The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 29, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 92. 2 ey oO 6! se SUPREME cu TO GET APPEAL OF RUTHENBERG Bridgeman Case Comes Up This Week (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 27—The su- preme court of the United States will have placed before it the question of whether there can be such a crime as “assembling with” when it hears the argument on the appeal of C, E. Ruth- enberg, general secretary of the Work- ers (Communist) Party against the the conviction on the charge of “as- sembling with” the Communist Party of America at Bridgeman in 1922. The case which now comes before the supreme court grew out of the famous Bridgeman raid when 16 mem- bers of the Communist Party were ar- rested. Later, other members who were delegates to the convention either were arrested or surrendered themselves, making the tdtal number of defendants involved over 31, all of whoif are now held on bail by the Ber- rien county court. All of the defendants were original: ly held on the charge of advocating the doctrine of criminal syndicalism and of being members of an organiza- tion which taught the doctrine of crim- Ay inal syndicalism, but these counts in the information against them were stricken out by the judge who heard the case and only the one charge of “assembling with’ an organization which taught the doetrine of criminal syndicalism was left against them. The brief in support of Ruthenberg’s appeal before the United States su-|” ‘preme court Has the following’ to say ‘on the question of “crime of ‘assem- bling’”: “The crime of assembling is an absolute novelty in Amreican crim- imal law. This is the only case of record in all law books, so far as we have been able to ascertain, in which the judgment depends charge of assembling with a society devoted to the propagation of a cer- tain from of doctrine. In no other instance in American jurisprudence has it been held within the due process of law to punish as a felony the mere act of assembling with an organiza- tion. The startling novelty of this ease of itself suggests a departure from established standards of culp- ability. “The supreme court of Michigan did not see fit to assimilate the crime of ‘assembling, as denounced by the criminal syndicalism act, with com- mon law crime of unlawful assembly. Indeed, it was strenously urged upon the Michigan court that it must have been the legislative intent to make the crime “assembling’ in aid of present public advocacy of; criminal syndicalism, as where sev- eral persons jointly arrange and man- age a meeting or demonstration, and) { ove or more of them proclaims, the forbidden doctrine. But this conten- tion was utterly rejected, with the re-) ‘assembling’ | sult that the crime of makes’ its ‘first appearance in this court divorced from any requiremen of actual advocacy of the prohibited doctrine as’ an element: of the crime,” *Ruthenberg will -be represented in the hearing beforé the supreme court by Isdac BE. Ferguson, who. prepared the brief in the case. For the state of Michigan there will appear, 0, Le Smith, the avsistant ‘state's attorney, and Géorge H. Bookwalter, now the prosecuting attortiey ‘of Berrién coun- ty, where the case was’ tried. ‘The argument will také plice either Wed- nesday or Thursday, Asks for Fpdopa in rennestses PARIS, Tenn., April 27.—Governor Austin Peay will be asked to send troops here at the first sign of trouble between moonshiners and citizens, C. D, Sherrod, attorney-general, declared today, Subscription Rates: solely on 4} consist of action! Negro Workers Celebrate May Day Outside ‘Chicago, rs %o In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year, foreign-born workers, fraternal, to send delegates to a con- ference in Washington, D, C,, that will convene in the Playhouse, 1814 N street N. W., at 1 p. m., May 15. National Unity Aim. The object of the conference is to unite all workers’ organizations into a national body to fight against the pas- Dear Friends and Brothers: In 1924 several bills were. introduced in the United States congress proposing the registration, photographing and finger- printing, like criminals, of all foréign- f born residents of this country. A strong publi¢ ‘sentiment was then aroused against these vicious bills through the. Councils forthe Protec tion of Foreign Born, which were at that time organized thruout the coun- try, As a result of this the bills were temporarily defeated, Similar and even more diastic bills are now again before the congress, These bills, while’, ‘Apparently directed against the foreign born, are in reality aimed at all organized labor, both na- tive and foreign born. The purpose of these bills is to create a reserve army of foreign-born workers, compelled un- der the threat