The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1926, Page 2

Page Two _ DARROW COMES || conker evenrs| TO DEFENSE OF ENEA SORMENTI I. L. D. Retains Famous Lawyer for Case Clarence S. Darrow, the famous lawyer, has been retained by Inter. national Labor Defense as chlef de- fense counsel in the fight to stop the deportation of Enea Sormenti, one of the leaders of the anti-fascisti forces if the United States. This is part of the widespread na- tional campaign which the I. L. D, has begun to defend 1m for political refug the United States. Adequate legal defense is sured in this case by the Clarence Darrow, M of , Pet tibone case, of the McNamaras, in the Chicago Communist Labor Party din numer other labor e made history in the “No efforts hav cure the best les been spared to se- defense in the Sormenti ¢ aid James P. Cannon, secretary of the I. L. D. “A nation- wide cam. of agitation will be conducted by us to « Amer- fean workers of the involved in the th made by James J. partment of labor, espe anti-fascisti for wh Ttaly in most cas of the de- against means certain im- prisonment or d¢ ls “The widest possible labor and pro- gressive support will be mobilized in this campaign by thé I. L. D. The American Labor, and many of its ies, have already rec ion to fascism. Ame sery- edly opposed 2 and it will oppose using partment to do anti-fa: f “Leaflets Italian | will soo for dis In additi ment de- nounding country. pamphlet nd the de- ountry will r Defender, have as its number. Mass meetings will be held in every center of the country with prominent labor men as speakers. We intend ‘p arouse the whole labor movement pm this campaign and put an end to the Davis policy of deportation. “The fight for Sormenti, who is stated for Italy by the department of labor, and for the other refugees is a fight for the elementary civil and po- 0) litical rights of labor in this coun- | try. It is also a fight for the best of American traditions which have al- ways held out a warm welcome to those fighters who were forced to flee from despotism and terror to the United States.” The entry of Clarence S. Darrow into the case recalls the trial of the young Russian, Rudowsky, who, like Sormenti, was threatened by the U. S. government with deportation to Russia upon the demand of the czar- tet government, almost two decades ago. A huge campaign of protest was carried on by radicals to prevent the earning over of Rudowsky to the czar’s hangmen, and with the aid of Darrow and Peter Sissman, who led the de- femse counsel in the case, the plan of the reactionaries in both countries was effectively smashed. Send us the name and address Of @ progressive worker to whom we can send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKRR. shipment to]: |] is significant that what is left of By T. J. O'Flaherty. | (Continued from page 1) aid of an admiral and the secretary of the interior, A, B, Fall, were putting thru a deal that was expected to net $100,000,000 for Doheny, Fall got his little commission of $100,000. ‘ Do- heny is a democrat. Fall is a repub- |lican, They were both willing to loot government property in order to pro- {tect the United States from Japan. | Such is patriotism, IGHTEEN hundred disabled emer- gency army officers of the world war have been refused retirement pay |by the war department, tho Secretar: jot the Treasury Andrew Mellon re-| |ports that the government can afford to reduce taxes $250,000,000 next year. This seems to be a short-sighted pol- jicy on the part of our ruling classes. | Despite the effectiveness of headlines land the myriad hokum agencies of |capftalism, the cannon-fodder may not {be so willing to go forth on the next crusade for democracy, if they feel that the old feedbag will be conspicu- ous by its absence on their return, particularly if they do not return whole, | ENERAL UMBERTO NOBILE, the | fascist pilot of the dirigible that | sailed across the North Pole, arrived | in Chicago a few days ago with a dog | and a black eye, The general ex- plained the phenomenon of the dam- | aged orb as an attempt to demonstrate | + new method of falling from a hi altitude without becoming physical obliterated in the process, Nobile, in| diving from a hammock to the floor, | parked one of his eyes on the edge of | ir and thus broke the fall. Those sts are certainly ingenious. | NE of the most interesting and im-) portant struggles ever fought out in an international union in the United | States will wind up next week in the United Mine Workers of America, John L, Lewis, the pompous tool of the coal operators, is facing the fight of his life to retain his position. No body seriously questions that John | Brophy, the progressive candidate, will |receive a majority of the votes. But | Lewis will endeavor to count himself jin, at all costs. Lewis’ defeat will |be a victory for the coal diggers. the socialist press is not support jing the. progressive ticket in the min ers’ union. One of the feature writ ers on the New Leader only damnec Frank Farrington with faint prais« for having accepted a $25,000-a-yea job from the Peabody Coal compan) driving Farrington to such an extreme, American socialists are faithful re- semblances of socialists everywhere. They are socialists with the socialism extracted, Labor Party the Answer to Coolidge (Continued from page 1) |the soft coal industry expire on April 1 next, and as conflicts may result which may imperil public interest, and have for many years often called for, the action of the executive in protec- | tion of the public, I again recommend |the passage of such legislation as will assist the executive in dealing with such emergencies,” Won't Give Up Philippines, In dealing with the Philippine Islands, Coolidge gave no hint that the United States was even thinking jof relinquishing its hold upon that possession. “The economic develop- jment of the islands is very impor- | tant,” he states. “They ought not to |be turned back to the people until | they are both politically fitted for self. |Sovernment and economically inde- | pendent.” Coolidge praised Wood's jadministration in the islands, saying he has administered hig office with tact and ability.” He Pointed jthe way to American capitalists to in- vest their money in the islands for | the development of rubber. | the undertaking parlors Of course he blamed the radicals fo. | 37 MEXICANS IN JATL FOR COP'S DEATH Police Raid Homes of Laborers One Mexican laborer and one po- liceman are dead, another policeman is wounded and 37 Mexicans are in jail after a shooting fray that occur- red in Melrose park where @ half hun- dred Mexican workers, employed by the Northwestefn railroad, live in box cars. Three members of the Mexican community, including Jose Sanchez, who was killed, were on their way from Melrose Park, to the box cars in company of @ woman who mean- time disappeared, when four police of- ficers from Melrose Park attempted to arrest them, Two Killed. In a manner not yet determined, firing began that resulted in the death of Sanchez and Policeman Lyman J. Stahl, and the wounding in the arm of Policeman Chas. Kolwitz. An emergency call sent to sur- rounding towns brot a large force of policemen and detectives to the com- munity. Most of the workers were in their beds asleep, The force of po- licemén charged the building, threw a number of tear gas bombs to drive | the workers out of their cars and took 87 of them to M@girose Park jail. Another Mexican, one who had been with Sanchez, was later arrested at Oak Park. A pistol and two bottles of moonshine were found on him. At in Melrose Park where the two bodies lay, it was determined that Sanchez was shot three times in front and the police- man’s head was found to be pierced by four bullets that entered at the rear, Commends Mexicans. From Gust Sperannio who keeps a store at 101 21st Ave., Melrose Park, it was learned that Sanchez had planned on going to Mexico within fhe month to get married. Sperannio said that he knew all the Mexicans who were under arrest for from three o five years and that they were all earnest workers and well-behaved. Sanchez he had known for three years nd spoke highly of him. Expel Mexican Editor. At the police station in Melrose ‘ark, Maximo E. Lira, editor of lexico, published in Spanish, spoke two Mexican relatives of two of se imprisoned. He spoke in Span- hh and told them that when they were examined by police officers to demand an interpreter that their tes- timony might not be altered or mis- understood. A police officer came up to Lira and told him to get out of the build- ing or eh would fill him full of lead. Lira was warned to keep out and not to interfere on behalf of the Mext- cans, Fals® Stories, Chicago morning newspapers car- ried stories saying that the policemen were called to the scene by telephone after women’s screams were heard in the meighborhood of the box cars and men’s curses indicated that the Mexicans were fighting among therh- selves. The DAILY WORKER has ascertained that this is not true. All but four or five of the workers were in their beds asleep. The three Mexicans and thé woman were trailed from Melrose Park. It has | not yet ben determined who fired first. |One thing is certain, that at least | 36 Mexican workers are being held in jail for no reason except that they happened to be in the vicinity of the shooting. Many Appointments, WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—President Coolidge transmitted to the senate a batch of several thousand nominations for federal offices, nearly all of which Were recess appointments made since the senate adjourned last July, A LA BOR PARTY IN THE 1928 THE DAILY WORKER N. Y. Cloakmakers Denounce Treason of the Right Wingers (Continued from page 1) national officers and thetr supporters in some of the New York locals of the union begin a well-prepared cam- paign which claims to demand the removal of the present leadership. The official declaration of the Gen- eral Strike Committee follows: “The traitorous attacks that are levelled against the leaders of the general strike by the general board of the International and the Dally Forward, the maneuver of the Cooper Union meeting Thursday night, is a systematic and organized step of the right wing machine | to break our strike and in the disturbance to seize the union, “All the reactiohary powers of the labor movement have undertaken thru provocation and lies to stir up dissat- isfaction in the radks of the cloak makers, Accused of Treason. “The General Strike Committee ac- cuses the leaders of the International of organizing and leading the whole movement of treason against the strike. “They, the leaders of the Interna- tional, have not accepted our chal- lenge to come to the membership and let it decide who has interfered with our strike. Instead of deciding elec- tions to take place in the unions where the members would have their Say thru the ballot, the general board has undertaken a campaign of treason and provocation by means of the press and thru meetings which are called by the Sigman klan, and not by the membership. Why don’t they come to the meetings of the member: ship? They Id then speak to the membership. ‘hey do not do this because they know that they will show only too clearly that they are traitors. They demand our resigna- tion so that they will be able to as- sume the leadership of the strike,” Belongs to Members, The General Strike Committee ex- Plains that such conduct brands the leaders of the International traitors. We will refuse to hand over the strike to traitors. The unions belong ito the membership. The strike is a strike of the membership. The membership has elected us to lead the union and the strikes, and they alone are the ones who control us. We will serve them. The general board did not elect us. The Sigman klan did not elect us. On the contrary, for years they have succeeded in maintaining control of our union forces, They have failed this time, and now they want to repeat their treason and prov- ocations. The General @ Committee de- clares that such m as this that the general board has committed against the membership, has no paral- lel in the history ‘of the labor move- ment. On the very day that the un- ion received the ultimatum of the bosses of the American Association to accept their demands for reorganiza- tion under the penalty of a lock-out, ~—on that same day, the International officials declared open war against the strike leaders, Calls For Defense. The General Strike Committee calls upon the membership to defend the union. The General Strike Commit- tee declares the present leaders, who have been elected by the members will never go against the will of the members, as have those who now want to seize the union. The General Strike Committee de- clares that elections in our union will be held as soon as the union reaches a settlement with the Amer- ican Association and the jobbers, At these elections it will be the mem- bership that will carry thru the election of their officials. The General Strike Committee ap- peals to all workers in the needle trades to come to the help of the striking cloak makers against the at- tacks of the internal and external enemies, SEND IN A 8UB TODAY, T is stated that the American Farm Bureau Federation, now holding its eighth annual meeting in Chicago, is planning to send a “Delegation of 600” to visit in Hu- rope, to leave these shores on July 30. ‘This is a splendid idea. ‘Those who have the interests of the American farmer as an immedi- ate concern, however; must urge two propositions in connection with this proposed delegation: First: It must be made up of working farmers, those who are ac- tually carrying upon their shoulders the burdens of the soil. Second: No tour of Europe, no matter how limited, will be com- plete without a visit to the Union of Soviet Republics.. There is little of the smell of the soil about the bureau federation gathering. Last year Cal Coolidge, the president of all the robber in- terests that feed off the farmers as well as plunder the industrial work- ers, was the bureau’s invited guest. Cal was cold shouldered by last year’s assembly, because of his blunt refusal to provide even the most meager relief for the agricultural districts, but this year the hero of the meeting is Frank O. Lowden, ex-governor of Illinois, beneficiary thru marriage in the multi-millions of the Pullman estate, Lowden is a gentleman farmer, who has an es- tate bought with his wife’s money, and