The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1926, Page 3

Ai NYE ASKS FARMER DEBT BE SETTLED SAME AS ITALIAN Gift to Italy Should Also be Given Farmer WASHINGTON — (FP) — Senator Nye of North Dakota, progressive, has introduced a joint resolution in the senate proposing that the American debt funding commission be directed to settle the farmers’ debts to the government on the same, basis of can- cellation on the same basis to’ Italy. By this measure he challenges the ad- ministration to defend its policy of forgiving. the debt of the Italian mili- tarists while it insists on collection to the last cent from the deflated Ameri- can farmers, Two Million Gift. His preamble points out that it is being made the policy of the United States to settle debts owing to it by European governments for as little as 25 per cent of the obligation, and in the case of Italy this means a gift of $2,000,000; that such settlements are justified on the ground that the debtor cannot pay. more and that the debts were incurred in the prosecution of the war, 3 Same to Farmers. It resolves that the government “make settlement of all debts created as a result of the war and owing to it by individuals and corporations at home and abroad, as in the case of the farmers of America, who borrowed ex- tensively upon the encouragement of this government thru the channels of credit established by thé government, such as the war finanace corporation, national farm loan associations, fed- eral reserve system and federal land banks.” It proposes that these settlements be made retroactive and upon the basis of property equities held by the farmers or other borrowers as of January 1, 1920, “‘whether the farmer shall still hold equities or shall have lost them thru the foreclosure or forfeiture on or since January 1, 1920.” Restore Homes. In this way Nye would restore to tens of thousands of western farmers the homes they have lost since the government deflated and ruined them, due to their over-zeal in expansion of their industry when the government urged them to produce more food. Engineer Bank Unit to Be Opened in Frisco (Special to The Daily Worker) . SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 25— Preparations _ were’ being completed here today by W. H. Treseler, secre- tary-treasurer of the organizing com- mittee of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers for the establishment of a brotherhood bank in San Fran- cisco, to be the latest unit of a chain of banks now operated by the union thruout the United States with the $30,000,000 Cleveland bank as the parent institution. According to Treseler, initial capital of the San Francisco unit would be $500,000 with a surplus of $150,000. Plumbers Helpers’ Club of Brooklyn, New York calls on all helpers to join the club. 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California Avenue Near Milwaukee Avenue | guarantee to make your plates fit and make your appearance THE DAILY WORKER A FRENCH VICTIM OF THE WHITE TERROR IN BULGARIA PARIS, April 12—(By Mail)—The case of the young Frenchman Georges Mallet shows the blind rage of white terror in Bulgaria more clearly than any other, Mallet was imprisoned in Bulgaria, He had not the least connection with the attempt on the Sofla cathedral or any other action, the only reason for his imprisonment was the fact that he was a member of a well-known revolutionary family, Georges Mallet was released a short time ago and escaped to Paris where he made interesting statements about the white terror in Bulgaria and his imprison- ment. “In the’ Bulgarian prisons one receives more blows than bread and after some months of stay there, nearly every prisoner sub- mits.” When he was asked why he was in prison, he said: “I have done nothing else but being the son of my mother who was sentenced to death because she gave shelter to Friedmann ‘ and Peftrini before the attempt on the cathedral.” Mallet himself is free but his mother and two other French people as well as thousands of Bulgarian work- ers and peasants are still in jail despite the sham amnesty of Liaptcheff. Be- sides, sixty new death sentences have been passed! After his release Mallet immediately went to France because he feared otherwise to “disappear” in Bulgaria, “After my arrival the Red Aid immediately gave me fraternal support. I will do everything in my power to fight for the release of the victims of the Bulgarian white terror.” On March 30 the Paris Committee for the Defense of the Victims of White Terror in the Balkans, held a protest meeting against the sixty new death sentences in Bulgaria. Mallet held the chair in this meeting and de- clared that he would not rest until all revolutionaries in Bulgaria are released from prison by a full and complete amnesty. DETROIT FEDERATION OF WORKING WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS HELPS LABOR MOVEMENT FIGHT REACTION DETROIT, Mich., April 25.