of deportation to accept work at the lowest possible wages, HAT Negro workers are fast be- coming an important force in the labor movement is seen from their growing participation in labor activi- ties. A good examplé ‘of this is the May Day Celebration and Dance of the American Negro Labor Congress. The New York Loéal {fs staging this event at Harlem Sttidio, 2370 Seventh Avenue, near 138th a ty on Satur- bt May 1, at 9 p. m. A special feature of the program will be {he dpeparaiice of the famous. . —— oy 4 : r dancers, Radcliffe and Swann, in their whirlwind dance number “The Orig- inal Fast Foot Three.” The district organizer, Richard B, Moore, will de- liver a short address on “May Day, Its Significance to. Labor‘and the Ne- gro.” All present will take part in a demonstration of the solidarity of black and white’ workers, and will dance in celebration of the past vic- tories of labor and in aiiticipation of its future complete and final triumph. The friends of labor, and. the Negro are cordially ay c The Pennsylvania Council has issued a call to all local councils for the protection of foreign born organized in dozens of cities thruout the country and other labor bodies, trade union and ¢@—$ sage of the Aswell, ‘Johnson and other anti-alien finger-printing and deporta+ tion bills before congress. The com- munication is being broadcast thruout the country and is signed by Joseph Dean, secretary of the Western Penn- sylvania Council, and Edward Hora- cek, secretary. The call reads as fol- lows: : The Call for the Conference thus reducing the standard of tying of the whole American working class. These, bills are aimed to serve as a club in the hands of the employing class to prevent the workers, under AMERICA FIRST! 1923, At the Post\Office at Chicago, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1926 E DAILY WORKER. Entered at Second-class matter September 21, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, Boo 290 Published PUBLISHI ly. except Sunday by THE CO., 1113 W. Washington DAILY. vd., O US, H PREME COURT S APPEAL IN THE RUTHENBERG CASE Cc, E, RUTHENBERG. {By William Gropper. aeenwa eee America leads the world in murder. the threat of deportation, from organ- izing into trade unions and from tak- ing’ part in strikes, ‘ Im order to prevent the passage of these and similar bills, Councils for the Protection of Foreign Born are being organized in a large number of cities with hundreds of trade unions and other workers’ organizations par- ticipating. The Western Pennsyl- vania Council for the Protection of Foreign Born, realizing that it is of utmost importance to unite all the various organizations of this country: who oppose the strike-breaking anti- alien registration ‘and deportation bills, upon consultation with a num- ber of councils of other large cities, decided to call a national conference to be held at the Play House, 1814 N street Northwest, Washington, D. C., Saturday, May 15, beginning at 1 p. m., and Sunday, May 16, The purpose of this conference is to devise ways"and means of prevent- ing the passage of the anti-alien bills now pending before the congress, and similar ones which may be introduced in congress in the future; to unify and co-ordinate the work of the various or- ganizations opposing the bills; to peti- tion congress and the president of the United States and to” establish a na- tional éenter which, will) continue the movemept against thevbills until they are nd decisively defpated, sollaw xan a to send delegates: 1, Couneils: for the Protection of Foreign Born, 2. Trade union internationals, na- tional orgamizations such as national organizations of foreigyg born, work- ers’ political parties, national organi- zations of liberals, national women's organizations, etc. 3, Labor.organizations—local unions, central labor bodies,-or fraternal or- ganizations. Each organization is invited to send as’many delegates as it can possibly finance, not exceeding five. All communications and credentials should be addressed to Ed. Horacek, 3429 East street, N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. Fraternally yours, \ Western Pennsylvania Council for Protection of Foreign Bo?n. Jos, Dean, Chairman, Edward Horacek, Secretary. German Trade Balance May Be $700, 000,000 BERLIN, Aprit o7—"The German foreign trade commission reports a favorable trade balance of exports over imports of $65,500,000 for March which would amount to $700,000,000 in a year. The Dawes commission sees in this a possibility of Germany pay; MANY BIG MAY DAY MEETINGS ARE PLANNED FOR NEW YORK DISTRICT CONNECTICUT POLICE DRIVE OUT STRIKERS Deported for’ Talking to} Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Conn., April 27—A committee of seven representing sev- eral hundred textile workers on strike at the Bloom company, Inc., were de- ported by the police from the neigh- boring town of Putnam, where they had gone to endeavor to get the work- ers out of another plant owned by the same company. Ordinary workers who were if strike comprised the committee and they got their first taste of capitalist despotism and their first lesson in the use of state power against them when they went to Putnam and at noon hour engaged in quiet, peaceful conversa- tion with the mill workers there, who were anxious to learn the facts about the strike in New London. 