The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1925, Page 3

> fine ‘ COLUMBIA RUSHES TO DENY CHARGE IT TELLS TRUTH Refuse to Condemn Looney Gas NEW YORK, —(FP)— May 6.— Co- lumbfa University appears to be too friendly to the Ethyl Gasoline corpo- ration—which means Standard Oll of New Jersey, General Motors and the Du Ponts—to tell the truth about the tetraethyl lead treated gasoline is- sue. Tho two Columbia University re- search workers have been stricken with Iead poisoning in the course of their investigations of “lconey gas” Columbia University officials are quick to’ deny the announcement made by the research men that the university’s report would brand the new motor fuci as “a menace to pub- Ie health” ‘ Hurries to Detense of Standard Oil. The announcement of the nature of the coming report was made'in good faith by Dr. Haven Emerson in charge of th» work and on3 of his staff, Dr. Frederick B. Flinn, assist- ant professor of chysiology who was one of the two victims of the experi- ments. The university statement in behalf of the corporation was issued thru Dr. Heratio B. Williams, professor of physiology who admited that some lead was found in the excretions of two laboratory workers but charac- terized the reports of actual lead poisoning as imaginative and the re- port of the coming condemnation of ethyl gasoline as untrue. The Victim Has Reason to Think Differently. Flinn, the unfortunate sufferer and the research worker closer to the facts than any of the other workers except his chief, Emerson, regards lead poisoning as an alarming menace and points out that in addition to other dangers it is common for work- ers in lead, to suffer from sterility. The Columbia investigation was made at the request of the Ethyl Gas- oline corporation. Houghton’s Speech Good for the Other Fellow, Plutes Say LONDON, England, May 6. — The business interests of each European country see in the speech of Amer- ican ambassador to England, Hough- ton, urging Europe to produce wealth and pay back her debts; asap ’at the other European countries in the state- ment. The English newspapers declare the speech hits at France and Germany, the German press sees a slap at France and England, France inter- prets the speech as a warning to Germany, and Belgian papers look on Houghton’s utterances as a slap at the other European countries. Stripped of its diplomatic courtesies, BRI TISH CAPITALIST INDUSTRY BANKRUPT; DAWES PLAN ASSISTS Union Congress: workers a living wage. more economical method of producing and using coal. As things stand the miners are being compelled to pay for keeping old, inefficient, and obseles- cent mines in existence which would go out of production if the industry were organized as a national service and the overlapping of managerial and administrative expenses elimin- ated.” see An attack on British railwaymen’s national agreements similar to that led by the Pennsylvania railroad in America in 1921-22 appears to have been begun by the Great. Western. The railway has gone direct to the men instead of negotiating with the three great railway unions. Its alter- natives are (1) suspension of. the guaranteed 8-hour day and 48-hour week, (2) reductions in. all railway wages, or (3) wholesale reduction of force. The joint sectional councils, to which the proposals were made, de- clared they were not empowered to deal with such demands but the gen- eral manager threatened that if they failed to choose one of the proposals the company would act on its own re- sponsibility. He said last year the company had only earned a 3 per cent dividend, being forced to make up the rest of the 7% per cent to stockhold- ers out of surplus and that such a con- dition could not continue. This is a surprise move by the man- agement. The unions had presented demands for a general increase in rail- road wages. The Metal Trades Employers’ fed- eration followed with an attack on British hours and conditions. It pro- poses an increase in the regular week from 47 to 50 and 52% hours and a reduction in overtime rates. The only concession these employers will make to the request of the Amalgamated Metal Trades Union for an increase of; 20 shillings (1 shilling is 24c) a week is a 2 shilling increase in the weekly war bonus. 50 cents to the weekly wage of those’ entitled to the bonus. e The lengthening of the week, the employers say, is necessary to meet foreign competitors who are maintain- ing a working week extending to 60 hours at lower wages. 288 oes The British Trades Union Congress general council has ratified the agree ment reached by the Anglo-Russian trade union conference. It calls for joint efforts to obtain an uncondi- tional conference between the Russian unions and the (Amsterdam) Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions. It also provides for a joint advisory This would add less than } 4, BOSSES IN OPEN SHOP DRIVES (By The Federated Press) LONDON.—Capitalism as applied to the mining industry has broken down, The British coal trade cannot pay its way, facts British labor sees emerging from the joint inquiry undertaken by the miners and their bosses, According to the publicity department of the Trades These are the simple “The plain fact 1s that the industry is not paying and cannot pay its The ultimate solution lies in a more efficient and AS WE SEE IT By T. J. OFLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) ing girl” and the poor workingman become the ruling class will they have any say in determining the price of silk stockings and celluloid collars, *# T is interesting to know that the United States army secures its supply of swords from Germany. It would not be surprising to learn that the German army buys its bayonets from the United States. Should Wall Street have another scrap with the German ruling class,*Johnny Smith from Davenport, Iowa, may be carving the anatomy of Hans von Groll, from Baden-Baden,-with a big knife manu- factured by the Krupp workers in the Ruhr. And it is quite possible the deadly weapon may have been the handiwork of the aforementioned Hans von Groll. Talk about men cut- ting twigs to beat themselves with! ty, eee ‘HO would have thot seven years ago that the proud doughboys of the United States. would carry swords made by the hated “Hun”? The boobery, were booberized by the class conscious babbitry, into the be- lief that no good loyal son of the U. S. A. would ever wrap his teeth around a hot wiener lest his soul be defiled by the flavor of that most delicious 2-o’clock-in-the morning deli- cacy. But the U. S. generals learned, by heresay, that the Germans made sharp swords, and once the war was over there was no reason why the late unpleasantness should be allowed to interfere with the job of slaughter- ing some other enemy in the future. 58 URING the war, British ammuni- tion factories were turning out guns and shells, which paid a hand- some royalty to German investors. he more shells the British used up, the more morfey the Germans who had money invested in English munition factories made. English capitalists had money invested in Krupps. When ‘forty or fifty thousand British “Tom- ‘mies” were mowed down on the west- ‘ern front by Krupp shells, some Brit- Ysh capitalist could throw out his chest and say to himself: “That means a good addition to my bank roll.” Is it any wonder that these “patriots” were not anxious to stop the fight- ing? ee 3 ead has launched a move to in- crease her naval and military THE OD SAGO, VANZETTI JAILED FOR FIVE YEARS, MAY DIE * % . Anniversary Finds the eae * Victims Still Firm (Continued ‘from page 1.) the Bridgewater Hospital where he was being examined and treated while his nervous system was upset from his brooding on the ‘injustice of his case, Scaco is in Dedham jail, while the supreme court of Massachusets ¢on- siders the evidence for the new trial that was denied: by the trial judge, Webster Thayem </ The Murder of Saisedo This case whieh has aroused such indignant agitation in Europe and South America and caused the Amer- ican Federation" of Labor to brand it as a “ghastly miscarriage of justice” is closely interwoven with a sensation- al occurrence that stirred New York City on May 3, fi¥e*years ago. Barly that morning passers on Park Row saw a body crash to the pave- ment from department of justice win- dows 14 stories high. It was Andreas Salsedo, an Italian radical who had been held incommunicado by Palmer’s agents for two months while they gave him the third degree in the ef- fort to get the es of his friends for deportation purposes and if pos- sible to fix responsibility on him for the June, 1919 bomb explosions that subsequent evidence indicates may have been the work of agents provo- cateur. How the Frameup Began Sacco and Vanzetti were close friends of Salsedo. Vanzetti had sought his release in New York be- fore his death and immediately after the two frienda began arousing the Italians of New England to this latest atrocity of the department of justice’s reign of terror. Handbills for a big, mass meeting “in Brockton had been drawn up, when, with a handbill in their possession, they were seized May 5 in Brockton. For two days they were grilled as “reds.” Then, their friends say as an after thought of the authorities, a charge of murdering a paymaster and payroll guard at South Braintree, a nearby shoe town, was sprung. Cogs in the Frameup Machine At the trial in Dedham in 1921 Sac- co and Vanzetti were convicted part- ly on circumstantial evidence, partly on the testimony of eye witnesses and largely on prejudice. Of five oye eappesses, Axing. e at the scene, there were none against Vanzetti, two, Lola Andrews and Louis Pelzer have twice signed affida- vits that they lied under pressure from the prosecutor; a third, Goodridge, has been twice a convict after larceny convictions and had two larceny in- dictments against him, both of which were quashed after his services on the stand. Fourth and fifth, Misses Splaine and council composed of representatives Hoamnton's spesch was 8 waning 19) (>the British aad Russian ualcuke the European countries that they must use the’ money loaned them by Mor- —— gan and company to put their work- Eight Sailors Drown. ers into industry to produce wealth,| LONDON, May 6.—Hight sailors: and that prompt debt payments are|were drowned as a result of the Span- expected before more money will bejish steamer Pepita colliding with the loaned by Wall Street. steamer Navarra, off Gijon Bay. IRISH WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’ RELIEF CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK IW YORK, May 6.—The conference called by the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee took place on Sunday, May 3, and laid the basis and decided on the plans for carrying on a campaign for the relief of the 760,000 workers and peasants who are starving in western Ireland. Joseph Manley, secretary of the provisional committee, opened the con- ference and outlined the situation in Ireland. He showed that the Inter- national Workers’ Relief is endeavor-4————————____________- ing to do the same relief work in Ire- land that it did in Soviet ‘ Russia during the famine of 1921. “There is one diflerence, however, between these two cases. The Soviet gov- ernment sent out information and photographs graphically depicting the situation, while the so-called Irish Free State is suppressing the facts by a conspiracy of silence.” Comrade Manley read some let- ters recently arrived from Ireland, appeals from large numbers of peas- anté who are on the verge of starva- tion, One of the letters showed that some workers were given a few days work at three or four shillings a day. “This was before the elections, and “Flotillas of steam trawlers from Yarmouth, Hull and Grimsby are sweeping the waters while the Irish fishermen stand idly by. Therefore in helping Ireland we are helping the common cause of the working class,” said Conway. Organizes Speakers’ Bureau. The conference was attended by delegates from trade unions, frater- nal] organizations, the Workers (Com- munist) Party and the Young Work- ers League. The chairman, P. J. Mc- Clellan, complained that the hundreds of thousands of Irish in this city did not see fit to send their representa- tives to carry on the work of relief forces and the news is said to have Devlin, shoe company clerical work- caused uneasiness in Washington.| ers, were a good distance away and “Everbody is doing it” is Mussolini’s| there is decided discrepancy in their alibi. Italy plans to have one of the|testimony. Neither were positive at largest air navies in the world. Poi-|the preliminary hearing but both son gas and aviation are considered | cocksure at the trial a year later. Most the two most important war weapons | of the newspap who covered the nowadays. What a fuss the allied/ trial, said, in a poll of the press table, propagandists made. when the Ger-| that they regarded ‘the conviction as mans first used poison gas in France? | unjust, What lying hypocrites our capitalist) in Hand of State Supreme Court moralists are! What happened to the/ Sacco and Vanzetti will be sentenced “war to end war’? to death in the electric chair by Judge ‘ ve Wier bide ‘ Thayer if the supreme court denies i Red fake economic expert WwhO/appeal. The fight in their behalf is writes in the Chicago Tribune| conducted by the Sacco-Vanzetti De- under the name of “Scrutator” does | fense Committee, Box 93, Hanover St. not see much unemployment in his/ Station, Boston, Mass. travels. Walking into an employment Near East Relief agency, he learned that there were jobs going a-bogging. Mechanics were wanted at wages running from 70 cents to $1.60 an hour. Employ- ment office chairs were empty. Once $250,000 in Armenia in a while a young lad would walk in, att» look at the board, and walk out) WASHINGTON, May 6.—Senator again, The idea of paying ten dollars Capper of Kansas, advisor of Presi- to these sharks for a job that may not |@mt Coolidge, is announced as chatr- last twenty-four hours is not very|™#n of the nationaj-agricultural com- Plans to “Spend” tempting. he, 2b CORRESPONDENT comments on Scrytator’s bunk in the following fashion: “Anyone knows the reason that a mechanic will not give $10.00 to a bunch of swindlers. A mechanic would have a better chance of winning his $10.00 as a bet on Kid Murphy's old shell game, that was once so pop- ular on the old lake front, when people took the hoosiers to see the explos- mittee of the Near, Hast relief, which is to spend $250,000,a year on three agricultural schools, for orphans in Soviet Armenia and.in Palestine and Greece. Their program has been made public at the capital, with statements from Henry J. Allen, former governor of Kansas; Dodge, president of the American university at Beirut, and others, e It is clear from their testimony than “industrial court” Allen and Senator Capper have condoned the nationaliza- the politicians that they could buy some votes in this way. Immediate ly after the elections, the men lost their work and are starving today.” Exposed Free State. P. J. McClellan was elected chair- man of the conference, and Pat Mo- ran secretary. Comrade McClellan introduced Sean Conway, who exposed the sham of the Irish Free State gov- ernment, which is nothing but a tool of British imperialism, “That there is a conspiracy of silence is only too true,” he said, All the foreign news coming to the United States comes thru Fleet street, London, and no editor can hold a position in the United States who does not subscribe to thi pro-British propaganda in the United States. In 1847 there was a famine, which impelled the Turks to send two shiploads of grain and gold to Ireland, This aroused the anger ot Victoria, who issued an edict and <_< j t 4 of their starving brothers and sisters. Nevertheless, the conference went to work and outlined the work that must be done in the coming »weeks. A speakers’ bureau was elected; to call on trade unions and fraternal organi- zations. A publicity committee also ‘was elected to furnish the press with the latest news of the Irish situation and of the activities of the local com- mittee. It was decided to hold a tag day on Saturday, June 1, this allowing adequate time to organize the work. An executive committee of twelve was elected, and later met and elected T. J. O'Kelly chairman and J. Gral- ton secretary-treasurer. The conference demonstrated that the American workers are filled with international solidarity, which mani- fests itself when their brothers and sisters are being harassed, The call of the Irish workers and peasants for . misery will not go un- heard active campaign ia pram- im the next few weeks. ion burn up the lake.” That's about the size of it. Capitalist Court for Open Shop Streetcar Company of Cleveland COLUMBUS, O., May 6.—The state supreme court held by inference to- day that closed shop agreements are invalid, The court refused to review the decision in a suit brought by the Cleveland Street Car Men's Union to compel the Street Railway company to arbitrate under a contract made in 1906. _ The court of appeals held this con- tract invalid because it contained a provision for a closed shop. As a re- sult, 3,000 employes will not a 12 cents an hour wage increase. tion of private property in Soviet Ar- menia, where Allen, has been on an inspection tour. 4, “America has done nothing finer in all her history than this constructive work which is going on in Armenia,” says Allen, “Not only is the American farm school creating a new intelli- gence which will add to the product- ivity of these lands, but it is also orphanage children,” Dr. Frank W. Ober of Stamford, tee, explains: creating intelligent farmers out of the | : Conn., secretary of. Capper’s commit- “The 4 4 LILY WORKER (er RR Na ten Ty tne eras MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT EXPOSES TORTURE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS BY ROUMANIAN W HIT E TERROR) (Special to The Daily Worker) BUCHAREST, May 6—IRA—The member of parliament, Dr, J. Pistiner | Presented the following interpellation to the Rumanian parliament protest- ining against torture of political prisoners: | “Mr, President: interior: been maltreated by officials of the Siguranza. I read the statements of some of these prisoners: “1, Andrei Virgi. I was arrested in my home in Tomesvar and was there beaten in the presence of the proprie- tor of the house. I was beaten six times by Commissar Popescu, by the agent Toma and by others, “2. Dr. Julius Gyongiossy, lawyer of Hermannstadt. I was beaten at my arrest by the Siguranza of Arad. “3. Aron Kupermann, In the Sig- uranza at Bucharest an agent attacked and struck me with his fists at my head and in my stimach, On the third day I was led late at night to Mr. Bancjulescu who struck me im- mediately when I entered the door, “4, Luka Laszlo. I was taken to the Siguranza in Kronstadt where I was beaten from 12 to four o'clock by the chief of the Siguranza, the son-in- law of the inspector and an agent with their fists and with pieces of wood. BERRY TRUST SMASHES LIVING STANDARDS IN “OPEN SHOP” TOWN PUYALLUP, Wash., May 6.—The town of Puyallup has changed since Instead of logging and lumber manufacture in the immediate vicini- ty, berry growing, with all the accessory jam factories, box factories and the war. canneries is the principal industry. War Hit Town Hard. The war was the greatest factor in making present conditions here. Out} of it came a disorganized working class. discouraged that they accept the gen- eral rule, “Work and be good.” Many live in Puyallup, but work in Tacoma or the logging camps when they are lucky enough to get work. Linked with the Berry Growers’ Association was one ex-Senator Paul- hamus, who ran for governor on a ku Klux klan plank last fall. He was buried with bourgeois pomp and glory last Sunday. Paulhamus started a class collaboration scheme with the berry growers, the Puyallup and Sum- mer Fruit Growers’ Association, “pro- fit sharing” and marketing the berries. He drew most of the producers into the association. Trust Gobbles Industry. After the war the management broke the association, they lost their canneries—and the Pacific Coast Can- ning company now has the entire business, The results have shown themselves. Outside of some of the trades, such as the building trades, and auto shop work, the whole of Puyallup labor is affected. If you do not have acreage —mortgaged, rented or inherited— where you can make a living, or a job paying enuf to pay for rent, you can’t live, that’s all. Living Standard Lowered. Results—average wages 35 cents an hour, The women’s minimum wage law provides $2.20 per day where piece work is not possible. Speed-up is the rule. Women do most of the work in the canning and jam plants, also picking berries during the season, and they are employed in the box factories. The carpenters are the only ones strong enuf to maintain a union in Puyallup. Living expenses are as high as in the cities. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch. THE VOICE OF LENIN TO BE HEARD IN CHICAGO SUNDAY, MAY 24 Something new and different Is being arranged by the Russian branch of the Workers Party for Sunday, May 24, at the Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St. It will be a Lenin Evening, with Comrade Nicolai Lenin as the chief speaker. This is no joke, rade Lenif will be phonograph record, as well speeches by Comrade Lunachar- sky, Trotsky and others. Comrade Alexander Chramov, na- tlonal organizer of the Russian Sec- tlon W. P., who is touring the Unit- ed States, will bring the records to Chicago. He will also speak on Lenin a ler of the masses. A good musical program is also being prepared. Tell your friends about it. Let them listen to the voice of Lenin Remember the date, Sunday, May 24, at 1902 W. Division St, William F. (Bill) Dun’ and well known r the House of the Masses, IF YOU LIVE IN DETROIT— Here’s the Place to Go Sunday, May 10 editor of the DAILY WORKER rr organized labor, will speak at If you ever have or have not heard him place to go Sunday—that’s May 10. I address the following request to the minister of the Many of those who have been arrested charged with Communism have made statements that they have #+———_—_— At seven o'clock they again maltreat- | ed me for two hours. | “5. Bernard Katz, from Czernowitz. In the night of December 24 I was ex-| amined in Bucharest by Commission- | er Popovici, who instructed an agent | to beat me. In,the night of December | 27 I was beaten on the instruction of} Commissar Popovici by two agents| with rubber sticks over my face andj head; they tore my hair out and kick-} ed my head against the wall in order to force me to sign a statement the contents of which I did not know.! B Later I was led to Commisar Gheorge-| § scu who struck me for two hours with a rubber stick and threw me on the floor. “It 1s clear that this ‘system of ex- amination’ is not only barbarian but also criminal. I therefore have the honor to ask the minister of the in- terior wliat measures he intends to take against the guilty officials and against this whole system.” The rebels here are so scared and Movies Used to Speed Up Diggers at Tunis The role of the motion picture in speeding up production in machine in-| dustry, thru motion analysis, is well known, and the stimulation of rivalry between nationalities, races or depart- ments by the adroit use of the film is also nothing new. It remained for a Franco-American expedition of archae- ologists engaged in studying the ruins of ancient Carthage, to use the movie camera as a means of speeding up the native Berber workmen. So successful has been the expe- riment that Count Byron Khun de Prorok observed that it was a pity that the ancient Carthaginians had no movie cameras, “Had they spurred on the slave laborers with e strip of cel- Jnloid film instead of with the whip.” said the count, “they could have raised structures so enormous that we should not have to dig down for them today.” Another member of the expedition is quoted: “The role of the workmen, of course, is to work. Tho some of them at first showed little aptitude for this part, they have all exhibited for the movie camera a diligence with pick and shovel that has surprised us.” It is reported that when the camera- man appears on the diggings, not only the activity increases amazingly, but also the personnel, most of it unpaid. There is no lack of supers and no need to hire them. Whenever the workers spot the cameraman they send boys to the village to gather in the family and their friends. It would not be at all improbable that the movie man occasionally use an empty camera to stimulate production—until.the work- ers eventually get wise to the true role of the crank box. The count with the funny name may laugh at the poor Berbers who allow themselves to be taken in so easily. It will not be long before some of the movie cameras in Berber hands will be filming the rising of the oppressed peoples of the East. And like the films of the Russian revolution, they will be of tremendous interest and inspiration to the tolling masses of the entire world. It is a good thing for workers to make the acquaintance of the mo- tion picture camera. E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places 62 W. Van Buren 42 W. Harrison 118 S. Clark 167 N. State id Commiseary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton Ct. 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