The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1926, Page 2

age Two BECKERMAN IN THREAT TON. Y. CLOAKNIAKERS Confers with Woll on Anti-Militant Drive (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—On the eve of a threatened lockout “of 20,000 New York cloakmakers by the American Association of Cloakmakers in an ulti- matum delivered to the general strike committee of the cloakmakers’ union, Abraham Beckerman, manager of the New York joint board of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers’ Union, speaking before the board Monday night, made a statement that he had} had a conference with Matthew Woll of the can Fe tion of Labor, who is g a drive to extermin- ate Commu 26 unions and said that he will support to a to ve the left wing and the munists from the Internationai tarment Workers’ Union. Threaten Seizure. Am r informed the Pboard the weeks it can ex ect the s’ union offices now in srican Association s lock-out threat akers and has de- 1) the union repre nd. On Monday issued a state- etter sent to the the latter agreed by he proposals of the n that the ke be settled same terms granted the Indus- morning th ment in line union th trial Council of inside manufacturers that the association would lock out all workers in the sub-manufacturers’ shops Take Up Challenge. The union took up the threat of the manufacturers and replied in a letter stating that conferences would be held. The asso lockout ultimat ion retreated on its m and agreed to hold | Defeated Old Guardists Are Taken Care Of | } Ogden L. Mills, profit. MILLION VOTES CAST AGAINST THE OLD PARTIES Must Unite All These Workers and Farmers Continued from Page 1.) steps in forming local and state labor parties. Where official support of the local trade union’ or central labor bodies anno the secured, efforts will be made organize unofficial committees of trade unionists who will carry on the fight for the formation of a labor a conference with the union Tuesday | party, afternoon. Thru the organization of hundreds The left wing is mobilizing it8|of such co-:mittees a solid foundation forces t et t attacks of the/for the later crystallization of the right wi igman machine in the I. me WW. Monday night a general meeting of the Trade Union Educa- tional League brought out 2,000 work- ers to Webster Hall where a mass de- mand was made that the strike must be loyally supported by all cloakmak- ers until it is victoriously ended This action was taken as a repudia- tion of the right wing maneuvers be- ing made in the midst of the strike against the boss by the Sigman group and wes ¢ d with thunder. ous applause. into one and vo trade uinons as militant organizations in the struggles with the bosses. To Map New York Legislation. ALBANY, Y., Dee. and 8,-the ex ve council of the New York State of Labor will meet h Its work will consist largely in mapping out its legislative program for 19 along the lines proposed at the federation’s annual convention. THERE iS NO SANTA CLAUS! There is no i ehance in the world some fat boy, will put something in your payroll or im your sock The only full sock a worker can get Kis boss is one in the neck, that old from It’s a cinch you won't get a sub to The DAILY WORKER. MAKE YOURSELF A GIFT ASubocrcte/ Ask your fellow-worker to sub- sertbe or make him a gift of a year’s subscription! RATES In Chicago: Pe . $8.00; six months, $4.50; three months, $2.50 Outside of Chicago: Per year, $6.00; nix months, $4.60, three monibs, $2.00, THE DAILY WORKER 11138 W. Washington Blivd., Chleago, III, Enclosed Gerseerssesecsssers LOM srvgssesssseee months sub to The Daily Worker. Name ..... Bireet .... City . State ed to maintain the} 5.—Dee. 7 movement will be build. Supplement- ing these committees among the or- ganized workers, efforts will be made to establish similar committees of farmers in, the agricultural states, In those ‘states and localities in which labor parties or farmer-labor parties are alfeady organized, efforts will be made *fo secure the affiliation of all trade ‘unions and farmers’ or- | ganizations to these parties, thus strengthening the movement for inde- pendent political action. United Labor Tickets in the Municipal | Elections. | | The meeting also endorsed the am-} algamation of all needle trades unions Another phase of the campaign will |be the launching of united lab |tickets im. the municipal elections | which take place in many states dur- ing the year 1927. This will take the form of support- ing the calling of conferences of all workers’ organizations which are ready to unite to support labor candi- dates in the city elections, The launching of united labor tickets in scores of cities next year will be a high step forward toward the actual formation of labor parties in these | cities and for the building of the labor party on a national scale. These local united labor tickets will be build upon a program fn the interest of the work- lers in various tities, The fight against the use of the injunction against strik- ers will be a central point in such | programs. | All of these efforts will have as their objective the crystallization of the widespread sentiment among the work- ers and farmers for a party which will fight their battles and the launching of such a party in the 1928 presidential election, which will at its very begin- ning have such broad support that it can put up a real fight for a workers’ and farmers’ program, UNCLE SAM’S WORD ON TERRITORIAL DISPUTE: “SELL DAMNED THING!” WASHINGTON, Dec, 3. — The United States government, after try- Ing in vain for some time to ef/ect an arrangement between Chili and Peru over the Tacna-Arica prov- inces, has virtually thrown up the Sponge by saying to the contestants: “Sell the darned thing!” 