The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1925, Page 2

Page Twé IRISH COURTS WRANGLE OVER SOVIETS’ ACTS Leitrim Was Exciting Place for Grabbers (Special to The Daily Worker) DUBLIN, — (By Mall) —It Is one thing to secure a court judgement in your favor in Ireland, but it is an en- tirely different matter to have that decision put Into effect. The average Irish peasant has as much contempt for law as Americans have for prohi- bition. This is particularly true after several years of civil war during which a man’s best counsel was a trusty rifle. One of the most interesting hang- overs from the stormy days of 1922 is the case of James Gralton, now a member of the Workers Party in New York, versus sundry landgrabbers who were compelled to disgorge property they had taken from peasants who could not or would not pay the rent demanded by the landlord. Two of the most popular slogans in Ireland are: “Pay no rent” and: “To hell with the king.” In Belfast the latter gives way to’“To hell with the pope.” Returned To Fight “Jim” Gralton was 4 member of the Irish-American Labor League of New York before the fighting in Ireland proved too great an attraction for him. He returned to his native county of Letrim to carry @ gun against the black and tarfs and square things up with the landgrabbers. Gralton knew that the black and tans were not the only enemies of the Irish workers and peasants. Acting on this knowledge he organized a society named after the Irish revolutionist James Connolly and under his leadership a “Soviet Hall” was built in the district. Soon things began to‘hum. The sequel to those stirring inci- dents took place in Dublin last sum- mer when the landgrabber who was dispossessed by the revolutionary peasants asked the court aid in hav- ing his lands returned to him, The plaintiff testified that Gralton and diver others decided to take his land away from him and that the peasants in the district constituted themselves into a Soviet, which issued decrees and saw that they were carried out. Their Guns Barked. The committee of direct action, which was the police force of the lo- cal Soviet, drove this landgrabber’s cattle off the land and playfully fired shots around his premises in order to convince him that discretion was the better part of valor. Free State of- ficers arrested the cattle drivers and peace reigned for a while. But in October of the same year the com- mittee of direct action resumed activ- ity as the following note will show: “Take notice that you are requested to have the lands of Lismoyle cleared of all stock and crops on or before November 1, and if not it will be cleared for you. You arg also request- ed to surrender said lands to the lands committee, who will have it dis- tributed to those people who are just- ly entitled to it; those people whom you went behind their backs and grabbed this land while they were en- deavoring to secure it for division among the uneconomic holders of the district. They intend no longer to al- low any hound to gobble up their rights and seek to live among them af- ter you came to the district a mendi- cant and built yourself up by grabbing from your neighbors, If you fail to comply promptly with this notice you can prepare for the bullets. Remember Latimer’s land is divided and yours wil, be divided when the devil has you. Your life or the land.—(Signed) Fair Play.” Escaped In His Shirt. The landgrabber tdok no notice of this epistle until 4 bomb sent him out thru the window altogether, but dress- ed only in his shirt. Not relishing the idea of being subjected to such thrills he finally decided to comply with the demands of the peasants’ committee. The victory of the Free State forces put the landgrabbers in good humor again, but in isolated spots the de- crees of the Dublin officials do not count for much. Gralton, during his brief visit to South Letrim carried on revolutionary propaganda and copies of the DAILY WORKER are in great demand, and other revolutionary papers are read with interest there today. elias Rock Pile'for Prisoner, WEST PLAINS, Mo., April 22+ ‘West Plains has never maintained a rock pile as an adjunct of the police department but one was being in- stalled today for the special benefit of James Johnson. James was sen- tenced to the rock pile for sixty days on a wife beating charge. When the court was told no rock pile existed he ordered one built. Ask Wall Street to Give Up Road. MADISOIN, Wis., April 22—A reso- lution asking congresi to empower the government to take over the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, which recently passed into the hands of Wall Street bankers thru bank- ruptey proceedings, was introduced into the legislature here. Wheeler’s Aid Helped Oil Men (Continued from page 1). funds to pay for expenses incurred during the trial. Wheeler Ttakes Stand. Senator Wheeler of Montana took the witness stand in his own defense, Wheeler flatly denied the: charges in the indictment that after election to the senate he illegally received a fee from Gordon Campbell, Montana prospector, to handle government oil permits before the interior depart- ment, “I had nothing whatever to do with Campbell's oil permits and never