The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1925, Page 2

ayastiastbies syie Page Two ARREST THREE REDS IN FREE SPEECH FIGHT Test Right of Workers Party to Hold Meetings Three members of the Workers (Communist) Party, Thurber Lewis, Karl Reeve, and John Hecker, are to appear for hearing in the Chicagu Ave. police court this morning follow- ing their arrest Saturday night for holding a Communist open air meet- ing on the corner of North Ave. and Orchard St. The policomen who signed the com- plaint, Deviny and Koch, based their charges on an ordinance which was declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court years ago. The ordi- nance, 3703, prohibited speaking on the street corners without a permit, but has been invalid for many years. Flivver Squad Arrives. The Communist speakers will de- mand a jury trial, and the Workers Party will test whether or not the Chicago police force and Mayor Dever are going to continue to break the law oy preventing tho workers of the city from expressing their opinions. D. EB. Early was arrested on the same cor- ner a week ago, and his trial will be conducted next month. The meeting was opened by John Hecker, member of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League. Immediately Deviney and Koch drove up to the speakors platform and demanded that the meeting disband. The Commun- ists refused to close the meeting, and Comrade Hecker concluded his talk, advertising the Workers Party liter- ature and introducing the next speak- er, Thurber Lewis, circulation man- ager of the DAILY WORKER in Chi- cago. As soon as Comrade Hecker stepped off the platform he was bundled into the police car. Patrol! is Called Deviney and Koch, lacking the nerve to stop the meeting, called up a patrol, while Comrade Lewis was talking. Comrade Lewis pointed to the police as the tools of the capit- alist class who are used to beat down workers in strikes when they attempt to organize for a decent stand=rd of living. He showed that it is only workers’ orgonizations which are mol- ested when they attempt to oxercise their conetitutional right of free speech. By this time an enormous crowd had gathered. Comrade Lewis then introduced Karl Reeve who declared that the workers must own the industries and have a police force of their: own working for them and not for the em- ployers. The patrol arrived, and Reeve announced that another meet- ing will be held by the Workers Party on the same corner next Satur- day night. The speakers were then driven in the patrol to the station house. : Bail was set at $100 apiece, and the speakers were released at 11 o'clock. William F. Kruse and Norman Tal- lantire secured the bail money, most of which was raised at the dance held by the German Workers’ Educational Home Society, in which the German branch of the Workers Party took part. As the three Communists speakers were lead away from the meeting the workers who packed the street cheered lustily and criticised the po- JEWISH BAKERS’ UNION VICTOR AFTER BATTLE Employers and Fake Union Lose Out NEW YORK, May 10.—The Jowish bakers in the International Bakery and Confectionery Workers’ Union, affiliated with the American Feder- ation of Labor, won renewal of their agreement in spite of the fulmmation of the employers in their recent cou- vention. The Jewish bakery owners at the time had Samuel Untormeyer, attor- ney, denounce the union but the union proved strongest in the ena. The $75 weekly minimum wage, 7% hour dey, and division of work among all union bakers so that none are uu- employed are retained. A small group of desultory work- ers in what they called the Unitea Bakery Workers attempted to enforce an injunction against the Internw tional and win attention for its 8-hour day, 6 day woek at $55 minimum, Concert and Dance in Brooklyn Lyceum NEW YORK, May 10. The Boro Park English branch of the Workers Party is giving a concert and dance on Saturday evening, May 28, at the Finnish Labor Lyceum, 764—40th St., Brooklyn, An interesting musical pro- gram and classical dancing will fea- ture the concert, The Finnish band will provide the music for the dancing All South Brooklyn comrades are urg- ed to come to the entertainment, | AS WE SEEIT © -:- (Continued from Page 1) right, but we hardly think the 6,000 wage slaves who were laid off by the Chicago and Northwestern railroad a few days ago like it so well. What is sauce for the capitalist gander is poison to the proletarian goose. se 8 HE Queen of England is a stal- wart supporter of a rigid moral code. Quite recently several delight- ful scandals were aired in the London courts. For a while New. York and Chieago