The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1924, Page 3

. of Buffalo. Thursday, May 22, 1924 N.Y, FARM-LABOR RAISING $100,000 FOR BIG CAMPAIGN Said Charles. Krumbein To St. Paul Meet SCHENNECTADY, N. Y., May 21.— Support of the June 17 St. Paul con- vention to launch a class farmer-la- bor party on a national scale, was voted by the United Farmer-Labor Party of New York state, organized at a convention in Schenectady. Charles Krumbein, New York, was chosen as delegate to the St. Paul meeting. A fund of $100,000 will be raised for the 1924 campaign if the intention of the convention is carried out. Resolutions demanding recognition by the United States government of Russia, organization and protection of foreign born workers, release of political prisoners were passed. The menace of American imperialism was the subject of another resolution, The new party is to be in charge of an executive committee of 17. The movement which came to such was fathered by the Federated Farm- er-Labor Party and the Labor Party Trade union locals, farm- ers’ co-operative organizations and fraternal bodies joined in the forma- tion of the new combined party. The convention was attended by 92 delegates representing 82 organiza- tions in New York City, Buffalo, ‘Rochester, Binghamton, Syracuse, Schenectady, Albany, Peekskill, Schuylerville and Gloversville. Rep- Tesentatives were present also from the Federated Labor Party, Workers’ Party, Paole Zion and the Committee of Forty-eight. Delegates came to the convention from New York City, Buffalo, Syra- cuse, Rochester, Binghamton, Sche- nectady, Albany and many smaller towns, making the convention a rep- resentative gathering of workers from practically every part of the state. Six delegates from the Committee of 48 attended the convention. Ballam’s Key-Note Speech. The convention was opened with a key-note speech from John J. Ballam, who emphasized the need of a class Farmer-Labor Party to represent the exploited farmers and industrial work- ers against the all-inclusive so-called “Third Party.” Ballam showed in his opening speech that the June 17 con- vention represented the movement for a class party as against the July 4 convention representing the Third Party generally. Joseph Kucher, representing the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union of New York City, was elected chair- man of the convention. A program committee was elected with represen- tatives of all the various groups in the convention which brought in a unanimous report for the platform of the state Farmer-Labor Party. Unanimous for F.-L. Name J. A. H. Hopkins, of the Committee of Forty-eight, desired to have the party called the Progressive Party, whereas the majority of the delegates were, for ‘Farmer-Laboy Party or United Farmer-Labor Party. The name of the Farmer-Labor Party was finally adopted by a unanimous vote, with the alternative of United Farmer- Labor Party, should the first name be pre-empted by the fact that in the past, an organization calling itself a Farmer- Labor Party had existed in the state. The biggest fight of the convention came on a resolution proposing affilia- tion of the New York party with the Federated Farmer-Labor Party. This proposal was opposed by the delegates from the Committee of Forty-eight or- ganization in the state. After consid- erable negotiations on the question the resolution was withdrawn with the understanding, however, that a sub- stitute resolution calling for the for- mation of a national Farmer-Labor Party in the June 17 Convention would be introduced. This resolution, call- ing for organization of a party at St. Paul, was adopted unanimously, The New York Farmer-Labor Party is therefore on record against a coali- tion such as advocated by some groups, and for definite party organt zation at St. Paul. An executive committee of 17 mem- bers was elected, the various cities represented in the convention being given representation on this execu- tive committee. Out of the total of 17 members, nine were designated as members of an executive council lo- cated in the headquarters city of the party which will be New York City. The members of this executive council were Ludwig Lore, William W. w » Benjamin Lifshitz, Jack sampolsky, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Har- ry Winitsky and J, A. H. Hopkins. CAMBRIDGB, Mass., May 21.—Hatr- -vard students with radical and liberal sympathies will form a “Left Wing Club” to combat the spread of iron bound conservative and scissor-bill ideas. | HAWTHORNE Cicero Ave. and 22nd St. mond he 25 THE DAILY WORKER PHOTOGRAPHS CAN NOW BE SENT OVER WIRES A FEW MINUTES AFTER PICTURES OF INCIDENTS ARE TAKEN NEW YORK, May 21 This ye year, for the first time in the history of national political conventions, people far from the scene of action may be able to see and hear the proceedings prac- tically as soon as they occur, as well as read about them. As a result of successful tests in the transmission of news photographs by wire, the American Telephone & Telegraph com- pany announced today that pictures of the big conventions next month can be sent to news-*— papers for printing within a comparatively few minutes after the incident photographed oc- curs, Arrangements already have been made for broadcasting the proceed- ings of both conventions by radio. Successful Tests. The experiments. conducted by the A. T. and T. resulted in 15 photo- graphs being transmitted from Cleve- land to New York within two hours. The success of the tests led to the general conclusion that the work of sending news photos by wire has now reached such an advanced stage of de- velopment that it can now be placed on a commercial basis. Different kinds of pictures were used for the experiment first, several studies of President Coolidge were transmitted, coming out with amazing clearness and permitting first-class reproduction in the morning New York newspapers. Following these was a picture of the high level bridge at Cleveland, bringing out clearly not only the structure, but surroundings, a tug .boat and smoke‘ from the boat funnel. Pictures of E. C. Hopwood, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and H. B. R. Briggs, editor of the Cleveland Press followed, each strik- ingly clear in detail. Invention Practical. All were reproduced in New York papers without finishing touches and demonstrated clearly the practicabili- ty of the invention, The sending machine for the experi- ment was set up in Cleveland and its operator was under the direction of A. T. and T. engineers. The experiment was witnessed by numerous newspa- per publishers and reporters. The general principles of the process are simple, altho there is an infinite amount of complex detail. The basis is a photo-electric cell which trans- lates every variation of a beam of light into a variation of electric cur- rent, which in turn, is translated into a variation of light at the receiving end. The source of light in the sending machine is the same as an ordinary automobile lamp. The spot of light from the lamp passes thru a lens upon a photographic film which, in turn, is transmitted. The film is in the form of a cylinder, and as this cylinder re- volves, the point of light passes thru the transparent film and falls upon a potassium pencil, which runs thru the center of the cylinder. This piece of potassium forms a high sensitive photo-electric cell. When the light falls on it, the elec- trons fly from the surface of the po- tassium, forming an electric current, varying in intensity im accordance with the shades of the picture repro- duced. The fluctuations of the current from the photo-electric cell are then im- posed upon the direct current, which flows thru the telephone wires. current is several billion times as powerful as that caused directly by the light, but the strong current is made to reproduce every variation in intensity. The telephone people believe that the development of their invention in this field surpasses that of other ex- periments by the Radio Corporation and C. Francis Jenkins, a Washington inventor, who for several years has been attempting the transmission of pictures by radio. Tetephone officials explain that radio transmission of photos, while possible, is less prac- tical because of the disturbances it would cause and be subjected to in the ether. ‘ Use of telephone wires instead of the air for such transmission elimi- nates this difficulty, they point out. MOSCOW, May 21.—The magneto- meteorological observatory at Irkutsk (Siberia) reports that a volcano has become active in the Sayan mountains near the Monda village, not far from the Mongolian frontier. This ' BRITISH BIRD STARS IN UNIQUE RADIO CONCERT Over Million Fans Hear Nightingale LONDON, May 21.—A nightingale sang in a moonlit surrey thicket last night and all England heard the song. More than a million radio fans in all parts of the country “listened in” as the clear notes of the feathered songster, entirely unaware of its share in the most remarkable radio concert ever held, were caught in a micro- phone and carried by land line to Lon- don, whence they were broadcasted. It is planned to repeat the concert next week, if the nightingale will sing and it is hoped that radio fans of, the United States may hear. The scene at Oxted, near which the experiment took place was remark- able. Several nightingales had been coaxed to a thicket, where they were accustomed to nest. A microphone had been concealed in a bush. Tiptoeing softly about the garden near where the little songsters were nesting, Miss Beatrice Harrison play- ed several soft notes on a cello. Suddenly the nightingale’s clear song burst 6n the moonlight air. The cello accompanied it for a few min- utes, then ceased and the nightingale sang on alone. Jazz bands were stilled thruout the county and all other broadcasting sta- tions ceased operating while everyone tuned in to catch the song. U.S. Ambassador In Leaving Japan Blames His Mother-in-Law TOKIO, May 21.—Japan is bidding a fond farewell to American Ambassa- dor. Woods, convinced he is leaving as a result of the Senate's immigration legislation. The Japanese Foreign minister and other high officials lauded Woods, de- claring few Americans had so endear- ed themselves to the hearts of the Jap anese. They recalled his services during- the earthquake. ~ To the United States, Ambassador Woods declared: “I regret the necessity of leaving my post and retiring, but the health of my mother-in-law, Mrs, Marchand, requires that she return to the Unit- ed States and I feel I should be with her. “The excitement of the earthquake produced a serious éffect upon her health, which had been failing and caused a,case of aggravated heart trouble.” Roosevelt Opened Way For Communism L. A. Doctor Charges LOS ANGELES, Calif, May 21.