The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1926, Page 2

~ ANE SEREL Page Two MATTEOTT MURDER I JUSTIFIED Fascist Lawyers Admit Classes Unreconciled BULLETIN. CHIETI, Italy, March 24—Amerigo Dumini and two of his co-defendants were tonight sentenced to two years imprisonment for the murder of the socialist deputy, Giacomo Matteotti. se © (Special to The Daily Worker) CHIETI, Italy, March 24 — A bra- zen justification for the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, socialist deputy, and an inferred admission of the de- feat of fascism in its efforts to re- concile all social classes, were made today in the six and a half hours of speeches by the attorneys for the de- fense of the fascist thugs Poveromo, Viola and Volpi who are on trial here for the murder, Fascist Foes Must Go! The fascist attorneys brought out the fascist theory that those who “torment” fascism must without ques- tion be done away with. “You must co: er,” said one of the lawyers, Decicco, to the jury, ‘Du- mini and his companions as personify- ing one crowd, Matteotti as personify- ing another. This explains the moral and juridical provocation. The two factions were fighting. One conquered; the other should have resigned itself. Time was given for the latter to de- mobilize. But if the conquered re- fused to lay down their arms, why should the conquerers have done so. “Instead, the conquered continued to torment the victors. One day the blow of a fanatic killed. Whose fault was it?” Mussolini’s legal prostitutes find it convenient to forget that while the revolutionaries fought with their arms under great duress, but in honorable battle, in the open, the murderers of the anti-fascist deputy killed him like thugs and cowards in the night. “Matteotti’s death,” continued the lawyer, “coming after that of so many martyrs (!), should have brought about peace and love between fascism and its opponents, but instead, it kind- led new hatreds and rancors.” It does not seem as tho M. Musso- Hni has quite succeeded in abolishing the class struggle in Italy! British Are Trying to Stir Kurds to Warfare Against Angora Rule (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, March 24.— Officials of the Turkish embassy in London when told of reported massacres of Turkish military contingents by Kurdish tribes- men when the former attempted to en- force the new law calling for confisca- tion of religeous property, said it was their belief that the responsibility lays with the British who have been in- citing the Kurds against Turkey. The British who control Irak, adja- cent to Kurdistan, have followed a consistent policy of stirring up the Kurds against Turkey. Evidence of this is the existence of a movement among the Kurds for annexation to Trak. Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. VERA CRUZ SOCIETY DAME SLAYS 10 GET FINANCE FOR REVOLT MEXICO CITY, March 24—Sen- ora Marcia Rodrigo Pica, leader in Vera Cruz Society, was arrested to- day charged with being the head of a counter-revolutionary conspiracy. The police also arrested and placed in cells several other women mem- bers of the Vera Cruz social set and three male associates, including a former brigadier general. The arrests were the result of the police investigation into the mys terlous murder of Joaquin Sanches Hara. The inquiry disclosed that . the victim was killed and robbed of a large sum of money in order that Senora Pica might have funds to carry on. the work of organizing a revolution, Workers Party Demands Only Union Labor at ‘Philly’ Exposition (Continued from page 1). workers and farmers in this country. “That is why in our letter we insist that provisions be made for a Palace of the Workers, allowing every work- ers’ organization that wants to to par- ticipate in the celebration. Employ Union Workers Only. “Another demand that the Workers’ (Communist) Party makes in its let- ter is that all work of construction incurred in and all supplies used should be made and provided for only by union labor. Open-shop labor should have no place whatsoever in an. exhibition organized to commem- orate the 150 years of the Declara- tion of Independence and the first suc- cessful revolution. “A copy of our proposals have been sent to the American Federation of Labor, Every local union that can be reached will be called upon to send resolutions to the arrangements com- mittee of the exposition, of which Mr. Asher C. Baker is direetor im chief, demanding that only union labor be employed in preparing for and at the exposition. Every local union will be called upon to demand that free Amer- ican labor be used and not that of slave open-shop labor at this exposi- tion.” Churchill Indirectly Charges U. S. Will Get Most of Reparations LONDON, March 24.—The United States policy with regard to inter-al- lied debts was bitterly attacked in the house of commons this afternoon. Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequer, indirectly charged that the refusal of the United States to cancel European debts was respon- sible for the financial chaos in Eu- rope. He estimated the United States will eventually receive from its Eu- ropean debtors fully sixty per cent of the German reparations paid to the allies. Labor Reactionaries to Greet “Big Tim” on Saturday Morning Reactionary labor union officials are preparing to meet “Big Tim” Murphy at the Dearborn Street Station Satur- day morning. Murphy will be re- leased from Fort Leavenworth peniten- tiary where he served a sentence for his part in a million-dollar pc$toffice robbery. ee It’s Your Job! And every worker's who knows that a strong press is the best means of building the labor movement. DAILY WORKER is grow- ing--- Are you on the job? Take a few copies to your next union meeting---get a sub from the man in your shop. THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Enclosed $......000. for . Name: — The RATES Outside of Chicago: One Year $6.00 6 Months $3.50 -£ 3 Months $2.00 = In Chicago: One Year $8.00 & 6 Months $4.50 3 Month: $2.50 +» Months to: THE DAIL Y WORKER GENEVA MEETING ON DISARMAMENT VAIN, IS BELIEF Coolidge Departs from Hughes’ Policy. (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, March 24—Neither President Coolidge nor any of his chief adyisers, who include Secretary of State Kellogg, Ex-secretary of State Hughes, and the members of the American delegation to Geneva, believe it will be possible to reduce armaments on a basis of “potential war strength” rather than on a basis of existing armies and navies. Never- theless, rather than be put in the po- sition of obstructing or hindering the conference the American delegation will go to Geneva prepared to take its full part in the discussion and co-op erate to the limit of its constitutional ability. In deciding to go ahead with plans despite misgivings which amount almost to conviction of fruitless effort, the administration has departed some- what from a fixed policy established by Charles BE. Hughes as secretary of state. The Hughes policy was to de- cline to participate in any European conference that did not give substan- tial promise of success, On that ba- sis, Mr. Hughes “ducked” numerous “economic conferences” such as the memorable one promoted by Lloyd George at Genoa, To Preserve Misapprehension. In case of the league’s disarmament conference, however, it was felt Amer- ican aloofness would be interpreted as an unwillingness to discuss a prin- ciple for which America has long stood—reduction or limitation of com- petitive armament. Judge Says It Is Illegal to Free the Philippine Islands (Continued. from Page 1) no god-fearing imperialist would dare to do. What a great old constitution it is! Silent on Rubber, “Judge Williams,” declares American Review of Reviews, “is in a position to know. He held official posts in the Philippines for a long time...” That this makes him an authority onithe United States con- stitution is not clearly explained, but it is obvious that it does make him somewhat of an authority on Filipino rubber possibilities. But, as I have already pointed out, he has nothing to say about rubber, The Review of Reviews continues: “If we are to withdraw from the Philippines and abandon the political title that is now recognized by every other sovereign power, the thing ought not to be done by virtue of a casual vote of one congress at Wash- ington. The matter is important enuf to call for a referendum in the form of an amendment to the constitu- tion . . . Perhaps such a referendum would be desirable, because uncertain- ty about the future political status of the Philippines is proving detrimental (to the rubber interests?—M. G.) It is not likely that independence is seri- ously desired.” Want Independence, By whom is it “not likely that inde- pendence is seriously desired?” As for the Filipinos, they have been de- manding their freedom vociferously ih °° SS 0ONEGUAUURDUEDOAGUOBUUUNES HOU TENE AOUTNNRGANAN RETNA EEN NATE TEE for years. Every political party in the islands is pledged to the cause of independence. The two big parties, Nacionalistas and Democratas, re- cently entered into a united front agreement to oppose any steps hostile to Filipino independence. New Reason—Rubber. Firestone’s visit to the Philippines has produced an entire new crop of “reasons” for not freeing the islands, Firestone declared that he had inves- tigated immense areas suitable for growing rubber and had learned of vaster areas in the interior now inac- cessible because of lack of roads, Asked by the Manila correspondent of the Chicago Daily News “if the procrastinating policy of congress in determining the future relations of the Philippines to the United States was a deterent factor in the problem of investment in agriculture in the is- lands,” he replied that it was, When asked if the land laws limit ing company land holdings in the Philippines to 5,000 acres were dis- couraging to prospective investors, he replied that they were, and that if those laws did not exist there would be no question about capital's coming into the islands to foster rubber as well as other farm enterprises, Firestone Agre: Asked as to his view of the Fil- =|{pino proposal that American capital undertake the financing of native land- =| owners in producing rubber, Firestone =|replied that he thot such a proposal would not interest American capital- ists. Firestone has not been asked what he thot of the timely constitutional g | discovery of Judge Williams, but there ig reason to believe that he is en- tirely in accord with thé learned jurist workers become scabs was not i NORBECK WINS NOMINATION May Have Farmer-Laborite Op- ponent in November (Special to The Daily Worker) SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March 24.— Peter Norbeck, senior United States senator from South Dakota, walked away with the nomination in the re- publican primaries today. His op- ponent, George J. Danforth, admitted today that Norbeck had won. With most of the state’s precincts reporting already, Norbeck already has a lead of double the votes of his opponent. It is likely that the farmer-labor party of South Dekota will have a candidate in the field ‘in November to challenge Norbeck.4 €he latter has been a consistent {supporter of the Coolidge program ut this session and most of last. i; Police Arrest Women Pickets Singing in Textile Strike (Continued from Page 1) crowd filed out of the hall, shouting for Weisbord. ; K. K. K, Sends Another Threat. The third ku klux, klan letter was received by Albert Weisbord on Satur- day. It declared that “we did not burn those crosses for nothing,” and said that a committee had been ap- pointed to “get you and your radical friends, too.” se @ Passaic Clergyman Aids Bosses. PASSAIC, N, J., March 24 — The textile barons of Passaic are now using the chureh in their attempt to get Passaic textile workers to accept the proposals of the department of labor and the mill owners to return to work under the old conditions and then “negotiate” for better terms. The first of the clergy to urge the strikers to go back to work and to scab on their fellow-workers was Tho- mas J. Kernan. In a talk before 1,500 of the Holy Name Society at the St. Nicholas Ro- man Catholic Church, this tool of the textile barons urged those in the church to go back to work and accept the terms handed them by the depart- ment of labor and the textile bosses. Workers Listen in Disgust. When he found that his appeal that having the proper effect, he began to,) wave the red scare in front of the members shouting that leaders of the strike were “outside agitators” and an had nothing in sympathy with the strike and were trying to bring about a revolution in Passate. This appeal on the part of this Catholic clergy- man that the members of the Holy Name Society go into the mills and scab disgusted the workers present. To Make Strike 100% Effective. As an answer to the bosses’ pro- posal that the workers return to work under the old conditions, the United Front Committee of Textile Workers has decided to completely close the Botany Worsted Mills and Gera Mills in Passaic and the United Piece Dye Works in Lodi. These mills have a small number of workers at work and the strikers’ will call:them all out. Efforts are also being made to call out the 10,000 workers in the Paterson dyeing plants and to bring out the operatives in other textile mills of Passaic and Clifton. ** @ Rabbi Assails Davis’ Proposal. NEW YORK, March 24 — Rabbi Wise in a speech at the Carnegie Hall on “Is Industrial War the Only Way Out?” declared that it would be no- thing short of treason for the strik- ing Passaic textile workers to return to work under the proposals of Davis and the mill owners without the guarantee of at least the right to organize, t “Passaic is one of the dark spots on the map of American industry,” declared Wise, “Instead of attempting to Americanize the foreign-born popu- lation there,'the masters of industry have deliberately sought to divide and segregate it, “The mill owners were mad to have ordered a 10 per cent cut in wages at a time when the nation is fairly reek- ing and raving amid the fumes of pros- perity.” Communist strike,” he said. “No mat- ter what the leader's views, he will never do as much to instigate revolt as have the mill-owners. The very fact that from 10,000 to 12,000 workers went out under the! leadership of a man entirely unknown to them, shows that the system must be to blame, ly consider it not heinous to use the subtle weapons of espion: id the ‘black list,’ which are none the less violent, in order to keep dividends up to par.” Utica Conference for Protection of Foreign- Born on April 11th (Special to The Cally Worker) UTICA, N. Y., March 24—The meet- ing of the provisional council for the protection of foreign-born workers that was to occur on March 28 has been changed to Sunday, April 11. Letters and sample resolutions have been sent to trade anion bodies here UMPIRE IN-U, S.