The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY, WORKER CHICAGO LABOR TO BE ON AIR BEFORE MAY 1 Threaten Union Station with Injunction The Chicago Federation of Labor intends to open its radio station WCFL at the Municpial Pier before May 1, according to a statement made by one of the committee that is in change of buying a radio station. Allow Use of Pier. The Chicago city council passed a resolution allowing the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor to use the two tow- ers. on the Muncipal Pier, for their radio. Mayor Dever is expected to sign this measure. Threaten Injunction The. capitalist press in Chicago is alarmed over the prospect of the radio station. They fear its influence on the millions of unorganized ghouls fn the Chicago district. Many of them in reporting the news of the city coun- cil granting the Chicago Federation of Labor the use of the Muncipal Pier in- timate their desire for some tax payer to procure an injunction forbidding the labor unions the use of the pier. The Chicago Federation of Labor is determined to maintain a radio sta- tion regardless of what opposition there may be and is determined to broadcast in spite of any injunction. Hoover Refuses Wave Length. The first opposition met with by the organized workers in Chicago was the procuring of a wave length. Sec- retary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who represents the big business in- terests in the United States, refused to give the Chicago Federation of La- bor a wave lengih. His argument was that there were too many stations in the Chicago district. Hoover has issued permits to every One of the big corporations that have applied for permits. He has not re- fused them. When the trade unions seek to go on the air he immediately refuses to allow thei the use of the ether. The Chicago Federation of Labor is now carrying on an intense drive in the local unions thraout the city in an attempt to raise. funds for the construction or purchase and main- tenance of the radio station. Visit Local Unions. Speakers are visiting every local un- jon calling on the unions to assess each member $2 to pay for the broad- casting station. The committee in charge of the ra- dio has chosen a set which operates on 500 watts and will be heard 300 miles in the daytime and 500 miles at night. The Chicago Federation of Labor expects to do its broadcasting between the hours of 12 to 2 in the afternoon and 6 to 8 in the evenings. Typos Give $10,000. One of the first unions to subscribe to this radio fund was Typographical Union No. 16 which voted to give $10,000 toward the purchase of the radio etation. Other unions are fol- lowing suit. It is expected that a radio sending station located at Moosehart will be purchased within the next few weeks and that the fed- eration will be on the air before (May 1, Recognize 23rd Element. ‘TULSA, Okila.. April 7 — Illium, the twenty-third earth element recently @iscovered at the University of Illinois twas officially recognized here today by "the convention of the American Chemical Society, in session here. Don’t waste your breath, put it on paper. Date Subject considered. May 1—THE CIVILIZED FAMILY, and Analyzed. 29-——-THE CIVILIZED MASKS, COME ONE Pec TTT TTT TTI LLL LLnL LLL LLL LLL LoL IN NEW YORK! A COURSE OF NINE LECTURES ON Communism and Civilization will be given by LEON SAMSON at the LABOR TEMPLE, 244 E. 14th St. (Corner 2nd Ave.) SCHEDULE OF LECTURES: April 10—THE GOLDEN AGE, a Study In Primitive Communism. April17—THE BIRTH OF CIVILIZATION, the “Fall” sociologically April 24—CiVILIZED PROPERTY, the Economics of Slave Societie: May 8—THE STATE, Bourgeois and Proletarian Theories Compared = May 15—THE CIVILIZED IDEAS, a Challenge to Philosophers, : May 22—THE Ci VILIZED PASSIONS, an Analysis of “Human Nature.” = dune 5—CIVILIZATION AND THE COMING WAR. Questions and Discussion after each Restored -Adealediens 26e. Pr TTT TT TT TITTILLLL Ruenpneein et 9m THE CHICAGO MAY DAY COMMITTEE WILL MEET | TOMORROW NIGHT, 8 P, Ml The May Day Comniittee that is making arrangements for Chicago’s great May Day celebration at the Coliseum will meet tomorrow even- ing*at 8:00 p. m. at 19 So, Lincoln St. All units of the Workers’ Party are expected to have their delegates present at this meeting. The com- mittee has the task of turning out eleven thousand people to fill the Coliseum on May Day. STATE OFFICIAL DEALS FARMERS SEVERE SETBACK Herds Will Not Get Test Now, Is Edict Farmers with untested herds were dealt a most severe blow by the deci- sion of S. J. Stannard, state director of agriculture. His order to all county agents in charge of cattle in- spection makes it impossible for the dairy farmers to have their herds tested. As long as their herds are not tested, it is impossible for their milk to enter