The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1927, Page 2

Page Two Daily Worker Gets | Special Attention of President Bill Green “The DAILY WORKER moved to New York.” This was the alarm sounded by reactionaries at the expulsion meet- ing of the Central Trade Union Thursday night. ‘ommunications from the mighty “Bil” Green himself, beat ‘the toc- sins announcing that America’s la- hor daily is now in the nation’s chief city, ready to carry on the bat- tle for militant working class ac- tivity. Green's letter, however, was no missive of welcome. “Beware, warned, “of the Communists. York is now the center of their ac- tivities.” Green’s comments on The DAILY WORKER and the Communists were referred to the executive committee for appropriate action. has Weisbord to Speak in Heart of Philadelphia Textile Worker Center PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20.—Albert Weisbord, leader and organizer of the Passaic strike, will speak in Phila- delphia on Thursday; Feb. 24, 8 p. m., at the Kensington Labor Lyceum, Second and Cambria Streets. The mecting is arranged in the heart of the textile region of Phila- delphia and it is expected that hun- dreds of textile workers will pack the Lyceum to hear Weisbord. Admission to the meeting will be 25 cents. Strikers will be admitted free on showing their strike cards. Denver Painters Inaugurate Week. DENVER, (FP).—The 40-hour 5- day week for union painters was suc- eeasful inaugurated in Denver, Feb. 5. Local 79, Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators & Paperhangers, reports. 5-Day CORRESPONDENCE FROM CANTON ¥. F. NAIL Canton, China. HE incident reported this week from Hankow is viewed here as a repetition of the events at Shang- hai on May 30, 1925, and at Shakee eon June 23. There are many expres- sions of regret that the authorities uf the Hankow foreign concessions, which adjoin the Chinese city, could By - not have remained cool. 2 # According to information , received- ew ihetue resale PROGRESSIVES. FEAR WAR ON LATIN AMERICA ‘Hearing on Shipstead Resolution WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Before | is0q” and seems imperv a sub-committee of the senate com-| ‘ . . | mittee on foreign relations, on Feb. 16, witnesses testified in support of | the Shipstead sanction on, or | foreign cone: | American cit Jose Miguel I resolution forbidding | the federal government to put its} influence behind, any | ions or invéstments of | rmo, of the Mexi-| can Chamber of Commerce, declared | | that American investors in Mexico THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1927 Feng’s Soul Ruined In Moscow Wails a Pair of |Fore i gn Missionaries PEKING, Feb, 20.—There is no hope for General Feng Yu-Siang, Ning to two American and two h missionaries who have been in the former “christian general's” vicinity for some time. The missionaries declare that Feng is now “thoroughly Bolshe- us to the exhortations of the missionaries. In fact the noted army leader is some- times peeved when he listens to those fellows going through their capers, “Moscow is a damnable hole” said one of the British missionaries. “Feng was not like that at all be- fore he visited the Red Capital.” FLAT JANITORS HEAD PASSES AWAY IN CHICAGO Quesse Reactionary and Extremely Patriotic CHICAGO (FP).—Wm. F. Quesse, | president, Building Service Employes | Intl. Union, and president of the Chi- jcago Flat Janitors Union which he }had organized, died of cancer Feb. |16. He had been a growing power in the Chicago and Illinois organized labor movements and was more or less closely involved with the political or- ganization of Goy. Len Small. His ‘place at the head of the Chicago flat janitors is taken temporrrily by Ald, Threaten to Organize | | Third Party for 1927 | | By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. : | eek concerning the Mc- Nary-Haugen Farm Relief Bil! now centers about the fate it will receive at the hands of T'resident Coolidge. That interest, however, is pushed | somewhat into the background by | the claim that Coolidges veto o< |. this bill, now passed by both | houses of congress, will sumutate | the organization of a tniru party | for the 1028. elections, | Pose as memibers of a superior race, Fatal Fire Starts Row; 'baeked by the military power of the | j,. United States, He said they make (City Attorney Defends ‘Fire Trap Proprietor trouble in international relations by | claiming fantastie sums to be their} “investment” in properties’ down {there, when in fact their actual in- vestments are smaijl and these huge Baie: = . 