The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1924, Page 2

en aT a Page Two ET CHURCH REBEL, OPPOSES GOD, GOES TO TRIAL Bishop Brown in Court; Wrote Communist Book (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, 0. May 26—Bishop William Montgomery Brown will go on trial here tomorrow before a court of nine bishops of the Episcopal Charch charged with heresy. This is the first heresy trial in the Episcopal Church since the days of the Reforma- tion. The trial will take place in Trinity Cathedral here. All the 23 charges against Brown are based on utterances in his book, “Communism and Christianism,” which he published in 1920 and which has had a circula- tion reaching well over a hundred thousand. The trial, a “Modernist-Funda- mentalist” case, has attracted the at- tention of the entire religious world. Hundreds of church leaders are ex- Dected to attend. By NATALIA GOMEZ and KITTY HARRIS. After the DAILY WORKER convention, the sales of the WORKER increased 50 per cent. Sympathizers wish we had another reporter who could be kicked out; it would increase our sales another 50 per cent. * * We offer Farrington a rubber gavel for a prize if any of the delegates can’solve the great mystery: how does the DAILY + * WORKER get its news after the reporter has been put out of the convention? ???? ees The convention stenographer came over to the press table, to Jack Johnstone, reporter for the Farmer-Labor Voice, and said, “So you're reading the DAILY WORKER. Is that your favorite paper? It seems to be the favor- ite paper of most of the dele- gates.” eee Farrington holds the record for speaking in the converivion. His time, according to a stop watch, up to date has been 20 hours, 39 minutes and 42 seconds. Most of this time was used ‘Thesé are two passages from his book: “The Divinity is at best a fiction and at worst a superstition.” “There is no rational doubt about the fictitious character of the Divine Jesus.” Trial procedure will ante-date modern law, and will be conducted according to the ancient canons of the Episcopal Church handed down since the Reformation. “The -prosecutor,” or church advo- cate, is Attorney Charles Lemuel Dibble, Kalmazoo. Dibble said today the trial of Bishop Brown is an at- tempt to prove him guilty not only of heresy, but atheism. Bishop Brown will defend himself with an attempt to prove none of the members of the House of Bishops ac- cepts all of the Bible literal and are therefore each as guilty of heresy as himself. A half dozen prominent “Modern- ists” will “testify” in Bishop Brown’s behalf, Brown's’ counsel said today. Among them are: Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, Rev. Norman Guthrie, Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks; Rev. Dr. Kari Rei- land, all of New York; Dr. Elwood Worcester, Boston, and Rev. Truman Hominway, Providence, R. I. The nine bishops comprising the court are: John Gardner Murray, Maryland, presiding officer; Frederick Focke Reese, Georgia; Edwin Stevns Lines, New Jersey; John Newton Mc- uv * ; Theodore Du Bose Bratton, Mississippi; Benjamin Brewster, Maine; William Frederick Faber, Montana; Edward Melville Parker, New Hampshire, and Herman Page, Washington. suspended but their delegates to the District Counct! would not have either union in Indianapolis, but that he felt , the international ofcers wegld sus- tain him in his stana, & Delay after delay has on the defendants, many workers in settled shops. ‘These workers are anxious to be tried that they can go back to work. There is no reason to believe they today. The probabili- ll be asked to come ir trials. The work- i z es the corridors of the the judges’ pleasure. farce that will be their done with. any hurry about the week it will be because and his helpers want Police and bosses’ wit- trouble of waiting and i im explaining that “I do not know”; “It is against the constitution”; “It is contrary to the three-year contract”; “I have great responsibility”; “Some People are trying to place this respon- sibility upon me, but I won't allow it”; “L want exceptional powers”; “I have not the power to do it”; “We can get anything we demand within reason at the next legislature”; “I don’t ex- pect very much from the next legisla- ture”; “I don’t expect anything from the next legislature”; “We must cheapen production in orde? for the operators to find markets”; “We must be able to compete with the non-un- fon fields”; “There is no relief in sight as long as the non-union fields that Illinois has to compete with agrees to the Jacksonville contract”; “Don’t antagonize the employers”; “Be on the square”; “Do an honest d@ay’s work”; “Co-operate with the bos: “We cannot do anything that