practiced before the interior,” said Wheeler. Deep silence settled the court room, as Wheeler testified in a quiet leisure- ly voice. The jury strained forward to catch every word, Senator Walsh, Wheeler’s colleague and chief counsel, conducted the examination. Wheeler Denies Everything. Wheeler repudiated the testimony of George B. Hayes, the government’s “surprise” witness. “I never met Hayes in New York, and did not meet him until he came as a witness to the senate committee that investigated the department of justice ‘of which I was a member,” said Wheeler. “Did you ever discuss Campbell’s government oil permits at the interior or with anybody else?” Walsh asked. “No, I never did.” Walsh then returned to questioning regarding Hayes’ testimony. Hayes said he talked with Wheeler between 4 and 7 o'clock on the evening of March 16, 1928, the conference being arranged by telephone by BE. §. Booth, formerly solicitor of the interior de- partment. Was With Colonel House. “I could not have talked with Hayes at the time he said,” Wheeler de- clared. “My wife and I spent all that afternoon shopping preparatory to going to Hurope the next day and were at our hotel only a few minutes. That night we attended a dinner and the opera with Col. E. M. House, Mrs, Borden Harriman and Colonel Stone. After the theater I went to Col. House’s club and he gave me letters of introduction to European officials.” DRY AGENTS IN MELLON DEPARTMENT ARRESTED FOR BOOTLEG TRAFFIC WASHINGTON, April 22.—Con- tinuing their roundup of members of an alleged “alcohol conspiracy ring” government authorities today arrested Thomas: A. Nolan, Pitts- burgh dry agent, when he reported for “work” at the treasury depart- ment. Nolan was the seventh man ar- rested in conection with the opera- tion of a ring charged with selling denatured and grain alcohol to boot- leggers from factories in Washing- ton and Baltimore. ‘Treasury department agents also were prepared to make further ar rests in Baltimore, Annapolis, Phi- ladelphia and Indianapolis. Those afrested and admitted to bail inci¥de: Col. Winfield Jones, Washington newspaperman, his brother, Newfield T. Jones, former assistant prohibition director of Georgia, Morris Caro, Isadore Glas- ser and Simon Kellner of Washing- ton, and Joseph Reiner of Bailti- more, JAIL TERMS TO 48 CINCINNATI BOOTLEG COPS Higher’- Up Politicians Escape Punishment CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 22. — Lieut. Aubery Houston, commanding a relief squad at the fourth district police station and brother of Barney Houston, chief of the Cincinnati fire department, was sentenced to serve eighteen months in the federal peni- tentiary at Atlanta today on the charge of accepting money to protect bootleggers. Houston is the highest ranking of- ficer of the 48 mentbers of the police force who are now being sentenced, one by one, by United States District Judge Smith Hickenlooper. The “higher-ups” who directed the bootleg gangs and the big politicians involved, escaped punishment. Government investigators declared Lieut. Houston had accepted $9,000 in graft money. Houston ‘who pleaded guilty, said this figure was exagger- ated. Judge Hickenlooper told him the amount made no difference. He scored Houston for setting a bad example to his men. Detective Got $17,000. Louis Sunderman, a member of the flying squad of detectives, who also pleaded guilty received the same sentence, It was charged that Sun- derman’s graft amounted to $17,000. Students Threaten Strike When 6 J Riders Are Expelled DEKALB, Ill, April 22—A student strike at DeKalb normal school was threatened today in an effort to force the faculty to reinstate six students, expelled following an automobile par- ty to Dixon. A petition to the dean, signed by 200 students, sets forth that all have bene guilty of the “offense” for which the students were dismissed and re- quests that “each individual be treated impartially.” Three Injured In Oakiand Fire. OAKLAND, Cal. April 22.—Ten blocks in the heart of Oakland were threatened today by fire which de- stroyed the Key Route Garage and drove scores of guests from the near- by Key Route Inn, Three persons were injured, one fireman sustaining serious burns. Los Angeles Goes to Bermuda, HAMILTON, Bermuda, April 22.— The arrival of the navy dirigible Los Angeles from Lakehurst, N. J., early today aroused almost as much inter. st as it did upon its first grip j wi FOUND GUILTY FOR CARRYING. ANTIQUE GUNS Judge Said Lads Might Change Their Minds NEW YORK, April 22.