The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1926, Page 2

| | Page Two THE DAILY WORKER CANTON'S ENVOY GIVEN OVATION AT BIG MEETING China Fighting for All| Oppressed—Sze Says (Continued from page 1) Toa Chan began, after he was intro- duced amidst prolonged applause from the enthusiastic audience. “To- day I stand before you, a group of people who are jnterested and are in| sympathy with the anti-imperialist movement of the oppressed people of the world.” | “When I came to America I read the néwspapers. I found out that} some of the newspapers are not very | truthful; and some are otherwise. To-| day I am going to tell you some of the facts the newspapers many times | misrepresent. | Accursed by Manchu. “China was first accursed by the Manchu, by the despotism of the Man-/| chu dynasty. Undeg that government} China contracted’ many unequal} treaties with foreign powers. | “Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the great leader | pt the liberation movement, started a {Pevolution against the Manchu dynas- iy and succeeded. Still Oppressed. “After the revolution in 1911, the Manchu government was overthrown, But the people were still and are still #ppressed. This time not by the Man- abu dynasty but by another group. “For fifteen years Dr. Sun Yat Sen Jed the Chinese people against this enemy—nmilitarism and imperialism. For all these fifteen years Dr. Sun Yat Sen fought against them persist- ently. Now, Dr. Sun Yat Sen is dead, but altho he is physically dead, his spirit remains; and the Kuomintang party, which is the creation of Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s efforts, now continues | the struggle that Dr. Sun Yat Sen/ started; and we hope that by our ef} forts, the efforts of the Kuomintang, | the spirit of Dr. Sun Yat Sen will be warried to its destined success. Part of World Movement. “There are two phases of the work | of the Kuomintang. On the one hand the Kuomintang will lead the oppress- | ed class of the Chinese people in their fight against those who oppress them. | On the other hand the Kuomintang) will participate, and is part and par-} cel of the world movement against oppression, against imperialism. These two jobs, | first . fighting against the Chinese native militarists, then second, fighting against the world imperialists on behalf of those who are oppressed—these are the tasks of the Kuomintang party. Only First Step. “The revolution in China is only the first step of this tremendous work. fm China, the oppressed ciass are composed of the workers and peas- ants, the small merchants, the great majority of the people. On the other hand, the oppressing class in China, includes the militarists, the corrupt- ed underdogs of the imperialists. The first step of this movement is the struggle of the great majority of | the Chinese people against the small | minority which oppresses them. The} Policy of the Kuomintang party lays | ® great deal of emphasis on organiza- | tion. We fee] that without organ-| fzation we cannot succeed; and we | know that in organization Hes power; | fm organization lies thé great possi- bility of our struggle. Hope in Workers. “The greatest hope is with the workers. The organized working class | of Chin@, with the students and peas-| ‘nts and the small merchants, are the | fanguard of the Chinese revolution.” | A substantial collection was taken | at the meeting to assist in the work | of the anti-impefialist league on this | continent. ‘Two numbers of Chinese music, vocal and instrumental, enter- tained the audience between speeches- Able Interpreter. Mr. Chao Ting Chi, a student of the | University of Chicago, interpreted fer | Mr. Sze Toa Chan very clearly and | with great precision, “ee J \ A later edition of The DAILY WORKER will carry a fuller report of Sze Toa Chan’s speech at this meeting. Fourth Suit In Goodyear Fight. TOLEDO, Ohio — The fourth legal action in the fight for control of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, came with the filing of a suit in behalf of Katherine G, Benedict, asking that F. A, Seiberling, former president, be restrained from acting as voting trustee for a mejority of the com- pany’s common stock. The legal ac- tions have already been started at Akron, and a third was brought by the Summit county prosecutor and ts now before the supreme court, BANKERS GIVE GARY COPS ARMORED CAR TO BE USED IN INDUSTRIAL BATTLES GARY, Ind., Dec, 13.