The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1926, Page 2

Page Two LL.D. FIGHTS PENNSYLVANIA COSSACK RULE Protest Meetings Are Being Held PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 18.—The International Labor Defense, issued the following statement in which it announces that it is organizing a vigorous campaign against the arbi- trary action of the state police in breaking up a peaceful meeting of miners held in Republic, Pa., January 24th, It will also begin a state wide campaign for the repeal of the so- called Flynn anti-sedition law of Pennsylvania. The issue involved in this case the statement points out is the right of the workers to organize and the right of freedom of speech and assembly which is guaranteed by the constitu- tion of the United States. It is a question whether the coal operators should be allowed to use the state police to prevent the miners from organizing into unions, Fight Sedition Law. The anti-sedition law itself is noth- ing but a strike breaking and union smashing instrument created during the war hysteria, Under ubis law any workers’ organization may be declared outlawed and its members put in jail. This law must be combatted by all means so that it will be repealed. The state police at the preliminary hearing before Squire McComb of New Salem plainly stated that “they were after Papcun since the last strike in Thompson No, 1 and Thomp- son No. 2 in which he took a leading part.” Such an outrage as happened in Republic could only have happened in the old days of czarist Russia, There is a squire in Republic whose office is located nearby the hall where the arrest took place. Yet Papcun was taken over to New Salem where the squire is known to be more closely associated with the state police and the coal operators. Governor Pinchot is investigating the arrest in Republic and the case will be fought to a finish. Meetings Arranged. The campaign will begin with a series of mass meetings, one meeting will be held at the Monopgehela Hall, on High St., South Brgwhsville, Sa- turday, Feb. 20th, 8 pf m, Another meeting will be held in Uniontown at the Croation ‘Hall, on Branklin St., on Sunday, Feb.(21st, 2 p. m. Still another meeting will be held in Republi¢ at the Croation Hall, where the last meeting was broken up by the state police. This meeting will be held on Sunday, Feb. 21st., 7 p. m. Among the speakers scheduled to address the meetings are: D. E. Early of Chicago, and Chas W. Fulp, pres- ident of Local Union 2012, MEET ME AT THE ) Manhattan Lyceum CAFETERIA 66—68 E. 4th St., New York, N. Y. A Labor’s Eating Place That Deserves Your Patronage. Ow | ment of the ‘ainian Labor Home, In., a Co-operative Labor Organization | Best Quality Food Served. Special | Dis Reasonable Prices is Eevery Day. Wife Asks Husband’s Workers to Pay Alimony (Special to The Daily Worker) ROCKFORD, Ill, Feb. 18,—James |E, Allen, manufacturer, was | Suilty today on charges of adultery preferred by his wife, Mrs. Mildred Allen, of Chicago. Sentence will be passed later. Mrs. Allen has instituted divorce proceedings against Allen de- manding $50,000. As his income is derived from the exploitation of his workers, they are the ones who will pay for the alimony. GREEK WORKERS PROTEST STEAL OF RELIEF FUNDS National Herald Grab of $33,557 Is Exposed here t of $33, 7 by the National Herald, the relief of the widows and orphans of the Smyrna catastrophe during the Greek retreat from Asia Minor. The National Herald fearing the ex- posure that would result at this meet- ing, published a secret letter from the Near East relief the day before the meeting in which it declares that the $33,557 were the “expenses of the campaign.” In spite of this effort of the. Na- tional Herald to whitewash itself, Cleanthes Vassardakis of Ridgewood, N. J., who was associated for many years with the National Herald and was the former Greek consul in San Francisco, proved that the chief edi- tor, Rev. D. Callimanchos, used many of the funds for his private use and in order to prove his statement, he had photographs of documents flash- ed on the screen branding the Na- tional Herald with misappropriating $33,557; Callimanchos of taking $4,200 from the relief fund at $120 per week at the same time drawing wages from the National Herald. He also show- ed that money collected for the war veterans of Greece’ was never sent across and that $5,000 from Bishop Rodostolan to be sent to Constantin- ople was kept by the National Her- loa Juliet Stuart Poyntz, S. Soulo- mas George Arvanitsi spoke at the mass meeting exposing the nature of the steal and also of the military dic- tatorship of Pangalos. The misappropriation of funds was first exposed in the Greek Commun- ist paper, Empros. The meeting that was called in New York, was a united front affair in which many Greek or- ganizations took part. The National Herald in its desperation is now screaming that this meeting was a Communist attack on the - National Herald, but the Greek workers that took part in this demonstration know that the National Herald is trying to hide its guilt by shouting “Communist persecution” and they continue to de- mand that the