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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30
CURRENT EVENTS

AN honorable British gentleman
: wrote an article In the press on
the day following Leonid Krassin's
funeral, describing the Soviet envoy as
the typically wealthy socialist profess
ing devotion to the cause to serve his
personal ends. The honorable gentle
man stated that Krassin left an estate
of $15,00O,O00. AS a matter of fact
as The London Daily Herald points
out; Krassin left fve-pound note be-
sides his personal effects!
THAT there is no hard feeling be-
4 tween democrats and a certain sec
ton Of the republican party organiza-
ton In Cook County was proven by
the agreement between leaders of the
Two parties to give the shrievalty
plum to one of States Attorney
Groves good boys. There Is not the
slightest difference in principle be-
tween the two parties in this city at
least. Both trade on the traditional
devotion of their followers to party la
bells that once had significance, but no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30
DRESS STRIKE
UNNECESSARY
in N. Y. Shops
Will Secure Demands
Without StOppage
Especial 10 The Daily wOrker)

NEW YORK Dec. ga "manifes-
to-" which attempts to raise fake
issue of strike, was Issued by Nor
rs sigman, president Of the lnterna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers
Union on Monday, declaring that un-
less dressmakers of local % repist-
cred with the international before
Saturday, they would be precIpitated
into disastrous strike" determined
upon their left wing leaders.
The fake issue, which attempts to
give the capitalist press an excuse
for proclaiming that strike in the
dress industry is imminent, was
squarely met by G. S. Zimmerman,
manager of the dress division In
statement In which he declared that
Il had been a we'll known fact for six
weeks that the dressmakers would
not ask for drastic changes in the ex-
isting agreement.
Repudiate siaman Proposal.
Shop chairmen of the dress divis-
ion, numbering more than 700 shops,
at their meeting last week, condemn
ed Sigman's action in expelling their
regularly elected leaders, and pledg-
ed themselves to tell their employers
Continued on page y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30
HEBREW TRADES
OFFICERS BREAK
UP union meet

Because their delegate to the United
Hebrew Trades Council in Chicago
voted against accepting the reaction.
ary report on the right wing confer
ence held in New York and against
expulsion Of the Furriers' Union from
the council, the Shoe Repairers' Union
meeting was broken up Monday night
by officers Of the United Hebrew
Trades.
Secretary Hammock and Chairman
Rufer of the council appeared at the
meeting at Douglas Park Auditorium
and asked the shoe workers to refuse
to accept their delegates report on
the action of the United Hebrew
Trades. They insisted that the union
go over the head of their delegate and
accept the report of Morris Seskind,
correspondent for the Jewish Daily
Forward, on the New York confer
ence and endorse the expulsion of the
furriers.
When the rank and file members of
the union demonstrated their determi-
nation to uphold their delegate, the
two reactionaries started their work
of disrupting the gathering.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30
BY c. &. RUTHENBERo
General Secretary ~
Workers (communist) Party.


THE whole machinery OF reaction
4 has been modified to crush out
Of the American labor movement
every vestige of militant struggle for
rho interests Of the workers against
'yhe capitalist employers.
This mobilization began with the
conference of Sigman, president of
the |. L. G. w. u, Mcmahon Of the
United Textile Workers. Lewis of
the United Mine Workers of America
with President Green and Vice-Presi-
dent Vol Of the A. f. Of L., at which
the program for the fight against the
Communists and left wingers, who
want 10 maintain the trade unions as
hghting organizations Of the workers,
which they were organized to be, was
mapped out.
This oonspiratorial conference was
followed by quick action to carry out
its program. Sigman. thru the plant
general executive board OF the /. l..
q. w. IT,. tried to override the will
OF the $4,000 members OF that organ
iEation in New York City. by ousting
thru ukase of the @. Il. B. the mem
bers OF the New York Joint board,
eleobed by those members.
Disruption in the American labor
sexxRsAt aEsr had 3 more slariDs
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NORRIS WILL SHOW HOW
POSTMASTERSHIPS ARE |
SOLD BY G. 0. P. GANG |
Especial to The DaIiy Worker

Especial TO The Daily Worker)
WAsHINGToN.-The market in
postmasterships is about to be look
ed into by Senator Norris judiciary
committee. Ard as a result repub-
Leans are on the verge of Mysteries.
For Norris, Bcrah, and the demo-
cratic members Of the committee
hold a majority In Il. The repubII-
cans see no hope.
The sale of federal Jobs has to
do with national conventions Of the
G. o. p. The money with which
Negro delegates from the south are
transported, herded, and fed has to
come from somewhere, you know. 1t
has all been reduced to fine art,
on the commercial basis of cash-and-
carry.
And now, after Teapot Dome,
Daugherty, FALKLAND slush funds in
senatorial primary elections comes
the threat to exhibit the skeleton
in the republican family closet.
This promises to be the biggest
side-show in the capItops carnival.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30
WORKERS MUST
Fight FASCISM
IN LITHUANIA
World Protest Against
Terror Is Urged
Especial to The Daily worker)

MOSCOW, U. S. s. r., Dec. 25.-
An appeal to all class conscious
workers throughout the world and all
enemies of fascism to sound the
alarm against the fascist government
in Lithuania which is staging a reign
of terror against workInpcIass lead
ers has been Issued here. The appeal
Is signed by Zetkin, kuulslnen, Kol-
oraoff, PrujIak, Remmele, ErcoII,
SmeraI, Doriot, Senkatayama, MUIR
ply and Roy.
The appeal says:
Killing Leaders.
"The new Lithuanian government
has initiated its office by shooting
md killing Communists, desiring to
follow Bulgarias example Of physic-
ally exterminating the vanguard Of
the proletariat and peasantry.
Polish fascism and the British
government are behind the scenes.
Similar events are impending in
some other countries.
I'VE appeal to all Communist par
ties, all class conscious workers, and
all enemies Of fascism to Immediately
sound the alarm and mobilize the toll
ing masses throughout the world
against the criminal government Of
Lithuania and their masters in i'm
perialist states. Quick action is
necessary on the part of the prole-
tariat masses. Lithuanian workers
are already under the axe of the
henchmen of Imperialism and capital
ism.
Statements Of the Lithuanian gov
eminent, alleging that there is In
preparation in Lithuania a Bolshevih
revolt, the excuse it gives for its ac-
lions, are downright lies"
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Trade Union Bureaucrats, Socialists,
Capitalists and Their Government

end. They have learned by experience
and have adopted cleverer policies.
Today, it Ia the company union, en-
ployes' representation. stock-selling to
employees, the B. & .. plan, compul-
sorry arbitration, as expressed in the
Watson-Parker bill. and similar meth
DDS thru which the attempt is being
made to tie the workers to the cap
italist machine and to prevent them
from organizing their power independ-
emily OF the capitalists, to achieve
higher wages and better working con-
ditions.
The official leaders OF the labor
movement have to large degree fall
en- into line with this policy. Green
and Vol are continuously promising
the capitalists the cooperation OF labor.
in creating conditions which will
mean the higher exploitation Of the
workers. Lewis made the contract
with the anthracite coal barons tying
down the miners union to compulsory
arbitration. One OF the complaints OF
Sigman against the left wing in the
|. L. C. w. U. is that II refused to
permit the governors commission to
decide the wages and working condi-
lions OF the workers in place of rely
ing upon the organized strength OF
the union, thru which TO write the
terms under which the workers are
employed. as
This tendency has gone so far In
the organised labor m1vsnast thas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30

the question can be raised: Are the
trades unions 10 be merely auxiliary
organizations OF the capitalists, to
promote efficiency in production, or
are they TO be militant fighting or
CARNATIONS which carry on a persist
ent struggle TO secure higher wages
and better working conditions for the
workers thru their organized might
The Issue Between the ResotIonary
Bloc and the Left Wing.
II Ia the issue raised in this ques-
ton, which is the basis of the strug-
gle between the reactionary bloc and
the left wing.
Sigman can get an arbitration report
from a section OF the governors COM
mission In few days with an attack
upon the left wing because Siglnan
represents the capitalist employers In
the struggle.
President Green can get rsams OF
publicity and support from the cap
italist press. because the course
which he Is following Is in the I'm
terests OF the capitalist employers Of
this country.
The socialists and their Committee
for Preservation OF the Trade Unions"
are receiving the applause OF the cap
ltalists, because they know that the
Committee for Preservation of the
Trade Unions" means a Committee
for Preservation OF the Trade Unions.
as adjuness TO capitalism. The 80
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The new UNITED FRONT:

expression that the effort of Sigman
and his G. e. B. to throw out of Office
the members OF the New York joint
board of the |. L. G. w. u, as we'll
as the executive committees OF the
largest local unions and put into their
place appointees of Sigman.
President Green Of the A. f. OF L.,
promptly appointed committee OF
the blacklist reactionaries in the trade
union movement, lead by Mathew
Woll, to support the descriptive work
Of Sigman In the l. L. G. w. U.
The next step was to draw the cap
italist bosses to the support OF the
reactionary united front. These boss.
es had declared lockout of the gar
ment workers-which was promptly
smashed by the workers, but the
bosses maintained the fiction that
there was a lockout--and then called
1t off after Sigman had made his
paper coup d. etat.
Sigman's next move was to call up
on members OF the governors cone
mission to arbitrate the differences
between employers and the workers,
and he got decision so promptly as
to indicate that It was framed in adj
vance-with an attack upon the left
wing and Communists thrown In.
In the meantime few socialist
trade union officials had issued a call
for a conference for the preservation
OF the trade unions--And the ualtsd
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cialists are fighting to make the trade
unions what the capitalist employers
want them to be.
All the efforts OF the reactionary
bloc to throw dust in the eyes OF the
workers by attacks upon the Commun-
lists will not hide the real issues In
this struggle. The applause and sup
port OF the capitalists and their gov
eminent for the efforts OF the trade
union bureaucrats and socialists. IL
the best evidence as TO whose inter.
ests they represent in this struggle.
The formation of this reactionary
bloc against the left wing and the
Communists. has brought out clearly
the struggle which is now being
fought In the labor movement al this
country.
The left wingers and the Commun,
lists stand before the workers ~ the
defenders OF the trade unions, as the
opponents OF the trade unions a. mill
tant lighting organizations thru which
the workers will win Improvement In
their wages and working conditions
The reactionary united front is en-
deavoring to destroy the left wing
and Communists so that they can
carry thru their schemes OF tying up
the trade unions with the capitalist
exploiting machine.
It Is upon the basis OF this izsne
that the masses OF workers must
decide their allegisnss h ths sts~uls
now under way.
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front was complete-trade union
bureaucrats. socialists, capitalists and
the government Of the capitalists.
What Is the Reaetionary United
Front Flghtina7
The history of the last year of the
American labor movement shows
three big, outstanding struggles
against the capitalist bosses. These
are the strike Of the New York fur
riers, the strike of the Passaic textile
workers and the New York garment
workers strike.
All OF these struggles resulted In
gains for the workers. The workers
came out OF them with improvements
OF their wages, hours Of work and
working conditions, compared to the
terms which the capitalists endeavored
to force upon the workers. These
strikes were victories for the workers.
The second point about these strug-
giles is the fact that all OF them were
under the leadership OF the left wing,
which includes the Communists. It
was the group in the American labor
movement which is carrying on the
struggle to maintain the trade unions
as fighting organizations to win high
or wages and better working condi-
tons for the workers, which led these
struggles and demonstrated the cor.
rectness OF the policies II advocates
in the trade union movement.
It 10 the fact that the left wing and
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IcOaSt also neutral"
By declaring the entire country
neutral" the United States hopes to
save the Illegal government Of Diaz,
Illustrate the attempts of the liberals
to set up a peoples government. and
still maintain its guise of merely pro
tecting American property and life" Ia
Nicaragua.
Liberals Push Forward.
The defeat of the Diaz forces at
Pearl Lagoon, forcing them to retreat
to Salse Bluff and Ell Bluff, was fol-
lowed by another crushing defeat,
which pushed the reactionary troops
back to Bluefields harbor on the east
coast. This battle fought near Los
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30
Wall St. Duppet
i'm Nicaragua Is
Beaten by Rebels
tspseIaI to rhe oaIIy wsrksr,

MANAOUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 2s-Decisve military defeats
Of the Daz forces that backed by the United States
mnstered by President Sacasas liberal
the United States military invaders in Nicaragua show their
real purposes
Because the liberal army succeeded In crushing
forces every Admiral Latmer commander
American forces has ordered that the fight
ing be declared neutral territory"
1t is in the east that the liberal armies
Lames action attempt the overthrow
of the Daz regime by stopping Sacasas progress.
Following the declaration of the east neutral"
Latme orders subordinate officers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30

Com munists have been leading the
workers into struggles, and winning
their fights, that has turned into ac-
ton all the forces of reaction in this
country in an effort 70 destroy left
wing and Communist influence in the
labor movement. The trade union
bureaucrats see their soft Jobs threat
ened. The socialists are losing their
influence in the trade union move
ment. The capitalist employers and
government see a rising force which
challenges the unchecked exploita-
ton OF the workers, and is ready to
lead the night of the workers. And all
these black forces combine, to en-
deavor to destroy the enemy that
threatens them.
American Labor and American
Capitalism.
The basis for the reactionary CON-
bine against the left wing and Com
munists. and the vicious attack which
was launched against the left wing,
becomes still clearer from an exam
nation OF the course OF the develop
ment OF American capitalism in its
relation TO the American workers.
The American capitalists are con-
sistently following the policy OF des-
troying the organized labor movement
as an expression OF the independent
power OF the workers. They are not
however resortiug to the old methods
Of head-on colAsion 10 achieve this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30
chsmIoal Increase, Dividend.

NEW YORK.-Directors of the Al
lied Chemical and Dye Corporation
increased the dividend rate on the
common stock from to Sc per cent
today when they declared dividend
of $3.50 a share, payable to stockhold-
ers OF record January IA. Previously
the stock paid 81 annually.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30
Negro Taken from
Florida Jail Is Shot
by Unknown Persons

GAINESVILLE, Fla, Dec. 28.--
George Burton, Negro woodchopper.
was taken from the city Jail at Wal
do, a small town near here. some
time during the night, shot and
killed by unknown persons, and his
body left lying alongside a road
where a passing motorist discovered
it this morning.
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more. They are organized gangs out
for the spoils.
.MAJoR DARGUE, commander Of
Az the United States army Pan.
American goodwill flight" was sched
uled to hand President Gales OF
Mexico a letter of friendly greetings
from Coolidge. In the meantime Coo.
lidge and Kellogg are preparing for
what Senator Borah terms a coward.
ly little war on Mexico" Perhaps the
flying goodwill messenger may be
taking the Mexican presidents meas.
ure with a view to fitting him out
with bomb on his next visit.
WHILE the World War was on.
W Lloyd George promised that the
government would make England "a
country fit for heroes to live in" as
soon as the kaiser's army was defeat
cd. Lloyd George may consider him
self a hero Che made his pile), but
he has conveniently forgotten those
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30
EVERY Branch
OF government
is UNDER FIRE
Both Houses in Mood
for Investigating
Especial to The Daily Worker,

WASHINGTON, Dec. zs--(FP) III
there Is any branch of governmental
activity that Will not be the subject Of
an investigation In the two months
that congress will be IN session after
It reconVsnes in January, II must have
inadvertently escaped the attention Of
the sal members OF congress. Just
now II would require the services Of
an expert detective to find q phase ef
the present administratlon's activities
during the six months congress has
been in recess that Is not to be inves-
tinated.
Among the rajor lHsss. ee<,es4s-
due to occupy the attention Of the
senate when il reeonvenes will be the
connection the oil interests have had
in the forming Of the Lausanne
treaty, the wasting and stealing OF APP
proximateIy s55o,ooo, 900 seized by the
alien property custodian during the
war, the operations Of the Department
Of Justice and the Federal Trade
Commission In connection with the
broad merger, and the results Of the
Investigations into the elections In
Illinois and Pennsylvania, which will
include an Investigation Of the quail
fications Of Cyrus Woods for member
ship on the Interstate Commerce In
Vestisation.
Make Passaic.
The house will have number Of in
vestigations of its own. as will also
the senate, II certain resolutions now
pending for Investigations are adopt
ed. One in the senate in which the
CONTINUED on page 81
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Make Passaic.