— Roosevelt was given a new role by Dr. Granville MacGowan, newly elect- ed president of the California Medical Association. The doctor said, in ad- dressing the annual state convention here, “that Roosevelt and his follow- ers opened the way for a slow and persistent attack upon our constitu- tional growth by the pestilent, de- structive, radical insects of socialism, communism, and sovietism, which threaten to destroy it.” Bryan and Wilson also sharéd in the doctor’s denunciation. He called them the quacks, chiropractors, natur- opaths of the body politic. He ob- jected to the gland operations on the constitution and electronic treatment of social ills. SWISS SOCIALISTS DEMANDING RECOGNITION OF SOVIET RUSSIA (Rosta News Agency.) MOSCOW, May 21.—Berlin reports that the Swiss Socialist Party wishes to interpellate the’ Federal Council and demand the restoration of diplomatic and economic relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. - The Neue Zuricher Zeitung writes that it would be most desirable to put an end to the Russo-Swiss conflict arisen out of the Conradi affair. PARK) Russian Cotton Thriving. MOSCOW, May 21.—The Russian cotton industry is expected to yield a profit of eighty-five million roubles for the working year, in spite of the prices having reached a lower level, accord- ing to an official report made to the bureau of the State Planning Commis- sion. YOUNG WORKERS EXPLAIN BOYS’ WEEK IN MEETS Outdoor Rallies Show Up Capitalist Gush By AL SCHAAP. The following “press agent” terial is being sent to all papers in Chicago in order to “arouse” interest in Boys’ Week. “Purpose—I. To interest fathers and mothers in their own boys. 2. To emphasize the home as the greatest institution for character building and good citizenship. 3. To emphasize family responsibility toward the boy. (It is not in any sense a father and son night, but a night in which the state of the mother and the rest of the family is equally emphasized with that of Dad.) “Suggestions—Arrange radio pro- grams when prominent speakers will make short talks on the general sub- ject, ‘The Boy and his Home.’ On that evening, mothers will serve a special dinner of the good things she knows her boy likes. Father will plan to give the entire evening to his boy; tell him stories of his own boyhood, games he ma- played, and some of his experiences; he will be a boy again himself and make his boy feel that he is really and truly a pal of his; he may make this an occasion to present him with a game, a baseball, a glove, or some- thing that he knows will please him. Find a homeless boy and add him to the circle. If there is a radio in the house, tune in to the splendid broad- casting stations where programs es- pecially interesting to boys will be given.” The chairman for Boys’ Day at Home is the infamous ex-Judge Kene- saw Mountain Landis, who won an in- glorious name thruout the country for the so-called “Landis Award,” which attempted to cut the wages of union labor and then finally destroy their union organizations. This same Lan- dis has been responsible for imposing long term sentences upon radical la- bor leaders. J. Louis Engdahl, the editor of the DAILY WORKER, to- gether with other Communists, has been sentenced by the notorious judge to life imprisonment because they daréd to tell the workers to keep out of a capitalist war. Along with the Czar of Baseball- dom we find many czars of industry and the educational system who are aiding in an effort to see that Boys’ Week be “put across” by having the children feel “important.” Fathers are asked by the Boys’ Week founders to take an interest in their own boys. This can very well be done by the rich and middle class fathers, but cannot be done by the workers. In an average working class family today the sons of the workers usually have to work as newsboys or at some other occupation in order to keep alive. With the father working late hours and the mother engaged in household duties and the boy arriving jate after work, how is it humanly possible for the working tlass fathers and mothers of America to give the necessary attention to their children? And even if time permitted, the par- ents of the working class children have had no real opportunity to learn to take a real interest in their chil- dren. The reason for this is very obvious since the ones that rule this country only care that the future slaves be brought up so that they can work at a machine all day. How can these homes, most of which are filthy and not fit for human beings to live in, become the greatest institution for character building and good citizen- ship? They are great institutions for revolution. Is it possible for the workers to es- tablish a family responsibility toward the boy, when all the limits of,¢ich responsibility lie in the hands of the capitalists who employ the boy’s par- ents, seeking only to give them a meagre wage. These wages do not allow them even to assume full eco- nomic responsibility, let alone any other responsibility. Mothers are being asked to serve good dinners to their children on this day. Fathers should buy their sons a baseball glove or a game. Find a homeless boy and add him to the cir- cle, the statement says. Are homeless boys not given proper attention by the administration, that parents are requested to find them and “add them to the circle?” Haven't the working class parents enough to take care of at present? Why can't boys have good meals every day, both at home and in the schools? Tune in your radio is some more advice of this benevolent committee on Boys’ Week. One would think they were giving away free radios to the working class children so that they can get the hot “air” that will be transmitted over the broadcasting stations today. MILLIONAIRE BOOTLEGGER DELIVERED THE DOUGH BUT CO. DID NOT DELIVER THE GOODS: By LAURENCE TODD (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 21.