The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1924, Page 2

ae BOSTON GIVES WORKERS PARTY Onutrun Socialists Editor’s Note.— The DAILY WORKER calls on all of its read-. ers to co-operate in an effort to get as close an estimate in this year’s Communist vote as possible. The returns already sent in by our readers are very scattered. Send in the complete vote in your precinct, city, county or state. The secre- taries of local, city and district or- ganizations of the Workers Party are especially called on to ald in this effort. Send all returns to the Héitorial Department, DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. see @@pecial to The Dally Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 19.— The official count of the vote in the city of Boston shows that the Workers Party candidates led a higher vote than either e socialist party or the social- ist labor party. This vote is for Boston only. We have not yet been able to get complete returns from Mas- sachusetts or Rhode Island, but reports from other cities indi- cate that the Workers Party candidates will lead both the socialist party and the socialist labor party in both states. The vote for Boston follows: United States Senator. Gillett (Rep.) 65,159 Walsh (Dem.) 129,114 Konikow (W. P.). wwe 2,154 (Both the socialist party and social- ist labor party failed to nominate can- didates for U. S. senator, thus endors- ing the “liberal” democratic candidate Walsh.) Governor, Curley (Dem) —--v-occrecem-125,061 Fuller (Rep.) ~...—— 86,527 Ballam (W. P.)._——.-.. 993 Hutchins (socialist) _...__ ‘774 Hayes (8. L. P.)-.e-seme— 473 Secretary of State. Cook (Rep.) —.. 82,611 Rocheleau (Dem.) 15,516 Dwyer, (W. P.).... 4,941 Williams (S. P.). 2,816 Leger (8. L. P.) 1,999 Attorney-General, Benton (Rep.) 80,548 Swift (Dem.) .. 97,580 Canter (W. P.) 3,623 Sherman (S. P.)... 2,688 Oelcher (S. L. P.). 1,395 Two Meet Death In Fire. HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 19—Two persons were burned to death and an- other probably fatally injured, in a fire which swept two hours today. Bight others fled to safety in their night clothes before firemen arrived. USE OF MAILS DENIED TO MANIPULATOR OF A GET-RICH-QUICK PLAN FORT WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 19.— Glen D. Freyer, 24, who is sald to have made $200,000 In two years by Inducing women and giris to “work at home” buying materials from him, was prohibited from using the mails in an order from the United States postoffice department re- evived here today. Freyer, two years ago a drug elerk is charged with using the mails in a scheme to defraud, be- Ing accused of devising a scheme of operations which In a short time amassed him a fortune by circular izing women, particularty Invalids and “shut-ins.” Indigent women bought the mater- Jails to make lampshade sets, piliow eases and embroidery, which they _ expected the Nile Art company, Freyer’s concern to market. ‘Thousands of women, the govern- * ment charges, found to their serrow after making the required purchases of materials and spending tong hours of tedious toil that their work- manship did not come up to the standard of specifications required and could not be “accepted.” GOOD SUPPORT Communist Candidates JOURNEYMEN TAILORS IN NEW YORK CITY HOLD MEETING MONDAY NIGHT NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—The Jour. neymen Tailors’ Union, Local 390, will hold Its business meeting Mon- day evening, Nov, 24, at Manner- chor Hall, 205 E, 56th St., near Third Avenue. A vote will be taken on the general executive board’s proposi- tion of changing the time of the next convention from 1925 to 1929. CROWE IS STILL SILENT ON DEATH OF DEAN O’BANION Polict Make Much Fuss But Do Nothing State’s Attorney Crowe, who took such an active part in breaking the garment workers’ strike last spring, has not said a word since the murder of Dean O’Bannion, which has reveal- ed the connection between the under- world and the so-called law enfore- ing authorities of Cook county, Big business uses the crooks to break strikes, but in between such employment, the crooks do not always display their best qualities, They in- dulge in robberies and other sprees, including stealing from banks, getting away with heavy payrolls and other acts which bring uneasiness to the employers. Washed