The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1926, Page 2

se Paze Two BRITISH MINE. | ost WORKERS GIRD FOR STRUGGLE To. Strengthen Union; Cook’s Views (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Dec, 9.—The coal miners are getting ready to renew the strug- gle. | This is the note that is struck in meetings and discussions of miners and already the coal owners, the gov- ernment and the labor leaders who deserted the miners, are showing signs of uneasiness. By the terms of the settlement the Miners’ Federation of Great’ Britain has been weakened by district agree- ments, and varying scales of wages and conditions of work have been es- tablished. The first efforts of the miners’ mi- nority movement will be directed against these district settlements and a drive made for more complete cen- existed before the tralisation than strike. Cook for Militant Program. A. J. Cook, secretary of the Min- ers’ Federation, has declared for the ‘program of the national minority movement and has announced that the Miners’ Federation must become an industrial union in all respects. Every official of the federation who failed the membership in the great struggle will be opposed and efforts made to elect a fighting leadership for all offices in the union he present situation is described by A. J. Cook, Arthur Horner of the South Wales Miners’ Federation and Nat Watkins, sec ary of the Min- ers’ National Minority mov mt as “a breathing spell.” s does not mean that the struggle against the reactionary officials, the government and the coal ow s has ceased even tor a time but simply that it has en- tered a new phase as the result of the ending of the strike No Demoralization. The demoralization which the ernment expected to occur miners’ un not en pl On the contra € ale remains | high and t 2 mosphere of} bitter de 1e Coal fields which is : spirit with which wage the next strug The main task now, say Cook and other militant workers is to strength- en the union and establish a new lead- ership which will take up the strug- the resolute wie on the basis of the new condi- tions—the decay of British capitalism and the attempt of the rulers to place the whole burden of their attempts to Salvage it upon the working class and especially upon the coal miners. ' se Mr. Donald’s Speech. LONDON, Dec. 9.— Comment here in labor circles on the speech of Ram- say MacDonald on the motion for cen- sure of the government in connection with the coal strike, is that it was weak and ineffective. MacDonald s the Baldwin gov- ernment “sh Nied until it fin- ally s of the owners.” This is said by the labor party left wing leaders to dis- regard the facts of the suppressive policy followed by the government from the first day of the strike. Premier Baldwin answered MacDon- ald by making an attack on A, J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Fed- eration. Defense Congress to Meet. The International Class War Pris- y-sha tled down to become the tool oners’ Aid is holding its national con-| gress in Battersea Sunday. It is de- manding amnesty for the 5,000 work- @rs arrested during the general strike and the miners’ strike under the Emergency Powers Act. Tom Mann, George Lansbury and 8. Saklatvdla are Usted as speakers for the first session of the congress, SSS SSSI: Workers’ Amateur Orchestra JOSEF STOPAK, Violin JOSEPH STILLMAN, Viola Eastern Agency, te miners will} GRAND ¢ To Bring The DAILY WORKER to New York SUNDAY, DEC. 12 - - 2PM, YORVILLE CASINO 86th Street and Third Ave., New York City Quartet: Dances: VERA MILCINOVIC ADMISSION 50 CENTS. Tickets at door, 108 East 14th Str : THE, DAILY WORKER DETROIT COMPLAINS TO TRADE COMMISSION ABOUT PRIGE FIXING Detroit, Dec. 3. — The city of De- troit today complained to the federal trade commission that four steel companies which bid for contracts to supply the Detroit street railway with wheels have quoted identical prices for four years, In a letter to the commission, Jos- eph E. Mills, commissioner of pur- chases and supplies for the city, sug- gests that the companies may be operating in violation of the rules of the commission regarding price fixing. Mills asks a ruling from the commission. The firms mentioned in the letter are the Standard Forging company, East Chicago, Ind.;\Edgewater Steel company, Oakmont, Pa.; Bethlehem Steel company, Bethlehem, Pa., and the Standard Steel Works, Burn- ham, Pa. Identical prices have been quoted despite a varlance in freight rates, Mill’s letter says. The Detroit Street Railway is a successfully operated, municipally owned system, ‘CANTON FORCES | PEKING OUT OF LEAGUE COUNCIL Report the Militarists| Want Trace GENEVA, Dec. “The Kuomin- tang government of China