The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 1

ray t Li The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill’ No. 282. Subscription Rates: In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by \mail, $6.00 per year, Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 4 the Post Office 1923, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1926 at Chicago, UMnois, under the =” Act of March 3, Publi; PUBL ORICER. 1879, by THE DAILY Daily shor Rune 20., e Washington Bivd ING CO. i This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE, WORKE hicag Price 5 Cents What the Districts Have Done in the Past Week to Kee é «/AILY WORKER a” Ps Po id oe gen" “BERG Generar “Ig nist) Party, HE following table show. wa’ “sf i ° éricts of the party in the Keep The DAILY WOh, the gains they have made in raising ~ month: District Quota Buffalo $1,100 Detroit 2,500 Agricultural 400 Kansas City 1,000 Chicago ... 7,500 Philadelphia .. 3,000 Minneapolis 3,500 San Francisco 3,000 Cleveland 3,00 New York .... 15,000 Pittsburgh .. 2,500 Boston ..... 4,000 New Haven 1,000 Seattle ..... 2,500 Canada and Foreig: Total ... --+-§$50,000 December 7, and also n the first week of the Amt. Raised Percentage Increase $1,165.62 105.96 3.39 2,489.95 99.59 ,00 343.00 85.75 75 824,94 82.75 6.65 4,681.75 62.42 1.66 1,637.24 54.57 1.06 1,719.77 49.13 6.47 1,399.01 46.63 4.95 1,195.86 39.86 2.61 5,415.04 36.10 79 853.17 34.12 2.06 1,175.43 29.38 1,21 272.52 27,25 2.80 667.77 26.71 3.56 28.35 $23,869.42 47.74 2.10 The Buffalo District, in spite of the fact that it has passed the 100% mark, keeps forging ahead, whereas Detroit seems stuck just below the 100%. Won't somebody in Detroit raise $10.05 to put the district over the 100% mark? Among the other districts, Minneapolis and Kansas City have done most for The DAILY WORKER during the last week by increasing their percentage of their quota by 6.47% and 6.45%, respectively, San Francisco has made a fairly good showing in increasing Its percentage by close to 5%, Seattle, too, shows some sign of life in the campaign for The DAILY WORKER; but it is still at the bottom of the list in the support it has given. Cleveland forged ahead of New York, but the percentage of its quota raised is still poor. The success of the fight to Keep The DAILY WORKER depends upo# the members of the party in the districts from Seattle up to and inclusive of Chicago. The members of the party in the first four districts have done thelr party duty. They have raised, or are close to raising thé quota assigned to them in the Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign. Between the percentage raised by Kansas City and Chicago there is a drop of 20%, and from Chicago the gap grows ever widér. What have the party members in the Seattle, New Haven, ‘Boston, Pittsburgh, New York, Cleveland, delphia and Chicago districts to say? THE DAILY WORKER? San Francisco, Minneapolis, Phila- WILL THEY WORK TO KEEP Are they ready to make the same sacrifices, carry on the same energetic campaign that the comrades of the Buffalo, Detroit, Agricul- tural and Kansas City districts have done? THE FUTURE OF THE DAILY WORKER DEPENDS UPON THE PARTY MEMBERS AND LEADING COMMITTEES IN THESE DIS- TRICTS, WILL THEY ACT TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER? By T. J, OFLA HERTY ‘OHN COOLIDGE, the president's son, enjoys the protection of a colone] who draws $3,700 a year in salary, together with a daily. allow- ance of $6. So it appears that “Econ- omy Cal” is not as close-fisted as the capitalist papers wish us to believe. Now it is up to Bruce Barton to in- terview the president again, and give the “unofficial! spokesman” an oppor- tunity to admit that he loves his son. ee RTHUR BRISBANE is duly grate- ful that Japan is friendly to the United States, else he might be jalarmed over the order given by Japan .to an English firm calling for the building of twenty-five passenger air- jShips at $50,000 each, Each one of pthose machines will be capable of car- irying twenty passengers. Needless to say, Arthur used the little bit of mews a8 an excuse to demand more airplanes‘in the United States. -* * HE league of nations expects war and warns its members to be ready for emergencies, The question: what are the dominant members of the league going to fight about and with whom. This warning should be taken ag seriously as if a band of pickpockets advised their victims to be careful of their, pockets during the Christmas season, that pickpockets were expected to cele- brate Christmas that way, es MRDINAND must quit or die at onee,” reads a headline. This is about ag drastic an ultimatum as we ever heard of being delivered to a ruler. It is like saying “your money or your life.” There have been more rumors spread about the king's health than about the whereabouts of Nicky Arnstein when that worthy was being dodged by the police, It seems that the genial Marie, wife of Ferdy, who was here with us recently, wants to be queen in form as well as in fact. The king can take his choice between a short Ife, free from regal worries, but with his grub guaranteed, or a shorter life free from both. oe @ IDWIN- DENBY, former secretary of the navy, accepted full respon- sibility for the granting of the oil leases to Doheny and Sinclair, Fall’s counsel thinks this should let their client out. Denby was dynamited out of the remains of the Harding cabinet when Teapot Dome exploded in Wash- ington, Denby was coached for the witness chalr by Doheny'’s counsel. Perhaps tho former secretary would not mind seeing a black satchel in an alley a® part compensation for the (Continued on page 2.) WHY FALL ‘LOAN’ IS CALLED BRIBE Can’t See Wrong in It, He Testifies (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—In a voice low and husky, and at times almost inaudible, E. L. Doheny, oil magnaté, under a rapid-fire cross ex- amination by government counsel, told the jury in the oil conspiracy triaJ that he could conceive of no reason why suspicion should attach to jhis loan of $100,000 to ex-secretary of interior, Albert B. Fall, from whom he leased the Elk Hills naval ol! re- serve, Doheny said the loan was a per- fectly natural transaction “between old friends who had suffered many hardships together.” He stuck con- sistently to his earlier testimony. Doheny was on the stand all told for about eight hours. With his testi- mony out of the way, the defense is expected sHortly to rest its case. Fall will pot take the witness stand. The defense will sink or swim with the impression the Doheny family has made. His counsel has partially de- cided not to put any character wit- nesses on for the former cabinet of- ficer, They contend “his public rec- ord speaks for itself.” eee Doheny Assumes Responsibility. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — Bawin | Denby, secretary of navy under Hard- ing when the oll leases were given to BE. L. Doheny, millionaire oil operator, took full responsibilty for the grant- ing of the naval oil leases in the crim- inal trial here. Denby a witness for the defense in an attempt to ab- (Continued on page 2) BROPHY ISSUES [Fight American Government’s Aid to Mussolini’s Fascist Persecutions STATEMENT 10 VOTING MINERS Assails Lewis’ Failure to Save Union John Brophy, candidate for presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America at the biennial elections of the union next Tuesday, December 14, issued the following statement thru the Central Press Association: I am leading the “Save the Union” ticket in the miners’ election because I believe the union is in danger of be- ing destroyed if the policies of the John L. Lewis administration are con- tinued. Saving the United Mine Workers is a matter of great concera to the peo- ple of this nation, especially the work- ing people. It is the only big indus- trial union in America that parallels a basic industry. There are few peo- ple in the United States who want to see this union turned over to the open shop, Lewis Fails. Yet that is what is happening and happening fast, When Mr, Lewis took office in 1919 the union controlled more than two-thirds of the bitumin- ous tonnage. After seven years of his administration it has fallen to con- trol of only one-third. Next April when the Jacksonville agreement expires the union is ex- pected to be facing a fight for its existence. * Some of the influential operators are talking of entering in- to no future contracts and in that case a national strike will be neces- sary. Now it is obvious that a national strike cannot be won unless the un- lon controls most of the coal tonnage. The problem fachig the union—and {t is a Mfe and death problem—is to organize the non-union coal fields and do it quickly. No Plans for Crisis. Mr. Lewis is drifting toward April without any. plans for the crisis. His} large force of organizers, instead of concentrating on West Virginia, Ken- tucky, and other key non-union fields, are playing’ ‘administration politics in the nérth. ~ The first point in the “Save the Un- ion” platfgrm is, therefore, the organ- ization of the non-union fields. That is an emergency program. But it is aot enough'in itself. We see the need of a larger program that will give the coal miners security and the public fuel at fair prices. ‘ Nationalization. This larger program is nationaliza- tion, . It means, briefly, unification of the coal, industry under public own- ership, with the union sharing in man- agement. p} Idle mines and idle miners today are the ‘result of competitive private ownership in the industry. The indus- try is a hundred per cent over-devel- oped. It is geared to produce a bil- Non tons annually for a market that absorbs five hundred million. And yet new mines are still being opened at the whim of operators. A Needed Goal. There is nothing utopian about the program of nationalization. It is a (Continued on page 2) PRAVDA WARKS OF POLISH PREPARATIONS FOR WAR AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 10—Po- land probably will make war against the Soviet Union next spring, de- clares the newspaper, Pravda, organ of the Communist Party. Pravda declares that Poland is making efforts to break up the So- viet negotiations with the Baltic states and that thi efforts have not been without success, “because the Baltics think that in case of war they might be able to seize a piece of Soviet territory.” Polish declarations of willingness to negotiate with the Soviets are merely intended to gain time to pre- pare for war, Pravda said. “We have no doubt that the real inten- tlon of Poland is to expand at the expense of the Soviet Union,” the newspaper concluded, ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI ARRIVES IN MEXICO TO TAKE UP DUTIES VERA CRUZ, Dec, 10. —- Alexandra Kollontal, the Soviet Union’s new am- bassador to Mexico arrived here en- route to Mexico City to take up her post, Mme, Kallontai tpld newspape men that the Soviet Union had the greatest sympathy for the struggles ofthe Mexican people and declared that she was eager to increase trade ‘een the two countries, She spoke, of the possibility of a steamship line between Leningrad and ,Vera Cruz, Concerning the refusal of the United States to allow her to land there on her way to Mexico, Mme, Kollontai said the state depariment evidently could not distinguish be- tween a diplomat and w propagandist and was at a loss to understand In what way she could harm the United States by merely passing thru ip country. + Statement of the Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party ** * HE government of the U. S. is playing a new role—that of the assistant ie persecution of Mus- sottal’s fascist government. The latest victim of fascism, allied | with the government at Washing- ton, is Enea Sormenti, secretary of the Italian Section of the Workers (Communist) | Party, who has been arrested for Heportation to Italy. Many Italian workers, threatened with imprisonment or death because of their fight against Mussolini’s fascist dictatorsinp and its attempt to destroy’ | labor movement of Italy, have fle#f to the United States. following its implacable juing the persecution fers here, Altho the right of asylm has in the past been recognized inthe United States, the government-at Washington is giving help to fascism in wreaking ven- geance on who have dared to fight against it, by arresting the Italian wo who have come here for illegal into the country and ordering their deportation to TOBACCO UNIONS IN NEW YORK TO BEC NEY Dee. 10. — A unity mass meeting for the purpose of out- Uning the of the merger of the New York Amalgamated Tobacco Workers’ unfou with the Cigarmakers’ ‘International uiion of New York has been called Sunday afternoon, Dec. 12, at Laber_ ple, 243 Hast sath | street. 4 - The mealted iby the}: Unity Conference committee compos- ed of the executive board of the To- bacco Workers and the. Joint Advis- ory board of the cigarmakers. Conditions Force Action. The call for the meeting stresses that the amalgamation of the unions is made necessary by the increased exploitation of the tobacco workers in| New York. derpaid workers in the city,” the bul- letin states. “We are living in miser- able holes without air or ventilation. In many cases the clothes on our backs are nob ours. “Must Unite.” “Tf this appalling condition is not enough to move us into action, to make our blood boil, and use the lit- tle stamina that have left to do some veal work to better ourselves and our families, then we have ceased to be the old pioneers of labor that we were and have degenerated into idiocy and contemptible abjection. It is manda- tory to unite, to close tightly our ranks, that the working class shall be able to successfully wage its bat-| tle for final emancipation.” New York Women to Protest Fire Traps as Homes for Workers Delegations: of mothers from all parts of New York will go to City Hall on Monday, Dec. 13, at 2 p. m. to demand safe homey for their fami- lies and to protest against the loss of lives in firetraps, Loss of lives due to fires in tene- ments during/the month of November, 1926, are ag ‘follows: In Harlem at Bast 106th street a worker, Busch, HE WELDED Italy. For many of these workers depor- tation to Italy means death at the hands of the fascisti. In deporting them to Italy the United States gov- ernment becomes the assistant of the fascist hangmen. Enea Sormenti was one of the energetic fighters against fascism in Italy. Because of his work in support of labor's struggle against fascism he was outlawed by the fascist government and was compel- led to leave Italy. Altho Sormenti has been in this country.as a political refugee for a number of years, it is only since he became one of the leaders of the Anti-Fascisti Alliance, and as such became a marked man so far as Mus- solini’s government Is concerned, that the persecution against him was renewed, The deportation of Sormenti by the American government means his death at the hands of the fasc- isti, Sormenti is to have a hearing before the immigration authorities on Dec, 11th, Unless the workers immediately organize a mass pro- test against his deportation, he will be turned over to the fascisti. Once before, the American gov- Save Sormenti from the Italian Hangmen ernment endeavored to help the reaching hangmen by becoming the aid of Czarism, which pursued its victims to the United States, but workers who were marked for the Czarist hangmen, were saved by the protest of the American workers. THE WORKERS MUST SAVE SORMENTI FROM THE FASC- Ist. The International Labor Defense has undertaken the defense of Sor- menti against deportation. Its work to save Sormenti and establish the right of asylum for political refu- gees in the United States should be supported by every militant worker. Build a mass movement of pro- test to save Sormenti. Establish the right of asylum for political refugees in the United States, Fight the efforts of fascism to reach its victims here. Let Washington know that the workers will ‘not submit to aid to the fascist hangmen thru deporta- tions. Save Sormenti and all other poli- tical refugees. Central Committee Workers (Communist) Party C. E, RUTHENBERG, Gen. Sec’y. ALL NEW YORK TRADE UNIONS AND WORKER ORGANIZATIONS URGED TO ATTEND DAILY WORKER CONFERENC E NEW YORK, Dec. 10. ae trade union and workers’ organ- ization in New York and to the general conference to be Manhattan Lyceum to consider DAILY WORKER in New York nity is being urged to send delegates held Friday evening, Dec. 17, at plans for the launching of The on,a basis that will make it most effective in the workers’ bgttle here. The following letter has been sent to each organization : To All Trade Unions and Workers’ Organizations in New York and Nearby Cities. Brothers and Fellow Workers: Dozens. of strikes have taken place in New York this year. | » Cloakmakers, Textile Workers, Shoe Work: | one of these strikes—Furrie! In every ers, Iron Workers, Optical Workers, Subway Workers, Paper Box Makers— | the capitalist press, as was to be expected, served the bosses, ‘thin kepti press hurted }te-attacke against the strikers, hut they were power | Every day les to answer peepee they did not have an ENGLI6H DAILY PAPER of their own. The DAILY WORKER, the only working class daily in the English language in this country, has been handicapped in its fight for New York workers against the. bosses and the betrayers of labor because until now it was printed in Chicago. York to be able to:serve you better. The DAILY WORKER offers itself to you as a weapon in every struggle |, “We are the most UD-/ +, aght for militant trade unionism, to organize the unorganized, to protect 1 the foreign-born and to help win strikes. The DAILY WORKER will also | counteract the:slow, insidious poison spread by the bosses’ press to con- POLICE AID TO RIGHT WINGERS; HALT MEETING Help for Cloakmakers’ Strike Stopped The right wing in the Chicago labor {movement united Thursday night to | break up a meeting called to assist | the locked out cloakmakere of New | York in winning their struggle. ' Sam Levin, Sidney Rissman and | Abe Weinstein of the Amalgamated |Clothing Workers, President John | Fitzpatrick and Secretary Edward N. | Nockels of the Chicago Federation of Labor, led the forces which succeeded jin preventing some 2,000 needle trades workers from hearing the is- ; Sues of the New York struggle out- | tinea by Ben Gold, chairman of the Furriers’ Union joint board of New York. and Sascha Zimmerman, one of the‘leaders of the New York union of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Called under the auspices of the national needle trades section of the Trade Union Educational League, the meeting was to have made the issue of amalgamation of the needle trades unions the central point of the fight jto insure victory for the cloakmakers and raise financial relief for the locked-out workers. A. C. W. Officiaidom Leads. The officialdom of the Amalga mated, alarmed by the rapidly de- | veloping mass sentiment for central d organization in the needle tradex unions, and evidently in accord with a national policy of war on the lef: wing in all the needle trades unions led by A. C. W. officialdom, mobil ized their shop chairman and gang: ster elements, That the officialdom of other unions participated in what is in effect sab otage of the cloakmakers’ strike ix levidenced by the presence of shock cops from other sections of the Chicago right wing labor movement Fitzpatrick and Nockels Speak. The presence of Fitzpatrick and Nockels gave official sanction to the proceedings. Both spoke to the as- semblage of right wingers which the meeting = Temple Hall became at. ter 9 p. The righ wing had prepared their plan of action carefully They had advertised a rival meet- ing in the Streetcarmen’s Auditoriam -one block aw from Temple Hall. The DAILY WORKER is now moving to New] Knowing that the right wingers would to break up the Temple Hail ting, the committee in charge i to prevent the entrance of dis- rbing elements but were unsuccess- j ful. | ‘The two meetings created much trol the minds of the workers during times of so-called “industrial peace.” | confusion and large numbers of work- A GENERAIL CONFERENCE will be held FRIDAY EVENING, DECEM- | °T*, U which was which BER 17, at MAHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 EAST 4th ST., NEW YORK, to con-| bea Thin ieee ting to get mix- sider the LAUNCHING OF THE DAILY WORKER HERE IN NEW YORK |.) jac ot nn whic h ‘hreatene on such a basis that it will be of the greatest possible use to the organized | | Right wing ied in getting workers of New York. YOU ARE INVITED TO SEND THREE DELE-|iarge numbers of their shock troops GATES to this conference. {inte Temple Hall thru t back door several fights took Uni- If youhave no regular meeting of your organization before then, you, as | °™ an official or as recipient of this letter, are invited to attend to help mould this powerful weapon for the workers of New York in the fight against the| and and their tools. exploiting bo: Fraternally yours, L. E. KATTERFELD, Mgr., Dally Worker Eastern Agency, 108 E. 14th St., New York. WORKERS’ SCHOOL STARTS CLASS IN NEW YORK, Dec. 10, — Arthur C. Calhoun, Theresa Wolfson, Leona Smith and Margaret Undjus are co- operating in a course which marks the entry of the Workers’ School into a new field, the field of work among women as a special labor group. The course is entitled: “Problems of Working Class Women.” Arthur ©, Calhoun gives the first part of the course which will deal and his 11-year-old son were burned to death. He left behind him a widow and three little children in the hos- pital, dangerously burned. At 301 Cherry street; Samuel Weiner, with two children, were burned to death. He left behin@é him a widow and three little children: Many others lost their lives