—The Detroit Federation of Working Women’s Organizations was founded the latter part of 1923 thru the initiative of a few Progressive members of Russian and! Lithuanian women’s organizations, Its purpose was to raise the standard of proletarian education among women by a study of class probleris and encourage them to stand solidly with men workers in their daily strug- gles. Now there are fourteen organ- izations representing workers of ten different nationalities affiliated, Aids Workers’ Movement. This federation has aided strikers; protested to the executives in Wash: ington against atrocities in this and other countries and sent d@legatés to conventions such as the Farmer-Labor convention at St. Paul. When Lan- zutsky, member of parliament in Poland, was about to be hung the federation joined the picket line at the Polish consulate. At present the federation is busy assisting the Young Workers (Communist) League to establish a camp of a nearby lake for the Pioneers. A big carnival wil be held at the House of the Masses on May 9 where the federation will have a bazaar booth and will also serve Italian and Japanese dinners. Affillated Organizations. The following organizations have already affiliated: The Northern Pro- gressive Ladies’ Society (Jewish); The Woman’s Educational Circle (Jewish); The Woman's Auxiliary of the Independent Workman’s Circle (Jewish); No. 17 and 130 Lithuanian Women’s Progressive Alliance; Uk- Trainian Women’s Association; South Slavic Rosa Luxemburg Club; Hun- garian Women’s Progressive Club Dutch-Flemish Progressive Club; Rou- manian Women’s Circle; Finnish Wo- men’s Society; Central Women’s Pro- gressive Association; Russian Pro- gressive Women’s Club and the k- Georges Mallet, rainian Educational Circle. Honorable mention must be given Comrades Anna Krakaitis and Celia |‘Vassiliev, who were the initiators of the federation and whose continued ef- forts have helped to make it a suc cess, Seek News From Other Groups. The federation meets every first Friday at the House of the Masses. We would welcome a report from all working class women’s organizations, whether you are in China or Peru, in Maine or California—Elva M. Rush- ton, 484 Colton Ave., Detroit, Mich.,, is the secretary. ANDREWS SEEKS TEETH IN THE NARCOTIC LAWS Court Decisions Have Weakened Enforcement (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 25—L, C. An- drews, head of the prohibition enforce- ment department, asked congress to pass a number of amendments to put additional teeth in the Harrison Anti- Narcotic law. Present enforcement, Andrews said, has been weakened by recent adverse decisions in federal courts. Important features of the recom- mendations were: 1, An amendment to prevent phy- sicians who are themselves addicts from regsitering under the Harrison act, and further forbidding physicians who have been convicted of violations of this law from registering for one year thereafter. 2. To remove the necessity, pro- posed in some judicial jurisdictions, that the government shall prove the venue in the case of the absence of the proper tax stamp on the particu- lar package of narcotic drugs seized. 3.° To forbid making the so-called “ambulatory treatment” for narcotic drug addiction an excuse for provid- ing drugs to addicts, 4. To place responsibility on the druggist to exercise reasonable pre- cautions, before filling prescriptions, that the prescription has been writ ten in good faith. Harold Jackson Is Lynched by a Mob NEW ORLEANS, La., April 25, — ~ Adyices received here from Gulfport, Miss., reported that Harold “Doc” ZIMMERMAN. Biggest Surprises! + sole teterereteretetere -50c Jackson, was taken from tho Poplar- ville jail by a mob this morning and hanged from a bridge over Cedar Creek, near Picayune. Jackson has been held in jail since February 20, in connection with the slaying of two federal entomologists, A grand jury tailed to indict him, however, this week, and he was turn- ed over to Pearl River county authori- ties, to face a charge of murder in pi in CHICAGO’ MAY DAY WILL CONTINUE A GREAT TRADITION Coliseum Meeting Is Big- gest Yet Tried The committee in charge of the Staging of Chicago’s great May Day celebration at the Coliseum on May 1st Is determined to make the meet- ing the greatest demonstration yet witnessed in Chicago in honor of la- bor’s International holiday. Shortage of seating space will in no way interfere with a large turnout since the Coliseum holds more than 10,000 people. Fiomi the earliest days of labor's struggles Chicago has been the core of the labér movement in this country. It was: im the very city of Chicago that the» bitterest battles were fought by the workers during the great bai, oa agitation in the eighties—the movement that founded May Day as a workers’ day. Since then the workers of the world have set aside that day as theirs, Great Tradition. And since that great struggle of the American workers May Day has be- come @ tradition. This day has been marked thruout *the world by the sreatest demonstrations of labor's strength and solidarity. Every year in London, Paris, Vienna, Moscow, New York and all the great centers of the world workers gather to commemo- rate the day given them by the bat- tling American workers of the 80's whose leaders were the militant fight- ers of Chicago. Memorable May Days. All the memorable May Days—Mos- cow, 1918, after the workers’ revolu- tion; Paris, 1919, when the sons of the communards raiged the banner of a workers’ government; London, 1921, when the British workers formed their great alliance for the defense of the Russian workers against English imperialism—thése days will serve as guides to the Chicago workers who this May will’emulate the great work- ing-class traditions of other days. Speakers. The speakers will be Wm. Z. Foster, recently returned from soviet Rus- sia; James P, Cannon, secretary of International "Labor Defense; Jay Lovestone, organization secretary of the Workers” Party; William Mont- gomery Brown; the “heretic” bishop, and Corrine O’Brien Robinson, youth organizer, with Arne Swabeck, dis- trict‘organizey,of the Workers’ Party, as chairman. Splendid entertainment will be of- fered in addition by the Chicago Civic Opera. Ball: Freiheit Singing So- ciety and a great pantomime, symbolic of, May Day, will be produced. Alien Bill in House is Prelude to Others Directed at Workers ‘WASHINGTON, April 25—Contrary to a prevalent Gelief, the immigration committee of the house of representa- tives has reported out an alien de- portation bill despite the coming con- gressional eli ns that it was thot might cause hegitation in this sort of legislation. The measure is the Holaday bill that provides for the deportation of gun- men, dope-peddlers and aliens that have served a minimum of one year in prison during the first seven years of their residence in this country. It is presumed that the reporting of this bill is a prelude to the cpnsidera- tion by the house this session of other measures, such as the Aswell and Mc- Clintock finger-printing bills directed against foreign-born workers and their organizations, Stockmen Fined for Sale of Untested Cattle to Farmers i ae Two stockmen were fined $100 and costs each by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson on their pleas of guilty to shipping interstate cattle that had not been tested for bovine tuberculosis by government inspectors at the point of shipment. ; William E. Reilly, Wadsworth, Ill, dairymanh, admitted shipping fifteen untested cows from, Kenosha, Wis., to Wadsworth, Charles B, Rice, Chicago stockyards trader pleaded guilty to shipping thirty-nine untested cows from Chicago to Indiana for use on dairy farms. ——— Protest against the use of police and courts against’the Passaic strik- ers, Coliseum. Subscriptions: The Dally Worker 1 year—100 points Ye year— 45 points 3 mos— 20 points 2 mos— 10 points The Workers Monthly 1 year—30 points Ya year—10 points The Young Worker 1 year—30 points Ye year—10 points GET THE POINT! Page Three Negotiations Are on for the Merger of Two Chicago Banks Negotiations for the merging of two well-known Chicago banks are in pro- gress between officials of the two con- cerns, The Central Trust company, found- ed by Vice-President Charles G. Dawes, and the State Bank of Chicago, formerly a private institution owned by Hauman G. Haugan, are the parties to the deal, Their combined deposits total $140,- 000,000, If the merger goes thru the new concern will be the fourth largest bank in Chicago. A new Skyscraper to house the institution also figures in the deal. MURRAY ATTACKS COAL OWNERS AT SENATE HEARING U.M.W. of A. Head Raps Arbitration | By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. | WASHINGTON, April 25 — If any member of congress really sympath- izes with the coal miners and wants to do something to help them, he can rise in his place and condemn John D. Rockefeller, Jr, Andrew W. Mel- lon and Charles M, Schwab for their violation of the Jacksonville agree- ment with the union. That was the challenge delivered to Representative Lea of California by Philip Murray, vice-president of the United Mine Workers of America, A BANNER when Murray testified before the j house committee on interstate and for- F 2 0 M Mi 0 S C H] eign commerce. Lea was tiresomely insisting on his kindly intentions, and demanding that the witness explain The Communist Party of Moscow—in the heart of b Red Russia and the seat of the world’s first work- ers’ government—extends to American revolution- just what congress could do to im- prove the desperate conditions facing ary labor a comradely Communist hand in its task of building for revolution. the coal diggers. No Arbitration. Arbitration as a basis for settlement To build The DAILY WORKER—standard-bearer of the American revolutionary movement, the Com- munist Party of Moscow will award a silk banner of their wage scale will never be ac- cepted by the organized miners, Mur- to the leading city in the NATIONAL BUILDERS’ CAMPAIGN. ray declared, reading from a formal brief presented in his name and that of Thomas Kennedy, international secretary-treasurer of the U. M. W. The city reaching the highest percentage of its quota is automatically declared winner. To this city will go the signal honor of American revolu- tionary accomplishment—an honor in which those A. He explained that a “very bad award” was made in 1920 by an arbi- workers can share who have brought the banner home! FOR THE LEADING TY PRIZE in the Third Annual trator in the anthracite dispute and 168,000 miners and their dependents suffered three years under the injus- tice of that decision. Arbitration Weakens Union. “The whole thot of employers be- hind arbitration proposals,” he said, “is to weaken, and if posible to check- mate for sure the ability of the union to do for its membership the essen- tial duties which the union is organ- ized to perform. Until the union be- comes strong enuf to wield economic pressure sufficient to secure for its membership long-denied consideration; arbitration is never proposed either by the employers or by the govern- ment.” The Three Giants. The Pittsburgh Coal Company, rep- resenting the interest of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon; the Consolida- tion Coal Corporation, representing Rockefeller, and the Bethlehem Mines Company, owned by Schwab, these three. giants, he said, had deliberately torn up their agreement with the union, thereby breaking faith with the United States government whose commission had proposed the agree- ment, Forty-five thousand miners had been thrown out by their act. The union was contributing what it could to support their needy families. Chil- dren of tender years had been evicted from company houses in the winter, and had no houses into which to go. Yet congress had not done anything about that. The bad faith in the Mellon-Rocke- fellerSchwab claim that they could not produce coal at the union scale of wages was refuted by the fact that small companies in the same field con- tinue to pay the union scale to 25,000 union miners. $2.50 a Day Wages. There is revolutionary pride in accomplishment for your class, BRING THE MOSCOW BANNER TO YOUR CITY And while you get subscriptions you are entitled to votes (a vote for each point) for the TRIP TO MOSCOW AND THE PRIZES A Bust of Lenin And a Book of In discusion with Representative for each for each Mapes of Michigan, Murray declared that wages as low as $2.50 a day are 500 POINTS. 100 POINTS. paid to nounnion men in certain West Virginia mines. He endorsed the pro- posal of a federal fact-fiinding com- misison, which the committee is con- sidering, but insisted that the miners’ union should have a representative on that permanent body, to make sure that facts essential to the defense of the miners’ right to a living wage be developed, GET THE POINT! GET THE PRIZE! ON TO MOSCOW! Use this blank for any subscription! THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Il. me PATE SE mn 00 a year 6 8.50~O montis S200 9 ments oo @ S450 6 montis ‘month THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER Subscription Rates: Chicago Elsewhere $8.00 4.50 3.50 2.50 2.00 1.00 1.00 $2.00 1.25 ‘National Builders’ Campaign a gl ti