The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY; DECEMBER 8, 1927 BIG NAVY BLOG GETS BUSY ON COOLIDCE PLAN Encounter Weak Opposition Will Only WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. ng the lead given by Presider idge in his erday swung into congres: demand for fur to ele-|™ vate the big 14 and 16 battleships so that t will be increased. Opposition to the ele guns comes from two q group of opponents declar such action would be Y the 1921-22 W: gton tion conference and tional complications relation to Great B: the other group de: bitious naval program i would be a waste of mon stituting for the big na demand for concentrati forces. Will Start Fight at Once. The legislative battle was scheduled to break during consideration of the first deficiency bill, made the major business of the house today and to- morrow. To Ask Appropriation. “I will offer an amendment for the | approximate $1,000,000 necessary to elevate the guns on the Oklahoma and Nevada,” said Rep. Britten, of Illi- nois, a “big navy” bloc leader. Rep. McClintic of Oklahoma, an- other member of the naval affairs committee, will oppose the plan. Women's Party Now Openly Favers the Long Day for Women WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—How com-| pletely the National Woman’s Party, which grew out of the old Congres- sional Union for Woman Suffrage and which led the militant suffrage struggle in the years 1914-20, has fallen into the hands of anti-labor! elements, was shown at the capitol! within an hour after Congress met. | Chairman Norris of the senate jud- iciary committee had consented to! meet, immediately, a delegation of| the Woman’s Party who wanted to urge that this committee hold hear-| ings on their proposed constitutional | amendment. This measure proposed | “equal rights” under the federal and | state laws, as between men and wom-| en. Its real meaning was disclosed in| all its industrial significance by Mrs. | Jane Norman Smith, the new ch man of the Party since the ret ment of Miss Alice Paul. ‘Radio Commission Still ' Making Air Safe for Its _ Pets Granted Monopolies ns on range ng age sub- ma air rogT: on The Federal Radio Commission his preparing to force 300 broad-| | l easting concerns out of the radio| | i field. In the recent International | Wireless Conference, Secretary | | Herbert C. Hoover put over a pro- gram designed to keep radio broad- | jeasting control in the hands of} | private organizations rather than jexelusive governmental control. | Hoover also attempted to crowd South American countries out by jcaving them the least d Wave lengths. Now the comn ion is completing the program by crowding out the smal! concerns. According to O. H. Caldweli,| | Commissioner of the New York| | area, this will be accomplished by | | dis¢ontinuing 300 licenses which| | ‘Vwere issued Dec. 1st for a sixty| | day period. Caldwell felt certain | that the Supreme court would sup-| port this action. | Progressives In House Yield to Administration The farm and the re house of con- WA bloc on the basis of which is mean- the alleged “ ich this elem cultural com- s that they the new cong! 2 ole ol Principles ys. Jobs. , the principles of the farm mething to be bartered for jobs was revealed when a vs. ee’ on committees ives Hope of Kan- New York to fill vith all last year’s to the house mittee. “Bill” Philadelphia latest hoodlum congressman, James M. Beck, whose seat in the house has been q joned, was appointed on the important interstate commrerce commission. LaGuardia of New York . former LaFollette supporter who ran on the socialist ticket at the same time he stood as a “progressive” re- publ was given a place on the judiciary committee. Other Commiitee Appointments. In addition to selecting members of committees in the last congress, the committee on committees recommend- ed the following other republican member: Judieiz and LaGuardia; interstate commerce, Noble Johnson of Indiana and Beck; agriculture, Clarke of New York and Hope of Kansas; rivers and harbers, Hudsen of Michigan, Houston of Delaware and Neidringhause of Mi: foreign affairs, Browne of Wi consin, Korell of Oregon, Haas of Minnesota; military affairs, Johnson of Illinois, Hughes of West Virginia, Hoffman of New Jersey; naval af- fairs, Hale of New Hampshire. Evans | of California, Taugenherst, Jr., of Ohio, Wolverton of New Jersey, Han- dock of New York; post offices and post roads, Buckbee of Illinois, South- rich of Pennsylvania, Bonn of Michi- gan. In naming Rep. Browne of Wiscon- sin to the foreign affairs committee the republican recognized a former Wisconsin insurgent, who was “fired” from the party three years ago. Missouri Insurance Board Covered Up Company Wash Loan ST. LOUIS, Mo., . 7, — Charg- ing that the Continental Life Insur ance Co., and the International Life Insurance Co., both of this city, had made interlocking loans amounting to over fifty percent of their capital stock, the California state insurance ioner notified the Missouri nce Department that he would investigate and asked / action from e California commissioner plainly 1 that the Missouri commission at least careless, and “rushed” examination of insurance companies. He said that Commissioner Hyde of Missouri had admitted some time be- fo shape, and promised to try and get its affairs straightened out. The meeting at which the Cali- | fornia commissioner made his present charges is an adjourned meeting from the one held in Cleveland, at Cincin- nati, last September. Save Greco and Carrillo! What Januar Mean to Workers? Does | y¥. 13th: Homer W. Hall, Illinois | > while at a meeting in Los Ange-| les that the Continental was in bad! (Rykoff (Continued from Page One) |must decide to make the Opposition | harmless.” 7 peech by Yaroslavsky ended the discussion on lin’s report. | In the mornin: i workers’ | ities of the Republics delegations f | Union of greeted the f he ed iet resulting of the righ in Baku. | te upon Stalin’s re-| ting keen 3 Sarkis, the leader of the |Baku Opposition, predicted t Opposition would not engage re | struggle until after the fifteenth con- | jer Therefore, it is a question of| | whom to believe, Kamenev, who swore | s patched up when the all-/that the Opposition would submit to|0f the Opposition. In reply, Rykov, jall the decisions of the Par y, or Sar- kis, foretelling the continuation of } |the struggle. Kamenev’s declaration | |is merely a maneuvre whereby the | | Opposition seeks to gain time in order | to break their promises at any mo- ment.” After speeches by Radchenko of the ine and Riutin of Moscow, Tom- | sky, in his speech declar “Kamen- | ev, in the first part of his speech, | speaks of a reconciliation with the} Pz , While in the second part, he speaks of the intention of the Op-| position to carry on its struggle. Hostile to Leninism, “As a matter of fact, the Opposi- in defending its vie intolerable for the F ty, since Trotskyism is incomp: with Leninism. The Oppositon seeks to get amnesty from the Party, and | yet it wishes to bring in its miserable | baggage—Ruth Fischer, Maslov, Souvarine, ete. | “And what does it give the Party jin return? The Opposition declares |that it agrees to the dissolution ‘of |the fraction. However, the Party: it- | self undertakes this operation. The | Opposition is clearly trying to obtaing breathing space. Actually, the Op- position stands upon the threshold of | the Party, and must choose between | either to return to the Party—or to | expulsion.” | Muraloy Stopped. | Muralov, whose speech was con- |stantly interrupted by cries of pro-| |test from the delegates, put forward |the Opposition’s complaint. He pre- | tended that the Party refused to dis- | cuss its views, ete. Muralov’s words provoked unanimous indignation from the delegates, so that eventually Mur- alov was compelled to give up his at- tempt at making a speech. Nikolaieva, who at the time of the fourteenth: congress was still among | the opposition ranks, declared that | the workers demand strong measures | {against the oppesition, which, thru | Trotzkyism had been robbed of judg- ment. . | | | Opposition’s Defeat. | Larin declared that the discussion | proves the utter defeat of the oppo- | sition politically, morally and ideo- | |logically. While at the fourteenth |congress, the opposition could be | characterized as a petty bourgeoi |group, during the period which le jup to the fifteenth congress, it be. ne the instrument of the bourgeoi- | * * * | (Special Cable to The DAILY j WORKER). | MOSCOW, WU. S. S. R., Dec. 6.— | Yesterday’s session of the Fifteenth | Congress of the Communist Party of |the Soviet Union showed the whole |congress as one man behind te Cen- |tral Committee of the Party, unani- mously approving its Leninist policy. All the gpeakers emphasized the fact that the Opposition must be liqui- dated in the interest of further social- ist construction. Opposition Splits With Workers. | The keynote of the congress was {expressed when Krupskaya declared: “The main cause of all the mistakes |of the Opposition is that they no |longer feel the needs of the working class. A number of elements have joined the Opposition and thus have brot it to an abyss. There can be no treaty relations with the Opposition.” Some See Error. | _ Declaring that in the ranks of the | Opposition are many individuals whe jalready have perceived its’ mistakes, | Krupskaya said that it at the same | | time contains many who are using it jin order to carry on their activit | Which are hostile to the Communist | Party of the Soviet Union. | War Danger. “Rakovsky has declared, as the Op- position has already said in the plen- jary session of the Central committee in August, that it will in the event of a danger of war, defend the Soviet Union conditionaliy under the pres- }ent leadership of the Communist! |Party and the Communist Interna-| tional, In the field of international | policy the Party has made many mis-! takes. The Party underestimat the policy of the world bourgeoisie aim- ing at the full isolation of the Sov Union. On the other hand it over-| estimated the sympathies of the toil- Demands Dissolution of Opposition _ In Russian Communist Party Discussion -| “the Opposition wants to frighten the | Threaten Schism. “What kind of Communist would Rakovsky be if at a Party Congress | he declared he would not defend the Soviet Union against the bourgeoisie? The Opposition here declared that they would fight to defend the Soviet | Union, but the numerous documents | prove that the Opposition’s work is} directed not in strengthening, but her in weakening the Soviet Union. | The declaration handed in by the Op- position is the most hypocritical so} far issued.” | Continuing, Rudsatuk declared that | y with the danger of schism, but rgets that if 400 intellectuals are | elled from the Party it means not | chism, but cleansing the Party. | Wants Full Disarmament. | During the evening session decla-} ions were made by: Kamenev and vdolimov which showed that they ere abandoning the point of view Pp. it £ amidst ‘stormy applause, declared that: the Party demands full ideo- logical disarmament of the Opposi- Horrors of Life in Southern Mills Are Told in Interview By BLANCH O’CONNOR GASTONIA, N. C., (FP) Dec. 7.— “We can’t get a house from the mill. We've only been married a few years, and haven’t any children old enough to work in the mill. And the Man- ville-Jenckes people insist there must be at least three workers in the family before they'll rent a house, These words came from a young woman who looked 30, but said she was 22. She had worked four years in the Loray mill of the Manville- Jenckes company, which also controls cotton mills in Rhode Island. Her husband works in the Loray mill, too, where she met him several years ago. Three in a Room. “The company runs two dormitor- ies, one for the men and the other for women, but none for young married couples,” she explained. “So we rent a room and eat out. Next week we’re going to move into a boarding house, : “The company charges $4.50 a week for.a room at the dormitory with the understanding .that three people will occupy it. The rate is $2 a person, but if there are only two, they have to pay the extra 50 cents. The company says it doesn’t want to waste ‘any space. Low Wages. “But we really wouldn’t mind that if we could get decent wages,” she continued. “Really, you’re the first person I’ve talked to in months. We can’t associate much, you know, with the people uptown. And I’m glad you’re a newspaper woman. I wish people would learn about conditions here at the Loray mill. “We're making about $24 a week, which isn’t enough to raise a family n. And I won’t bring any kids into he world while we only make that much. It wouldn’t be fair to them. $9 per Week. “My husband makes $14.02 a week in the carding room. No, I don’t know what the two cents is for. I wish they’d take it off. It’s an insult. I make between $9 and $10 a week dof- fing. “But the worst of it is the speed-up. They work us to death, with boss men standing over us all the time. We go in at 6 in the evening, and come out at 6 in the morning, all worn out. Don’t See Records. “We never know from one week to the next how much we will make. The company keeps the records of the piece work, and won’t let us see them. A boy takes the records of our out- put into the office before we ever have a chance to look at them. al “Some weeks I make less than others, although it seems I work just as hard. I think we ought to have some record of our piece work, don’t you?” “Yes, I wish we had a 10-hour law in North Carolina, like they have in South Carolina. You know the women aren’t through work when they've done their 12 hours in. the mills”. © Gigantic Cotton Trust [ | Forming Among Southern Mills; 150 Going in It CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dee. 7.