The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1926, Page 1

| | | } | | | | A N \ } vik i «(The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40 Hour Week. Vol, Ill. No, 294. Subscription Rates: 4? + Op + once ¢ | Five Days—. jo Keep The DAILY WORKER RAV MEDL Ss, cscvvcs ceaceveciay decane senna $ 223.25 Contributions Contributions 106.26 Contributions 112.00 Contributions 451.98 Contributions 96.50 ' $ 989.99 Needed to complete $3,000. -$2,010,01 By C. E. RUTHENBERG ‘General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. NE THOUSAND of the three thousand dollars needed by The DAILY WORKER to meet its obligations due this month have been raised during the past week, To complete the amount needed double the amount must be raised this week. This $2,000 which The DAILY WORKER must have can be raised during the next five days. We have raised $3,500 per week during sev- eral weeks of the Keep the Daily Worker campaign. We gan raise $2,000 now if we take up the task in earnest. There are seven or eight. districts of the party in which the mem- bers should take upon themselves the brunt of raising this $2,000 be- cause their contributions to the Keep the Daily Worker Fund have been In Chicago, by mall, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mall, aily Needed so poor thue far. These districts are New Haven, Seattle, Boston, New York, Pitts- burgh, Cleveland, San Francisco and Minneapolis. Yalf the membership In all these districts, in some cases two-thirds, have not responded to the appeal fo! r help to keep the DAILY WORKER. These members must now come té the front. ‘They must take up the work of WORKER for our movement. raising the funds to keep The DAILY THEY MUST RAISE THE $400 PER DAY THAT IS NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE $3,000 IN CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE LAST TEN DAYS OF DECEMBER. WILL THESE MEMBERS JOIN WITH THOSE WHO HAVE AL- READY DONE THEIR PART AND CARRY FORWARD TO VICTORY THE CAMPAIGN TO KEEP THE By T. J. OFLAHERTY. “HE British budget faces a deficit of Dots billion dollars at the end of this financial year, Now, in the third quarter it is over three-quarters of a Wilion. The desperate straits which British capitalism finds itself ig also demonstrated oy a begging let- ter sent out by the British Empire Association to friends and suspects | asking for contributions to a fund! having for its purpose the stimulation | This association | of British industry. numbers among its officers and direc- tors the biggest men in British poll- tical ‘and industria! life. . LONDON dispatch im the Chicago Daily News tells us that London’s department stores had the poorest Christmas season in history. People crowded the stores hut most. of them catae to see the g. cds on display and enjoy the seenery. Even those who made purchases were only able to spend a very small sum, A jeweler complained that he would be obliged to mo out of business |ut for his trade jm. antiques with the United States. EVERAL hundred British workers are in jail as @ result of their activities during the general strike. A Asputation from the T. U, C. and the jabor party interviewed Lord Birkenhead and requested an amnesty tor the prisoners. The labor. leaders were apologetic and humble. ‘Birken- Head was truculent and insulting; He tol the leaders quite plainly that there was little hope for an amnesty for those who were conspicuous ‘in prosecuting the strike, J. "H. Thomas blathered about peace in industry and oped the government would ‘co- vate in salving the wounds left by strike. British labor could free the prisoners by a@ 24-hour’ demon- stration, It will never free them by & begging policy. Rs HE fascist dictatorship in Lithuania T nas not lost any time in proving that it considers the Communists its most dangerous enemies. Hundreds of Communists have been arrested, tho followers of the deposed social democratic government have been turned loose. No doubt the socialists of the rest of the world. will claim that the example set by the Russian ‘workers and peasants in establishing ‘» dictatorship of the producers is re- sponsible for the plague of capitalist dictatorshijg that have sprouted up in Burope since the end of the world wer, iy customary around this time of the year for capitalist statesmen to reach on the aubject’of peace, The sociated Pregs interviewed most of the outatanding diplomats in the cap- - (Comtinued on page 6) in | DAILY WORKER? ARE WARNED BY ~ BRITISH LEADER \A. J. Cook Tells Some ~ Lessons of Strike By TOM BARKER ‘Federated Press, LONDON, — (By Mall) — “You can tell the American working class that we are starved back to work be- cause we did not receive sufficient as- tance to