The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1926, Page 2

Page Two T a nena es am, ms fe) a A m Za HE DAILY, ARMORED TRAINS HALTED BY GUNS OF KUOMINCHUN ‘Armies Maneuver for Peking Attack (Continued from Page 1) thing. They should, however, not be credited unless officially confirmed. oe Drive Out American Godologists HONGKONG, April 6 — A crowd of Chinese attacked the American Bap- tist mission hospital at Wu-Chow, hurling stones thru the windows. The inmates escaped by a side door. Sev- eral sought refuge aboard an Amer- ican gunboat anchored in the river, Some time ago the missionary in charge of the bookstore at the insti- tution was requested to carry books on economics and history. He refused haughtily, claiming the volumes asked for were “Bolshevik.” This aroused the students, and combined with the growing sentiment against the foreign exploiters, led to the attack. German Croesus Dies, Leaving Power to Son (Special to The Daily Worker? BERLIN, April 6—The mantle of August Thyssen, oldest and most pow- erful of German industrialists, today descended upon the shoulders of Fritz Thyssen, his 55-year-old son, when the iron and steel magnate died yesterday at the age of 84, of complications pro- duced by an attack of pneumonia, The elder Thyssen was born in poverty and achieved his fortune, estimated at $100,000,000, by his great ability as a labor exploiter and his willingness to crush his competitors by any and all means. He was reported never to have spent more than $20 for a suit of clothes and his automobile was a 1909 model. 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Washington Blvd, Chicago, Ilinois, LINK MEXICAN CAPITAL, CHICAGO AND NEW YORK IN AIR MAIL CIRCUITS (Special to The Dally Worker) MEXICO CITY, April 6 — The Mexican capital will be joined in an air mail circuit with San Anto- nlo, Chicago and New York as soon as plans being made by the govern- ment can be carried out. The route from here to San An- tonio has already been mapped out and trial trips made. The 1,300 mile jump should be made in 13 hours, according to these tests. The dis- tance from San Antonio to Chicago would be made overnight, making it possible for a letter mailed here to reach Chicago. in a little over 24 hours, RAILMEN DEMAND $500,000,000 WAGE INCREASE Midwest Conference Opens Here Executives of the principle mid- west railways and representatives of the railway trainmen’s and conduct- ors’ unions will meet today in the Transportation building to discuss wage increases. William G. Lee of the Brotherhood ef Railway Trainmen and L. G. Sheppard of the Order of Railway Conductors will talk on be- half of their unions. $500,000,000 Increase. It is estimated that wage increas- es demanded by the two organizations will approximate a $500,000,000 boost if it is applied to all roads. The pres- ent conference will be followed by others to be held in various divisions. Farmers Present, For the first time farmers and man- ufacturers will take part in wage dis- cussions between the railroaders and executives at this conference. The farmers and manufacturers, of course, will oppose wage increases on the ground that they will lift freight rates. The union representatives will counter by denying this and saying that increases can very will be take out of the enormous profits of the roads. The United States railroad labor board has placed on its docket for next Monday a hearing of a petition by firemen and engineers of the To- ledo, Peoria and Western railroad for an increase which would bring their wages up to the standard of other roads. It is expected that if the wage negotiations are not concluded by Monday, the hearing will be post- poned until after the conferences are ended and the conductors’ and train- men’s case settled, referred to the la- bor board or submitted to arbitration. Passaic Strikers Must Scab to Get Relief from Legion (Continued from page 1.) them are constantly on the inside of the store—but no strikers come in. A few relatives of legionnaires enter from time to time but they are not strikers. The real strikers stand on the streets and boo and hoot at them as they go in and out. Mill Owners Desperate. With the strike now in its eleventh week and the lines still holding firmly the mill owners are becoming desper- ate as they see their fall orders of woolens and worsteds being diverted to other places. Unless they yield to the strikers within a few weeks they will lose the season's profits, while their former workers will be living at least as well, on strike benefits, as they ever did while working in the mills. In a