The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1927, Page 2

| | Page Two Aircraft Bombs Menace? Colorado Coal Miners (Continued from Page One) | American (Civil Liberties Union asks recognition by the state authorities nf the right to strike and picket peace- fully for the miners on strike in the Colorado coal fields. Protest was made against the governor’s public statement 1 the I. W. W. as orneys fer the n are aiding the ining their rights idering a court test of ing law being used kers. The telegram is ment i rizing A ion of workers who by peaceful means are endeavoring to improve their work and living con- ditions is deplored by citizens throughout the country desirous of maintaining traditional nerican civil rights. As an organization de- yoted to this purpose we respectfully urge that the state afford equal pro- tection for both sides involved in the industrial controversy. As far as we know the only mce that has oc- eurred in the strike field has been precipitated by local police and com- pany guards who raided and wrecked I. W. W. headquarters at Walsenburg and Pueble. May we have .your as- surance that the right to strike and picket will be recognized?” ° ° . Wage Commission Meets. CHICAGO, (FP) Oct. 28—Until' now engaged in routine discussion, the Mlinois joint wage commission of} miners and operators that came into| THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1927 and Fights for Rights of Their Child Bi a v Photograph of Nan Britton, who knew the late President Harding when éxistence at the conclusion of the half | he was a member of the town band out in Ohio, and up to the time of his year suspension in the coal fields,/death. Her book, “The President’s Daughter,” has driven all respectable cal program, that it could create so took up its first serious problem on| Oct. 25. The miners and owners met | at the Great Northern hotel to solve | the important question of mechanical devices for mining coal. This question of new machinery) constituted one of the bases upon| which the settlement of the soft coal strike in District 12 of the United} Mine Workers union was made on} Oct. 1. It was a point pressed by the | operators and called for “an attempt | to reach an agreement.” | The operators have never ceased to} complain about the competition of the| scab mines of Kentucky and West| Virginia and put forward as one of} the means of eliminating the dis-| paragement between the wages of union and non-union workers, the in-} troduction of labor-saving devices in| the union mines. | Will Lose Jobs. Hl The 72,000, miners now in Illinois would be considerably reduced in number by the installation of the: hi desired by the operators. under present methods, | e is no doubt there are too many! s for the number of jobs. » the machine question} ly a network of controversy all manner of equipment for loading, sheering, scraping and con-| veying. Almost every mine, using various types of equipment, offers a problem in itself. An effort will be republicans wild. made to agree upon a flat rate for | each field. It is upon this question of day and tonnage rates to correspond with the equipment used that the joint wage commission will find itself sharply livided between representatives of the miners and spokesmen for the operators. This is the real knotty problem before it and upon the solv- ing of it depends whether or not the miners will stay at work or leave the mines again at the end of the six month truce, April 1. SHANGHAI TEACHER STRIKE. SHA HAI, China, Oct. 28.—Two hundred and eighty teachers in schools in the native section of Shanghai returned to their jobs to- day when the Nanking government agreed to submit the teachers’ case to arbitration. ST. LOUIS I. L.D. MEETING. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 28—A gen- eral membership meeting of the In- ternational Labor Defense will be held Wednesday, Nov 2, 8 p. m., at the Labor Lyceum, 1243 N. Garrison St., St. Louis. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS REMEMBER the CLASS-WAR PRISONERS their wives and children who have been victimized because of their activities in the labor movement THIS CHRISTMAS International Labor Defense unites all forces in the labor moyement willing to co-operate in a fight against the frame-up system, defends militant workers against im- prisonment and deportation and gives financial assistance to the class-war prisoners and their dependents. Each month it sends $5 to the men in prison and $20 each to their dependents. This Christmas International Labor Defense will send $25 each to the men, $50 each to their wives and $5 each _ to their children as a special expression of solidarity with . Wili You Help Send a Message of Class Solidarity? them. P Show them that those on the outside have not forgotten them by disposing of a book 10¢ each. . FILL IN TODAY AND JINT: TIO 80 East 11th Room 402, New York City. Enciosed find §3 for which ple: mas coupons at 1c h mates and neighbors the class-war prisone help to them for Christmas. AL LABOR D and their of 30 Christmas coupons at MAIL IMMEDIATELY ——--@ book of 30 Christ- | ry friends, Ase dependents INTERNATIONAL Ta LABOR DEFENSE Nan Britton Fights For Harding’s Name On an Illegitimate Further efforts are being made, say bookdealers, to stop the sale of | “The President’s Daughter,” written by Nan Britton, who was, she states, the mistress of the late President Harding over a long period of years, during which he was putting on a front of ultra-respectability and fore- ing his associates of the “Ohio gang” | to an outward conformity with con- ventions much against their desires. Nan Britton declares that one result of her association with the President of the United States was an illegiti mate daughter, whom she now wishes recognized as a member of the Hard- ing family, and properly taken care of. Many Spicy Tales. This is but the latest of a series of seandals that rocked the Republican administration of President Harding, the apostle of open shop and “normal- cy.” The man who put him over at |the convention where he was consid- ered merely an “also ran” up to the |time of breaking the deadlock, was Jake Hamon. Jake was scheduled for the Interior department; but Harding insisted that he leave the. woman with whom he was living “openly and no- toriously” and go back to his wife. |Jake did the best to comply, but the deserted mistress shot and killed him. Jesse Smith, keeper of the “little green house” where Attorney General Daugherty, Hamon, Harding, and others gathered nightly, “committed suicide” there, under very suspicious circumstances, and Teapot Dome graft charges climaxed the career. Harding’s death was a boom to the conspirators, for it centered sympathy on him. It was a most opportune death for the Ohio gang, and not de- void of a certain mystery, itself. By EARL BROWDER. ‘OR the third time the Trade Union Educational League is holding a general National Conference. When it meets in New York on December | 8-4, it will mark an important period in the history of American trade junionism., Its deliberations and de- jcisions will affect the future course ‘of the labor movement, and thereby |the whole devglopment of America. When the T.U.E.L. held its first| National Conference, in September, 1922, it had been known for only six months, except to the few who had been organizing it during the pre- vious two years. Its introduction to the broad masses was the work of Samuel Gompers, who in April, 1922, launched a great campaign of denun- ciation against the T.U.E.L., with the \full assistance of the boss-controlled |daily newspapers of the country. | This action was followed by the gov- |ernment, which conducted several po- | lice raids against the T.U.E.L., ar- rested Foster, the Secretary, and {finally raided the First National {Conference, arresting 17 delegates | who were held in jail a few days and ‘then released. By these means ‘the | T.U.E.L. was made to appear as a | “dangerous” organization. The for- |eces of government, employers, and |reactionary labor leaders, aided by the press and church, made a des- | perate attack against the T.U.E.L. al- |most before it was born. HY was the T.U.E.L. attacked so viciously? What was its practi-| {much hysteria among the reaction- \aries? | The immediate program of the |T.U.E.L. was quite simple. It em- |phasized two points: first, amalga- jmation of the divided craft unions, |along