The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 27 i| iss ¥ br By T. J. OFLA dE. @ [Op / MY # Puls T has come to pass, and later tm * expected, The Soviet government ig blamed for the malady that affects the king.of Roumania. In fact, there is a hint thrown out that Ferdy is quite well, but that the skillful Soviet propagandists made the world believe that he is ill. If Ferdy dics, and he is Hable to do that little thing, the ques- tion may be brought before the league of nations, but as the league has the | utmost réspect for a set of sharp bayo- nets, it is possible that the dead may be allowed to rest. +e # ELGIUM is tired of annexed terri- tory, says Hdgar Ansell Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News. The corre- | sponfent declares that in 1914 King | Albert swore that Belgium would noi | accept an a Spoils of victory. lt is true that Al- bert did not live up to his vow, we are ; informed; But who the devil did? Now Belgium ck and tired of what it got as the fruit of victory and wants to get rid of it. Wurthermore, Ger- many is willing to buy back the terri- tory that victorious Belgium wrung from it in i918. And, furthermore, RLY the dough. Belgium is G ‘is victory. In the next war the aim of each warring nation should he a disastrous defeat. a ee REMIER JAMES BARRY HERT- | 4OG of South Africa is not letting the grass grow under his feet since the empire conference which marked | the beginning of the dismemberment of the British empire. On his way home Hertzog paid a visit to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and had a talk with whatever government was in existence that particular afternoon, The conversation related to the rela- tions of Portugal’s African possessions with the interests of the South African government. This looked as if Hert- zog Was taking the conference conclu- Sions seriously, so the British propa- ,Continued on page 6) SOLONS AFRAID Fear Revolt Against | Old Line Parties | (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec, 1. — Rum- blings of the protest of the American farmers against the economic discri nation forced upon them since the war which forecast an uprising against the old line political parties are hav- ing their effect upon the congress , Members who are gathering here pre- Paratory to the opening of the final session of the sixty-minth congress on Dec. 5. The demand of the farmers for leg- islative relief is so vehement that the question of “what to do” to appease the agriculture interésts is dominating | every committee and caucus being | held igthe capitol building. The sen- | ators and representatives are striving | frantically to find some means of sav- | ing their faces and their hides from the wrath of the farmer, | Some of the leaders are desirous of :passing the buck altogether onto the seventieth congress, wanting to consider only the annual appropriation bills and the tax refund proposed by Coolidge and the couwnter-proposal of Mellon. , They see trouble ahead, mainly disapproval of big business, if they meddle with the farm problem. Sout, Joins West, “ut the southern representatives are . Subscription Rates: Secrrer% ‘y vam o*é 4, 2c JO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER ‘THE In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, UFFALO AND DETROIT RAISE THEIR ». mbers of These Districts Show Work Must Be Done for Our Paper By C. E. RUTHENBERG General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. | ee DISTRICTS of the party have raised the quota assigned to them in the fight to raise the $50,000 fund to keep The DAILY WORKER. The party members in these districts have proven that we can win the fight for The DAILY WORKER, The standing of the districts on November 30th was as follows: i | Percentage | | AILY ‘Matered as Seconc-class matter September al, 1928, at the Post omtice @t Chicago, Ubnois, ng ee FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1926 a ef HOLD TAG DAYS FOR N. Y. PAPER BOX WORKERS; BENEFIT DANCE PLANNED (Sp to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—A concert and dance will be given by the Honest Friends’ organization for the benefit of he striking paper box makers hi in Friday, Dec, 10, at 234 East Btoadway. iG day on Saturday, i inday, Dec. 5, will, be who wish to aid the cir fight for better id should report Ag stations to aid in | Paper Box Makers’ idway; Jewish Work- Bi East Second Street; Workers’ Center, 81 Union, 701 ers’ Club, East 110 S + DAILY WORKER office, 108 ist 14th Street; 1347 Boston Bronx; Honest lille Workers’ Center, Brooklyn; 29 Brooklyn; District Quota Am't Raised 4—Buffalo $1,128.27 102.57 7—Detroit 2,489.95 99.59 Agricultural 340.00 85.00 10—Kansas City 760.39 76.04 8—Chicago ... 