The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1925, Page 2

Page Two KLANSMAN HELD | FOR CRIMINAL ATTACK ON GIRL Doctor Tells Story of Bratal Assault INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 16.—D. ©. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the ku klux klan in Indiana, a well- known Indiana politician, and owner of a large factory, was held for trial in criminal court on charges of crim- inally attacking Miss Madge Ober- holtzer, 28, whose funeral was sched- uled to be held today. Judge James A. Collins today de- nied Stephenson’s motion to quash all charges contained in five indict- ments against Stephenson. No de- finite date was set for the trial, but Judge Collins said the case would probably be reached about May 25. Drugged and Beaten, Dr. John Kingsbury, who attended Miss Oberholtzer after she returned home from the kidnaping and attack, testified at the coroner’s inquest that before her death the girl fold him she had been summoned to Stephen- son’s home. Drinks were being mix- ed, and she was forced to drink. She tried to escape by calling for help on the telephone, but she was beaten and snatched away from the phone. The drink overpowered her, and she could offer no resistance. The girl was then taken on a train to Gary, she told Dr. Kingsbury. Ste- phenson remained in her drawing room and attacked her, she said. When they reached Hammond she was forced to remain at the same ho- tel room with Stephenson, and was again attacked. Poisoned Herself. She secured poison im a drug store, to which Stephenson and his two ac- complices, Earl Gentry and Earl Klenck, accompanied her thinking she wished to purchase cosmetics. When she told the klan kidnapers that she had drunk poison, she was taken back to Indianapolis, suffering tortures, and kept prisoner in a gar- age. Altho Miss Oberholtzer pleaded to be allowed medical attention, she was refused, and was not released for many hours. The three klansmen pleaded not guilty. Responsible for Death. None of the charges against the politician hold him responsible for the girl’s death, but Charles E. Cox, attor- ney retained by Miss Omerholtzer’s parents, has indicated the prosecution will seek to fasten that responsibility on him at the close of the coroner’s inquest. Pathologists, who examined her stomach after death, testified at the inquest that death was due to mer- curial poison, self-administered. How- ever, the contention of the prosecu- tion is that more serious indictments are returnable against Steph nson, al- leging that he refused medical aid to Miss Oberholtzer when he leayned she had swall6wed a slow poison. One of the charges against Stephen. son is kidnaping. Klenck and Gentry are charged with holding the girl a prisoner in the Stephenson garage following her return to Indianapolis. All are at liberty under bond. Every Teacher Taken Care of in Ricca Bill Says Dr. Tildsley NEW YORK, N. Y., April 16.—Dr. John L. Tildsley, district superintend- ent of schools of New York City, is co-operating with the teachers in their struggle to get the Ricco bill which calls for an increase in teachers’ sal- aries signed by Governor Al. Smith. He sent out an appeal to “friends of the public schools” to write or tele- graph to the governor to sign the Ricco salary bill. Tildsley denied Mayor Hylan’'s claim that the bill had been drawn up in the interest of the higher paid teachers. Dr. Tildsley said that the teachers from the kindergarten to the 6B grade would profit by the Ricca salary bill. In speaking of the in- crease in taxes he said it would am- ount to about one mill in the tax rate. Dr. Tildsley said that teachers are now receiving only 79 per cent of the purchasing power of 1914 and the bill would increase this to about 92 per cent. Many teachers, he said, were compelled to take on extra work so that teaching in New York has be- come a part time job. The United Real Estate Owners’ Association of New York is viciously attacking the teachers’ salary bill, and Mayor Hylan has lined up with that element, Hylan is strongly opposed to the bill. Stewart Brown, president of the real estate owners boasted last night that he is sure Governor Smith will veto the bill. 1. C. C, Values Kentucky Road. WASHINGTON, April 16.~—The in- terstate commerce commission today placed a tentative valuation of $4,383,- 474 on the property of the Louisville Bridge and Terminal Rallway com- pany of Kentucky. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communist of you. r GALL STRIKE IN W.VA. | PANHANDLE: BUT DARE NOT DEFY INJUNCTION WHEELING, W. Va., April 16.