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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-02
Dance Tonight

Dance Tonight
| There will be the usual weekly dance
at the Parish house tonight, but in
stead of beginning at $3.50 o'clock, the
dancers are requested to come at 8
o'clock. =
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-02

Tucson Visitors
Mr. and Mrs Jack Newman are in
this city from Tucson to spend few
days in the transaction of business.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-09-02

William Stevens and Tom Sanders
arrived in this city yesterday from
Los Angeles where they have been
residing for. the. past year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
Oppose Dual Union.

PASSAIC, N. j., Aug. ALBERT
Weisbord, organizer of the Passaic
textile strike which is now in its TWEEN
ty-eight week, made the following
statement on the vote of the workers
to place settlement in the hands of
disinterested group and ask for affilia-
ton with the United Textile Workers
of America.
While have repeatedly said that
would be glad to step aside at any time
in the interests of the workers, never
theless I heartily agree with Senator
Borah when ne says that should not
resign until the way is clear for some
one else to take up the work of organ
izing the workers. Certainly l shall
not step aside until there are definite
guarantees made for settlement on the
basis Of the recognition Of the work
ers' union, nor will the United Front
Committee disband until negotiations
have reached such a point where the
workers can join the United Textile
Workers without any danger OF the
employers breaking their strike"
Join A. r. Of L.
In introducing resolution on the
settlement of the strike, Albert Weis-
bord declared: I'm advising the work
ers to adopt the resolution l am faced
with two alternatives. On the one
hand there is a possibility of a speedy
and honorable settlement of the strike
on the basis of recognition of the
union of the workers If the workers
affiliate themselves to the United Tex.
tile Workers of the American Fedora
CONTINUED from page p
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Pres. Green And
BORAH DISCUSS
PASSAIC STRIKE
Senator Urges A. F. of
L. to Take in Strikers
BY LAURENCE TODD,
Federated Press.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-Senator
5orah held a conference with Presi-
dent Green and Secretary Morrison Of
the American Federation of Labor, on
the terms which the federation could
offer the Passaic textile strikers in
case the latter would change their
leadership from the United Front Com
mittee to the United Textile Workers.
5orah has been seeking settlement
of the long strike, and has secured
from Albert Weisbord, leader of the
United Front Committee, that he and
any other Communists active in the
leadership Of the struggle will step
aside.
Cur talk with Senator Borah was
entirely clear" Green said afterward.
I'VE assured him that the federation
had at all times desired to be helpful
to the workers in the textile industry
in Passaic, and that it was our wish
to organize the textile workers under
the United Textile Workers of Amer
lea. If the strikers now proceed to
reorganize and to make application in
the usual way, to the United Textile
Workers for local charter, and If the
United Textile Workers approve the
application. they will become a part
of that international union, affiliated
with the federation"
AS result of the Borah-Green- Nor
rison conference it is evident that the
United Textile Workers are now pre-
pared to take the Passaic strikers in,
as soon as they make formal applica-
ton. The one condition on which this
will be done, however, is that Weis-
bord and all other Communists retire
from leadership, so that the mill own
ers shall have no further ground for
their claim that the strike is Com
munist-led. With a on-Communist
committee in charge, American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor officials think that
the Botany Worsted Mills and other
big anti-union employers will find it
much more difficult to avoid signing
union agreement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
New York Civic Club
Arranges Passaic
Strike Panoramic

Z NEW YORK. Aug. mime speak.
ers, playwrights, authors, editors. Ia
Dor organizers and strike leaders. will
present before the Civic Club, IA w.
18th street, a panoramic survey of the
Passaic textile strike on Wednesday,
August 4, at $3.50 p. m.
Those who will speak from person
al experience on the subject, Jersey
Justice" are Margaret Larkin. play
wright; Agnes de Lima, author: Eliza
beth Gurley Flynn, labor organizer and
member of the American Civil Liber-
ties Union; Robert w. Dunn. author
and member OF Civil Liberties Union
Charles w. Erwin; Louis F. Budenz,
editor OF the Labor Age; and Anna
Ribardo. Nancy Sandosky, and Lena
Chernenko, girl leaders of the picket
lines in the strike area. Marguerite
Tucker will preside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04

maintaining close contact with wide
sections of the population Is it any
wonder that American imperialism
opened its arms to the catholic
church? Is it not quite understand
able that millions of American dollars
should be poured into the publicity
fund Of eucharistic congress at Chi
cago, that ostentatious government
honors should be paid to the attending
cardinals, that the entire press of the
land should be modified for the event
and that catholic. protestant and Jew
alike should sing its praises?
The medieval church has found a
modern social basis, with ramifcations
reaching into the new world as well
as into the old.
So it is that. in the twentieth cen
fury, a conflict between church and
state becomes a tremendous thing.
with imposing forces modified on
each side and the reverberations of
struggle echoing loudly far beyond the
borders Of the Mexican republic.
Newspapers are not exaggerating
the Mexican crisis. 1t is a grave one
Twenty-Five thousand priests are on
general strike, refusing to perform any
public clerical function. An economic
boycott has been ordered by organized
catholic laymen; purchases are to be
limited to necessities, the purpose
being to paralyze the economic life of
the nation and bring the government
to its knees. The Gales government,
which has overcome so many OBJ
stacles, is engaged in what Is unmis.
takably one of the most momentous
struggles of its career.
Gales Problem.
CALLEs is fighting a triple-headed
" monster: one head represents the
counter-revolutionary landowning aris-
Continued from page p
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|. W. A. Gets BIC
Miners RELIEF
DRIVE UNDER WAY
Collections to Be Made
in Many Cities

The International Workers Aid is
mobilizing its entire forces turnout
the country for the raising of funds to
aid the women and children of the
locked out British miners.
On Saturday, August z, and Sunday,
August s, men, women and young folks
will be on the streets and at the
house doors asking the support OF all
workers and their friends in behalf of
the brave miners who we're locked out
on May Of this year because they
refused a reduction In pay.
Shop Collections.
Workers in the shops will take up
shop collections. The funds of the
International Workers Aid are being
used to feed the children of the coun.
ties Of Kent and Wales thru the soup
kitchens that have been established
by the English section of the Interna.
tional Workers Aid
In Many Cities.
Boston, New York, Philadelphia.
New Haven. Hartford, Chicago, De.
troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles,
and countless smaller cities are ready
for the collection drive on the 7th
and Sth. Every worker who can pos.
sibly give day, or even a few hours,
should hold himself in readiness TO
serve the British miners. ~ ,
Watch this paper for list OF ,centers
where workers should report for duty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04

to live feebly thru a new brief exist
ence-as the religion of declining cap
italism.
American Capitalism And The Church
OUCH phenomenon could not be
~ ignored in the United States.
which tho nominally protestant, has
long since emerged from the period
of economic individualism in which
professionalism got its real foothold.
American capitalism, as the greatest
imperialist power in the world, with
a dominant position In the world mark.
ct and billions OF dollars tied up in
European investment, is the chief sub
sidizer Of European reaction. But the
foreign interests Of Wall Street and
Washington are not confined 10
Europe. Right at our own door is
the primary foreign base of American
Observation-Disclosures, with a
catholic tradition three centuries older
than the Monroe Doctrine and a pond.
erous hierarchical organization still
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
BY MANUEL GOMEZ.
ARTICLE /.

DOST-WAR Europe, overwhelmed by
new hopes and new fears, heard
the voice of the dead. From the Vati-
can at Rome it came-the strange-old
demand of the Pope for restitution of
his temporal power.
The sudden renewal of this medic
val demand had certain significance,
althO the demand itself was manifestly
impossible of realization 1t was an
announcement to the world that the
catholic church was again a world
political factor of first-rate import
ance.
The European social order was in a
state of fux; long-established institu-
tions were crumbling; mOnarchies
were falling; the triumphant Russian
Bolsheyik Revolution was proving an
irresistible force of attraction for the
exploited workers of western Europe.
Among the ruined DECEASED elements
and Interchangeable, particularly,
there was a wave of pessimism and
lack of faith. In the midst of all this
capitalist disintegration and disorgan-
ization, organization became god.
Every center Of reaction that had
widespread organization implica-
tions. discipline, authority and a semb.
lance of stability, was eagerly sought
after. Organization and authority~-it
possible organization that would have
the appearance of transcending gov
ernments-but above all organization
and authority.
1t was the hour of the catholic
church. Professionalism could not meet
these requirements. The protestant
denominations lost members steadily,
as all recent figures show. Authori.
tartan catholicism rose from the dead,
still smelling Of the grave II is true,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
VAGI DERIDES
HORTHY JUDGE
IN TRIAL OF So
Raps Social Democrats
for Their Betrayal

BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 10 (By
lnprecorr) The court resumed SEES
sion today. Day before yesterday all
the papers reported that todays ses-
sion would begin with the examination
of Stefan Vagi As a result hundreds
of workers assembled in front of the
court building and demanded admis-
sion. They were dispersed by the
police.
Hungarian Workers Problem.
Altho there was not a worker in the
audience, strained tension prevailed in
the courtroom as Vagi was led into
court. Vagi stated that he had been
member Of the social democratic
party for generation. "The problem
OF getting power had never been dis
cussed in the party before the war"
began Vagi In feudalagrarian Hun.
gary the working class had had neither
suffrage nor the right to organize.
They fought for the right Of suffrage.
The Hungarian proletariat established
its revolutionary traditions in this
struggle. The peasant masses also
fought heroically for democratic
rights. After the revolution II was
not the social democratic party hut
history itself which raised the aues-
ton OF power II is nonsense 10 mann
tain that the revolution was The work
Of few agitators. The establishment
OF the workers rule was the historical
deed of the Hungarian proetariat.
Il am no Communist" declared
Vagi but stood for the platform OF
Parklns, OF unfinching class struggle.
Viewed from this standpoint. we are
also the executors OF the incomplete
bourgeois revolution, and Just as do
not disavow the bourgeois revolution
OF iS4S nor the Paris Commune OF
Continued on page ~
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CONE
TO GET funds
FOR strikers
Delegation Will Be Met
by Green
Especial to The Daily worker)

LONDON, Aug. 2.-The delegation
from British labor now at sea on the
5erengaria bound for America to
rouse the workers of the United States
to do as we'll as the Russian workers
have done in sending relief funds to
the 100000 striking miners and their
families, is composed Of James Rob-
son, Joseph Jones, Paul McKenna and
oliver Harris, representing the Min
ers' Federation of Great Britain, Ben
Tillet and Arthur A. Purcell, repre-
senting the Trade Union Congress-;
and Ellen Wilkinson, representing the
Women's Relief Committee.
Before leaving Miss Wilkinson said;
81 am going to America for the Wo-
mems Relief Committee. We already
have an Office in New York which has
raised $4,000. With the assistance
of American women, propose to ar
range visits to women's organizations
in several cities.
tdhih6 Win me- a pelShdSC VI
little miners lamps such as have been
sold in the streets of London, and l
am going to make Americans pay
good price for them for relief of our
miners children and wives. l have
with me bundle of letters sent in
by women in the coal fields and am
going to let American audiences have
the benefit of what the wives of Brit
ish miners are thinking"
When the delegation reaches Wash
ington, they will be met by President
William Green of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor who is now supposed
to be arranging for their visit, during
which time they will be the guests of
the A. F. of l.. and of the United Mine
Workers of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
WORKERS unite
IN imp RESSIVE
DEMONSTRATION
Over $4,000 Parade the
Streets of Capital
Especial to The DAILY Workerl

AOpeClai 10 ' ne Caly VVTNefl
MEXICO CITY, Aua. 2.-WeIl owe,
$4,000 members Of organized labor pa.
raded the streets Of Mexico City while
similar demonstrations were held
thruout the country, as q manifesto
ton Of Iabor's support Of the gov
eminent in the present religious war.
The demonstration was orderly and
parade which was participated in by
labor's political organizations in adj
dition to employees of the government
and members of labor unions.
Sunday Strike.
For two hours before the parade
formed early in the morning until Il
finished well into the afternoon,
no traffic moved in the streets. All
traction men and vehicle drivers
were ordered by their unions to stop
work and practically no automobiles
appeared on the streets.
Speakers addressed the workers
both before and after the parade.
They reviewed the history of nhe
church and condemned the institu-
ton for the spread Of ignorance and
superstition in Mexico. They voiced
themselves as being entirely behind
| the government in It's fight to curb
the powers of the church in Mexico.
Reviewed by Gales.
President Gales and other govern.
ment officials reviewed the parade
I from the balcony of a municipal build
ing. The paraders were in high
spirits and Haunted large banners de-
nouncing the priests and declaring for
the constitution.
1t is-signifcant that the largest part
of the paraders were themselves cath.
olics but that their allegiance to their
labor organizations and their under
standing of the correctness Of the Do
sition of the government outweighed
their devotion to the church.
Clergy Disappointed.
Church officials refused to comment
on the composition of the paraders.
having held out hope until the last
minute that large numbers Of them
would refuse to join the demonstra-
ton.
Boycott Flops.
The economic boycott initiated by
the catholic associations has met
with but small success. The wealth
Ter classes are carrying out the cam
paign so far as dispensing with ice
CONTINUED on page p
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u. S. Labor Stands Behind President Gales

