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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
WIDOW Of SUN
YAT SEN MAY Be
MADE PRESIDENT
FOochOw Falls Before
Advancing Cantonese
tspeelaI 70 rhe paIIy worksri


HANkoW, Dec. 3. - One govern
nent for all China! This sumo 10
the movement now under way BY the
Victorious Kucnfintans Party whose
armies are driving the miIItarists
rapidly northward and which has the
support Of the Chinese masses
An extraordinary session of the
Kuomintang party is meeting in Can.
ton at the Cantonese military base
In Nanchang the young commander
in-chief, Chang Kai Shek, is in con.
ference with Mrs. Sun Vat Sen. four
ministers of the Canton government
and M. Borodin, adviser The cues
ton being discussed is the removal
OF the Canton government to WI.
chang, in the heart of the central
provinces. The date for the removal
is Dec. 5. 1t is reliably reported that
as soon as the government apparatus
has been collected in the new capital
that a provisional government will be
declared.
Sun Vat Suns Widow May Be Pres.
Mrs. Sun Vat Sen has been named
as the probable first provisional pres
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05

Mine Workers of America, by
Thomas Mcmahon, president of
the United Textile Workers of
America and by Matthew Vol,
vice-president of the American
Federation of Labor and presi-
dent Of the Photo Engravers'
Union.
At this meeting it was decided that
every measure should be taken to
smash the cloakmakers' strike and
that under no circumstances must the
Passaic textile workers be permitted
to win their strike. This outrageous
step, this understanding tactics, was
advocated by all present as a neces-
sary step to defeat the militant leader
ship that is leading these two great
and historic labor struggles. John l..
Lewis insisted that the fight must be
made with all the power at their com
mand to smash the left wing and the
.progressiyes in the unions.
John l.. Lewis informed those pres
ent that the Save the Union" ticket
would sweep the progressives into
power in the elections that will soon
CONTINUED on paee q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
British Interests
Offer Loan to War
Lords Against Canton
BULLETIN.

Especial Cable TO The Daily worksr)
From Berlin Bureau Of
int'i Press Correspondence.
BERLIN, Dec. 3.-The following
telegram was received here from
Picking:
Japanese sources report that
the British Tobacco Co. and the
British eharted Bank Of China have
offered fifty million dollar loan
to General Chang Tso Lin and
Marshal Sun chuan Fang to assist
them in concerted drive against
the Cantonese army. The milltsrists
are to put up as security for the
loan the revenue income Of Pukau
harbor and the Shanghai tobacco
tax.
"The British governments con-
tention that the Picking government
demanded the extradition OF the ID
kuomintane students turned over
to the mllitsrists last week by the
British legation where they went as
refugees has been officially denied
by wellington koo. Picking foreign
minister.
information on the Hankow gen.
ersl strike given out by Reuter- and
other news distributing agencies
telling Of danger to foreigners Is
misleading and has as It's purpose
to Justify foreign Intervention. The
last reports from Hankow were
that the strike In the Japanese con-
eesslon has been settled thru the
friendly mediation Of a Kuomlntsns
arbitration committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
HELP CHRISTMAS
FUND OF |. |. D.
FOR PRISONERS
Send Money, Presents to
Class-War Victims
BY JAMES p. CANNON.
Secretary of international Labor
Defense.

The appeal by International Labor
Defense for a Christmas Fund calls
sharply to mind the workers who are
still imprisoned in the penitentiaries
of capitalism in the United States. II
is reminder of the duty which we
have to fulfill towards these men who
have sacrificed their liberty for the
movement of the working class.
Have First Claim.
The class-war prisoners ought to
have first claim on the militant work
ers. They are the outposts of the la
Dor movement and they have been
seized by the capitalist enemy in the
front line of the struggle and at the
most dangerous points. The blows
that have fallen upon them have
found them firm. The Christmas
Fund of the /. L. d. which will enable
us to send little gifts and comforts to
the men in prison and their depend
ents on the outside, and to provide
legal defense for those who are men
aced with prison, is intended to
strengthen this frmness and courage
II is meant to keep the hearts OF the
class war prisoners high in the real
ization OF the movement on the out
side which grows more determined TO
work for their liberty.
Word Wide Custom.
II is a world wide custom OF revolu-
tionaries and the advanced working
class movement TO send money and
other gifts to the imprisoned fighters
in the Christmas season. II is one OF
the solemn obligations TO those OF our
class that have been captured which
Is part OF the life OF the labor move.
ment. In the United States this IL
especially applicable. for the stringent
rules OF the penitentiaries are suffici.
emily relaxed during the holiday sea.
son to permit us TO send In some OF
those little comforts which are 30
happily and anxiously received by
those who have to do without them.
Not Charity.
Our fund has nothing In common
with the Charitable expenditures Of
the bourgeoigie aud their philan.
Continued on page ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
DECEMBER MUST Be
THE Banner MONTH TO
keep THE DAILY WORKER

We have raised $22s19os to December 1st This is an
achievement of which be proud. We have estab-
lished record of which the labor movement show few
woods We must finish the job have begun so we'll
Buffalo and Detroit have already finished quotas
They determined to double this figure The
tire country follow the Buffalo and Detroit
Just little effort little more persistence
Just little of the gogetter spirit of Buffalo and
Detroit and will pass the $4,000 mark by big mar
gin Let put shoulders the wheel the big De-
cember Drive Keep The DAILY WORKER as the fight
ing organ of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
Secret Meeting is
Held i'm New York
By Black Reaction

An audacous conspiracy perpetated in New York
CITY to break the strike of the coamakers strike
the textile workers of Passaic, New Jersey.
Never in the whole history of the labor movement
mas suc teacerous and dastard been
thousands OF militant and courageous workers who many
long months have been fighting bitterly to maintain their
organization and improve conditions
The chief figures this conspiracy men who are prom
nent officials in the American Federation Labor men who are
expected to be devoted and loyal to the interests workers
information has reached this Office that secret meeting
held in New York City in which the coaknakers strike the
Passaic textile strike and the progressive campaign the miners
union considered This conspiracy gathering was attended
by Morris Sgman president of the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union by John Lewis president of the United
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
Passaic Strike Must Be
Won for Textile Workers

ed by the official leadership of the
strike and that preparations. AZ yet
apparently tentative. are being made
to secure, by one means or another,
the organization OF weavers, loom
fixers and other skilled workers. at
present scabbing In the mills. and to
let the unskilled workers shift for
themselves.
THIS would be desertion of the
4 unskilled workers who have been
the backbone OF the strike and 1t
must not occur
The settlement made with the Pas
sale Worsted MIL was a great vic
tory for tho strikers, as It was the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
Seattle Ford Workers
Discover Real Meaning
of the Five-Day Week


SEATTLE. Dec. g. - Local Ford
workers have discovered that the
famous "fve-day week" means "hve
days pay for six days work" to quote
one OF the workers employed in the
assembling plant here.
Production has been increased tho
iay-offs are becoming common. On
Nov. / eighty men were laid OFF and
on Nov. 10, fifty-three more. Nearly
all of these had records from four
to eleven years of service. One OF the
workers remarked that with all of
Henry's boosted efficiency It takes a
long time to hnd out who the "drones"
are A smaller number OF young men
have been taken on at IS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
BY WILLIAM r. DuNNE.

ID BCENT Developments in the Pas
~ sale strike need to be studied and
understood by every worker and es-
pecially by the militant section of the
labor movement. They need to be
understood because underlying these
recent developments is a basic prin-
ciple from which deviation will spell
disaster
This principle Is: The orgsnlza-
zion Of the unssiIIed workers in the
scxtile Industry as the Indispensable
mass basis for all other organizations:
There seems TO be danger that vio-
lation Of this principle Is contemplate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05

first break In the ranks OF the bosses.
But the Botany and Forstmann
mills are the decisive ones and 1t is
necessary that no artificial division
should be made in the strike lines
about these mills.
As this is written the negotiations
with the owners OF these two mills
are being conducted thru "the may.
or's committee of five" and the local
organizers are not being informed Of
developments.
DRESIDENT MCMAHON Of the Unit
4 cd Textile Workers has met Forst-
mann in Washington recently. thru
Continued on page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
Sl0MAN, LEWIS, MCMAHON AND WOLF
PLAN NEW ATTACK.

The plans for this attack upon the trade
unions as fighting organizations of the
workers were made at conference held re-
Gently in New York City at which were pres
snt, Matthew WoII. Vice-Presdent of the
American Federation of Labor; John L.
Lewis, President of the United Mine Work.
the International Ladies Garment Work.
ers' Union, and Thomas Mcmahon, Presl-
dent of the United Textile Workers Union.
According to reliable report in the hands
OF the Central Committee of the Workers
(Cornmunist) Party this conference agreed
upon the following points:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
-sss..e,< Sse..@
by T. ). o'FLs dERTY

TWICE a year the capitalists be-
J. come generous and give away
hot meal. Any worker who has man
aged to retain his powers of locomo-
tion can wrap himself around feed
Oh Thanksgiving Eve and on Christ
mas Eve. Even prisoners are visited
by generous preachers on those soul
expanding days. The preachers offer
god or Jesus to the inmates of our
bastilles and ask nothing In return.
DUT there is one class of prisoners
~ that receives no consideration
nom The iced charity of the capitalist
professional consolationists. The class
war prisoner. Had he committed MUIR
der pimped for living, or hijacked
. load of needed beer, he would be
easily forgiven. But man who wants
to free his class from the thraldom of
slavery, in an outlaw. He is uRtouch-
able. The worst an ordinary criminal
can do is to steal little out Of the
capitalist pot But here is man who
would put the pot on his shoulders and
invite the boys who filed it to sit
around and transfer the contents to
their stomachs.
TTHESE nominations are inspired by
an announcement that the Inter
national Labor Defense has opened
campaign for Christmas Fund for the
class war prisoners and their depend
ents. There are men today in our
prisons that have not stepped outside
OF a high wall for fifteen years. 1t
is sad to have to admit that the great
majority OF the workers ignore their
sufferings. Whatever little. can be
done by those who are on the outside
to I'LL in their lonely hours with a
token of remembrance, should be done
gladly. We hope that the campaign
OF the /. L. d. will meet with success
and that thousands OF dollars will be
raised for this worthy purpose.
THIS is a good time to think Of
l. those who have proven them
selves willing to make heavy sacrifices
for the working class. A mans liberty
Is his most precious possession. With
out il life is not worth living. Life
at best under capitalism is drab-for
the workers. But even the monotony
OF factory is heaven compared to a
cramped life behind prison bars, with
uncongenial toll thrown in for good
measure.
7 EFT us think of those heroes of the
IL class war and furthermore let us
not forget them when Christmas time
is over. Tom Mooney, Warren X.
Billings. J. B. Mcnamara. Matt
Schmidt, Sacco and Vanzetti and
scores Of members OF the /. w. w.
are entitled to everything the working.
class can do for them. Let the contri-
buttons to the /. l.. ID. Christmas Fund
be generous and let us make up our
minds that all the energy of the work.
ing class movement in the United
States must be modified behind the
]. l.. ID. In its aim to get our comrades
out OF Jail as soon as possible.
r AME indeed Is the political duck
IL that does not find limb to rest
on. The silk-stockinged Ogden Mills
OF New York, who was defeated by the
homespun-hosed AL Smith for the gov
arpuhor, ~ fho Etn Miro Gfafa Ia alatad
for a Job as under-secretary OF the
treasury. Which means the fellow
who does more work than Andrew
Continued on page a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
1.-BETRAYAL OF THE PASSAlc
WORKERS.

