The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1925, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER ; ~ : a ee FRANCE TELLS THE U, §. TO 60 TO BLAZES haan sath: SRE aE, pg nl a . ae YELLOW DOG PLEDGE PUT ON DETROIT i H atcheson Again In- USE FINGERPRINTS TO BLACKLIST LABOR: PROVEN FORGERY DENIED BY “EXPERTS” WHO WOULD LOSE JOBS By CARL HAESSLER (Federated Press Editor) Fingerprinting, the pet of Henry Ford and Secrétary of Labor Davis, enters a new realm of falsification and oppression with the recently perfected | development of sending fingerprints by wire. From Chicago the convention | in New York of American police ch is to receive the fingerprints of a criminal in the local rogues gallery, sent by telegraph on a plan that will permit the sending broadcast of these telltale marks which differ in every Cotton ‘Prices Go Down As Growers Prepare New Crop for the Profiteers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, (Continued from page 1) crime or misdemeanor known to go0- clety from shooting craps to man- slaughter. This includes rape, seduc- tion and sodomy. In spite of this the klan is not dead. As long as there are morons running around loose there will be smart, businessmen to hand them a pillow case into which their heads can be jammed while the coxemecereinrssemcttne Will y ‘Not a Cent More Than Germany ‘ sults Carpenters Daily Worker) (Special to The DETROIT, Mich., penters of Detroit May 13.—The car-| are beginning to | human being. The scheme is primarily a police with which fingerprints can be fraudulently For Criminals, Soldiers, Aliens and Workers. identification measure. But the ease imposed on objects never iigart thal (Wo. L. Hutoheson’a hg touched by the individual in question and the extension of fingerprinting from celt and arrogance are as boundless |Timinals to all U. S. solldiers in the + as his ignorance and stupidity. After world war and since then to civilian | the representatives of local union meeting with John Potts, the agent o' Hutcheson, had agreed to make shameful and humilating concessions to placate the peevish czar in Indiana- Polis, so that the organization might not suffer further damage and the rank and file suffer further losses, that worthy, with an arrogance that would shame a feudal lord, has de- ‘oreed that each and every member | of the four suspended local unions, | mamely Nos. 19, 2140, 1191 and 420, must sign a pledge that practically puts them at the mercy of the whims of the overlords in Indianapolis. The pledge, which is printed on the stationery of the United Brotherhood | of Carpenters and Joiners of America, | ‘reads as follows: Hutcheson’s Yellow Dog Pledge. | “|, the undersigned, do hereby promise and agree that | will ob- | serve and comply with all the laws, | rules and regulations of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers of America, and that | will In no way affiliate with or give sup- | port, assistance or comfort to the | Trade Union Educational League, or | afty similar or kindred organization. “in subseribing to the above, | do so of my own free will and accord, | and agree that If | should violate | said agréement, or pledge, it is un- derstood that my membership in the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Jalners of America be forfeited without complaint by me. Signature Witness. A motion made to repudiate the ac- | tion of the delegates to the district | council in voting against a one-way | vote proposition submitted by Hutche- Son some weeks ago, to elect new dele- gates, and to instruct the members of Local 19 to sign this pledge individual- ly as the conditions upon which the charter could be regained and retain- ed, occasioned some very bitter dis- 3 | Workers in large plants like the Ford | ¢ | Motor Co. make the wire printing a | matter of concern to all labor men. The propaganda by Secy. of Labor Davis for the registration of aliens, carrying fingerprinting with it, has been energetically fought by labor or- ganizations as the entering wedge for an enormous national blacklist sys- | tem by which unfon men can be i fallibly spotted especially in the im-} portant but poorly organized basic in- dustries where immigrants concen- trate. From alien workers it is only a step to all workers under the pretext of in- dustrial mobilization for the “defense days” which are to become annual af- fairs. From employer blacklists it is jonly a step to political persecution | |via the criminal identification route, particularly when the movement for ja class party gets well under way. | Men obnoxious to the authorities need simply be held while a fake finger- print is flashed over the wire as el- leged evidence to convict them. Faked Fingerprints Possible. Fingerprints can easily be faked. | This has been demonstrated to per-| fection by a former political prisoner, Albert Wehde, who worked