does not} recognize the league of nations and does not consider that the real China is a member of the league,” said Shia/ Ching, observer here of the Canton nationalist government, “China will not join the league after | the present civil war is ended unless the powers recognize her complete in- }dependence and sovereignty and re-| ive her on an equality basis,” Ching | {si The nationalist representative also brought pressure to bear upon Chao} Peking | Hsin-chu, delegate of the shadow government which has been considered a member of the league, and got guar&ntees from the Peking envoy that the latter would take no further part in the official proceedings and would undertake no further com- mittments for China. Saying that the Peking govern- ment in no way represented the Chinese people, Ching characterized it as “merely a camouflage for Japanese interests which are backing General Chang “Tso Lin’s army.” Get League's Respect. The league secretariat is treating the observers of the Canton govern- ment with the utmost respect in spite of the fact they have no official status in Geneva. A room of the league building has been placed at their dis- posal as if they were an official dele- gation. an Ne Chang May Sue For Peace. SHANGHAI, Dec. 9.—Major military operations between the nationalist armies and the militarists have been temporarily suspended. It is reported that the military leaders of the north }are preparing to sue for peace. The basis for this may be the following: The Cantonese have ually victorio been contin- in the field; the Brit- ish seem to have embarked on a policy of recognition of the Canton govern- ment and consent to revise treaties with the new power; Japan, who is the chief backer of Chang Tso Lin, gener- alissimo of the northern forces, is not prepared to back a campaign out- side Manchuria to which her interests are largely confined. SSS ONCERT Freiheit Gesangs Verein NAGUM BENDITZKY, Cello SAMUEL JOSPE, Piano or Daily Worker » New York, sepa PRESSURE FOR MEXICAN WAR INTENSIFIED, Rumor Preparation of National Guard Units WASHINGTON, Dec, 9.— (FP)— Disappointed in the tone taken by the American press toward the State Department’s bullying of Mexico on |the oil and land law issue, the “war party” in Washington and New York is reported to be intensifying its pressure upon the White House to smash the resistance of the Mexican government to the demands of Stand- ard Oil. Mexico's new oil land laws go into effect on Jan. 1. At that time Ameri- can oil operators in Mexico who have not taken out leasésefrom the gov- ernment on the lands they. claim, will forfeit possession. A series of legal disputes will begfn, based on the right of the foreigners to seek adjustment of their claims in the courts Of Mexico. Secretary Kellozs in his recent correspondence with the ‘Mexican foreign office protested against the new laws, saying that they strike at private property. which he declared to be the founda tion of civilized society. Senators Borah, Norris and Swanson, however, promptly replied that Mexico had a right to deal with property as she saw fit, if she made due payment fo: FILIPINO LEGISLATORS IGRORE WOOD'S ORDERS, APPOINT OWN COAL BOARD MANILA, Dec. 6.—Strife between Governor General Wood and Man- uel Roxa, speaker of the house, and Manuel Quezon, president of the senate, entered a new phase to- day following the annual election of the directors of the government- owned coal company. Deposed by Wood as members of the board of control, Roxas and Quezon calleda meeting and voted In directors who were recognized by Alberto Barretto, president of the coal com- pany. Fred Fisher, former justice of Su- preme Court, who acted as proxy for Wokd, will now have to carry the’ fight to the courts. RIGHT WINGERS JOIN BOSS WAR ON N.Y, UNION Sigman Supporters in Rand School Meet Continued: from Page 1.) ment made Wednesday night said that its shops would be closed and 20,000 workers locked out, notified that they could come back only on an open shop basis and with no agree- ment with the union. The general strike committee charge any foreign property she might con- fiscate, | Mobilize Guard, | Now there is circulated in Wasa-| ington a report that the War Depart. | ment has quietly notified the govern-} ors of certain states that the national! guard from those states may soon be called upon for duty in connection with the difficulties with Mexico. The hint is given that the War De- partment is expecting a call to in- vade Mexico in defense of the oil operators’ claims. Whether a com- plete scheme of invasion or conquest of Mexico is being worked out, and whether the president has ‘sanctioned this preparation, is not explained. But