Chicago. Must Wait Semi-Annual Test. The state director of agriculture has decreed that all of the county agents from April 1 on would have to arrange their “program so that their activities would be confined to retesting and semi-annual testing work.” This means that none of the 100,- 000 cattle waiting to be tested would be given the test before the next semi-annual test period. A $1,000,000 financing scheme for purchase of healthy cows by large’ Chicago milk dealers and Illinois farmers is now under consideration as a solution for the milk tangle. Farmers now prohibited to market their milk in Chicago because of un- tested herds would sell ajl of these cows and purchase new herds from tested areas under the plan. Injunction proceedings against Dr. Herman Bundesen, Chicago health commissioner, who barred milk from untested cows, have been postponed RESERVATIONS BY SENATE TO WORLD COURT IRRITATE |Heads of League of Na- tions Oppose Acceptance (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, April 7 — Amer- ica’s actual entry into the world court receded still further into the dim and misty future today as a result of semi- official advices which have reached Washington to the effect that the league of nations is not going to ac- cept the reservations which the senate made a condition of American adher- ence. ‘ If these advices are confirmed by subsequent development, and the feel- ing prevalls here that they will be, it means that the senate’s vote last January 27 for American adherence is reduced to an empty gesture. It is a situation that has the irreconcil- ables in the senate literally chortling. The reservation at which the league is balking is the latter section of the fifth, which prohibits the court from ever rendering an advisory opinion concerning a question in which “the United States claims an interest” without the consent of this govern- ment. Inasmuch as the rendering of advisory opinions is one of the chief functions of the court as it is now constituted, this proviso is reported to be considered by the Geneva states- men as tantamount to hamstringing the league’s relationship with the tribunal. Strictly applied, it might conceivably operate to prevent the court’s rendering any advisory opinion whatsoever, for the “interests” of the United States have become world-wide since the war. Disliked Reservation. The governing heads of the league viewed this reservation with suspicion and misgiving from the first. Their dislike of it was intensified upon ex- amination of the language of the sec- tion, and resulted in the dispatch of instructions to league members to “‘in- dicate their opposition to it.” At the same time, the league sent a special invitation to Washington to come to Geneva and talk it over. To Reject Invitation. The league's instructions to its members to “indicate their opposi- tion” to the reservation, and the col- lateral invitation to the United States several days by the circuit court at Geneva on the request of Bundesen’s attorneys. Accidents in U.S. ‘ Mines in February Killed 164 Miners Accidents at coal mines in the Unit- ed States in February, 1926, caused the death of 164 men, according to information received from state mine inspectors by the bureau of mines of the department of commerce. Of these 157 were at bituminous coal mines. Two major disasters, that is, acci- dents causing the loss of five or more lives, occurred during the month. On February 3, a mine explosion at Horn- ing, Pa., caused the death fo 21 men. On February 16 an explosion, caused by shot firing, killed 8 men at the Nel- son mine, at Nelson Creek, Ky. Increase Over Last Year. Accident records of the bureau of mines covering the first two months of the year show a loss of 482 lives, which is 51 more than for the same period in 1925. An analysis of the principal causes of the 482 fatalities in 1926 shows a reduction in the per-million-ton death rates for all the principal causes ex- cept explosions of gas and coal dust. Safety from the latter requires ex- pensive equipment, Hy : its Rise and Evolutio to come to Geneva to discuss the mat- ter, aroused keen resentment in Washington. A note was in the final stages of preparation at the state department today rejecting the invitation. It will go forward this week. For Isolation Policy? The frank expectation in Washing- ton is that the refusal of the United States to send a delegation to Geneva will intensify the league’s opposition to the senate’s reservations, and that the statesmen at Geneva will see to it that at least one member nation refuses to accept them. One refusal out of the 48 nations now adhering to the tribunal is sufficient to prevent America’s entrance. Chances for the senate to amend or abolish the disputed reservation are considered virtually nil. Convicted Millionaire