4 sums represent their inflated hopes ISCO, Cal. (By ser of future profits, He testified that |— co is greatly worked ‘all Amer investments in Mexican | UP over our building ordinance oil properties amount to only § | the health department, the ard 000,000, contrasted with the $600,-| 0! public works and the fire depart- 000,000 claimed for them by Moody’s ent have been exchanging sharp Manual. The smaller sum is the of-/ Words all this week over the con- | ficial estimate published by the Mexi-|Struction and maintenance of buiid- can government department dealing | iN&s within the city limits. The case with them. has been taken to the board of super- Secretary Kellogg has seni to the | Vi8ors and an acrimonious debate has senate a list of these American oil Tesulted. = | operators in Mexico, demanded in a Result of Fire. : Norris. resolution adopted some The whole trouble originated in a weeks ago. The progressives hope | recent fire that broke out in ‘one of to use this list to show that a hand-| our city tenement houses, and which ful of lawless interests in this coun-| resulted in the death of two Italian try have been the petted favorites of | vorkers. ; American foreign policy in this hemi-| This building, which housed over sphere. They fear, however, that 150 families, in the Latin quarter, when congress adjourfs on March 4 for the past twenty years was found the Coolidge-Mellon-Kellogg anger of on investigation to be absolutely un- today will turn into ugly attacks on fitted tor human habitation as welt | Mexico and Centra! Ainerica. as a menace to the health and safecy 5 of the whole neighborhood. These flats were constructe'; imme- diately atter the earthqué'.< and fire | of 1906, Even at tidt time there | ieee eee os le rene FPL Vibe was a building gy@inance which, i | new revenue will go to our political enforced, wold have prohibited the; enemies, who with war chests replen- erection of stich a menace to the com- | (ished will be able to gontinue the | munit f , nah H civil war that bleeds the nation and Put civic politics was utilized to | delays the liberation of China.” Mr,jbviate the clause pertaining to) Chen further states that “it ae safety, and one of the worst fire views and sentiments expregss@d in| traps in the city made its appear- | | the British declaration leawé the na-|ance and remained for all these { tionalist mind unmoved, It is because | years |they cloak a polict’ that is object-. Many times in the course of this} By HOWARD HARLAN. (Worker Correspondent.) | Oscar Nelson, vies srcottont of the{ he kind of a party that those | pouenee P ataae of Labor. i | who make this threat have in mind | mong Quesse’s rectu. vndeavors) is not kept in the dark. it was an elahorate argument to build-| quickiy revealed by the statement | ing owners in Detroit that recognition’ that the two uvauable canaicates {of his union would be bolriger len for president on such a third parcy |tidote to the growth of Bolshevism) ticket are Frank U. Lowden and in America. He took the position that) Charles G, Dawes, Uur readers | union conditions bring contentment to| gsnouid be thoroly. familiar with | workers, and that contentment Pro-) both of these gentiemen, prized ae ps ohipia field for theories of | worthies of the ruling ciass. social change. | 13 | William F. Quesse was an outstand- | PR ae } ing figure in the “gas pipe” section The third party threat is sup- | of the Chicago trade union movement.|} Posed to originate with Heny Wailace, of Ves moinesy lowa, son of the lormer secretary oi agricu- ture, Coouuges agricultural sec- recary, Jaruine, wou halis lowa, sar. Wallace states that if Pres- ident Coolidge vetoes the farm vul | He was not a frequent attendant at) the meetings of the Chicago Federa- | tion of Labor; in fact he regarded the | federation with more or less contempt. He was an important cog in the Len! Small state machine and hence took | care to attend the annual conventions iruin of the Illinois State Federation of| “uu uppears as the republican Labor. partys choice iur presiaent near Quesse looked with undisguised; yeur With al ¥. Smith, of New hostility on all efforts to organize the .vrK running, on the democratic workers in a Labor Party. -His/ methods were “safe, sane and con- servatiye.” He peddled the influence! a tiirad party ticket headed by one of his union to whatever canitalist, of its two ravorie suus. stitieal