The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1926, Page 2

REPLIES TO U.S. CHURCH ATTACK ON CALLES GOVT. Mexican Consul Hurls, Back Insults (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Arturo M. Elias, Mexican Consul General in the United States, replied to the pastoral fetter Issued by the American Catho- lic hierarchy attacking the Mexican | government for its restrictions against the clergy and the church. Elias’ statement contains the fol-| lowing paragraphs in which the role | of the church in Mexico is laid bare: “Religious liberty and tolerance in deed! “Tt refer the eminent bishops of the United § cardinal and and every pastoral issue colleagues, the archbishop ops of Mexico, at that time, so that ithey may note and ponder the invar- fable r ious freedom fend tolerance ‘impious,’ ‘sacrelig- ious,’ ‘un-Catholic,’ and ‘infamous. PThey have not changed. H ae Martyrs. {. “Lett ps of t the Pro jonaries who are mow Me to relate the early in fences of many who were beat on,.and how some lost thei rs to their religious faith; hers who narrowly escaped the crime of being ‘Prot: ‘estants.” ‘It was not the peaceful Mexican OSA who spontaneously attacked Whem with sticks and stones and Piknives, shouting ‘mueran los protes- } tantes,’ (death to the Protestants.) Liberty, Indeed! i “Liberty, tolerance, indeed! When fthe word ‘protestante’ is today used {ty the Mexican Catholic hierarchy and unfortunately by many Mexicans who i have been under their sway it is an pepithet of contempt. “Tolerance! Liberty! “Who was it that taught the Mex- {ean people that? Want Fredom. “Freedom! The Mexicans want freedom with ‘the passion of a people to whom it‘has been denied. They want education, they want to go to those schools, those civil schools ‘against which the Catholic hierarchy in Mexico have always conducted and are now conducting an intransigeant warfare, denouncing them as ‘God- ‘yess’ and ‘atheistic’ merely because they are publie schools. Railway Bosses’ Organ Hits Board for Giving Increase to Employes (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—The neutral arbitrators of the National Board of Mediation which awarded a 7% per ent increase in wages to railroad , conductors and trainment are attacked tm the current issue of Railway Age, *Pecause “they failed to give reasons jtor Sranting the increase.” The | Spesee’ magazine declares that the | Bairoads are “embarrassed by the \ wward” and have a right to know on what basis it was given. The magazine says that now the will be open for demands for frites crease from the employes, @nd attack the award because of this. | CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) troubles with the daughter of an Australian millionaire, Verily indeed the capitalist press thrives on the offal it feeds to the public ** @ NOTHER moron will bedevil the 4 readers of the Chicago papers un- | til he is either hanged or proven in- sane, Since he is the son of well-to-do rents, in all probability he is in- ne. Only poor Negroes and poor white the workers kill with malice afore- ar old son of a con- tractor und murdered in the loft of a riding academy, The murderer surrendered and confessed. Now, sob-sister of both sexes on the capitalist press and every pseudo mental expert will dish out their quack olutions for crime during the next month, or until another moron com- mits another outrage, E “8 \ do not pretend to have any infallible cure for crimes of per- ersion, but under this dog-eat-log conomic system, which churns the blood of child workers into gold, and nsforms strong men and women in- to caricatures of humanity, it is im- ible to produce a healthy race either physically or morally. A plant zrows thin and sickly in a weedy envi- ‘onment. The profit system injects poison into the social atmosphere nfecting exploiter and exploited alike. Too much luxury on one side and life without purpose or aim. On the other side poverty. Both extremes are hatcheries of crime, Neurotic editors will how] for more rope as a reme' or crime. And intelligent people w laugh scornfully as they see Doheny and Fall, Hoffman, Druggan and Lake —grafters and burglars, all walk away free from the court rooms, be- cause they had millions behind them. s*# * RITISH imperialists are making good use of their royal furniture these days. The Duke and Duchess of York are leaving soon on a battle- ship for Australfa, where their job is to act as imperial drummers in the Antipodes. The recent empire con- ference showed that the “mother country” could not rely implicitly on the loyalty of her young, particularly if she gets into a scrap, which is