The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1925, Page 2

Page Two ey KLAN TEACHES MEMBERS HOW T0 EVADE THE LAW Kluxers Instructed to Lie to Courts NEW YORK, May 18—A represen- tative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reports that he attended initiation ceremonies of the ku klux klan in a neighboring state and that the klans- men present were given instructions for evading inquiries of judges, juries and officers of the law, when asked if they are members of the klan. According to the investigator klansmen are instructed that when asked if they are “members” of the ku klux klan they are to reply in the negative, even under oath, since no | klansman is a member of the klan but all “citizens of the invisible em- The ku Eluxy utterances of the| Rockaway Argus, published at Rock- away Beach, New York City, has led the national association to ask Post- master General Harry S. New to take action against the editor. The Argus, commenting on unproved charges of unmannerly conduct of colored men towards white women says: “There is only one effective remedy for this and that is for the men of the community to take the matter into their own hands and mete out condign punish- ment on the spot. It is not 4 mattter for the police or the courts. A crea- ture who will insult a woman on the | public streets puts himself outside the pale, and laws and courts were not | made for him.” RIFFIAN TROOPS REINFORCE LINE AGAINST FRENCH RABAT, French Morocco, Mey 18-— The offensive of the French troops against the native Riffian army has been temporarily halted. The French here declare they are awaiting the re- sults of the mission of Louis Malvy former minister of the interior to Madrid. Malvy has been sent by the Painlevé government to attempt to induce the Spanish dictators to unite withthe French imperialists in the invasion of Spanish as well as French Morocca. The French imperialists wish to ob- tain the consent of the de Rivera dio- tatorship to cross the line dividing Spanish and French Morocco, and at- tack the Rifflan army there. Abd-ele-Krim, the leader of the na- tive North African forces, is bringing up reinforcements and the French are afraid he will attack before their ne- gotiations with Spain are completed. The French airplanes are attempting to blockade the Riffans by prevent- ing merchant ships from entering the port of Ajdir, a Mediterranean port, where the Riffians have secured some of their supplies. Sentence Boy to Die. POTTSVILLE, Pa., May 18—Will- fam Cavalier, 15-year-old slayer of his aged grandmother, was sentenced to- day to die in the electric chair by Judge R. H. Koch, in quarter sessions court here. Parry Expelled British Postal Union Officials Give in to Tories WASHINGTON, May 18. — C. G. Ammon, organizing secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers of Great Britain, has notified President Gainor of the National Association of Letter Carriers, in Washington, that attacks on the position of his union by the tory postmaster general may prevent his promised trip to the United States in September. Ammon was to have addressed the three conventions of American postofiice employes. It appears that Sir William Mitohell- Thompson, the tory cabinet minister in question, has given partial recog- nition to a reactionary secessionist organization in the British postal ser- vice, after the legitimate national un- jion had removed from its constitu- tion a clause permitting strikes. SOUTHERN COURT BARS CHINESE FROM SCHOOLS Ruling Puts Orientals on 4 : * “Jim Crow” List (Special to The Bsily Worker) JACKSON, Miss., May 18.—Chinése have been placed on the “Jim Crow” list of the south, according to a ruling handed down by the Mississippi state supreme court which bars all Chinese children from white schools. The court decision stated that Chinese children are not a part of the white race, but are “colored,” and therefore must attend the Negro schools. The opinion of the court pointed out that as education in Mississippi is compulsory. Chinese residents must either attend the private schools or the institutions provided by the state for Negroes. Several months ago G. P. Rice of Bolivar county brought suit against Martha Lum in the circuit court ask- ing that the court oust her children from the white school. The case was watched with much interest, repres- entatives of the Chinese government stationed in Washington requesting full rights for their countrymen, ex- pressed the opinion that they would carry the fight to the U. S. supreme court. More Discrimination Predicted Placing the Chinese on the “Jim Crow list” in the south is something new. Heretofore