The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Ralses the Standagd for a Workers’ and Fafmers’ Government re Vol. J’ No. 277. Sabbeription Rates: 1 8 °. wet Sy, hg ssa Ke For the ae %, Outside Chicago, “2 Naily Worker aintain the Trade Unions as ,Organizations of the Workers THE DAILY WOR Average Weekly Contributions, September . Average Weekly Contributions, October .... verage Weekly Contributions, ontributions First Week of December ..., TOTAL TO DECEMBER 4.... HE left wing in the organized labo: KER CAMPAIGN: %...$ 624.21 2,957.21 November . 2,139.98 an ees -$23,684.87 1 movement which supports the main- taining of the trade unions as fighting organizations of the workers, * faces a bitter struggle against the reactionary bureaucrats, who have allied themselves with the employers and the government in the attempt to in- @orporate the trade unions In the machinery of the capitalist system thru e@ompulsory arbitration enforced by law and agreements substituting arbi- tration for the right to strike. This is brought out clearly in the statement of the Centra! Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, exposing the conspiracy entered into by Sigman, Lewis, McMahon amd Woll for a joint attack upon the left »wing. The left wing is fighting for the ime the instrument of the workers’ sti life of the organized labor movement ruggles for a higher standard of life. ‘The growth of the sentiment supporting the left wing among certain sec- tions of the workers has frightened the trade union bureaucrats and they are preparing for an onslaught aga destroy It. THE inst this movement which aims to DAILY WORKER HAS BEEN A CONSISTENT FIGHTER TO MAINTAIN THE TRADE UNIONS AS FIGHTING ORGANIZATIONS OF THE WORKERS. it has been untirl ment which would help to make the workers’ interests. IN THE BITTER FIGHT AGAI THE WHOLE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT UNLIKE THE COMPANY UNIONS ORGANIZING, STRENGTH. It will be the militant to fight the class struggle, grrosing t! enemies. ing in its campaign to build up senti- union organs of struggle for the NST THOSE WHO WOULD TURN INTO SOMETHING NOT WHICH THE CAPITALISTS ARE THE DAILY WORKER WILL BE A TOWER OF voice of the workers who are ready he conspiracies and betrayals of thelr WE MUST KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FOR THIS FIGHT. To keep The DAILY WORKER as the spokesman of the left wing, daily expressing its views of the development of the struggle, we must complete the $50,000 Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund, The figures above show the need-of harder work to keep The DAILY *® WORKER. In place of thd weekly co: have fallen off during the recent weeks. intributions to the fund increasing they We must turn the tide again. We must work harder again and put new life and spirit in the struggle for ‘The DAILY WORKER. We must not permit our, most powerful’weapon to be. taken out of our Mads Ina moment when we are going Into a life and death struggle against reaction. / STRENGTHEN THE FIGHT TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. STRENGTHEN THE MOVEMENT TO MAINTAIN THE TRADE 1ONS OF THE WORKERS BY KEEP- AT MOVEMENT. RY LEFT WINGER IN. THE TRADE TO THE SUPPORT OF THE DAILY UNIONS AS FIGHTING ORGANIZAT ING THE DAILY WQRKER FOR TH. EVERY PARTY/ MEMBER, EVE UNION MOVEME MUST SPRING WORKER, MOSCOW,JU. S. S. R., Dee. 5—T of ths Com ist International under to A. Lozovsky, secretary of the Red of the lessons of the British strike. delegate Murphy of England on the (Special Cable to T ‘he pl ‘of the executive committee the chairmanship of Remmele listened International of Labor Unions, speak Taking as his cue the report made by strike, Lozovsky urged the necessity for all workers to carefully study its results—especially because it ended in defeat. The strike, the speaker said, crea and outside of Hngland: in regard to ted a new correlation of forces within the foreign policy of British imperial- ism it had weakened the empire and within England had intensified class By T. J. “OFLA HERTY —_—— DWARD L. DOHENY. is having considerable difficulty in proving that his object in leasing the Elk Hii) basin oil reserves was to serve the country by providing the govern- ment with a sufficient oil supply to fuel Uncle Sam's ships in the event uf % confilct with Japan. Doheny 's @ democrat and Fall ts a republican. But they were old friends and thot would be a fine thing to strike 2 blow for patriotism and profit at the sume time. Fall got his $100,000 and Doheny expected to make $100,600, 000. all got his in a satchel, bat Doheny got his in the neck. Politics are treacherous, oO 6.08 EVERTHELESS, Messrs, Fall and Doheny are lucky that they were not operating in the Soviet Union. Had a Russian Fall turned over gov- ernment oil reserves to a N. E. P. Doheny, stars could be seen thru his body just as soon as a proletarian court went thru the formality of turning him over to a firing