The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1926, Page 6

See Six fH E DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DATLY WORKER "PUBLISHING co. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., “Chic go, Tl: Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION "RATES t mail (in Chicago only) By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per y six months | $6.00 per vear $2.50 six months onths 00 three months all mail and make out checks to THE PAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Il, $a .. Editors ...Business Manager WILLIAM F, DUNNE i sca “RT MILLER ..... as second-class mail September 21, 1925, at the post-office at Chi- cago, tll, under the act of Marc , 1879. ing rates on application, <p 290 Tae Dairy Worker Satur- union leaders, the employers and ised. in © capitalis secret conspiracy to break the ir struggles, also finds as an the and betray th or, the capitalist press. York Times, organ of Wall Street and all it represents, with the pack of wolves headed by Morris. Sigman of Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, against the left strike. The “impartiality” of the in exposed as a fake and the fulmina- Sigman are featured and approved, while The Vew s in full ery the cloakmakers’ press is once ions of the reactionary ies and distorted statements about the left wing are spread with aivish hand There that where the Vew But in view of the fact York Times goes, Morris Sigman goes well to is nothing sur ing about this. also, the garment workers would do see if they want what Wall Street’s organ wants. The cloakmakers’ cloakmakers t appears that 8. the strike ‘“unnecesse strike was, says the Vinics, by repeated votes, have shown they thought other man, behind all his hypocrisy, also thought | Incidentally, after secretly opposing the strike and sabotaging it from its beginning, Sigman now mag- nanimously comes forward to “save” the strike! “annecessar) | The What does the organ of the employers suggest should have been done? It suggests that the issues should have been left to arbitra- tion. Ergo, Sigman, reactionary president of the I. L. W. U., also believed thet the issues should have been left to arbitra- | tion. But it was precisely because the cloakmakers found that arbi-, . tration cheated and deceived them that they rejected the so-c; alled | “award” of the governor's commission and voted to strike. The attempt, by the New York Times, to paint what a glorious thing arbitration is, by pointing to the wage raise of 44 cents a day G.| granted by the arbitrators to the railwaymen, is somewhat silly when it is recalled that they asked for a dollar a day raise. If this be victory. then the cloakmakers’ strike setilement will bear com- parison. But the New York Times, organ of the bosses and ally of Sig man, says that “beyond arbitration” there should be “co-operation” of the union with the bosses. Sigman stands for “co-operation” and the Times stands with Sigman. We do not believe that the cloak- makers want to make their union into a company union, which is exactly what “co-operation” means. The left wing stands four-square against turning a labor union of elass struggle into a company union under union auspices, with all its evils of speed-up, efficiency standards, blacklist and defeat of the workers’ interests for the benefit of the employers. - Time and again the rank and file of the cloakmakers have expressed their ap- proval of left wing policies. "Confronted with the new conspiracy against their interests by Sigman, the employers, the government and the capitalist press, the rank and file will again rally their forces behind the left wing and again defeat the traitors and disrupters who plan to do by violence what they could not accomplish by deceit. And the rank and file will win.® A Strikebreaker’s Reward . Kline McDowell was employed in the year 1922 by a coal company in Herrin, Illinois, to strip a mine during a strike. No coal | was to be dug. MeDowell was a tough lad so he decided to show the miners’ anion where it stepped off and he decided to dig coal. Of course, | he did this under the instruction of the company that employed him, : McDowell imported a gang of thugs and rapists from the} Margeaves Detective Agency of Chicago. Those vermin began to| provoke the miners. The finks went around the county insulting the wives and daughters of the coal diggers. Then something snap- ped. It was the miners’ patience. The miners suggested that McDowell call off his scabs, The anion representatives approached McDowell’s barricaded fortress carrying a white flag. McDowell’s gangsters fired on them. Before the smoke of battle cleared away McDowell’s