The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1927 Page Three CLARIFYING POLITICAL ISSUES IN THE MINNESOTA LABOR MOVEMENT | (Continued from Last Issue). Fight for Full Ticket. The left wing and the Communists in the pre-election struggle within the Farmer-Labor Association and the trade unions, made the fight for a full ticket, knowing that without such a ticket and especially without a head to the ticket—a candidate for mayor,—the movement already divi- ded, would be still further confused and split up and would allow a con- centration of the forces of the Citi- zens’ Alliance and the agents of the Republican Party (whose agents in the Labor movement constitute the Leach support) against the Labor Councilmen in the several labor wards and a consequent defeat of the ma- jority of the remaining labor repre- sentatives in the Council. It was particularly necessary to Out for Record election because of the filling of A. | N. Sollie of the City and County | Employees Union, and at the time of | filing, a member of the 1ith Ward} Club of the Farmer-Labor Associa tion which had endorsed Pryts for re-election—the right wingers call this a “mistake” on Sollie’s part. It is in fact nothing short of betrayal. Victory On School Board. Lynn Thompson and Mrs. Kinney | | were elected to the School Board—a real victory for the Farmer-Labor- | ites. Only three Labor Aldermen are left in the Council—Bastis and Peterson from the 6th Ward and Gis- | | lin from the 9th Ward—Peterson is a | holdover from 1925, | | That the slate was not wiped clean is eloquent testimony to the deep. |rooted struggle of the idea of inde- | pendent working class political ac-/| stress the importance of retaining | tion, and proves again that the Far- the Labor Aldermen because of the| mer-Labor Party cannot be destroyed. | drive on the Day Labor system by| Every force of reaction was prought the general Contractors Association, | into play, tens of thousands of dol-| who needed at least three more votes | lars were expended by the old Party! in the Council to get a foothold in| machine, their agents in the Labor | city work. Reaction Defeats Conference. The Communists together with the left wing and the honest supporters of the Farmer-Labor Association, not properly characterized as left wing- ers, proposed in the Hennepin County ¢ Committee the calling of the delegate conference, in order to point out the dangerous situation to the rank and file and to unify the movement on the basis of a full ticket and a cor- rect working class political program. The effort was only partially suc- cessful. As pointed out above, the Leach machine and the Labor Coun- cilmen wanted to defeat the endorse- ment of a Labor Candidate for mayor —the vote was 51 to 81 on the ques- tion. The discussion in the conference, however, resulted in a continuation ‘of the discussion in the labor move- ment and aroused to some extent an otherwise apathetic and discouraged rank ‘and file to the danger of the removal of their representatives in the Council. Center Afraid to Act. That the Labor movement and the } workers generally had a somewhat i hazy conception of the magnitude of | the task before thém, was due to the campaign that had been carried on in the trade unions since 1924 by the right wingers, who branded every moye towards unity on the political | field as Communism, etc. That they were able to successfully put this over in the delegate conference under | the guise of saving the Labor Council- | men, resulted from the unwillingness of the center to unite with the left on this question. Sabotaged the Campaign. The Hennepin County Central Committee filled the balance of the ticket with the exception of one or two minor positions, nominating Lynn Thompson and Mrs. Kinney for the school board and then proceeded to turn over to Lynn Thompson full au- ' thority to conduct the Central Com- mittee campaign headquarters. The Hennepin County Central Committee was not called again during the cam- paign. The conduct of the campaign under the circumstances, was exactly what had been predicted by the left | wing: the central headquarters were used in the early part of the campaign (not openly) to suppert the candidacy | of Turner for Mayor and in the later | part of the campaign, after the ex- _ the Citizens’ posure of Turner’s connection with Alliance (again not | openly) to support Leach, resulting in further confusing an already badly complicated situation. Only Three Candidates Win. Hanscom in the 7th Ward, Scott in the 10th Ward, Hadley in the 1st Ward, and Rudsdil in the 12th Ward, | of the Labor Aldermanic candidates | who came through the primaries, | were defeated. 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Co. 83 First Street NEW YORK, Lieutenants Dieudonne Coste, top, and Rignot, French aces, have been preparing to attempt to break endurance records set by American aviators, either in a flight to the United States or one toward India. a longer distance, ‘Fascist Police Fire on ‘Angry Italian Peasants (‘Shouting WeWantWork | _LUCANO, (By Mail)—July 8.— | Another anti-Fascist revolt, the causes of which are concerned with | ten peasants, who are in a dying con- dition at hospital, and a number of wounded among the police and the BALDWIN ATTACKS! DEMOCRACY | By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Press.) Prime minister Baldwin’s recanta-| tion of the government proposal to write the capitalist oligarchy which rules England into the constitution | should not blind the workers to the| powerful world movement against de- | mocracy. The financial upper class | is prepared to discard socalled po-} pular government whenever labor be-} comes sufficiently class conscious to | use the vote to control the modern | economic state. | “Reform.” | The startling proposals for ‘reform’ of the house of lords offered by the British lord chancelor in the name of | the government were a maneuver. | Later, with the appearance of conces-| sions, the tory government will un- doubtedly carry through most of its proposals, which also represent in the main the ideas of the liberal party. Both old parties stand for the pre- eminence of private property and wish a constitution which will block Socialist measures whenever the La- bor party secures a clear mandate to reorganize the country in the interest of the workers. To Hold Power. The real aim of the government, says the Manchester Guardian, “is| to restore to the house of lords the| right to keep the conservative party | in power even when it is not in of- fice.” This purpose is avowed by the lords who spoke on the proposals. | “The people of this country”, said! the duke of Northumberland, an out- | standing owner of the country’s coal) deposits, “no longer believe in democ- | racy as a principle at all.” | Lord Sumner pointed out that the} parliament act, which curtailed the | power of the house of lords, was all! very well between conservatives and| liberals but that a socialist govern-| ment would have a long list of drastic and far reaching measures. Your People A Beast. | “The real enemy”, said Lord Monks- | well, “is democracy.” Viewed as a whole in the light of this latest proposals, the program of | the tory government of England has} a striking resemblance to the aboli-| tion of democracy by quite other | means in fascist Italy. Like the Italian program it includes the des- | truction of the economic power of) trade unionism, the invasion of local government by the centralized power of the state and the establishment of | a conservative government indepen-} dent of popular suffrage. | George Young in Lansbury’s Labor | Weekly describes it as an attempt to impose a “dictatorship of the profit- eeriat.” Conservative and Liberal Rate War Splitting Canada TORONTO, July 20.—The decen-! tralizing tendencies in the British Empire grow stronger and are fash- ionable even down to the smallest units. British Columbia aphears this week in the form of a delegation to lay claims before a royal commission investigating dissatisfaction among the prairie and other western prov- inces. British Columbia has laid for-| mal claim to a large territory known as “the Peace River block,” which | was torn from the province when it was taken into the Dominian of Can- ada. The western provinces are also de- manding lower freight rates. In this they have the support of the Con- servative Party, which attempts to win in the west the same credit that the Liberals won in the maritime provinces by granting preferential freight rates. A reduction in the west is expected to be followed by a further demand on the part of the citizens of Quebec and Toronto, who claim geogrphical factors make it just for them to have an advantage in rates. Hard feeling between these two sections of the dominion grows. CEASE oe REE SET a8 Secale sae past four years, tended to prevent these two contrasting forces ans in- terests, ufion which he had based his dictatorship, from breaking their al- liance, But the economic crisis has now shown itself to be more powerful than the anti-Socialist feeling which! had reconciled the agrarians to the industrialists. Signor Mussolini must now solve the difficult problem: which of his two supporters is to be sacrificed? He is no longer in a po- sition to satisfy both. |movement did what they could, the) tively to the campaign of the ene-| | school board members and three la-| One of the outstanding features of | speech in support of the Farmer- though called upon several times to mer-Labor officials and office hold- sistent work for the Party. Note-| son, County Attorney; State Rep. 0. Sick in Paris Chateau est Lundeen, ete. The net results of | The workers are now really conscious his chateau near Paris. Plans have been perfected and organ-|*i@n armies, is the leader of the campaigns. |elected by the monarchists as the suc- Lewis Fighting to Hold fee many plots to bring about the the active leader of the Russian mon- some of the administration delegates | administration forees will not be able | might be a compromise by the nom- make it very hard for an opposition- It is hoped that during this con-|the serious economic crisis now which