— A call for a general strike of coal miners in the four Panhandle coun- tles of West Virginia was issued to- day by officers of the Ohio district organization of the United Mine workers, An exception was made in the strike call of the mines of the Windsar Power House Coal com- pany where injunctions are in force. ARBITRATION OF UTICA STRIKE AIDS BLACKLIST Organizer Permits Dis- crimination (Special to The Dally Worker) UTICA, N. Y., April 16—The be- trayal of the mayor's “arbitration committee assisted by Joseph R. White of the United Textile Workers is. now showing up in the discharge and blacklist of active union workers from the textile mills. In spite of this, Organizer White is discouraging a protest strike and playing the game of the mill bosses.in the most brazen manner. ‘ Five active tnion workers have been discharged. The bosses find fault in their work without reason, and in this way try to get rid of them because they are trying to get other workers to join the union. Any ac- tive union man is forbidden from go- ing around the workroom, even during the noon hour. In addition the boss- es are adopting an unbearable atti- tude of provocation, calling the work- ers unprintable names. Those discharged are two spinning fixers, one girl in the spooling, one man in the card room and Tony Gi- glotti, a yarn tender, the most active member of the spinning room union. Tony was going around the room to get the workers to join the union. The superintendent told him to stop asking workers to join the union, but Tony still got the workers to sign up their application cards. So the su- perintendent told one of his straw bosses to fire Tony. That was last Saturday, and the workers in the mill have been very angry and want to go ont‘on strike to force the mill to take Tony Gi- glotti back to work... But yesterday morning Joseph R. White)’ organizer of the U. T. W. of A., who:seems to do just what the bosses want done— told the workers of the Utica Steam and Mohawk Valley Cotton mills that they must not strike to defend: their fellow worker. But the workers are demanding that he be put back on the job—and nobody knows now what will happen. Farm Tractor Kills Two. MATTOON, IIL, April 16—Van Bow- man, 39, and his 3-year-old.son, Law- rence, were crushed to death today when a farm tractor fell over back- ward on them while crossing a small ditch. The child was sitting on his father’s lap and both were pinioned beneath the steering wheel. THE DAILY WAORKER SENATE PASSES “ SMALL'S STATE "COSSACK BILL Provides Force of 750 Strikebreakers (Special to The Dally Worker.) SPRINGFIELD, IIL, April 16.—The senate today passed the Barr state po- lice bill by a vote of 34 to 9, and sent the measure, which passed by virtue of Governor Small’s support, to the house. The bill provides for a state “highway” police force, which is un- der control of Governor Small, as it is made a part of the public works’ department of the state machinery. The Barr bill is even more vicious than the proposed Dunlap cossack ill, as it provides for a force of 750 state police, who are given full power to make arrests, act as sheriffs and are under the command of a single individual. The Dunlap bill provided for a force of 400 state police. The workers have flooded the legis- lature with protests against Small’s ‘ossack bill, because it provides the employers with a large force which may be used to break strikes, Air- planes, radio and modern weapons of war are provided for in the Barr bill, with which to intimidate workers in labor disputes. The bill providing for the reading of the bible in the public schools was favorably reported to the house from the committee. Julius Smiteriin and Supt. McAndrew Clash on Salary Schedule Julius F. Smitenka, chairman of the finance committee of the school board is holding out against Superintendent McAndrew's new salary schedule it was learned yesterday. He won't ap- prove before he knows how the super- intendent proposes ‘to get the money. “There will be no more closed meet ings on the proposal,” he said. The “showdown” on the proposal will come at the next regular meeting of the board which will be held Wednesday afternoon. The clash came when McAndrew refused to consider a suggestion that the lists be approved “in principle” and that their provisions be made in- operative until November 1926. At that time referendum will be called on the question of increased tax rates. The position taken by the Chicago Teachers’ Federation differs’ from that taken by Trustee Smitenka, The teachers do not object to getting a raise, But they do object ‘to an in- crease that leaves the bulk of the teaching staff out in the cold and provides large increases for the arist- ocracy of the teaching staff. They also emphatically denounce any talk of increases in the tax rate before pro- perty controlled by big business inter- ests has been propertly assessed and the revenue due the schools from that property is collected. “Let Him Snore Again.” WASHINGTON, April 16—Street traffic around the home of Secretary of War Weeks, in upper sixteenth street, was diverted today, . because his sleep had been disturbed. LEVIN IS AID OF POLISH TERROR (Continued from page 1) league with the Levin gang, permitted little discussion from either Bramor- ski or his supporters, but gave the Levin-Krzycki crew all the time they wanted—and they wanted it all. So unfair was this that members of the local cried out from all over the hall in protest against the unfairness. Bramorski himself was permitted to speak only once and briefly against his many detractors. Strangely enough, the supposed charge of “passing out leaflets” was completely ignored. Nothing was said about that at all. But Levin and Krzycki and all their gang fulminated at length upon the point that Bramor- ski had took part in the protest demonstrations against the catholic white guard government of Poland for its murders and imprisonment of Polish workers. “Why,” shouted Levin, “Bramorski actually marched in front of the Polish consulate in the demonstration against the Polish government! And he was one of thosé who called the meeting in Schoenhofen Hall against the Polish government! He is a Mos- cow agent and tool of Foster and the Communist Party! Let Foster give him a job!” There was nothing at all about leaflets. “Heads | Win—Tails You Lose,” The reactionary amendment to the motion of the local executive board, provided that - instead of reinstating Bramorski on the job, he should be suspended and disfranchised. But, according to Levin's own words, no matter what the membership or the executive of Local No, 88 would do, he would do as he pleased and oyer- rule any action of the membership which would return Bramorski to the Job, “I'm a czar and I’m going to keep m being a czar!” declared Sam Levin, quite aptly to his program of aiding catholic white guards of Poland in their murderous pogroms against the workers. “What is more, if this local accepts the action of its executive board, I will ignore the local’s ac! tion.” Oh, How Sam Loves Capitalism! He added, “If the local accepts its executive's action, the DAILY WORK. ER the next day will run a big head- line saying that Local 38 is in favor of Communism and against capital ism.” Many of the members of the local after vainly protesting to the reaction- ary chairman against Levin's defense of capitalism and the Polish govern- ment and his attacks on Bramorski, known as a loyal union member, left the hall in disgust. This, of course, was just what Levin wanted them to do, as he and Krzycki and company kept up the talk-talk in hopes of get- ting members opposed to their expul- sion policy disgusted, tired and going home. The Puppydog Chairman. When the vote was taken after mid- night, a show of hands was demanded, but contrary to the rules, the chair- man would not allow the election of a gommittee to count the votes—and arbitrarily declared the motion lost, without even announcing the count. This was quite natural, since he did not count them at all, as they looked too much like the Levin machine had been beaten. So he hastily declared the “suspension” amendment carried. Afterward he was overheard threaten- ing Bramorksi—‘Now, you've got no right to come up to the local meet. ings, and you better not come. For if you do, we will throw you down- stairs.” On With the Fight for Reinstatement. The members of Local 38, who took part in the fight for reinstatement, were vocally active thruout the meet- ing, and are determined * that such high-handed rulings shall not go un- challenged hor the will of the mem bership be defied without rebuke, en ANOTHER UNIQN HAT FACTORY. MOVES 10 NORWALK TO 60 SCAB ORANGE, N.¥., April 16—The dis- pute of the hatters and the F. Beng and company felt’ hat manufactur- ers over an increase in wages has drawn to a close with the company’s decision to move to Norwalk, Conn. to conduct an open shop there. Norwalk, at one time the biggest center for union made hats and un- lon controlled hat manufacturing has now, thru the-treachery of the class collaborating reactionary un- lon officials of the United Hatters of North America ‘been lost to the un- lon workers. ‘This will be only one of a large number of shops that have moved to*\Norwalk to conduct an open shop, * WORKERS PARTY AIDS TEXTILE CONFERENCE Branches to Organize for United Front BOSTON, Mass., April 16.—That the campaign for a united front initiated by the central executive committee of the Workers Party in conjunction with the Trade Union Educational League is at last bearing fruit, can be seen by the fact that a delegate eonferencé from all the various tex- tile unions and from unorganized mills is to be held on April 26 at Lawrence, Massachusetts, to plan ways and means of united action against the wage cuts, In orate hers the party pro- gram of active ership in the strug- gle against the textile barons, the ex- ecuitve committee of District One, under date of Apri] 10, has sent out from Boston to the party branches in the textile town of the district the following call: “To All Branches in Textile Centers: “The district..office has been car- rying on a campaign to organize the textile workers,in,the mills in this district since January 1925. . “Seventy thougand workers in the cotton mills here have had their wages cut from.,ten to twenty per cent. Speeding-up systems have been introduced in nearly all the mills. Thé textile workers are unorganized and have no means of resistance to the bosses. The few unions that exist only divide the workers. “Shop committees must be formed in every mill. United front commit- tees of textile workers must be or- ganized in every mill center. The many little weak and ineffective unions of textile’ workers must be amalgamated into one powerful in- dustrial union. * “The textile workers must be or- ganized to resist ‘the millionaire mill owners. The Communists, members of the Workers Party, must take the lead in this campaign to organize the exploited textile workers. “A textile comference has been called to meet at Ideal Hall, 180 Essex street, Lawrence,‘Mass., Sunday, April 26, at 10:30 a. m.! “Please act at once! Do the fol- lowing things without delay: “1, Call a special meeting of your branch. Don’t wait for the regular meeting. Make this a special order of business! “2. Elect a delegate or two to go to the textile conference in Lawrence. “3. Take up a collection at the meeting to pay railroad fare. “4, Fill out and mail the enclosed credential. “5. The delegate should be a tex- tile worker, “The success of the conference will depend upon your immediate action. This is the most important conference of textile worker# ever held in this district. Delegates will be in Law- rence representing every union and every improtant textile center. Be sure and send a ‘delegate from your city and branch! Our party must be well represented there. “The textile conference will be held Sunday, April 26) at Ideal Hall, 180 ssex street, Lawrence, Mass., at 10:30 a, m. “Call a special meeting! Elect a delegate! Take up a collection to defray his transportation expense! “Yours in comradship, “District Executive Committee, “District No, 1. “John J. Ballam, Dist. Organizer.” T.U.E.L. Meet Wed., April 29, 8 P. M. The regular meeting of the Chicago Trade Union Educational League gen- eral group will be held Wednesday, April 29, at 8 p, m., at North West Hall, corner North and Western Aves, An interesting series of reports on the progress of the militants in the Chicago trade union movement will be given. All militant and progres- sive trade unionists are invited to at- tend this important meeting. o—nneeniipeaiiag Sargent Funeral Saturday. LONDON, April 16—Funeral serv. ices for John S, Stirgent, famous Am. erican painter who died suddenly in London yesterday, will be held Satur. day from Ohapel a 0 th adh AR ha AEDES, AS Si ol BITE LR FR Sore AOE AB A rithc MN AAAs STAR EERE SESE oe NE EN NO OSE MES. ae E LSS IIS ————— PE SE AIRS SS a etic AE in AL A Pe St i Be Sanne m Ex-Prince | pills Beans New York Courtroom, Hopes to Get Land Back By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, a hundred million and more of peasants under the red flag of the Union of Soviet Republics should find in- teresting reading in the reports of the court proceedings now taking place before Supreme Court Justice Davis in New York City The trial seems innocent on the surface. An emigre Rus+ sian “prince,” Felix Youssoupoff, whose family was wealthy in land under the czars, is trying to collect on some paintings he stole, after the Bolshevik revolution, and smuggled out of the country. The pictures, two Rembrandts, are valued by the untitled “prince” at a mlilion dollars, and evidently he needs the money. All czarist * * emigres do. But in an idle moment Youssoupoff was cross-examined by Ex-Governor Nathan B, Miller, the opposing counsel, after this fashion: “Then you expect your estates in Russia to be restored to you?” asked Mr, Miller. “Yes.” “In other words. it’s like the hope you have that you will get back the family castle in France?” “No, I have more hope of getting my Russian land back than | have of getting the castle,” was the reply. * * That was a frank admission. * @ It embodies in a few _words the ambitions behind the attack on Soviet Rule. The frankness of this outburst startled the Chicago Tribune, for instance, into exclaiming: . “That is the trouble with all the white enterprises against the Bolsheviks—with the Kolchak, the Denikin, and other attempts to over- throw Lenin and his regime. They were all supported by men who expected to get back their estates and that is what the peasant. 85 per cent of the Russian people, whose will is the final arbiter in Russia, in all matters which concern them, will not permit.” Instead, the Tribune urges that Youssoupoff should have stuck to the slogans of “democracy,” heralding to the Rus- sian peasantry that the alliance of western capitalism with the outcast “princes” and “dukes” was “a crusade on behalf of liberty and sanity.” This is the policy that the Tribune has followed for the last eight years and it is quite chagrined to think that a “prince of the Russian blood royal” should double-cross it at this late date, even tho the hard-headed Russian peasant had turned his back on the “liberty and sanity” myth, and held to the land given him by Soviet rule. The Tribune’s idea was to lie to the Russian peasantry first and then take the land away from them afterwards, American capitalist shell game, * * Evidentl a good the Tribune will confine its attentions more to the United States in the future, where its efforts will be better appreciated. It will be compelled to return to preaching of the and sanity” of the Landis scheme “‘libe in the building Me and other union-wrecking “open shop” maneuvers. It will have to emphasize some more the “glorious freedo bounded opportunities” facing the mo farmers in their struggle to enrich. diords, bankers and food speculators, The Tribune, for instance, was for the re-election of Coolidge, and it got some satisfaction out of the fact that Coolidge was kept in the White House. It feels that the dope works in the * * United States. * But it it much annoyed that the Russian masses should not succumb to the same allurin; propaganda. In its moment of annoyance it admits that Soviet rule has been successful in its land policies; just as successful as the intervention plots of the rs teg forces of czarism have been failures. It is well t! enjo for at the Russian peasants should know of and the chagrin of the capitalist Chicago Tribune. But, merica’s workers and poor farmers, it should also help shed a new and clearer light upon their own slavery. What's good for the freed Russians ought also to be good for en- slaved Americans. STUDENTS HEAR THURBER LEWIS ON COMMUNISM Ask Questions on Paci- fism and Trotsky Dispute Students of the University of Chi- cago heard a thing or two about Com- munism from a Communist yesterday morning. On invitation of the school, Comrade Thurber Lewis took over a session of Dr. Holt’s class in Huskell Hall. The students were anxious to hear what the professor called “The Communist’s criticism of society.” Comrade Lewis was cordially re- ceived and spent a half hour or so ex- plaining the viewpoint of Communist toward capitalism, reviewing as much as time would permit the fundament- als of Communism, and closing with a resume of the struggle against cap- italism thru the world medium of the Communist International, Shoes Under Communism The rest of the time was given to questions. “Can one be a Communist and a pacifist at the same time?” call- ed forth a statement of the revolution- ary role of the workers’ movement. “How, for example, would a pair of shoes be made under Communism?” Lewis replied, “Much the same way they are made now, by means of large scale industry, but, under Commun- ism the maker of the shoes will have a better opportunity to wear them than he has now.” The students showed an interest in developments in Russia and asked a brief account gf the Trotsky contro- versy. KOBE—Fire broke out in the hold of the Japanese freighter, Tacoma] Maru hi go of aru en tote NR ® R ye Turks Occupy Shendj. CONSTANTINOPLE.—The Turkish regulars have occupied Shendj, end- ing the military operations against the Kurdestan rebels. Two Tools of Imperialism Dine. WASHINGTON, April 16—President and Mrs, Coolidge entertained General Mamado, president-elect of Cuba, at.a state luncheon at the White House. VOICE THESE Down Tools on May Day. Workers Party, N. 0. MAY DAY! N° wage cuts! No open shops! No child labor! The government must feed the working class children! Amaigamate craft unions! Organize shop committees! Releas> the class war prisoners! Protect the foreign-born workers! No discrimination No forced religious training in public schools and imperialist wars! Down with the Dawes Russia! For unity of the world’s unions! Join (Communist) Party! Forward to a workers’ Ore a supply of May Day leaflets now, before it is too late. 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While generals can belong to the ku klux klan, chambers of commerce, rotary clubs, ete., soldiers find things differ- ent when they want to join an organ- ization either to improve their rotten service conditions or in order to save themselves from being slaughtered for the profits of the bosses. Warns Workers of War. To save the comrades arrested in the army and to prevent the further terrorization of all class conscious sol diers by the war lords, all class con- scious workers must fight with the soldiers for the following demands: 1. The right to join political par. ties and to organize branches of these parties in the army and the right to attend political meetings and demon- strations. 2. The right to join trade unions and the right to form and join sol- diers’ unions. The meeting will be held Sunday ~ at the House of Masses at 2 p. m., and Barney Mass, acting. national secre- tary of the Young Workers’ League will be the speaker. Immediately fol- lowing the meeting there will be a bazaar and dance conducted bythe Young Workers’ League and its Ju- nior Section. Jap Freighter Afire. Schurman Leaves Peking. PEKIN, April 16—Joseph Gould Schurman, former American minister to China and now ambassador desig. nate to Berlin, today departed for Ger- many via Washington. Chinese offici- als, members of the diplomatic corps, leaders of the foreign community and the American legation guard and band were at the depot to see the party off, STRIKE TUNNEL JOB AT OZARK, ILLINOIS, “FOR RECOGNITION” (Special to The Daily Worker.) HARRISBURG, Il, April 16.— One hundred men, figuring in the labor dispute at the huge Illinois Central tunnel construction project near Ozark, Ill., went on strike to- day because, accordirlg to labor re- ports here, the Guthrie Contract- ing company, supervising the work, refused to recognize the union. La- bor officials here said the Guthrie company asserted it would not re- cognize the American Federation of Labor. DEMANDS ON Come Out of the Shops and inst the Negro race!, Down with militarism plan! Recognize Soviet and support the Workers and farmers’ government! Bivd., | svoneennennnsssneconnencsensenetssnies