The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1925, Page 1

Daily Worker Annual Sub- cription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! Vol. II. No. 115. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ST. PAUL M”-"HNISTS DEMAND CROUCH Ai. °: <UL RELEASE FROM MILITAR ATORTURE rein > Gentry, charged with the’ murder By 0. R. VOTAW. of Madge Oberholtzer, in custody ST. PAUL, Minn., May 25.—The membership of Capitol City} of Sheriff Omer Hawkins and three ee No, 459, International Association of Machinists, are solid-| deputies today were taken to y opposed to the capitalist court martial of Privates Crouch and Noblesville, Ind., the trio will go on rumbll, and demand their immediate release. trial at Noblesville, probably in Oc- The following resolution was signed and introduced by] tober. twenty-two members and was adopted by unanimous vote: The case was venued to Hamilton “WHEREAS, Privates Crouch and] county by Judge James A. Collins Trumbull of the U. S. army have re-| In criminal court here Saturday fol- ceived inhuman sentences of forty| lowing filing a motion for the years and twenty-six years at the} change by defense council. hands of a military court martial at Miss Oberholtzer took poison af- Schoffield barracks, Honolulu, Hawaif,| ter an alleged attack by Stephen- and son. Stephenson refused her medi- “WHEREAS, The only offense of| °! aid she said, before her death. Mi these soldiers have been ac- cuse is that of holding opinions dif- 5 fering from those of their accusers and those whom they serve, and of In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. STEPHENSON, CHARGED WITH RAPE AND MURDER, TAKEN TO NEW PRISON INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 25.— Handeuffed to each other, D. C. Ste- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. — $$ —$ A) iated liberals may not be good for, much, but they do a lot of harm to the revolutionary movement. A liberal is liable to~be a pacifist in the piping days of peace, tho he usually finds some excuse to. turn jingo when the bugles of war begin to blow. It does not take an extra good memory to remember some outstanding ex- amples of the truth of this conten- possessing literature and being mem- bers of the Hawaiian Communist League, all of which they openly pro- claimed, and - “WHEREAS, These their actions have violated no law soldiers by THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Pest Office at Chicago, Ilinots under the Act of March 8, 1879, WEDNESDAY, MA’ cece 290 1 | ASKS BOYCOTT OF DANISH SHIPS i TFL TO AID BIG TRANSPORT STRIKE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, May 25.—The International Marine Workers’ Amal- gamation Committee, Joseph Stone, secretary, has issued the following call HAITI to the marine workers of this country, emphasizing the need for united action internationally in aid of the Danish transport strike: To All Marine Workers in the United States! Comrades: The marine workers in Denmark are on strike. The Nor- wegian marine workers are out in a sympathy strike with the workers in Denmark. The German and all other European transport workers will, in all probability call a sympathetic strike, ‘The International Marine Workers’ Amalgamation Committee calls upon all the American seamen to boycott the Danish ships. The longshoremen must not discharge cargoes on vessels under the Danish flag. No seaman shall sign on a Danish vessel. The Danish seamen are striking for better conditions and we must help them, To load a Danish vessel, while the Danish transport workers are on strike means that you are scabbing on the Danish workers. The International Marine Workers’ Amalgamation Committee is for inter- national unity. It is for the amaigamation of all marine workers in the United States into one industrial union of marine workers. In the marine transport industry we stand for an International Marine Transport Workers’ Union thruout the world. International unity is a necessity. For united action, JOSEPH STONE, secretary. mperialism Bayonet C., May 25.—A' general election Haitian legisla- B, 1926, has been of State Kel- WASHINGTO! 3 petition urging tl of members of ture be held Jan, presented to S logg by Pierre ing the Union government of by the United He asked 'y forces be with- States army that American milit drawn, Wri jailed. six jouruaists ip in sit i» nase] PENNSYLVANIA STATE FEDERATION aent” Borne, who teupheld by ameri| OF LABOR CONVENTION SHOWS UP BANKRUPTCY OF THE OFFICIALDOM can machine gw These news writ- ers and editors Haye dared to point out that Borno’s Pegime is one of ate force, that it is onstitutional and By J. S. OTIS. Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicage, Ill. (B. & 0” BILL NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents CONCEALS His SURE DEFEAT Report 1 370 Lead des Anderson in I. A. M. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D, C,, May 25,—Al- tho the votes are all in and counted since Friday night, May 22, the Johns- ton machine in the International As- sociation of Machinists are trying to cover up the unquestioned election of J. F. Anderson, his centrist opponent supported by the left wing, while the Johnston gang calculates what move to make in stealing the election. 