Hands of Murders. After every murder the police usual- ly say that the culprit will be arrest- ed within “twenty-four hours,” but there was no time limit set in the O’Bannion case. Indeed, Chief of De- tectives Hughes threw up his hands and said that the probability was the murderers would never be apprehend- ed. No effort was made by the police or the state’s attorney. On the day after the O’Bannion mur- ler, information leaked into the capi- talist press that the dead gunman aided State’s Attorney Crowe in the elections, turning over a normally de- mocratic ward to the republicans, This fact is generally considered respon- sible for O’Bannion’s death. Dropped Crowe Clew. Since then, however, the capitalist press have not commented on that phase of the case. There are other connections between the state’s attor- ney’s office and the underworld, which may shed some light ‘on the reason for Crowe’s strange silence since the murder, It is stated that William Engelke who was arrested in connection with the Duffy murder, was allowed to plead guilty to a larceny charge be- fore Judge Lindsey, at the request of State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe. The orgy of arrests in which hun- dreds were gathered in for the pur- pose of making a showing to big busi- ness, means nothing. It is noted that none of the real tuxedo gunmen were arrested. Like similar police raids, nothing will come of it. Spies of Capitalist Press. The Chicago Tribune, The Herald Examiner and the Daily News are in the rotten mess up to their ears, Hach one of these papers has spies, and criminals on its staffs. There is a move now on among anti- Dever democrats to get rid of Morgan Collins, chief of police. Michael Hughes, head of the detective bureau, is also slated to go. This is not a move to clear up crime, but an elec- tion dodge. A certain faction in the democratic party is not satisfied with the way Dever played the game since he was elected, and they are after his scalp, According to letters of administra- tion filed today, Dean O’Bannion, re- puted millionaire, left an estate only worth $15,000. It is believed the rest of his “earnings” went to the poli- ticians for protection. Call Italian Duel “Draw.” ROME, Nov. 19. — Deputy Bugenio Chiesa and Signor Tamborini, mem- ber of the Florentine Legion volun: teer militia, fough a duel of fourteen rounds with swords here, without any blood being shed. They called it ¢ draw on the advice of doctors, altho both parties were as sore as ever at the end of the fourteenth round, Chiesa, who was challenged by Tam- borino in consequence of attacks on the militia by Chiesa, wanted to con- tinue, but the militia man had enough. BARNEY BARUCH, WALL STREET GAMBLER, HANGS OUT SHINGLE AS ADVISER TO BIG BUSINESS (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 19.—A court of commerce “before which busi- ness men would come with such questions as whether in time of overpro- duction and low prices they could out down production and fix a price” was the proposal of Bernard M. Baruch, former head of war industries board, discussed by other former members of the board in their biennial meeting on Armistice Day. The problems of trusts and the attitude of the government toward ever larger combinations of industry would come before the commerce court, which Baruch says should appeal to business men as the supreme court ap- peals to lawyers, Baruch argued for bigger combinations of business on the basis of service and because, he says, “by their mass production, (they) increase the standard of living.” The court would have to have certain regulatory powers, Baruch etates. It would not be an “inquisitorial body” which term he applied to the federal trade commeteton, i BRITISH TORY ELECTION PLOT ‘Zinoview’ Forgery Was Not Even Letter (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Nov. 19,—At last the great secret is out! The “Zinoviev letter” that was at first accepted as genuine by former premier Ramsay Mac- Donald has turned out to be— not even a letter. This amazing exposure of the greatest and crudest plot in British political history will pro- bably be confined to the Com- munist and labor press. The stupidity, to say the least, of Ramsay, MacDonald in accepting such a fake yarn as genuine has cansed even his staunchest supports to express their irritation. Letter Was Fantasy! The famous “letter” signed by Zino- viev, was not a letter, a copy or a pic- ture of a letter. There was no such thing as a letter, This is the story. One of the British spies in Moscow, sent to Scotland Yard “thru the regular channels” a steno- graphic report of an alleged speech delivered in Moscow at a Communist meeting where instructions were given to the British communists about “over- throwing the government.” Two weeks later another meeting was held in London at which the Com- munists went thru the same perform- ance. The spy who attended this meet- ing, and who by the way must have yer Working under Arthur Henderson, took shorthand notes and compared them with those sent from Moscow. They tallied. Thus runs the fairy tale. Then the architects in the foreign office issued a “real” letter with seals and signatures, purporting to come from Zinoviev. MacDonald bit the cheese. Daily Mail On The Job No sooner had the foreign office put the finishing touches to the forged letter than the Daily Mail had it. Then the tory officials who know all the tricks of the trade, told MacDonald in a very friendly manner that unless he came out immediately with a broad- side against the Soviet government that his party would be placed in an embarassing position. He did and is now very much embarassed, The editor of the New Leader, o official organ of the independent ir party shows his irritation over Donald’s stupidity in accepting this fake as genuine. He writes: “This charge has been launched, the elector- ate alarmed, our own policy destroyed, and our country’s relations with Rus- sia imperilled, if not ruined, on the faith of some spy or informer, perhaps a foreigner, who says he has copied or overheard this letter, It is hard when one’s own leader is concerned to write of such levity at this, with the frank indignation it deserves.” Has Other Worries The Baldwin cabinet is still invest- igating their own plot and sending out rumors that the “Zinoviev letter to MacDonald” is genuine, nothwithstand- ing the King’s speech, which his ma- charge made of Zinoviev writing a letter to MacDonald, Premier Baldwin is now busy writ- ing the King’s speech, which his ma- jesty will be asked to read at the opening of parliament. The rising cost of food is causing Baldwin more un- easiness than the “Zinoviev forgery” which has served its purpose. Police Can’t Decide If Minister’s Wife Committed Suicide (Special to The Dally Worker) COLUMBUS, Ohio, Noy. 19,—Altho admitting possibility that she might have committed suicide, County Prose- cutor King and Lieutenant of Detec- tives Shellenbarger at noon today, con- tinuing their probe, were a unit in their refusal to relinguish the belief t that the mysterious death of Mrs. C. V. Sheatsly, wife of a Lutheran pastor, may have been due to a murderer who shoved her body into the furnace in the basement of the Sheatsley home where her charred remains were found Monday evening. After viewing the remains of their mother, Prosecutor King, behind closed doors at the court house, ques- tioned Milton, 20, and Clarence Sheats- ley, aged 16. Coroner Murphy announced that he had turned over to a local chemist for analysis the stomach and liver of Mrs. Sheatsley. It was asserted by mem- bers of the Sheatsley family that « bottle of carbolic acid was missing from the médicine chest, that they de- tected fumes similar to carbolic acid in the home late Monday. Portuguese Cabinet Quits Over Question Of the Angora Debt LISBON, Nov. 19.—The Portuguese cabinet resigned today, after it had been refused a vote of confidence by ey ee oe THE DAILY WORKER IBANEZ DODGES ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUTBREAK AT POMPTONA (Special to the Dally Werker) PARIS, Nov, 19,—Blasco Ibanez and Rodrigueo Sorlano, leaders of Spanish republican thought, again emphatically denied In. interviews today that they had any connection with the Pomptona rebel outbreak, as witnesses at the Pomptona court martial testified, Py . se MADRID, Nov. 19. — Disagree- ments between the military court trying fourteen radicals for the Pomptona outbreak and the captain- general of the district: will result in the review of the case by the su- preme war council, the directory announced today. WATER SUPPLY OF LOS ANGELES IS ENDANGERED Bloodshed Threatened Over Owens River LOS ANGELES, Cal. Nov. 19.— Sheriff Charles Collins of Inyo county, has asked Gov. Friend W. Richardson to rush state troops to Lone Pine, where a band of 100 Ownes Valley residents yesterday seized the Los Angeles city aqueduct, according to word received here today. The appeal for troops followed un- successful efforts of Inyo county of- ficers to disperse the valley party, which opened the headgates of the aqueduct, turned into the Owens river and placed an armed guard on the gates. According to a telegram received here by city water bureau officials from Sheriff Collins, bloodshed will only be avoided by the arrival of state troops. The officials here said the water being wasted was worth $10,000 daily and should the headgates be kept open long this city’s supply would be greatly endangered, The seizure of the aqueduct is the latest chapter in a bitter feud be. tween Los Angeles and Owens valley farmers over the waters of Owens river. Three months ago the aque- duct was dynamited and damaged Los Angeles officials said seizure of the headgates was another attempt tc, force the city to purchase extensive property holdings in the Owen valley. Union No. 390 Backs Flow-Meters Strike Local Union No, 390, of the Inter- national Association of Machinists do- nated $50,00 to the striking machin- ists in the Flow-Meters company ma- chine shop at their meeting Tuesday night. The members of Local 390 showed this solidarity with the Flow-Meters employes after several members spoke of the gallant and determined fight the Capitalism Is Too Strong for Lone Worker to Fight, Get Strength Thru Unity |HIT By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY: two boys and two girls, not yet of age, are on trial for murder at the Criminal Courts Building, in the same room where money saved the lives of the millionaire youths, Loeb and Leopold. Assistant State's Attorney Michael Romano asks for “the rope” to hang “Peggy” Valanis and her girl chum, Lucile Marshall, both 18 years old; facing the gallows with “Peggy's” brother, “Red” Valanis, and William Lydon. * * * * “We wanted money for clothes and fun.” That is the defense. They say they didn’t mean to kill. They just wanted some of the money that belonged to a Mrs. Bessie Gaensslen, boarding house keeper, who had more of it than they. In getting it they killed her, * * * * The capitalist law, thru the prosecutor, will weep over Thursday, November 20, 1924 COMMUNSTS I BIG CONFERENCE DAWES PLAN Call It a Treacherous Attack on Workers (Special to The Dally Worker) COLOGNE, Germany, Nov. 19.—The International Com- munist.. Conference held here with representatives of many European Communist parties and of the Communist Intere national, described the London agreement, based on the Dawes plan, as “nothing more or less than a treacherous attack upon the vital interests of the world proletariat,” er ped Mis. Gaensslen in order to ensure A onuietion. st ee ee ca ghee i ut it will not be thinking of her. Life is. cheap. under i capitalism. It can easily or replaced. r hated: that;; the “execution: -of:-Ahe é But these mere children tried to get property that cap- betty ep will: shorly.topke Seat ’ rabies A elt in the economie circles of the / italism said didn’t belong to them. That is their greatest [+1006 main countries, Franos,Géemany offense. Capitalist justice must protect the thing most | ana mngiand , i sacred in its eyes—private property—and that is why it The ecbich aah ei y will go hard with “Peggy,” Lucile, “Red” and “Bill.” bate tiisinn. cnmice ce te Fis ead a ae ae : best means of helping the workers in | What a change in the surroundings since the Loeb- | their countries in their frightful social i Leopold trial! No millionaire fathers with their purse and economic position. The whole of { strings untied and streams of gold flowing for expenses. |those present were folly convinced i The father of the Valanis boy and girl is a helpless inmate | that the London plan must be opposed =| of the Soldier's Home in Milwaukee. by an entirely different plan, y * * * * The Hearst press, that slobbered over the rich youths, Loeb and si eg cota fashionably dressed, jeers at the clothes worn by these children of the working class. Here | is just a paragraph: : “Unilke their predecessors, Leopold and Loeb, who occupied: the very chairs only a short time ago, the youthful quartet furnish no fashion news. ‘Red’ and ‘Bill’ wore the same. loud suits, brown and blue respectively, with wide white stripes and cuffs and the girls swaggered Into the courtroom in their cheap little black coats; trimmed This other plan consists of soctal- ization, of the expropriation of the mines, banks, and big industrial un- dertakings, of the nationalization of Yarge land estates and housing. These socialized undertakings are then to be placed under the control of work- ers’ ‘and employes’ organizations. This soctalization can only be secured by the dictatorial power of a workers’ government, and by an alliance with Soviet Russia. “In order to insure immediate se- curity for the existence of the work- ing class in face of the capitalist of- fensive and the devastating results of the experts’ policy,” the conference decided the following demands are to be striven for: A minimum eighthour | work day with a minimum wage, security of employment for all worlLers, habit- able living accommodations for all workers, adequate nourishment for all the population, and security from the a brutal taxation of capitalism. Many Countries Represented with Imitation fur.” * * * * Then the judge orders the trial rushed. He rules out all further references to the gets of the defendants as compared with the riches “of others recently tried here, that the lawyers were making in examining prospective jurors. There was no rush at the Loeb-Leopold trial. They were given all the time required. Their trial dragged in- terminably. . * * * But in this matter of clothes. It was only yesterday that 1,000 delegates to the Mexican Federation of Labor convention at Juarez, crossed “The International Bridge” to attend the meeting of the American Federation of Labor in El Paso, Texas. They came in their work clothes; their overalls, cotton trousers, sandals, the cheap clothes of the. underpaid worker and peasant. U. S. immigration officials were horrified. They tried to prevent them from comin into this country. Surely these couldn’t be the delegates o labor organizations in convention. assembled. But they were. And they crossed the Rio Grande River and on to the Convention Hall where the “grand dukes’ of U. S. organized labor, paunched and be-jewelled, were assemble ee ARIE RE France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and Czecho-Slovakia were among those represented. Com- rade Francois represented the Com- munist International, Pennsylvania Road oe RRR TPE IES They made a startling comparison, The labor lackeys of acer capitalism, Fascisti in the making; while : the Refuses to Deal Mexicans, revolutionists, who had swept Diaz and his suc- With Clerks’ Union cessors into the discard, and still fighting for “All Power!” into the hands of the workers and peasants of Mexico. * * cd * The Pennsylvania railroad is con- tinuing to break the provisions of the strikers wore putting up” agsinat 8 These four children of the working class, on trial for vast poet et demargecy vie cen ' rao bg ie etn the company! murder in a Chicago court room, took the wrong way to |nood ot Railway and Steamship | pated Me Tirgsataea,: put| get some of the good things of life. To be sure iy needed | Clerks, Frieght Handlers, Express and ‘ joined the Machinists’ Union after go- money for clothes. They are young and they need a “little | Station Employes in a labor dispute. é ing out on strike, They have been| fun"; and that costs money, too. But capitalism is too The railroad labor board ordered 4 faithfully picketing every day regard-| strong for the individual worker who transgresses its laws. the railroad to deal with the union, i less of snow and cold. Only thru the ee strength of all workers can capital- but the Pennsylvnaia railroad con- : eapeannanst ccnmeand ism be conquered. bye ad the Late and ignore ' Sev san o ° * { e union, @ board has asked At- t pti T wb f The Communist movement needs all young workers | |t®™mey General Stone for a decision, } 4 ool Leachers | .who aspire to something better. It will teach them that |S Passing the buck to the Cool- / Meet at Urbana, Ill.| the lone effort of the individual to lift himself under the | !@8° administration. pai 5 present robber system is in vain. The youth of the nation i URBANA, Ill, Nov. 19. — Several] must be educated and organized, in the fight for the better Washington Report thousand high school teachers trom} day, to abolish the capitalism that holds it in chains, and Claims Anthracite all parts of Illinois will arrive tonight} win liberation under the oncoming Communist era. Then seldom ion bee oe, of the} there will be fewer boys’and girls of the working class Strike Called Off nois school conference open-| facing “the rope” in capitalist courts; but“the foundations oa aii bg the University of] will crumble quicker under the decaying capitalist social fae gray na as i canod Three hundred editors of high order. yestreday that the strike against the school publications also are expected ot ne Lshcotig Valley Coal company called \ to be nere tor the tur eonerat eon! “EDUCATION WEEK” FAILS TO. ae wee ceo 1 Schoo! souaaisor contwencee, "| PREJUDICE MINDS OF CHILDREN .__ \ivrraioa'ns syonee’ty'te ree | IN SCHOOLS AGAINST COMMUNISM |\ernmes* ‘concttation “commissioner, Stresemann Plays Many Tunes on Harp Of German Politics (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 19.—Gus-| © tav Stresemann is changing his pol- itical tune to suit the changing pol- itical situation in Germany. Strese- mann, who only a month ago tried to turn the government into the national- ist camp, is now speaking in the elec: tions for moderation and democracy. The coming reichstag elections will probably mark the break up of the nationalist party, which is without funds, gre til? Terminal Men Maintain Scale. mass tings, found that 4 8:30 p. m., to make ST. LOUIS, Nov, 19.—Employes of beste the chit | omce equipment from the labor depart- ‘ final tintte al Terminal Rail: dren knew more about the junior! ment offi sour! state, ments for the affair. BS i ipa! groups and their activities against the i state 9 oar ey Co. rescinded their vote and accepted the cose ) mise offer, The’men, an hour, increase. ‘8 had asked for a 8e hourly The company dei a an hour. The 58¢ scale effect until Nov. 1, involves motormen, shopmen, The wage. pending since Oct. 1, Davis, © Meetings of school children were held in various sections of Chicago last night by the junior groups of the Young Workers Léague, at which school children, who had heard of the junior groups thru anti-education week propaganda, attended. The meeting of the children of the northwestern Chicago schools, in- cluding the Lafayette school, took place in the Folkets Hus, in Hirsch YOUNG WORKERS LEAque ACTIVITIES, LOCAL CHICAGO, f _ Friday, November 21, ” Activity Meetings of Area Branches, No. 1, 8 p, m., at 166 W, Wasl to the mass meetings. The militant Blvd, juniors have been very busy turning : As far as the impressing the minds|—pqueation Week” into a red week.| sue ielond arcs gor sy a At iat f of the school children against the| arguing, selling Young Comrades |s149'g Hulsted ‘Bt. Et oe : Communists is concerned, “Educa- tion Week” in Chicago is a flat fail- ure, Thru the anti-education week propaganda, the junior groups of the city have gained many new members. Representatives of the Young Work- érs League, distributing invitations to the children to come to the children’s pasting up posters and getting their school mates to join the junior groups. 4, & p.m, at 3322 Douglas Blvd.; No, - 5, 8 p. m,, at Northside Turner Hal 820 N. Clark St.; No, 6, 8 p, m., a 2613 Hirsch Blvd. ‘ Saturday, November 22, All social managers to report wi their supplies at 2733 Hirsch Biv, at f Had Strong Belief in Property. LINN, Mo., Nov. 19,—Selection of a] jury to try State Senator Tilman W. Anderson, charged with stealing an adding machine, typewriter and other tol at the close of the 1923 legisla- tutre, has been completed and the lawmaker will face a second trial. At the first trial the jury disagreed, standing 8 to 4 for acquittal. Inves- yo mpord say eho have uncovered lence of lesale theft of state us old property following the "Many of the children spoke of the}the general paid rig jingoistic program than about capital ist “Hducation Week.” ‘When the Young Workers Leaguere questioned the children about what the teachers told them of “Education Want Small to Settle. ~ SPRINGFIELD, M1, Noy, 19.—Orade ing of an accounting by Governor Len Small on interest money earned by state funds in his hands while he was State treasurer, was recommended in @ report submitted to