The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1926, Page 6

— Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ml. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): | $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE * BERT MILLER ... Editors ...Business Manager {nnn 08 ORE ORES ON EI Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1925, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application, pe 290 % Coal Miners’ Election Does Not End the Struggle for Fighting Unionism Tomorrow is election:day in the United Mine Workers of} America. The election comes at a time when the forces of ‘reaction in the American labor movement are arming for a new drive ion the pro- gressive elements who are opposed to the ‘“worker-employer co- operation” policy of the trade union officialdom. In the United Mine Workers this policy has found expression in the anthracite agreement with its tacit abandonment of the closed shop and the acceptance of arbitration. It likewise found expression in the “gentlemen’s agreement” between the Lewis machine and the coal barons to drvie 200,000 miners out of the industry. While the coal operators have been allowed to violate the Jack- sonville agreement at their pleasure without being called, to account by the Lewis machine in any effective manner, war has been made on the most loyal and militant members of the union. The expulsion policy of the Lewis machine has as its object the crushing of all opposition to making the union a semi-official organ of the coal barons. The union faces the expiration of the Jacksonville agreement next spring with 70 per cent of the coal mined being produced in non-union fields whereas, at the beginning of the Lewis dictator- ship, only 30 per cent of the coal came from non-union fields. The Lewis machine can be judged and condemned as crooked, | incompetent and a menace to the life of the union by this one fact | alone. a But thepolicy of slander, intimidation and expulsions has not succeeded in crushing out all opposition any more than it has suc- . ceeded in strengthening the union. The “Save the Union” ticket, headed by Johm Brophy, William Stevenson and William J. Brennan, is unquestionably supported by | a big majority of the membership. In an honest election this ticket will win. But it has been a long time since there was an-honest election in the United Mine Workers. The Lewis machine is determined to hold onto its jobs and will stop at nothing to maintain its hold. There must be no let-up in the struggle for a strong, fighting auicn no matter what the Lewis machine does. From the election io the convention, from the convention to preparation for the guile next spring—this is the road the progressive bloc in the U. M. W. of A. has to travel. It alone represents the interests of nion membership against the interests of the coal barons. If it falters and fails to wage a continual struggle for its program and 1 new militant leadership, the future of the United Mine Workers is dark indeed. For the sake of the whole labor movement, which would receive 1 staggering blow if the U. M. W. of A. is further weakened, the “pposition to the Lewis machine cannot cease fighting until control of the union is taken from the hands of an officialdom which long | igo stopped thinking in terms of the interests of the coal miners of this continent. “Divide and Conquer”—in the Philippines “Divide and conquer,” was the slogan of the Roman empire, and the imperialists of today have found no reason to alter it. The latest dispatches from Washington dealing with the ques- tion of Philippine independence indicate that the state department | is following this policy. First comes the news that Aguinaldo has assumed leadership f a movement to assist the American dictatorship and Saturday the announcement that: It is the earnest desire of the president to settle the prob- lem of the Philippines, to establish a relationship between the islands and the United States satisfactory to the Filipinos, to restore native co-operation in the government, and to develop the vast natural resources. of the archipelago, PARTICULAR- LY IN THE PRODUCTION OF RUBBER, for the benefit of the Filipinos. The emphasis is ours and it will be noticed that, quite in accord with the imperialist practice of exploiting colonial peoples ONLY for their own good, that the development of Philippine natural resources is to be solely for the benefit of the Filipinos, Colonel Carmi Thompson, COoolidge’s special investigator, is credited with believing that: in agreement can be reached with the Filipinos on the ques- tion of autonomy and eventual independence whereby their com- plete co-operation in the government will be restored and the way cleared for the development of rubber production on a@ large scale with American capital. OE The line of procedure is clear. The “better class” Filipinos are to be appealed to on the basis of their mate prosperity which will be enhanced, by turning the natural resources and the working class over to American capital- ists who will have the protection of American guns. It is the same policy that Great Britain has followed in Ireland and which resulted in the creation of the puppet Free State gov- ernment. The middle class leadership of the Filipino independence move- ment now meets an acid test. It must choose between