—George Remus, millionaire whole- | sale bootlegger of Cincinnati, reported by the prison se hoolmaster | as being treated as a privileged takes the stand before Senator Wheeler’s committee investigating the Daugherty regime in the department of justice. Remus is 47 and a chemist and lawyer by training. he handled between 600,000 and 800,000 gallons of whisky in viol- | ation of the federal law, but under the paid protection’ of Daugh- erty’s friend, Jess Smith, in a year and a half. He tes convincing way, that when he bought his string of distilleries in| ington Conference of 1 Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, he was soon Smith in the Hotel Commodore,* iy in New York, by Attorney Zo- line, partner to Thos. Felder, Daugherty’s aid in the notorious Morse pardon affair. He reached a “gentlemen’s agreemént” with Jess Smith. To Keep Out of Can. Wheeler, Brookhart, Moses and Jones took turns in questioning this amazing witness while he recited the story of his payment of between $250,000 and $300,000 to Daugherty’s pal, for “permits and protection” in defiance of the law. He said he never inquired whether Smith split the money with the attorney general, but he made the payments under the dis- tinct understanding that Smith was “close to the attorney general,” and would furnish him permits for re- moval of his whisky for distribution to the bootleggers of the middle west. Moreover, Smith was under agree- ment to keep him and his gang out of jail. Indeed, they were to be saved from any prosecutions by the prohi- bition unit. Smith Went Underground. His first payment to Jess Smith, said Remus, was $50,000, in $1,000 bills. All payments were in cash. He offered to give the committee his cancelled checks and stubs, showing that he had cashed checks and had marked “J, S.” on many of them as a record of the use to which the cash was put. He was double-crossed or unfortu- nate—he was not sure which—when Smith died after getting $30,000 from him to secure a pardon after his pro- tection had failed and Remus had been sentenced to prison. Even when his conviction had been appealed, Smith assured him that Daugherty would cause a pardon to be signed by the president, and he would never see the prison doors, Zoline, Felder’s as- sociate. became Remus’ chief ,coun- sel, and he counted upon freedom from any interference by the law. “What did you pay Jess Smith for?” was the question repeatedly asked by Senator Wheeler. “To keep me out of the penitentiary —to keep the boys out—to use his in- fluence with the attorney general. . . The money I paid him was all covered by our contract. He was to render all possible assistance in the depart- ment, where I had not the least doubt of his influence. He told me the at !torney general would do everything he could in the premises, when finally I was convicted.” So many were the points on which Remus withheld detailed data, that Wheeler finally asked him if it were not a fact that he was afraid to testi- fy freely, for fear of further prosecu- tions. Remus answered that anyone in his position would be afraid. He com- plained that—far from having had a gentleman's treatment in prison, he was locked up alongside a group of negroes, and that he had lost 23 pounds of his generous weight, ‘What Remus’ testimony indicated was what the earlier testimony of more than a score of witnesses had shown—that around Harry Daugherty were a group including Zoline, Felder, Bill Orr, Jess Smith, Howard |= Mannington and others—who grew rich by taking “protection and per- mit” money from the millionaires of the whisky ring. The enforcement of the dry law had been stopped in Daugherty’s office. Prohibition had never been enforced because the gov- ernment had not tried to enforce it. And on the vast profits of this cor- ruption the political machinery back of the Harding-Coolidge administra- tion had been reinforced. Tobacco Workers Attack American Warehouse, Greece ATHENS, Greece, May 20.—Locked out tobacco workers at Saloniki and Police fought today with the result that ten persons were injured. Cay- alry were called out to quell the dis- turbances when 30,000 people marched thru the streets, The American con- sul, Leland B. Morris, was ‘forced to appeal to the governor general to pro- tect the American tobacco Warehouse. ITALIAN PICNIC Poked ihe hala Party Daily, “IL LAVORATORE” \Notre Dame Police Break| | Chin | Asiatic Bank which, when established, Page Three | DAUGHERTY AND guest in Atlanta penitentiary, | He says ifies, in a| introduc ed to Jess | MAY CALL TROOPS TO QUELL KLAN FIGHT FESTIVAL Heads of Klaners SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 21.—State troops may be called out to keep or- der here where Ku Klux Klaners and anti-klaners have been fighting since Saturday when the Klan forces began | arriving for a “May festival.” The} festivities have been confined almost | entirely to battles. Last night the Klan headquarters were raided by the “anti” forces and a fiery cross was destroyed. Mounted Police backed by the entire city force battled everybody. The mounted men rode into the crowd and used their clubs with force and gusto. Several people were sent to the hospital as a result of the mounted police brutality. The Klan has gathered itself in Is- land Park and no one is permitted there except thru the good graces of Klan officials. Newspaper men were closely followed when they finally managed to get permission to inspect the Klan camp. One young man who managed to get past the guards stationed at the entrances of the Klan camp, was shot at several times and escaped only by running. More trouble is expected from the Klan who have not given up their in- teation of holding a night parade. Thousands Join Norway’s Red May Day Festivities (Special to The Daily Worker) KRISTIANIA, May 2. (By Mail.)— The 1st of May celebration this year all over Norway was greater than ever before. In Kristiania 10,000 partici- pants paraded in the afternoon. The red boy scouts led the procession and sang their parade song: “We swear the oath of faithfulness in circle around the red banner and fight like heroes for liberty and bread. Our ban- ner waves proud and red. Forward to victory or death. On guard, you red scouts of the proletariat!” Ole O. Lian, the president of the Federation of Labor spoke. He said that the labor organization formed the large and strong united front of the workers, that they were fighting a three-headed monster, the government, the banks and the employers’ associa- tion. He, explained the evolution of the present conflict, the greatest the Norwegian labor movement had ever experienced. Tryggve Aakervik recalled the bloody May 1st in Chicago’38 years MYSTERY CLOUDS HUGHES’ LATEST CHINESE PUZZLE Secretary "May Soon Wake Up (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 21.—Mystery till” shrouds the meaning of Secre- tary Hughes’ latest note to the Chinese government, reminding Pek- ing that China is held by the powers, under Resolution XII, of the Wash- to be re- sponsible to the powe’ which did | not, of course, include Russia—for ontrol of the Chinese Hastern Railway. This mystery cen- ters upon the meaning of Hughes’ statement that Russian interests are among those whieh China must ac- count for, in any dealing she* may t with Moscow regarding the road. pee disposal of Chinese Eastern was built by the Russian imperial government, | some years agy as the result of a treaty with China under which the e were to subsidize a Russo- the stock of the pro- Stock in the bank was to own sed railroad. vas divided between the Russian and Chinese governments, and Russia ad- {vanced the funds with which to build, mdintain and operate the line, It was agreed that China should be privileged to buy back the stock of the road from the bank, at the end of a period of years, by paying off the costs of construction and any deficits in maintenance and operation that may have been borne by the Russians, Count Witte, then premier, proceeded to lavish money on the enterprise, to a degree which soon made it un- likely that China could ever buy Rus- sia off. During the Allied and American in- tervention in Siberia in aid of Kol- chak, and for some time afterward, the Allied. Technical Board was in actual control of the Chinese East- ern’s finances, altho the remnants of Kolchak’s reactionary forces con- tinued, and are reported to still con- tinue, to operate the line and keep both the railroad and the bank from coming back into possession of the government of Russia. It is over these investments of the Russian gov- ernment, withheld by diplomatic chicanery, that the Russo-Chinese ne- gotiations, involving recognition of Moscow, have been delayed, Inquiry here as to whether Mr, Hughes proposes to indefinitely main- tain a “Rugela” in the offices of the Russo-Asiatic Bank and the Chinese Eastern Railway which is at war with the Russian government recog- nized by Britain, Italy and other powers, remains unanswered. He blandly asserts that he is safeguard- ing the interests of all outside nations in. China’s stewardship of the road since the Allied board gave it up. The new French government may force him to guess again, as France was his ally, Hearst Gobbles Up Another Daily; Watch For Villard’s Wail SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 21.— The San Antonio News today print- ed the following: “The San Antonio Cight, an after- noon newspaper here, has pur- chased by William Randolph Hearst, according to advices from New York. Colonel Diehl of the Light, refused to make a statement, either denying or corroborating the report. ago, and urged the workers to stand| Hearst is reported to have paid behind the military strikers. $600,000 for the paper. ee ee eee Amalgamated z GENERAL HEADQUARTERS : 81 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y. An Industrial Organization For All Workers in th Food Workers e Food Industry THIS IS OUR Nd, Ss EMBLEM ec TTT TT LLM LULL This picnic is organized by the All comrades o Italian Branches of Chicago to ‘secure funds for the Italian Daily f Chicago should come to this anti-Fascisti picnic. Music will be furnished by the celebrated orchestra, Giuseppe Verdi