they have been per- mitted to enter theaters, public res- taurants and exclusive hotels without molestation. On the intermarriage question the south has permitted them a free course, allowing them to wed white women, but restricting them to use Negro women only as concubines, It is expected that a law annuling all marriages between whites and Chi- nese will foliow. Did You Ever Go ona Truck Drive? If Not Here’s Your Chance NEW YORK CITY, May 18—The second annual truck ride to Floral Hill Colony, Chatam, N. J., on Sun- day, June 7, will be given by the Young Workers’ League and Workers Party. Trucks leave from Broom St. and Springfield Ave., 9 a. m. sharp. Tickets $1.00. Without Trial (Continued from page 1) “appear for trial” at 8 a. m. that same morning—an hour and a half before the telegram was even delivered and several hours before he came back trom the mine and received it. No Chance to Defend Himself. The Farrington district machine held # mock trial in his absence and declared Tom Parry expelled from the U. MW. of A. without allowing him the slightest chance for a de- fense. In the afternoon the capitalist pa- pers had already received and pub- lished the news of Parry’s expulsion and the appointment by Farrington of “Masters and Slaves” Charlton Peacock as sub-district president. In place of notifying the miners, Farrington notified first the capitalist papers and his friend, H. C. Adams, president of the Central Coal Operators’ association. The Kian-Operator-Farrington Combine. Peacock was known as the “klan kandidate” in the recent sub-district election, and ran against Tom Parry, but Parry beat him by 700 votes. There is a united front ‘of the coal operators, Faker Farrington and the ku klux klan in the disruption of the United Mine Workers’ of Illinois and the prevention of membership rule. by John Lassen, Plumbs Depths of the Workers’ Struggle Against Bosses ai ASTERS AND SLAVES,” by Ing ol John Lassen, a story of the work- s, the second instalment of which appeared In last Saturday's magazine section fo the DAILY WORKER, Is a story of the struggles and problems of working men and working women. John Lassen, the editor of the Communist new er “Uj Eldre,” knows the workingolass about which he writes. Comrade Lassen is now threatened with deportation because of his writings on behalf of the workingolass. “Masters and Slaves” tells of the struggles of the workers Who while Jobless and without money, seeking work. It tells of the ride the rods from town to town vish toll, the deadening routine which Is the lot of the worker after he finds a Job. =" “Masters and Slaves” exposes workers and thelr employers, written with the absorbing style translated by Simon Felshin, Furthermore It the clash of interests between the is real literature, of a true artist. The story was Watch for the third instalment in next Saturday's magazine sec- tlon, gree reenter oe tema TEACHERS’ UNION FIGHTS COERCION OF N.Y. BOARD Effort Seen to Force More Overtime Work NEW YORK, May 18—The possi- bility of assignments not only to after school hours’ playground work but also to summer school work on the same yearly salary now paid them, lurks in the latest imposition of the New York board of education upon city elementary teachers. Acting on the emotional appeal of | Mayor John Hylan that school play- }grounds be opened for after-school |recreation to children under 14, the | board of education announced that 60 |such grounds would be kept open and asked teachers, janitors and the po- lice to volunteer their supervision. Edging Up on Conditions, The New York Teachers’ Union im- mediately sent a protest to the board jof education and warned teachers |that they could easily be led into a trap by the volunteer proposition if they accepted it. The union pointed out that if the principle of extra work for the same pay were admitted by teachers in volunteering for play- ground work, members of the board who are always mindful of good po- litical arguments would again suggest that teachers, since they are paid by the year, should do summer school teaching without extra pay and thus save the city so much money. The union says that teachers are already tired after a day's school work and it is unfair to ask them to volunteer for playground work for which they are not trained. Using Mora! Coercion, There is a playground director re- ceiving $7,000 a year who has not yet spoken. He is part of the political system with the board of education. The Teachers’ Union is not opposed \to playgrounds but argues that over- | worked teachers are not the ones to | supervise playgrounds. Specially |trained workers should do this work. Already in many of the schools meetings have been held for teachers to volunteer their services for the extra work and an indirect form of | compulsion is used to influence them. |In some cases the principal volun- teers and the teachers think they must follow. In others the teachers are asked to volunteer for work at other than their own schools which would be a greater hardship because the grounds are open before and after school a8 well as on Saturdays and teachers would have to run from the playground school to their own to teach and back again. Hindenburg Now Fawning Before Foreign Bankers (Continued from page 1) Cologne area, where their troops are stationed at Germany's expense. The extent to which the Hindenburg government has sold out the workers is shown in Stresemann’s eulogy of the Coolidge government. “It is grat- ifying to be able to state that our re- lations with the United States are sat- isfactory in every respect,” said Stresemann. “Our reparations policy bears the name of the vice-president of the United States. “The extensive American credits to German industry have been of the greatest help.” Stresemann sharply attacked the allies’ disarmament policy. Stresemann pointed out that as yet no nation has answered Germany’s note regarding a “security pact.” “Germany, completely disarmed, is all around faced by heavily armed na- tions linked to each other by alliance,” he said. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch. Y. W. L. Branch No. 3 Meets Tonight. Area Branch No, 3 of the Young Workers’ League will have an activ- ity meeting tonight at 8 p. m., at 3201 S. Wabash Ave. Many important phases of the branch work such as the Negro campaign, increase of mem- bership and the report of the city central will be taken up. Comrades not having other meetings tonight are urged to attend and help the comrades of Branch No. 3 in their work. FOREIGN EXCHANGE. NEW YORK, May 18.— Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.85%; cable 4.85%. France, franc, demand 5.19; cable 5.1944. Belgium, franc, de mand, 5.04; cable 5.04%. Italy, lira, demand, 4.07%; cable 4,08. Sweden, krone, demand 26.71; cable 26.74, Norway, krone, demand 16,78; cable 16.80. Denmark, krone, demand 18.76; cable 18.78. Germany, mark, unquoted. Shanghai, tael, demand 74.75; cable 75,25. tomorrow night at 722 Blue branches are urged to be present. 2 Ae aenngmet CITY CENTRAL COMMITTEE, L CHICAGO, MEETS TOMORROW NIGHT The next meeting of the City Central Committee of Uocal Chicago meets land Ave, at 8 p. m. ‘elegates from all THE DAILY WORKER car REDS ARE MURDERED, REDUCE ARMY, ENGLAND TELLS ZANKOV REGIME (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Eng, May 18.—The British foreign office will not agree, it sald today, to an extension to Bul- garla of the allles permission for Bulgaria to maintain an increased army. The foreign office viewed Balkan reports of trouble as exag- gerated In order to back up the Bul- garian request. i The other Balkan fascist govern- ments make no protest against the murder of Communists by the Bul- garian troops but see a danger to their own governments In Bulgar- lan’s Increased army. AMERICA BOTH IN AND OUT OF NATIONS? LEAGUE Nothing Accomplished by Arms Parley (Special to The Dally Worker.) GENEVA, May 18— The United States’ refusal to co-operate with a league of nations bureau resulted in abandonment today of the proposed central bureau for arms traffic con- trol. The special committee of the arms conference created to find some com- promise suitable to Congressman Theodore Burton of Ohio, head of the American delegation, decided to alter completely the arms traflic control plan, eliminating the projected cen- tral bureau. Its members would have been appointed by the league coun- cil, The sub-committee’s solution, which meets the approval of Burton and dele- gates from league member nations, provides that each nation signing the arms control agreement will periodi- cally publish uniform statistics of its arms exports and imports, making these figures available to all other nations. Hach nation will pass its own laws, it was agreed, providing for the licens- ing or arms manufacturers and in- suring the accuracy of the statistics. Thus the conference accomplished nothing. , Congressman Burton suggested that the statistics should be available every three months. He withdrew his amendment, providing for publicity, as no longer ni and thanked the subcommittee for its efforts. No Results Achieved. By this decision, the effect will be that the league of nations shall con- trol the gathering of the statistics published by each nation separately, and the results are the same as if a central bureau had: been created by the league. - However, the agreement as finally reached means that the parley has ended without steps being taken for the control of arms, for which the conference was called. Cal’s Trade Board Ceases to Function, Protecting Trusts WASHINGTON, May 18.