army was “only good for a margne. The vest of the story is history. Now comes the aftermath. McDowell's wife was awarded $3,750 by the Illinois industrial commission as compensation for the Joss of her husband. Now comes the Southern Illinois Coal company and fastens the blame for the killings on MeDowell. Had McDowell died in the harness of duty the company would not see any reason why his wife | should not be rewarded. But he was not minding his own business, Vherefore he died at his own expense. Again we declare that ninety-one per cent of all the finks, stool- rigeons, bet and traitors receive the full social value of their vork. MeDowell’s wife got McDowell's. Oil Magnates and Rear Admirals the introduction into the Fall-Doheny trial of testimony by a former rear-admiral that the was agitated by the possibility of an armed conflict with Japan in the Pacifie and that Doheny, the vil magnate, performed a patriotic service by agreeing to build an oil reserve in Hawaii, shows two things: First, the fact that the | war and navy jingoes in Washington are forever in a sweat about future wars and are only too glad to weleome them and second, that! the communion between the officers of the army and navy on the! one hand and capitalists on the other is more direct and intimate than ordinarily supposed. Incidentally, Doheny’s patriotism did not prevent him from taking in exchange for his self-abnegation some of the richest oil reserves in the country owned by the govern-| | | mistake; | copting The. Last Alleged Attempt on n Mussolini’s Life---And What Lies: Behind It ' Duce non puo wmorir!”—"The Duce (Mussolini) cannot die!” This is the most recent legend, which the whole fascist apparatus has for some time been working hand in hand with the catholic clergy to spread amongst the Italian people, which is, to a large extent, still incredibly su- perstitious, Mussolini, who is the chief person interested in the spread of this legend, leads by his good ex- ample. His telegram, sent to the Bolognese fascists after the last “at- tempt on his life’. made on Sunday, concluded with the, words: “Nothing can happen to me until I have ful- filled my mission.”(!) The pope also is said to have exclaimed, according to a fascist announcement, when. he heard the news of the “attempt” on Mussolini’s life and learned that once more he had not been hurt: “An- other proof that he is under god’s pro- tection!” It is true, according to the same report, that he added, that it was imperative, by way of precaution, to reinforce Mussolini's guard. But—was an attempt actually made on Mussolini’s life in Bologna? Fantastic Reports. HE fantastic reports as to the al- alleged crime condemn themselves, First, the bullet hit the Mauritius or- der, glanced off it and penetrated the sleeve of the mayor of Bologna, who Was sitting mext to Mussolini. Then, the order bears no trace of the shot, the bullet only hit the ribbon of the order. bon?) Later, the bullet was found in Mussolini's carriage. . But—-where s the pistol from which.the bullet was fired? old boy, was murdered on the spot in the most brutal manner by soldiers of the militia; been found on or near him. Of the pistol, however, there is no trace! | Further, the unfortunate boy is—a fascist! At the time of the “crime” he was wearing the fascist:black shirt | The latest | end the fascist badge. ‘report,” therefore, is that the mur- dered boy was not the assassin at ali; | that the murdered boy take!) had escaped; that after ‘he event he had handed in a telegram at the Bologna postoffice (to what ad- dress?): “I am quite well,” and that, thanks to this telegram, the po- lice are already on his track and hope o seize him soon, (Did it then glance off the rib- | The “assassin,” a 15-year- | the pistol should have | there had been an unfortunate | that the real culprit, an an- | jarchist of about the same stature as | (thus the—"mis- | The Conflicting Reports of the Last Themselves Prove the “Attempt” Fraud—Incident Used as Excuse for New Campaign of Repres- sion—Break-up in the Fascist Ranks Comi ing to Head. Qne enormity, one stupidity after the other, with which Mussolini and his officials try to exculpate them- selves, but with which they are incul- pating themselves,more and more. One fact is certain—an innocent, 15-year-old boy was ;murdered by Mus- solini’s bandits in a brutal way by 14 dagger wounds,..The first official report with regard to it runs trium- phantly: “Hardly a. minute and a half elapsed between the attempt at Mus- solini’s life and the execution of the criminal.” And Mussolini proclaimed: “Every Italian .and the countries abroad ought to know that the people pronofced a verdict on the