The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1928, Page 2

fr r INDIANA MEETING ADOPTS PLAN FOR UNITED CAMPAIGN Rank and File Seeks More Definite Action INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sentiment for a united @ampaign of state-w has been stimulated } by a recent farmer-labor dinner. Rank and file trade union members are openly agi- tating for more definite steps toward the creation of an independent poli- tical movement to embrace the dis- Jan. 16.— rmer-labor proportions Farmer-Labor Party Sentiment Rising Among Workers of Middle West contented agricultural and industrial workers of the state and nation. Prominent members of the Indiana | Farm Bureau Fe on have like- | wise been moving toward a farmer- | labor party. Labor Party Sentiment Rising. This dinner brought together rep- resentatives of the Indiana Farm Bur- | eau Federation arid of organized labor | of the state. Altho' program agreed upon at the dinner was a rela- tively mild one it is known that rank and file sentiment has since gone far beyond its original plans. The dinner was attended by 50 members of the boards of directors of the Farm Bureau Federation and the Indiana State Fede n of Labor. Leaders of other farmers’ and work- ers’ organizations also attended. The strength of the farmers represented was estimated at more than 200,000. 2nd Conference Planned. William H. Settle, president of the Farm Federation, was named presi- dent and T. N. Taylor, president of the State Federation of Labor, was named secretary of a permanent com- | mittee on future action. | The conference adopted a resolutign condemning ctions in labor dis- | putes unqualifiedly. Another resolu- tion demanded the passage of the Me- Nary-Haugen farm relief bill. A third recorded the opposition of the conference to the repeal of the federal inheritance tax. | Another conference is to be held within five or six weeks. Chang Tso-lin Feeds Dinlomats Shark Fins | While Peasants Starve | PEKING, Jan. 16.Such Chinese| delicacies as venison tail soup, bear’s| naw, frogs’ swe\tbreads, and shark-| fins were served lyr Chang Tso-lin at| a dinner given at ‘re Imperial Palace] to the diplomatic corps. This was the! first oceasion on which Chang Tso- lin entertained the foreign represen- tatives. He personally prepared the| last course—a pot au feu—in a chaf-| ing dish, explaining that it was al national Muchurian dish. The ladies | of the diplomatic corps were received by Chane’s fifth wife. Thousands of peasants in Shantung| and Chihli are reported to have starved to death in a hunger wave which is affecting ten million peas- ants. The famine is attributed largely to heavy taxation imposed by Chang Tso-lin and to confiscation of crops by Chang’s troops. FORD CONCILIATES JEWS. Henry Ford, while in New York last week for the exhibition here of his new models, calied on Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee, and, according to Marshall, expressed his “friendly | sentiments toward the Jewish people.” | Jewish business men, lawyers and conservati newspapers hail the meeting as the “final scene in the reconciliation between Henry Ford and the Jews.” PLAYING CAPITALIST. CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (FP). — The Amalgamated Trust & Savings Ban! the Chicago Labor Bank, declared a| 6 per cent dividend to stockholders. The board of directors remains as in 1927. Twenty new trade union} accounts were added the past year and a 12 per cent gain in total de- posits achieved. | Given Third Degree Miss Helen Finnegan has been detained by the Brooklyn police in’ connection with a “clan war” which she claims to know nothing about. Already six have been killed, ac- cording to the police. The latest victim, now lying at the point of death, was shot in the back by a woman. vs “4 ~. While the Soviet Union is advocating complete and immediate disarmament, the United States is feverishly increasing its heavy armaments in preparation for the coming imperialist war, artillerymen at Fort Hancock loading 870-pound shell into huge cannon. bor.” The Photo shows WAR ON STRIKERS Struggle Unmasks the “Friends of Labor” (Continued from Page One) spokesman are chosen carefully for the purpose they are to serve—pre- paring the way for the enactment of a iminal syndicalist law and the strengthening of other suppressive laws now on the statute books. Present Laws “Inadequate.” The strike of the miners has shown that the present laws, even with elastic interpretation given, do not authorize the jailing of workers for long terms for striking and picket- ing. In addition the strike has un- masked the coal operators before the gaze of thousands of unsympathetic eyes. Coal Barons and Laws Exposed. The operators have been shown robbing the miners in the pots and on the tipples and plundering the con- sumers at the scales where coal is sold at retail. The strike has shown to the work- ers that the Industrial Commission and the anti--picketing law are tools and weapons of the capitalists. It has been shown that mining laws favorable to the miners have been |thrown onto the scrap-heap so that more profits could be made. Governor Adams Unmasked. The strike has shown that Gov- ernor Adams, the “friend of labor,” and the whole state government, are part of the suppressive machinery. It has exposed the reactionary labor leadership. It has shown to the work- ers that to strike against the coal operators is to find the press, the state and all forces of Colorado cap- italism against the workers. Capitalists Desperate. The Colorado capitalist class is des- perate. The most powerful group in the state is the coal miners’ division, This group, in spite of certain inter- nal conflicts, is united on a policy of further suppression. The Colum- bine massacre and the recent mur- ders of strikers and sympathizers in the southern coal fields, is to be fol- lowed by more vicious anti-labor leg- islation, The usual tactics of capitalists, when their “democracy” is exposed as a fraud, are to be adopted—there is to be an extension of the capitalist dictatorship. Political Phase of Great Struggle. The statement of the secretary of the mining association gives a clear political aspect to the great struggle of the miners. It puts the whole question of the role of the state gov- nment squarely before the working lass and the labor movement. The advocacy of a criminal syndi- calism law and of the strengthening of the industrial commission and the anti-picketing law by the spokesman of the most powerful capitalist group in the state brings the issue of a labor party sharply into the fore- ground of the struggle. The wording of mining associa- tion’s statement shows that the sup- |pressive legislation is to be used against all the poorer sections of the | population--workers, farmers, liberal intellectuals and the lower stratum of the middle class. The organization of a labor party |to fight against the vicious meas- {ures proposed and to centralize the \efforts of the masses on this field needs to be pushed with the utmost energy in the unions, cooperatives and all organizations of the workers and farmers. |Ask State Dept. Report WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (FP). — !Dorothy Detzer, executive secretary |of the U. S, section, Women’s Inter- national League for Peace and Free- jdom, has written to President Cool- ‘idge a letter challenging him to have an annual report made to the country by the state department. This is the jonly department of the government which does not explain.annually what it has been doing, and how it has spent its funds. a MEET T0\Chicago Workers Struggle rite : With Bosses; Many Jobless By CARL HAESSLER CHICAGO, (FP) Jan. 16.—Though labor conditions in Chicago generally were said by Green in an interview to be good, the Chicago Typo- graphical is still faced by an unem- ployment problem four times greater than normal. Instead of the 75 to 100 unionists usually out of work at this season, the union has almost 400 idle men on its hands. Members at work have been paying % per cent of their earnings for 13 weeks into the special unemployment fund. eS ae Capmakers Gain Week. to appear in court for violation of an injunction in the lockout they have been fighting, gained a continuance oi 1 week. the struggle against piece work and for observance of the contract that was broken by the employers wher they locked the workers out. * Negotiations between the Chicago streetcar union and the surface line dragged on another week without re- sult. unable to agree on a neutral and the men are still at wor! Half a dozen capmakers, summoned4ment that expired last summer. ism, The union is maintaining | °Utters, ea | Bosses Delay Agreement ployers. The 2 arbitrators have been k under the agree- AF. L, COUNCIL MEETS IN MIAMI Will Draft “Demands” for 1928 MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 16.—The execu- tive council of the American Federa- tion of Labor opens its first quarterly meeting of 1928 here today. Labor officials are giving out hints as to the importance of the session. It is reported that two committees will be selected to present to the re- publican and democratic conventions the usual set of “labor’s demands.” William Green, president of the A. F. of L., is slated for the chairmanship of these committees. Demands for curbing the issuance of injunctions will probably form the major issue in the A. F. of L. program. Gompers Got 5 Minutes. Thus far no constructive results have followed from the official A. F. of L. procedure of attempting to play off one of the capitalist pariies against the other. In the past such de- mands, especially on the republican party, have been flagrantly flouted. Gompers in 1924 was given five min- utes to present his demands before the republican convention. The as- semblage of democrats, according to Gompers’ testimony, listened to him with little more respect. See Spread of Wage Cut Movement if A. F. of L. Won’t Lead Unskilled| FALL RIVER, Mas: Jan, 16.- Unless the United T, 2 Workers’ Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, leads the un- skilled workers in a strike, the slash- ing of wages in New England is ex pected to spread. The unions affili- ated with the American Federation of Textile Operatives voted not to strike against 10 per cent wage cuts at the American Printing Co., recently. MASS PICKETING SHUTS SCAB MINE Company Officers Wave Revolvers at Strikers (Continued from Page One) ville, Bradley, Glens Run, and York- ville to aid local strikers in preventing further attempts to open the mine They assembled at the mine mouth, and six scabs, coming +» help break the strike and smash the union col- lected in the company office. miners started up to talk it over with them, also arrests. Governor’s Man Threatens. * Col. Don Caldwell, a national guard officer and personal representative of Governor Doheny with a staff of of- ficers, is here looking over the situa- tion. He has notified Sheriff Alison and President Carnes of the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners that the state is looking to county offi- cials to “protect company property” as the mines re-open with imported seabs. He also backs up’ the demand made by the companies that their thugs badges, and appropriations made by the county to pay them guards. A special