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. EVERY BRANGH OF GOVERNMENT 1S UNDER FIRE Both Houses in “Mood” for Investigating (Continued from page 1) workers are mainly interested in is the La Follette resolution for an in- vestigation of the Passaic strike. Another is the Shepard resolution for’an investigation of working condi- tions dn all the textile mills, : Sacco-Vanzetti Inquiry. The house resolutions which are be- ing pushed with vigor by the labor and diberal organizations of the country are the Berger and Sabath resolutions - Providing for an investigation of the : Sacco-Vanzetti cases. Another house resolution, calling for information, is the La Gurdia resolution directing Kellogg to state why and how it en- gaged in false propaganda against the Mexican government, Of the state investigations that will provoke considerable debate, the one on the Lausanne treaty, proposed by Senator King of Utah, will be the most interesting, it seems. ‘The inves- tigation will deal with reports that American oil interests, seeking con- cessions in the rich Mosul fields, influ- fenced negotiations of the Lausanne ‘treaty restoring diplomatic. relations with Turkey, and that the same oil ‘interests, which include the Standard Oil Co, are leading the campaign for ratification of the treaty, Lausanne Oily. “The Lausanne treaty is spattered with oil,” King declared during the discussion which preceded the adop- tion of his resolution. “It represents the low tide of Christian diplomacy since the Congress of Vienna, The megotiations at Lausanne were marked by duplicity and calculated faithless. fess, and brand the conference as one of the ignominious and disgraceful eonferences in international history.” He sald that in order to acquire the valuable oil deposits » Wegion, and actinng at the behest of the Standard Oil company, which re- eeives one-fourth of the valuable rights conferred, every promise made to the Armenians and others.was vio- fated. In Investigating Mood. Both houses are in an innvestigat- ing mood, with rumors of corruption fn various branches of the government forcing themselves to the fore each day. Unable to obtain information in Any other way, the State Department “atanding on its right to refuse infor- mation if in its opinion it is incom- patible with public interests, and the | other departments taking very much the same attitude, the senate will give up legislating for the balance,of the session and devote itself to an inves- ‘tigation of the things heads of the de- partments evidently prefer to conceal as long as they can, French Population 40,743,851, PARIS, Dec. 28.—+The population of France is now 40,743,851, including 2,498,230 foreigners, according to the official 1926 census figures announced today, The population of the Seine de- partment which includes Paris, and its suburbs, is 4,628,627, including 423,784 foreigners, There Will Surely Be Chorus Girls BUT NO SPEAKERS To assure those who may have worried about it, ‘ ‘There will surely be chorus girls at the T, U. E. L. Ball on Friday night, , New Year’s Eve, There will also be costumed dicks “‘and dukes, wise-guys*and dumb-bells, * workers and bosses—they will all mix for once at the Italian Hall at 643 N. “Clark St, where the masque ball of the militants is to be held. The music we are assured is going to be something somewhat special. This ought to please those Black-Bot- tomly inclined. The grub—so they say—will be cooked by good union cooks and how! Brother, come hungry with plenty room to put it ih, The price of admission {s not worth mentioning, It’s some insignificant sum, But this is worth mentioning. A special squad has been chosen to pull down any speaker who attempts serious on the gayest night in in. the Mosul} CHARGE NEW. JUGO-SLAVIA GOVERNMENT WITH DESIRE FOR ARMED DICTATORSHIP BELGRADE, Dec, 28, — Charges that the new. Uzunovitch govern- ment is attempting to establish a military dictatorship over Jugo- Slavia are being made in many quarters here, The Jugo-Slav press is severely criticizing the new gov- ernment, principally because the cabinet contains two army generals and fdur other noh-parlilamentary ministers. In this they see the danger of abandonment of civil gov- ernment, A new political crisis Is predicted, as It is felt that the new govern- ment will last but a short time. FORCE COOLIDGE TO AGREE WITH NAVY BOOSTERS Backs Dowi from Stand Against Expenditures WASHINGTON, Dec, 28,—President