That the heroic Passaic strikers who have
maintained solid front for over ten months
must not be permitted to win their strike
against the mill owners, because such VIC
tory would greatly increase the prestige in
the labor movement of the left wing and
Communists, and inspire the workers ia
paign for organization and fighting RAG
unionism in order to secure higher stand
ard of life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
FALL WARNED
OF fraud IN
OIL LEASES
Part in Deal Is Clearly
Established
Especial to The Daily WORKER

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-"None of
US want Mr.. Doheny to get into
trouble"
Counsel for the government in the
conspiracy trial of former Secretary
Of the Interior Albert 3. Fall and &.
L. Doheny, millionaire oil maonate,
forced this statement into the record
today as typical Of the Interior de-
partment's policy at the time Doheny
was acquiring a 500, 100000 contract
and lease In the naval oil reserves.
The statement was quoted from a
letter written to Fall at his New
Mexico ranch by H. Foster Balm. then
director Of the bureau of mines. on
May IL, 1922. This was less than a
month after Doheny had been award
ed a contract to construct huge oil
storage project at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, and six months before he was
awarded a lease ON the Elk Hills,
California, naval oil reserves.
Saw Trouble Ahead.
The letter urged Fall to ask Attor-
ney General Daugherty for an opinion
on the legality Of the Doheny contract.
This move was suggested because of
the trouble makers in congress" On
April 20, 1922, the LaFollette resoIu-
ton demanding an investigation of all
oil leases had been adopted by the
senate. A legal opinion was not sought
by Fall, Balm said.
Bain's communication established
furthermore that Fall had been in
constant touch with the lease negotia-
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
Trial Worrying Defendants.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. - Albert
B. Fall, former secretary OF the in
terror, is less jaunty than when he
returned to Washington last month to
stand trial with e. L. Doheny, oil
millionaire, for conspiracy with
Doheny to defraud the United States
OF its California naval oil reserves.
Doheny, too, looks worried as point
after point in the evidence has gone
against them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
2-STEAL THE ELECTION IN THE
MINERS UNION.

1t was admitted in this conference that
the Save the Miners Union movement sup
porting the candidacy of John Brophy, Stew
enson and Brennan for the offices of presi-
dent, vice-president and secretary treasurer
of the United Mine Workers Union would
elect these progressive leaders, but that they
must not be permitted to take over the Of
foes and leadership of the union The Lewis
administration will steal the election.
3-BETRAY THE STRIKING GARMENT
WORKERS.
A plan was outlined for an attack against
the left wing which is leading the strike of
the New York garment workers against the
jobbers in an effort to drive these leaders
of the workers. fight out of the general
strike committee and make a settlement with
the iobbers and contractors against the in
terest Of the workers.
The first step in carrying out this agree
mont has already been taken thru a mass
meeting held at Cooper Union on Thursday
night at which the right wing in the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers moblI-
lied their forces against the General Strike
Committee. This meeting demanded that
Sigman take over the leadership of the strike
and the designations of the left wing lead
or in the General Strike Committee.
coincident with this mobilization of the
right wingers the jobbers and contractors
against whom the garment workers are
continuing their strike, issued demand that
they be granted the right of reorganization
OF their shops with the right of dscharginR
workers and that there must be no limiting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
Bureaucrats Allied With Bosses Conspire
TO Break Militant Trade Union Movement
Maintain the Unions as Fighting
Organizations of the Workers
Statement of Central Committee of the Workers Communist Party

THE reaotionary bureaucrats who are the
official leaders Of the organized labor
movement, in alliance with the employers
and the capitalist government have launch
ed new attack upon the trade unions.
which has as its purpose the destruction Of
the unions as militant fighting organiza-
tons of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-05
BUREAUCRATS ALLIED WITH EMPLOY
Frs AND GOVERNMENT.

