The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1926, Page 1

= war The DAILY WORKER {n New York is The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 286. Subscription Rates: r 4 +o ?> ~ In Chicago, by Te Uutsiue Cuicago, Wntered at Second-class matter Septoiot ail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. 1923, at the Poat Office at Chicago, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1926 lllinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Ch CO:, except Sunday by THE DAILY Wor NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents icago, 00 YOURS! R eleven long months, almost.a year, the Passaic textile workers i have been battling against the millionaire mill dwners of that city. For oleven months they have been fighting for the right to organize and deal collectively with the bosses. For eleven months they have ri sted the attempts of the textile barons to slash wages and reduce the living standards of the textile workers. They have faced police clubs, tear gas bombs, jail, Icy streams of water and starvation for themselves and thetr families. They faced these hardships without a whimper. With the surrender of the Botany Worsted Mills, they have practically won their struggle. They have stemmed the tide of wage cuts. They have opened up‘a new chapter in the history of the unorganized workers of America. But the Passaic strike Is but the beginning of the movement among the millionsepf unorganized workers tile, mining, metal, auto and large organizatior? must be carried to them, advanced elements, to the moet cla in this country—in the rubber, tex- scale industries, The message of It must be carried to the most conscious workers in these indus- tries, to the militants, to those who will be the natural leaders of the movement for the organization of the unorganized—to the readers of The DAILY WORKER, Shall The DAILY WORKER be Shall The DAILY WORKER leave begun? No honest, intelligent worker will permit this to happen. forced to quit at this-critlcal time? the field when the work has just Do for The DAILY WORKER, the organ of the unorganized, what the Pas- saic strikers have done for the organized textile workers. Carry the» message of Passaic to every unorganized industry. Send your donation now to keep The DAILY WORKER. Send it NOW! By T 8. Orta HERTY HE ku klux klan has been flattered by the sincerest form’ of that art, namely, imitation. Little klans are springing up all over the land. Local klans, that are content with making an honest dollar-and leaving high politics alone. One of those altruistic kdaverns is run by one Leanda Cald- well, Montgomery, Alabama. A small poster issued by Leanda is before me. . HE planks in her platform are as follows: Secession (she does not say from what) the south for south- ‘ernets only; confiscate all. property, paying southerners tax-assessed value in 5@ years; transport Negroes else- where, giving them one-fourth mov- able property; co-operation without a, association; work seven hours a day | for an average of $7 a day; labor checks instead of money; each colony as near self-supporting as possible; the south importing and exporting _ nothing. . HAT’S Leanda’s position, and the can, start a klavern in our own community on a commission basis .by buying a charter from Leanda for the small sum of five dollars. Leanda missed something. She should have declared war on Mexico on the ground so * that our: southern neighbor was not} among his sufficiently cultured to belong to the family of nations. eee TPHERE is a serious rift in the royal 4 loot of Roumania’s figleaf govern- ment. Premier Bratiano, the real ruler of the country has made a political (oCntinued on page 5.) New Panama Treaty. BALBOA, Panama, Dec, 15,—The new treaty between Panama and the United States is ready to be ‘sub- mitted to the assembly by President Chiari. We will send sarpie copies of the DAILY WORKER to your friends~ send us name and address, BIG LABOR CONFERENCE TO HELP ESTABLISH THE DAILY WORKER IN NEW YORK CITY IN JANUARY, 1927 N_ imposing delegation of repres- entatives of labor and’ fraternal organizations is expected-at the New York conference for establishing The DAILY WORKER in New York, This conference will take place on Friday evening, December 17, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East ith Street, The con- ference will take decisive steps for the removal of the paper, which is ex- pected to take place during the mid- dle part of January, 1927, Left wing leaders have long felt the want of an English labor daily in the great metropolis. The publicity field has until now been left entirely in the hands of either the foreign-language dailies, the right wing sheets or the capitalist press. This has created a powerful obstacle to the progress of ‘tho left wing. The establishment. of ‘therefore welcomed on every hand, ” |General Sun Chuan-Fang’s strength Zoe Son |NEN VICTORIES OF KUCMINTANG SEAL SHANGHAL Fall of Big Port Is Now, Inevitable SHANGHAI, Dec, 15—Cantonese