group paid best or had most Pees influence. He could be depended on) to ring the changes on the latest “red | menace” and though illiterate, broke | frequently into the columns of the) capitalist press with patriotic exhor- | tations. That a guerilla labor fe'r! like Quesse, at the head of the flat! janitors should be abie to es dominating influence in Chicago labor circles is an indication of the low | level to which the trade union move- ment has fallen in that city which was able to boast, only recently of ‘having the most progressive trade | ‘union leadership in the United States. | Quesse’s demise leaves a gap in the Licnet, tnen ine tarm states of the \,est would go into the field wiih = Such a threat can hardiy be taken seriously. It iv0as sae pres- sure being brought to bear on Vool- idge, in an effort to frighten him into signing the bill, or permitting 1 to become a law by iailure to take any action on it either way during the ten days allotted hun for decision. It can be taken for granted that Coolidge is too loyal to the great capitalists of the Nast to pay much attention to what Wallace has ww say. ° Yet the promise of a farm revolt | one of this worthy pair lead? Pure- ly a struggle of the rich farmers, the American junkers, against the finance capitalists of the Hast. In other countries the junkers play a prominent role in capitalist polities. They are among the most reactionary, if not the ultra-reac- tionists, ciericals and monarchists, Dawes breathed the spirit of this | junker conservatism when he or- ganized the “Minute Men of the Jonstitution,” an embryo tascist organization that has been permit- tea to lapse as a red-baiting out- fit, But it can Guicaly be revived | as oceasion demands. With the industrialization of agriculture and the development cf increasingly large farms, this American junker class is bound to | grow and.to demand’ expression, there is herve developed an iden- tity of interest between the owner of the million dollar wheat farm of the North and the overlord of the restored great cotton plantations of the South, 1. is the common inter- est of the big wheat, corn, hog, cotton, rice and tobacco raisers, that greased the way for the pas- sage of the MceNary-Haugen Farm | Reiief Bill, from which the great masses of farm workers and ten- ant farmers. will not benefit. Such a junker third party may crystallize at some distant date. But the-threattor its organization . for next years elections ean naraty trighten the old guard in the re- publican party suiicientiy to have | any efiecc on the fate of the Mc- Nary-riaugen Bill ut the White House this week, ; Such a junser third party, parad- ing as a party of protest, must not be contused with the struggie for | independent political actién of the, city workers and poor iarmers un- der the standaras cf tne Lubor Party. Vhe junker landlords will get their allies among such middie- west industrialists and bankers, whose interests run counter to those of Wall Street’s great finan- ciers. The poor farmer, tenant and | The American Junkers | FINALLY STOP | HEFLIN’S TALK ON CATHOLICS Of Fomenting War WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—For the | firet time in years, the parliamentary jules of the senate were invoked this | afternoon to end a bitter religious | controversy between Senators Heflia | (BD) of Alabama, and Bruce (D) of |Maryland, which apparently was |Senator Accused Them | ® widening ‘a breach within the gemo- jevatic ranks. | A point of order by Senator Dill of | Washington sent him to his seat. Charges Plot in Mexico. © Yesterday Heflin, in a remarkable | tour of oratorical stamina, held the ,floor for three hours and a_ half, | while piling up evidence to support | his charge that the Knights of Col- | umbus and the catholic hierarchy are {conspiring to force the Lnited States | into an invasion of Mexico after con- | gress adjourns. H Raps Own Patty. | The bitter debace that took place | during ani following Heflin's speech | indicated that the Alabama senator's | interest was rather a religious than | political one, but the gallery heard | with interest his charges of war mon. | gering. During his speech Heflin velabored his democratic colleagues, esis Seema a RED BAITER SEES CHANCE TO CLAIM TRIP EXPENSES Promised to Pay Fare; Changes His Mind (By a Worker Correspondent.) ~ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20.—The ‘recent expose of the grafting paint- ‘ers’ union officials ‘in New York prompts me to send you the follow- ing: ' Recall Left Wing Delegate. In August, 1925, Local Painters’ | Union 1158 recalled Brother Fred ‘Harris as a delegate to go to tne | | speedy advai { Chinese nati to Phe j@nalism.” Chinese pr maintenance ot the buiiding, ively a menace#‘and danger to the | period, civic improvement bodies pro- | “gas pipe” leadership that should ment of the cause of | tested to the supervisors against the | draw out the ambitions of several am- | but} bitious persons who know a good) s is unanimously ngthing definite was done. They con-| thing when they /see it. Oscar Nel- ed from the gathering ot several) against the proposals of the memo-| sidered it to be safe enough until| son, democrat politician and vice- hundred Chinese in front of the cus-|randum. Even the newspapers in the | someone was killed. toms house in the Chinese city, not) jar from the entrance of the British concession. This crowd was liste ing te lecturers, who were probably exulting in t h e successes of the revolution and encouraging the peo- ple to do their utmost for China in erder to free her from the subjuga- tion of the unequal treaties. From the ‘reports reaching here, many of which are conflicting, it appears that the British concession authorities de- cided that the crowd was dangerous and sent an armored car with armed raarines to disperse the demonstrat- ors. The coming of the car into the Chinese city infuriated the crowd and | a melee resulted in which several Chinese were wounded, some fatally, some slightly, and in which two or three marines are also reported to have been wounded. There evidently was considerable roughness tactics used by the marines. Thanks to the rapid and effective measures taken by the Chinese au- thorities, the incident stopped at that joint. The Chinese authorities did their best to pacify the people and vequested them to remain quiet un- til negotiations, which had been im-| mediately started with the foreign authorities, could be completed. There was, however, great excite- nent throughout the city, in large part due to the menacing concentra- tion of warships, mainly British, in the harbor. There was wonderment if the Wanghsien incident was to be repeated. The fears of the people were partly calmed by the withdraw- al of the marines from the conces- sions to boats in the harbor and the disarmament of the volunteers. The consequences of the incident on the negotiations between the nationalist and foreign authori- ties, These negotiations are going on at the time of writing so that no report of their results can be given. There is a general feeling here that the commander at Hankow probably will not use the same ruthless meas- ures employed at Wanghsien, be- cause of the presence of the nation- alist authorities at Hankow, Against the British Memorandum. The nationalist government is fol- lowing nationalist opinion in its pro+ leat against the British memoran- dum, which was recently handed to the representatives of the powers sig- natory to the Washington Treaty, In his to Secretary of State Kel- rr. Eugene Chen, nationalist the United States Government against approval of the proposals contained in the British memoran- ‘dum regarding the immediate collec- of the two and a half per cent | the course of this note he says ‘Spite of the sentiments ex- real meanii that two-thirds g it ( in the} ov Me for foreign affairs, warned | north have commented unfavorably ‘and it is interesting to note that this th Situation in the North. Tutting aside the reports which lave been confirmed, denied and re- affirmed, regarding disaccord in the ranks of the Fengtien leaders, we note that the arrival of Chang Tho- lin in Peking has not been followed by any important changes. The mar- |shal entered the city, with great pomp and ceremony—all of it speci- fically ordered and exacted by the reice—but nothing has happened. The military expedition, however, has started and seems to be divided into two fields of action. Chang Tsung-chang, military governor of Shangtung, is - reported to have | brought troops to Pukow. Sun Chuan- fang, military governor of Chekiang, has apparently been put in charge os the defense of Shanghai and the sur- rounding districts. There have been |no reports of serious engagements with either army. The nationalist forces are concentrating in the vicin- ity of Hangchow. According to ‘nforination received from the Yangtze, formidable nation- | alist movements are developing every- where throughout central China. | There has been a growing oppos‘tion |to the coming of Fengtien troops jinto Chekiang, Kiangsu and Anhui. The people of these three provinces seem to be united in their resistarce to any authority within their beun- daries by Shantvyg or Mukden ele- ments.--This opposition is an evident | deterrent in the uniting of forces fur the defense of the lower Yangtze val- | ley. | Nationalist Flag on Customs House. The Kuomintang nationalist flag ‘was hoisted overs the local custems |house on January 1. It has been e- ported that the Canton foreigu cus- toms official probably secured the au- | thority for raising the flag from the ‘general inspector cf customs in Pek- ing, but this has avt been confirmed. | Whether it is trae or not the fact ‘remains that the flag is flying and | that it is an indication of the growing ‘alization on the part of foreigners that nationalism is a living force and |& political reality. It is a compura- tively small inewent but considered (of great significance. It has served ‘as a further encouragement to the | Chinese in their struggle for v ney | government throughout the country, | Throughout the country this week, | (reports of general conditions are encouraging. Reorganization work is ge’ng on everywhere in the territory under the national st contro! and the | influence of the nationalist movement jis sweeping irresistably into the | papa! Aagt yet flying the Kuenin- DE , e unfavorable comment has found an! Was in the Hongkong British papers | group reported that more than 150) Robert Fitchie of the milk ‘wagon | ich are exceedingly dubious about | tamilies were stowed away in a space | drivers, a man of elephantine propor- | wisdom and result of the move, | that barely sufficed for one hundred | tions and infinitesimal brain cavity. | Committee Investigated. After the recent blaze a committee |may only be temporary. A possible | sent to investigate, and this persons. There were gas leakages in more | than fifty apartments; the fire es- capes, where such existed at all, were insufficient to accommodate the oc- cupants of the place. The sanitary conditions were terrible, and a num- ber of cases of disease resulted in} recent months. Building Condemned. | The health department immediate. | ly condemned the buiding, while tre public worss board tardily acqui- esced. The owner of the piace—one | vt our wealthy iawyer landlords—ap- peared before the board ot supervis- | ors with a letter from the city at- torney protesting against the con- tiseation of his property, and threat- | ening legal reprrsal in case the order | was executed, So the fat is in the/ tire right. | it must be interesting to some of | our citizens to know why it takes our | civic managers over twenty years to! find out what hundreds of persons knew ail the time—that the Cuneo slats were an eye-sore to the com- munity, and not fit for human be-/ ings to live in, The death of two! common laborers, and the maiming of a score of others, was necessary to awaken an interest in a matter that should have begn attended to before the structure was erected. Bosses’ Breach of City Agreement ‘Ties Up Work on Phila. Bldg. (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Feb. new 16-story building at Filbert and Juniper Sts. is deserted since last week when the Building Trades Coun- cil of Philadelphia called out on strike all the trades affiliated with this body, on the breaking of the city agreement that calls for all union la- bor to be employed by municipal works. Through pressure of the Freeland Kendrick - Charlie Hall combine, known as the City Hall Gang, the neral contractors, George Fuller lompany, was forced to sublet a con- tract to sub-contractor Connolly, who is unfair to labor. Despite the fact that Mayor Ken- drick made loud promises at the La- bor Day celebration of the A. F. of L. at Sesqui Centennial Stadium, that only union labor will be employed on all municipal work during his admini- stration, he has not done one thing to settle this strike, which is going on for more than one week. 20.—The | ‘president of the C. F. of L., stepped | into Quesse’s shoes, but his tenure candidate for Quesse’s mantle is Shanghai Strike Ties Up Foreign Industries (Continued from Page One) Electrical plants, tramways and the | postoffice were tied up tight. Pick- | ets are posted outside the general postoffice, The imperialists are arming the so- called “volunteer corps” with mach- ine guns. Fall of City Near. It is now apparent that the fall of the city to the Kuomintang Army is imminent. News reached here today thi Chang-Tso-Lin, the Manchurian ban- dit general, is begging Wu Pei Fu to prevent his generals. from attack- ing the Manchurian soldiers. Chang is not making any progress in his much advertised drive on Hankow. Foreign Warships Ready. More than twenty foreign war- ships are lying in the Whangpo River off Shanghai. Five of those are American. The southern forces are now with- in fifty miles of this city. Sun’s men are completely.demoralized and it is reported that Sun is making pre- parations to flee to Japan. A Japanese cruiser and four de- stroyers were reported to be on the way here. The number of soldiers now under the nationalist government’s banner | is estimated in the vicinity of 1,000,- | 000. Scott Nearing to Speak At Newark Lab.Lyceum Wednesday,February 23 NEWARK, Feb. 20.— Professor Scott Nearing, economist and author, will deliver a lecture in the city of Newark on Wednesday evening, Feb- ruary 23, at 8 p. m., in the Newark Labor Lyceum, 14th St., near Spring- field Ave. His subject will be “America To- day,” a timely topic, and anyone in- terested in the political and eco- nomic conditions of this country should not miss this appropriate lec- ture, He will touch on this country’s in- ternational policies, and of the forces that are the determining factors in shaping the policies of American dip- lomacy. Following the lecture there will be a diseussion period. * It will be up to the men, on strike to really put up a fight and, win. The lecture will be held the auspices ot the Wor Shel ol Newark, headed by Lowden or Dawes is de- serving of some consideration. Lowden is a multi-millionaire, a | “gentleman” farmer. He is not only a corn grower in Illinois and & cotton raiser in Arkansas, but, | as head of the Pullman Co., he also farms Pullman porters, exploiting them to the“ limit. Dawes is no farmer at all, gentleman or other- | wise. He is a plain Chicago bank- | er, crooked as they make them, as the Lorimer scandal revealed. What kind of a farm revolt could either mortgage, with the mil!itons or farm | brotherhood convention at Montreal workers, must seek and find their | under the pretense that no funas allies: among the workers in indus- | were on hand to finance such a trip, try, in the common struggle of a | The real reason for this action was, united working class, The growth of this alliance will send shivers of fear up and down the spines of both the Coolidge-Mellon crowd and the Dawes-Lowden outfit. Against the junker third party and all the other parties of capitalism | the united, independent class power of the workers and farmers is the * Labor Party, Taxi Drivers Strike | To Renew Agreement Guaranteeing $4 Pay BOSTON, (FP).—Efforts of busi- ness agent Frank J. Gallagher of | Taxicab Drivers’ Union 126 to secure | settlement with the Town Taxi Co., | are fruitless to date. John T. Rockett, | president of the firm, refuses to deal | with the union and insists that the |men return individually, Uniformed | police accompany strike breakers tak- ing cabs out. Drivers of Local 126 are striking for | renewal of the agreement giving them |@ guaranteed wage of $4 a day for | 94 hours, and 55 cents an hour over- time. Business agent John J. Fenton of Coal Teamsters’ Local 68 and busi- ness agent Johin J. Kearney of the ing the strike committee. —e— BOSTON (FP).—QLouis Arvedon, electrical supply deale?, was fined $50 for employing a minor under 16 to operate an e! ‘or, for working the boy after 6 p. m. and for employing one under 14 in a mercantile estab- lishment. _ The employer’s delin- quency was not discovered until the boy worker, Morris Baker, 13, was fatally injured at his work. Boston Capmakers Not Awed by Arrests | (Continued from Page One) “No manoeuvers of bosses, whether by strong-arm methods, or frame-up charges against their leaders, will de- ceive them or diminish their courage!” Time Favors Strikers. | Though the employers have shown a stubborn mood, they will not hold bi long when the spring season ar- ve : Picket lines continue daily and nightly. Women take an equal share in all strike duties. A picket demon- stration before the shops will take vlace again Monday morning, fol- lowed by a mass meeting at 10 o'clock. An enthusiastic mass meeting of the sapmakers was held Thursday morn- ing, when Wellerman of the cigar- makers, Salerno of the Amalgamated Joint Board, and Friedman of the Up- holsterers Local 87 all h pipeaed moral and financial bikin