The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1925, Page 3

HEARST-HYLAN OUTFIT BACKS —TANMANYITE New York City Election on Tuesday (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Tammany, as as last minute grandstand play, is making much over the fact that the scullions of William Randolph Hearst and Mayor John H. Hylan, have come “into the camp of Walker. Hearst exchanged pleasantries with Gov. Al Smith, chief of the Tammany wigwam, during the primaries last fall. Smith called Hearst a liar and said he was beneath contempt. Hearst came back with proof that Smith’s candidate, “little Jimmy” Walker, was a lawyer for the food trust at a time when it. was endeavoring to sell pol- luted meat in New York markets. Finally, ‘when Walker defeated Hy- Jan, Hearst and his newspapers openly charged Tammany with stealing the primaries, Waterman's Chamces Wane, Tammany Hall, thru its ability to mobilize all the criminal elements in New York, both the lower, upper and intermediate strata, and backed by finance capital, has waged a strong drive with its own well-known meth- ods. It has long been conceded that Walker, a pin head with no brains nor ability of any sort, would win. His last-minute endorsement by _ the Hearst-Hylan combination makes his election certain. His principal opponent is the re- publican candidate, Frank D. Water- man, manufacturer of fountain pens that bear his family name. Water- man, in the campaign now closed, was exposed as a scab-herder, a strike- breaker and apostle of the open shop. It was revealed that. ‘his promised “business administration” would have as its objective throttling every move of the workers, just as Tammany smashes workers’ organizations. And just as Al Smith, governor’of the state and leader of Tammany Hall since the death of the notorious Charles F. Mur- phy, used the state troops against the striking steel workers at Lackawanna, N. Y., in 1919, his man Friday, “little Jimmy” Walker, can be depended up- on to crush the workers if they men- ace the profits of the masters. Mr. Rey. Dr, Norman Thomas. ‘True to their record, the socialists are playing the game of capitalism by standing against unity of labor’s forces in this campaign just closing. Norman Thomas, sky-pilot out of a job, and political adventurer is the candidate of Abe Cahan and Morris Tiiliquit who thinks so much of the workers’ struggle that he has made his last {rip from Europe in a scab- manneé Loat. Just as Hillquit serves, for lavish fees, the big corporations and the iavor fakers in New York thru his occupation as a lawyer, so he serves the same gang in his position of political leader of ‘the socialist Party. So openly reactionary and vicious were both candidates of the two old parties that a splendid opportunity was at hand for an effective labor drive. Communists Propose Unity. Realizing this the Communists pro- posed unity of labor’s forces on the basis of a united labor ticket. This proposal was sabotaged by the social- ists, who realized that if they entered into such a united front they would be forced to fight for the elementary de- mands of the working class or stand exposed as the contemptible traitors that they are. » This sabotaging of the demand for unity of action on the part of those sroups claiming to represent labor placed the burden of defending the in- terests of the workers solely upon the shoulders of the Communists and they have just concluded a campaign that reached to every part of greater New York, \ In spite of the Tammany election board removing the name’of. Comrade Gitlow, Workers Party candidate for ‘mayor, from the ballot, thousands of workers will write his name on next Tuesday, proving their loyalty to the ‘only party in the election that de- fended the interests of their class. The wind-up of the Communist cam- paign came this morning with final distribution of literature in every part of Greater New York, following final “Red Night” drives in Williamsburg and downtown New York, and two indoor meetings in Brownsville and the Bronx. Two tag days with “Gitlow for May- or” buttons, also featured the close of the campaign that has brought the message of Communism to countless thousands that never before heard of the party. Detroit Notice! All members of the English branch of the Workers Party of Detroit are instructed to mobilize. at the House of the Masses, 2646 St, Aubin, for the purpose of distributing our quota of “Defend the Soviet Union" leaflet, This instruction applies to ALL mem- bers of the branch. | . shone (Signed) D. Gorman, Chairman of see that we \ I he A. j— ARTICLE IV, ON resolution denouncing militar- ism found its way into the At- lantic City convention, It was introduced by the delegates of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ International Union pursu- ant to the instructions of the union’s fifteenth biennial convention. The most important parts of this re- solution, which placed the issue of the trade unions and militarism squarely before the convention, are as follows: “Whereas, The citizens’ military training camps are run jointly by the employers thru the Military Training Camps Association and the war department, for the pur- pose of giving military training to and developing a spirit of militar- ism in the working people, so that they may be used as cannon fod- der to promote the imperialists’ ambitions of Wall Street, many of whose leaders include labor hating open shop employers who are on the advisory board of the Military Training Camps Association; and “Whereas, The Military Training Camps Association practically de- termines the policy of the training camps and uses them in an attempt to foster its open shop campaigns, and is trying to bribe the workers by offering them a months’ vaca- tion for the special purpose of at- tending these camps, because they consider the military training as a good investment to undermine or- ganized labor; and “Whereas, The American Federa- tion of Labor is pledged to promote international peace and good will among the nations upon the basis full and unqualified national self- determination for all the peoples of the world; therefore, be it “Resolved, That this 45th annual convention of the American Federa- tion of Labor again goes on record as vehemently opposed to any at- tempt to foster the spirit of mili- tarism, whether it be thru the citi- zens’ military training camps or thru any other means.” 3 ie record of violence in the Unit- ed States against striking work- ers is unparalleled by that of any other capitalist nation. The use of troops, federal army units and later the “national guards,” because @ com- oe mon practi¢e coincident with the rise of concentrated and centralized indus- try. It is significant that the use of fed- eral troops on a large scale, under the command of General Miles in the American Railway strike of 1893-94, marks at the same time the begin- ning of those huge mergers which brot into being powerful corporations like United States Steel. With the enactment of a huge tariff law such gigantic combinations sprung up al- most over night and the record of Americin political lite for this period is one of unexampled corruption. But corruption soon gave place to settled policy and since 1894 bayonets and machine guns have blazed a bloody path thru the ranks of strik- ing workers—north, south, east and west. HE struggle of the American work- ers against militarism in all forms ts predicted, therefore, not only on the basis of the danger of new im- perialist wars but on very practical reasons bound up inextricably with the life of the labor movement. To any worker who reads the capi- talist press (and what worker in America does not?) the extensive pre- parations for militarizing the masses are too well-known to need further proof. The boy scouts, military training in the schools and colleges, youths in uniform in ever bloc of the streets of the large cities, nation-wide cam- paigns for “defense,” broadside after broadside in the press urging addi- tional appropriations for all branches of the‘military service, skeleton units of the armed forces established paral- lel with industry and Citizens’ mili- tary training camps as the last link in the chain with which the masses are being tied to the war machine of American imperialism. "T at Atlantic City not a single delegate spoke in favor of the anti-militarist resolution, not even the delegates of the Hat and Cap Mak- ers who introduced under instructions from the rank and file members of their union. But Matthew Woll, reporting for che resolutions committee, gave voice to the sentiments of the A, F. of L. officialdom. The Federated Press correspondent veports the proceedings at this point DAILY WORKER “FORD SPECIAL” GETS WIDE DISTRIBUTION IN FRONT OF FORD’S FACTORIES The success with which the ‘special DAILY WORKER. issues exposing Henty Ford met can easily be judget some of The DAILY WORKER, agents ‘who handled the distribution of the daily at the Detroit, Philadelphia and company: fer Detroit Distributes Daily. “The Ford special was fairly well distributed here in Detroit, but mot as well as we had expected, at the, Ford factory. The police knew about the distribution and were watching_us dis- tribute the papers at the plant, Police Arrest Distributors. “Four of us were arrested and taken to the police-station where the chief delivered a ‘talk’ to us, making the statement that he doesn’t care what is written in the paper as long as its publication is sanctioned by the government, but he doesn’t want it to be distributed around the streets. He gave as an excuse that many people might not like it and they would throw it on the street. We were re- leased. ———— “The next day, another attempt was made to distribute the papers and one of the comrades was arrested and taken to the police station, He was also released.—Sarah Victor, Detroit, Michigan.” oe Philadelphia on Job. “I can inform you that the first day distribution of the special Ford edi- tion was a success. We distributed all the papers to the last one and we will go again today to distribute the other thousand and if we are as successful with these as we were with the first thousand then I will try to find some means of continuing the sale of The DAILY WORKER near the Ford fac- tory and then follow them up by try- ing to get subscriptions. Whatever results we have I wili inform you about them.”—Lena Rosenberg, Phila delphia. - Pe Kansas City Wants More. “The thousand copies of The DAILY WORKER arrived 0. K., each day at the office in time for distribution at the Ford plant, “The plant is located in the eastern industrial district with workers leav- ing work at three different times, The committee was able to take care of the 3:30 and 11:30 p, m, shipts as each day comrades in an auto went from the party office to teh plant and distributed the daily. “The copies were taken with the best of feeling altho the workers re- semble a herd of. contented cows, “The second day more interest was shown and in all I think this was an excellent plan of propaganda if it was carried out at.all of the Ford plants in the country, “Any time special issues are printed let us know and I will do my best to bute as many as is lugo Oehler, Kansas py the following three letters sent by Kansas City plants of the Ford Motor : : Reactionaries Prepare ° . to Employ Syndicalism Laws Against Workers, (I. L. D. News Service) { The action of the United States su- preme court in dismissing without opinion the appeal of Charlotte Anita Whitney from a conviction under. the Califronia syndicalist law coming on the heels of the decision in the Gitlow case proves conclusively that the re- actionaries have now forged the legal weapon with which they can outlaw the labor movement when the oppor- tune time presents itself. At the present time they are devoting their main attentions to the’ radical wing of the movement but they mean to de- stroy every organization of the work- ers that interfere with their rule. Anita Whitney was sentenced to’ serve 14 years in prison for attending an organization meeting of the Com- munist Labor Party in 1919, Recently the same supreme court over which the Carnegie pensioner, William Howard Taft presides, upheld | the constitutionality of the New York criminal anarchy law on a test case made by Benjamin Gitlow. . These ac- tions emphasize the necessity for the building up of a powerful defense or- ganization. California Bosses . Out to Hang Ford (i, L, 0. News Service) Twelve years ago Richard Ford and Herman Suhr were sentenced to serve life terms in prison after being con- victed on murder charges arising out of the killing of the district attorney of Yuba County, California, during an outbreak among hop pickers on the Durst ranch in the same county, Tho the prosecution did not even accuse the defendants of having advocated violence not to: mention having com- mitted the actual killing they wet sent to jail by a jury inflamed to a frenzy by stories of the Chicago an- archist trial retailed by the prosecu- tion, After twelve years Ford was pa- roled by the board of prison directors but no sooner did the news of his re- lease reach the press than the reac- tionaries were again barking at his heels thirsting for his blood. The situation now is that Ford will be again prosecuted and charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Reardon. IW THE D&bLY WORKER F. of L. and Militarism awit as follows: ip’ . Woll’s committee’s reply began by saying that the A. F. of L. had a well defined position on militarism, that it opposed military forces larg- er than the skeleton on which an army for se could be built but that it has never opposed training “INTENDED AND DESIGNED TO BUILD UP STRONG BODIES, HEALTHY MINDS AND PATRIOT- IC SOULS.” But pacifism, he read, quoting an El Paso convention dec- laration, is obnoxious. The report ended with, a, violent denunciation of those who call themselves paci- fists but preach the overthrow of government, These, the committee asserted, never utter a word of con- demnation against the army of Sov- iet Russia, numbered by the com- mittee at 1,750,000. The report was adopted. i yea usual, confusion between paci- fism and..class conscious, militant opposition to ,armed suppression of labor and sistance to imperialist militarist enterprises is evident here. It ig not remarkable either that Woll parries an attack on American mili- tarism by counter-attack on the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia whose successful struggle against the mercenary armies of world capi Mam are an inspiration to intelli, ent workers everywhere. This is a tactic of the misleaders of the workers in every country and the Woll, who in the debate on wage pol- icy sneered at theory, is not too much averse to it to put in practice the capitalist theory of armed force as the arbiter of questions at issue be- tween capital and labor. i bain words of Woll are found in the mouth of the social-democratic be- trayers of the workers in France, Germany and Great Britain. Training intended and designed to build up Strong bodies, healthy minds and patriotic souls. This is exactly what the capitalists want and their interpretation of this sentence differs in nowise from that of Wall—‘“strong bodies” which can give the Bestof service to the bosses before they are thrown on the in- dustrial 6¢rap heap or torn to pieces while tryimg to slaughter other work- ers, “healthy. minds” unable to un- derstand ‘the necessity for loyalty to their clasg:that slavery may be ban- BIG NOV. 7TH MEETINGS SEEN Celebrations to Surpass _ All Others From reports received by the na- tional office of the Workers (Com- munist) Party indications are that this year’s ‘anniversary celebrations on November:7 in honor of the Russ- jan revolution’ will surpass all those that have been held heretofore. from Coast to Coast. Tremendous. demonstrations and meetings in every important center in the country from coast to coast are assured by district organizers in their reports. The following districts have already arranged for meetings: District No. 1.—Boston, Mass; Springfield, Mass.; Worcester, Mass. District No. 2.—New York, N. Y.; Newark, N. J.; Jersey City, N. J.; Bayonne, N. J.; Paterson, N. J.; Yon- kers, N. ¥ District No. 3.—Philadelphia, Pa.; Washington, D. C.; Baltimore, Md. District No, 4.—Rochester, N. Y.; Buffalo, N. ¥.; Utica, N. Y.; James- ished, “patriotic souls’ with but the desire to die a horrible death that the golden stream: of profit may con- tinue to flow unchecked. This indeed is imperialism speak- ing thru the mouth of American la- bor'’s general staff. HE American legion, that organ- ization of ex-officers which has been blessed by every spokesman of capitalist industry and state from Gary to Coolidge, is the militant prop- agandist for universal conscription and the widest possible extension of military training camps. Between the legion and the A. F. of L. labor aristocracy is the close bond, made at San Francisco, tightened at Port- land, strengthened at El Paso and cinched up a notch or two at Atlantic City. 1O Atlantic City came Major George L. Berry, army intelligence officer who enlisted the day before the armis- tice was signed, strikebreaker par ex- cellence and a character so notorious- ly hated by honest labor men that even Tammany Hall was-forced to ex- plain in the recent election that its candidate of similar name was not the “Major Berry of national reputa- tion.” Berry is head of the Press- men’s Union, vice-president of the A. F. of L., ex-vice-chairman of the American legion and represented that body as fraternal delegate to the At- lantic City convention. Said “the majah”: Second, the question of American- ism. The American legion joined with the American Federation of Labor and you, in turn, in saying that it proposes to bring home to the American people the truth with reference to America. The legion believes that there is nothing wrong with Americaa WHATEVER THERE MAY BE WRONG IN OUR COUNTRY IS THE RESULT OF THE PEOPLE, AND NOT OF THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT. ORRY, like all real demagogues, blames “the people.” This is a cardinal principle of fakerdom. Never blame the bosses; it might make them angry but “the people” are more or less inarticulate and long suffering as witness the reign of Berry in: his union. Further: We all know that there is not that state of perfection in America wage, Page Three By William F. Dunne that we would have, but we do know that we have the instrumentality of free men, with a great economic power back of us to remedy, in the course of time, any defects of which ‘we may complain, and the American legion joins with you in the proposi- tion that it will associate itself with every forward looking Ameri- can to the end that THERE SHALL BE NO REVOLUTION IN AMER- ICA THIS DAY, TOMORROW, OR ANY OF THE OTHER DAYS DUR- ING THE LIFE OF THE AMERI- CAN LEGION AND OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LA- BOR. HE cat is out of the bag. After all, it is a difficult task to convince the masses that America is in dan- ger of attack by foreign powers in spite of the Hearst press and its myriads of Japanese airplanes. “The enemy from within” is the target to- ward which the Wolls and Berrys di- rect their fire. A few words about from within” our gates. Who makes revolution? ers. What makes the workers make re- volution? Oppression—economic, political. Has there ever been a revolution where no oppression existed? No. What is a revolution? It is an armed strike of the de- cisive sections of the working’ class against all the bosses and their gov- ernment, A counter-revolutionist is a strike- breaker and strikebreakers are coun- ter-revolutionists. They could have no more appropriate spokesman than “majah” Berry. OEVER aids the extension of militarism in the United States either by failure to fight it in every form or by praising it because it is alleged to build up “strong bodies, healthy minds and patriotic souls” is a strikebreaker and an enemy of the labor movement. At Atlantic City, insofar as the con- vention was composed of labor of- ficials who accepted Woll’s report for the resolution committee in favor of militarism, and applauded the speech of Berry, was held a convention of enemies of the labor movement. “the enemy The work- social and CAN’T TELL WHERE GOVERNMENT LEAVES OFF AND STEEL TRUST BEGINS UNDER CAPITALIST RULE By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) * Consolidation of the entire steel industry to boost profits by limiting pro- duction and raising prices will be resumed, to judge by the inner meaning of Judge Gary’s semi-annual address to the American Iron & Steel institute. The refrain of his remarks is “Cal’s in his heaven, all's right with the world of steel.” This means that big business won’t be molested if it gets together, Gary even suggesting that the department of justice sit in now that the gov- ernment is all in the family. Competition, that’s what Gary doesn’t like. All competition that brings lower prices and consequent lower profits is unfair in his eyes. So he prom- ises the entire industry satisfactory + profits on its hugely over-expanded capitalization if the steel producers will get together and stop pushing “competition to the point of accept- ing unreasonably low prices for our commodities.” Merely “Reasonable.” “Reasonable prices,” he says, “bring the greatest good to everyone. Every- one should keep away from getting another's business by unfair methods. We would make more dollars and cents in the long run if we took our share of business at a fair profit.” Gary means to re-establish the in- formal gatherings, known as Gary din- ners, thru which the steel barons eli- minated competition and paid big pro- fits on heavily watered capitalization before the Roosevelt-Wilson anti-trust period. He says: “As a suggestion for consideration by the iron and steel industry would it be advisable to make another effort town, N. Y.; Binghamton, N. Y. District No, 5.—Pittsburgh, Pa. District No. 6——Cleveland, Ohio; Canton, Ohio; Warren, Ohio; Cincin- nati, Ohio. m|: nati, Ohio; Bellaire, Ohio; Conneaut, Ohio; Youngstown, Ohio. District No/¢.—Mass, Mich, Detroit, Mich. h@s District No.\8—Chicago, Ill.; Wau- cegan, Ill; E.cSt. Louis, Il.; Milwau- kee, Wis.; Frankfort Hts., Ill.; South Bend. Ind.; Kenosha, Wis.; Pullman, mM. ” District No, 9—Minneapolis, Minn.; St. Paul, Minm; Duluth, Minn. District No.) 12. District No! 13—San Francisco, Cal.; Berkeley, Cal District No,’ 15.—Hartford, New Haven, Conn. £ National Office Territory.—Denver, Colo.; Kansas’ City, Mo. Agricultural District.—Omaha, Nebr. There are many other meetings which are not listed above. Conn.; Bar Child Exploiters. MOLINE, II, Nov, 1.—Bishop Fd- win H. Hughes, of Chicago, appearing before the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the first Swedish meth- odist episcopal’ ¢hurch here expressed desire of barriig from the church mill owners chargé’ with stunting the growth of children “by employing Every reacti bloodhound in Cali fornia will cry for his head and the workers from one end of the country to the othe} must rally to snatch an- ing class life from the gal- them to in’ pocketbooks.” “There are oh million children em- ployed in Ame some of them 18 hours a day,” y erbase _ already inflated to stabilize the business? If meetings should occasionally be held by the manufacturers for the discussion of business’ on the lines pursued in 1907 and a representative of the depart- ment of justice should be designated to attend and listen, and whenever necessary and appropriate to advise concerning the law, what would be the effect upon the steel business, and perhaps other lines.” Wants Government Sanction. A cautious feeler, but significant, for Gary’s suggestions are apt to be taken as the soft voice of a dictator. The last of Gary luncheons on this model were in 1908, Are they now to be resumed under the beneficent sanction of the government? This return to covert combination in restraint of trade will be the na- tural fruit of the supreme court's de- cision in the maple flooring and ce- ment cases, Commenting on these decisions The Wall Street Journal said: “The decision of the court permits manufacturers, thru their assocta- tions, to gather and disseminate in- formation on practically every phase of their business but makes it plain that any agreements between them to fix prices, restrain production or allot territory are in violation of the law.” . “Nothing Illegal.” This sounds as if the Sherman act were still to be: enforeed. But the Journal shows thatthe, court left a door open wide @nowgh for any com- bine to drive thraywhen it adds, “If the trade association, finds overpro- duction and iti 8s, uninfluenced by any agreemen ting each in- RUTHENBERG 10 ADDRESS WORCESTER WORKERS AT NOV. 8TH CELEBRATION WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 1.—C. £, Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers Party, will address the workers of Worcester on the eighth anniversary of the Russian revolution, Sunday, Nov. 8, at the Belmont Hall, 54 Belmont street, at 7p. m Fiabe ths onshintncensntcrenenionetid dividually on the information distri- buted, curtail. output there is noth- ing illegal in their course.” The supreme court as now consti- tuted refused to accept the position that the gathering and dissemination of information inevitably led to agree- ments and understandings restraining trade. And as the smaller steel pro- ducers know that U. 8, Steel can wreck them whenever it chooses, it will require less than a hint to end cutthroat competition. It will not be an agreement, it will be obedience to a dictator, Even “Missing Links” in Evolution Benefit for Minneapolis Labor By FRANCES M. DICKEY Worker Correspondent. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Nov. 1— Scarcely a dozen of the 143 local un- fons supposed to be organized here turned out for the parade staged Sat- urday night by the A. F. of L. as part of the “Evolution Show” being held to raise funds for the erection of a labor temple. Managers of the affair tried to hide the lack of unions by letting fly huge American flags over each section of marchers. The only hint of working class spirit about it came when a group of on-lookers unexpectedly shouted, “All. hail to the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions,” But at any rate, the evolution show is put on for a good purpose, both practically and ideologically. Baby monkeys, adult monkeys, and apes as well are on exhibition to demonstrate the various links from brute to man, Even some “missing” links are there. ‘The exhibition is held in the state arm- ory and thé animals have been loaned by the Longfellow zoological gardens. pine ape de ax derstand Communism—study |. W. A. CONGRESS ON NOV. 8TH AT HALLE, GERMANY Million and Half Work- ers to Be Represented By WM. F. KRUSE. (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN (By Mail).—An all-German conference of the “Friends of the In- ternational Workers’ Aid” will be held on Nov. 8, at Halle. One hundred and eight delegates representing four hun- dred organizations in all parts of the country, with 30,000 individual mem- bers and one million and a half eol- lective members, will be represented at this conference. The organization was formed om a membership basis in March, 1924, and has consistently maintained itself as a nop-political proletarian relief or, ganization despite the most bitter at- tacks on the part of the old line sociak democratic political leaders. From the beginning the large num- ber of left social-democrats have been active shoulder to shoulder with the Communists and non-party elements, in this important phase of the class struggle. The bureaucracy of the German trade unions. the A, G, D, B., opened a vigorous attack against the I. W. A. as a Communist connection, and the social-democratic press join- ed in the hue and cry, and the party convention instructed its members to withdraw. Some of them did so but many others, openly or under cover, continued active support of the work. Workers Cannot be Drawn Out, While party pressure compelled the more prominent members to sever of- ficial connections, large numbers of proletarians continue to maintain their activity and many local organiz- ations protested against this effort to split the working class on this field. On top of this the active trade union members of the I. W. A. committee in England declined to receive the false spy charges with which the German reactionaries tried to mislead them. In several instances the executives of the national organizations threatened local bodies with expulsion if they did not cease their support of this relief work but always with the result of making the local membership the more determined to support it and make it suecessful. In some cases reports of the withdrawal of organ- izations were published in the news- papers and afterwards proven to. be entirely false. It is expected that the coming con- ference will result in the further ex- tension of the organization and its growth in strength and influence. Atty. Gen. Sargent, Hailed by Liberals, Proves a Reactionary, WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Attorney General Sargent has at last been smoked out by criticism of his long silence on the issue put up to him by the Nugent-Thompson minority of the federal trade commission—as to whether the rules adopted by the Humphry-Hunt-Van Fleet majority that the senate or house alone can- not order an investigation, is legal. He finds that the rule is unsound, and that the senate resolution de- manding a probe of the bread trust, and the senate resolution ordering an inquiry into the General Electric pow- er trust, must be obeyed. However, Sargent saves something for Coolidge and Mellon, He says the commission need not inquire into the question of the use of funds by the General Electric combine to discredit municipal ownership of power, as de- manded in the Norris resolution, And Sargent remains silent as to his own willingness to begin prosecu- tion of the Mellon aluminum trust, which was promised by Stone, his predecessor. Sargent claims there is “nothing on the records of the de- partment” to show that any prosecu- tion of the aluminum trust was ever considered. Socialists Get Police to Arrest Communist By SILVAN A, POLLACK, (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Noy. 1—The so- cialist party, fearing that the workers of New York City would learn of their anti-working class character, called upon the police to arrest J, Cuttner, a member of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, who had asked a question of the speaker at a socialist open-air meeting which was being held at Madison Ave., and 104th St. When Comrade Cuttner asked the socialist his question, the socialists not being able to answer it, called up- on the police to arrest the worker, who was roundly cheered by the as- sembled workers when he was being taken'to the station house, If you want to thoroughly un- it. Sena for a catalogue of all LUDigt, Titenasem oS alia