The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1926, Page 2

Page Two MATTEOTTI TRIA TURNING INTO A FORMAL FRAUD Assassins Have Nothing to Fear from Court (Special to The Dally Worker) CHIETI, Italy, March 17.—. Little progress was made today in the trial of Amerigo Dumini and his co-defend- ants Who are charged with the mur- der of the socialist deputy Matteotti, altho the prosecution brought expert medical testimony which proved that the story given by Dumini yesterday was false. Dumini maintained that Matteotti died in the back of the automobile al- legedly used to kidnap him, and that the anti-fascist deputy had died from a hemmorhage caused by tubercular trouble recurring during the excite- ment of the kidnapping. The prosecu- tion, with its expert medical witness es, showed that Matteotti had died as a result of knife wounds. The presence at the head of the counsel for the defense of Farinacci, secretary of the fascist party, and one of Mussolini’s closest advisers, is an indication of what the findings of the court will be. Even if Dumini and his confreres are found guilty, which is not very likely, it is certain that they will get a very short term in prison, or if the sentence is more severe, Mussolini will see to it that it is commuted and that the actual murderers of Matteotti are soon walk- ing the streets as free men. Farinacci has been engaged in spreading stories thruout Hurope in an attempt to discredit the state- 2 ments now being made by Rossi, for- merly high in the councils of the fascisti, one of the ruling quadrumvi- rate, who fled to France when Musso- ini attempted to make him the scapegoat for the murder of the de- puty. Rossi, who is in constant dan- ger of assassination by fascist agents in Nice, France, where he is now liv- ing, has been writing a ‘series of stories which prove conclusively that Mussolini was one of the most active and vicious plotters of the assassina- tion of Mattectti. Rossi’s revelations and his record as a fascist lead one to believe that he is as involved in the murder as anyone else concern- ed. The fact that he was made the main scapegoat instead of .Mussolini himself does not change this fact very much. Perth Amboy Paris Commune Meeting to Have Big Program PERTH AMBOY, N, J., March 17— Perth Amboy workers will honor the fifty-fifth anniversary of the Paris Commune with a mass méeting on Sunday evening, March 21, at 7:30 p. m, sharp at the Workers’ House, 308 Elm St, The program will include English and Hungarian speakers. Music, reci- tations, etc, Admission free. Soviets Grant Mine Concession. MOSCOW, U, 8S. 8S. R., March 17.— Extensive silver, lead and iron ore concessions in the region adjacent to the Amur river in Asiatic Russia have been granted to the Preamur Joint Stock Mining company, an English firm, EAST PATERSON POLICE ARREST PICKET LEADER Pickets Continue March Despite Terrorization By J. O. BENTALL (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N, J., March 17 — Police brutality grows more and more brazen in the Passaic textile strike, pounced upon Jack Rubenstein, who headed the picket line that marched to East Paterson at the request of the workers In the National Silk Dye- Police ing company, knocked him down and dragged him into court and within half on hour the judge, whose act was so contemptible that even the capital- ist sheets were ashamed to mention his nave, had s days in Bergen county Jall for the un- heard of crime of telling the police that he was helping his fellow workers get better wages and working conditions. enced him to 90 It was openly stated that Ruben- stein was not arrested for any breach of the law, The bosses’ papers them- selves reported the case in this man- ner: valuable organizer ahd leader of the picket line and the loss of his services is believed to be a blow to the strikers.” “Rubenstein was considered a Two other pickets, Thomas Regan and Frank Sarno, were also arrested and given 30 days in jail. They were pet ee rey U.N. 1. A. Conference at Detroit Seeks to Oust Sherrill Group (Continued from Page 1) charged with whistling, no other crime being mentioned by the cops who had arrested them, yet the judge sentenced them to 30 days in jail. Much disappointment came to the police thugs when Nancy Sandowsky, a plucky mill girl of 19, leaped to the front to take the place of Rubenstein and shouted, “Who's afraid of riot guns of the night sessions at which the public is invited to attend and listen to speeches being made by the pro- Garvey speakers. Firestone Proposal Causes Stir. The rejection of the Firestone pro- posal by the Liberian legislature and the censure placed on the Liberian secretary of state by the legislature and the stand taken by the president's cabinet against President King, who favors the proposals of the rgbber in- terests, is causing much comment among the rank and file members at- tending the night sessions of the con- yentidn. The leaders of the pro-Gay- vey faction and the anti-Garvey fat- tion have had nothing to say so far Girl Leads Strike Pickets, She took the lead of the column and marched right between two burly police thugs that were stationed at the mill by the sheriff and led her followers to the mill gates where the girls were coming out, The bosses had motor trucks at the gates to take the workers away in. In spite of this pre- caution, a large number joined the strikers. Sheriff Nimmo of Bergen county had fourteen policemen and twenty deputies, armed with riot guns, on the lookout for the picket line as it was on this issue tho it is one of the most|drawing up to the dyeing plant in important before the Liberian| East Paterson, He warned the pickets Negroes. that they must not walk two abreast and that they must not whistle, Fear Strikers’ Whistle. The strikers have found that there is a sort of magic in a lusty whistle. It never fails to bring the whole crew in a mill to the windows, and once at the window the slaves forget to go back to thelr tasks and the bosses stand there gazing in the air minus their profit producers. That whistle is a sort of nightmare to the fat barons of the textile mills, So the sheriffs and the cops and the judges have been handed the com- mand that whistling must cease, for as long as the strikers whistle at the gates the bosses have to whistle for their profits, Tt is expected that before the con- vention ends that the gathering will take some stand on the action of the Liberian legislature throwing to one side the proposals of the rubbef magnates of America that threaten the existence of the Liberia as a Negro republic, The rubber interests are bound to make Liberia one of their colonies and whatever form of gov- ernment the republic now has will be perverted into nothing more than an oppressive medium of the rubber in- terests if the Firestone interests once get into Liberia with their proposals. Has King Sold Negro Republic? It is stated in a number of African papers that President King has been bought out by. the rubber magnates of America and that his secretary of state has also sold out, This may explain the betrayal of the Liberian Negro republic into the hands of the Firestone interests that is now con- templated and which the Liberian le- gislature and the President's cabinet refuse to agree to. The present convention of the Unt versal Negro Improvement Associa- tion leave this important issue alone. Sherrill has not as yet made a de- claration as to where he stands on the issues before the convention. He has not as yet made a declaration of his policy. Over 100 delegates re- sponded to roll call—most of them staunch Garvey supporters, Groom Peters for Presidency. It is not expected that Garvey will be allowed to stay in the country after his release from prison, It is expected that he will be deported and the pro- Garvey forces in the convention are working on this supposition. Peters is being groomed for the acting presi- dency. Peters is considered a staunch Garvey supporter and supports the sent utopian “Back to Africa” pol ay f Marcus Garvey, ; Exempt Silk Goods. MOSCOW, U.S. 8. R.—(Tass)— March 17.—To encourage the produc- tion of silk, the Soviet government, in a recent decree, removed home pro- duced silk and semi-silk articles from the luxuries list and these articles, therefore, will be exempted from the business tax, Home produced articles made of ar- tificial silk or of mixtures of artificial silk are also exempted from the tax, “Last Day of the Com set net SABA eect A OER STO =A PRP cr A Ac EPR nc el A Ce SR ERS Ed Spectacular 1-Act Drama. Tickets in advance 250, at the door 60c, CHARGE JUDGE ENGLISH WITH MISDEMEANORS Anti-Labor Jarist Faces Impeachment (Spectal to The Dally Workerd WASHINGTON, Méafch 17. — The foundation for the impeachment trial this summer of United States district Judge George W. English, East St. Louis, Ill, was laid today by the house judiciary committee. The articles of impeachment, com- prising 28 alleged instances of mal- administration in office, were formal- ly presented by a sub-committee of three, which for the past several days has been whipping them into shape. This large number of counts against the Illinois jurist probably will be pared down to a total of 12 or 14 by the committee during the next two