The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1927, Page 1

a The Dally Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized, For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 7. Seen ete Cecrrer% Sten By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, HE late Mr. Robert Brindell, bona fide labor leader, left a sizeable fortune to his survivors, so.much that the United States has filed an income tax claim of $200,919 against his es- tate. It looks as if this business of being a bona fide labor leader is al- most as fruitful as being a movie idol, We had a labor leader here once who expressed his regret that he did not devote his financial genius to a more lucrative pursuit. He only succeeded in putting a paltry half million away. “Had I gone into the real estate game,” he groaned, “I would have at least $3,000,000 salted by now.” Still we must admit that most of our labor fakers manage to fee] contented on half a million. *_¢ + OBS are dragging American wom- en thru the streets of Foo Chow and it should not be surprising if our secretary of state opened up another bag of “red plots” in order to con- vince the easily-convinced senators that there is a conspiracy between the Workers (Communist) Party and the Cantonese to assassinate Ameri- can missionaries. Kellogg is too busy with Latin-America just now to go to bat for “civilization” in China. It is ‘also quite possible that Uncle Sam is net. particularly anxious to pull ‘John Bull's chestnuts out of the fire. © @ ja Chicago Daily News had a car- toon last Tuesday on the Chinese question. A pig-tailed Chinaman was represented biting a hand labelled “Christianity.” A bowl of rice sup- ,Dosed to represent “China’s Prog- yess Thru Education” did not seem to appeal to the Chinaman’s appetite as much as did the missionary’s hand. “Biting the hand that feeds him,” was the caption. As a matter of fact, the poor, doubly-exploited Chinese masseq have been feeding the missionaries in the past and all the other capitalist agents that have been employed by the foreign imperialists to dig the brains out of the people so that the task gf exploiting them would be sim- pler, sf. ; QO we are going to have a “general strike” in New York. Really, it’s a “surprise to us, and it #ls0- convin ua that we should never again indulge in rash predictions. How often have we stated that the right wing leaders of the A. F. of L. are opposed to a general strike on principle? Such is not the case. The socialist leaders ot the needle trades, aided by the bu- reaucrats of the Central Trades -Coun- eil have called on the workers in New York City to quit work for one hour today as a protest against. the Com- hg ISMITH p Outside Chicago, by mail, hg dS SA SER eS RAPS AT SENATE'S DOOR BATTLE IS ON Insull’s Man Scored for Fraud WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The sen- ate engaged in a turbulent debate this afternoon over the question of admiA- istering the oath of senator-designate Frank L. Smith, of Illinois. Smith’s friends urged that he be given the oath and be investigated af- terwards. His opponents wanted his} credentials referred to the senate elections committee without giving | him the oath and keeping him outside the senate door meantime, Deneen Presents Credentials. The Smith fight formally opened when Senator Deneen (R) of Illinois presented the senator-designate’s cre- dentials and asked that the oath of office be administered to him at rai Deneen asked the senate to grant Smith the oath so that he might par- (Continued on page 3) ALF. OF L. ISSUES CALL FOR AUTO ‘UNION PARLEY No Reply to Charges of Furriers (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 19.— A conference of heads of unions hav- ing jurisdiction over various depart- | ments of the automobile industry has | been authorized by the executive council 4f the American Federation of Labor in session here. The confer- encé ‘will deal with the problem. of porganizing the industry and will “be held in Washington. The automobile industry is. the third largest in the country and em- ploys more than a million workers, not including those employed by dis- tributing agencies nor in maintenance work in garages. The fact that. the industry is growing steadily and that it is dominated by non-union, or so-/ called American plan shops has long been a thorn in the side of organized In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. 36.00 per year. t of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK EDITION FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1927 FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALISM IS The DAILY N and After Monday, January 24th, WORKER will be munists. We are not told what hour was selected but it would not surprise ‘us to learn that it is between twelve and one o'clock. see HIS strike is sanctioned by the press, by the employers and by the police. It never occurred to the reac- tionaries to call a strike against the threatened execution of Sacco and Vanzetti or the imprisonment of Tom Mooney. They are opposed to strikes that would benefit the workers or strikes with some laudable political aim as those mentioned. The only ob- ject the labor fakers have in the trade union movement is business. To save their jobs they are determined to go to any extreme to keep the unions out of the hands of the radicals, They will not succeed. labor. Other considerations which influenc- ed the federation are the high degree of specialization and the steady growth of mass production within the industry, which they charge tends to increase the output of the workers without a corresponding increase in their pay. c May Waive Jurisdiction. While President Green did not say just what. course would be followed at the Washington conference, he said that officials attending it would be principally from fields closely allied with the automobile industry, such as the pattern makers, metal polish- ers and machinists. These trades, he said, probably would consider organizing in the vari- ous large automobile plants, waiving jurisdiction temporarily to permit greater expansion among-employes of such plants. Some labor leaders are known to favor a pplicy of building up inde- pendent organizations of employes within the large automobile plants to (Continued on page 2) ‘HEN a southern senator made acid comment in the senate on the well-known efforts of the catholic chureh to involve the United States in a war with Mexico, senators who depend on the catholie vote for elec (Continuea on page 4%) 1 “IMPEACH KELLOGG!” IS DEMAND ‘OF BIG MINNESOTA FARMER-LABOR CONFERENCE MEETING AT ST. PAUL ie 1 to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUB. Minn., Jan, 19.—Impeachment of Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. St. Paul corporation lawyer and former United States nator, from Minnesota, was unanimously demanded by the Minnesota FarmenLabor Conference meeting here. The farmer-labor ticket last November received a quarter million votes. The resolution that sets forth the position of the conference on the whole question of imperialist aggression in Latin-American countries is as follows: HIT PUPPET PRESIDENT, DIAZ. IT KNOWN, that the national administration, thru Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, has flagrantly violated the Sovereignty of Nic- aragua thru interference by armed invastion with the internal affairs of that nation and has set up a puppet president in opposition to ti duly "elected chief executive, and is rendering every assistance that the naval forces of the United States can give to sustain the imposter Diaz Ine’ “ _ (Continued on page a) ' LENIN SLOGAN . Hage Mass Memorials . oye in All Cities “Against imperialism” epitomizes the spirit of this year's Leninal Me- morial observances thruout the coun- try. At a time when the United States armed forces are entrenched in Nicar- agua, held at strategic points for an Invasion of Mexico and being massed for use against the nationalist aspira- tions of new China, Jan. 23rd, the date of Nicolai Lenin’s death, takes on a special character. Nicolai Lenin laid the basis of the struggle against imperialism. The honoring of his memory at this time is a pledge of solidarity with the op- pressed people who are now victims of Wall Street's imperialist policies. Third Observance, It is in this spirit that huge meet- ings are arranged for Jan, 23, or con- (Continued on page 2.) By WE General Secretary, ‘Workers (Com: HE Farmer-Labor Conference held in St. Paul, January 17 and 18, marks a big step forward for independent political action terests of the workers and farmers. The conference repudiated all propaganda that the Minnesota workers and farmers were ready to go back to the policy of picking good men on the republican and democratic tickets. It took an position against American impe clared for a movement forward to build a national labor party for the 1928 presidential election, Conference Is Representative Gathering. The conference was called by the legal state cen- tfal committee of the Farmer-Labor Association, the state committee of the Farmer-Labor Associa- tion, three legislative boards of the organizations of railroad workers and the state Non-Parfisan League. ql RUTHENBERG The final report of the published in New York and will ap- pear each morning on the news stands in New York City and vicinity and also in the principal cities of New York sta’ New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Penn- sylvania. Readers and supporters of The DAILY WORKER are urged to bring this to’the attention of their newsdealer and convince him of the necessity and value of handling The DAILY WORKER every day. The new edition to be published in New York will be improved in many ways. First of all, New York City as a whole has vi cities, being practically the news cen. ter of the world. 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During the last election campaign, which cul- minated in November, a certain group in the Farmer-Labor Party, lead by one Quigley and sup- ported by Emil Holmes, who had won the Farmer- Labor Party nomination for lieutenant governor, and a number of lawyers, small business men and politicians had raised the issue of the liquidation ~ the Farmer-Labor Party and led a movement »ack to the democratic and republican parties, with the object of substituting the non-partisan policy f picking “good men” on the old party tickets in the primaries for independent political action, The conference in a certain measure was called to an- swer these deserters and to devise the ways and means for strengthening the Farmer-Labor Party. PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. “Arbitration” Is THE DAILY WORKER by hed Dally except Sunday Price 3 Cents Mere Preparation for Bigger Crisis Take Advantage of Mexican Internal Strife to Kill Home Opposition WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Secretary of State Frank B. Kel- logg has made a formal statement that he will “welcome” arbi- |tration of the Mexican dispute. This statement comes at a time |when the opposition to the administration policy is at its height, }and, more important, at a time when the Mexican government |is beset by armed reactionaries under the banner of the church | while the Mellon-Doheny-Sinclair oil interests press their claims in court towards a crisis that probably cannot break for