enable us to stay out and | win,” A, J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain told me as he was departing for Rus- sia. “Human endurance has its limit; we have reached it. Our men are going back to work, getting the best settlements they can. The employers have used the American miners as a club for the British miners. Now that they have defeated us, they will meet the American minérs in their turn. “In America they exploit to the ut- most both the miner and the mining machine. In Great Britain the miner alone has to pay. Now we have an era developing here when the pure and simple old-fashioned coal compa- nies are being swallowed by combines of the type we have recently seen or- ganized by Mond in the chemical in- (Continued on page 3.) Entered at Second-class matter Septembe: $6.00 per year, ‘RESIGNS AS COLLEGE PRESIDENT; DISGUSTED WITH RAISING MONEY (Special to The Daily Worker) | MT. VERNON, lowa, Dec. 26.— | The trustees of Cornell college are expected to meet shortly after Jan. | 1, to decide on a successor to Dr. Harlan Updegraff, president since 1923, who resigned, Dr. Updegraff intimated In his let- ter of resignation that he was not in accord with the educational and administrative principles of the | trustees. Or. Updegraff told the board in his letter of resignation, he did not come to the college as a money raiser. He came to Cornell from the University of Pennsylvania where he taught for thirteen years. He al- 80 represented the federal govern- ment in the re-organization of the | schools in Alaska several years ago. | steels ie pee eed i PROGRESSIVES LEAD ILLINOIS DELEGATE VOTE District 12 Adding to Brophy Majority (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Il!., Dec. 26—Elec- |tlon of delegates to the international | convention of the United Mine Work- }ers of America, has already started | here. Local Union No. 2553, the larg- est in Springfield, voted Dec. 22, and the two progressives, Joe Loda and John Lucas, defeated the machine candidates, “Big” Theodore Miller: ‘and John Glen, by overwhelming ma- jorities. There is some evidence to indicate that the superintendent of “Peabody No. 6” was active in getting out the | vote for Miller and Glen. But he had | no chance. Additional returns from locals in District 12 are adding to the victory of the Brophy “Save the Union Tick jet.” Four locals give the following returns on the national ticket: DB. U. 730: for president, Lewis, 181; r 21, 1928, a lV «, lilnois, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1926 MARINES | Published Dally except Sunday POBLISHING © )., 1118 W. under the Act of March 3, 1879, 290 << ‘ashington Bivd., EXPULSION OF DRESSMAKERS DAMS SIGHAN Reveals Real Motive Is Not Union “Saving” (Special to’The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—That all of Morris Sigman’s recent actions, which he pretended were taken to save the garment worké@tg from insufferable conditions due to the strike, have been but veils to hide his real inten- tions of seizing contro! of the joint board, is provéd by hie expulsion of Dressmakers’ iGcal 22 according to a statement Issué€d today by Louls Hy- man, manager of the joint board Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Reefer Mak- ers’ Unions. — Hyman als as the expuls! constitution of jes’ Garment the bounds of Announces, inasmuch is contrary to the e International Lad- forkers’ union, outside ll customary proced- ure and basedjon mere accusations. made without formal charges having been filed, that, the order will be en- tirely ignored. © “Sigman’s ¢gntention that he ex- pelled the joint board because of mis- management i to, save the strike, protect the stfikers and recall. the lockout is showa to be false by his ex" pulsion of i 22," said Hyman. “This action r the strike is over shows that he has been seeking one thing all along: to reorganize the joint board, ousting the officials who repudiate his I@adership and putting in his own men. Punish For “Future” Conduct. “His excuse for expelling the offici- ‘4 that he thinks they . Since when has ‘t en_custom: Lpunish people, not for what theyshave done, but for what they may do? The officials of local 22 have never made the slight- est suggestion that they intend call- ing a. strike. “But Sigman’s: action betrays the workers. The workers intended io ask the employers only for a renewai of their agreement. Now the employ- ers will be encouraged not to renew the agreement by Sigman’s statement that the union is too weak to strike and by his showing that the very eall- ing of a strike would cause commo- Brophy, 455; vice-president, Murray 6; Stevenson, 11, secretary-treasur- urer, Kennedy, 107; Brennan, 237; Harris, 237. L. U. 912: for president, Lewis, 19; Brophy, 140; vice-president, Murray. 