The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1926, Page 2

Page Two A RTA OT HN ER I RA TTR EEN THE DAILY WORKER of Dr. Sacasa,” he said. ‘“Disembark- ing of marines on the Atlantic coast nd the order to Dr. Sacasa to aban- in Puerto Cabezas cent triumphs of ionaries — triumphs en from the world by hip. On account of ernment is already SENATE PROBE OF NIGARAGUA INVASION SEEN Native Labor Appeals to ailing. ee of force against the regime we! mt Le Rebels Strong, r. j * U.S. Workers | ‘ we i and is oc- (Continued from page 1) ry ta th ths been instructed to efford such ry, f A i iy two hours’ tection as the occasion might mand.” Asks Labor to Protest. ' Labor in the United States is | called upon to oppose intervention | by the United States in a statement | issued by Or, Vaca, S de la Selva, secretary of the Nicaraguan Fec- eration of Labor. “Developments In Nicaragua revea! in the cleare fashion a situation in a country that hampers the common people's freedom, the establishment of dem- cratic institutions and the exercise | ; on the part of the workers of their intervention. has inflam- pa ts so that to the death rather an surrender to the foreigners, he The liberal army can only be reached, he pointed out, by the U. S. } niarines going into the interior, away 1 the protection of the gunboats, when they do that, he added, the uans will be able to protect Ives. Means Much Strife. inherent rights. to organize and ‘Armed intervention by the United strive for their betterment,” he ragua in support of the said. overnment will cause anarchy, Deny People Rights. years of strife, and great loss- “Tho guan Federation of La-} of life and property, instead of bor pro i re the orgar nging about peace,” declared Hern- workers Inited States aga 1 Robleto, undersecretary of educa- the un m of the Sacasa regime, who has States in inte n the peopl st arrived here. justified revolt arague see right is b us by the us* .| Department of State Considers Sending of » United State ments support of armed fo: to oust il ed by thi © interests that . are robbing th nguan people Troops to Nicaragua of their own country.” Praises WASHING’ rtment of sta hment of U. S. army sol ua to aid in the at- the liberal movement it is announced. The depart- ment of state reports a request from Diaz, reactionary president of the re- for a “military mission” from Challenges U ‘The ¢ to the unparalelled | tempt 18 to be used | there, stren h of nd their vinst the wel- by the state}the United States. artment country; Usually the department of war has that: it was an prop-} j on in such cases, but the erty” was f abor seore-jstate department said that “political tary. He p so much}conditions were such” in Nicaragua property w b sricans in}|that the question must be passed on Nicaragua, that the s could not} by it first. There is little doubt but what the request will be complied with, U. S. soldiers having aided in installing Diaz as president. URGES NEGRO SUPPORT OF EDUCATION WHICH SOUTH DENIES THEM (Special to The Daily Werker) LITTLE ROCK, ARK.—it is your jduty to rally to the support of your “ ; public institutions, especially your U. S. Feared Liberals. | schools, in other ways than by giving MEXICO CITY, Dec. 27. — Recent| them the financial support which is triumphs of the liberal revolution-|so essential,” Dr. H. O. Sargent told “aries which are already sounding the | an audience of Negroes at the dedica- doom of the Diaz government caus-|tion of a memorial erected here by set their feet any place without “tres- passing.” J Diaz Regime Illegal. President who is backed by the United ed to that | Office illegally by the react 'y le-| gislature, wh was cc ied by * American capitalists. Diaz is a hench- “nan of General Chamorra who over- ‘aw the Nicaraguan government| attempted to set himself up as ator. The United States would} not Fecognize Chamorro, altho it fa-| vored him, so instead, Chamorro had Diaz made president. * Diaz, , Was e ~ ed the U. S. state department to land | Negroes to commemorate those of the _ soldiers at Puerta Cabezas, declared / race who lost their lives in the World Dr. Pedro Zepeda, confidential agent| War. Sargent is agent of Agricultural Im Mexico of the Liberal government} Education for Negroes, of Nicaragua, in a statement issued And this utterance was made in the on the situation. South, where notoriously Negroes get “The state department had no need |a very scant percentage of the school to resort to calumny to justify the ap-|tax for education of their children, COMMUNISTS SENTENCED | TO DEATH IN JAVA; ONE || LIFE; OTHERS DEPORTED BATAVIA, Java—Three leaders in the Java Communist uprising have been condemned to death, one sen- tenced to life imprisonment, one for twenty years, and many others are to be deported, under a decision of the Dutch Indian tribunal here, This follows a revolt that swept from one end of the island to the other and received much support from many elements of the population. 