The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1926, Page 1

) ‘The Daily Worker Fights: For the. Organization of the organized, For a Labor Party. For the 40 Hour Week, Vol. III, No. 296. § #0; 9446 Cine, 20 NE KEEP UP THE A w P YORK a Ore Gb Chica, tside jee orm) KEEP THE DAILY WORKER! 20. mt. aa- 23. 24. 27. 28.. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Contributions Contributions Contributions Contributions Contributions Contributions Contributions $2,075.10 Balance to reach $3,000 for last two weeks of the year... AN iobdesereskeca esta ckeguaesss $ 924.10 By C. E, RUTHENBERG General Secretary, Workers (Communist) Party. HE Keep ThesDAILY WORKER Fund has made a decided spurt up- ward as the result of the response to the appeal to raise $3,000 dur- ing the last two weeks of the year, in order to enable The DAILY WORK- ER to meet its obligations. The fact that $600 has been sent The DAILY WORKER for Monday and Tuesday of this week |@ the best evidence that our party and its sympathizers have the reserve strength to put over the campaign to raise the total of $50,000 to Keep The DAILY WORKER. It shows too, that in an emergency our paper can depend upon a quick response to its needs, that its importance to our movement is understood by the party mem- bere and sympathizers. There is still a balance of $924.10 to be raised during the remaining three days of the month In order to complete the $3,000 which The DAILY WORKER requires to cover Its urgent obligations this month. If the work continues with the same energy that is Indicated by the returns for the last two daye, there should be no difficulty In raising this balance. Now that the Keep The DAILY WORKER campaign has been given a new impetus and the fund is again golng upward in big jumps we must mobilize the forces which will keep up this work until the total of $50,000 is raised. * A special letter has been sent to every nucieus of the party asking that the record of each member in supporting the Keep The DAILY WORKER fund be checked and a WORKER. Tho list of those nuclei of the party which have raised their ef $5.00 per member will be published In a special honor list. report submitted to The DAILY quota THE WAY TO RAISE THE TOTAL OF $50,000 IS TO MAKE EVERY NUCLEUS OF THE PARTY AN HONOR NUCLEUS THRU ITS RAISING A 100 PER CENT OF ITS QUOTA. WE ARE ON THE WAY TO Vv; CURRENT EVENTS eee i TORY. IN THIS CAMPAIGN. LET'S. THAT 18 THE SPIRIT IN WHICH THE WORK By T. J. O'FLAHERTY N honorable British gentleman “ wrote an article in the press on the day following Leonid Krassin’s funeral, describing the Soviet envoy as the typically wealthy socialist profess- 4ng devotion to the cause to serve his personal ends. The honorable gentle- man stated that Krassin left an estate of $15,000,000. As a matter of: fact as The London Daily Herald points out; Krassin left a five-pound note be- sides his personal effects! (HAT there is no hard feeling be tween democrats and a certain sec- tion of the republican party organiza- tion in Cook County was proven by the agreement between leaders of the two parties to give the shrievalty plim to one of State’s Attorney Crowe's good boys. There is not the slightest difference in principle be- tween the two parties in this city at least. Both trade on the traditional devotion of their followers to party la- pels that once had significance, but no Aone EET By C. E, RUTHENBERG General Secretary Workers (Communist) Party. J\HE whole machinery of reaction has been mobilized to crush out of the American labor. movement | every vestige of militant struggle for ) tho. interests of the workers against ‘yne capitalist employers. ‘ ‘This, mobilization bogan with “eonterenco of Sigman, president of the I. L. G, W. U., McMahon of the United Textile Workers, Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America with President Green and Vice-Presi- ent Woll of the A, F. of L,, at which “the program for the fight against the Communists and left wingers, who want to maintain the trade unions as fighting organizations of the workers, which they were organized to be, was Mapped out. “This conspiratorial conference was followed by quick action to carry out ite program, Sigman, thru the pliant general exectitive board of the I. L. G. W. U,, tried to override the will of the 60,000 members of that ori ixation in New York City, by ousting thru a ukase of the G. EB, B. the mem- bers of the New York joint board, elected by those members, "Disruption more. They are organized gangs out for the spoils. Mr DARGUE, “commander of the United States army “Pan. American good-will flight,” was sched- uled to hand President Calles of Mexico 4 letter of friendly greetings from Coolidge. In the meantime Coo- lidge and Kellogg are preparing for what Senator Borah terms a “coward- ly little war on Mexico.” Perhaps the flying good-will messenger may be taking the Mexican president’s. meas- ure with a view to fitting him out with a bomb on his next: visit. wo the World War was on, Lloyd George promised that the government would make England “a country fit for heroes to lve in” as soon as the kaiser’s army was defeat- ed. Lloyd George may consider him. self a hero (he made his pile), but he has conveniently forgotten those (Continued on page 3) expression that the effort of Sigman and his G, E. B, to throw out of office the members of the New York joint board of the I. L, G. W. U., as well as the executive committees of the largest local unions and put into their place appointees of Sigman. President Green of the A. F. of L., promptly aoe teat Aamnllite of the blackest™ naries in the trade union movement, lead by Mathew Woll, to support the disruptive work of Sigman in the I. L, G, W. U. The next step was to draw the cap- italist bosses to 4he support of the reactionary united front, These boss- es had declared a lockout of the gar- ment workers—which was promptly smashed by the workers, but the bosses maintained the fiction that there was a lockout—and then called it off after Sigman had made his paper coup d’ etat, Sigman's next movg was to call up on membefs of the governor's com mission to arbitrate the differences between employers and the workers, and he got a decision so promptly as to indicate that it was framed in ad- vance—with an attack upon the left wing and Communists thrown in, In the meantime a few socialist trade union officials issued a call , by mail, $8.00 per year, hicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, WORKERS MUST FIGHT FASCISM IN LITHUANIA World Protest Against Terror Is Urged (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 28.— An appeal to all class conscious workers throughout the world and all enemies of fascism to sound the alarm against the fascist government in Lithuania which is staging a reign of terror against workingclass lead- ers has been Issued here. The appeal Is signed by Zetkin, Kuuisinen, Kol- oraoff, Prujiak, Remmele, Ercoli, Smeral, Doriot, Senkatayama, Mur- phy and Roy. The appeal says: Killing Leaders, “The new Lithuanian government has initiated its office by shooting und killing Communists, desiring to follow Bulgaria’s example of physic- ally exterminating the vanguard of the proletariat and peasantry, “Polish fascism and the British government are behind the scenes. “Similar events are impending in some other countries. “We appeal to all Communist par- ties, all class conscious workers, and all enemies of fascism to immediately sound the alarm and mobilize the toil- ing masses throughout the world against the criminal government of Lithuania and their masters in im- perialist states. Quick action is necessary on the part of the prole- tariat masses. Lithuanian workers are already under the axe of the henchmen of imperialism and capital- ism. “Statements of the Lithuanian gov ernment, alleging that there is in preparation in Lithuania a Bolsheviic revolt, the excuse it gives for its ac- tions, are downright lies.” HEBREW TRADES OFFICERS BREAK UP UNION MEET Because their delegate to the United Hebrew Trades Council in Chicago voted against accepting the reaction- ary report on the right “wing confer- ence held in New York and against expulsion of the Furriers’ Union from the council, the Shoe Repairers’ Union meeting was broken up Monday night by officers of the United Hebrew Trades. Secretary Hannock and Chairman Rufer of the council appeared at the meeting at Douglas Park Auditorium and asked the shoe workers to refuse to accept their delegate’s report on the action of the United Hebrew Trades. They insisted that the union go over the head of their delegate and accept the report of Morris Seskind, correspondent for the Jewish Daily Forward, on the New York confer- ence and endorse the expulsion of the furriers. When the rank and file members of the union demonstrated their determi- nation to uphold their delegate, the two reactionaries started their work of disrupting the gathering. front was complete—trade union bureaucrats, socialists, capitalists and the government of the capitalists, What is the Reactionary United Front Fighting? + The history of the last year of the American labor movement shows three big, outstanding struggles against the capitalist bosses, These are the strike of the New York fur- riers, the strike of the Passaic textile workers and the New York garment workers’ strike. All of these struggles resulted in gains for the workers. The workers came out of them with improvements of their wages, hours of work and working conditions, compared to the terms which the capitalists endeavored to force upon the workers, These strikes were victories for the workers, The second point about these strug: gles is the fact that all of thom were under the leadership of the left wing, which includes the Communists, It was the group in the American labor movement which is carrying on the struggle to maintain the trade unions as fighting organizations to win high- er wages and better working condi- tions for the workers, which led these struggles and demonstrated the cor- rectness of the policies It advocates in the trade union movement, Bees Office at Chicage, NORRIS WILL SHOW HOW POSTMASTERSHIPS ARE SOLD BY 6. 0. P. GANG (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON;—The market in postmasterships is about to be look- ed into by Senator Norris’ judiciary committee. And as a result repub- licans are on the verge of hysterics. For Norris, Borah, and the demo- cratic membere of the committee hold a majority in it. The republi- cans see no hope. The sale of federaj| jobs has to do with national conventions of the G. O. P. Thejmoney with which Negro deleg from the south are transported, herded, and fed has to come from somewhere, you know. It has all been reduced to a fine art, on the commergiat basis of cash-and- carry. And now, after Teapot Dome, Daugherty, Fall;iand slush funds in senatorial primary elections comes the threat to exhibit the skeleton in the republican family closet. This promises to be the biggest side-show in the capitol’s carnival. TO OPPOSE THE DEPORTATION OF ENEA SORMENTI Young Italian Editor to Talk on Fascism To protest against the deportation of Ernea Sormtenti to Italy, where the vengeance of Mussolini awaits him, a meeting is called at West Side Aud- itorium, Racine and Taylor streets, Thursday, Jan. 6, It will be under the joint auspices of the International Labor Defense and the Anti-Fascist Alliance. Sormenti is the brilliant young edi- tor of the Italian weekly, Il Lavora- tore, and is one’ of the foremost anti- fascists in the United States. His case is still pending before the au- thorities and the threat of deporta- tion has deeply stirred the working class circles of Sormenti himself will address the meeting on Jan..°6, not only on his own case but omcthe subject of fas- cism. He has’ been victimized, at- tacked, and imprisoned many times in Italy, and has am interesting and im- portant story to tell. Negro Taken from Florida -Jail Is Shot by “Unknown Persons” GAINESVILLE). Fla., Dec. 28.— George Burton, Negro woodchopper, was taken from the city jail at Wal- do, a small town near here, some- time during the night, shot and killed by unknown persons, and his body left lying alongside a road where a passing motorist discovered it this morning. Chemical Increases Dividend. NEW YORK.—Directors of the Al- lied Chemical and Dye Corporation increased the dividend rate on the common stock from 4 to 66 per cent today when they declared a dividend of $1.50 a share, payable to stockhold- ers of record January 14. Previously the stock paid $4 annually. Communists have been leading the workers into struggles, and winning their fights, thab has turned into ac- tion all the forces of reaction in this country in an @ffort to destroy left wing and Communist influence in the labor movement; The trade union bureaucrats see their soft jobs threat- ened. The socialists are losing their influence in the trade union move- ment. The capitalist employers and government see @ rising force which challenges the unchecked exploita- tion of the workers, and is ready to lead the fight of the workers, And all these black forces combine, to en- deavor to destroy the enemy tha threatens them, American Labor and American Capitallem. The basis for the reactionary com- bine against the left wing and Com- munists, and the vicious attack which was launched against the left wing, becomes still clearer from an exam- ination of the course of the develop- ment of American capitalism in its relation to the American workers, The American capitalists are con- wistently followimg the policy of des- troying the organized labor movement as an expression of the independent power of the werkers. They are not however resorting to the old methods, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926 | illinois, wader the Act of March 3, 1879, SS 290 RER. — |___ EDITION : Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, NEW YORK Price 3 Cents DRESS STRIKE [Wall St. Puppet UNNECESSARY IN N.Y. SHOPS Will Secure Demands Without Stoppage (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK Dec, 28.—A “manifes- to,” which attempts to raise a fake issue of strike, was Issued by Mor- ris Sigman, president of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Worker Union on Monday, declaring that un- less dressmakers of local 22 regist- ered with the international before Saturday, they would be precipitated into a “disastrous strike” determined upon their left wing leaders. The fake issue, which attempts to give the capitalist press an excuse for proclaiming that a strike in the dress industry is imminent, was squarely met by C. S. Zimmerman, manager of the dress division in a statement in which he deviared that had been a well known fact for six weeks that the dressmakers would not ask for drastic changes in the ex- isting agreement. Repudiate Sigman Proposal. Shop chairmen of the dress divis- ion, numbering more than 700 shops, at their meeting last week, condemn- ed Sigman’s action in expelling their regularly elected leaders, and pledg-|back to Bluefields harbor on the east; ed themselves to tell their employers | coast. (Continued on page 2) real purposes, of the Diaz regime by stopping Following the declaration in Nicaragua Is. Beaten by Rebels (Special to The Daily Werker) MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 28.—Decisive military defeats of the Diaz forces, that are backed by the United States, ad- ministered by President Sacasa's liberal government have forced the United States military invaders in Nicaragua to show their Because the liberal army has succeeded In crushing the Diaz forces in every encounter, Admiral Latimer, commander of the | American naval forces, has ordered that the entire eastern fight- | ing zone be declared “neutral territory.” | It is in the east that the liberal armies are victorious and |Latimer’s action is seen as an attempt to prevent the overthrow Sacasa’s progress, of the east coast as “neutral,” Latimer issued orders to subordinate officers to declare the west ee coast also “neutral.” By declaring the entire country “neutral,” the United States hopes to save the illegal government of Diaz, frustrate the attempts of the liberals to set up a people’s government, and still maintain its guise of merely “pro- tecting American property and life” ia Nicaragua. Liberals Push Forward. The defeat of the Diaz forces at Pearl Lagoon, forcing them to retreat to Salse Bluff and Bl Bluff, was fol- lowed by another crushing defeat, which pushed the reactionary troops (Continued on page 2) Make 1927 a Happy New Year for the 6,000 Passaic Strikers es the New Year approaches there are still 6,000 workers on strike in Passaic. The Forstmann-Hoffmann mills have not yet settled with the union and other mills that have settled are re-em- ploying the strikers very slowly. The Botany and Passaic Worsted Mills settlements were great victories for the strikers and the huge local union of the United Textile Workers that was born in the strike. But these victories must not be taken to mean that the long struggle in Passaic is over. Six thousand workers still bear witness to the need for a continual and generous flood of relief. The publicity agencies of the textile barons, stung by the defeats they have sustained, are trying, by creating the impression that the strike is over, to recoup their losses by starving the remaining six thousand strikers back to the mills. American workers who have supported the Passaic strike so magnificiently so far will not fail to continue this support if they know the facts. The DAILY WORKER, altho in the most difficult finan- cial situation itself, is glad to Passaic strikers and ask that urge unstinted support of the a new enthusiasm be given to the relief work to the end that as the New Year is ushered in, ever’ fellow fighters are the same Passaic striker will know that behind him and his number of other workers and the same amount of resources that made possible a struggle which began early in 1926 and which will be carried over and fought to victory early in 1927 if the bare necessities of life are forthcoming. Workers outside of Passaic can make the victory of Pas- saic a 100 per cent one with working class investment will their dollars. Interest on this be paid over and over again to other labor hi rs by the Passaic workers. t Help make eir New Year a happy one! This battle fought near Los} EVERY BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT [S UNDER FIRE Both Houses in “Mood” for Investigating (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—(FP) —It there is any branch of governmental activity that will not be the subject of an Investigation In the twe months that congress will be in session after it reconvenes in January, It must have inadvertently escaped the attention of | the 531 members of congress, Just now It would require the services of an expert detective to find a phase ef the present administration’s activities during the six months congress has been in recess that is not to be inves- tigated, CPST a , Among the major-—invest oationee =< due to ocoupy the attention of the senate when it reconvenes will be the connection the oll interests have had in the forming of the Lausanne treaty, the wasting and stealing of ap- proximately $550,000,000 seized by the allen property custodian during the war, the operations of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission in connection with the broad merger, and the results of the investigations into the elections in Illinois and Pennsylvania, which will Include an investigation of the quali- fications of Cyrus Woods for member- ship on the Interstate Commerce tn- vestigation, Make Passaic. 3 The house will have a number of in- vestigations of its own, as will also the senate, if certain resolutions now pending for investigations ane adopt- ed. One in the senate in whieh the (Continued on page 38) Artful Dodger Disappears Again. WERNBERG, Wurttemberg, Dea, 28. —Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, famous American draft dodger, who has been here for several weeks, has suddenly disappeared. Trade Union Bureaucrats, Socialists, Capitalists and Their Government - end, They have learned by experience and have adopted cleverer policies, Today, it is the company union, em- ployes’ representation, stock-selling to employes, the B, & O. plan, compul- sory arbitration, as expressed in the Watson-Parkor bill, and similar meth- ods thru which the attempt is being made to tle the workers to the cap {talist machine and to prevent them from organizing their power independ- ently of the capitalists, to achieve higher wages and better working com ditions, The official leaders of the labor movement have to a large degree fall- en into line with this policy. Green and Woll are continuously promising the capitalists the cooperation of labor, in creating conditions which will mean the higher exploitation of the workers. Lewis made the contract with the anthracite coal barons tying down the miners’ union to compulsory arbitration, One of the complaints of Sigman against the left wing in the I, L.°G, W. U, ts that it refused to permit the governor's commission to decide the wages and working condi- tions of the workers in place of rely- ing upon the organized strength of the union, thru which to write the terms under which the workers arg, employed, This tendency has gone so far in TASER Seat: tank she Mkt wing and. oti-Regbon colidwion to sobieve thie| the organised labor movement that the question can be raised: Are the trades unions to be merely auxiliary | organizations of the capitalists, to | Promote efficiency in production, or are they to be militant fighting or- ganizations which carry on a persist- ent struggle to secure higher wages and better working conditions for the workers thru their organized might? The lesue Between the Reactionary Bloc and the Left Wing. It is the issue raised in this ques- tion, which is the basis of the strug- Ble between the reactionary blec and the left wing, Sigman can get an arbitration report from a section of the governor's com- miesion in a few days with an attack upoy the left wing because Sigman represents the capitalist employers in the struggle. President Green can get reams of publicity and support from the cap italist press, because the course which he is following is in the in- terests of the capitalist employers of this country, ‘The socialists and their “Committee for Preservation of the Trade Unions” are receiving the applause of the cap- Italists, because they know that the “Committee for Preservation of the Trade Unions” means a Committee for Preservation of the Trade Unions, as adjuncts to capitallam, The #0- cialists are fighting to make the trade unions what the. capitalist employers want them to be. All the efforts of the reactionary — bloc to throw dust in the eyes of the — workers by attacks upon the Commun- ists will not hide the real issues in this struggle. The applause and sup — port of the capitalists and their ernment for the efforts of the union bureaucrats and socialists, | the best evidence as to whose ests they represent in this st The formation of this bloc against the left wing and - Communists, has brought out the struggle which is now fought in the labor movement country, The left wingers and the ists stand before the workers ag | defenders of the trade unions, as t exponents of the trade unions as milf- tant fighting organizations thru wh! the workers will win improvement their wages and working conditions, The reactionary united front is | deavoring to destroy the left” and Communists so that they | carry thru their schemes ‘of tying | the trade unions with the exploiting machine, s Mt 1s upon the basis of” ‘I - & e 4 4