The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1926, Page 1

f ee » mats. ‘soldiers but ber economic base The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government THE Vol. Ill. No. 280. | Be Nee cide Rates: Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. COAL-“RONS PLAN ANTI-STRI Sera DAILY by mail, $6.00 per year, wo Matered as Becond-class my ter eptember 21, 193%, at the Bost Office at Chicago, Uhmoss, under the Act of March 2, 487% FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1926 EBInw 20 Published Daily except Sunday by PUBLISHING CO., NEW EDITION oe THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill Price 3 Cents Keep the Daily Worke [ For the “A Labor Party in the 1928 Election” Campaign Contributions to Dec. 4....... Contributions Dec, 6. Contributions Dec. 7 Contributions Dec. 8 TOTAL TO DATE a desiibbebeat neat sskaenicag $23,684.87 0 143.70 40.85 114.20 arabes tech ruulasoapuveity $23,983.62 By C. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. HE contributions to the Keep The DAILY WORKER fund during the past three days have been the lowest since the campaign was begun. The fact that only $300 has been received for three days has again created a financial crisis for The DAILY WORKER in a sharp form. Immediate action is required by the party members and the support- ers of The DAILY WORKER to strengthen the support which the Keep The DAILY WORKER fund is receiving in order to meet this situation. Less than half the total of the $50,000 fund has been raised. Many districts of the party are still below the 50 per cent mark in their contri- butions to the fund. Tho and raise their contributions. They districts must at once intensify their work must follow the example of Buffalo and Detroit and raise their full quota for the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund. The president’s message to congress and the Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party raising the slogan of “A Labor Party in the 1928 Election” again brings to the forefront the need of mobilizing all the forces available to Keep The DAILY WORKER, WE MUST KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FOR THE FIGHT FOR A LABOR PARTY IN THE 1928 ELECTION. THE DAILY WORKER WILL BE A TOWER OF STRENGTH IN THIS CAMPAIGN TO CRYSTALLIZE THE MOVEMENT FOR INDE- PENDENT POLITICAL ACTION BY THE WORKERS AND FARMERS. The DAILY WORKER has held aloft the banner of independent poli- tical action thru a labor party and aided materially in strengthening this Now that, the campaign for a labor party is going forward with new energy we must not permit The DAILY WORKER to be movement. wrenched from our hands. RAISE THE SLOGAN, “TIFICATES. By T. J. OFLA AERTY REAT BRITAIN’S generous soul is exuding good will for the Can- tonese.. The bayonet having failed, John Bull now hopes to save a few chestnuts out of the commercial con- flagration that resulted from the bru- tal British policy in China. Even James Ramsay MacDonald favors rec- ognition of the Canton government for’ purposes of negotiation. MacDon- ald, the socialist, is-of the opinion thas the Cantonese are not as red 45 they are painted. In fact he is in- clined to. suggest that his majesty’s government might even forgive them for the crime of fighting imperialism provided they slow that Soviet influ ence over their government is only skin.deep. MacDonald is as black an imperialist as Stanley Baldwin, but Tis constituency is different. HE imperialists may well wor- ry over the prospect of 440,000,000 Chinese beginning to exert a deter- mining influence on world. politics. The victory of the Chinese revolution- ary nationalists is certain to inspire the teeming millions of India and the other millions of exploited peoples scattered over the Orient. Even clever diplomacy would not avert the imperialist disaster m China, but Eng: lund which had a reputation for sub- tle lying seems to. be getting weal even in the diplomatic. field. But then warships, and armies, backed by a stable economy are the best diplo- England has. the ships and the is shaking. UPERINTENDENT. McAN DREW of Chee publig schools is un- der fire, not becanée he was and is a tool of big business but for the fake reason that he hails from New York and is therefore an “alien” in the me- tropolis of the middle west. The Chi- cago Tribune has rushed gallantly to MeAndrew’s defense tho sometime ago that worthy got under the Trib- une’s skin with a criticism of certain patriotic distortions that pass for history in the school books. McAn- drew is no pacifist, but he has a soft Spot in his heart for British imper- Jalism and he did not like the idea of having the impression created in the minds of the children that the British are good runners, The superintend- - ent crept into his corner and the Trib patted him on the head by way of say- ing: “Now, good little doggie don't ‘bark again