35; Stevenson 117; secretary-treas. urer, Kennedy, 19; Brennan, 82; Har. ris, 49. L. U. 1271: for president, Lewis, 4; Brophy, 14; vice-president, Murray 6; Stevenson, 11, tion within the union.” A meeting of shop chairmen of all the dressmaking locals was to be held at 6 o’clock Thursday night at Man. hattan Lyceum at which the new sit- iation was to be discussed. Would “Eliminate” Communists. That immediate control of the affairs of local 22 was to be taken secretary-treasur- over was decided at a meeting of the | er, Kennedy, 3; Brennan, 8; Harris, 7 general executive board of the Inter- L. U. 232: for presitient, Lewis, 138, Brophy, 323; vice-president, Murray, 185; Stevension, 239; secretary-treas- “[national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Wednesday night. The decis ion was made, it was stated, in pur- nrer, Kennedy, 89; Brennan, 122, Har-|°U@nce of its policy to eliminate from ris, 206. District Officers’ Election. The followinng are four locals in the election of district officers: L. U. 730: for international board member, Dobbins, 188; Voyzey, 90; Rossatto, 164; Jenkins, 119; Gemmell. 74; president, Fishwick, 229; Tumul- ty, 358; Walker, 56; vice-president, Sneed, 135; Keller, 81; Murray, 43; McGuinn, 45; Harris, 45; Davis, 59; McLachlan, 81; Bozarth, 114; Wilson, (Continued on page 2) STALIN SUMS UP DISCUSSION OF DISPUTE IN SOVIET UNION PARTY; TROTSKY, ZINOVIEV, KAMENEV SCORED (Special Cable to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., Dec: 26-—-(De- layed).--In summing up the debate on the Russian question at the plenum of the Communist International on Dec. 18 Stalin declared that the speeches of the opposition, especially Kameneft’s, whose speech was made from a written text and was signed by Trotsky, Kameneff and Zinovieff, mean the return to factional methods of struggle against the party, and are a violgtion of the statement of the op- position of Oct. 16 “Kameneff's outright accusation of a rightward drift in che party is « direct attack on the party,” he said, “The attempts of Trotsky and of the other opposition leaders who make things appear as if there have pre- viously existed important differences between me on the one hand and Lenin and the party on the other are pidinly inconsistent, °° “im 1017, at the Aprilvoonterence, it was precisely Lenin against the uinon “officials controlled by the Communist Party.” Julius Portnoy is secretary-treas- returns from|urer of the dressmakers’ union. Oth- (Continued on page 2) STRIKE I$ NOT OVER YET WARNS RELIEF LEADER 6,000 Passaic Workers Still Striking (Spectal to/The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Dec. 21; — Alfred Wagenknecht, ¢hairman of the Gener- I who stood beside}al Relief Committee of Textile Strik- Kameneff and his Jers, today sounded a warning to organ- group, who then struggled against }ized labor not to be deceived by the Tr Lenin’s theses,” he continued. ‘ot propaganda being spread by the tex- sky mistook me for Kameneff when he |tjJe posses and newspapers under their stated that Lenin's description of his|oontrol to the effect that the big tex- opponents’ position in 1917 as a Kaut- skyan drift referred to me. Kamen- eff’s statement that the 14th congress of our party made a mistake, ‘in open- ing fire leftwards,’ is utterly wrong. Mask of Phrases, “By this sort of talk the opposition merely masks itself in left phrases, while practically it is an opportunistic opposition and is the rallying center of-all right wing opportunistic ten- dencies, tle strike in Passaic is all over. Mill Propaganda, “Our friends, while rejoicing in our victories, must not allow themselves to be fooled into inactivity by the malicious propaganda of certain news- papers that the strike is all over, “The strike {8 not over. There are still 6,000 workers whose employers have not yet settled. The settlements with the Passaic Worsted, Botany “Trotsky's statement that he ‘fore-| Mills, Garfield Worsted and now the stalled Lenin's policy in March and|Dundee Textile Mills affect only fifty April, 1917,’ {8 no more than an inde-|PeT cent of the: workers. There are cent boast,” Stalin sald, fact that Lenin im April, clared several tim: 1917, de- that his policies “Ig it not q | Still six mills to be brought to terms. Relief must be‘forthcoming and quick- ly, in order that organized labor’ fe- i Passaic be made complete!” + | a Stop This War! HE United States is at war with Nicaragua. A This is the plain fact of the situation that has developed out of Wall Street’s vicious attack on this Central American country. Wi: the bidding of the Wall Street imperialists, Washington sent warships loaded down with marines to threaten the overwhelming support given the opposition to Diaz under the leadership of Sacasa. Washington ordered American troops to land at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, capital of the revolutionary Sacasa gov- ernment... They have also been landed in full force at Blue- fields and: Rio Grande Bar. Washington thus admits that it is compelled, thru the display of. force, to attempt to maintain its puppet Diaz gov- ernment. Washington has further orders to be carried out by Rear Admiral Julian Latimer, aboard the U. S. Ship Roches- ter, at’ Puerto Cabezas, that Cacasa must take his cabinet and get out or be disarmed. Washington refuses the right of Mexico to purchase air- planes in California and transport them over the border, it being charged that they will be sent to reinforce the Sacasa government, but at the same time an airplane is sent to strengthen the American bolstered forces of Diaz. * . e * ASHINGTON set up its own puppet president, Diaz, to by THE DAILY WORKER Washington has imposed a censorship over Nicaragua. Washington's next step can only be to blockade Nicara- gua completely with warships and actually carry on hos- tilities thru the slaughter of its defenseless people. * rs Y . * ET it is not war on Nicaragua alone that is involved. Wall Street has greater ambitions. United States Senator William E. Borah, head of the senate committee on foreign relations, declares that: “EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO GET THIS COUN- TRY MEXICO.” INTO A SHAMELESS, COWARDLY WAR WITH In other words, Wall Street's government in Washington seeks to strike a blow at Mexico, thru Nicaragua, in its effort to preserve a billion dollars worth of loot in Mexican land and oil to which the Mexican people claim ownership. The open war against Nicaragua and the threatening war against Mexico are only logical developments of the whole American imperialist policy of plunder and rob against all countries southward from the Rio Grande. * * HERE is only one power that can stop this war. * * That power is the American working-class, the class that will be called on to fight this war, to murder the workers of other countries, and to pay for the war that will only strengthen the power of the enemies of labor. Labor everywhere must raise the cry, “Stop the War!” This cry must be raised especially in the trade unions, among the organized workers. This cry must be raised by the farmer masses who, like the peoples of Mexico, Central and South America, are also plundered by these same profit-taking interests. American labor must move forward against the war. (Special to The Daily Worker) WARE, Mass., Dec. 26.—This little | town ig receiving an unusual amount of publicity on account of the fact that the Otis company has announced that its plan to remove its textile plant to the south is to be postponed. The Otis company, which maintains plants at Ware, Mass., and Greenville, N. H., declared after a conference be- tween the directors and a special committee of stockholders that it hoped to continue all its New Eng- land plants in operation by putting into effect suggestions for more eco- nomie operation, tax reduction and sveater co-operation by employes, The demand for “greater co-opera- ion by employes” can be translated in one way only, i. e., willingness to accept wage cuts or increases in the Jength of the working day. The story of Ware, Mass., is being used cun- ningly by the New England employers to hold over the heads of the workers the threat of removal to the south and extort from them under the threat of unemployment consent to a wage cut or an inerease in hours, That is the reason for the widespread publicity given to the developments in this comparatively unimportant New Eng- land town, The textile and shoe work- ers of New England would do well to watch these developments carefully and prepare for them by inaugurating n every unorganized industrial town 4 movement for the formation of a trade union, The trade union move- ment cannot advisedly overlook such an important situation, for a wage-cut- ting campaign, if successfully launched in the unorganized industries, would very soon be carried over to the or- ganized flelds. Neither the American Federation of Labor nor its Massa- chusetts branch have as yet taken any official action to meet the needs of this important, situation, agen Why don't ydu write It up? tt may be interesting ite ether workers, { BOSSES USE WARE AS OPENING GUN FOR WAGE CUT CAMPA +- IGN FORWARD HEADS FIGHT ON FUR WORKERS’ UNION Seskind Moves for Ex- pulsion Fur Workers’ Local Union No. 45 was expelled from the Hebrew Trades at its meeting yesterday following a report by Morris Seskin, corre- spondent for the Jewish Daily For- ward, on the meeting of the right wing conference in New York Dec, 21. The motion for expulsion was made | by Al Green, gangster business agent of the painters’ union. The delegates of the shoe workers, brush makers and ladies’ garment workers’ unions! voted with the furriers against the motion, Secretary Hannock of the Hebrew Trades was 80 incensed by the deter- mined opposition to the expulsion that he threatened openly to “get” the unions who supported the furriers, NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents Chicago, Ill. ICARAGUA FORCES LANDED: TERRITORY HELD: GUNS ARE READY Admiral in Ultimatum to Liberal President Acting under orders of Rear Ad miral Julian L. Latimer, commander {Of the special service squadron, a force of sailors and marines from the U. S. crulsers Denver and Cleveland has been landed at Puerto Cabezas, the capital of the liberal government of Nicaragua. The American armed forces have }assumed control of territory “lying | within rifle range of the American and foreign properties.” Admiral Latimer has issued an ultimatum to the liberal president, Juan B. Sacasa, to evacuate the city No Americans in Danger. Dr. T. 8. Vaca, representative of the Liberals at Washington, has issued the ; following protest against what lamounted to armed intervention by the United States in the internal af- fairs of the Republic of Nicaragua. “There are no American lives or property endangered at the zone of landing in Juerto Cabezas. The mere presence of warships along t hore would be enough. The orders to the constitutional authorities to withdraw d the dec! on of a neutral zone 1ave ‘only one bject-—-to discourage | the constitutional fore and accomp- jlish the downfall of the constitutional government, “This is done during the recess of jcongress in the hope that things will {be so far embroiled when this body lreeonvenes that it will not appear patriotic to investigate the affair thoroly and freely. “There has. heen, a studied parpone. from the beginning of the present trouble to keep the liberal party of | Nicaragua from reaching power by hook or crook—and that is why Diaz jis being helped by all sorts of camou- flage’ to retain his ill-gotten presi- dency—even at cost of human lives, the overriding of the constitu- ‘tion and international pacts. “The next step contemplated ap | pears to be a blockade of Nicaragua |by United States warships, which ac- | cording to Dr, Alexander Cesar—the jcoming minister to Washington—is jalready prepared to act. They hold it {a crime for the Liberals to obtain jarms to fight—but they want all eyes |elosed when the embargo on arms here is lifted once in a while in favor of Diaz—as it was overlooked once on Sept. 19 in favor of Chamorra, The national railway of Nicaragua must be sold in New York. The national bank must not fall within the scrutinizing gaze of the Liberals. The game is cruel; the prize must be tempting.” Kellogg Is Silent. State department officials made no reply to these serious charges. It ds said here that American government is so vitally concerned over the affairs of the Nicaraguan government be- cause of the fact, that this country holds the key to a trans-isthmian ship canal planned to connect the Atlantic and the Pacific, which is of great tm portance to the American navy, Investigation further disclosed the fact that the railroad referred to by Dr. Vaca is the Pacific railroad, which was formerly governmeht-owned until 51 per cent of the stock was bought by New York bankers. who also held | the rest of the stock in escrow for a loan of $1,060,000 until the Nicaraguan government repaid this sum in 1924 out of its surplus revenue, and regain- ed possession of the railroad, The present move of the U. 8. navy its. said to be inspired by the New York banking interests who are seek- ing to regain possession, Guatemala Joins Court. GPNEVA— Guatemala’s affiliation with the Hague court is regarded here as a manifestation of a desire on the part of Central and South American republics to be free from Washing- ton's political domination. Kollantay Presents Her Credentials as Soviet Envoy to President Calles MEXICO CITY, Dec, 26.—Alexandra Kollantay, the first woman envoy accredited to a power In the Western Hemisphere, has been officially 0 by President Callies of Mexico. by Leon Hayki on her arrival there and President Calles expr: Comrade Kollantay, who was accom; rst secretary of the Soviet embassy, presented her creden- , tials as representative of the Union of Soviet Republics, \ A crowd which had gathered about the national palace applauded in when she left... ‘ 7 od his pleasure at having a women ae a diplomat to the Republic of Mexico, received, Pieter cee