The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1926, Page 2

zag 4 Page Two THE DAILY WORKER HANKOW STRIKE GAINS STRENGTH AS TROOPS LAND Strawn Report No Goo Is Chinese View (Continued from page 1) Kuomintang party which controls the people's governn of Canton and which is in fact, the only central gov- ernmental force in China that all. The main plank of the A report ignores this fact js no report at report, which question of rel adjuc and ory becau -rmments have shown en Ament r the > admini o extend its popular -chie a ad their in- on for- lared ed by omiuand 21 have airea vilon of ac the Chinese now dominated by for- Conquer All, Aim. questions, the inadequate. more so every di Canton armies s entirely | : The Fight of Alex Howat ‘SOLONS AFRAID ee —— ‘ (Continued from page 1) |Howat as president, had gained an disfranchised in this election so as to|enviable reputation for militancy and |make possible, now that Howat, |solidarity not only in the’ conduct of | TO PUT FARMER Bolshevik Triumph Set Many Things Happening) compe- | all parts of |! {August Dorchy and other militant |its own struggles, but in assisting the | miners have been disqualified, a prac-|struggles of the whole labor move tically “unanimous’ election (in which | ment. . less than ten per cent of the district| It is told by those who remember | Fear Revolt Against the Jmembers are allowed to vote) of the! District 14 as it was before it was | Old Line Parties handpicked Lewis machine supporters. | first wrecked and then put at the ee A Chapter in Labor History. | This latest action of the Lewis ma- chine both closes one chapter and opens another in the five-year perse- cution of Alex Howat and those who fought with him when the Kansas in- dustrial court ldw was defeated. The arbitrary elimination of Howat, now working in one. of the (taking a layoff to tour the union for » month in support of John Brophy and the “Save the Union” program), | follows right on the heels of the de-| cision of the United States supreme purt in the Dorchy case upholding’ the j 2nces given Howat, Dorchy members of the union who 2s in defiance of the indus- » persecution of Alex Howat by » coal operators and the Lewis ma- hine has no precedent in the labor | movement. For five years, in violation of the union constitution and in de- lance of all elementary ethics of the labor movement calling for united de- e of union members; when at- , tacked by the enemies of labor, John L. Lewis has aided in every con- ceivable way the announced purposes of the coal,operators to “get rid of Howat.” The history of the Howat case is , history of perfidy on the part of la- officials for which there are few Hels. A Fighting District. In 1921 District 14 had some 10,000 members and was 100 percent organ- lized. Working conditions were prob- ably the best prevailing in any section lof the union. The district with Alex mines here | HELP. ON SHELF mercy of the operators by the fight. # A (Continued from page 1.) made on it by the Lewis machine that }and this combine is geen #& too for no more docile group of employers and ‘j midable for those opposed to farm leg- business men existed in America than lislation to sidestep, Conditions of the | those whom the membership of Dis- | cotton growers in the south have trict 14 had educated in the Ways] rorced the southern representatives to Which, posses waowia travel, |join hands with the westerners in the The -Hlerken Strike. __ | demand for relief, : A strike of the Clerks’ Union in| Pear of their constithehts is forcing Pittsburgh when Howat was. president | them to attack the exhortations of the is a good example of how the miners’ union supported the other labor or- ganizations, Having struck, the clerks called a mass meeting at which Howat spoke. He stated to the meeting that unless the merchants settled with the clerks within twenty-four hours he would send a circular letter to the District 14 membership calling upon them to do their trading elsewhere while the strike was on. The storekeepers settled with the Clerks’ Union the next morning. But some of the merchants tried to dis- |criminate. against the more active ;members of the Clerks’ Union by re- | fusing to put them back to work. | Again Howat notified the merchants’ association. that a circular letter | would go out to the 10,000 miners tell- ing them the situation and urging them to put the offending merchants on*the “don’t patronize” list until the blacklisted clerks were taken back. There was no more discrimination. | The’loss of the trade of 10,000 miners | was too big a price to pay. | There was also a non-union iron | works that the miners made into a union shop, but that is another story. (To be continued) ward the Chinese than had been an- ticipated. Suspicion exists that some of its more arrogant assumptions of and the imminency of the fall of; white superiority may have been Shanghai. The Cantonese have declar- | diplomatically torn out and destroyed ed it as their intention not to stop |during. the long weeks of delay of there, but to conquer Peking as well publication. But even as it stands it and establish the republic over the denies the existence in China of any whole of the country It is evident that re’ attitude of the powers developments will be necessary. The powers have been givfng consistent mation of the support to the militarists of the north | n their fight against the advancing Kuomintang forces. Of foreign na tions, only the Soviet Union has shown sympathy with the Kuomintang cause, a «ee China Report Falis Flat. WASHINGTON, Dec, 1—Publica- tion of the long-delayed report of the ‘representatives of 13 powers on the/|, need for retaining extra-territorial ‘rights in China has fallen flat, diplo- mats in the capital believe. The tone of the report published by the foreign powers is less harsh to- shop-mate— Point it out to him! It’s in the paper—in The DAILY WORKER. Point such good things are in EVERY issue of The DAILY WORKER. And then ' Ask him to { towards these | The story or the news or the cartoon that you are sure will interest your security to foreigners except by the aid of foreign courts and other extra- territorial privileges. Just when this document is being | published the Kuomintang’s working class adherents in Hankow are urging ja huge politigal strike, which shall cripple the foreign handling of Chinese customs offices in the treaty ports con- trolled by the new government. They Shope to force the foreigners to hand over the customs offices to the Kuo- mintang, and thereby to make the powere recognize the new government. Send us the name and address of a@ progressive worker to whom DAILY WORKER. tve can send a sample copy of The} |Lisman’s Attorney Favors Franchise for Twenty Years | “Terminable permits,” as applied to | Public utilities, should in the opinion jot John Maynard Harlan be called “indeterminable permits.” He said that the American Bar Association has discarded the term as misleading. Maynard is attorney for Frederick J. Lisman, who proposes to solve Chicago’s traction muddle. Harlan | Was the first witness at a hearing in \the Palmer House held by a committee (of the city council. | Theoretically, he sald, a terminable |permit suggests that a city can ob- |tain contro] of its streets at any time. | Practically, it means a long fight in | the courts. He favors a twenty-year {franchise, or some fixed term, assert- |ing that it {s a good thing for the city to have the right at stated periods to ‘consider what its |nterests require, Out En out the fact that City subscribe! wx months, $3.60, ¢! 1113 W, Washington months sub to The Daily Worker, Name 4.0 ‘ RATES Per year, side of Chicago year, $6.00; ‘08 moathey $2.00, THE DAILY heck vd Chicago, Ill, CLOSED Fi rseosrveererssors LOF -ssvvosereseoee representatives from the manufactur- ing districts that “thefe is not enough time to consider farm legislation.” Business Blocs Le} Loose, Much propaganda, igspirea by man- ufacturers’ blocs, is being let loose in capitol halls in an attempt to mag- uify the importance of all legislation except that dealing with the farmers. Everything, including, the tax refund proposition, alien property claims dis- position, foreign treaties, the prohibi- |tion department, tariff laws, and the | treasury surplus, is being projected to divert attention of the representatives. Democrats Commit Selves. The democrats have pretty definitely committed themselves to some sort of farm relief. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, partly floor leader in the senate, has announced that the party’s program includes first a “liberal policy for relief of the farmer,” followed by a reduction in taxes, revision in tariff rates, and action against corruption in primary elections. Nye Attacks Mellon. *Several significant pre-session speeches have been made by congres- sional leaders. Senator Gerald F, Nye of North Dakota, in a speech in New York, denounced Secretary Mellon as being the one who prevented the pas- sage of farm relief at the last session. “Mr. Mellon holds that the only nec- essary legislation is that that helps pay back the people who provide the funds for political campaigns. That is why John D. Rockefeller, Jr., saved more by Mellon’s tax bill than did twenty states the size of North Da- kota. That is why the big gainers were Thomas W, Lamont, George F. Baker, J. Pierpont Morgan and the rest,” he said. Nye declared that the farmers should be treated in the same manner as the foreign debts are being treated, mentioning the fact that Italy's debt | ‘about the Bolshevik revolution in Russia is entitled, “The First Time in History.” It is an apt title, full of meaning, vividly flashing the fact that upward thru all the ages that mankind has struggled, this thing had never happened before, that an oppressed class should suc- ceed in throwing off all its chains and completely win all power, estab- lishing its own rule, The Bolshevik victory and the creation of the Soviet power have brought in their wake a whole series of events, “for the first time in his- tory.” The launching of the Union of Soviet Republics made possible the building of the Communist In- ternational, that effectively organ- izes and develops the social-revolu- tion on a world-wide scale “for the first time in history.” ere Few readers of The DAILY WORKER hardly realize, for in- stance, what it means to receive daily detailed reports, cabled direct- ly from Moscow, of the sessions of the enlarged executive committee of the Communist International. Not only brief bulletins, but an account in full of the discussions, in thous- ands of words, taking up columns of space, reviewing the development and outlining the strategy of the workers’ world struggle for power. This has never happened before in all the history of the international labor movement. Only today, after thousands of years’ effort on the part of the world’s oppressed to or- ganize their forces, do we find the gathering of the revolutionists in the Great Palace of the Kremlin, in Moscow, U. S. S..R., within a few hours of the editorial office of The DAILY WORKER, in Chicago. Hardly have the sessions of the Communist International in the capital city of the Union of Soviet Republics closed before the news: of the proceedings finds its way into type 8,000 miles away, in this great industrial center of world capital- ism, Quickly the information,,is spread to the nation’s working class. eee was Settled on the on the dollar. Warns of Revolt, « Representative Di mn, republi- can, Iowa, has sounded a warning note to his colleagues. “The farmers are not entirely bereft of their power,” he said. “I pray that they will not be driven to the use of their class political power, but there is an extremity of discrimination beyond which they may not be pushed without danger.” Attacks Business. Dickinson attacked the national in- dustrial conference and’ United States chamber of commerce for forming a “fact-finding” body to examine the farm problem, This commission, he said, was not devised to help the farmer, but to befog thé issue and pre- vent afd. The farmer knows, he said, that these same industrialists are re- sponsible for the ‘conditions, and that they are not “visitations of provi- dence.” Wisconsin Farmers Meet, ‘Wisconsin farmers are expected to voice a definite and unifled demand for legislation at the convention of the American Society of Equity, the outstanding farmers’ organization in that state, which opened Tuesday at Ashland, Wis, Primary matters to be taken up at that convention will be farm relief legislation and organiza- tion of farmers to beyable to back their demands. Co-operation will stressed at the meeting; both for get- ting legislative measures and for mar- keting, Bi + @, Reshape McNary Bill, WASHINGTON, Decal, — The new McNary-Haugen bill, intended to stab- ilize farm prices by thevexportation of surplus crops, fe being hammered into legislative shape at conferences be- tween congressional fagm bloc mem- bers and representatives of farm or- ganizations, Bi 8. Corporation, Provides U, I The principal features of the new bill, including the orea' of a gov- ernment corporation to le the ex- portation of crops and | levajng of an equalization fee, wera approved by the farmers’ spokesmen, The conferences will continue until an agreement is reached between tho farm bloc members and the farmers’ spokesmen, The American Worker Correspond- ent will be out this week! Send In your subscription now, 60 cents a year, Daily Worker Conference Friday in New York oe t A Workers Party conference on The DAILY WORKER will be held at Stuyvesant Casino thie Friday evening, Dec. 3) Every func ber of the party who would like to see a'Dally. NEW YORK must attend this meeting. Jo 1 ‘It Io @ meeting to organize for the campalgn that New. haa over secon. tlonary and every Worker PRINTED lection will be taken jis of 25 cents |- of the opening of the seventh*en- larged plenum of the executiye:com- mittee of the Communist Interna- tional, with the introductory address of Nikolai Bukharin, greeting «thé struggles of the Chinese people, 'the British coal miners and the Indo- nesian workers and peasants. Most workers had never heard of. Indo- nesia, Even editors of foreign- language Communist dailies asked about it, little realizing that it em- braced the imperialist hopes of the Dutch oppressors of the 34,000,00 in- habitants of the island of Java in the East Indies, where a Commun- ist Party and militant trade unions struggle to develop the unity of la- bor in the orient, Here is a huge mass of humanity in Java nearly equa] to that in France, and exceed- ing that of many other countries of Europe. The Communist Interna- tional draws it into the stream of the world revolutionary struggle, just ag the representative of the Kuomintang party of China, Shau Li Tze, pledges co-operation with the Communist Party of China and declares the Chinese national revo- lution a part of the world revolution. Then Bukharin opens the discus- sion of the international situation as it confronts world labor, review- ing the important tasks facing the Communist Partiés.in many coun- tries, Delegates from different lands upon every continent take up the debate, giving from the wealth of experiences of the various parties they represent, Such a discussion continues inevitably for several days, It takes up the struggle be- tween the imperialisms of the Unit- ed States and Great Britain, and living symbol of the disintegration © of the British Empire is the fact that. Willle Gallacher, the British First came the detailed ‘account — for First Time in History| By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, | NE of the many books written | Communist, presides” as ‘chairman while M. N. Roy, delegate of the Communist Party of India, is talk- ing, assailing the British oppressor. The discussion shows the Commun- ist Party of China on the right path. Ernest Thaelmann, the Com- munist candidate against Von Hin- denburg for the presidency of the German republic, speaks, outlining the difficulties, as well as the suc- cesses of the revolution in Germany. Latin-America and Japan, Norway and Poland, Turkey and Belgium, efforts among the youth and women workers, all enter into the discus- sion, Fascism in Italy is discussed and the causes of its inevitable disinte- gration are pointed out. It is also shown why the Chinese revolution must press on to. victory, and the looming conflict on the shores of the Pacific, between the United States, Great Britain and Japan is analyzed. Thus the discussion of the far east- erm question gets under way. oe @ All this news goes out of Moscow by wire and cable, not only to the Communist press here in the Unit- ed States, but to many of the other countries among the more than 50 having Communist Parties affiliated with the Communist International. It flashes its way to Canton, China, as well as to Berlin, Germany, and Paris, France, enabling the forward- marching vanguard of world labor to keep in step everywhere, © *. How different from thé-days of Karl Marx and the First Internation- al, when the only means of commun- ication was the slow-going mail, that required weeks to cross the ocean, Even Marx’s correspondence to the powerful New York Tribune went by mail, the first successful eable spanning the Atlantic not being put down until 1865. As late as 1907, when the Second (Socialist) International met in con- gress at Stuttgart, we find A. M. Simons, editor of The Chicago Daily Socialist, attending as one of the delegates of the American Socialist Party. He sent no cabled news to his own paper, Instead he was em- ployed by the United Press, a cap-~ italist press service, to send a 100- word cable daily, no more, In 1910, with the Second (Social- ist) International holding its world congress at Copenhagen, Denmark, the last regular congress before the war, neither of the two American socialist dailies at that time, the Chicago Daily Socialist and the New York Call, worried about cabled re- ports, Few words trickled thru over the cables of the capitalist press agencies, Some of the correspond- ents of the European socialist dail- ies sent their reports to their papers by mail. The Second (Socialist) In- ternational was in feality a corres- pondence institute. Its spirit was found voice in its press. It so re- mained up to the breaking out of the war. While the conflict raged it was compelled to go out of business. With the ending of the war it re- verted to its old ways, except now many of its leaders, capitalist prime ministers, may affix the insignia of their respective kings to their let- ters composed in the comfortable shadows of some royal palace. Fighting the daily struggles of the workers, against the well organized and well-equipped enemy, the Com- munist International leaves no stone unturned to rally labor in support of the world revolution, Thus the gathering in the Kremlin reports to- day, and every day, its activities, its hopes, its aspirations, its plans, its strategy as the leader of the strug- gle to abolish capitalism. Not next week nor next month, when the situation may have entirely changed, but today, in the heat of the actual combat, Fighting thus, “for the first time in history,” world la- bor presses forward more rapidly to / the final victory, Illinois Teachers to Meet in Convention (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIBLD, Il, — The Hlinois State T Association will as- semble her: Dec, 28-30, with dele- gates representing 33,000 members, It will be the seventy-third annual meet- ing of the organization, Among those who are scheduled to speak are Dr, Edward T, Devine, eco- nomist and sociologist; and Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of Leo Tolstoy. C DEATH OF SURGEON WILL EXPOSE BRUTALITY USED ON CHICAGO PRISONERS “The coroner's investigation of the death of Dr. Arthur E. Price from alleged prison beatings may bring to light the many assaults by pris- on authorities on workers under ar rest or sentence. The dreaded cruelty of the Chi- cago police and prison administra- tions, which labor is powerless to check and which nobody else cares about, picked the wrong victim when it descended on Price who once was In the top rank of Chi- cago surgeons but fell into poverty because of the drug habit, His death In the county hospital Oct. 22 was pronounced suicide. but the coroner discovered that his: skull been fractured, eyes, blackens by blows and the whole body dis, eolored by brulses, ‘ PREPARING FOR BATTLE TO OUST SMITH AND VARE Contest Senate’s Power Over Primaries (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1,— Democrats and irregular republicaus On one sidé, and regular republicans and some democrats on the other, are girding themselves for the battle over the seating of Frank L. Smith of Illi- nois and William S. Vare of Pennsyl- vania in the United States senate, li is now apparent that the battle will be unavoidable. Primary as Issue. With primary corruption, in each case virtually established, the main issue of conflict will be the right of the senate to withhold membership because of primary activity. The sen ate will have to decide if the primary is a part of the election, as the con- stitution gives the senate power to deny seating to anyone convicted. of irregularities in the election, but does not mention the primary. Defenders of Vare and Smith declare vehemently that the senate cannot question a can- didate’s expenditures in the primary elections, and that the state is the’ sole judge in that case, Getting Evidence. Sen. Norris, however, is amassing evidence to show that there was cor- ruption in the election campaigns as well as in the primary campaign. Threaten Southern ‘Senators. Republicans are countering the democrats with the threat that ifthe senate has jurisdiction over the pri- mary, investigations into primary ac- tivities of seven southern senators will be started, as in the south the primary is usually the election. They -| will also challenge the southern sena- tors, on the grounds of the disfran- chisement of the Negro, they threaten. Many observers fell there is no doubt that Vare and Smith will be ousted, as the combination of democrats and republicans is enough to accomplish that-——provided they stick. Cleveland Prisoners Break Day’s Fast on Thirty Cents in Food CLEVELAND, Dec, 1.— According to a report of the state welfare de- partment, prisoners incareerated in the Cleveland jail are forced to go without food for 24 hours unless they have money to buy from the restau- /rant man who brings coffee and sand- wiches to the cells. After the 24-hour starvation period the city spends 30 cents a day for each prisoner. This is quite in keeping with the charges against Sheriff Kohler, whe has been continually accused of pro- viding the prisoners with a most in- adequate diet, too much starch and too few green vegetables. Further- more, Kohler is asserted to have kept no account of his expenditures, so that insinuations are abroad that he or some of his men have pocketed part of the allowance money, ' Wisconsin Insurgents Will Be Forgiven If They Keep Party Rules WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—The Wis- consin housé insurgents who were ex- pelled from republican counsels will be welcémed back if they declare they will abide by the party caucus but. no overtures will be made to them, it was indicated by Representative John Q. Tilson, of Connecticut, repgblican leader. Enlisted Man May Eat More and Carry Less WASHINGTON—The load is to be shifted somewhat from the doughboy’s back to his stomach, if the recommen- dations made by Maj, Gen. Robert Al- len, chief of infantry, to the secretary of war are accepted and put into effect. He says that rations are too small and packs welgh too much, He also criti- cizes the amount of drill and fatigue duty, which have become heavier since the men of the regular army have had to do valet service to the city men who take a summer outing at R. 0. T, C. and ©, T. C, camps—tho that isn’t exactly the wording of the report. Peace time desertions he attributes in part to “improper home training,” but more especially to the large amount of drilling and fatigue work now required, to insufficient rations, inadequate housing, and service at the summer camps. It is disclosed that the rations of the regular army are distinctly infer- for to those of the summer camps, from which it appears that bank clerks who are taking a free ition are not expected to live as cheaply as the poor boys who have joined the regular army because they found the recruiting office cheaper than the em- ployment agency, IN PHILADELPHIA There are only two places to eat— HOME AND AT Hartung’s Restaurant “610 Spring ata, Cooking. Open from 6, a, m (07 Dm, Garden St. I"