control of the city of Shanghai in- the very near future was regarded as inevitable today as news of fresh vie- torlee for the southern troops came | in from the battle front. The Cantonese this morning sud- denly swept down on Hangchow and’ captured the city, thus forcing the northern forces to alter all plans of resistance and rendering futile an at- tempted stand by General Sun Chuan, Fang. Brigadier General Man Cho-Yeh, an adherent of Sun Chuan-Fang, rushed from Nanking to Nashing with the intention of establishing defense lines] Tight wing sluggers to stop the there, and later to launch an offen-|™eeting with the ald of the police Kashing is |S evident from the presence of a located about half way between Shang- |"¥mber of strong-arm men from the sive toward Hangchow. hai and Hangchow. The Cantonese forces which cap- Green of the Painters’ Union and tured Hangchow numbered | 20,000. was uncertain, due to the disaffection subordinates, many of whom weére reported to be friendly toward the Cantonese, Ask Beveiverdhia for Surface Lines as New Franchise Is Pending Receivership for the Fa 4 sur- face lines, operating all of the city’s trolley cars, was asked in a petition filed¥in federal court by attorneys for the Westinghouse Electric com- pany, which filed a claim for $67,075. The petition comes just 45 days be- fore the franchise under which the surface lines are operating expires, and while a decision as to granting another or taking over the properties is being considered, the furriers, said today: “The left wing must spread its influence to the ranks of the English-speaking work- ers. When the left wing conducts a fight, as we did in the furriers’ strike, in Passaic, and in the cloakmakers’ strike, we must be able to rally the full force of the labor movement, quickly gnd effectively behind tho struggle, We must be able to combat the poison which is being dissemi- nated among the English-speaking by the cgpitalist press and by the labor bureaucrats. I know of no better way to accomplish this than by publish: The DAILY WORKER in New York." The conference will take up t question of building up a broad sw port for The DAILY WORKER ani also immediate preparations for the big Madison Square Garden meeting which has been arranged for January 22 as a welcome for “The Datly" in New York. Prominent left wingers in the New York labor movement are expected to address this important we COURT SAYS SEGREGATION OF NEGROES BY ORDINANCE IN INDIANAPOLIS ILLEGAL INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec, 15.— The city segregation ordinance, Passed by the city council here to force Negroes to live In certain dis- tricts only, was declared unoconstl- tutional by the Indiana circuit court. The court based its decision on a “previous decision of the United States supreme court in a similar case In Louisville, Ky., in 1917, Indianapolis. Negroes were led in their fight on the Jim Crow ordi- nance by the National Association for the Advance of Colored People. POLICE CALLED TO STOP FUR UNION MEETING Gold Not Allowed to Speak- NOCKELS INFORMS POLICE, Edward Nockels, secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor, called the police department from his of- fice on Tuesday and said: “There is a Communist agitator y the name of Gold who Is disrupting the labor movement and we want you to attend to him. He is going to speak tomorrow night at the Odd Fellows Hall on Albany and 12th street.” Nockels then turned to some right wingers of the Furriers’ Union who had been in conversation with him and said: “That's the best | can do for you.” see Police and gangsters broke up a special meeting of the Fur Workers’ Union called a week ago while Inter- national President Shachtman was present for the purpose of hearing Ben Gold, chaitman of the New York Joint Board of the union, ‘No sooner had the meeting been called) to order than Milstein, a right}. winger and former business agent, struck the chairman and knocked him @own. Great disorder resulted and while the meeting was in an uproar Police and gangsters rushed im and,) after considerable fighting had taken| place, the police closed the meeting. Police and Right Wing. } That there had been a mobilization Amalgamated Clothing Workers, others. , | The police told a number of officers | of the union before the meeting that they~ had been informed that some| “reds” were to be present and that there was bound to be trouble. After the meeting had been stopped the progressive fur workers met at Freiheit Hall, formed a defense asso- ciation and took up a prelithinary col- lection of $87.50. The executive board of the union meets tonight and at this meeting it is said that charges will be preferred against the individuals who were responsible for the disorder, KOLLANTAY ARRIVES IN MEXICO WITH LIBRARY, BUT SMALL WARDROBE (Special to The Oaily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Dec, 15.—In strik- ing contrast with Queen Marie of Roumania, Madam Alexandra Kol- lantay arrived here from Vera Cruz in an ordinary coach, with two trunks, in which more space was devoted to her library than to her wardrobe. The books she brought with her on her mission as ambas- sador of the Soviet Union to Mexico are In six or more languages. | She was met at ‘the station by a mixed group. “A representative of, the foreign office gave her the oft ficial welcome’ of the republic and escorted her to her hotel, MOSCOW, U. S. S: R., Dec, Kuausinen Assails Pessimism of the Opposition; Kameneff Also Speaks (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) GANGSTERS AND POLICE ATTACK N.Y. UNIONISTS Five Arrested, Many Hart as 6,000 March BULLETIN. NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—President Sigman, over the heads of the strike committee and the Joint board, has agrééd with the Jobbers to submit their demand for reor ganization of their shops to arbitra- tion. The arbitrators who will pass on this vital matter are Pro- fessor Lind Rogers, Judge Shankop and Colonel Leinman. we By SYLVAN: A. POLLOCK. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, 'Dec, 15.—Five wo- men were arrested and scores of other cloakmakers were brutally beaten by mounted policemen, patro!- men, detectives of the industrial squad, and gangsters of the Sigman- Beckerman machine at the gigantic demonstration, Of 6,000 workers held here to protest the demand of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union general executive board that left wing strike leaders immedi- ition of right wing gangsters @esulted in many casual- ties among left wing ranks, both at the beginning of the demonstra- tion at the ational office of the un- ion, 3 West 46th St. and when it wound up 0} le the Jewish Daily Forward building, 175 East Broad- way. Gangstgrs Attack. After the police had forced the main body “the demonstrators. to leave the vi of the national of- fice, 30 gangsters swooped from the hallway and pounced upon the re- maining workers, and what had been |textile strike, now within sight of victory. ‘ [The Police in L } W | aid in breaking up a meeting with the American Federation body, it is a matter of grave movement. cago Federation of Labor did presence of the police at the their subsequent actions, are speaking. a proven fact. body of armed men” who are of labor in every strike? bad for the workers and as a abor Struggles HEN the secretary of a central labor body calls upon the police, with whom he has connection because of the support of open shop politicians of the capitalist parties, to of a union regularly affiliated of Labor and the local central concern for the entire labor Yet this is what Secretary Edward Nockels of the Chi- on Tuesday, according to reli- able information which has come to us, in connection with a regular meeting of the Furriers’ Union. Even if this information were not in our possession the mesting, the statements they made before the meeting to responsible union officials and proof that they had been or- dered to the scene by superior officers who had been advised of the meeting, knew of the purp were prepared to co-operate with it to the extent of keeping the highest officer of the largest section of the union from s of the right wing and The unity of the right wing in the needle trades and other sections of the labor movement with the police is now Whence comes this unity with a “special the instrument of the enemies Such unity can come only by reason of a compact with the bosses—bosses who realize that the worker-employer co-operation policy of the right wing,sis good for them and ing to lend their police to aid in crushing the left wing and the Communists who are struggling to maintain the unions as fighting weapons of the working class. Every sincere worker will repudiate the policy followed * by the Chicago labor officialdom in breaking up a meeting of a union regularly affiliated with the Amefican Federation of Labor and the Chicago Federation of Labor. The police are the servan ernment. ts of the bosses and their gov- Whoever unites with them, or solicits their aid in union struggles, places himself in the same category- WEISBORD SPEAKS ON LESSONS OF PASSAIC STRIKE HERE TONIGHT “The Passaic Strike and What It Means to the American Workers” will be the subject of a talk by Albert Weisbord, well-known leader of the Passaic The meeting will be held at a peaceful demonstration became a] Mirror Hall, 1136 N. Western Ave., tonight at 8 p. m. mob scene men, with to the air,- of milling men and wo- d herding the mass of protesting strikers into side streets, and ranmiup to the scene of battle. Then, *imstead of assisting the attacked cloakmakers, they came to the defenes of the strong-arm men. hitting right and left with their nightsticks, lacerating the heads and faces of men afd women, and dislo- cating arms and legs. Black, blue and bloody, the partici- pants in the struggle were rescued by the rest of their fellow-workers, who again massed outside the nation- al offices. Additional policemen were called, and the workers were forced to move on. Move to Forward Bldg. Assaults by gangsters. and police began again when the 6,000 cloak makers gathered outside the Jewish Daily Forward building, 175 East Broadway. Mounted policemen, who had been waiting there singe 10 o'clock in the morning, charged the singing, jeering and booing crowd, trampling on many, and _ injuring scores of others with nightsticks anc billies. From the side-streets came detec: tives of the industrial squad and gangsters furnished by “Mussolini” Beckerman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Blackjacks were wielded as freely as nightsticks and revolver butts, felling many of the demonstrators. For 15 minutes the turmoil kept the lower east side in an uproar. The arrival of a,police official resulted in the calling off of the strong-arm men, and mounted cops came to charge the crowd and disperse it. Ambulances Called. Ambulances from St. Vincent's and Broad Street Hospitals were called, and @ number of men and women were removed. Many others were treated, but they police, to avoid in- criminating explanations, made no record of many of the casualties. Then a patrol wagon was sum- moned from the’Clinton street police | station and five»women were locked up charged with disorderly conduct. Their “disorderly conduct” was an attempt to defend themselves from (Continued on page 2.). 15.—Kuusinen, mem! of the Executive of the Communist International, spoke before the twenty-second session of the the Russian opposition. plenum of that body on the question He emphasized that all Communist parties feel the necessity of supporting the Communist Party tion of Zinoviey, Kameneff and Trotsky. of the Soviet nion and are roth. to the opposi- The lack of principle of the be its.own undoing, ? (Continued will block Zinoviey and Trotsky he declared, But comtrary to exvecta- v on page ~~ ee The sjrike of the 16,000 textile workers that Weisbord organized ite fying, hats thrown in-licq in its most critical period is one of the marvels of American working torn, and faces] cass solidarity and fortitude. It was.a struggle in a fleld traditionally anti- —>+union, and waged in the face BiG JEWELER'S LOCAL SCORES BEARDSLEY ACT Repudiates Move to Ex- pell Militants (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—As one indi- cation of the fact that the meeting of right wing labor officials at the Rand School last week for the pur- |pose of extirpating Communists and left wingers from the New York |trade union movement was a meeting }of reactionary heads of unions act- ing on their personal initiative, Local |17 of the Jewelry Workers’ Union en- tirely repudiated the action of Samuel A. Beardsley, president of the jewel- ers’ district council. Signed Statement. Beardsley had signed a statement issued by the so-called “committee for the preservation of the trade unions,” ‘calling for the expulsion of Commu- nists and militants from the unions. |The following action taken by the |local was communicated to Beards- ley, the above-mentioned committee (Continued on page Z) By JAMES P. CANNON. 'HE Sacoo-Vanzetti case is at a turning point. Legally speaking, it now rests on another appeal to the Massachusetts state supreme court from the latest decision of Judge Thayer refusing.a mew trial. But speaking from a more fundamental standpoint, that js, from the stand- point of the class struggle, the issue really hangs on developments taking place within the Sacco-Vanzetti move- ment which embraces many workers of various views. Within this movement lately a cer tain indecision and hesitation has noticeable. This by no means signi- fles a change in the attitude of the mi toward Sacco and Vanzetti. Their faith and solidarity remain un- shaken. The walting and uncertainty which characterize the movement at the prevent time are merely the reflec- tlon of a serious confilct over policy and methods of conducting the fight. The Sacco-Vanzetti case is no private monopoly, but an issue of the class struggle In which the decisive word will be spoken by the masses who have made thie fight their own, ! ‘Who Can Save Sace and an en- trenched industry. The lessons of this struggle that Wetsbord will draw to- night are of inestimable value to the workers’ movement. The meeting is attracting unusual interest in trade) union circles and a large attendance ig assured. Other Dates. ‘From Chicago Weisbord will con- tinue on his tour to the northwest, His itinerary includes the following cities: Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday, Dec. 15, German American Hall, 665 Grand avenue. Chicago, Il!., Thursday, Dec. 16, Mirror Hall, Western and Division. | Gary, Ind., Saturday, Dec. 18, } | Milwaukee, Wis., Sunday, Dec. 19,| |Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Wainut| | streets. } St. Paul, Monday, Dec. 20, Labor | Temple, 416 N. Franklin St. : | Minneapolis, Minn., Tuesday, Dec. “121, Unitarian Church, 8th and La | Salle. Superior, Wis., Wednesday, Dec. 22, Tower Hall, corner Tower and 