The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1927, Page 2

4 + the powerful F + 266,000 for the Farmer. * earthquake shock occur REVIVAL COMES Workers’ Clubs, Local Unions, Affiliate (Special to DAILY WORKER.) A M Feb. various wid country red had been practically | Northwest, becat the Minnesota elections. Y is father to the tho «ven by farmers and Minnesota are ¢g ically with the wor! their party. plans for t 8 Conference The Farmer-I held in St. Paul ported in a_ re DAILY WORKER. for a national par farmers in 1928, thorized its officers to call state convention within the next few months for the purpose of laying down plans and developing inter ties for the success of the party ket in the mext election. Proposals were also adopted in favor of a Northwest Con- ference to be held some time’ during the summer, to be followed by a na- tional convention for launching of a national ticket. Seek Affiliation. The results of the Jan. ference are alre: revival of activity in different sec- tions of the state. It is reported that many worker clubs, cooperatives and local unions are applying to the state office of the Farmer-Labor Association for affiliation, and indi- eations are that these applications ‘will come in increasing numbers dur- ing the coming weeks and months. The farmers in the outlying sec- tions and the workers in the cities have received the reports of the con- h enthusiasm, which has been: tr ated -into definite work for the building up of a solid, united ich angurs well party ticket the fact that ene of build npaign of 1928. Reorganiy. Co: need and firmed th th Labor Unions Busy. Duluth and Minnea are liminary ec in both ¢ in state and natio the elections. In future, Tiernepin County Farmer-Labor vene for tl the-candide near ittee of the will con- ussing muni and=in this: connection whelming sentiment is that the workers should a full labor ticket in the municipal elections, an that there should be no deals or trading w » candidates of the old line Minneapolis would doubtless gn in Association and develop senti- elections in Minnesota by a v sabor Earthquake Shock. LONDON, Feb. 17.—A_ violent d today be- tween Lulea, Port City on the Gulf of Bothnia, and the Swedish-Nor- wegian frontier. Workers of Brooklyn ROYAL (16 ‘TUEXLIE XY LAK ERAK SAKA AEX ALE AAA AKA ILIA H. M. WICKS _XXETANTALITI TO NORTHWEST “‘The| 17-18 con-| manifest in the | ernment hi Hands Off China! DEMONSTRATE AGAINST WAR WITH CHINA Rush More Marines To Nicaragua Front LOCAL 38 ILGWU come TQ VOTE TODAY "AT BRYANT HALL tated that * will be -|Wishnevsky Heads the ; Left Wing Ticket International Ladies’ Gar- 's’ Union ll hold its regular election today for the new terta. . The voting will start at noon and end at 7:30 m., at Bryant Hail, 42nd St, and Sixth Ave. Sof Ma. | \ isiting Members.” x | azen interferences in the re would show ‘ ” wrawe | © of a local union are being 2 used by the right wing. Upon their insistence, three vice-presiden lie Fried trom Philadelphia, are sitting as v' iting members of the election objec- 2 committe order to give the right wing group in the local a ma- jority on that committee, There ion in the cor f ’. which gives Sigman such rights, titution when it igman’s policies. action | of gman created a r among the members and w al participation in the elections is expected. Full Progressive Ticket. The progressives in the local who carried it thru an organization cam- paign strike, winning the 40-hour week and a 10% wage increase in a ten-day strike, have put up a full ticket for the various officers and are confident of victory. The usual bunk is spread by the right wing group that the strike was a failure, that the left wing admini- stration spent too much money, that the organization campaign which brought the membership of the local from 1,000 to 1,300 was a joke, ete., ‘ake issues of Commur used, t me as the be do. The (Continued’ from Page One) Mexico © (Sac , Pedro Zepec fuither “neutral from Ae UAN, the no iy ¢ ng th town a This will not be tol Though the libe i to en ‘neur 3 apparently d to defend, themselves sooner Matagalpa Test. 1 adminis- | just world that “neutr: not necessary to preser He ed that hi negotiate w Admiral with Latimer for a settlement admitting of to he elimination of Dr. Juan Sacasa, ad of the present liberal govern- t at Puerta Cabezas,. provided Adolfo Diaz, head of the conser- rnment at Mana v eliminated. Otherw would -fight until Diaz was over- thrown, The, .Nieataguan people would “not support any other agree- | ment, he said. | appointe peda announced receipt of vices that liberal forces under Gen. Mena had inflicted a “crushing de- feat” upon conservatives at Bocal del | Plata. 