desperate effort to break the soldarity of the strikers the Passaic chamber of commerce committee on information announced that even tho the strike were soon settled the ma- jority of the strikers could not be put to work because Of the depression in the industry. The strikers know that this is plain bunk and the bosses in the mills ad- mit that it will require every avail- able worker to get out even a portion of the orders available after the strike is settled. Knowing the desperate condition of the mill owners the strikers are more determined than ever to stay out and fight until their demands are won and their organization is recognized by the mill owners, Don’t waste your breath, put it on paper. STN UL ULL TELUS LCL LLL LLL cLLLLL LoL LLL cc SS CLL LLL LLL LLL LCCC CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and 3rd Avenue, New York City COME ONE Relief Ball for Passaic Strikers Saturday Night, April 10 — AUSPICES, INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID. X —!ZJ]qW.TI_TOCCT UN aw una * 2) oka RRM MeRMERCL) MEXICO SHOWS UP FALSITY OF CLAIMS BY U:S. U. S. Woman Demanded $100,000 for a Kiss (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, April 6—The secre- tary of foreign affairs has had a booklet printed containing the argu- ments of Aquiles Elorduy and Arturo Ostos, attorney and assistant attor- ney, respectively, for the Mexican government in the Santa Ysabel case before the Mexican claims commis- sion. This is the case in which the American member of the board, Judge Perry, repudiated the decision of the impartial umpire, Dr, Roderigo Octavio, because it was against the United States...A summary of the pamphlet follows: The Mexican lawyers point out that the American claimants failed to show any relationship to the mur- dered and injured parties. In the case of certain of the claimants there was no proof that the claimants were the legitimate heirs and on some there was even proof that they were Americans. The American mem- ber of the commission contended these were not material points; that the claims, being presented by the United States officially, implies that these facts had already been proven to fts satisfaction. The attorneys’ showed that the United States had itself recognized Villa as a bandit and therefore out- side the law. In consequence the assassins had no official status and the government could not be held responsible for their deeds. $100,000 For a Kiss. The most curious part of the claims, it pointed out, consists in the fact that there was no fixed basis for the valuation of the damages or in- justices claimed. Thus, for in- stance, $150,000 is asked for the death of William Pearce and only $50,000 for that of Thomas Evans, killed by bandits on the same day. Then there is the American woman who wants $100,000 because one of the bandits kissed her. 2 Responsible for Huerta’s Acts. The Mexican-American general claims commission has decided that the claim against the Mexican gov- ernment by the Illinois Central Rail- road for $1,807,531.36, alleged to be the balance due on 910 locomotives sold to the National Railways of Mex- ico must be considered. It is also held that the administration of Gen- eral Victoriano Huerta was a Mexi- can government and that the present government is liable for his official acts, tho it admitted that he had ille- gally seized power and was not a con- stitutional president. This liability, the commission ruled, extended only to the “routine acts, by or in behalf of such administration.” A One-Sided Ruling. On the other hand, while thus wide- ly extending Mexico's liabilities, the commission held it had no jurisdic- tion over counter-claiths filed by hun- dreds of Mexican citizens whose rela- tives were murdered in the American occupation of Vera Cruz or whose property had been damaged by Ameri- can troops in Mexico. Breaks Down Mexican Law. The commission by ruling that “un- der international law a citizen of_one country residing in another may en- joy rights and remedies which the na- tion does not accord to its own citi- zens” has opened the door to a course of judicial interpretation of the Calvo clause. This clause in the Mexican regulations binds aliens not to appeal to their own nation for redress from decisions of Mexican officials. The decision is important as this com- mission has charge of cases arising under the application of the new alien land and petroleum laws. The Americans are expected to benefit from the opinion when their cases come up definitely before the body. Impeached Judge Will Dispense Usual ‘Justice’ (Special to The Daily Worker) DANVILLE, Ill, April 6.—Altho im- peached by the house in Washington on charges that may result in his re- moval from the bench, Judge George W. English, of the U. S, district court for eastern Illinois, intends to hold the April session. At the request of attorneys, the court session which was to have open- ed at Cairo, Il, this week, was post- poned because of the township and city elections scheduled for the dis- trict next week, GALIFORNIA SCHOOL CHILDREN MUST NOT ° WRITE ON COMMUNISM (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Gal. April 6.— U. 8. Webb, state’s“attorney gen- eral, has handed down an official de- cision that children in the public schools of California cannot be asked by their teachers to write es- says on the subject of Communism. He explained that it would be im- possible to compile such an article without a study of the subject. The only logical inference from this extraordinary ruling is that the business Interests’ of the state, whose mouthpiece the politicians are, fear even to let little children investigate the matter, so appre- hensive are they that it would make them sympathetic to the movement. It seems that California is deter. mined to rank along with the reac- tionary south in keeping all knowl- edge of a vital character along polit- ical and economic lines from her citizens, 140 OUT OF 400 ILLINOIS MINES STILL OPERATING Many Miners Work on Part-Time Basis SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 6.—Of the 400 Mllnois coal mines only 140 are in operation and most of these on part time. While the smaller mines were shut down first quite a number of the large ones have also suspended. Editor Himself Sells Proscribed Magazine on Streets of Boston (Special to The Daity Worker) BOSTON, April t—Henry L. Menc- ken, famous editor, defied the police | and J. Frank Chase, head of the Watch and Ward Society, today by selling copies of his magazine, the American Mercury, at tthe corner of Tremont and Park streets. He had a city hawkers’ and peddlers’ license in his pocket. With a bundle of the April issue under his arm and occompanied by Arthur Garfleld Hayes, attorney for the American Liberties Union, Menc- ken cried out his mag#zine which had been taken from news stands at the request of Chase on the ground that an article called “Hatrack” was im- moral. Mencken made a bitter at- tack against Chase who, he said, was trying to get back at the Mercury for publishing an article on Chase en- titled “Puritan Pure”.in the Septem- ber issue. Mencken courted arrest, hoping to establish a test case in the courts. The police accomodatingly obliged him by placing him in custody, with the result that he is. to appear in municipal court today on a charge of selling impure literature. The main event, however, of his bout with J. Frank Chase, head of the Watch and Ward Society, will be held in federal court, where Mencken has brought suit against chase for $50,000 charging that the latter interfered with the editor’s legitimate ‘businesss. Judge to Read Story, Judge James P. Parmenter of muni- cipal court is going to read the story “Hatrack” in the American Mercury and decide whether it is fit litera- ature, The judge today postponed yn- til tomorrow the case against Henry L. Mencken, editor of the magazine after hearing statements by Mencken, by Henry T. Asbury, New York, the author of the story about a fallen wo- man in a country town, and by attor- neys for the editor and J. Frank Chase, secretary of the Watch and Ward Society, who had the issue sup- pressed. Asks Injunction, Mencken today filed in federal court a bill asking an injunction against Chase and certain magazine distribut- ing companies from interfering with the sale of the mercury. Damage estimated at $50,000 had been done, the bill asserted, PAUL CROUCH wishes to thank the following com- rades (besides the few he has been able to answer) for their letters to him: Alma Polkoff, Louis Hochheim, Elmer Gertz, Rosa Eisenberg, of Chi- cago; Maurice Goldin, Denver; T. J.. Lewis, San Francisco; Thomas E. Mountfield, Canada, and W. R. Burns, Berkley, Calif. sata ccs aa Ford Thinks the Liquor Interests Are Lacking In “Brainy Leadership” By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. HENRY. FORD says that prohibition was born in the stupid- ity of the liquor leaders. He says that the opposition brings the thing to pass. The flivver manufacturer puts it this way: “If thig had been a sober country, we should never have had pro- hibition. If the liquor business had been fortunate enough to have had brainy leadership, the question would