National Herald pub- lish a, strict accounting as to how the funds were used. To Lift Bar on Negro Barbers, ATLANTA, Ga., Feb, 18 — Follow- ing strong protests from many or- ganizations and individuals, the city council has voted to reconsider the bill which it recently passed prohibit- ing Negro barbers from serving white customers, American, Ukrainian and Russian Kitchen. Best Cup of Coffee on the East Side } || Under the ership and Manage- | | | \ When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. INJECT THE GERM! That goes to the brain to set a worker think- ing! Everyday’s issue of The Daily Worker contains the germs that lead a worker to thought. Give the man who works with you a sample copy or two—to get his sub! The Daily Worker will vitalize his thinking system. THE DAILY WORKER, RATES: 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Outside of Chicago: Chieage, Wl. One Yeur . Enclosed §. ve LOT see Months 6 Months . subscription for: 3 Months ,, In Chicago: One Year 6 Months % Months found | CLOSE DOWN TIA JUANA RESORTS IN VICE DRIVE Rich American Exploit- ers Are Not Disturbed (Special to The Daily Worker) TIA JUANA, Mexico, Feb, 18 — A general exodus of attendants and em- | ployes of this city’s world-famous vice district was in progress all today. The suicides of two American girls, Clyde and Audrey Peteet, who to- gether with their parents snuffed out their lives in a gas-filled room ten days ago as the result of criminal at- cks upon them in Tia Juana, pre- cipitated this sensational cleanup. Every person here without visible means of support or who have been attached to the 50 and more saloons, cafes, and dens to be closed, will be jout of the village by nightfall, accord- NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—In spite of jing to the declarations of government rain and sleet over 2,000 Greek work- | officials. ers gathered in the Terrael Garden |mondes A hundred girls, demi- who danced and drank for protest the misappropriation |“percentage checks,”"—weary looking @)women with the rouge scraped from jGreck newspaper, from the fund of|their faces in last-minute efforts to $250,000 that this paper collected for approach respectability; orchestral players lugging their silenced jazz horns, bartenders, blackjack dealers, tray boys, swampers, dope fiends, bro- ken soldiers of fortune, bums,—seldom has such a picture of the lowest levels on which our social system rests been presented to public gaze. “Respectable” Exploiters of Vice Undisturbed. Meanwhile the rich Americans. who controlled this city and who have grown enormously wealthy are not even mentioned in connection with the suicides. Several years ago there was a struggle between two groups of Californians, one of them a_ well- known gambler and former race track promoter, for possession of the con- cessions here. In the conflict several persons were beaten up, and thous- ands of dollars spent in bribing Mexi- can officials. The tremendous income from these resorts has blocked action on the numerous protests which at various times have been made by women's and civic organizations of southern Cali- fornia. It is known that large sums have been spent by the Tia Juana ring on the subsidy of politicians, both Mexican and American, to prevent in- terference with the open and flagrant traffic in vice. What has existed here is merely a frank expression of the alliance between the public authorities and their party tools that exists less openly in every city of any size, “eo 6 Charges Police Chief Attacked Her. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 17—At the hearing before Coroner Kelly upon the Peteet suicides, Immigration In- Spector H. B. Hanna recounted the frantic appeals of Peteet that Ameri- can officers help to rescue his daugh- ter Clyde who was drugged and held prisoner for over 12 hours in Tia Juana. During this time she was as- saulted by her abductor, fought off an attempt of another hanger-on to at- tack her, and then was assaulted by a third man after having been drugged. Audrey, her sister, who was 19 years old, told American officers that when she came to her senses after having been drugged aml carried away, she was being assaulted by Zenadois Llanos. Llanos was the chief of po- lice in Tia Juana, He has since been deposed and is being held for trial across the border. Llanos has admit- ted that Me was with the two girls on their visit to Tia Juana. He claims in a public statement to be innocent of the attack. Form Chinese Society of Sunyatsenism CANTON, Feb, 18 — The Society of Sunyatsenism ,has been organized here to propagate the revolutionary ideas of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Over 10,000 people attended the open- ing session which was held in the open air on the drill ground of the National University here. Represent- atives of the nationalist government, M. Borodin, who is the Soviet ad- visor of the various armies, together with students and teachers from the National University and fifty other schools, participated in the ceremo- nies. The unions and the local mer- chants had delegates, as did the Whampoa Military Academy. Repre- sentatives