4 Aid from Honduras. The Nicaraguan civil war is coming daily more serious, despite the indirect aid given Adolfo Diaz by the American occupational forces through the establishment of “neutral zon in the pathway of the victorious Sa- casa revolutionists. ‘A new revolution, is reported brew- ing in Honduras and may break out hext week, Honduras followed the lead of the United States in recog- i zZ regime in Nica 5 which inflamed the liberal element of the republic to the point where it brisk campa of the progressives gave impetus to the revolutionary debunked this propaganda, propag jmovement that smouldered beneath phe progressive group appeals to the surface. ./all its friends and supporters to vote atemala, next door to Mexico} ¢o. the following: ragua, extensive army re- i fi- be. be- and D, Wishnev- cruiting is reported under w: chairman of the local, V. Abra- nanced in part by a loan of a million vice-chairman, Morris Good- and a half pesos just secured from secretary of local, Sarah Mexico. Guatemala has consistently | packer; members of executive L refused to recognize Diaz in Nica- x 6 Q, Bercy; X 7 Wm. Bobrusky; X 11 H. Fomin; X 15 Wm. Lupu; X 16 B. Masopust; X 18 J. Pavlicek; ure was brought ment to persuade ragua, although pre »y the state depart r to do so, Guatemala is also one x 29 Rosenberg; } those countries in which the state jan; N. Wilkes, rtment considers “radical Me Loop; Rose Land: n doctrine” has made most headway. | ers: Bella Cohen uatimer Fails. Cohen; X 30 Olga Garshin; sick com- The efforts of Admiral J. K. Lati-| mitte 64 E. Sherman; Mary | in charge of the American oc- pational forces, to defeat the Nica- raguan liberals have resulted thus far in no cess whatever, according to reports reaching Washington. Sever. reports from Latimer have reached » state department in the last few , but none of them have been le public: * Sherman; trustees: X 48 J. Goodman. BUY AT THE DAIL THE ( WORKER NEWSTANDS HUDSON DRIVERS WIN STRIKE FOR S45 WEEK SCALE (Special To The DATLY WORKER) JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 17.— The strike of the 400 Hudson Boule- vard bus drivers in progress for the last thirteen days was ended this afternoon by the signing of a three year wage contract. The drivers are to get $44 weekly for the first year and $45 a wegk the next two years. The settlement of the strike fol- lowed the ‘presentation of a compro- l ince More Marines to Coast. CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—The detach- ment of marines guarding the mails » the Chicago district has been or- 1 to Quantico, Va., it was an- Y rced toda by Captain B. G. , commanding office Captain Jones said he was leaving immediately and approximately 150 ten would follow tomorrow or Satur- day. No Word From Aviator. ROME, Feb. 17.—The Italian gov- received no advices from Bolama regarding the departure of the Marquis De Pinedo on the trans- Atlantic flight from the west coast of Africa to the South American mite plan by President Joseph Payton of the Hudson County Boulevard . ie ea ae . Commission. The strikers had been eb os hina Ty asking for $45. weekly while’ the/! bosses had refused to pay more than | $42.50. Return To Work. greement it was announced that the at 3:15 tomorrow afternoon. * » | +) on bd +) i?) +) | The first signs that the strike was “ at a conference held at the headquar- ! 3 4 | where representatives of the workers, 8 | the bosses and the Bouleyara Wum- >| mission mect. At this meeting Moses Greenberg, | they were willing to pay the workers $44 this year and $45 in the future. This was a complete change from Greenberg’s former policy of stub- bornly insisting that the workers re- turn at the $42.50 a week rate. Last Thursday Greenberg went as far as After the formal signing of the! workers will be back to* their posts! eS \ nearing its end was seen yesterday | Siters of the Boulevard Commission, | representing the bus owners, stated) CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) jare rich.” This is nonsense, | British labor par |letarians like J, H. Thomas and | Philip Snowden, J. R. Clynes and) The peers in the} | James MacDonald. | British labor party are few