The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1925, Page 3

Wednesday, January 14, 1925 FAKE ELECTORAL BILL BACKED BY FASCISTI GUNS Disfranchise ( Opposition ' Plan of Mussolini (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, Jan. 13.—The fascisti have called out their military force of armed guards and police to terrorize the people and see that Mussolini’s new election law bill goes thru, by force if necessary, as parlia- ment is reassembling today. The jails are still filled with, Com- munists, and the agitation of the work- ers demanding their immediate re-| lease is increasing. Mussolini has un- til today . secluded himself in his quarters ‘here, and the fact that he was not seen on the streets Jed to the rumor“of his assassination, it is said here. The election bill upon which Mus- solini sponsors, gives the fascisti sup- porters 2 and 3 votes, and holds the opposition followers down to one vote a piece. * * Fascisti Active Here. An Illinois branch of the Italian fas- cisti has been organized, which makes its main object a fight against the Communists. In a statement showing plainly that the followers of Mus- solini make it their’ chief task to fight the growing power of the workers, Mario Lauro, secretary of the Illinois fascisti, heaps abuse upon the Italian and American Communists. “In this period following the war we see the fascists take the place of striking railroad men,” Lauro said. He boasted about the fact that Mus- solini turned the fascisti into a huge sttikebreaking agency, and defeated the workers in their strikes and strug- gles against their miserable condi- tions. “The fascisti under Mussolini have saved Italy from the reds,” he cluded. Lauro. did not explain how it is that the fascisti are able to remain in power only thru the white terror, and the power of their bayonets. ** * * Huge Anti-Fascist Meetings. NEW YORK, .Jan, 13.—Thousands of persons attended a united. front anti-fascisti demonstration, led by the Communists, held in the People’s House, 7 E. 15th St., Sunday night. The auditorium was filled to capacity to hear the speakers urge the preven- tion of any, attempts to organize fas- cisti in America. Comrade Coco, who presided, -declared that the black- shirted terrorists and sluggers of the capitalist class must not be permitted to gain a foothold in this country. Comrade Coco denounced the capi- talist press for supporting the fascist dictators. “Giolitti says he wants democracy,” said Comrade Coco, “But he wants only to save the bourgeoisie from the rule of the workers led by the Communists, after Mussolini is overthrown. Elbert Gary of the steel trust wants the same kind of demo- eracy that the Giolitti’s of Italy want the license to continue exploiting the workers and prevent the forma- tion of a Soviet government. The meeting ended with the singing of the Red Flag. Davis Will Stick NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—James J. Davis will not resign as secretary of labor to make’ room for John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, unless forced out, he stated upon arriving here from South America; “If there is any chance,” said Davis, “That is up to the presi- dent, who is my boss.” Leopard Kills Trainer. BAY CITY, Mich., Jan. 13.—Mrs Dolly Hill, a circus animal trainer died today of wounds inflicted by an infuriated leopard she had been train. {ng for show purposes. RESCUE 16 SAILORS =| AFTER BENS AFLOAT TWO WEEKS ON OCEAN NEW YORK, Jan. 13,—Sixteen sailors, the crew of the four masted schooner, Manuel Caragal, were res- cued at sea after being afloat onthe storm-swept Atlantic for almost two weeks, following the wreck of their vessel, said a radio message to the’ Independent Wireless corporation here today. The radio message gave only a sketchy outline of the rescue. It said the men were almost at death’s door. They were picked up 240 miles southwest of New York. RAILROADS ARE PATTED ON WRIST BY COMMISSION Ordered tio Hie Fair After Next March WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The inter- state commerce commission today re- affirmed its previous decision holding that the practice of the railroads in assigning private cars and foreign line cars for railway fuel to bitumin- ous coal mines in excess of the share contemporaneously distributed to bi- tuminous coal mines upon their lines, which do not receive assigned cars, was unjust and unreasonable. Commission Divided. The railroads were ordered to change their practice with regard to privately owned coal cars ‘by March 1, 1925. The commission was divided on the question, Commissioners Hall, Potter and Cox dissenting from the majority report. The private car owners are grouped generally into three