un- avoidable in. the comparatively near future. So the duchess is going to pull a Marie of Roumania stunt on the Australian was “* © CCORDING to Australian labor pa- pers, the right wing socialists are doing their utmost to drive the Com- munists out of the Australian Labor Party. <A conventjon of the -party adopted a rule bafring Communists as candidates for parliament on the A. L, P, ticket, A strong section of the labor movement, however, is op- posed to this policy and seeks to re- vise the rules in a way that would permit trade unions to put forward their choice, regardless of what sec- tion of the working class political movement their candidates adhere to. And, as should be expected, the so- cialists, those lovers of pure demo- cracy, are tearing their hair, and charging the Communists with favor- ing a dictatorship! How typical of socialists all the world over? . URING. the question period at the debate between Scott Nearing and Professor Le Ressignol, in Or- chestra Hall, last Sunday, a socialist, or ex-socialist, by the name of Mad- sen, a member of the painters’ union, asked Nearing a trick question, the kind usually asked by stoolpigeons during the war when trying to in- It laments the fact that the increase | veigle a speaker into an answer that will give the workers more than “even would give him a free ticket to jail. lthe railroad labor board did in 1920.”| Nearing’ was after saying that the ‘Los Angeles to Put on Red Christmas Eve The Sacco-Vanzetti Branch of the \Imternational Labor Defense of Los ugeles is arranging a Red Christma { Vecherinka and dance, for Friday jmight, Dec. 24th, at the Cooperative i Center. Music, dancing, and plenty to eat. The proceeds go to. the Political | Prisoners’ Christmas Fund, Los Angeles workers and théir sym- pathizers are urged to patronize this event and spond their Christmas Eve for the benefit of those “who are in for us.” ' Greeks Are Urged to Revolt Against Zaimis ATHENS, Dee. °).—-Another revolu- tion may be brewing in Greece. Prdc- Jamations have been distributed around Athens and its port, Piraeus, urging an nprising against the Zal- mis government. The military author- ities are taking action to prevent a revolt. American workers would have to follow the example of their Russian brothers in getting rid of capitalism. Madsen lisped: “How would you go vbout doing this?” Instead of giving Mr. Madsen the expected lurid picture ot capitalist heads decorating lamp- vosts, and the bones of labor skates strewing the Jandscape, Nearing simp- ly answered, “By organizing the work- ers and expropriating the capitalists.” Madsen gasped and the chairman call- ed forthe next question. Polson Gas “Humane” Method of War. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Without a roll call, the senate yesterday sent back to committee the treaty outlaw- ing the use of poison gas in war time, and paved the way for what some sen- ators declared would mean the use of gas in the next war that will destroy whole nations of unarmed women and children, The opposition whteh devel: oped forced Senator Borah to move that withdrawal of the treaty for the present. It is expected that the treaty will not be brought up again at this session. New International Hall and Freiheit Joint Eighth Annual BAZ at 42 Wenonah AAR Street, Roxbury DECEMBER 22-23-24 and 25 Special attractions Friday—Free movies Saturday afternoon Three prizes given away FRBE—All sympathizers invited CLOAKMAKERS IN ITALIAN. LOCAL MOVE ON SIGMAN Show Up Antonini at Progressive Rally By ANTHONY RAMIGLIA, (Special to The Daily Worker) ¢ NEW YORK, Dec, 20.—The progres: sive members of Local 89, Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, issued a call for a meeting of the members of Local 89 on Friday evening, December 17, at the Italian Progressive Center, The circular call- ing the meeting pofnted out the fact that Luigi Antonini, manager of. Local had among other things deliberate and fraudulently misrepresented ly the membership of Local 89: in 4 ¢om- munication to the \press, in which communication it was said that Local 89 at a meeting had decided to stand in back of Morris Sigman ‘in the lat- ter’s actions against the General Strike Committee, To Expose Fraud. The fact was that Local 89 did not meet regularly and express itself upon he present situation in the interna- fonal. This meeting was called for he purpose of exposing this fraud- ulent act as well as the whole treach- erous conduct of Sigman and his Italian cohorts to the Italian members, The meeting was called for six ‘clock. At six precisely, Antonifi, Crivello, with some members of, Local 89 executive