- American Member May American-Mexican special claims com- mission will meet in Tampico in April, Judge Perry, the American member, is not expected to attend owing to his repudiation in the Santa Sable case of the empire’s decision which hap- pened to be against the United States, “The American fendalists apparent- turn, American oll interests and the Mexi- can government have been unable to agree. The matter will probably be put up to President Calles for a final decision, vice-consul Ives has asked the Mext- can government to apprehend and punish the murderers of Joe Hall, an American employe of the Mexican national railways, Hall was stoned to death near Ixtlan, feans, Rex Mclipone and B. H, Helden- Our Twenty-Two White and Negro Brothers Must Not Have Died in Vain By J. LOUIS ENGDAUL. ayHey died together—eleven white workers and eleven Negro workers—when Furnace No. 2, of the Westward Coal and Iron company, two miles east of Bessemer, Ala- bama, collapsed and disgorged an avalanche of super-heated liquid steel. The hissing, sputtering lava flood turned them all to the same color. Bones and flesh and blood were charred completely black as all life was crushed out of the bodies of these workers by the death-dealing mass of molten metal. The local Jim Crow press of the steel mill owners kept the workers segregated to the last. In. giving the list of dead, the Birmingham, Alabama, Age-Herald, separated the col- umns of names into “White” and “Negroes.” That was the way the Associated Press carried the news out over the coun- try. Here are the lists: A White BILL RUTHERFORD, FORREST LAWLEY. E, B. MARTIN. JESS WOLFF. HENRY HAPGOOD. Negroes HENRY: FUNDERBURG, CLIFF BALL. JOE CADE. JOHN DEAN, E, HOLTON, PERCY COLLINS. WILLIAM PERRY. EDWARD BROWN, EDWARD BIBB, EARLY BROWN. HENRY CALHOUN. J. T. DENSMORE,.. WILLIAM ACKER. Cc. A. HUMPHRIE, B. B. WISE. BEN WHITE. HOWARD E MUSSEY. That is the way the steel mill owners, like all exploiters, wish to have workers divided, into white and Negro, into na- tive-born and foreign-born, into Catholic, Jew, Protestant and unbeliever. That makes it easy for the capitalist ruling class to continue the workers as a subject class. “The furnace was rotten inside,” is the charge made. It was rotten alike for all the workers who madly toiled within its brilliant glow at 5:30 o’clock, Saturday morning, when death came. No one had been picked for special warning. The blast that blew the top off the furnace, and sent 400 tons of fiery death sputtering in all directions, was the first danger signal and it came too late for white and Negro worker alike. * * * ° The non-union conditions, that result in rotten furnaces being used because life is cheap and new furnaces cost money, had to be faced alike by both white and Negro work- ers. They are but a repetition of the disasters in the non- union coal mines, within recent months in this same indus- trial area, that claimed 52 lives at Overton, and then 27 more lives at Mossboro, of white and Negro workers alike. There are hundreds of widows and orphans alike, of both white and Negro workers, in Alabama today as a.re- sult of these three major disasters. These helpless survivors have no union to fight for even the most meager price that might be put on the lives of the worker dead. * * * * These recurring disasters must blast into the minds of southern labor the necessity of economic organization in spite of the terror regime of the entrenched bosses. The nited Mine Workers of America draws no race.line between its members: The heroic struggles of the Alabama miners to esablish their union must continue until yictory has been achieved. A powerful miners’ union in Alabama becomes the best ally of cruelly enslaved labor in the steel mills. It will help the steel workers build their union. But it must be built on the same broad lines as the coal miners’ union, wip- ing out race, nationality and religious lines. If the sight of the funeral pyre of 22 white and Negro steel workers, at Bessemer, Alabama, will inspire the living workers to re- newed struggles, then these murdered workers will not have died in vain. Union to Use 100,000 (Special to The Dally Worker) MEXICAN CLAIMS CALLS MEETING new clubs, Not Attend Session (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, March 24, — The mittee. in Stberia, Karelia, Choovash Province and Riasan, \, TWO SPEECHES At this meeting Dr. Octavio, the BY umpire, will announce his finding which is already known to be favor- able to Mexico. KARL MARX Oll Conference Deadlocked. The negotiations over the regula- . Address to tions to govern the oil lands and pro- the Communist duction in Mexico have taken a serious League, 1850 Representatives of the great 4 The Inaugural f , Address of the Workingmen's Ass'n, 1864, American Stoned to Death, NAZATLAN, March 24.—American These historical speeches, taken with the ‘Communist Manifesto,’ formulated only a few brief years before, constitute a key to Marx's outlook on fundamental questions of working class po- liey, By all m add this pamphlet to yo library. Two other Amer- TARIFF INQUIRY REVEALS REASONS FOR FLEXIBILITY German Inventive Genius Threatened U. S. (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, -March 24 — The “flexible provisions” of the present tariff act were written into the law to savé American manufacturers from the menace of German inventive genius, Thomas Walker Page, former vice-chairman of the commission, tes- tifled today at the senate’s tariff in- quiry, ah Page said the “flexible provisions” were conceived at a White House con- ference attended by President Hard- ing, Secretary of Commerce Hoover, and members of the tariff commission, The commission was told at the con- ference, Page said, that American manufacturers were “obsessed with fear” over German competition and the “flexible provisions” were drafted to secure a further safeguard to pre- vent Germany smashing thru an al ready high “tariff wall.” Opposed Provisions, Page, a former professor of econo- mics at the University of Chicago, California, Texas and Virginia, told the committee he was opposed to the provisions. “It is impractical and a bad policy even if practical.” Fear of Flooding Market. “What happened at this White House conference?” Senator Robinson, democrat of Arkansas, chairman, asked. “It developed at the conference that members of the house and senate were concerned over the foreign ex- change situation,” Page replied. “It was said a small amount of American money could buy a large amount of German goods, for instance, which could be brought here cheaply. The question arose as to what could be done to prevent American importers taking advantage of the low rate of exchange and flooding this country with cheap German goods at a price with which American manufacturers could not compete, Menace of German Brains, “Then there was a fear of German inventive genius. It was felt the Germans would continue to discever inventions, which would cheapen the processes of manufacturing different articles. A recent instance was the invention of synthetic wood alcohol, Roubles to Build Clubs MOSCOW, U. S. 8."R., March 24— The central committee of Soviet Busi- ness Employes Union has assigned 100,000 roubles for the construction of The money is given with the under- standing that the local union organiza- tions shall give double the amount asigned to them by the central com- The new clubs are to be constructed ‘Oosbekistav, far cheaper than the known process of manufacturing wood alcohol from wood.” Accusations Hurled at U.N.I. A. Meeting at Detroit, Michigan (Continued from Page 1) to exonerate Sherrill from Garvey’s charges, passing a motion to the effect that Sherrill’s only appeal to Garvey’s charges is to Garvey himeslf. Even more bitterly attacked than Sherrill is Anthony Crawford,, whom the supporters of Garvey charge with having conducted the affairs of the steamship company in such a way as to save his own interests. Crawford emphatically denies any such irregu- larity. Commitee Gets Power. The convention finally decided to leave in the hands of the new execu- tive council all powers to act accords ing to their own judgment in the mat- ter of the sale or non-sale of the steamship, “General Goethals.” It was explained by Mr. Toote the necessity to give a free hand to the executive officers, that if the ship were sold un- der the hammer there would be no recovery of any of the funds hereto- fore invested, and that the effort to save the ship would be made if the convention gave a tree hand to the -directors, The motion was unant- mously passed. Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey partici- pated in the idscussion by questioning some of the officers as to their part in past business arrangements, Await Marke’s Arrival. The arrival of G. O. Marke, supreme deputy of the Universal Negro Im- provement Association, and the right hand man of Sherrill, the deposed anti-Garvey leader, is breathlessly awaited this morning. The convention has very little substance in any of its meetings, and the possible coming of Marke has been a subject of discus sion for several days. The mere recognition of the convention’s exist ence by Marke seems to give relief. Marke is expected to give an ex- tensive report this morning, and it is said that the convention will adjourn shortly after to avoid further contro- versy. Prepare Officers’ Court-Martial. SAN DINGO, Cal. March 24—Prep arations for the forthcoming court martial of Col. Alexander Williams, marine officer charged with intoxica- tion and conduct unbecoming an offi cer by Brigadier General Smedly D, Butler, constant publicity seeker and now San Diego marine chief, were un der way here, There was considerable speculation in military and social circles here over the possibility whether officers who were guests at the famous Wil Mams’ cocktail party might not them selves be liable to court-martial in event Colonel Williams is found guilty. ae. p ib} If you want to | regarding this interesting legal point, kamp, were victims of assaults in the same district last week. MeIlpone was killed and Heldenkamp was sertously suffered and in vicinity and to all workers’ fraternal organizations. All such bodies have been ‘invited to parti- cipate in the conference which will up @ permanentecouncil with two 5 Cents: Communist Manifesto...10 Cents If you want to thoroughly un- r ict vcs, EB] derstand Comminism-—etudy it : ¥ “© €/ Send for a catalogie of all