industrial lines, into a series of {powerful industrial unions; second, j the formation of a labor party to centralize the scattered political power of the working class. There were two reasons why these simple demands awoke such fears. First, a turning point had been reached in the American labor move- {ment. The officialdom*of the trade \unions was embarking upon a new policy of intensive collaboration with the employers, but the membership, on the contrary, were in a fighting }mood; several great strikes had been lost (packing house, textiles) or were ‘in progress (railroad, shop crafts) or were’in preparation (coal miners). There was a growing labor party movement springing yp all over the ‘ountry. The mass% were restless d resisting the neW policies of the official leadership. Secondly, the T.U.E.L. program had at once received tremendous mass support in the trade unions. The amalgamation resolution spon- sored by the T.U.E.L. was being adopted by big majorities in almost very labor body which met during 1922, State Federations of Labor and city central bodies, containing a najority of organized labor, had ap- oroved the resolution. The movement for a labor party was receiving the same mass support. * * * URING 1922 and half of 1923, the movement grew phenomenally, in spite of all attacks. It was only af- ter July 3, 1928, that the reactionary orces could gain the offensive. That period began with the surrender of the “progressives” who had hitherto given more or less support to the movement (Fitzpatrick, et al), fol- lowing the Labor Party split of that date, ' 4 When the Second National Confer- ence of the T.U.E.L. occurred in Sep- tember, 1923, the left wing was in the midst of its first big fight against LECTURES AND FORUMS OCT, 30—*What the World Owes NOV. 13—*Lenin and Gandhi: Aposties of Utopia” y tion: Must ‘They Always Be Opposed” | NOV, 27—“America and Russia: When Shall They Be Friends” | | | NOV. 20—*Religion and Rev: Services at 11 A, M. } i | | THE COMMUNITY CHURCH, Park Avenue and 34th Street All Seats Free. | These sermons will be printed and | or 35¢ for a bound bool ~ JOHN HAYNES HOLMES | “RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION” to the Bolsheviki” — All Persons Welcome, copies may be procured at 10¢ each | Klet of the four in one. LABOR TEMPLE 14th Street and Second Avenue THIS SUNDAY 5 Pp. M— DR. G. F. BECK “The Book of the Month” ADMISSION 25 CENTS | 7:15 P. M— | LEON R. LAND | “Does Faith in God Make for O| Social Progress” ADMISSION FREE 8:30 P. M.—Open Forum DR. WILL DURANT “The Quest for Happiness” ADMISSION FREE OOODOOOONNOOO0000000000000. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS lS First Forum Lecture of the Year TOMORROW, 8 P. M., at the WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM 108 Hast 14th Street JAY LOVESTONE Executive Secretary of the arty will speak on “Political Prospects for 1928” An analysis of changing class forces and thelr effects upon American polities. Admission 25¢. Send your name and address to the office of the Workers School and you will receive announcements of future Forum lectures. Ponsa oe, EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM At the Church of All Nations 2 Second Avenue (near Houston) GEORGE COLLINS will speak on “18 FORCE JUSTIFIABLE IN INDUSTRIAL CONFLICTS?” October 30, 8:30 P. | the the expulsion program which has since become so familiar in America. Begun by the officials of the LL.G.W.U. in Chicago (Perlstein) expulsion policy was quickly given the blessings of the A. F. of L. leaders when, at the Portland conven- tion, they expelled Wm. F. Dunne, | regularly elected delegate of the Sil-| | ver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly, sole | from the convention on the ground of his support of the T.U.E.L. policy and the fact that Dunne is a Communist. Since that time the movement has had a constant struggle for life. In this struggle, in spite of many de- feats and moments of internal weak- ness, the T.U.E.L. has established it- self as the indispensable central or- gan of the American left wing, and has many signal victories for pro- gress to its credit. * * * HE left wing gained the overwhelm- ing majority support in