in the {ingerprint bureau of the department of justice while confined at Leaven- worth federal penitentiary during the war. In a book entitled “Fingerprints Can Be Forged,” Wehde shows how he baffled the country’s experts by taking a genuine fingerprint of his and transferring it by etching and further processes from the original article to an entirely different one. Thus the police might take a fin- gerprint of a union man from the Z (Continued from page 1) it is the nearest to that country. If cussion in which many members de-] successful agreements are concluded, clared they would never sign such a document. Angry Member Tears up Pledges. Many who supported the mocion in order to get the local functioning again, declared that they would later consider whether or not they would sign the “pledge.” The motion carried by about a 4 to 1 vote. Then the fun began. Potts and a pious old faker by name of Botterill sat at a table garnering in the pledges of the weak-willed and servile members of the local, when a righteously indignant brother jerked the table away from them upsetting its contents, and then proceeded to tear up the pledges and scatter them over the hall Several husky flunkeys came to the assistance of the “general disrupters,” but not before the good work had been accomplished. It seems that each time the local unions comply with the unreasonable conditions set forth by Hutcheson, this present cattleman and former boxmaker and lumberjack conceives of some new infamy with which to humilate the carpenters of Detroit. In this last move he has obviously gone a little bit too far. To bludgeon an organization where the mass mind prevails is one thing. And convincing | |, ,+ they are each individual member that he must forfeit his constitutional and legal rights and crawl before the intel- very probably be another proposition. League Too Deep to Dig Out. Hutcheson’s attack on the Trade Union Educational League and his craven fear of its teachings is quite logical from his faker’s point of view. However, the leaven of the league’s teachings has raised the spirit and intelligence of the carpenters of De- hundreds of millions of dollars worth of commodities will in the future be shipped thru Seattle annually. All commodities purchased in San Francisco, Chicago, New York or Seattle, will be shipped thru this port. Increase In Trade. This will be their initial buy here for the time being, but in the future such commodities purchased in China, Japan or any Far Eastern country will be purchased in the United States, provided that a satisfactory agreement is concluded. Now, a large amount of commodities consisting of dry goods, clothing and household ar- ticles including a large sailing vessel, will be purchased in Seattle for cash. Questioned by the writer about whether they intend to purchase com- modities on credit, Comrade Rasumoy- sky replied, that they are not anxious for credit as they have all the cash they want, but should the American businessmen desire to sell them in the future commodities on credit, they would only accept credit on satisfac- tory terms. Propaganda Talk Silly. Questioned on various phases of the Russian situation, the representa- tive of the Dalgostorg politely declin- ed to talk, explaining to the writer on a business mission and that so much nonsensical talk about propaganda was being published | in the American press therefore, they lectual vacuum at Indianapolis, will | preter to refrain from expressing themselves on such matters. “To what extent would the estab- lishing of commercial relations be- tween Soviet Russia and the United States help the American workers?” asked the writer. sky's face beamed up. “It would help immensely both the American work- ers and Russian workers, It would troit to too high a level ever again) pring about the employment of the un- to be fooled by the stupil lies of the official family. The majority vote of Detroit for the left wing program of Rosen in the last general elections reflected the ad- vanced intelligence of the carpenters here, Since then, Hutcheson and the league (quite unintentionally and unconsciously on the part of Hutche- son) have carried this educational process a long way. The mass learns objectively thru concrete situations. “Concrete” describes Hutcheson’s in- tellectual apparatus. Much Obliged, Hutch! The league in Detroit thanks Hutcheson for his assistance. May we continue to have his co-operation! Plan Jap-U. S./Liquor Treaty. TOKIO, May 13.