13th. Duluth, Minn., Thursday, Dec, 23, Liberty Hall, 22 Ave. North and Su- perlor Sts. Fargo, N. D., Dec. 28. “The pen ts mightier chan the sword,” provided you know how to ues ft. Come down and learn now in the worker correspondent’s classes. {It is therefore necessary to discuss Openly the conflicting policies which are ‘bound up with different objectives. One policy is the policy of the clase struggle. it puts the center of gravity in the protest movement of the work- ers of America and the world. It puts all faith in the power of the masses and no faith whatever in the justice ‘of the courts. While favoring all pos- sible legal proceedings, it calls for agitation, publicity, demonstrations— organized protest on a national and international scale. It calls for unity and solidarity of all workers on this burning Isoue, regardiess of conflicting views on other questions. This ts what has prevented the exeoution of Sacco and Vanzetti so far. Its goal is nothing less than their triumphant vindication and liberation, The other policy is the Polley of “respectability,” of the ft pedal” and of ridiculous iilustone about “justice” from the courts of thee jemy. It rel 38 struggle. it shrinks from the “vulgar and noisy demonstrations” of the mill- tant workere and throws the mud of Slander on them. It tries to represent consequence are only too will- i | HUGE BROPHY VOTE CAST AT SPRINGFIELD Young Miners Boost the ‘Save the Union’ Ticket (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, ill, Dec. 15.—Elec- tion day in the miners’ union was 2 miners’ holiday in this town. All day long the men came in from the six- teen mines around the town and crowded into the polling places. The heaviest vote for years was cast in this election, and if any judgment can»be made from the common talk around in the halls, no Lewis voter came out of Springfield Tumul Slate trict No, 12 vote for a week or two yet settled in Springfield. Sub-district Election Feature that is noi What i ttled in Springfield and immediate vicinity is the sub-district election, in the important Sub-district No, 4, Springf itself ten thousands r Here a split developed in both the machine forces and the progressive forees, the latter only partly closed: by a last minute decision of The Coal Miner, which issued a statement in favor of Hind- marsh for sub-district presideni, and called on supporters of Wall, the other progressive, to fall in line for the most probable victor over the machine can- didates, Walker Tricks Right Wing. An attempt was made by the pres ent incumbent in the office of sub. district president, Walker, to trick some of the right wingers into voting for him when he suddenly threw into the field a number of little cards, marked with his own ballot number heading the ticket, followed by most of the regular Bell machine slate (ex- cept Beil himself). Walker is a forni- er progressive, who betrayed his fel- lows was Jockeyed into office by Farrington, Another interpretation of the Walker action is that he has been taken back into the good graces of the regular machine. Miners’ opinion (Continued on page 3) HARVARD LAMPOON RUBS BOSTON FUR WRONG WAY; SAYS TO BURY ANCESTORS CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Har- vard Lampoon has made another bid for unpopularity. Close on the heels | of its Princeton edition comes a “Boston Edition,” satirizing the Hub of the Universe. It says that, altho the popular con- ception of Boston is a codfish ball completely surrounded with beans, a more logical picture would be that of “a mummy surrounded by Its descendants.” “Give them a his- tory book and a plece of the May- flower for a relic and they will work up more religious fervor that @ whirling dervish on a six-day spin.” It gives the opinion that Boston has run too long on the reputation of Its ancestors. “If they are not burled soon, god save the common wealth of Massachusetts.” 0 and Vanzetti? the martyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti ae an “unfortunate” error which can be rectified by the “right” People proceeding in the “right” way. The Objective of this policy is a white wash of the courts of Massachusetts and “clemency” for Sacco and Van zettl in the form of a commutation to life imprisonment for a crime of whieh the! world knows they are innocent. The conscious proletarian elements with whom we identify ourselves un- conditionally, are for the first polley. The bourgeols elements, and those in- fluenced by them, for the second. The corruption and class bias of the courts of Massachusetts are already Proved to the hilt. A division of the Proletarian forces will only facilitate thelr murderous plans. They are de- termined to have the blood of Saceo and Vanzetti. Only the organized and united pro- test movement of the masses oan save them. In this movement the class con- scious workers—the militante—are the driving force. Let those who hamper |this movement or endanger Its unity ‘pause lest they unoonsclously become the executioners of Saceo and Van-