of Chinese colonies in Jap- an and American also attended. The “Three Peoples’” Theory. The society will work to popularize the “Three People’s Theory” of na- tional revolution. This slogan, laid down by Sun Yat Sen, ascribes to the revolutionary struggle three phas- es, distant and yet intimately connect- ed. The political revolution aims at the establishment of a republican state in which the masses actively participate; the national revolution seeks to drive out the foreign powers and unify China; the economic revo- lution has as its object an equity in land rights with the recognivion of la- bor unions and the legalization of their activities, R, R. Workers Meet Death, CASTERLAND, N, Y., Feb, 18 — William Bell of Utica, r, and Richard Quinn of Ogdensburg, fireman were instantly killed early today and thrée mail clerks and several pas- sengers were slightly injured when train No. 59, New York to Water- town, and a Utica-bound freight col, lided head-on near this station, THE DAILY WORKER # Lewis Had Clown As an Ally to Put Over Black Friday Surrender Pact | By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL., OURT jesters are not a thing of the past. They have only changed their clothes. In the days of kings and queens, the jester danced about, in his cap and bells and vari-colored uniform, cracking his jokes at the expense of those high and low, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, in his court just held at the Town Hall, in the anthracite coal town of Scranton, Pa., had his jester, pro- vided for the occasion, one Con MaCole, who claims to have been a miner at one time. ‘But that must have been a long time ago. + ie ION MaCole was presented to the convention shortly after the catholic priest, Father J, J. Cur- ran, had finished ‘with his more serious business of throwing the fear of god into the delegates if they did not accept the “Black Fri- day” surrender, God still rules as something to be more feared than the mine barons in the anthracite coal fields, But the.jester, Con/Ma- Cole, also had his purpose. He was presented with 15 minutes of the time of the convention by its temporary chairman, Chris J. Gol- den, president of District No. 9. So this is the way he started: “Fifteen minutes isn’t a very long time. And you say you are union men, Well, 15° minutes ought to make up a day’s work. anyway.” That brought a good hand all ‘round. Even the anthracite min- ers, stung with the latest sell-out by President Lewis have dreams of a shorter workday, .* HEN the clown of President Lewis’ court took over the chairman’s gavel and announced that he was going to run a conven- tion of his own—a mock convention. Here was his opening: “You know what we are here for. We are here for the Miners’ Annual Convention to accept nothing. “If there is any man in the hall satisfied with his wages, let him get out now while he can walk out,” and then when the laughter had subsided, the comedian concluded, “If he doesn’t we'll te walking slow behind him in four Ways.” * H® then told the' story of the miners who had come up to within 10 feet of the surface in a 900 foot shaft, when the car broke away and they were plunged back to the bottom again. He asked: “How can you expect St. Peter to raise you 900 feet if you can’t make the corporations raise you ten per cent.” This sally was greeted with a burst of applause, the coal diggers hardly realizing that they were laughing at. themselves, “* HEN there was an imitation ofa radical making a speech in the —_————_ convention, He was pictured 4s demanding a ten per cent wage in- crease and being especially loud in his demands for the five-hour work- day, He then mimicked another dele- gate as declaring, in commenting on the radical’s speech, “Well, he’s a good union an.” That brought forth an unexpected burst of ap- plause that almost put a serious ex- pression on the smiling face of the clown, It caused the officialdom to squirm, Yet that is the real pur- pose of a clever clown's ‘sallies, Lewis’ clown was doing his very best. There was much more of the same, Then the funny man tried to turn serious and recite a poem that waved the flag in every line and denounced the Bolsheviks in every syllable. The catholic priest had put in his oar for god. The come- dian proclaimed, “I'm boosting for Uncle Sam.” That either one of them got a hearing indicates that the miners have some distance yet to go before they rid their gather- ings of these stage trappings that are presented by their officials to get the minds of the delegates off the real problems confronting them. eee ION MaCole did pretty well and Lewis will no doubt reward him for it. Out west.the miners’ officials make even better use of their come- dians. Their latest pet is Oscar Ameringer, who performed for a long time in the socialist party, and has even been substituting for Vic- tor L, Berger on the Milwaukee Leader, the official mouthpiece of the Wisconsin congressman, Ame- ringer parades as “Adam Coaldig- ger,” thru the columns of the “Illi- nois Miner,” the official organ of the Farrington machine in the Illi- nois Mine Workers’ Union. Ame- ringer’s ambition, self-admitted, is to become jester to the great American working class. But he has not real- ized, and will never realize that an awakened working class will not laugh at his jokes when the workers learn that he is trying to get them off the main tratk in the theory of “get something) now.” ; Ameringer has taken some job on his hands when he attempts to put a radical coating on Lewis’ ally in Tllinois, Frank Farrington, who wants to become president of the United’ Mine Workers of America when “John L.” joins Coolidge’s cabinet as secretary of labor. see UT the workers will find the right time to laugh and the right time to be serious. They will learn that the best time to be ser- ious, and act accordingly, is when their officials are trying to put something over on them. Serious- ness is always required to fight “Black Friday” surrenders, Soviet Explorers Find {Co-operative Groups Tribes Cut Off from the World for Ages LENINGRAD, Feb, 18.—An explor- ing expedition of the Russian Acad- emy of Sciences has returned from a trip into the sandy wilderness of the Kara-Kum desert, in Turkmenistan, Soviet Central Asia. They report find- ing several tribes, Members of which had never bea the Soviet government or the ‘olution, and were even ignorant of existence of the, czars. The #1 these remote people: of the outside world ceived for several The whole phenom civilization was totall them. The expedition was etrate the Kara-Kum unknown to first to pen- t, as far as Russian records go, scientists, headed by Academician A. EB. Fers- man, expected to tra e only unpeo- pled sandy wastes. prised to find, ‘within railroad station of of several oases inhabi tribes akin to the Tur! desert dwellers lived of biblical times, ten their flocks of camels, sheep and goats. They were amazed at the appearance of the scientific caravan, but received the visitors “hospitably, Well-worn trails, used for hundreds of years, connected the various oases. Within the desert, about 175 miles from the railway, the scientists discov- ered rich sulphur deposits with an estimated reserve of 600,000 metric tons. Tepe, the first by primitive race, The the simplicity Child Labor Bill Action. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb, 18 — Twenty: two states have rejected or postponed action on the child labor amendment to the constitution, ile only four— Arizona, Arkansas, fornia and Wisconsin—have approved it, Sec- retary Kellogg has énformed the house, Condemn Fascism ANGORA, Minn., Feb. 18. — The Northern Farmers’ Co-Operative So- ciety at its annual membership meet- ing adopted a resolution protesting against the fascist terror in Italy and calls upon the International Co-Oper- ative Alliance to call an international conference with delegates of the Red International of Labor Unions and the Amsterdam (oabagieeaes Federation of Trade Unions in attendance to draw up a program of action to combat fas- cism, eee McKINNEN,. Ga., Feb, 18. — The Wayne Producers’ Association adopted a resolution condemning fascism and calling on the International Co-Oper- ative Alliance to call an international conference to plan measures of com- batting fascism. ee ROCK, Michigan, Feb. 17.—The Co- Operative company of Rock at its an- Purcell Says U. S. Labor is on Wrong Track for Victory (Continued from page 1) “You don’t get the solidarity we do,” he told The Federated Press, “Take the strike on the transport lines here in London, The streetcars stopped. People switched over to the buses. But the busmen refused to cary them so the buses stopped. Then the whole crowd took to the subways. The subway men then struck. You see we have developed over here a routine of solidarity. “There is one thing that should be said,” he concluded. “Pres, Green of the American Federation of Labor issued a circular letter under date of Dec, 24 which begins: ‘To all organ- ized labor etc: Information has reach- ed me that central bodies and local unions have been asked to contribute to a fund to be used to send a com- mittee of alleged labor representatives to Russia for the same purpose that a committee of communists from Great Britain visited Russia and sought to make the world believe that the soviet government was representa- tive of the people.’ Green All Wrong. “Let me say that not one of the men who went with our delegation was a communist,” Purcell insisted. “Take the list—Bramley, secretary of the British Trades Union congress; Finley, general secretary of the Patternmakers; Smith, president of the Miners; Bromley of the Amalga- mated Locomotive Engineers & Fire- men; Ben Tillett of the Transport Workers; John Turner of the Shop Assistants, and I as president of the Intl, Federation of Trade Unions. How could you get a more representa- tive group of men? All are well known and all have been for years active in the leading British unions. As for our three experts, they were men all of whom had worked in the British public service and none of whom was or is a communist. “It is folly to accuse the British delegation of being communist. We looked at Russia from the viewpoint of British labor and we saw many things there that impressed us migh- tily.” LW.ALOPENSUP. FIRST