The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 SEER SSSR STS attra SRE Ces BH ne PSE a i i Vol. Ill. No. 285. Subscription Rates: : tn” . vet ‘ get € Outside Chicago, by mati, “Vela. STEEL WORKERS ANb & *" — |NSWER THE CHALLENGE OF REA. ONARIES; WHO WILL ‘BE THE ‘NEXT TO REPLY? : 7 N answer to the challenge of “A War to a Finish” against the left wing and the rank and file of the trade unions, the challenge issued by Lewis, Woll, Sigman, Beckerman, McMahon and Co.—we have just re- ceived a check for $264.75 from a group of miners and steel workers. The check comes thru the South Slavic Section of the. Workers Party, fronf the following towns: Luzerne, Pa., Philadelphia, Pa. War- ren, O., Hammarvills, P@., Bessemer, Pa, W. Brownsville, Pa., Home- stead, Pa., Ironton, Minn., Akron, O., Los An s, Cal., Mountain View, Cal., Cleveland, ©., Trinidad, Colo., Detroit, Mich, ee ae Sale| pee is the first gun in the big struggle which faces the left wing. It ie ta us but one day after our appeal. It must be followed by simi- rom every part of the country. The struggle against the right wing, and the reactionary officials of an Federation of Labor, is not purely a matter of theoretical differences of opinion, of rivalry for office, or of personal likes or dislikes. {tc is a matter which concerns the very life of the American labor move- ment, \ * + * * Te New York Furriers have started the general movement for the 40-hour week. . The cloakmakers have taken up the campaign. They are now on strike for this demand. If they succeed in winning the 40: hour week and thelr other demands, unions all over the country will be in a position to point to their example, and make the same demands. If they tose, it will be an excuse for the bosses to open the offensive ag cinst the workers.. The right wing led by Sigman is doing everything in its power to defeat the cloakmakers, and thus, give a setback to the entire labor movement. The same struggle against the forces of reaction is taking place in ‘he miners’ union. The result in the recent elections will show to some extent, how powerful is the dissatisfaction with the present reactionary regime. * * * . A fE are witnessing a peculiar phenomenon. The reactionaries, who * W always fought against amalgamation, as a weapon of more effective struggle again@t the bosses, do not hesitate to amalgamate their forces in one general staff, against the left wing and the rank and file. The situation demands the unification of all honest forces in the American labor movement, ali the fighting forces in the ranks of labor, behind the fearless spokesman of the left wing, The DAILY WORKER. it would be the most splendid victory for the reactionaries, for the Lewices, the Sigmans, the Beckermans, tH€Wolls and the MoMahons,” if The DAILY WORKER Were crippled, if they were rid of this powerful left wing weapon. The right wing and the reactionaries boast of unlim- ited funde for their attack on the left wing. The source of these funds is not disclosed. But one thing.is certain. The left wing cannot depend for the support of its chief organ, upon any undisclosed sources. It can de- pend only upon the support.of the rank and file of labor. The rank and file-must respond, must respond at once, without delay. re 258 The reactionaries are able to get fin without much trouble. “Let us rally The DAILY WORKER, the’ fighting organ of the left wing, and speedy victory for the léft American workers. ancial aid for their nefarious work, our forces with’ all speed, to Keep insure a wing against the reactionary betrayers of the eS Sy T. 6. OFLA AERTY 0% is at the bottom of much of Albania’s troubles. The govern- men: of Fan Noii, that was, favored @@ual rights for all nations in the scramble for. ofl, but needed a little money to keep his government going. Fan Noli was ignored by the league of nations and charged with being a Bolshevik. His government Wished to give the oil concessions tothe Stand- ard O!l company, which made the highest bid. The Anglo-Persian Oil company, which is controlled by the British government, made’ exorbitant demands. er a A tena Britain began to show her hand. Am army under ‘the leader- ship of Ahmet Zogu was organized on Jugo-Slav territery, with plenty of money. Just as soon as Zogu cap- tured one town he was recognized by the league of nations and his pockets have not been empty since. The Anglo- Persian company got the concessions, “but generously agreed” to divide up with the Standard Oil‘and Italian syn- dicates, the British taking the lion's cee 2 league of nations, Which is the _* creature of Britain, provided Zogu with credit thru Italian banks. ‘Then Maly and Jugo-Blavia began to quarre) over the spoils in Albania, ending with a victory for Mussolini, tho it may be a shortlived one. This strug- wle for contro] in the Balkans is partly responsible for the strained relations between Italy and France, The Ital- a ruling classes want to make the rranean Sea an Italian lake, but are not yet in a position to bring this fesue to @ boiling point, Watch the league of nations twiddling its thumbs while the French and Italian govern- ments are rushing troops to the fron- tier! M" KBLLOGG, our secretary of * ntate, is preparing to publish the gt resolutely Soopers, fl House Passes Bill to Raise Salaries of Federal Judges (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—The house today passed, 295 to 39, the bill to in- crease salaries of federal judges. The measure has been approved by the senate. A separate measure to increase the | salary of Chief Justice Taft from $15,000 to $20,500 a year was also ap- proved. pee ee We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER ‘to your friends~ send us name and address, { j Entered at Secon per year. $6.00 per year, FIRESTONE GETS CONTROL OF MILLION ACRES LAND IN LIBERIA FOR RUBBER ‘(Special to The Dally Worker) AKRON, 0., Dec. 14.—The Fire- stone Rubber company has ob- tained control of a million acres of land in’the Republic of Liberia to be used for growing rubber plants, according to announcement made by the company officials here. The congress of Liberia ratified the Proposition of the American com- pany, it was announced, but details of the consideration are not given. The company gets a 99-year lease on Liberia’s best land for a rubber plantation. About $100,000,000 will be spent by the company to reclaim the ground, it was said. Three hundred and fifty thousand natives will be employed in the project to produce 200,000 tons of rubber annually, The Firestone company also has large tracts of ground for rubber in Mexico and in the Philippines, UNION MINERS LEAVE PITS T0 CAST BALLOTS interest Centers on the’ Brophy-Lewis Race | (Special to The Daily Worker) | SPRINGFIELD, IIl., Dec. 14— Un- ion mines thruout Illinois were Idle today while the miners cast their bal- lots for international district and sub- district officers. Results of the balloting for district officers are. expected to be known within'six. weeks while sub-district re- sults will be known within a few days. When... results in the international contest, will be available is not stated. Chief ‘interest centers in the race of John L. Lewis, Springleld, for re- electioti’as international president. Lewis’ds ‘oposed by John Brophy of Clearffeld, Pa., heading the “Save the Union! ticket. District 12 Race. The'jrace in District 12, including practically all of Illinois and a part of Missouri, commonly considered as the-state of Illinois organization, lies between Harry A. Fishwick and Geo. Tumulty. Fishwick, present incum- bent; ‘was appointed to the presiden- cy when Frank Farrington, former state president, resigned to accept a | position with the Peabody Coal in- terests. Tumulty Supports Brophy. in Sub-District 12, John A. Walker, president, and John W. Hindmarsh are expected to battle it out for the presidency, with William E. Wall, al- so a candidate. Point to Lewis Failure. Other offices are to be filled but the choice of the presidents is expect- ed to carry their slate with them into office. The opposition to Lewis points to the loss of 200,000 members and his failure to organize non-union fields. \tion ordering members of the ALY ¥ d-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Uitnoi: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1926 SIGMAN TRIES - TO SPLIT N.Y. CLOAK UNION Orders Ouster of All Left Wingers BULLETIN, (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Dee. 14.—Six thousand cloakmakers demonstrated yesterday re International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union headquarters en Sixteenth street with placards denouncing the Gen- | eral Executive’ Board's demand that | the Joint Board turn over local unions and treasuries. The cloak- makers paraded past the office and jeered and bosed Sigman. Police made the crowd move on, but al- lowed gangsters to remain. While the crowd was being shoved towards Fifth avenue the Beckerman-Sigman gang 'S Ci out of headquarters and attacked the last of the proces- sion which had been cut off from the main body by the police. ’ Many work@rs were badly cut and bruised. The) procession reformed and marched fo demonstrate against the Jewish Dally Forward, which is leading the right wing forces. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 14.—The General Executive Board of the Inter- national , Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, under the leadership of Presi- dent Sigman, has adopted a resolu-| New| York Joint Board to withdraw from the strike leadership and has appoint- ed committees of right wingers to supersede the Joint Board. The resolutigu.also ousted all local sxechtive “comiltittees* of the cloak makers and replaced them with com- mittees appointed by the General Exe- cutive Board. Beiated. Charges. Altho Presjdemt Sigman hag been a! member of the genera! strike commit-} -ee, the resolution charges that the strike of twenty-five weeks’ duration was called illegally and has been used in the interest of the Communists. The New York-Joint Board has an-| swered the regolution with a state- ment asking all the workers to stand} by the Joint Board against Sigman's strikebreaking, Joint Board Fights Split. The Joint Board will refuse to com- ply with the ultimatum to turn ovey all the books and property to the right committees and will continue to lead the strike, calling upon the members of the union to defeat Sigman’s union- wrecking and strikebreaking tactics as they did last year. The left wing will refuse to be driven out of the union or into a split. Ratse Loan, The joint board of the cloakmakers has declared that one of the big needs of the strike at this time is funds. Looking towards raising the necessary money to carry onthe struggle, the board has decided to raise loans from (Continued on page 2.) Trotsky States Position to Plenum of Comintern; Bukharin Makes Reply " pn to (Special Cabié to The Dally Worker.) MOSCOW, »U, S. R., Dec, .14.— The twentieth sion of Plenum of the executive of the Comintern be- gan with a continuation of the debate on Stalin's réport on the Russian question. Smeral of Czechoslovakia pointed out that the opposition in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had done considerable harm to the Communist Party, to’ the proletarian dictatorship and the whole Commu- nist International, impeding the busi- nébsiike work of the party, and threat- ening the unity of the party. Amidst the general approval of the Plenum the speaker’ energeticaliy charged the opposition with repeated breaches of discipline, with ignoring the decision of the Soviet Union Party and with carrying on disruptive criti: cisms aiming at fostering internal strife. Today, however, when the rank, and file of the party, have re- jected, the opposition's demagogtc and when the workers of revolutionary battle slogans, we can look on quietly at the opposition's fruitless attempts to stir up factiona! strife and to split the Comintern The Comintern will unanimously Ig uidate this danger and give the oppo- sition a last warning, he concluded, Trotsky Speaks, Trotsky, a8 the next speaker, stat- ed that the opposition was not appeal- ing to the Plenum against the party's decisions but was only expounding fis own views. He retaliated against Stalin's accusations of Trotskyism by saying that the only fact that Stalin had brought forward was that Trot- sky had formerly not been a Bolshe- vik and that he had once struggled against Lenin. He declared that form- erly he had been wrong but that on Joining the Bolshevik Party he had abandoned his mistaken views. Trotsky further suggested while in former differences and the party were right>some time were wrong: In sky and later Pepper even “overdid” the theory that Lenin com: of permanent revolution, Pepper was actually the author of a peculiar so clalistic “Monrae Doctrine” for the Soviet Union. The speaker agreed with Zinoviev’s contention that the traditions of Marxism and Leninism entirely justify the views of the op- position. On Socialism: in One Country. He potnted out that imperialism, in spite of the sharpening of contradlo- tions, produced a certain levelling and decreased the irregularity of the development of capitalism. , Trotsky maintained that Stalin's biggest er- ror was the theory of the possibility of building socialism in one country and declared it to be impossible to abstract one country from the world economy: for example, pre-war Rus- Sia constituted a part of the world economy and hence was drawn into the world war by financial capital. Today tt is impossible to exclude Rus Sia from the world economy: the need of equipment fot work (pre-revolu- tionary equipment was 67 per cent (Continvea on page 4) is, under the Act of March 3, 1879, EM 290 Publ PUBL ed Dally except Sun: iSHING CO., 1113 W. shington Blvd., y by THE DAILY WORKER hicago, Ii. HE Passaic strikers have brought the Botany mills to terms, the fighting policy of the Communists and the left wing in the textile industry has been vindicated and the drive against militant unionism launched by the trade union of- ficialdom has been dealt