The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 22, 1926, Page 6

&£ OR Sal ee x Prove Six rHE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY Wor Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, tl. Phone Monroe 4713 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (im Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months | By mail (outside of Chicago): $6.00 per year $8.50 six months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to es THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chloago, #1, J. LOUIS GDAHL AM F, DUNNE MILLER ..... WIL BERT — —_—— Entered as second-class mail September 21, 19 cago, Il, under the Advertising rates on application, a Socialists Prepared the Way for Lithuanian Fascism The fascist dictatorship in Lithuania is the child of the socialist rT coalition gove the trade unions, nt ¢ peas. gan hibited meet of worl leaders. The sociati government ntry made p tionary militant clique now their sworn cuen es. The coup d’etat of reaction 3,000,000 population is likely to have serious consequences. blow at the Soviet Union and undoubtedly is backed by British im-} (pee above* was written before the | | perialism, Fascism in a puppet tyol of a great power. The role of the catholic chur , broke str nent which it overthrew. The socialist ministry carried on. the most rigid suppression -of izations and Communists. by its war on the Lithuanian working ible the seizure of power by the reac- in control. It betrayed the masses to in this little country of less than It isa state can be nothing else-than the ch, (the leaders of the fascist coup It pro- s and jailed workingelass i hs the post-office at Chi- jto the gains made by the workers in | are catholics) is to give a fanatical religious character to the enter-| prise. It is stated in news dispatches that the former, government had antagonized the catholic church “by passing a law legalizing civil marriage, instituting divorce, and compelling the registration of | births, death and marriages within the state.” The completely feudal character of the Lithuanian catholic church is shown up clearly by the laws against which it is revolting in thé second quar- | ier of the twentieth century. The next few de enter an alliance with the Polish will tell w. hether the Lithuanian fascists will dictator Pilsudski against the So- viet Union under British imperialist auspices or wage war against former Lithua der Polish control. In any event the rise of fascism in Lithuania should serve to con- vince every worker that the social-democrats, unless defeated by the inasses, merely prepare the way for black reaction by their fear of | sal rificing abstract principles of democracy basing their govern- ments upon the masses of workers and peasants. Afraid to antag- onige the capitalist and middle class elements by stimulating eco- ral organi nomic and polit open support of the workers’,and peasants’ government of Russi they either become fascisti themselves or give way to fascist gov- ernment. The Sacco-Vanzetti Case in Congress Representative Sabath of Illinois has introduced a resolution in congre made by friends of Sacco and demanding a congressional investigation of the charges nzetti that these two Italian labor organizers were the victims of a conspiracy on the part of the depart- ment of capitalists to r This action | ailr ustice in collaboration with the legal tools of Massachusetts ad the two workers to the electric chair. been forced thru the campaign of publicity con- ducted in behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti by the International Labor Defense, the Sacco-Vanzetti conferences thruout the country and thru the columns of Tue Darmy Worker, and other publications sincerely interested in saving Sacco and Vanzetti from the vengeance of their class enemies. The airing of this conspiracy all working class organizations these comrades, into renewed effor in congress should serve to spur that have been working to save ts. There is no doubt now in the mind of any fair-minded person that Sacco and Vanzetti have been framed. The ruling classes are tenacious and hang on to the possibility of whetting their thirst for revenge with the grip of a bulldog. The workers must just as tenaciously stick to their task—saving Sacco and Vanzetti—until their collective power bursts open the jail gates and forces the cap- italists of Massachusetts to release their victims. All workers regardless of political affiliation should rally be- hind the International Labor Defense which has aroused the Amer- jean masses behind these two persecuted workers on an interna- tional scale. Letters From Our Readers Teaching Citizenship, Dear Comrades: [ am sending my contribution to Keep The DAILY WORKER. 1 send in this letter a money order for $5. I had no oppor- tunity to send it before because I was without work and with little money for living and other expenses. I have heen in America only two years. Be- fore I camo here I worked on the ships of several nations, That is my Seeupation, and here in the city I have not any trade; laborers’ jobs are very smali wages and not steady. At Evening School. IT am going the evening school to fearn the Kn h language. What the teachers us foreigners gbout patriotism, the glorious flag, and of this rich and big country, I do not pay much attention to. My goal is to fearn to read and write English. Ryery evening in schooi they show us that big “old glory” for us to salute. The flag of equality, justice and sym- boi of liberty. Thoy are paid only for pumping patriotisnt in the heads of poor foreign to become “great Americans.” Generally flags are only the masks for the butchering wars, for us to kill one another. The teachers do not know workers’ international flag of all countries and all the races in the world. They said that the red flag is only of organized bandits, the people who do not want to work; that those peopl ae bolsheviks, Tus teachers say that América isn like most of European countries ruled | Journal, in which he says: “I-am con- by the kings, autocrats. Here in America all the people have the same rights, rich and poor, What kind of right is here, if the workers demand their rights, and then comes a policeman and puts these bolsheviks into the jails? Such rights for workers in prosperous America! These songs did effectime. because I have suffered enough on, the capitalist ships. That kind of poison that they put in the brains of poor |toreign workers for them to become good and valuable Americans. What did I see three years ago in Russia? How the Russian seaman lives, in the jcity of Odessa, They had one of the |best buildings near the harbor, Be- fore the revolution that house be- longed to some of the grand dukes, | Now it belongs to the International Seamen's Club. The Russian seamen are bosses of the ships; in other na- tlons they are only slaves of the cap- | ttallats, Now, comrades, I did not receive The DAILY WORKER for about two weoks, Please continue immediately sending me every copy of The DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER is better than the capitalist schools to oducate one in English and to teach the doctrine of Communism, Comradely yours, Nikola Yurlina, New. York, eee ae “WRITE AS YOU FIGHT: an territory now nominally neutral but actually un-| | ed over five months, involving a loss : | | | tion of the masses, afraid to declare for | | | | been tearned and the i ARTICLE V. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. HE support given by the capitalist press to the drive against militant unionism is of three kinds: 1, Agitation against the Commu- nists and the left wing ‘which follows shapes, is probably nearer the truth the tactics of the socialist and right wing trade union press, 2. Completely false statements as | Passaic and the cloakmakers’ strike | j with the purpose of making victories \obtained under Communist and left wing leadership appear as defeats. 3. Propaganda for “class peace”— the worker-cooperation policy of the official trade union leadership, HE first and second types of, agita- tion against the Communists and |the left wing are generally combined as in the following quotations from ed- itorfals in the New York Times: | Whether a strike is won or lost, it is a victory, in the Communist doc- trine, if the operation of peace ma- chinery is destroyed, if a six month’s | strike leaves behind it a rankling bitterness. To be sure it does not always. work out that way. Among the local garment. workers the indi- | cations are that the lessons have | left wing’s power for harm will be wiped out. mass meeting of 18,000 needle trade workers in Madison Square Gar- den categorically demanded the resig- nation of President Sigman and en- dorsed the left wing leadership of the New York joint board in the cloak- makers’ strike. It will be seen from this that with The Times, as with the socialist and official labor press, the wish is father to the thought. “The Communists should be driven out of trade unions and the left wing should be crushed.” No sooner said than done—on paper. HE Times again: + «+. precipitated 30,000 workers into an unnecessary strike, protract- of millions of dollars in wages and terminating in an admittedly disas- trous defeat. This is the character- ization of the cloakmakers’ strike by the president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The conflict was planned and let loose by the left wing element in the local unions. HIS terrible “left wing” that insists on fighting when the kind-hearted bosses are simply oozing peace and good will alt over the place, with the minor reservation, so far as The Times and its friends in the labor movement are concerned, that all con- cessions to the workers must be se- cured thru a Tammany Hall governor whom The Times controls! No capi- talist sheet was louder in its denuncia- tion of the left-wing demand for the 40-hour week, which has been secured by both the furriers and cloakmakers’ unions under left wing leadership but since it has been obtained, The Times and reactionary union officialdom which it supports have conveniently forgotten all about it, HE Times, however, reaches high- est into the realm of hypocrisy when it laments the struggle in the union: War within the garment workers’ organization is on, and may yet end Pee COOLIDGE has finally approved the Butler bill providing for the construction of ten light cruis- ers at an aggregate cost of about $140,000,000. His action is a complete reversal of the policy expressed in his recent budget message that naval building should be suspended pending theoutcome of negotiations for a sec- ond international arms limitation con- ference. It is also a complete reversal of the sentiment expressed in his let- ter of Dec. 9 to the Army and Navy vinced the estimates submitted pro- vide adequately for the services; and economic administration will assure a well-fed and well-disciplined army, maintain the navy in a high state of efficiency, and promote the well being and development of the air service,” It is evident that this remarkable change of front within the course of a few days is due to the pressure of certain forces which do not appear on the open stage of national politics, “Cautious Cal” is evidently caught be- tween many crossfires, which he is having a hard time to dodge. Imme- diately upon his bombardment of the stand of the international bankers for lower tariff walls, Coolidge received a stinging rebuke in the form of the de- cisive defeat of Senator Butler of Massachusetts, partially the result of the defection of the Lodge group in the republican party of that. state, | Seeking to make amends and win new favor with big business, Coolidge im- mediately proclaimed his purpose to reduce taxation. His program of econ- omy indicated in his annual message was in Mne with this policy. Such a program was also calculated to pla- cate the rising tide of dissatisfaction and rebellion against Coolidge in the western agricultural states, The policy of economy and tax re- duction was greeted with genera] ap- proval by the \big business interests untfl they fou it touched a pet corn—the navy,” present needs of i ‘ Coolidge Weakens Under Jingo Pressure The New Drive on: Militant Trade: Unionism ‘Introduction. HE purpose of these articles is to show by documentary evidence, whose authenticity no one can impugn, that the campaign against all progressive tendencies in the labor movement which was launched at the A. F. of L. convention in 1923 has entered a new phase In which there is a more open combination than ever before of the trade union officialdom, the capitalist press, che employers and the government. It will also be shown that the tensified attack, centering first on left wing, are (1) the desire of the main motives which prompt the in- the Communists and second on the capitalists to suppress all struggles which interfere with the development of American imperialist pros- perity and either destroy the trade unions or force them to a general dead level of docility, (2) the desire of the trade union officialdom to force on the unions ganizations which ‘the capitalists olicy which will make of them the docile or- will accept, (3) the desire of both the capitalists and their labor agents to drive thé Communists out of the unions and destroy their influence in the labor movement’ because they are the most congcious and best organized exponents of fighting unionism who are trying to rally gram of immediate anc: necessary all workers for struggle on a pro- demands. . Finally, these articles will show that the policy of the trade union officialdom, of which'the latest attack on the left wing is a logical re- sult, is based on one phase, and one phase alone, of American capital- ist development, i. ¢. its ens because of this neglect of other temporary upward swing, and that undamental factors, can bring nothing but disaster to the labor movement. 4 The more “successful” this policy is, i. 6. the more endorsement it receives from the ma: mate result. s now, the more disastrous will be the ulti- The Communists and the organized left wing therefore are fighting the battle‘of the whole working class when they resist to the utmost tho new Offensive of the combined forces of American capitalism which, in the period of imperialism, include with some minor exceptions the whole bloc of trade union officialdom. —wW. F. in disruption of the union. Such an outcome would be all the greater pity because of the long years it took the unions and the garment industry to escape from chronic conflict and chaos. pee right wing leadership which is responsible for the struggle in the union should welcome this new ally of trade unionism and*give its :epre- entative a high place-on the “Com- mittee for the Preservation of the frade Unions.” Altho a belated con- vert to trade unionismy The Times is doubtless just as honest in its asser- tions