Artfui podeer Disappears Again
WEINBERG, Wurttemberg, Dec. 2S.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, famous
American draft dodger, who has been
here for several weeks, has suddenly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-30
BY
7. J. o'FLAHERTY

more. They are organized gangs out
for the spoils.
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Tire Daily Worker Fights:
For the Organization Of the Tn
organized.
For Labor Party.
For the 30 Hour Week. ~
Evening star., 1926-09-07
|DRY AGENT ENDS
| CHARLESTON lob
Prohibition Coordination Be-
lieves Cleanup of Wet Goods
Has Been Complete.


CHARLESTON. S. c.. September Z
M. O. Dunning. prohibition co-ordi.
nator for the Southeast. today evac.
uated Charleston following a three
day drive against liquor law violators
that netted 3s arrests, more than
l06 900 gallons of beer. 91s gallons
of whisky and a large quantity OF
stills.
Leaving behind a small force of
prohibition agents. Mr.. Dunning said
he believed the situation lis in such
a condition that it can be handled by
a small force of efficient, honest men
Among those who will face United
States Commissioner F.. NJ. Hager to.
morrow at a preliminary hearing Ia
A. r. Seabrook. Charleston prohibi.
tion officer. charged with conspiracy
Others out on bond ranging from $500
to $4,000. are H. s. Gamble, sheriff of
Williamsburg County, also charged
with conspiracy. and Philip Living
stone. Charleston: Tom Heneberry,
Malvin O'Eeal. d. l.. Jervey, Henry
Wise and Hunter Sykes.
Hundreds of spectators Yesterday
visited the docks. where liquor was
heing emptied into the harbor from
the coastguard cutter Yamacraw
Dunning's headquarters during the
campaign.
Empty liquor containers were turn.
ed over to the Salvation Army to be
used as fruit jars.
Evening star., 1926-09-07
SLIDE PARTIALLY
BUR|ES Z TRAINS
Two Men Die in Panic as
Slide Fills New York
Subway Cut.
By the Associated Press


NEW YORK, September 1.-THE
metropolitan district was engaged to-
day in repairing the damage caused
by the heaviest thunderstorm Of the
season, which caught 1t in the height
of the holiday rush, deluging thou
sands and causing two fatalities.
More than score were injured
large areas were flooded, pavements
were washed out, subway and surface
lines were under water and light and
power service was crippled. A land
slide filled a subway cut in Brooklyn
a three-story building cola psed on the
lower East Side and a crowded ferry
house, a residence and a trolley car
were struck by lightning on Staten
Island.
Two men were killed when they
jumped through the windows of sub.
way train in a panic that followed the
landslide. The men landed on the
third rail at the Ninth avenue station
Of the Culver and West End lines
Tons of sand and gravel partially
buried two six-car Coney Isla nd trains
and a score were injured in the scram.
HE for safety.
Some Brooklyn subways were waist
deep in water. Power was cut off to
avoid fatalities and left panic.stricken
thousands in the dark.
More than 100000 holiday visitors
were marooned on Coney Island when
the storm broke.
Evening star., 1926-09-07

American 700. We have one about
: feet long. and up TO now it is eating
we'll
We have some wonderful little gal
agos. whole cage OF spotted genets.
a grand civet cat and birds enough
70 fil the bird house that Congress
has given our Zoo for next year.
Some OF the birds are wonders. We
have buSta rds. native wild geese. spur
winged geese and enormous black and
white ravens. II is curious that the
crows here are colored the same as
the ravens. We have two cages OF
hul-hulS, three of harhets. lots of col
lies or mouse birds, Very rare white.
headed vulture. An army of hedge
hogs. nearly all Of the African species
Of tortoises and turtles. a pair Of
lynx and baby serval cat.
With some OF the other things that
we expect to get soon our collection
will he we'll worth while. and l think
IL will he one Of the most interesting
To come out Of Africa for many years.
As write there is a chronic bedlam
from the courtyard where our mate
rial is kept. a freshly arris ed baboon
is yowling and finding fault with the
world in a way that sets your nerves
on end, but makes You admire his
persistence"