and haye | little influence in labor party coun- cils, . * . | The labor party leaders mentioned j here are just as loyal to the imper- lialist system as the peers. ;more so, The peers have had their | fill of flunkeyism. The debauched ex- |proletarians are just tasting the sweets and they want more. However, |the important thing to consider in connection with the British labor party is not that there are a few) peers scattered among its member- "| ship or that MacDonald, Snowden and Thomas are willing agents of capi- talism, but that the British prole-| time | | when its leaders could be transported | to Van Diemen’s Land for daring to} beg the master class for an extra loaf | tariat has left behind it the of bread a day. Colonel MeCormick” no doubt stopped at the Hotel Cecil or some other high-cl London hotel and did not se bek gade peers who decorate the higher reaches of the labo: party. The Colo- tel says that t leadership of the British labor pa wants a revolu- tion. It does not. It is quite con- tented with the status quo. But the ovement want a revo~ since wifnout it cept in a condituon of servitude, * ‘ HE Shoe on the other foot when Pliny isk, banker, was ed by a couple of brawny thugs, dragged into a darkened doorway, threatened with dire consequences, ed and then separated from um of $25 which he carried in rallet on his hip pocket. This stal- wart citizen, during the course of his THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1927 The | is led by ex-pro-! the declassed or rene- | y elements in the British | { predatory career separated many a} widow from her cow and many. an! organ grinder from his hurdy gurdy. A good short story could be written about his mental travail during the time he was at the mercy of the ille-} gitimate businessmen who courted his | cash, * section of the British conserva-| tive party is actively preparing for a break with the Soviet Union, the break to be followed by war. This is the fascist section of the party. Its leading members are Winston Churchill, Lord Birkenhead and Wil- liam Joynson Hicks. Moscow papers show that a conspiracy exists be- tween some Czarist emigres and a section of the British cabinet. Com- mander Locker-Lampson heads an or- ganization, the motto of which is: “Out with the Reds,” The post-mas- ter general threatens to turn a firing ‘squad loose on British’ war-protest- |~ ants, The empire is going thru a » hence the nervousness. a 2 ® WO thousand white Rassians in Constantinople must either turn réd, become Turkish citizens or buy a one-¥ ticket, anywhere. This is the ultimatum handed to the Czarists by. the Turkish government. The white guardists are no longer treated like prodigal children by the imper- ialists and their female parasites. They are looked upon as hopeless cases and left to their fate. IR Oliver Lodge and his group of untrained freaks took part in a radio telepathy test on the night of February 16. The British Broad- casting Company gave Lodge free reign, tho the same government monopoly hesitates to allow such a harmless joker as George Bernard haw to take the air. The New York imes correspondent cables in par “The most intense moment came at | | | when Sir Oliver, mildly enthusi- | ‘ Th of Labor in Expose the ere AreNoChampions Congress to Capitalists By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Indeed | See | T content with having deliv- } ered a knockout blow to the small bankers, thru the passage of the McFadden-Pepper Branch Bank- ing Bill, the big bankers now pro- pose to rub it in a little more by investigating a $100,000 lobby that | the little fellows are alleged to have | maintained. This develops moré clearly than ever that the struggle over the bill was a bitter war be- tween the big and little bankers, with the so-called farm bloc split both ways. It was brought out that the lobby- ists of the American Federation of Labor supported the big bankers. This is “explained in part, it claimed, thru the development of la- bor banking, altho only the banks | of the Brotherhood of Locomotive | Engineers can be benefitted by the provisions of this legislation. The branch system has not yet been | taken up by the other labor banks, | An additional explanation is the close relation of the A. F. of L. of- ficials with the great capitalists, thrn the development of union- company management schemes, that force them into alliance with the big exploiters as against the middle