spot.” Now it has to be admitted officially that the “passing. of the verdict” by Mussolini’s bandits, was—“a regretta- ble mistake.” Campaign of Repression, NOTHER fact ig certain: the “at- tempt on Musglini’s life” gave |the fascists thrudut Italy an’ excuse | for “taking revenge.” The list of “acts |of revenge” is so long that it is use- jless to attempt to enumerate them. ‘On the same evening both the publish- jing office of the Communist’ daily or- gan, Unita, in Milan, and the publish- ling office of the -social democratic | Avanti were destroyed. On the fol- lowing day the printing works of the reformist organ, Lavoro, in Genoa was | destroyed and the building set on fire | (the fire brigade was not allowed to extinguish it!), the house of Bendotto |Croce, the famous bourgeois liberai | philosopher and professor at the Uni- | versity of Rome, was also destroyed |and plundered. Great excesses are re- ported from Triest ‘and Livorno, in which connection it‘should be noted |that only news with ‘regard to events |in ‘the large towns, which cannot be kept secret, reach the public, while happenings in the provinces will only be learned later. These facts, howe¥er, do not answer | the question: “How much truth is | there is the ‘attempt on Mussolini’s | life’ at Bologna?’”’* They only make {it all the more urgenf. And if, as seems to become.clearer and clearer, no such attempt was made in Bo- logna, how was ity possible that Mus- solini’s bandits round his carriage took some explosion, which probably came from his own motor, for the fir- ing of a revolver and took a fascist wearing the black shirt and the badge of the fascists for the culprit? . Fascist Conflicts, HIE answer to these questions is to be found in the conditions within the fascist camp itself, The class contradictions between ‘the large bourgeois group and the fascist gov- ernment which represents the inter- ests of the large bourgeoisie on the one hand and the disillusioned petty bourgeois adherents of fascism on the other hand, have, in view of the ever inéreasing pressure of the economic crisis, become so acute in the last few weeks and montis that an explo- sion of the indignation on the part ot the petty bourgeois opposition fascists against the government and against Mussolini become an imminent dan- ger. A number of fascist opposition leaders are already—in emigration! Among them Cesare Rossi, the former ‘director of Mussolini’s press, who also gave instructions for the murder of Matteotti, then the fascist deputy, Massimo Rocco, Carlo Bazzi, and oth- ers. About three weeks ago Mussolini de- prived these emigrant fascist leaders ef their Italian citizenship and had their possessions in Italy sequestrated. Others, who did not succeed in es- caping abroad, are in prison, among them, for instance, Calza Bini, the fofmer secretary of the fascist provin- cial federation in Rome and general jof the fascist militia, Mussolini also had Dumini,. one of Matteotti’s mur- derers, -arrested and thrown into prison for 14 months for “lese majeste of the person of the priime minister.” (For murdering Matteotti, he was sen- tenced to seven months’ imprison- ment!) The “lese majeste” consisted |in Dumini having said: “If I was sen- |tenced to seven months for the mur- der of Matteotti, Mussolini ought to jhave been sentenced to lifelong im- prisonment!” He actually threatened to make revelations; he deposited thé 65,000 lire, which he had received to cover “his costs” in connection with After 28 Weeks of the Miners’ Lock-out A Letter from Tom Mann. The DAILY WORKER publishes the following letter it has received from Tom Mann, because it throws much light on the reasons for the British miners going back to the pits: This letter was written at the end of the 28th week of the strike on the basis of Mann’s own obserya- tions in the coal fields, where he spoke to thousands of miners. He is the chairman of the national mi- nority movement of the British Trade Unions, which has an affil- iated membership of one million, se By TOM MANN, London, WEEK ago the mine owners’ terms, backed by the government and supplemented by the government, which stipulated that district agree- | definite time stipulated and without | worlds’ ments should be entered into for not lgss than three-year periods, and the | government to appoint a tribunal to see that districts conform to some measure of general n&tional working conditions, were submitted to the min- ers and were yoted down by a ma- jority of 147,000, As some 490,000 had returned to work, it was thought by the bosses that the terms would be agreed to, especially as the miners’ conference recommended the men to accept. This | Was done chiefly