is not in the agreement”; “I am in favor of taking the appointive power away from Lewis”; “I am opposed to taking the appointive power away from myself”; “I have a machine and a good one, too”; “I do not have a ma- chine,” etc., ete., etc. 26 Vice-president Arry Fishwick says that he is on the square with every- body, wants everyedy to get fair Play. The proof is that he admits it. That isto say, “Arry will go just as far in this direction as anybody as long as it won't take away Frank’s power—and that would not be fair. If the loss of the appointive power takes George Mercer’s meal ticket away, he can start out as an evan- gelist. George is known as the sta- tistician, but all the scribes at the press table had him doped out as a Presbyterian minister. se Delegate William Hartness of Bar- tonville, chairman of the committee on officers’ reports, asked this ques- tion a few years ago, “Can Farring- ton endure?” He answered it in pre- senting Farrington’s report to the con- vention by saying that neither Far- rington nor Democracy would endure it the appointive power were de- stroyed. “Where is the line of demarcation?” Hartness repeatedly asked. He found ft between the S. L. P. and Farring- ton’s sinking ship. “ee Secretary Walter Nesbit, the official announcer and mail distribu- tor, is getting some of the delegates sore. They say he only gives mail to mis friends instead of distributing it equally among the delegates no mat- ter what their political views may be. They also say Walter is an expert on figures; either he of the tellers told a whopper when they announced the vote against the appointive power and the vote on the expulsion of the DAILY WORKER reporter. He evi- dently goes on the basis of two for Frank and one for the other fellow. McAdooites Worrying About Votes; Not About Principles (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 26.—McAdoo supporters have revived thé discus- sion of Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, director of the Teapot Dome iaquiry, as a dark horse candidate for the Democratic presidential nomina- tion. They argue: That McAdoo will have half the delegates in the con- vention, but presumably will not get the necessary two-thirds; that he very friendly to Walsh, and that Gov. Al Smith is equally friendly to the Montanan. McAdoo is a dry; Smith is wet and a Catholic; Walsh is dry and a Catholic, and has man- aged the Chicago headquarters for the Democrats in past campaigns. What more logical than that Walsh, who might break the LaFollette vote in some of the western states, should be the second choice of McAdoo and Smith? When asked to forecast the plat- form which the Democratic bosses— Brennan, Taggart and Tammany’s new leader—will give the candidate, the McAdoo-Walsh men admit that there is where the difficulty lies. They are not at all sure that the plat- form will be one which the west will approve. WHERE MINERS MADE HISTORY THE DAILY WORKER reporter was removed from the MORE OIL. MUCK COMING, SENATE PROBERS PROMISE D. of J. In For Hotter Time Yet, They Say (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26—~ There will be a lot more dirt uncoy- ered by the Brookhart committee in- vestigating Daugherty’s administra- tiom of the department of justice, Sen- ator Brookhart announced when asked. if there was any prospect of the com- mittee’s quitting. “I will not quit,” he said, “while we are under fire in the courts. There are things in prospect that may sur- pass in importance anything that has yet been heard in the way of evidence. We are going thru with this thing until we have accomplished a real re- form.” Senator Wheeler says that the U. S. district attorney at Butte, Mont., is trying to delay his trial in order to have the indictment recently returned against him hanging over his head during the fall campaign. The prosecution of Howard Man- nington depends on how much time the Senator front Montana will have to prepare a partial report of the work of the committee. If he is tried as quickly as he wants to be on his own indictment he will have little time to try to send Mannington to the can. Electricity To Bring Economic Revolution —Governor Pinchot (By The Federated Press) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 26.— “We stand at the beginning of an eco- nomic revolution that will be brought about by universal electric service, made possible by long-tistance elec- tric transmission. . . . No such pro- found changes in economic life are pos- sible without profound changes in law and government,” Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, told the Na- tional Electric Light Association con- vention in Atlantic City. “While the 19th century saw a centralization of industry on a vast scale, a decline fn country life, the decay of many small communities and the weakening of family ties, the age of electricity may bring about the decentralization of in- dustry, the restoration of country life.” Lovestone To Speak On Changes Wrought At European Polls “The Significance of the Recent Elections in Germany and France,” will be the subject of Jay Lovestone’ lecture at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsh boulevard, on Tuesday, May 27, at 8 p.m. Lovestone, well-known Communist leader, will give an ana- lysis of what the recent change in the political leadership in Germany and France will mean to the workers of these two countries. Poles Are Optimistic. WARSAW, May 26.— The Polish bourgeoisie are slapping themselves on the back. They have stabilized the mark. You can now get one American dollar for 9,300,000 Polish marks. One of the measures propos- ed by Prime Minister Grabski, is to charge $100 for every passport issued to a Pole. Young men of military age are not eligible to passports. They must serve in the army. 600 GIRLS’ LIVES IN NEW FRONT AS TIMES DEMAND Now It’s Dual; Now It’s Not Dual, He Says (Special to The Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill, May 26.—In trying to discredit Alexander Howat, the day the fighting Kansan spoke before the Illinois Miners’ convention, » Farring- ton declared he drew out of the fight for Howat because Howat associated with the agitators for dual unionism. Farrington, as reported by the steno- graphic record, stated: “We have a dual movement in the miners’ organization now known as the Miners’ National Progressive Com- mitte. It is headed by William Z. Foster, who has openly declared he is going to destroy the trade union movement if he can. Alex went down there (to the Progressive Miners’ Con- ference) against our advice and he identified himself with that gang. When he did that I wrote him a letter and told him I did not propose to align myself with Foster and a lot of other I. W. W.'s and Communists who were trying to destroy the United Mine Workers of America.” But in writing the letter printed in full below, Farrington declared he DID NOT think the progressive min- ers a dual organization. Farrington eems to form his opinions as they suit his political ambitions. Farring- ton in direct contradiction of his re- cent public statements, in his letter says that Howat is not identified with dual unionists. Take your choice. Farrington’s Tell-Tale Letter. Springfield, Ill. “Mr. Hugh Kennedy, Secretary, “Local Union No. 52, “Centralia, Ill. “Dear Sir and Brother: “I am returning h ith the circu- lar letter which accompanied your let- ter of May 3.. I do not think the men who are behind the so-called progres- sive movement have any intentions, whatever, of establishing a dual or- ganization of mine workers, instead their activities, I think, are due en- tirely to their deterntination to clean up some of the corruption that is go- ing on in our international union. “I think they are making a mistake by terming themselves the progres- sive members of the United Mine Workers of America, but I am quite certain they have no intention of try- ing to establish a dual organization. Instead of trying to establish a dual organization I think they are trying to mobilize those who are opposed to the corruption in the U. M. W. A. so that an effective protest may be made. “Alex Howat has repeatedly de- clared that he will have nothing to do with the establishment of a dual or- ganization of mine workers and I am satisfied that he meant just what he said. I do think, however, that Howat has much reason for complaint and he will no doubt identify himself with this element in our union because he believes that this is the only way he can secure justice, for himself and the Kansas mine workers. Yours truly, FRANK FARRINGTON, President. She-Woman Cleans Up On Pacifist From Milwaukee NEW YORK, May 26.—Brooklyn po- lice were after a new bobbed hair bandit y- Louis Saxt, recently from Milwau- kee, described her as a determined, two-gun girl who walked into his shop, jerked a pair of wicked blue automa- tic pistols from her handbag, backed him to the wall, and took $60 from his pockets. “She gave me back $5,” Saxt said, “when | pleaded | must have some- thing to send my wife and babies in Russia.” The girl then walked leisurely from hie shop, Saxt said, after warning him not to move for five minutes. She took the key and locked the door as she departed. (Signed). Every new subscriber increases the ‘nfluence of the DAILY WORKER. PERIL; INJUNCTION STOPS INSPECTION Peril of immediate death confronts 600 telephone girls during every moment of the working day, because a gasoline company prevailed upon Circuit Judge Ira Ryner to issue an injunction relieving them of the’ neces- sity of complying with ordinary fire a storage tank in the United and Cleaners’ Building at 3625 N. Clark street. Leakage of the gasoline into the Lake View Exchange of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company makes the possibility of explosion im- minent. Efforts to save the lives of these girls by an inspection of the new building and tank by the fire preven- tion bureau were stopped under the protection of Judge Ryner’s injunc- tion, by which city officials are barred from carrying out an ordinary public duty. The tank was constructed with- out the knowledge of the bureau, Upon complaint of the telephone company of the seepage of gasoline into cellar catch-basins in their build- ing, the tank was ordered drained, regulations in the construction of a Methodists Call World Conference To Cry About War SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 26.—A special anti-war resolution calling for & conference of all religious workers to fight the evils of war, was adopted unanimously by the Methodist Gen- eral Conference today. The resolu- tion adopted today urged America’s entrance into a world court of inter- national justice, favors President Coolidge’s calling another disarma- ment conference and implies faith in the league of nations. This resolution was drafted after @ resolution condemning war had been defeated after bitter arguments on the floor of the convention, FARRINGTON IN |TEXTILE WORKERS NEED JUST SIDELIGHTS ON THE CONVENTION ENOUGH TO LIVE AND LABOR, IS ANNOUNCEMENT OF EMPLOYERS By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Wages should be no higher than necessary to maintain the wage earner as an efficient producing machine. Until the work- ers of the country allow wages to be shaken down to the point where they give up comforts not necessary to keep them in a proper state of productivity, unemployment is likely to continue. This is the capitalist theory of wages expressed without a Ce NSO TERIA Renee, quibble in the April issue of the Stone & Webster journal, the official organ of the huge public utility trust of that name. It is their comment on the report from Lawrence, Mass., that “the tex- tile industry is in such a state that thousands of people who depend upon that industry for a livelihood are now out of employment. Many families and persons are now in dire want and the odtlook is not encouraging.” Live On Hay, Lawrence textile workers, says the rich corporation, like millions of other persons, have consumed a gread deal more than was necessary to keep them in the highest stage of produc- tion. (These workers have an aver- age wage of $20.53 a week.) These textile workers can’t extricate them- selves except by their willingness fo forego that amount of consumption which is above the amount. necessary to keep them in the highest efficiency as workers. (There once was a big French employer who put this more briefly by suggesting that the people eat hay. He ended his career swing- ing from a lamp post with a wisp of hay in his mouth.) Just Labor Machines. These employers hold that workers should share in the increased produc- tivity of modern machine industry only to make them more efficient ma- chines. “Productive consumption ceases and unproductive consumption be- gins,” they say “at a point beyond which things are consumed that are not necessary to keep a producer in the best condition to produce. Up to 1928 the 100,000,000 inhabitants of the United States paid for this overcon- sumption by the Lawrence textile op- eratives. In recent months the 100,- 000,000 have refused to pay the bill. They have stopped buying as much in the way of clothes as fornierly. Con- sequently a great unemployment prob- lem was raised at Lawrence. One is not necessarily heartless in saying that the Lawrence textile workers have no one to blame but themselves and the whole body of labor.” Stone & Webster feel that the coun- try is approaching the end of the eco- nomic situation created by the war. It is hardly thinkable, they say, that we shall regain a fairly normal state of affairs without considerable hard- ship here and there. But the public utilities operated by Stone &, Webster during 1923 made a profit of $17,155,- 956 on a gross business of $42,468,428. Bosses’ Cold-Blooded Viewpoint. Labor faced with a new period of unemployment and wage-cutting rec- ognize that this will be the viewpoint of employers as long as industry is operated for private profits, however much it is disguised by experiments in class collaboration. Management is bound to seek in one way or anoth- er to take for the absentee owners the largest possible share of production, leaving the workers the smallest pos- sible share commensurate with their continued functioning as efficient ma- chines. so mu everywhere to read your friends. THE DAILY WORKER, Order a bundle of sample copies to subscription to THE DAILY WORKER. STRIKEBREAKING PROVIDED FOR IN NEW RAIL BILL Bad ‘Emergency’ Clause In Howell-Barkley Law Sy, The Federated Pre WASHINGTON, May 26.— Shall railroad strikes be settled by means of federal receiverships? If so, which way will the settlements go? These questions are worrying rail- road labor men as they study the amendment to the Howell-Barkley railroad labor bill, approved by their friends in the Senate interstate commerce committee. It reads: “Sec, 8. Receivership in emer- gency: If, notwithstanding the pro- visions of this act, any lockout or strike or other dispute between a carrier and the employes should in- terrupt the operation of any carrier to such an extent as in the opinion of the President to constitute an emergency, involving a serious in- terference with or obstruction of in- terstate commerce and (or) the transportation of the mails, he is hereby authorized to direct the at- torney general to apply for the ap- pointment by a court of competent jurisdiction of a receiver to control and direct the operation of such a carrier and to manage its proper- ties during the continuance of such an emergency. Any district court of the United States within whose jurisdiction is located the principal office of such a carrier shall be au- thorized in a suit so instituted by the attorney general, under the di- rection of the President, and in the name of the United States, to ap- point a receiver as above provided, which receiver shall be a person or either financially nor oth- sociated in interest with the management or employes of said carrier, but each such receiver all be an impartially disinterest- individual. The President is here- by authorized to make one or sev- eral recommendations of a person or persons whom he deems com- petent and suitable for such an ap- pointment uch a receiver or re- ceivers.” Desperate Boss Bakers Grasp At Injunction Weapon NEW YORK, May 26—Unable to defeat the union in any other way, six remaining bakery shops are using the injunction weapon against Bakery and Confectionery Workers’ Interna- tional union, New York locals, The employers refuse to renew the union agreement. A temporary injunction against the strikers has been secured. The legal fight is now over a perma- nent injunction, 4 America's Great Labor Daily —_— 11138 Washington Bivd., Chicago, III, Making Histor “One advantage possessed by the strikers is that have an energetic and fearless daily extensive space to the conflict--THE DAILY WORKER” —From “The Nation,” May 14th. . Nothing that has happened in labor history in many years has meant to the workers everywhere as the establ THE DAILY WORKER If you believe we are doing a big work help by getting the workers The Daily Worker Every Day ive away in your shop, factory or office and among Get a supply of Subscription Blanks Tuesday, May 27, 1924 YOUNG WORKERS START BiG PUSH FOR PAPER SUBS Prizes To Young Worker “Go-Getters” The Young Workers’ League is in- augurating an energetic campaign for subs to their paper, the Young Work- er. They have sent out the following message: To All Young Workers. The revolutionary youth movement is becomhing more important every day. Thousands of young workers are realizing that they are being mis- erably exploited and oppressed, used as cannon fodder in capitalist wars, and compelled to do the dirtiest work in order to make a bare living. They are revolting against a system which permits such a state of affairs to, ex- ist—they are determined to change it. The Young Workers’ League is en- deavoring to guide these young work- ers along Communist lines, to lead them out of the desert into the future society, In this work our greatest aid is our newspaper, the Young Worker. It is only thru the Young Worker that we can reach all these thousands of ex- plotted young workers with our mes- sage, give them our leadership. The Young Worker is an organ of which we, as well as every other young worker who ever read it, are proud. We must aid the Young Worker to reach these thousands of working class youth, to draw them into the fighting ranks. Every member and sympathizer of the Young Workers’ League should become a subscriber. Every young worker should become a sub-getter. Let us line up behind the Young Worker for the revolutionary working class movement. 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