The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER Two Booze Runners “Taken for Ride” by Saltis-McErlane Gang Two bootleggers, who invaded the district served by the powerful Saltis- McErlane alcohol ring, paid for their trespass with their lives. This is the explanation given by police on find- ing the bullet-riddled bodies of John Tuccello and Frank De Laurentis in a deserted automobile, From Roman Duchovitz, owner of a south side bootleg joint, enough was learned by the police to convince them that these two booze runners had been “taken for a ride’ by members of 3 JAILED FOR HANDING OUT A SHOP BULLETIN Arrested at Philly Auto Body Works (Continued from page 1) FORBID BOLIVIAN KIDS UNDER TWELVE YEARS T0 ATTEND MOTION PICTURES (Special to The Dally Worker) SUCRE, Bolivia, April 13—A pub- lic decree of the president of Bo- livia, issued in February, forbids the admission on ordinary days of chil- drén of twelve years and under to moving picture performances. On holidays they may be admitted only to exhibitions which the police have authorized. ‘The decree is prefaced by the COOLIDGE GANG FEARS TO FACE FALL ELECTIONS Administration Is Badly Defeated in Illinois (Special to The Daily Worker) put a stop to this method of trying eases by pointing out that the case was not one dealing with the truth of the statements of the Headlight, the shop bulletin, but whether in this free country; or as he put it, this country which once was free, we had the right to distribute literature on the public highway. ‘The fat, very fat, detective inter rupted: “If you owned the plant, you wouldn't like to have people around distributing stuff like this.” “If Mr. Budd doesn't like what is in the bul- Itin, he can sue for lfbel,” was the reply, “but that has nothing to do with the distribution.” The outcome was that we were released under $500 bond for a further hearing next week. Bad Conditiona, The E. G. Budds Manufacturing Co. ia one of the biggest automobile body plants in the country, employing 7,000 workers. The conditions in this open shop plant are typical of the condi- he Saltis-McErlane gang. Tuccello and De Laurentis are said to have been survivors of the Genna gang, rival of Saltis-McErlane. After three of the Gennas had been slain, the gang was left leaderless and the WASHINGTON, D. C., April 18.— The overwhelming defeat of United States Senator William B. McKinley, Milinols traction magnate and support- er of the Morgan policies in the senate, by Frank L. Smith, chairman two men are said to have been “free lancing.” Both had been active ward workers during the recent primary campaign and it was first believed they were victims of a political feud. GAL'S CABINET TOMAKE ALASKA COOLIE COLONY May Duplicate Teapot Dome Steal WASHINGTON, April 18. —-(FP)— of the Illinois republican party and president of the Illinois commerce commission, has caused great conster- nation in the ranks of the supporters of the Coolidge administration. In spite of all the attempts made by newspapermen to have Coolidge make a statement on the Illinois primary elections, Coolidge remain silent. Gloom Settles Over Capitol. A heavy gloom has settled over the Capitol. World court backers, that will have to face the primaries in 21 states in September, gathered in small knots around the senate cloakrooms liscussing the blow received by the Coolidge administration in Illinois. A victory in Illinois primary campaign for world court backers was to be the “Guardians” Have De- opening of an intense campaign in the 21 northern states where support- statement that 'the action is taken to safeguard the‘ morals and wel- fare of the children, Tuck to Represent VU. S. GENEVA, Switzerland, April 18—S. Pinkley Tuck, consul at Geneva, has been instructed the department of State to attend observer the meet- ing of the League of Nations advisory committee on opiunt’ and other danger- our drugs, on May 26. SEEK ANOTHER INVESTIGATION OF VET BUREAU frauded Soldiers, Charge tions in this unorganized industry as| Reorganization of federal government a whole, The hours are long (16) activities in Alaska—the dream of the hours a day), the wages are miserable and even these low wages were fur ther reduced only a few weeks ago by a 5% cut. One worker received $18.00 a week, and on these gorgeous wages was supposed to support a wife and 5 children. This being an ab- solute impossibility, he was forced to resort to bringing candy and tobacco to the plant and selling them tothe workers in the plant, to add a few dollars to his starvation wage. He was caught by