several | weeks. It is only the extremely gullible who do not see the reason for Kellogg’s arbitration talk at this time. First of all, the state department can afford to make noble . declarations while the Calles government is in the midst of an internal war with the catholic hierarchy and reaction, and while the oil cases are be- ing disputed in the courts, It is good diplomacy to talk peace while your enemy is in difficulty and there is no immediate UNITE AGAINST NEW EXPULSION the wind out of the sails of the senate and house opposition while it allays Protest Against A. F. of L. Ouster of Furriers the indignation of innumerable prom- inent persons who have communicated (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 19. — A great their dissatisfaction with the Coolidge- Kellogg invasion of Latin-America. Nor is the fact that harmless arbi- demonstration of all the workers of New York to express their solidarity and protest against the illegal and un- tration talk with regard to Mexico draws attention from the unrestricted rape of Nicaragua still being carried on by Admiral Latimer’s armed forces in that country. These are the thinzs that may be seen thru the white veil of “peace” being drawn over the none the less sordid maneuvers of the im- perialist servants of Wall Street in Washington, Democrats Split. While the admintstration thus at- tempts to maneuver out of the un- seemly position it has held the past weeks, the so-called democratic oppo- sition has fallen to the ground and resolved itself into a pre-convention .} struggle-over the admissibility of run- ning a catholic, namely Al Smith, for president. This is revealed in the heated three hour debate in Tuesday's session in which the belligerents were catholic democrats and protestant democrats. In the meantime the ad- ministration looked on gleefully in the owledge that the democrats were lit and that the foreign issues are being displaced by home campaign democratic policy of the A, F. of L. in expelling the entire joint board and \four locals of the I. L. G. W. U. and officers of the-furrters’nien, has becha called by the joint board of the cloak and dressmakers’ unions and the joint board of the furriers’ union, The demonstration will take place on Thursday, January 20, atfer work, and is expected to fill six meeting halls. Against Traitors. ‘Raise the mighty arm of class solidarity against the spies and trai- issues. tors of the labor movement,” is the The mood of the workers and. farmers of Min- nesota was indicated in the fact that the dele- gates sent to the conference were those committed SGontinued on. pagias Nevertheless, the charges made by Senator Heflin, of Alabama, that the Knights of Columbus have raised a million dollar fund for the purpose of raising war feeling against Mexico have left their mark. Defend Church. Catholig senatorvafter catholic sen- ator, mastly from Heflin’s own party, rose to defend the “noble catholic church” and merely to deny that the million dollar K. C. fund will be used against Mexico, Senators Bruce, Reed of Missouri, Ashurst and Walsh rose one by one to belittle talk of the war and defend the Knights of Columbus. The republicans, for the most part, staid out of the debate, It was clear to everyone that the speeches against Heflin being made by members of his own party, was objective support to the administration’s Mexican dealings. The so-called “insurgent” republicans were silent. Nicaragua Drowned Out. The question of Nicaragua is being drowned out. The marines are still there. The merciless blockade of the Sacasa liberals still continues, slogan of the meetings which will be held at the same time as meetings called by the international, The cam- paign of villification and frame-up before the entire labot movement of America against the progressive lead- ership of the furriers and the garment workers will be fully exposed, A “maneuver to fool the workers” is seen by C. S. Zimmerman, manager of the dress division of the joint board, in the announcement of the in- ternational that conferences with the sub-manufacturers im the dress in- dustry have been broken off without arriving at an agreement, Fool Workers. “This is a mere maneuver to foo! the workers into thinking that the in ternational is bargaining for a good agreement,” Mr. Zimmerman said. “We have reliable information that they have practically reached an agreement which gives away to the employers several jmportant points. The best proof of the dishonesty of their statement is that they cannot (Continued on page 2.) MINNESOTA WORKERS AND FARMERS TAKE FIRM STAND IN FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ACTION (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL. Minn., Jan. 19.—The firm and determined stand of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Conference held here declaring for independent political action was as follows: FOR INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ACTION “WHEREAS, the past experiences of the workers and farmers with the republican and democratic parties have proven conclusively that both these parties are the servants of the special privileged interests which profit from the labor of the workers and farmers; that these par- ties use the legislative power to place the burden of taxation upon the workers and farmers to the benefit of the specially privileged interests; that they refuse legislation for relief of the farmers, who face a crisis in the agricultural industry resulting in part from the exploitation of the railroads, marketing combinations, the food trust, grain elevators and banks; that.they manipulate the tariff for the profits of the special _ Continued on page 3) ete hii