—The Gary Bankers’ Clearing House Associa- tion has given the police department a gift. This gift is axCadillac auto- mobile—but not the kind one sees rolling around the streets. This one is an armored, bullet-proof machine, costing $9,000, which is to be used, mainiy, tor quelling riots during industrial outbreaks, CHILD LABOR RISES | MANY AMERICAN CITIES; SLIGHT FALL IN CHICAGO (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec, 13, — Child labor in American industries is in- creasing, This fact was disclosed today by the children’s bureau of the depart- ment of labor, showing child labor in 24 out of 29 larger industrial cities increased during 1925. Among the cities, with the per- centage of increased child workers in each were: St. Louis, 4.8; Mil- waukee, 28.8; Detroit, 13.6; Minnea- polis, 18.8. The five cities showing decrease child labor were: Wash- ington, 67. Chicago, 8.8; Indiana- polis, 10.8; Louisville, 14.5; St. Paul, 27, LOCKOUT FAILS IN N.Y. DECLARE STRIKE LEADERS. |Assail Betrayal. of the ), Ringht Wingers (Continued from page 1) dependently with the joint board of the striking cloakmakers, These shops were ordered Thursday by the American Association of. Sub-manu facturers to lock out their employes. According to Sur information not more than a couple of dozen of these shops closed Friday and those have only done so after being visited by squads of strong arm men represent- ing the employers” association. Missrepresent Meeting. “The report appearing in some of the daily papers concerning the meet- ing Thursday night at Cooper Union which claim the meeting was turned into a demonstration against the strike leadership are complete misrep- | resentations, and I can prove them so by the following fact. I realized when the meeting started that there were disruptive elements representing Sig- | |man and his allies in the union and | the employers’ association present to | do what they could to prevent the | meeting going. unanimously in sup-| port of the strike leadership. “In order to show the numerical weakness of the antagonizers, I asked for a stand.ng vote on those who were for me and in favor of the strike leadership and those who were against me. In this vote over 2,000 stood up in support-of the strike lead- ership and not more than a couple of an over- dozen dissented. It was whelming \vindication of the strike leadership. “When I asked how many, belleving the attacks from the opposition, wanted me to resign, one man only said he wished it. Now the stories appearing in some of the newspapers ‘played up’ the words of the handful of hecklers and left out entirely in their reports the true criterion con- tained in the standing vote, “In news items it is stated I had a conference in my office with °Mr. Ruthenberg, secretary of the Commu- nist Party, at which the strike of the contractors was discussed. “I state that Ruthenberg was not in my office yesterday nor have I ever met him before. I make this state- ment not because I believe that it is criminal to meet Mr. Ruthenberg but I desire to point out the campaign of bluffs, lies and accusations which is being conducted by Sigman and the Jewish Daily Forward against us, Sigman Stories. “Stones issued about the lockout of the contractors is the “work of the Sigman machine. With the exception of a few shops where gangs were sent up to force the bosses to send down their workers, the lockout was unsuc- cessful as the contractors are not de- sirous of complying with the order of the association. They are not inter- ested in locking out their workers in order to aid Sigman in getting rid of the present administration of the joint board.” Secretary Says Navy Is Weak for Money, But Safe for Defense WASHINGTON — The latest card to be played in the game of proving that each part of the national defense is the weakest, when appropriations are sought, Secretary Wilbur in his annual report says he is short of ships, short of funds, short of men, short on aircraft. “There are no funds for modern- izing battleships and the equipment at navy yards and naval bases is in a deplorable condition,” he says, But he stresses how the navy has overcome these handicaps, Sheriff Burns Down Roadhouses to Make Illinois County Dry MARION, IL, Dee, 12, bootleg joints and burning of road- houses is “drying up’ Williamson county since the new sheriff, Oren Coleman, took office, officials here de- clare, Four roadhonse buildings are a mass of Yuins as a result of fires said to have followed the visit of several men in automobiles Tuesday night. None of the roadhouses were in op- erate= ' — Raids on comes from the navy. |b PROGRESSIVES “INA Gy W, HERE ~ STATE PROGRAM |Challenge Boss Unity Tactics of Levin (Continued from page 1) | been abandoned by the present tactics| jand policies of the administration. | This gave impetus to the employers | in their demands for more readjust-| |ments, wage cuts, and relinquishing jot the many union conditions that| | Were gained thru past struggles with | |them. The foregoing proved wholly | profitable for the employers and. pre-| cisely the contrary