until you get permission.” Ay MURDERED | firt_will hold the ‘** front page and most of the second (Continued on page 2). . “A LABOR PARTY IN THE 1928 ELEC- TION” AND KEEP THE DAILY WORKER FOR THE FIGHT, Stir the supporters of The DAILY WORKER and the Labor Party to action ig support of the Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund. : BOOST THE SALE OF THE KEEP THE DAILY WORKER CER- pee OF. THE PARTY MUST RAIBE, | RT . meee nk DAILY WORKER FUND. Wen EON MBs. EVERY DISTRICT MUST RAISE 100 PER CENT OF ITS QUOTA. ment of the Central TOMSKY SCORES BRITISH RIGHT WING LEADERS (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 8—The Soviet trade unions consider the re- fusal of the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress to send fraternal delegates to their congress as an unfriendly act towards the work- ers of the Soviet Union. So declared A. Tomski, president of the All-Rus- sian Trade Union General Council, in his report to the congress on the work of the council. The committee known as the Anglo- Russian trade union committee, Tom- ski said, was not a block of leaders, but a block of many millions of work- ers in. Russia and England, While the relations between the trade union leaders .of the country had grown worse, Tomski pointed out, the ties uniting the masses of the two coun- tries. had grown closer, A. J. Cook, secretary of the British Miners’ Federation and fraternal del- egate of the miners to the congress, is assisting in the congress sessions. After the cloe of the congress C5ok intends to visit Soviet mills and works and also spend time in the Donetz basin studying the life of the Soviet miners and conveying to them the thanks of the British miners, whom the Soviet workers helped during their strike, Capitalism; FRANCE ARMING AGAINST ITALY; TROOPS AND HEAVY GUNS MOVING TO BORDERS PARIS, Dec, 8—France is arm- ing against Italy. At the same time that French and Italian’ ministers are at Geneva negotiating ostensi- bly for European peace, the French army Is secretly being massed on | the Italian border. Every effort is being made to keep the operations SZE TOA CHAN, OF CANTON GOVT. TO SPEAK HERE First Envoy of the New China to Make Address| secret, but even the newspapers now are publishing reports of the move- Chicago workers are to have the op-; Tents. The military movements portunity Sunday night of hearing a| Show that the recent “peace” re- message direct from embattled China.| Ported to have been made between Sze Toa Chan, commissioner of edu-| Mussolini and Briand in regard to cation in the Canton government, who| fascist operations is not trusted by has come to the United States on a| the government. special mission, will address a mass Long convoys of troops have been meeting at Northwest Hall, corner| passing thru Nice each night for North and Western avenues, his sub-| two weeks on the way to Mentone. ject being: “China's Great Struggle| In the port four gestroyers and three for Freedom.” Sunday’s meeting,| Submarines are kept moored. Tanks, which will be Comrade Sze’s only im-| ammunition, heavy guns are being portant public appearance during his| moved to the border. Chicago visit, is under the auspices Inhabitants have been assured by of the All-America “Antl-imperialist| the government that the measures League. are “only precautionary” and that Greeting by Ruthenberg. they are not cause for alarm. Other speakers will include C. E. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the + Workers (Communist) Party, who will * greet the eminent Cantonese in the pame of the revolutionary working- First Real Contest on Lewis in Years class movement of this country, and Manuel Gomez, secretary of the Unit- ed States section of the All-America (Special to The Dally Worker) Dec. 8—Closing ial elections in the Antidmperialist League. First Envoy. Special significance attaches itself to the visit of Sze Toa Chan, as he is| the first authentic representative of | miners’ union ringing excitement the ‘December 14 isthe first time in six years, since the cam- paign led by Harlan and Howat in 1920, that the reelection of John L. the Chinese revolution to cross the | Pacific since the Cantonese forces be- Lewis to the international presidency has been serioualy challenged. gan the victorious march northward! under General Chang Kai Shek, which In 1922 no candidate appeared against Lewis. days of the Steamers Stranded in Lake Michigan, Losovsky Tells Comintern Plenum How to Combat New Defenses of Ruth Fischer on Way (Special Cable. to The Daily Worker) “ MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., Dee. 8. tion are the chief new methods of the capitalist class,” said A. Losovsky, secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions, in his report on the general situation in the trade union movement before the plenum of the executive committee of the Communist Interna- tional on Monday, under the chair-*+——— manship of Remmele (Germany). “The social-democratic and bour- geois press is proclaiming national and international trustification of in- dustry as (methods of securing peace and the welfare of the population.’ ” Losoveky, said that. in both these questions of 1 tionalization and trusti- fication the ht wing leadership of has swept aside one opposizg army after another and has already wrest- ed control of three-fifths of the ter- ritory of China from the reactionary war lords in the pay of haber im- pty Comrade Sze was an Sacly aye thizer with the revolutionary move- ment led by Dr. Sun Yat Sen, which resulted in the formation of the Kuo- mintang party. Since he became a member of the party he has held a number of important posts in it. For some time he has been commissioner]. unknown rank entities from iif of: education in revolutionary-nation-| 141, ‘This year the progressive ticket alist govefnment of Canton. Last year is led by John Brophy, for 10 years His: Ceaton -waveriewicas eer Bins: -on district president of the central Penn- eras eal apse dhe me sylvania miners, and well known in Many Chinese Expected. the union ag the chief spokesman for Inasmuch as the visitor speaks on|the nationalization of mines, Brophy behalf of an organization which con-|achieved high standing in the union trols what must soon be universally|for his leadership of the Somerset recognized as the only government in|strike in 1922, when non-union bitu- China having the support of any con-|minous miners joined the big fight. siderable section of the population, it “Save the Union,” is expected that his meeting here will Brophy is rumning on a “Save-the- be attended by many Chinese as well| Union” slogan and accuses Lewis of as American workers. losing 200,000 members and steering At the office of the All-America An-|the.union to defeat. The administra- tiImperialist League, 106 N: La Saiie|tion counters with’ the charge that street, it was stated that leaflets for| Brophy and his associates are a group Sunday’s meeting have been printed |of radicals.who are incapable of lead- in English and in Chinese. The meet-|ing the United Mine Workers, ing will begin at 8 p. m. Admission! Turmoil has been added by the ad- at the door is 25 cents. ministration’s action in ruling Alexan- A feature of the meeting will be a/der Howat, Powers Hapgood and series of Chinese musical numbers,|other prominent progressives off the including vocal as well as instrumen-/paliots. On his return to Kansas from tal pieces. a stumping tour of the country for the Brdéphy ticket, Howat found that his name had been stricken from the Kan- sas ballot, where he was running for Rescue district president.; No reason for the ¢ barring was given: Howat is a work- 52 Sailors i ina Day ing miner and im good standing in the union and had the endorsement of the WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Fifty-two majority of the Kansas local unions men have been rescued from strand- for the post, He was Kansas presi- ed steamers on Lake Michigan with- dent for 20 years till removed in 1921 in the last 24 hours by the Eagle by Lewis, Harbor coast guard crew, it was an- Charges Frame-Up. nounced at headquarters here today. Howat has aleobeen stricken from The. Crew! "took $8 ‘men off’ tie the national ticket, where he was run- steamer Thomas Mathan. After land- 5 { ning for delegate to the American Fed ne Ania’ pasty, the other inten were f Labor»convention. Powers rescued from steamer City of Ban-| °'ation 0 s 2 Hapgood, another delegate candidate, wile (Continued on page 2) WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.— Bolivia —“Trustification and rationaliza-| has accepted unconditionally the Hlan of settlement of the Tacna- Arica controversy proposed this week by Secretary of State Kellogg, the state department announced to- day, Under the plan, ile and Peru would turn over to Bolivia the ter- ritories of Tacna and Arica for a consideration. Arica would be made a free port. Needless to say, Bo- livia is almost»entirely dominated by American capital. A recent Wall Street loan places a mortgage upon Bolivian years. 4 the dominant trade unions was sup- porting capitalism and covering up with sham revolutionary phrases. The way to fight the new capitalist de- fensive of. trustifivation, Losovaky sal 140, Sec! & united front of workers jaJndustry, unite workers in- to In unions, put the question wed on page 2.) ” ¢ ; | act the Central Committee of the Work- In 1924 his rival was | national revenue for 25 | we can send a sam: MILLION VOTES CAST AGAINST THE OLD PARTIES Must Unite All These Workers and Farmers | The Central Committee of the Work- ers (Communist) Party today an- nounced, following Its statement an- alyzing the meseage of President Coo- 'dge to congress, that a widespread campaign of agitation and organiza- tion would be launched in support of | the movement for “A Labor Party in| the 1928 Election,” which was the key-| note of its itement in reply to Coo- lidge’s capitalist program. Unite Workers and Farmers. | “Probably more than a million work- ers and farmers cast their ballots | against the republican and democratic parties in the 1926 elections,” said C. E. Ruthenberg, general secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, in discussing the campaign of the party. “The formation of a labor party, which in alliance with the farmers will carry on an independent political struggle for the interests of the work- jo and farmers, depends upon the lamang of these workers and farmers |for a common struggle against the cap- pas class.” The Workers (Commu- | nist) Party will make a major poin in jits program ‘of work during the next ie of bringing about the unification lor these groups of workers and farm- ers. | The first move in the campaign for |the labor party will be made thru a jcampaign of aitation to drive home lthe meaning of the president's mes-| sage to the workers and farmers. To| acieve this, distribution of statement ers (Communist) Party on the prest-| dent’s message among the Workers and {farmers is being organized. It is ex- | pected that at least a mijlion copies lof this statement, printed in leaflet form, will be distributed thruout the United States. Organize Trade Union Committees For a Labor Party. The organization of a network of trade union committees, supporting SECRETARY OF LABOR URGES BOSSES’ UNITY Support the Movement for a |! pews’) Labor Party in th . y ion Coolidge Message Asks Strike-Breaking Law 1928 Election (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. age of anti-strike {egislation present congress and a ted fr soft coal barons and the government to meet the crisis that tated when the Jac ee ment between bituminous operators and the United Mine Workers’ Union expires in April—these are the, plans up the sleeves of operators and the Coolidge administ n reflected in the proposal made by Secretary of Labor Davis on Wednesday for a con- ference o: e employ e inous coal indus tical plan to make coal m 11 and prosperous ind This proposa ANSWER COOLIDGE! HE statement of the Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party in amswer to Coolidge’s message has been print- ed in a four-page leaflet, which is now ready for distribution. This leaflet should be given the widest possible distribution. It should be distributed quickly among the workers and farmers. All units of the Workers (Com- munist) Party are urged to organ- ize this work immediately. Each shop and street nuclei should or- der at least a thousand of these leaflets. The leaflets can be se- cured from the national office at $3.00 per thousand. A half million of these leaflets should go out immediately. With un try. the support of other workers’ or-}| American Mir ganizations a million copies can be |{ "ere. Davis said that n distributed. try was the only one in which, “for Act quickly to bring the answer || many years, the country d been f flicted ith nation-wide strikes” that it is now time to jlight into the coal mines.” Boss Strategy. to Coolidge before the workers and farmers. In calling for this conference of operators Secretary is merely carrying out the strategy of the Coo. lidge administration which was made clear in the president’s message congress On the coal situation. That section of the president's address } makes it plain that the administration is going to press in congress for new laws that will give the executive a free hand in dealing with a possible coal strike in April. The president said “No progress appears to have been made within large.areas of the bituminous coal in- '. dustry toward creation of voluntary machinery by which greater assurance can be given to the public of peaceful adjustment of wage difficulties such as have been accomplished in the anthra- cite industry. This bituminous indus: IN PANIC OVER CANTON POWER U: S.; British Charges Rush to Hankow (Special to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, Dec. 8. 2. Representa- tives of the Imperialist powers in| > the formation of a labor party, will be undertaken as the second step in the campaign. There are scores of local trade unions and central labor bodies in every state which are on record as favoring independent political ac- tion thru a Jabor party. Such local union and central bodies will be asked to elect committees to carry on an | agitation campaign for the labor party, laying the foundation for later confer- }ences of delegates to take the initial (Continued on page 2) COOLIDGE ASKS FOUR BILLIONS TO RUN NATION WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Congress was asked to provide $4,014,527,124 for the running of the federal govern- ment next year in President Coolidge’s budget message delivered Wednesday. The budget répresents an increase of 16 million dollars over last year. In his message Coolidge incorporated his proposal that the surplus in the treasury be reduced by refunding tax payments to be made in 1927, and urged against any tax reduction, The budget provided for an ex- penditure of $574,000,000 for military purposes, and $30,000,000 for the en- forcement of the prohibition act, Cool- idge admitted that the military estimate “seemed a large amount for peace time,” but he said it was neces- sary a8 a means of maintaining peace by being prepared. The report stated that the national debt is now $19,500,000,000. During the present fiscal year a reduction of $872,977,572 was made in the debt. ee Enough Dry Sleuths. WASHINGTON, Dec, 8.—-America's dry army is adequately manned and no | additional personnnel ig needed, the house appropriations committee re- ported today in presenting the $892,- 806,568 treasury and post office de partments supply blil, of which $27,- 341,905 goes for prohibition enforce ment. Send us the name and address China have abandoned their stand on the Washington conferenée. treaties and are scrambling to make the best possible arrangements with the new Cantonese force for a continuance of foreign trade and concessions, Miles Lampson, new British min- ister and Ferdinand Meyer, American legation counsellor have hurried to Hankow, which, with Wuchang, con- stitutes the center of the new Kuomin- ang power and are supposed to be planning negotiations with the Kuo- mintang government concerning new arrangements, At the same time Lampson is quoted as saying he received word from Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, that he must not allow him- self to be restricted by old, treaties but must proceed with a free hand in adapting British trade to the new conditions caused by the existence of the powerful new government. Threaten “Drastic Action.” He is also quoted as saying that “drastic action” may be a step in the British policy from now on and warn- ed commercial interests to be pre- pared to adapt their business to new treaties, The Chinese agitation against the British is increasing. Strikes in the south are crippling the Hong Kong trade, In the central provinces strikes are also numerous against foreign firms, particularly British and Japan- ese, In the circumstances it is thot that British diplomacy may try half- recognition of the Wuchang govern- ment, acknowledging its “de facto” (Continued on page 2) try is one of primary necessity and bears a great responsibility to the na- tion for continuity of supplies, Asks Power. “As the wage agreements in the un ionized section of industry expire on April 1 next, and,as ¢onflicts may result which may imp: public in terest, and have.for ma: called for action of the execut protection of .the.public, I ommend the passage of. such legisla. tion as will assist the e dealing with such em a special temporary boa tion and mediation and thru admin agencies for.the purpose of « distribution of coal and protection of the the consumers of coal from profiteer- ing.” This official ment of the repub lican administ lackey pro- posals of Sec ary Di , and the un- disguised intention of the operators to smash the coal. miners’ union, are all clear proof that in April the min ers will be confronted by a consoli dated employers’ machine backed by the full power of the government ready to wipe out the United Min Workers’ Union as a job controlling factor in the coal fields and to lower the wages and worsen the working conditions of the miners Swallows Radium Tube. IOWA CITY, Iowa, Dec, $A thbe of radium, valued at $3,500 today was removed from the stomach of Misa Ruth Ballah of Spencer Iowa. The operation not only saved the Iife of the girl but restored the precious eup- ply of radiant to the hospital, BIG AMALGAMATION MEETING OF NEEDLE WORKERS TONIGHT To forward the movement towards one big powerful union in the needle industry, a big amalgamation mass meeting of needle trades workers will be held tonight at Temple Hall, Marshfield |and Van Buren at 8 P. M. under Educational League. the auspices of the Trade Union Ben Gold of the New York Furriers’ Union, Sascha Zimmerman of the New York cloak and dressmakers’ union, Ben Gitlow of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Unton and H. Sazer of the Cap and Millinery Workers will be the speakers. The meeting will also consider the question of organizing the unorganized workers in the industry and demand the reinstatement of the lett wing meni- bers who have been expelled from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, A point will be miide of the recen t attack upon the strike leadership of of @ progressive workér to whom | the cloakmakers of New York by the oombined right wing offictaldom of the Os DAILY WORKB. see of The | large needle trades unions, Workers are urged by the committee in of the meeting to come early. wast 2