—The three young Communists, members of the Young, Workers League, Comrades Winogradoff, Zalon and Diamond, were found guilty of having “firearms in their possession.” The learned judges declared that “while it appears that the posséssion of these guns on this occasion was for a lawful purpose, still we think the law takes into ac- count the possibility that. on other occasions men might similarly possess guns for lawful purpose and then use them for an unlawful purpose.” This is the most ridiculous decision. Having guns in their possession for theatrical purposes indicates that these same workers “might use them for an unlawful purpose.” Well, the actors at the Metropolitan Opera House, many of whom are foreigners, also use guns in the performances before the wealthy class of New York, but no judge has yet declared that they might be used for an “unlawful purpose.” i Class Decision. The decision rendered by the three august judges of the New York cri- minal court, is a clear class decision. Three young Communists who were to participate in the Paris Commune pageant and who used obsolete rifles that‘had long lost their power to be discharged—as the judges were forced to admit—were convicted of a “crime.” The law requires that no foreigner shall possess a firearm: the court declared that using them for theatrical purposes is “possession.” This decision is only. part of the campaign against the foreign-born workers in this country—particularly if they are radical or revolutionary workers. The three lads did not deny that they were Communists and mem- bers of the Young Workers League. Hence the capitalist court had an op- portunity to deal a double blow at the foreign-born and the Communists. Nevertheless, the judges suspended sentence — otherwise the situation would have been even more ridiculous, The Labor Defense Council, New York Section, who are conductitig the de- fense, have decided to appeal the case. The Communists will give more per- formances and demand the same right to use firearms as the playboys of the rich, The Labor Defense Council is {determined to put the courts of this country again on record as confirming that there is one law for the rich and one law for the workers. Funds will be required for appealing the case. All sympathizers and class- conscious workers should send their contributions to the Labor Defense Council, N. Y. Section, 108 E. 14th St., New York City. Hang 14 Kurd Rebels. LONDON, Eng., April 22.—Fourteen Kurdish rebels have been hanged by the Turkish, authorities, after being condemned by the council of war at Diarbekir, ‘states a Constantinople dispatch. CREW OF JAPANESE STEAMER SAVED JUST BEFORE SHIP SINKS BOSTON, April 22.—A race against tim and death was won when the liner Homeric reached the side of the Japanese steamship Ralfuku Maru and rescued the crew of thirty men just before the big freight liner sank. Wireless stations here picked up » a message going from the Homeric to New York, saying: “Ship sunk, crew taken off.’ The Homeric was one of half a dozen steamships and tugs which raced to the aid of the Japanese steamship, w' wirel opérator broadoas: 8. 0, 8, of “Maru he) In danger like dagger. Hurry quick.” THE DAILY WORKER BESCO STILL INSISTS ON WAGE CUTS Miners Stand True De- spite Starvation (Special to The Daily Worker.) HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, April 22.— Twelve wat miners of District 26 U. M. Wy ef A, locked out by the British Empire} Steel corporation March 13, have not yet returned to their slave pens. ; Roy Wolvity president and McLurg, vice president of Besco, John Lewis, International president, McLeod, Mac- Kay, and Hayes, president, secretary and International, board member, res- pectively, of the Histrict, attended the conferences extending from April 14th to 18th, pres! over by Armstrong, premier of Nova ‘Scotia in Halifax. After four days deliberations the conference journéd without any agreement bi arrived at, The rank and file insists on the 1924 rates. The company insists on a 10 per cent cut @nd concessions on the part of the Men, as far as conditions are concerned., As is always.the case, the increased tariff vf 36 cents on coal coming in from U, 8. A. granted by the Canadian government does not mean a thing to consumers or producers of coal iff Canada. Approximately thirty thousand dol- lars has been sent into the mining sections by workers of Canada, U. S. A., Newfoundland and Russia. Consi- derable goods, books, clothes and bed- ding, etc., has also been sent in. The advantage of independent poli- tical action on the part of the work- ing class is being demonstrated in as much as Steele and Morrison, labor mem! in N. S. parliament are discussii y in the provincial, (‘and Irving in the ent, the strike situ- time as tory and 9f the same constitu- ation, at the ; liberal mem! encies are sil f Jim McLac! -deposed secretary of the district @s éfitor of the miners’ paper, the Mai e Labor Herald, is pointing out Way to a successful finish and it ig th be hoped that or- ganized labor kwend help to ensure a real offensive struggle, as the indica- tions at pres point to a long fight. The company ¢an be put on the defen- sive. If the spectre of starvation is kept a distance from the miners’ fam- ilies and the class issue is kept to the fore, i The premier of Nova Scotia, Arm- strong, (liberal), ‘who advocated the abolition of the upper chamber in 1922 and 1924, states that dangerous doctrines such as the nationalization of mines were being advocated and the necessity of the house of lords is now apparent to guard the sacred con- tracts of the coal company. Carpenters, iron workers and labor- ers are being worked ten hours on government work in this city and are receiving for same, carpenters 40 cents, iron workers, rock drill men and laborers 30 cents per hour. McANDREW'S FAKE TEACHER'S SALARY BOOST POSTPONED The board of education at its reg- ular meeting voted to defer action on the teacher's salary raise recom- mended by Superintendent of Schools McAndrew until a special meeting which the board called to meet next Monday for the purpose. The board, at yesterday's meeting adopted the budget of 66 million dollars to pay for educational ex- penses in 1925. It was recently dis- ol that this budget is heavily the salaries of principals material- ly, In reality reduces the ries of the elementary grade teachers, as for the first few years they will re- ceive less than they are now paid, if McAndrew's plan is approved at Monday’s special mi Standard Oll'to Be Tried Here, On May 8 thé government will ap- pear before Cixeuit Judges Evans, Page and Anderson here, to commence proceedings against the Standard: Oil company and about fifty subsidiaries and allies, charged with monopoly of the patent right’ covering the “crack- ing” process of refining. Thru control of these patents, the department of justice holds, the oil companies control the production of gasoline, Martial Law In Lisbon. LISBON, Portugal, April 22—Mar- tial law and the suspension of the constitutional guarantees will be con- tinued for two weeks, the, chamber of deputies decided, as a result of the revolt of several army regiments, The regiments, which took part.in the rebellion staged by Maj. Camara, will be dissolved, atid the 160 officers ar- rested will be t#led, U, S. Withdr, From Honduras WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22— ‘The landing dethchment of 165 United States, marines“has been withdrawn from Coiba, Hozduras, it is olatmed. Sh Candidate in Fight For Presidency of Germany By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the international bankers in Wall Street tune in on the German election campaign, pick their candidate, bras dare the German working masses to vote for anyone else. Under the Morgan-Dawes plan, the great financiers of America became just as interested in an election in Germany, as the American sugar trust is concerned in Cuban or Hawaiian electoral struggles, or the American fruit tryst in ballot box or revolutionary results in Central America. Ger- many is the fountain source from which reparation pay- ments gush in order that the Versailles allies may pay their debts to these same world bankers. * * * * Wall Street has black-balled von Hindenburg and picked Wilhelm Marx, the coalition candidate of the socialists, catholics and so-called republicans, as its choice, They threaten the German masses with the refusal of new loans if Marx is not elected. Not that von Hindenburg has not camer loyalty to the Morgan-Dawes plan. He has; just ike every other anti-labor element in Germany. But the coalition back of Marx, with its socialist traitors, offers a better center from which to attack the mighty working class ower enlisted under Communist standards. The socialists rayed the revolution when the kaiser fell. They are con- tinuing that betrayal, with Wall Street's applause, under the Dawes plan. oe @ Washington says it has heard —— about Wall Street's declaration on the German elections. It also feigned ignorance originally of the negotiations that resulted in the ‘ormulation of the Dawes plan. But in due time “Cal” Coolidge made it known that the republican administration was heartily in favor of what the Dawes commission ‘had accomplished, and it was voiced in no uncertain terms that the whole power of the United States, even to the use of the army and the navy, could be depended on to see that its enslaving provisions are complied with. So now Secretary of State Kellogg innocently announces that all he knows of the bankers’ backing of Marx is what he has read in the daily newspapers. That is dollar diplomacy wearing its mask of innocence. eee Not that Wall Street objects to goede doh it will back him in the next election, if the ers can held in leash to the monarchist’s political chariot. Wall Street is putting its money on the fascist dictatof, Horthy, in Hungary, and on the fascist dictator, Mussolini, in Italy. It feels that the bloody dictatorships of these two letters of saggy | class blood, are the best bets in these two coun- tries. It feels that they best uphold the pillars of crumbling capitalism in Hungary and Italy. Therefore it supports them. That is why it supports Marx in Germany. . * * J American workers should study carefully the fact that there is one candidate in the German elections toward whom Wall Street casts no flirting glances. That candidate is Ernst Thaelmann, the dockworker from Hamburg, the great Ger- man seaport. This is easily understood when it is known that Thaelmann is the Communist candidate... Thaelmann is the standard bearer of.the war for the destruction of Ger- man capitalism and militarism. But he is more than that. He is also a soldier of the Communist International in a struggle that is part of the world fight against capitalism. haelmann is not only the standard bearer of Commun- ism against Von Hindenburg, against Marx, against the allied anti-labor political parties of Germany, against Ger- man capitalism. He is also the standard bearer of the Ger- man workers’ fight against Wall Street, against American capitalism. American workers can enlist on the Commun- ist side of the German electoral struggle, by enlisting in the Workers (Communist) Party of America, and joining the war against capitalism in this country. Wall Street is anti- Communist in Germany, just as it is anti-Communist in the United States. An increasing Communist strength in the United States will be a growing aid to the Communist struggle of the German workers. The class war is a world war for the extermination of capitalism everywhere. eS padded. since the municipal assembly voted to The salary raise, altho boosting , taxicab regulation over to the Thousands of Cab Drivers Join Union in New York City NEW YORK—(FP)—Wholesale ap- plications to the Teamsters’ and Truck Drivers’ union pour in from taxi drivers of the city. More than a thou- sand have been received by Local 267 police. The Yellow Taxicab Co. is the leading enemy of the organization in New York. There are 37,000 li- censed taxi drivers in New York and more than 20,000 cabs. Railroads Bring Pressure on Cal to Increase Rates WASHINGTON, April 22.—All rail- roads operating west of the Mississip- pi river today united in filing a joint brief with the interstate commerce commission warning it to “proceed with caution” in the investigation of freight rate structure of the country, ordered by congress, The carriers declared they could not stand “any further curtailment in their revenue,” and asked that the freight rates be increased. More Fish, Fewer Jobs. MONTREAL.—The Canadian fishing industry, which in 1900 employed 99,- 269 persons, in 1923 employed 68,969. But in 1923 the market value of the catch was double 1900. Only 80 per cent of this increase in value was accounted for by the ine in Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate ald a EG ac a Ae nn a ber for your branch, and you will make another mem: | “On et Do Not Get Living Wage. ‘WASHINGTON, April 22.—Statis- tics of the department of labor are quoted to prove that the cotton mill hands th this country are not getting a living wage, on the average. Mill wages in Georgia are around $12 to $13, and in Massachusetts $19 to $20 average per week. Get a sub—make another Com- munist! I COOLIDGE PLANS STRICT BAR ON FOREIGN WORKER State, Labor, Treasury Officials ( Confer (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 22—A com plete revision of American immigra- tion rules, with virtual elimination of all immigration statioris along the At- lantic coast in an effort to further re- strict the admission to the United States of foreign-born workers was considered today at a conference of state, labor and treasury officials. The proposals before the conference would virtually wipe out Bilis Island as an immigration station and would erect extraordinary safeguards against the admission of “undesirable” aliens. To Watch Japanese The conference considered plans for the establishment of an immigration inspection service in all American consulates abroad, the assigment of immigration and medical inspectors to all trans-Atlantic liners and the tight- ening up of the vise regulations, par- ticularly in regard to students. It is under this designation that many Jap- anese are admitted to the United States. y The various government agencies Tepresented at the conference were urged to apply “more strictly” all laws relating to admission of aliens as “non-emigrant” visitors. This stricter enforcement would be extended too to aliens claiming the student status, The conference, held in the office of Secretary of Labor Davis, was attended by Davis, and assistant secretaries Henning and White, commissioner general of immigration, Husband, .as- sistant secretary of state, Carr, several state department attaches and Sur geon General Cummings, representing the public health service. Spies on Ocean Liners. One subject discussed at the con- ference related to the feasibility of having immigrant inspectors and med- ical examiners on vessels from for- eign ports to ports in this country conducting examination of aliens aboard the vessels during the voyage. The stricter rules are seen as an effort to bar foreign radicals from this country. War Paint Monopoly ; j to Be Sunday; When the savage Sioux once wan- dered o’er the prairie, and to lift. a scalp was often well inclined, he would never let the squaws get too canary, and insisted that they should not paint their rind. But—Lor' luv us, how things have changed! The poor male today is not only forbidden from painting up for the war dance, but the flappers monopol- ize all the war paint and there’s no role left for the unsuspecting man but to be the victim. If you don't be- lieve us, come to the massacre that is to take place on the occasion of the Springtime dance next Sunday eve- ning, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2783 Hirsch Boulevard. The only caution Paul Simonson, master of ceremonies, sounds, is the warning that there is to be no kick- ing on the shins. DO NOT FORGET to boost the SPRING YOUTH DANCE Auspices Y. W. L.—Local Chicago Saturday, May the 9th 2733 Hirsch Boulevard (Workers Lyceum) That Bundle For May First! Rush your order in. 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