loyalty to the masses of its countrymen and subservience to American im- perialism. More than ever is it necessary to build a workers’ and peasants’ movement in the Philippines which can exert the maximum pressure om the middle class leadership and prevent the liquidation of the whole movement in a welter of corruption and systematic robbery of the Filipino masses, 3 SEND IN A SUB I THE DAILY WORKER By S. IRANSKY, HE meeting of Comrade Georges Chicherin with the Turkish for- eign minister, Tewnk Rushdi Bey, has attracted general attention. The bourgeois politicians and journalists are exerting all their powers in order to show the “real meaning” of this meeting. Behind the words of sincere friend- ship spoken in Odessa they see every thing possible except that which is to be inferred from these words. They Tewnk Ruchdi Bey summed up the exchange of opinions which took place in Odessa in the following words: “The lb tween the Soviet Union and Turkey is ful atmosphere in the Near East.” Language of Peace. 'T is such a language, in which there language of peace, of brotherhood, of equality and friendship, that the diplo- se friendship existing be- | one of the necessary pre-conditions of | peace in general and also of a peace- | is no trace of agressiveness, the | imagine relations between the peoples cannot be otherwise than “in accord- ance with their own.model,” “league of nations of the east,” “Pan-Asiatic league,” “fight against Italy and Great Britain,” etc.—this is how they inter- mats of the Soviet Union and of Tur- key have spoken in Odessa. The press of the Soviet Union and of Turkey also speak in the same language, : The diplomats and journalists of the west use a completely different pret the meeting in Odessa, The Difference, UT they do not see the other, the real aspect of the matter. It would seem as if they had forgotten that the Soviet Union and also Tur- y, as Comrade Chicherin expressed it, “have experienced every ordeal in ,the period when imperialism endeav- | |ored to throttle them; that these times | are past forever and that both coun: tries have concentrated their fo on peaceful work, upon developing the language towards Turkey. In this respect the articles of the official British journalists, Augur in the October number of the Fortnightly Review ahd Paulson Newman in the October number of the Nineteenth Century, are exceedingly characteris- tic, Italy’s Position. d hens notorious official journalist of the British foreign office who | Writes under the’nom de plume ot people.” |greatest question is the question of ! They do not seem to notice what it|the “surplus population,” and itis in- ‘is that unites the peoples of Turkey | evitable that the “eyes of the Italians and of the Soviet Union. are directed to the waste territories “The Soviet Union,” says Comrade |in Asia Minor, where a government, Chicherin, “is fighting against the at- | absolutely lacking in culture, has con- tempts of the imperialists to enslave | verted a fertile country into a wilder- it economically, against the aftempts |ness.” He further develops the idea to compel it to pay the czarist debts, {that the Dodecanese Islands are for ete.: the Turkish people are fighting |the Italians a splendid jumping-off lagainst the attempt to deprive it of ground into Asia Minor,” and that its economic and political independ-|“this cannot be prevented.” Paulson Newman develops ence.” this | | the cadits) highly praising and encour- (Continued from page 2) bea ey eae within the Com- munist Party. and the creation of a new party. | Thus, Stalin declared, the opposition is Korsch, the leader of sd peel |has practically severed themselves lin ne noe Fe eee again tom Leninism and reflect the senti- demanded a “new re Py» ments of unproletarian elements ex- the existing power in the Soviet ere pressing dissatisfaction with the pro- and was supported by the opposition |) arian dictatorship and hoping for Re Soviet ohare adic rats AES dissolution and overthrow. This The same applies to Souv: ‘quite conforms with the logic of heading the opposition in the Freneh | ov ants, pee it is only Hoe 0 ‘5 Party, advocating the overthrow of the | follow the policy of Communism or the leadership of the Communist Party of | policy of soctademécracy—a middle creative forces of the masses of the |‘“Augur,” declares that for Italy the! | vine of the the U. S. S. R. and the creation of a new party. + Stalin further dwelt on the question of how the enemies of Communism abroad have responded to the opposi- tion’s activities and quoted numerous statements of social-democrats (Levy, Germany; leaders of the Russian men- |shevists, Milioukov, notorious leader of Needle Trades Labor in Chicago Aids New York Strike (Continued from Page 1.) the A, F, of L, bureaucracy. Now the only amalgamation they have achieved is amalgamation with Green and Sig- man to crush the left wing and pro- gressives in the unions.” Gold challenged Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Federation of Labor and Le- Amalgamated Clothing Workers to debate the questions at issue in the needle trades unions. He directed the challenge at Fitzpat- rick because he took part in the at- tack upon the progressive meeting of needle workers last Thursday. Right Wing Fears. Gold declared that the right wing- ers were afraid to bring the questions at issue out in the open. That the reason they hired gangsters and bought off hall owners was because they were afraid to let the rank and file hear the questions debated in the open. Gold made an urgent plea for Chi- cago workers to help the brave strug- gle of the New York cloakmakers, who he declared were faced with a united front of the employers and the right wing. At a time when the cloak- makers’ strike leadership in New York are in the midst of a new at- tack from the bosses which has taken the form of a lockout of thousands of workers, they are the victims of a conspiracy maneuvered by Presidént Sigman and backed by the A, F, of L, bureaucrats, to drive the left wingers out of the union, ‘ Cannot Stop Lefts, “The left wing cannot be stopped, as this meeting very ‘well demon- strates,” Gold declared, “Intimida- tion and gangsters will not work. We are fighting for principles. We are fighting for the unity of the workers against the bosses. We are fighting for a clean union. We are fighting against the strifling leadership of the Kaufmans and Sigmans. We are fighting to amalgamate the needle workers’ unions into one powerful union for all the needle trades. “This meeting is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Chicago needle workers with the struggling needle workers of New. Instead of devoting themsel¥es to the support of the workers’ battles in the front line trenches “oo the right Ww \tine is objectively, impossible. | Stalin emphasized’ that the cam- paign of the opposition lasted only a |few months | October, and analyzed the reasons for \its crushing defeat. First, the opposi- jon was left armyless; second, various doubtful elements joined the opposition while the ’social-democrats from ‘the beginning of} The. Odessa..Conference Between the Soviet Union and Turkey theme and points out that the only possibility for Turkey to secure guar- jantees against the Italian danger ex- ists in an understanding with Great Britain and the abandonment of an independent national policy. -He de- cl ; straight out that Turkey is in- capable of remaining completely inde- pendent, without some sort of foreign jinfluence, She must submit to the | leadership of the west, otherwise “she will find one fine day that she has lost her territories.”, Newman writes further as follows: “Obviously, the only means which Turkey has in order to save herself from this danger is gradually to change her policy in such a manner that it permits the European ele- ments which are friendly disposed towards her to guide her. present. time, when relations be- tween Great Britain and Turkey are satisfactory, there are obviously no obstacles to the bringing about of a final approchement between both countries in the interests of both parties | “As far as Turkey is concerned, such an approchement would doubly secure the position of Turkey, i. e., on the one hand it would promote the commercial prosperity of the country and on the other it would preserve Turkey from aggressive ac- tions from outside. With regard to Great Britain, this approchement would render easier, our foreign pol- icy towards Russia and Persia, it would lighten the tasks of our man- date in Iraq, it would strengthen the connecting routes of the British empire with India and relieve the situation in Egypt, because the Turkish elements in the population of Egypt, who in many respects ex- ercise the greatest influence in the At the carrying out of our Egyptian policy, would come over to our side.” British Aggression, 'N the last sentence there is set forth in the most obvious manner the ag- gressive intentions of British policy towards the Soviet Union and the Near East, the realization of which policy is hindered by the independent, peaceful policy of Turkey and of the Soviet Union, But all this would be “terrible” if jit were not to a great extent only a pleasant dream of the imperialist dl- plomacy of Great Britain. The inter- national situation is not so bad for Turkey as Messrs,,Angur and New- | man and their Jike wish to make out. |The policy of peace not only ex- | presses the interests of the peoples of | the Soviet Union or of the vanquished peoples who are striving to build up a new life. This same policy also cor- responds to the wishes of the broad masses of the population of the im- perialist states themselves. The an- tagonistic interests between these tes, which exist in spite of all pos- ble blots, hinder them in their in- | tentions to penetrate by means of vio- lence at least into Asia Minor, | Language of Threats, |THE policy of the western states | knows only one language when |dealing with the East—the language \of threats. But nationalist Turkey of | the year 1926, which has experienced levery ordeal in the fight for inde- | pendence, is not the Ottoman empire, jand it is no longer possible to speak ; to her in the language of threats, even if these threats are sweetened by; {promises of advantages. This will | scarcely lead to that object to which | the policy of the western states is di- [ rected, Stalin Outlines Path to Commmnist Triumph and the cadets praised it—consequent- ly the opposition had the choice of either accepting the treacherous praises or retreating. The situation in the U. S. S. R. proved the party | masses stronger, more conscious and united than the opposition had hoped for or expected. There were three stages in the op- position’s defeat: First, the declara- tion of the 16th of Qctober when the opposition theoretically and practical- ly surrendered the principle of free- dom of fractions and ~fractional methods of struggle and openly recog- nized their own mistakes; second, when they practically withdrew their charges against the party; third, their full isolation at the Fifteenth Con- gress when the opposition failed to receive a single vote. The opposition then realized the necessity of full re- treat, climbing down from and sur- CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'FLAHERTY (Continued from Page 1.) leasing of the naval oil reserves. It might be said today that it is as hard for a rich man to get into jail, invol- untarily, as it is for a camel to go thru‘a needle’s eyes. .We cannot see how those patrioti¢y gentlemen can be found guilty of improper conduct since it was quite obvious they were concerned only with defending their country against the wiles of Japan. 8 6 HAT of it if Doheny expected to make a profit of $100,000,000 on the deal? Is not this the profit sys- tem we are living under? And if Fall received $10u,000 as a gra- tuity, should we not admit that a public servant deseryes a reward since governments are §0 ungrateful! Should we have a war with Japan in the near future and should the Unit- ed States navy find Doheny oil in the rusty tanks at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, monuments to the, public spirited martyrs Fall and Doheny will be as plentifully strewn over the landscape as pieces of the cross that Jesus of Nazareth was alleged to have been crucified on. A o als HIS reminds me that you did not do your sacred shin bone shopping in time. ciety had a choice ,eollection of shin bones, breast bones, and jaw bones of saints, for sale last week. It was anybody’s buy. Relics of holy men who were able to avoid the sins of the flesh without, having to resort to a surgical operation could be had at reasonable prices, It would not be necessary” for the purchaser to follow in the saint's footsteps by wear- ing a goat-skin night shirt, hairy side in, All he would have to do would be to sleep on the bit of saintly anat- omy and his dreams would be direct- ed into healthful channels. a oe OWEVER, the local branch of the catholic church got, wind of the affair, Fearing that a sacred shin bone in other hands might be just as profitable, the church informed the historical society politely but firmly that shin bones devoid of papal bless- ing were just shin bones. Neverthe- less if the society were willing to withdraw the collection from the mart, the church would be willing to make a donation to the worthy cause for which the society was in exist- ence. The society having reached the age where altruism ends where self interest begins, did not see any rea- son why it shoutu gu w trouble conducting a rummage when it could get the money othér- wise. So the shin bone consignment is on its way back to Rome and will be held there, pending a rise in the shin bone market, oe ® PORTUGAL to pay U. S. for ship- The Chicago Historical So-— 4 | ' wingers are showing us that their idea of unity is to unite the entire bureaucracy of the A, F. of L. and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers to wipe out the left wing which is fight- ing the workers’ battles and leading them in their struggles, Gold made an impassioned plea for the continuance of the work of the left wing and made reference to the splendid adssista given the strug- gles of the needle workers by the Workers Party, | Levine Will Fail, The other speakers also declared that Levine and at ai would fail sale | | ene oe t rendering its ideological positions which were leading the opposition to decay and ruin. In conclusion, Stalin, dwelling upon the results and importance of the Fif- teenth Congress of the Cofmunist Party of the U. S. S. R., declared: First, the congress ended the in- ternal strife and consolidated the full victory over the opposition; second, it rallied the party stronger than ever upon the basis of the prospects of the socialist construction which was the most important question; third, it de- feated all waverings and thus secured the complete victory of Leninism with- in’ the party; fourth, the congress provided the basis for the triumph of Leninism within all parties of the Comintern and among the revolution- ary proletariat of all countries. Stalin’s speech ended amidst a stormy ovation. Fight on Appropriation Bill for Enforcement of Dry Law Is Begun WASHINGTON, Dec, 12, — Oppon- ents of the dry law in the house got into motion when the appropriation bill providing funds for the coast guard and other treasury activities was considered. The bill provided $29,600,000 for the coast guard, the bulk of which is used for enforce- ment of the dry law. Reps, Cullen and Griffin of New York and Gallivan of Massachusetts fought the bill. General Andrews’ report as assist- ant treasury secretary declared that the department had enough officers to cope with the situation, and “soon” would be able to reduce expenditures. He said 4,000,000 gallons of diverted ileohol had been stopped by the de- partment in 1926, There is no good liquor available in the country now, he said he believed. Brophy Warns of Danger to Union (Continued from Page 1.) ous miners sent coal into the anthra- cite markets while the hard coal men were out must not be repeated. “We stand for the carrying ont of convention wishes on the nationaliza- tion of mones’ program, which Mr. Lewis opposes. There is no cure tor unemployment under private enter- prise as long as new mines can be opened up at the whim of operators when there are. already too many mines. ' i For a Labor Party, “We stand also for the carrying out of convention wishes on a labor party and for the reinstatement of un- justly expelled members and the end- ing of discrimination against mem- bers in good standing, like Alexander liowat, who are barred from running for office. “Toe Lewis administration goes to the polls tomorrow without answer- ing any of the issues of the campaign. Their time-worn cry of ‘You are a Red’ is silly and beside the point. Their barring of some of our candi- dates off the ballot on framed-up tochnigal charges shows their desper- ation, “The issues are re the miners tomorrow and we believe that if there ‘is a fair count, they will anawer 36h. (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) VL Bunny was on a holiday, and must enjoy himself; if he failed to do so, the enjoyment of his two comp: ions would be marred. He mug smile and escort them to a theater, and afterwards send Dad home in a taxi, and go with Vee to a supper party with some of the screen peo- ple, and gossip about their produc- tions and their profits, and see them drink too much, and know that there would be an hour's talk about prohi- bition and bootleggers, starting as soon as he and Vee refused to drink. Were they “on the wagon?” Or were they afraid of this liquor? This was something special—the original Koski stuff, or whatever it might be in New York, Then in the morning the pair would go to the “gym,” and practice stunts together, making themselves a quite competent pair of gymnasts —Vee said. that if ever Dad ‘went broke, and she got “klieg eyes” and had to quit the movies, they could earn several hundred a week on the “big time circuit.” They would haye lunch, and then maybe there would be a matinee, or somebody calling, or reporters or special writers; or Vee would go shopping, and abso jutely insist upon having her dar- ling Bunny along, because he had exquisite taste, and why did she dress but to please him? Bunny met other rich young men in his po- sition, and learned that such re marks were preliminary to the man’s ordering the bill sent to him. But there was nothing of the “gold- digger” about Vee—when she gave the invitation, she paid. | What she wanted was her Bunny- rabbit. She adored him, and wanted to be with him every moment, and to show him off to all the world, in- cluding the newspapers, They had been together long enough for Bunny to know her thoroughly, and to real- ize the drawbacks as well as the advantages of the alliance. That she wag sensual did not trouble him, for he was young, and his ardors matched hers. The arts that he had learned. from Eunice Hoyt were combined with those Vee hed learned from many lovers, and they were dizzy with delight; the impulse that drew them together was im- possible to resist. But intellectually they were far from being mated.” Vee would listen to anything he wanted to talk about, but how little she really cared about serious things would be comically re- vealed by her sudden shifting of the conversation. She had her own life, one of speed and excitement and show. She might jeer at the movie world and its works, but neverthe- less she.was of that world, and ap- plause and attention were the breath she lived by. She was always on the stage, playing a part—the world’s professional darling; always bright, always fresh, young, beauti- ful, sprightly. Such a thing as thoughtfulness was suspect, a cloak for dangerous enemies stealing into your mind, “What's the matter, Bunny-rabbit? I belleve you're thinking about that horrid strike!” Sitting down and reading a book was a thing quite unknown to this world’s darling. A newspaper, yes, of course, or a magazine—one had them lying about, anda man would pick them up and glance over some- thing, but always ready to stop to look at a new dress or listen to a bit of gossip. But to become ab- sorbed in reading and not want to be interrupted—well, it didn’t seem quite polite, did it? As for spending a whole afternoon or evening read- ing a book—Vee had simply never heard of such a thing. She did not put it Into words, but Bunny could understand that a book was cheap; anybody could get one and sit off in a corner, but few could have a box at the theater, presented by the management, and sit there, almost | as important as the play. My (Continued tomorrow.) Books for the ” Worker’s Shelf THE JUNGLE, by Upton Sinclair, 309 pages: Published by Vanguard Press, Inc,, 80 Fifth Ave., New York City. 50 cents, ¥¢ This book, first published in 1906, is f. story of the Chicago stockyards, It said to have accomplished more tan- gible results in a brief period than any other book has produced in the same amount of time. It Jed to an inves! tion of unsanitary conditions in slaughter houses by jer of Presi- dent Roosevelt, and to revision of the federal meat inspection laws by congre! It is a powerful tale of the decline and re-creation of a Lithuanian immigrant. - Ogden Mills Will Resign, WASHINGTON, Dec. Repr - 0