classes, accord- ing to the commission’s report: The Big Moguls. “1. Those that owned the plants, mines and cars, the latter being used to transport coal from the owned mines to the plants of the owning company. In this class are included Bethlehem Steel corporation, the Unit- ed States Steel corporation ahd its subsidiaries, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.;- Wisconsin Steel, and Internation- al Harvester companies; Ford Motor Co., and the Steel company of Canada. The Second Class. “2. Those that own the cars and the plants, but not the mines. In- cluded in this class are the By-product Coke Ovens, not connected with the steel and other plants, enumerated in class 1, and the Public Service Elec- trie Co. “3. Those that own cars and mines, but which are dependent upon out- side contracts for the disposition of the coal, the Berwynd-White Coal Co., and the Westmoreland Coal Co., be- ing included in this class.” Washington Refuses to Withdraw Its Troops from Southern Republic (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Adminis- tration officials are as yet unable to produce evidence that President Sa- lorzano of Nicaragua wants the 100 American marines to remain in that country, where they have been for. the past 12 years. Reports that the Washington government may be ‘“in- duced” by Nicaragua to postpone their withdrawal under the pledge given a year ago are not accurate. Salorzano and his liberal regime were chosen be- cause they were hostile to North American domination, either financial or military. If the marines stay, it wil be because Washington is unwill- ing to yield to the appeals of the Ni- ecaraguan people that they be left to govern themselves. “In Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown Federated Press Jingles. _ I see the fundamentalists is shaking theologic fists and standing up upon their toes to hit the moderns in the nose. They're called the fundamental- ists because in all their mental lists the fundamentals is forgot—the kind what count in life a lot.~ And what they call the could skate could be a lot more up to date. In this here fight the biggest thorn would seem to be if folks is born. upon. this earth with parents two, or whether one will sometimes do. However folks receive their steer, one thing is sure, they're surely here, and all I've seen, the good and had, had something looking like a dad, He may have been a poor excuse, but had his biologic use. It I may offer sum Shy it ftwo, TOMORROW at Gartner's Theater. e | Epics bu gill Lloud seems to me there’s lots of questions on which to work our cerebrum, if we just ain't too awful dumb. The man what swings adinner pail won't wager one cheap shingle nail to know it preachers fit the slot called funda- mental or what-not. What's fundamental, without fail, is how to fill the dinner pail, and Bryan's pawing of the air don’t seem to put no grub in there. Theology ain’t my long suit. In economics I'm a beaut. I can’t dis- cuss the virgin birth, when when it comes to things of earth, I think I could surely tell some things about the present hell. Of weary toil we are the son, whether we had one dad or none. Ana life would still be quite a stew, if {den stuff, T LOT OF LABOR IN GERMANY TODAY Men, Women and Chil- dren Must Labor By GARL BRANNIN. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) HOCHST, Germany, Jan. 13. —This little village of 2,200 souls midway between Frank- fort and Heidelberg affords a picture of rural life which is illuminating to one who comes |with impressions of Germany gained‘chiefly from reading. Nestled between the wooded slopes of the hills with a noisy little stream running thru the town this place of red tile roofs, half timbered houses dating back to the 17th century and narrow winding streets has a charm to the newcomer familiar with the regimented order of the cities. It’s Work! Work! Work! But closer contact with the primi- tive standard of comfort and a glimpse of the specter who has taken up his residence here as well as in every city and hamlet in Germany, goes far to dispel the atmosphere of pictur- esqueness and uncover the hard facts in everyday life. 4 In many respects life today is little different from the days before August, 1914. People worked hard cultivating their little patches of land or in.near- by mills and at other kinds of labor. And yet they found the time and had the spirit to get much pleasure out of community life. They had plenty to eat and drink and no occasion to worry for their standards were simple and in their own small circle, they Saw no reason to doubt that they would continue to get along. Today the same rule of labor con- tinues. but it has been extended to take in all members