The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 2

fage Two THE DAILY WORKER DEATH LIST OF INDIANA MINE BLAST NOW 25 Give U Ip Hope for Three Still in Burning Shaft (Special to The Daily Worker) FRANCISCO, Ind. Dec. 10.—The death fist from the explosion in Fran- elsco Mine No. 2 stood at 25, four new victims having been reported Friday morning, Charred and blackened, the bodies of 8, J. Rohl and William C. Ratcliff were brought to the surface this morn- ing by a rescue crew that had been searching the passages of the ‘mine since 5:30 this morning, under the handicap of withering heat from a blaze tl broke out in the south passageway. Orville Slater and Ledford King, two ef the injured in the hospital at Princeton, died early today Another rescue crew, to replace the me which brought Rohl and Ratcliff to the surface, immediately went back ito the mine to search for Claudie Wright, Emory West, and Walter Thomas, who still are missing. No Hope For Others, With the fi z of the last two victims the that had been held out for th g went glim- mering. Mine rescue offi Ss told In- ternational News Service they have Httle hope of finding the three alive. Fire which broke out in the south] © passageway filled the mine with a ter- rific heat that eddied thru the work- ings. The blaze spread, interfering; with the rescue attempts DENBY ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY IN OIL LEASES Says He Didn’t Know What It Meant | (Continued solve Albert ; ary of in terior, from in case. “TI took full responsibility and made the leases,” he testified. “I didn’t want to have anything to do with it—but I had to anyway,” he testified. Ignorant of Facts. Denby said that he didn’t \ know much about the whole situation, that | he entrusted the details to his subor- dinates, and all he did was to “sign the papers.” He disclaimed any knowl- edge of the huge profits Doheny was to get from the leases, and he said he made no effort to discover what the leases really meant. He said he did not suspect anything wrong when,he was urged to transfer the jurisdiction of the navy holdings to Fall’s department. He said he was told the interior department could handle the affairs better, so he’com, plied with the request. | Mrs. Doheny Testiflies. Doheny, wife, and son, took the { stand stify that the $100,000) tran mn between Doheny and Fall yas “purely a private transaction,” nd had nothing to do with the oll leases. The government contends} {that the mone a bribe to Fall.| f Mrs. Doheny explained that the rea- | Son the note that Fall signed was to vorn in half, one part given her, was Ito pre t Fall i ase of the death of Doheny. Doheny Tells of War Scare. President Harding called the Wash- nce, at which lim- nent was agreed f ; upon, “because of the menacing move- ments of Japan,” Doheny declared {from the witn stand. This information was given him, ; Doheny said, by Captain J. K. Robi- Bon, who ted in the negotiations | for the naval oil reserve leases, i “He got me very worked up over it,” said Doheny. “I still am.’ Send us the name and address of a progressive worker to whom we.can send a sample copy of The | DAILY WORKER. | IN CHICAGO | Enjoy the entertainment and good food at the dance for i THE DAILY WORKER | _ and the fighting Greek weekly EMPROS. Admission 50 Cents Bowen Hall 8 P.M. HULL HOUSE Christmas in t IHRISTMAS in the penitentiary. / How many workers think of the| lying behin “erfme” than | class war prisoners prison bars for no other hat of fighting for the interests of he working class. A Christmas present for every work- ing class political ‘prisoner United States! The I. L. D. is ask- ing all progressives to contribute to this cause. A dime or a dollar— what does it mean to the donor? What does it mean to the class war prisoner? In some cases it may be a sacrifice by the donor; spared. To the class war prisoners it may add a little to their physica! comforts, but the fact of receiving a present gives them a new lease on life. It is brought that they are not forgotten. in the | as a rule it can be} home to them| That there is an ever growing group of he Penitentiary | workers under the banner of the 1. L, D. that is determined to carry on the struggle for their freedom. It dis- pels prison lonesomeness, makes them feel that they are an important fac- | tor in the class struggle, I am sure that every progressive will be only too glad to share his or her Christmas with the class war pris- joners. Not only by giving an indi- | vidual donation, but by taking the question up in the various progressive | groups, trade unions, working clubs, etc., and thru the I. L. D. show their | class solidarity by lightening men- | tally the 50 odd class war prisoners | by remembering them with a Christ- mas present and thus assuring them | that the struggle for their liberty is being vigorously carried on.