one of the bosses’ stoolpigeons, searched and all his wares taken from him, and never re- turned. But long hours, low wages and wage cuts, do not alone give an accurate picture of this slave-herding estab- lishment. The work is dangerous, and the labor conditions are unhealthy. Not only men, but even young girls, work upon the most dangerous punch presses, without any safety devices whatever. Girls have had all their fingers cut off by the high speed punch presses, while the loss of arms and even the loss of life is so frequent that the mere loss of a finger cannot, be noticed—that is, it’s not noticed by Mr. Budd. The Grinding Department. In the grinding department the workers have no protection whatever from the fine, hard emery dust given off from the emery wheels. There is no suction, no ventilation, no masking for guarding the workers before the grinding wheels. Poisonous Fumes, What are the conditions in the other departments? Are they a whit bet- ter? Look at the nealing department where the automobile bodies are heated and softened to prevent their cracking during the pressing opera- tion. Hot flames play upon the greasy metal. Poinsonous fumes fill the air, with the greatest danger to the work- ers’ health. In fact, all thru the plant, are found leaking gas pipes from which pour poisonous gases, To maintain the slave conditions in Budds auto body plant, the bosses keep up a far-reaching spy system. The workers are kept in place all day. They cannot so much as step into an- other department without being seized, questioned and sent back. Strike Sentiment. The workers in Budds are conscious of the need for organization, they are ripe for organization. They will soon Guggenheim interests which was warmly supported by Albert Fall when he was secretary of the interior—is now proposed by Secretaries Hoover, Jardine and Work, in a plan submitted to congress. Alaska’s national forests are under control of Jardine in the agriculture department, her fisheries under Hoov- er, in commerce, and her coal and other mineral lands under Work, of the interior department. These three members of Coolidge’s cabinet propose that congress endorse the scheme of readjustment of lines of federal juris- diction in Alaska between their sev- eral departments, “to prevent over- lapping.” But they offer a further pro- yision that the president be empower- ed by congress to transfer services from one department to another, later on, by mere executive order. It was by an executive order, in defiance of law, that Fall induced President Harding to hand over to him Teapot Dome and the other naval oil lands. By executive order, if this bill were to become law, Coolidg» could make Work or Hoover master of Alaska, and under another clause of the same bill an agent of the win- ner of this elimination contest would reside in Alaska, making all decisions without referring them to Washington. Alaska would become a sort of royal province, whose local government would have to make terms at every point with the dictator of federal prop- erties which dominate the territory. St. Louis Salesmen Cover Territory in Motor Biplane Flight (Special to The Daily Worker) WESTBURY, N. Y., April 13 — Six St. Louis clothing salesmen, the first ever to “cover” their territories by airplane, were to hop off from here to- day in a big twin motor Sikorsky bi- plane for Boston and Portland, Maine. The passengers received an unex- pected thrill when the plane “lost it- self” in a blanket of smoke over the mountains of Pennsylvania, finally landing at Bellefountaine, Pa. Capt. Roscoe Turner, the pilot, was forced to go seventy-five miles off his course after climbing 12,000 feet. Despite this delay they covered their territory in one-third the time it takes by train, stopping at Harrisburg, Pa, New Brunswick, N. J., and New York. ers of the Coolidge administration and the Morgan world court policy were seeking re-election, Senator Deneen vestigation similar in scope to the of Illinois was to be in charge of the | probe that resulted in the !mprison- campaign. ment of Charles R. Forbes, former di- Butler Must Change Tune. rector of the veterans’ bureau, ap From Senator Butler down to the loW-| neared likely today following the in- est flunky of the Coolidge machine in | vestigation of the guardianship activi- the senate, they. all declared that the ties of the veterans’ bureau. . world court issue was the “bunk” and} ‘phore have been repeated charges that McKinley would be “easily elect-| nat insane veterami of the world war ed.” With McKinley defeated they |naye been victims of frauds by those tried to blame it on the factional fight | ,ynointed by the qurts to conserve WASHINGTON, April 16—An in- in Cook county. scotched as the election returns in the downstate counties showed that in the farming districts the farmers had voted heavily against McKinley. Fear Loss of Supporters, The Coolidge administration, which has confidently prepared to enter into a national campaign for the re-elec- tion of the administration supporters in the senate, have been forced to stop their campaign and plan a new ‘ne of strategy. Fear pervades the entire administration group. The loss of eight supporters of the administra. ¢on means that the hands of the “oolidge gang will be tied for the next #wo years in the upper house. They fear that the results of the coming elections will lead to an insurrection in both houses against the policies that the Wall Street bankers are try- ing to put over and would negative every effort of the administration in ts last two years. Coolidge Backers Fear Farmers. This fear is greatly strengthened because of the growing dissatisfac- tion with the administration among the farmers. The farmers are becom- ing more and more restless as the ad- ministration has done very little to aid them in their present misfortune. Thousands of them have lost their farms, due to indifference on the part of the present government. The re- publican old guard fear that the mid- dle west may duplicate what they did in 1922, when a dozen administration senators were swept into the discard. Army Chaplain Is Accused of Being Intimate with Girl This was easily | ‘noir interests. For weeks charg¢s have been made on the floor of the house concerning guardianship activiies of Frederick A. Fenning, distrit commissioner, who is the guardiat of scores of vet- erans. Fenning hasreceived fees ex- ceeding 1$000,000,* according to charges by Rep. Blaiton, democrat of Texas, and other Gmhgressmen. There are today tnexcess of 22,000 guardians of world var soldiers thrvu- out the country an¢ the house vet- erans’ committee is\'sking for power to delve into the defings of each of hese guardians. | Two of the learge} groups or hos pitalized mental es are at St. Elizabeth’s hospital) here and the Bronx hospital in York. Jugo-Slavian') Cabinet Drops Stepha Daditch; Termed ‘Trotble-Maker’ lly Worker) (Special to The BELGRADE, A following the resig: novitch cabinet to stituted by the phan Raditch, the peasant party. TH latter held the post of minister ofducation but his political importan¢ came from his hold over the Croatns, who together with the Serbs and}lovenes make up the population of dgo-Slavia. Raditch has had| meteoric career in Jugo-Slavian polices. For a while a peasants’ congress his return to his entered the parlifentary struggle and thru a coalitia with the govern- SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 16.—J| nent party repudi@d his radical ten- Court martial of Capt. Orville I. Clam-} dencies, itt, young army chaplain and married man accused of intimacy with Lucille Swallow, was to be resumed at the residio here with the defense’s third mystery witness” on the stand. This witness, it was said, will de- Raditch kplodes, The Pachtich ciinet of which he ad become a meer resigned April , owing to the oysition of Raditch o some of the pmier’s policies, It was succeeded onApril 8, by a cabi- Separation of Moros be ready to follow the path of the clare how he knew Miss Swallow and|net formed by Yzunovitch, of the McDonald May Come to This Country to Spread the Pacifism of Treason By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. GPeRNED by the revolutionary masses of British labor and practically an outcast in his own Independent Labor Party, that lionized him during the war, J. Ramsay Mac- Donald, erstwhile “labor” premier of Great Britain has taken to writing “letters” for the liberal “nation” on this side of the Atlantic. Evidently he has no entree to its “British counterpart, __ One of the surest signs that a British politician is in the discard in his appearance in the columns of American pub- lications as a “special writer.” In this respect the broken- down, spavined, short-winded political race horse, Mac- Donald, competes somewhat hysterically with David Lloyd George, the liberal party leader with a dwindling following. * * e _MacDonald devotes most of his article in The Nation, April 21, to an attack on Great Britain’s tory government, with a few side-swipes at the liberals. One can almost con- clude from reading Ramsay’s mush—or balderdash, as the British would say— that Baldwin’s crime is that he is less oe trig that “J. R.” himself. Thus MacDonald com- ains: P “Within an intellectual socialist party the prime minister, were he not impeded like the young man in the scriptures, would perhaps find a natural home. He would be far happier fighting revolutionists as a believer of socialism than bearding the capitalists in the interests of toryism.” Evidently misery needs comfort. MacDonald has not been successful in fighting the revolutionists in the Inde- pendent Labor (socialist) Party. The harder he has fought “Moscow” the greater has been the growth of the revolu- tionary left wing. Evidently this is Ramsay's frantic call for reinforcements. He betrays his complete bankruptcy by edg- ing toward the tory prime minister, “who lives quietly and reads and quotes good literature.” That is MacDonald’s con- ceptions of the class war in England as portrayed for the readers of “The Nation.” From the quiet retreat of his own library, MacDonald, acting as a dove of peace from capital- ism’s ark on the stormy waters of the class struggle, gives his view of the troublous coal situation by stating that, “At present there is a dominating desire for peace.” That best reveals MacDonald at his old game of seeking to blind, gag, bind and shackle labor with his pacifism while the employing class is ever busy planning its desperate resort to force. There is nothing gained here by again reciting all of MacDonald’s crime when he was “labor premier.” Suffice to recall that his colonial policy was more imperialist than that of the tories and his budget was proclaimed “‘the best ever offered under British capitalism.” ‘ eee One of the best character-exposing sections of this article is found where MacDonald seeks to take a slap at Baldwin for the so-called Zinoviev letter incident during the parliamentary campaign that put MacDonald out and Bald- win in, The depths of political sycophancy, that only this “labor premier” who grovels at the feet of British royalty, ‘could be capable of is found in the sentence that declares: “They’were no sooner in than they had to confess that they had cheated the country over the Zinoviev letter, and this,|tho only affecting the more serious people, depreciated their credit.” Yet it was J. Ramsay MacDonald, while still the “labor premier,” who did as much as any tory to create an impres- sion as to the genuineness of the admittedly forged letter from the president of the Communist International. In fact, so far as it has come to my attention, this is the first time that MacDonald has openly admitted that the letter was a “cheat.” And if Baldwin and his tories are cheats, so are MacDonald and his anti-Soviet supporters who still eke out a precarious existence in labor’s ranks, ee @ All this is merely cited to acquaint America’s working class a little more with J. Ramsay MacDonald, After writing articles for American publications, the next step will be to make an American tour. When he comes he will have many “jolly nice” things to say about the Green regime in the American Federation of Labor. He will have no inspiring message for the American working class. He will only be another Jean Longuet, Rafael Abramovich, or a Fritz Tar- now, who headed the social-democratic delegation that came here from Germany last fall _to»do the dirty work of the American labor aristocracy. To be fore-warned of treason- pa attacks is to be doubly prepared to meet and overcome em, . Morgan Associate Will from Filipinos Is New | Join Vauclain on Trip COMMUNISTS LEAD WORKERS IN PARIS BATTLE High Cost of Living Brings Outbreak (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, April 15 — For hours last night thousands of workers under the leadership of the Communist Party of France battled the police who were trying to prevent a demonstration for wages commensurate with the high cost of living. When the turmoil sub- sided a count of the injured showed that contrary to the usual results, this time it was the brutal gendarmes who got the worst of it. According to the admission of the police department, ten police were wounded, six of them seriously, Hundreds of workers were arrested. The demonstrators were principally government employees and railroad workers, The militancy of the workers has aroused the local bourgeois press to a height of fury. The organs of the right are demanding harsh measures of suppression against the Commun- ists. The center warns that the men- ace of the rapidly growing power of the Reds must be curbed by legal re- strictions while the left groups in- cluding the socialists prophesy that the constitutional regime is doomed unless concessions are made to the workers, The Communists boldly de- clare that the only way to end the financial morass into which the coun- try has fallen and to terminate the colonial wars in Morocco and Syria that are draining the nation oth materially and of manpower is for the workers to establish their dicta- torship, in alliance with the poor peasants who are also suffering from the crisis, Worse Off Than Ever, The continued and rapid deprecia- tion of the franc has resulted in the cost of living rising to five times the pre-war level. As wages and salaries have not kept pace, but today, accord- ing to statistics, are only about 50 per cent above the pre-war standard, the workers are being crushed down into poverty. The slogan of “a moving scale” has been raised as the basis of wage adjustments with the employ- ers. This scheme would set the wage scale proportionate to the cost of liv- ing as shown by the monthly index figures of the ministry of labor. Contributory to the recently notice- able movement of the masses to the Communist banner has been the fail- ure of the left coalition parties in par iament to carry out their promises of higher wages and lower taxes, The only result of the left parliamentary activity has been increased taxes, with the further depreciation of the franc, leading in turn to @ lowering of the wage earners’ purchasing pow- er. . Communists Growing. The Communist victory in recently electing two deputies over the com- bined opposition in this city has given their movement a great impetus. They practically control of the Paris labor unions, and their influence in the other centers is growing. Residents Ask Removal of Red Headquarters (Special to The Daily Worker) THOROLD, Ont., April 18 — Resi- dents of a suburb of this city have petitioned the town council asking for the removal of Ukrainian Hall from their neighborhood on the ground that it is “a public nuisance and a menace to the younger generation.” It so happens that Ukrainian Hall is a gathering place of radicals whose opinions the petit-bourgeois residents are in disagreement with. Radical meetings and dances are held regular- Jy at the hall and are attracting some of the younger people of the neigh- borhood. Thijs is the reason why the residents — to Study Soviet Russia NEW YORK, April 16.—Samuel N. Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, who will leave Paris shortly for Russia to study trade possibilities will be joined on his trip by William Hamilton, vice-president of he Guarantee Trust Co., one of the sarge Morgan banks, Vauclain makes no secret of the fact ‘hat his trip may result in further usiness between Russia and Amer ‘can industrial concerns. While Hamil- ‘on claims to have no other interest it stake in his journey other than to ,elp Vauclain in his study of condi- ‘ons, the fact yet remains that he is ugh in Morgan financial councils and lows his version to be taken with a grain of salt. Watch the Saturday Magazin: Section for new features ever, week. This is a good issue to giv to your fellow worker, HELP! American Delegates to Leave April 30 for Arms Conference WASHINGTON, D. C., April 18.— Thé state department announces that workers of the Fisher Body Co. in Cleveland and like them strike for better conditions. The bosses realize this. They understand this threat to their profits. As the Budds’ special agent who arrested me said: “Look what you're doing. The next thing you know, we'll have a strike here, and] the American delegation to the league we'll see people killed just as in Pas-|of nations’ preliminary arms confer- faic.” ence will leave for Geneva on April “And the significance of these ar-|20. Hugh Gibson, American minis- rests of the workers distributing the| ‘er to Switzerland, will head the dele- shop bulletin at Budds calling upon] sation. It is declared that no word the auto workers there to organize| ds been received that the confer- and fight for better conditions and a| ence would be postponed again. Hving wage, the © “nificance of these a arrests is that Budds maintains a cor- Wheeler Raps Unseating of Brookhart by Senate don of special agents to keep out our shop bulletin, and to fire out our WASHINGTON, April 18—The un- seating of Senator Smith W. Brook- comrades who distribute this effective message to the workers, But the ef- forts the Budd 3 pe tg Mite ar ytd hart, (republican) of Iowa, was “the greatest crime in the history of the senate,” declared Senator