to the Chicago membership. False Cries, The cry of the officials that readjust- ments were and are a necessity, that they had saved the Chicago market from drifting away into small towns, \is a fallacy, for even those firms that received concessions and readjust- ments have left town, because they felt that the organization has become too weak to force organization of the workers in the small towns. To reduce | our wages to the level of the unorgan- ized workers to meet competition, is not a way to meet this problem. The way to solve this competition problem is by amalgamating all needle trades unions into one powerful union which would make it possible for a gigantic and successful organization campaign for the organization of the unorgan- ized and thus bringing up the level of the small town earnings to those of the large organized needle trades centers. * | In the face of the above, we declare that in this election we must em- phaticaly and categorically express our sentiments against our officials and their policies and tactics. We must vote against them. A vote against Levin and company is a vote against readjustments, etc., and a vote for a better union. Command Confidence. This election gives us an opportun- ity to elect members to the joint board who not only recognize the failure of the administration’s policies and tac- tics, as well as their incapability to lead, but members who can command the full confidence and cooperation of the entire membership for the strug- gle against, the employers. ' | The welfare of our organization de- mands that we take full advantage of this opportunity, Vote for those candidates whose pro- gram includes the solution of many vital problems confronting our organ- ization, Progressive Program. Support the progressive candidates who accept the following program: 1, Amalgamation. 2. Forty-hour week, 8. Genuine unemployment ance. 4. Week work, with a minimum scale of wages and a maximum stand- ard of production, 5. No readjustments that result in either wage reduction or increase of production, 6. No reduction of working forces in shops. 7. Democratization in our union, RIGHT WINGERS IN BOSTON GET HEARST’S HEL Press Aids Drive on the Left Wing By S. D. LEVINE. BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 13.—Right wing elements in the needle trades unfons in Boston, seeking to create prejudice against the Trade Union Educational League meeting sched- uled for Tuesday night to help the striking cloakmakers of New York, are spreading “red scare” stories in the public press, “Red Scare” Stories. Hearst's Boston American, in a full- page headline tells a wild story of the “reds” planning to call a strike here of 15,000 needle trades workers and that the strike vote will be taken at Tuesday’s meeting in the Scenic Auditorium at which Ben Goid the N. Y. Furriers’ Union and ‘A, Burochovitz of the strike commitice of the N. ¥, cloakmakers will speak, The press statements charge that it is intended to break away from the A. FP. of L. and that the Department of Justice and the police will watch the meeting closely. Right Wing Source, All these lies are plainly told with jthe objéct in view of creating preju- dice and keeping people away from | the rally to help the N. Y. strikers, | Your, correspondent has reliable in- \formation that this false news was \given to the press by Julius Hoch- man, one ofthe Sigman machine in |the Boston cloak and dressmakers’ union, But the Boston needle work- (ers are determined to know the truth and no slander and intimidation froim the right wing will keep them from the meeting Tuesday night. | Bend us the name and alldress of @ progressive worker to whom we can send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKR, insur- AMERIGAN MAKERS OF TRACTORS INVITED TO MAKE TESTS (N SOVIETS NEW YORK—Two years ago, the tractor was a novelty In Russia. In the last two years, according to the Amtorg Trading Corporation, buylng agency in this city for the Soviet government, tractors to the value of $10,536,155 have been ship- ped into Russia, mostly from the United States. Now United States manufactur ers of tractors will be Invited to participate In tests to be made next spring of the use of tractors with plows, cultivators, harrows, seed- ers, mowers, reapers, threshers, and other agriculfural machinery. The tests will be held in the’ North- ern Caucasus and the Crimea. BROPHY CARRIES ELECTION FIGHT INTO ANTHRACITE Hard Coal Miners Hear Lewis Opponent WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Dec. 13. — John Brophy carried his campaign against John L, Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, into the an- thracite region in the closing week of the campaign. At Hazelton, Pittston, | Scranton and Wilkes-Barre he chal-| tenged Lewis on the issue of the loss of the southern coal fields and 200,000 members. He pushed the program of nationalization of mines and a labor party on which he is running for in- ternational presidency. “We are facing the termination’ of the Jacksonville contract next April with our bargaining power danger- ously weakened unless we take steps to win back the lost fields,” he told the Hazelton gathering, which was a mass rally of supporters from the three hard coal fields. “Unless we get the Pennsylvania coke fields and West Virginia and Kentucky with us next April the United Mine Workers of} America may suffer the most disas-| trous defeat in its history.” Lewis Banquets. Lewis follows Brophy with two an- thracite meetings. Officially neither is | for a political purpose but a political interpretation is given to his visit. At the first meeting—a banquet to George Gwillam, the Lucerne county recorder of deeds, Lewis speaks over the radio with Secretary of Labor Davis, for whose job Lewis wasifornrerly thought in line. see Hapgood Defeats Expulsion Move. GALLITZBN, Pa., Dec. 13.—By un- animous vote of the big Gallitzin local union, Powérs Hapgood retains his membership in the United Mine Work- ers. The international union charged ‘that he had never joined the union in| Montana in 1920. AUL SCHARRENBERG, editor of the Seamen’s Journal, San Francisco, the official organ of the International Seamen’s Union of America, writes about” “Peace or War on the Pacific” in the current issue of his publication. Scharren- berg selects an interesting subject for his article, one that should con- cern all labor, Since the members of the Seamen’s Union touch all the shores of the Pacific, it might be taken for granted that Scharrenberg would give his subject,a working class treatment, at least giving voice to a thin thread of solidarity with the workers of other countries, But any such illusions are quickly shattered by a reading of the ar- ticle. oe ie To be sure’ there is a brief note in. this issue, apart from the article, setting forth that the Australian labor party had postponed its pan- Pacific conference. But this is as close as Scharrenberg’s paper gets to any working class relations in the Pacific. The Australian labor party has now completely dismissed its efforts to hold a pan-Pacific con- ference, It was merely a counter- move against a similar attempt made by the New South Wales, Australia, trade union congress, this latter effort having now been en- dorsed by the third all-Australian trade union congress and the date for the holding of this pan-Pacific trade union conference having now been set for May 1st, 1927, at Canton, ‘China, Thus the Seamen’s Journal, in its small way, lends itself to the enemies of the pan-Pacific unity of labor, ees 4 In his own article, Scharrenberg does not see any labor concern in the question of “peace or war” on the Pacific. He merely presents the pacific attitude of those “statesmen, educators, business men and peace organizations” that talk about peace between wars, but during wars be- come the worst jingoes, Scharrenberg therefore applauds the Institute of Pacific Relations that met in Honolulu in the’ summer of 1925, “with the conviction that in the Pacific area the struggle for un- derstanding and adjustment should come before the struggle with arms.” rf When such hogwash comes from the editor of the International Sea- men’s Union, whose president, Andrew Furuseth, at least opposes the imperialist Teague of nations, the struggle to draw the labor move- ment generally into the adoption of a class viewpoint on the Pacific problem becomes a difficult one in- Hapgood retorted “frame-up” and) showed his dues receipts. The fight, assumed political importance for the! charges were brought after Hapgood! began faking a‘ leading part in the | campaign to elect John Brophy inter-! national president in place of John L.| Lewis. Hapgood accused his’ op-| ponents of spending a thousand dol-| lars worth of organizers’ time in try- ing to get something on him. Mussolini to Force Men to Marry with Tax on Bachelors ROMB, Dec. 12.—A tax on bache- lors has been instituted by Mussolini in effort to eradicate celibacy among men and to force “the Italian race to become more prolific.” The annual tax will be on a progressive scale ranging in age from 25 to 65 years old. Spinsters are excluded from the tax, ‘ Mussolini supports the tax with the statement that it is one of the duties of the fascist state to look after the oa , WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The sen- ate has formally dismissed impeach- ment proceedings against ex-Federal Judge George W., English of Hast St. Louis, who resigned a few days be- fore his: scheduled impeachment trial, The senate adopted ‘a resolution dis- solving itself as a court of impeach- ment, thus ending thé’ case, Admiral Urges More Submarines for Navy WASHINGTON, Dec. 13,-—The American navy has dropped below the 5-5-3 ratio established by the Wash- ington conference in certain auxiliary arms, congress was told by Admiral E. W. Bberle, chief of operations, | Admiral Eberle said 33 battle sub- |marines would be necessary to bring | the American navy up to Japan, under the conference ratio. The navy is buflding only three, h@'sald. The navy {s four submarines a Great Brit- ain, Why donc you writ® It up? It may be ihotoulng to othe workers, deed. ee There is only one power fn) the Pacific that can prevent the next imperialist war, if it takes place in this part of the globe. That is the organized power of the working class, The plan for the pan-Pacific trade union conference at Canton proceeds from this viewpoint. Scharrenberg is much enamoured of the fact that the Japanese news- Paper published at Honolulu, Jitsu- gyo-no-Hawaii, has gotten out a special magazine edition entitled, “The International Peace Edition, 1927,” printed half in English and half in Japanese, “with some in- teresting photographs of leading Takes Life When He Can’t Find Job; War Veteran Shoots Self (Special to The Daily Worker) DENVER, Dec, 13.—Penniless and out of work, Warner H. Bell, 66, slashed his throat and wrists with ‘a knife here, dying shortly afterward. Sits WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—John W, Caldwell, an aged war veteran, who came to the U, 8, Soldiers’ Home here several years ago from California, chose the rotunda of the capitol as the scene of attempted ‘suicide. He shot himself thru the head and is dying at Casualty Hospital, A bankbook showing $3,000 savings in a Berkeley, Cal., bank was found qin his clothing, Cities Where Weisbord Is Scheduled to Speak The following is the schedule of Albert Weisbord’s king tour: Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday, Dec. 15, German-American Hall, 665 Grand Ave. Chicago, Ill, Thursday, Dec. Mirror Hall, Western and Division, Gary, tnd., Saturday, Dec, 18. Milwaukee, Wis., Sunday, Dec. 19, Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut Sts. St. Paul, Monday, Deo, 20, Labor Temple 416 N. Franklin St. Minneapolis, Minn., Tuesday, Deo. Se Unieatien Chureh, 8th and La Salle, i a 1) 16, \ 4 The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference Points Way to World Peace By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, J Japanese scholars who have identi- fied themselves with the cause of world peace.” The nature of the edition may be judged from the fact that it contains articles from high officials of the Mikado’s government that outlaws the trade unions in that country. Among American liberals andypacifist contributors is to be found the ultra-reactionary, Nicholas Murray Butler, head of Columbia University, which alone should damn such a publication in the eyes of every honest worker. Scharrenberg says of this motley aggregation: \ Superior, Wis., Wednesday, Dee, 22, ‘Tower Hall, corner Tower pS nha him, “These men, and many others unite in saying that thoughtful co- operation can and must give place to thoughtless warfare. In the” mercenary world of today universal peace is still merely an ideal. It will remain so until the peoples of all lands learn to cultivate the spirit of goodwill toward one another. Lasting peace cannot be had by the application of force, No ‘war to end war’ has ever ended war.” Such phrases, before 1914, were continually being hatched by the imperialist dove of peace nestling on its militarists in the Hague “Peace Palace,” financed by war Profiteers, including the American, Andrew Carnegie. At the same time all the capitalist nations indulged in an armament race that brought them to the slaughter abyss com- Pletely supplied with all the imple- ments of wholesale murder. Condi- tions are no different today. Now, as in 1914, there is only one war that will end all wars, That is the class war with victory perching on the banners of the working class. se The American labor leadership, as it exists at the present time, doesn’t believe in the class struggle. [t generally accepts the kind of lib- eral and meaningless phrases that Scharrenberg utters, which furnish the best mask for collaboration: with the American ruling class against the working class. Scharrenberg is also secretary of the California Federation of Labor. He has made several trips to the orient, but hardly to develop unity with the workers on the far side of the Pacific. He has rather been in- strumental in formulating the immi- gration laws of the American capi- talist government that have alien- ated the sympathies of large sec- tions of oriental labor with the American working class. . Scharrenberg is an “old party pro- gressive” in California politics, the kind of politics that has attacked the workers with the worst state anti-syndicalist law in the nation. Scharrenberg joins with Furuseth in fighting the radicals within the union, crushing the very life out of the membership of the organization, so that merely a skeleton remains of this once proud union, It is against such leadership that the working masses must struggle “Mn order to achieve unity, not only unity on the job, to fight for higher wages, better conditions and the shorter workday; not only industrial unity to array the American work- ing class against the American cap- italist class; not only pan-Pacific unity to unite all workers in the lands bordering the Pacific, but also the world unity of labor for the de- feat of all labor’s enemies and the ending of the wages system. LEVIN’S HIRED. THUGS ATTACK LONE WORKER \ Sluggers employed by the right wing leaders in the needle trades at- tacked John Harvey, who attended the left wing mass meeting Sunday afternoon at Workers’ Lyceum. A gang of a dozen waylaid Harvey when he left the hall, and after beating him severely, when he put up a fight, fled in @ taxicab they had in readiness, Taken to Jail. ‘When the police arrived on, the scene they arrested Harvey and three of the sluggers who were unable to| run, The four were taken to police headquarters, where they were forced to submit to fingprprinting and other “identification” processes of the police department. After being held in jail for four hours, Harvey and his at- tackers were charged with disorderly conduct and were released on $26 bond, Leaders of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers were on hand at the station to furnish bond for the sluggers. . None of them gave their correct names, Gang Stops Woman. Harvey was attacked at the inter- section of Hirsch and California ave- nues, He saw the gang stop a woman needle worker wo wag going to the meeting in an attempt to prevent her going into the hall. Harvey motioned || FOREIGN-BORN COUNCILS BEGIN WORK IN NATION Meetings Being Held Thruout U. S. NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—The activi- ties of several local Councils for Pro- tection of Foreign-Born Workers in eastern cities started Sunday with conferences to lay plans for the com- ing year’s work. ~ A state conference of, all councils in Connecticut was held in New Haven and meetings of the western Pennsylvania council at Pittsburgh and of the Connellsville coke region council at South Brownsville, Pa., were held. Chicago Campaign Started. With the work of the Chicago coun- ell already begun, and the Philadel- phia council issuing a call for an ex- ecutive board meeting next week, an admirable start has been made on the great campaign to rouse the American workers and the general public to the dangerous anti-alien bills in congress, and the nation-wide hostility con- stantly evidenced toward the foreign- born worker in many ways. Davis Backing Down, Already, in response to the pres- sure of labor and foreign-language and liberal groups, Secretary of Labor Davis has felt compelled—in ‘his an- nual report just issued—to agree to try “voluntary registration” of aliens in place of the proposed comptilsory registration.. This simply means that one anti-alien bill may perhaps be sub- stituted for another in the immigra- tion committee of the house of repre- sentatives, but eventually the result will be the same, These measures must be nipped in the bud, before they are ever made laws, and only the united attack of all workers, thru the organization formed especially for this purpose, the Council for Protection of Foreign-Born Workers, will accom- plish this end. The councilg are making plans for the establishment of naturalization classes in connection with their other work, and all foreign-born workers who are not citizens may enroll free and receive any advice needed to help them to obtain their citizenship pa- pers as soon as possible, Soap Manufacturers Forming Huge Combine A gigantic soap merger of two of the largest soap manufacturers in the United States, Palmolive and. Peet Brothers, is being negotiated, accord- ing to announcement of Charles Pierce, president of the Palmolive company, Chicago. The merger in- volves capitalization and assets of $45,000,000, PARAS SS TNR TNT tee TTT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 50th Street and 8th Avenue NEW YORK The Largest Hall in the World . Saturday Evening, December 18th The famous ALBERTINA RASCH BALLET will appear in selected numbers. to the woman to ignore the gang.| Tickets at The FREIHEIT, ‘This action caused them to attack 30 Union Sq New Yor i)