The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ end Farmers’ Government * ENN the devil was sick the devs. ® monk would be; when the devil ‘was well the devil a monk was he.” he is with Calvin Coolidge. When Mons of bamboozled workers and farmers landed him in the White Mouse a few years ago Calvin laid \fown the law strictly and caustically Ko the so-called insurgents that find ft profitable to stage a little rebellion Gn the GO. P, corral, occasionally, Wut the devil is now politically ill and Bepentant, since those voters who @oratched the ballots one way a few ago scratched them another way the last election, eee HERE is such a thing as gratitude in politics. The politician who oes not do the right thing by the ‘fellows who bring out the vote is not Ykely to sprout gray hairs in the busi ness. Politicians can afford. to be faithless to the voters but not to the wote-getters. Coolidge recollected that a fellow by the name of Hanna tried to do the right thing by him in North ‘Dakota, so when a marshal was need- od in that state Hanna's friend got the job. There ensued frenzied in- dignation from the successful insur- gents who felt that any gravy that wmigaot be squirted around should find ‘@ resting place on their hamburger. A fow kicks from the insurgents and a decent fellow was out of @ job. Which again proves that nothing suc- ceods like success. sone HE Queen of Roumania was rather disappointed on reaching Buchar- est only to find her husband awaiting her in the depot. “So, this is not Chicago” the queen growled as Ferdy epi a half Nelson on her, just by way of keeping up appearances. It appears ‘that Marie’s train was late and the government got hungry and repaired te the nearest lunch counter. While guzzling, the queen arrived. A con- siderate official sidetracked the train long enough—as he thot—to enable the government to wind up their gas- Subscription Rates: Biche rer ty 00 Be yous, STREET SCENE IN SHVANGHA - Butered as Beconé-cines my.ter September M, 1948, at TREO TON ® EE all Tenens, under the Act of Mich 3, 188. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1926 a” WATCH SESSIONS OF THE LEAGUE It Doesn't Recognize Them—Nor They It (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Dec. 6.—Representatives of the Canton People’s government of China attended sessions of the league of nations as observers. Considerable attention was paid to the smiling and polite envoys of the new revolutionary government because everyone feels that it will be the only government in China before many more days have passed, Some exception to their preence at the league meeting because the Canton government is not a recognized one was answered by the Kuomin- tang representatives with the observa- tion that their government/ did not recognize the league of nations, either, They intimated that if they are suf- ficiently impressed with the league that it is possible thelr government might consider joining it. But for the time being they preferred to remain merely unofficial observers of the league's sessions. Tt is also significant that the dele- gate of the Peking government lodged no protest against their presence. This is explained by the fact that the Pekimg government is no government at all. Merely a shadowy appendage of the military machine of the war lords of north China. ee Shanghai Demonstration Stopped. SHANGHAI, Dec, 6.—A huge dem- onstration organized by the workers of Shanghai in support of the Kuo- mintang goverriment now removed | from Canton to Wuchang was sup- pressed by the authorities. ‘The mill-| tary governors of Shanghai, taking their orders from Chang Tso Lin, the Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER «PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., WHITE STAR LINE FLEET When the International Mercan- tile Marine, a Morgan coneern, sold the White Star Line to the British Royal Mail Packet company, Baron Kyslant, head of the latter, became the largest operator of ships in the world. His company now controis 583 vessels. But to the thousands of seamen who swab the decks and the firemen who stoke the furnaces It makes little difference whether they are exploited by Morgan or Kyslant, MINERS HEAR BROPHY AS BIG STRIKE LOOMS VEW YORK ec Price 3. Cents Chicago, Il ‘a Cantonese Close In on Northern st | CANT ON ENVOYS SATSH HPF ms ; WORLD UNITY Spr 2 GOES FORWARD, SAYS FIMMEN Intl. Head Returns from Mexico Meet By ESTHEL LOWELL, Federated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Internationat trade union unity is growing, slowly but surely, in spite of the present black outlook, asserted Edo Fimmen, secretary of the International Trans Port Workers’ Federation, on his de- parture for Europe after five weeks’ visit to Mexico. Fimmen and dele- gates from British, German, Swiss, Polish, Argentinian, Nicaraguan and Cuban trade union federations met in Mexico on invitation from the Mexi- can Federation of Labor (Crom). The Japanese workers’ delegates failed to Te permission to pass thru the United States and could not attend the conference, nor could the French delegate come at the last mo- ment, American Federation of Labor representatives were at the Detroit convention, Discuss Unity. | No set topics were discussed at the | Mexican meeting, but the general sub- | ject of world labor unity was the ma- | jor problem faced. The Mexican fed- | eration maintained its stand that it ;would join no international trade lunion federation (except the Pan | American Federation of Labor) until | there was greater unity between the | International Federation of Trade | Unions at Amsterdam and the Red In jternational of Trade Unions at Mos j;cow. Ohter Latin-American groups unaffiliated with either international follow the same policy. Argentine’s federation joined the I. F..T. U. (Am- |sterdam) a few months ago and Chile's apes is affillated with the R. 1. U. (Moscow). * ” should another reactionary attempt ; be made, inside or outside of Mexico, |to overthrow the present government |there, the International Transport Workers’ Federation would stand by ; the Mexican people, Fimmen de. 1 i S Above is a view of the U. S. de-jin Hahkow. Five of these are Ameri-|forcing their Way trom Hankow. fronomic activities but to no avail. stroyer Truxton, which, with the rsh eee The map shows The nose bags proved more attractive | stroyer Pope, ashed to Hankow, The present objective of the ad-|the nationalist advance against the after many weeks of very careful tac- than the queen, Which confirms us in | where the 1 ‘tions have declared | vance of the Canton armies is Shang-| militarist ge’ The march down} tics with the population who do. not Arbitration Rapped our belief that the value of a queen}, general © against the foreign|hai. .This important port is situated | the Yangtze r command of Ge-/|nide their sympathies with the ad- te most anything else is determined} concessions, he present time)at the mouth of the great Yangtze} eral Chang ek is supported | vancing Cantonese. (Special t The bail Worker) | “Sythe socially necessary labor power. Monips et River down whfeti the Cantonese are] Saree ‘page 2) ae : WILKESIBARRE, Penn. Dect "6: Manchurian generalissimo of the milf- the general line of /arist allies, took this action fnally| 9-Mour Notices Posted; embodied in her production, se 8 DENVER reader of The DAILY WORKER takes sharp issue with Me over some “remarks I recently made anent the threat of five thous- and French girls to meet an equal number of American legionnaires when the latter disembark in France for the legion convention, with a view to applying for alimony. Expressing egard for our occasional lucidity our Siriritutor expresses regret that we should have fallen so low in our esti- mation of the prowess of the legion- naires, Judging from his letter, our reader seems to be of the opinion that most of the members of the American Legion that can afford to visit France heard of the war when it was over. The fact that the Denverite served in the war gives him some right to ex- press such a caustic opinion, eee HERE recently died in this city an individual by the name of Patrick Carr, who distinguished himself dur- ing a hectic political career, by acts of charity that did not appreciably deplete his bank roll. Allgood things finally end and go did Carr, Atter being elected sheriff of-one of the juiciest counties in America—Cook county— Curr petered out. His funeral was the envy of this city’s political circles, Rich and poor piled flowers on his eoffin. The papers used up columns of space dwelling on his generosity. But after it was all over people began: to ask: “Where did Carr get the money that he gave away?” No doubt Carr was a fine fellow but a man who walks about the streets distributing money to"the masses must be exceed: “ingly: 7 tay to get away with