will lead a fight against the | village 70 kilometres from Milan, The question of the check-off is also |Town Hall, shouting, “We want many local unions. The district ma-| lice appeared on the scene the angry ciprocal cooperation and efficiency” | At first the police defended them- John L, Lewis, international presi- | 974 fired several volleys on the ment has been in existence for more. the anthracite conciliation board. | Later, in. the. night. police nethtares- unions that it be settled once and for | and over a hundred villagers’ homes settled, The wounding of a deputy Fascist is also going to come up, because for near Varese. Baroffio, who was as- times. The Luzerne collieries were | the breast. Threats of Strike. | economic crisis has brought again to | officials, demanding that the work | gration in the present crisis. Fas- County Collierys shall run, but the dustrialists, and all the efforts of \county collieries. | able to prevent them by holding con- | | offictals which have come to nothing. | aldermanic candidates themselves as| |mies of the Farmer-Labor Associa-| | bor aldermen are winners. the campaign was the failure of Sen- Labor Party’s candidates or even to do so. ers, the real figures of the city and | 'Grand Duke Nicholas, D. Nellermoe; Ex-Senator S. A.! the campaign will be a quickening of | _ PARIS, duly 20-—The Grand Duke of the danger of split campaigns and| Nicholas Nikolaivitch, former eom- ization work is already going for-|Strongest group of Russian monar- cessor to the late Czar Nicholas. | Control of District 1 |downfall of the Soviet government of jarchists who are active in Europe, He are opposed to it and will fight it. | England and the U. S. A, to mobilize sufficient strength to de- inee having to have 10 or 15 local ist to get—as it will take a month or vention, especially on this question, | ravaging the Italian countryside, is district administration. A crowd of unemployed agricul- coming up and a demand for settle- | work!” The demonstration soon be- chine claims that the agreement which | Peasants bombarded them with means the granting of the check-off Selves with the butts of their rifles, dent has declared on and off that it ‘"°Wd. The list of casualties includes than 16 months, and no interpretation | There will be several resolutions on | ™¢nts were suahed, fron: Monee. and ail: The Weshing’ MIT hee ‘a were cae raided and the occupants ar- The question of the miners of the| wayor, named Mario Baroffio, fe re= the last 4 months they have only | sailed in the street, is now lying in closed before the 4th of July and have | The old rivalry between industrial- The Hudson employes have held | the fore, threatens to become one of ‘shall be equalized by the Hudson Coal leism was the result of a compromise ‘work shall be distributed equally be-/| Signor Mussolini have, during the There have been threats of strikes ferences with the Hudson Coal Co. | ROR aN cS a oe Must Fight Machine. | merce and navigation signed between | previously noted contributed objec- | tion. And in spite of all this, two Shipstead Remained Silent. ator Shipstead to make a single| issue a statement in their behalf, al-| Practically all of the other Far-| state movement, did active and con-| worthy among these were Floyd Ol- |e asian White Hope, Is Stockwell and Ex-Congressman Ern-| the tempo of the whole moyentent, | Nicholas is reported seriously ill at the backing of capitalist candidates, |™Mander-in-chief of the Czarist Rus- ward in preparation for the 1928-29 |chists. In November, 1922, he was Since that time he has been credited |Russia and has been recognized as (Continued from Page One) is suspected of drawing money from But there is a danger that the anti-| feat these two proposals and there unions for endorsement, which will so to visit that many local unions. there will develop a strong opposition | reported from Trezzo sull’Adda, a Check-Off Will be Debated. | tural laborers gathered outside the ment of this question will be made by |c2me very hostile, and when the po- has the following words in it, “re-| Stones. to the miners. | but presently they lost their heads was his interpretation, but the agree- of the clause has been agreed on by | egeleg the question in demand by the local Ramee to. tile sone: Gs Vie copelicn hard time explaining why it is not | "sted: Mayor Attacked. Hudson Coal Co., of the Luzerne area ported from Vedano Olona, a village worked for short periods at various | hospital with two bullet wounds in |not yet resumed operations. \ ists and agrarians in Italy, which the numerous conferences with district the most powerful factors of disinte- | Co., so that not only its Lackawanna | between the agrarians and the in- | tween the Lackawanna and Luzerne | |but the district officials have been | | From today on, the treaty on com- The main object of the cpheeiten ae eg Pate RC Fae trict 1 will be to organize and es- tablish a leadership to fight against the present reactionary machine on the basis of union issues. The miners’ union of District 1 is in danger as it seems the coal opera- tors are pursuing the identical policy as the coal operators of the bitumin- ous field pursued during the life of the Jacksonville agreement. About 400 delegates represent the miners at the convention, District 1 has a membership of 60,000 miners and is the biggest district in the an- thracite, forces during the convention of Dis- | March 11th on the basis of the prin- ciple of the most favored nation is being put into life. i The treaty contains thirty-two |clauses. The first articles refer to the right of residence and the regu- lations for allowing operations in Turkey of Soviet economic organiza- tions. The treaty provides for the right of extra-territoriality for the Trade Representative and his two principal assistants and the immunity of the Trade Mission’s premises at Angora and its branches in Constantinople. The treaty further for at ialon open right of the” e a THE SOVIET-TURKISH TREATY OF COMMERCE branches, besides Constantinople, also Smyrna, Trapesund, Mersina, Erser- um, Conia or Eski-Shikiry. In re- gard to the deals entered into, the Trade Mission is. subject to Turkish laws and Turkish jurisdiction. A special clause permits the transit via Batum into Asiatic countries of goods of Turkish origin. In regard to customs duties all Soviet goods in| Turkey enjoy the regime of the most! favored nation, the Turkish goods’ in USSR enjoying this regime in the limits of a definite list appended to the treaty. At the same time the latter provides for granting percent- age discounts from the general tariff of the USSR for a number of goods of special interest to Turkey which ‘are enumerated in the list appended to tho treaty, } Book Censor GITLOW TELLS OF TWO OUTLOOKS OF | Buoyancy in Russia but | Discontent Elsewhere “The desire of the workers and | peasants of the Soviet Union is for | peace,” declared Ben Gitlow, member of the (¢ al Exec! e © of the Workers (Commun who has j tu from a cluded t to defend, but th to defend their count | | Gitlow pointed out the tremendous | B } i }and very noticeable difference in the j 9 w, above, actin me tk Frank Dow, & irit between the workers in the | commissioner of the bureau of | Soviet Union and the rest of Europe. customs of the treasury depart- LABOR IN EUROPE § Gy. ¢¢ ment, ia the final judge or censor of foreign publications coming to the United States. If they are obscene it is the duty of the cus- wras office to bar them from cir- ‘criation.- within the United Moscow Has More Than 70,000 Radios; Parks Broadcast Thruout Day MOSCOW, July 20.—The rapid strides made in the development of the radio in the Soviet Union is in- dicated by the report that there are now 72,000 radio receiving sets li- censed in the city of Moscow. Loud speakers are maintained by the city in more than twenty parks and public squares, which broadcast speeches and music from dawn darkness. British Envoys to Naval Conference Called to London GENEVA, July 20.—The British delegates to the naval conference, W. C, Bridgeman and Lord Cecil, have been summoned to London by Prem- ier Baldwin, head of the tory gov- lernment of murder, forgery and |provocation. There are rumors here \that the two British delegates were lin disagreement over the question of {making concessions to the American | {demands on 8-inch guns on cruisers. !Meanwhile the American and Japan- jose delegates are beating time and ‘somewhat puzzled at precisely what {move is next to be made. Both dele- gations are burning the wires with cablegrams to their respective gov-/| ernments and it is generally felt that | the end of the conference is only a matter of a few days, possibly hours. | There is a possibility that some! sort of patched-up proposals, accept- able to all sides will be made on minor | points that will leave untouched the! question of cruiser tonnage and naval | bases. Kawasaki Cruisers To Be Finished By Tokio Navy Yards TOKIO, July 20—The Navy De-! partment has agreed to take over the construction of two cruisers and four submarines started by the Kawasaki Dockyard Company, and abandoned by it because of inability to pay the wag- es of its 8,000 workers. The Kawasaki Company is going | through a financial crisis, having been involved in the recent crash of | the 16th bank. It is expected, how-! ever, that the company will weather | its. difficulties without resorting to the bankruptcy courts. A recent report from Tokio that the Japanese government would not come to the assistance of the dock- yard has evidently precipitated the present decision to continue the build- ing of the cruisers, important polit-| ical pressure having apparently been brought to bear on Premier Tanaka, Keep Up the Sustaining Fund) A “Flying Governor” Now. HARTFORD, Conn., July 20.—Col. | Charles A. Lindbergh landed here at | 2:17 this afternoon from Mitchell | Field, Long Island, on the first stop | of his nation-wide tour of the 48 states. } Political Prisoners To | Be Extradited to Spain; Hunger Strike in France PARIS, July 8 (By Mail).—The three Spanish anarchists, Assaso, Durrete, and Jover, who are in | prison in France prior to”their ex- | tradition to the Argentine, where || i| they are wanted for what are || _| really political offenses, began a ‘| hunger strike yesterday. to| Hope Versus Depression. “There is an inspiring buoyancy and | hope permeating the masses of Rus- | sia,” said Gitlow, “compared to the | depression and deep-going discontent jof labor in the capitalist countries. | The contrast was especially noticeable | alone: the Soviet border, especially | where such countries as Poland, Lith- uania and Latvia lie close to the terri- |tory of the Workers’ Republic.” diers,” continued Gitlow. “These sol- diers are not only intended for use in the developing war against the | Soviet Union, but also against the! Polish workers, who struggle against their misery.” Capitalism Sits on Volcano. In discussing the recent develop- ments in Austria, Gitlow declared that this revealed the merefy relative | stabilization of capitalism. He pointed | out that the Vienna uprising revealed another wide crack in the thin crust | supporting predatory rule in wester: | Europe. : “The events at Vienna,” he said, \ actually resting on a slumbering vol- | eano, This Vesuvius may appear| | quiet for the time being. But appear- | ances are only deceiving. “The struggle of the Vienna work- ers shows that there is a basis for | armed actions of the workers and for | i eereladoiaey insurrections in Eur- | ope. In this situation the socialist | leaders appear as specialists for the | bourgeoisie in their efforts to keep | |<Se lid of oppression on the voleano | {of unrest.” } Gitlow also reviewed the persecu-| tion to which the French Communist | Party is being subjected at the pres- | ent time, with indictments pending | against all the members of the party’s | political committee. Pierre Semard, | secretary of the party, Jacque Doriot, | and Marcel Cachin, Communist mem- | bers of the chamber of deputies, are | now in prison. | “The French party is being perse- | cuted at this time,” declared Gitlow, | “mainly because of its attack against | French militarism. The French party | in carrying on its anti-militaristic | work, has one of the best records of | all the parties in the Comintern.” | Gitlow made a study of the trade union movements in the countries he | visited, | Jay Lovestone, acting secretary of | the Workers (Communist) Party, as also returned to this! country after al | Union. While in Europe he gathered considerable material concerning the Economic Conference of the League of Nations, and the Tri-Partite Naval Conference, both held at Geneva, Switzerland. Hoover Visits Cal; Asks Extra Session to Plan Flood Loan CUSTER, S. D., July 20.—Secre- | tary of Commerce Hoover arrived here | today for a conference with President | Coolidge upon the advisability of call- | | | ing an extra session of congress | 4, around Noy. 1. Mr. Coolidge came over to the train | to greet him—an event—but it served to prevent news- | papermen from talking with Hoover) until after he had seen the president. | While Hoover would make no com-) ment, prior to his conference with Mr. | Coolidge, it was indicated he favors) calling an extra session in advance of | the regular December session. Hoover| believes funds’ now available for re-| lief work will be exhausted by Novem- ber 1 or at the latest by December 1. Coolidge Opposes Session. Hoover has |machinery for lending money to the} farmers caught by the Mississippi |flood, at a profit to the participants | lin his “credit corporations,” but needs! {cheap government finances to carry it | thra, Coolidge, it is understood, fears an extra session because of the dan-| ger that a stampede for giving instead | of lending relief funds to the flood sufferers may develop, and because unpleasant facts about the peonage of Negro farm hands, and the graft in levee construction may come out. Have Paid Your Contribution to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund? “Poland is a camp of armed sol-| ¥ |“show that European capitalism is| { trip to Europe, including the a | unprecedented | gy arranged a complete) J The Field Behind the main lines of the Daily Worker Army, there is the great body of field officers leading the _attack against the capitalist enemy. Ce This field staff consists of the Daily Worker Agents, who are covering innumerable strategic posts on the battle front of the class war. The Daily Worker Army can permit no weakening of its lines anywhere on the battle front. ' For this reason we must demand the utmost activity on the part of our field stuff. GY Where our | field officers do not earry on:the fight vigorously enough against the.enemy, where they do not show. tangible:results, | the discipline of our Proletarian Army demands that they be : removed and that more energetic » comrades be put in their places, : BAS The victory of the Daily Worker Army in its drive for Five Thousand New Readers depends to a large extent upon the smooth working of the machinery of our field forces, upon the efficiency of our Daily Worker Agents in every city and town, ' in every factory and residentiat district, ae