The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. III. No. 37, e ‘0, ARREST SCOT) NEARING FOR BOSTON TALK Hall Closed; Speaks in Street (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Feb, 22 — Scott Nearing was arrested here yesterday for speak- ing at an open-air meeting In front of Paine Memorial Hall. The meeting had been arranged to take place in the hall itself). The authorities order- ed the manager of the hall not to allow it to be used for the lecture. The Associated Press reports that the police were under the impression it was to be a protest meeting on behalf of Bimba, The committee for recogni- tion of Soviet Russia, under whose auspices Nearing was to lecture, ask- ed him to speak on the street, He agreed but had no more than started when an officer yanked him off the stand and placed him under arrest. At police headquarters he was im- mediately released, with instructions that there was to be no further inter- ference with his speech, Standing on a pile of snow in front of the hall which is dedicated to the memory of the author of the Age of Reason, Nearing resumed his address. By this time a crowd of hundreds had gather- ed who enthusiastically cheered him. The local committee is planning to secure a larger hall for a second speech by Nearing in the near future. The foolish police stunt of yesterday will be publicity enough for a big crowd in itself. tt A 100 Per Center, We Bet. . (Spgcial to The Daily: Worker) BOSTON, Feb, 22 — Acting mayor Charles G. Keene has announced that } he will follow methods which former Mayor Curley adopted and will use every power of the city government to prevent local meetings in the interest of Anthony Bimba, He says he will follow the tactics which former Mayor Curley used in blocking ku klux klan |. gatherings. This was to have the building inspector and fire chief rule that the halls rented were unsafe for assemblies. “Anybody making such ut- terances as were attributed to Bimba in his Brockton address should be bar- red from speaking anywhere in the United States,” Keene declared hotly. PLOT 10 RESTORE. FORMER EMPEROR TO CHINA THRONE Charge American Inter- ests Back Move (Special to The Daily~Worker) PEKING, Feb, 22 — The restoration of the monarchy has been chosen by the anti-Kuomintang native Chinese forces and their imperialist allies as the most effective means of achieving a strong central’ government, To suc- ceed they must eliminate General Feng who controls Peking and the northwestern provinces, It is believed that Chang Tso Lin and Wu Pei Fu are both in favor of this program. Ssuan Tung, the 20-year old former emperor, is now living in Tientsin. It is almost. certain that American influence is behind the move. The Chinese have never forgotten that it was an American university professor of the highest eminence, Professor Goodnow of Columbia, who, chosen as special advisor to the Chinese repub- lic ‘alter its institution, s¢andalized the country by issuing a long public statement urging the return at that time to the monarchy, The reaction was particularly bitter among the Chinese educated in the United States who had not penetrated below the. sur- face of American democracy, seo Feng On The Job Again, PEKING, Feb, 22 — General Feng arrived here Sun@ay to organize the campaign against Gen. Wu Pei Fu who is fighting the Kuominchun armies in southern Honan, Consular despatches from Tsinanfu report that Gea, Li Ching-lin, a subordinate of Chang Tso Lin’s is leaving with his troops In an effort to recapture Tient- sin, Feng's army conquered Tientsin about the time that Kuo Sung-lin re- Yolted against the Manchurian dic- ‘tator. ~ Subscription Rates: Susite Bicego ty ma, Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, 4 Laid Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 187% er year. 6.00 per year. “AW SAYS 60 CS: ET PENNSYLVANIA COSSACKS | | {7 ARREST PAPCUN BEFORE | FREE SPEECH MEETING (Special to The’ Daily Worker) BROWNSVILLE, Pa. Feb. 22— Another example of “American de- mocracy” was exhibited here when the police arrested George Papcun who was scheduled to address a meeting arranged jointly by the In- ternational Labor Defense and the American Civil Liberties’ Union. The arrest took place before the speaker had an opportunity even to enter the Monongahela Hall where the meeting was to be held. The same speaker was placed un- der arrest on January 24 when the Pennsylvania state cossacks arbi- trarily broke up a Lenin memorial meeting at Republic, Pa., a little mining town not far from-here. He was charged with violating the in- famous strike-breaking state antl- sedition law and was released under $2,000 bail. “The International La- bor Defense, in charge of the de- fense of this case, arranged, jointly with the Civil Liberties’ Union, three mass meetings~to protest against the outrageous action of the state police, The meetings were to be held in Brownsville, Republic and Uniontown, JUCOSLAV POLICE RAID HOMES OF LABOR LEADERS Many Asvests Made By Government Agents BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Feb. 22— As already reported former Commu- nist.