session of the county commissioners, called under pressure from the mining companies, .has al- ready made some appropriations for “increased guard protection.” The Rush Run mine has been mak- ing erate on a fake cooperative plan, with] | a sliding scale which down.” WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 16. — The candidacy of Alfred E. Smith, democrat and Herbert Hoover, repub- lican, in the 1 practically a: vance reports sured list of 584 delegates represent- ing 27 states will definitely back the Governor. The and the gun play followed, pressed be given deputy sheriff’s as mine entitled ing from ete. in Rome. Red Cross P: Charges that the ‘Red Cross ex- ploited his case in order to obtain publicity for its own organization and that unsanitary and immoral condi- tions exist in the Disabled Veterans’ Hospitals are made by Jerry Tarbot, ex-soldier, who cannot remember his own identity due to war shell-shock. Tarbot makes his charges in a book “His Book.” Kawase Hac asi MARES FLED TO BOSSES: “SAVE US FROM REDS” Fears Growing Trade With Soviet Union (Continued from Page One) chief fear is to be found in a lengthy account in his letter of the alleged in- structions from Moscow to American | Communists “to intensify their ‘bor- within tactics’ American organizations, especially la- against Smarts Under Exposure, Further reference is also exposures of the labor bureaticracy in DAILY WORKER. from recent revelations of the policy of surrender pursued by Woll, Green and others, which have been disclosed in detail by The DAILY WORKER, the acting president of the Civic Fed- eration makes what is interpreted as a final bid to the employers to turn over the organized labor movement to them as a barrier against radical- ade to Smarting The employers have consistently re- fused to accept such previous offers and have responded to the extended hand of friendship with knife thrusts against the United Mine Workers, the building trades unions, the stone Evidence of the fear which is be- ginning to be felt of the influence of The DAILY WORKER is seen in the fact that copies of the paper are en- closed ~with Woll’s letter to the em- Cautious Mussolini Is Saved by Armour LONDON, Jan. 16.—New details of the reported duel between Premier Mussolini and Count Calvi, husband of Princess Yolanda, were reported here today by the Central News, which attributes its report to a Vienna correspondent, who in turn quotes the Croatian newspaper “Kooatsky Nard- ni Glas.” According to this unconfirmed re- port, the duel arose out of an argu- ment between Premier Mussolini and Crown Prince Umberto. prince is said to have objected to Prem- ier Mussolini’s plan to have his own portrait placed upon the new two lire coin. Heated words arose and Prince Umberto is said to have summoned Count Calvi, who is alleged to have struck the premier in the face with his gloves. Seconds met and a duel was arranged in the Zoological Gardens. The duel ended, according to this re- port, whn Calvi’s sword was shattered after it had struck a shirt of mail worn by the premier. Count Calvi is said then to have thrown the broken half of his sword in the premier’s face; The Croatian newspaper states that news of the duel was entirely sup- The crown ublicity “Flaming” Milka Tours New England Cities This nineteen year old girl, a child of the coal fields of Colorado, has suffered the injustice of the operators there, has been in their jails for strike activities and herself led a charge of striking rnuners through a line of machine guns to stop scabbing in the present strike. Now she tours the eastern cities speaking to thousands of workers in great mass meetings, raising money for the strikers. Pass Senate Motion to Search for $3,800,000 Continental Oil Bribe WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The Tea- pot Dome oil inquiry will be reopened at once by the Senate Public Lands Committee, it was announced this af- ternoon by Senator Nye (R) of North Dakota, chairman, to trace $3,800,000 in profits gained by the Continental Trading Company of Canada, which participated in an oil deal engineered by Harry F. Sinclair. The inquiry was ordered by the senate in executive session late yes- terday through adoption of the Norris resolution. MINERS SPEAKERS TOUR MILL TOWNS TO RAISE RELIEF ‘Record Boston Meeting | Reported BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 16.—The tour of Milka Sablich, A. S. Embree, and “Mother” Bloor to raise money for the striking miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado is successfully continu- i ing through the towns of Connecticut and Rhode Island and Masachusetts. The meeting in Boston was a record affair. The speeches moved the crowd to make up a large collec.ion and to vote to join the Boston Relief Con- ference. Jessica Henderson pledged that she would take a large truck load of cloth- es and food to Pennsylvania miners herself, stopping at towns en route. All three speakers helped to organ- ize a Youth Relief Conference yester- day. In the evening they attended a {reception for Milka at the Interna- tional hall given by young workers. German Premiers Meet To Discuss Firings to Suit Dawes Plan Agent BERLIN, Jan. 16.—Eighteen prem- iers of the German states are in ses- sion in the hall where Bismarck pre- sided over the Congress of Berlin in 1878, discussing the revision of the German constitution. The aim of the meeting is to simplify the Reich state administrations and to eliminate the extravagances, which have been de- manded by S. Parker Gilbert, agent ‘general for reparations. THE COMMUNIST JANUARY, 1928 1. 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