The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1926, Page 1

\ Tho DAILY WORKER Raises | the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government PS SES GEE 0 Si SEES Rta cc a Vol. Ill. No. 283. Subscription Rates: ! By T. J. OFLAHERTY f by Nicara, ay shrieks a hekdline in the ce a Me RFEXICO Defied a Sintered at Second-class matte: In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. STALIN AFFIRMS POSSIBILITY ee pyaar VICTORY IN THE ago Tribune of last Sunday. The fruth is that the United States threat- @ns Mexico thru its puppet Adolfo Dinos enc pear a ayaa Th My, is a cabled report of the seventeenth session of the tates intervention in Mexico is now plenum . executive committee of the Communist International @ question of the moment. The stage meeting in. .oscow with delegates present from nearly all of the 58 is set, the public mind has been parties thruout the world affiliated. Previous special cable dispatches Raid fertilized and furrowed and 9 next step is the inevitable “overt fact” which can be produced at discre- Bion see | ‘E afrogance of our dumbbell sec- Tetary of state passes all bounds. Wis arrogance is measured by: the mumber of poison gas bombs he can ‘command. But it is a mistake to think that United States imperialism will have easy sailing in South Amer- fea. The resourcefulness of “weaker peoples has been adequately proven by China: Imperialism must go on or die. Like the drone that passes out of the picture after it-does the only fruitful act. in an otherwise Ufe, imperialism is driven to its own destruction, the while it is expanding. Its a case of being damned if you do under her bed for guns. It’s a long pha Fale? aoe eight years of peace Ger- many has finally won the war, We @re informed that the allies—or wha‘ ‘ts left of them—have lifted arms con- trol supervision of Germany’s military machine. Not that Germany took the supervision any more seriously than the average police captain takes pro- hibition. But it galled Germany's dig- nity to have allied snoopers looking under her bed for g uns. Its a long j#ime between wars but the gods must have a jolly half hour laughing over the allied victory of 1918. The only countries that won are the United States and Germany. The victors are -#o victorious that they would have a hard time borrowing a dime on Christmas dey. er ® useivs. HE high-priced attorneys of Mes- srs. Fall and Doheny have, provea to the satisfaction of an unprejudiced public that their clients have been vanimated by the purest motives in the (Continued on page 6) OF WALL STREET “SUED BY RUBBER \H “FIRM | INVESTORS: OVER CONTROL LARENCE DILLON Clarence Dillion, of the powerful banking firm of Dillon, Reed & Co., syle the object of a suit of nine stock- holders in the Goodrich Rubber and +» Tire company, who claim he is mov- ing their coupons out of their pock- £ibeed and is taking complete control of the big company for his firm, to The DAILY WORKER have reported speeches and reports on the fol- lowing important questions: The international situation of capitalism and the tasks of the Communist Parties; the lessons of the British gen- eral strike; the significance of the events in China and the Far East. The present report, giving Stalin’s speech and Zinoviev’s remarks on the situation in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, throws a vivid light on the controversy just completed between the opposition, led by September 21, Trotzky, Kamenev and Zinoviev ai munist Party under bi “a others. REPORT OF STALIN’S SPEECH the Central Committee of the Com- f Stalin, Buoharin, Tomsky and (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) OSCOW. U. 8. S.’R., Dec, 11, h on Dec. 7 heard Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union, report on the ne made the fortowng pointes =" (Delayed.)—The seventeenth session of the plenum of the Executive ‘Committee of the Communist International secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian question. In his preliminary remarks The struggle within the Communist Party of the U. S. S. R. dates from long ago; the history of the party is vvercoming of and the gradual consolidation of the party on the basis of victory over fundamental contradictions arising during the development of the party and the proletarian struggle. Inas- much as the contradictions are funda- mental and not tactical, no middle line, no compromise is possible, Concealing the fact of the existence of contradic- tions would mean the party's ide- ological death. It is absolutely neces- sary to fight out the divergencies of principle. Reviews the Party’s History. The speaker then reviewed the suc- cessive periods of the party history be- ginning with the second congress when the formal split between the Bol- sheviks, and mensheviks occurred un- til the present stage. All Stages of the party's history abound iii “fghits agafist fundamental divergencies. The party’s history has proved the triumph these contradictions, + of quality over quantity. Lenin, origin- ally standing alone, finally carried the day. The same applies to parties in other countriés, ge " Soclal-demiocracy, Stalih said,“Is de: caying and degenerating because of its attempts to hide fundamental, in ernal contradictions. There are’ two sources of contradictions within pro- letarian parties: first, the pressure of the bourgeoisie and bourgeois fde- ology on the proletariat and con- sequently on its party because the pro- letariat is itself part of general so- ciety while the party is part of the proletariat; second, the existence of various layers within the working class—the mass of the true proletariat which best support Marxism; people recently come from non-proletarian classes such as the peasafitry, petty bourgeois, and intelligentzia who are the fittest ground for all kinds of anarchist and semi-anarchist doctrines (Continued on page 2) COAL MINERS! ATTENTION! The DAILY WORKER will run, beginning with the first returns the latter part of the week, the election returns in the test in the United Mine Workers’ Union between John Brophy and John L. Lewis for International President The vote is taken by locals and every union member has knowl edge of the results in his local shortly after the vote is taken. We ask all progressive workers to send in these returns direct to The DAILY WORKER as s00n as they are available. “WALL STREET, IN GLOW OF BIG PROFITS, PLAYS SANTA CLAUS TO DOPE ITS HELP “NEW. YORK, Dec.12—Atter the bill lion dollars has been paid out by Wall Street in the December and Jan- uary first dividends and bond inter- est, there will still be a substantial surplus in many treasuries from the year’s enormous earnings. Some of this goes to employes in the form of a Christmas gift or bonus—or bribe. ‘This year, it is estimated that be- tween 35 and 50 millions will be so disbursed. In most cases this is done “after earnings have passed a certain mark.” That is, after the stockhold- ers have had their regular, extra, an& stock dividends, the faithful em- ployes are remembered, This isn’t even class-collaboration. It is the condescension of one clas» to another, aiming to bring about an obliteration of class lines and a blurr- “ing of class interests, It is a sop, It is reported that many banks ana business houses have i earnings in 1986 exceeding those of any previour yedrs, For example, the General Mo- (ors Company report earnings that dwarf those of former periods. The U. S, Steel Corporation, in the third quarter of the year, passed all earlier records. On the other hand, the stock exchange houses complain that the year been a comparatively poor one, as the trading has been mostly by professionals, while the poor fish of the general public have not been playing the market, The prosperity of the banks “has been strikingly reflected in a number of large increases in capital stock, in the payment of stock dividends, some of them of unprecedented size.” So on the whole, Wall Street can afford to be generous to those of its employes with whom it comes into more or less personal contact, while the labor which it exploits but never sees and which is represented by a numbered card in a time clock rack will go unremenvbered. sh ween a history of inner, contradictions, the a + NATIONAL CITY BANK IS NOW LARGEST IN WORLD, $140,090,000 CAPITAL NEW YORK, Dec. 12,—The direo- tors of the National City Bank has recommend to the stockholders that the bafk’s capital be increased by $25,000,000, raising the total cap- ital, surplus and undivided profits to $140,600,000. This move will make the National City the most power- ful banking organization ir? the world, the status it has held here- tofore in the United States. The bank's capitalization is divid- ed into $75,000,000 capital, $50,000,- 000 surplus and $15,000,000 undi- vided profits. Stockholders will reap huge prof- its by the move, as each share- holder will be entitled to another share for $200, while the shares on “ the.open market are selling for $600. - FRANCE BLOCKS LEAGUE PARLEY ON GERMAN ARMS Poincare’ and . Briand Split on Policy (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Dec. 12.—A break be- tween Premier Poincare of France and Foreign Minister Briand over Briand’s policy in dealing with the arms restric- tions and military control of Germany, the chief problem at the league coun- cil here, has brought about a dead- lock. Briand favors a conciliatory at- titude toward Germany, while Poin- care insists that Germany remove every indication of militarism. Briand Ready to Resign. Briand was ready to sign a protocol providing for substitution of a league commission for the interallied arms commission to supervise Germany and for demilitarizing the war zone. The Frenech cabinet, however, halt to the negotiations, and Poincare communicated with Briand, ordering him to desist until “further orders.” It now looms as a possibility that the league council wit be unable to do anything and the matter will have to be taken before the Hague tribunal as provided in the Locarno pact. e 0 @ Berlin Flays Chambertin. BERLIN, Dec. 12,--Austen Chamber- lain’s demand at the league council that the allies retafg power to restrict Germany's exporting of \arms is crit- icized here as being prompted by his own