The program adopted by this conference
of trade union bureaucrats has as its pur-
pose to destroy the movement for fighting
trade unionism in those industries in which
this movement has manifested itself.
The purpose of the alliance Of trade un-
ion bureaucrats, capitalist employers and
the government is to rob the workers of the
right to strike and to compel them to accept
arbitration agreements which place them at
the mercy of the capitalists and their allies
in the trade union movement.
This movement had already gained great
Roadway in the passage of the Watson
Parker bill directed against the railroad
workers, which the government proposes to
extend to the miners. The official bureau
cratic leaders of the trade unions are sup
porting the B. and Q. plan, Lewis forced an
agreement upon the anthracite miners which
compelled him, TO submit their demands to
arbitration in the future and Sigman stood
for acceptance of the Governors Commits
sion's report on the garment industry. The
whole development of the policy of the Of
fetal leaders of the trade unions is toward
stripping the workers of the right to strike,
thus sacrificing the workers strongest
weapon against the capitalists.
This movement Is given new impetus
by the proposals to betray the garment work.
ers and textile strikers and head off the
movement for fighting policy in the Unit
ed Mine Workers, at time when the CAPT.
talsts are Boosting of their enormous pro-
fits and great prosperity. Its purpose is to-
stife the growing movement of the work.
ers demanding higher wages, better work.
ing conditions and shorter hours, to secure
for themselves some benefits from the great
ly increased amount of wealth they produce
thru their labor.
The alliance of these forces of reaction is
directed particularly against the left wing
movement which thru militant fights in the
interest of the workers won the forty-hour
week for the Furriers, achieved gains for the
garment workers in the same direction, and
which has fought the hard battle to rescue
the Passaic workers from unbearabIe con-
ditions and is heading the fight in the min
ers' union for a leadership which will de-
TEND the interest of the workers in the wage
negotiations which take place at the begin
ming of the year.
The capitalists determined to destroy this
movement, which is endangering their right to un-
limited exploitation Of the American workers be-
cause II Is inspiring other groups Of workers to
similar fights In their interests. In this effort the
capitalist employers have the support Of the trade
union buresucrats as we'll as tho government The
CONTINUED page q
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of the number of contractors. The jobbers
threatened lockout Of the 10000 garment
workers they employ on Monday, if the I'M
ion does not settle on these terms. Sigman
and the right wing are willing to settle the
strike on these terms.
The methods which the right wing pro-
poses to use In destroying the fighting trade
union movement in New York is further in
dcated In the mobilization of the gangsters
Of New York thru meeting held at Beeth-
oven Hall on Wednesday night, at which a
campaign of fascist terrorism against the
left wing leaders was mapped out
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-13

a rectangular iron railway structure"
oh" exclaimed Wells in the Bige-
low version, "how can you utter such
words? To me a railroad has ele-
ments of sublimity. 1t is eloquent.
1t means progress"
Even Anthony Hope WINGED" Mr..
Bigelo~ wrote.
The Wells recital of what happened
differs materially.
Some time ago met Mr.. Poult-
ney Bigelow at Lady Russells fiat in
London" he wrote. HE sought an
introduction to me and forthwith
started at me with ill-mannered in
quiries about my sales income and
such like impertinences. / did my
best to convey to him that he had as
much right to poster me about these
things as to ask where l bought my
trousers or whether / had an over
draft at the bank. After a time /
succeeded In stunning or killing
these tentatives to vulgarity and then
he proceeded to discuss other sub.
jects.
"a change in the topic means no
change in the quality of his dis
course. The CharingS Cross bridge
was ugly, materialistic, rectangular.
To people like Bigelow anything
curved is more beautiful than any
thing rectangular.
1.-THE bridge said I, exasperated
beyond endurance, at shutdown or in
the twilight can be the most beauti-
full or most romantic in the world.
There was an American named
Whistler who could have made even
you see the loneliness of it,"
Mr.. Bigelow at his home. Maldon-
on Hudson, asked How am / to
make living as an after dinner
speaker if 1 am slandered by being
called a bore?"