the Fur- riers and Ladies Garment Workers’ Unions. Fighting against the em- ployers, who were assisted by govern- ment and A. F. of L. officials, the left wing succeeded in establishing for the first time in America the 5- day week of 40 hours. This success even forced the A. F. of L. to adopt the demand. The left wing led the Passaic un- organized textile workers, and in spite of the active sabotage of the A. F. of L., forced that bedy to ac- cept the new union, which gained a partial victory after 11 months strike. In this struggle the left wing set a new high standard in relief work. with the nation-wide organization of the Passaic Strike Relief which be- came a real mass movement. Through this struggle another slogan of the to the foreground, namely, “Organ- ize the Unorganized.” * * * UNDREDS of other battles were fought, in all of which some gains were made in educating and mobiliz- ing the masses. In the railway in- dustry the left wing rallied a great rank and file movement which was only dispersed by the crushing de- feat of the shop strike, followed by blacklists, persecutions, expulsions, ete., by the-officialdom. In the min- ers’ union, even Lewis was forced to credit the left wing with a third of the total vote in ly24, and in 1926, the progressive and left wing bloc made a similar showing, in both cases having’ actually ‘cast a majority of votes, although being cheated out of the election by Lewis. In-the metal, building, auto, rubber, and other in- dustries, similar movements took place. The movement has been through @ period of sharp, intense struggles in every industry. And now the time has come for another general get-together of the left wing elements of all industries to draw the lessons of the past few years. In spite of the terrific pres- sure put upon the movement; it has come through with the, spirit and program intact and deepened. Those signs of weakening in the struggle that appeared for a short time have now disappeared. The movement is ready for another forward develop- ment. The masses are beginning to stir with discontent against the of- ficial policy of submission to the em- ployers. No progress can possibly come out of the official leadership of the A. F. of L. This fact has been overwhelm- ingly. demonstrated again at the Los Angeles Convention just ended. Even the capitalist press has exclaimed in surprise at the extreme reactionary spirit which ruled at Los Angeles. Every trade union who wishes to work for progress can now see clear- ly that the T.U.E.L. is the center of the only active forces in that direction. To make these forces stronger, to swing the entire Amer- ican labor movement away from its present disintegration and decay, to work for amalgamation, a labor par- ty, and organization of the unorgan- d. every group of progressive and revolutionary trade unionists must send delegates to the Third National eational League at New York City, December 3-5, 1927. on Trade Uniona Soviet Russia Ilistory Social Studies Political Economy Philosophy Science Communism Fiction Literature Poetry Art THE DAILY WORKER BOOK DEPT. 33 First Street New York, N. Y, SEND FOR A CATALOGUE —S one . M. Everyone Invited. Admission Free. T.U.E.L. was dramatized and brought | Says She Was President Harding’s Mistress Conference of the Trade Union! Educational League | Conference of the Trade Union Edu-|$ |6; Superior, Wis., Nov. 7, 7:30 p. m.; Meetings All Over the Anniversary Celebration Country for the ‘Tenth of Bolshevik Revolution The celebration of the tenth anni-?Hall, 54 Belmont se) Speakers:, Ber- versary of the Russian revolution by} the workers of the United States will! last for an entire week. Besides the| mass meetings arranged for all parts | of the country, many affairs of a so: cial character are scheduled. In Seattle and several near-by ci- ties, there will be social affairs and banquets in which workers of many | nationalities will take part. | Meetings have already been ar-| ranged as follows: Minnesota Tours. St. Paul, Nov. 5; Minnesota, Nov. Duluth, Nov. 7, 8:30 p. m., Iron Range, Nov. 8. Benjamin. Gitlow speaks at the above méetings. Ohio Meetings. Akron, Nov. 18, 2:30 p. m. i. Am- ter, H. Scott. 