16,323 Against Bill's 14,953. On Thursday night, May 21, the count stood 16,323 for Anderson and 14,963 for Johnston. But about that time the Johnston machine declared a sort of martial law and announced that no results would be given out un til May 27. Evidently Johnston figures hat during the meanwhile some way of throwing out Anderson votes can ve discovered, tion. When the late war broke out, most of the pacifists suddenly discov- ered what the house of Morgan knew right along, viz. that it was in the interests of democracy that the allied powers should win. se 8 IGHT and left wing liberals began to throw themselves at President Wilson. Oswald Garrison Villard, was willing to talk peace but he placed his pacifism on the shelf un-. til the war was over. Upton Sinclair got out a magazine to boost the war and advertise his literary concoctions. Many other liberals did worse, if pos- tible. Liberals have their uses to he capitalists even in the intervals etween wars. eee HE China Press, an organ of Ame- rican imperialism, published in Shanghai, quotes gratefully from the New Republic of New York a lengthy article written by a liberal on the question of civil liberty in Russia. No- body, least of all a Communist will claim that there is democracy in Rus- gia, that bastard sham which isthe pride. of the bourgeoisie. where they are still virile enough to afford such & luxury. What exists in Russia is a dictatorship of the workers and peas- ants and not only do Communists make. no attempt to hide this fact, but they glory in its existence so/ much that they advertise the fact and insist on its acceptance for the transition ‘period between the seizure of power by the workers and the flow- ering of Communism as a cardinal in deflance of the Will of the people. One of them ¥ Jailed after print- ing an account the fate that be- fell a Swedish. » four centuries ago, when he oppressed his people. either civil or military, and were entirely within their rights as Ameri- can citizens, and “WHEREAS, Crouch and ‘Trumbull were convicted on the evidence of a spy sent purposely to gain their con- Alex Howat Leads the Fight in Kansas (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Kans., May 25.—The called an inel it to murder of fidence and perfect a case against/open shop drive against the United} Borno. No indi them, and Mine Workers of District 14 have | lodged against of the prisoners, “WHEREAS, The sentences are of} been stopped by mass demonstration | Who were arrested in December and a severity seldom inflicted upon even|of parades by union miners led by | January. hardened criminals for violent crimes, the state depart- and the whole proceeding is a plain case of suppression of freedom of speech and even of opinion by mili- tary officers who have grossly abused their authority to prevent the spread of intelligence in the ranks of the army; therefore, be it “RESOLVED, That we, of Capitol City Lodge No. 459, Inter- national Association of Machinists, in regular meeting assembled this 21st day of May, 1925, protest the unjusti- fiable, savage court martial that con- demned Privates Crouch and Trum- bull to sentences that amount to a living death in military prison; and POE eral “RESOLVED, That. while the ‘sen- tences have been reduced to three | years and one year, we will be sat- isfled with nothing less than immedi- ate release of these soldiers on the grounds that they ‘vere acting entire- ly within their rights; and be it fur- Alexander Howat, fighting chief of the Kansas miners. Yesterday at Crowberg camp, the non-union stronghold, six hundred au- tomobiles each loaded with union min- ers turned out and paraded around the non-union camps while out attend- ing a picnic. At the picnic Howat, Phil Callery ahd board members of District 14 talked to a crowd of 5,000 miners and their families. Alex Howat received an ovation when he took the platform and he was enthusiastically support- ed with repeated applause as he pleaded for a united front of all labor against the assaults of capital and. for a United Mine Workers Union 100 per cent organized. a 8 ‘The industrial court law, now’ soine: what battered, the open shop and the open shop operators were roundly de- BORER ARREST OF UNION MEN “FOLLOWS FAKE BLAST . . WHICH HURTS NOBODY Hudicourt went, t ment, and talked handed Kellogg pared by the voy, setting fo as to the” supp ties and legal for an order tary “high to force the h the national the constitutio Amer! workers’ en- at length the facts m of their liber- hts and the need ie American mili- sioner” to Borno of elections for members police in Ph of marines, the spring of 1! of the hap ing to this memorandum. Since 1917 a council of state, whose 21 mem- bers are nominated and dismissed by, the president of Haiti, who is a pup- pet of the American commander, have performed the legislative jobs. On April 10, 1922, 14 6f these appointed officials chose Borno as president for a four-year term. Hudicourt asks {Kellogg to have “RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be sent to the labor press and to our senators and representa- it has yet been | delegates out of the 180 present. PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 25.