board—and some un- known, ugly looking gents, marched into the hall. They felt for the mo- ment that they were in their own element, and proceeded ,to elect a chairman and secretary of the meet- ing. But just as they had saddled themselves the progressive element began to arrive. Taken Down. Mr. Antonini, in a peacock fashion, was holding forth, announcing to the universe, that he was ready to an- swer not only the charges against him, but would go into the whole left and right side situation in the I. L. G. W. U. and establish whe was responsible for the confusion and demoralization in the cloakmakers’ organization. Amico, business agent for Local 89, arose thereupon, and made the point i had deliberately lied communication to the the official Italian organ of the I. L..G. W. U., he had caused o be stated that the membership of Local 89 had at a meeting endorsed Sigman and his traitorous conduct. Fake Meeting. Amico further stated that Local 89, was not regularly convened to pass upon the situation, that a meeting of 30 men and one woman, some of these members of Local 48, had| been secretly called ak the headquarters of the Women’s Trade Union League, and there between these 31 flunkeys the resolution supporting Sigman had been adgpted. Antonini then arose to explain away this lampid proof of his perfitdy. He admitted that the meeting, at which Sigman’s “policies” were adopted, was not a free and regular meeting of members, “but a meeting of active spirits.” At “this juncture, Frank Coco arose and stated, “Luigi Antonini has come here and offered to go into a thoro discussion of the situation. I pro- pose that we proceed with a discus- sion based on the following theme: that we progressives are ready to sustain in debate, namely, Resolved, that Sigman, Antonini, and the whole shebbang of the rights, have delib- erately betrayed the cloakmakers, and im consequence, the whole mem- bership of the International, and in further consequence, the whole labor movement. Come on, then, and let us proceed with the discussion.” For a full minute not a word peeped’ out of the otherwise vociferous Antonini or Crivello. Leave Meeting. It was @ long spell of silence. Fin- ally Mr. Antonini arose. “Come on friends, follow me out, we will go to the Local 48 building and have our own meeting.” This was Antonini's answer to the specific charge hurled in his face that he and his sowship Sigman are traitors to the labor movement, About 14 people followed him out. The meeting went on and adopted a resolution condemning the strikebreaking crew ag they should be condemned. P As the meeting of the progressives was going on, a few of those that had walked out with Antonini trick led back into our meeting. This 18 the result of the first move yet made to expose the flunkeys in the Italian Locals of the I. L. G. W. U. Pepper’s Expenditures in Limelight as Probe Is Asked in Campaign (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—A senato- rial investigation of the primary ex- penditures of Senator Pepper, republi- can, of Pennsylvania, who was de- feated by William S, Vare, was de- manded in a resolution introduced by Senator Blease of South Carolina, “There should be no distinction be- tween Pepper and Smith—he should be kicked out,” said Blease, He referred to Frank L. Smith, re- publican genator-elect from Llinois, whose appointment as successor to William B, MeKinley has kicked up a terrific fight the Giustizia,” in ‘26 BODIES ARE RECOVERED FROM THE DAILY WORKER? OMAHA JUDGES BOOST FOR CALVIN AND SANTA IN BURST OF GENEROSITY OMAHA, Nebry, Dec, 16.—Judges of the municipal court here are de- termined that Coolidge prosperity shall be as authentic as Santa Claus’ reindeers during the holiday. They will give the workers a treat by agreeing to withhold all proceedings in garnishment against workers’ wages until after Christmas. Col- lection agencies must thus postpone / all attachments of wages for delin- quent debts until after Yuletide, when the regular brand of Coolidge prosperity will get back to nor- malcy. : WRECKED LAUNCH 38 Die in beCrasbed Boat in N. Y. Harbor NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—-Twenty-six bodies had been recovered this after noon from the launch Linseed Ki which sank in the North river earlie in the day after being wrecked by ice floes. Three bodies were recovered from the water at the spot where the boat sank, three were picked up off Edge- water, N. J., and 20 were removed from the cabin of the submerged craft. 38 Dead. Conservative estimates place the number originally aboard the launch at 62. There are 24 survivors, leav- ing 11 persons unaccounted for. Most of these are belfeved to be still in the cabin. Terrific Struggle. ‘ Evidence of the terrific struggle that went on in fhat tiny cabin as the boat sank was given when police re- covered the bodies. Many of the vic- tims were clutching life preservers which they had not had time to at- tach to their bodies. Form New “Citizenship Foundation” to Fight Militant Workers (Continued from page 1) red, white and blue Merature, includ- ing a monthly called: The American Citizén, leaflets’ and posters, and a textbook of citizenship,training which speaks in the intro stion, of “labor oppression—carnivals§#, crime, black- mail, bribery.” Watch All Sphakers, In reality, as a private inspection of the office files revealed, the American Citizenship foundation keeps a clese watch on all labor, liberal and pacifist personalities, noting . where they speak, what impression they make and what influence they exert. Such persons as Jane Addams, Roger Bald- win, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Sher- wood Eddy and William Z. Foster are on the blacklist of the foundation. When Jane Addams was proposed re- cently as a speaker before a woman's club in a village near Chicago a vig- flante immediately objected on the ground that “Jane Addams is on the American Citizenship foundation's list as the third most dangerous person in America.” Miss Addams did not speak, Editor of Post There, Active in the foundation are well- known spy-herders for the war depart- ment and the openshop industrial as- sociations. Among these are Col. Al- bert E, Barnes, past president of the Military Intelligence » Association, a volunteer espionage aggregation, and H. A, Jung of the Clay Products As- sociation, who boasts of having the most complete private card index of labor leaders, radicals ahd Iberals in the\ country. §, J, Dunean-Clark, ed- itor’ of the Chicago Evening Post, has surprised Chicago liberals by allowing his name.to appear with these others. Not only individuals but organiza- tions are on the foundation blacklist. Among these are the League of Wo- men Voters, League for Industrial De- mocracy, Socialist party, Farmer-La- bor party, Workers party, American Civil Liberties union, American Assoc iation of University Women, the Van- guard Press, The Federated Press, the Fellowship of Reconaiiiation, the American (Garland) Fund for Public Service, the International Student Forum and Women’s Jnternational League for Peace and lom, Norman Hapgood, Oswald Garrison Villard, Scott Nearing, Robert Minor, H. L. Mencken, Madeleine Dotty, Mrs. Robert Morss Lovett, Kirby Page, Mary McDowell, Victor L. Berger and Mrs. Meta Berger are other individu- als blacklisted, Headquarters of the American Citi. zenship foundation are at 646 N, Mich- igan Blvd., Chicago, Labor Papers Change Hands, GREAT FALLS, Mont, Dec. 20.— The Great Falls Labor Topies is now appearing regularly as the successor of Town Topics, formerly the property of the Great Falls Federal Labor Union, Efforts of the almost extinct local democratic party toboost their candidate for congress resiiited in the reappearance of Town ‘Topics until after the election, but it Lad now gone und lOUNT FELIX VON LUCKNER is the guest of Philadelphia, given official welcome by the city, after the manner, on a smaller scale, of the reception given Queen Marie, of Roumania. Marie made the first page of the local press. But the count gets big space on the inside. /| Philadelphia has taken the count to its bosom in spite of the fact that not many years ago, in common with the 100 per centers of the whole nation, the jingoes of the Quaker City were denouncing the count and all his kind with all the vitriolic viciousness that only the chauvinist mind, lashed to fury dur- ing war time, can achieve, 4 Lae ae Tee For the count is German. During the war he was a sea raider, He plundered enemy commerce, which included American shipping. In re- ward for his exploits he became known as “The Sea “Devil.” He is the type of “sea serpent” that Amer- icna movies, magazines and news- papers have held up, in pictures and story, to the greatest calumny, the living target of the American “Hymn of Hate.” But that is all supposed to have passed. Capitalist Germany crushed the workers’ struggle for power. Ap- plause from Philadelphia and cap- italist America. Capitalist Germany accepted the Dawes plan. Applause from Wall Street and Philadelphia. Germany entered the league of na- tions, Applause from the interna- tional bankers and Philadelphia. Germany elected von Hindenburg, the war lord, as president, altho at the same time millions of votes went to the Communist. presidential candidate. Applause for Hinden- burg, victor over the Communists, from the red-baiters of America, including all those in Philadelphia. And most recent of all, the Phila- delphia Bulletin, Dec, 14, contained sthe following: “The smiling, fair-haired . ‘sea- warrior’ (Count Felix von Luckner) who captured 18 allied ships without firing a gun or taking a life, was tendered a reception in the mayor's office at noon and brought a message of peace and good will and the grati- tude of the German children f succor given. them by America. #“Dr, Thomas W. Davis, Wty statistician, welcomed the count and countess in place of Mayor Kendrick, who was absent from his office because of a heavy cold.” , s* * . It is not difficult to deny that “capitalist America” ever sent any succor to the children of Germany, e great majority of whom are the children of the working class. No sooner had the war started into the local stream. \ Interest in the program of dancing, singing and other special features has been aroused, and the committee in charge intends to make this affair ‘op all the other successful ones vecontly held by the I. L. D. Records of tickets already sold show that when the doors of the hall are opened the place will be filled with a crowd in short order. The Chicago affair is a part of the national drive being made by all sec- tions of the I. L. D, to raise a large fund for the workers in prison and their dependents during the Christmas flolidays and to provide adequate legal defense in the numerous cases now pending thruout the country, The New York section promises to raise the quota of $3,000 assigned to it, and Chicago assures the national office that it will easily pass its quota of $1,000, Boston, which received the same quota as Chicago, is working hard to go over the top. The sections in Philadelphia, Pitts- burgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, Erie, Can- ton, Youngstown, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Duinth, St. Louis, Kansas City San Franciseo, Los Angeles, Oakland and Portland are pushing ahead vigorously ‘o achieve their share of the’ drive, In Avella, one of the best sections of tho I. L, D., $200 has already been forwarded and efforts are being con- tinued to raise another large sum. In addition, various smaller section of the I. L, D. are working hard to add their bit to the Christmas fund, Among the language sections of the organization, a considerable activity has been developed, particularly among the Czechoslovaks and Jugo- slave. Why don’t you write It up? It may be Interesting to other workers, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT) Capitalist’ Philadelphia Opens Its Arms in 1926 to German Sea’ Raider By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. CHICAGO LEADS OFF IN CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE CLASS PRISONERS’ FUND All indications point te a highly successful Christmas party on December 24, 1926, which is being held by the International Labor Defense of Chicago at the West End Women’s Club, Ashland and Monroe, for the Christmas fund of I. L, D. Packages containing all kinds of valuable articles to be hung on the large Christmas tree and to_fill the “grab bag” at the party are coming office in a steady}— i@ ———_______—. than the American profiteare”trim- med for action. They fed the flames of the imperialist struggle with everything it needed, at a huge profit. America thus became an in- strument for increasing the slaught- er, making millions of children homeless and fatherless, When the war debts owing to the international bankers were endangered by a pos- sible German victory, President Woodrow Wilson, the best president. that Wall Street ‘had ever had up to that time, plunged this country into the murder abyss and the blood- letting was renewed on an enlarged scale for another year and a half. Any driblets of food that went in+ to Germany with the ending of the war had but one purpose, and that Was to save Germany from going Bolshevik, which meant freeing the children from the grip of capital- ism, It was Herbert Hoover, the American food administrator in Europe in the days following the war, who gloried in aiding the over- throw of the neighboring Hungarian Soviet Republic. The America that now greets the German count cheered the overthrow by Fascist Germany of the Bavarian Soviet Re- public. Under the Dawes plan the German workday has been lengthen- ed, conditions have been worsened and wages have been reduced, re- sulting in a cutting down of the standard of living of the German class that first hits the chil- work: dren. x It. the new