The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1926, Page 2

Page Two ee TERS FD TEXANS CALL STATE CONVENTION TO SELECT LABOR PARTY CANDIDATES AND NATIONAL CONF. ERENCE DELEGATES ‘BATH-TUB GIRL’ MISSING SINCE CARROLL ORGY Unable to Locate Joyce Hawley (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 28—If any official action is contemplated by either the federal or local authorities against Barl Carroll, theatrical magnate, for the wild orgy that he staged” in his playhouse during which a naked lin- gerie model lay in a bath-tub filled with costly wines and champagne and dished out the wine to the 300 guests that were present, it was delayed today by the reported disappearance of Joyecg Hawley, who played the role of the “girk in the bath-tub.” Miss Hawley has not been seen by any of her friends since the day of the orgy and all efforts that have been made to locate her have proven fruit- less. Mildred E, Gethine, a former Follies chorus girl, the first of the guests to tell about the party, de- clared that the party was “not so sen- Sational.” It was also stated that Harry K, Thaw and the Countess Vera Cath- cart danced thé Charleston. and that after their dance made speeches to the assembled “smart set.” Another girl that was present and that also danced the Charleston found her clothes too cumbersome and divested herself of all her cumbersome garments. see Bathtub Principal Wins Immunity by Squealing, Is Report (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 28—Earl Carroll, Broadway theatrical producer, by tes- tifying before a federal grand jury in connection with the “bathtub party” staged at his theater a few night ago, has escaped possible prosecution by federal authorities. Carroll is report- ed to have given the grand jury the names of his principal guests at the now famous party. Authorities de- clined to comment on reports that subpoenas had been issued for many of those. present. Promised @ Private Tub. Morton Abrahams, attorney for Miss Joyce Hawley, the young woman who is said to have starred in the bathtub scene, declared today his client had instructed him to sue Carroll for ,3100,000, alleging breach of contract *and defamation of character. She al- leges that Carroll engaged her to ap- pear at a private party and instead used her in connection with a “pub- licity stunt.” Worker Killed on Job. Michael Cavers, 45 years old, died at the West Side Hospital from in- juries he suffered when he fell from the first floor to the cellar while at work at the building under construc- tion at 180 Bast Delaware place. Get your tickets now for the Inter. national concert of the T. U. E. L. Sat., March 13, at 8th St, Theater. NEW YORK Red Press Revel of The Novy Mir Russian COMMUNIST NEWSPAPERS Saturday Russian Cabaret and Ball at the HARLEM CASINO (Both Halls) 116th St. and Lenox Ave. Admic:‘sn 50c. Tickets on sale at: Novy Mir, 30 Union Square, and The Daily Worker New York Agency, 108 East 14th Street. RATES TEXARKANA, Texas.—In accord- ance with the instructions given at the state conference of organized farmers and wage workers héld ‘here in December, the state executive com- mittee of the labor party then formed has issued the following call for a state convention to be held in Fort Worth Wednesday, March 10, at 10 a, m. Texarkana, Texas, To the People of Texas: Complying with instructions of the state conference of organized farm- ers and wage workers held at Texar- kana on Dec. 9, 1924, at which time the labor party of Texas was formed and we were elected a state exetutive committee, We hereby issue a call for a state convention of said labor party of Texas, to be held in Clerks’ Hall, 1502% Main St. Fort Worth, Texas, on Wednesday, March 10, at 10 o’clock a, m. The objects of this state convention of the labor party shall be: 1. To select candidates for state Politieal offices and for United States senate and congress, subject to rati- fication or additions at meetings on legal convention dates next summer. 2. To adopt a state platform and to adopt resolutions in line with the pur- poses of the labor party. 3. To elect delegates to the nation- al convention soon to be called by various state and divisional farmer- labor political organizations, the pur- pose of such national convention be- ing to form a national labor (or farm- er-labor) party. 4. To adopt plans for furthering the organization of the labor party, in- cluding a plan of organization, Basis of Representation. Delegates representing the follow- ing bodies will be seated as follows: Labor party clubs, one delegate each. If the county is organized for the labor party, delegates from such county will have one vote for each labor party club in the county. Labor union or fatm organization locals, one delegate each. Central labor councils, one delegate each, State-wide organizations of wage earners or farmers, two delegates-at- large each. State-wide liberal political organiza+ tions, whose aim are similar to those of the labor party, two delegates-at; large each. ' Delegates will present credentialg signed by chairman and secretaries of bodies they represent, giving name’ Railway" e 4 jes. Secretaries will immediately for- ward names and addresses of all dele- gates elected by their bodies to B. R. Meitzen, state chairman labor party, 10 Hazel St., Texarkana, Tex.