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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
FurrIers support strlkers.

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-The Furriers'
Union Of New York has condemned the
conference called by the socialists for
Dec. 81. to conduct war on militancy
in the trade unions. A statement is
sued by the New York Joint Board Of
the Furriers' Union, which along with
the N. Y. cloakmakers, was attacked
by socialist officials headed by Abra-
ham Beckerman of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union, has called
this conference strikebreaking move.
The furriers were supported in their
stand by the general strike committee
of the cloakmakers which took a
similar action. 1t is charged that the
conference is an attempt to create
Generalization and terror in the
locals of the furriers and cloakmakers'
unions.
Furriers' locals that have been in
vited to this conference, the avowed
purpose of which is to drive Com
munists and left wingers out of the
unions, have announced that they will
not participate.
strlkebreaking Move.
In another statement regarding the
action Of Sigman's General Executive
Board in the Cloakmakers' Information
al, the Furriers' Joint Board declares
itself in full support of the striking
cloakmakers and condemns the action
of Sigman and the right wingers in
their Illegal action to break the strike.
remove the officials of the joint board
and arbitrarily set up new board.
1t declares that such action en-
courages arrogant employers and will
affect the stand and well-being of all
needle workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18

Continued from page y
opposition and the fact that they are
playing a double game.
Contradictions.
Kameneff's speech, Rykoff declared,
was mass of contradictions from be-
ginning to end. Nobody In the central
committee OF the Soviet Union Party
had ever denied the danger OF right
drifts in the country. However. on
this as on other questions the opposi-
ton proposed nothing of practical
nature. Our big mistake has been
that We did not remove the opposi.
tional comrades from leading posi-.
tons earlier since owing to their
policy the country suffered the deep
est crisis. However, since then we
have emerged successfully from the
crisis.
Defeatlst Tendencies.
Seeking for what they were lacking
the opposition found a definite pro-
gram in Trotskyism as its central
kernel The opposition's theology is
defeatist; they are daily expecting the
defeat OF the revolution and every
autumn they are prophesying sharp
economic crisis, especially In case OF
good harvest, alleging that industrial
production would be unable to meet
the largest demands OF the peasant
market. The opposition's views of the
relations OF the workers and the peas.
ants are the same as between capital
list countries and their Colonies. An
example of the double accounting OF
the opposition Is the fact that they
themselves voted for the agricultural
tax and then agitated against 1t.
The opposition's taunt that the
majority OF the central committee was
guilty of national reformism In the
question OF the socialist construction
in one country 10 absolutely baseless.
The opposition has not produced a
single fact substRntiatins this charge
which is therefore a mere msneuver
aimed at giving the opposition lead
ing or semi-leading role again. Social.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
Rykof AssaiIs Opposition at
Comintern Plenum; Parties Firm

ist construction In one country is not
an abstract question, it depends which
country, 1t depends on the series Of
phases and changes in the struggle
for world socialism.
Growing independence.
Naturally Rykoff said there Is a
dependence upon foreign capital but
foreign trade is mutually profitable
and with the naturalization OF the
country the dependence is growing
smaller and smaller. The pace OF our
development with planned industry
and the foreign trade monopoly and
the leading role of the Communist
Party are much more rapidly develop
ed than in capitalist countries.
We must resolutely reject the accu-
sation of the lack Of faith in the world
social revolution. Capitalism is decay
ing. the October revolution was the
first link In the chain Of the struggle
for the overthrow Of world capital
ism. We are not forgetting our inter-
national duty.
Rykoff concluded that Kameneff and
Zinoviev were wrong when they COM
planned OF the harsh methods OF the
party against the opposition; zinoyiev
himself had formerly used drastic
methods against better disciplined op.
ponents than the present opposition.
The opposition uses all means OF fight
ing the party and therefore they must
not blame us, for hard conditions ne.
cessary to dofend the party.
Battle Parties' View.
Stutchka. speaking on behalf OF the
Communist parties Of Latvia. Lithua-
MIA, and Esthonia, declared that they
remain true TO the Comintern and to
Leninism, that they believe in the
possibility Of socialist construction in
the u. s. s. II. which the Russian
workers will achieve. The opposition
wishes 10 maintain the strife inter
nationally; this will affect harmfully
tho nome Communist workers and there.
CONTINUED on page 3,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
TWO OF MAYORS
four APPOINTEES
IN SCHOOL QUIZ
Give Views on Problems
Affecting Education

Two Of the four appointees of
Mayor Dever for position on the
board of education appeared before
the school COMMITTEES Of the city coun-
Gil at it's hearing yesterday. They
were Dr. Otto L. Schmidt and Mrs.
William S. Heffern. the latter APP
pointed to succeed herself.
In questioning Dr. Schmidt it was
brot out that he had been connected
with the public school league in 1914,
when that body rendered a report sus-
tanning the policies of the then presi-
dent of the board, Jacob ]. Loeb.
Suffers Lapse of Memory.
But when he was asked If his re-
port supported Loeb in his act Of
discharging 6S teachers without a
hearing, he suffered lapse of men,
DRY and pleaded that he could not re.
call the matter.
Mrs. Heffern came out unequivoc-
ally in support of the Junior high
schools. On the matter of the pla-
toon SYSTEM she was not SO positive,
but indicated taht she had been will
ign to see them tried out and now
thought that the superintendent:
should report on the results of the
experiment. When she said that there
were but Is or 20 in operation, her
attention was called to the superin-
tendent's report OF last year, show
ing 60 in existence. A resolution in
the council, by Alderman Oscar F.
Nelson, July 9, 1924, claimed that al
most 100 elementary schools had been
platooned.
Favors Teachers Councils.
Mrs. Heffern expressed her entire
divergence from McAndrews on the
question Of teachers councils, which
she said she favored, to be held on
school time and with no interference
from superintendent or principals.
Alderman Arvey, whom Alderman
Nelson called the irrepressfDle ad
short-stop," tried to rush
matters by moving the confirmation
- W. - @hOAA~AaAA3 LII anu
J. Vopika, leaving that of
Walter J. Raymer still pending until
he had appeared before the commit
tee. Vopica, while he did not appear,
had written a letter to the committee
on his position in school matters.
Nelson insisted that the confirmation
be deferred until matters such as the
platoon system had been gone into,
and he carried the day. The commit.
tee recessed until Saturday morning.
Hits Platoon System.
This whole thing" said Alderman
grows out Of the employers
efforts TO cut school courses and save
money. With retricted immigration.
hey wish TO throw boys and girls
into industry earlier in life than
formerly. Hence the Junior high
schools, to cut schooling from 10 TO
years. hence the platoon system"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
HOUSE ASSAILS
COOLIDGE FOR
NAVAL POLICY
VIII Demand Probe on
Relative Strength
special to The Daily Worker,

/ NSFNNlai ~ iHS sDdUy NNSiNOtt
WASHINGTON Dec. ia resolu-
ton asking an immediate investiga-
tion into the condition Of the navy
was introduced in the house by Rep.
Black, New York, following a stormy
session of the naval affairs commit
tee in which congressman were work.
ed up to high pitch over the alleged
weakness Of the U. s. navy defense.
Attack Coolidge.
Friction between Coolidge's "econ-
omy" policy and the desires of GER
tain legislators for increasing the size
of the navy, which has been brewing
since congress opened, has assumed
definite and visible form. What little
harmony prevailed between the presi.
dent and republican leaders in the
house is shattered by this situation,
observers believe.
Cal Ignored Congress.
The members of the naval commit
tee claim that Coolidge had deliber-
ately allowed the navy's strength to
decrease below the level provided at
the Washington conference which set
up the 5-5-3 ship ratio with Great Brit
ain and Japan. What has incensed
the solons above everything is that
altho congress appropriated funds for
construction of three more cruisers,
Coolidge and Budget Director Lord
blocked the construction.
Secretary Wilbur was also attacked
when he admitted that he refrained
from urging construction of the ships
because of Coolidges instructions.
Admiral Eberle told the house that
it would take 21 ships to bring the
navy on equality with Great Britain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
oermany's Finances Good.