—Japan is negotiat- ing # liquor treaty with thé United States, it was learned here today at the foreign office. The treaty was de- clared to be similar to existing Mquor treaties already in force between the United States and England and other j employed. We could purchase ma- try and build ap our industries which would provide work for the Russian workers while the commodities and machinery produced in America and sold to us would provide work for the American workers, “Would the recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States facilitate and give impetus to greater commer- cial intercourse?” the interviewer ventured to ask. “The recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States would bring about exchange of a tremendous vol- ume of business between the two countries,” he replied, “The fact that there does not exist any consu- lar service of the two countries in either of ‘them is the greatest hin- drance to such commercial inter- course and the carrying on of trade between the two great countries. The vast area of the Far Wast is immense- ly rich in minerals and natural re- glass top of a desk where he was be-/ ing interviewed in a police station | strands in the growing net around la- and transfer it to the nickel case of | bor. Russian Trade Mission Visits Pacific Coast Comrade Rasumov- chinery and commodities in this coun- CLOSE 80 JAPANESE SCHOOLS IN HAWAII IN FEE LAW PROTEST HONOLULU, May 13.— Eighty Japanese language schools were closed here today, pending the filing of an injunction to ,prevent the school department from enforcing an amendment recently passed by the territorial legislature requiring ~ an annual fee of $1 a pupil. The amendment. also provides for a fine of $25 for failure to comply with the fee provisions. The schools were considered by the school de- partment to have ceased to func- tion, An unusual angle in the case was that the new amendment specifical- ly provided against injunction pro- ceedings. an alarm clock attached to an infernal machine that would be planted in a factory and later “discovered” with the print implicating the innocent worker. “Experts” Afraid Soft Jobs Would Vanish. At the convention of the Illinois State Assn. for Identification in 1923 Wehde was denied the floor to show up the possibility of planting finger prints that could not be detected. He had privately demonstrated the week before to officials of the organization that he could fake prints beyond their power to spot them. Ford and his factory fingerprinting, Davis and his proposed alien printing, the police and their wire system, are need to be built up. For instance, miners working in the Tomote gold mines receive three pounds in gold for an eight-hour day. “The Dalgostorg representatives ex- pect in the future, to export to Amer- ica some of the finest and highest quality of furs from Siberia.” U. S. Needs Russian Markets. Questioned whether Soviet Russia could purchase commodities outside of America without affecting its prog- ress, Comrade Rasumovsky smiling, replied, “Most certainly.” They can ob- tain all commodities elsewhere if nec- essary but that common sense and economic necessity will bring about a trade intercourse between the two countries. After all, the United States needs foreign markets and Soviet Rus- sia is the finest field at present. Sold Pardons for Former Governor, Ex-Convict Says TOPEKA, Kans., May 13.—Today’s session of the trial of former Govern- or Jonathan M. Davis, charged with conspiracy and soliciting a bribe while in office was expected to bring forth a definite ruling on testimony bearing on the Fred Pollman case. Davis has two charges against him. One is known as the Walter Grundy case; the other the Pollman case. The defense has continually claimed that such testimony is irrelevant. Pollman and Glenn Davis, former convicts, have testified. Testimony went into alleged deal- ing between the former governor and Glenn Davis, an ex-convict, and Davis and Pollman. Davis told the jury of a conversation with the former gov- ernor in which, he testified, the gov- ernor suggested that he take $1,260 | down to his farm and give it to his son Russel! Davis in order that a full |pardon might be granted Pollman. | Pollman was a convicted banker of Lacygne, Kansas. Woolsorters’ Union Finds Unemployment and Accuses Bosses LAWRENCE, Ma May 13-—(FP) —The Lawrence Woolsorters’ Protec- tive Union is trying to combat unem- ployment in the wool-sorting busines. A meeting held in Boston attempted to analyze cavses and blamed manu- facturers for “dumping of wool.” The United Textile Workers’ Union 1s assisting the woolsorters and will enlist co-operation of the American Federation of Labor, A lst of manufacturers making poor products will be compiled and submitted to buyers In order to de- ter the practice of substituting poor materials and increasing wool-sorters’ (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, May 18.— Ever since the American reparation commissioner under the Dawes plan, Seymour Park- er Gilbert, reported Jast week that the German nation could not meet the Dawes’ plan reparation payments, the chancellories Of the World capitalist, powers have been im turmoil. Passing the Buck. France, thru Caillaux, finance min- ister, announced that the reparations payments were, in effect, too doubt- ful for France to eount upon in its domestic budget, but that since Amer- ica and England had sponsored the Dawes plan, and since General Dawes had been elected vice-president largely by the advertisement of hav- ing drawn up the plan which is sup- posed to make Germany pay, France would generously turn over. fifty per cent of anything Germany pays to apply on France’s debt to the United States and Britain, ~ At once, the U. §, Ambassador Her- rick, was pressed to/put the screws upon France, and Coolidge issued a statement objecting te France basing her debt payments upon reparation payments. Evidently Mr. Coolidge is not so firmly con¥inced that General Dawes’ plan draws as well as his pipe. H Ambassador Hi applied the up- holstered club by,a press interview in which he @ ed that § whilé France had made)no concrete pro- posal on the fund! of the debt to America, he, Herri¢k, was of course, thoroly convinced” France really wants to pay. He added, as an evi- dence of the awkward position he is being put into, .. hereafter he would not discuss the sttuation with the press, and would leave it to the Washington government to hand out statements. Bs Tells Allies to go to the Devil. Meanwhile, Franée ‘calmly announc- ed yesterday, in Caillaux’s instruc- tions to the French experts on the reparations commission, that it is “impossible for France to pay one penny more than she gets from Ger- many and that the British and Amer- ican creditors may do as they like about it.” is He added that if Germany does pay anything, half gh Ay go toward reconstruction expense of the devast- ated area in France. This leaves the English and Amer- ican governments to suck their thumbs for consolation at the unfund- ed French debt. Atherica has $7,000,- 000,000 in unpaid debts from the vari- aus allied countries on her books, a large part of this due from France and $2,000,000,000 from fascist Italy, which is also worrying Mr. Coolidge. Mussolini has never made a gesture toward even recognizing Italy’s debt. An Unhappy Position. With the past French finance min- ister, Clementel, having declared that the debt to America was “merely po- litical” and Caillaux taking the view- point outlined above, Uncle Sam does not seem to occupy a very happy po- sition. Caillaux even refuses to ne- gotiate with America over the debt “until France's budget is balanced.” This is in the realm of misty possi- bilities, very misty, But if it is not done, the American nation can get ready to pay thru its nose for the world war, and it is certain that the big business interests will shove the burden onto the workers. Twenty Million Dollar Cake Trust ni Alongside Bread Trust NEW YORK, May 18—(FP)—The Continental Baking Corporation may be making a bread trust but Grennan Bakeries Inc, is trrying to make a cake trust. Grennan, already the largest cake concern in the country, is now owner of Purity Bakeries corporation, which adds 85 plants in all important centers to the already numerous bakeries of Grennan. The gross businéss of the two or- ganizations, now one, is estimated at $20,000,000. Purity Bakery plants are in Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri, In- diana, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New Jer- sey, Ilinois, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennes- see and Texas, Quake Felt in IMlinois. CHICAGO, May 18.+ The seismo- graph at the University of Chicago be- gan registering a slight earthquake at 6 a, m., today, The vibrations lasted one minute and five seconds and ac- cording to observers, were so slight that no record of the distance or di- rection of the quake could be deter- mined. ‘ Reports reachii cago this after- noon from vario} ols towns, how- ever, said that alslight quake had been felt thore, 4% Phone Rome to London, LONDON, May 18—Rome and Lon- don are on speaking terms today, The first direct telephy communication between the Ii and British cap- itala was established last night and a conversation of fiye minutes length was held, j : TOpAY: the cotton crop over the South is again growing toward the picking. The new crop is coming in. It is with the same certainty that the seasons roll around that this time of year finds the price of cotton dropping. The new cotton crop, promising to be a very plentiful one, is still in the hands of the cotton grower, who will soon be try- ing to sell; like his brother of the land, the wheat grower of business of going thru their jeans is attended to, ” sf RITISH passengers on a house- boat belonging to the Asiatic Pe- troleum company, were fired upon by a Chinese gunboat on the Whanpoo river, according to news dispatches, The British ware waving the union \ the North. So it is to the interest of the millionaire gamblers on the cotton exchanges to beat down cotton prices. e * * ° Texas alone is this year producing 6,000,000 bales of . cotton on a 10 per cent increased acreage. That news comes simultaneously with the report that cotton closes 20 to 32 points lower on the Chicago Board of Trade; from 22 to 31 points decline in New York City, with net losses of 29 to 37 points in New Orleans. At the same time the New York dry goods market re- orts that the prices of the finished cotton products are Polding steady. This is just another showing how the profit- eers are buying the raw cotton at low prices and selling the finished product at high prices. a * * e The conditions of the cotton growers of the South af- fect the whole nation. Great masses of Negro cotton farm- ers in the South steadily going into bankruptcy, or disgusted with the endless slavery to banker, landlord and cotton buyer, quits the land and drifts North, into the great indus- tries; an unorganized mass ready to compete with the white workers. The same holds true of the white cotton grower of the South; the impoverished renter masses of Oklahoma and Texas especially. Plentiful crops do them no good when the profiteer stands in the cotton exchanges and the boards | predecessor lies between Andy Carne- mi trade beating down prices below even the cost of produc- | gie and William Rockefeller. ion. oe * aya aseh eh REDN also thanked the Calles gov- This year the American cotton grower will also face a G ernment in Mexico for adag a better stocked world market. The Asiatic republics of the | statement against Communism. Cal- Soviet Union, almost fully recovered from the devastating | es is a socialist and is acting true to wars of intervention and civil] struggles, are raising crops type. No doubt the message was from an acreage greater than ever before. Moscow will not | Written by one of the accomodating be buying so heavily in the future, as it has in the past, in |Penmen of Wall Stret. While the the American market. Moscow may soon have cotton to |Mexican government was fighting sell instead of appearing as a purchaser in foreign markets. ee eee fe aie te ge rer British interests have been developing great areas of | bargain between Calles, the soctalist, cotton raising in the upper regions of the Nile—in the Sudan | and Wall Street was clinched during —which “The Empire” insists must remain under a British | the De la Huerta revolt. Calles, the protectorate, and not revert to Egypt. Here cotton is king | socialist, is now eating out of Mor- just as oil rules in the Near East. gan’s hand and Morgan's labor agent, ee @e William Green, will see to it that the These are some of the facts that the cotton grower may hag re east Oe te were math well ponder as he picks his crop this year. Like the wheat |-rhere is a united front for you. grower he faces a world problem. He will gradually come to : realize this, if he does not already understand his dilemma. Realization will make him see the necessity ‘of world organ- ization—the need that brought into existence the Peasants’ International, and that will force him to ally himself with it, and join in a well organized and revolutionary struggle against his oppressors. The cotton grower and the wheat farmer, facing low ices for their products, and the city worker and his family, ‘aced with high prices for foood and clothing, going hungr: and wearing cheap clothing, bodes ill for American capital- ism. Its profit hunger drives it to its doom. jack and singing “God save the king.” This was more than the peaceful Chi- nese could stand. They have seen some pretty sick looking specimens of the king species in the Orient but they could not understand how any- body in his proper senses could shout for the salvation of the imbecile- faced King George. Taking the Brit- ons for a party of escaped lunatics, they fired a few shots at them, to drown the noise.. The Britons feel sore, ere HE anti-Russian policies of the Gompers regime will be continued by his administration declared Wil- liam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor in a statement issued to the capitalist press a few days ago. The policies of the Russian government are inimical to the work- ers of all countries, declared the Ohio baptist. Perhaps Mr. Green is looking for a pension from Judge Gary and a last resting place between Gary and John D. Rockefeller. His English Still on the Bench. EAST ST. LOUIS.— Federal Judge English, notorious injunction judge, remains on the bench dealing out justice pending a decision of congress which will determine if he should be impeached for “high crimes and mis- demeanors.” English became the idol of the railroads during the national shopmen’s strike because of his many sweeping injunctions issued against the strikers. Now You Can Have Both— The Workers Monthly The Daily Worker But You Must Ac heders June 15! 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