700 Shop Chairmen (Continued from page 1) gain control of workers who have al ready repudiated their leadership, was pointed out by Charles S. Zimmerman, manager of the Dressmakers’ Division, and other leaders, | “Sigman has tried to make the peo- Dle believe that he is taking over Local 22 in order to avert a strike in he dress industry, but this is only a flimsy excuse,” he declared, “I ad- d you six weeks ago that no dras- tic demands should be made of the ment should include only some small changes, so that there would be no possibility of a strike. The joint board has not even contemplated a strike, and this fact has been well known for weeks.” Reveal Fraud in Reports, The stand taken by the shop chair- men in refusing to consider the inter- national as a responsible agent in the aking of @ new agreement was fur- ther strengthened by a report of fraud in the international’s widely adver- tised “registry” of workers. Shop chairmen of a number of shops report- *d to the offices of the joint board that Sigman had falsely reported to the Jewish Daily Forward that their shops had registered with the international when as a matter of fact only one or two had registered. The “registration” by which any member may be con- ) Sidered paid up and in good standing with the payment of fifty cents, was begun by the international on last Monday, but apparently has enrolled few cloak and dressmakers. Workers are returning to the sub- manufacturing shops under the “settle- ment” obtained by Sigman, but large- ly without certification from the inter- national, altho Sigman “ordered” the workers to obtain cards from the in- ternational before they would be per- mitted to resume work. The em- ployers, however, are adopting a neutral policy and taking back the bulk of their workers with joint board cards. Proceed With Elections. The regular elections in Locals 2, 9 and 35 will proceed within a short time, according to decisions made in the locals. In order to avert any charges of illegal elections, they will be held under the auspices of an im- partial organization, it was announced. The American Civil Liberties Union has been asked to take charge of the elections. Meetings for nomination will be held in Webster Hall on Wed- nesday for Local 2 and on Thursday for Local 35. THE END OF SPORTS FOR PROFIT Hit Sigman Attack | efuployers, but that the new agree-! FLYNN STARTS EAST ON SACCO- VANZETTI TOUR Has Stirred Big Interest; Dates Still Open With a series of successful meet- jings held from Chicago“to Los An- geles, San Francisco, Seattle, Port-,! laid and numerous other western points, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, na- tional chairman of International La- bor Defense, will now begin her itin- erary toward the east which will take her to the wind-up, sometime in | March. | The Flynn meetings have already \resulted in an intensification of de- fense activities in all of the cities vis- ited and a broader umderstanding of ; the work of I. L. D. among the work-| jers. In many citieSthe meetings | were supported by labor unions, as at | Portland, where the meeting was ar- | Tanged by the Labor College and at | Salem, Oregon, where the Central La- |bor body co-operated to make the meeting successful, Dates for Comrade»Flynn for the coming period are as follows: Definitely Arranged. Minneapolis, Jan, 11 Rochester, Jan. 12, St. Paul, Jan. 13, Chisholm, Minn,, Jan, 14. Superior, Wis., Jan. 15. Ironwood, Mich., Jan.-17. Ishpeming, Mich., Jan, 19, Winnipeg, Canada, Jan. 22, 23, 24. Gary, Ind., Jan. 26. South Bend, Ind., Jan. 28. indiana Harbor, Ind., Jan, 29, Milwaukee, Feb. 1. Kenosha, Wis., Feb. 3. Southern Illinois, Feb, 5 to 15, Requests for meetings have also been made by numerous other cities, All locals of f. L. D. and any other organization desiring to have Com- rade Flynn speak on her way east, should communicate immediately for dates with the National Office, of I. L. D., 23 8, Lincoln St. Chicago, Ill. THREE STATES INUNDATED BY RISING WATER MEMPHIS, Tenn., — With three dead and hundreds homeless, tribu- taries of the Mississippi River con- tinued on a rampage causing wide- spread suffering and é mage in Tenn- essee, Arkansas and Mississippi, Rivers and creeks’ in the three states have run out of bounds, flood- ing the lowlands, as: the result of heavy rains last week. In Nashville, 2,000 are homeless due,to the Cumber- land River flood, and are temporarily housed in public buildings, churches, and warehouses, In Mississippi, the Tombigbee River has exceeded flood stage. A. A. Pen- nington was drowned when his car overturned in a ditch: at Columbus, Miss., and in Arkansas, W. C, Maguire and-€leveland McCarty were drown- ed near Keo in another ditch, filled with flood waters, The weather bureau here today in- dicated that the Mississippi River it- self will be affected by the floods on its tributaries, A crest of 31 feet is expected with the possibility that it may go higher. Flood stage here is 85 feet, cee Tennessee River Brings Flood. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 27,— Between 300 and 400 Persons here are homeless and thousands of dollars damage has been caused by the flood waters of the Tennessee river. Relief work is being directed by the chief of police with the aid of policemen and firemen, see Blizzard at Cleveland, CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 27.—Cleve- land today had virtually dug itself out of the worst blizzard here since 1913, most transportation lings again being on normal schedules, eee lee on Streets Brings Death, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Des, 27, — Three persons were dead here today as the result of Christmas week-end traffic fatalities. At least two of the deaths were attributed to the icy con- dition of the streets. ee Cumberland River on Rampage. NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec, 27.—The raging waters of the Cumberland river has left between 2,500 and 8,000 per- sons homeless here and there is no re- Hef in sight, according to the local weather burean which today predicted more rain, Chris Olson Changes Tune, PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis, Dee, 27, —Chris Olson, father of Clara Olson, who was murdered Sept. 10, has asked where he might secure a photo- sraph of Erdman Olson, the accused murderer, to hang beside-an enlarged Picture of Clara that will soon adorn his parlor wall, Chris holds no animosity toward Erdman, as indicated by this state. ment; “I do not belleve Erdman could have struck the blow. He was to have beon my son atid I can think of him only im that way,” SEND INA TODAY. ocr Green Echoes the New Year’s Views Expressed By Great Capitalists By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of La: bor, and Elbert H, Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corpora- tion agree in an “optimistic fore- cast” of industrial conditions for 1927, To be sure, Gary has nothing to complain of, The steel trust dis- tributed a Christmas gift of a quart- er of a billion dollars. In spite of the recovery of the steel industry in Europe and the end of the coal strike in Great Britain, Gary expects his American steel trust to prosper during the coming year. And that is all he is worried about, Similarly Green concerns himself almost exclusively with the favored sections of the working class, He stresses slight wage increases in some sections of the railroad in- dustry, but puts greatest emphasis on the building trades, which he says even now have as good pros- pects as last year (1926), ee But Green’s joy is confined to but a small handful of the great army of exploited workers, men, women and children, thruout the United States, Green has no worry, at the threshold of the new year, for the millions of unorganized in the great basic industries, He doesn’t chal- lenge Gary’s declaration of “‘pros- perity” with a demand for the or- ganization of the steel workers and the bettering of their conditions. He doesn’t call for the reorganiza- tion and amalgamation of the shop- men’s unions on the railroads. He has no warning to the workers of the South, who constitute the vast reservoir of cheap labor that is at- tracting industries from the. North. What Green has to say in his New Year’s message applies to but a small section of the working class, especially the following: “Our trade union movement has made a substantial contribution to- ward making ours a high wage country and demonstrating that high wages are compatible with low unit costs. Because wages are high we can do our part in buying the articles industries are turning out in increasing quantities.” Even in the last convention of the American Federation of Labor at Detroit, however, the great com- Plaint was that wages had not kept pace with increased and cheaper production, The steel and auto- mobile industries were cited as ex- amples, even by the labor official- dom. Green's declaration is more in the nature of a wish than a state- ment of fact, Labor js able to re- purchase only a decreasing amount of what it produces, Disorganiza- tion in the ranks and a traitor lead- ership at the top makes easier the more bitter exploitation of labor for the new year, t Following the report to the De- troit convention, in October, of a decreasing membership, the Green officialdom decided not to proceed with the organization campaign in the auto industry, Nor are any other organization campaigns plan- ned for the new year, so that it is impossible to discern where any favorable membership report will come from for next year’s conven- tion to be held at Los Angeles, Calif., in the coming October. ne @ Instead the announced campaign of extermination against the left wing will have just the opposite ef- fect, It is here that Gary and Green will again agree, the steel kaiser vociferously applauding his “labor lieutenant” as the latter declares: “Another favorable indication (for 1927) is the halt that has ,been called in Communist activities in New York City. So completely have Communist methods been discredited that it will be less healthy to em- ploy them upon workers the coming year.” This might have been a para- graph from the annual report, some years ago, of the red baiter J. Mit- chell Palmer, under the Wilson re- gime, and more recently of Harry Daugherty, attorney general for | Harding's “Ohio gang,” who got so thoroly muddied with corruption at Washington that he was forced to get out and face @ court trial. Palmer is also facing his own cap- italist courts as the result of ques- tionable activities as allen property custodian, It is not difficult to un- derstand why Palmer, Daugherty, Gary and Green should hold the same viewpoint towards Commun- ists and the left wing in the labor movement, But the fact that Green, in common with the rest, holds those views and is at the same time the head of the organized labor movement, does not promote the welfare of the American working class, nor strengthen its struggle. Bie, Taek Green sounds no note of. co-opera- tion between the industrial workers and the farmers. For him the farm crisis, especially in the corn and cotton belts, does not exist. The capitalists, however, are jealous of their leadership over the farming population and take full ad- vantage of the New Year season to throw a few sops, in the form of well-rounded phrases, to the work- ers on the land. Thus Charles M, Schwab, chair- man of the board of directors of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, delivers himself of the following: “Both in industry and in agricul- ture there must be co-operation among the factors involved to an extent never before considered ne- cessary or even desirable. Farming must be conceived on a more scien- tifle basis. There myst, be a greater integration of agricultural producing units, We must apply to our fields the methods of large scale produc- tion which have been found success- ful in our factories, Waste in mark- eting must be minimized on the farm as well as in industry.” see This is a very evident plea to the well-to-do farmer who beholds him- self as a great landlord with thous- ands of farm workers tilling -his vast domains. That is a “solution” of the farm problem for the few who will become the lords of the land, just as Gary and Schwab are the lords of steel. Schwab will claim, of course, that the opportun- ity to become a great farmer awaits all farmers. But in reality Schwab offers no solution for the problems rising before the great mass of farm labor, just as he has no solu- tion of the labor problem favorable to wage workers, It is in this crucial situation that the head of the organized industrial workers has no New Year’s mes- sage for farm labor. Green merely echoes the industrial views of* the capitalist masters. Labor, in the cities and on the land, must learn to speak for itself, Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union Plans to A home for the Chicago members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America is to be built at the corner of Ashland Boulevard and Van Buren street, to cdst one million dollars. The site hag already been purchased and the building will be completed, it is expected, by Sept. 1, 1927. There will be no mortgage on the property, as all necessary funds have been raised by subscription and the financing of the project is complete. In the basement will be a well- equipped gymnasium, On the first floor will be the library for the membership, to which will be transformed the 10, 000 volumes which the organization already owns, There will be small as- sembly rooms dn other parts of the building, and a large auditorium to seat 2,000. Besides its use in administering the affairs of the Amalgamated, the bulld- ing will be an educational and recrea- tional center for the 30,000 members of the union, > The site selected is directly opposite the large building owned by the Amal- gamated Association of Street and Hlectric Railway Wmployes. It is re ported that the Women's ‘Trade Union League will build in the same block. Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regul ly to take to your trage “nton me t hotias Build Home in Chicago JOHN D. FEEDS KIDS ICE CREAM AND CAKE TO SHOW HIS RESPECT FOR CHRIST ORMOND BEACH, Florida, Dec. 27.—In other times when he appears In public, John D. Rockefeller, Sr, demonstrates his liberality by pase ing out new dimes to fawning per sons who seek his favor, but on Christmas, John D, Is so filled with the “spirit of Christ” and takes so to heart the teachings In the “Ser- mon .on the Mount,” that he does something different. Go, John D, held a Christmas party at his win- ter palace here Monday and invited the children of the neighborhood to attend. Each child will get a present from the Christmas tree in the house. Mr. Rockefeller’s press agent was careful to announce that the . presents will be “simple things that carry with them kindly sentiments.” So the presents the kids get won't be worth much more than the dimes. But to “do himself proud” because of such a holy occasion, John D. served them all ice cream and cake. At the end of the party, Rockefel- ler led the singing of “God Be With You Until We Meet Again.” COOLIDGE PUTS | REACTIONARY ON [ G. COMMISSION Woods Is Disciple of Mellon Group By MARX LEWIS, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, Doc. 27.—Advocates of an unregulated and unrestricted control of the nation’s utilities scored heavily when it became .known that the president had appointed Cyrus E. Woods to the interstate commerce commission, where he will take the place of Frederick I. Cox, of New Jersey, whose term expires, Okehed by Mellon. The choice of Woods to fill the im- portant post was inspired by Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon, who is heavily interested in stocks and bonds that will be affected materially by the decisions of the commission of which Woods will be a member, and Sénator Reed, of Pennsylvania, one of the leading railroad lawyers, and a de- jfender of the Pennsylvania Railroad and allied corporations on the floor of the senate, _In Corporation Lawyer. Woods was counsel for the Pitts- burgh Coal company, which has had cases for freight reduction rates be- tore the interstate commerce com- mission of which he will be a member if the senate confirms the appoint- ment, His appointment to a post where he will be able to pass upon cases affecting the very people he has represented before the commission is regarded as a deliberate affront to the senators who have been fighting for a commission that will be free from connection with special interests, Organized labor has likewise ex- pressed its opposition to the con- firmation of Woods, m Senators to Fight. An alliance between southern sen- ators, who oppose the nomination be- cause the south has not been recog- niged sufficiently in these appoint- ments, western senators, who dislike Woods’ railroad and coal connections, and progressive senators, who disap- prove of his labor record, is looked for to block the appointment. Others, who object to the seating of Vare and Smith, may fall in line, as it is re- ported that Woods had @ good deal to do with the heavy campaign expendi- tures in Pennsylvania this year. Progressive senators consider the appointment. of Woods another move on the part of the corporations to have a sympathetic representative on the commission while it continues the work of placing a valuation on the railroads. It is certain that with Woods there the concessions sought by the railroads for a valuation far in excess of the actual investment will be ably supported. State Troopers of _ N. J. to Answer for Too Free Gun Work FLEMINGTON, N, J.— Indictments will be asked against state troopers who caused the death of Beatrice Meaney, while they were attempting to capture her two brothers in an all- night seige of a farm house in Jut- land. An investigation will also be demanded by Governor Moore. Miss Meaney died of an abdominal wound from a rifle in the hands of ome of 30 troopers. Illinois Supreme Court Denies Writ to Education Board SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec, 27.— The supreme court yesterday denied the petition for mandamus of the Chicago Board of Education seeking to compel the Cook county board of review to put a higher assessed valuation on some eight thousand pieces of rea! estate in the loop district. The Board of Education claimed over a billion dollars worth of property is escaping taxation. . Mothers’ Ald Inadequate, WASHINGTON.—A review status of legislation on wi monly called “aid to mothers pendent children” for the y shows that 42 states and Hawali had at the beginning year laws looking to such relie! Bulletin No. 162 of the Children’ reau reports that “not all of states, however, have translated legal theory into practice. It adds that an experience of 15 years does not by any means imlicate that the need has been met. ies eieestgs Get a copy of the American Worker Correspondent. it's only 6 cents, Leave your child in the hands of your neighbor on Friday night. Put on a costume and trot over to the New Year’ iven by the T. U. E. be at 648 N. ~