to demonstrate that the line of policy pursued was one that had the support of the.men and | was in no way imposed upon them by the union offichls, Starved Out. WISH to explain how it came about that many men went to the pits to | work on the bosses’ terms. In a very large number of cases it was because their children and their wives were literally without food. In certain areas, particularly in the midlands, where the bosses for months past ha been bribing and cajoling the men to get them back, in order to split their | ranks and, failing to get more than a smali percentage, the government came to their aid and cut off the as- sistance from the educational author- ity, which exercised its degal right to sive the children of school age two meals a day, and also cut out the as- sistance provided by the Guardians of the Poor, who had been paying four shillings a week for each child and ten shillings a week to the mothers of the children, This was first reduced considerably jand then cut off altogether in the areas referred to, and thus the women and children have been reduced to ab- ject starvation and the men, in many cases cursing the authorities for this |outrageous behavior, could not wit- |ness their children die, and while ac- nder bosses’ terms they ; ‘i - ‘ |voted against the terms and against the acceptance of ‘them. To understand this mentality read- ers must bear in mind that in other districts the relief’has been continued, DERS of The DAILY WORKER, I know you have helped and that you are always helping the workers’ pases in some part of the world. As a comrade, let me thank you for while not in full amounts, still it has | the efforts you have made on behalf been sufficient to’'Keep the children |of the British miners, and we, with fed, and the votes of those I have re- | you, will work might and main to get |ferred to have been to maintain the {the workers of the world truly class istruggle wherever’ the means of lite ‘conscious, that We shall always be at | were obtainable. | Rank and File Fighters. HE voting shows that the rank and file are still opposed to district lagreements and particularly opposed |to the government’s proposal of not jless than a three years’ agreement | with the government as a party to it. | They would rather go back on the} ; best terms obtainable without any | governntental interference on behalf of the bosses, which is what it would amount to. ; By cable The DAILY WORKER will \have learned that the matter is again | submitted to the men, with guiding | principles from the executive, and in |a week's time another conference is to |be/ held to consider their decision. Meanwhile we 6f the minority move- ment are doing out utmost to help the men fight to the last, the slogan be- ing “No Surrender!” Need Help. Ww" shall still try for a partial em bargo on coal, knowing that the orthodox officials will not support it, but that urgency demands of militants this vital help, Collections and vol- untary levies are,producing substan- tial sums, but only.a moiety of what is needed to carry,the fight to a suc- cessful issue, and)jf greater supplies |do not come it dogs, not seem possible |to carry the si je on much longer, | But let none suppose this will be an | gnominious defeat of the men. They |have fought splendidly, they are now fighting magnificently, and had they received the support that they had a right to expect from the organ- |ized workers of this country in the form of levies and an embargo on {coal they could and would have won easily. an outrage on decency that the miners should not have been better supported in this and in other countrie: America shows up badly in sending millions of tons of coal, regardless of the workerg struggle. This is the most serious disservice to the miners here. We know full well that work- ers In this country have proved equally disloyal to thelr ftellow-workers in America and elsewhere in times past, but it fs @ tact that they are learning the of workers’ solt- darity and will to exhibit it in the future They will win yet, but it is: |the ready to act as capable soldiers {in the common, cause, This prolonged fight of the British |miners will not have been in vain. There will be a clearing out. of the |treacherous reformist misleaders, there will be ere long one union only for all working in and about the mines, jand there will soon be a genuine workers’ international linking, up the workers and directing the workers’ movement scientifically to the goal of “workers’ complete con- trol of all industry and of the results 1. industry.” CLAIM THEY Railroad employes of 22 of the coun- try's 41 leading carriers will turn over to their bosses profits of more than $10 on each $100 of common stork. according to estimates by the Wall Street Journal based on the firai 9 months of 1926. These generous profits will remain, after deduction of all interest charges paid each year to money lenders who hold heavy mort- gages on the railroads, They should jmake it difficult for arbitrators to re- fuse railroad employes a share in tiis prosperity, 4 Burther analysis shows that 15 of these railroads will hand stockholders profits of more than $15 on each $100, while 7 will make more than 20% on the par value of Aheir outstanding common stock, All Show Gains, A majority of the railroads will show big gains in profits per share com- pared with 1925. Baltimore & Ohio gave its common stockholders a re- turn of 12.1% in 1925. This year it wil be 16.6%. New York Central has increased the return from 12.7% to 14.3%; Lehigh Valley from 18.2% to 17%; Santa Fe from 17.2% to 23.1%. Figures Reveal Facts, Figures showing the 20 railroads earning the highest profits per $100 par of common stock by: “Pezion share 6 1925 $25.00 $18.70 Railroad profits Norfolk & Western... Atlantic Coast Line....... HUGE RAILROAD PROFITS SHOULD _ MAKE IT HARD FOR EMPLOYERS TO the Matteotti murder, at the court, whereupon he was arrested the follow- ‘ng day. The following episode is extremely characteristic: A few days before Dumini was arrested, the rumor spread in HYoretce that Mussolini had put Duminf out of harm’s way; vast fascist processions were immediately formed against Mussolini and large hand-painted fascist placards ap- peared: “Mussolini has murdered Dumini—death to Mussolini!” In order to tame the shrews, Musso- luni felt compelled last week to brush on one ‘side the statutes of the fascist party and, with one stroke of the pen, to abolish the Tiglt-to elect function- aries. He nominates the general sed- retary, the latter nominates.the pro- vincial secretaries and these again the local secretaties, The provincial and local secretaries chose seven or five: “tellow-workers”* ‘respectively, who form the provincial or local directo- rate, as thé’ case’may be. The party congress and the provincial party con- gresses were done away with. The* policy ofthe party is determined by the “great fascist council,” the nrem: bers of whith are also nominated ‘by Mussolini.’ Finally, every member of the party is bound to take a new oath which runs: “I swear to fulfill un- questionably al the commands of the Duce and.to serve the cause of the fascist revolution with all my powers and, if necessary, even with my blood.” ‘ Supreme Power. [AT the same time, Mussolini has taken ‘over the supfeme command of the fascist militia, in order to sup- press petty bourgeois opposition there also with the authority of his per- son, His first command was laconi- cally: “The parole is: unconditional submission!” Nevertheless, these measures of Mussolini’s, which throw a glaring light on the conditions, cannot banish from the world the class contradic- tions within the fascist camp, which are getting ready to burst forth; on the contrary, they are only oil on the fire. “There is fermentation in the fascist camp, and the facet ‘that any report is immediately taken for a shot fired at Mussolini and that a fascist in a black shirt is taken for the would-be assassin, shows how the atmosphere ts superheated. The class contradictions in the fas* cist camp can no longer be concealed, can no longer be stppressed; the class war in the fascist camp has turned into an open fight. MAY PASS RADIO LEGISLATION AT SHORT SESSION Control of Brosiéastizig to Come Up WASHINGTON, Dec; '5.—Radio en- thusiasts in congress have served no- tice that unless an agreement is reached for permanent radio regula- tion at this’ session of congress’ they will oppose temporary legislation and precipitate further chaos in the air, Want Action. Proposals for “stop-gap” legislation immediately after congress convenes next week were denounced by many senators and congressmen. Such ac- tion, they assert, would further delay 4 final solution of the problem. Use your brains and your pen to ald -he workers In the class struggle. | CAN'T RAISE WAGES Santa Fe «os... Chesapeake & Ohio ..... Nickel Plate . 28.10 © 17.20 . 23.00 ° 21.30 | “© 16.10 20,40 | “17.00 16.40 18.20 * *92.40) 16.20" Delaware @ Hudson Pere Marquette Frisco... Pennsylvania . Colorado & Souttiern...... 12.00 9:60 Itnois Central 12.90 Southern Pacific ...... 10,20 Break Records. Class 1 railroads combined had a September profit, of $145,134,536, bring- ing the total so far in 1926 up to $887,- 905,918. These figures compare with $14,261,054 in September and $798,- 000,839 the first 9 months of 1926, The September return establishes a monthly record in rail history, . It makes the September proportion of annual profits at the rate of 6.51% on the huge $21,175,000,000 railroad val- uation now assumed for rate making | feeling» purposes, y “Results for, the three quarters, says the New ‘k Times, “have coa vinced the fin | world that the railroads will hay @ new high record for all Kole ad (i year in von roe an ' (Copyright, by Upton Sinclair) The “wobblies” also were trying to stir the revival spirit in their members, and use the power of sgng. But feeble indeed was the singing in the “jungles,” compared with the mighty blasts of Ell’s silver trumpets, and the hosannas of his hosts. The operators were not sub- siding the “wobblies,” you bet. They had sent their sheriff, and a score of deputies, carrying shotguns load- ed. .with buckshot, and raided the camping place of the rebels, and loaded eleven of them into a motor truck and locked them up in the county jail, There they were now, and Bunny had to hear the. tragic tale.of Eddie Piatt, one of Paul's friends, who had gone down to San. Elido to find out what the bail was, andhad been locked up on suspicion of being,a member of the outlaw or- ganization. He wasn't, but how could he prove it? Ruth,, who told Bunny about dt, wanted to know if Dad wouldn’t put up-the money to bail him out. Did Bunny remember him, a dark-haired young fellow, very quiet, determined- looking? Yes, Bunny. remembered him, Well, he was. a. trustworthy as°a Jewish garment worker, and the food they gave you in that ter- rfble place was full of worms, and the boys hadn't even a blanket to cover them. It was planned to rafl- road them all to San Quentin, and Paul knew one of the ‘politicals’.who had just come out of there, and oh, the most horrible stories—the tears came into Ruth’s eyes as she told how they put the men to work in the jute mill, and the brown stuff filled their lungs, and presently théy were coughing, it was the same as a death sentence. When they could not stand the labor, they were beat- en and thrown into the “hole”—and think of fellows that you knew and cared for haying to go thru such things! Bunny knew the sheriff of Gan Blido County, and also the district attorney, and knew that Dad had named these officials, and could give them orders. But would Dad butt in on their efforts to protect the oil companies? Would he go agaifist the wishes of all the other directors, executives and superintendents of Ross Consolidated? No, assuredly he would not! All that Bunny could do was to give Ruth a couple of hundred dollars, with which to get food for the prisoners. He went back to take up his work at the uni- versity; and inside himself there was a “hole,” and his conscience would drag him to it, protesting and resisting in vain, and throw him in, and shu’ steel door behind him with a ving clang. Yes, even when Bunny was up in the snow- white room with the ivy vines wreathing the windows, even while he held in his arms the eager body of his beloved—even then the prison door would clang, and he would be in a tank of the county jail with the “class-war prisoners!” In. Under the arrangements which had kept peace in the oil industry during the war,~a government “oil board” would listen to grievances of the workers, and decide what was fair. But now the war was fading in men’s memories, and the opera- tors were restive under this “out- side” control. Was it not the fun- damental right of every American to-run his own business in his own way? Was it not obvious that war- time wages had been high, and that leflation” was desirable? Here and re operators would refuse to obey the orders of the “oil board;” there would be long arguments, and re- sorts to the courts, and meantime the workers would be protesting, and threatening, and everyone could see that a crisis was at hand. In the old days, J. Arnold Ross had been one of the little fellows, and all that Bunny could do was to await events. But now he d among the Olympians, and saw fates in the making. The Oil Ope- rators’ Federation, thru its execu- time committee, of which Vernon Roscoe was a member, came to a de- - cision to brush the Federal, Of Board aside, ignore the unions, “and announce a new schedule of wage for the industry, A copy of Schedule was in Dad’s hands, and it averaged about ten per cent the present scale. _ Toes pale’ to mas struggle, and Bunny was so much concerned that, without saying any- thing to his father, he made an ap- peal to Mr. Roscee. This being a business matter, the proprietor sug- gested a visit to the office, so Bunny called up the secretary and asked for an appointment in the ad way, (€ontinued tomorrow.) f OMAHA "ame undercut the Mansa