew Mellon to can- cel their debt sufficiently, have resort- ed to strenuous measures. They have decided to make a poet ambassador to | the United States, Most poets produce more rhyme than reason, but diplo- mats produce less, Poincare may hope | |that the new French ambassador may | serviceable tool. This is the way the’ ner (a comrade with a motorcyclé) | ON GOVERNMENT FOR MORE MONEY FOR TRAINING CAMPS reveals the names of men connected with every large industrial and finan- | cial institution in the country—Stand- aid Oil, U. S, Steel, Sears-Roebuck, nd on down the list, it is perfectly evident that big busi- ness has an interest in promoting the citizens’ military training camps, and the more money from corporation funds which it spends in propaganda. the more it must call on for the gov- ernment to shell-out in the mainten- auce of the camps. It is an interlock- ing directorate of business and gov- ernment. Greek Fraction Will Entertain, A dance and entertainment for the joint benefit of the Greek labor weekly, Empros, and The DAILY WORKER will be given at Bowen “Hail, Hull House, Halsted and Polk streets, on Saturday, evening, Dee. 11. Tt will be under the auspices of the Chicago Greek fraction, Workers Party. A good time, with music, sing- ing and refreshments is assured. <Ad- mission, 50 cents. Don’t overlook this. Keep the date open and be sure to attend. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY idential electric steed shed tears of pity. Ts French poet may warble some ditties about the French campaign in Syria and start a Christian sensa- tion along the Coolidge spine with an idealization of the butchering of Arab- ians with the remembrance of the raid on the heathen Saracens, cata! those who refuse to accept French (rule with those who did not take the holy sepulchre seriously in the days of the crusaders, And if Cal takes his Ladies Home Journal articles in the right spirit there should be nothing left for him to do except cancel the debt. That is, provided the House of Morgan agrees, " re © @.36 4 “A RMY-NAVY Tie Brings Recruit Stampede Here.” So runs a head- line in a Chicago capitalist paper, As we remarked yesterday the army-navy | football game was not a sporting test, It was @ recruiting ad ment, The unusually natty that the cadets and middies wore re- presented money well spent. The deluded ones who join the army and navy will learn too late that capital- ism cannot afford to serve out gaudy uniforms to all its butchers, a ° of EpPOGING by the photographs of Mrs, Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the slain New Jersey rector, the lady should be acquitted of the murder ‘of her husband, In the early days of the trial she looked quite deadly and dangerous, Then her money began to work, (She is wealthy.) So the | cameras experienced a change of heart and instead of the kind of a woman one would not like to meet under lonely cra bapple tree we find the kind of a’girl that would make even a hungry wolf shed tears of remorse that he ever even entertained the a th Ts ; ree i coven 4 3 serenade the Coolldge s1 poreh desire to bite her eare off. Jt Use your brains and your pen to ald | with sentimental ballads th: ay be always trlumphes vhere money flour the workers I the slegatrnagl potent enough to make even the pros Teh Sono ide ee