lie at the south. For back Of President
Gales is the Mexican Regional FEEDER.
alton Of Labor, close ally Of the Amer.
lean Federation OF Labor. Before
American labor can be aroused to any
enthusiasm for the propaganda against
Gales administration. now based on
religious disputes rather than on dis.
putes over oil holdings, Il will hear
Gales side OF the story.
Clergy Aid Reaction.
When the Mexican revolution began
in 1911 with the uprising against Por-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04

firio Diaz, It was the workers on the
railroads and in the cotton mills and
in the mines and sugar rehneries who
furnished the boldest recruits for
Madero. After Madero triumphed. 1t
was the reactionaries among the pub
lie officials, the big landholders and
the upper clergy who refused to CO.
operate, and who backed the revolt
of army officers that resulted in the
murder OF Madero and the putting Of
Victoriano Huerta in power. When
Continued on page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
THIS IS THE FIRST or
FIVE ARTICLES ON THE
PRESENT MEXICAN CRISIS

The present article is the first of
a series of five studies of the strug-
gle between the church and state in
Mexico. Others to follow are;
The Glass Lines in the Conflict.
The Church and Foreign Inter
Ventlon in Mexico.
The Catholic Church and Ameri.
can imperialism.
The Meaning Of Mexlco's "Refor.
nation"
They will appear daily on this
page.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
TRADE UNION CONGRESS AND LABOR
PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN URGE THE
RELEASE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI
(sepcial to The Daily Worker

LONDON August 2The Congress
and the National Executive Of the meeting
the Joined
Massachusetts, which they a
ze The communication
Of the execution Of the
siderable doubt the minds
Of their trial perjury
neSses since the convicted only
feeling Cancellation two
,ta.tt az,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
BY LAURENCE TODD,
Federated Press.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-on one Is
sue, at least, American labor as rep
resented by It's powerful unions In
side and outside the American Fedora.
ton Of Labor Is apparently agreed.
That ls In faith In the Gales govern.
mont In Mexico. That fact is one
which the state department. takes into
account in its dealings with the repub-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
Chicago and Alton
Grants Just Twelve
Cents a Day Raise

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Aug. "A
wage increase of ~ cents per hour,
retroactive to July Is, 1926, was an
nounced here today for all shopmen
and mechanical craftsmen by the Chi
cago & Alton railroad About 1000
will benefit by the company's order.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
Channel swimmer starts.

DOVER, England, Aug. 2.-While
Miss Clara Bell Barrett of New York
was reported making good progress
in her attempt to swim the English
channel, another aspirant took the
water. D. |. Wester of London started
an attempt from South Foreland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
Mexican Government Mobiles Military Forces
in Struggle Beween Administration and Clergy

In case the power of the church,
due to its grip on thousands Of
superstitious minds should seek to
enforce its will In more drastic
ways than mere economic boycott,
the Gales government has mobil-
lied the military for an emergency.
On the left is a Mexican army tank
patrolIing the streets and below is
a scene Of troops being concen-
trated in Mexico City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
LABSStsss>* !. y MONS DEFY MEXICAN CHURCH
ksss.s,< Sse..%
By THOMAS ]. o'FLAHERTY

LNRANK o. LOWDEN, former gov
ernor of Illinois, will not be ac-
cused of looking for inspiration in
foreign countries preparatory to
throwing his hat in the ring for the
G. o. p, presidential nomination. Low
den went to Denmark, Sweden and
Germany to consult with the cows
rather than to Russia to consult with
the Bolsheviki. That Lowden thinks
he knows who's who in Illinois was
demonstrated when he invited several
hundred Illinois bankers to visit his
model farm, where the cows smoke
London Life cigarettes and the pigs
listen in on the radio. Lucky quad
rupeds!
WHETHER the bankers sampled
w Lowden's prize lacteral fluid or
something more rare is not public
property. But judging from the eulo-
CYSTIC introduction of a banker spokes-
man, the son-in-law of Pullman mil
lions will have all the bank burglars
in the state behind him if he chal-
lenges Coolidge for the nomination.
This raises the question: While the
bankers are busy boosting Lowden for
president who is going to look after
the peoples deposits. If this is read
by professional bank robber he will
burst his false face laughing.
r Asst Sunday was cloudy and dreary
Lin Chicago 1t was press picnic
day for the Workers Party flock of
INDECENT publications. AS rule we
have enough influence with our god to
get an even break on the weather.
Why the slip up? All! Here is the
explanation. This is the day (this is
written on Sunday chosen by the
pope for a barrage of catholic pray
ers against the Mexican government.
And, of course, as soon as the chorus
reached heaven the angels began to
weep, and those angels who were
washing their feet preparatory to go
ing to bed got excited and dropped
the contents of their tubs over Chi
ea.go, instead of on Mexico City.
OR perhaps they read a statement
~ issued by S. P. Buzzo, vice-presi-
dent of the Chicago Building Trades
Council, who attributed the action of
the Mexican government to the dia-
bolical intrigues of Moscow and "its
agents." The angels in righteous
wrath wept on us, or at us, and per-
haps forgot to dampen the ardor of
the Mexican working class who dem
onstrated against the pope on that
very day. Verify, indeed the ways of
heaven are mysterious. But the blum
ders of heaven does not remedy mat
ters for us. Farmers may welcome
summer showers, but picnickers pre-
fer sunshine.
LNOUR baby bandits, ages five to
4 eight, admitted robbing twenty
FIVE stores recently. Those sturdy lit
tie Americans developed a snappy
technique. One of them had whistle.
While the other members of the cor
poration were acquiring wealth sur
reptitiously the lad with the whistle
watched, and when danger hove in
Continued on page ~
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Background of Religious
Conflict i'm Mexico


Church Constitution o the Masses
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-09-15
WIFE ALLEGES HUSBAND
IGNORED HER AT DANCE

Alleging cruelty. desertion and
non.support, Mrs. Gertrude II.
White, SIS Twelfth st. s. E., today
filed suit In the District Supreme
Court against Alton G. White, who
she says Is q poultry dealer III the
Eastern Market with an annual In
come ofs$ .00o. for q limited divorce
and alifnony.
Represented by Attorneys Wilton
J.. Lambert. Rudolph II. Yeatn:an
and Alfred M. Schwartz, Mrs. White
claims that, While at the Arcade
in March 1924. her husband ignored
her entirely and when they went
home together in their automobile,
he struck her with his fist, causing
her to faint.
Mrs. White says she bought a
necktie for her husband In Sep.
TENDER 1925, and that he struck
her because it did not suit him.
They were married In Baltimore.
Md, January 8, 1924, and have one
child whose custody is requested
by the mother
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-09-15
YOUTHS HELD IN
THEFT CASE

Charges of a statutory offense
against Mrs. Bertha List, OF S1S
M st. N. w, mother Of two
children, were ignored today by
the Governments pros ecution
against Lewis T.. watkins. Is. and
George L. Fentress, IS.
The. two. however, were held
under $500 bond each. charged
with robbery of the 50.year.old
woman and with joyriding. Each
waived preliminary hearing when
arraigned before Judge Schuldt and
were held for the action Of the
grand jury on the joyriding and
theft case.
Their arrest was brought about
last Monday when Mrs. List com.
planned to the police that the two
boys had abducted her from the
corner Of Tenth and Pennsylvania
Avenue the night before and had
taken her in the automobile, alleged
to have been stolen. to 3 secluded
spot near the Old Soldiers Home,
there attacking her. She bore
bruises and other marks at the
time of her complaint to the. police,
The story or the two boys was
that the aged woman had .winked
at them as they drove along and
had voluntarily gone with them
They denied both the assault and
the robbery.
Young Watkins lives. at 5I431
Irving ST. N. E., Fentress at 1916.
jackson st. n. p.