— It was announced today that a fi- nancing or holding company was | securing options on 150 earded cot- ton spinning mills in five southern states. Mills using a total of 1,500,000 spindles have already been inspected. The options will run for five months, and the list will be complete within two weeks. The result, before the five months | ing masses,” Krupskaya said, | Rudzatuk, amidst loud applause, | declared, “Rakovsky’s speech reflects | his petty bourgeois conception, He is| now speaking of the danger from} abroad; but quite recently we heard | the Opposition say that the greatest | danger was the Party regime. Rakovsky’s statement that the Oppo- sition is willing to defend the Soviet Union in the event of war danger is end, will be a gigantic southern cotton mill trust. The head of the holding com- pany said that the company was “rather reluctant to discuss the plans, as this matter has been kept quiet in the interest of the mills and the yatny business in general |banquet hall to the floor and it is regretted that the plans have been given premature pub- licity since the mills themselves simply laughable, Neue been trying to keep it quiet.” ee Schwab Points Out Collaboration Is Substitute for Pay The American Society of Mechan- ical Engineers last night heard Chas. | M. Schwab, chairman“of the board of directors of the Bethlehem Steel Cor- | poration talk on “Human Engineer- ing,” or the trick of plucking the most feathers from the working goose with the least squawking, and presented a medal to Leon P. Alfred for his paper on “The Laws of Management.” The engineers then adjourned from the above to dance. Schwab said that the cempany union, or “workers’ participation in management” in the steel corpora- tion had resulted in giving seventeen per cent of the stock in the eompany to the men, in lieu of pay, and prac- tically eliminating “labor troubles.” Schwab prescribed a series of_pater- nal restrictions on working men, but no restrictions on their hours of la- | bor, instead, he declared: “Happiness does not lie along the road of abolish- ing work, for work is the cornerstone of real happiness. [t lies in the doing of the day’s work with a zest and good will, under the spur of encour- agement. and rewarded with the sat- isfaction of achievement.” Wants Sunday Edition. Editor, The DAILY WORKER: My friends as well as myself are very much surprised that the “D. W.” is not published on Sundays. On Sunday the workers have more time than any other day in the week and if we want’ to read we are forced to read the yellow capitalist sheets. I know that the reason must be financial but you must try ant over- come it. PAUL L. WOODS. give us your helping hand HE DAILY WORK- ER is fighting day after days... = hever: stopping. The DAILY WORKER can continue its battles for the Labor , Movement, but_ financial difficulties prevent The DAILY WORKER from becoming agreater news- paper—of greater use- ‘fulness to fighting La- bor. We do not want to conduct financial cam- paigns. We need the space to fight the boss .. to give our-readers aews—information about the Labor movement— and other good features. _ _ We ask only this much from, every reader: Pledge yourself to give only as much as you can and won’t miss—every week. You won’t miss it and The DAILY WORK- ER can live on it! o Tria VWyeiy- Pledge Your Support Today! MY PLEDGE to the Ruthenberg Sus- taining Fund. Fill out the following blank and mail it to THE DAILY WORKER 33 First St., New York, N. Y. Enclosed $...... I pledge I will send you $.......... every week." Name .6..000 80.5000 eee Street ....cceeeee Tee beewee ONY, (6 od ae ocd 00.0 site ve sins Debate Seating of Vare; | After Barring Smith | (Continued from Page One) | he dashed them a moment later by declaring that the senate had the {oth and should exert it to expel } both ‘later by a majority vote. Borah’s speech, re-opening the |sltsh fund debate, dealt entirely with} constitutional questions. | Overrules Borah. As soon as Borah concluded, the | first” of the original Norris resolu- | tions—which would have excluded | Smith-at“once—was modified to deny | |him=the~ oath and refer his case to \the Reed slush fund committee for jfurther hearings. The modification | | wagg offered by Senator Robinson of | ArKinsas, in the absence of Senator | Norris:of Nebraska, the author. | The Smith force retaliated by offer- ling a Substitute resolution, through | | Senator Deneen (R) of Illinois, which | | would give Smith his oath and await! | the final disposition of the slush fund | case. | No Hope For Smith. ' | The action temporarily excluded; | Smith from the senate and even his jmost sanguine followers do not hope |for a reversal of the decision in the| future. | ‘The vote came when the senate de- feated a resolution, offered by Sen- ator Deneen of Illinois, asking that the oath be administered to the public | utility trust crook, Frank L. Smith, | pending final settlement of the slush {fund charges raised against his prim- lary campaign. | Twenty-seven republicans and five |democrats voted to give the oath to | Smith while 13 republicans, 69 demo- \crats. and..one farmer laborite voted | against him. | Slush Fund Senators. | Those voting to administer the oath |were: republicans, Bingham, Borah, |Brookhart, Curtis, Deneen, Edge, | Fess, Gillett, Goff, Gould, Greene, | Hale, Keyes, M¢Lean, Metcalf, Moses, | Phipps, Pine, Reed (Penna.), Sackett, |Schall, Shortridge, Smoot, Steiwer, | Warren, Watson and Waterman-28. | Democrats: lease, Broussard, |Overman, Ransdell and Smith. (S. |C.)