The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1925, Page 2

ih i i GMs im getting BROKE FARMERS’ RULES FOR RIC t than a fire and brimstone magician Coolidge Refuses to An- swer Tax Questions WASHINGTON, May 7.—Five ques- tions have been asked of President Coolidge by the Farmers’ National Council, since the White House spokesman has asked for a summer of silence on governmental matters. They aro: “Does your plan of tax ‘reduction’ include reduction of the internal re- venue tax nearly $600,000,000 of which are paid by the workers and poor farmers, who now pay infinitely ROHIBITION was a blessing al- more taxes in proportion to their abili- ty to pay than your secretary of the treasury or any other extremely wealthy person? The Bankrupt Farmer “Do you think Secretary Mellon, Senator Butler, Judge Gary and Wm Wood of the woolen trust are entitled to the benefits of the present tariff on products in which they are interested, until they lay their costs of production on the tariff commission’s table, as the farmers have done and are ready to do? “Why doesn’t the federal trade com- mission start its investigation of open price associations and of the power trust as ordered by the senate? “How many hundreds of thousands more farmers do you hold should be bankrupted off their farms, before the agricultural situation attains the dignity of a ‘vital issue’? Cal Maintains Silence “Since the government’s approval |the thought that the development of was necessary to the entering of the packers’ consent decree, how long will respect for courts and government continue if this decree is suspended, without at least appeal to the highest }human body carried court in the land?” Coolidge’s only response thus fer is | make merry, to deny that he has legal authority to | treasury of the salvation army. All interfere in the packers’ trust case. Baltimore May Ist Rally Protests Sentence of Crouch and Trumibull BALTIMORB, M. D., May 7.—At our May Day celebration the best attend- | General Sargent ed mass meeting yet held here, we|since July 1, 1924, the bureau of in- did not forget the two privates, Crouch | vestigation of the department of and Trumbull convicted for their mously adopted declaring that we, in principles. Resolutions were unani- mass meeting assembled voice our severest protest against the high-hand- ed, savage and unjustifiable court- martial that condemned privates Crouch and Trumbull to inhuman sen- tences that amount to a living death in a military prison—demand the im- mediate release of the aforesaid sol- diers and the punishment of the offi- cers responsible for their imprison- ment, More Delay In Teapot Case. WASHINGTON, May 17.—Govern- ment oil counsel seeking new con- splracy indictments against the prin- cipals in the naval oil reserve scandal today decided to postpone present- ment of their case until the additional grand jury meets here Monday. Previously they had planned to go ahead before the special grand jury. The last minute decision to alter the procedure was reached to prevent de- fendants filing demurrers claiming that the regular grand jury was pre- vented from sitting in the case, Russia Gives Whaling Concession SEATTLE, Wash., May 7.—Soviet Russia has granted the Vega Whaling company a fifteen year concession to operate inthe Bering Sea, off the coast AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAMERTY. (Continued from page 1.) for Evangeline. The salvation army fs of greater value to the capitalists who can turn a chunk of clay into a democrat or republican politician. Among the blessings that war brought to this country is prohibition, said Miss Booth. No doubt the prohibi- tion agents will agree. Prohibition is now among the leading indus- tries of the land. In the same paper that carried Miss Booth’s propaganda, was the story of a station-full of po- licemen who are charged with receiv- ng money for protecting a rumseller from the attentions of prohibition gents who might have charged more | for protection than the police, ss @ right to some. We would not be surprised to learn that there is enough money running loose as a result of its operation to finance the salvation army and the anti-saloon league. The other two blessings that flowed from he war, according to Evangeline, are: dded membership in the salvation my and increased interest in re- ion and welfare work. This means nore money to the professional God peddlers, Let us have more and bet- er wars! If any deluded christian was under the impression that fol- lowers of Jesus were enemies of war, hey should read the history of sthe christian religion. It is no accident that a piece of biscuit and a glass of red eye are turned into the “body and blood of Christ” at catholic services. see 'VANGELINE BOOTH, and her army of panhandlers may beat the tom-toms for another war, happy in poison gas will make the next more horrible than the last. The manufac- turers of wooden legs, glass eyes and other substitutes for parts of the away by shells, or carved up by bayonets will also and contribute to the the churches without exception are willing to put out any kind of poison that will help the capitalists keep the workers doped and patriotic. It pays. Seab Companies Conceal Assets. WASHINGTON, May 7.