50 Howard street. Cleveland, Nov. 6, 2:30 p, m, A. Bittelman, I, Amter, E. Boich, F. Yes- sikoff (YWL), Revolutionary Play, and Concert. Moose Hall, 1000 Wal- nut street. Canton, Nov. 6, 7:30 p. m. A. Bit-} telman, H. Scott. | Cincinnati, Nov. 6, 7:30 p. m. T. Johnson. Toledo, Noy. 18, Prominent speak- | ers, Youngstown, Nov. 6, 2:30 p.m. J. Brahtin, L. Sirotnik (YWL). 369 E. Federal St. Warren, Nov. 6, 7:30 p. m. J. Brahtin. Hippodrome Bldg. Martinsferry, Nov. 6, 2:30 p, m. Carl Hacker. Hungarian Hall. Yorkville, Nov. 6, 7:30 p. m. Carl | Hacker. Miners’ Hall. | Pittsburgh and Vicinity. | The Pittsburgh meeting will be| held Sunday evening, Nov. 6, at 8| o’elock at Labor Lyceum. On Satur- day evening, Nov. 5, Ambridge will! celebrate and on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 there will be a meeting at Ar- nold. H. M. Wicks will be the speak- er at all the above meetings. Boston and Vicinity. Norwood, Mass., Nov. 5th, 7:30 p. m. Lithuanian Hall, 13 St. George Avenue. Speakers: Bishop Wm. M. Brown and Dr. Konikow. Concord, N. H., Nov. 5th, 8 p. m., Oak Hall, W. Concord. Speaker: Al Binch, Wilton, N. H., Nov. 5th, 8 p. m,, Stanton Hall. Lanesville, Mass., Nov. 5th, 8 p. m., New Hall. Speaker: Jack Karas. Gardner, Mass., Nov. 5th, 8 p. m., Casino Hall, 75 Main St. Speaker: H. J. Canter. Boston, Mass., Nov. 6th, 2 p. m, Scenic Auditorium, 12 Berkeley St. (Corner Tremont). Speakers: Ber- tram D. Wolfe, S. Weisman, A. Bail, Chairman; Nat Kay, YWL; and Rob- ert Zelms in Russian. Lynh, Mass., Nov. 7th, 8 p. m., Las- ters Hall, 34 Monroe St. Worcester, Mass., Nov. 6th, 8 p. m., Belmont Brazilian Weiter Searches American Bosses’ Violence RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Oct. 28. —Writing in the Correio da Manha, one of Brazil’s leading newspapers, Evaristo de Moraes discusses the ra- cial and religious intolerance preval- ent in the United States, and the reckless methods used by employers in the class war here. The article’ is entitled: “Why Sacco and Vanzetti did not escape the death penalty,” and among the reasons given are the following: Negroes Persecuted. “No one ignores what happens, especially in some of the southern states, with the individuals more or less related with the black race. From the darkest Negro to the light- est mulatto, no matter whether he is intelligent, virtuous or useful to his white countrymen, he does not de- serve any consideration or respect. He is not really a man, although the laws of the constitution may have conferred on him the rights of a citi- zen. Therefore, he is not entitled to the protection of the common laws, nor subject to the special laws, and deprived! of human consideration. an offense of crime, no r atter how all, is :ommitted against a white son, the case is not always sub- itted to the tribunals. Frequently they are lynched, licked, torn to pieces, burned alive in a_ public square and abused, and in quite a few cases even beaten and killed. K. K. K. and Dayton. “Organized as a secret society and its members going about with fan- tastie dresses, the Ku Klux Klan had from the start good people from vari- ous social status, who did not hesi- tate in committing all kinds of ¢rimes for the good of the racial antagon- isms. Recently the association came forth with the double purpose of per- secuting ‘black men’ and to persecute the Catholics, proceeding as hereto- fore without being molested by the public authorities. A case of religious intolerance recently came up by try- ing a professor for teaching the Dar- win theories, deviating himself from the Biblical versicn, To all this must be added the industrial or bossy in- tolerance which conducts to prac- tices such as these: The bosses or- ganizing in certain classes of work a real army of strikebreakers armed to the teeth and with the sole pur- tram D. Wolfe speaker at both places. Fitchburg, Mass., Nov 6th) 8p. m., Club Hall, 9 Prichard St. Speak- Fred E. Beal. Quincy, Mass., Nov. 6th, Malnati Hall, 4 Liberty St. Nat Kay. Maynard Mass., No Waltham Street Hall, V 8 p. Mey Speaker: Speakers: R. Shohan and R Zelms. Providence, R. IL, N 6, 6. 30 p. m., A. C, A. Hall, 1 Westminister. St. Speakers: Bishop Brown, L. Nar- della and L. Marks, chairman. Springfield, Mass., Nov. 7th, 8 pe m., Liberty Hall, 592 Dwight St. Speakers: Bishop Brown and Max Lerner. Philadelphia and Anthracite. The Philadelphia meeting. will. be |held Friday, Nov. 4th, at Labor. Insti- tute, 808 Locust Ave., with William. F. Dunne and Jack Stachel. as speak~ ers. William F. Dunne will speak at Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, Nov. 5. Connecticut Celebration. Stamford, New Haven and Bridge |port will have meetings on Nov., 6 and Hartford on Noy. 11, . All meet- ings are in the cvening except Rridgeport which is in the afternoon. Waterbury will hold its celebration on Nov. 5. Many Other Meetings. Kansas City will have its meeting Nov. 7th and Omaha Nov. 8th, with Jay Lovestone as speaker at both places. Stanley Hall will. also' speak at Kansas City. Buffalo will have its. celebration at the Workers Party Hall on Nov, 6 in the evening, while Erie, Pa., will hold its meeting in the afternoon, with Pat Devine at both places. Detroit will hold its meeting on Nov. 6, in the Arena Gardens with Robert Minor as the principal speak- er. On Nov. 4th Albert Weisbord speaks at Flint, Mich., and‘at Muske- gon on the 18th. a3 Wn. Z. Foster speaks at Paterson, N. J., on the evening of Nov. 11th, while on the 18th H. M. Wicks speaks in Passaic and John J. Ballam’ ‘at Newark. New York and Chicago. On Sunday, Nov. 6, there ‘will be three big demonstrations in New York City ‘at the New Star Casino and the Central Opera Housé in Man- hattan and Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn. In Chicago, on Nov. 6,'Jay Love- stone will be the principal speaker. A number of other imectings have been arranged but no definite date has been assigned’ thém. Among them are Denver and Pueblo Colo., at which Hugo Oehler will speak;’ Butte and Great Falls, Mont., where’ Stanley Clark will speak. “Baltimore, will have a meeting that is not yet completely arranged. A Meetings up-state are being ar” ranged for Pat Devine ‘at’ Rochester, Syracuse, Schenectady and other places. ees : further information regarding meetings, halls, speakers, etc., will be published in The DAILY WORKER‘ as soon as possible. ‘ Union Exposes Big Salaries of Super Insurance Officers Advancement is fast for the Metro- politan Life Insurance Co. employe if he happens to be the son of the president of the concern. “Haley Fiske, Jr., just two years out of col- lege, has already climbed the salary ladder to $40,000 a year. as There is good money too in being. the father of the son of the president.’ _ Haley Fiske, Sr., is rated at $150,000 * a year and latest report would lift - him into the $200,000 platform of se- eurity. Filske is a director of the ‘ National Civic Federation, This data and more has come to the offices of the Bookkeepers’, Steno- graphers’ and Accountants’ Union which is campaigning to unionize the 10,000 employes of the Metropolitan who get $12 a week when they start, and most of them not much more that sum now. The data is lifted » from the books of the company by a friend of the union on the inside. A few of the toppers in the salary 4, roll that he named are the followi Heavy Overhead. y} Haley. Fiske, president, $150,0(00- . $200,000; Haley Fiske, Jr., $40,000; Frederick H. Ecker, vice pres., $125,- - 000; Francis 0. Ayres, 2nd V, P., $39,- 000; Robert Lyn Cox, 2nd V, P., $39,- 000; Harry J.:Miller,:2nd V..P., $29,- :° 000; Leo K. Frankel,“2nd Vo P., $35,- © 000; James E. Kavanagh, 2nd V. P,, - $39,000; Henry W. George, Treas, $32,000; Walter Stabler, comptroller, $31,000; Ernest K, Wilkes, 3rd V. P., $25,000; Henry Bruere, 8rd V. P., : $22,000; “Archibald F.C, Fiske, 3rd V. P., $27,000; Alexander C. Camp-.° bell, 8rd V. P., $27,000; Leroy A. Lin- coln, general counsel, $36,000; Wm. J. - Tulley, . general solicitor, $27,000; ; ‘Thos. H. Willard, M. D., medical di- < rector, $24,000; Augustus _S. Knight, medical ~ director, $24,000; Ingalls Kimball, director of group annuities, $25,000, Bi i A total of 25 officers: of Metropoli-. tan Life are paid $20,000 a year or © more, according to the union’s list. pose of dominating the strikers by terror, licking them and forcing them to enter the factory.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS