The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1926, Page 1

wae —— \ The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government i Vol. Ill. No. 31. Subscription Rates: Sotsias"Ekicao: by’ mult, $800" per year, Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Bost Office at Chicago, Illinols, under the Act of March 3, 187% WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1926 <»™ Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. LE\.?* GANG THREA ANTLFOREIGNER Pku/AGANDA OF STATE'S ATTORNEYS SECURED CONVICTION OF ZEIGLER MINERS By TOM BELL, (Special to The Daily Worker) BENTON, Ill., Feb. 15.—The conviction of eight of the thir- teen Zeigler miners on trial for attempting to murder D. B. Cobb, vice-president of this subdistrict of the United Mine Workers, is the result of the systematic anti-foreigner propaganda carried on by the prosecution attorneys during the trial. The evidence sub- mitted by the prosecution does not implicate these miners. The prosecution knew this, and consequently relied upon poisoning the jury of American farmers against foreigners as a means of securing a conviction. Attack Foreigners. In the closing arguments for the prosecution, Judge Neely, R. Smith and State’s| Attorney Martin simply set out to scare the jury. They even went the length of reviewing the “assassi- nation of President McKinley by a for- eigner” to show the awful danger that would result to everyone in Franklin county if the accused were freed. The names of the foreign-born de- fendants were mispronounced and ridiculed. They loudly declared that no “American man” would have at- tacked Cobb. The fact that the mem- bership of Local 992 at Zeigler is 80 per cent foreign-born and that they had selected Henry Corbishley as their president .was held up to the jury as evidence against him. Altogether the case for the. prose- eution depended on rousing anti-for- eigner prejudices among the jury. The defense at the conclusion of (Continued on panes ot eee 4) LEWIS SELL-OUT BOOSTS ISSUES: ON WALL STREET Gamblers Geik Through Workers’ Misery (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Stocks of the coal companies and coal roads made an immediate response today to the winding up of the coal strike over the holiday, but bullish operations were not confined to them. The high priced industrials and specialties, the “toys” of rich speculators and bullish pools. whirled upward impressively as an ex- pression of the confident spirit of the professionals in the market, The coal roads made the most im- pressive response to the better outlook for business consequent on the end- ing of the strike. Lehigh Valley Jumped 4 points to 67; Delaware and Hudson was up 5 points at 169; Lacka- wanna 4 and Reading 2. Philadelphia and Reading Coal sold up 2 points and gains of 2 to 6 points were re- eorded by the coal lists actively dealt in on the New York Curb Exchange, Snow Shovelers Strike for Increased Wages \ es (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) SALEM, MASS., Feb. 15. — One hundred snow shovelers in the local freight yards struek for $1 an hour FURRIERS UNION PREPARES FOR GENERAL STRIKE Bosses’ Lockout Does Not Scare Militants (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Feb, 165— (FP)—“The Furriers’ Union is not disturbed and will continue with its plan to strike at the most strategic moment,” the workers’ joint board answers the lock- out of from 3,000 to 4,000 members by the Associated Fur Manufacturers, Inc. Negotiations for a new agree ment between the employers’ associa- tion and the union failed, followed by a favorable strike vote by the work- in the New York market. ‘Negotiations between the United Fur Manuf ers, Inc., the Greek employing and the union are still going on, but union officials expect that a gendral strike will have to be called. Full. parations for, the strike have. made and a strike committee is, reddy to function upon a few hours’ notice. The majority of fur manufacturérs are ‘independents, taking their lead in dealings with unions usually from the employers’ associations. The . Agso- ciated declaration that it will attempt to reopen its shops on a non-union basis is not intimidating the worke! The employers’ group indicates its in- tention of employing an army of private guards in fighting the union. Union demands which employers refused to concede include the 40-hour week, equal division of work and no discharge, CONFERENCE IS TO FLEECE NOT AID PRODUCERS Big Business Is Bluffing Workers and Farmers (Special to The Datily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Feb. 15. The various farmers organizations, the la- bor organizations and other employe organizations in Missouri are meeting at this time with the bankers, cham- bers of commerce, real estate sharks, merchants associations, presidents of railroads, mine operators, and other exploiters too numerous to mention, in this city, Economy is being preached to the workers, the farmers and the profes- sional people by the big business in- terests. Christmas saving societies are springing up and the bank win- dows tell, in glowing terms, of the wonderful advantage in saving the wages in a Christmas fund. Sell Bonds for Steel Plant. Meanwhile full page ads appear, sponsored by the same groups of ex- ploiters, mentioned above, offering to the public “ground floor” bonds of a great steel plant to use up the scrap iron of the west and make “our town” steel products at home. The steel plant is only in the mind of its pro- (Continued on page 2.) instead of 50 cents when theesecond big storm hit New England, The con- tractor paid them off at the old rate and tried to find other workers, American Bankers Loan Over a Billion Abroad (Speciat'to ThesDally Worker) WASHINGTON, D, C., Feb. 15+-For- eign loans to the extent of $1,097, 627,000 were floated in the United States in 1925, accdrding to the fed- eral reserve board, This was nearly $200,000,000 under the figure of the previous year, It is estimated that $250,000,000 additional was invested abroad by American capitalists, ONE KILLED; NINETEEN COALDIGGERS INJURED “IN GHIO MINE EXPLOSION Feb, 15—One miner was killed, 19 were Injured ‘and 600 others escaped unhurt when an explosion occurred near the shaft Austria Denies She Signed Secret Pact - with German Rulers WIENNA, Feb, 16—Official dental was made of reports that Germany and Austria have signed a secret treaty for a union of the two nations, n, Ohio, = POLISH RULERS MURDER MANY UNION WORKERS Chicago Labia to Hold Protest Feb. 26 The Polish, Ukrainian and Lithuan- fan branches of the International La- bor Defense and White-Russian So- ciety to aid political prisoners in Po- land, are organizing a mass meeting to protest against the white terror in Poland. The terror in Poland against workers, peasants and national minor- ities is growing. Every day there are mass arrests in some part of the country. American workers cannot be silent when their brothers are jailed and murdered in Poland. ~ The protest meeting will be held tn Schoenhoffen Hall, corner Ashland and Milwaukee, Friday evening, Feb. 26, at 8 o'clock. Prominent speakers; in / English, Polish, Lithuanian and Russian will address the meeting. Women Protest Double Standard of Morality in Cathcart Exclusion (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—The Na- tional Women's Party has filed with Secretary of Labor Davis a protest against ,the exclusion of Vera, Count- ess of Cathcart, declaring that by this action the government “would be set- Ung up an arbitrary single standard of morals for women while permitting a double standard for men.” The del- gation of women who presented the protest asserted that there was no law allowing the immigration depart- ment to bar a woman from the coun- try for “moral turpitude” while her companion in the offense is allowed to remain in the country. The Harl of Craven, with whom the countess eloped to South Africa while still un- divorged from her husband, has been in the United States for some time, Briand Gets Set-Back on Export Tax Project (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Feb. 15 —- Premier Briand received a set-back in the chamber of deputies today ‘when his export tax project was feturiid by a vote of 295 to 175 to the’ finance commission, This tax was cdlvulatétl to produce an annual rev ‘of ' 720,000,000 francs ($44,000,000 INVESTIGATE VETERANS’ HOSPITAL FOLLOWING MURDER OF PATIENT NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 15.— The United States veterans’ hospital in this city will be investigated by fed- eral authorities following the death Of Hubert L. Bero, a frail psycho- pathic patient. According to the coroner’s report death was caused by a concussion of the brain, mul- tiple fractures of the jaw and com- plications. ‘ An orderly" named Danzers brot to the hospital some time ago from Springfield, II; who is held by the police, has admitted that he slapped the patient despite the fact that the coroner’s report shows that Bero had been struck twice by a fist and that his head struck the floor fol- lowing the striking. BOSSES WEAKEN WHILE WORKERS GROW STRONGER Passaic Merchants Feel Strike Pressure By J. 0. BENTALL \ (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. JniFeb, 15.—The first signs of the weakening of the textile bosses in the presemt conflict with the striking workers appeared in the local press this. afternoom when streaming headlines announced that “East Side Merchants Want City to help Settle Woolen Mills Strike” This came as no! surprise to the strikers who have put up a more solid front than has been known for many years in industrial conflicts, wherein the picket line has not been made up of a straggling dozen or two, but regularly consists of from one to two thousand starting at 5:30 in the morn- ing and keeping it up till the last man on the night shift at the mill had been pulled out, . Realize Defeat. Now come the “merchants” and call for help. But the strikers are wise to the game and know that it is not so much the merchants as the mill barons who are behind this move, The mill owners know that they are licked and realize Uiut it would be a mistake to carry the struggle any urther, but they do not like to show the white feather and admit that they (Conunvet o& page 2) iTHousmNns REPUDIATE BETRAYAL AS TRAITORS STRIVE T0 PACK SCRANTON MINERS’ CONVENTION (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKESBARRE, Pa., Feb. 15.—The deep undercurrent of discontent that exists thruout the entire anthracite region as a result of the Lewis betrayal has risen to the surface in District No. 1 where thousands of miners have already repudiated Lewis and on every hand there is the most violent denunciation of the monstrous betrayal of the “Black Friday” Phitadelphia betrayal. At the Hazelton headquarters of District No. 7, the Lewis henchmen are boasting that the opposition to the anthracite pact will be ruthlessly crushed and that the operators will be enabled to reopen the mines at once under the incredible terms of the five ——* year sell-out. | Approximately six hundred | delegates will attend the “rati- \fication” convention in Scran- places, especially in District No. 7, in- dicate that no meetings are held and MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., Feb. 15.— Sana * us ‘ | part of the rank and file of the miners SOVIET RUSSIA is thé “only,sincere| (> tn. anthracite against John L. ton tomorrow and the meetings of lo- cal unions to select representatives to the convention are stili in progress today. In many lo s no effort is made to get out all the membership ‘ F that those local officials who are part of the Lewis-Cappellini machine sim- Policy Leads Straight to 51, vici“Zcacstisis:wiuhout say te |thority whatsoever from the member- Revolution [ship ot the locale proponent of disarmament,” declares! 7 wig that. th n La at unprincipled traitor Karl Radek, well know Communist} ; is z ™ |is compelled to maintain a bodyguard publicist and Interpreter of Soviet for-) 1 enever he ventures upon the street. Nae Cokie asc ohbis «Ubu Rinaldo Cappellini, who aided the d only a handful meet and approve the delegate, while reports from other iibséiali se The: Daily. Wane i Has Bodyguard. So widespread is the hatred on the ¥ Police and courts jail militant mem- United wants European disarmament) bers of his own organization is in in disarming because she can create only so that she may collect her debts. | America has proven that she is safe! the same predicament and if his dis- trict. were to hold an election today with the miners free to express their’, The Miners Are In the set of Big Capital, OHIO EMPLOYERS WANT COSSACKS TO CRUSH UNIONS Workers Fight Bill Hi means revolution, he argues. Form State Police (Special to The Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, Feb. 15.—The indus trialists of this state are clamoring for “state police.” They declare that the rural communities are unprotected from the attacks of bandits and thieves and that state constabulary- must be instituted. They are carrying on their agitation among the farmers, to in- duce them to demand protection in these days of the “crime wave.” If the farmers of the state demand the state police, the manufacturers will be pleased. The manufacturers point to the achievements of the New York state constabulary, to their protection of the farmers from marauders, They never mention the state cossacks in Penn- sylvania and West Virginia, who are not stationed in the farming communi- ties, but in the steel and mining towns. They never mentfOn the attacks on steel workers and coal miners. or the efforts made thru the state cossacks to break up meetings of the miners. to destroy the union, ete. They never mention the murder of workers at the hands of these state cossacks. All of this is kept in the dark. But the workers of this state are on the alert, They know what the state pol- ice are, and will fight the inaugura- tion of the state police with all their power. Governor Donahey may con- tinue to ask the farmers to demand it,! Not in Switzerland, but state police are state police—cos- sacks are cossacks, The workers will fight the bill and its sponsors as en- emies of the working class, no matter under what form the advocates of the bill will masquerade, UNEMPLOYED WORKER STEALS FOOD; MUST SPEND YEAR IN JAIL DENVER, Colo, Feb, 15—"l wi hungry and had no job nor money, declared Jasper Arnold, an” unem- ployed worker who was arrested for stealing s food, to Judge Henry Bray. food in a res- street and could nogy resist tempta- tion to break in. The judge ie Arnold to jail for one year. 3 i is fighting force over night, he adds. * Further, says Radek, the American | wheimingly repudiated. Policy of lending money to Europe Editor Holds His Nose. witimately will means revolution in Yesterday many of the preachers America. Because the more money}anq ‘priests thruout the anthracite re- America lends to Europe, the stronger | gion commented upon the inconipeten- will become European industrial com-| cy of Lewis and others openly reter- petition with America, and the|red to the betrayal, while the Scran- stronger will become European-indus-jtori Dail Telegram, edited by a for- trial competition. with America, and|mer member of the Typographical the stronger it becomes, the more}Union, brands Lewis a “quite deplor- nevessary it willbe. to pay lower|able failure as a leader” and declares Wages in America. Lower wages that Lewis “has scored the biggest victory for the anthracite operators that has ever been enjoyed.” Ordinary servants of the anthraeite barons hold their noses in disgust at the performance of Lewis, as they feel that he has accomplished more to en- slave the workers to the coal barons jat one strike than they can ever hope to achieve in the next hundred years. EAST CHICAGO POLICE ARREST TWO YOUNGSTERS 12 Year Old Y< Youths Held in Jail Six Hours Paciflem !s Hypocrisy. “Pacifist hypocrisy,” asserts Radek, | “ig a necessary political instrument for all bourgeois governments, and besides this, none of them are against the attempt to decrease the arma- ments of the others. “In this respect, the United States occupies a uniquely advantageous position. It is the greater power, and therefore the general tendency of its policy js to reduce the armaments of the other powers. This ambition is not merely platonic. “The reduction of armaments in Europe would increase the ‘American | économic hegemony. The United States has the most developed in- dustry, the basis for quick mobiliza- tion, and for arming great masses of the population rapidly. Military ex- periénce has shown that the Amer- leans are, in, a position te arm a great | EAST CHICAGO, Ind,, Feb. 15.— number of soldiers in a short period, | Walter, Sabador and Matt Waine “It we take into consideration the| Were distributing a leaflet at ten in French as well as the English armies, |the morning announcing @ mass pro- then in comparison with the other|‘eSt miceting for the next day against powers, the red army is the smallest | the arrest of William Simons, secre wills be, like-Lewi,..would- be. ver iris armed force in proportion to the treméndous territory which it has to defend. "Nevertheless, the Soviet Union, not aiming at any conquests, would be prepared for a further re- duction in. order to economize her means for the development.of her in- dustry, agriculture and cultigal insti- tutions.” 5 Tchitcherin’s Demand (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8. 8S. R., Feb. 15.— George Tchitcherin, commissar of foreign affairs, in reply to a telegram from Sir Eric Drummond, general sec- retary of the league of natigns, notify- ing the Soviet Union that five nations desired to postpone the conference on disarmament, reiterated Russia's re- fusal to send delegates if the meeting were held in Switzerland. He ex- plained that the Soviet Union prefer- red the gathering take place in some country with which it had diplomatic connections, pointing out that the Swiss government had never made the slightest move to offer restitution for the murder on its soflof the Soviet representative, Vorovsky, nor to nego: uate for the establishment of normal political relationships, tary of the Chicago, Workers School and the break-up of the Lenin memo- rial meeting in East Chicago, Ind. But you can’t fool the cops of Bast shicago—they’re gosh darn .spry by heck, Wal, they'd “show” these “kids.” So they locked them up from ten in the morning until four in’ the after noon. What charge is to be placed against the twelve year old youths is not yet known. The mass meeting announced in the leaflet was to take place at the Lin- coin Hall, 143rd St. cor, Railroad Ave., Hast Chicago. The speakers at this meeting under the auspices of the International Labor Defense, were to be David Rhys Williams of Chicago, (, A. Hathaway, former business agent of the Machinists’ Union and William Simons, the defendant. The case of Simons, who is out on $4,000 bail, on a charge of “advocating the over- throw of the government by force and violence” is to come up in the Hast Chicago city court tomorrow afternoon, Prepare For Big Day. SEATTLE — (FP) — Ninety-two members of the local Plattsburg off- cers training unit recently Hstened to a report dealing with local rail and port facilities. Charts have been pré- pared and placed on file ready tor im stant use in “time of emergency,” j