a severe blow. The strikers have won the right to organize and to col- lective bargaining, there is to be no discrimination against strikers, grievances.are to be handled by the workers’ own committees, the wage-cut is to be restored and all strikers are to be employed before new employes are hired. A All strikers will be hired thru the union office. There will be no mad stampede for jobs but the workers, whose strike has been one of the most remarkable examples of workingclass discipline under the severest provocation, will continue to exercise this discipline thru the Local Union No. 1603, United Textile Workers of America, born of the strike. The left wing in Passaic has resisted all attempts to accept a settlement for the mill section of loomfixers, spin- ners and weavers and leave the great bulk of the strikers out in the cold. Likewise has the left wing fought all at- tempts to settle merely on the basis of a restoration of the wage-cut without recognition of the right to organize and deal with the companies thru union committees. More than ten months of struggle in the face of hos- tility of the government, the resistance of the bosses and sabotage on the part of reactionary officials of the trade union movement, ending in a victory, is irrefutable testi- mony to the correctness of the left wing policy and tactics. The surrender of the Botany mills will give a tremen- dous impetus to the strike against the Forstmann-Huffmann -plant. With the loss of its ally, the Botany, this group of textile capitalists will feel the full force of the strikers’ of- fensive. . With a complete victory for the Passaic workers in sight, the collection of relief should go forward with new energy and the strikers should lack nothing, during this cold weather, in the shape of food and clothing, that will enable them to put the last ounce of their energy into the struggle. The unshakable will of the Passaic workers has wrung victory from defeat. They must be supported now until all opposition has crumbled and, with 100 per cent organiza- tion, they take their place in the ranks of the American labor movement as part of the vanguard. of that movement—the position to which»their correct policy and courage entitles them. " In the midst of the drive of official reaction which is trying to force the “worker-employer co-operation” theory upon-all sections of, the labor movement, the Passaic strike and the Passaic victory stand out as a blazing sign-board pointing the way,to.the American workers. McHARY PLACES | NEW FARM BILL BEFORE SENATE House May Act, G.0.P. Leader Says WASHINTON, Dec. 14, — The re- vised McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, proposing a $250,000,000 revolving fund to stabilize American agriculture by exporting all surplus crops in cot- ton, wheat, corn, rice and hogs, was introdueed in the senate by Senator McNary of Oregon, chairman of the senate agriculture committee. \ House May Act. Farm relief will be given a prefer- ential status in the house this session 1g the agriculture committee agrees upon™a bill, Representative Tilson .of Connecticut, republican leader, said “The agricultural question is of such great importance that we are anxious to do something if we can,” said Tilson. Radio control, the McFadden branch banking bill, alien property aud supply bills are now the chief ob- jects of the house program, In {ts new form the bill introduced in the senate would use co-operative associations to “hold and dispose of” surplus crops, Funds would be loaned to, the co-operatives to carry out this work, All reference to price levels and price standards were eliminated. The measure, however, retained the equalization fee, which provoked the opposition of President Coolidge, but the fee would be collected only on “each marketed unit” of the commodl- ties affected. Rice was included for the first time in the list of products affected, at the request of rice grow- ers, “This bill is essentially a surplus control bill, the sole aim being to sta- bilize prices thru control of the sur- plus,” said McNary. Liberal Heads New Cabinet. COPENHAGEN, Dehnvirk, Dee. 14. —A new Danish oabthet: wax formed today, headed by M. MY¥gdal,'a T.veral. ) MARCONI PREDICTS THAT POWER WILL BE SENT BY RADIO BEFORE VERY LONG LONDON, Dec. 14—Transmission of power by radio waves and tele- vision are possibilities of the fu- ture, which Senator Guglielmo, Mar- coni predicts today as he celebrates the 25th anniversary of his first suc cess in wireless transmission, It will be a quarter century to- morrow since Marconi sat in a small shack in Newfoundiand and received the first messzge ever transmitted thru the air across the Atlantic. “Ag to the future,” he said in an interview, “there is the possibility that transmission of power over moderate distances may be devel- oped and that television will be- come an actuality. These things will be as wonderful as anything we have experienced.” BOUCK IS HEAD OF PROGRESSIVE FARMERS OF U, S, National Meeting Lays Organization Plans (Special to The Dally Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 14.—William Bouck, leader of the progressive farmers of Washington, was elected national chairman of the Progressive Farmers of America at their first na- tional convention held here. The or- ganization met here to perfect plans for formation of state, local or county units of the Progressive Farmers of America to make it a more effective spokesman of the-farmers of the country. Other officers elected were: R. B. French, Minneapolis, secretary; Hel- muth Ihlenfeldt, Green Bay, Wis., treasurer; Mrs. Myrtle Boules, Alfred Knudsen, Bismarck, N, D, and J. A. Schumaker, Green Bay, members of the national educational committee. More than 1,000 farmers in Min- nesota have become mombers of the organization, it was reported, NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents EW VICTORY AT PASSAIC Passaic Points the Way BOTANY MILL IN SURRENDER TD UNION'S TERMS Continue Strike Against Forstmann, Huffmana (Special to The Daily Worter) PASSAIC, N. J., Dec, 14.—Passaic textile strikers are jubliant over thelr second victory within a month—the big Botany Consolidated Mills Co. has agreed to recognize the union and to take back all old workers without dle. crimination. This follews upon the settlement several weeks ago with the Passaic Worsted Co. and leaves the Forstmann-Huffman mills the only large contenders left in the fleid. In a letter to the union, the man- agement of the Botany milis has agreed to accept the union’s terme as follows: VICTORY FOR WORKERS, Agrees to recognize the right of the workers to organize in their le gitimate union. No discrimination against workers who have been on strike, The right to collective bargaining thru the workers’ own committees. Restoration of the wage-<cut to all striking worker returning to the mills before new help is engaged. All other demands are to be arbi- tra As with the Worsted Co. agreement the union will not insist on the closed shop. The executive commit tee of Local Union No. 1608 of the United Textile Workers’ Union called a tremendous mass meeting of aii Botany workers, who unanimously adopted the terms. The meeting de- cided that no one is to apply to the Botany mills for jobs, but are to be completely re-employed thru the of- fices of the union. Continue Fight. All Passaic is wild with joy over the settlement. The workers are de- termined to continue the struggle against Forstmann-Huffman and vic tory is expected within the next few weeks, now that the front of the bosses has been more than half over- come, This last victory of the strikers is a complete vindication of the strike leadership and assures a sound union in the New Jersey textile industry. 11 Months’ Battle. The Botany mili workers were the first large contingent of strikers to walk out following a drastic eut in wages on Jan. 25. Three days jater they were followed by the Worsted mill workers, and soon the strike be came general in the Passaic vicinity. Fifteen hundred workers are involved in this last settlement. They have been on strike for almost eleven months, Claims Large Surplus. WASHHINGTON—Rep. Garner of Texas predicts that the surplus in the U. 8. treasury will amount to 9606,- 000,000 this year instead of $383,008,- 000 as announced by Sec. Mellon. Garner claims that the low figure was made to discourage tax reduction for political purposes. Bankers Dine on Japan. NEW YORK—Bankers representing nearly, every large bank here and heads of industrial corporations at- ‘ended an “informal luncheon” given xy Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Mor san & Co, to celebrate the loan ne- gotlated for the city of Yokohoma, Japan, Japanese and London bankers attended. Savings Gain, Say Bankers, NEW YORK-—Savings bank depos- its have increased this year more than a ‘billion affd & half dollars over last, reports the savings bank division of the American Bankers association. There are $24,696,192,000 in savings accounts In the country, the report says, distributed in 46,000,000 ac counts. To Give Thompson Report. WASHINGTON, Dec, 14.—President Coolidge is expected to make public the Thompson report on the Philip: pine Islands next week, and with it will make recommendations to con: gress for new legislation for the Tt is possible he will recom- mend that a civil governor be ap- pointed instead of the present military one, Gen, Wood