—Attorney announced today justice at Chicago has recovered con- cealed assets totalling $211,700 in eleven bankruptcies cases. Sargent said the principal cases in- volved were in the Clark Jewelry {t does \ company, the Champion Too! company | ©O=Stitut and the Porter Spark Plug company. Pian New Rall Merger Possibilities of a merger of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail- road with the Southern Pacific system “after the annual meeting of the man- agement of the Southern Pacific June ist” were divulged here today by J. E. Gorman, president of the Rock Island lines. Gorman’s statement was made after a meeting of the Rock Island stockholders at which retiring direct- ors were re-elected for another year. Whitney Dodging Taxes. LONDON, May 7.—Harry Payne Whitney, New York banker, today ap- pealed to the house of lords over a recent tax levy against him, protest- ing that it was assessed against stock holdings in England. He claimed Bngland had no right to tax @ non- resident. 2,500 Chickens Burn te Death TAYLORSVILLE, M™., May 7. — Twenty-five hundred spring chickens, owned by Andrew Parks, poultry fan- CZECH EDITOR Was Arrested on Charge of Labor Union ‘Fink’ The Labor Defense Council, na- tional headquarters in Chicago, {s Just in receipt of certain legal documents pertaining to the deportation case of Emmanuel Vaftauer, editor of the Obrana, a Czech Communist newspa- per, which reveals the manner in which the immigration act of May, 1924 works. Vajtauer was arrested for a depor- tation hearing in Chicago on April 4, 1924 as a result of an “anonymous complaint” from a so-called “union man,” to the effect that Editor Vaj- tauer was “inciting the people against the government and convincing them that their only hope was in the Com- munist Workers Party of America.” In August, 1924 he was ordered de- ported, and in February, 1925 sent to Hillis Island. The case was appealed and in April, 1925 the writ was dis- missed by Judge Hand who remanded Vajtauer for deportation. However, deportation has been stayed and a few days ago Vajtauer was released from Ellis Island on $2,000 bail. Refused to Answer. Thruout the hearings of the case be- fore Judge Hand of the United States district court of New York, Vajtauer availed himself of the constitutional provision that allows a defendant not to answer questions that might in- criminate him, Vajtauer’s hearings began before May, 1924, when the act was passed. The prosecution, United States attorney for the commissioner of immigration, introduces section 23 of the above act, which says in part: “In any deportation proceeding against any alien the burden of proof shall be upon such alien to show that he en- tered the United States lawfully.” The prosecution completely fell down in proving its case against Vaj- tauer. The judge admitted that. But at the same time he was forced to take cognizance of section 23 of the immigration act. Judge Hand said, “A refusal to furnish evidence for what ever reason and a reliance solely on the defendant’s passport does not meet the burden of proof or require the government to go further.” Continuing the Fight. In vther words section 23 is de- signed to give the prosecution in de- portation cases full leeway and while prohibit the use of the ‘41 provision that allows re- fusal to answer incriminating ques- tions, it nevertheless makes it dang- erous for the defendant to avail him- self of it and at the same time take upon himself the complete burden of proof. The Labor Defense Council is con- tinuing the fight against Vajtauer’s deportation. The case, which is the usual deportation frame-up of the United States department of labor will be carried to the limit. Any one wishing to. contribute to the legal fund for the carrying on of this and many other cases can send donations to The Labor Defense Council, 19 South Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill. Klan Main Issue in Primary Poll of Indiana Mayors (si jal to The Daily Worker.) GARY, Ind., May 7.—The ku klux klan candidate for mayor on the re- publican ticket, Floyd Williams, won the nomination in the primaries here with a plurality of 3,000 votes, Klan of Kamchatka, B. R. Anderson and|cier, were destroyed by fire of un-|candidates were overwhelmingly de- company, northern Pacific agents for | known origin which swept thru their |feated in South Bend, however. - the corporation announce. (Continued from page 1.) capitalist press: “Thinly Clad and Shivering.” “The men drove thru the city in trucks, closely followed by officers and state police, arriving at the mine a few minutes later. The union men parked themselves along the highway near the entrance to the mine.-Many of them, thinly clad, shivering with cold as they stood the long and futile vigil. There was no disorder, and no eflort was made to molest the men going to work. “It was reported that the outfit would march down thru the resident!. al and business section. All of the city police, augmented by special of- ficers were about to be ordered to go ‘to the city Limits to turn the men back, when scouts reported they would come thru in trucks. Tear Gas and Lawyers. “No chances are being taken, The county deputies sleep each night in a room in the court house, while the day police aro*required to report at 8 a. m,, during tho favorite hours for marching. “Officers on duty in the early morn- ing hours and the special depnties are all heavily armed with rifles and small machine guns. Tear gas bombs are also provided for each man to use in ease of emergency. Prosecuting Attorney M. V. Ogden was out early this morning.” Ho hed the day be- two strik- Labor Fakers Try Prayer in Strike pens early today. Municipal primary elections were held in all sections of Indiana. The klan was the principal issue, and klan and anti-klan nominees won about the same number of victories. In Indianapolis, John L. Duvall, in- ers fined and put under bond for call-| dorsed by the klan, won the republi- of the samples of West Virginia’s|ing a scab by name. Forbade to Honor Dead Fellow Workers, Meanwhile, in the Panhandle regi- on, where the meniorial meeting for the 118 miners blown to pieces in the Benwood mine one year, was on, the union officials cravenly surrendered when the authorities forbid the min- ers to parade in commemoration of their dead brothers. And in the face chidren, the sub-district officials issue « circular saying: “We have the same patriotism as likewise. Any man doing otherwise proper action may be taken.” Scab Paper and Ex-Soolallet. on scab paper. The president and Wm. Roy and Frank Ledvinka, re- spectively, are ex-socialist party mem- bers. ef Governor Turns Out Against Strike. dynamiting of nonuniou mines re- ported last night, tensity increased in the northera West Virginia coal flelds today, can nomination for mayor by a plural- ity of 6,000. Soviet Envoy to Japan Says U. S. Recognition Near (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, Japan, May 17.—Victor of wholesale eviction’ of women and | Kopp, first Soviet Russian ambassador to Japan, declared his belief that the recognition of Russia by Japan would influence the attitude of the United we had during the war. The organiza-| States toward Russia. Opinion gener tion expects you to be peaceful and | “lly in Russia was that the change o} law abiding. See that everyone does | American secretaries of state was « factor in American recognition, Kopp should be reported immediately so | said. M. Kopp sald that the next move toward Soviet recognition is up to The circular is, incidentally, printed | Washington, as Soviet Russia has stated her position, which remains un- vice president who sign the circular, | Changed. Mellon Rebuked by Governor. BALTIMORD, Md, May 7—Gov. Ritchie, of Maryland, today refused to- comply with a request of Secretary of FAIRMONT, W. Va., May 7.—-With|the Treasury Mellon that. Maryland Gov. Howard M, Gore here on a visit |assign a number of free automobile avowedly to keep in closer touch with | licenses and operators’ permits for the mine strike situation and a new|use of federal prohibition agents, | Ritchie informed Mellon that auto- mobiles of dry agents would be sub- ject to the same requirements as cars of other government officials, ' MMUNIST. STRIKE AGAINST +HINDEHBURG BAGKED BY WORKERS (Special ti |e Dally Worker) BERLIN, Germany, May 7—The Communist Workers’ Councils have Indorsed the call of the Communist Party of Germany for a 24-hour gen- eral strike on’ Monday, May 12, when Hindenburg Is due to be Inaugurat- ed In Berlin, The Communist Party’s manifesto against the menace of monarchy has stiffened the opposition of the work- ere within the social democratic party to president elect Hinden- burg, Many of the workers will Join In the general strike called by the Communists. The socialist party contest of Hindenburg’a election, on the ground that pressure was exerted on many © workers, forging them to vote for the monarchist, will come up In the election court, composed of five dep- utles, tomorrow, The Communists are continuing thelr demand for amnesty for class war prisoners imprisoned because of activities In Workers’ organiza- tlons, GIRL CONFESSES NEGRO ATTACKER STORY WAS HOAX Virginia Mob Arrests 2 Negroes for “Rape” (Special to The Daily Worker) BRISTOL, Va.; May 7.