The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1926, Page 1

the Standard for a Worker and Farmers’ Governmer ‘ Vol. HI. No. 276. Subscription. Bureaucrat The DAILY WORKER Ratse ay & DECEMBER MUS THE BANNER KEEP THE DAILY WORKER We have raised $22,819.03 achievement of which we can be proud. We have estab- lished a record of which the labor movement can show few examples. But we must not woods. We must finish the Buffalo and Detroit have a They are now determined to double this figure. tire country must follow the lead of Buffalo and Detroit. Just a little more effort. Just a little more persistence. Just a little more of the go-getter spirit of Buffalo and Detroit and we will pass-the $50,000 mark by a big mar- gin. Let us put our shoulders to. the wheel for the big De- T BE MONTH TO to December ist. This is an crow until we are out of the job we have begun so well. lready finished their quotas. The en- cember Drive, to Keep The DAILY WORKER as the fight- ing organ of the workers. Sarno Stent By T. J. O'FLAAERTY —————$—— cf Rpt a year the capitalists be- come generous and give away a hot meal, Any worker who has man- aged to retain his powers of locomo- tion can wrap himself around a feed op Thanksgiving Eve and on Christ- mas Eve, Even prisoners are visited by generous preachers on those soul- expanding days. The preachers offer god or Jesus to the inmates of our bastilles and ask nothing in return. owe UT there is one class of prisoners that receives no. consideration from the iced charity of the capitalist professional consolationists. The class war prisoner, Had he committed mur- der, pimped for a Hving, or hijacked ® load of needled beer, he would be easily forgiven, But a man who wants to free his class from the thraldom of slavery, in an outlaw, He is untouch- able. The worst an ordinary criminal gan do is to stéal a little out of the capitalist pot. But here is a man who would put the pot on his shoulders and invite the boys who filled it to sit around and transfer the contents to their stomachs, ** 8 HESE ruminations are inspired by an announcement that the Inter- national Labor Defense has opened a campaign for a Christmas Fund for the class war prisoners and their depend- ents. There are men today in our prisons that have not stepped outside of a high wall for fifteen years. It is sad to have to admit that the great majority of the workers ignore their sufferings. Whatever little. be done by those who are on the outside to fill in their lonely hours with a token of remembrance, should be done gladly. We hope that the campaign of the I, L. D, will meet with success and that thousands of dollars will be raised for this worthy purpose, see i igor is a good time to think of those who have proven them- aelves willing to make heavy sacrifices for the working class. A man’s liberty is his most precious possession, With- out it life is not worth living. Lite at best under capitalism is drab—for the workers, But even the monotony of a factory is heaven compared to a cramped life behind prison bars, with uncongenial toil thrown in for good measure. fe © a 7 ©T us think of those heroes of the class war and furthermore let us not forget them when Christmas time is over. Tom Mooney, Warren K, Billings, J. B. McNamara, Matt Schmidt, Sacco and Vanzetti and scores of members of the I. W. W. are entitled to everything the working- class can do for them, Let the contri- butions to the [, L. D. Christmas Fund be generous and let us make up our minds that all the energy of the work- ing class movement in the United States must be mobilized behind the I. L, D, in its aim to get our comrades out of jail as soon as possible. a, ee AME indeed is the political duck that does not find a limb to rest on. The silk-stockinged Ogden Mille of New York, who was defeated by the homespun-hosed Al Smith for the gov- ernshop of the Empire State, is slated for a job as under-secretary of the treasury. Which means .the fellow who does more work than Andrew (Continued on page 4) ; FALL WARNED OF FRAUD IN OIL LEASES ‘Part in Deal Is Clearly Established (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—‘None of us .want.Mr,..Doheny to get Into trouble,” same peat Counsel for the government in the conspiracy trial of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B, Fall and E. L. Doheny, millionaire oll magnate, forced this statement into the record) today as typical of the interior de-| partment’s policy at the time Doheny was acquiring a $100,000,000 contract | and lease In the naval oil reserves. The statement was quoted from a letter written to Fall at his New Mexico ranch by H. Foster Bain, then director of the bureau of mines, on May 12, 1922. This was less than a month after Doheny had been award- ed a contract to construct a huge oil; storage project at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and six months before he was “Ne E DAIL Mstereé as Gecond-class matter September Al, 102%, at a Chicago, by mali, $8.00 per year. dutside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, s Allied awarded a lease on the Elk Hills, Califorfia, naval ofl reserves. Saw Trouble Ahead. The letter urged Fall to ask Attor ney General Daugherty for an opinion on the legality of the Doheny contract. This move was suggested because of “the trouble makers in congress.” On April 29, 1922, the