it. ¥ Pier APTAINS of industry are, scheduled to meet with war department of- fictuls today to discuss the question of national defense. Those native citi- zeus who think that this government of ours represents all the people sliould find something to ponder over Jn this announcement, It is quite ob- ylous that governmental action is de- ‘termined by the interests of the cap- Stalist class and that our senators and congressmen are merely puppets that ate depended on to create the impres- sion that the country is run from hates Takes Rest Now. Thomas Flynn is taking a rest at his home at Aurora after 57 years of ‘railroading for the C., B, & Q. Ho made his final run from Chicago _ to Attrora Tuesday os conductor, He began working in the railroad yards whon he was only 1% years old. Friends estimate that he has ridden more than 4,000,000 miles, ee Use your brains ana your pen to aid A Letter ta All Those. Workers Who Want a Fighting Daily Workers’ Newspaper in the United States pi COMRADES:—The DAILY WORKER has been fighting the workerw’ battles now for nearly three years. During that time it has been in the forefront of every struggle in the workers’ interests: It has rai a dc every struggle for better wages and working con- ditions. It has stood for making the trade unions militant fighting organiza- tions of the workers, It has fought for amaigamation of the trade unions into industrial unions in order to strengthen the organized labor movement. . It,has carried on the struggle for Independent. political action by the workers thru the formation of a labor party. It has helped in the fight to defend the workers who are prosecuted by the capitalists for their part in the class struggle. “It has supported the campaign for the organization of the unorgan- lzed workers, It has been the leader in the struggle against the attack on the for eign-born workers thru proposed laws to register, fingerprint and photo . graph them. It has carried on the work of building a revolutionary movement of the workers for a workers’ and farmers’ government and the abolition of capitalism. The DAILY WORKER has been kept alive to carry on this work in the Interest of the workers thru the support it has recelved from those who are fighting for this program. Today The DAILY WORKER again faces a crisis. it must raise a fund of "$50,000 in order to overcome that crisis and guarantee the appearance: of The DAILY WORKER for the coming year. Altho over $23,000 of this fund has been raised, The DAILY WORKER'S Immediate need of financial support Is still great. it must raise the balance of the fund In order to overcome Its financial eri It must raise at least $3,000 weekly to make headway against this crisi The DAILY WORKER appreciates the spirit shown by those who sup- port it in raising the $23,000 contributed. BUT TO MEET THE SITUATION THIS SUPPORT MUST BE Sect ache UNTIL THE $50,000 FUND! IS COMPLETED. This letter is an appeal to every worker who is for the program above outlined to take up the fight for The DAILY WORKER anew, and to com- plete the $50,000 fund by securing additional contributions. This will require hard work. It means that the utmost resources must be mobilized in the fight for The DAILY WORKER. Send in contributions direct to The DAILY WORKER, Circulate the Keep The DAILY WORKER certificate books and secure the support of eVery worker who will help.» WE MUST NOT LOSE THIS FIGHT. WE CAN WIN THIS FIGHT. WE WILL WIN IT IF THE SAME ENTHUSIASTIC SUPPORT IS GIVEN THE KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FUND WHICH WAS SHOWN IN THE RAISING OF THE $23,000 ALREADY CONTRIBUTED. 5 RP oer. ‘raternally yours, BERT MILLER, woh » ay Cc. E, RUTHENBERG, Manager, The Daily Workev. © Genera| Secretary, ne reuiec Workers, (Communtet) Parte Another General Deserts North. SHANGHAI, Dec: 5.—General Yang- Sen, military governor of Szechwan province, who has been wavering be-, der Chang Tso Lin and 4@n alliance with the Canton armies under Chang Kai Shek, has been ‘sufficiently. im- pressed by the overwhelming victories of the Canton troops in the Lantze Valley and has definitely cast his lot with the nationalist government, now emoved to Wuchang. Genera] Chang Kai Shek's military strategy for the present seems to indi- cate the continuation of the drive for the capture of Shanghai and an avoid- ance of closing with Chang Tso Lin until after the fall of the treaty port. Marshal Sun Chuang Fang, whose trensinued on Las 2) FALL MUST FACE SECOND TRIAL ON TEAPOT OIL CASE Supreme Court Decides Against Secretary WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.