Coolidge and the house naval affairs committee agreed to a $105,000,000 naval building program to increase the size of the American navy, it was announced by Representative Butler, chairman, The program calls for the authoriza- tion of the building of 10 cruisers to cost $10,500,000 each, with the provi- sion that the program may be sus- pended whenever the president de- crees it is for the best interest of the country. Ends Fight. The agreement, which Butler said would end the campaign against the budget program for the navy, was reached at a conference at the White House, Butler introduced the authori- zation bill in the house. The navy department’s budget is expected to be jaltered te accord with the terms of the agreement. Maintain Conference “Spirit.” Butler said the cruisers would be built in an, entire accord with the “spirit” of the Washington arms con- ference and is contemplated to give the United States 25 cruisers, totaling 225,000. tons,..by the end of 1931, Japan, he said, has 29 cruisers, total- ing’ 190,000 tons. Great Britain, he explained, would still surpass the American navy in cruiser power, ) Cal: Backs Down, In his budget message, the presi- dent urged congress not to authorize construction of the remaining three of the eight cruisers provided for in 1924. This kicked up a row that resulted in President Coolidge backing down from his original stand. Workers Had Five-Day Week in Many Trades Before A. F. L. Policy WASHINGTON, Dec, 28, —(PP) — Employers who considered the an- nouncement of the American Federa- tion of Labor that it would campaign for a five-day week for labor a revo- lutionary threat learned from a report just made public by the Department of Labor that large numbers of work- ers have managed to obtain the five- day week long before the A. F. of tL. promised to inaugurate the campaign. Many other workers, who work six days, have only 40 hours of work a week, so that in actual working hours they have the benefit of a five-day week, “The established fivedlay week oc- curs in the clothing factories, the building trades, among. printers, bak- ers and laundry workers, in the paper box industry, in foundries and ma- chine shops, and to some extent in the iron and steel, industry, the report says. THE DALLY WORKER OS The Passing of the “Our Homes Are Our Castles” Period in Great Britain By Wintel F, DUNNE. ie has been the proud boast of Eng- lishmen that their homes were their castles. Not even the king, so the legend ran, could enter the home of an Englishman without permission of the latter, This rule, may still hold good for Englishmen who are members of the capitalist and middle classes, but it doés not apply to workers any longer. The decay of British capitalism and the tremendous class conflict which culminated in the general strike and the miners’ strike has changed many things, and none more than the for- mal application of democratic gov- ernment, RKERS who are strikers or strike sympathizers find that their homes, if they have any, are entered at will by representatives of his majesty’s government, All pretense of respect for the “sanctity of the home,” the subject of so much British oratory, good, bad and indifferent, has been abandoned—if the home is in- habited by workers, The International Class War Pris- oners’ Aid reports a typical incident in its most recent bulletin to come to hand: On Sunday evening . . . the Sird- field family were gathered together in the front room of their home for a musical evening. . . . After some time they chose hymn Number 451, which is one of the tunes to which “The Red Flag” is sometimes sung. + «+ The police were parading the S . . . one of the constables heard the tune and rushed into the lobby of the house, where he was accosted by Sirdfield, Junior, The constable struck the latter in the face, splitting his lip. At the court a doctor testified that Sirdfield had received a hard blow . . . the constable said that the Sirdflelds had tried to intimi- date two blacklegs, and that he was merely calling at the house to warn them, The constable’s evidence was believed. He was discharged, and the Sirdflelds were bound over for six months in ten pounds, and were ordered*to pay the costs, HE extent to which the British ruling class has junked democratic pretenses is evidenced further by the recent report of Sir Joynson-Hicks, home secretary, who stated that in the last month 511 prosecutions had taken place under the emergency pow- ers act in addition to all other prose- cutions under the ordinary suppres- sive laws, Sixty-six miners were sentenced during this period to terms ranging trom one to nine months, Many oth- ers were heavily fined and with the black poverty prevailing in the mining fields this means prison sentences as well, hae British capitalist class, like its kindred in other countries, is for “democracy” only as long as it Serves to strengthen its class su- premacy. The ruling class at times must actually aid in developing the forces which will overthrow it. As Engels pointed out, the franchise and the other provisions of capitalist democracy mark merely the maturity of the working class, the close ap- proach of the period in which it chal- lenges the power of the exploiting and ruling class. This period has come in Great Brit- ain and altho the challenge has not as yet been clearly formulated, the gen- eral strike, the miners’ strike and the rapid development of the British Com- munist Party into a mass force, the rise of the national minority move- ment, all show the inevitability of the coming struggle and the ruling class is preparing for it by dis- mantling whatever of the democratic superstructure interferes with the rapid mobilization of its class agen- cies, Y nba capitalism, even with the tribute it draws from colonial unable any longer to pla- These Comrades Have Been Challenged to State What They Are Doing to Keep The Daily Worker. WATCH FOR THEIR ANSWERS! Emil Honegger, Rochester, N. Y. J. Peterson, Stratford, Conn. Leo Hofbauer, New York, N. Y. Comrade Mendlin, Miami, Fla. Emil Niva, Frederick, S. Dak, George Blowam, Spokane, Wash. A. D. Boroff, Juneau, Alaska, HH. F, Mins, New York, N.Y. BE. BE, Ramey, Pocatello, Idaho, Theodore Suderland, Berkeley, Cal. P. Lukachie, * Cleveland, 0. Herbert Newton, Rowvbury, Mass. David Milgrom, Philadelphia, Pa. Geo, Rupert, Dlko, Nevada. Waino Mellin, Waukegan, MU. HH, Hagenen, Houston, Tea. Sam Cohen, Ohicago, Ill. Nellie Katilus, Chicago, Ii, Jennie Gorshin, Chicago, Ill. _ YOU May Be Next. cate the masses. Those who base their belief in the unshakable sta- bility of British capitalism upon the traditional ability of the British rul- ers to “muddle thru” forget that the Britain of today is not the Britain which enjoyed a monopoly of the world markets. Neither is the British work- ing class the working class of the period of the ascendency of British capitalism. Mistead of accepting and supporting‘ British capitalism, the working class°today doubts its omn!- potence and omniscience and fights it, Said Engels: ~ As longlas a method of produc- tion is in the course of development, even those whose interests are against it, who are getting the worst| of the particular method of produc- tion, are highly satisfied. IT WAS JUST $0 WITH THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS AT THE IN- TRODUCTION OF GREATER IN- DUSTRY. As long as this method of production REMAINED THE NORMAL SOCIAL METHOD, satis- faction with the methods of distri- bution was, on the whole, preval- ent, and when a protest against it rose, even in the bosom of the domi- nant class itself (St. Simon, Fou- rier, Owen) it found at first prac- tically NO SYMPATHY AMONG THE MASSES OF THE Ex- PLOITED. But directly the method Of production has traveled a good portion of its upward progress .. . when its destiny WAS IN A GREAT MEASURE ACCOMPLISHED AND ITS SUCCESSOR WAS KNOCK- ING AT THE DOOR—then, for the first time, the ever increasingly un- equal distribution appeared as un- just, (Empasis mine.) HALF century has passed since Engels wrote the above. The British working class has traveled a long way since these words appeared as part of “Anti-Duehring,” but the By T. J. O’FLAHERTY, (Continued from page 1) who fought the kaiser’s army. Eng- land is not, jalone in neglecting the survivors and. the damaged cannon- fodder. Last, Monday’s newspapers carried a story of a Canadian “hero” by the name _ of Tommy Holmes who was the youngest Canadian soldier to win the Victorla cross during the war. Y ie ie put two German “pill boxes” qut,of business and was lauded in thegpress for his gallant deed. He suffered a fractured arm and was gased later on in another battle. After the war was over and manufactured patriotism began ‘to grow cold, Tommy’s exploit was for- gotten. He could not find a capitalist that would give him a weekly salary on the basissof his heroism. The gasing he got began to tell on his health and he fell a victim to tuber- culosis. Herlost his job. After con- siderable efforts on the part of hig friends a “grateful” government final- ly allowed him @ pension of $35 a month, § ge 4 this poor devil 4s hardly able to walk the government insists thet he is fit for ight work and re- fuses to give him any more than the paltry sum of $35 a month even tho the dying “hero” has a wife and child depending on him for a living. This should be interesting mental food for prospective cannon fodder as well as those who have risked their lives in the late war for the capitalists. There will be another capitalist war unless the workers prevent such a holocaust and another crop of heroes will be cultivated only to be left to starve when the dirty work is done. NOTHER “hero” whose exploits will be remembered by some of our readers is Michael O'Leary who was used by the British government as a recruiting sergeant after the hired war correspondents manufactur- ed a.yarn about O'Leary capturing a large chunk of the German army single-handed. Mike had a gay time until the war was over but like Tom- my Holmes, his troubles began when the iy was made safe for democ- racy.” “O’Leaty was the first soldier in the Canadfan army to receive the Victoria cros’. The Canadians were proud of him ‘but not to the extent of guaranteeing ‘him a job, Peace hath its horrors as’ well as war, ECPNTLY' O'Leary had to put his wife and family on board ship and return to Ireland, his native land, be- cause he could not find employment in the country he risked his ife in the war for, The government replied to popular criticism for its treatment of a “hero” by stating that O'Leary was given seven jobs in one year and did not make good. So a man who may be a hero on the battlefield may not be a profitable patriot in a factory. We need not go to Canada for evi- dence to prove that a worker who goes to war for the capitalists under the delusion that he is defending “his” country is no Solomon. The hospitals of it ihe country are strewn with the wrecks of war heroes, They are ignored | forgotten except on Thanksgiving Christmas, This is the reward patriotism! ' s forces which are at work in Britain today could already be seen in mo- tion. Their development has precipi- tated the open class struggle whose rumblings we hear across three thou- sand miles of ocean, And it is still a longer road’ that the British masses have traveled since they joined with their rulers in scorn- ing the efforts of the early Utopians. OR today the British masses, from the standpoint of the ruling class, follow strange gods. Gone are the Utopian conceptions of early social- ism with its appeals to the under- Standing and mercy of entrenched Tobbers, Today the British working class has burst the bonds of tradition and looks, not to Fabians, liberals and Utopians, but to the Communist In- ternational, the legitimate descendant of the revolutions’ of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the bearer of the traditions of the victorious Rus: sian revolution of the twentieth cen- tury, for its leadership. HE trade unions of the Soviet Union enabled the British miners to stem the tide of reaction by their strike donations. This alone is proof that in Britain the idea of working class solidarity has replaced the old idea of loyalty to the British empire. The breakdown of British capitalist democracy, exemplified in the inva- sion of homes of workers in order that the capitalists may herd their scabs undisturbed, is of great signifi- cance in that it tallies with other evi- dences of widespread decay of British capitalist industry and trade, The stage has been set for the struggle for power in Britain by the workers, The general strike, and the. miners’ strike, were rehearsals or per- haps the first act in the glorious drama of the socia] revolution in Brit- ain, where methods of distribution have come into irreconcilable conflict with methods of production, FALL TO FACE SECOND TRIAL IN OIL LEASES CONSPIRACY ON FEB. 2; (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Febru- ary 2 is the date set for the second trial of Albert B, Fall, former sec- retary of interior, in connection with the government oil leases, when he will face charges of conspiracy with Harry Sinclair to defraud the gov- ernment in the Teapot Dome oil dealingss Judge Bailey overruled the petition of the defense to quash the proceedings because of alleged technical irregularities in the indict- ment, and set the date for the trial. Sinclair and Fall both pleaded not guilty when arraigned. . The same government lawyers who presented the Fall-Doheny case, and lost, will be in charge of the second trial. Judicial Primary Law Knocked Out by State Supreme Court Ruling ' Saeed . The judicial primary act, which pro- vides that circuit and superior court judges of the state of Illinois be des- ignated by primary elections, was held void by the state supreme court. The court held that the “act of 1925 was repugnant to other election provisions in the constitution” and therefore could not be upheld. The decision of the supreme court means that judges will hereafter be nominated by the old convention method as provided by the ballot act of 1891, unless emergency legislation is passed by the legislature. General primary procedure is not af- fected by the decision. Perkins Resigns As Cigarmakers’ Chief President of the Cigarmakers In- ternational union since 1891, George W. Perkins retires on Jan. 1, 1927. He was a co-worker with Samuel Gom- pers in that union and in the larger work of the American Federation of Labor Perkins was often selected by Gompers to serve on commissions and investigating boards. President William Green was a speaker at the testimonial banquet given Perkins in Chicago last week. COUNT SALM ADDS ONE TO NEW YORK’S ROSTER OF UNEMPLOYED MALES (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Deo, 28,— Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten, who has more name than nickels, is ne- gotiating to see how much of H. H. Roger’s Standard Oil money he can get in exchange for his parental In- terest in H. H. Roger’s grandchild. While the deal is hanging fire, he would like to obtain work. What he can do best is to play tennis, but he cannot do this and keep his status as a gentleman amateur, And he bars out manual worker, as that would be even more damaging to the condition of life to which providence and laziness have called him. From the looks of things, unless father-in-law comes across soon, the count is in for a very hard winter. FLOOD IN SOUTH HAS TAKEN BIG TOLL OF VICTIMS Nearly 5,000 Driven Out of Homes MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec, 28.—With 13 dead, hundreds homeless and pro- perty damage estimated at $1,000,000 flood waters in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi were expected to reach their crest today. No immediate relief was promised nearly 5,000 flood victims, who were forced to leave their homes in the lowlands, and it may be days before they can go back to them, Waters Reach Crest. Out of their banks for nearly a week as the result of heavy rains, the Cumberland, Tennessee and Tombig- bee Rivers will reach their crest to- night and then slowly recede, the weather bureau predicted. The known death toll divided by states is: Arkansas, 6; Mississippi, 5; Tennessee, 2, é In addition to deaths, destruction of property and hardhips; many towns in Tennessee and Mississippi were without train service as the result of high waters. The Louisville & Nash- ville and Illinois Central service was badly crippled in Tennessee and Mis- sissippl. Business Houses Close. Some commercial establishments in Nashville and other Tennessee towns were forced to suspend business, while the damage to crops, highways, livestock, railroad property, and homes has been heavy. Schoolhouses were used in Chatta- nooga to house the flood refugees, while warehouses and public build- ings afforded a temporary shelter for the homeless in Nashville. Relief work was well organized, it was said, and there was no apparent suffering, Civil Liberties Union Director to Europe to Study Methods There NEW YORK, Dec, 28.—Roger M. Baldwin, director of American Civil Liberties Union, under $2,000 bail for “unlawful assembly” as a result of a “free speech meeting” during the silk workers’ strike in Paterson, N. J., has sailed for Europe and Asia to make investigations and contacts for the Civil Liberties Ufiion, the Inter- national Committee for Political Pris- soners and the Quakers. His depart- ure has been approved by & Vincent Barnitt, prosecutor of the pleas of New Jersey, and his case postponed until May at the request of Samuel Untermyer, his counsel, Mr. Baldwin will study the persecu- tion of minorities thruout Europe and the tactics of working class move- ments and oppressed minorities in meeting it, Auto Output Lowest Since 1921; No Hope of Full-Time Working NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—According to Automotive Industries, the production of automobiles is now at the lowest point since 1921. While the paper pre- dicts the re-opening of many plans now closed, after the first of the year, it says the conditions do not “suggest a resumption of anything approaching a full-time production.” WISCONSIN GOVERNOR REFEREES KLAN-LEGION BATTLE OVER FLAG FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 192 MADISON, Wis., Dec, 28.—Sheriff Frank L. Baker, Pierce county, was guilty of official misconduct and ne- glect of duty in the altercation with members of the American legion, Sept. 16, at the Fair, Governor Blaine announced today following an investl- gation, Governor Blaine said Baker's con- duct warranted removal but because his term would expire before the re- moval could be effective, nothing fur- ther would be done, Sheriff Baker, said to be a member of the klan, joined with klanemen in demanding the removal of a gold (nh aL TCS RRR 4 P| — fringe from an American flag display- ed at the booth of Eldon C. Kinne post, because its border was of gold, “the pope’s color.” “The klan,” said Governor Blaine, “in the furtousness of its fanaticiem and its extreme intolerance participat- ed in an act that disturbed the peace, that was an affront to the American flag and to the world war veterans, and the sheriff of Pierce county aided and abetted this disturbance and af- front.” Governor Blaine said the flag wae being viveradh used acceraine:s to army regulations, rage wire re rnseel REPUBLICANS ARE AFRAID OF WHAT SMITH WILL SAY Don’t Want Him te Make Speech in Senate WASHINGTON, Dec, 28.—' Recess gossip as to what congress will do when it reconvenes with the “Sobiem of seating or not seating Frank u Smith of Illinois, admitted recipient of huge campaign tunds from Samud) Insull, is indicating that the real rea son that Coolidge republicans are lin ed up against Smith is that they a afraid of attacks the Illinoisans wil) make on the president. The Coolidge | ites are afraid that if Smith is seated and in the senate, when the big bat tle comes in March on his seating, he will expose the national republican campaign fund to justfy his own ex penditures, Want Him Quieted. If Smith is barred from the shor! term session, then he can be kept ou) of the senate altogether, the repub licans figure. This will prevent him making speeches in the senate hal) which will be “embarrassing” to Coo lidge. Accuses Coolidge. In one of his campaign speeche Smith asked this question: “W the president of the United States a candidate for re-election does h resign because the steel trust, suga interests, wool trusts, and other bi financial and industrial companies ip terested in protective tariff contribut« to the campaign fund of the repub lican party?” This is seen as a direct slap i Coolidge, and Coolidge’s follower want to avoid any continuation an amplification of this line of defens by Smith, X \ Other Nations Asked to Co-operate With U. S. to Fight Dope WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The U. 8 department of state has instructed it diplomatic missions in other countrie: to urge co-operation with the Unitec States to wipe out the smuggling o narcotics to this country. In a ment sent to each diplomatic mission it is pointed out that the U. S, gov ernment has done everything it ca) to stamp out narcotics here, but é¢ar do no more without co-operation o the other nations where the drugs ar produced, The statement-unged that t*’*- tions who signed The Hague tre. _ 1912 abide by the provisions in th treaty, and construct machinery sim lar to that of the United States t control drug production, Santa Worked Well But Irregular! NEW YORK—The holiqay trade summed up here as “good but irreg lar.” The irregularity is ascribed such conditions as the low price cotton in the South, curtailed lumb operations in the Pacific Northwe unemployment im such cities as I troit due to slackened automob production, and many bank failures Iowa and other parts of the Mide West. | IN NEW YORK! New Year’s Eve— For the Benefit of The Dail Worker and the Ukrainian Daily News whe GRAND MASQUERADE COSTUME BALL Manhattan Lyceum (Ukrainian Labor Home) 66-68 East 4th St, New Yor Beginning 7:30 P. M. | . & Famous presents for origin: costumes. : Selected numbers | ¥ office, 17 B. 3rd St; 1 Club, 66H. 4th Bt