The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1926, Page 2

fa Mas Page Two 3 THE DAILY WORKE Where Chinese Strike Against Foreign Imperialists Here is a panorama of the important Central China city of Hankow where the Chinese labor unions, since | the capture of the city by the national revolutionary armies have. conducted a strike agalnst the foreign con- | The Canton government has been moved to Wuchang, a great industrial clty across the Yangtze river The nationalist government plans a bridge to connect. the two citles. cessions. from Hankow. 10,000 MINERS TALK OF STRIKE IN PITTSTON, PA, Penna. Coal Co. Miners Await Developments PITTSTON, Pa., Dec. 6. The 10,000 miners in and around Pittston, mostly all employed by the Pen Coal company, are now wa interest the link in the chain of developments which will make for the b ing or the destruc- tion of the United Mine Wo: of America in this region. Cappellini Balks. Brazenly refusing to give Alexander Campbell, ex-member of the Interna- | tional Executive Board of .M. W. weigh- | 6 col- | do Cappellini, ng to ahead i by an over- the local un: > ago to serve hman. Camp- Campbell was ‘ele whelming majori jon election the men as bell has long the hat which are f the Penna bell who led Coal Co the bi contractors. FOUR KILLED IN BLAST AT DEPONT DE NEMOURS CARNEY POWDER PLANT | | WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 6—Four men are known to have been killed and several others injured this after- noon when §000 pounds of smoke- less powder in the “dry house” of the Dupont de Nemours powder pliant at) Carney’s Point exploded. Fire immediately followed the ex- plosion, The bodies of four men are said | to have been recovered. without credentialing Campbell who was again elected, The following night, or rather at 2 a, m,, the house of an active opposi- tion miner in Pittston, John Coombe, was wrecked by a blast of dynamite. is miner is well,known for his long nt to wipe out the contractors. A ar or So ago the house of Campbell was demolished by dynamite, endan- gering the lives of his wife and seven children, The miners today are discussing what shall be done now. On all sides the unanimous opinion is “another 1920” which means a general strike > wipe out the contractors and sei e union on a proper path again. The discontent of the rank and file »f the Pittston miners will burst into ame at any moment, and at any mo- nent a general strike can be-expected. fi ef the Penna general grievance com: mittee, is the basis of the rule and sexistence of the hated contractors wat were a clean, militant leadership to take control of the local the con tractor system would soon be wiped out. This fact the contractors are well aware of and so go to all ex tremes to keep control of the loca) union leadership. Threatens Contractors. Campbell has oftentimes threatened to wipe out the contractors once in a position to do so, and that he would do it the contractors know very well. To keep Campbell from assuming any responsible position them has been the aim of the contractors, assisted by the district office. Cappellini ordered the Jocal sec’y. not to issue to Campbell the necessary credential, despite the specifications of the anthracite con- tract and district constitution of the miners, that the selection of a check- weighman to serve them is a sole prerogative of the miners. Cappellini has assumed the power to dictate to the local union just who @hall and who shall not serve the miners of Number 6. Cappellini got in touch with his henchmen, the local officers, and overruled the decision of the union meeting. Campbell, as a eonsequence of the foregoing, could not commence his duties Dec, 1st. Drive Out V@teran, ‘The local union esbbitaiy made a statement that he was instructed by Cappellini not to accept dues from Alexander Campbell when he appear- ed to pay them. This is a move on the part of Cappellini to drive from the union Campbell and all opposition miners in Number 6. At the following local unien meet- ing, the question of checkweighman was again brought up and after a heated meeting Campbell was again elected b ya very large majority. When the count was made showing Campbell victor the Cappellinites and contractors smashed the lights, broke chairs and created a free for all, which succeeded in giving the chairman an excuse of adjourning the meeting SEX SCIENCE. By Dr. J. H. Greer, M. D, Contents: Physiology of Sex I sequences of Impurity and the Invasio sire. Incentive Prostitution. Consequences sequences of Imm sary to Sexual Purity. Contains 20 complete articles, 154 pages. Ilustrated, tiele on phy 26 cents. Social Evil, by Dr. J. H. Greer, 26 cents. RED PUBLISHERS t is expected that if the Penna goes on a general strike, the Hudson Coal Co. general grievance committee, of 20,000 miners, and the Lehigh Valley Coal Co, general committee of 15,000 miners will also declare a general walkout, . ae Be) Brennan to Pittsburgh District. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 6. — Wil-| liam J. Brennan, former president of District 1, United Mine Workers of America, and at present candidate for International Secretary-treasurer of the miners’ union is coming to the Pittsburgh District to address two | mass meetings arranged for him by progressives,” The first meeting will be held in the Croatian Hall, Slovan, Pa., on Wed- nesday, Dec, 8, at 7 p. m. The second meeting will be held in Brownsville, Pa., on Thursday, Dec, 9. He will also address several mass meetings in Brop! District 2, The elections in the miners’ union in District 5 have stirred up the entire district. i Miners Hear Brophy As Big Strike Looms (Continued from page 1) men they could not hold their position if the bituminous miners were further weakened. At Hazelton Brophy quoted Secret- ary Kennedy’s report for the first six months of the year showing less than one third of the bituminous miners paying dues into the union. “How long can such losses continue?” he asked. William J. Brennan, cant for secretary-treasurer against Kennedy, assailed the anthracite arbitration agreement, He said he had been called a “red” because he kept company with» mili- tant fighters for the union, “I would rather be the friend of these men than the friend of the M. A, Hanna inter- ests,” he said, Paul Fuller, director workers’ edu- cation, Central Pennsylvania, made an eloquent* talk. He will stay in the district several days after Brophy leaves, Try to Stop Brophy Meetings. Warnings against plans to steal the election were made by several speak- ers, Alex Campbell denounced the in- timidation used to frighten men from the Brophy metings, Guns are used *\in the threats. Campbell's own house was bombed two years ago. Last week the district union and the Penn- | gylvania Coal company refused to ac- ‘|cept him as checkweighman, after he had received an overwhelming major- ity. Honest weight was, the issue 1742 W. 21et Place, Chicago, III. issued For Propaganda—Not For Profit. Brophy’s last two meetings are at | considered—tax reduction, farm relief ;and radio jed. The demcorats fee] they will be Seranton, and Wilkes-Barre, A DETROIT | WEDNSD MEETING DECEMBER 8 at 8 p. m. PROTEST AGAINST BOULD'S. SEATING COMES FIRST DAY Walsh Throws Bomb in Opening Session WASHINGTON, Dec. 6— Twenty minutes after the final session of the sixty-minth congress was convened Monday, machinery was set in motion to consider the ousting of Arthur R. Gould, Maine senator-elect, charged with illegal expenditures and bribery. Senator Walsh introduced a resolu- ‘on calling for an investigation of ould’s activities in the Maine elec- on last month. This action in the Sth congress forecasts the certainty it is felt, that the seventieth congress will refuse to seat Smith of Illinois | ind Vare of Pennsylvania on similar charges. The resolution did not prevent Gould being sworn in to fill the va- cancy of the late Senator Fernald, but a fight over Gould is scheduled. Won't Accomplish Much. The opening of congress is mark- ed by general opinion that the ses- on will accomplish little except the routine. Discredited at the last elec- jon, the congress will devote most of its efforts to keep legislation off the books. More than 12,000 bills are on the senate and house calendars. Most of them are of local and sectional sig- nificance, but many are pressing for action. Three Main Issues, After appropriation bills and execu- tive appointments are dispensed with there will be three main issues to be regulation. All three of these will provoke bitter fights. Hardly had congress met when the democrats forecasted that an extra session after March 4 would be fore- much stronger then, and will try to block legislation in this session to make the extra congress necessary. Coolidge’s message will be read Tuesday. His budget message will be read Wednesday. Radio Bothers Coolidge. The importance attached to, radio legislation by the administration is indicated by .Coolidge’s personal in- tervention in the matter. Coolidge call- ed a group of senators and represent- atives to the White House for break- fast Monday and radio regulation was the discussion subject. A deadlock exists over whether Secretary Hoover or an independent bureau should have POLICE ATTACK GIRL PICKET IN. CARPET STRIKE 3 Strikers and Brutal Officers Arrested By J, 0. BENTALL. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 6-- Three strikers and one cop were ar rested, the strikers for having walk- ed too briskly on the picket line, and the cop for having broken the jaw of an eighteen year old girl striker of! the Philadelphia Carpet company, | where a strike has, been on for ten weeks. Hit For Boarding Car. | The girl striker attacked by the cossack in this brutal manner com- mitted the crime of wanting to board a street car for her home after her work on the picket line had been fin- ished. It happened that some of the scabs went on the same car and it seems to be against the law of the cops to let pickets use the public transportation if the scabs want them ‘or their private purposes. Policeman Richie struck the girl on the jaw and sent her staggering to the ground. Stunned for the mo- ment the girl was unable to make fur- ther attempt to board the car, This was crime number two, and the cop promptly arrested her. Fearful of the consequences of his slugging, the cop began to talk incoherently to the girl, saying, “Now you know I