days and then presented to the house. Altho the committee report has the right of way in the house, the press [ea appropriation bills will probably cause a delay until early next week, it was indicated by Rep, Tilson, of Connecticut, republican floor leader. English is accused of tyrannical dis- barment of attorneys-at-law, deposit of bankruptcy funds in banks, stocks of which was held by the court, favor- itism toward a sales corporation in which he was interested as a medium for disposing of bankrupts assets, and other misdemeanors. English was appointed federal judge by former President Wilson. Among those who had recommended him was Samuel Gompers who termed English a “strong friend of labor.” He show- ed his “friendship” by rigorously en- forcing the federal injunction against the ratilroad shopmen in their strike. English even used the writ against all those charged with its enforcement, who showed the least sympathy with the strikers. Big Labor Struggles Loom on the Horizon in the British Isles (Continued from Page 1) council of the Trades Union Congress and with the co-operatives, in prepara- tion for the miners’ struggle in May. Industrial conflict is likely to break out in a number of other important industries. The ‘Textile Workers Union and the Union of the Agriecul- tural Workers are also involved. The union leaders and the rank and file are, however, determined to stand by their guns in the event of an open fight and they have already given ad- vance notice that they ihtend to hold fast. “March may see a number of trade union grievances coming to a head. It would be a very good policy if these could be formulated in such a way as to make one common stand upon the one common principle of a de- mand for a living wage for all work- ers,” said A, J. Cook, secretary of the miners’ federation. “I should think the people in. Nor- folk who grow our food have every reason to be discontented, Their con- ditions are inhuman. They only re- ceive 28 shillings per week. I am just going away to a most important con- ference of our men which is beine held at Norwich. We expect abou 200 delegates, and they will thresh ou the details of our future policy,” was the statement of R. B. Walker, nation al secretary of the Agricultural Work ers Union, “The policy of forcing down wages of workers in all industries,” com mented Ben Turner, the president of the Textile Workers Union, “and the consequent number of unemployed in the country, is playing havoc with the worsted, woolen, and allied trades,” And J, T. Brownlie, president of the Joint Trade Union Committee which is negotiating for a raise in wages for the engineers, when he was given the ultimatum of the bosses that they refused to grant the increase, de- clared ‘that the unions “had nothing further to add.” If signs mean anything, the master class in Great Britain is going to have a sharp time of it in the coming months. The labor movement fs in a more militant state that it has been for many years, with the disintegra- tion of the British empire on the one hand, the worsening of conditions of the British worker, and the growing strength of the left wing within the unions. Just as one of the latest in- dications of the growing spirit of solidarity is the announcement just made that the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation hag decided by an over- whelming majority to affiliate with the industrial alliance, THE DAILY WORKER President Confers with Agents of AJ. S. Imperialism Abroad (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March’ 17.—Ambas- sador Alanson B, Houghton will arrive in Washington late this afternoon and will be President Coolidge’s guest at the white house, With Houghton, Minister Gibson and Secretary of State Kellogg, Pres- ident Coolidge will go over Huropean conditions, particularly with reference to the proposed disarmament confer- ence of the league of nations, Foreign Exchange, NEW YORK, March 17 — Great Britain pound sterling, demand 4.85%, cable 4.86%; France franc, demand 3.57%, cable 3.58; Belgiym franc, de- mand 4.04%; cable 4.05%; Italy lira, demand 4.01%; cable 4.01%; Sweden krone, demand 26.77, cable 26.80; Nor- way krone, demand 21.49, cable 21.51; Denmark krone, demand 26,17, cable 26.19; Shanghai, tael, pepend 73.50. SENATE TO GET RESOLUTION ON PASSAIC STRIKE Committee in Washing- ton Is Getting Results (Continued from page 1). conditions in the industry from Frank P, Walsh, also declared that it war- rants prompt attention and investiga- tion and promised that if other means of starting the investigation failed he @imself would personally introduce the resolution. Bosses Tool Fears Probe, Since Lawrence C. Phipps of Colo- rado is the chairman of the committee on labor and education other senators advised interviewing him, but he was afraid to touch it’and said it was not a proper matter for investigation but should be handled t the depart- nent of labor. Phipps was unquestion- ably interviewed by thé scabby mill- owner Colonel Johnson who came to Washington on the same train with the strikers, tho he kept out of sight until the train arrived in this city. The Colorado senator is’ also the serv- ile flunkey of the notorious scab Colo- rado Fuel and Iron cémpany owned by the Rockefeller rests, so he could not be expected So lend his ‘aid to an expose of the slave pens of the woolen mill owners, «2 Interview Wheeler. Later Senator Wheelér of Montana was interviewed and agreed that something ought to be done regarding the industry and said that if someone else introduced it and it was referred to the committee on manufacturers of which he is a member, ‘he would fight for it there, but that He hesitated to introduced it himself. As yet none of the members of the lower house have been seen, but ef- forts will be made by Walsh and Albert Weisbord, organizer of the Passaic strikers, to see some of the leading members of the minority in congress in order to bring up the question of the high tariff on woolens und its relation to the general condi- ‘ons of labor in that industry. Eight strikers accompanied Weis- ord to Washington, all of them re- resenting mills on strike and all of hem workers. They are Gustav Deak, “heresa Staudinger, Frank Giacomini, *rances Janicke, Anna Braznik, Steph- on Res, Matyas Haydu, Carl Trocolo. Mary Heaton Vorse, the journalist, ind Mrs. Katherine G, F. Wiley, of the New Jersey Consumer’s League, also came with the delegation. Frank P, Walsh is to act as Gounsel for the delegation in taking @vidence when the committee gets to work and will have authority to call witnesses thru- out the whole industry To Show Rotten Conditions. His statement regarding the investi- gation follows: ‘ “I have come to Washington with these textile mill workérs to bring to the attention of responsible members of the senate a state of affairs in the New Jersey textile industry which the evidence proves to’ be more dis- graceful and inhuman’ than I have ever found to exist in any other in- dustry of this country. It is my/hope that the United States senate will take prompt and vigorous action to investigate the truth of these charges and hold criminally responsible those industrial interests, responsible for violating the constitutional rights of their employes, We base our request for congres- sional action on the following charges, PARIS COMMUNE MEMORIAL MEETING 8 P. M., FRIDAY, MARCH 19th, AT ASHLAND BLVD. AUDITORIUM SPEAKERS: Biship William Montgomery Brown, Ralph Chaplin, J. W. Johnstone, Ida Rothstein. _ MUSICAL PROGRAM by the Lettish Orchestra, prison songs, revolutionary marches by Russian singers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. — ENRIK SHIPSTEAD, elected as a farmer-labor senator from Minnesota, is in Chicago talking for one of the choicest aggregation of anti-labor political bandits the city has ever known. Ex-Mayor William Hale Thompson is Shipstead’s spon- sor and he has the backing, in his Chicago meetings, of the Crowe-Barrett republican machine, that gets its strength thru State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe's grip on the prose- | cutor’s office of Cook County's government. ’ : Crowe, the republican, who deserted the Thompson out- fit and is now linked up with it again, has also a bi-partisan alliance with the powerful Brennan faction in the democratic ,party. The workers and farmers of Minnesota, who sent Shipstead to the United States senate, will be interested in the kind of company the senator they elected is keeping in Chicago. It is evident that Shipstead’s position on the world court issue draws him into the company of Thompson and Crowe, Shipstead screams for “no foreign entanglements” and mouths the phrases of George Washington uttered a century and a half ago. “Back to '76!” is Shipstead’s slogan now, just as it was the pet rallying cry not only of LaFollette, in 1924, but also of William Jennings Bryan, in 1896, when he was leading the middle class, including the rich farmers, un- der populist and democratic standards, against the bankers and great industrialists. . e e e The fact that the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson aggregation is seeking to exploit middle class and even confused work- ing class protest; the fact that it is opposed to the United States senators from Illinois, William McKinley and Charles S. Deneen, the agents of biggest business;,the fact it is being fought by the “open shoppers” parading as “the Better Government Association”; these facts do not help stamp the Crowe regime in the state’s attorney's office as any the less anti-labor. The Crowe-Barrett-Thompson out- fit is the bitter enemy of the workers. It.was State's Attorney Crowe who raided the offices of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, arresting many of its officials, when it was in a bitter struggle with the gar- ment bosses, It was State’s Attorney Crowe who raided the office of the Metal Polishers’ Union, during its strike at the Cribben- Sexton plant, thus seeking to cripple the workers’ struggle. Statie’s Attorney Crowe has also directed raids and ar- rests against the Milk Drivers’ Union, the Waiters’ Union, the Barbers’ Union, to mention only a few. The diabolical alltance of the farmer-labor senator, Shipstead, with this outfit has evidently proved so nauseat- ing that even the local labor officialdom, that has deserted farmer-labor unity for “non-partisan” political action, has “not been conspicuous at any of the numerous festivities pre- pared for Shipstead during his stay in the city. * * * * h Shipstead is opposed to the world court and the league of nations. But his opposition has no working class basis, recognizing these institutions as instruments of the capitalist class. Shipstead has the outlook of the timid petty bour- geoisie who seek gee in isolation from world problems. This links him up with the middle class enemies of the workers. It is Shipstead and Magnus Johnson and other place seekers who graft themselves upon the independent political class action of the workers and farmers and fight pa mss no of the Communists to the farmer-labor movement, because the Communists insist on the right to criticize policies and to expose misleaders who use their positions, as Shipstead is now doing, to betray labor. With the farmer-labor movement again in the ascend- ant, old problems again present themselves. Admission of Workers (Communist) Party delegates to Farmer-Labor gatherings can only have the effect of helping to cleanse them of undesirable elements. Political careerists, of the type of Shipstead, who align themselves with the worst enemies of the workers and farmers, are a danger to the farmer-labor movement and must be put where they belong. ee which will be made under oath by a large number of eye-witnesses: Assault Strike Pickets, 1. The rights of public assemblage, free speech, and free press are being denied by the public officials of the mill towns, as evidenced by scores of brutal assaults on peaceable workers, aewspaper representatives, and the public, by police and other officials. 2. Governmental protection of the life, limb and homes of the great majority of the inhabitants of those mill towns has broken down, imperil- ing and destroying the life, liberty and property of vast numbers of the citizens of New Jersey by force and violence, in direct violation of the federal constitution, 8. The textile industry of .New Jersey, primarily engaged in produc- tion for interstate and foreign com- merce, compels workers to produce its goods amid unsanitary conditions that menace their own health and that of the persons of the various states into which their product is shipped by in- jerstate commerce, 4, The New Jersey mill owners are using interstate transportation to bring into P, ic and vicinity spies and detectives to act as agents provo- cateurs and to initiate and foster violence and intimidation, Use Deportation Threats. 5. The mill owners are threate: laws to initiate deportation procee working conditions which are not menace to life and limb. dinances of the state for the prote: tion of United States citizens, Jersey. Columbus Bookbinders Get $1 Wage Increas: a week wage increase here, “Events in the Class War” Shown in Motion Pictures. Auspices, International Labor Defense. Shipstead Consorts With the Enemies of Labor in Court Battle in Chicago ing to use the federal immigration ings against hundreds of law-abiding workmen for no other reason than that they insist on a living wage and 6. The public officials of these mill towns have been bribed by the mill owners, and peace officers arbitrarily refuse to enforce the statutes and or- 7. Both the congress and the presi- dent are called on to enforce article IV. Section 4 of the constitution of the United States, guaranteeing to each state of the union a republican form of government and protection against invasion, which constitutional guarantees are now being violated with impunity in the state of New COLUMBUS, Ohjo, March, 17. — Union bookbinders have secured a $1 BATTLE OPENS IN SENATE. ON ITALIAN DEBT Administration Leaders Predict Approval (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, March 17 — The long-deferred battle over ratifying the Italian war debt settlement will be opened in the senate this week, pro- bably Thursday, it was announced today by Senator Smoot, (R), of Utah, member of the American Debt Com- mission. On the eve of the fight ad- ministration leaders were highly op- timistic as a private poll of the senate has indicated the settlement will be ratified by a vote of 56 to 40, The declared opposition to the pact, ap- parently sufficient a month ago to re- ject the settlement, has slowly crum- bled, A vigorous opposition to the settle- ment, however, will be conducted by the progressive bloc, aided by some western democrats. The bloc, under the leadership of senate Norris, (R), of Nebraska, will attack the pact as a “gift” of hundreds of millions ‘of dollars to Italy. Their fight will be supported by statistics showing the pact allows Italy either to pay off her original debt over a period of 62 years, without any interest, or to pay @ nor- mal interest rate for the same pertod without ever refunding any of the principal debt, which amounted to .$1,648,034,050. With accrued interest, recognized in the settlement, the amount totals $2,042,000,000. Private Poll Made. To the progressive war talk and the democratic uncertainty, Senator Smoot's only reply was: “There is no doubt but that the debt settlement will be ratified, It will be approved by the senate with a week's debate.” In support of his optimism, Smoot called attention to a private poll of the senate, which gave the debt a favorable vote of 56 to 40 if all sen- ators were voting. The poll listed 41 republicans and 15 democrats favor- able to the pact with 15 republicans, 24 democrats and one Farmer-Labor- ite opposed, “We have gained more converts since that poll was taken,” Smoot add- ed, “The opponents can’t possibly get 15 republicans to vote against the settlement, and before the debate ends, there may not be twenty demo- crats against it.” Smoot Will Open Fight. Smoot himself will open the fight with a long speech, explaining in de- tail why the settlement was made on the existing terms. He will describe Italy’s economic situation, as outlin- ed to the American Commission by America’s own investigators, and close with an appeal to the senate either to accept these terms or else to cancel the debt. American Warships Are Rushing to Intervene Against the Chinese (Continued from page 1) will be the commander of the joint fleet, as ranking naval commander, Powers Threaten to Open Fire, The powers declare that unless their ultimatum is yielded to by Thursday noon, they will open fire upon the Taku forts, dismantling them and sweeping the mines themselves. Chinese everywhere declare stoutly that they feel that the Chinese officers stationed at the mouth of the Pei-ho river were justified in their suspicion that the entrance of the Japanese de- stroyers—which occasioned the ex- change of shots with the Taku forts— was intended to mask the movements of Chang’s troops and naval forces, in order that the latter might proceed to encroach upon the hitherto staunchly defended Peking government. The Chinese also charge that the Mukden (Manchurian) troops were permitted to send messages from Dairen over Japanese ship radios, proving again the close connection between Japanese imperialism and its ‘tool Chang. Chang and his forces are preparing for a renewed attack upon Peking, from the north, from the sea, and from the southwest. The latter is be- ing handled by the governor of the Shansi province throwing 30,000 troops onto the railway in the north of his province to cut off troops ad- vancing from Kansu and Chinese Turkestan to aid the Kuominchun, commanded by Yu-hsiang, From the sea, the Shantung flotilla, which tried to use Japanese destroy. ers as a mask for their own entry into the city of Tientsin, by way of the Pei-ho, has captured a Russian ship from Vladivostok, carrying muni- tions, and diverted it to the Chang armies in Manchuria, Manchurian troops, reinforced by those from Shantung, are proc eding to er the Lan river, in an attempt to force the evacuation of Tientsin, And a strong fleet of battleships, son fo he, reinforced by American ships from Manila, is massing off Taku; vousy to incvervene and establish their dominance by slaughtering those who support the national-revolutionary 4 Ma d- 1C> Been a