4,557.56 60.76 3—Philadelphia 1,605.29 53.61 9—Minneapolis .. 1,493.30 42.66 13—San Francisco 3,000 1,250.51 41.68 6—Cleveland 3,000. 1,117.36 37.25 2—New York 15,000 5,296.94 35.31 5—Pittsburgh 2,500 801.59 32.06 1—Boston ... 4,000 1,126.76 28.17 16—New Haven 244,52 24.45 12—Seattle ...... 578.77 23.16 Canada and Foreigi 28.35 TOTALS ... » $50,000 $22,819.66 45.64 The comrades of Buffalo and Detroit have proven their loyalty to The DAILY WORKER by actual deeds. They have set an example for the whole party as to how to carry on the campaign to Keep The DAILY WORKER. The Agricultural District, Kafisas City and Chicago and Philadelphia have made good showings, but have not carried on the work with the spirit which the comrades of Buffalo and Detroit have put into the work for The DAILY WORKER. The amounts coilected by Minneapolis and San Francisco are poor in, comparison, altho these districts still have a better record than the long list of districts below them in the above table. What explanation is there of the fact that Buffalo and Detroit oan raise a 100 per cent of their quota for The DAILY WORKER, while districts like Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh, Boston, New Haven and Seattle range along from one-fourth to one-third of their quota? There is only one answer to this question: THE DISTRICTS NAMED HAVE MADE NO REAL EFFORT TO HELP IN THE FIGHT TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. : Unless the party members in these districts want to have the stigma upon their record of being responsible for the failure of the Keep The DAILY. The party membership in Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh, Boston, New Haven and Seattle should demand of their district committee and the lead- ing committees of the cities and sections that .a real campaign for The DAILY WORKER be organized. é P The members and leading committees should stand ashamed before their failure in comparison to the splendid’ showing of Buffalo and Detroit. The issue involved is not merely a matter of prestige and standing. The failure to organize a real campaign in these districts reflects itself in the dangerous situation which still exists for The DAILY WORKER. The Buffalo and Detroit spirit must be infused In the party members in all other districts of the party. What Buffalo and Detroit have done must be done by the party as a whole. WE MUST COMPLETE THE $60,000 FUND AND KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. ‘ LEONID KRASSIN’S BODY CREMATED IN LONDON; ASHES TO RED SQUARE LONDON-,Covered with a blood-red Among those who attended the fun- pall, the body of Leonid Krassin, So- viet envoy to Great Britain, was con- veyed from the Soviet embassy to Golders Green, in a motor hearse, followed by a cortege of 30 automo- biles. There the body was reduced to ashes by cremation. Before the procession left the em- bassy, representatives of the British foreign office and of most of the lega- tions had called to pay their respects About the yard, which was well filled with flowers, mostly red, were many people, including a woman who held aloft the Soviet flag of red with the scythe and hammer. Most of the mourners wore red rosettes or arm bands of that color. eral were Ben Tillett, representing the British Trade Union Congress; A. J. Cook, of the Miners’ Federation; J. R. Clynes, of the Labor Party; and Alastair MacDonald, representing his father, Ramsay MacDonald, former prime minister. The services at Golder Green consisted almost entire- ly of an address by the Soviet Charge d’Affaires, Krassin’s ashes will be buried in| Red Square before the Kremlin, in Moscow, not far from the grave of Lenin. A _ special delegation will meet the urn which contains tha | ashes at the Polish border and escort it to Moscow. Then will follow a ‘great memorial service. combining with those of the west in their Isistencé on farm legislation, (Continved on page 2) _ + Mt CONGRESSMAN GORMAN OPPOSES IDEA In reply to an inquiry as to his sen- timents relative to the proposal to jregister and fingerprint