were stepping pretty lively to elbow their British “cousins” off the front page. Even such experienced artists as Stillman and Stokes were working overtime to make the grade. You can’t very well run up against a lord or duchess and expect to win the circulation manager's affections. ee y HILE several earls, dukes, duchesses, knights and barons were being turned inside out in the court of domestic relations in London, the king and queen were taking the air along the north coast of Africa. On their return, the queen scanned the list of those entitied to visit the loyal palace. She blue-pencilled the names of those who figured in the scandals. It is a sharp deviation from LAE DAILY,WORKER By T. J. O'Flaherty the days of the Plantaganets when “a King’s bastard was a house's pride.” The British empire was built on the fruits of piracy and no moral scruples were allowed to stand in the way of the fortunes of its reigning heads, But like a reformed roue, the empire is assuming the mask of virtue in its old days. The fact that it is old counts for something. “oe (Bi acgmliies: Evangeline Booth of the salvation army told us a few days ago that war was a good -med- icine for the spiritual nerves of the people. But, the mother and sister of George D. Shaw, shell-shocked war veteran, are not so crazy over the advantages of war. In fact, they claim, the war made young Shaw so crazy that he carved up his father with a German sword, one of the trophies he took back with him, perhaps to show his father that he did his share in defeating the Germans. The Shaw case is not unusual. “Shell shock” has become as favorite an excuse with criminal defense lawyers now- adays as impaired pineal glands. If Evangeline Booth got the dagger of shell-shocked war vet in her gizzard, she might not be so anxious for an- other carnage. LEGAL HORSE PLAY STAGED IN KLUX CASE Rich Kluxer Expected to Buy His Way Out (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 10— A motion to quash the murder indict- ment against D. C. Stephenson, for- mer ku klux klan leader in Indiana, Earl Gentry, and Harl Klinck was filed in criminal court here today by Eph Inman, high priced counsel for the accused, Inman filed the motion after Judge James A. Collins had overruled a pre- vious motion to strike out vital sec- tions of the four counts in the indict- ment returned against Stephenson and his alleged accomplices in con- nection with the death last month of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 28. Miss Oberholtzer took poison after she had been attacked by Stephenson, she charged. Hearing on the motion to quash was set for 9 o’clock next Friday morn- ling, When court convened, Inman re- quested the presence of the prisoners before Judge Collins ruled on the mo- tion to strike out certain parts of the murder indictment. Stephenson, Klinck and Gentry were brought in the court room hand- cuffed to each other. A brief but sharp clash between opposing counsel featured the pro- ceedings. When court was called to order, Inman arose and stated he de- sired to make no oral argument on his motion since the motion was in such form as to speak for itself. Charles E. Cox, engaged by Miss Oberholtzer’s family to prosecute the defendants, jumped to his feet and declared he was “delighted at_ the frankness of defense as there was no merit in the motion.” Further hostilities were abruptly halted by the court who announced the motion was overruled. Inman then filed his motion to quash and both sides agreed to argue it next Friday morning. It was announced that Ira M. Holmes, Indianapolis criminal lawyer- has been engaged as additional de- fense counsel. Mayor’s Candidates Are Non-Commital on School Problems Candidates chosen by Mayor Dever for the new school board refused tc make any declaration of position o: school questions to the city council’: schools, fire and civil service commit tee. When questioned on their atti tude toward the teachers’ councils teachers salary increases, junior high schools, the double platoon and other school administration problems con- fronting the school board they were non-commital. Five of the six candidates, Edward B. Ellicott, John A. English, Charles T. Byrne, Theophilus Schmidt and James Mullenbach appeared before the committee. The aldermen cited numerous instances of the present board's refusal to co-operate with the council on school problems. Invita- tions sent them to appear before the schools committee were flatly ignored. Ellicot, Mayor Dever's choice for president of the board of education, to take Charles M. Moderwell’s place, said he must hear “both sides” of the story before he makes his decision. He promised the city council that “full and exhaustive hearings will be made before any decision is reached on any important problem.” Exhume Baby Farm Victims. NEW YORK, May 10.