squad. And a Russian Doheny would not fare better, Here, in this land of the Knave, a patriot is usually success ful in pilfering from the public till As long ds his pilfering does not cause a disagreeable odor to prevade the political atmosphere, jeopardizing the interests of the partioular poltii- cal group on which he depends for protection, to the greater glory of one ay Continued on page 2) & —¢relationships, making more acute anta- gonism inevitable, The labor movement in England is now entering a neW stage, he said. ‘The broad masses of the workers are moving to the left while the trade union leaders are passing over to the camp of the capitalists. The big bour- geoisie are launching am attack on all fronts to worsen the economie and pol- itical condition of the workers and the situation is consequently favorable for the Communist Party, Communist Party Grows, ‘The British Communist Party Lo- zoveky stated, has doubled its party membership and has @ great influence on the masses who:saw that the Com- munist Party alone had the correct line in the fight. The left wing minor- ity movement is also ‘growing in in- ifuence, The task of the Communists in England is now to consolidate their (Continued om page 3.) NATIONAL COUNCIL, UNIONS, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per, year. 2,393.82 | 48 Gecomd-class matter September by mail, $6.00 per year STRIKE LEADERS EXPOSE “SIGMAN | ‘AS BOSSES’ ALLY Rally Membership to Fight Union Smashers i (Special to The Daily Workers NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Moving inte the fight to balk the union-smashing | conspiracy between the cloakmaker | bosses and the right wing Interna- |tional officers of the Ladies’ Garment | Workers’ Union, supported by the, | Green-Woll-Lewis regime in the Ameri- jean Federation of Labor, the general | strike committee. of the 40,000 New/ York cloakmakers met In Manhattan Lyceum and threw down the challenge to Morris Sigman, president of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workarg’ | Union who has launched a campaign} to discredit the strike leadership and settle with the employers on the lat- ters’ terms. Sigman Encourages Bosses. | A well staged and _ thug-protected meeting of right wingers in Cooper Union on Wednesday had been ad-! dressed by Sigman who declared the | strike of the cloakmakers was lost/ and that the left wing leadership was | responsible for defeat and should be} asked to resign. j At the same time that President | Sigman was announcing the defeat of | the union, the manufacturers, evident- | ly taking his words at their face/ value, redoubled their attack on the! union and threatened té lock out 20,000 | cloakmakers unless the strike commit- | tee would accede to more stringent | terms. Answering Hyman’s charge that ene leadership of the strike had been ir-| responsible and negligent, Louls Hy-| man, chairman of the strike commit: | tee, showed that at every conference | with the bosses, Sigman had been) present and was one of the union’s! spokesmen. Sigman’s adherents, Hy-} man’ said, had been put on all im-| portant strike committees and are, inj effect, accusing themselves when they make charges against the strike lead- ership. . Charles Zimmerman and Joseph Burochowitz charged the right wing with organizing the underworld in an attempt to oust the strike @eadership and asked how it is possible to make a proper settlement with the bosses with Sigman crying defeat to the world. As a test of the confidence that the {mass of the members of the Cloak- makers’ Union has in the present left wing leadership, the general strike committee declared it was willing to submit the matter of leadership to a referendum vote of the membership | to be supervised by the labor move- ment or the American Civil Liberties Union. Only a very small portion of the membership still under the in- fluence of the right wing leadership can be mobilized by Sigman and his jaids in the campaign against the New York leaders. This portion is so small that Sigman finds it necessary to en- hance his strength by hiring thugs and gangsters from the underworld, (Continued on page 4) KOLLANTAY FORBIDDEN TO LAND IN CUBA ON WAY TO MEXICO CITY HAVANA, Cuba. — To prevent demonstrations in honor of Madame Alexandra Kollantay, guards were stationed on the steamer LaFayette at this port, to prevent her landing. She is enroute from Europe to Mex- leo City, where she will serve ambassador of the Soviet Repub- lice, Her mission, shi ys, is to main- tain the present friendly relations between the Soviets and Mexico and to stimulate further commercial relations. She adds that the United States too would benefit by entering into official retations with her gov- ernment, BACKED BY TRADE FIGHT FOR FOREIGN-BORN (Special to Daily wi Uy NEW YORK, Yeo. 5A National Couneil for Prot m of Foreign-Born Workers has bi formed here, with offices at 41 Union Square. Its object is largely to combat the