-Ark, Under resolutions adopted’ at the Texarkana conference, candidates will be “drafted,” that is to say, no person who asks for the labor party nomina- tion will be considered by the Fort Worth convention, At the Texarkana conference it was further decided that the state execu- tive committee shall seek out Mkely candidates for state and national of- fices and present their names to the Fort Worth convention, tho the dele- gates shall have the right to make further nominations, Nominations are to be made without speeches, tho at the close of nomina- tions all delegates shail have the right to freely discuss the fitness or lack of fitness of all candidates presented to the convention on March 10, the name of each candidate being taken up in turn for discussion, Let Everybody Get Busy. Attached hereto you will find com- plete instructions on.hoW to organize labor party clubs in your voting pre cinct. Let every than and woman who believes that the time has come for the laboring and producing millions to take charge of state and national gov- ernments, act on these instructions and see that their voting precincts and counties are organized and are represented at the Fort Worth con- vention on March 10. Let us make it the greatest gather- ing of the plain people ever held in the south. Remember that what we do in Tex- as will have a tremendous effect all over the nation, Remember that the people are sick and tired of office-seeking, profession- al politicians who side with the mon- eyed few against the exploited mass- ev, but are ready and anxious to vote for honest and able farmers and wage- earners or their true-and-tried friends who are not seeking office but will have to be urged to accept for the good of the country and the plain peo- ple, Yours for Victory in Our Day, E. R. Meitzen, Chairman. , A. C. Howerton U, P. Boswell 4 A. W, Lusk L. L, Rhodes State Executive, Committee, Labor Party of Texas, 310 Hazel St. Tex- and number and address of such bod-|arkana, Tex.-Ark. EDUCATED IGNORAMUS BARS ALL COMMUNISTS FROM GRIST FACTORY (Special to The Dally Worker) OXFORD, England, Feb, 28—Vice- Chancellor Joseph Wells of Oxford University has issued a regulation forbidding Communist propaganda on the university campus and an- nouncing that all students who are Communists will be expelled. The Daily Worker English Evening, March The gayest, jolliest night of the year! |MILLINERY GIRLS FORM UNION IN CHICAGO SHOPS Manufacturers Resist Unionization By CARL HAESSLER ' (Federated Press.) The Cloth Hat Cap & Millinery Workers’ International Union is mak- ing energetic use of its new jurisdic- tion over millinery workers by organ- iging the women in the Chicago dis- trict into a local: The organization meeting, called after careful prelimin- ary work, will gather both, operators and trimmers into the field. There are about 10/000 men and women employed in the allied millin- ery industries in Chicago and the capi- tal invested amounts to about $75,- 00,000. The manufacturers scoff at union organization, saying that wages and conditions are so good that no union is necessary, Hmpha- tic replies to this soothing syrup will be made when the local is chartered. “*s 6 Condemn Insanitary Houses, Two-thirds of Chicago's families have an annual income of less than $2,500, the municipal department of public welfare reports to Mayor De- ver, Rent is now twice as high for most of these families as it was in 1914 and the accommodations are oft- en very bad, some houges being with- out any toilet facilities and without any running water. The faucets and toilets of neighboring houses have to be used, the commissioner states, ask- ing for condemnation and destruction of at least 1 per cent of the house- holds visited by the department. oe * Bakers Win Strike. Bakery Workers’ Local No, 237, Chi- cago, reports a successful strike to oust a nonunion worker employed by the Morris Bornstein shop, contrary to the agreement with the union. Telegraphers Line up 443 in Month, ST. LOUIS, Feb. 28.--The order of Ratiroad Telegraphe enrolled 443 new members in January. . E DAILY WORKER GRAND RAPIDS AUTO WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE (Continued from page 1). body works declared: “You have for years put up with the intolerable con- ditions prevailing in your open shop plant, you have finally resisted the most recent wage cut; and now that you are out, stick it out until we win this strfke thru combined effort, What has been done in other cities, can be done here. Look at New York City, @ few years ago men’ worked up to 60 hours a week for straight time; the latest information is that they now have a 44-hour week(plus a consider able increase in wages.!’ After due warning; to the strikors, regarding the multifarious ways of the employing class to win pack the strik- ers individually from intimidation all the way to lying promises, Brother Johnson introduced Edward A. Kos- ten, secretary of the local Trades and Labor Council. Kosten Endorses Strike. “Let there be no mistake regarding my personal attitude‘ toward your strike,” declared Brother Kosten, “whether you are an A. F. of L. union or not, aside from miy 28 years’ serv- ice in the labor movement, the fact that I am a member of the working class, makes your fight my fight, the only battle in which your are actually fighting in the interests of ‘your own class, I sincerely hope that you will display the same enthusiasm all the way down the line in this struggle, and that we will be able to cause the thousands of furniture workers of Grand Rapids to become afflicted with your spirit, so that they too will de- velop enuf courage to resist wage cuts.” ' Four Hundred Signed Up. the organization Campaign in and outside the plant is bringing splendid results in lining up‘the workers of other departments sach as painters, metal workers, dingmen, final assem- blers, etc., with all indications that the total number of men signed up with the union will go) well over the 400 mark. ‘® Others to Come Out, All the employes of the balance of departments still wopking, will soon be affected by thé strike of the men already out, as they ita dependently of the ati been struck. Very have been received o have these workers | as soon as whate’ ‘the efforts ito the strikers have left, will be" ‘The series of successive wage ci served upon the employes at Hayes{fonia company, has made it impossi' for them to bear it any longer; i ‘ing common knowledge in this city} that only by working at topmost d, can a workér earn a living The strik- ers are confident of ther crippling the plant, feeling in that the scabs and green helps generally. will not bé able to produc the custom- ary speed, nor will be able to stand up under the ¢ strain im- posed upon the slaves of this, most notorious open shop tution of this city, which, according, Present indi- cations, at least, will’mot resume its operations on the “American plan.” Union Worker is Inventor. ST, LOUIS—(FP)—Grade crossing accidents may be greatly reduced by a warning signal for motorists, in- vented by Ralph G. Watkins, a un- ion telegraph operator of St, Louis, The signal fs placed on the highway at the railroad tracks and is operated by an electric track line circuit. When the track ig clear a slow sign ih green is displayed. As a train nears the crossing a ‘Ted stop sign flashes auto- matically, WORKER TOLD ITS UNAMERIGAN TO EXPECT DECENT CONDITIONS By ROSE CHESTER, (Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Feb, 28 — As an American, | always thot that con- ditions of labor in America were at least tolerable and @ worker had some degree of freedom of speech but I learned that | was misinform- ed. | got a job in & clothing fac- tory where the workers slaved all day In a work roohi (that had no windows. Of course, they worked by artificial light. The hours of la- bor were fifty a week, and the em- ployes were outrageously underpaid. One day | was paid off and told | was not to return to work any more. When | asked for the reason of my dismissal my employer told me 1 heard telling the workers to demand better working conditions which was “un-American talk.” ‘Tenements Ago Still EW YORK CITY confesses to the world that of the 23 tene- ment houses that were declared a public mefiace in. 2885; 14 of them are still in its midst oceupied. wholly or partially, and paying profits in rent to some landlord who is not bothered by the authorities, Up here in Massachusetts I find that one of the favorite methods of the authorities in forcing fall owners to close their buildings against Communist meetings is to threaten an inspection, that will re- sult in declaring the structure un- safe and “a public menace.” The condemned New York tenements continue and thrive. No threat is effective. Yet in Masséchusetts, the threats are effective and few halls are open to Communists. There must be a reason. ses There is no secret about the lo- cation of the menacing New York tenements. The full list is pub- lished in the New York Times, is- sue of Tuesday, Feb. 23, Fearing that the authorities might have overlookéd their own hometown pa- per, the list is republished here as follows: 164 , Fourth avenue, 135 Seventh avenue, 72 and 82 Green- wich street, 87 Washington street, 71 Pearl street, 29 Coenties Slip, 548 Sixth street, 26014 Water street, 15 Jones Slip, 428 Water street, 16 Dover street, 12 Main street and 788 Bleventh avenue. None of these addresses is to be found in the sections. of the city in- habited by the exclusive rich. They are all in the worst slum districts peopled by the poor, a8 These buildings are not torn down and new ones erected in their places because fabulous profits can still be taken from them, The reason for this is to be found in the