class elements. * ¢ 8 Thus while the reactionary labor the La Follette progressives, with voting for them and against the McFadden-Pepper bill. Altogether, with some reactionary support, only 17 votes w the senate against the big bankers’ bill, with this small opposition al- | most equally divided between demo- crats and republicans. But the to- tal of opposition-came from west- ern farming states. There were Frazier and Nye from North Da- kota; La Follette, from Wisconsin; Shipsted from Minnesota; Howell and Norris: from Nebraska, Mc- Master from South Dakota; Stew- art and Steck from Iowa; Gooding from Idaho; from Montana, Dill from Washing- ton, South, and Deneen from Mlinois. There was nothing east of the Mis. | | sissippi Valley, while the big bank- | ers got big support from senatorial delegations all the way from coast | to-coast. MeNary, the author of the Mec- Nary-Haugen Bill, voted with Wall Street, as did Schall from Minne- sota; and Capper and Curtiss from Kansas. e- © 6 It should be impossible for the La Follette crowd, that has led pro- gressive labor in the cities and on the land into the MeNary-Haugen trap, to soothe the wrath that must inevitably arise, thru using ex- plosive phrases against the moneyed crowd. Senator Burton K, Wheeler (dem- | oerat, Montana) announces that he welcomes the inquiry of the big bankers. In attacking the bill, which [llinois Mine Workers Convention Will Meet; : Frank Farrington Gone | SPRINGFIELD, IIL, Feb. 17. (FP). astic, said over the microphone: ‘the |The Illinois Mine Workers, Dist. 12 first object is a playing card now| of the U. M. W. A., will hold their , being shown by Dr. Wooley to his) 31st convention in Peoria. It will be companions, Which one is it?’ | Lodge was talking to the “thinkers- in’. “ ” . Wooley and companions will re- room for the sake of insuring secre- ey.” Padded cell would be more ap- propriate, Democratic Politician Succumbs in Hospital ALBANY, N. Y., Feb, 17 (INS). | Robert J. Powers, 56, of Binghamton, |for several years secretary of the Democratic State Committee, died in a hospital here early today. During the campaign last fall, Powers had charge of the up-state democratic headquarters at Syracuse. He was a Friday,-February th, at 8.00 p, Mm. anhattan Ave., Brooklyn. B. M. T.) SPEAKERS: and a CHINESE speaker ° ADMISSION FREE [XXxxX) PALACE Flushing Ave. Station, WM. F. DUNNE (XXXXXXXIKXI (xXxxxX2 issuing an ultimatum demanding that | close personal friend of Gov. Smith. the workers return by Monday at $40|- Rrior to becoming secretary of the a week. His complete change of tone | Democratic State Committee, Powers now after his blustering remarks of|Was for years one of the democratic last Thursday is looked upon as a vic-| leaders of the southern tier. tory for the workers, He was once president of the com- eiectctineaieiteSaibsidalid mon council of Binghamton. At one Two More Killed in Chi. time he held a state position in Bing- CHICAGO, Feb. 17. — David L,| hamton Hospital, and later was iden- Rosenthal, 31, married and the father | tified with the old state excise de- of a six year old boy, and his pretty partment, sister-in-law, Miss Minnie Glick, 28, | were found shot to death on a vacant lot today. / AT THE NEWSTANDS BUY THE DAILY WORKER is | officialdom goes over to big money, | whom the A. F. of L. was associ- | ated in the 1924 campaign, protest | their loyalty to the small bankers, | re cast in | Walsh and Wheeler | Blease and Heflin from the . ineluded a near fist fight | with one of its-chief sponsors, Sen- ‘ ) ator Glass (democrat, Virginia) Wheeler charged that the great banking interests of the country had maintained a lobby in Wash- fngton solely for the purpose of fercing passage of the measure. tor Nye joined Wheeler with the declaration that “never so @atoit, so powerful or so successful lobby had ever gathered in the halls of the capitol” as worked in behalf of the MeNary-Haugen Bill. * * * |. The question naturally arises, | what do Wheeler and Nye think the | big bankers are in business for? It | is certainly not for the purpose of handing out doles to the little bank- ers out west, on the verge of bank- ruptey or already in the hands of the receivers. They are in business to wipe out the little fellows, in or- der to increase their own power, and if they send their best lobby- quired legislation, that business.” If the big bankers have better lobbyists than the little