foreign-bora | workers, Congressman John J. Gor- jman, of the Sixth | said: | Mlinois District, “[ am opposed to any measure to introduce czaristic methods. I be- lieve in giving the fullest measure of freedom to those whom we admit to our shores, the same Mberty to the foreign-born that we do to the native stock. There should be no discrim- ination between the two classes. “There seems to bo a too common tendency to stress the myth of Nordic superiority. Before 1 studied law, [ was a letter carrier. [ have delivered OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ALIEN letters to all nationalities, and found good people among them all.” Congressman Gorman’s Wistrict em- braces the western part of the city and the towns in Cook county to its westerm border. It includes many foreign-born, but alsosthe aristocratic suburb of Oak Park. eee Deport 10,904 Aliens. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The high water mark in the deportation of “un- desirable aliens” was reached during the last fiscal year, when 10,904 aliens were arrested and deported to their country of origin, secretary of labor announced today. This is 1,400 more than/were deported last year, sum has been pock- eted by the Péactionary officials com- posing Distr Council No. 9, (New York) of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators — Paperhangers ot America, ling to new charges of officials of Loeal 905 who claim that under the red guidance of Phillip Zausner, day the golden has been flowing in from unrécorded initiation fees at $75 a smack, from strong-arm money from the bosses id innumerable other estigation ordered by -d of the internation- OF ‘ headquarters at LaFayette, Indi,’and that the “mock” trial staged under the auspices of the district council, which of course clear- ed Zausner of all charges a few days ago, together formed but a dress re- beginning is the contention of the in- vestigating committee of Local 905 composed of “Max Periin, president, Thomas Wright, secretary, Max Rosen, David Matzkin and L, Kosolof. Rank and File Moves, This committee says a new trial of Zausner will be immediately demand- ed and that a conviction can be ex- pected before: a fair trial committee. That a fair body will be in charge is believed from the fact that a wide- spread movement is developing among the rank and file who will no longer tolerate a jury sorted, threatened and (Continued on page 3) WILL AUCTION OFF WORK OF RADICAL ARTISTS AT NEW MASSES BALL FRIDAY (Special to. The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Drawings of workers by celebrated radical ar- tists, including Gellert, Cropper, Sloan, Robinson, and Minor, will be auctioned offvat the Workers’ and Peasants’ Costume Ball given by the New Masses at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th’ street, New York city, Friday, Dec.3. Among the original drawings toe! be auctioned off is a portrait of Albert Weisbord, drawn by Hugo Gellert. » The decorations of the bal! will be Russian im style. The entertain- ment will be given by a group of Russian danoers, singers, and com- edians. Tickets are on sale at Jimmy Hig- gins’ Book ‘#store, 127 University Place, the Rand School, 7 East 15th stre Fretheit, 30 Union Square, and ‘the New Masses, 39 West 8th street. Workers are advised to buy tick- ets In advance at $1.50 each. They will cost $3 at the door of Webster Hall. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Every Worker should American Worker Correspond, latest Issue will be off the press this week, Send in your subscription now. 50 cents a year, hearsal and that’ the real show is just | under the Ast, of Maroh 8, 1879. Ee ‘HANKOW STRIKE GAINS STRENGTH. ‘AS TROOPS LAND ‘Strawn Report No Good | Is Chinese View (Special to The Daily Worker) | HANKOW, Dec. 1.—The strike of | |the labor unions and merchants jagainst the foreign concessions in| | Hankow continues peacefully and has | \entirely crippled activities in the Brit- |ish and Japanese quarters. Troops PUBL Published Daily except Sunda: EDITION | R.. y hy THE DAILY Washing on Blvd., C WORKER cago, IL Miners Take Up New Wage Scale at Big Convention (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 1.—Call for the international con- vention of the United Mine Workers of America for January 25, 1927, at Indianapolis, was issued by John L. Lewis, president of the organization, here Wednesday. Price 3 Cents ISHING CO., 1113 W. ! |. Wage scales and working conditions dictated by the working agreement between miners and operators, expiring March 31, will be considered by the convention. The agreements, on a three year basis are formulated by a joint conference of the union wage scale committee and the jfrom British, Japanese and American! |gunboats have landed and are guard- ‘ing the concessions, but ‘the strike is) | nonetheless effective, j The immediate demands of the la- jbor unions are for a higher rate of | | pay, but the strike is also in the na- |ture of a protest against the customs | |control wielded by the foreign pow-| ers. Since the capture ot Hankow and | Wuchang by the people's armies from i | Wu Pei Fu, the affairs of these im-| portant cities have been administered | by the labor unions and merchants’ | councils. With the arrival of the Kuomintang government apparatus which will be| moved here from Canton beginning Dec. 5, a regular municipal govern- ment will be set up in both cities. It is, however, expected that this will | make no change in the strike which | is growing and will be general by the time the first bureaus arrive from Canton. #0 € <9 Strawn Report Inadequate. SHANGHAI, Dec. 1.—The publica- \tion of the report of the extra-terri- |torial commission. headed by Silas Strawn of the United States is being viewed here both skeptically and cynically. The report is entirely based upon investigations of five or six months ago and at @ time when the Cantonese armies had not met with | successes that have recently crowned their arms. The report was written on the basis \ot investigation of the governments jof the northern war lords. At the| time, the miltarists were in control of the-botter halt. of China including the large and thickly populated central | provinces under the domifiation of Wu Pej Fu and the five central sea coast provinces under Marshaf Sun Chuan Fang, not to speak of other provinces |in the orth and west» administered | by powerful tuchuns associated with | Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin, the, dictator of Manchuria. | All Has Changed. | All this has changed. The national people’s armies under General Feng | Hu Hsiang, having declared allegience | to the Kuomintang, began sweeping |down from their northwestern head- |quarters at Kalgan to effect a junc- |ture with the southern armies march- | jing up towards Hankow. The central | | provinces were wrested from Wu Pe! | Fu after the successful siege of his |troops at Hankow and Wuchang, the industrial heart of China, | In recent weeks, Marshall Sun's | original five provinces have dwindled to two upon which he still has rather ja sMppery hold. In all, the south- lerners under General Chang Kal Shek and the people's armies under General Feng Hu Hslang now dominate more than half of the entire country and | have established their new capital at | Wuchang, across the Yangtse river | from Hankow, to which city the Can- | ton government has been removed. Cantonese Advance. At the present time, the young General Chang Kai Shek is marching his troops almost unopposed down the | Yangtze valley towards Shanghai. | Foo Chow is expected to fall moment- arily. Shanghai is Marshal Sun's last stronghold. The Chinese masses in Shanghai do not hide their sympathy for the Cantonese. The view here is that Shanghai will offer very little resistance to its occupation by the Cantonese, Report Meaningless. So that the Strawn report is render- ed largely meaningless by these facts, not recorded in the report. The domin- ating political influence in China is the (Continued on page 2.) Cal Won’t Show Self Before Congress; Will Send Annual Speech | | WASHINGTON, Dec, 1,—Président Coolidge will not deliver in person his annual message @ congress next/week. The message will be read by clerk, probably Tuesday. “ mance, revolution © lcalled in April, 1922, he agreed to! A super Russian DOUGLAS PARK AUDITORIUM ‘BREAKING CHAINS’: and reconstruction operators. This conference was announced for February 14, at Miami, Fla. The agreement af-+-—— fects approximately half a mil- lion mine workers in the United States and Canada. Resolutions Must Be In. lower tribu d at the meting Jz ructed in the United Mi the The call required that all resolu- | for the tions, grievances and differences be The at submitted to the international secre- | Miami, ub tary-treasurer, not