their unions, Cooks and Waiters’ Union 34 are aid- ¥ in the the capmakers to che outa Tag hovers Asks Beds for War Heroes. ASBURY PARK, N, J., Feb. 20,— Mayor C. E, F. Hetrick today sent telegrams to Senator Walter Edge and Congressman Stewart Appleby urging them to suggest to the war veterans legislative committee the es- tablishment of a 400 bed hospital in Asbury Park for convalescent sol- diers, Lewis Again Offers Aid To Coal Barons (Continued from Page One) in Seattle, dating the unseating of Tunne after the 1924 convention of the United Mine Workers, etc—-but the general statements are correct and Froves the contention made by The DAILY WORKER, i.e, that the of- ficialdom of the U. M. W. A. has al- vays taken the initiative in the ex- pulsion drive against the Communists and other left wing workers. Leary states further that Com- munists had tried to set up a “dual union” in the Pittsburgh district, a charge mede at the recent Indiana- pelis convention by the Lewis ma- chine. i His statements on these are as follows: Forced Sam. “In the Seattle convention of the American Federation of Labor the fol- lowing year, Lewis foreed the late Samuel Gompers into agreeing to a resolution unseating Dunne, who sat as a delegate from Montena, on the grounds that as a Communist he was seeking the capture or destruction of the federation. Gompers opposed ex- pulsion on the ground that it would male a martyr of Dunne. . a Boring From Within. “The Communists at that time were trying ‘boring from within’ tacties in the Pittsburgh district where an at- tyumpt was made to set up a dual miners’ organization.” In the National Edition of The DALY WORKER for January 31, we published a facsimile of a letter from William Feeney to William Z. Foster which refutes the charge that Com- innnists were trying to organize na secession movement of coal miners in the Pittsburgh district and proves that the striking miners of this district were deserted by the Lewis machino two points j however, that Harris was a Left | Winger and not acceptable to the ot- | ficialdom. At any rate, tho he had | been elected by a unanimous vote, the {red scare and the pretense of lack of |funds kept Harris from attending the convention. | Enter Morris, However, another member, Gerald | Morris, had edged his way to the front and offered to go to Montreal | to represent the local at the conven- tion and report back to the members | without charging Local 1158 a singie | dime. | Morris had previously pretended | support to the left wing, but ever | since the attempt to recau Harris a5 (a delegate, had completely turned ‘around and had now become a pro- | fessional ved baiter. He had sougnt {in the meautime the suppoyt of ine | wire ‘puliers and thus, carrying the ‘credentials for Harris in his pocker, ‘he ac.uauy did go to Montreai. | Attacks Communists, | At the convention he made a red- | hot attack against the Communists (and gave acuye support to the reso- ‘lution introdueed py Zausner, now | exposed as a graiter, which resolue | tion bars ail Comaunists wrom wen | bership im tne prothernood, Thus | Morris became “a hero overnight. j Hleads roverty. Upon his recurn to Sen Franciseo re pleaded poverty, aitho his faye, _ which had been paid ty the conven- ; tion expense tuna, allowed for a fair {margin of about 9100, this being the uifterence between the reguiar rate paid by the convention and the excur- |sion vate charged by the railroad, | rlowever, Morris was feeling strong \and was going to get paid for his | Service as a red baiver, hands in Expense Bill. | Since the treasury at that time was very low, Morris waited his time, [but thought it opportune last Fall | to start action, tie then handed his | local union an expense account for | $200 for his trip to Montreal of the | previous year, which he had boasted to make at his own expense, and | which was not to cost tue union # dime, as a ved baiter Morris mut have had the “moral backing” of the ‘machine for, altho the local’s trease ury could not pay that sum, yet ine bill was accepted. Morris had “con- sented” to accept the payment of his '“claim” in weekly insvaiments. He get the dough, anyway. Fight Legal Murder In Conference Here A national conference of the League to Abolish Capita! Punishment will be held at the Pennsylvania Hotel, Pe foilnatle ot the Peerer: ‘alter! TOMes ctalicice Wy ksi sed b: ie i erence rel vo is published today in our city edition | Lowis E. Lawes, Sing Sing, ieee ry cae warden } } 4 sini aiacel