he raises farm issues as handy ‘weapons with which to win political power. He is a perpetual candidate for the presidency, Another lime- lighter in the gathering is Magnus W. Alexander, of New York, presi- dent of the national industrial con- ference board, who is supposed to bring big manufacturing and indus- try closer to the farmers, It is thus seen that the spirit of the gather- ing tends toward a toleration of the hungry profit leeches who blood- suck the nation’s farming popula- tion. In fact, the gathering is domin- ated by the interests of the small bankers, the landlords, the manufac- turers, the food speculators and the rich farmers, whose interests are diametrically opposed to those farm- ers who actually work the land and produce the nation’s crops, Relief legislation that benefits the banker, landlord, the grain buyer and the manufacturer, leaves the actual dirt farmer just as broke as ever. It is taken for granted that the bureau's delegation to Europe will ‘be packed with the interests that dominate it. But this should not pre- vent the issue béing raised of a working farmers’ delegation to Eu- rope, and not a delegation of the Parasites ‘who live off the farmers. The delegation should visit the Soviet Union because there only will one find a government actually concerned with the interests of the working farmers. In every other country of Europe the same profit interests dominate as here. In the Soviet Union there are no bankers to charge exhorbitant rates of interest and to call in the sher- iff to foreclose mortgages; there ate no speculators to force down the price of grain in’ harvest time to Tuinous levels and then push them up again after the crop is out of the hands of the farmers; there are no manufacturers to charge as high prices as possible for all the im- plements the farmer needs to work the land; there are no-absentee land- lords, retired in luxurious abodes in the cities, to push up the rents, higher and higher, at every oppor- tunity. j Delegation of American Dirt Farmers Should Visit Union of Soviet Republics By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Sons of enlightened self-interest.” No newspaper in the Soviet Un- ion, for instance, would carry the kind of an editorial that appeared in the'Chicago Tribune, under the heading “Welcome to the Farmers,” stating that: “The more money the farmers have to spend the more they can buy from our manufacturers and merchants, The citizens of Chicago are anxious to improve the status of agriculture if only for the rea- That is the welcome that the fat- tended hog receives at the stock- yards. It ig the greeting that the hold-up man gives his victim, the hope that his pockets will contain something worthwhile so that the hawl will be a-good one. It is the greeting of the PROFITERR, Chicago, the banker; Chicago, the board of trade; Chicago, the stock- yards; Chicago, the farm imple- ment manufacturer; ‘Chicago, the parasite coupon clipper and inter- ested taker, is the enemy of the farmer. ‘Chicago is not interested in lift- ing the standard of living of the working farmer. It is merely inter- ested in maintaining agriculture as a source of profit, playing the shell game in which the farmer al- ways loses. ee Sey Prof. Macy Campbell, head of the rural education department, lowa State Teachers’ College, raises a lone voice declaring, “The Ameri- can farmer must bend all his’ ef- forts to stem the present drift to- ward peasantry,” by which he means a continuous lowering of the farm- ers’ standard of living. But it is an ignorant voice crying in the wil- derness. se @ The farmer cannot help himself. Like the industrial worker in the city, he is a victim of the profit social system that has reared the capitalist state power that sits en- throned in Washington in defense of profits. The farmers who go to the Soviet Union, will find an en- tirely different kind of government in Moscow, the government of the workers and farmers, that has abol- lished the profit system in that vast nation, that ‘develops the closest possible co-operation between the eity and land workers, for the pro- tection and welfare of both, and for the lifting of the standard of living of the producing masses of the whole country. That is why any delegation of American farmers visiting Europe this coming summer should sure- ly include the Soviet Union. Such a delegation, if it isn't stone blind, would get an excellent lesson in the fundamental problem out of which all the ills of the agrarian masses grow in the capitalist land from where they come. But only actual dirt farmers would be really interested in learning such a lesson. NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS MEET AT FREIHEIT HALL TONIGHT; ZAZER SPEAKS The present situation in the nee- dle trades unions will be the topic of a big rally to be held under the auspices of the needle trades sec- tion of the Chicago Trade Union Ed- ucational League at Freiheit Hall, $209 W. Roosevelt road, tonight at 8 p.m, Henry Sazer of the Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union will be the principal CHICAGO CLOAK- MAKERS WIN IN: NEW AGREEMENT Wage Increase and 40- Hour Week Granted (Continued from page 1) the working force twice a year and a free hand in putting on additional apprentices. None of these things will be found in the new agreement. The ufhem- ployment fund stays, the 40-hour week was recognized, the right of the bosses to reorganize their working forces was refused, the union will con- trol apprentices, and substantial wage increases for all classes of workmen are won. For the ensuing eighteen months, the union men agreed to a 42-hour week, After that the agree-| ment calls for a 40-hour week. The wage increases won affect all branches of the trade and run from $2.00 to $3.00 per week. Pressers, op erators and cutters were raised $2.50 per week, button sewers and tailors, $3.00 and finishers $2.00. i Ratification Meeting. Harry Ellisberg, of. the Chicago Cloak and Suit Makers’ Association, led the twelve members present for the employers and J. Levine, manager of the Chicago joint board of the 1. L. G. W. headed a similar number of delegates from the joint board and the.various affiliated locals. A mass meeting of the members of the union will be called by the joint board this week or early next to rat- ify the agreement. There is no ques tion but that it constitutes a clear victory for the union. Members of the joint board at- tributed much of their success to the hard-fought five months’ strike of the New York cloakmakers for similar demands. They declared that the present progressive leadership of the union by pursuing a vigorous policy carried the negotiations where the right wing leadership which was de- feated in the last union elections, would certainly have failed. Progressive members of the union remarked that in other cities of the country, outslde of New York and Chi- cago, such as Boston, Cleveland and Philadelphia where there is a right- wing leadership, the 40-hour week was not won. It was only where the progressives are in. control of the joint boards, Chicago and New York, where the employers have been forced to recognize this important demand. The achievement of the present un- ion leadership in the I. L, G. W. union in extracting from the bosses even more imposing conditions than vere ever won before, solidifies their ‘eadership and acts as a fit rein upon the disruptive tactics of the right wing, progressives say. A sample of the role played by the Chicago right wingers in the recent negotiations is given by progressive members of the union. Meyer Perl- stein, former vice-president of the union, who carried on @ campaign of expulsion and intimidation agains: the left wing when he was in office came from New York just prior to the negotiations and was seen talk- ing to two different cloakmaker bosses. He was known to have had conferences with B. Kirschbaum and members of the firm of Schanker and Michel. Progressives charge that Perlstein tried to persuade the bosses not to recognize the new leadership of the union. Perlstein himself is out of the union and in the real estate business, but he is known to be still in close touch with the right wing of the union. Job Gone, Family in Starvation, Indianan Is Forced to Steal SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 6.—Steve Callmer, 42, was arrested for stealing two turkeys from the farm of J, D. Oliver, plow manufacturer, (Continued trom page 1) foo, be robbed by law of their strongest weapon— the right to strike. He has nothing to say against the proposed laws to register, photograph, fingerprint and control the movement of the foreign-born workers, to which he Gave endorsement in his message last year, which Is pending before congress, Strengthen the capitalists, further e: workers, are the president’s proposals, NS hate ea The Capitalist Program and the Negroes, HE Negroes get a few fair words in the prest- sdent’s message. But the president proposes nothing to ond the racial discriminations against the Negroes. The constitutional Provisions for Negro equality are brazenly ignored, Particularly in the South, but congress is not urged to take action to enforce the constitution, The capitalist program is to continue the exploitation of the Negroes as work- ere and at the same time to maintain the racial dis- erimination which makes that exploitation even worse. lave the he No Relief for the Farmers. HE president acknowledges the crisis in agri- culture which has resulted in the bankruptcy of millions of the farmers, driven other millions from the land, and because of which the great mass of the poorer farmers cannot get even the bare neces Norm LAD Se li é See ee sities of life thru their labor on the land. The president lists many laws which have been passed, supposedly In their interests, but the farm- ers know that while these laws have benefitted thelr exploiters, they have not helped them. The relief which the farmer demand, thru a measure such as the MeNary-Haugen bill, is rejected by the president. The only concrete measure the president proposes for agriculture is that the cotton raisers reduce the land they plant by one-third. There could be no more striking fact to show that the capitalist program hai nothing to offer the farmer than that the farmera are told to produce less wealth to solve their problem of sectring a livelihood under capitalism, * a a ee No Measures Against the Trusts, The industries of this country are mor id more being concentrated ip the hands of great combina tlons of capitalists, The great corporations and trusts have absolute power over the lives and well- being of the workers and farmers. The great Industrial organizations pile up greater and greater profits—profits which come out of the workers and farmera and which are made at the expense of their health, happiness and well- being. ’ The president’s message contains not one word about the control of these great corporations and their unlimited power over the life, liberty and hap + piness of the workers and farmers of this country. | to Coolid Thus Coolidge gives approval of the capitalists’ pro- gram of making the workers and farmers the slaves of these great combinations of wealth. The govern: ment Is the agency to strengthen them and aid them in making great profits for the capitalists not the Instrument thru which these Industrial organiza- tioné can be made the means of service te those who produce wealth—the workers and farmers, $ Of 8 Organize to Fight the Capitalist Goverriment. * HE president's message shows once more that the existing government is a government for the capitalists and against the workers and farm- ers. 't is a call to the workers and farmers to organ- lze for independent political action and to carry on a struggle for a Workers’ and Farmers’ government to replace the capitalist government. It shows that the workers and farmers cannot hope to secure a higher standard of life a result of the tremendous Increase in the wealth they pro- duce thru thelr labor, so long as the government re- mains in control of the capitalists and all its pow- er is used against them, Build a Labor racy 'HE formation of a labor party which, in alliance with the farmers, will fight for the political in- erests of the workers arid farmers Is the answer an 's capitalist program. Now is the time to prepare for the struggle in the next election campalgn, the 1928 presidential elec- tion. a ‘The slogan of the workers and farmers must be “A LABOR PARTY IN THE 1928 ELECTION.” The work of organizing such a party must be be- ts This program in the of the ie end gun now and powerful political organizations of the workers and farmers bulld up to fight for their in- terests. ELECTION tries and workers’ control, making them instru- ments of service to the workers and farmers in Place of great profits for the capitalists, * 9 For the recognition of the first workers’ and farmers’ government—the Union of Soclal- Ist Soviet Republics, = = farmers can only be carried into effect thru a work? ere and farmers’ government, which will use the The labor party, allied with the farmers, must | POWer of the government in the interest of the formulate a workers’ and farmers’ program against the capitalists’ program. It must fight for: 1, Against militarism and imperialism and the dangers of a new world war, 2. Against the use of injunctions in labor dis- putes, against all laws limiting the right to strike. 3. Against the registration of the foreign: born, MH 4. For equality for the Negro, 5. For relief of the farmers. * 6. For increase of the income taxes levied on the great corporations and big capitalists. In- crease of the Inheritance taxes on the fortunes of the capitalists, 7. For unemployment Insurance, to be pald for by the capitalists, 1 8 For the natlonalization of the great indus. peelangace | ‘ , workers and farmers ae it is now used in the in- terest of the capitalists, FORWARD TO THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE IN THE INTEREST OF THE WORKER AND FARM: ERS, ‘ A LABOR PARTY IN THE 1928 ELECTION. A WORKERS’ PROGRAM AGAINST THE CAPI- TALIST PROGRAM, FORWARD TO THE WORKERS’ AND FARM- ERS’ GOVERNMENT, , Central Committee ; Workers (Communist) Party, C. E, Ruthenberg, General Secretary. . . * i ey Coples of thie statement in leaflet form may _ be secured thru prepaid ordere from the Work- ere Party of America, 1113 West Washington Bivd., Chicago, II, at $3.00 per thousand, |