—Acting on six new complaints by kinsfolk, au- thorities moved to exhume the bodies of some of the 22 infants sald by re- cords to have died in Mrs, Helena A. Geisenvolk’s “Infantorlum” during the last 16 months, er] - Dunne Pays Tribute to James Connolly at Irish Meeting The story of the famine situation in Ireland was told to an interested audi- ence in North Side Turner Hall, last Friday evening, by John P. McCarthy, who, recently arrived from a visit to the famine region. Several prominent members of labor unions were present and they promised to co-operate in raising funds for the relief of the starving workers and peasants of the west of Ireland. William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, paid a tribute to the life of Ireland’s greatest revolu- tionary leader, James Connolly, who was executed by the British for his part in the Easter week revolution. “James Connolly died in vain nine years ago,” declared Dunne, “unless the Irish workers raise the kind of a monument to his memory that is more lasting than bronze or marble, the erection of a workers’ republic, in the land where he laid down his life in the struggle to free his people from British imperialism and the bondage of wage slavery.” Robert Totten, member of the Plumbers’ Union was chairman. A col- lection was taken up for famine re- Hef. Italian King to Free Fascists Who Murdered Matteotti ROME, Italy, May 10.—King Victor Emanuel is expected to declare a gen- eral amnesty in Italy next month, not to free the Communists from the clutches of the fascist terror, but to allow the fascist murderers of the so- cialist deputy, Matteotti, to escape trial. Mussolini has made every ef- fort to surpress the public proof of what is already definitely known, that Mussolini instigated this and many other fascist crimes. At the same time, on the silver jubi- lee of his reign, King Emanuel is ex- pected to indorse the new fascist con- stitution, which will keep the Musso- lini cabinet in permanent power and make parliament a body of representa- tives of manufacturers and business men’s organizations. The Communists will be immediate- ly re-arrested, and the fascist murder- ers allowed to go free, according to Mussolini's plan. United Labor Council of New York to Meet at Stuyvesant Casino NEW YORK, May 10.—The United Labor Council of greater New York rnd vicinity, has secured meeting ‘ooms at the Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave., N. Y. C., where they will meet regularly the second and fourth ‘Tuesdays in each month. The office anad headquarters of the council will, however, remain as at present at Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 East 81st St. N. Y. C., and all communica- ttions should be addressed to Chester W. Bixby, secretary-treasurer to that address. A bureau for speakers, information and publicity has been established and all affiliated unions having news of interest to the Central Labor move- ment and to the independent unions in particular should send same to Pat- rick J, McClellan, organizer, 350 East 8ist St., N. Y. C. or telephone Lenox 0984. Speakers can be secured thru the same bureau. World Powers Tighten Hold, GENEVA, May 10.—The arms con- ference general committee with only the dissenting vote of Turkey, adopt- ed the. resolution of Delegate Bueros of Uruguay which is the basis of the conference's convention. It provides that licenses for traffic in arms will not be issued to individuals, but only to recognized governments, Thus the world powers tighten their hold on the smaller nations and the colonies by restricting their ammunition supply. Talk it up—your shopmate wil) subscribe’ _ TAXI BOSSES IN DRIVE AGAINST DRIVERS! WAGE . : t Union Officials‘Dead to “Leyes? Possibilities (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 10.