—A mob of 1,000 persons aided by the entire police force gave up a search for a Negro accused of raping an 11 year old girl when the girl Thelma McCary, confessed she was “joking.” The mob searched several nearby counties, terrorizing Negro quarters, holding up Negroes on the streets and searching them, and setting blood- hounds on the “‘trail” of the Negro. The girl went to a filling station on Sixth St., amd.told several loungers there, that a Negro had attacked her. All the white men in town were called out and began the man hunt. Two Negroes had been arrested charged with the “crime” before the girl con- fessed, Several of those taken into custody were threatened with lynching. The sirl described her attacker minutely. Later, in nfession, the girl said: “No Negro cked me, but I spread the alarm! je I was late for school and was afraid my father would whip me. I tore dress to help make the men believe me.” Comrade Felix Will Speak on Shoe Making Trade in U.S. S.R. NEW YORK, May 7.—An important meeting of comrades of the electrical shoe repairing trade who are inter- ested in sol to Soviet Russia, will be held on May 10, 7:30 p. m. at 5385 East 146th St. Applicants for membership in this new group are welcome. : Comrade Felix will gladly commun- icate additional information. Address him cio Prushin, 2110 Honeywell Ave., Bronx, N. Y. Chicagoan’s Average Life 42 Years, Say Homeopathic Docs Homeopathic doctors in convention here at the Auditorium Hotel, say that the average span of life in Chicago is 42 years, 12 years longer than it was in 1887, when 55 per cent of the deaths were of children under 5 years. A better understanding of sanitation is responsible for the improved condi- tion. Legion Drive Falls NEW ORLEANS, May 7.—The American Legion drive for funds has utterly failed in New Orleans altho sponsored by the Mayor and high so- elety. . It is a noticeable fact that society and the Mayor have not been record- ed as donating, the working man and woman being, the target for the fund solicitors, ‘ Claim Encape from Bandits, MEXICO GITY, May 7.—The three British citizens kidnaped by Mexican indits near Cuautitlan, north of lexico City, Monday, reported their scape to the British consul of Cuau- Uan today,. They were Mrs. J. N. Vesterland, Biizabeth Best and Frank Joughty. : Militariste Busy In Nicaragua MANAGUA, May 7.—-The first Nica- raguan aviation meet is on here. The alliterists are pushing plans for a mail services to be conducted with planes that can easily be converted to war use, ‘ Argentina to Export Gold BUDNOS ATRES, Argentina, May 7. —It is reported that Argentina intends soon to perinit the exportation of gold, The bank of conversion has ac- cumulated $450,000,000 in , it io Peparted. CEI Ss RC Asa So Now The Middle Class Are Spending Too Little By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, “business,” big and little, is letting out an awful howl, because it is claimed the people are taking “too literally,” the advice of “Cautious Cal” Coolidge, to econo- mize. The retailers especially, a large mass of small business profiteers, who have put in their spring and summer stocks on a big scale, lament that the buyers have gone on a striki They are not comforted in the least by the soothing press dispatches coming out of Washirigton, that a misinterpreta- tion has been placed on the utterances of the White House oracle. There is the straw hat business, for Instance, just open- ing up for the summer months. The merchants complain that, “If President Coolidge says he is having his straw hat of 1922 pressed once more, instead of buying a new one, no- body else will buy a new one.” The clothing profiteers com- ep that the president's refusal to buy a new Easter sult ad the same effect on their business. This phenomenon is taking on considerable proportions. Senators and representatives, since congress adjourned, have been back home, and they have heard the kicks of their local business backing. They have not been slow to register the complaints at the White House, while the Wash- ington Rotary Club has been in special session to consider this calamity. The whole drive will now be to preach “economy” In government and not for the individual. As one irate petty bourgeois put it, if the president wants to economize, let him get rid of his yacht, the Mayflower, kept at government expense, costing at least $100,000 per year. They say that would be real “economy.” But there is no danger that Coo- lidge will do that. He needs his yacht for junketing expedi- tions down the Potomac River, when so-called “progressive” congressmen are taken along and beaten into line for the administration's policies, which means, for the interests of the big capitalists. The yacht, Mayflower, is worth much more than $100,000 annually to Wall Street, and if it oan get the government at Washington to spend that amount, it will prevent a drain on its own loose change. one 2@ @ All of this, however, is but another Indication of the bankrupt mind of little business, that tries vainly to solve its harrassing problems. It vainly strives to find a solution for its difficulties under the capitalist system. The little business man never learns, until bankruptcy or some absorbing monopoly, usually the chain store, plunges him into the ranks of the working class. As an exploited wage slave his eyes are forced open, and he is compelled to see. eeee The great masses of consumers in the United States are not buying today, not because Coolidge has urged “eco- nomy” upon them, but because they haven't the money to buy. In New England the workers are economizing because Coolidge’s own campaign manager, the textile multi-million- aire, Butler, has forced wage cuts upon them. They were unable to successfully fight this plundering of their already slender pay envelopes. The terrible scourge of unemployment that has been’ visited upon the coal mining fields of the nation, has not only cut the buying power of hundreds of thousands of these workers, but laid waste whole cities, as coal miners move en masse hunting jobs in other industries. The almost complete closing down of the huge car- shops of the Northwestern Railroad, in Chicago, followed by similar action in ry other cities, is only a symptom of the jobless disease that is creeping over the nation’s whole transportation system. ‘ eoeee¢ With the coming in of the new crops, the prices for agricultural products will again fall to rock bottom as the farmer comes to market to sell. The farmer will again con- sider himself lucky if he can raise enough cash to pay Inter- est on his debts and meet his immediate needs, which do not include the purchase of “new duds” at the city store. * . * * Compare with the wail of the overstocked retailer, the recent propaganda of the officials of the Printers’ Union, that the workers were spending too much, that the install- ment payment plan was helping them go into debt. The labor bureaucracy joins the bourgeoisie in an effort to make conditions bearable under capitalism, in spite of the fact that one yells the workers spend too much, the other too little, * * * . But the fake cure-alls of these apologists for capitalist exploitation and robbery will in time become fully revealed to an increasingly intelligent and class conscious working class. The evils of the profit system will be chalked up against it, where they belong. Capitalism will be crushed under the weight of an intelligent working class opposition. Only the Communists educate the workers to a realization of this lone solution of their problem. STORY OF IRISH FAMINE WILL BE TOLD TONIGHT AT MASS MEETING Trish race in America, The overwhelm | ing majority of them are workers, 1.) is to those particularly that their brothers and sisters in Ireland look for aid, rf Other speakers on the program tonight will be William F. Dunne, T. J. O'Flaherty and Robert Totten, The meeting is arranged by the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Reliet Committee. Slides of Irish scenes, will also be shown, The story of the famine situation in Ireland will be told this evening by John P. McCarthy, who has just re- turned from a visit to the west of Ireland, at a mass meeting in North Side Turner Hall, 827 North Clark St., near Chicago Avenue, McCarthy returned to this country to take up famine relief work after he had made a tour of the most sever- ely affected spots in the famine re- gion. In thousands of homes even the humble potato has not a place on the bill of fare. The standard of living of those poor people is usually low, 80 much so, that even a slight change for the worse even in the best of times makes their condition desper- ate. The Workers International Reliet with headquarters In out a call to its sections in all coun- tries to send aid to the starving workers and peasants of west Ireland. The Russian, German and British workers have sent contributions, Quakes In Philippines MANILA, May 7.—Considerable damage thruout the southern Philip- pines as a result of the epidémic of earthquake shocks which has plagued @ islands the last few days was feared by weather bureau officials here today. Soven shocks have been felt within the last 86 hours. 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