-member of’ Parliament, Kosta Nowakowitsch, was’ arrested... Altho searches im his house did not pro- duce any “seditious” literature he was punished with 15 days imprison- ment. On the same day a search was made in the lodging of a barrister, Uglesa Jovanovitsch. His whole li- brary was confiscated for it contains —as it was stated—documents of a “revolutionary content.” It is not known whether anything was found so that the police could start proceed- ings against him. The police - re- fused to give any information on this case. Jovanovitsch was arrested after the house-search. The lodgings of the labor: leader, Sima Milju, and of Professor Sima Markovitsch were also searched. Both were arrested. The house of Professor Mika Tedor- owitsch, editor of the paper Organ- izovany Radnik was searched. Only some ordinary books were found and some from the Labpr office in Geneva. The student, Milewan Wolkowitsch, and the school-director, Disan Djosd- pewitsch, were arrested. At the same time B. Milesavjevin, secretary of the metal-workers’ union was conduct: ed to the police prison. The reason for these persecutions of Communists is kept a secret by the police. the Serbian Peasant League,’ Noy- osti, which criticized thé iattack of the police was confiscated. Chicago Congressman — for Soviet Recognition WASHINGTON, Feb, 22,—Rep. Sab- ath of Chicago, has offered in the house a joint resolution asking the president to appoint a_.commission of five men to negotiate treaties of political recognition and of commerce with the Soviet Union, | He declares that the Russian com- mereial treaty of 1832 wag abrogated in, 1911, and that since that’time Ame- rica has had’ no proper legal basis of trade with Russian territory. He quotes Haskell, Raymond Robins, Goodrich and other authorities in tes- timony that the Soviet government is stable, and he argues that American business men ought to be enabled, thru recognition, to get an equal chance with Europeans in securing concessions fer development of natur- al resources in Russia, Sabath is a democrat, a native of Bohemia, and conservative. Union Fights Sean Creamery, SAN ANTONIO—(FP)—The anti- labor Mistletoe creameries with plants all over the southwest are suffering losses in their fight with the milk ‘wagon drivers’ union, The drivers are unionizing competing dairies and organized labor is swinging business to the union plants, particularly in Antonio. : An issue of the organ of |. COURT UPHOLDS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1926 RT MEANS WAR ep» PUBLI COOLIE NO LONGER a re EXPULSION OF Americans to Investi- gate Mexicans _ (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 22.—The dis- trict court here has ruled that the! Mexican government is acting within its rights in closing down religious | | and educational institutions conduct- €d by religious authorities. The case arose from the application of the Franciscan Asylum, a catholic} institution, for an injunction to prevent its being closed. The government is acting under article three of the con-| stitution which forbids religious in- struction in private or public schools or the direction of primary schools | by any religious body or the minister of any religious sect. The only American catholic thus far effected is Margarita M. Semple, mother superior of the catholic aca- demy at Coyoacan which has been shut down. Altho she has talked over! her case with the American ambas- sador here, the latter will make no of-| ficial representations until hé has in-| structions from Washington. H see Close Dope School at Negras. | PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexcio, Feb.| 22.—The People’s Institute, a religious school supported by the methodist episcopal church, south, has heen) closed by the Mexican authorities, The Rev. J. L, Phillips, its president, and seven women teachers were given 24 hours to leave the country, e8r God’s Chosen to Investigate. EAGLE PASS, Texas, Feb. 22.—The Rey. J. L. Phillips and the American | teachers who were exiled with him) from Mexico have arrived here, They have informed Bishop James Cannon | of Richmond, Va., of the situation. | Officers of the Mexican department of | the methodist episcopal church, south, have started an investigation of religious conditions across the border, Cleveland Painters Demand 5-Day Week| CLEVELAND, Feb, 22 — Three thousand union painters will strike in Cleveland March 1 unless they get the 5-day week and $11 scale, The 5-day week is demanded as a health meas- ure and to lessen unemployment. In seven cities union painters are re- ceiving more than $11 a day, while 14 other building crafts in Cleveland exceed that figure. “ee @ Oppose Daylight EAST LIVERPOOL, 0. — Opposi- tion to daylight ing in the pottery district is recorded by the East Liver- pool TRY andeLabor Council, ving Plan, GOD TEACHERS, LL’ RAVES AT ORE GROUP OF ITY STUDENTS a PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 22. — The America of 2. Washington is in danger of an onslaught by rad- “unbridled democ- ‘Nervous Nell” Kellogg: raved before Univer- sity of Pennsytvania students. He denounced the principles es- | poused by progressives in and out of congress, emphasized the danger | of concenthatian and extension of federal power, and warned against a rising tide ofcsocialism and Com- munism thruout the world. “No one will deny that there are forces at work»today in “the world of which the witimate object is the destruction of all such governments as this, Kellogg said. BRITISH EMPLOY LATE ENEMIES 10 SPY ON SOVIETS : German Consular Agents Act as Judases BERLIN, Feb. 22 — The fact has been established beyond the shadow of a doubt that the four German con-| ular agents arrested in Georgia by Soviet police last month were acting as spies for Great Britain. cused were taken to Moscow, where they are still held) One of them, Eck, was a representative of the Junker aero lines; Scmitz was a steamship agent. both well-known -exporters of Batum. Helping Out the British. The four were ‘diplomatic agents of Germany to Georgia when the latter country was under Menshevik rule. When the Soviet’ government was formed in that country it was agreed that the four would be allowed to re- tain their posts only on condition that | them as soon as | Germany replaced possible, This theGerman authorities failed to do tho repeatedly asked to do so by the Soviet officials, It has now turned out that the chief activity | of the quartet was to inform the | British secret service of the Soviet military forces and their disposition | in the Near East, respect to China, particularly with Riffians Force French to Evacuate Key Ridge (Special to The Daily Worker) TANGIER, Morocco, Feb, 22,—The French army has evacuated the Bi- bane ridge, which, seven miles in ex- tent, constituted -a key position and was won only afterthe most desperate fighting. The threatening attitude of tribes in the rear,/with the possibility that the line of communications to the coast might be cut, caused the withdrawal, The Spanish are dis- mayed by the retreat of their allies; The ac-| Cornelsenvand Vogeley were | FOREIGN-BORN CONFERENCE 1$ HUGE SUCCESS |More Than 200,000 Represented (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. thirty-three delegates representing Jone hundred seventy-nine organiza-) tions with a total membership of over |two hundred thousand attended the | Conference for the Protection of For- | eign-born at Central Opera House here Sunday. Provisional Secretary P. Pascal Cos-| grove opened the conference and was | elected temporary chairman. Credentials committee reported 80 labor union delegates, including joint | board of I. L. G. W. U., Furriers, Amal- gamated Clothing Workers, Local 63, Carpenters, Food Workers, Shoe Workers, Metal Workers, Tobacco Workers, twenty-nine Workmen's | Cirele, eight Workmen’s Sick aria | Death Benefit, National Organization of Hungarian Workers’ Sick Bene- | volent Association, Anti-Fascist Alli- ance of North America, and also rep- resentatives of Finnish, German, Lith- uanian, Czechoslovak, Esthonian and | |Italian workers and _ co-operatives. Among political parties were the Workers (Communist) Party, Young | | Workers League and |w orkmen’s Alliance. Robert Dunn of the Civil Liberties Union, characterized’ bills as estab-; lishing espionage law and conscript army in the United States compar- able to former czarist Russia, Big |companies are establishing registra- |tion of workers to eliminate kickers or troublemakers. | Gitlow said the bill aims to kill |the live nerve ofthe labor movement thru striking at foreign-born workers. Ludwig spoke of the danger of. regis- | tration for workers scaring them into submission so they won't fight for improved conditions. Once the for- eign workers are terrorized it will be able to handle American workers. against the proposed bills and calling per all workers in the country to or- {also eall upon all workers’ organiza- tions, especially central bodies, such as central trades and labor councils, | soclalist party, sociallst labor party, | to unite in joint movement against jdiscriminatory laws, It was decided upon a drive for 4,000,000 signatures in petition campaign to be initiated by mass meeting delegations to pre- sent signatures to congress at time of hearings. The resolutions also pro- posed creation of a labor party unit- ing all sections against the bill and against proposed deportation political refugees. A national campaign exe- cutive committee of ,85. was elected and the next conference will be held arch 21, 22—Two hundred | ope, International | qicating Resolutions were adopted protesting | SHING CO., 1113 W. Idaho senator. jbefore this country became in-+- volved in the court. The American people alone can save the policies of Washington, Jefferson, | Jackson and Lincoln, “which we have | followed to our present strength and |glory,” said Borah, Those policies, fare about to be “abandoned, repudi- ated and cast aside” and the United States thrown into the league of na- tions which the people refused to join seven years ago. Appeals to Nation. “The first battle in the fight for American policies and American prin- ciples has been lost,” said Borah. “The next fight is being organized, We will lose the next fight as we lost the last ple, the masses, take up*the gage of battle, “We are now committed to the league in @ most vital particular, We are now the adviser and counsellor of the league. We are a member of the legal department of the league.» We refuse to join the league, but we ac- cept membership in the tribunal which is a component part of the league and whose business it is to counsel with the league upon all mat- ters. “There is not a controversy in Eur- legal or “political, involving a dynasty or an oil well, concerning which the council may not call upon the tribunal of which we are a mem- ber for advice. “This tribunal, of which this gov- ernment is now a member, may render these advisory opinions, and, when they are rendered, who is to enforce them in Europe? The league of na- tions. A tribunal whose judges are elected by the league, whose business it is to advise and counsel with the league and whose judgements are en- forced by the league, is the tribunal which we have joined. Do you think that we are not involved in Europe, that we are not now tied into the league? “But not only is the league to en- force the judgments but it may do so by means of war. Do you think the United States government, as a mem- ber of this tribunal, can escape the consequences of the war resorted to |for the purpose of enforcing the de- grees of a tribunal of which it is a member? Cast Aside Traditions. “Policies which have come near de- the western continent. to | peace for one hundred fifty years are to be exchanged for policies, anjl_prac- tices Mwbich have dedicated the Eur- opean continent to war for a thousand years, “It may be that some people think ¢Continned on page 2.) New York City. few provisions of this remarkable bill ‘will be sufficient to explain the indig- nation of the New York labor move- ment, Some of the important provisions of the Aswell bill are ag follows: * “Sec, 2. States shall, within the time fixed by the president in a proclamation made by him within ninety days after the enactment of this act, register as’ pro- vided in this act. Every alien who en- ters the U. S, on or after the first day of registration as fixed in such pro- clamation shall be immediately regis- tered in like manner by immigration (Continued on page 4) one unless the great body of the peo- | Every alien in the United | Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. EDITION NEW YORK Price 3 Cents LEADER OF ANTL-COURT FIGHT IMAGINES AMERICA WILL BE AT MERCY OF IMPERIALIST EUROPE The battie over the world court issue that was stopped in | the senate when the Mellon-Coolidge republican machine formed a coalition with the Morgan democrats and shut off debate by “gag” rule was resumed in Chicago yesterday when Senator | William E. Borah, of Idaho, addressing a large audience in the | Coliseum, assailed the adherence of the United States to the world court and declared that the league of nations is not only to enforce the judgments of the permanent court of internationat justice, but may do so by means of war. That the question of the world court is to be the paramount \issue in the coming congressional elections this fall cannot be |doubted after viewing the throng that turned out to listen to the The masses of the American people will learn more about imperialism in the next few months than they would learn in the same number of speeds under conditions” prevailing FILIPINOS PRAY FOR FREEDOM; A FEW GUNS WOULD REACH FURTHER (Special to The Dally Worker) MANILA, P. I., Feb, 22. — The Philippines are celebrating Wash- ington’s birthday by praying for in- dependence. To be sure the diety is approached in kosher fashion, the clergymen of the various denomina- tions are all repeating the form offi- cially adopted by the national su- preme council. Supposedly, this ‘is legal proof against all machinations of the American devil. We have had prayers for rain, and sometimes it happened that the rain was on its way at. the .time, and the foolish devotees thot their hocus-pocus had brot about the downfall. The present case, how- ever, will not repeat such coinci- dences. American capitalism takes some- thing stronger to move it than pray- er. A few Browning machine guns and a dozen bomb throwing acro- planes will make a quicker and deeper impression on the solid- heads at Washington than all the rigmarole Which could be conceived by all the modern “medicine” men in creation put together. When the Filipinos realize this, they will find a more effectual way in which te commemorate the death of the great American slave-holder. Norris Demands Kellogg Make Public Notes to Mexico on Land Laws WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. — Senator Norris, progressive leader, has offered in the senate a resolution calling on Secretary of State Kellogg to say positively whether it is Mexico or the United States that is preventing pub- lication of the recent official notes be- tween them, dealing with Mexico's new land laws. Mexico has hinted that Kellogg is suppressing the com respondence. Kellogg has denied it, Norris took action when he became convinced that the American oil come panies were trying to work up ane other American attack on Mexico, un+ der pretext of protecting clergymen who were denied permission to teack in Mexican schools, THE ASWELL BILL PROVIDES FOR REGISTRATION, FINGERPRINTING, SPYING ON FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—The Aswell bill for the registration and finger- printing of foreign born workers is a monstrosity of such character that the entire labor movement of New York city has become thoroly aroused and the conference called by the provisional committee of the council for the prov | tection of the foreign-born workers is receiving a constant stream of mess ganize a giant protest movement. They | ages of support by all the labor unions and working class organizations of /- Qnotatias Of 60 err FORM A GIANT GERMAN OiL TRUST BY MERGING THREE LARGE COMPANIES BERLIN, Feb. 22—The stock- holders of three of the largest German oil companies, Deutsche Er- doll, Ltd., Deutsche Petroleum, Ltd., and Reutgers Works, Ltd., have formed a trust. The merger will be known as the Deutsche Petroleum Akthien-Geselischaft and will have italization of 35,000,000 “a