The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1926, Page 1

| The Daily Worker Fights: For the 40 Hour Wsek, For the Organization of the Un organized, For a Labor Party, Vol. Ill. No. 290. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, co 4%, ip | © hile of By T. Se #9 4, Cpl Sy" 4,9 <e ’o r4 TPHREE slant. Unitea eet “Os rations distributed ave: Vs 000 in extra dividends during tx three months, Financial-writers ) dict that the total paid by corporations will be well over three-quarters of a| million by Christmas. Is it surprising | that the capitalists believe in Santa | Claus? li is_a prosperous country for | some, But how many hundreds of | thousands of wage slaves will not | have enough extra money to buy a/| wy for their children, in this wealthy Yand? > ee T should not be forgotten that this enormous distribution of dividends | 4s paid on water-logged stock. And by | distributing this extra dividend in the | form of stock instead of cash, the cor- | porations are pouring in more water. Nothing is added to the value of the wlant. It only means that the slaves ot the United States Steel corporation and other eoncérns will have to sweat more profusely in order to pay the usual dividend. We do not notice any activity. om the part of Mr. William Green of the A. F. of L. to organize United States Steel slaves so that they could get some of those profits fu their pockets. He is too busy de- fending capitalism. e* NBL GARIBALDI, who betray- ed the republican movement of Italy to the fascisti, for money, has a defender in,a lady with the romantic name of Ferrante Della Rosa, who claims that Gartbaldi risked-his repu- tation te discredit Mussolini, Garibaldi incited the ex-socialist deputy Zani- bont to make an attempt on Musso- lini’s life, and then slipped the infor- mation to the Italian police. He did this, it is claimed, in his defense, be- cause Zaniboni threatened to expose tite republicans uniess he was given money. 5 | AVING won the confidence of the fascisti, Garibaldi proceeded to carry hia plan further. He offered to become an informer for Mussolini in France and the fascist government placed one million lire at his disposal or premised to give him that amount. He actually received one hundred ho} ‘francs. Madame Ferrante iota Rosa will have a tough job try-j ing to prove her hero’s innocence. Mussolini and his cut-throat govern- ment will not be overthrown by such subtle methods, even granting that Garibaldi was actuated by honest mo- lives. The blackshirt regime will be overthrown by the Italian masses sooner sor -later, and judging by the trouble inside the faseist.party just now, it is likely that it will be sooner than later. ‘HIS McPherson-Ormiston case has been a god-send to the Hearst press. No sooner did Aimee slide off the front page than Hearst's sleuths, alded by chief Collins of the Chicago police, who lent one of his detectives to the, Hearst syndicate, located the missing Ormiston. That: gentieman was good for a series of rehashed articles concerning Aimee, and his own wanderings. And no sooner did he hit California than he placed a series of articles on his own marital -(Continued on page 2) TEACHERS WHO OPPOSE LEGISLATIVE WISHES OF -, 4 LITHUAN BLACK CABINET | SEIZES POWER 300 Commanists Are Jailed (Special to The Dally Worker) KOVNO, Lithuania, Dee. 20, — The fascist coup that upset the socialist coalition government of Lithuania was a military conspiracy under the lead- ership of the arch-reactionary Anton Smetona supported by the catholic and nationalist parties. A state of siege has been-declared in Kovno and three hundred Communists. and left wing socialists are reported under arrest, The conspiracy had been brewing for many months; secret bands of fascists had been drilling; army of- ficers were being prepared; and the influence of Great Britain was notice- ably at work in stirring up the fascist: ag a means of weakening the recent pact signed between Lithuania and the Soviet Union, Arch-Reactionary. Smetona was the first president of Lithuania. He has been notoriously anti-Soviet from the beginning. In the years he was president he did much travelling abroad and became intimately involved in the counter- revolutionary activity of the powers and the Russian emigres. Another cause for the revolution is the fact that mass pressure on the socialist coalition government that superceded an ultra-reactionary one, had resulted in a certain let-up in per- secution of Communists and left wing trade unions and also resulted in a stiffened policy towards the fascist bands that had run wild under the previous government. These facts, coupled with the. Soviet treaty de- termined the fascisti upon the coup which won easily over the vacillating | social-democrats*in the government. Black Cabinet. President Grenius is under arrest and a thoroly reactionary cabinet formed, The present cabinet of cath- olics_ and fascisti have the support only of the large JandoWners and. the big capitalists of the cities. The mase- es of workers and peasants are entire- ly without sympathy for the présent coup, The activities of the Commun- ists have been redoubled despite the fact another reign of terror has been unleashed against them. Charge Graft. The left elements who have been thrown out of the government by the coup charge that the conspiracy is the result of a ruse on the part of the fascisti to cover up large amounts of graft that certain of their mipi- sters are responsible for both in the old government prior to last May and in the present fascist cabinet. iovéallgéilon Into Political Corruption Thruout South Asked WASHINGTON, Dec, 20.—A sweep- ing investigation of the alleged sale of federal patronage was proposed in the senate in a resolution introduced by Senator King of Utah. The King inquiry would be con- ducted by a select committee to be named hy the vice-president and — BOARD FACE DISMISSAL MILWAUKEE, Dec, 20.—The rul- ing of the Milwaukee board of edu- cation that no teacher in a public school can lobby for legisiation af- fecting the weifare of the schools unless the legislation is endorsed by the board is under attack by the teachers. The association of teach- ors has passed a resolution denoune- ing this ruling of the board as a vio- lation of the rights of citizens, and presented the resolution to the school board, F “ The board said that any teacher violating this ruling would be tiable sto diemiveal. i feds would supercede thé investigation pro- posed by Senator Harris of Georgia into patronage conditions in his own state. Republican leaders were said to be unopposed to the inquiry, as it will not be limited solely. to charges against the republican administration, Air Transportation Becoming Real Factor LONDON, Deg So-sAir trate be- tween England. the continent is on the increase, Passengers traveling between the lands increased 48 per cent this year, last figares reveal. SEND IN A SUB TODAY. “CITIZENSHIP FOUNDATION” HERE IS FO ED TO BLACKLIST LIBERAL AND WORKER LEADERS AND ORGANIZATIONS By CARL HAESSLER, (Federated Press.) A blacklist of liberal and labor speaxers, extending into every ham- Net where church forums, women’s elubs, lecture courses and other plat- form opportunities exist, Is being built ‘up by the American Citizenship foun- dation, This respectable sounding or- ganization 1s a fusion of the broken- down patrtoteering outfits, the Ameri- can Sentinels fathered by Joseph B. “ Stratiss and the United Americans whose paternity seems to trace back to Charles W. Folds. . The foundation is in the publicity arena at present in an endeavor to raise $2,000,000 in the Chicago area for its purposes. A victory dinner to celebrate the success of the drive was scheduled for Dee. 14 but has been postponed for a month or more as neither the victory nor the $2,000,000 had been cinched, The director of the drive is George Bond Elli @ com: mercial’ promoter who wher- ever the biggest~honorariums beckon, Ostensibly the objeot of the founda- tion is to make better citizens, ae is plenteously set forth in all sorts of (Continued on page & In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. | proletarian banquet be held at York- Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, @ WEDNESDA Y by mail, $6.00 per year, i ' SOME STEEL WORKERS GET A PIECE OF RIND: COOLIDGE GETS SLIGE (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec, 20.—The U. S, Steel Corporation, in connec- tion with its big melon cut of a 40 Per cent stock dividend, takes pains to call attention to the fact that employes who have purchased stock share in the cut. No figures, how- ever, are given out to show what Proportion of the millions thus dis- | tributed go to employes who are share holders and what to the in- which lives on divi- dends and interest and does nothing to produce the great surplus which the company has accumulated. BIG CONFERENCE MAKES NEW YORK READY FOR ‘DAILY’ 200 Delegates’ Plan to Raise $25,000 By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY — By Mail) — More than two hundred delegates re- presenting trade unions, fraternal and other working class organizations were present at the conference to pre- pare for the publication of The DAILY WORKER in New York City, which was held at the Manhdttan Lyceum. Plans for raising of $25,000 was left to the drive committee elected by the conference, with the suggestion that representatives of other organizations be added later. Issue Collection Lists. It was also decided that collection lists be issued and all who contribute have their named printed in the first issue of The DAILY WORKER pub- lished in New York, to be issued at the time of the Lenin Memorial Meet- ing at Madison Square Garden, Sat- urday, January, 22, 1927. That a ville Casino, January 14, at which time the contribution lists are to be turned in. Ali unions were urged to olect. dns ‘ORKER drive com- and have representation the general drive committee selectéd by the conference, The conference was opened by Charles Krumbein, who introduced Ben Gitlow as the first speaker. He was followed. by Alfred Wagenknecht, chairman, General Relief Committee of Textile Strikers, Passaic, N. J. The delegates who spoke from the floor included Samuel Liebowitz, assistant manager, New York joint board, Pur- riers’ Union; Peter Datch, secretary, Window Cleaners’ Union; J. O. Ben- tall, of Philadelphia; Leo Kling and Henry Mins. Gitlow stated that New York, the largest and wealthiest city of the world, needs a labor daily published here. It being the center of Amer ican and world capitalism, the work- ing class must be ever ready to ex- pose its activities. That daily, mil- lions of copies of the capitalist papers are read by the workers with its mighty power to mouid their minds and thoughts. How advantageous it would have been if The DAILY WORKER had been printed in New York during the