LaFollette resolu- tion demanding an investigation of all oil leases had been adopted by the senate. A legal opinion was not sought by Fall, Bain said. Bain's communication established furthermore that Fall had been in constant touch with the lease negotia- tions. Oe Trial Worrying Defendants. WASHINGTON, Dec, 3. — Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the in- ‘terior, is less jaunty than when he returned to Washington last month to stand trial’ with B. L. Doheny, oil millionaire, for conspiracy with Doheny to defraud the United States of its California naval oil reserves. Doheny, too, looks worried as” point after point in the evidence has gone against them, Seattle Ford Workers Discover Real Meaning of the Five-Day Week (Special to The Dally Worker) SEATTLE, Dec. 3. — Local Ford workers have discovered that the famous “five-day week” means “five days’ pay for six days’ work,” to quote one of the workers employed in the assembling plant here. Production has been increased tho lay-offs are becoming common. On Nov. 1 éighty men were laid off and on Nov, 16, fifty-three more, Nearly all of these had records from four to eleven years of service. One of the workers remarked that with all of Henry's ‘boasted efficiency it takes a long time to find out who the “dron are, A smaller number of young men have been taken on af $5. Data understood by every worker and es- pecially by the militant section of the labor movement. understood because underlying these recent developments is a basic prin- ciple from which deviation will spell ” HIS would be a desertion of the unskilled workers who have been the backbone» of the strike and it eiath ydahing RESIDENT MeMAHON of the Unit- od Textile Workers has met Forst- mann in Washington recently, thru disaster, textile industry mass basis for aill/other orgunizations: tte Pon SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1926 OMee at Chicago, Iibnots, undir the Act of March 3, 187% aie 290 With Bosses Cons To Break Militant Trade Un Statement of Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party A lye reactionary bureaucrats who are official leaders of the organized | movement, in alliance with the emplo and the capitalist government have laun¢ ed a now attack upon the trade unio: which has ae its purpose the destruction the unions as militant fighting o tions of the workers. , * * . aaa SIOMAN, LEWIS, McMAHON AND WOEL PLAN NEW ATTACK. The plans for this attack upon the ade unions as fighting organizations of © workers were made at a conference held re- cently in Now York City at which were pr ent, Matthew Woll, Vice. President of the American Federation of Labor; J 2 Lewis, President of the United Mine ers of America; Morris Sigman, presiden the International Ladies’ Garment ers’ Union, and Thomas McMahon, dent of the United Textile Workers’ U! According to a reliable report in the of the Central Committee of the Worki (Communist) Party this conference agreed upon the following points: 1.—BETRAYAL OF THE PASSAIC WORKERS, j That the heroic Passaic strikers who have maintained a solid front for over ten months must not be permitted to win their strike against the mill owners, because such a Vv tory would greatly increase the prestige the labor movement of the left wing and riige. Potesansoe : other industries to carry on a militant ¢ paign for organization and fighting 2 unionism it’ order to secure “a fs ard of life. 2—STEAL THE ELECTION IN THE MINERS’ UNION. It was admitted in this conference that the Save the Miners’ Union movement sup- porting the candidacy of John Brophy, Stev- enson and Brennan for the offices of presi- dent, vice-president and’ secretary treasurer of the United Mine Workers’ Union would elect these progressive leaders, but that the must not be permitted to take over the of- fices and leadership of the union. The Lewis administration will steal the election. 3—BETRAY THE STRIKING GARMENT WORKERS, A plan was outlined for an attack against the left wing which is leading the strike of the New York garment workers against the jobbers in an effort to drive these leaders of the workers’ fight out of the general strike committee and make a settlement with the jobbers and contractors against the in- terest of the’/workers. The first step in carrying out this agree- ment has already been taken thru a mass meeting held at Cooper Union on Thursday night, at which the right wing in the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers mobil~ ized their forces against the General Strike Committee. This meeting demanded that Sigman take over the leadership of the strike and the resignations of the left wing lead= er in the General Strike Committee, Coincident with this mobilization of the right wingers the jobbers and contractors, against whom the garment workers are continuing their strike, issued a demand that they be granted the right of reorganization of their shops with the tight of discharging workers and that there must be no limiting By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, ECENT developments in the Pas- saic strike need to be studied and the They\need to be let the wnskilled themselves, Thig principle is: ion of the unski The organiza- workers in the io the indispensable must not occur.” There seems, to be danger that vio~ Communists, and inspire the workers in y ‘The settlement made with the Pas- saic Worsted Will was a great vic- lation of this principle is conemplat. | tory. for the ‘etrikers, ae it was the of the number of contractors. The jobbers ; threatened a lockout of the 20,000 garment | workers they employ on Monday, if the un- ion does not settle on these terms.. Sigman and the right wing are willing to settle the Strike on these terms. The methods which the right wing pro- poses to use in destroying the fighting trade union movement in New York is further in- dicated in the mobilization of the gangsters of New York thru a meeting held at Beeth- oven Hall on Wednesday night, at which a campaign of fascist terrorism against the left wing leaders was mapped out. BUREAUCRATS ALLIED WITH EMPLOY- ERS AND GOVERNMENT, The program adopted by this conference of trade union bureaucrats has as its pur- pose to destroy the movement for fighting trade unionism in those industries in which this movement has manifested itself. The purpose of the alliance of trade un- ion bureaucrats, capitalist employers and the government is to rob the workers of the right to strike and to compel them to accept arbitration agreements which place them at the mercy of the capitalists and their allies in the trade union movement. i This movement had already gained great headway in the passage of the Watson- Parker bill directed against the railroad workers, which the government proposes to extend to the miners. The official bureau- cratic leaders of the trade unions are sup- porting the B. and O. plan, Lewis forced an agreement upon the anthracite miners which _compelied him, to. submit, their demands to arbitration in the future and Sigman stood for accepance of the Governor's Commis- sion's report on the garment industry. The whole development of the policy of the of- ficial leaders of the trade unions is toward stripping the workers of the right to strike, thus sacrificing the workers’ strongest weapon against the capitalists. This movement is given a new impetus by the proposals to betray the garment work- ers and textile strikers and head off the movement for a fighting policy in the Unit- ed Mine Workers, at a time when the capi- talists are boasting of their enormous pro- fits and great prosperity. Its purpose is t@ stifle the growing movement of the work- ers demanding higher wages, better work- ing conditions and shorter hours, to secure for themselves some benefits from the great- 7 increased amount of wealth they produce thru their labor. The alliance of these forces of reaction is directed particularly against the left wing movement which thru militant fights in the interest of the workers won the forty-hour week for the Furriers, achieved gains for the garment workers in the same direction, and which has fought the hard battle to rescue the Passaic workers from unbearable con- ditions and is heading the fight in the min- ers’ union for a leadership which will de- | fend the interest of the workers in the wage negotiations which take place at the begin- ning of the year. The capitalists are determined to destroy this movement, which is endangering their right to un- limited exploitation of the American workers be- cause It is inspiring other groups of workers to similar fights in their interests. In this effort the capitalist employers have the support of the trade union bureaucrats, as well as the government. The (Continued on page 2) Passaic Strike Must Be Won for Textile Workers ed by the official leadership of the strike and that preparations, as yet apparently tentative, are being made to secure, by one means or another, organization of weavers, loom fixers and other skilled workers, at present seabbing in the milis, and to about these mills. workers shift for developments. (Continuey ‘oh page 2) necessary that no artificial division | should be made in the strike lines | As this is written the negotiations | with the owners of these two mills! are being conducted thru “the may- bd or's committee of five” and the local organizers are not being informed of This issue Consists of Two Sections. + SECTION ONE. Published Daily except Sunday hy THE DAILY PUBLISHING CO. 1113 / ‘W. Washing on Blvd., Ch | An audacious ‘conspiracy ha: |City to break the strike of the |has such a treacherous and das’ | thousands of militant and cour long months have been fighting The chief figures in this con nent officials in the American Fe: | expected to be devoted and loyal was held in New York City in wl Thomas McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America and by Matthew Woll, vice-president of the American | Federation of Labor and presi- dent of the Photo Engravers’ Union. At this meeting it was decided that | every measure should be taken to smash the cloakmakers’ strike and that under no circumstances must the to win their strike. advocated by all present as a neces- sary step to defeat the militant leader- ship that is leading these two great and historic labor struggles. John L. Lewis insisted that the fight must_be made with al} the power at their com- |mand to smash the left wing and the +} progressives in the unions. John L. Lewis informed those pres- jent that the “Save the Union” ticket | would sweep the progressives into | power in the elections that will soon (Continued on page 2) HELP CHRISTMAS FUND OF LL.D, FOR PRISONERS |Send Money, Presents to Class-War Victims | By JAMES P. CANNON. Secretary of International Labor Defense. The appeal by International Labor Defense for a Christmas Fund calls |sharply to mind the workers who are still inyprisoned in the penitentiaries jof capitalism in the United States. It} |is a reminder of the duty which we/| | have to fulfill towards these men who | |haye sacrificed their liberty for the movement of the working class. Have First Claim. The class-war prisoners ought to have first claim on the militant work- ers. They are the outposts of the la- bor movement and they heave been | seized by the capitalist enemy in the front line of the struggle and at the most dangerous points. The blows that have fallen upon them have found them firm. The Christmas Fund of the I. L. D. which will enable us to Send little gifts and comforts to the men in prison and their depend- ents on the outside, and to provide legal defense for those who are men- aced with prison, is intended to strengthen this firmness and courage It is meant to keep the hearts of the class war prisoners high in the real- Szation of the movement on the out- side which grows more determined to work for their liberty. World Wide Custom. It is a world wide custom of revolu- tionaries and the advanced working class movement to send money and other gifts to the imprisoned fighters first break in the ranks of the bosses. | in the Christmas season. It is one of But the Botany and Forstmann |the solemn obligations to those of our mills are the decisive ones and it is|class that have been captured which | is part of the life of the labor move ment. In the United States this is especially applicable, for the stringent rules of the penitentiaries are sufficl. ently relaxed during the holiday sea- son to permit us to send in some of those little comforts which are 60 happily and anxiously received by those who have to do without them, Not Charity, Our fund has nothing in common with the “charitable” expenditures of the bourgeolufe and their philan- (Continued om page 2) Passaic textile workers be permitted | This outrageous | step, this unifon-smashing tactics, was | WORKER hicago, Ih. Price 5 Cents pire ion Movement Maintain the Unions as Fighting Organizations of the Workers Secret Meeting is Held in New York By Black Reaction s been perpetrated in New York cloakmakers and the strike of jthe textile workers of Passaic, New Jersey, | Never in the whole history of the American labor movement tardly move been taken against ageous workers who for many most bitterly.to maintain their organization and improve conditions. spiracy are men who are promi- deration of Labor, men who are to the interests of the workers. Information has reached this office that a secret meeting nich the cloakmakers’ strike, the Passaic textile strike and the progressive campaign in the miners’ union was considered. This conspiracy gathering was attended by Morris Sigman, president of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, by John L. Lewis, Mine Workers of America, by}———--__—— president of the United WIDOW OF SUN YAT SEN MAY BE MADE PRESIDENT Foochow Falls Before Advancing Cantonese (Special to The Daily Worker) HANKOW, Dec. 3. — One govern ment for all China! This sums up the movement now under way by the vitterious Kuomintang “Party whose }armies are driving the militarists | rapidly northward and which has the | Support of the Chinese masses. An extraordinary session of the Kuomintang party is meeting in Can- ton at the Cantonese military base. jIn Nanchang the young commander- in-chief, Chiang Kai Shek, is in con- ference with Mrs. Sun Yat Sen, four ministers of the Canton government and M, Borodin, adviser. The ques- tion being discussed is the removal of the Canton government to Wu- chang, in the heart of the central provin The date for the removal jis Dec. 5. It is reliably reported that as soon as the government apparatus jhas been collected in the new capital | that a provisignal government will be declared, Sun Yat Sun’s Widow May Be Pres. Mrs, Sun Yat Sen has been named as the probable first provisional pres (Continued on page 2) British Interests Offer Loan to War Lords Against Canton BULLETIN. (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) From Berlin Bureau of Int'l Press Correspondence, BERLIN, Dec. 3.—The following telegram was received here from Peking: “Japanese sources report that the British Tobacco Co, and the, British charted Bank of China have offered a fifty million dollar loan to Generali Chang Tso Lin and Marshal Sun Chuan Fang to assist them in a concerted drive against the Cantonese army. The militariets are to put up as security for the loan the revenue income of Pukau harbor and the Shanghai tobacco tax, “The Britigh government's con- tention that the Peking government demanded the extradition of the 14 Kuomintang students turned over to the militarists last week by the British legation where they went as refugees has been officially denied by Wellington Koo, Peking foreign minister, “information on the Hankow gen- eral etrike given out by Reuter and other news distributing agencies telling of danger to foreigners is misleading and has as its purpose to Justify foreign Intervention. The last reports from Hankow were that the strike In the Japanese con- cession has been settled thru the friendly mediation of a Kuomintang arbitration committee.”