as are the leading: elements in this committee and itvis:certain that they would fee] far more-at ease with a representative of The: Times than they would at the -recent Madison Square Garden meeting, for instance. UT it is when The Times speaks of the Passaic strike that it throws all caution to the winds. and out- Munchausens the famous baron while ai the same time notrforgetting to say a good word for ité particular hero -—President Sigman. Itgays: (I quote at length so that readérs/may be able to form some idea of ithe amount of lying that canbe donetin’a few para- graphs by a skilled editorial writer on a capitalist sheet.) Passaic’s textile strike is virtual- ly brought to an end ‘amid circum- stances that have now become the regular thing with labor conflicts conducted under Communist inspi- ration and leadership. The same formula operated as«im the cloak- makers’ strike. Hostifities are pro- claimed without sufficient cause. Bitterness and ‘violence are engendered. Exhaustidn casts the deciding vote. The! ‘Communist leadership decamps, as*in Passaic, and leaves the task’ of bringing order out of chaos'.to moderate | the American imperialists demand a navy that shall be large to protect their growing interests. The develop- ing antagonisms between the impe- rialists of various ‘nations demands that each group shall sharpen its tools of war for future possibilities. The rising tide of rebellion among colonial people (in China, Mexico, Latin Amer- ica, ete.) against foreign domination and imperialism make it even more necessary for the imperidlists to look carefully to their war machine, The president’s economy proposal toward the‘/navy was, therefore,greeted with a storm of protest. from, jingo quar- ters. The Chicago Tribyne criticized Coolidge severely. Jingo and prepar- edness societies all over the country took up the cry, And Coolidge has submitted obedizatty. But the chances are that Coolidge has*not improved his standing for the next presidential campaign with the domimant elements of the American capitajjst clags by raising the issue of econgmy in naval expenditures, It looks and more ag if Coolidge is canned, —— i Harmony Now :Prevails in Senate on’ Rivers and Waterways Bills ~ WASHINGTON, Deo, 20.—A peace- outlook confronted the senate in its debate on the new rivers and har bors authorization bill, The Missouti Valley bloc, led by Senator James Reed, democrat of Missouri, announced a prospective victory in their drive to restore to the bill the original $50,000,000 for development of the Missour! river between Kansas City an Sioux City, Iowa, This amount, ap proved by the house in=passing the bill, was trimmed to $12,000,000 by the senate commerce o . { labor, or subscribes to a defeat which it hails as a victory. - T seems useless to argue with a sheet which dismisses such gains as the establishment of a unidn in a hitherto unorganized industry, the recognition of the right of union com- miftees to take up and settle griev- ances, the restoration of the 10 per cent wage cut, the acknowledgment of the right of workers to be hired thru the union office, the securing of an agreement that there shall be no discrimination by the companies against strikers and the provision that no employes are to be hired until all strikers who wish to return have done so, as a defeat. “r\HE Communist leadership de- camps” is a method of describing one of the most tremendous sacrifices mg the full confidence of the masses, and one of the most dramatic inci- dents in the history of the labor movement, to which The Times edi- torial writer is welcome. His ability to distort and conceal the truth in the interests,of the capitalists shows that he has socialist leanings. ! We challenge the writer of this canard to make the same statement }eoncerning Albert Weisbord to a |mass meeting of the Passaic textile workers, ‘T may be well to say here that the Policy followed by the Passaic strikers did not change with the voluntary withdrawal of Weisbord but that the Communists and left wingers in the U. T. W. have led the struggle which has forced the Botany, Passaic Worsted, the Dundee and the Garfield mills to capitulate and settle with some 8,000 organized textile workers. I have kept for the last the juiciest morsel with which The Times has come out on the floor of the senate with a scathing denunciation of the verdict of “not guilty” in the Fall- Doheny case. In his speech he hints at the probability that Jess Smith, who knew too much about the sordid details of the case, was murdered by Daugherty’s gang. He mentions the fact that Smith foretold his own mur- der two days before when he said: “It's all up with me, They are going to get me.” In high indignation, Heflin asked: “My god, have we reached the point where criminals in high places can- not be convicted in the courts of jus- tice?” And further: “I burn with righteous indignation when I contem- plate what has occurred here. The poor unfortunate man and woman any- where in the country uninfluential in the common walks of life are herded like cattle and are gent tothe peni- tentiary, and they are in there now by the hundreds of thousands. If a man has money he has the passport to his freedom. If he has money he can defy your courts,” Heflin incidentally mentioned the fact that Doheny, the oll king, “con- tributed to the campaign of the re- publican party largely both times, He quit the democratic party and went into the republican party.” He also brought out the fact that Judge Hoeh- ling, who presided at the trial, was an appointee of President Harding, of whose cabinet Fall, the pal of Do- heny, was a member, Mr, Heflin brings to light some in- teresting data, for which we would be beholden to him were it not for the fact that he has inadverently over- looked some important details in re- gard to his own capacity for judg- ment of the conduct of Fall and Do- y. Mr. Heflin makes of his own shady connectio Muscle Shoals steal, He mention of the network of shi By BERT MILLER. Senator Thomas J, Heflin, the water power democrat of Alabama, has just ever made by a strike leader possess- | [ened regaled its readers on this particular subject and it is here that President Sigman ig, again. quoted approvingly: President Sigman of..the Inter national, Ladies’ Garment Workers justly accuses the radical leaders in control. of. the cloakmakers’ strike of having -alienated public sympathy. THIS WOULD BE EVEN TRUER OF PASSAIC, The textile workers failed hotably to win the support of a body of public opinion which has usually expressed itself in strikes affecting large bodies of low-paid workers, The reason was not indifference .... But despite the partial. merits of the strikers’ cs despite the unfavorable im- pression created. by .unwise or ar- bitrary police methods, popular feel- nant,. and .justified, impression was of a strike conducted by a little coterie of revolutionary leaders for purposes of their own, (Emphasis mine.) + “T WOULDN“T say he was a liar,” said Abrahan} Lincoln, in speaking of the reputation.of a certain farmer for veracity, “but-1 do know that he has to get some one-else to call his hogs at feeding time.” met with such ‘wide’ popular support as has Passaic!® ‘The workers were able to hold out-for’ over ten months just for.this reasén. Something like $500,000 was contributed to the relief committee by unions, fraternal so- ties;* individual’ workers ang lib- erals. * ise 3 Sympathizers and supporters} of a strike make ‘up’ ‘the’ most diverse group in American society. They in- clude organizations like the I, W. W., the Civil Liberties ‘Union, protestant and catholic organizations, liberal middle class elements and prominent individuals like Rabbi Wise and Sen- ator Borah. Si UT The» Times,- like the reaction- ary union and socialist press, is that fighting leadership is bad for the trade unions. f The simple truth, in a campaign of this kind, is»an obvious handicap. Next. we,will see how the capitalist and offieial. Jabor, press are engaged in a.joint selling campaign to put over a still mode dangerous doctrine. } (To be continued.) Read— CLASS COLLABORATION— HOW:'IT WORKS | oes "oBy ‘Bertram D. Wolfe A brilliant study of the various methods by which the c@pitalist class attempts to Corrupt the labor move- ment and bribe its most’ important sections. Specific illustrations are given from the history of the Ameri- can labor movement. The pamphlet is readable and valuable thruout. 2 10 cents. eee CLASS STRUGGLE vs. CLASS COLLABORATION “| "By Earl R. Browder A keen, study of modern class col- laboration, schemes: such as the B. & O. Plan,.Labor Banking and Workers’ Education. An. indispensable book for anyone who is. interested in the jmaeders developments in the labor movement. . 10 cents PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES with which the democratic party and Tammany Hall are connected. While parading as an apostle of the “poor unfortunate man and woman in the common ‘walks of life” he. is. very careful to’ avoid any mension of the verdict in ‘the Sacco-Vanzetti case arid | to compare the kind of justice which these two workers have received with the kind“ given ‘to millfonaires like Doheny. : We can, therefore, be beholden to Mr. Hefliii only in so far as he has lifted the 1d fromthe cesspool of cap- italist politic8 and has sohwn clearly thereby the need of a party free of grafters dnd tools of big business— a labor party, First Two Days of Passaic Bazaar Hold Big Crowds’ Interest PASSAIC, .N. J., Dec. 20.