Grafter Pleads Illness to Escape Penitentiary (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. LOUIS, April 7—Confirmation of statements concerning the physical condition of John W. Thompson, con- victed of defrauding the government, was included in a statement of George J. Epp, of the United States veterans’ bureau at St. Louis, to Federal Judge Carpenter today. Thompson, who was convicted and sentenced to two years in Leaven- worth and fined $10,000, with Col. Charles R. Forbes, seeks probation of the sentence on the ground that he is bedridden and unable to be moved because of a recent operation. Judge Carpenter is expected to make public his decision soon, General Strike of Building Trades in Washington, Is Threat WASHINGTON, April 7, —(FP)— Threat of a general walkout of build- ing trades from jobs controlled by con- tractors in the District of Columbia who try to use strikebreakers at steam shovel operations, is made by union officials. Strikebreakers have already gone to work on a number of the Sociology of Hypocrisy. | AUSPICES, big downtown excavations, The strike for a $2 raise by the steam shovelmen began April 1, half of the strikers win- ning their demands the first day. Steck Gets Encouraged by Reports of Senators Swinging to His Support (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 7 — The gloom which prevailed among friends of Daniel F. Steck, democrat, at the end of the first day's debate, on his contest for Brookhart seat was par- tially dispelled this morning by re- ports that senators Butler, (R) of Massachusetts, Glass, (D) of Virginia, and Bruce (D) of Maryland, “had de- cided to support the election commit- tee’s majority report, which endorsed Steck’s claim to the seat. These gains by the Steck supporters were believed to mark a halt in the swing of senti- Chicago Report Shows No Homes Being Built for the Working Class By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. vee American city has its housing problem. The politi- cians play with this issue, deluding the masses into believ- ing that something will be done to relieve the situation, while the whole horde of profit vultures, from the smallest con- ment toward Brookhatt. Caraway resumed this afternoon his defense of the majority report, which seated Steck by 1,400 'votes. He denied charges the elections committee “played politics” im'the recounting. TEACHERS WILL HOLD MEETING IN NEW YORK Educators Fast Becom- ing Migratory Workers? The annual convention of the Amer- ican Federation of Teachers, celebrat- ing its 10th year of existence, will open in New York City June 29, the national headquarters in Chicago an- nounces. A plea to teachers to combat the tendency to turn themselves into mi- gratory workers is made by the fed- eration in its monthly bulletin. “Hoboes riding the rods pass in the night,” the bulletin points out, “each seeking an escape from the point which the other hopes to reach, Each August the itinerant teachers paying first-class fare manifest the same] psychology. Some towns report en- tire change of teaching forces at the end of the school year.” Boston Puritan Crank Hit by Decision in the American Mercury Case (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, April 7—Henry L. Menc- ken, editor of the American Mercury, and his publication were today exon- erated in municipal court of charges of the sale of an moral article, namely, “Hatrack,” a story in the magazine. The decigjon was a clear victory for Menck over Rev. J. Frank Chase of the J’atch and Ward Society who brot ut the arrest after purchasing a copy of the maga- zine. . In rendering his verdict, Judge Parmenter declared he had read every article in the publication and found them all of an intellectual and seri- ous nature. Rich White Youth Seis Up “Insanity”? Defense in Attack on Negro Girl (Special to The Dally Worker) LEXINGTON, Ky., April 7—Exam- ination of the prosecution’s witnesses was completed after noon today in the trial of Charles Merchant, promi- nent Lexington youth, charged with an assault on Eva Lee Jones, 11-year- old colored girl. The girl and her sister testified to details of the at- tack. With a night session probable, the case may get to the jury tomorrow. Defense attorneys are attempting to prove Merchant is insane. Conviction can death ‘sen- tence in Kewacky, What Price “Justice.” The leisurely way in which the trial is being conducted is quite a contrast to the few; minutes allowed several months ago to a poor colored man charged with @ crime against a white woman. The jury in that case would have laughedsan “insanity” de- fense plea out of court tho it would have had as mich point then as in the present issue, « we: U. S. Troops ‘Kill 10 : Ni Moros in Philippines (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) MANILA, P. L., April 7—Ten Moros were reported killed and ten members of the Philippine constabulary wound- ed when a constabulary force stormed and captured a Moro fortress in Lanao province, Few details of the battle have been received but it is believed to have been with a fugitive band of Moro insurgents on whose trail the constabulary has been for some time. tractor to the biggest bank, schemes to increase their toll of loot. It is generally admitted, however, by all those who stick to the facts, that housing conditions are getting worse, not better. * * Chicago is planning a special Housing Conference for April 16th to confess that the nation’s second largest city is not providing decent wage-earning population. laces to live for the masses of its New York has admitted that tumbledown tenements, condemned as uninhabitable more than half a century ago, are still “doing business at the old stand,” at fabulous rentals. Chicago, as if refusing to be outdone, in a survey of its de- partment of public welfare, proclaims the following: “Between December, 1914, and June, 1925, rents in Chicago have increased 105.6 per cent, practically doubled their rental Wretched, rat infested, wornout houses have in spite of deterioration. And altho building operations have been carried on in Chicago on such a scale that the post-war housing shortage has been wiped out, THE SUPPLY, OF AVAILABLE HOMES FOR THE SMALL WAGE EARNER HAS NOT BEEN AFFECTED.” s. * * The survey claims that the Negro and the foreign-born workers are the worst sufferers. On Forquer Street, eight Mexicans were found living in two rooms. On another street 15 Mexicans lived in six rooms. More than 10 per cent of apartments visited, “fringing the industrial and commercial districts,” were without windows to the outside air. It is revealed in this survey that large closets and alcoves, or even stair landings had been converted into places for lodg- ing for underpaid workers unable to afford anything better. * * The present session of the New York state legislature has been given over in large part to this problem. As usual, however, nothing is being done, except to hold committee hearings, issue voluminous reports and “plans” and to recom- mend palliative legislation that gets nowhere. Efforts to re- lieve the situation without curing it have been exposed as futile. The great insurance companies, with billions of resources, have dabbled n the housing problem, only provid- ing apartments for the salaried middle class that is able to pay, never touching the wage-earning masses. The same is true of the“housing scheme” proposed by the labor bankers. * 7 e@ The Chicago survey quotes the recommendation of the 1920 report of the housin committee of the reconstruction commission of the state of New York, offering as a remedy, the community ownership and control of large tracts of ‘land. It is urged that the city could let the land on long term leases to tenants, who would agree to build thereon. But even the American Federationist, the official organ of the American Federation of Labor, in its current issue, in an article on the bagmaking industry in New York City, admits that labor is paid the mere pittance of $12 per week. Small chance there to set aside more than enough to buy a toy house in a “five and ten cent store.” The revelations in- cidental to the Passaic mill strike have shown in glaring fashion the crowded, insanitary, disease-breading and even dangerous structures in which workers are housed in the smaller industrial centers. * * Profiteering, produces these housing conditions. The housing problem cannot be solved without the abolition of profits, which means the wii This realization must be workers must fight as a class against the —— roofs Militant class action, economically over their heads. ing. out of its parent-capitalism. t @ stable basis on which the and politically, on the part of the workers against the housing profiteers must be w; aged most energetically. But only the complete crushing of the profit monster will pave the way for a social order that will attempt to provide workers with homes, one of the most elementary needs. “Big Tim” Murphy Speaks Tonight at Gas Workers’ Union “Big Tim” Murphy, former head of the Gas Workers Union, will make his first public appearance before the members of that union at a meeting that is being called for tonight in the Musicians’ Hall by Patrick Gallagher, business agent of the union. SEND IN A.SUBI Senate Gets Formal Notification That English Is Impeached (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 7—The sen- ate was formally notified this after- noon that the house had impeached Federal Judge George W. English, of the eastern district of Illinois. The senate will act upon the noti- fication “within a few days,” Senator Curtis, Kansas, republican leader, announced, The senate then will set a date for the impeachment trial, COME ALL Relief Ball for Passaic Strikers Saturday Night, April 10 INTERNATIONAL WO) S’ AID. | GERMAN COMMUNISTS SATIRIZE ADULATION OF WORLD WAR BUTCHER BERLIN, April 7—German newe Papers devoted much space today to celebrating the sixtieth anniver- sary of President von Hindenburg’s entrance into the Prussian army, all except the Communists praising his Strength of character and common sense. The nationalist organs rted that the hearts of the German people go out to the glorious field marshall rather than to the president of the republic, The Communist Rote Fahne re- marked sarcastically that the “re- Public prostrates itself before the Imperial field marshall.” Danville Flooded, DANVILLE, Ill, April 7.—Floods in Danville today followed an all-night downpour which with the melting of snow, overtaxed the city’s sewerage system, uti ns vcctor CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and 3rd Avenue, New York City ake es Mike Gold and Joe Freeman Drawings Hugo Gellert and illie Gropper ADMISSION 50 CENTS AIRDROME FOR AMUNDSEN TRIP NEAR COMPLETION Russian Soviets Assist Polar Explorers MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., April 7.—The Soviet army airdrome at Gatchina, thinty miles south of Leningrad, which is being prepared for the reception of the Amundson-Ellsworth airship to be used on a polar flight this spring, will soon be ready for the two flyers. The dirigible is expected to arrive at the airdrome by April 15. The Leningrad Soviet has appointed a special commission to co-ordinate the work of the Russian scientific or- ganizations that will cooperate with the expedition. The Yakut committee of the Russian Academy of Science has established three aerological sta- tions in the far north for the purpose of furnishing observations during the flight, Stations along the Murmansk railroad are making preliminary re- povts. Lieut. Rifser-Larson, with a staff of Italian mechanics, is expected in Len- ingrad within a few days. Threat of General Strike by Workers in Peru Is Growing (Continued from page 1). examples of imperial oppression in the history of world imperialism, President Leguia’s determination to apply this law at all costs is what finally crystallized the united anti- imperialist front in Peru. Delegations are now visiting the minister of the interior to demand once more the re- lease of Larrea and Sierra, leaders of the Building Trades Workers’ Fed- eration, who were summarily im- prisoned for refusing to sign a state- ment repudiating the manifesto against the conscription law issued by their organization. If the government per- sists in its attitude, the general strike will undoubtedly be called. Deportation Threats Useless. Leguia is baffled by the fearlessness of the rebellious students under the threat of exile, and bewildered by the success of their exiled chief, Haya de lade Torre, in smuggling manifestoes, letters, proclamations and instructions into the country in spite of the fact that all mail is censored. Leguia has threatened that he will exile the stu- dents not to foreign countries, but to the virgin forests on the farther slopes of the Andes where the In- dians are true savages, where can- nibalism still exists in tribes that live by hunting and fishing, and where city dwellers have but little possibili- ty of surviving. American imperialism cannot shirk responsibility for these methods, which are directly inepired by the pressure of the imperialist interests of Wall Street and Washington, This is now thoroly realized in Peru. That is why the united anti-imperialist front has been formed, Allege Reactionary Mexican Leader Was Poisoned by Arsenic NOGALES, Ariz. April 7—An an- alysis of the stomach of General An- gel Flores, former governor of Sina- loa, Mexico, and recent presidential candidate, who died suddenly last week, has revealed indications of the presence of arsenical poisons, accord- ing to reports from Culiacan, Sinaola, received by members of the Mexican colony here today. Eflorts to confirm the reports were fruitless. It had not been known that an analysis had been made. Flores was widely known in Mex- ico, and the reports today caused a sensation here, Represented Reactionaries, Flores was one of the most reac- tionary generals in Mexico. He ran against Obregon in 1921 for the pres- idency, but was overwhelmingly de- feated. He stood as the candidate of the large landowners and the Cath- olic church, Bryan’s Daughter Wants to Break Into Politics MIAMI, Fla., April 7—Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, will file her candidacy for the federal house from the fourth Florida district, she an- nounced today. She will seek the seat now held by Representative Tableaux by Passaic Strikers