The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1926, Page 2

Page Two POLICE ATTACK MINER PICKETS IN CARBONDALE Company Thugs Stab Two Coaldiggers Several striking miners were badly hurt and two stabbed when police | and company thugs swooped down en 500 striking coal diggers who | were trying to prevent the sending out of “bootieg” coal. | The capitalist press headlines | here state that stilletos, guns, ham- | mers, axes and revolvers were found on the pickets, No arrests were | made. All the arms that were there declare the pickets, were those in the hands of the police. This is the second attack of the police in the strike and it is ex- pected that these provocations on the part of operator-controlled po- lice is the first step towards the operation of the mines by the scabs, se 8 Hold Separate Conferences. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb, 11.— Two separate meetings of the min- ers’ union heads and the operators will be held some time this after- noon, it was stated by W. W. Ing- lis, spokesman for the operators and Thomas Kennedy, secretary of the} United Mine Workers of America. Each meeting will be an indepen- dent gathering. a President Refuses to Act. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11— Despite the protests that are pouring into the jin-glove with Oakland Legion Plans Instant Mobilization to Suppress Uprisings OAKLAND, Calif, Feb. 11—The commander of the local post of the American legion, P. O. Solon, has an- nounced the organization of an “emer- gency committee” of former service men for “instant mobilization into action, should the occasion demand,” The post expects to enlist upwards of 2,000 men who in the event of danger- ous conflagrations or “uprisings of various sorts” will be available for assemble at the nearest firehouse when called. The legion committee in charge of this fascist group has already met with the mayor who is working hand- the schemers tho he originally secured his position thru. the working class vote. The local la- bor movement and the Union Record, its official paper, are not doing any- thing to block this move. CLIFTON POLICE BRUTALLY BEAT STRIKE PICKETS Company Tools Assault Textile Workers (Continue from Page 1.) the police molest the strikers that she stopped and told the police a lot of things they had not heard before and said that they could not handle her the way they handled the strikers. Se was arrested, tho not a striker, and | this morning the Judge fined her $2! SHUT WASHERIES, 1S DEMAND OF MINER PICKETS District Officials Graft While Strikers Starve ing a meeting In the borough of Dun- more over 600 striking anthracite miners decided to throw picket lines around the washeries that are wash- ing in culm, waste rock and coal from the dump and preparing it for the market. At the meeting the ‘strikers pointed out that these washeries were prolonging the strike and taking the bread out of their mouths and that the only way to shut them down and to keep them shut was. to picket these washeries and pull the workers out. To Picket Washeries, The pickets gathered the next day and marched thru Dunmore, Throop and Scranton visiting the washeries in these three places and pulling out the workers. The pickets first went to the No. 1 colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal com- pany where they heard that coal was being shipped. When they arrived they found no one at work, so they continued their march northward over the snow-covered road to Throop. Upon arriving at Throop, the miners marched to the Carlucei colliery. A half a dozen men were at work and after the miners showed these work- ers that they were prolonging the strike and were aiding the coal oper- tors, all of the men_quit work and Rhinslandere Follow Stillmans in Reunion, Is. Persistent Rumor NEW ROCHELLE, N, Y., Feb, 11— Partial confirmation of rumors that Leonard Kip Rhinelander and Alice Jones, his colored bride, are planning @ reconciliation, was seen in denials by Mrs. George Jones, Alice's mother. Asked if the couple had re- united Mrs. Jones answered with a significant “not yet." “The newspapers,” she added, “are always finding out something ahead of MOSCOW, Feb, 11.—(Tass.)—In Soviet Russia there are at present 840 “homes for the peasant.” Of this number, 11 are central houses, 65 are provincial houses, and 264 are district centers. In 1924-25 over 3,000,000 peasants have been taken care of in these homes and extensive cultural and educational help has been render- ed to them. ZEIGLER MINERS GIVE BODY BLOW TO PROSECUTION Witnesses Smash Fox- Cobb Frame-up (Continued from page 1) especially fought the support Fox and Cobb gave to the company attempt to swindle miners in the coal weighing. Pete Blazin was the check weighman who exposed the swindling of the com- pany and finally refused to attempt to weigh coal when the company ran the cars over the scales so fast that he THE DAILY WORKER “Business” Is Good for Capitalists of America in the Philippine Islands By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Teper Washington announces the glad news cabled half way around the world by Governor General Leonard jinstanect use. The plans provide for time and spoiling them.” . boigares tee BULLETIN. the blocking off of the city into sec- (Special to The Daily Worker) ahiadnigianiobins Wood that American exploitation of the wisps qe is show- By J. 0, BENTALL. CARBONDALE, Pa. Feb. 11, — | tions. Members of the force will] SCRANTON, Pa., Feb. 11.—Follow Homes for Peasants, ing gratifying increases. That means that the Filipinos are (Special to The Dally Worker) being shackled more secure than ever to the chariot wheels of American imperialism. -Another. Philippine: Independence Commission is in Washington urging the liberation of the islands from Wall Street rule. Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine senate, is being rushed across the Pacific as a sort of reserve force, the results secured by the commission already on the job not being satisfactory. But Quezon will learn that profits and not fancy phrased pleas have the right of way in Wash- ington. Governor General Wood's cable that Philippine trade is rapidly and profitably increasing will counteract all argu- ments for the release of the islands to native rule. * * * . Washington sits up and listens intently when it hears that the foreign trade of the Philippines for the 12 months ending Dec. 31, 1925, aggregated $268,610,038. Thus it passed the quarter billion mark, Of this huge sum $119,- 732,833 was imports and $148,877,205 exports, or a com- modity trade balance in favor of the islands of $29,144,372. This means that the credit of the islands with Wall Street's international bankers is improving, that funds will be avail- able for the further exploitation of the islands, for the development of the systematic and intensive plunder of its working and farming masses. The 1925 figures as compared with those of the previous year show an increase in imports of $11,721,938 and-in ex- ports of $13,532,542. The chains tighten. * * * * The United States has a near-monopoly of this lucrative canter STRIKERS UNITE FORCES AGAINST POLICE ATTACKS ‘Strengthen Picket Line’ Is Workers’ Cry ° PASSAIC, N, J., Feb, 11.--“We must fight this attack upon the workers with all our might,” said Joe Deak, secretary-treasurer of the United Front Committee of Textlie Workers, when he was helped to the platform in Neubauers’ Hall two hours after and left id later carried out of danger by his fellow workers in the picket line that broke thru the police squad and marched in front of the Forstmann & Huffman — mill in spite of the precautions taken by that mill to have it. remain un- disturbed by pickets of Passaic. Strengthen Picket Lines. “We must strengthen our picket line and make it.five thousand if necessary and show the brutal bosses that the workers cannot be mauled and battered without @ protest that will compel the police to abandon their vicious assault on innocent men and women,” he continued. “I am ready to go out and lead the picket line tomorrow, and no one shall stop us. We must make our union so strong that no power in the country will be able to break it.” Deak had been brutally hit on the head by the heavy club wielded by the police, and had been knocked to the ground where the inhuman cops 0 and costs. When Attorney Unger pro- | Joined the striking miners, could uot see-the fadiowton. Heary|. trade, enjoying the profits from approximately 60 per cent of {beat him over the back so severely capitol demanding that President tested the judge got huffy and threat: Labor Faker Scabs, Corbishley has been a thorn in the} the merchandise sent into the Philippines, and 75 per cent of | that he had to be carried away in a Coolidge take some steps to settl@| ened to do something quite unpleasant; The miners then marched to the the anthracite coal strike which to- day is the longest strike ever fought in the hard coal district, Coolidge still claims he has no power and intimates that he will only step in when the law-makers pass the administration anti-strike legislation. The Pennsylvania delegation head- ed by Brumm attempts to defend the administration by declaring that the president has not yet taken the step because he does not “realize how urg- ent relief is needed.” Wants to Import Coal. Representative La Guardia, who was elected to congress on the socialist party ticket during their alliance with the so-called progressives has intro- duced a bill dalling for the appropria- to Unger also. ran as follows. Unger, commenting upon Judge Baker's sentence, said: “I cannot see where there was any real crime committed and I know that if the charge were made against a mill owner, instead of against a work- er, the complaint would be dismissed and the defendant, would receive the apologies of the court.” Judge Baker said: “Mr. Unger, I am surprised to hear you talk ilke that. You ought to remember that you are now in a court of law and not out talking to strikers. If you want to do that sort of thing, you should go to the halls where the Their little argument MacDonald washery at Scranton. At this washery, run by Steve J. Mac- Donald, a former president of the Scranton Labor Uinon, the miners were met by policemen armed with sawed-off shotguns: The police superintendent who had been giving this labor faker police protection for his scabs, on learning that the strikers were on their way to picket this washery, called in all the traffic cops, the reserves and many patrolmen, armed them with tear gas bombs and sawed-off shotguns and threw them around the washery. When the miners arrived at the washery they found an army of police ready to attack them on the least excuse. side of the machine for many years and they take this opportunity of get- ting rid of him, For the last two days the defense witnesses have been proving that none of the defendants were guilty of the things charged against them. Frank Skihinsky, chairman of the un- ion meeting at which the fight took place, and a dozen other witnesses, declared on the stand that the speech made by Stanley Paurez was delivered in English and that nothing was said in the meeting in any foreign lan- guage, They also state that no threats of any kind were made against Cobb or Fox in the meeting. Witnesses Hit Gobb Lies. the shipments that left the islands, Sugar exports during 1925 were the largest in the history of the islands, amounting to 538,192 long tons as compared with 347,718 in 1924, Manila hemp shipments were valued at $35,521,646 as against $29,950,458 last year. Governor General Wood con- cludes his cable with the statement that, “practically all other staple products showed substantial increases.” e * *¢* @ It is under these conditions that congress will vote in- creased power to the governor general, the American strike- breaker, as against the native Philippine legislature. The British Empire for centuries has sent its “governors” into India, Egypt and other subject nations, writhing under the bitter exploitation enforced by the London profiteers. The United States is in the Philippines for the same reason,—to take what it can out of the islands. Under the half dazed condition. When he was assisted to the platform the crowd broke into loud cheers shouting, “That's :the stuff. That's the fellow to stand by.” Rose Hadnagy, mother of three children, was in the same line as Deak and was introduced to the packed house by Organizer Weis- bord. Fight For Better Conditions, “It is an outrage to have the bosses first eut our wages and then have the police cut our heads open,” she declared. The entire back of her head was swollen and a deep gash marked the spot where the club had hit her. She too was knocked down and kicked in the abdomen by the tion of $75,000,000 so that the depart-| perro, ot fheit meetings. You will} “Don’t make any trouble, men,”| six witnesses saw Henry Corbishley| rushing burden of this American tyranny the revolutionary | cop. “I am not going to give up in ment of commerce can import Welsh esi lh ak ic ag ye ea} threatened “Capt. of Police “Herry| standing on the sidewall when they spirit of the Filipino will gradually grow and find itself. te mpage al ges “I came to ba and Belgian coal and thus “relieve the| i, not the place for talk like es pet poatt pie a left the hall at the time the fight was pRB ae is phon I ets I shriongee: oryples Chrachte trike | “US “settle” the an-| “The strikers are now in fine trim| mand as American cltlvogs the eight | aeize Pisce in which el ae In the public schools this month, when the revolution | come. They cannot scare me. by Ae a babiis tapilasios. to go ahead and fight to the finish.|to stop non-union men from taking the Stuian uae eae “en al ei of the colonists in 1776 is carefully gone over again, inci- | threatening deportation. This is no is adaiaiatrasten dened dive whit’ ae te athe: oe Ae Sher have] bread out of our mouths,” declared |ine murder of Mike Sarovich. wit.| @eMtal to the “celebration” of George Washington's birthday, | country to live in till they do away ing their time and when protests be- the ae stuf pits fit id og ras one of the miners. 5 nesses were produced who left the hall nothing will be said of America’s Oppression this year of the sie the tyranny that now exists come urgent they will try to jam thru! s+ o1oing to steel vei Dagi if e judge Policeman Attacks Picket. along with him and others who saw| ReOples of the Philippines. This will be hidden from the ere, We must stick together and the lawmaking bodies in Washington] 1. y0.cce ‘They see mow ae nuut| One of the policemen, seeing this|him on the street at the time the} school children who may be. called upon when they grow | set — cng and make this country their anti-strike legislation, Betote thac the Tages jude, posit’ group of strikers peacefully demand-|fatal shot was fired inside the hall. older to make war against the Filipinos waging a braver |* yee pe habeas izer, told th land the entire power of gaverninet ing the right to picket, discharged his} Toby Soina, an Austrian who came} battle than today for their liberation. seteate ona aiaat gator enatbaan ‘oat // is in the hands of the bosses, sawed-off shotgun at the miners. Due/|to this country in 1880, was near the * ¢ # “we must have a bigger picket line : $0 ihe tect Chae me Gan drank tneasech |door at. the: tine Gaue aay eae Wy Leonard Wood was head of the army at Gary, Ind., dur- | than ever. We have had one and tw Help the : “white mule” his aim was bad and no|Cobb pull bis blackjack and strike a] ;, : y 2 Lleinaged . 6 eas ig the last steel strike. He commanded the military power | thousand in Garfield and Passaic to Politicians Involved one was hurt. The miners demanded | miner which precipitated the scrap. h 1 break * Pan . ull out the Botany and the Gera mills Class War * that their committee be allowed to see| Pete Blazin has witnesses to prove that helped break the strike, But the spirit of struggle still aaa ih other pens ot "hh . 4 ° ! in Bootleg Murders) acponsid and have him close the|that he was outside the hall at the| lives and grows among the steel workers, s sided, “bar enw we tee Aoaete nas Prisoners! washery. After much dickering the|time the racket was going on inside. Wood may also succeed temporarily in his duties as an HB” Woe. Cah haves See Aomncnteee: f\ Shae CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 11.— An| request was granted. Altogether the defense has dismantled} imperialist potentate of Wall Street in the orient, But that foprntig: of: 4000. of 6.608, Wevdae } amazing story of plots and counter- Officials Take Graft. the prosecution case, and shown that} does not mean that the liberation struggle of the Filipinos have more than that, We he: bait Set vt Attend the plots, involving politicians ‘and boot-| When the miners’ committee met ‘ : Concert and leggers was revealed to? the federal grand jury investigating an alleged nation-wide alcohol conspiracy. The revelations were made by Abe and Ben Gleeman, serving life sen- tences in a Minnesota prison for the Dance given by the murder of Burton Stevens last win- ter during a bootleg war, Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every peek. This is a good issue to give MacDonald and asked him why he kept his washery running he declared that he and others had paid fancy prices to keep their washeries in oper- ation and that he was not going to shut down unless the rest shut down. He declared that the district officials were getting “their graft” from him and that he had the right to keep his washery running. An “Iingrate.” Rinaldo Cappellini, district presi- dent of the union, when confronted whoever was responsible for the beat- ing Cobb received, the arrested pro- gressives are not to blame. Most of the session was taken up with the testimony of character wit- nesses, doctors, lawyers, bank manag- ers, county officials and miners testi- fled to the good reputations held by the defendants. It is expected that the case for’the defense will take an- other day. Then the concluding argu. ments will be heard and the jury in- structed by the judge. Miners’ Interest Increases, is ended. The steel workers, in common with all American labor, will join with the F o workers and peasants in common action, because they will both come to realize that they have a common enemy—American capitalism—that oppresses them both. } The Conviction of John Bruns By CHARLOTTE ANITA WHITNEY. (By I. L. D, Press Service) all the relatives and friends of the strikers and have them take their children with them and show the police a line of 30,000 to 40,000. We must have mass action and show the bosses that we mean businers and that their assault will mean only one thing: greater solidarity and a more thoro united front.” Unite Against Bosses. Ed Royce of New York told the strikers of the move made by the police under orders of the mayor and The last conviction under the criminal syndicalism law of California |the bosses to unite in a concerted RUSSIAN BRANCH OF THE I. L. D. TOMORROW, to your fellow worker, A Masquerade.in Philadelphia For Our Daily. with MacDonald's declaration that the officials were getting graft to allow these collieries to operate, refused to comment on the case outside of call- ing MacDonald an “ingrate.” Kill Tax Publicity, WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—Big busi- ness can breathe much easier as The interest of the miners in the trial is growing. The crowds in the court room are larger than ever. The single topic of conversation in the streets is the trial and the chances of the accused being acquitted. Outside of the few retainers of the Fox-Cobb machine there are very few miners in sympathy with this frame-up against the Zeigler progressive leaders, was that of John Bruns in November, 1924, in Lassen county where the West- wood Lumber company reigns supreme, Bruns was a lumber jack and was found with a pack sack full of wobbly literature which was sufficient to make a case, A special prosecutor, MacCarron, famous for his success in evading the Nevada law and winning a divorce for Mary Pickford, was brought from Reno and the stage was set with the usual ¢————_________________. witnesses who charge $250 a day for fight by giving all the police in all the neighboring municipalities authority to attack and arrest the strikers. “We, too,” said Royce, “must unite as thi y and show them that we have not gone at this blindly, but expect to carry the fight to the “finish.” “Do not fear the police,” said Ben To Open Air Line, Lifshitz of New York. “The bosses SATURDAY, FEB. 13 their perjured testimony, The influence of the Westwood Lumber Company spelled victory for the prosecution and Bruns received the inderterminate sentence fixed in do not ask whether a worker is a foreigner or not as long as he works for low wages and bad conditions and makes a big profit for the boss. It is only when the worker wants his _ MOSCOW, (Tass) — (By Mail.)— The aeroplane “Prombank” has arriv- ed at Rostov to commence preparatory work for the establishment of a new ATTEND THIS JOYOUS DAILY WORKER unions and their workers will not be able to find out how much their bosses are making yearly, No longer will workers respresentatives in wage ne- PULPIT POUNDER gotiations be able to show in black the law of from one to fourteen yeafs. |air line Rostov-Baku-Tiflis. The new/rights and a decent living that they at the BALL and white the profits the bosses are AND DIVORCEE IN Having served the minimum sen-|line 1s to be opened in the coming/call him a foreigner and want to W k ’ H. making. The senate voted to approve tence of one year, the prison board, | spring. deport him or send him to prison.” orrkers Mouse, the repeal of the tax publicity clause at its December 1925 meeting, arbitra- 1902 W. Division St. Beginning at 8 P. M. ADMISSION 40 CENTS. at MERCANTILE HALL, Broad and Market St. Friday, February 1 Important to All Workers— BY THE SAME AUTHOR: White Terrorists Ask |} for Mercy. n 5 Cents. Translation of Principles of Com- The Menace of Opportunism: BY MAX BEDACHT. 15 Cents “To make clear to the masses the inevitability and necessity of a separation from opportunism, to educate these masses to revolution by a pitiless munism struggle against opportunism .... that is the cor- by Frederick Engels. rect Marxian aim of the international proletarian 10 Cents. movement,”-——-LENIN, which was written into the tax bill by the héuse. An amendment made by Senator Norris proposing that all income figures will be subject to pub- lic inspection was defeated by a vote of 49 to 32. DRUNKEN PARTY BIRMINGHAM, Ala,, Feb. 11,—Con- victed on a charge of driving an auto- mobile while intoxicated, Rev, John A. Bratton, priest of St. Clements Catholic church, today appealed a fine of $100 and suspension from driving for six months. Police testified Rev. Bratton, in company with Mrs, W. 8, Kinnan, a divorcee was driving his automobile in a wreckless manner and that their investigation revealed him to be drunk, The priest offered him a bribe of $50 to “hush” the matter, Policeman H. H, Weir testified, and when this was refused, ised “any amount” if the officer would call at the church the next day. Judge Henry aitin severely cen: sured the priest, declaring “Things are coming to a Pretty pass when men of the cloth drive cars in an intoxicat- od condition,” rily fixed the length of his sentence at four years. So worker Bruns has three years more to serve in the state penitentiary under a law that has ceased to function because juries have stopped convicting now that the sober common sense of the jurors has a chance to show itself and the nefari- ous characters of the state's witnesses has become public property. But the, prison, board is still under the spell of reaction and big business and it hands down this outrageous sentence to a man for mere membership in an organization that is openly function- ing in the country and maintaining at least six headquarters in California. Success to the International Labor Defense! Tho Ford ts acquitted we need your help’to release our many other class-war ‘prisoners. That worker next door to you not have anything to do to- night. Hand him t} \copy of the, DAILY WORKER, | You Must Not Mise This Event of the Season! IN NEW YORK city! Grand Costume Ball ‘Saturday Night, February 13 at the Annual Bazaar of the International Labor Defense at: 7 Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave. ALL NEW YORK WILL BE THERE——yYou Too! izes Will Be Given to the Best Costumes! ADMISSION 75 CENTS, Saturday Afternoon, at 2 P. M.—Junior Day, Childrens .Orchestra-—Young Dancers—Revolutionary Tableau ail Child Action, Admission Afternoon 2c,” POY t