bankers, that merely shows that they take their class interests more seriously and take greater care in conserving those interests, * * * In 1924 the LaFollette movement, in developing “the third party” while the elder LaFollette still re- mained in the republican party, sought to bring in the workers and farmers, with the claim that this third party movement really was a | labor party movement, But it was | actually used to disrupt and be- tray the labor party movement, a treason cleverly carried out under | the direction of the late Sam Gom- pers, assisted by those forces that | | are now red-raiding against the left wing in the trade unions. Having thus become adepts at treason, this same LaFollette move- | ment, through its surrender to the MecNary-Haugen farm relief pro- | gram, which included support of the McFadden-Pepper legislation, again committed a, second betrayal, this } time of the middle class. The ap- petite for treason was well devel- oped at Coolidge’s breakfasts, : > + & It should thus be very apparent to the city and farm workers that they are totally without representa- tion in congress. The great capi- talists got all but 17 members of the Senate on the bank bill vote. Those 17 represent the wavering middle class politicians. Before such a_ spectacle, the American producing masses must | realize more than ever the big | fight ahead for the development of their class power, capitalism both have lobbies in Washington, both in the legislative chambers and in the adjoining cor- ridors. Through the development | of their labor party, the workers | and. farmers~must send their “lob- | by” to Washington to expose the | enemy capitalists and fight for | labor's interests until such time as and build their own government. ‘Labor Bankers Back New Morgan Law (Continued from Page One) ‘with Glass last Saturday while lead- ‘ing the opposition to the bill, an- nounced he welcomed the inquiry. In attacking the bill, Wheeler charged the great banking interests of the ‘the first convention in many years to| country had maintained a lobby in | meet without the presence in the chair | The correspondent continues: |of Frank Farrington, main thruout the night in the padded | Co, } who sold out while president to the Peabody Coal At last reports Farrington was in a sanitarium, ‘ If a strike comes April 1 when the Jacksonville national agreement ex- pires there will be no scabbing -in Illinois as the district is 100% or- ganized. Even in the 1922 strike the only attempt at strikebreaking was ‘at a surface strip mine near Hertin and that was stopped before any coal was shipped out. If the committee of miners and operators convening at Miami Feb, 14 to negotiate a new national scale reaches an agreement before March the Illinois miners will probably act on it. Delegates to the convention will be paid $9,60 per day, except Sundays, and $5 a day expenses, Earth Tremors, in Ohio, MANSFIELD, 0., Feb. 17.—Resi- dents of this city today reported they felt several distinct earth tremors, similar to those felt periodically in the Central Lake States, last night. No damage was done. |Roll in the Subs For ‘the DAILY WORKER. HARLEM CASINO, 116TH STREET AND LENOX AVENUE Tickets in advance 50 cents, at the door 75 cents. Arranged by the YOUNG WORKERS’ LEAGUE, 108 East 14th Street, Washington solely for the purpose of forcing passage of the measure. He | was joined in his charges by Senator | Nye (R) of North Dakota, who de- | clared that “never so adroit, so power- | ful or so successful a lobby had ever gathered in the halls of the capital” as worked in behalf of the McFadden- Pepper bill. ¢ resolution, proposing the inves- tigation, as sponsored by Glass, was referred to the senate committee on gontrol of contingent expenses. It would authorize the senate commit- tee on banking and currency to con- duct the inquiry, No Cash, So Estelle Now Wants a Divorce Estelle Strauss has filed suit in the supreme court for the annulment of hex marriage to Henry Topping, who she claims had represented himself as the grandson of the late Daniel G. Reid, “tin-plate king”, she wanted $250,000 of the tin-plate cash. When she found out that there was no quarter of million dollars ‘to be ob- tained, she lost her appetite for mar- ried life, Read The Daily, Worker Every Day ists to Washington to get the re- | is “good | Big and little | the workers can take over all power | SETTLE TWO MORE 'Terms Along Same Line As Forstman-Huffman (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 17. — The strike in two more’ Passaic textile mills ended yesterday when the work- ers of the Gera Mills and the New Jersey Worsted Mills at a meeting held at Mokray Hall, Fourth Street, Passaic, decided to return to work on terms similar to those accepted by the Forstman and Huffman workers earlier’ in the week, Starr Reads Letter. James Starr, vice president of the United Textile Workers of America, who has been conducting the strike, read to the assembled workers a let- ter that Judge Cabell received on Tuesday from the vice-president and goneral manager of the Gera and New Jersey Worsted mills, both |owned by the same corporation. In this letter the bosses stated that | their workers could belong to any or- | ganization they desired without any | discrimination. Vote for Acceptance. After Starr read this letter at the | meeting, presided over by Gustav Deak, president of the local union, | speeches in favor of acceptance were | made by Eli Keller, secretary of the | local; Frances Coco, general organ- izer; Ben Leninski, Polish organizer and several others. A secret ballot was then taken ‘which showed almost unanimous | agreement for acceptance. About 2,500 workers are effected | by this decision, It is believed that |some of the workers will return to }the mill by tomorrow and others will | follow suit within a short time. The only mill which is still on ‘strike now is the United Piece Dye | works of Lodi, N. J. Starr Tells of Settlement. In his speech Starr said: “We have been trying for quite | some time to get some sort of under- standing or agreement. But owing to ‘the circumstances that surrounded {the Gera Mills they were not free | to act before because Mr. Forstmann | had some sort of hold over the Gera }and so long as Mr, Forstmann held | out they held out. | “We have doae our best, but we | were not so successful as we were | with Botany, Passaic Worsted and | Dundee. But even with the settle- | ment we now have there’s a good |chance for building a strong unisa ‘without any interference from the employers. Sees Strong Union Coming. | “If you workers want to maintain |an organization and protect your- | selves in the guture you have the op- ‘portunity. The time should not be far distant when you should have a \powerful organization as we are ' building now in Botany and the other | mills. | “One of the wo.ccrs of the labor |mevement and its sympathizers is | t | cinity were enabled to hold out. so }long. When a civike cf 16,000 work- ‘ers gees into effect and holds out for jone year and more, it should teach |the employers that the workers had | veal grievances, otherwise they would ‘not have been kipt out so long by | any. man of set of men, Praises Doggedness of Strikers. “You have stuck doggedly by your convictions. You have fought cour- |ageously for a union, The working |class of this country, and even the | press, have given credit to you. be- ;cause of your rourage and tenaci _And I am convinced that the Ameri- can labor movement will continue to send you relief while you are waiting to return to work. “The bosses have at last eonceded the right of their workers to belong to any trades union ‘organization, You have forced them to say that they will not discriminate against workers for belonging to a union. | Blizzard in Colorado. DURANGO, Colo, Feb. 17.—Prac- tically the entire San Juan basin, in Southern Colorado, was cut off from communication with the outside world today as a result of a raging blizzard and heavy snow fall in the mountain district. storm continues un- abated, fifteen feet of snow being reported in some sections, Wants More Airplane Landings. ° ST. GEORGE, S. L, Feb, 17.—Theo- dore Douglas Robinson, assistant sec- retary of the navy, speaking ata luncheon meeting of more than 500. business men at the Kiwanis here today, urged more and bet! aixplane landing stations for the large municipalities of this country, ——— Storms to Hit Inland. = SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17,—While the series of violent storms that have raked the Pacific Coast during the past three days had abated some- what today, weather officials here predict that fresh disturbances are whipping up out in the ocean and will sweep inland probably tonight. j that the workers in Passaic and vi-* po TRAE ASITAN PASSAIC TEXTILE MILL WALK-OUTS a cncremanermentenponnetncae i] i] i]