didn’t hit youse. Don’t say that I hit youse. I wouldn’t hit youse and I didn’t crack your jaw. It wasn’t cracked and you know I didn’t crack it for youse,” and a lot more blabber. Then the union got on the job. The case against the girl was dismissed, and the union had the cop arrested for assault and battery. The judge set the bail for the cop at $500. The three strikers’ arrested for walking too fast on the picket line were held in $300 Bail’each. The ex- cuse for the speedup on the picket line should have been valid since the thermometer was flirting with zero and the wind was pacing along like a loom shuttle. The pickets simply wanted to keep watm and had never heard of any speed limit on the pick- et line. The strike is stiffening up in the | has been completely broken. SONS have been likened to jtombs. Prisons are inhabited by the Mving instead of the dead. But the living dead in prisons only lve because of the thin thread connecting them with the world “outside.” For many that thread The will to establish that slender com- munication and to strengthen it, be- tween the whole working class and all the class war prisoners, until it becomes a powerful, unbreakable bond of unity should be the irre- aistible driving force behind the National Christmas Fund Drive of the International Labor Defense. one Look“into the prisons. It is late at night. The United States marshal arrives with his prisoner sentenced to ten years be- hind the bars. The warden has waited up. He wants to take 4 look at the new convict. The prd- cedure is just the same as for all the rest. High on the third tier, in the north block, the empty cell awaits. The new convict is told to enter; the heavy, iron barred door closes upon him. Then silence re- turns to the vast cell house, except for the jerky coughing here, there, everywhere, thruout tl living tomb, the coughing of prisoners, victims of, or rapidly succumbing to tuberculosis. Thus Eugene V. Debs entered upon his ten year sentence at the Moundsville, West Virginia, prison. Yet the outside world never forgot Debs. In this he was fortunate. eee It is different with those who have few friends, or none at all, on the “outside.” The convict was sit- ting at a high-power sewing ma- chine in the huge garment factory. within the walls of the Jefferson City, Mo., penitentiary. He was sewing button holes. That was all. Just button holes. Thousands of breeze of the, December weather and the tomfoolery of the bosses and their temporary tools, Cantonese Close in on Northern “Militarists {Continued trom page 1.) by the national people’s armies under General Feng Hu Hsiang in the north and other Cantonese generals in com- mand of troops pushing up from Can- ton. The city of Foochow, farther down the Yangtze than indicated by the line on the map, fell on Friday. | This puts the Cantonese in possession | of the railway to Shanghai and places their armies in the Yangtze delta, for a concerted drive on the city. The population of Shanghai is decidedly sympathetic to the Southerners and it is expected that the Shanghai gar- rison will join the nationalists when they approach the city. The northern war lords have com-| bined under the leadership of Chang Tso Lin, the Manchurian dictator to! ‘stop the advance of the nationalists. The Cantonese have declared their in- tention of marching on north to the capture of Peking and the militarists are uniting in a veritable panic to stop them. The eastern provinces under Marshal Sun Chuang Fang are all but in the hands of Canton and the ‘best part of his armies routed or deserted bower over the air. The World Unity of Labor Moves Forward (Continued from page 1) tained an office there for months, the secretary struggling to hold to- gether the disappearing trade union groups, , But no word hag been heard from the office lately and Fimmen fears it has been broken up, The Italian seamen’s union head, recently arrested, was wise enough to hide safely the 4,000,000 lire his union had accumulated, but the fascisti charged him with embezzlement to fmask their attack, The Italian workers lost an opportunity in not striking strongly when Dictator Mussolini’s government was so weakened by the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, socialist deputy, Fimmen thinks, Russian Solidarity. The Russian workers’ contributions to the British mine strikers have made a wonderful demonstration of the feel- ing of internationa] solidarity among Russian unionists, Fimmen reiterated. Stories that the money came from the government are false, he stated, He has noted in the last few years that Russian workers have an increasingly greater influence on their leaders, that Russian trade union officers are more responsive to their memberships than in most other countries, AY, to the southern cause. The capital of the nationalist gov- ernment has now been moved to Wu- chang across the Yangtze from Han- kow. The map shows Wanhsien where British blue jackets massacred five hundred Chinese in an unprovoked bombardment. Canton Envoys Watch Sessions of League (Continued from page 1) troops have been routed from three of the flve eastern provinces, is the main contender with the Cantonese at pres- ent. His complete défeat is a matter of time and will be signalized by the fall of Shanghai, his last remaining stronghold, Then will come the ad- vance to the north @gainst the com- bined forces of the northern militar: ists under Chang ‘Teg tan, *.* Hankow Strike General, HANKOW, Dec, §,—The strike against the foreign concessions de- clared here by all workers involved in foreign trade, commerce and service became general on Sunday. The strike is 100 per cent effective, The foreign concessions are heavily guarded by American, British and French ma- rines, It is rumored that an Italian warship has been ordered here to join the eleven destroyers and gunboats of the foreign pdwers now riding in the Yangtze, ¥ IN DET Organizer of the | tory them! Tens of thousands! Per- haps hundreds of thousands! Thru the days, the weeks, the months, the years! Just button holes until death came to release him, for he had been sentenced to life impris- onment. But across the ‘front of the little box on his machine, that held thread and needles and other bric-a-brac, were carved the three letters, “I. W. W.” “He’s just a ‘Wobbly!’” exclaimed the guide, who came along to see that no one spoke to the prisoners, or got into. communication with them in any way. An unknown “Wobbly,” because I had never heard of his .case before. His touch with the outside world had been destroyed. He was among \ 3 Strengthen the Bond of \the Working Class With \the Class War Prisoners By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. the living dead. But the bond of communication was restored. be aay Here comes a woman. She fought in the ranks of labor. She is paying the, price. She marches single file, lost in her prison uni- form among the rest. They are coming’ into the prison chapel, a bare, hard room. It is Christmas Day. The thunder of the orthodox god is hurled at them by a preacher from the city. They are all forced, willing or not, to sing the orthodox hymns of the hypocrite world that has made felons of most of them because they would not conform to its orthodox edicts. Thus “things as they are’ seek to maintain or to develop its shackling influence even over those it has put away. ss Somewhere else, in a dark dun- geon, shackled by the wrists and strung up to the ceiling until toes barely touched the floor, some re- bellions prisoner of the class war is suffering because of a slight in- fringement of the prison rules. Thus the wrath of the oppressors follows its victim into the death chamber of the living. é Or, somewhere another prisoner sits in solitary, all light shut out, to live on bread and water for as many days as the jailer demands. *_e* @¢ There are 50 of these class war prisoners in these capitalist United States today. The story of each and everyone of them should be written and blazoned to the entire working class a8 part of the cam-, paign of the International Labor Defense to raise its Christmas Fund that has three vital pur- Doses: . First: To supply the class war prisoners with some of the com- forts that are denied them in prison, to let those on the “inside” know that they have not been for- gotten by those on the “outside.” Second: To provide for at least some of the needs of the depend- ents, wives and children especially, lett without support when the prison gates closed inward upon the breadwinner of the fathily. Third: To provide adequate Ie- gal defense for the many. workers who are now being threatened with imprisonment. ee The many thousands of readers and sympathizers~ of The DAILY WORKER will surely respond, quickly and substantially, in sucha cause, All workers must help build the International Labor Deteuse as @ more powerful “Shield of the Working Class.” Here is an op- portunity to do so. YOUNG PIONEER IS SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL HERE FOR DOUBTING HISTORY | ‘TEACHER AND NOT SIGNING “PLEDGE” Because he disagreed with his his- teacher’s ideas. on the’ Ameri- can government and refused to sign the “pledge of allegiance” demanded of all Chicago public school children, ll-year-old Vetold Laemont, member fof the Young Pioneers of America, was suspended from the Sumner schéol here Monday. Vetold was told by Principal Trout of the school that he could npt come back until he con- sented “to abide by the rules of the school,” which meant retracting his statements. on the government and submitting to signing the pledge. Ve- told was in the fifth grade, The wrath of the school first de- scended on Vetold when he told his history teacher that he didn’t believe the things she’ told the class about American ideals of “liberty and just- ice and equal opportunity.” Teacher Horrified, The teacher was horrified when the young student pointed out to her that the way newsboys and bootblacks had to slave didn’t coincide with what the textbooks said. Vetold was made the subject of cross-examination on his ideas in front of the class, and each statement she made in defense of cap- italism was refuted by Vetold. Final- ly the teacher thot that if Vetold was made to write out the pledge of alle- giance that would cure him, She told him to do 80. Instead of writing: “I pledge my allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” Vetold wrote: “I pledge my allegiance to my flag, and the cause for which it stands—one aim thruout my life, free- dom for the working class.” Vetold was then ordered to see the principal of the school. © Princtpal Trout attempted to weedle Vetold in- ROIT! ALBERT WEISBOR Passaic Strike, + — to apologizing, by recounting all of the “glories that your wonderful country has and the opportunities that every one has in America.” He told Vetold that he should be proud of the country that gave him such fine schools. But when Vetold, un- afraid, ansWered him the same way he did his teacher, and told him that “the schools were merely tools of the capitalist. class,” the school offi- cial became angry and attempted to force Vetold to retract. He quizzed him about the Pioneers and demand- ed “Who told you all that stuff? And who is behind that organization?” He said that Vetold could remain in school’only on condition he sigh- ed the pledge of allegiance. When Vetold said he could not, because he thot it was wrong, he was suspend- CASE OF JAIL SCANDAL DEFENDANTS HELD UP Trial of Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman and other defendants in the Terence Druggan-Frankie Lake jail scandal case was held up when counsel for the reputed beer barons filed a plea of prior conviction. DETROIT ADMISSION 50 CENTS INCLUDING LUNCH | Banquet for ALBERT WEISBORD Leader of the Great Passaic Strike G. A. R. Hall, Grand River & Cass Ave. FARMERS MEET HERE T0 COPE _ WITH PROBLEMS | Only F armers Can Help Agriculture, Is View The American farmer alone has the right to work out a national agricul- tural policy, Sam H. Thompson, presi- dent of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told 3,000 delegates to the eighth annual convention today. Thompson called on the 6,000,000 American farmers to band together. “emulating industry and labor,” if they, would secure equal representa- tion and the economic rights “to which they are entitled.” “If we are to have a safe and sane agricultural policy,” said Thompson. “it must be worked out by the farm- ers themselves. The development of a@ national policy is of national con- cern. The right and duty of the farmers to lead in its determination should be definitely recognized. No Wavering. “It is a noteworthy coincidence that while we are assembling here congress will convene in Washington There will be no wavering in our de mand for the passage of legislation which will relieve the farmer from the unjust punishment from which he suffers through the production of sur pus farm products.” More than 3,000 delegates, repre- senting, farm organizations in 45 states and 1,800 communities were present when Thompson opened what is expected to be the most important meeting in the history of the federa- tion. Split in Two Groups. The convention was split into two widely differing groups as the meet- ing began, one determined to stop at virtually nothing to secure relief, the other, more conservative, seeking to prevent what might be the begin- ning of a transformation of the fell- eration into a quast-political party. Thompson, elected last year over the more conservative O. Ey Bra@- fute, who paved the way for the ad- dress by President Coolidge, frankly stood opposed to the “do nothing” policy which he said marked the ad- ministration’s attitude toward farm relief, y Brookhart Looks In. ‘ea Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Towa looked in for @ moment. He is on his way to Washington and con- fessed that he was at sea to know what congress was going to do about the farmers. However, something has got to be done, he said, and sus- pected that the farmers ought to do it themselves. ~ _ Thompson, in speaking of the gen- eral decay of farm life said it would be alright if all the young dumb-belis went to the city but it was the other way round; the bright young boys left the farms. Employers’ Man Present. Magnus Alexander of the Nationat Industrial Conference Board, an em ployers’ association, said that indus- try must take a larger interest in farm problems. He suggested that the bankers and commercial men might supply the directive brains for urging diversified farming and other methods of relief. He said the ‘farm problem was a very wide one, affect- ing not only the farmers and consum- ers here but the international market as well. If we would dispense with our agricultural products in the world ;markets we must not prevent out- siders from disposing of their goods to us, he said, Robert Pack, a propagandist for privately owned public utilities was another speaker. He is from the On- tario Hydro-electric company and painted the virtues of his company to the Ontario farming communities, " The sessions will continue for sev- eral days. Discuss Colonization of Jews in Russia at Mothers’ League Meet Jewish colonization in Soviet Russia will be discussed at a meeting of the Mothers League Tuesday night, at 8 o'clock, at Talmud Torah Hall, Hirsch and Rockwell streets, M. Schuchter will be ,the speaker and lead the discussion. This is # matter that is Of interest to Jewish people thruout the world. THURSDAY DEC. 9, 8 p. m. , AT THE MAJESTIC THEATER WOODWARD, NEAR WILLIS, CENTS: 1 Meta Sy } | Jel