probably have been settled in a different manner,” * ° e * Perhaps Ford, in those words, thought that he was throwing flowers at himself. Some there are who believe that Ford has solved the problem of the relations between master and slave. No doubt Ford thinks so. Ford will, in time, no doubt, publish an article in. The Dearborn Indepen- dent, his personal organ, explaining how it is his “brainy leadership" that keeps the workers contented in his slave pens, and that will perpetuate private ownership in the auto- mobile industry for all time. : x But Ford errs in both instances. The liquor interests, hungry as they were for profits like all their fellow capital- ists, could not be a major influence in forcing’ prohibition, no more than Henry Ford, with his over-advertised benevolence toward his workers, can halt the abolition of capitalism. * * * Prohibition was imposed on the nation by the great industrialists seeking new methods of wringing more profits out of a sweating working class.’ They argued that prohibi- tion makes for efficiency. Judge E. H. Gary, who keeps plenty of strong drink on his own sideboard, wanted prohi- bition for the steel workers; John D. Rockefeller wanted it for the oil slaves, while other eo kaisers, who had over- flowing cellars of their own, joined in demanding an Ameri- can sahara for the working class, just as the gin and julep drinking Southern aristocrats demanded prohibition for the Negro but reserved the right for themselves to get drunk as often as they pleased. It was put over during the hys- terical war days when gasless Sundays, fishless Fridays, sugarless Thursdays, with something else missing on every other day in the week, were imposed on a Prussianized na- tion, drugged with pay-triotism and incapable of offering substantial resistance. The huge war profits and the giant graft scandals just coming into the limelight were beginning to shake the na- tion. Even labor; that had submissively acquiesced in the war, was beginning to show signs of real militancy. The wet and dry issue offered an excellent smokescreen for the war makers to hide their crimes. Public attention was shunted off in a different direction. “Wet or dry?” was a safe issue for capitalism. Industrial conditions have not changed, however, and the steel slave, fatigued to the point of utter exhaustion by the long day in the mill, will get his poisonous moon- shine where formerly he sought surcease from his agony in equally rotten whiskey. Alcohol will remain an insoluble problem as long as this industrial system, that lives on the bitter toil of its slaves, continues to function. * * * . Secretary of the Treasury “Andy” Mellon was and still is in the whiskey business for the profits he can get out of it. Henry Ford counts his profits in the auto industry. Here the workers altho unorganized, repeatedly rebel, in small numbers for the present, — their growing misery, Alcoholism was not d either way by the fact that some saloon keeper took his victim home, after getting all his money, instead of dumping him in the street. Capitalism is made no more stable by the fact that Ford hires regiments of social workers to investigate and card index his slaves, éven to the number of hours they spend in church on Sun- days. Fordism is an industrial term synonymous with czar-- ism or kaiserism. “Brainy leadership” cannot save it, as even Ford will learn. Labor is organizing in the auto indus- try, not because’ the capitalists are stupid, but because the capitalists strive to the utmost to get every possible cent in profits out of enslaved labor. Ford takes profits greater than any other auto czar. * ° ° ° M Workers become increasingly aware that capitalism, the social system of their oppressors, is the root of all their woes. When this viewpoint is accepted by the great masses, then the capitalist order will be torn up by its roots and de- stroyed. The workers will plant and rear anew, their own ‘social order, Communism. DON'T FORGET THE T. U. EL. MEETING Greek Parties Boycott (Special to The Daily Worker) SILK WORKERS’ MASS MEETING LAUNCHES DRIVE Organize 25,000 Silk Workers, Is Plan (Special ito The Dally Worker) PATERSON, N. J., April 6.—Unton- ization of the 25,000 workers in all branches of the silk industry at Pater- son is the goal of the Associated Silk Workers, Secretary Fred Hoelscher told the mass meeting called to begin the organization, campaign, First steps are being taken to organize silk dye house workers who do 85% of the silk dyeing of the country, The union is also consolidating its organization of broadsilk workers preparatory to presenting demands for a higher wage scale at the opportune moment. The industry has suddenly slumped so that the union is not ready to make its demands. Elizabeth Gurley -Mynn, Carlo Tresca atid Giacomo Artoni, Amal- gamated Clothing Workers’ organizer, speaking at the mass meeting urged complete unionization of broadsilk, ribbon and hatband and dye house workers. The speakers mentioned the 8-hour day and higher wages as gains of present organization and predicted greater benefits as unionization in- creased, Charge Army Preacher Lied About Relations with Beauty Shop Girl (Special to The Daily Warker) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 6— Court-martial proceedings against Capt. Orville I. Clampitt, 20, army chaplain and married man, charged with having made false statements in connection with an alleged romance with Lucille Swallow, 22 year old beauty parlor attendant, were to be resumed at the presidio here today. Both prosecution and defense prom- ise surprises. The case was put over several weeks ago to allow the gather- ing of affidavits from persons in cities thruout the United States. Defense counsel promises a “mystery witness” who will clear Clampitt of the charges against him, Charge Forgery. Lucille Swallow, pretty Kansas beauty parlor attendant, was charged with forgery when the court-martial of Captain Orville I. Clampitt was re- sumed today at the presidio. Miss Swallow had said that Clampitt had written her letters in which he prom- ised to “stand by her” and had sent her money for an illegal operation. The charge of blackmail had pre- viously been hurled by the defense, Religious Outbreak in Calcutta Quiets Down After Rioting (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, April 6—The situation in Calcutta, where there has been serl- ous rioting between the Hindus and Moslems, has become quiet, according to dispatches received here late today. British soldiers now control the troub- led section of the city. Three hun- dred arrests have been made. Martial law has been declared. Another outbreak of Hindu-Moslem Postponed Elections TONIGHT AT 8 P.M, The local general group of the Chicago Trade Union Educational League will meet tonight at North- west Hall, North and Western Aves. at 8:00 p, m. The speakers will be Manuel Gomez, H. V, Phillips, ida Rothstein and Arne Swabeck. All trade union- ists are invited to attend. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS, ATTENTION! . All worker correspondents of our foreign language press are urged to send in their and addresses sta. ting for which paper they write. It is very important, COME ALL ATHENS, April 6 — The united Parties, a political coalition of all op- position parties except the Communist, will boycott the elections, This deci- sion is due to the government's post- ponement of the general elections in twenty-three of the thirty-five Greek Provinces to April 11, Pangalos, the dictator of the coun- try, secured the postponement in order to be able to prevent a parliamentary overthrow of his government. Under the new order, if he does not secure @ large enuf majority in the twelve provinces in which election remains @t the date originally set, he can find some excuse for calling off or securing a further postponement or establis! ing new regulations to ensure his supremacy in the rest of the country. Speeches Mike Gold and Joe Freeman Drawi n Hugo Gellert and Willie Gropper ADMISSION 50 CENTS riots in Calcutta resulted yesterday in the death of 50 persons and the injury of 600 others. Feeling between the Hindu and Moslem population of Calcutta is running high. An outbreak on Saturday resulted in the death of 12 and the injury of 150, and the burning of a Hindu tem- ple and a Moslem mosque. It is not clear at this time just what caused the trouble. It has been always the British policy to split the people on religious lines and it is pos- sible the outbreak was caused in this way. Barcelonians Renew Move for Independence BARCELONA, Spain, April 6 — The Spanish government's “exile”. of the board of directors of the Barcelonian law college because of the publication of their official list two years ago in the local Catalonian tongue instead of Spanish has only intensified the move- ment for the establishment of a Cata- lonian republic in this northwest por- tion of the country. The people of the province produce over a third of the wealth of Spain and also pay about the game propor- tion of the total taxation but get Iit- tle, they claim in return, The Rifflan hied is also very unpopular in this sec- tion, Tableaux by Passaic Strikers a