The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER Just Another Bed Time Story Ae ie YA es C( ME Am? phe Jeanyoo! = i CHILDRES OF THE POOR, Retarns from Seven Move Locals in Miners’ Union Show Brophy Is Leading Lewis by Big Margins Further returns received by The DAILY WORKER ‘from miners’ looal | unions from three states are tabulated below and show the progressive ticket | machine candidates both |Sabath Asks Congress to| led by John Brophy well in the lead of the Lew in the national elections and in District 12, Illinois: NATIONAL BALLOT Local: 1797 2656 1013 Valeir, 4390 3874 4476 O'Fallon Living- Taylor, ii Frontenac, Klein, tt, Mh ston, | Pa. Kansas Mont, PRESIDENT— ‘ Lewis . 4 32 136 168 ° 167 143 Brophy 11 526 65 355 7 245 719 VICE-PRESIDENT— Murray .... 9 84 112 183 0 154 320 Stevenson . 5 457 vis) 290 27 246 487 SECRETARY-TREASURER— + Kennedy 48 109 84 0 118 121 Brennan .. 393 50 173 23 213 412 Harris . 79 22 226. 4 66 23: DISTRICT 12 BALLOT Local: 2656 1797 4476 2708 5686 Living- O'Fallon, Wilsonville, Mt Verona, ston, Ill. i. Mh ML INTERNATIONAL BOARD MEMBERS— Dobbins .. 96 8 238 185 38 Voyzey 248 1 97 94 155 Rossatto . 79 1 176 32 16 Jenkins 88 1 162 40 17 Gemmell 37 3 89 99 7 PRESIDEN’ Fishwick 61 5 176 136 110 Tumulty . 378 7 468 238 56 Walker .... 88 3 128 70 50 VICE-PRESIDENT. Sneed .. 32 5 139 100 84 Keller . 40 5 125 125 21 Murray 20 74 30 19 McGuinn pony 32 71 7 Karris .. 1 59 79 7 Davis ... 4 45 74 6 SPCRETARY BORDA: sivcsseessn-sess 289 235 103 Conturiaux . 12 116 30 Vickers 151 36 30 Durkin 163 , 7 39 CHICAGO, ATTENTION! GRAND CONCERT AND DANCE Given by the Russian , Children’s Schools of Douglas Park and Brighton Park SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1926 at Schoenhofen Hall, Cor. Ashland and Milwaukee Aves. In tho iateresting musical program will participate the Fretheit String Orchestra of 45 people, the Russian Sing- ing Society and many others, | Tickets in Advance 50c At the Doors 65c in a gay party for the benefit of political prisoners. WEST END WOMEN’S HALL Ashland and Monroe CHICAGO Friday Eve., Dec. 24 Xmas Party [AFFIDAVITS ARE BASIS OF DEMAND Investigate By Federated Press, WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—A con- | gresstonal investigation, to be con- |ducted by five members of congress |to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, of the charges that agents of the federal de- partment of justice, acting under in- | structions from the heads of the de- partments, secured false evidence {against Sacco and Vanzetti, is pro- {posed in a resolution just presented by Representative Adolph J. Sabath, of Illinois. e Second Bill, This is the second resolution pre- sented to the house on the Sacco-Van- jzetti case. The first was presented jlast July by Representative Victor L. | Berger, of Wisconsin, who proposed that a similar investigation be con- ducted by the house committee of the judiciary, pending the outcome of which he asked that the chairman of the committee be directed to appeal to the governor of Massachusetts to stay the execution of Sacco and Van- zetti. Both resolutions are before the house committee on rules, of which Congressman Snell, of New York, is chairman, ’ Sabath’s resolution calls attention to the affidavits of Leatherman and Weyand, the two department of jus- tice agents involved in obtaining false testimony, have made confessing the falsity of their testimony, and aske that the files of the department be opened to ascertain just what connec- tion it had in the conviction of the two men. It provides that the com- mittee submit a report to congress on. or before January 12, 1927. Many Appeals. The appeals that have been coming | | garding the Sacco-Vatizetti case will have, it is believed, a salutary effect in forcing the department to show its hand. The more numerous the ap- peals the sooner will the officials efther yield to the demand or take af- firmative steps to undo the damage. Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular ly to take to your trade unton meeting? Graduate of Moscow University, re- cently from Moscow, gives private and group lessons in Russian (theory and practice). Evenings at the Ru: to various members of congress re-| Children’s School, 3925 South Kedzie Ave. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE HUGE STEAL BY RIGHT WINGERS OF N.Y, UNION Graft Scandal Revealed in I. B. E. W. (Continued from page 1) ings of the union that when he went to bed at night he “could feel the hand of the district attorney reaching thru his window.” Money was offered to him “on every nook and corner” to pass applicants and he was greeted as “a lucky Irishman," whose job was worth from $250 to $600 a week. He was told to “take the money and not be a damn fool.” $200 From One Job. 4. An electrical contractor on the Fourteenth street power house for the New York Edison company swore that he paid Richard L, O’Hara, president or the local union, and Business Agent William O’Toole $200 a month each on the understanding that “things would go smoothly on the power house job.” The local union voted the two men $3,500 “for expenses and expert advice on the power house situation.” 5. A business agent took cards from union men and, for a- consideration, gave them to a non-union employer who used them on union work, 6. Applicants for membership into the union paid money to business agents and were then “double cross- | ed,” their money was retained and they were barred from the union, 7. Non-union electrical contractors were compelled to pay graft when business agents of the union kept them “on probation,” sometimes for a year before allowing them to have union mechanics, Paid For Contract Breaking. 8 Contractors employing union men paid business agents so that the union rules might be violated. 9. Many of the 2,500 men whose applicants to enter the union had been on file for two or three years were secretly inducted into the union prior to April 1, when the internation- al officers were scheduled to begin or- ganizing the field so that employers might find available plenty of union men to supply the shortage concern- ing which they had been complaining for years. 10. Men who failed to pasa the technical examination of the union’s Examining Board were accepted after paying a local officer. 10. When International Vice-Presi- dent Broach, at a special meeting of the union on Nov. 14, last, offered to expose the entire sity*tion there was an uproar and almost a riot and he was not permitted to continue. New York Instructs Workingclass Women in Meeting Problems NEW YORK—The course in “Prob- lems of Working Class Women” will open at the Workers’ School, Room 46, 108 East 14th street; on Monday, Dec. 27, at 9:15 p. m. The opening was necessarily postponed one week from original date set. The first part of the course will be conducted by Arthur C, Calhoun and will deal with the history of the family in the United States. The fee for the course is $3.50. All women who are in any way inter- ested in the working class are urged to enroll. Extra Session of Congress Is Certain (Continued from page 1) _ to throw out Senator-designate Frank L. Smith (R.) of Illinois, when and if he presents his credentials, and it is to engage in a bitter struggle over another of Mr. Coolidge’s appoint- ments—that of Cyrus H: Woods of Pennsylvania to the Interstate Com- merce Commission. It appears not unlikely that Woods will fail of confirmation, He will be opposed not only by a majority of the democrats and insurgents, on the sround that he was director of the Pepper-Fisher campaign in Pennsylva- nia, which cost nearly $2,000,000, but also by the regular republicans from coal-producing states contiguous to Pennsylvania. Woods was formerly general counsel for Pennsylvania coal interests that have been seeking Preferential freight rates. The Lausanne treaty fight in the senate promises to be extremely bitter and prolonged, with the outcome in doubt, Send us the name and address of a progressive worker to whom toe can send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKBRK Entertainers: Manya Maller - ~ Soprano Alex Kotoff - - Folk Dancer M, Dobkin - - ~ Baritone and Dance class-war Street. Russian String Orchestra FINE BUFFET “Wheat Mine” on Arctic Circle Leaves Farmers of United States Cold By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. HE Chicago Daily News, organ of the La Salle bankers, waxes hysterical in the firm conviction th “There Will Be No Last Frontier.” At least that is the title of an al- legedly' serious editorial in that sheet. You can take it or leave it. The editorial writer, who gets his inspirations from the jingle of gold coins -in this center of ¥ orn, finance, has discovered that “the prize wheat this year was grown as far north as Toronto, Canada, as Toronto is north of Florida.” He frantically grasps at this “im- portant” discovery to dodge serious consideration of the farm relief legislation proposed here at home. Here is surely an opportunity for the millions of landless in the United States, an opportunity that “calls across the wintry air to the pioneer spirit which won our west- ern plains from’ the Indians and the bison, and made them so safe they are almost dull. There are other vast domains to be conquered by the men who Jove the sky and wind, sun and ice, work and liberty!” **e ¢ Millions of farmers, mortgaged, bankrupt and landless, in the United States, and in Canada as well, will laugh at this attempt of the bank- ers’ daily to divert attention to the far and frozen North in order to make the American peasant forget his troubles at home. There is nothing heroic about camping close to the North Pole, “There is more adventure in fighting writ-bearing sheriffs, usurious bankers, gouging landlords and thieving speculators on this side of the Canadian line. The story of Herman Trelle, of Wembley in Peace River Valley, lighted by the midnight sun, is therefore not very interesting. The picture drawn by the Daily News does not attract. Yet it is worthy of reproduction as an example of capitalist editorial idiocy. So here it is: “Trelle is a city boy and a college man who homesteaded 160 acres near the Arctic circle, married a town girl and built a house for her in the wilderness. Their house burned down, their cow fell ill and the railroad that was promised never came; but Tréle and his wife moved into a lean-to against the woodshed and stayed. They now own 480 acres of the world’s best wheat land and have a new house. Trelle is going into the seed wheat business, in which he expects to get rich. “Peace River Valley is called ‘the last wheat mine on earth.’ That sentence should not discourage boys’ and girls of today who dream of adventure. Other ‘wheat mines’ will be found on the frozen fringes of the world, and when all these are peopled man will grow cheaper and perhaps better food on the bottom of the oceans under conditions fas- cinatingly dangerous.” see Wheat in Peace River Valley with- in the arctic circle or on the bed of the ocean would be valuable and worth seeking on one condition only. That is, if wheat and other foods happened to be so scarce and there would be a great demand for it from a hungry population, according to the nightmares of the Malthusians. Men sought gold, and died for it in California in '48, and more re- cently in the Klondike. Divers plunge into the Indian Ocean for pearls. But the gold that was once in the Klondike would still be there if gold ore were as plentiful as iron ore in northern Minnesota and Michigan. If pears were as plenti- ful as pebbles on New England’s rock-bound farms, no one would risk his life battling sharks for jewels in southern seas, oe @ The fact that there is a great abundance of wheat in the United States, and vast opportunities to produce more, leaves the American farmer cold to the story of Peace River Valley, Years ago American farmers began to trek from Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and other states, over the Canadian line, into Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatche- wan, but they soon léarned that they faced the same capitalist evils there that they left behind them, Just as soon as Herman Trelle and othes like him develop anything worth while in Peace River Valley, the railroad will come along with its PACKAGE AUCTION AND DANCING Dickerson’s Dance Orchestra Bring a package to be sold for the benefit of a prisoner to the affair, or to 23 So, Lincoln Auspices: Chicago Local 1 L, b. ait GRAB BAG extortionate rates, the banker with his usurer’s interest, the grain trust with its rigging of the market and all the other evils that grow out of the plundering of the producers by the profit takers, abetted in their robbery by capitalism’s every sinew. oe The Daily News seeks to leave the impression that Herman Trelle, raising #eed wheat,.will win riches. It says Trelle “expects to get rich.” There is no desire here to dis- courage Herman Trélle. But he is due for a great disappointment, If the price for seed wheat. be- comes attractive there will be plenty of farmers right here in the United States raising it to glut the ‘market for it in no time. And that will re- sult in a low price, usually a price that does not meet the cost of pro- duction, 7 Millions have tried to raise some- thing that others do not raise in an effort to catch a favorable market. The livestock market was poor and the Texas farmers went to raising cotton. As a result, this year, the South presents the nation with the largest cotton erop in history. But the price offered for it is so low that it is left to rot in the fields. When there was an overabundance of wheat in the north, the farmers were told to raise corn. They did. Now there is too much corn, so much that hundreds of thousands go into bank- ruptey under the weight of it. Farm- ers were urged to get dairy herds. Many have, milk producers are everywhere en- tering life-and-death struggles with the milk trusts trying to get a worthwhile price for, their products. Southern democrats declare that the abolition of the tariff would help. But this would only open the gates of the United States to the crops of other countries, increasing the supply and robbing American agri- culture of its “protected” domestic market. These conditions, from which there is no escape under capitalism, inevitably “Yorce American agri- culture into bitter struggles. But in order to fight it must organize and ‘base its battles on a class program. The rural workers must be organ- ized in farm labor unions. The de- mand for,“Land to the users of the land!” must be raised. Relief must be sought thru the contro] of the management and operation of mar- keting facilities thru the economic organizations of the working farmers. There must be an amalgamation of the producers with the consumers’ co-operatives; The demand for the government ownership of the rail- roads must include worker participa- tion in the management of the rail- roads. These are some of the funda- mental’ needs of the immediate struggle that will finally result in the abolition. of the profit system. No escape from this struggle can be found, not even in Peace River Valley in the frozen wilds of north- ern Ganada. The fight is here, And With the result that. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) work hard enough, never look at the clock, except when you awake in the morning, attend to your religious du- ties and padlock your brain, success and wealth will be your reward, It seems there is not the slightest doubt about this, 8 @ ‘HILE President Green of the A. F. of L, and his under-tuchuns are busily engaged smashing the I. L. G. W. U., another set of trade union grafters in the Electrical Workers’ Union are quarreling over the funds. The president of Local 3, New York, and sixteen officers, business agents and members are charged by the heads of the international union with being engaged in.a conspiracy to loot the treasury of $268,000. Naturally, the defendants deny the charges and defend themselves in court, being able to do so thru the generosity of the local machine, which passed a motion authorizing the defendants to plunder the union treasury thru [egal fees, This particular local has long refused to take in any more electrical workers, Why should it? With $268,000 in sight the problem of making a living should be easy of solution, 2. 02% “QED” GRANGE means nothing in the young life of Dallas, Texas. Grange may get by with such a luxury as.a little extra noise in the wee small hours of the morning in Chicago, but let anybody except a revivalist evan- gelist try any monkey business down south and see what happens to him. Grange and some merry companions were pulling off an imitation of an angry diva at 4 o’clock in the morning in a hotel, when the proprietress phoned the police. The judge fined the boys for disorderly conduct. The south is dry, so the boys denied charges of intoxication, oe ee SWALD MOSBLEY, laborite, won out easily in the parliamentary contest for the Smethwick constit- uency, defeating both conservative and liberal candidates. He was supported on the hustings by his wife, the daughter of the aristocratic Lord Cur son, and by Oliver Baldwin, the pre- mier’s son. A daughter of Baldwin's supported the conservative. Tho Moseley is of “gentle” blood he is much more radical than many mem- bers of parliament who came of “poor degree,” which is the exception and not the rule. One Moseley does not make a revolution, but the tendency on the part of scions of the British aristocracy to throw in their lot with the labor movement indicates the growing lack of faith in the stability of British imperialism, H® HOLINBSS, in @ recent allocu- tion, bitterly assailed the Mexican government for its efforts to dig the Mexican population out of the swamp of superstition and ignorance in which they were bogged by the clergy. Let it go at that. The pope also severely criticized the fascist government for its hostility towards the catholic boy scout organizations, The fascists have their own scouts and do not trust a rival organization. Mussolini is praised in the allocution and it is ex- tremely unlikely that the vatican and the fascist government will allow the differences to become serious unless the pope thinks that fascism is slip ping, in which case his holiness would be trimming his sails for the new breeze, TONIGHT! Tonight, Saturday, December 25, at 6:30 o’clock, the Novy.Mir masquerade will be held at the beautiful 1140 N. Western Ave. near Division St. All young and old comrades and their friends will be ball Mirror Hall, there. Enuf said! GINSBERG'S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. POPULAR BARGAIN DRY GOODS STORE Ladies’, Gent’s and Children’s Wear 236 E. 23rd St., New York City Lowest prices. xtra discount for those presenting this ad. GRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS “Union Merchandise 1934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor, Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 PITTSBURGH, PA. BALE on January 15 INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST LYCEUM,