annual housing report sub- mitted to the regular gathering’ of the New York state legislature. These housing reports are made just as regularly as the legislature assembles and just as regularly the announcement is made that “conditions are growing progres: sively worse.” eTe 6 Only three per cent of the total new construction in New York City has been provided within the means of 7&per cent of the Population. The whole wage-earning population in New York City falls below the “annual income of $2,500. The 97 per cent of new construction, which families with an income of more than $2,500 can afford, is thus avail. able to only 30 per cent of the pop- ulation, Two things happen when a work- ing class family is faced with this PROSECUTION CLOSES CASE BY STRESSING SEDITION CHARGE IN ORDER TO RAILROAD EDITOR _ 8 (Continued from page 1.) church member was to be found among all the government's witness- es. Hoffman then turned to an attack of the sedition charge, pointing out that it was a relic of the war days. “The war is now over,” he said, ad- dressing the court, “these sedition cases were tried in an atmosphere created by war conditions. That time ig now past.” 4 Hoffman then told of going to the library to get a copy of Chaffee'’s book on “Free Speech.” Chaffee is a Har- vard law professor who joined in the resistence to the red-baiting wave that swept the country in 1919 and the years immediately following. “I found that this book on free speech has only been drawn from the library three times during the years it has been on its shelves,” said Hoff- man, “The librarian told me that their patrons would rather read fic-| tion, If the people of Brockton would read more books of this kind of Chaf- fee and less fiction, then there would be fewer Bimba cases in New Bng- jJand.” At another point Hoffman declared, “If this case has served no other pur- pose than to show to the masses that there are some’ people determined to stand up and fight for thelr rights, then it has justified itself.” Stress Sedition Charge, The purpose of the government's prosecution was easily discernable in the closing argument of prosecutor I, Manuel Rubin, who pushed aside the blasphemy charge with a few words and then devoted tis whole at tentioh to the sedition charge, as “Menace” 40 Years Furnish Rent By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Condemned dilemma, It either moves into a smaller apartment, increasing the population per rodm, or it moves into cheaper apartments, into the cheapest tenements. It is, there- | fore, easy to see why there is always a-demand for the cheapest slum dwellings. Capitalism’s “boasted enterprise” receives fhe annual jolt in the ribs from Governor Smith’s housing and regional planning commission, which says! “At all times and In all’ places private enterprise has been unable to supply adequate housing to meet the needs of the underlying popu- lation. “The average family must be content with the left-overs and there are never enuf of these to permit adequate housing for more than half the population.” Yet it is Governor Smith’s lackey in the New. York City hall, Mayor Walker, who ‘refuses to discuss these intolerable housing condi tions with representative women of the working class, who are those in the population most interested in remedying conditions, And all the time capitalist “en- terprise” builds’ homes only for those who can afford to pay the highest rents that bring in the big- gest profits. eet When the filthy, unkempt, totter- ing abodes of the poor breed epi- demics of disease; when tuberculo- sis and-othet plagues stalk abroad among the workers, finding victims everywhere, nothing is said. Gov- ernor Smith’s commission con- fesses: . “If we may accept the average rate of demolition for the yea 1909 to 1925 inclusive, as represen- tative of the continued life span of old law tenements in. New York City, it will be 138 years before these sub-standard dwellings are abolished.” Not éven the usual promise of better ‘conditions, oe @ But {n Massachusetts the voice of the law speaks. Halls wil be closed and condemned as a “men- ace” if Communists, voicing the Protests of the workers, are allowed to speak in them. So the Commu- nists are kept out. It was rather fortunate that the Labor Lyceum, in which the Bimba meeting was held on the night before the opén- ing of the Brockton trial, is a new |/ structure. Perhaps it was symbol- {eal of the Communist ideas which New England reaction fears, but which Will in time solve the hous- ing problem that grows “progres. || sively worse” in New York and everywhere else. ae ant must be convicted of making these statements, | During the trial the prosecution made no effort to establish the exist- ence of the Workers (Communist) Party or to have its program or prin- ciples presented ‘to the court. The prosecutor explained this in his clos- ing argument by declaring that, “Com- munist principles, the principles of the Communist Party and the Third (Communist) International are s0 well established, they are a matter of such common knowledge, that they do not need to be established: here, and the court cannot shut its mind to them.” Rubin then reiterated his belief that the respect of the people for god was the foundation on which our form of government is based, declaring that Bimba had attacked this respect, rev- erance and faith in god, as a prelimin- ary to the overthrow of the govern- mt. “It he did say these things, and he id,” said the prosecutor, “then hé cannot go on.” When the arguments were in the court asked a few questions. The prosecutor had cifed the cases of Win. Bross Lloyd, in Illinois and Benjamin Gitlow, in New York, as successful ‘sedition prosecutions, But the court reminded Rubin that the complaint charged edition in Massachusetts. Hoffman offered to waive any techni- calities on behalf of Bimba. Rubin stressed that every question asked must have been raised by some- thing that Bimba had said in his speech. The judge first questioned and Hoffman showed that hardly any of the questions asked had had any basis in what Bimba had said in COOLIDGE SIGNS BILL TO REDUCE TAXES OF RICH Bipartisan Support Jams Bill Thru (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — The tax bill fs now a law, the president’s sig- nature having been affixed this, morn- ing. The necessary forms required for the new returns have already been supplied to some districts, The tres. ury department is runntfhg off hurried. ly hundreds of thousands Of blanks for the March 165 filings, Passage of the measure Was atcom- plished in a shorter period than re- quired for similiar action on any tax bill in the history of congress, Only 81 days have elapsed from the time the congressional committees began cdn- sideration of the sybject until the sig- nature by the president of the com- pleted measure, The Gold Dust Twins. Another unique feature of the bill is the fact that it is the only measure of its kind, with the exception of laws passed under the stress of a war crisis, which had the almost unanim- ous support of both republicans and democrats. Both the old parties as organizations, voted for the bill. The only opposition came from a scattered group of so-called “progressives” from each party and the “independents.” Thus has been again demonstrated the truth that the republican and demo- cratic parties have no vital differ ences, that they remain distinct organ- izations only for two reasons: first, because this helps distract the work- ers’ attention from the pressing task of organizing their own class party; and secondly, because of the huge number of officeholders who fatten on the political jobs at the disposal of each, ‘ ese © Grant Wealthy an Extension, WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — Amer ican taxpayers earning more than $5,000 a year today were granted a two-months’ extension for filing re- turns under the new tax bill, signed this morning by President Coolidge. Instead of March 16, the returns will not be due until May 15, the treasury announced. Returns on incomes less than $6,000, however, must be filed by March 15, Vote on Compensation Law. ST. LOUIS—(FP)—The workmen's compensation act passed by the Mis- souri legislature will be ratified by the People when the vote is cast next No- vember, in the opinion of Pres, Wood ot the state federation of labor, Dam- age suit lawyers and others invoked the referendum when they failed to kill the bill in the legislature, Se eee Just Off the Press! Se Marx and Engels on REVOLUTION IN AMERICA. By Heinz Neuman. Marx and Engels were keenly aware of the deve- lopment of American labor fifty years ago. : In this unusual booklet, Heinz Neuman, one of the most prominent figures of the Communist movement in Germany—home of Karl Marx—well presents their analysis of American labor and the road it must take to final victory, The lessons of Marx are still applicable today in this / country—making the book- let of not only historical but also of immediate and © practical value to all work- his speech. Even according to the| ||. “nT riou! 1 ers. It i Outside of Chicago: lon” elaled Rebian wants Poet] saowscution's own testimony, \d ” ing the complaint charging sedition. No, 6, The second part of Bimba's noeeal Parasites’. Who's Who, he 1113 W. Washington Bivd. scensmensseneesnnanessunscnmae| W8S dedicated to but one purpose: CLEVELAND—(FP)— Only 996,500 y treat “te “| the spreading of the seeds of sedition. |Cleyelanders are outside the pale ot The Little Red Library CHICAGO, ILL, ‘i His way is the way of revolution, His|society. Within are 3,000, as regis. HRY ssesonsotrsosnn penn ‘vanmanumnewnners) way not @ philosophical discussion. |tered in the Blue Book. DeKay Town, 10 ‘conta, He urged his listeners to throw thi SUBSCRIBE! tetves’ into hie gagen, "DO Ove ment’s case cannot fail, ‘The defond- wend, an elderly spinster, is the social Who's Who arbiter. Parasitism is the qualification for memberwhip, ee alse Twelve Copies for One Dollar. “svecveneertnccesnsssennanaays mummers sneugnn get oAHAHNN4 8