BERLIN-An optimistic report on
Germany's financial condition was
made by Seymour Parker Gilbert, az.
ent general for reparations. Germany
has Loyalty and punctually" made all
payments required under the Dawes
plan for the second PREPARATIONS year
he said. Foreign loans have poured
into the country in steady stream,
be said, pointing 10 this as demon
strating the soundness OF the coun.
try's economic position. Germanys
currency has remained stable, he says.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
BIG TICKET SALE
Is REPORTED FOR
BREAKING CHAINS

Altho the initial announcement that
Breaking Chains" will be shown at
the Ashland Auditorium ON Dec. IS,
has been made only a few days ago,
the International Workers Aid office
has already had hundreds of calls for
tickets, considerable number of
people who saw the picture on Dec. 8
bought tickets again with the com
ment, II must see that picture again."
The International Workers Aid urg-
es all those who desire to see Break
ing Chains" not to miss the opportun-
ity on Dec. IS, because after that date
the picture will be shipped out of
Chicago for long countrywide tour
and will not be shown In Chicago
again.
The Dec. Is showing will be able
to accommodate 5000 people. There
will be plenty Of seats. No waiting
in line or crowding. The 1000 peo-
pie who could not get in to see the
picture at the first will have their
opportunity on Dec, Is.
Buy your tickets early at the fol-
lowing places:
1853 w. Madison ST., 1906 S. Racine
Ave, 1909 w. Roosevelt NRd., 2409f N.
Halsted St., 1888 Hirsch Blvd, BIG
S. Halsted ST., 10 S. Lincoln, 1902 w.
Division St., 1851 Michigan Ave, 1882
w. Chicago Ave, 2720 w. Division
St., (Ceshinsky's).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
INDICTED DRY DIRECTOR
| SAYS He TOOK LIQUOR TO
STUDY LABELS ON BOTTLES

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1s.-col-
oneI Ned M. Green, deposed prohI-
bition administrator, charged with
diverting government-seized liquor
for his own use, took the stand in
his own defense and made a sweep
ing denial Of the charges lodged
against him.
He admitted taking bottles OF IL
quor from the prohibition enforce
ment. offices at various times, but
the liquor he took was never dis
pensed to his friends, as charged,
he said.
"This liquor was undrinkable,"
Green testified. ~ took II merely
to study the labels, which were OBJ
vlousIy spurious, In an effort to
show these bottles did not contain
the brand of liquor which the labels
would lead one to believe"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
CHINESE MOVEMENT HAS
STIRRED INDO- CHINA TO
WORK FOR INDEPENDENCE

-(Speeial 20 ne Rally WoTkeFl
PARIS, Dec. 16.-In a fight which
La Llberte, an evening newspaper,
Is wagns against Alexandra Var
enne, the governor Of French lndo-
China, It comes to light that there
Is widespread growth Of an autono-
mist movement in that part Of the
world.
The paper, in trying to prove the
incompetenoy of the governor, dis
closes that the revolutionary move
ment in South China has spread to
the French possessions.
A new autonomist newspaper has
been suppressed and the editor
thrown into prison. Students In
technical schools by the hundreds
are streed to revolutionary activity
and frequently have aid from the
soldiers. Arrests have been made
among this group. The Annamlte
people are becoming violent In their
demands for Independence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
CHICAGO CLOAK
MAKERS BEGIN
FIvE-DAY WEEK
Union Nails Boss Lie
About Agreement

The Chicago cloakmakers will begin
working a five-day forty-two-hour week
commencing Monday, December 20,
1926. These hours will be in force I'M
til the first Monday in June 1928, when
they will begin working a forty-hour
five-day week. Chicago is the second
cloak market under the control of the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union and the third needle trade
union in the United States that has
established the principle of forty
hour five-day week. The other two
markets are the New York Fur Work
ers and the New York Cloakmakers.
These unions are under progressive
leadership and the progressives claim
credit for this achievement.
Bosses Spread Falsehoods.
The Chicago association of dress
manufacturers, known as the Mitchell
Dress Association, has issued a bull
letin containing a story made UP by
Mr. Horton, their secretary, as an in
ducement for new members to join
their association during their cam
paign. These stories are not based on
facts and do not contain a particle of
truth.
Brother Davidson, organizer Of the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers in Chicago, in order to prove how
false these statements are, quotes the
following paragraph from their bulletin
headed, Milwaukee Avenue Manu-
faeturers and Union Deadlocked Over
Terms; Negotiations between the
union and the northwest side dress
manufacturers are now deadlocked-
the employers are insisting that the
week clause be eliminated
from the proposed agreement. The
union shows no intention to give up
this clause and has threatened to call
out all members at the expiration of
the present agreement unless their de-
mands are granted"
No Deadlock.
Davidson says that not only has
there been no deadlock in negotiations
but the union has not as yet decided
for themselves nor informed the en-
ployers of the kind Of agreement they
want. He charges the author of this
purely made up story of writing the
article with the intention OF frighten-
ing the buyers away from the union
dress manufacturing shops. AS far as
the union is concerned they will try
to reach an agreement. Mr.. Davidson
spoke to Mr.. Phillips, the president of
the Northwest Side Manufacturers
Association, who protested ignorance
of this statement and does not pay
any attention to IL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
Borah Proposes New
international Court

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1e.--All the
nations Of the earth would be asked
to cooperate with the United States
In drafting a new code of interna.
tional law and in creating new in.
ternational court, modelled after the
American supreme court, under terms
OF a resolution sponsored In the sen.
ate by Senator Borah. The resolu lion
would "outlaw war" he said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
Rally Workers Now in
Fight for "A Labor Party
in the 1923 Elections"
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

they are denied citizenship. It is
difficult at best to become natural
lied.
Ware is not the choice of the
people, much less of the workers of
Pennsylvania. He was the choice
of the millions of dollars of the min
ing, steel, railroad and banking in
terests of the state.
Smith, in Illinois, was no less the
candidate, and becomes no less the
senator of the dollars OF the great
public utility interests, out of which
Sammy" insult towers as a COM
handing figure. Smith had the sup
port of the republican ballot-box
manipulating machine, which won
for him sufficient number of votes
after the expenditure of huge sums
of money contributed by those who
would profit most of his election.
Smith is the choice of the repub-
'lican tyranny over the people of
Illinois, not the free choice of the
Illinois electorate.
But the democrats who bring
charges against Smith, Ware, Gould
ct al, are no less hypocritical
Turnout the "Solid South" they are
not compelled to spend huge sums
of money. The Negro voters are
deprived of their ballot rights and
numerous restrictions prevent the
poor whites from enjoying the
boosted franchise privilege. The
Southern aristocracy is in power as
in slavery days, and they maintain
power cheaply.
Nor is there any ring of sincerity
in the attack of the self-labelled
insurgents" against the dollar
elected senator's. They have all,
without exception, chosen to accept
the favors of the "old guard" re-
publican machine. They are tarred
with the same stick. Senator Lynn
Frazier wants his machine inside
the republican party in North Da-
kota. The LaFollette-Blaine combi-
nation seeks the same end in Wis
consin. Brookhart and Norris are
no different in Iowa and Nebraska.
The same is true of all the rest,
without exception.
Corruption is inherent in capital
list politics, the politics of master
class fighting to maintain its SUI
premacy over an oppressed class
thru every conceivable trick and
device.
The workers and farmers cannot
speak, they cannot have a medium
thru which to voice their class grie-
yances and make their class de-
mands, unless they build their own
power separate from and opposed
to the organized power Of their
enemies. All thru the coming
months, therefore. as the charges of
bribery. vote-stealing and corrup-
ton are hurled back and forth in
congress, let the advance elements
among the workers and farmers
sound clearer than ever above the
general tumult the clarion call, "A
Labor Party in the 1928 Elections"
Against the organized greed Of the
master class the massed intelligence
and will to struggle for all power
as class of the workers and farm
ers of the land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18

GOVERNOR Len Small advances
~ an interesting theory in support
of his appointment of Sammy" In
sull's man, Friday" Frank L.
Smith, Illinois senator-elect, to fill
the unexpired term of the late Sen.
William B. Mckinley. Governor
small says;
THE large vote cast for Frank
L. Smith shows conclusively that
he is the choice of the voters Of
this great state for United States
senator and in obedience to that
expression of the people of Illinois,
! appoint him to represent this state
in the United States senate for the
unexpired term of the late Senator
William B. Mckinley"
On that theory, of course, the
democrats and the so-called insur-
gent republicans haven't the ghost
of show in their efforts to unseat
the "old guard" republican corrup-
tfenists. They can all claim that
the election figures showed they had
the votes, ergo "the pee-pul,' be-
hind them.
Senator-elect Arthur r. Gould,
Maine, carried that state by much
larger majority preportionately than
Smith received in Illinois. Accord
ing to SmalPs theory this should
blot out the charge that Gould
bribed ]. K. Fleming. then premier
of New Brunswick, Canada, in con-
nection with the st. John Valley
railway project. A republican cor
ruptionist becomes lily white be-
cause he carries an election in a
hidebound republican state.
Senator-elect William s. Ware lost
Pennsylvania, outside Of Phila-
delphia, by $4,000 votes, But that
was mere bagatelle for the cor
rupt Ware machine to overcome in
its home territory. 1t won handily,
but in the winning 1t saw to it that
the democratic candidate, William
B. Wilson, in scores of Philadelphia
precincts did not receive a single
vote. According to Governor Small,
the mandate of ballot box eorrup-
ton, supposed to be the voice of.
the pee-pul" of Pennsylvania
speaking, entities Ware to his seat
in the U. S. senate without ques-
ton.
Illinois is not without its ballot
box manipulating. Both the capital
ist parties are guilty of it. New ex-
poses follow every election cam
paign. The party machine that is
the most successful cheat carries
off the plums. Nearly always it is
money that spells SUGGEST" in
capitalist politics.
The Coolidge-Mellon outfit in
Pittsburgh, in the primaries. distri-
buted half a million dollars in $40
bills to $4,000 voters with itching
palms, getting the support of all
these $4,000 voters and all others
under the influence of this pur-
chased electorate. At the same time
every obstacle is placed in the way
of the large masses of workers, in
Pittsburgh's great basic industries,
most of whom are foreign-born,
from exercising the franchise privi-
lege. II they are at all radical,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
MORE APPLICANTS FOR
EACH JOB IN NOVEMBER
THAN IN MONTH EARLIER

The ratio Of applicants to Jobs
available, at the illinois Free EN-
ployment Bureau, according to Sup
erlntendent Charles ]. Boyd, was
1868 for each hundred Jobs In Nov.
against 1927 In Oct. showlno a fall
Ing of In employment last month &c
compared with the preceding month.
Fewer applicants Registered In Nov.
than In oot., but thsre were stlll
fewer Jobs available yor them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-18
Two Die In EIrn

ELIZABETH, N. j., Dec. 1s.-Two
mon were burned 10 death in q fire
which DESTROYED a two.story frame
barn on the farm of William Anslen
near here tods-,