7:30 p. m., 10th St. and Sth Ave.—Weinstone,| | Markoff, Codkind, Jampolsky, Landy and/ | others. 10th St. and 2nd Ave.—Cart Brodsky, C. E. Powers, Jos. Zack, Harry Fox and others. Rutgers Square—Jewish Prominence. Stone and Pitkin Ave., speakers of others. Grand St. Extension, Williamsburg — Nesim, Primoff, Rosen, Undjus, Potash| and others. 163rd St. and Prospect Ave., Bronx— Markoff, Blankenstein, Belle Robins, Pol- lack, Peer and others. Brooklyn, N. Y., Amalgamated Temple, 21 Arion Place, Ruthenberg, Dunne. New York City, Mecca Temple, 56th St. and 6th Ave., Ruthenberg, Dunne; also a meeting at Cooper Union, 8th St. and 4th Ave., Ruthenberg, Dunne. Religious Instruction to Children O.K.’d in ALBANY, N. Ellis J, Staley of Y., April 26.—Justice Yew York, has hand- ed. down a decision that it is not a violation of the state constitution for ; Parents to take their children trom } school for one-half hour a week for ‘ * | religious instruction. The suit was sialon sil CrP eke a | brought by Joseph Lewis, president of Orders were coming into the New Lon- don mill and no effort was made to operate the plant. The strikers became jsuspicious and upon. investigation legrned that the other Bloom plant in Putnam was turning out the orders. The workérs of Putnam had been on strike some time ago and had lost be- cause of poor organization and lead- ership. It was decided in New London to send a committee to Putnam to confer with the workers there. The conference outsidé the mill re- vealed the fact that Putham workers were receiving even less than New London workers before) the. strike | New London workers, ayéraged from $18 to $24 per week,; while Putnam | workers received but $15 to $22 for the same work. The Bosses Game. }of the legality of the ment of education’s school authorities to give excuses to| school children to attend religious in- struction during school hours. state depart-) New Resources of Minerals are Found in Ural Mountains| MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., April 23— New resources of mineral wealth were | discovered in the Urals in the course of the last year, comprising vast de- posits.of copper and iron ores in var- ious regions. Sinara in the SEND IN A SUB, (late Ekaterinburg.) ON THE JOB THE NATIONAL BUILDERS’ CAMPAIGN. By L. E. KATTERFELD. New York Daily Worker Builders Meet This Thursday. VERY friend of The DAILY WORKER in New York is invited to come to a DUTCH TREAT SUPPER at 6:30 Thursday, April 29, at the Co- operative Restaurant, 54 Irving Place (near 17th St.)) All the newly elected Daily Worker Agents in New York ate instructed to be there as well as every candidate for the “Moscow Trip,” as there will bé on ‘official meeting im- mediately after the supper to consider the Daily Worker Encampment which is to take place July 3, 4 and 5 and. the “Trip to Moscow" campaign. Several “Moscow Trip Winners” to Come from New York District. EW YORK will never be satisfied with wailed only one delegate In the “Trip to Moscow” contests Sub-section 1A haw decided to win one dele- gate all by itself, under a decision of the board of directors of the Daily Worker Builders Club of New York that any lower unit of the party or any) group securing the 40,000 points that are necessary to win one delegate | should be permitted to pick that delegate from its own ranks, Connecticut sub-district also decided at a meeting of its executive com- mittee this Sunday to organize to reach the necessary 40,000 points to send one comrade from Connecticut, Daily Worker Agents Must Meet in New York This Thursday... ERY Daily Worker Agent in New. York and suburbs is requested to at- tend the meeting with the Daily Worker Builders Club in the Co-opera- tive Cafeteria, 54 Irving Place, at 6:30 Thursday, April’ 29, to heip draw his unit 100 per cent into the present Dally Worker subscription campaign, Other Ing her reparation debt of $626,000,000" members of the Party, the Young atc oaks League and the Pioneers are also ce ay , jurged to attend, el le” es tale sar Open Air Meetings, New York City. | All open air meetings will start about | due to the fact that all the} indoor meetings are held in the afternoon. | Brooklyn—Cos. | grove, Rosenberg, Ella. Wolf, Mitnik and) New York State Schools; the “Free Thinkers’ Society” as a test! permission: to} Large supplies of white} fire-proof clay were found near Lake| district of Sverdlovsk | -NEW YORK EDI oe ee st WORKER hicago, Il, Price 3 Cents LANS MANY MAY DAY MEETINGS ‘ight for Foreign-Born Grows CALL NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR MAY 15 AT WASHINGTON AGAINST ANTI-FOREIGN-BORN LEGISLATION (Speclal'to the Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 26.—The Wéstern Pennsylvania Council for the Protection of Foreign Born has taken the initiative in giving national| character to the many local movements that have been started by workers’ organizations against the pending legislation in congress directed against COOPER UNION | SCENE OF BiG | NY.MAY DAY Ruthenberg and Dunne Are Speakers | NEW YORK, April 27—May Day is always the day in which the working | class reviews its successes and fail- |ures of the past year and pledges it | Self for future struggles, This year, May Day assumes a peculiar signific- ance because it is the 40th anniversary of the first May Day struggle—1886- 1926. These 40 years are also the 40 years of the domination of Gompers over the American labor movement. May Day 1886. | In 1886, the American working class was so far advanced in the traditions of class struggle that its May Day strikes not only spr all over the country but set an example to the rest of the world which made May Day not merely an American but an interna- tional labor day. Then followed the long period of class collak tion in | place of class struggle and of the do- mination of Gompersism. In thig res- | Pect, 1926 no doubt marks the end of an epoch. The new cur t of strug- gle against class collaboration policies jis beginning to turn the tide and the | spirit of 1886, that put the American |labor movement well in the forefront of the world’s working class, is begin. ning to revive. Ruthenberg and Dunne. When C. E. Ruthenberg, Wm. F. ; Dunne and the other speakers at the | big May Day mass meeting to be held } in Cooper Union this Saturday at 2 |p. m. make their bajance sheet of the | last year,;they will also have~to make | their balance sheet of the last 40 ie rs. The Debit Side. The debit side or unfavorable deve- | lopments of the last year were many. They include the growth of class col- | laboration to an officially recognized | policy; the acceptance of the B. & O. | plan; the unparalleled development of trade union capitalism in the form of j banks, insurance companies, realty and investment companies; the sane- tioning of the Monroe Doctrine of la- bor which placed the official labor | movement at the disposal of the state jdepartment and American imperial- ism; the acceptance of a $25,000 bribe | by the Workers’ Education Bureau from the Carnegie corporation; be- trayal of the miners; the retreat from a policy of independent political ac- tions; and expulsions in the [. L. G. U. the Machinists, the Carpenters, The Credit Side. But on the credit side, the speak- ers will sum up favorable develop- ments of even greater significance. The growth of a class struggle policy shows itself in the Passaic strike with tits organization of the unorganized, its victory for militant tactics and {| militant leadership, its lesson in mass picketing and its demonstration that the combined forces.of government, mill owners, police and a portion of the labor bureaucracy, cannot break {the workers’ ranks'-when they are united and militant; The expulsion policy has in large measure ended in complete victory for trade union unity, The midely herald- ed campaign of .expulsions in the Machinists has ended. The expulsions of New York locals of the I. L. G. W. U. terminated with complete vie- tory for the left, and the Furriers, and toa lesser extent, the Capmakers, also have victory, for militant left wing policies and leadership to show in the balance sheet of last year. The Furriers strike, like the Passaic strike, is a triumph of militant tactics, of mass picketing and another demons- tration that when the workers’ ranks are solid, no combination of hostile forces can Ureak them or cheat them of victory. Workers’ Education. In the fleld of workers’ education, | the last year has marked an unparal- leled growth of the Workers’ School; developments of a left wing in the Workers’ Education Bureau and re- jaction against the acceptance of 4 $25,000 bribe from the Carnegie cor- poration which reaction took the form of a unanimous resolution of condem- nation at the Washington birthday vonference of teachers in workers’ education, In addition to the big Cooper Union meeting, many other hall meeting are being held in various parts of the city, morning open air meeting in Union Square and evening open air meetings in all neighborhoods. | 1886—The Bis ha day movement 19% rnd