—Capacity crowds featured the first two days of the great eight-day New Jersey State bazaar which, opened here Saturday night at Kanter’s. Auditorium. - The bazaar, which has the endorse- ment of the New Jersty State Fed- eration of Labor and President Me- Mahon of the United Textile Work- ers, was arranged to raise money for relief of the 10,000 textile strikers of this elty and vicinity who are now in the eleventh month of their arduous strike ag: the wage cut anti- union attitude of the mill bosses, Well-Stocked Booths. The booths were liberally stocked with a large variety of valuable ar- ticles, most. of them suitable for Christmas gifts and for home fur nishings. On display Saturday night and Sunday were beautiful hand em- broidertes, dinner sets, table lamps, art floor lamps, furs, ailks, perfumes, cosmetics, candies, cigarets, dresses, | ing refused to be.stirred. The domi- i No strike tof" similar size ‘has ever interested only.in “selling” the idea | | | (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair.) XI. There came another development; to protect Vee from the possibility, of boredom. Schmolsky sent her np the “continuity” of the new picture | upon which she was to start work | in the fall. And then suddenly it wag revealed that the world’s dar. ling knew how to read! For a whole hour she sat buried in it, and then she leaped up, ready ‘to start | reh and all the hurricanes | that ever swept the province of On tario were as nothing to the oné | that:came now. Clear the way. for “The Prin¢ess of Patchouli!” It was a popular musical ¢omedy which was to be made into a mov- ing picture, “Patchouli” was one of the little Balkan kingdoms, tho ‘it looked and acted very much like | Vienna of the Strauss waltzes.» & young American engineer came’ in to build a railroad, and found him- self mistaken for a conspirator, and presently he was rescuing the lovely princess from a revolutionary~ band ~-no ‘Bolsheviks, these. were aristo- cratic army conspirators, so Bunny - wouldn’t have his feelings hurt, would he? Of course he carried her off,‘and married her for love only, and then got the kingdom thrown in—the bankers who were financing the railroad bought it for him. So here was Vee, being a princess all over the place. It was amazing to watch her work—Bunny suddenly } came to realize that her success hadnt been all money and sex, after all. She pounced onto the role like a tiger-cat, and when she got going the rest of the world ceased to ex- | ist—except to the extent that she needed it for a foil, “Now, Dad, you're the king; you walk in here— no, no, for oGd’s sake, kings don’t walk so fast! And I have to fall at your feet and plead for his life, ‘Oh, mercy, sire, and s0-and-so, and so-and-so, and so-and-so!’” , It is one of the peculiarities of motion picture acting, that it doesn’t matter what you say, so long as you are saying something; so Vee would weep, “And so-and-so,” and she would croon “And so-and-so” in pas- sionate love accents to either Bunny or Appie, and she would shriek “And so-and-so” in deadly terror to an executioner with uplifted axe, And if in the course of the scene thé other person didn’t do it right, then scolding, and commands would serve equally well for a love song, “Hold it, now, you idiot, I adore you darling—” or may be it might be, “Take your hands off me, foul beast—don’t let go, you goose, grab! That's better, you don’t have to be polite when you're a murderer.” If Bunny had wanted to rehearse tempestuous emotions, and shriek and scream and tear his hair, he would have sought refuge in the woods, where only the chipmunks could have heard him. But Vee was utterly indifferent to the existence of other humans. That is something one learns on “the lot,” for there will be camera men and scene-shift- ers, and property boys, and carpen- ters working on the next set, and some visitors that have managed to break in despite the strictest regu- lations—and you just go on with your work. The first time the exe- cutioner lifted his axe and Vee started screaming the Indian guides came running in alarm; but she hardly stopped even for a laugh? she went on with the scene, while they stood staring with mouths wide open. She and her two lovers would come in from swimming, and sud- denly she would call for a rehearsal or some royal pageantry—she coul@ be a princess Just as well in a scanty bathing suit, with a carpet of pine needles under her bare feet, Mr. Appleton Laurence had never “met any princesses, but he had read @ great deal of history and poetry, and so he was an authority, and must criticize her way of walking, her gestures, her attitudes, her reae- tien to the love advances of a hand- some young American engfneer. “Just imagine you're in love with me yourself, Appie,” she would say —and 80 his emotions became subli- mated into art, and he could: pour out his soul to her, right before Bunny and Dad and Dad's secretary and the Indians! “You’re much bet- ter at it than Bunny,” she would de- clare, “I believe he’s got used to me, {t's as bad as {f we were mar ried.” (Continued Tomorrow) Benito to Explain. a ROME.—Premier Mussolini ig @® pected to make an explanation of Italy’s recent foreign policies to the parliament, His explanation will prob- ably center on the situation result- ing from the signing of the treaty with Albania, which has resulted fn serfously strained relations with Jn- go-Slavia, f ;