Passaic textile strike, the recent Furriers’ strike, and at present, during the cloakmakers’ strike, Wagerknecht showed the necessity of a paper such as The DAL WORKER as a part of the every struggle to organize the unorganized workers, Must Organize Workers. ‘There are 20,000,000 wage workers in the United States and only 3,500,- 000 are organized into unions. It falls upon us to build the American labor movement, In this task The DAILY WORKER is of great importance,) continued Wagenknecht, Leibowitz stated that during the re- cent furriers’ strike, it was realized how important The DAILY WORKER is. “Altho the Jewish Daily. Freiheit, was of great help to us, we were not able to reach all of the workers thru it, About 60 per cent could read Jew: ish, but we had no means of reaching the other 40 per cent, That is why the publication of The DAILY WORK- ER in New York is of such import- ance, was Letbowitz’s conclusions. The following delegates were elect ed ‘to the drive committee, with addi-— tional members to be selected by various unions who are affiliated to the conference: Samuel Liebowitz, Peter Darck, Pascal Cosgrove, Ed- ward Royce, Milton Wattenberg, Sol Schagren, Henry Mins, Abraham Mar- koff, A, Cooper, Paul Sherer, A. Frad- kin, L, Ostregher, A, Severino, B. Gier and G, Doniff, Send us the name and address of @ progressive worker to whom we can,send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKRER, BLACKLIST NEW WEAPON AGAINST NY. LEFT WING The Daily Worker) » Dec, 20.—The Ameri- in of Labor has openly entered @loakmakers’ strife in New York GM the side of the right- wingers under Morris Sigman and it today that William Green has | inted five prominent officials of the’A. F: of L. to co-operate with the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Internatio: in’ “ridding the New York lend Communist Influence.” The offici appointed are Matthew Woll, ctughsBrayne, N. Y.. organizer of the A, f L., John J. Sullivan. president of State Federation; Joseph Ryenppresident of the Central Trades Coun@i and John F, O’Hanlan legislative honorary of Sigman’s finance @ the New. York Union chairmanship of the ind Frayne, aw committée, Sigman and file is t jounces that the rank be given an opportun- its leadership—but in ® manner: The plan is members register with the | id to relieve them of the payment ing only a eration is to iirst week rt next Tuesday, the Mindividuals, the second this is to influence f the union members’ | fact that the it jobs only thru Sig- | Tt will be far from | of the members’ feel- | alignment; workers ¢an | Kept Press Aid. } triumph of the New over the right, wing irs’ union at the huge 18,000 members of: Y, where the strike Mitant leadership was Morris Sigman, international, caught in defeat and despair, issued a vin- dietive. statement to the willing press leclaring that the meeting was “not -epresentative.” Pictures sent from here yesterday (reproduced «in today's paper—Kd.) give graphic testimony to the fact that the potice forees of the city are at ie service of ‘the right wingers, and yet, in the face of this, Sigman has | declared that!15,000 of his supporters were kept from the meeting by “po- lice and left wing leaders.” Continue» Disruptive Work, He claimed ‘his followers were not allowed in the hall and that the police assisted in the ejection of many who did get in. The capitalist press gave ample space to these declarations. The truth is that the rank and file sup- porting the general strike commitiee massed around the doors of the meet- | ing to prevent the entry of Sigman’s | paid gangsters, the same underworld gentry that broke up, with the assist- ance of the police, the demonstration | of 6,000 workdts before the interna- | tional office on 16th street last week. | Likewise, the: committee assigned by | (Continued on page 2) | BEATEN BY GANGSTERS | AT FURRIERS’ MEETING WHGH WAS DISRUPTED When May Prizony, a member of Local 59 of the International Lad- les’ G: nt Workers happened, by chance, to p out of an office in Odd-Féellow's Hall, where a meet ing of the Furriers’ union was be- ing broken up by right wing gang- | sters, she was recognized by Sol Flack, of the old Perlstein gang and was severely beaten by this brave gentleman. The left eye wae smashed « ie has been under doctor’s care singe the meeting taet weet. DECEMBER 22, 1926 ~<@»™ sy eee: | NEW YORK : EDITION pthe Post Office at Chicage, UMnols, under the Act of March 8, 1878. Our Program—A United Front of Labor to Defeat Anti- Sitike Legislation PRESIDENT Coolidge, Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Secretary of Labor Davis are demanding the enact- ment of legislation to prevent strikes in the bituminous coal industry. President Coolidge makes a recommendation for the passage of this kind of legislation in his message to congress. Coal operators, hitherto reluctant to permit the invasion of government in this field except in the form of troops sent in to aid in breaking strikes, are reported to have been con- vinced of the necessity and value of such legislation by the example of the operation of the Watson-Parker law and by the practical certainty of a strike next spring. President John L. Lewis is a member of the National Committee of the republican party. The proposed legisla- tion is party legislation recommended by the head of the capitalist party of which Lewis is an active member. What has President Lewis to say to the