4 The suggestion is that the prov- inces be sold to Bolivia for $50,- 000,000, of which Chili and Peru shall each receive $20,000,000, while the other $10,000,000 will be re- served to Bolivia, from which to meet the claims of the nationals of the two countries now living in the provinces in qu jon. It will be recalled that General Pershing went to South America with great eciat to settle this mat- ter—and came home with the tooth- ache, How Bolivia will raise the neces- Sary $50,000,000 Ig not told, but it a twenty to one shot that Wali Street will be the banker, : THE ds lttgr as LEWIS MACHINE ELECTION TACTICS IN DISTRICT FIVE Many Things Miners Must Watch By A MINER. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 8-— The United Mine Workers of America is on the eve of election of officers—dis- trict and International. The vast ma- jority of the membership of District No. 5 is unquestionably for the “Save the Union” candidates. headed by John Brophy and Fred Siders. The district officials are therefore determined to use any means In order to keep them- selves in power despite the wishes of the membership. A few instances of the tactics used by the machine in District No. 5 deserve to be mentioned here, It is now reported that some locals failed to get the International bal- lots. This meang that these locals must take immediate steps to get the James W. WaoswortH Representatives Ogden Mills who was licked for governor of New York on the G. O, Ps ticket will become under-secretary of the treasury while James Wadsworth, defeated for senator in New York is mentioned as a possible successor to Leonard Wood Im the job of saving the Philippines for CHICAGO JOINT BOARD ENDORSES NEW AGREEMENT I. L. G. W. U. Pact Gets Local’s Support The favorable agreement wrung by the negotiation committee of the Chi- cago Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, from the cloakmakers’ employer association last Sunday was unanimously endors- ed at a meeting Tuesday night of the Joint Board and the executive com- mittees of all the local unions. Wage Increases. The report of the conference com- mittee was made by Manager J. Le- vine of the joint board and detailed the provisions of the new agreement accepted by the bosses. This includ- ese wage increases of from $2.00 to $3.00 per week of all classes of cloak- makers, guarantees of a forty-hour week and shop contro] by the union. Philip Davis, a right wing member of the conference committee who had, several weeks ago been chairman of a right wing “protest” meeting against the. present progressive administra- tion of the union, spoke of the new agreement in the highest terms. Praises Levine, “This agreement,” Davis said, “is gotten under even normal circum- ances. The entire conference com- mittee is to be credited for this achievement, and Manager Levine is to be highly congratulated for his able conduct of the negotiations.” A mass meeting of all the members in the Chicago union ‘will be held this coming Saturday at Schoenhof- fen Hall, at 2p. m. to ratify the agree- ment, LOWDEN FLAYS COOLIDGE ON FARM RELIEF ’ Frank 0. Lowden, former governor of Mlinois and republican leader, took issue with President Cooldige’s stand on farm relief as outlined in his congressional message, and came out flatly for price-fixing as a solution of the farm problem in a speech before the American Farm Bureau Federa- tion in convention here. Lowden, him- self one of the “old guard” openly scoffed at Coolidge’s arguments against price fixing. He cited the British rubber monopoly as an ex- ample of how stabilized prices can aid industry. ‘The convention indicates that the long expected alliance between the farmers of the sonth and west is now assuming reality. The. controversial equalization fee, which caused the split in the farmers and defeated farm legislation in the last session of gon- gress was reported approved by the southern members of the resolutions committee, which was preparing to throw its work into the convention tor approval. The MeNary-Haugen bill, opposed by Coolidge, was not mentioned by rame, but it is generally understood, that the bill represents the legisla- tion that the farmers want and will demand. Lowden's speech, altho plainly bis bid for support of the farmers as pre- sidential candidate in 1928, was the feature of the session. “Our rural civilization,” said Low- ‘on, “is in a perilous state, Our na- ‘on cannot long survive the decay of ts agriculture, It 1s evident that in he interest of the consumer 4s well 4 of the ‘producer, we should find ome means of stabilizing prices of sam. products.” the best that could possibly have been ballots and not wait to the last mo- ment. It is also reported that the district officials intend keeping the ballots in the district office until three or four days before the election. This means that these locals are in danger of not getting the ballots in time for the elec- tion. Do not wait to the last moment, but send someone down to the district headquarters to secure the ballots, if your local did not get them. And do not rely on the mails, but send a special representative to get the bal- lots. Candidates Are Taken Off the Ballot. Candidates who received at least 30 nominations were taken off the ballot in some mysterious way. For instance, Charles W, Fulp, who was endorsed by the “Save the Union” committee for the office of district tel- ler, received between 30 and 45 nomi- nations. He was acting president of his local for the last two years. Andi Horning, candidate for board member of Sub District 4, received the necessary amount of nominations to be placed on the ballot. However, his name did not appear on the bal- lot. He was told that one return sheet did not bear the signature of the secretary. Investigation shows that the secretary of the local, which has a membership of 1,400, signed the re- turn sheet in the presence of at least three miners. A special assessment was levied on the miners. Several locals, it appears, falled to get the official notification about this assessment. The machine undoubtedly hoped it if these locals failed to pay the assessment the ma- them. Locals must therefore be on guard and take the nécessary steps to pay up this assessment and all the per capita taxes, so that the officials good votes in the coming elections, few weeks a large humber of “exon- machine to locals known to be for the present administration. Progressives in all such locals would do- well if they would report all such cases to the “Coal Miner” so that a check can be made on them. It is reported that certain candi- dates on the “Save the Union” ticket were offered a money bribe to with- draw their names from the race. It is also to be expected that the pres- ent panic stricken officials will issue last-minute statements against the progressive candidates, knowing that there will be no chance to reply to the lies of the machine. The supporters of the “Save the Union” candidates must be om guard and be ready to counteract any such lying statements. Miners’ Election Stirs Coal Fields Continued from Page 1.) has likewise been barred, At the same time an attempt is being made to expel Hapgood from the union. In- ternational Organizer Ely came 2,000 miles from Montana to prefer charges that Hapgood never joined the union there in 1920 and that the withdrawal card Hapgood brought to Pennsyl- vania was given him by mistake, Hap- good retorts “frameéup” and produces receipts of dues paid. Another Case. In Brophy’s own district there is commotion over the barring of Pat- rick McDermott, labor party assem- blyman, and working miner, mott was the progressive candidate for the post of district president that Brophy lays down to run for the in- ternational office, The technical charge against McDermott is that he worked in another union mine from the one at Hastings, Pa., over which his local union had jurisdiction. Bro- phy, defending McDermott, said tifat the Hastings mine had shut down and McDermott and other miners had gone elsewhere for jobs. They retained their mefnbership in the Hastings 46 cal, with the,consent of district of- ficers, in order to be on hand there to fight a move of the operators to re- open the mine on & wage reduction. James Mark, tho Lewls candidate tor district president, 1s now unopposed unless MoDermott wins his appeal. — Use your brains the workers In the, om your pen to aid \ MeDer- | \ HIS is being written as the an- nual series. of resolutions is about about to be presented to the American Farm Bureau Federation gathering at the rather exclusive Hotel Sherman here in Chicago, Close to three thousand so-called farmers and their “friends” jam into the grand ballreom to watch the proceedings, not so much to partici- pate in them, The official “ma- chine,” directed from the speaker's platform, is well oiled. There is practically no discussion, No voice is raised anywhere for the independent political action of the farmers in co-operation with the city workers, That would be “Bol- shevism,” these well-to-do “farmers” adopting the phrases of their worst oppressors, The Soviet Union is never mentioned, altho the agricul- tural situation within the Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic seriously affects the farm problem thruout the entire world, One resolution openly urged that “agriculture co-operate with indus- try.” The suggestion that agricul- ture co-operate with labor as well as industry was bitterly opposed. The final decision was that agriculture co-operate with all the groups, an apparent dodging of the issue, ee This condition merely indicates the failure of this so-called farmers’ organization to grapple with the problems of the land, The gathering cheers Frank O. Lowden, the multi- millionaire, who wants to be presi- dent, it frowns on Senator Smith W. Brookhart, of Iowa, as “too radi- cal” and the slightest breath to the effect that the workers and farmers must unite to fight both the old parties is attacked as Moscow in- spired. This does not mean that efforts are not made to inject vital discus- sion of the farm crisis into the gathering. “Peasantry or Power” was the title of an address by Prof. Macy Campbell, head of the depart- ment of rural education, Iowa State Iowa. Prof, Campbell bluntly point- ed out that farm ownership is on the decrease, that rural buying pow- er is decreasing, that rural life is “pale and weak,” that the most in- telligent of the farm youth are being chine will have a “good” case against} driven offi the farms, with the result that only “the little potatoes are left,” an investigation conducted in the rural communities of Indiana showing that as high as 27 per cent may have no excuses for throwing out) of the children in the rural schools were found to be feeble-minded. It is reported that during the last] This is the black picture presented by the educator that the capitalist erated” members were added by the| editorial writer, the propagandist of the farmers’ enemies, has a very difficult time brightening up for ’ rural consumption, Ri Be The facts shatter all false argu- ments on the farm crisis. The U. S. census records, for instance, re- veal that during each ‘decade the percentage of landless farmers has been on the increase. In 1880 it was 26 per cent; in 1900 it was 35 per cent; in 1920 it was 38 per cent; seven states have almost. reached the 50 per cent mark, and in two, more than 50 per cent of the farm- ers are now landless, In Campbell’s own words: F “Two generations ago a young man secured a farm by homestead- ing or by purchase of new land at a few dollars per acre. One genera- tion ago the young farmer secured a farm by working as a hired man, then as a tenant for a time, then presently he bought a farm at a reasonable price per acre and grad- ually paid for it. He did this out of the fair profit in farming at tWat time, Now, the margin of profit in farming is so small and the price of land is so high that many a young farmer must remain a landless ten- ant for life. Hence landlessness con- stantly increases.” vo @ ‘The farmer who is forced by ruth- profiteering interests to mort gage his property is also destined for the army of the landless. The records show that in 1890, 28 per cent of the farms were already en- cumbered by mortgage; by 1920, 40 per cent were sovencumbered. Now the mortgaged indebtedness is more than seven billions of dollars, The farmers’ equity in these mortgaged farms is steadily decreasing; in 1910 it was 72.7 per cent; in 1920, 70.9 per cent, and in 1925 it waa estimated to be in the neighborhood of 60 per cent. ‘Campbell points out that “the fruits of the farms are eaten by strangers,” showing that the equity held by others is increasing as the farm land at about 8 per cent there With the average interest rate on farm mortgages standing at 6 per cent and the average income on far mland at about 3 per cont there ig as little hope of off the seven billion dollar farm mortgage as there was for thé” debtor nations to Pay alt $10,000, qeenrod 5 Government Facts Show Farmers Losing Land in Plunge into Peasantry By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Teachers College, at Cedar Falls,” 000,000 war debt to this country, Wall Street forces its Washington government to settle with the Euro- pean debtors on easy terms, so that the overseas debts of the interna- tional bankers will be paid, and new loans made possible. The same bankers will only permit such farm relief as will safeguard their own interests, and these interests do not permit the escape of the farmer from the plunge into peasantry. Thus the ownership of the farms passes out of the hands of the farmer into the lands of the ab- sentee landlords and profit takers in the cities, ee In the early days of the nation the discontented workers in the in- dustrial hells of the east sought the free land of the west, The pioneer, the more active and aggressive sec- tion of the population, sought the opportunities the west was supposed to offer. Horace Greely, the New York editor,.coined the slogan, “Go West, Young Man, Go West!” thus indicating that the setting sun called to the youth of the nation, But now the drift’ is back again, from the land to thé city, from the farms into industry, of the youthful, intelligent, pioneering section of the farm population. Campbell says: “Recent investigation which I have made personally, in rural com- munities in Maine, Delaware, Vir- ginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisi- ana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Ne- braska and the Dakotas reveal a momentous fact. They show that the young people from farm homes who have intelligence. and enter- prise and spunk enough to get a high school education—the creamvof the young people of the community who are sufficiently competent and well-educated to be offered other opportunities—that from 80 to 95 per cent of them quit farming be- cause they can find better opportu- nities in other lines,” ene But Campbell offers no solution. He lists “organized labor” with “or- ganized capital” in the cities as two of the leeches that feed off the farm- ers. This is only another tune of the malicious and untruthful kept press propaganda that the prices of the things the farmer must buy are higher because of the wages re- ceived by workers in the cities. This helps, of course, to create a barrier between the city and land workers. Farmers drifting into the cities and into industry learn to their many re- grets that the reports of high wages have little basis in fact, especially in the great basic and in the highly specialized industries, Campbell urges the panacea of co-operative buying and co-opera- tive marketing. This organization of the selling and purchasing power of the farmers will help the land workers battle their problems and win concessions, but it offers no permanent solution of the farm problem, any more than the organi- zation of the industrial workers in trade unions completely solves the struggle between the employing class and the working class, ee In their bitter struggle the farm- ers, like the wage workers, will learn that their enemy is the profit social system that continues to op- erate in spite of the strongest co- operative organizations, no matter how efficiently they battle the forces of capitalism entrenched within the battlements of the) capitalist state, Even large numbers of the farm- ers attached to the American Farm Bureau Federation will grow to learn that their enemy is this capi- talist state, that they must unite with the city workers for its aboli- tion, and that one of the first steps that must be taken is the organiza- tion and building of the labor party to fight the capitalist parties, “We will send sample coples of The DAILY WORKER to your friends— send us name and address, Coming! MEXICAN CONSUL . “TAKES UP-GASE | OF JAILED MEN Inquest Into Death of Sanchez Is Adjourned The joint inquest at Melrose Park into the deaths of Policeman Lyman J. Stahl, and Jose Maria Sanchez, a Mexican laborer, which resulted from a mysterious shooting affair in the suburb in the early morning hours of Tuesday, was adjourned till Jan. 6, on motion of Mary Belle Spencer, who appeared as, attorney for the Mexi- can consulate. The consul, Luis Lu- pian, and an interpreter, J, B. Durand, were also present. Augustin Moralez, a Mexican of about 25 years of age, was presented to the coroner’s jury as the defendant , in the case. He was taken off a street car in Oak Park by the police of that city shortly after the shooting, and a revolver and two quarts of moon- shine were found on him, altho, in the tesfimony of the police, he was per- fectly sober at the time, with no smell of drink about him. Only Police Chief Testifies. Moralez did not testify, but the Mel- rose Park chief of police, Henry Pein, was permitted to relate an alleged statement that the defendant had made to him. It was to the effect that Moralez was not living in the box cars where the shooting occurred, but at 123 20th street, that he had been visiting at the box car and was leav- ing when the shooting began, that he had found Sanchez dead and had tak- n off of him the revolver and bot- .tles, that he had then gone to the home of Sanchez, who, it appears, did not live either in the string of box cars in Proviso yards, and that arriv- /ting there, he notified the two broth- ers and uncle of the deceased of the death. He then took a street car for Chicago. On cross examination by Attorney Spencer, the chief said he did not know how the gash and bruises came on Moralez’s face, but one of the Oak Park officers, when questioned by the attorney, said that “he fe down and bumped his face on the ice as he was getting into the patrol wagon.” Miss Spencer urged an adjournment on the ground that little if any direct evidence had been presented to justi- fy the holding of Moralez, and that the alleged identification of the de- fendant by Officer Charles Kolwitz, who lies in a hospital badly wounded in the arm, ought to be le by di- rect testimony and not by hearsy. Has Confidence in Jury. Chief Pein, in opposing the adjourn- ment, said: “It will do no good, any- way. I'll see that the grand jury in- dicts him.” “That,” remarked Miss Spencer in deliberate tones, “is taking consider- able responsibility, since the grand jury is a body sworn to do its duty.” “Well,” countered the chief, “I only meant I'd present the matter to the grand jury.” ‘The coroner’s officer granted the at- torney’s request for an adjournment, but Moralez will be held in the mean/ time. Imperialists in Panic Over Power of Canton Continued from Page 1.) existence, in an effort to ameliorate the situation for a time. As northern troops pour into Shan- ghai preparing to defend it against the southerners it takes on the aspect of an armed camp, The Kuomintang armies are continnuing their march down the Yangtze and it is a matter of days when the Shanghai siege will begin, oe @ Canton Tells The League. GENEVA, Dec, 8. — The League of Nations secretariat admitted receiving a letter from the Chinese Kuomintang gove! informing the league, now in session that the Peking government of the north was no longer a power and that all treaties hitherto made with China are abrogated. > The letter told the league that the claims of Belgium and other imperial- ist powers in China are null and void. Officials, in acknowledging the com- munication said that it was unofficial “and had no recognized authority be- hind it,” altho everyone here knows that the reverse is quite true. Get a copy of tne American Worker Correspondent. It's only 5 cents, Coming! “PROCESSIONAL” Real, red-blooded, rough and raw, full of thrills, comedy and tragedy, Jazz, riots, trouble, disorder—everything from labor to ku kiux klan. Presented by Potboiler Art Theater at j GAMUT CLUB BUILDING, 1044 SO. HOPE STREET, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Monday, December 20 - at8 P.M. Tekets for sale wt 224 South Spring St. and Giusburg’s Restaurant, Brooklyn and Soto, Entire Proceeds for Benefit of Cloakmakers’ Strike In