Burton K. shop bulletin will be met with more determined efforts on our part to Wheeler, (democrat) of Montana, in 4 speech here. reach the workers in this slaughter “The same gang of corruptionists house, organize them, and lead them in militant struggles. that tried to get me, got Brookhart,” said Wheeler. are so anxious for the hall’s removal. In fact they make mention in the peti- tion that “doings of a bolshevist nature go on there.” .ow the girl attempted to hold him} Radical Party, a dse friend and sup- responsible for a condition that led} porter of Pachitcl Raditch, who was her to undergo an alleged illegal op-| included to get t] adherence of the eration. The testimony will be sim{-|Croats, a few d# later in public lar to that given by the other “mys-| charged the minigy of transport with tery witnesses” in an effort to free|"reeking with cduption.” He then the chaplain by making it appear that| successively attapd the other mem- he was the victim’ of a blackmail] bers of the cably, charging them frame-up, with graft of alkinds and incom- petence. Want Each State to New elections 'p Tell When Man’s Drunk Spy for Cat Faces Revolutictry Tribunal ALBANY, N. Y., April 14—With eight republicans voting with the 22} MOSCOW, U.j 8S. R., April 16— democrats, the senate shortly after|Spy for the czarhhen she was young one o'clock this afternoon passed the|and lovely, Any Serebrakova, hag- Karle resolution proposing @ referen-|gard and bent, p brot for the sec- dum asking congress to modify the|ond time before/court ¢omposed of Volstead law to permit each state to|revolutionary legrs, many of whom determine what shall constitute the|/she had betray¢and caused to be alcoholic contents of intoxicating bev-| exiled when-sh@as in her heyday. erages. The trial openedesterday. THE BRITISH CRIS Blow at Independence WASHINGTON, April 16.—(FP)— Gen. Leonard Wood, governor-general of the Philippines, is about to strike another blow at the Filipinos by seek- ing to have the Moros granted separ- ate self-government under American sovereignty, A bill providing for com plete removal of the Moro islands in the archipelago from control by the legislature at Manila has been drafted and is ready for introduction by Rep. Bacon of New York, who was Wood's euest in Manila last summer, The first blow struck during the present session by Wood was the Kiess bill providing for increased powers over Philippine expenditures by the appointive American auditor Bacon {is credited with having brot this measure from Manila, Just now it is under discussion before the senate committee on territories and insular possessions. Sen, Osmena of the Manila legislature is leading the opposition, pointing out that it would give Wood a strangle hold on the Filipinos, Open your eyes! Look around! There are the stories of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be written up. Do It! Send it in! Write as you fight! expected. Plumbers Helpers’ Club of Brooklyn, New York calls on all hel; to the club. Magtngs dent FRIDAY night, 8:80 p. m., ; at 7 Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Special to The Dally Worker) Delivery of Coal. MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., —(Tass)— April 16—According to reports re- ceived here, the delivery of coal from the Tchernov Mines near Chita into Manchuria during first quarter of the present fiscal year amounted to 5,530 tons. During January of this year \ amounted to 5,530 tons. During Jan- i uary of this year 1,669 tons were deliv- HELP! Must Have Told Truth, MADRID, April 18—~An official state- ment declares that a functionary at- tached to the Moroccan office has been dismissed “for abuse of office.” Neither the name of the functionary nor the nature of the offense committed was made public, It wi aid, however, that the Incident was a delicate one and related to the Moroccan situation. { Give Us a Hand! The big campaign is on at present and all the work has our office force just swamped. If you want to volunteer your services (to fold circulars, enclosures, stamp envelopes, age come nrotind Ane ou'll be more welcome than a ‘ages. We are going to build The Daily Worker twice its size. Come around and help us do it! 7 Fisherman Find Pearl. MOSCOW, U. 5. 8S. R., —(Tass)— \pril 16,—It is reported from Lenin- rad that a rare blue pearl has been rot to that city estimated to be worth 1,000 roubles. The pearl was found , some Karelian fishermen in the -iver Kaze near Murmansk, special study of the English working clase move ten three articles on “The British Workers P: