The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Ralses the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. il. No. 275. is, Sd eet vcr Rates « In Chicago, by « Outside Chicago, by mail, snr ne Greece mir Saran 185 hp ot Gin wt Cane, Tn war At of Rar 5 SATURDAY, DE DECEMBER 4, 1926 mail, $8.00 per year, $6.00 per year. WE LP roams $15,000 DURING DECEMBER 10 KEEP THE DAILY WORKER Contributions to November 30th. Contributions December 1st... $22,819.03 + 241.65 $23,060.48 Five Hundred Dollars Must Be Raised KACH DAY! The Party Members and Supporters of The DAILY WORKER Must Organize Stronger Support. We Can Win the Fight and Keep The DAILY WORKER for the Revolutionary Workers’ Movement, = ney Steno By T. J. “OFLU AERTY ——— sss FALL and Doheny ex pect to be acquitted of wrong do- ing in the famous Teapot Dome and Elk Hill scandals. Doheny’s defense ig that. in aking. over the naval bead yeserves' ve was performing’ & patriot? ic duty, since he could produce more oil than the government. Why did he hand over $100,000 to Fall? That's easy. Fall was an old friend of his. A friend in need is a friend indeed. A WASHINGTON. correspondent wired that Doheny ‘sighed -with relief as he rolled away in his Rolls- Reyce after the close of the — trial. ¥ali was cheerful. Nine lawyers stand between both of them and- a prison cell. Can anybody imagine. either Fall or , Doheny going to jail? No!) ‘The system cannot stand for it. Jails | were built for awkward robbers and tor workingclass militants. Sacco and | Vanzetti have found that out. So| have Tom Mooney, J. B, McNamara, Matt Schmidt and hundreds of others. Homey Thursday's issue of the Chi- cago Tribune carried a cartoon by MeCutcheon calculated to show that the east and the west. must get on more friendly term’ than they have veen in the past. Ineldentally it of- ‘ers further proof that the army-navy football game was not as much a sporting event as a recruiting adver- tisement. The east needs the beef that the west produces and the west needs the baypnets that the east pro- duces. This the . Tribune's mes- sage. Not so long ago the agricultur- al sections of the United States did | not see any reason why they should contribute ttheir sons to the House of Morgan, but the capitalist papers are | trying to overcome that little preju-. dice. It is up to the radical press to acounter this pernicious propaganda. real ruler of Roumania ts neither Ferdy the dumb, nor Marie the vamp. The ruler is the fellow who owns the oll wells, His name Is Bratiano. He does not care who sits (Continued . on page 6) FOOCHOW FORCES QUIT MARSHAL FOR CANTONESE Strike in Hankoiw Goes Strongly On (Special to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, Dec. 2.—The naval forces formerly loyal.to Marshal Sun Chuang Fank and stationed at Foo- chow, now being besieged by the Can- | tonese armies, have joined the south- erners and will aid in the capture of | Shanghai, the objective of the Canton- | ese advance, Sharp fighting occurred in the en- | virens of Foochow, which is now de- fended by only one battalion of Sun Chuang Fang’s troops. Most of Fu- | kien province has gone over to the Cantonese, and the Fengtien troops from the north, who are supporting | | Marshal Sun, are trying to stem the Cantonese advance by retiring behind Foochow for a last stand to save ‘Shanghai, It is reported that 1,000 men have been killed in the last few days’ action, Panic-Stricken Foreigners. The Americans in Foochow, mostly to be found in the missionary colony of about 200, have become panic- stricken over the fighting going on in |the city and have appealed for help. A United States destroyer, the Hart, was sent to Foochow on request of the American consul, B, B, Price. Ce ee ~HANKOW, Dec. 2.—The fears of the | British, American and Japanese resi- dents of the foreign concessions here that they stand in danger of being massacred are entirely. unfounded. The wild reports concerning impend- ing violence that have been sent out of Hankow have been sent for the sole purpose of bringing arm¢d forces to Hankow to assist in breaking the —| strike called against foreign employ- ' ers, | No violence has marked the walk- ‘ont of the Chinese servants and office workers in the foreign quarters and ‘the labor unions} are pursuing a policy ‘of being satisfied with a tieup of busi- ‘ness and industrial activity to make ‘their demands for higher wages felt. |The marines of the various nations that have landed here are doing heay- fly armed duty about the concessions, which are quiet in all respects, due to the strike, The December Issue of the Amer- jean Worker Correspondent will be out this week. Get a copy, sub- scribe! ‘BREAKING CHAINS’ Sl ey 4\ presence in Chicago of Elizabeth Gur-| |LABOR DEFENSE OPENS CAMPAIGI FOR XMAS FUND ‘Prisoners “and Feniilies| to Benefit A national drive for a Christmas Fund for class war prisoners and their | | dependents, was launched today as the result of a decision of the meet- ing of the executive committee of In- ternational Labor Defense. The meet-| ing was held on the occasion of the! bed Flynn, national chairman of the » L. D. and it took place under her | pe Ieee i It is planned by the International | Labor Defense to raise a fund, by ap} peals to the workers of America, to} supply the class war prisoners in the | United States, of whom there are al-| |most 60 serving terms today, with | some of the comforts that are denied these workers while they are in the | penitentiary. The appropriateness of the drive is particularly evident now in view of the coming Christmas holi- days. It is observed that prison rules are relaxed more than ever during | the holiday period to allow the men inside to receive gifts from friends on the outside. | Besides the men in prison who will be aided by the fund, a proportion of the money will be expended in the relief of the dependents of a num- ber of the prisoners. There are many of thése, some of whom are in acute distress, A number of the impris- oned workers have not only a wife or a parent who needs support, but many | have children. | The balance of the money collected | in the Christmas Fund will be util- ized to secure adequate legal defense ‘for many workers «who are “being. threatened with imprisonment for the usual reason: adherence to the/| cause of the labor movement, expres- sions of opinion, activities in behalf of the working class. Among such cases are the Zeigler miners wHose appeal is now before the State Supreme Court for final de- cision. Eight .men are involved, framed-up im Zeigler, Ill., by the now thoroughly discredited ex-president of the United Mine Workers district, Frank Farrington, who was exposed a8 an agent in the union of the coal operators§ There is the case of George P§ jcun, in Pennsylvania, who is under charge of sedition, having been sentenced by the court; his case | is now up for an appeal to the Su- preme Court. The Flynn Anti-Sedi- tion Act of Pennsylvania seeks te |claim more victims in the arrests re- cently made of workers in Woodlawn whose houses were raided by the steel trust police in cahoots with the state cossacks. The Passaic strike cases are also approaching court ac- tion. The case of the Michigan Com- munists which is still pending in the Supreme Court, the threatened depor- tation of Enea Sormenti for anti-fas- cist work in this country are a few of the numerous cases which constantiy come up and demand legal attention. It is expected that thousands of dol- lars will be raised in the-drive for the Christmas Fund and the entire machinery of the I. L. D. is being put into motion to make the campaign a success. The best way—subdscribe today. When Fred A. Britten, republicaa congressman of the ninth Illinois dis- trict, which les partly in a north side fashionable residence district, was asked to make a statement for The DAILY WORKER as to his pos!- tion on the proposed legislation to register and fingerprint foreign-born workers, he said: , “tam really too busy to go Into the matter now, I have far more impor- tant matters demanding attention—I am winding up this football business.” He was referring to the Army-Navy game, which he is credited with hav- lug brought to Chicago in competition Ets 290 PUBLI Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washing .on Blvd., Chicago, In, ISHING CO., H ERE are four of the nine old} gentlemen who have more real] power than ahy Other similar group anywhere in the world. Left to right are Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter, Chief Justice William How-} ard. Taft, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice James C. McRey- | nolds. They have only recently hand- ed down a decision in the Dorchy case | the result of which is that “legally,” the workers of Kansas are denied the right to strike. They have before {them now, and a decision may be | forthcoming any time, the case of C. E, Ruthenberg, General Secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, which involves the fate of Ruthenberg and 32 other communists arrested in Michigan in 1922 for “assembling to- gether” in convention. THOUSANDS OF FORD WORKERS ARE LAID OFF (Special to The: Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mieh., Dec. 2.— The Highland Park sand River plants of the Ford) Motor company have been shut down. With but lit tle warning, and at one strike, sever al thousand Ford workers have been thrown out of employment. ed. This action, coming almost im- mediately after Ford's establishing of his much-heralded!“five-day week,” is seen as virtual proof of the charges that Ford’s talk of “industrial democ- racy” is but a blind for further ex- ploitation of the workers. Fights General Motors. That a show-down battle between Ford Motors and General Motors is definitely under way is freely admit- ted now in financial and automobile circles. General Motors has made Sreat inroads’ in the sale of Ford cars, and Ford is now ready to start his “offensive.” His five-day week is seen clearly as an attempt to cut wages and decrease the cost of pro- duction so that he can compete with General Motors. May Make New Car. It is believed that Ford is contemp- lating the introduction of a new auto- mobile of medium price to combat similar cars of his competitors, and that one reason ifor the shut-down of his main plants is to reorganize them for ‘the production of these cars. The shut-down: will also give Ford CONGRESSMAN BRITTEN TOO ENGAGED WITH FOOTBALL BUSINESS TO EXPRESS VIEW ON ANTI-FOREIGN LEGISLATION with rival cities.: When asked tif he could make a statement before leaving of Thursday or Friday to attend the short session of congress, he said: “No, I am really too busy-to go into tne ter.” Whether his work in closing up “this football business,” including the supervision of manicuring the Navy's goat, he did not disclose, The Congressional Directory states that Britten “has been in general building construction business in Chi- cago, doing work in different parts of the United States since 1921,” Piowine TONIGHT in Chicago \ Rouge | The lay-| off will be indefinite, it is announce-| BANDITS TAKE $101,000 FROM SHERIDAN COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICE (Special to The Daily Worker) GREAT FALLS, Mont, Decy2. — A. total of $101,000 was_sect by bandits last Tuesday night at Plen- tywood, Sheridan county, when they entered the office of county treas- urer Eugene Torstonson it was dis- closed today. Forty-six thousand doliars of the amount was in cash | and the balance in bonds, | Sheridan county has a farmer | labor administration that was re- | elected in the November contest. | an opportunity to speed up his “weed: ing out” of workers Who are unable) to maintain the high speed of produc- tion now demanded. Workers who have been in his employ for years and | | now are too worn to keep up the new! | nace have been let out slowly up to | now. opportunity to “pick” his workers and leave out “undesirables.” Ford officials have refused to make public reasons for the shut down. first aid work in his plants, accord- ing to the announcement that the safety director and 200 men in that department have been discharged. They were told “they won't be need- ed any more.” Ford has placed much emphasis in the past on this part of his “welfare” work among the work- ers. Congressmen Worry Over Farmers’ Power As Session Is Near WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, — Pre-ses- sion conferences and meetings of con- gressional committees are now being held in the capitol building, as the time for the meeting of congress is nearing. From the discussions being conducted at these meetings it can be judged that “everything will not be quiet along the Potomac” when congress convenes. Farm relief and the matter of re- instating the republican “insurgents” have produced heated arguments. The congressmen are now being im- pressed with the political ne of doing something for the farmers. Charles Nagel of St. Louis, represent- ing the business men’s commission on agriculture, has informed them that “the farmers are not entirely bereft of power and are still an absolute political factor in many states and an irresistable balance of power in many others.” Use your brains and your pen to ald the workers in the class struggle, mance, The lay-off will give Ford an! Ford is to cut down the safety and) sity | A super Russian photoplay of ro- and reconstruction OLIGARCHY WILL HAVE LAST WORD Real Rulers Speak Thru | A . King Ferdinand (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Dec. 2.—Most of the reports that have been emanating from vari- ous capitals concerning the imminent death or the death of King Ferdinand of Roumania and the plans of Prince Carol to take the Roumanian throne by force or otherwise are for the most part pure speculation. It was rumored that when Queen | Marie arrived in Paris Tuesday that | a secret conference was held with her | son Carol.” This is extremely doubt- ful. The question of the future of the | Hohenzollern dynasty rests neither | with Prince Carol nor any other mem- ber of the dynasty. It rests with the | political ruiers of Roumania These rulers are the oligarchy of capitalists and landlords, the chief rep resentatives in politics of which are the Bratianu brothers, wealthy capi- The letter addressed by King Fer. dinand to Premier Averson én Bucha rest on Tuesday in which he declared | that Prince Carol will not be allowed |to ascend the throne, is merely a state document drafted by Roumanian jformal “King speech” | opening of parliament, “ee King Is Well. King Ferdinand is well enough to care | for sundry matters of state and is ex- pected to go to the train to mect Queen Marie when she arrives here | on Sunday. eee ” Marie Selis Falk Only. PARIS, Dec. 2.—Queen Marie of ‘Roumania counts the commercial val- without compensation. This was ad. mitted today by Mme. Lahovary, lady- in-waiting to the queen. Mme. Lahovary received newspaper |corfespondents and informed thei that, “the queen would like much now to be allowed to recover the | privilege of privacy for her own af- fairs.” A rather nettled English corre spondent inquired, “Doesn't Queen | Marie talk without being paid?” “Why should she throw away the value of what she has to say?” frank- ly replied Mme. Lahovary, Why don’t you write it up? It may be interesting to other workers, DOUGLAS revolution ON PRINCE CAROL: talists and financiers themselves and | General Averescu the recent premier | | politicians in the same way that the | is made at the | BUCHAREST, Roumania, Dec. 1.—/ ue of her words and doesn’t talk) very | NEW YORK EDITION Price 3’Cents STATE DEPT. IS ‘SHOWN AS HILL ‘OF PROPAGANDA Inspired Attacks on Mexico Given Out By LAURENCE TODD, | (Federated Press). i WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—(FP) — |Senators Wheeler of Montana and | Norris of Nebraska have promised to | bring up in the senate, when it meets, |the action of Assistant Secretary of | State Robert E. Olds in. secretly in- |spiring the three largest press assodla- | tions in the United States to talk of | Mexican and Nicaraguan liberals as | “bolshevistic.” Disclosures of the use {of the state department as a propa- ganda mill for American reactionary policy in Latin America has been made by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. in an article copied by the Baltimore Sun and read by everyone in public life in the capital. When Secretary Kell crisis of his ch oil and land law | his pledges to supp: | tional government secret “doping” was attempted | brought into the 'many years in the le Was the propagar nda ag for the heads of the t jreaus at the department. He pledged them not to quote him Pushing the Dope. Then, according to the Post-Dis patch, he’ told them that relations with Mexico had reached an acute Stage, after a year of developm . that had caused the department much Lconcern, oe | “It is an undesirable fact,” he Ts directly quoted as saying, “that the Mexican government is today a bol shevist government. We cannot prové it, but we are normally c a warm bond of sympathy | actual understanding, exists between | Mexico City and Moscow Shifts Responsibility. When one of the pres |gested that the dep: | made its own statem lic, signed by K Mexico’s governmment wa ic, Olds “recoiled tion of apprehens clares. He is sz that that “Surely,” “you why | ment cannot afford to be | tion of directing ment against a which it ds on | There men sug should he must realize is quoted was and, means of thr jirresponsible gas cloud | Calles government ing ou against A. P. Goes Along. Next morning the carried a long st recognition of | Adolf Diaz as ‘ gua. It led off 'The spectre of a bolshevist hegemony tween the United St ama Canal ha | American-Me | strained.” Chairman Borah of the senate for eign relations committee, when shown {the Post-Dispatch unt of what Olds had secretly done to disturb re lations between the United States and Mexico, refused to talk; Olds, wise, refused to say anythjng, | nfal or otherwise. But Senator } | ris, progressive floor leader, madss a pledge, de Bring Up in Senate. | .“When’ congress: conven Norris ; said, “I am going to whether something cannot be done about the state department's practice of putting se out hostile propaganda and anony- mous propaganda nst govern: ments with whom we are on friendly relations... . I @annot imagine any thing more discreditable.” At the time Kellogg was beaten for the senate by, Shipsted, Farmer. 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