—Out of the 180 delegates to the Pennsyl- vania State Federation of Labor which has recently adjourned, a large por- tion were either business agents or paid officials in some capacity. convention was another demonstration of the bankruptcy of the trade union This reference to Swedish history was | OMicialdom. At no other time after the first day’s session were there more than 125 Of course a convention hall is a mono- tonous place to be when there are nice clubs where a card game or a pre- BLACKLIST SCHEME IS TRIED ON THE DOWELL, ILLINOIS COAL MINERS DOWELL, ILL, May 25.—A notice has been put up by the Union Colli- ery Company at their Kathleen mine at Dowell, Ill., to the following ef- fect: “All men looking for employment at this mine shall sign an applica- tion card, which shall be forwarded to the office in St. Louis, Mo. The hiring of men shall be done thru the office in St: Louis, Mo.” The above notice is nothing more office In St. Louis they will procure the record of each applicant. And if the applicant has been a “good fellow,” never caused any trouble to his former employer, he shall_be consigned to the job. But if he fails to come up to their standard, hav- ing fought for his rights—as; ‘jal! workers should do—then he will be turned down, In preparation for this steal his gang is officially claiming that Johns. ton won “by about a thousand” over Anderson. Apparently it is going to require a demonstration of foree to pry Johnston out of office even tho he was beaten in the election, and the left wing is determined that no stone shall be left unturned or unthrown to drive “B. & O. Bill” out of office. Tries To Split Anderson Group, Johnston, while claiming the elec- tion for himself, is trying, as reported previously in the DAILY WORKER, to split the Anderson forces by con- ceding the election of Hannon of the centrist opposition to the vice-pres dency and Fry as delegate to the A. of L. convention. The Volstead drink will not be interfered with. Lots of Words—Littie Action. To an observer the opening speech of President Maurer would lead one to believe the convention would go to bat with the employers and capital- ist class in general on the daily needs of the workers. He warned the con- vention that it would either build or go backward and that standing still is a backward step. International] Johnston’s gang also clajm that capitalism, along with the unemploy-|Secretary Davison of malodorous ment in the coal and textile indus-}banking fame has won by over 2,000 tries, was brot to the attention of he |and Editor Hewitt by about the same delegates. number and that Hannon would be But the written report touched on|the only one in the new executive none of these problems. The report |council not of his own gang, and by contained a long summary of the ac; tion of the last legislative session, the } manner in. which..the. child labor’ amendment was deefated, thé ‘steal- ing of the workmen’s compensation in- crease bill but that is where it ended. The struggle that the miners are wag- handing Hannon the job Johnston ex- cts to win his more or less open support. The whdle family of interested’ of- ficialdom is swarming into Washing- @ ten,to fight the matter out in hotel lobbies. FOUR BLACKSHIRTS IN QUAKER LE CITY NOW NURSING SORE HEADS PHILADELPHIA, May 25.—Four tive in congress.” Nominate Left Wing Candidate. At the same meeting the lodge una- nimously nominated for re-election as business agent of District No. 77, Brother Herman Husman, who is one of the left wing machinists of this district. The machinists’ union locals of the Twin Cities are making a drive for organization of all machinists and automobile machinists, and in this are led by the left wingers. principle of Communist policy. *e* ICTATORSHIP is not democracy. But in actual practice what is the difference ,between the dictator- ship in Russia and the thing called @emocracy, that exists in the United States and in England? In the Sov- jet Union the great majority have de- cided to run their own country, at the same time taking all governmental power away from the minority which previously owned and governed. This is majority rule, but it is not democ- racy, tho it sounds very. much like it. It sounds good to the ears of the exploited Chinese workers, therefore, the canny capitalist sheet publishes the article against Russia from the liberal New Republic, and says to the (Continued on page 2) La = (Special to The Daily Worker) MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., May 25. —Mine strike trouble broke out anew here early today with the bombing of two houses of miners at Glendale, a smill mining town just outside this city. No one was in- juredi Five arrests followed of union miners altho it can hardly be said that coal miners are not able to use explosives with more oattve results. North Pole Fliers Still Missing, Say Reports from Oslo (Special*to The Daily Worker) LONDON, May 25.—Hope for the safety of Captain Roald Amundsen and his companions on the polar flight gave way to apprehension today. The steamer Hobby, one of the two patrol ships that preceded the air- planes to the rim of the polar ice, has returned to Wellman Bay without word, according to news agency ad- vices from Spitzbergen via Oslo. ‘Commander K. Prestrud, naval at- tache of the Norwegian legation here, whovaccompanied Captain Amundsen to the south pole in 1912, said in an interview today: “There is as yet no reason for anxi- ety, Amundsen won't come back without getting observations to prove he actually reached the pole, other- wise his results would be practically valueless. Taking such observations might require three or four days as in the ease of the south pole. , “If something has gone wrong, we might have to wait three or four months without hearing from the par- ty, but the members are fully equip- ped to make the 400 mile walking trip to Cape Columbia and can do it.” Oil Trust Exploits Teapot Dome While Courts Delay Action WASHINGTON, May 25.—The fed- eral grand jury today resumed con- sideration of the government's case against former Secretary of the In- terior Fall, Harry _F. Sinclair and EB. L. Doheny, accused of conspiracy to. defraud the United States in leasing ‘of oil lands in California and Wyo- ming. Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Rob- erts, the government's special oil counsel, said they hoped to obtain in- dictments before the end of the week. The first indictments were dismissed by the supreme court on technical grounds. Arrest for Violation of State Law Banned by Strike Injunction NEW YORK, May 25.—Unlicensed engineers scabbing in the strike of , union engineers against a group of big } jee companies are protected by an in- fanction issued by supreme court Justice McCrete of Brooklyn, against afrest for violation of the law requir- ing engineers on stationary engines and steam boilers to pass examina- tions and take out licenses. The injunction was obtained by the Knickerbocker Ice Co., the Putnam Coal and Ice Co., the Ice Services Co, and the Reubel Coal and Ice Co., that serve Brooklyn with 80 per cent of its ice and that are now fighting their | Presbyterian Church, New York fity, employes’ demand for the $9 and 8-|for approval of its action in the Dr: hour day and the 6-day week. /|Harry Emerson Fosdick case. No Action On Fosdick, COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 25.—The presbyterian general assembly, in ses- sion here today adopted the report of the committee on bills and overtures recommending that no action be tak. en relative to the request of the First KILLEB BY “LOONEY GAS” POISON NEW YORK, May 25.—Lead poisoning has taken the life of another Standard Oil worker, Dr, Alexander 0, Gettler, city toxicologist at Bellevue Hospital revealed, after autopsy on the ‘vlesora of Anatose Levanus, laborer on the Bayonne docks of the oil company. Supplementing Gettler’s report, Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical exam: iner, said there was yet no certainty whether the lead poisoning came from handling tetraethy! lead but further examination of the man’s organs will be undertaken to find out the exact cause, Tetraethyl lead from the com- pany’s plant at Bawway, was shipped by way of the Bayonne docks. Eleven workers had previously been killed by lead poisoning, Try Iron Manufacturers, WASHINGTON, May 26.—The fed- eral government was successful today in the supreme court fo the United States in a movement to have removed from Illinois to Ohio for trial F, C, Rutz, R. R. Fountleroy, J. R. Steneck and Harry C, Wanner; indicted with 43 other persons and 47 corporations with having™ violated the: anti-trust laws by forming an illegabccombina- tion in restraint of trade in malleable iron castings, serene edi, ANOTHER STANDARD OIL CO. WORKER ows broken throughout the town by tures dropped 37 degrees in less than a heavy rain. - socialists were talked of as other The local union has put up’a no- tice at the mine, stating that a fine shall be put on all men signing the application for a job. ANTI-EVOLUTION Borno instructed te hold “a real elec- tion for a constitutional legislative body,” by issuing a call on Oct. 10, making it possible *to inaugurate a new government on Jan. 10 next. Bor- no proposes to have his own re-elec- ttion assured by his own hand-picked council. He chamged the constitu- tion assured by his» own hand-picked and dismissed 7 of ‘his councillors be- cause they were not loyal enough to himself, and his masters, the U. 8S. army officers. U. S. General Rules. ruling cla world war. The Philadelphia fascisti, police. DAYTON HEARING Italian fascists are mourning the en- trance of Italy into the world war, today, as a result of a clash with Italian workers who did not see any reason why they should rejoice because their aw fit to support the one set of capitalist plunderers against the other in May 1915, almost one year after the opening guns were fired in the backed by the local capitalists, advertised a parade in honor of Italy’s entrance into the war. tisements for two weeks prior to May 24, the date set. It ins showed up. Those were attacked by anti-fascist workers and four blackshirts were taken to the hospital. The papers carried adver- But only seventeen The parade continued with the aid of One radical worker was arrested and is still in jail. “In fact,” the memo explains, “the American general now high commis- sioner to Haiti, concentrates in his own hands all the powers of the coun- try. The de facto president depends upon him for everything. Under the provisions of an agreement signed in 1918, by Borno, then secretary of state, and Mr. Bailly Blanchard, min- ister of the United: States to Haiti, no act, no law cam be enacted by the council of state: without the pre- liminary consent of*the American le- gation (now the American high com- missioner). Even:the nomination of members of the council should receive the previous approval of Gen. Russell.” ing against the “open shop” coal op- erators, the unemployment in both the coal fields and other industries the official report had no mention of, and recommneded no organization meas- ures to rally the workers against the above. Need Labor Party to Solve Problems. To effectively meet these problems also necessitates an independent po- litical party thru which the workers can express themselves—a Labor Party. In place of methods to ‘organ- ize for a fight against the “open shop- pers” the attention of the convention was drawn to the dangers of Super- Power. The left wing severely criticized this report, to which Maurer replied the criticism was justified, but went on to claim that super-power was a bigger and more important issue to the workers. In the meantime as far as Maurer is concerned the workers can go hungry, and have their organ- izations weakened or destroyed by the “open shop” campaign. Such destruc- tion to be legalized by legislation. Two whole days out of the four dur- ing which thé convention proceeded (Continued on page 2) Grand Jury Indicts John T. Scopes for Teachings DAYTON, Tenn., May 25.—A speci- al session of the Rhea county grand jury in session here today returned an indictment against John T. Scopes, high school teacher, for teaching evo- lution to his pupils in violation of a state law recently passed by the Ten- nessee legislature. The trial of Scopes will probably begin on June 15. The law under which Scopes is to be indicted, de- clares, “Be it enacted that it shail be unlawful. for any teacher in any of the universities, normals and all other public schools of the state which are supported in whole or in part by pub- lie school funds, to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as.taught in the bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals. At the grand jury sitting sodag the defense, which is to be represented by Clarence Darrow and other prom- inent lawyers, will appeal to the state constitution, which declares that the Storm Sweeps Texas Town, SWEETWATER, Tex., May 25—Two buildings were demolished and wind- a windstorm early) today. Temper: an hour. The wind>was followed by BELGIAN POLITICIANS UNABLE TOC FORM A STABLE E GOVERNMENT WAGE CUT ANTHRACITE OPERATOR WHIPPED BY MILITANT COAL MINERS (Special to The Daily Worker) SCRANTON, Pa. May 25—Mana- gers of the big Jermyn coal mine in Old. Forge have surrendered to their union workers and resumed operation at the wage scale called for in the contract. The miners quit four months ago when told to load a half a carload extra per day without pay. Several weeks later the company offered a flat 10 percent cut instead, A small group of pro-company men voted to accept the offer but two days later a much larger meeting rescinded this action and the mine remained closed till the company ylelded. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communist of you. legislature “shall foster science.” The defense will charge that the anti-evo- lution law is a violation of the state constitution, The court room here holds only 100 people, and the Dayton business men, many of whom supported the law which abolishes the teaching of evo- lution, are devising ways and means to accomodate the huge crowds which are expected to attend the trial. The yard around the court house will be fitted with chairs, and electric ampli- fiers are to be installed to carry the proceedings to the auditors. The business men have held a meet- ing at which they discussed ways of housing the crowds, BRUSSELS, "May: 25—The Bel- gian parliament will probably be dissolved following the forced res- ignation of Premier Van De Vyvere last week, when the chamber of deputies voted no confidence in his government. Avtabinet formed: outside the po- litical parties, or a ministry re- cruited from cathdlies, liberals and alternatives. The Van De Vywere cabinet fell when Burgomaster Max of Burssels leader of the liberals, withdrew his support. i people thruout the world. (Continued Leberg ne eg yy “AID THE NOVA SCOTIA MINERS” IS APPEAL OF THE PROGRESSIVE MINERS TO LABOR OF ALL LANDS Statement of Progressive Miners’ Committee on District a United Mine Workers of America. The struggle against the wage cuts in this district led by the Progressive Miners against monumental obstacles, such as company gunmen, ‘soldiers and the government agencies, has received the open admiration of - minded The open betrayals and pittance of financial support by the international officials of the United Mine Workers of America and the refusal of militant ‘on page 2)