generation in Ger- many that has American capitalism to thank for its continued subjec- tion to profit rule. It is this vic- tory, of capitalism on both sides of the Rhine, over,German labor as well as labor in all othe countries except the Soviet Union, that the Philadelphians officially and quite consciously celebrate when they greet “The Sea Devil.” The hatreds of the imperialist war are forgot- ten, but the fear of, labor's rise to power continues. The count is wel- comed, — but evel Communist speaker who comes to Philadelphia is faced with possible arrest by an- other “reception committee,” the numerous police that attend all therings of militant workers, ** * The news-6f Felix von Luckner’s reception in Philadelphia should ‘prove to the youth of Germany that “America!” under the rule of Wall Street is an ally of the capitalist enemy that they fight at home. America’s youth ¢annot help but come to the same conclusion. A Soviet America in solidarity with a Soviet Germany are the only safe- guard of the interests of the chil- dren in both countries, Blacklist Is New Weapon Against Left Wing in New York (Continued from page 1) the general strike committee to pro- tect the meeting ejected a number of known gangsters from the hall. Sigman and the international off- cials, however, despite the unmistak- able mandate given by the member- ship at the Madison Square Garden meeting, continue their work of dis- ruption. They have opened a “pro- visional headquarters” and have asked the membership of the New York unions to come and register. The unanimous approval of the present leadership given at Saturday's meet- ing is an indication of the few that will agree to support the right wing. Sigman, in his campaign on the strike leadership, conducted for the most part in the capitalist press, is waving a letter from William Green, president of the A. F. of L., endorsing the actions of the international in de- claring the New York joint board sus- pended and getting up a body entirely without & mandate except by personal appointment from the international, He did not, however, disclose the con- tents of the supposed letter. Predict Action on Radio Legislation WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. — Agree- ment on radfo legislation probably will be reached «‘ortly after the holl- days, senate and house conferees an- nounced after @ conference, Senator Dill of Washington denied reports that the house would seek to pass an emergency bill before Christ- mas, FARMERS LOOKING FOR MAN 10 SIT IN WHITE HOUSE Tillers to Get Revenge in 1928 (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The spec- ter of the farmers’ revolt against the hlockading of legislation designed to provide farm relief by the old lite party leaders is casting its shadow over the 1928 presidential campaign. A movement is now on foot among the farmers designed to place a “corn belt” president in the White House in 1928, Coolidge “Blacklisted,” Coolidge: is: definitely “blacklisted” because itis largely thru his activity, inspired by eastern business men, that caused the McNary-Haugen bill to be defeated in the last session of con- gress. In his presidential message Coolidge again. reiterated his opposi- tion to any proposal that would give the farmer relief thru what he called “price-fixing” or bringing the: “gov- ernment into business.” Four Throw in Hats, Among the presidential aspirants who are making a bid for the farm- ers’ support in 1928, realizing that ‘the farmer is now sufficiently aroused to make its vote count, are Frank /O. Lowden of Illinois, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, Vice-President Dawes, in the republican party, and Edwin T. Meredith, former secretary of agriculture, im the democratic party, The men, with the exception of Dawes, have already publicly cham- pioned the farmers’ cause, with their eyes on the president's chair, Haugen Will Sponsor New Farm Bill After Forcing Compromise (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec, 20.—Peace was said to be restored among mid- west members of the house farm bloc Representative Haugen of Iowa, chair- man of the agriculture committee, un- der which he agreed to introduce the revised McNary bill with amendments. Haugen had previously repudiated the new MeNary bill and refused to allow his name to be used in connec- tion with it. He declared the new bill had no “teeth” in it, and was useléss. The revised bill was introduced by Haugen, who declared the bill farmer control,” of the machinery He pleaded for unanimous support of farming groups for the measure. 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