The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1925, Page 2

Page Two NAVY INSISTED ON FLIGHT OVER CAPTAIN'S HEAD Lansdowne’s Protest Was Rejected LAKEHURST, N. J., Sept. 23.—The official correspondence between the navy department and the late Com- mander Zachary Lansdowne of the lost naval dirigible Shenandoah re- vealing Lansdowne’s protest against flying over the Middle West in the stormy season, was made public by Captain George W. Steele, of the Lakehurat naval air station, testifying before the board of inquiry, meeting here to fix responsibility for thé dis- aster. The communication between Lans- downe and the chief of naval opera- tions showed that Lansdowne had rec- ommended the western flight be made fn the second week of September in- stead of the first week, pointing out the earlier date was in a season of thunderstorms. Lansdowne’s Protest Rejected. The navy department wrote back on August 12 that this recommenda- tion had not been approved and the flight would take place on September lors The navy department in their com- munication of July 20 pointed out the list of states to be flown over includ- ing Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Indiana and expressed the depart- ment’s desire to visit as many of the state fairs as practicable. Lawnsdowne replied to the navy de- partment that it was impossible to cover all the fairs in the first week. Tries to Blame Commander. When the commander received directions to proceed in the first week he recommended in a letter of July 15 that if the flight was taken at that season, mooring masts and landing fields should be selected. Plans for a landing field at Min- neapolis, Fort Scott, and a mooring mast at Detroit were made, Capt, Steel placed the responsibili- ty for the inspection of the Shenan- doah on Commander Lansdowne, in testimony given before the board of inquiry. 5 “He was responsible for when it was done and how?” ‘Rear Admiral Hilray P. Jones, president of the court, asked. “Yes,” replied Capt. Steele. Steele O. K.’ed Flight. Capt. Steele testified he djd not prescribe for the number of inspec- tions or manner of inspection of the dirigible. “When the Shenandoah left Lake- hurst for its last flight, was: the con- dition or manner of the ship reported to you?” Admiral Jones asked, “There was no official report, but I was aware that her condition in all respects was ready to fly,” Steele an- swered. “Then her condition met with your approval?” e “Yes.” Parents Protest Meeting. The striking parents of the Eugene Field school meet tonight at 6459 Sheridan road to discuss the need of an elementary school instead of the junior high proposed by the school board for that district along with their immediate problem of dealing with the board of education stalls in its efforts “to make the parents like” the location where the portables were planted. The DAILY WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist honor roll. Is your name on it? Film Hero Mistook Steel for Paper Mache; Drew Blood GUERNEVILLE, Calif., Sept, 23.— Rodney Lerocque, widely known film | star, was seriously injured while on location near here in the filming of a new production, it was learned today. Leroque while enacting one of the {screen parts too realistically plunged an Indian knife into his thigh cutting a deep gash. Several stitches were |required to close the wound and it was sald by the physicians attending him that he would be laid up for sev- eral days. | ‘WAR IN CHINA THREATENS OVER CONFERENCE PLAN Gen. Feng Seeks to Clean ° ° | Pekin of Traitors | PEKIN, Sept. 28—The Chinese {government yesterday, replying to the | British note of Sept. 1, opposes the |*fjudicial inquiry” which proposes to jwhitewash the Shanghai massacres of Chinese workers and students by Brit- ish police troops last May 30. The Chinese note charges that the British proposal for such an inquiry has de- layed settlement of the incident. There is some truth in this, as Chinese are up in arms again with |demonstrations everywhere against the coming whitewash scheme of the British and other imperialists. Reports are that both Feng Yu- hsiang and Chang Tso-lin hope to {seize Pekin and hold it under more or less personal control before the “citizens’ conference” of Oct. 10. This conference was called soon jafter Marshal Tuan Chi-jui was seated |{n the office of chief executive. Tuan jand the whole Chili party has been bitterly accused by the Kuomintang jof turning such assemblies into serv- |ile bowings to imperialists in ex- jchange for subsidies and favors to the military governors who make up |the ruling element in the assemblies. | The purpose of this conference of |Oct. 10 is announced as to deal with |the outstanding ‘problems’ of the re- |publie, the principal task being to de- termine the future form of the repub- jlic. Another matter which the con- jference will now likely consider is the following customs tariff confer- ences of the imperialist powers on Oct. 26. Evidently Feng is seeking to drive the quarrelling and grafting ‘militar- ists, who betray Chinese interests for their own at any opportunity, out of control of Pekin and the conference and furnish the basis of formal ‘auth- ority for the furtherance of Chinese liberation from imperialist control. Chang, as every one knows; is the puppet of Japan and is certainly try- ing to thwart any effort of Feng to clean out the traitors at Pekin. Indiana Coal Miners Force Public Service | Board to Lower Rates The strike of approximately 1,500 cial miners in the Clinton, Ind., field ended with a victory for the workers. The miners, who were employed by 8 mines in the field, struck Sept, 1 when the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad increased the monthly charge for transporting them to and from work from $1.10 to $2.50. They went back to work when the Indiana public ser- vice commission ordered the fare re- duced to $1.50. Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. NOT BY THE STROKE OF ONE But by the Combined Be Possible to Save THE DAILY WORKER I am sending you my response to your appeal. I en- PIO coicscssicsnscrsseonssessooes WTRIORS, <ssoaperecenssncrsovosossedlabesdceruressbapsonssesdssccevenbden 4 Blvd., Chicago, Ill. TEMS end clblivsasckseipsedsceepesanebizrddvced Address letters and make checks and money orders payable to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington a. Efforts of All Will It RMEDS sa sdesvevoecoesssiensvsese \ REPORTER GOT CAILLAUX'S GOAT WITH QUESTION ° oe Finance Minister Is Now . Patriot (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 23—Prepared to effect an agreement for the payment of France’s $4,000,000,000 war debt to the United States, Joseph Calllaux, once notorious “traitor” and now pres- ent French finance minister, and a commission of financial experts, ar- rived in New York today on the liner Paris and left almost immediately for Wasihngton, The French liner reached quaran- tine at 6:30 a m. and docked in the Hudson three hours later. M. Cail- laux and his associates debarked at once and proceeded by automobile to the Pennsylvania station, where they entrained, Leaving for Washington, Caillaux issued a formal statement, declaring that he was confident that a Franco- 4émerican debt settlement would be made, M. Caillaux made the following statement to newspapermen who jour- jneyed down the bay to meet him: “I have come, accompanied by eminent members of all political par- ties in the French' parilament to bring 8 settlement of our debts. There is no instance in history in which France has failed to do so.” Calllaux Reddened. M. Caillaux invited the newspaper- |}ien, some 40 in number, who went to quarantine to meet him, to a confer- jence in the smoking room of the aris. An interesting interview was |¥rogressing when one of the newspa- |Per men propounded a question which jeaused the minister of finance to turn |red, rise to his feet and exclaim: “T have nothing more to say.” The question asked him was: | “Mr. Minister, there is a great deal «ft misapprehension in the United States as to the charges brot against You in your trial; were you charged with treason?” After refusing to say anything more the minister of finance yielded to the importunities and apologies. of the other newspapermen and answered a aumber of questions put to him. The mfNister.of finance was asked if he were confident that the debt funding commission could accomplish & settlement which would be satis- factory to France. “Why should we come for any other purposet” he retorted, MORGAN'S STAFF SAILS TO CRUSH ENGLISH WORKER | | THE DAILYJWORKER PATERSON, N. GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING ON SUNDAY (Special to The Dally Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 23.—The general membership meeting of the Paterson W, P. will be held on Sun- day, Sept. 27, at 3 p. m. at 7 Bridge St. All party members must be present. A report will be made on the national convention and the matter of Immediate reorganization of the party will be thoroly dis- cussed, CHINA EXPOSES HYPOCRISY OF NATION LEAGUE Actually Wanted It to Do Something (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Sept. 23.—The saintly hy- pocrites were all upsét yesterday at the league of nations assembly when the Chinese delegate, Chao Hsin Chu, insisted that the pretensiotis set forth in the league covenant be lived up to. Such’ a proposal was unheard of. The delegates were aghast. Chao had been for three weeltsmtrying to get the assembly to say something on the application of Article 19 of the league covenant to China, Article 19 says: Article 19 of the Covenant “The assembly may from time to time advise the reconsideration by members of the league of treaties which have become inapplicable and the consideration of international con- ditions whose continuance might en- danger the peace of the world.” Certainly the conditions in China, if continued, threaten the peace of the world. But that the league of na- tions should really do’ something or express an opinion contrary to the wishes and interests of the’ imperial- ist powers in the matter of the treat- les with China which have. “become inapplicable” was altogether a quaint idea to which the delégates reacted with evident astonishment: Get Worried About Precedents Fortunately for the big: imperialist powers, they had their puppets among the Polish, French and: little entente delegates, do most of the fighting against Chao, who finally had to sub- mit an innocuous resolution and leave any protest merely to:chis speech. These Polish and little entente dele- gates have in mind that/if a prece- dent—and precedents argsa-holy thing in the league—is made of China, Germany will,speak up and demand reconsideration of the treaty of Versailles on the ground that it has become “inapplicable”? and threat- ens the “peace of the werld.” The peace of the world may be threatened, but that is a small matter compared with giving up,their boun- daries these small nations think, and France fought also on that, basis. A Queer Idea of the, League Chao, in his speech. said he was making the motion for the applica- Long Hours, Low Wages} ii" of Article 19 in China as it would Aspired Goal not only justify the exigtence of the league, which seems td need some By LELAND OLDS such justification, but Would “con- (Federated Press.) The sudden departure of J. P. Mor- gan for England accompanied by La- mont of his American staff and Smith of his English staff calls attention to the alliance of American and British capital to overwhelm British labor with unemployment. England in the next few months will be the active front in the struggle between labor and the employing class. The British-American alliance first appeared when J. P Morgan and the New York Federal Reserve joined to put $300,000,000 at the disposal of the British government in its efforts to re- store the gold value of the pound sterling. It was pointed out at that time that this action of the federal reserve might really be overstepping its powers in making a treaty with a foreign government without the form- ality of government sanction. But the deeper significance of the move passed unnoticed. Rising Unemployment, The restoration of the pound to par was followed by a rapid rise in un- employment in England, from 1% mil- lions receiving official unemployment relief to nearly 1% millions have ap- plied for relief and been rejected, Feeds Poison to Herself and Child to End Starvation BROCKVILLE. Ont., Sept. 23.—A mother and one of her eight children are in a serious condition in a hos- ptal here today followng frustration by police of her attempt to kill her- self and her family, “There is no use scraping and scratching to get money to feed all the children, I won't leave alone in the world, so will take them with me,” read a note found by the wom- an’s mother, who summoned police. Police found the woman forcibly feeding one of the children poison. She swallowed the contents of the bottle herself before police entered. Both are in a critical condition, The woman, Mrs. M, W. Love, is a widow. The best way to support the DAILY WORKER is to subscribe —and gel others to subgeribe, ~ aaa ential eenpinanea carrera aD. ileseresteensensienpeiennspentieseseanennesnis=esninnssnniiianesbseineseneesreetnreesnentosestonsinsessonnininseanil vince the whole world of the league’s activity and eA, That the league of nations should be either active or effitient was an inovation too much for the delegates, apparently, so the league of nations promptly voted Chao down. WAGE INCREASE DEMANDS BEFORE U, §. RAIL BODY Railroad Unions Demand Slight Increases Applications for wage increases to- talling $100,000,000 annually have come before the United States rail- road labors board whieh opened its sessions in Chicago. The Maintenance of Way Union has @ case to come before the board Oct. 12, involving wage incréases on thirty- five railroads amounting 'to $12,500,000 annually, ‘The Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men and the Order of Railroad Con- ductors are asking for an increase of approximately 12 per éent. The Masters, Matesand Pilots of America had a he before the board yesterday, involving the Chesa- peake & Ohio, the Recpeere Air Line, the Norfolk & Southern, the Southern Pacific and the Atlantic Coast line railroads in wage disputes. Undoubtedly the firemen, engineers and switchmen will ask for wage in- creases for thelr membership. Mexican Train Off Tracks. NOGALES, Arix., Sept. 23— One man was killed and ten injured today in the derailment of train on the Southern Pacific of ‘Mexico railway south of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, according to word received here. pam sey: aN Y. W. L. MEMBERS: ATTENTION! All new members| of the Young Workers’ League must attend the be- ginners’ class tonightiat 2613 Hirsch Bivd. Harry Gannessovill lecture on ee egg eee lives. own jobs. of population after another, at children in whom is drilled a and “the people” must be * * in the case — The supposition is ventured, however, that these discussions linked up with labor's own problems, The workers do not connect the Shenandoah disaster with their Workers Are Interested in the Inquiry Into the Shenandoah Disaster By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY: great numbers of workers in industry, and farmers toiling on the land, discuss with great seriousness the official naval inquiry into the wreck of the giant dirigible Shenandoah near Ava, O., on September 3. With the.usual show of sympathy, they join in the speculation as to who was responsible for the death of the 14 air mariners who lost their neyer are. One of the big facts already brought out is that, the Shenandoah was sent on its western tour as a publicity stunt. The fatal trip, city for city, was laid out in railroad timetable style, by the warmongers at Washington, and it was left for the Shenandoah’s crew to follow orders. In One great center many state fairs, the dirigible was to appear as a stellar attraction, for the assembled multi- tudes to gaze at in awe and admiration, all the while gushing complimentary expletives for the government at Washington that made such things possible. Always forgetting, however, that this was an instrument of war, the next war, in the pre- parations for which much money must be spent, the war into which the masses must be persuaded to go willingly. This indirect propaganda for the next war proves too subtle even for the average adult workers’ mind, not to mention the goose-step worship of things as they are. Thus is assent to new wars won. The naval inquiry now going on is merely one method of satisfying popular clamor. New Shenandoahs must be built made to like it and pay for it. * No such spread of publicity was ever given an investiga- tion into a mine horror, with its death list of hundreds, Dis- asters occur and are forgotten in industry. Occupational dis- eases daily take their vast toll of lives, with hardly passing mention. For a short time, in the immediate vicinity of a mine blast or factory or mill accident, the workers stand appalled. Then the struggle for existence, the rush of the unemployed for the jobs vacated by death, goes on again and all is forgotten. For the worker in the mine pit gives his life for the profit social system of his boss, as did the members of the Shenan- doah’s crew for the capitalist government they had sworn to serve. Most miners do not yet know that coal mines are dangerous places to work in because it hurts profits to make them safe. Most soldiers, sailors and aviators are ignorant of the fact that they fight and murder the workers of other nations so that the profits of their imperialist masters may hot only be protected but enhanced, in opposition to the profits of the competing imperialists. in other words, the worker'at his job and the farmer at . his plow, as they discuss the Shenandoah disaster, do not recognize the great dirigible as a weapgn of the capitalist government that oppresses them; no more than the victims of the air tragedy realized that they were in the service ofa dollar government, the only object of which is the protection of the dollar and the spreading of its influence. : Realizing this, that the dirigible Shenandoah was an in- strument in the hands of their exploiters, to protect plunder, stolen at home and abroad—for were not airships used against the striking coal miners of West Virginia?—then the respectful awe with which millions greeted this warship of the air during its career, must turn to hate, just as the striker hates the scab who tries to steal his job. The inquiry into the Shenandoah wreck concerns the workers and poor farmers only as oy ending of the capitalist government t! are interested in the at is conducting it, and the substitution for it of a workers’ government that will make industry safe for the workers, and the world peaceful and socially productive for all the people that inhabit it. REPORT BRANDS /McNAMARA FOUND CHICAGO SCHOOL | GUILTY IN TRIAL SYSTEM A FIZZLE| AT INDIANAPOLIS Parents’ Protest Meeting|Open Shop Employers Tonight A report issued by the Chicago Principals’ Club brands the criminal overcrowding of children in the Chi- cago public schools as a disgraceful failure. The report shows that ten per cent of the students “flunk” every term. In one school 35 per cent— more than one-thrid of the pupils— failed at the end of the term, The report was gotten out to show that money could be saved on 30 prin- cipals and 1,000 teachers if so many pupils did not have to repeat courses but the lesson the figures carry is that fifty children to one teacher can- not even put over McAndrew’s white collar slave training system success- fully, % Mayakovski Tickets for Sale in Many Places Tickets for the Mayakovski meeting which will be held Friday eve., Oct. 2, at Temple Hall, cor, Van Buren and Marshfield Ave., are for sale at the office of the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., at Frel- heit office, at the Russian Co-operatl restaurants, the Workers Home, 1902 W. Division St. The famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovski will speak on Russian poetry and literature. He will read some of his own poems, Get your tickets in advance and tell your friends to do ikpwier>- eh ne tet Framed Him Up (Special to The Dally Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 23.—John J. McNamara, business agent of the local Iron Workers’ Union, faces another term of imprisonment as a result of a frame-up against. him by the employ- ers of this city. The charge carries a prison term of from one to five years. McNamara was charged with terror- ism against non-union workers em- ployed on the Elks building., The de- fense introduced several witnesses that tore the state’s case to pieces and exposed the stoolpigeons of the employers as shameless liars, The prosecution prejudiced the jury by painting a lurid picture of Me- Namara’s indictment and conviction with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building. ‘McNamara announced thru his counsel that he will appeal the ver- dict. lrepudiates ALCOHOL TWINS, RAISE BIG ROW AT COUNTY JAIL Lawyers Make Dough While Pols Whine The prison activities Druggan and Lake, two bootleggers and high up among the elect 400 in the political register of the republican and democratic parties in Chicago, are still causing local po- litical leaders considerable worry: It develops that the power behind the throne, or more correctly behind the Cook County jail) was. Morris Eller, west side republican party boss. It was Eller who instructed) Sheriff Hoffman, to allow as many visitors in to.see the millionaire twins, as their business interests warranted. Mess- ers Druggan and Lake were to be the judges, of Messre millionaire They Deny Everything. Of course Mr. Eller indignantly re- pudites the charges connecting him with the illegal liberties of the beer sultans. Sheriff Hoffman indignantly the accusations of Ex- Warden Westbrook, who says in ef- fect that Hoffman, suggested that the alcohol experts be permitted the freedom of the city inasmuch as they were wealthy, good spenders and good political friends of the sheriff, In return for these compliments, Hoffman pitchforks all the political and official dung in and around the county jail, on the shoulders of the ex-warden, It is rather indelicately hinted that Westbrook reduced the weight of Mister Druggan, by reliey- ing him of $20,000. Westbrook now has his turn at indignant denials. He is honest, he admits, painfully so. In fact, it appears that the ex-warden often expressed doubt to his wife the infallibility of the old saying that “honesty is the best policy,” Crowe for Hoffman. Sheriff Hoffman is a republican party office holder. It appears that the county jail is a G. O. P. strong- hold, State’s Attorney Crowe is not near as much excited about the re- ported grafting in connection with the county jail, as he as about alleged deviations of trade unionists, Crowe waved aside all suspicions about the integrity of Hoffman and offered his services to the sheriff in any political ambitions he may cherish, The politicians are worried over the jail exposures. Nobody expects anything to come out of it however. The lawyers will shake down Messers Druggan and Lake and the politicians who are getting a decent divvy out of the booze racket may be forced to drop some simoleons, KENTUCKY LABOR Help Us Out! A great amount of work has to be done in the office. More work than our office can speedily handle, If you can spare a little time—c’mon over. There is folding, inserting, sealing, stamping—just loads of all kind of work, To help the DAILY WORKER when it especially needs help—c’mon over! FIGHTS FORMING MOUNTED POLICE Threat of Deion Labor Is Also Opposed (Special to The Daily Worker) LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The formation of a state constabulary in Kentucky ° was scored in the report of the presi- dent of the Kentucky Federation of Labor. The president urged in his report that the fifteenth annual con- vention of the state labor body go on record opposing any measure that. may be presented to the state legis- lature for the formation of a state constabulary, Score Prison Labor In the report of the president, the menace of prison-made goods to union labor was pointed out. Upwards of $7,000,000 of prison-made goods have been placed on the market in compe- tition with union-made goods in Ken- tucky. The modification of the workmen's compensation laws was another big is- sue in the convention, Bribe Charge Investigated. The investigation of the charges against four directors of Labor Un- jon, the official organ of the Ken- tucky Federation of Labor came near being one of the biggest issues of the convention. The four directors were, accused of accepting a bribe of $1,000 to call off a labor boycott which the unions had instituted against the Louisville Baseball association. The legislative committee spent most of its time hearing evidence as to whether the four should be ex- pelled from the union. The commit- tee undoubtedly will recommend that their names be stricken from the ros- ter of delegates to the convention,