and were injured, due to fires in dangerous firetrap tenements, The Women will assemble at the call of the United Council of Working- class Housewives at 1 o’clock Mon- day afternoon in room 237, at 80 East llth street, corner of Broadway, and proceed to the City Hall, All women who are interested are urged to come, Important Meeting of Technical Aid, Dec. 17 NBW YORK, Dec. 10-—A general membership meeting of the Technical Aid Society of Soviet Russia will be held here Friday evening, 8 o'clock, Dec. 17, at 15 Bast Third street. All mombers are urged to be present ag this {¢ am important meeting, with the history of the family in the U. S. He is the author of the most authoritative work on that subject: “Social History of the American Family.” His portion of the course will emphasize the changing trend in the family institution under the stress of modern industry, / Problems of Organization, The second phase of the course deals with the working class woman in the factory and in industry and the problems of organization of wo- men in the trade unions, This portion of the course will be conducted by Theresa Wolfson who is the author of the book, “Woman in Industry,” re- cently published by the International Publishing Co, The third section will deal with the working class housewife and her prob- lems—rent, prices, children, schools, ete, Leona Smith, who is in charge of this portion of the course, has con- ducted work among the women of Passaic during the long Passaic tex- tile strike and gotten her practical experience on the fleld which repres- PROBLEMS OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY ents the outstanding example of the participation of wpmen on a large scale in recent labor struggles. The final portion of the course deals with the aims of the Workers Party in connection with women’s work and Margaret Undjus, who is chairman of the committee of women’s work of the Workers (Communist) Party in the New York district, will take charge of this portion of the course. Altogether the course will run one night a week for a period of 14 ses. sions. The fee for the course is $3.50, The course should prove of special interest to members of the Woman's Trade Union League, to directors of woman's work in the various uniis of the Workers Party, to organizers and members of trade unions in which large numbers of women are organ- ized, and to those interested in in- dustries in which large numbers of women participate, The course begins on Monday, Dec. 20, at 9:15 p. m. Dance for F. reiheit at Madison Square At Madison Square Garden, New York, Saturday, Dec, 18, Frethett, the Jewish daily, will give a grand masquerade ball. As a special fea- ture the Albertina Rasch Ballet will appear in select numbers, Ali you who enjoy dancing and a wood ballety as woll as the numerous friends of Frefheit, should keep this date open and be present, jformed policemen and a ve from ithe detee were bureau were not rned in pre jing order until was apparent that he right wing-had a de major } in the meetin ey be- jeame very busy inc | Levin Speaks with Protection. With the mee 4 police con- | trol Levin of the An ated, Fitz {patrick and Nockels made speeches acking » left Levin ap- tled to Chicago patriotism by say- that t bor movement did not od anyc m New York (refer {ting to Gold, Gitlow and Zimmerman) jt advise it. Fitzpatrick, after naming the repub. lican demo | only ones necess. and ‘political (Continued on page 2) | interference of party New York Central Forum Offers Good Roster of Speakers “What's the Matter with Mexico” ig the opening. lecture of the Central Forum to be conducted on Sunday nights at 8 o'clock in the headquarters of the Workers’ School, 108 Bast 14th street, New York City. Bertram D. Wolfe, who was active for three years in the Mexican labor movement and was finally deported from Mexico be- cause of his activity in the general” railroad strike of the 17 railroad crafts of Mexico, is scheduled for the first lecture, on Dec, 12, On the following Sunday night, Dec, 19, William W, Weinstone will die cuss the problem of working-class leadership under the title, “Debs and Lenin.” The speaker for Dec. 26 4s M. J, Olgin. On Jan, 2 William Foster will speak on “Class Collabo- ration” and on Jan, 9 A. Harkoff, who was in the Soviet Union during the past summer, will speak on the sub ject, “Whither Russia?”