interests in Greaet Britain muni- tion factories. he and Prime Minister Baldwin Are fifiancially in- terested in powder and arms factories, and their stand is, seen ag an attempt to wipe out competition) against their private interests. Bring Pressure on Congress to Raise Salaries of Judges WASHINGTON, Dec, 12. — Intense pressure ig being brought to bear on congress to have the bill for raising salaries of federal judges passed at this session. The bill was advocated by President Coolidge in his annual message, and a lobby of the American Bar Association 1a working on the congressmen, GERIAN EXPERT SAYS UNITED STATES OF EUROPE 1S POSSIBLE Dr. Adolph Reichwein, German professor touring the U. 8. on be- half of German &eience, a semi-of- ficial scientific body, declared in an interview that only the combination of European capitalist countries in Europe against. grewing mono- poly of the United States can avert the mass revi ions of workers and peasants i minent in the Euro- pean situation, — 2 PM ENP OF NY. HeET BY SENET HE Sigman and Beckerman Play Bosses’ Game By SYLV. POLLACK. ~~ (Special to ‘Daily Worker) } NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Secret con- ferences at which plans are being laid to capture the International Ladies’ Garments Workers’ Union and expe! all Communists and left wingers from office in the union are being held by the Beckerman-Sigman machine at the national headquarters of the I. L. G. W. U., 3 West 16th street, it was learned today, The call to these conferences was issued on the heels of a stPategic | move of the submanufacturers, in which 20,000 members of the union to force the open shop system on the clothing workers, Repeat Last Year's Attack. when, by employing strong-arm men, he captured the headquarters of Lo- cals 2 and 9 and installed his own right wing officers, Last year he was aided by Israel Feinberg and Meyer Perlstein, both of whom are now out of the union. his former cronies and their backers | in the union, Sigman has rallied to his side Abram Beckerman, manager of | ™l. the New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of called a| America, “Mussolini.” It is Beckerman, known thruout union circles as the “Mussolini” of the garment trade, who is the moving force behind the new coalition. By using Beckerman and his gangsters, Sigman is attempting to drive out the Communist and left wing forces while they are engaged in fighting the pres- jent struggle against the sub-manufac- turers, The gangsters of the former Kautf- man regime in ‘the furriers’ union have also jointed the united front against the left wing in the needle trades, The important part of the Sigman- Beckerman program is their intention to sign an agreement with the bosses on the latter's terms if their attempt to install right wing leaders is suc- cessful. The lockout move, which will be in force until an agreement has been signed between the I, L. G. W. U. and the bosses, was instituted to give the Sigman-Beckerman ma- chine time to organize and carry out its program, Workers Roused, This action on the part of the re- actionaries at a time when the strike leaders need the undivided support of the entire union has aroused the nee- die trades workers in New York, We will send sampte coples of The DAILY WORKER: to your friende— TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1926 | were locked out, and an attempt made | | | Furriers’ 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, MNnois, under the Act of March 3, 1379. 2” NEEDLE TRADES LABOR HERE AIDS NEW YORK STRIKE Big Meeting Is Held in Spite of Reaction At least one thousand of Chicago's needle trades tollers massed inside and outside of Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., on Sunday after- noon to give support to the strike of the New York cloakmakers and show the right wing bureaucrats that the progressive forces and the left wing In the unions cannot be stopped by intimidation and gangsterism. Demand Extortionate Rental. The meeting had been scheduled for Hertzl Hall, two blocks away from Workers’ Lyteum, but when the committee from the Trade Union Ed- ucational League that sponsored the meeting went to the hall to start the meeting they were notified by the Owner that they would have to pay $1,000 for the use gf the hall. It was obvious that the owner had been reached by the right wingers who, under the leadership of Man- ager Sam Levin of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, ‘hired gang- sters and sluggers to break up a simi lar meeting scheduled for last Thurs- day. Once removed to the new hall, the hundreds of needle trades workers jammed inside and crowded around the doors to isten to speeches by Ben Gold, manager of the joint bo of the New York Furriers’ Union, Rothstein of the Chicago dressmak- ers, Henry Sazer of the Cap and Mit- linery Workers, and S. Potash of the the Furriers. B. Goldberg, business agent of the Chicago Furriers, was chairman. Gangsters Hit and Run. The usual contingent of gangsters was brought to Hertzl’s Hall by the Levin-Rissman outfit and by the right wingers in the Internatione! Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Two werkers were beaten up by thugs at Hertai’s Hall atter the’ workers had gone to the new hall. The thugs im- mediately ran away. Thete was no other dieterbarco “When 1 lot Now York,’ seid, Ben Gold, I wee -t08 by the viet wine. ers there, thet 1 world sever return from Cniearo oellvo:: ‘That is eme of ore 7 Caenisy Telle Richt Wingers, ‘I have vistey® Cain times. Tho first time was ¢ sonvertion lett winger chhilenged the right wing leadership and was thrown ont of the hall. The second time was when I came here to debate with President Kaufman of the Furriers on equal |sround. I come now for the third time to tell the right wingers that they cannot defeat the left wing. “The big danger in the needle trades unions especially is from the open shop and the contracting system shen Lwhich spreads the industry thruout Sigman’s plan, it was learned, is to |‘he small towns, repeat his performance of last year, The right wingers have demonstrated their incapacity to deal with these dangers and lead the workers out of the swamps. Win 40-Hour Week, | | | | | “In New York, under the leader- ship of the left wing, the furriers’ union was able to win the 40-hour | week. The right wing bureaucrats Feeling the loss of the support of | |from President Green to Sigman of |the cloakmakers, do a lot of talking about the 40-hour week. But that is It took the left wing leadership to actually win the 40-hour week. “One of the reasons for the success |of the left wing leadership is its re- Nance upon the might of the rank and file instead of upon paid agents and sluggers. Urges Amalgamation, “One of the greatest needs of the needle trades workers at this time is amalgamation... The right wingers are opposed to this, The Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union used to bx an advocate of amalgamation at s time when they were not kosher tr (Continued on page 6) WOOLWORTH PARASITES GET A $165,000,000 ‘GIFT’ FROM DIRECTORS | cml to The Daily Worker) YORK, Dec. 12—A fifty per cent stock dividend, valued at $165,000,000 is to be given the share- holders in the F. W. Woolworth com- pany, five and ten cent store cor- poration, on Feb. 1, it is announced by the board of directors, This huge extra dividend, coming from the nickles and dim ent In the Woolworth stores, is described as a “Christmas present” to the stock- holders. An indication of the profits being made by the corporation Is shown by the fact t! good will” item usually oarried ite account etate- ment at le now reduced to $1. Published Daily except Sunda: PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. MEXICAN GOVERNMENT RETAINS TITLE, GRANTS OIL MEN CONCESSIONS (Special to The Dally Worker) MEXICO CITY, Dec. 13.—The announcement of British oil in- terests of their decision to abide by the provisions of the 1917 constitution coupled with some modifications by the Cailes gov- ernment has resulted in a deci- sion by a conference of Ameri- can oil companies in San An- tonio to accept the government regulations, Instead of proving titles to the properties they now hold and which they have up to now roain- tained they must receive, the oil companies will receive fifty-year concessions which cannot he transferred without consent of the Mexican government and which will be cancelled upon vio- lation of any of the terms upon which they have been granted. All other provisions of Mexi- can law remain unchanged, The labor laws of the republic must be lived up to by the conces- sionaires. BROPHY WARNS OF DANGERS T0 MiNERS’ UNION Pre-Election . Statement Assails Lewis (Seciai to The Dally Worker) CLEARFELD, Pa., Dec. i12.—“The most important miners’ election in many yeare will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec. 14," sald John Brophy, president of the central Pennsylvania niners and a candidate for interna- tional president against John L. Lewis. “The biggest emergency issue be- the miners is to Save the Union by a national campaign to unionize he non-union fields,” continued Bro- ghy. “The ticket I am leading with Will- am Stevengon .and. William J, Bren- an, is pledged to that work. Mr. ‘cwis, on the other hand, ignores the issuc and is drifting to April 1, when che Jacksonville agreement expires, without taking the necessary steps to “¥e the union, Lewis a Failure. “During the administration of Mr. Le the union has lost half its members in the bituminous fields. The union faces a national strike in the spring with most of the tonnage under the control of non-union opera- tors and its bargaining power danger- ously. weakened unless it unionizes the lost fields. “The United Mine Workers in their next fight must have West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, the Pennsyl- vania coke fields and Somerset coun- ty with them instead of against them. “These fields can be won back only by a national movement. The big op- erators have mines in several states and districts and local movements cannot be counted on to win results ore for that reason. The national union must act. “What is Mr. Lewis doing about the non-union fields? “The campaign is closing without any answer on that point. Carry Out Convention Wishes. “We stand also for agreements in the anthracite and bituminous fields expiring at the same time. The mis- take of last: year when the bitumin- (Continued on page 6.) Soviet Rep in Chicago Trade wi tativ Boris Kraevaky, ‘representative of the Soviet Union in South America, and A. Prigain, president of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, are ia Chicago, on a commercial mission for the “Soviet government. Kraevsky’s headquarters are in Buenos Aires, Argentine. The Soviet government is recognized by Uruguay and has well established commercial connections with this country. Kra- evsky is looking forward to closer connections with Brazil. Already, he States, more than $11,000,000 worth of goods have been shipped from South America to the Soviet Union, chiefly woolens, hides, coffee, rubber, and cotton. by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents WALL STREET SPEAKS THRU PUPPET DIAZ Impudent Document Is “Master’s Voice” (Special to The Dally Worker) MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 12— Backed by American gunboats, which are patrolling the ooast line, Adolfo Diaz, president by virtue of American intervention, has Issued a long defl- ance to Mexico and called upon the world to support “his” government. The document is an impudent e& tack on the internal polictes of Mexb co in which the usurper Diaz appeats as the defender of religion and pri- vate property against the Mexican policy of separation of chureh amd state and government ownershép of natural resources. No Mention of U. & Cub, Diaz speaks of “Mexican aggras- sion” but says nothing of the opam forcible domination of Central Amert- ‘an politics by the United States, Be takes up the cudgels not only for fm perialist reaction in Nicaragua, bet for reaction in Mexico as well, He says: My government feets that many worthy Nicaraguans, members of the historic and illustrious Hbeer! party of this country of noble trad tlors, have in the blindness of pott- tical passion allied themselves with the forces of communiem, radieai- ism and religious persecution now in control and running rampant in Mexico, but not representative of what is believed to be the tree sentiments of a large majority of the Mexican peopie. According to Daiz, the Untted States is a benefactor of sinail na- tions: My government felt confident that the government and people of the United States who have always shown a high regard for the inde pendence and rights of sovereign states, however small and weak, would accord their moral support to the government of Nicaragua in Its efforts to defend the institutions of this nation against the aggres- sions of Mexico, a country twenty times farger than Nicaragua. “The aggressions of Mexico,” were the support of a popular revolution against a dictatorship set up under American protection and the inter ference of Mexico in this respect was not only a right but a duty, say liber- als here. Two Latin-American Groups, The manifesto of Diaz is proef of a clear division on foreign policy among the Latin-American states. One group backed by the honest nationalist ele ments and the masses of workers and Peasants, is led by Mexico and da- mands popular government in Latin- American countries—government free from imperialist pressure. The other group consists of individ- uals whom the American state depare ment and private capital has been able to buy and who attempt to a ganize all the internal forces of re action— landiords, clericals, ets. — against popular government and fr American imperialist domination. Written at U. 8. Direction, The Diaz manifesto was un ly written under the supervision of the American state department amé it has as its main purpose the orea- tion of further pressure upon fhe Mexican government to get it to aban don its intention to enforce the land and mineral provisions of the 1917 constitution. It is doubtful if this document wil exert muck influence in convincing wide sections of the Latin-Amortcan people that Mexico has less right to support a popular revolution in. Ni- caragua than the American state de partanent has to support a dictator possessing no mandate of any kind from the Nicaraguan: Rubsian Girl Crosses Black Sea in Rowboat ODESSA, U. 16-year-old girl, has crossed the Black Sea in a row boat, a distance of about 1,000 miles, and is the first women to shoot the Dnieper rapids, In recognition of her daring’ feat, the girl has been made an honorary member of the Red Fleet, the first woman to be so honored, SEND IN A SUB TODAY. 8S. 6. R, Dec, 12.—, totaal SOR Divert wc tlag 0:82 NORTHERN GENERAL WHO PILLAGED 100 TOWNS SURRENDERS TO CANTON AMOY China, Dec, 12.—-Reliable re- ports from Foochow, the big port that fell last week to the Canton armies state that the northern General Chang Yi who has pfllage@ more than 100 towns in the Foookow distric: has been beaten by the nationalist armies and forced to surrender. Foochow re- Nef authorities state that 70,000 peo- ple are Komeless as the result uf de stractcu Wrought by Gen, Chang ¥i's troops. Tamara Schumarino,, % 3