—Two years ago the taxi drivers of all the Mogul Checker Cabs joined the Brotherhood of Taxi Chauffeurs and demanded a commission of forty per cent in place of the thirty-three and one-third that they were getting in the past. The bosses refused to give the increase or to recognize the union, and the men four thousand ‘stfong went on strike. In five days after the calling of the strike not a single ‘gd! Checker Cab could be seen on thé, streets of this city. On the seventh day of the strike the bosses came together with the men and the iperease*was granted, but there was no-recognition of the union. The men went back to work and four months later the-Brotherhood of Taxi Chauffeurs closed its-bffice and that was the end of that union. Two years have elapsed and’ no serious at- temps have been made’to reorganize these drivers, altho the bosses have started to cut the commission from forty per’cent to thirty-five per cent. Last month circulars were broad- cast in this city calling on the taxi drivers to meet at Beethoven Hall. Many men showed up, but the officials who called the meeting were not to be seen inside or outside the hall. They were not there and there is a lot of speculation as to why the meet- ing was called and as to why the officials did not show themselves to hold the meeting. No meeting was held. % Two drivers of the open shop Yel- low Taxi corporation who were pres- ent at the meeting were fired by that company, they were seen theré by the company spotters and turned in. The sentiment among the drivers now is strong for a union and the men are in a receptive mood and the next thing is for the A. F. L. to do is to send their organizers into the garages and get busy. SOVIET RUSSIA FLAYS ENTENTE FOR TERROR AID (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 10.—Pravda, official organ of the Soviet government, states in an article on the Bulgarian white terror: oe ® The murderous Bulgarian Zankov clique is trying to hush up its blood- bath after the Sofia explosion by shouting over the ‘intervention’ of the Soviet Union in Bulgarian affairs, Al- most the entire bourgeois press is howling against ‘Russian intervention’ although it has absolutely no proof of such intervention, and “although they know that we are opposed to individ- ual terror. 5 We have always pointed out that victory can be achieved only thru a revolutionary mass movement; yet we realize that the Sofia explosion was an act of self-defense on the part of those who literally have to fight for their very lives against the bandits that call themselves a govrenment. It is comprehensible why Zankov is shouting “intervention,” and why he is appealing to all the enemies of the Soviet union. Why does the whole world bourgeoisie shout in chorus with Zankov? Besides the motive of class solidarity, there are important political interests involved, which compel England and Italy to do so. England and Italy supported the Zankov regime in order to prevent an understanding between Stambulinsky and Jugo-Slavia. ince reconciled herself with Zankév because the latter undertook no steps against Jugo-Slavia. The capitalist states have supported the Zankov regime and have continuously intervened in Bul- garian affairs. Rumania has done Police service agaifist the people’s movement, and the'entente allowed Zankov to increase His army in order to suppress the pedple’s movement. The capitalists always intervene in Bulgarian affairs in’'the interests of the counter-revolution. They know that the Soviet Union did not inter- vene; yet they continue to intervene in the interests of the counter-revolu- tion, Cap Makers Biennial Convention Convenes (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, May 10,—The Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ In- ternational Union is holding its 15th biennial convention*and has already declared itself for the 40-hour week, to be obtained in new agreement of July, 1926, if posable, Union work- ers in so-called corporation shops, small manufacturing shops run by partners or with few employes dety- ing all regulation, gre to be expelled from the union if they do not with- draw from such shqps. The union is celebrating its Soviet Rule or Capitalist ule, Most Important Question in World Today By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY, the All-Russian Soviet Congress is in session in Moscow. The delegates, from all sections of the far- flung Soviet Union listen first to the report of Commissar of Health Semashko. They hear, from the lips of the people’s commissar, of the growth of health organizations in the villages. That is good for the Soviet power. It.is not so good for world capitalism. Improving the health conditions in the villages means drawing the peasants closer to the proletarian dictatorship. It means strengthening the struggle for Com- munism. It means confronting world capitalism with an un- conquerable working class power. ~ While Soviet rule is therefore going thru a healthy development; acute and deadly maladies strike at capital- ism on every hand. It is very significant that on the same day that the All- Russian Congress assembles, an Italian senator, Albertini, _ taises his voice against Mussolini in Italy saying, “the present state of resignation and acquiescence of the Italian people was deceiving those who cannot see the fire beneath the ashes,” while another cardinal issues a declaring that, “the present calm is obtained and it isn’t lasting.” The fascist astoral letter y intimidation ictatorship must be weak indeed if these timid elements, that remained silent when the Communists alone stood against Mussolini's reign of terror, can come in- to the open, giving feeble voice to their discontent. The car- dinal says, “The Italian sky is filled with tempestuous clouds,” but they bode ill for world as well as for Italian cap- italism. * * On top of this development in Ital o * comes the sad con- fession from the lips of Morgan’s man in Germany, the Wall Street prodigy, Seymour Parker Gilbert, that Germany will be unable to pay her instaliments under the Dawes plan. Gilbert is the American reparations agent under the Dawes plan and he ought to know. Great Britain Knows, too, and figures only 50 per cent payments in her present budget. The French are getting uneasy and are planning not to carry out their promise to evacuate the Ruhr in August. That would seriously aggravate the relations between French and German capitalisms; a clash in which the workers of both countries might have something to say. The rule of the profiteers in Italy and Germany, so carefully nursed by the international bankers, thus shows itself to be in a very bad way. It is down with those incurable diseases that seal the fate of capitalism everywhere. the road to being out. ° * And being down is on Just as Mussolini is trying to keep jingoism in line as an ally, thru urging a larger army, navy and air fleet, so the American warmakers center their guns on Washington, demanding of congress that it give special attention to the Hawaiian Islands, all Street's outpost in the Pacific. The great naval base, Pearl Harbor, upon which tens of millions of dollars robbed from American labor has been spent, is pictured as possessing no more defensive qualities than a Coney Island shootin; upon this Heligolan Japanese foe. gallery. New wealth must be wasted of American imperialism against its But the workers of the United States and Japan will be heard from when that war is declared. . * All this in one day's developments. Over the Soviet Union the workers an peasants are on the job building in the most constructive era the world has yet se In the capitalist world—now reduced to five-sixths of the earth's land surface—saber rattling is heard on every hand, the ominous forboder of new imperialist wars, a new epoch ruction. The workers of the United States must take their stand on the side of Soviet construction or capitalist destruction. They must choose between Communism and capitalism. The making of that choice is the most important question for all workers and poor farmers in the United States, and thruout the world, today. Carmen Lose to Open Shop i in Cleveland (Continued from page 1). tion” altho a strike then could have won. } The sentiment in union circles is one of disgust with the vote, The in- ternal situation in the union is doubt- ful. Only 12 Cents More a Day the Issue. Shall the company lose $400,000 or $1,000,000 a year in dividends? This is what the difference between a five cent wage increase and a 12 cent wage increase means to the company. To the street car men the one million dollars mean only 12 cents more a day, just ohe extra loaf of bread, Their present wage or about sixty cents an hour, what with short turns which mean only a few hours work per day, has made none of them rich. Old, gray, weary, weak men, who have given 25 years and more to the com- pany, are still on runs, on short shifts trying to earn a few dollars a week to keep going. None of these enjoyed last winter in Florida, One thing must be emphasized. Many of the rank and file we inter- viewed realize the mistake of the leaders last June, when the strike was called off and the courts were resort: ed to for victory, They laugh at the attempt made to win advances for the workers in an arena owned by the enemy and where the enemy lays down all the rules of the game. Dawes Plan Falling Down, Says U. S. Reparation Agent (Continued from page 1) that the reparation payments would “be applied on war debts” is met with ironic smiles by financiers, who, in view of this new generosity of France in setting aside reparations to pay its debts to America and England, are convinced that France sees little hope of getting much real cash out of the plan of Vice-President Dawes, oe @ Mellon’s Assistant Also Alarmed. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10—Gar- rard Winston, under secretary of the treasury, who has been on an “unoffi- cial” trip of investigation to Europe to probe the disq ing rumor that the plan of Vice-President Dawes to get reparations from Germany is doomed to be a discredited failure, has arrived in Washington and at once went into confidential conference with Secretary Mellon. While no announcement is made, private advices say that Winston is very much depressed with the future of the Dawes’ plan, and that he shares the gloomy opinion of Reparation Agent Seymour Parker Gilbert. May Defeat Dawes for President. Political circles are endeavoring to avoid publicity of the new turn of events, as it is a crushing blow if its significance is widely understood, to the political prospect of “Hell and Maria” for president in 1928, 4 4 SAFETY DAY" IN NEW YORK ONLY ANOTHER FAKE Conceals Capitalist Dis- regard of Life (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, May 10.— Ac- cording to an announcement by Super- intendent of Schools Dr. William J. O'Shea safety day in New York will be observed Monday, May 11, and all schools will be closed to allow the school children to participate in the parade, Safety Day, as well as Clean Up Week and Health Week have all de- generated into hollow mockeries. At ‘the same time that the kind-hearted city and school authorities are “wor- rying” so much about the children of this city, thousands of them are run- ning around in the streets, their only playground, because the city is too poor to provide sufficient playgrounds. Hundreds more, who should be attend- ing school, are working as boot- blacks, in’ the busy sections of the city, Madison Square, Union Square and the crowded streets of the Hast Side. There has been a noticeable in- crease in fatal motor accidents in this city despite all the safety days and the warnings issued by the traffic de- partment. Children will continue to be hurt aiid killed on the streets of New York as long as they are forced to play in crowded, narrow streets with automobiles dashing by every minute. Altho there are thousands of young workers employed in the factories and shops in New York who are con- stantly in danger of being injured be- cause’ the bosses do not find it pro- fitable to install safety devices, the superintendent of schools does not find it necessary to conduct a cam- paign to force these factory owners to install these necessary accident preventatives. FREE DETROIT REDS JAILED IN MAY DAY AFFAIR Giving Daily Worker Not Crime Judge Says By EDGAR OWENS. (Spegial to. The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., May 10.—Warrants against Bud Reynolds, Sam Harman, F. Shusterman and EB. Kimdstrand for distribution of the May Day edition of the DAILY WORKER before the Ford River Rouge plant on May 1, was dismissed. Maurice Sugar, attorney for the de- fendants moved to dismiss the war- rant on the grounds that it was de- fective in that it failed to specify what section of the ordinance had been violated by the distribution of the DAILY WORKER. The ordinance itself is practically a duplicate of the Michigan criminal syndicalism act under which the Com- munists who assembled in the Bridge- man convention in 1922 were indicted in Berrien county. The charges against Frank Dazos and H. Dardariam growing out of the May Day distribution of the DAILY WORKER before the Ford Highland Park plant were dismissed when they were brought before the court in Highland Park. Judge Diehl held that the distri- bution of the DAILY WORKER was no more a breach of the law than was the sale of the Free Press or the De- troit Times. All the arrests growing out of the May Day distribution have now been dismissed. PARIS, France, May 10—Premier Painleve, head of tho “democratic” coalition which includes the socialists, announced thet the French army is acting against the native Moroccans for French, British and Spanish im- perialism, The socialists have in- dorsed the French attack. “We are acting in full accord with the British and Spanish governments,” said Pain- leve, From now on, Spanish Morocco's border will be crossed when the French militarists find it desirable. France is fighting against 50,000 well armed native north Africans, with her power in Africa and the Mediterran- ean countries at stake. Reinforcements are being rushed to Fez by the French to attack the Rif- flan tribes, who have already defeated the Spaniards in Spanish Morocco, and have captured French outposts in their drive on Fez. German Commission Quits. ROME.—A large part of the Ger- man commission negotiating an Italian commercial treaty leaves for Berlin, threatening negotiation | * Does your friend subscribe ‘to Hy adtud WsiantiKsy Asie biam | Be anal 4 Gi