— Another conspiracy trial, growing out of the oil scandals was assured when the su- tween support of the northerners un- 4 John Brophy’s opening speeches in the | anthracite region were made in an at- mosphere charged with revolt against | the coal operators. Strikes sare planned by represent- | atives of thirty-five thousand ‘miners. General grievance committees of Glen | Alden and Lehigh Valley Coal com- | to decide action for redress of long standing grievances Cappellini admin- istration does not solve. Notices for nine hour dgy have been posted by Glen Alden, in violation of contract. Thomas Byrke, militant president Peach Orchard Colliery, Glen Alden Co,, discharged recently, has not been reinstated. Lehigh Valley men demand fair measurement of coal, Great Ovation. Brophy got great applause when Alex Campbell introduced him at Pitt- ston Armory meeting as “next presi- dent of mine workers.” Crowds stood and cheered, The “Save the Union” leader hit the Erie railroad which operates the Pitt- ston mines. He told how this com- pany tried to smash the union and cut wages in tts bituminous mines in Dis- trict Two. He warned the anthracite (Continued on page 2) preme court held that ex-secretary of the interior Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair must stand trial on the in- dictment growing out of Fall's lease of Teapot Dome to Sinclair. Fall is now on trial for conspiracy in connection with the lease of Elk , Hills reserve to Edward L. Doheny. | The dedision means as soon as the present trial is ended, Fall in all pro- bability will be brot to trial again with Sinclair. The decision upheld the lower courts, which also had sustained the validity of the indictment against the ex-cabinet officer and Sinclair. a Ree | Robinson Sticks to Story. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—Capt. J. K. Robinson, witness for the defense of Fall and Doheny in the trial on charg- es of the Elk Hills ofl lease conspir- acy, stuck to his story that the navy department sanctioned the oil leas- es to Doheny because of their fear of a war with Japan. He said that was the reason secrecy was enforced on the dealings. When the cross-exam- iner pointed out to him that he had testified before the senate commit- tee that the Secrecy was to prevent congress learning of the transaction. Robinson professed a weak memory, He also could not explain the war fear in view of the fact that at the time of the leases, Japan and the United States were in conference to -' pereeepon disarmament plans. panies meet Tuesday and Wednesday ; | The two and a half million doe! |railwaymen and seamen affiliated to the international supported the Brit jish workers valiantly in the May, 1926, | general strike, Fimmen said. When |the British transport unions, at the | ond of the general strike, stated that they would haul all coal, foreign and iaactante the international federation jcould not well be expected to have supported the British miners’ strike | with an embargo unaided. The Brit- jish transport workers’ stand was a serious setback to the international federation, Bloody Marie. “Bloody Marie” is the title Fimmen gave Roumania’s queen and late um official ambassadress to the United States. Fimmen was in the Balkans in April and reports the most “sadis- tic” and medieval practices against trade unionists there. Workers are |not only imprisoned and killed, but tortured to death; for instance, by stripping the skin from the living } flesh and burning alive the quivering | bodies. | Italy, too, ts still black for workers. The trade union movement is practi- cally smashed The ‘International Transport wr Federation main- (Continged on page 2) Two Houses Convene for Short Session CHAS. G. DAWES NICHOLAS LONGWORTH Vice-President Chas. Gates Dawes, the Heli 'n Maria strike-breaking “minute man”, will sit in the tribune of the senate and compose the difficul- ties of the embattled sugar, iron, copper, wheat, finance and lumber senators, who, however, will have a united front every time it comes to a question of anti-labor legislation, Speaker Nicholas Longworth, of the G. 0. P, inner ring, will take the gavel of the hundreds of smaller fry who gather in the house of representatives. »<