jess than ten days | cally for the 1 prior to the convention. The appeals or grievances, however, the call stat- ed, will not be considered unless they have been taken up previously by the form the basi | the other fields be attended COAL COMPANY PUTS BLAME FOR HERRIN MASSACRE ON HEAD OF NINE SUPERINTENDENT MeDOWELL In a writ of certiorari filed by the Southern Illinois Coal company in the superior court of Cook county, Judge Joseph B. David, the blame for the so-called Herrin massacre of June, 1922, in which 22 lives were lost, is laid at the door of the mine superintendent, C. Kline McDowell. The case is one taken on appeal from a decision of the Illinois Industrial Commission, awarding Beulah M. McDowell, the widow, $3,750. A reversal of the award is asked first on the ground that McDowell was not an employe of the company under the compensation law, since he was not receiving a wage, but was on a salary of $350 a month, plus’a bonus, and that he held the positions of stockholder, member of the board of directors. vice-president, treasureb, and stcretary, and that he was in full charge of the mine during the absence of the president, William J. Lester. .. The..award, is further contested on¢- the ground that he was not acting in the line of his employment, even if he were an employe. | It is cited that after the strike was| XPOSE OBJECT OF $1,000,990 (Special to The Daily Worker) work only at stripping the mine, a} surface working.. Then on June 13,/ he decided to begin mining operattons and went to Chicago where he en- gaged strikebreakers of the Hargrave Detective Agency and supplies of the Bertrand commissary. _ pdtoel Dee 1A: Dhee Mining operations were: begun: it ST@Phic copy ef a circular appeal by a . the Knights of Columbus for a million was McDowell himself who arfanged dollar fund to ald Me n catholics with Sheriff Thaxton for deputy in a fight against “the b t gov sheriffs and with Col, Hunter for nent” eager Maxtan troops. 1 cs owapabers . sia A June 2, he agreed to a truce, on terms The original copy thet which he himself suggested. White) a chives of the ch pho flags were raised and it was under-| joo. phic copi ead stood that the strikebreakers were to “Knights of Columbus, Loy. Coun- leave the mine that night. Instead | 4) yo. 477, 628 Bedford they barricaded themselves in box Mexican Relief Fund cars and spent the night there. The lA next day the “Herrin massacre” took place. It 1s cited that “under McDowell at the time the company was engaged in| sauited and even murde an armed warfare against the miners’} «phere a bolshevik go union. He was engaged in a struggle i seeks to destroy the church for domination, to impose: his settled ‘jcate the last vestige of policy of carrying on operations by the letter said. “All non-union labor, upon the United Mine Reagan, Chairm The letter de and women” jn N sulted, reviled, impriso his the name of the law and guns are Workers’ Union.” nted that are furnished by the ee ee merican government Court Favors Kluxer, ‘Senor Bolshevist, the Kni of MADISON, Wis., Dec, 1.—Pat. Ma-! Columbus have accepted lone, ku klux klan lecturer who was jenge and are coming sentenced to a year in jail at Oconto and will stand by un recently when convicted of criminal so-called constitution a pad,” libel, was granted a stay of sentence The letter concludes with an appeal by the Wisconsin supreme court pend- to each member to contribute $50 or ing the final decision of his appeal.. | more and intimates that assessments Malone had already started serving | wiil follow if voluntary contributions his sentence. are slow. your ¢ 100,000 stron u and your. THE FIGHT OF ALEX HOWAT AND THE MINERS OF DISTRICT NO. 14; A CHAPTER IN LABOR HISTORY ARTICLE L By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. PITTSBURGH, Kan., Dec. 1.—-Alex Howat has been barred trom th> dis trict ballot in the coming elections here and likewise from the national ballot in the United Mine Workers of America where he was running for delegate to the American Federation of Labor convention, by order of Inter- national President John L. Lewis Howat had received nominations from local unions representing 90 per cent of the membership of this district. These local unions have now been (Continuea on page 2) “Ogden and Kedzie Avenues Two showings—at 7:30 and 9:30 p. m: FRIDAY - - DECEMBER 3 ! eee eee en te a haem meinen gt $$ > ae ee