miners on this vital subject? Does he consider that the arbitration agreement he signed for the anthracite coal fields establishes a precedent for , compulsory arbitration—veiled under “voluntary” phraseology as in the Watson-Parker law—for the whole coal industry? What have the rest of the leadership of the American labor movement to say concerning the proposed anti-strike legislation? Officialdom is making war upon the Workers (Commu- nist) Party of America because it fights with all its power against open or concealed forms of compulsory arbitration and the worker-employer co-operation policy whose logical and inevitable result is just such anti-strike legislation as Coolidge proposes. Our program for the defeat of anti-strike legislation which will come before this session of congress is a united front of all sections of.the labor movement on this one basic issue. < We propose that all forces of labor unite to defeat this measure and if unsuccessful in preventing its passage, to continue the struggle by mobilizing the labor movement and the whole working class for mass disobedience of anti-strike laws. What is the program of the official leadership of Amer- ican labor? __ Police War on Cloakmakers in N. Y. | ESE two photographs were taken in Rutgers Square, New York City, where the bullding of the Jewish Dally (Socialist) Forward Is situated and before which six thousand cloakmakers demonstrated after they had been driven from the office of the International Union of the Cloakmakers t Os where a similar demonstration was made against President Morris gman. There were 6,000 cloakmakers in the para The manner in which it was broken up Is shown in the above pictures. The police were ably assisted in their work by right wing gangsters. More than a score of workers were injured and five women were arrested NYA oer meme net moRamMNm ie Fn Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL Price 3 Cents DEMAND PROBE “OF STATE DEPT. ~ MEXICAN ACTS ‘La Guardia Asks About | Press Propaganda | By Federated Press Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Dec, 20—While | state department officials and the Goo- lidge administration seem to be drift Ing into a situation the nature of which they appear unable to prediot. Representative Fiorello La Guardia, of New York, took the first step since the cenvening of congress to throw jthe spotlight on the state depart- | Ment's efforts to embroil the United | States into Mexican war. In ar on he introduced im the j house yest y, La Guardia calls at tention to the particular tivity of | Assistant Secretary of State Olds’ un jderhand attack on Mexico thru the |dissemination of false propaganda, jand directs the secretary of state to jinform the house whether: A, P. Incident. 1. The state department, thru any of. its offic on Nov. 16, 1926, re. quested the representatives of the As sociated Press and other news agen- cies to circulate a statement concern: ing internal conditions in Mexico and alleged relations between Mexico and Russia? 2. The department, at the time it made this request to the news ageli- cies, also requested those ’ agencies not to reveal the source of informa- tion? 3. The department has any accuraie information concerning bolehevistic activities in Mexico, and any informa tion relative to Mexico’s attitude to- wards Nicaraguan and Mexican activi: ties in Central America detrimental to the interests of the United States. Crisis Approaches. As January 1, the date set by the Calles government when the new laws affecting the property rights of Amer. icans and others are to become ei- fective, approaches there is a notice: able feeling of concern at the state department. Having taken a stand Which is prébably fer more advanced than the exigencies of the situation warranted, and more drastic than {i is felt can be enforced, the adminis- tration seems to be awaiting develop ments, uncertain as to what will hap- ven if these developments should not present a solution that will enable the American investors and their spokes- men to back down gracefully. The one alternative that would be regarded as a way out, altho it im feared that it may also prove a way into further complications and difffi- | culties, would be the lifting of the |arms embargo. That is being urged }upon the administration as the step | lo take, since it falls short of war and |yet presents an opportunity of drag- ging matters along until such time as a way out may be found. Catholic Activities. Next to that the severance of dip- lomatic relations would be considered (Continued on page 3%.) LEWIS BEATEN BY BROPHY IN DISTRICT FIVE Siders Makes 3 to 1 Showing Over Fagan (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Dec. 20.— Returns from eight local unions in this die trict (District Five) indicate that im the United Mine Workers’ elections the miners here gave John Brophy. head of the “Save the Union” ticket, a large majority over John L. Lewis, and that Fred Siders, the left wing candidaté> decisively defeated P. T Fagan in the contest for district president. Tabulated results are as follows; | Local Unton Brophy te 524.. 203 2210. a 106... 10 2230... co] 2232...... n 2399... a 5085.. 1” 5380. 6 s In these same locals Siders pooled 1253 votes to 400 cast for Fagan, the — machine candidate. Klein Local for Brophy. : KLEIN, Mont. Dec. 20.—Loeal Un fon 3874 o 245 se for hn 4 Brophy and 167 for John L. Stevenson received 245 votes, M: