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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
LaFoIIette Group Comes to Grief

Of the Pennsylvania railroad and Coo
lidge gave way from his usual crab
apple dignity to a sweet air Of APP
prevail.
DESULT: The bill, and along with
~ it the leadership of the railway
labor unions, was given into the hands
Of reactionaries in both the senate
and the house, Jim Watson in the
senate and Parker in the house, who
are proceeding to use it, as one of
the disillusioned Journalists describe
las a reservoir of whitewash and
charter of political responsibility" be-
fore the eyes of labor for the Coolidge
administration.
Adding up the sums of results we
see that the "LaFollette group is left
standing out in the cold, shivering in
the icy blasts of isolation wondering
what the hell has gotten into the rail-
road labor unions and petulantly de-
handing Qualification of the matter"
from the executives of said labor or
CARNATIONS who have turned over pol
itical leadership of railroad labor to
Coolidge and his pirate crew OF reac-
tionaries in congress,
r EFT us whisper something to these
~ disconsolate 'progressiyes." While
yet you were railing against the Com
munists, and were Joined with the re-
dictionaries in condemning the "borers
from within" the labor unions, the
same borers, thru the Trade Union
Educational League, were warning
the workers of the menage of class
collaboration schemes. Now that such
collaboration is having its political
consequences you find that not only
are the Communists isolated, but you
the wise guys the "progressives"
are also in the same boat and can sink
or swim for all the bureaucrats at head
Of railway unions care. We may draw
a moral:
Glass collaboration is the most i'm
portant political development In the
realm Of labor's relation to capital
and is deserving of more attention
than is being given It. Meanwhile.
let the "progressives" weep for the
promised land beyond Jordan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
Body Blows to Filipino independence

force in the Philippines and the at
titude of the native government"
Firestone stated, "our investigators
advised against the attempting any
larger rubber developments in the
Philippines. If the Philippines are
to be developed, capital must have
assurance that it will be properly pro-
tected, which the present political
situation does not assure"
Fight Against Imperialism.
The American working class have
as their duty to aggressively fight for
the freedom of the Philippine Islands,
as well as for the freedom of every
country which is under the subsection
of American Imperialism.
AS Karl Marx taught, it is a part
of our struggle for working class rule
in America to see to it that no other
part of the world is under the bondage
of our imperialists.
Marx wrote as follows: 1.-THE form
alton of common revolutionary front
Is possible only III the proletariat of
the depressing countries supports
directly and resolutely the movement
for national independence of the OPP
pressed peoples against the imperial
ism of the mother country for a
country which Expresses others can
never be free"
The All-America Anti-Imperialist
League, which has branch in the
United States, as well as in almost
all of the countries where America
carries out its imperialist policy,
should be supported in its work Of
rallying all workers, peasants, stud
ents as well as revolutionary nation
alists under its banner for an aggress-
i've campaign against the greatest
enemy of the progress OF the working
class Of the world-American impe-
rialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22

from power the bureaucratic agents of
Imperialism in the unions.
A LTHO the imperialists denounce
\ the class struggle and their bu-
reaucrats betray it, the exigencies of
imperialist policy, at home and abroad
force the sharpening of the struggle.
In the anthracite coal industry, $780,
900 miners have been on strike since
September l. The bureaucracy had
kept the maintenance men at work
and sabotaged the strike but now the
grievance committee of District 1.-The
largest and most important district.
has demanded the withdrawal of all
maintenance men. This, in the face
of the supine attitude of the official
dom and its studied attempts to make
the strike mere withdrawal of la
bor," is an indication of the basic
soundness of this important section
of the organized labor movement.
In the railroad industry, particularly
among the shopmen, boilermakers,
maintenance of way workers, black
smiths, machinists, car repairers,
clerks and freight handlers, electri-
cians-there are evidences of a new
resentment against the capitalist and
concern over the small percentage of
organization maintained since the dis
astrous betrayal of the strike of 1922.
A SURVEY of the industry made by
- Otto Wangerin, editor of the Rail-
way Amalgamationist, by reading the
letters from rank and flers in the Off
cial journals and securing answers
to QUESTIONABLE sent to militants,
shows that there is a strong senti-
ment for campaign to organize the
unorganized and for a general wage
increase.
In addition to this broad mass senti-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
BY HARRISON GEORGE