there are many signs that Coo- lidge is being urged to break off re- lations with Mexico on the day her oil and land laws become effective, Dwight. Morrow of Morgan & Co. said to be one of the conspicuous advisers of the White House who wants relations cut off and the big stick used. Morrow’s firm is inter. ested in various basic industries be- side oil that are affected by Mexico's »Wions, determination to guard her subsoil minerals as national property. The copper, lead, silver, zitc and other]ing: “We eall for War against Com- mining and smelting enterprises, thru | munist | disruption. © their several trusts, go back to Mor-| workers of all unions to unite against gan & Co. for financial direction, or|the internal enemy, the Communists. alliance or control. State Dept. Propaganda. Another sinister element in the situation is the propaganda put out|lution in Russia created the impression secretly to the Associated Press by]in the minds of a number of people Asst. Secy, Olds in the State Depart- ment, that Mexico ig a hotbed of bolshevism that poisoning the eco- nomic and po! al life of Central America. Chandler Anderson, coun- sel for many American claimants for property damage against Mexico, credited with persuading Olds that Mexico’s government js _bolshevik. This same Anderson is reported to be counsel tor Chamorro and Adolfo | Diaz in Nicaragua—the militariat | tools of Wall Street bankers whose regime Kellogg recognized after pledging himself never to recognize Chamorro. _ Mexico has sympathized with the labor-liberal regime that was driven from power in Nicaragua by Chamorro’s military coup in 1925. Bitter editorials in the Washington Post, denouncing Presidéut Calles and the Nicaraguan liberals as ag- nts of Moscow and enemies of the ‘United States, bear a striking resem- vlance to Anderson’s statements, It that the contractors are executing the policies of the jobbers and the right wing Sigman machine to smash the strike. There has never been such a conspiracy perpetrated against a union | before, they declare. Workers Fight. Great mass meetings of locked-out workers were held jn four halls Thurs- | day night and the workers mobilized to repel the attacks of the bosses and their allies, the right wing Sigman the | Greet \ T is to be greatly regrette the organized labor movément in Chicago, thru its elected officials, found’ no time nor showed any in- clination to send a delegation bear- ing a greeting to the 3,000 delegates meeting here of the American Farm Bureau Federation, an organization enrolling 1,000,000 farm families in 1,800 farm communities in 45 states. In fact, the affair was important enough to merit some attention from the American Federation of Labor itself, in an earnest effort to develop contacts between the city and land workers, Matthew Woll, vice president, and mouthpiece for the Green regime in the A. F. of L, is too busy, of course, ‘attacking the Cammunists and the left wing in the labor movement, tearing down and des- troying, to find any time for con- structive work, e 6 6 The farmer, like all other sec- tions of the population, looks for allies in order to get What he wants. He therefore seizes every crumb that falls his way from the capitalist table. The capitalist exploits this appetite. Careful propaganda mis- leads the farmer into the belief that the city worker, who is supposed to be getting exhorbitant wages, is the direct cause of many of the farmers’ woes. This enmity is carefully nurtured, Great business, on the other hand, carefully parades itself as “the friend of the farmer.” Industrial and commercial interests recently met at Indianapolis under the au- spices of the United States chamber of commerce to consider the agri- machine. It is very significant that simul-| taneously with the attack of the bosses a meeting wag held in the Rand chool of 35 representatives of Nev York right wing trade union groups | which mapped out a campaign to ex terminate Communists from the trade | unions and to hélp the Sigman ma-| chine smash the/¢loakmakers’ strike. | The meeting decided to call a confer- ence of all trad@ unions for Dec, 21 to meet at Beethoven Hall and ¢ sider plans for the complete eli tion of Communists, from ‘the Ina- ade The call issued Call. v4 tains the follow- We call for the The division between the trade union movement and thé Communist adven- turers must be d tely established.” The call further stated: “The revo- that a similar reyd@lution was due in the United States and that/any union that did not join the Communist In- ternational was a traitor to the work- ing class. Then followed a period of wild activity in the trade unions and the Workmen's Circle, with the Trade Union Educational League working under instructions from the Workers (Communist) Party. The} unions must remain free from outside | domination and from the interfer-| ence of all political parties.” Reactionary Signers. The call was signed by Abraham Beckerman, chairman of the joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, Louis D. Berger, man- }' cultural problems of Indiana, IIli- nois and Michigan. One of the chief speakers at the Chicago gathering was Magnus W, Alexander, New York, president of the National Ing dustrial Board, who came bearing the message that, “American in- dustry has indeed a definite self- | interest in agricultural prosperity.” In other words, capitalist industry is desirous and anxious that agri- culture should be able to hobble along, at least, so that it will furn- ish as rich a source as possible of exploitation. It was with this end in view that the business interests of the nation constituted a’ business men’s commissioh, with the aid of the chamber of commerce, to see that agriculture is not crippled be- yond the point where it “Will cease to produce the desired profits, Thus the industrial, commercial and banking interests of the nation cajole the farming population into believing that the profiteers are the friends of the workers on the land, when they are exactly the opposite. These are instead the real enemies of the,farmers, \ 4 \ ag 4 «fF The gh We rker, ‘the’ toiler in in- dustry, 0} e other hand, is the natural ally of the worker on the land; not only of the farm hands who work for meager wages, but of the millions of landless farmers, the tenant, share and crop farmers, who wander from one farm to an- other to battle with the soil for a bare living, just as the wage worker Kottows his job, The city and land workers are atural allies because they are both ictims of the same system of ex- ploitation. They are both members ager of the Neckwear Makers’ Union; Samuel A, Beardsley, president of the District Council of Jewelry Workers’ Union; Morris Feinstone, secretary of the United Hebrew Trades; Samuel 48 reported that Anderson was very intimate with Ambassador Sheffield suring the datter’s recent stay in the | Union; Hershkowitz, manager of the joint council of Cap and Millinery Workers’ Rose Schneiderman of the United States, Sheffield last year de-|Women’s Trade Union League and A. u@unced Calles and Morones of Mex-|I. sco as “reds” of a dangerous type. Threaten Expose, Rumblings of approaching crisis | Furriers’ Union of: Shiplacoff of the International Pocket Goods Workers’ Union, The committee signed this statement also bi ly attacked the yw York and the su Mexican relations have been met|methods they employed in the recent at the capital by threats of retalia-|strike which that;union won, The ion by the progressives, Before the |signers also stated that the newly war party” has @ chance to induce |formed committee and the conference the White House to cast the aggression in behalf of Standard Oil, two or three senators may keep their promises to “tear the lid off” the Mexican oil story, A feature of such an exposure will be the sale of the 4,000,000-acre pa- per claim of Doheny in Mexican oil lands to Standard Oil of New Jersey, and the activity of Charles Bvans Hughes and Chandler dio for/in Webster Hall on the 21st of the month will lend their aid to the Sig- mati machine in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in their fight to oust the Communists who have been leading the fight of the cloakmakers in the present strike and lockout in New York, According to reports from the offices ‘Anderson |! the International, all day and night since that time in Mexican-American |*®@ “nderworld elements are being relations, eee Borah Moves Against Chemicals. . WASHINGTON—(F'P)— Chairman Borah of the foreign relations com- mittee of the senate has challenged the American Legion's catmpaign against the Geneva poison-gas treaty, by calling for immediate ratification of that treaty in the senate, in open session. The measure forbids use of chemicals and bacterla in war. uisaaupt st ve Chemical manufacturers are fighting its adoption, mobilized for the attack upon the pro- gressive leadership of the New York union, The striking cloakmakers are plan- ning a big drive to enlist the support of the entire labor movement in their life and death struggle to defeat the and their agents and to main- tain the union, We will send sample coples of The DAILY WORKER to your friende— Why don't you vt ite up? it may be interesting to workers, CURRENT EVENTS Chicago Labor Officials Lost an Opportunity to F armers’ Meeting ByyJ. LOUIS GDAHL. of the same class, the working class, held in subjection by the cap- italist class, To be sure, neither the American Federation of Labor nor the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation re- cognize the class struggle. Both organizations under their, present leadership deny that they have any class interests, On the other hand, they insist that they have common interests with their enemy class. This results in the leadership of the A. F. of L. and its affiliated international unions, developing their class collaboration schemes in the industrial struggle, and adher- ing to the capitalist political par- ties. It results in the leadership of this farmers’ organization invit- ing Cal Coolidge to be its chief spokesman last year, and this year clinging desperately to the coat tails of the multimillionaire, Frank O. Lowden, an “old 'guardist” repub- lican who is anxious to take “Silent Cal's” places in the White House. Under the cloak of “non-partisan- ship,” both these organizations of the workers and farmers are deliv- ered by their leaders into the camp of Wall Street politics. ge 8 Carl Haessler, of the Federated Press, reports the publicity director of the Farm Bureau Federation as declaring that, “The workers and farmers do not know each other very well.” This is too true. It seems that the farmers, even the type of, farmers gathered here, are willing to make some advances to the city workers. An Indiana delegate raised the issue on the floor, declaring that in his state the city workers and farmers were be- ginning to co-operate. The same is true in other sections of the nation, But the Chicago Federation of La- bor officials missed a splendid oppor- tunity to defy labor’s enemies, the bankers of La Salle Street, the grain gamblers on the board of trade and the open shoppers of the Manufacturers’ Association and the chamber of commerce, by failing to make advances to the farmers gath- ered here, ' o>. It is reported that Newton Jenk- ins, the lawyer, erstwhile candi- date for United States senator on the LaFollette. ticket, who is at+ torney for the Illinois Federation of Labor, is carrying on negotiations between the labor officialdom and the heads of the Illinois Agricultur- al Assoication, the Mlinois organi- ; zation of the farm bureau, for the purpose of getting joint action in the establishment of a farm bank in thestate. This would at least signify a faint beginning of farmer- labor co-operation, Abortive tho it ay be. > wrod, ey AN Intensive pi jure must be brot to bear, however, by the' masses of wage workers and the poorest farm- ers and farm workers, in spite of the officialdom if necessary, to force united action of the city with the land. Such action will find an expression in the development of the labor party, in which the grow- ing class consciousness of the work- ers will struggle against the instru- ments of their oppressors, the repub- lican and democratic parties. For- ward to the unity of the wage workers with the farm workers, By T. J. O'FLAHERTY Continued from Page 1.) under similar financial circumstances, This fact was impressed very forcibly on Baron Tornow, late of the still later Russian imperial army. Tornow spec- ulated in Wall Street and struck luck for a while. Then he was struck by misfortune. But a fair lady by the name of Clendenin did not know that the baron bought his clothes on the installment plan, So she married him, but when he was unable to pay for the wedding supper in the Waldorf she called a cab and went back to her angry papa, The baron was carried to a modest place, where friends k off his shoes and put him to bed, o:.8:..¢ DITORIALLY and in its news col- umns the New York Times up- holds the reactionary leadership of the socialist heads of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, who are now trying to grab the New York Joint Board from the radicals in the midst of @ strike, This support is deserved, The capitalists rarely make a mistake in picking friends, Right wing socialists sneer at a united front of labor, but wherever they see half chance to closer to the bosses they do so, ‘ “* CAUSE, in the opinion of Frank P, Graves, commissioner of edu- cation for the state of New York, the Civil Liberties Union could have found some other place to test a free speech fight, the commissioner upheld the board of education in refi of the schoolroom to the this ruling. It only offers further proof that our “institutions” are built and sustained to serve the interests of the ruling classes. The sooner this fact is impressed on the workers the sooner will they begin thinking of or- ganizing a labor party, oie ©, M eae SUNDAY WORKER of England carries a picture showing the loud mouthed Lord Birkenhead, alias “Gal- loping Smith,” shaking hands with his former chauffeur, Who was so badly damaged in the world war that he is doomed to live ‘the rest of his life on the broad of his back in a bed. Several nicely-dressed ladies got into the pic- ture, and they seemed to enjoy the scene. The wages of fighting for the capitalists is worse than death, r os, . OW would you like to have a little saintly shinbone in your home? Here is your opportunity. Fragnients of apostolic bones were located by some indefatigable explorers and are now offered for sale by the Chicago Historical Society. According to a document, the bishop of Milan in 1729 ordered a@ case made for the bones and entrusted them to the charge of a Viennese priest to display for the ven- eration of the faithful. Holy shin- bones! What next? CHINAWARDS AT SUNDAY MEETING Canton Envoy to Tell of China’s Struggle The challenge of the Canton revo lutionary government to the league of nations, the softened British attl- tude towards the new power In China and the probable appeal for truce by the Chinese militarists following the unprecedented victories of the arm- ies of liberation, brings China to the forefront of world events and pre- sents a situation that all conscious workers find themselves wanting to know about. First Canton Envoy. Chicago workers are particularly ‘bined to make this the most enjoyable fortunate in being in a position to hear at first hand about the revolu- ‘ tion in China. Sze Toa Chan, the first authorized representative of the Canton government to come to the United States, will speak at North- west, Hall, North Ave. and Western on Sunday at 8 p. m. His subject will be, “China’s Great Struggle for Freedom.” Sze Toa Chan was form- erly minister of education in the Canton Nationalist government. Last year he was sent on a special mission to Japan. He is in this country mak- ing an investigation of educational methods. Ruthenberg to Speak. Cc. EB. Ri , general secre- tary of the Workers (Communist) Party, will speak at the meeting on behalf of the revolutionary working- class movement in this country which is in entire sympathy with the Hbera- tion struggles of the Chinese. The meeting is arranged by the All-Amer- ica Anti-Imperialist Le: whose Oe Aa a eae | mez, xn address ee @ program are Chinese miu- sical numbers that will acquaint many workers for the first time wita one form of Chinese art with which most oecidentals are entirely unfa- miliar.. Airs from Chinese operas will be sung by soloists and an in- strumént called the Chinese banjo will offer unique entertainment. CALL CONFERENCE IN LOS ANGELES OF DAILY WORKER LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9,—All labor unions and other working class or- ganizations have been invited to at- tend a conference to devise ways and means of aiding in the campaign to “Keep the DAILY WORKER” here Monday night, Dec. 13, at 322 West Second street, near Hill street. The conference will be called at 8 o'clock. A letter has been sent to each or- ganization by the Los Angeles com- mittee to “Keep The DAILY WORKER.” Each organization is urged to send two delegates. The letter says in part: “The DAILY WORKER, which for three years has stood in the forefront of the workers’ struggles, is coming to you for help. In all strugges of the workers The DAILY WORKER has been the militant voice of the work- ers telling the facts about their fights and encouraging them to go forward. It has had a difficult time to keep alives but it has kept its flag flying and shown the way for the workers’ struggles. Now it is in danger. It must have help in order to meet its crisis and to build a solid foundation for its future work. We must Keep The DAILY WORKER, so that it can inform. the workers daily about the development of their struggles, guide these struggles and consolidate the forces of the working class.” ATTEND CONCERT OF DAILY WORKER NEW YORK SUNDAY NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—-A grand con- cert will be held this Sunday after- noon, Dec. 12, at 2 o'clock, at York- ville Lyceum, 216 East 86th street, to “Bring The DAILY WORKER to New York.” Every worker is invit- ed to attend this affair, the proceeds from ‘which go to The DAILY WORKER campaign fund. New York Tourist Club in Sunday Hike Last Sunday the: elements had a great surprise in store. A showstorm whipped by a strong east wind com- hike in years, The Jamaica woods looked like the Canadian wilds. Snow- drifts made walking rather dificult, but nevertheless pleasant. After two hours of walking and a huge camp firo under shelter, we made our way home, red cheeked and happy. Next Sunday, Dec. 12, we hike to Staten Island, Meeting place, Staten Island —