The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1925, Page 2

f glared they could ctrave found room} 4» bad off,” and tried to escape regpon- fr es Page Two —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_——_—_—__—_—_—__—_—_——— HOSPITAL SHUTS DOORS ON YOUNG INDIAN MOTHER Girl Gives Birth to Child on Sidewalk (Special to The Daily Worker) | SHATTLE, Wash., Dec. 29.— Mrs.| ®rank Benson, a half-breed Indian girl of seventeen, gave birth to a ~eiiild on a sidewalk here in front of the Frye Packing company with over @ hundred men and women gathered around watching the pains that the Indian girl was forced to uridergo. Hospital Shuts Door on Girl, Barlier in the day Mrs. Benson ap- plied to the county hospital telling | them that she expected her child to| *be born at any moment, and asking for a bed. She was refused admis- pion. by the 100 per cent Americans in charge of the,county institution, ‘because there was no room for he When newspaper reporters inve tigated the matter, the matron de- for her—if they knew she~was ne sibility by saying she did not Tet; ognize that it was an “emergency ” ease.” She then left the county hospital, boarded a street car and was on her) way to the city hospital to see if she could get a bed there. Gives Birth on Street. The jolting of the street car in-| creased her pains to such an extent| that she was forced to take her suit- case and walk. While walking, she ‘was seized with excruciating pains| ‘and sat down on her suitcase and a passing worker put in a call for the city hospital. As she sat there hun- dreds of packing house workers gath- ered around and watched her as she labored with the birth. Always Played “Dirty Tricks.” When the ambulance finally arriv- ed, she had given birth to her child. Many of those in the crowd, when learning of the fact that the county . hospital had refused her entry, de- clared that the county hospital ma-| tron always played “dirty tricks” on| working class women and especially | on those whose skins were darker than theirs. Soviet Union to Hear Opera, ‘Farm Laborer’ MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 29.—) ‘The writer Andrei Khmara has just | Wnishet “the ivretto for an opera, | “The Farm Laborer.” The subject} of this opera is the October revolu-, tion in the countryside. The music is being written by Ippolit-Ivanov. Are you going to give? Make it @ book on Communism! ATTEND— The Daily Worker Anniversary Concert THOUSANDS OF JOBLESS SEEK FOOD AND SHELTER IN NEW YORK MISSIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 29. — Three dead in New York and vicinity was the toll resulting from the cold wave due to the cold, were report- ed In other eastern cities. In New York City, thousands of home! sought food and shelter in 'm ns and lodging houses. NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS WILL FORM COUNCILS Intensive Organization Is Planned ¢ BISMARCK, D., Dec, 29.— Plans | are being laid for an intensive or- ganization drive to form ‘local coun- cils of the Prog! e Farmers in North Dakota. William Bouck at a gathering here showed the necessity tee TS these secret economic or- nizations of the farmers and out- lined his successes in Montana, where he has made an extensive tour. Bouck met with an enthusiastic response in all parts of Montana, The organization urged by Bouck bars all parasites. In order to belong evidence must be produced that the applicant is an honest-to-goodness working farmer. John G. Saltis, well- konw in farmer-labor circles of! North Dakota, will carry on extensive organization campaign in Montana and western North Dakota for the Western Progressive Farmers. Condemns Fascism But Fails to’ Condemn Its Ally, the U. S. Gov’t. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— By au- thority of the executive council of the American Federation of. Labor, William Green, president, has issued to the American people and to trade unionists especially a warning against the spread of Mussolini’s dictatorial power to the United States. In a printed circular, planned: dur- ing the recent meeting of the coun- cil, Green recites the long story of the crushing out of Italian liberty and the enslavement of the working mass- es in that nation of 40,000,000 souls, by the ruthless brutality of the *black- shirts. " One point is omitted from the’ in- dictment as thus presented. .That is the fact that these organizations for persecution of Italians in the United States who wish to become Ameri- cans and open enemies of the tyrant are in high favor. with the state :de- partment at Washington. Organiza- tions favorable to the aims of, Rus- sian Communism, as the executives of the A. F, of L. have good cause to know, have long been denounced by the state department, which has used all of its powers to cripple them. Tele- grams from the state department have been used in more than one convention of the federation to de- feat resolutions asking recognition of the Soviet republic. Worried Spokesman of Middle Class Tells a Tale of Ruin and Woe WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— “Pros- perity at present,” said Rep, Dickin- son of Iowa, “seems to be confined largely to Morida sunshine, New York stocks and the automobile trade. “Out in the western section of the country I find the economic depres- sion very far-reaching, Men who three years ago thot themselves beyond the reach of economic depression now find the same knocking at their door. Men who a few years ago called others radicals because they propos- % CASINO, 86th St. and Third Ave. Freiheit Singing Society Hungarlan Symphony Orchestra, Etc. TICKETS at the door 50c, In advance TWO for 50c ‘) On Sale at _ Daily Worker N. Y. Agency, 108 East 14th Street, WS ed legislative relief are more pro- nounced in their criticism of farm in- equality than those they formerly criticised Let no one be deceived as to the farreaching economic and po- Mtical effect of present conditions. “Tt 18 not the new or untried banker or farmer who is losing his all. In many cases it is the old, tried and dependable man, who has made a go of his job for 40 years, who is now facing ruin. Many of them have seen life savings and homes taken from them.” Dickinson reminded the house that the farmer of Iowa has suffered a comparative loss in buying power of $1,000,000,000 in six years, and de- clared that unless some form of ex- port credit or price-stabilizing legis- lation were enacted the present eco- nomic blight upon agriculture would spread. Consequences both economic and political would be grave, How Will Poor Jesus Live, Reverend Pastor? WASHINGTON, Dec, 29.—Use of “raffles, roulette wheels and other gambling devices” by episcopal chur- ches -was condemned by Bishop James EB. Freeman. sein | jand the SWITZERLAND IS IN BAD FIX OVER VOROVSKY DEATH May Lose League of Nations Conference (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec, 29.— The refusal of the Russian Soviet government to take part in the league of nations’ disarmament conference league’s economic confer- ence, to which Soviet Russia has been invited, if these take place on Swiss soil has caused a serious pol- itical situation in Switzerland. Refuses to Go to Switzerland. Soviet Russia refuses to attend any conference in Switzerland as Vaslav Vorovsky, one of its envoys was as- sassinated, when he attended the Lausanne conference and that later when his assassin Maurice Conradi was brought to trial, the trial was made an anti-Soviet Russia propa- ganda affair and not a trial of a murderer. The economic situation is such in Switzerland that it depends upon the tourists that enter the country for its maintenance. With the development of the league of nations and the many conferences that are to be held it visualized one of the fattest years that it ever had. But now, Soviet Russia, has pricked their bubble. Need Russian Participation, The league of nations supreme committee admits that without the Participation of the Soviet in many of the conferences that the league is planning, nothing definite can be decided and that all their work would be in vain, The league has appointed a committee to confer with the presi- dent of Switzerland over the Conradi trial, where the Soviet government was viciously assailed, and over other matters and its is expected that the league committee will try to force action favorable to Russia from the Swiss president. Former Conference Transferred The conference on inland tonnage, t which the Soviet Union had been invited was transferred from Switzer- land to Paris in order wo have the Soviet Union's representatives pres- ent. Republican Bosses in Big Whiskey Scandal; Gov. Lowden Involved ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29.—(FP)—The conviction in federal court at Indian- apolis of leading republicans, who were found guilty of participation in the $2,000,000 Jack Daniel whisky steal at St. Louis, revives echoes of the Lowden slush fund scandal in the republican national convention of 1920. Fred Essens, political boss in St. Louis county, is yet to be tried. Es- sens was the only one openly to ad- mit that he shared in the Lowden money bags which were liberally filled to buy delegates for the former Illinois governor who is being talked of again as a farmer candidate for 1928, Nat Goldstein, one of the men convicted in the big booze case, is a republican Politicians of national repute. He got $2,500 of Lowden money. The Lowden scandal gave Warren G. Harding the nomination. The late president seems to have felt grateful for every principal in the affair got a handsome job. Goldstein was appoint- ed collector of internal revenue, St. Louis district, but public protest made Goldstein send his resignation to Harding. Arnold J. Helmich, also found guilty in the whisky case, was appointed by Harding to succeed him. Others were also rewarded, Frozen Assets Caused Crash Says Clergyman; Auditors Nail Lie ELGIN, Dec. 29.—Walter C. Rippberger, whose “investments” wrecked the Charles Rippberger Co., of which he was the head, trom his cell in the county jail at Geneva de- clared, “frozen assets in the shape of es on property in the north- ed the crash. Our Florida holdings, I think, will show a profit of $100,000. I have known for two years the company was involved and have tried in vain to save it. It was my head, not my heart, that was at fault.” Auditors going into affairs of the concern did not agree with his state- ments. Around $500,000, they said, seems to have vanished into thin air, Receipts for that amount have been turned in by investors but neither the books nor the notes on which their IL, Payments were intended to apply show such payments, Composes Revolutionary Symphony, LENINGRAD, U. 8. S. R., Dec, 29, —The Russian composer Gnessin is now finishing a symphony with the Russian revolution for its theme, The composer has written a symphony consecrated to the death of Lenin. YEAR'S EVE IN CHICAGO FOR THE T.U. E. L BALL AT ITALIAN HALL, THE DAILY! WORKER ASTOUNDING MISERY AMONG CITY'S POOR IS REVEALED ON XMAS EVE NEW YORK, Dee. 29.—On Christ- mas eve, tens of thousands of the city’s poor lined up in front of Lex- ington avenue armory and Madison Square Garden. Ragged, half- starved, thousands of children, crip- ples, aged and infirm, a steady pro- cession, marshalled and directed by hundreds of uniformed police, filed into the bulldings to receive baskets of food, a few cheap toys, a few cents worth of candies. Lists published show that about 600,000 poor famities or over three million paupers, teceived a square meal. it was positively the most shocking exhibition ever publicly given in any civilized nation, The most pitifu} part of it was that the hunger of thousands of these compelled them to open the baskets and sacks immediately 80 that the sight of tens of thousands eating in doorways, office entrances, on cars, in subways’ and along the street added to the’ heart-rending scene. LIBERALS NOW ASTONISHED BY THEIR COMPANY Arms Parley Seen as Door to League lidge. ican Farm Bureau. the working farm By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— In Sen. Borah’s agreement with President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg that the senate shall be asked to appro- priate funds to send an American delegation to Geneya to take part in preliminary arrangements for a con- ference or conferences, for reduction of land and naval armaments, may bé seen the turning of the tide of politi- cal opposition in the United States to the league of nations, What Elihu Root. and Colonel House and Charles F, Hughes and Kellogg and Coolidge sée very clearly is that Morgan & Co, want the Amer- ican government directly represented in every branch of the activities and authority of the league of nations. This arms parley is a first step. The world court is another step, toward frank and full partitipation in the league. * They are deterMitied’ that the league shall not “create a United States of Europe, which would men- ce American commercial domination o£ Europe. The British government's restriction of rubber: output, which as increased the eost of rubber to American consumers by $700,000,- 000 in excess British, profits in one year, has aroused American big busi- ness to the possibilities in a Bu- ropean customs agreement and pool- ing of raw material advantages as against the Amrican. commercial em- pire. American commercial defense, to be effective, must: be entrenched in the league as well as in ordinary diplomacy. That is why millions of pacifists and church members and assorted idealists in this country, praying for American entry into the world court and the league, now are surprised to find themselves brushed aside from leadership of the court crusade while Wall Street takes command. That is why Root in his old age is brot to Washington, and the unctuous Hughes and the oily Col, House. appear. Geneva arms parleys “break in” America to league association, Busi- ness is staking its future on its abil- ity, as the ruling element in every modern state outside the Soviet Union, to use the league to protect private property against social discon- tent. m Homeless Workers of Mission Demand Less Jesus and More Sleep NEW YORK, Dec, 29.—Unfair Mis- sion” cried placa borne by pick- ets in front of Hadley Rescue Mission, No, 298 nery. The pick- ets, organized by i Ledoux, “Mr. Zero” demand an $-hour night, with privilege for mission lodgers of sleep- ing til 6 a, m. They are now turned out at 5 and since guests are ex- pected to attend mission services till 9:30 p. m,, andig@an hardly get to sleep before 10 p, m,, they have been getting only 7 hou: P. hay. farmers. of price fixing. home market. out foreign competition. would only tain their living standards. great need to be worried. Carpenters’ Union Joins Woodworkers’ Section of I. F. T. U. INDIANAPOLIS, —(FP)— Dec. 29 —Frank Duffy, general secretary United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, announces the affillation of his union with the International Union of Woodworkers effective January 1, 1926, The woodworkers are a consti- tuent section of the International Fed- eration of Trade Unions, the Amster- dam organization with which the Am- erican Federation of Labor was at one time affiliated, The woorworkers 1924 membership was reported at 711,287. The Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union bring 317,000 additional members. Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Brit- ain, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, No: way, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia are the other countries re- presented. Boston and Maine R. R. Fires Men As a Gift for “Happy New Year” BOSTON, Dec. 29—Hundreds of Boston & Maine railroad employes in all departments are being discharged Counterfeiter Has New Way to Make Money ELIZABETH, N, J., Dec. 29.—Fol- lowing a raid on his home which, ac- cording to authorities netted a com- plete counterfeiting paraphernalia, in- cluding spurious currency, cameras and plates, Frank Wiegan, was ar- rested. Wiegan had boasted that he could manufacture $26,000 in bills within three thinutes and that the counter- fleits would dety dptection even by a banker. sidiary of the New York, New Haven & Hartford ralroad. Locomotive fire- men, trainmen of passenger and freight divisions, clerical workers and express and mail workers are being hit, The president's office, however, is increasing its staff of assistants, { i a Se ae The Old Party Politicians Are Very Much Worried About Farm Discontent By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. realize that there is much Ahaall farmer-labor movement sweeping fr tana and Washington, down thru the middle west into Okla- homa and Texas. The farmers are bent on an independent class attack on both the Wall Street parties that have made them so many empty promises offering futile remedies. *ORAYs the politicians are worried about the “embattled farmers.” This includes not only the spokesmen of the Coolidge republican administration, but the democrats as well. Both begin to wriggle more than ever under the thumb of increasing mass discontent among the land workers. They in the new wave of the ‘om North Dakota, Mon- Some of the western states, now the centers of the greatest discontent, were ardent supporters of Coolidge at the polls last year. In little more than 12 months the balance has turned. The farmers are on the warpath against Coo- That the republican administration at Washington is fully aware of this turnover was shown in the hurried trip made by President Coolidge to Chicago to address the Amer- Before this gathering of politicians, bankers, rich farmers and little business men, who feed off opulation, Coolidge gushed rivers of political sympathy for the farmers further to the west. His only remedy, however, was the cooperative marketing of farm products. This didn't please the farmers who are more concerned about the prices received for their products. Even the reactionary strata represented by the Farm Bureau yelled its disapproval of the remedies offered by the New England farmer, Coolidge, who once had his picture taken pitching He appeared with a stand-up, stiff linen collar that made him look as if he didn’t often get close to the soil. When the picture was published in the kept press, for politi- cal purposes, it had quite the wrong effect among real dirt It was to them a good comic. The farmers have taken the starch out of Coolidge’s pretensions before the Farm Bureau. e now in process of initiation. The 1926 elections are coming on and the republican grip on some western states is openly menaced. It is announce: that “Silent Cal” is now ready to appoint a commission to dispose of the surplus production of the farms. This is supposed to refer especially to the corn belt centering in lowa. But again, it would‘help little to dis- pose of the surplus if the price Is below the cost of produc- tion. So far the president has set his Other advances are face against all forms One of the greatest assets of American capitalism is its It protects its manufactured goods for the enjoyment of this home market thru high tariffs, shutting Similarly, one farm panacea now offered is high protective tariffs for farm products. But this elp complete the circurnference of a‘ vicious circle. Higher tariffs on farm products, would mean an in- crease in the price of those same products, resulting in a mounting cost of living for the industrial workers. would force the city workers into greater struggles to main- Every inch gained, however, would be seized upon by the private owners of industry to increase the cost of industry's products, that the farmer must buy, thus in turn raising his cost of living. This The drive toward the movement for independent political action shows that increasing numbers of farmers realize the vicious grip in which they are held under the present social basa In the words of William Bouck, president of the estern Progressive Farmers: “WE KNOW THAT THERE IS NO CURE FOR THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING THE FARMERS UNDER THE PRESENT CAPITALIST SOCIAL SYSTEM.” The politicians at Washington are worried. They have NEW-BORN BABE LEFT | TO DIE ON HOSPITAL FLOOR, NURSE CHARGES TAMPA, Fla. Dec. 29. — Alle: tions that a baby born In ‘a local maternity hospital, which is now under Investigation, was left to dle on the floor, were contained in an affidavit made by one of the nurses employed at the hospital, “The baby born with its mouth torn and bleeding, was left to cry its life away on the cold floor,” the affidavit said. A prominent local surgeon and two women are under arrest. Capmakers Make Boss Pay Unemployed Wages Unemployed members of Local 5, Cloth Hat Cap & Millinery Workers’ International Union, are getting their first insurance checks from the union during the Christmas holidays, All the money for this fund comes out of the employers’ pockets and amounts to 8% of the payroll, The plan differs in this respect from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers arrangement under which employers and workers each pay 14% into the fund, The cap- makers also have full control of the fund while the Amalgamated shares it with the bosses. Rail Telegraphers Join Union, 8ST. LOU! ‘Osan Dec, 29.—The Order| plant here following a fire that d of Railroad Telegraphers enrolled 622| troyed the structure last new members during November 1926. ing _Admissio LABOR DEFENSE CALLS LEGION HEAD TO DEBATE Canton Branch Sends Open Challenge (1. L. D, Press Service.) CANTON, Dec. 29.—The following open letter challenging Leroy Gable, commander of the American Legion, to a debate on the International La- bor Defense was sent by the Interna- tional Labor Defense of Canton fol- lowing a speech in which the com- mander attacked the defense branch and the speakers at the defetise mags meeting, Bishop William Montgomery Brown and Fred G. Biedenkapp: “Dear Sir: “In an article published in the Can- ton Daily News, relative to a meet- ing held by the International Labor Defense, Local Canton, December 8, in the Canton Music Hall, you were quoted as saying that ‘The legion is doing its utmost to fight such propa- ganda which the national organiza- tion regards as vicious’ and that ‘The whole matter of this meeting will be laid before the next meeting ‘of our post.’ “The inference is that the speech- es made by the speaker Bishop Will- jam Montgomery Brown and F. G. Beidenkapp both representing the In- ternational Labor Defense, were of @ vicious nature. “Now, we, the undersigned, beg to differ in this matter and are willing and anxious to have the workers of Canton decide who is right and who is wrong. For this reason we take the liberty of challenging you to an open debate on the issues involved. You may select anyone you desire to represent your point of view, and we reserve the same right for our- selves. Time, place and date to be arranged upon. “The only condition we make is, that the meeting be open to the gen- eral public one and all, free of charge. “Hoping to hear from you at your earliest convenience, We beg to re- main, “Respectfully yours, “International Labor Defense, “Committee, Local Canton “Carl. Guillod, Secretary.” Copies of this letter were sent ¢o Leroy Gable and also the editor of the Canton Daily News. Miners Demand Jury Trial in Arkansas (1. L. D. Press Service.) RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. Dec. 29— Will Bramlet, Clifton McCracken and John Wells were charged in United ‘States district court at Little Rock with violation of an injunction re- straining miners from scab miners working at the Bernice mines Attorney Jack Smallwood, Jr., appeared for. the defendants and de- manded a jury trial. This was grant- ed and date set for the special term in January. The coal output from the company mines since the trouble started with the union has been reduced to 25 per cent and in addition it has cost the company $10,000 to pay state depu- ties for guarding their properties dur- ing the past six months. They haye now secured some federal deputies, Philadelphia I. L. D. Ball Friday, Jan. 15 PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 29—The Phi- ladelphia labor movement is being in- vited to attend the First Annual La- bor Defense Ball arranged by the In- ternational Labor Defense for Friday evening Jan. 15, at the Moose Hall, Broad and Master Sts, Special meetings of the Imternation- al Labor Defense conferemce are be- ing every Monday evening at 521 York Ave. bs All friends and supporters of the class war prisoners are invited to af- tend this ball as one of the meass of securing the release and helping the defense of the many class war prisoners now serving time and facing capitalist courts of this fm try. Injunction’ Atesall af Building Trades for _ Ban on Scab Material NEW YORK, Dec, 29—An injune: tion in defense of the open shop has been served on the Bullding Trades Council of Westchester county and its affiliated local unions by supreme court Justice Frank L. Young at the behest of the Wilson-Adams Co. of Mount Vernon and 28 other non-union building materials concerns. The in- junction seeks to stop the unions from striking against building con. tractors who buy scab building ma- terials from these companies, Box Factory Destroyed. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29, — No- thing but smouldering embers remain- ed today of the Commercial Box @o night, cau an estimated loss of an ve n 75 Cents, Including W AM Dancing Until 2 A, Rebasbionntndtenens intimidating”