WASHINGTON dispatches indicate
w that the "progressives" among
the congressman and senator's who
may be generally tagged as the La
Toilette group" have suddenly had a
bucket of ice-cold water dumped over
their fond hopes of leading labor's
fight"
Ever since 1919 LaFollette and his
little band of petty bourgeois polite
ians, have traded upon the backing
given them by labor as exemplified by
the railway unions particularly. These
unions known as the sixteen stand
ard railroad labor organizations" were
the outstanding bulwark of such radi-
cal measures as government owner
ship. Who does not remember the
magic that was going to be worked
by the Plumb plan"
TN conventions at Montreal, Denver
and Cincinnati the American Fed
Grafton of Labor even endorsed these
measures (which verge on Social
ISM in the minds of tens of thous-
ands. But alas, and also alack! Where
is the Plumb plan today? Upon what
evil days and ways are fallen the foot
steps OF .theostandard railway unions?
A bill is TO be proposed to the CON
gress, the text of which is yet secret,
being withheld by its proponents
among whom, strangely appear both
tho roH ,,ofny, oxaoutf,,oo ond fho 10 n
road company executives, even the
most stout open-shop bosses Of the
hard-boiled Pennsylvania. eA
But enough is known of this bill to
indicate that 1t will forbid the rail-
way workers the right to strike, and
create boards Of adjustment, that
speed up the workers, that 1t creates
federal commission appointed l'by
Coolidge to supervise negotiations be-
tween unions and companies and that,
finally, decisions shall be filed in u.
S. courts and have the force Of federal
law--against which the workers may
strike only by violating the order OF
the government itself.
A S long as the peace and harmony"
"A end OF the bill was played up, the
"progressives" and all their ilk, pub
licists and liberals, crowed over the
wonderful new era that was about TO
dawn over the battle-strewn field Of
the class struggle on the railroads.
But suddenly there was a shock.
A visit by railroad union executives,
accompanied by their attorney, DON
aid Richberg. and representatives OF
the companies, was made to the
White House. The exceeding virtues
of the bill were proclaimed to Coo
Iidge by no other than Mr.. Atterbury
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
A Crime to Be a Union Man

Tho Don Chan sheriff Of Logan county, West Virginia in
The federal prison for booteggng the system intimately
connected with his still prevails in that benghed community
Only day miner discharged from the Island Greek
Coal company and the foreman his time card that the
for his discharge because he union and wrote
news into union paper"
Following his discharge the miner beaten up arrested and
thrown into jail This story related yesterday columns
of hundreds of similar nature In half the coal fields of
the United States crime union The damnng
yesterdays that which referred the fact that
organizers of the United Mine Workers of America the
quest of the miner who afterwards discharged the
vicinity to do organization work. but left when they told by
agents of the bosses do
Such conditions be by organization work. but
what is required battery militant organizers win really
strive organize the nonunon fields merely their
salaries while loafng in the best hotels of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22

instead of decreases, preparing the
ground for the greedy claw of Amer
lean imperialism to- more and more
take away everyns4 pretense of any
freedom whatsoever, and make the
question of ultimate independence"
national joke which can be COM
pared in so far as it's truthfulness is
concerned, to Woodrow Wilson's ia
nous slogan of 1916, "He kept us out
of war"
Rubber Cultivation.
According to Judge John w. Haus-
sermann, vice-president of the Amer
lean Chamber of Commerce of the
Philippine Islands, the cultivation of
rubber in the Philippines should take
place.
We know that the American capital
lists are keenly resenting the world
monopoly of rubber on the part of
Great Britain, to the extent of max
ing preparations to compete on
large scale. Already the Firestone
corporation has made gigantic prep
arations in Liberia, and undoubtedly
any day we will be hearing of like
arrangement being made in the Phil
ippine Islands, which would mean that
the rope of bondage around its neck
would be drawn 2 little bit tighter
than it now is.
Wants Government Assistance.
A plea for "goyernment protection
in relation to the Philippines" was
made by Harvey s. Firestone, before
the committee sof interstate and
foreign commerce. of congress, on
January Is. ~,
He stated that In May 1928, he con-
Quoted an investigation of new sources
of rubber supply and found that the
soil and climate of the Philippine
Islands advantageous, with good
labor possibilities"
Because Of the land laws now in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
By William F. Dunno

war powers \. For that very reason
the Tnter-imperialstie or ultra
lmperialIstic' alliances, In the face
Of capitalist realities, are Of neoes-
sity-reqardIess Of the form IN
which these alliances would boz
formed, whether in the form OF one
imperiallst coalition against another
inperialist coalition, or in the form
Of a general alliance Of all the I'M
perlalist powers-only pauses be-
tween one war and another"
We have seen that in the United
States the labor officials who are sup
posed to fight the workers battles are
leading them like sheep into the camp
of their imperialist enemies. Even
the wage struggles of the workers are
sabotaged and in place of an uncom-
promising attempt to raise uncondi-
tionally the standard of living that
such demands as are made are accom-
panied by efficiency schemes like the
B. and o plan which deliberately en-
courage the speeding up of the work
ers while killing their class spirit.
In addition is the acceptance OF the
military plans of the imperialsits and
a hostile attitude toward all other oee.
lions of the working class who resist
domination by American imperialism.
ITO prevent the wholesale enslave-
4 ment and militarization of (. the
labor movement and the unorganized
masses it is not only necessary to or
ganize the workersN around their i'm
mediate demands. 1t is also necessary
that into the broad movement of the
workers against the bosses and the
bureaucracy he brought the know
ledge of the why's and wherefores OF
the joint anti-working class action OF
the imperialists and their labor
agents.
In this connection the teachings OF
Lenin are Of inestimable value to the
labor movement knowledge of the
strategy and tactics of the capitalists
in the imperialist epoch are the frst
requirement.
T ENIN put this problem as the first
IL point on the order Of business of
the working class and especially Of
it's most advanced section. He said:
without understanding the eeon-
omc cause of this phenomenon and
without a proper appraisal Of its
political and social meaning Il Is
impossible to make even one step
forward in the direction of solving
the most important problems of the
Communist movement and the COM
ing social revolution" ~
Important as this understanding is
for the British, French and Japanese
working class it is thousand times
more important for the American la
Dor and revolutionary movement-a
movement which raises the banner
of the social revolution in the country
which has at the same time the most
powerful world position and the most
backward working class.
For the leaders of the struggle in
the trade unions against the bureau
cracy, the most detailed knowledge OF
and ability to apply the teachings of
Lenin on Imperialism are indispens-
able.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
Article ~.