-5. | The vote adopting the Norris reso- lution was 58 to 28. On this vote, Brookhart and Curtis voted against Smith. |. Warren and Overman after voting |for Smith on the first ballot refrained from voting. | Will Set Smith Table. After barring Smith the senate | agreed unanimously to give him the | “privileges of the floor,” so that he can speak in his own defense on the} floor, even though not a member of |the senate, | Then the Smith forces lost again, | when the senate rejected by a vote of 29 to 55 a motion by Deneen to |refer the case to the republican con- | trol committee. | oe ‘Chicago I. L. D. Bazaar and Dance! |. CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—Friday, Satur- |day and Sunday—December 9th, 10th |and 1ith—three nights and two after- |noons at ee Park Hall, 2040 W. | North Ave, near Robey,—these are \the dates and this the place of the jannual Labor Defense Bazaar and Dance in Chicago. It is for the benefit of the defense of many cases of arrest, persecution and |“frame-up” of workers throughout | the country and to help the seventy class-prisoners, their wives and child- ren in America, especially now with a holiday remembrance. The admission to the bazaar is low in cost, and th entertainment pro- gram unusually good this year. The crowd will surely be bigger than ever on each night and afternoon of the Bazaar. The doors will be open at 6:45 p. m. on Friday night and at 2:15 p. m. on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and on each evening. a regular home-cooked supper will be served between 6:15 and 7:30 p. m. On Sunday afternoon a class-prison- ers’ tableau will be one of the features of the program. | | | } Conference Called for Miners’ Relief, Dec. 13; CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 7, —The Pennsylvania-Ohio Miners’ Relief Committee is issuing a call for a con- ference to all working class organi- pose of devising plans to relieve the | striking miners in Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. The confer=) Dec. 18 at 312 E. Superior Ave., on the fourth floor. : Miners Face Hardships. The committee feels that the min- ers, who have been subjected to evic- tions, terrorism and even murder, must not be weakened by hunger. Thousands of miners and their fam- ilies will be forced to face the bitter cold this winter, and the Relief or- | ganization will make every attempt to \lessen the suffering. Sympathetic | working class organizations are urged \to cooperate by sending delegates to the convention. ANEW NOVEL P Glen Sinclaie Pennsylvania-Ohio; © zations in these states, for the Fine ence will be held Tuesday evening, |~ FARMERS PROTEST CONDITIONS IN CHICAGO MEETING Call for Co-operative Marketing CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—Deelaring that if aid were not extended to the Am- erican farmer he would soon find himself in the condition of the Euro- pean peasant, two thousand farmers jof the American Farm Bureau Fed- eration in their annual convention here have stated their immediate de- mands. “We base our demand squarely up- on the principles in operation in this j}eountry in connection with coopera- |tive marketing.” S. H. Thompson, president of the Federation declared. “This in my opinion, is the only sound principle upon which a basic perman- ent agricuitural policy can be estab- lished.” It is estimated that on the average the American farmer made not more than $853 last year against $2,010 in the nation as a whole. War Planes in Industry Debated at Air Meeting; Tests Are Ridiculed WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Shall war airplanes be excluded from the pas- senger service was the topic debo*ed at the conference of designers, manu- facturers and operators which has opened at the Department of Com- merce. It is claimed that the in- creased. number of passengers car- ried will soon make the use of the old war planes, with their limited space, unprofitable, The passenger~ planes are instantly convertible for bombing purposes in case of war. Clarence Chamberlin, trans-Atlan- tic flier, ridiculed the medical re- quirements which are demanded of pilots. Dr. Louis H. 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