MINERS’ RELIEF DEPOT Suffering Children Need Clothing Badly (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKESBARRE, Pa, Feb. 18 — The first of a series of relief stations for the striking miners by the Inter- national Workers Aid has been open- ed up in the Liberty Market building of this city. Clothing and other help for the miners may be sent addressed to the “Miners International Workers’ Aid, D, H. Edmunds, secretary,” at the above address gr will be forwarded from the Chicago office of the Inter- national Workers’ Aid, at 1553. Madi- son St, Chicago, Il. Relief will be collected for some weeks at least, regardless of the union’s decision on the Lewis agree- ment. There has been much misery among the helpless women and chil- dren who have unflinchingly stood by their menfolks in the struggle, This must be alleviated immediately. The Miners’ Relief Committee. The relief committee organized by the general grievance body consists of the following members: Treddis, local union 1138; Osbourne, 1689; Hurley, 1456; Garrahan, 1365; Mer- Tiell, 311; Selinski, 699; Schaufien- berg, 1407; Delaney, 3638; Tanitus, 484; Lahr, 1192; Clune, 996; Bro- bieski, 1159; Sobers, 699; Isaacs, 1407; Lewis, 699; and Moran, 1456. James Hurley is chairman and D. H. Edmunds, secretary, These two, with F. G. Biedenkapp, national secretary of the International Workers Aid, con- stitute the publicity committee. A food and stores supervising committee and a relief executive committee were also elected. District committees have been assigned to handle the relief ac- cording to the various mining sec tions. MANY WORKERS — LOSE LIVES IN UTAH SNOWSLIDE Death Toll May Reach : Ninety-Five BINGHAM, Utah, Feb. 18—Ninety- five dead is the probable toll of the snowslide which rushed down a moun- tainside here yesterday, crashed tons of snow, trees, huge blocks and tim- bers over a dozen houses and buried 110 men, women and children under the wreckage in the Highland Boy mine district of Doty’s Gulch. Thirty-five bodies had been removed from the debris; 20 persons suffering more or less serious injury were be- ing treated in the Bingham and sev- eral emergency hospitals, and more than 40 others were known to be miss- ing. The property damage in the dis- aster will be about $40,000. It is probable that it will take many weeks before all of the bodies are re- covered. Only the spring thaws will fallow rescue workers to get at the heart of the tomb of ice and snow in which many of the dead are sleeping. Miners of the Utah Delaware, the Apex and others of the largest copper mines in the world, worked thruout the night in almost vain efforts to reach the dead. For the first time in many years, only a skeleton crew was kept at the great mines, which never close, and every available man of Bingham, Salt Lake City and a half- dozen surrounding towns joined in the efforts to reach the victims of the disaster. Men from the Highland Boy were the first to attack the great snow mass. Digging frantically with pick and shovels that a few moments before they had been using in the mine, they made little progress, From the edges of the mass could be heard the cries of the injured and the shieks of those who faced in a snow pile the flames of torture as the fires began and flames leaped toward them. More than a score, it is believed, died in their prisons pinned down by debris and helpless to move as.the flames nual membership meeting adopted a/#4vanced on them, resolution condemning fascism and en- dorsing the cali for an international conference. ‘ eee IRONWOOD, Mich.fl, Feb. 18.— The National Co-Operative Co, of Ironwood in a resolution expressed its indigna- tion against the violent occupation of the Lega Nazionale by the Italian fas- cisti and endorses the universal de- mand of the international co-operative movement demanding that the Italian co-operative movement be given free- dom of action. u Loan Bolsters 1 to The Dally Worker) BRUSSELS, Feb. 18 —- The local capitalist newspaper Independence Bolge charges that a large part of the recent $150,000,000 loan from America has been used up to pur- chase dollars on the open market in order to prevent a catastrophic de- cline of the national franc, (s “The unions are the piflars of the workers’ power.”—=Losove: y, Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. Italian Discovers New Way to Gold Extraction ROME, Feb. 18 — An Italian en- gineer, according to reports here, has discovered a new gold ore which will greatly increase the world supply of gold. Dalfornite is the name given to the new mineral. It is fouffd in rocky formations both in Europe and in the United States, Mexico and South America, It comes under the head of a super- refractory ore, and gold can only be extracted by special processes. Unless the ore contains at least thirty to fifty grams of gold per ton, the process of refining is of no use, but the inventor claims that the deposits of dalfornite already discovered contain higher quantities than those just mentioned. As much as a kilogram of gold has been obtained from a ton of dalfornite after the refining process. 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