Article ~.
THE rise of labor" banking and
l. labor" insurance enterprises is
coincident with the increasing domin-
alton of American Imperialism.
Beginning in 1920, with the estab-
lishment of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers bank, on June 80,
1925, there were listed 35 labor"
banks with total resources of over
100000, 600 Most of these banks are
organized by the bureaucracies of I'M
ions composed of decisive sections of
the workers-notably among the rail-
way organizations, engineers, firemen.
conductors, trainmen, machinists, rail
way carmen, clerks and freight hand
lers, coal miners, etc.
Side by side with this method of de-
bauching sections of the workers who
occupy strategic positions in Ameri
can industry, goes the extension OF
the B. & o. plan and other company
union schemes.
The needle trades unions have also
established their own banks.
THE most cordial welcome is extend
L ed to these enterprises by the capi
talist press. A typical comment H.
hat of the Chicago Daily News in its
ssue of August %, 1925:
1.-THE. labor banks.
aItho claiming liberal measure Of
success, urge conservatism upon
the unions in connection with such
financial enterprises. Since
the recent suspension by the federal
government of the issue of treasury
savings certificates. the la
Dor bankers. have felt
their duty to encourage thrift anc
the prudent investment of workers.
savings. The policies of the labor
banks, therefore, have to be MOST
CONSERVATIVE. 1T is SIGNlFI-
CANT THAT THE RELATION BE
TWEEN CERTAIN LABOR BANKS
AND THE LARGER GENERAL
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ARE
MOST CORDIAL. THERE HAS
BEEN COOPERATION BETWEEN
THEM IN THE MARKETING OF
SOUND SECURITIES. In confer
ences of fianeiers, representatives
of labor banks have shown them
selves leveI-headed and FAlR-MIND-
ED.
Destructive radicals say, sorrow
fully, that the labor banks are max
ing capitalists Of wage workers and
seriously interfering with the pro-
paganda of Communism, confisca-
ton and class struggle. That is, of
course, AN EXCELLENT BY-PROD-
UcT OF THE ENTERPRIsEs.v
Emphasis mine-W. r. d.
IT ABOR" insurance, another effec-
II tive method of bribing the labor
aristocracy, has been urged upon the
labor movement for some time but at
the Atlantic City convention Of the
American Federation of Labor, it re-
ceived the endorsement of that body
Speaking to the convention of the
International Ladies' Garment Work.
ers' Union last November, Matthew
Vol, one of the vice-presidents of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
DAILY WORKER BANQUET IN NEW
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
Grants Mitchell the Spotlight.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2O-sceretary
of War Davis announced today he
would grant his consent 10 the ap-
pearance OF Col William Mitchell as a
witness before the house military af-
fairs committee investigating aviation.
The committee asked Davis consent
because Mitchell's court martial sen.
tence OF five years suspension is up-
der review by the war department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22
BY SYLVAN A. PoLLAck.

EOR the benefit of those people (if
= there are any who honestly believe
that the American government has
any intentions of giving freedom to
the Philippine Islands, even in the far
distant future, a persual of a exclu-
sive Washington dispatch which ap-
peared in the January 10, issue of the
New York Herald-Tribune, should act
as curative.
This influential capitalist daily. in
close contact with the Coolidge admi-
nistration, informs us that instead of
granting even an iota of freedom to the
Philippine Islands, preparations are
now being made to strengthen the
hold of American imperialism on that
victim of democracy" / shall quote
a part of the dispatch for the informa-
ton of DAILY WORKER readers:
"a strong bill, radically amending
the present organic act for the Philip
pines, and materially strengthening
The hands of Governor General Leo
nard Wood, will be introduced in the
house within the next month with the
cooperation of the war department
and the support Of the Coolidge adj
ministration.
To Protect Investments.
while at present, with the legisla-
ture not in session, Governor Wood is
not much troubled, reports from the
Philippines which committee members
have received indicate that his act
ions are so hampered by Filipino poll
ticians that he has great difficulty in
promulgating constructive measures.
The bill will in some way do away
with the present feature Of the organic
act under which a great deal of power
and patronage are granted TO the
speaker of the house and the president
OF the senate.
Mention has also been made Of al
tering in some respects the provisions
limiting the amount OF land any per-
son may hold. This point was
brought UP at the recent hearing on
the alleged British rubber monopoly
as an objection TO American invest
ing In Philippine rubber plantations.
This change and the increased
power to the governor general will,
It is hoped make the Philippines
seem a surer investment for Amer
lean capital"
Talking about ultimate independ-
ence," while at the same time
strengthening the hold OF American
capitalism laying the foundations for
future investments, which means that
with the passing Of time. Americas
interest. In the Philippines increases,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-22

The braggart despot Of Italy, Mussolni with
orciby suppreng all strictly Italian such
ing yuelog lighting Christmas demands that all
people territory claimed by Italy change their
Italian citizenship exile Thus
group distraught nation has sae the yran
Evening star., 1926-05-13

The river with the widest mouth
is the Amazon. which is more than
100 miles across.
Evening star., 1926-05-13
FREEDOM OF HAITI
URGED BY SENATOR
Asks Withdrawal of U. S. Troops
in Charging Use of Force
in Politics.

Denouncing the policy Of the United
States toward the affairs of Haiti,
Senator King. Democrat Of Utah, de-
livered an address in the Senate yes
terday in support Of his. resolution
providing for the withdra wal Of Amer
lean troops from the isla nd and the
granting of permission to the people
of Haiti to set up government OF
their own choice.
Referring to the recent selection Of
President Borno. he asserted that the
state Department has imposed on
the Haitian people by force ana arms
governments that they do not want.
which is supported by the bay"nets Of
the United States
He said that military and nava! of
f1cers. assigned to government posi-
lions in Haiti. carried into their ad
ministra ton the spirit of the marti
net and exercised greater tyranny and
Evening star., 1926-05-13

Popular education. utilizing the best
experience of many countries. is being
introduced with splendid success. More
democratic forms of government are
being adopted Large land holdings
are being broken up and distributed
among the people. Great concessions
secured from regime by foreign
capitalists are being reclaimed for the
Mexican people by legal processes"
The conference did not find the
Mexican government hostile to the
church, as such. for it's highest officers
spoke with ardent appreciation of the
loyal and unselfish service rendered
by many religious orGa MIA tons and
social workers from the United
states"
Evening star., 1926-05-13
and other streets in the section to pre-.

and other streets in the section to pre-
vent dust.
Information was received with ap.
proval from the Engineer Depart
ment that the water main will be laid
along Anger place southeast, in a
rev days and also that Alabama ave
nue. will be resurfaced as soon as
material can be obtained. The as
sociation voted to request installation
of a public hydrant at the corner of
Anger and Bruce places.
Subscriptions were urged at the
meeting to the memorial to World
War Veterans of the District, which
was heartily indorsed The aSsocia
ton completed arrangements for
Evening star., 1926-05-13
HISTORY PICTURE TONIGHT
Community Center to Show 1.-The
Eve of the Revolution.

The East Washington Community
Center. Mrs. l.. w. Hardy. supervisor.
announces the showing tonight a )
clock in new E,a stern High Schooi
of the twelfth episode OF the yale
Chronicles, which have been lanning
for several months at this center. The
episode is called The Eve of ReNoiu-
ton" and il will be preceded by two
reels of health movies. entitled In
spected" and THE New Way for the
Old"
The fifth and sixth episodes of the
United States Signal Corps serial.
Made in America" will he postponed
until Thursday evening of next week.
when the final story of the Yale series
will he seen for this season.
Evening star., 1926-05-13

public meeting to be held at Garfield
School the evening of May IS, Ut
which Engineer Commissioner Bell
and Assistant Engineer Commissioner
covell will be the principal speakers.
w. II. Lewis. ir.. president of the as.
Sociation. presided at the meeting,
which selected w. Powell TAYLOR AS
chairman of the committee on police
and fire protection.
Evening star., 1926-05-13
ILETHAL GAS SUPPLY LOW.
Nevada Unable to Obtain Kind
Needed to Execute Two Men.

RENO. New, May Ii P).-The
State has struck snag in planning
the execution by lethal gas this week
of Stanko Jukich and John Randolph.
A supply of hydrocyanic gas, which
previously had been used in execu-
tions at the State penitentiary, has
not been obtained.
The firm from which the gas was
purchas sed for the last execution Is
reported to be unable to supply it,
Warden Maxwell of the prison said
he had been advised not to try any
bur the kind that already has been
used successfully.
Evening star., 1926-05-13
Quakers' Uniformity Debated.

WORCESTER. Mass. May 13 OPl.
Quakers should abandon uniformity
Of dress in favor of uniformity in
spiritual life, in the opinion of speak
ers at the annual meeting of the
Society of Friends.
Evening star., 1926-05-13

greater ruthlessness than they do
upon their subordinates in time OF
war"
At the request of Senator King, his
resolution was referred to the foreign
relations committee for study.
Evening star., 1926-05-13
Boy Prevents Train Wreck.

HOLYTOW'N. Lanarkshire, Scot
land, May 13 R.--A boy walking the
railroad today found q rail displaced
by explosives. tIe gave warning in
time to stop the Glasgow Edinburgh
ira in.
Evening star., 1926-05-13
OILING ALABAMA AVENUE
REQUESTED BY CITIZENS
Garfield Association Also Approves
Aid to Memorial for Dis
trict Veterans.

The Garfield Citizens Association
School last night to bring to the at
tention of the Engineer Commissioner
the need Of oiling Alabama avenue