of the family. The problem of getting a living has become a very serious matter. The mother steals time’ from her home duties to do small jobs or to peddle odds and ends; the children find ways of picking up a few extra pfennigs and, when thru the regular school at 14, go into industry or housework. Many houses have small stocks of goods to sell tended by the wife or children while the husband goes out ‘ha work, Even) with-all hands earn- ing one wonders how the people get along. Wages Low; Food Cost High. Wages average around $1 per day while the cost of food thruout the nation is as high as in the United States and sometimes higher. Coffe from 60c to $1 per lb.; bread, 20c for a 41b. loaf; beef, 25 to 35¢ a Ib.; soft coal, $11 per ton. Nearly every family has a small patch where they raise potatoes, carrots. fruit and gar- In this village practically no building work is going on. If you want to rent a house you register with the burgomaster and take your turn. There is a co-operative store with about 300 members and growing patronage. It acts to keep down the price of bread and other staples, but one is impressed with the large amount of petty trading and shop keeping and home industry. A pri- vately owned electric plant which sells light at 1le per KWH and power at less facilitates these home indus- tries.’ A day in Heidelberg furnished an- other bit of information as to the changed economic condition of the German people. The enrollment at the great university is caly one-third of 1913. Another angle of the picture is pre- sented at Erbach in this district where the hereditary count tho deprived of his title by the 1918 revolution still occupies the family palace and draws rents and dividends from lands and industrial enterprises to the tune of 2.000,000 marks ($500,000) yearly. He, like Stinnes, Thyssen, and the indus- trial overlords, does not need to worry about the price of bread, blutwurst and beer. Executive iat for Carlo Tresca is Requested by Bureau (By Federated Press.) NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Application for executive clemency for Carlo Tres- ca, serving sentence’of one year and a day at Atlanta penitentiary for the publishing of a two-line birth control book adyertisement in his paper II Martello, has been forwarded to U, §. attorney general by the American Civil Liberties Union, acting for Tres- ca, The union asks for clemency on the ground that sentence is dispropor- tionate to the offense, It is the first prison sentence imposed in the United States under statute penalizing birth control giteateme We could prove that we had ww HE DAILY WORKER when the young slogan and demands trial conflict, By JOHN WILLIAI WILLIAMSON. a ee: Young Workers League participated in the campaign to launch our first English Communist Daily and today it feels proud of the fact that during the past year we have been able to keep our Communist Daily in the field continually as the fighting expression of the working class in its many and varied striggles. Today when we are facing a national crisis, when unemployment is growing each month, workers are being pitted against the adults in the vicious circle of wage cuts, and replacement of the adult and more experienced workers by young workers for less pay, it is the DAILY WORKER which raises the of the Young Workers League who are always active in every indus- During the past year when the League has been advancing forward on the field of eco- nomic struggle, the DAILY WORKER has been an invaluable asset in each of the many cam- | paign conducted by the League. Today, when we are approaching new perialist wars which will result in the young workers being called upon to. sacrifice their lives on the battlefield for American plutocracy | it will be the DAILY WORKER which will serve as a daily medium of advice and leadership to that the youth spending four, ment. ment, im- our Communist movement of America. GRUELLING WORK The Communist Press and the Young Workers every worker, young and old, against the fur- ther’ ventures of American imperialism. DAILY WORKER must be the standard around which we rally day after day in against the capitalist state and its hirelings. While the official organ of the League, The Young Worker, Communist, nevertheless we must not forget The our attack is important for every young movement is only a section of After five or six years in the youth movement we must enter completely the party and there carry on the struggle till final victory crowns our efforts. whether it be of interest to the youth or the adult movement the importance of the DAILY WORKER cannot be overestimated. From another angle the DAILY WORK one of the best means of training the new re- cruits who enter our revolutionary youth move- In our daily paper they receive the news of the entire world labor and Communist move- They receive a wide, a world vision, which is so necessary to world solidarity. With the DAILY WORKER helping and aid- ing the American young workers in their daily battles and serving as an educational and rally- ing point for the young American Communists we must be determined to sacrifice in order to keep our DAILY WORKER in the field. In this struggle of ours, R is DEMOCRACY IN ACTION EXPOSED BY BALLOT CROOK Schooled Rays and Men in “Election Fixing” By SYLVAN A. POLLACK. (Special to The,Dailv Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—A sensation- al revelation of the workings of bour- geois democracy in all its nakedness in the form of an election scandal, has caused quite a stir in this city. gressman Nathar D. Perlman, repub- lican, was re-elected over his demo- eratic opponent, Dr. William I. Sir- ovich, by the wholesale manipulation of votes under the direction of a pro- fessional “election fixer,” George Ros- ken, who confessed before the grand jury that under his direction a sys- tematic steal was carried out. He stated that he was in charge of many men and boys whom he trained to assist him in the work of putting the election of Perlman over, so the official returns. gave the congression- al seat to Perlman by. a. slender ma- jority of 121 votes. . Rosken described his operations as follows: “On election night, November 4, I was tally clerk in the twenty-third election district of the eighth assem- bly district. When the vote for gov- ernor was being polled, my aides were secretly checking up the vote for con- gress, “In this way, before the other mem- bers of the board got to the congress count, I knew that Sirowich was ahead by about 125 votes in our district. “I had received word that the vote separating Dr. Sirovich and Perlman was very close and that if I could keep Sirovich’s lead down to fifty votes, Perlman would be re-elected. “I manipulated the tally sheets so that when the clerk handling the ballots called a vote for Sirovich, I recorded the vote for Perlman. In this way I reduced the Sirovich ma- jority of at least 125 to 45. “My alterations thereupon showed a total vote of 225 for Sirovich and 205 for Perlman, An accurate and honest tally would have given Siro- vich 325 or 330 yotes and Peryman about 140, “If my figures do not jibe it is be- cause here and there | would throw an odd vote to William Karlin, the socialist candidate, who stood no chance anyway. “I had a ring on my finger, specially made, which I HAD BEEN USING TO FAKE VOTES for years. This ring had on the side toward the palm a pencil lead setting. I used this lead to write in about fifteen votes for Perlman on ballots when the vote for congressman had been left blank. “In some cases, where a straight democratic ticket had been cast, in- cluding a vote for Dr. Sirovich, I would add to the ballot markings a vote for one of the other congress candidates. This, of course, would have the effect of voiding the vote for Sirovich.” Rosken here demonstrated with a vencil point concealed in the palm of his hand how he could marx a ballot and escape detection. He went on: “T am not the only one that can do this, I have trained many others in the same trick. I have a school around election time, for this sort of thing and I have been called in as an expert election fixer in hotly con- tested districts in Queens, Bronx and Kings county, as well as in other dis- tricts in Manhattan. Sometime I would bring with me some of my aides whom I had schooled.” Artist of “Masses” Fame Dies. NEW YORK, Jan. 13,.—George Bel- lows, noted artist, whose work used to appear in the old Masses, is dead trom appendicitis. Patronize our advertisane, It has now been disclosed that Con- | CHICAGO MYSTERY GIRL IDENTIFIED AS ST, LOUIS PRINTER'S DAUGHTER ST. LOUIS, Jan. 13.—Chicago's mystery girl, after being identified as Charlotte Maguire. is home again with her invalid mother and her father, who is a printed by trade. The girl has suffered a lapse of memory which lasted over two months during which time she got stranded in Chicago and was held until she was identified by her aunt, Mrs. Anna Griffiths. Mrs. Griffiths read an item in the St. Louis papers stating that Chi- cago’s mystery girl, Charlotte Nor- ris, would broadcast a radio mes- sage in the hope of finding her friends. Mrs. Griffiths immediately started for Chicago where she iden- tified the giri as her neice, Char- lotte Maguir Relatives stated over the tele- phone yesterday that altho her mind is not yet entirely clear, she is over- joyed at. being home again and feel- ing quite alright. GERMANY OPENS TRADE WAR ON FRENCH RIVAL BERLIN, Jan. 13.— A fierce trade war between Germany and France the matter of negotiating trade agreements with allied nations on terms ef equality. On January il, Germany was freed from certain commercial restraints forced on her by the treaty of Ver- sailles. Under the terms of the treaty Germany was obliged to grant one-sid- ed tariff favors to ‘France, while France slapped the maximum tariff on all German importations. Hardly had the clock struck twelve on mid- night of January 11, when Germany planted a wicked tariff wallop on com- mercial France's nose. The tariff war is one now in real earnest. Situation Muddled. The German capitalist politicians have yet found it impossible to form a cabinet. The situation is as hope- lessly muddled as ever | “fhe first four months’ operation of the Dawes’ plan netted the allies 286,- 263,447 gold marks in reparations. Of this sum Great Britain received $5,- 800,000 and France $113,600,000, Charge Governor of Kansas Conspired To Accept Bribe TOPEKA, Kans., Jan. 13.—Governor Jonathan M. Davis and his son, Rus sell, werg charged in information filed today in ‘city court by Tinkham Veale, county attorney for Shawnee county, with “conspiracy and accepting a bribe,” in connection with alleged sales of pardons in Kansas. With Veale going out of office, a change in plans was made at the last moment and the governor was to be arrested while still governor of Kan- sas. ' Report on Wheat Products. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 12.—The department of commerce announces statistics on wheat ground and wheat milling products, by months. The fig- ures for October are revised to include reports received since the preliminary bulletin for at the rate of 5,000 or more barrels of flour annually. . For November 876 companies re- ported 1,012 mills, 21 of whica were idle during the month, And these mills produced approximately 83 per cent of the total wheat flour reported at the biennial census of manufacturers, 1921. The 1,066 mills reporting for October produced 84 per cent of the flour reported ia 1921, \ looms, now that the Berlin govern- | ment is able to act independently in| TOM WALSH OF MONTANA DINES WITH MC LEAN Harding’s “Pal Back at Old Haunts By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, January 13.—E. B. McLean, who last spring was hiding in Florida while his detectives, go-be- tweens to the White House and capi- tol, private secretaries and lawyers | were trying to save him from the| witness chair in the Teapot Dome in- vestigation, has give a New Year re- ception to some hundreds of officials bankers and other important persons in Washington. And who do you suppose was one of his most distinguished guests? None other than. Senator Tom Walsh of Montana, who directed that Teapot Dome inquiry, and who sur. prised everyone by the gentleness of his questions when at last he did get the $100,000 liar before him. McLean had notified the committee, thru hie lawyer, Mitchell Palmer, that he lent Fall the mysterious $100,000 which af- terward was shown to have ben deliv- ered by Doheny to Fall in a satchel. Snappy Stories. A former democratic congressman has written, under a pen name, an en- \lightening review of the Scott divorce case, insofar as the testimony in that case has touched the life lived by congressmen nowadays. “Washington knows about the Boar's Nest,” he says, referring to the gambling house in which Scott is de- clared by Mrs. Scott to have lost big sums of his official ‘salary. “But the men in charge of that particular ‘gamb- ling house have such a political pull | that they are never disturbed. Their principal patrons are leading members of the old guard machine. Uncle Joe Cannpn was czar of the house, the course of legislation was determined by conferences held in the | Boar’s Nest, games being suspended in | order that an ‘understanding’ might be reached. Congressmeh who wanted |to stand well with the machine found jit advantageous to show up at the |Boar's Nest. The road to preferment lay past the gaming table. “Lobbyists with fat bank rolls ‘got acquainted’ with legislators at the Boar’s Nest. Sometimes the lobbyists were obliging enough to be heavy los- ers.” Scott, according to this insider’s statement, began to “slip” soon after the 1920 election, when he had ran as @ moderate progressfve. He intro- duced a bill that would have killed the seamen’s act, so far as the Great Lakes were concerned. He went wrong on other things, too. Labor turned against him in 1922, but he was returned as a machine candidate He was placed on the rules commit- tee. Since 1920 his career has been market by the events testified to in the divorce suit—the trip to Panama, and his alleged smuggling of a trunkload of liquor into Washington. Scott de nies that he smuggled, or that he lost thousands at cards in a week, or that Rep. Royal Johnson of South Dakota has the Scott furniture because of e gambling debt. Everybody's talking about it. When | Page Three MAYOR HYLAN'S TUNNEL JOB IS HALTED BY MEN Union Sand | Hogs De- mand Safety Devices By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Not a union sand hog can Mayor Hylan get for his proposed tun- nel under the Narrows from Brooklyn to Staten Island until the working hours for high air pressure men are reduced. Auctioning of the tunnel con- tract has stopped until the mayor gets an agreement with the Compressed Air Workers’ Union, Tired of Committing Suicide. “We are tired of committing sui- cide,” said an old sand hog in the union’s office at 229 East 84th street. “Look at Mike there, crippled for life, paralyzed from the hips down. He got the ‘bends’ once too often.” The “bends” follow long hours un- der high air pressure. The worker may pass out thru the air locks feel- ing pretty fit and two hours after double up and collapse on the street jand be laid up for a week to two months. After several attacks of the “bends” he is thru for life. Hun- dreds of “bends” attacks have occur- red on the great vehicular tunned pro- ject from Canal street, Manhattan to Jersey City, with about two hundred more or less permanently disabled and 10 killed. The union agrees that high air pressure is unavoidable; that a pound of air is necessary for every two pounds of water pressure. But the union demands that working hours |per day be reduced in porportion to \the air pressure hazard—the hours to range from 8 at comparitvely low pressure to one at 50 pounds, Union Demands Safeguarded Workers. The new demands which must be met by whatever contractor gets the Brooklyn-Staten Island contrat, make drastic changes for the better over the hour schedules prevailing on the Booth & Flinn job from Manhattan to Jersey City. The 6 hour day is to be- gin at 18 pounds, instead of 21; the 4 hour day at 26 pounds instead of 30; 3 hours from 33 to 38 pounds; 2 from 388 to 43; 1% hours from 43 to 48 and 1 hour per day at 48 to 50 pounds. Due rest periods are to be given. Proof that contractors can success- *|fully operate under this schedule is shown by the success of the O’Rouke company on the Brooklyn Rapid Tran- sit power house on the East river. The Compressed Air Workers’ Un- ion seeks to have these provisions binding on all future operations, thru the passage of the Steinberg bill, now before the New York legislature. Joseph McPartlan, secretary of the Compressed Air Workers’ Union gave |the Federated’ Press a total of sand hog casualties on the Booth & Flinn Manhattan-Jersey job. Nine hundred and thirty were injured, according to \union figures, reckoned on the basis {of men seeking compensation, the pub- lic service commission admitting 580. Ten were killed and 200 more or less |permanently disabled. Two Men Injured Daily. “Ten men are injured daily on this |job,” said McPartlan in his little of- fice, “That’s a big human price to pay for his big engineering project. |The trouble is that the price is un- necessarily big. Most of the injuries ‘are due to the cruelly long hours at the unnatural conditions. “The sand hog doesn’t make a for- tune. He works only part time; gets seven, eight and eight and a half dol- }lars a day, with certain serious injury jawaiting him sooner or later. His working lite is far shorter than in other occupations and insurance com- panies either reject him entirely or \charge him four times the rate of other high rate risks.” Fire Destroys Hospital. TOKYO, Jan. 13.—Fire today de stroyed St. Luke’s hospital, the oldest and largest foreign hospital in Japan. A check up indicated that all of the 150 patients had been saved. Snow Buries Jap Train. TOKYO, Jan. 13.—A large force of coolies are engaged in digging out the passengers of a train buried by snow during a heavy blizzard that has been raging in northeastern Japan, reports reaching here late today said. KU KLUX KLAN OUSTED FROM STATE OF KANSAS BY THE SUPREME COURT TOPEKA Kansas, Jan. 13.—The ku kiux klan was ousted from the state of Kansas today by the state supreme court. The court issued the ouster in its ruling on the state suit to drive the klan out of Kansas brought three years ago by Attorney General R. J. Hop- The decision was based on the point that purchase of lodge paraphers and supplies without a charter Is illegal in Kansa: The ruling means that scores of lodges which have been doing business in the state without a charter will be compelled to cease until they obtain state sanction, . — i ianatisiaraianittl