—J. W. Johnstone, secretary Trade Union Educational League, Local Chicago. BROPHY ISSUES STATEMENT 10 VOTING MINERS Assails Lewis’ Failure to|” Save Union (Continued from Page 1.) needed goal tliat can be reached if the United Mine Workers gets behind it. Three union conventions have en-} dorsed it and a nationalization re- search committee, which I headed, made a careful report on the pro- ram, but President Lewis opposes He opposes it today, tho in 1921 when he ran against the late Samuel Gompere for president of the Ameri- : can Federation of Labor he asked for | support on the basis of his belief in| the larger program. One thing is sure: unless the coal industry is reorganized—and the work- day shortened—it will continue to be cursed with unemployment. For Labor Party, Along with nationalization we stand for a Labor Party. Our union con- ventions have favored the idea but President Lewis ignored the spirit f the membership and in 1924 pub- lic supported Calvin Coolidge s officially backing its ator Robert M. LaFollette. The opposition to President Lewis is based then on his failure as a trade inion leader and his blindness to- wards progressive policies. But along vith this is another reason for the resentment against his leadership. No Union Freedom. Lewis denies democratic freedom in Beginning with the expul- sion of Alexander Howat, president of the Kansas miners in 1921 when he was in jail for opposing the indus- trial court laws, Lewis has been from time to time expelling or otherwise discriminating against political oppon- Howat to@ay, tho a member of the union in good standing, is barred; from running for office, Tho the large majority of the Kansas miners have endorsed him for district president, the union. ents. Howat is barred from serving them. The “Save the Union” represents the in this St administration's tattics merely an opposition. tant constructive greater future. Honest Election. December 14 the 2,000 local unions from Washin ton to Pennsylvania will give the min- ers the opportunity of a new deal. ‘Al fer ident when the labor movement} candidate, | movement widespread opposition American union to its But it is not! It has a mili- program for not | merely redeeming the union from the open shop drift but leading it to a polling places of ‘CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from Page 1.) mental agony he endured when he Wi bounced ignominiously out of, fice, * ON’T forget our disabled soldiers | at Christmas time” is the title pak an editorial in one of Hearst's |Chicago papers. The disabled sol- diers, like the poor devils that the Salvation Army lives on, are conve- niently forgotten by those for whom | they laid down their lives all the rest | jot the year except Christmas. ‘“He- |roes” of the world war are reported |in the capitalist press frequently as having committed suicide thru the spondency because of want of em- | ployment and consequently of susten- ance. This should not be forgotten by our cannon-fodder when the récruit- ing sergeants come around, . ENOR ADOLFE DE LA HUERTA is plotting against Mexico from a town on the American border, and on his own admission is keeping the United States department of justice informed on all his activities. In an interview with a New York Times correspondent Huerta predicted that the Calles government would soon fall and that the cause of the Yaqui In- | dian rebels is his cause. It is “Viva de la Huerta.” , Huerta’s predictions remind us of the prophets who fore- | told the fall of the Soviet government with monotonous ‘regularity until even the most gullible of the capitalist press refused to take them seriously. * . et hngaed working class in France were hit in the pocket when the franc fell. Now that the franc is rising they are getting it,in the. belly. With the fall of the franc they saw their savings wiped out. On the other hand, as the franc goes up they find unemployment .and. hunger staring them in the face, since their wages in defaulted francs, during the period of industrial prosperity was so meager that they were unable’ to save any- thing out of it, The French govern- | ment is not concerned about the in- terests of the workers and peasants. The banks and industrial concerns that control the government see to it that they get theirs coming and going, . HE Turks are contemplating chang- ing the name of Constantinople to one of Kemal Pasha’s four names, Since the republic consolidated itself the government of the republic has | waged war against the old supersti- "| tions that helped the Sultanate keep “the people in subjection.’ Kemal | Pasha threw a shock into a nation | when he threw his fez into'a sewer we ask on that date is honest elec-| ang appeared on the streets wearing a tions. On that date the issues I) | derby, Next he got the women to have outlined will be tested by other} qron their veils, which no doubt the candidates besides and myself. President Lewis | The other “Save the Un- women had no objection to doing. He is not thru yet, as may be gath- fon” candidates are William Steven-| ereq from his interview published in son, running for vice-president against Philip Murray, administration man; and William J. Brennan, for secretary Kennedy Stevenson is now international board treasurer against Thomas was formerly district president of the Scranton Wilkes-Barre field. Every Worker should read The American Worker Correspondent. The Send in your subscription now. 50 cents a year Dance Tonight latest Issue is off the press. Halsted and Polk Streets the papers a few Sundays ago in ref- erence to a league of Asiatic peoples in opposition to the league of nations, | WCFL Radio Program | Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. member from Michigan and Brennan SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2:00 p. m, to 2:00 a. m.—Grand Opening Special Program: Paul Ash and his gang; artists from radio stations; acts from downtown shows. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 4:00 p. m.—-Wicker Park Lutheran Church, Rev. §. P. Long. 7:456—Belden Ave. Baptist Church, Rev. J. W. Hoyt, AS MINE POWDER INDIANA, Pa., Dec. 10.—The déaths of three persons in Indiana hospital brot to light a tragedy in the home of Isaac Beck, a miner, in a isolated hill district in which four persons were fatally injured by the explosion of a can of dynamite ignited by a miner's lamp. The dead included Clair Beck, 18; Zelda Beck, 6; Marie Beck, 15; son and daughter of the miner, who died Wednesday, and Twila Ni n, grnad- daughter, who died at the home short- ly after the explosion, ' Altho the explosion occurred Mon- 7 POLICE AlD T0 RIGHT WINGERS ; HALT MEETING Help for ‘Gloakanakers’ Strike Stopped (Continued from Page. 1.) the needle trades in New York had “torn the Furriers’ Union and the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers into shreds.” National Polloy. The whole tenor of the speeches was fascist in tone as were the meth: ods used by the right wing. The tactics of the right’ wing are in conformity with the decisions made by the New York conference of Sig- man, President Lewis of the United Mine Workers, President*MeMahon of the United Textile Workers, Vico- President Woll of the American Fed- eration of Labor and Other officials, news of which was carried exclus- ively by The DAILY WORKER on Saturday, December 4. The appearance of Fitzpatrick and Nockels at the meeting can be taken to mean that they have their instruc- tions from ,President William Greea of the A. F. of L. Search Left Wingers. Seemingly by arrangement with the By J, LOUIS HIS afternoon, at Schoénhofen’s Hall, the membership of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union will gather to celebrate the substantial victory just won over the employers banded together in the Chicago Cloak and Suit Mak- ers’ Association, The sweeping nature of the triumph just achieved may be judg- ed from the fact that the basis was laid for the establishment of the five-day week in the industry, wages were increased and the conditions of labor were improved. These needle trades surely have something to glory pver in their celebration today. eee Unlike the scarehead publicity given the establishment of the so- called five-day week in the Ford plants of the automobile industry, the victory of I. L. G. W. U. is per- mitted to pass barely noticed by the management of Temple Hall right wingers were admitted thru the back door before the meeting started and altho all who were admitted thru the main entrance were searched for weapons by the police, the forces who came in the back door were not mo- lested. As the left wingers began to leave the hall after Levin began to speak, they were searched by the police. Two or three grrests were made. Goldberg of the Furriers’ Union was slugged. I. L. D. Christmas Fund Affair Will Be Held Here Saturday A bunco party, with a concert and dance for the Christmas Fund of In- ternational Labor Defense will be given Saturday, Dec. 11, 1926 at 7:30 DP. m. at the Fleiner Hall, 1638 N, Hal- sted street. The music and singing section of the Naturfreunde wil contribute to the} program with popular marching songs. | The Internationale Maenner-Gesangs | Verein will sing proletarian songs. A Russian soprano will render Russian songs and a few selections from vari- ous operas. Dancing music will be played by the orchestra of the German Workers’ Dramatic Club. As you see, you cannvt afferd to stay away! Besides, when’ you come to this affair, you will be doing your duty to the workers in prison and those who are threatened with im- prisonment. The affair'is being given by the German and Hungarian branches of the I. L. D, of Chicago. Admission is only 35 cents . St. Louis Behind Move for Passaic Relief; Picture There Sunday (Special to The Dally Worker) ST. LOUIS, Dec, 10.—“The Passaic Strike,” motion picture depicting the struggles of the textile workers, will be shown here Sunday, Dec. 12, at} Unity Hall, Grand and Page, at 6 and 9 o'clock. The picture is under the auspices of the St. Louis Passaic Re- lief conference organized on Dec. 14. The entire labor movement is get- ting behind the picture. The hall was donated by the Painters district coun- cil. Charles Bloom, president of the Metal Trades council, is chairman. W. J, Fitzmaurice, vice-president of the central labor body is secretary-treas- urer. Wm. Brandt, president of the central labor body is chairman of the publicity committee. The elevators’ union has donated $100 to the relief fund, See New Jury Panel 3 CHILDREN OF INDIANA MINER DIE for Mellett Murder CANTON, 0., Dec, 10.—Possibility of drawing a new panél of jurors in the case of Patrick B, McDermott, on trial here in connection With the mur- der of Don R. Mellett, murdered Can- ton publisher, looms. Altho ten jurors hady been tenta- tively seated and twenty-eight mem- bers of the original paifel of 62 still unquestioned, it was predicted that peremptory challenges ae exhaust the entire list. »WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! EXPLODES IN HOME day night, the mother, Mrs. Isaac Beck, badly burned herself, was un- able to summon aid until Tuesday, when she made her way over hazard- ous paths to the home of a neighbor. Doctors were unable to reach the Beck home till late in the day. The mother told of the, heroism of Clair, the son, who altho battered and bleeding, struggled to the door of the kitchen in which the explosion oc- curred, and made his way to a pump, where he filled pails water, and managed to put out the flames which followed the blast, employers’, press. This is merely a repetition of what happened when the furriers won the five-day week as a result et their strike in ‘New York City, The kept press of the master class falsifies the Ford five-day week, putting it in a favorable light, while it ig silent on the five-day week won by workers thru the pow- er they have built as the result of unity achieved in their trade un- ions on the job. It will be well to point out to the needle workers, gathered in their celebration, that the Ford five- day week means the performance of six days’ work in five days, Only then will the Ford wages remain the same for the five-day period. ‘This is one of the bitterest phases of the speed-up, driving the worker to the utmost to maintain his stand- ard of living. If the five-day pro- duction falls short of the pace de- manded for. six days then wages fall. This only means that those unable to keep up with the faster pace set will be gradually, weeded out, “Youth” and “Speed,” at com- paratively low wages, is anded by the Ford system, When youth fades as the result of sweating both mentally and physically, meaning that his speed begins to’ dlow up, then the worker is thrown on the scrap heap, with no organization to protect his interests. That is the five-day week lauded by the capital- ist class. It is a different five-day week won by the members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in Chicago. They win the shorter work-week and GET AN INCREASE IN WAGES, of from §2 to $3 for the different classifications, the highest percentage of increase going to the lowest paid workers, There is no ropm anywhere for the boss to speed production to make up for the time that the workers have taken from him, The employer hasn’t the right to freely “hire and fire.” The union dictates under what conditions this shall be done. The members of the union are pro- tected in their rights, This is a real five-day week to protect the interests of the workers, not a five- Let the Drive for the Five-Day Week Develop Thruout All Industry ENGDAHL, day week to develop greater “ef- ficiency,” at reduced cost, which means increased profits for the em- ployer coming directly out of the health and happiness of the work- ers. ee @ The victory of the I. L, G. W, U. has not been an easy one, It is the result of many years of struggle. The fearless and ceaseless march of the pickets, in long strikes, in the face of police clubs and the guns of private thugs, bears fruit. The days. and weeks spent by scores of jailed pickets behind prison bars this past year, under sentences imposed by hostile courts, have not been in vain. “Injunction Judge” Dennie Sul- livan used the power of the courts, to the utmost, to break up the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, But in vain. The fight- ing qualities of the union defeated his purpose. Mayor Dever’s police served the employing interests to the best of their ability, but the courage of the workers, especially of the women and girls; successfully combatted their foul purposes. The union stands stronger today than evér, The victory agreement has been unanimously accepted by the members of the joint board and of the executive committees of all the local unions. An encouraging mdlestone, “Greater strength for the workers, which means an increasing weakness of the position of the bosses,” has thus been reached on the road to greater power for all labor, It heralds the way to greater advances, ee What the Chicago ladies’ garment workers have achieved, the workers in other industries can also win. But let them remember this: that only in the two centers of the I. L. G. W. U., where the left wing is in control, in‘New York and Chicago, has the five-day week been won. The shorter work-week has long been on the program of the advance elements in the United Mine Work- ers’ Union, It is on the order of the day at the elections Tuesday, Dec. 14, for only in the triumph of an administration that dedicates its ef- forts to advancing the interests of the workers, will the miners’ union make progress in the organization of the unorganized, in overcoming wage cuts with wage increases and establishing the shorter work-day thru actually writing the six-hour day and the five-day week into wage contracts, The mining industry should have first furnished the im- petus for the five-lay week. Since it failed to do this, the members of the miners’ union must determine now not to trail too far in the rear, but rather to give encouragement to workers in other backward indus- tries, to labor in the steel mills, the textile and shoe industries, the rub- ber industries, and even on the rail- roads, In this sense the celebration this afternoon of the members of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union will be a clarion call to new efforts by all American labar. | Another controversy now shaking) [—— the city council and the school board is whether the board will face a de- ficit of three million on January first or be incumbered with a surplus of a like amount—a discrepancy of a pal- try six million that would drive a pub- lic accountant frantic. Mayor Dever on August 3, acting on information that had been supplied to him by Col. Edward B, Ellicott, then president of the board, had told a committee that the deficit loomed. ‘This statement was challenged by the Chicago Teachers’ Federation, and by Julius F, Smietanka, a member of the board’s finance committee. The ‘Teachers’ Federation even contended that the surplus would mount to $4,- 500,000. “Mayor Dever now admits that he evidently spoke on misinformation and predicts a surplus, Tt looks as if the misinformation was given out by persons anxious to secure an increase in the tax rate for school purposes. Thig 4s a move that the Teachers’ Federation is fighting, its program being to increase reve- nues by extracting from the dodgers on the present rate of taxation and by properly appraising for taxation such holdings as high-priced loop property. He Would Bathe the Aristocracy, PARIS, Dec, 10.—Hlaborate swim- ming pools for the aristocracy, eyuipped with artificial sun, breezes and sand, are advocated by Maurice do Waleffe. He fears the French upper classes are becuming effete from too much cafe life and Charleston dancip= signs of war, WHAT’S BEHIND GAME OF PREDICTING SCHOOL FUND DEFICIT WHEN SURPLUS LOOMS? ASKS TEACHERS’ FEDERATION MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 50th Street arid 8th Avenue NEW YORK The Largest Hall in the World Saturday Evening, December 18th The famous ALBERTINA RASCH BALLET will appear in selected numbers. Tickets at The FREIHEIT, 30 Union Square, New York. “The pen is mightier than the rd,” provided you know how to use it. Come down and learn how in the worker correspondent’s clasves. , CAUSES BELGRADE CABINET TO QUIT; TROUBLE: LOOMS (Special to The Dally Worker) BELGRADE, Dec. 10, — Resigna- tion of Foreign Minister Ninchitch over the strained relations with Italy resulting from the signing of the Italian-Albanian treaty, has re- sulted in the resignation of the entire Yugo-Slav oabinet. Ninchitch has been criticized severely for his diplomatic relations with Italy In the past, and the recent treaty, which Is seen as a threat against Yu lavia, wad characterized as a political blunder, Ninchitch’s resignation compll- cates the embroilment in the Balk- ans, now there Is no hope that the agreements signed by him with Italy will be ratified, It is possible that the new government, when, It is formed, will take the whole situa- tion before the league of nations, London and Paris dispatches in- dicate that those governments are worried over the affair, They see new alignments in the Balkans and Rescue Crew. NORFOLK, Va., Dec, 10.—Ten mem- bers of the crew of the schooner Edna M. Knight of Boston, wrecked in aD storm 100 miles off the Virginia coast, | were landed here today by the British steamor Kamoole, after boing rescued at sea by the British steamer * Awakening of China, By Jas. 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