proposed leg- islation aimed at foreign-born persons resident in this country, such the Holaday bill, which has already passed the house, which, if passed also by the senate and signed by the president, doom thousands of political exiles for deportation to cer- taln death in the countries from which they fled; as also a bil} i losgaptioed by Aswell of Louisiana, which 5 tia for the registration of all aliens at a fee of $10, with $1 to be charged for each renewal, The}National Council says: “This legislation is a direct threat against the entire working class of this coun- try. It is @ threat against the trade union movement. It would drive a wedge between the foreign-born and the native workers. It would segre: Bate the foreign born, and, under the threat of, deportation, use them as a club to, tie down the standard of living," |» The, ‘Sts ittee includes many of. iene * unions, 31, 198% at | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1926 oe ee Se sick Sali Miles Banithnea tear ul PUS KER. NEW YORK EDITION shed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER sLL 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il SHING CO., Price 3 Cents SLUMP HITS DETROIT IVE RAD TO G Pure You LON ENOUGH! (i ILLINOIS COAL Manufacturers Try to Break Union By LELAND OLDS, Federated Pre: [linois and Indiana coal diggers who showed the world what it means to!| answer a strike call 100 per cent in’ 1922 have been worn down by what | is virtually a three-year lockout. The punishment by big business of labor solidarity has meant loss of jobs to about half of thi miners, while the; remaining thousands got only two, three and four days work a week. The| effect of this practical boycott of union mined coal is described by F. C, Hon- old, the {eading authority on coal in the west, as the greatest mine shut- down in I liinols history, When the /United Mine Workers called the strike in 1922 there were about 100,000:union miners employed | in IMinois and 30,000 in Indiana. Their production was about 11,000,000 tons a month, Thestrike was reflected in a drop in the production of these two states to a monthly average of 38,000 tons, A few/strip mines turned out this insignificant scab tonnage. Half Workers Laid Off. By 1925-26 Ilinois miners had seen the number employed thinned to un- der 50,000 and scarcely 15,000 Indiana miners still héid uncertain jobs, Illi- nois, with a normal production of 8,- 000,000 to 10,000,000 tons a month, was averaging only 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 tons, ‘The tw@ states formerly had a combined annual mine payroll of $200,- IN BOYCOTT Gh ys iia 3 is Vane Gx want. OPEN SHOPPERS BEGIN COURT ACTION AGAINST CARPENTERS TO STOP CLOSED SHOP ENFORCEMENT | Legai action to enjoin the carpenters’ district council of Chicago from | penalizing its members for working with non-union mill workers will be begun immediately, it was announced today by attorneys for the Anderson and Lind manufacturing company, open shoppers. “Enforcement of the union rule,” straint of interstate commerce.” Harry Jensen, president of the carpenters’ district council, declared today | | the rule In question differs from that enforced when William Brims, former | | president, was enjoined by the supre: me court. More than 50,000 union carpenters are affiliated with the council, SCRANTON MINERS HEAR seat TODAY, SPEAKS AT WILKES TUESDAY (Sp 1o The Daily Worker) wil BARRE, Pa., Dec. 5-— Brophy For- President committees thruout the anthracite are busy with meetings to be addressed by John Brophy, president of District 2, Unit- ed Mine Workers of America and candidate for international pi dent, opposing John L. Lewis. Bro- phy will speak at two big mass meetings in the anthracite region this weel Monday evening, Dec. 6, at 7 p. m. Brophy addresses the Scranton min- ers in the Labor Temple, 125 N. Franklin St. Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 7 p. m, the Wilkes-Barre meeting will be held in. Moose Hall, 9-11 North Main St. Additional to Brophy, Paul W. Fuller, educational director of Dis- trict 2, U. M. W. A. Wm. J. Bren- nan, former president of District 1, George Isaacs; former vice-president of District 1; Alexander Campbell, 000,000. The lockout has probably lopped off at least $75,000,000. Manufacturers Discriminate. How Illinois manufacturers brought this pressure on Illinois miners by showing preference to non-union coal is revealed in a Honold bureau report at the end of 1924. Honold showed that Illinois nor- mally consumes 80,000,000 tons a year and normally provides 75 to 80 per cent of this from its own union mines, But in 1924, he sald, “of the total 80,- 000,000 tons of coal consumed within the state the mines of Illinois aro pro- viding only 35,000,000 to 40,000,000 tons—approximately one-half, because of the depression in the industry and the competitian of non-union mines Today the remaining requirements of (Contimied ou page 2) former international executive board member of District 1; Pat Toohey, Charles Aksomet, can In- ternational auditor, Wm. Cooney, candidate for international teller, and many others will speak at the meetings. SEND INA Sus T TODAY, arrangements for thé mass * CANTON HOLDS BRITAIN GUILTY Possible Murder of 14 Students Charged (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec. 5.—The British for eign office has received a sharp note from the Canton government of China regarding the arrest of fourteen meim- bers of the Kuomintang Party by the British legation in Pekin and the subsequent delivery of the prisoners to officers of Chang Tso Lin's army. The British had excused their ac- ,tion ins turning over the prisoners to the militarists by saying that the Pekim government had demanded the extradition of the fourteen, all stu- dents and active members of the Kuomintang. In the meantime, Wel- lington ‘Koo, minister of foreign af- fairs in the Pekin government, offici- ally denied that extradition had been requested by his government, The Canton government’s note states that the willingness of the | British to comply with the demands jof the northern militarists, “seems to |indicate clearly enuf that the British | authorities are deliberately giving as- sistance to the military and political adversaries of the Nationalst gov- (Continued on page 2) MICHIGAN MINE WILL BE SEPULCHER OF FORTY-ONE VICTIMS OF DISASTER ISHPEMING, Mich,, Dec. ~—Indications toda: jes of the 41 were that the bod e rf cave-in victims still entombed th’ “the tre perarem mine here would never be recovered 4.—-(Ins)| that it will be necessary to remove 3,000,000 tons of drift to enter the | mine by way of the caved area, but all refused to bid for the job because of the danget of turther loss of lifs and that the mffi#'illbe abandoned | in rescue work. Ffty-two men were with ity dead, *'Hugineers estimate | killed “in sho" diduater November é } |FORD LAV-OFFS ‘GIVE LIE T0 3- DAY WEEK PLAN | Detroit Labor Alarmed at Shut-Downs | By CYRIL LAMBKIN. (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 5.—Six short | weeks ago the Ford Motor company | broadcasted Its decision to make per | manent the 5-day week inaugurated, jit alleged, as an experiment early in |the summer. The language in which the announcement was couched tend- ed to convey the impression that the workers would receive 6-days’ pay for 5-days’ work. It was a hoax! The uninitiated employers had ham- bly time to recover their temper, the world barely had time to bate its breath from the shock of what seem- ed to be the most far-reaching bene volent concession voluntarily grant ed by employer to employe, and the workers themselves were as yet un able to make up their minds about the announced plan when it was turm ed into a grim joke to them. Lay-offs Begin. Four weeks ago on Friday the more said Attorney Edmund W. Froelich, | | “ig in violation of the supreme court decree that it is a conspiracy in re- FOR PEKING ACT | than one hundred thousand workers of | the Ford plants were sent home after | four and a half days’ work. This was {repeated the following week. Last | week virtually all the workers were {sent home on Tuesday, after two | days’ work, and the same happened this week. No one knows how many days the workers will work uext week }and later. There are many rumors j afloat which cannot be verified as yet about the plants closing next New Year's. week until after But this is certain, that thousands of men ar¢ being laid off indefinitely, and reports are current that not only machihe hands but also foremen and even su- perintendents who were drawing up to ten thousand doliars a year and ; more have felt the ax. The Official statoment of the Fort’ Motor company that it would reopen next week has left people cold. It carried no conviction. No one believes | the plant will remain open for more than a few days, if it is reopened. What ts agitating people’s minds, and particularly the minds of the Ford workers is, will jt close only until New Year's or for a longer period? | There is no definite information at hand | Hard Times Expected. The specter of hard times is abroad Jin the city of Detroit. On all sides one hears complaints of the present }and prophecy of worse to come. The | reduced income of a hundred thou- | Sand wage earners of the Ford in |dustries is enough to be reflected in the commercial life of the city. But there are more wage earners whose income ig reduced or stopped entire- ly Most of the automobile factories jare laying off men. Others are work- ing three or four days a week. Some are shutting down for several weeks. (Continued on page 2) LIBERALS CLIMB ON 10 LABOR'S BAND WAGON IN BRITISH*ELECTIONS By switching from the liberal Party to the labor party in England, Lieut. Commander Joseph M. Ken | worthy was returned to parliament by a bigger majority in a recent by-election than he got from the } same constituency as a liberal twe years ago.