—Dismissal of nearly 100 persons constituting the economics staff of the federal trade commission is the next move which the Coolidge majority in the commis- sion is expected to take, to prevent further investigation of knockdown- and-drag out methods on the part of big business concerns. Commission- ers Van Fleet, Hunt and Humphrey are reported to be preparing to wipe out the personnel on which the work of investigation of business scandals depends, in order to save the trusts from unfavorable publicity. These economists and assistants have been employed, under civil ser- vice rules, for years in the special field assigned them by the federal trade act—the gathering of evidence of frauds and other means of “unfair competition” and the presenting of this evidence to the commission. The investigation of the lawlessness banditry and wholesale crushings— out of small competitors by the big five meat packing, companies of Chi- cago illustrates the work which they have been performing and which Cool- {dge now proposes to prevent them from further performing. Red Balter Aided by Court. WASHINGTON, May 18.—Trial of Gaston B. Means, former department of justice agent, on charges of forg- ery today was postponed until May 26, delay was asked by defense coun sel. * Means was indicted for forging the name of Senator Brookhart, republi- can, of Iowa, chairman of the commit- tee, which investigated the depart- ment of justice, to a letter. Means was one of Harry Daugherty’s chief aids in persecuting radicals when Daugherty was attorney general. ‘AL New York Times Tries to Push Away the War Clouds Over Europe By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL,” TOP AY. nearly 11 years after the beginning of the last world war, the capitalist nations stand closer to a new international blood bath, than they did on the eve of the Sarajevo incident, in 1914, that started the last imperialist massacre of millions. Paul Painleve, minister of war for France during the early stages of the last conflict, and now the successor of Herriot as French premier, frankly tells the world: “| cannot say that militarism is no longer a menace to Europe. And | must add that France, thru her geographical situation, Is exposed to militarist undertakings more than any other country in Europe.” In other words, the present French premier, instead of arguing for a continued capitalist truce, points out why France must be better prepared than ever for the next war. e e * ° It-is none other than the New York Times, organ of the internationa! bankers, that has taken up the task of spread- ing peace propaganda in this country. It assures its readers that Europe craves peace. Which is true. But it fails, even thru such an adept writer as Herman Bernstein, to make out even the semblance of a case for a possible peace of any duration, with even Lord Balfour, of Great Britain, declaring: “1 am not naive enough to believe that this was the last war.” * * * * The workers and peasants of Europe want peace but the contradictions within the capitalist system itself spell, “War!” without any cross-word puzzle complications. Ra- kovsky, the Soviet ambassador in Great Britain, clearly states that the workers and peasants of Europe will put the blame for the next war on the capitalist system under which they live, when he said: “I do not know whether the statesmen of the capitalist countries realize the great risk involved in another war. It Is likely that such a war would develop into civil war, because the horrors of the world war and its consequences are felt everywhi The working masses do not want to suffer again the unspeakable hardships and privations, and they will not make the sacrifices they made during the recent war.” . ° * ° There is no capitalist diplomat in Europe that dares make such a direct confession of the present situation. Then there is Krassin, the Soviet ambassador in Paris, who declares: “Soviet Russia is the most stable country in Europe. We have already done what no other government has dared to do. We have re- duced our army from 5,000,000 which was its strength when we defended ourselves against General Wrangel and other invaders, to about 400,- 000 men, No other country has decreased its armaments to such an extent as this.” « ; a q Not only Western European but world capitalism there- fore stands before the menace of civil war at home and the rising power of workers’ rule under the Soviet Union. This is bad enough in “peace” times, but becomes of greatest danger in case of another war. * e * e % The New York Times would have its readers believe that Europe opposes war. It will not tell them that another war is inevitable. In this the Times is doing the bidding of its masters, the Wall Street bankers, who are floating a stream of loans to decrepit European capitalism. Not man’ dollars would go abroad if American investors believe: another war would wipe out all possibility of payment. But the more dollars that are invested in Europe the greater the demand for American participation in the next war. The bankers play safe either way. The workers lose both ways, unless the above declaration of the Soviet statesman, Rakov- sky, can be made to apply to the United States as well as to Western Europe. A beautiful collection of fairy tales that you will enjoy and children will be delighted with, This volume marks the first appearance in Eng- lish of the work of HERMINIA ZUR MUHLEN, a German writer of children’s stories of the very first rank. The book Is a real children’s story 75 CENTS book, size 9x12 Inches, with large with durable cover, easily read type and a durable ———e % $1.25 leather-like cover in color. étoth bound, 1118 W, WASHINGTON BLVD. - The First Book for Workers’ Children Ever Issued by the Communist Movement in This Country. READY ABOUT MAY 20 And many smaller drawings from the original edition, FROM ANY AUTHORIZED AGENT OR THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. BRANDS ‘LABOR’ BANK OF PHILLY COMPLETE FRAUD Airtight Trustee Rule Shut Out Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, May 18—The Pro ducers’ and Consumers’ Bank of Phil- adelphia, backed by the central labor union, was not a co-operative bank in any respect, the co-operative league declares in reference to the failure of this so-called labor bank. Two self-constituted trustees or- ganized the institution ‘and then Picked ten other trustees to run it with them, the league says, in spite of the league's protests to the Central Labor Union that co-operative experts’ opinions were misquoted on the pro- position. The rank and file of stockholders, the league says, had no opportunity to elect trustees until two years after the bank's organization. The Central Labor Union has re- affirmed its support of the bank and expects’ to aid. in the reorganization with greater labor control. This fond expectation is not shared by the 7,500 depositors, however. Trial of Alleged Millionaire Germ Killer Is Begun Three jurors to hear the evidence against William D. Shepherd, charged with murder of the death of his ward, William Nelson McClintock, had been accepted by the state when court recessed for lunch today. A score had been rejected for vary- ing reasons, predominant among which were aversion to the death pen- alty, preconceived prejudices in the case as & result of the widespread publicity given it and unwillingness to convict on circumstantial evidence. Miss Isabelle Pope, the dead boy's fiance arived to act as witness for the state. Professor Thinks War Will “End Thinking” NEW YORK, May 18— “The real value of freedom of speech is not to the minority that wants to talk, but to the majority that does not want to listen,” says Professor Zechariah Chafee of Harvard University law school. Gag rule is harmful after war more than during war, Chafee asserts, be- cause “intolerance produces an un- critical public opinion and intense sat- isfaction with one’s views.” On the basis of national hysteria in the last war, the professor believes that criti- cal thinking, after the next war will be impossible in this country. Grade Crossings Take Big Toll. Grade crossings in the midwest reaped a week-end toll of 15 dead and 11 injured, three probably fatally. Four were killed at Oconomowoc, Wis., two were killed and three in- Jured at Milwaukee; one was killed at Racine, Wis.; three were killed and one hurt at Fort Wayne, Ind.; two were killed and one injured at War- saw, Ind.; one was killed and two in- jured at Monroe, Ind.; one was killed at Hinckley, Minn., and one killed and four injured at Aitkin, Minn, The translation by. IDA DAILES catches the beauty of these stories and brings the warmth and feéling of the working class and its aspirations, ¢ With four beautiful full- page two-color drawings and cover design by LYDIA GIBSON. ‘The literature of the working clase Is the richer now by the publica- tion of these stories that children will treasure. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS |