The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1926, Page 4

ry ) ‘ 4 Names on Petitions A THE DAILY WORKER NEWYORK LABOR _ FIGHTS HOLADAY “ANTI-ALIEN LAW Plan to Gather 1,000,000 | YORK, May 12—The outstand- features of the Holaday bill, intro- by Representative Holaday of /Milinois, which has been reported favor- ‘ebly by the House Immigration Com- ittee, are an extension of deportation statutes. Under its provisions any alien convicted for any offense for which he was sentenced to imprison- ment for one year or more, may be deported at any time within seven| years after entry into the United) States. Not only the Secretary of the Department of Labor, as heretofore, | ‘but other immigration authorities may | issue the necessary warrants for ar- . Test. ie Used Agalnst Workers. Ostensibly the bill is intended to facilitate the deportation of alien criminals, bootleggers, narcotic ped- @iers, mental defectives, and paupers. Actually, the Holaday bill demon- strates again that the government is determined to wield the club of de- Portation over the great army of for- eign-born workers in an effort to in- timidate them and thus strike at the very heart of organized labor in this country in their struggle for better conditions. This is clearly indfcated tn the re- (port made by the House Immigration Committee, where, speaking of the “unworthy conduct and flagrant disre- gard of the laws of our country on the part of a very small percentage of aliens residing in the United States,” it states that “the principal feason for deporting undesirable aliens is to promote the maintenance of law and order in our country.” What is meant by “unworthy con- duct” and the “maintenance of law ‘and order” is well known to the work- ing masses of this country who have fought for better wages, shorter hours, the right to organize, etc., and have been met with injunctions, police club- bings, government attacks, and de- Portation threats. They know that these anti-alien bills are aimed against ‘workers active in the labor movement. They, and not narcotic peddlers or beotleggers, will be the victims of the Holaday bill. = Gather Signatures. New York labor must reply to this mew attack by an intensification of the campaign against all the vicious - entielien bills. They must double their efforts to roll up the 1,000,000 New Masses Artists, Writers and I. W. A. Hold Affair on Friday NEW YORK, May ‘12.—The artists and-writers of the New Masses have joined hands with the International Workers Ald to give a Birthday Party for the benefit of the Passaic strikers | Friday evening, May 14, at Central Opera House. A short satire on the police and public officials in Passaic has been written specially for the occasion by Carl Raushenbush and will be pre- sented by a group of actors, This will be followed by a taste of the real strike shown in dramatic tableaux of | the strikers themselves, led by Albert Weisbord. | The admission is 75 cents—pay at the door—and both the International Workers Aid and the New Masses promise that this is to be the great- est party that has occurred all season. SEEK HUNDREDS . IN PARDON MILL INVESTIGATION Dead Warden’s Letters Betray Politicians Francis J. Parker, the “flying boot- legger,” who it is said has made up- wards of $3,000,000 since his release from the Joliet penitentiary in 1920, following a term for burglary, is being sought in connection with the special grand jury investigation of the “par- don mill” in Chicago. Parker, it is claimed, was an asso- ciate of Major M. A. Messlein, head of the Major Engineering company, which is declared to be a pardon and parole mill of which Will Colvin, head of the state pardon board, is a large stockholder. The “flying bootlegger” is declared to own and maintain an ancient cha- ‘eau in Montreal, where he keeps im- mense stores of rare wines and liquors, which he smuggles into the United States by airplane. Call in Gangsters. More than 300 beer runners, gang- sters, gunmen, gamblers and other un- derworld gamblers have been subpoe- naed to appear before the special grand jury. # Find Important Letter. Letters found strewn around: the body of Deputy Warden Peter M. M. Klein show that Colvin, Messlein and Klein engineered pardons and paroles in the state of Illinois. It is stated that Klein in his last moments*at- signatures in the petition drive which Woreign-Born Workers. They must wally to the support of the National @onference for the Foreign-Born ‘which will be held in Washington, D. ©. May 165-16, for the purpose of es- tablishing a national body to unite all of labor’s forces in the campaign for the protection of foreign-born work- ers, Petitions may be secured at the of- fice of the New York Council, 127 Uni- versity Place, Room 15, or from your labor organization. Mothers’ League in Chicago to Give Passaic Benefit The Mothers’ League of Chicago is giving a concert and entertainment for the benefit of the Passaic strikers this Sunday, May 16 ,at Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsh Blvd. An interesting program is being ar- ranged, beginning at 4 p.m. Tickets 35 cents, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! temped to destroy these letters, but failed. These letters also show that this pardon mill had men in the im- portant posts in the various peniten- tiaries in the state. Question Quesse. William F. Quesse and nine other members of the Flat Janitors’ Union were called to explain how they re- ceived their pardons from Gov. Len Small two years ago. The ten were pardoned without having spent a day in jail. They were also asked to ex- plain the reason a large number of janitors bought hundreds of dollars’ worth of “shares” in the Messlein Major Engineering company. Quesse was a prominent figure in the Cook County Wage Earners’ League that supported the union-smashing Crowe- Barrett-Thompson alliance in the re- publican party primaries. Newspaper Publisher Dies. BERKELEY, Cal., May 12.—B. E. Bradley, former publisher of the Sac- ramento Union, died in a hospital fol- lowing a year’s illness. He was 64 years of age. Bradley formerly owned an interest in the St. Louis Star. At one time he was genera] manager of the St. Louis Post-Dis- patch. SOVIET MISSION STUDIES MANY POWER PROJECTS Super-Power and Hydro Enterprises for Russia WASHINGTON,—(FP— May 12. — Josef I, Tzechevsky, manager of the department of electrical station con- struction, of the supreme economic council of the Soviet Union, is chair- man of a special commission which has been in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, studying American methods of hydro-electric develop- ment. As in the case of other scientific planning commissions sent here from Moscow, this one has had the help of American corporations and govern- mental agencies in gathering informa- tion. It is taking back to Russia de- tails of construction of big dams, power plants, distribution systems, etc. The Conowingo power project on the Susquehanna river, near the Mary- land-Pennsylvania line, was among the scenes visited when the party was in Baltimore. Tzechevsky and his associates brot with them the plans for development of the power, drrigation and navigation resources of the Dneiper river system which waters the Ukraine. For the past six years the Soviet Union has been making studies of the Dneiper river and its tributaries, with a view to such construction as will utilize the maximum of its power and water. Now these plans are being revised in con- nection with studies of the experience of American companies in developing rivers here. Later the commission will visit Ontario, to see what efficiency has been developed by the Ontario- | Electric Commission in that province thru government ownership and opera- tion. One phase of this Dneiper project is of great political and economic sig- nificance to Europe. The Soviet plans call for development of such canal routes as will link up the Black Sea with the German canal system. That will enable German factories to re- ceive iron ore from Russia, by canals across Poland. Heavy machinery can be delivered from Germany to Russia in return for raw materials, by this cheap waterroute. This Russo-German canal scheme would give economic | reality to the new treaty between the two nations. Work on the first unit of the Dneiper development, involving an investment of $75,000,000, is to be begun within a few months, It will provide, when operating, power for a large part of the mining region—coal, iron and manganese—of th¥ southern part of the Soviet Union. Chicago ‘Social Workers’ Seek Pardon from Cal Coolidge for Westbrook President Coolidge will be asked by @ group of Chicago “social workers” to pardon Wesley Westbrook, former superintendent of the Cook county jail, it was announced following af- firmation by the United States circuit court of appeals of a sentence imposed on him for permitting Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake, notorious beer run- ner, to visit Chicago cabarets and use the jail as their business office while they were federal prisoners. Westbrook was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment and Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman, convicted with him, was sentenced to serve thirty days and was fined $2,500. Sign Agricultural Appropriation, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12, — President Coolidge signed the agricul- tural appropriation bill, carrying $127,924,573 for the conduct of the gov- ernment’s agricultural work for the year. struggle. i WITH A SPECIAL PREFACE FOR AMERICA, H = $1.75 DAILY WORKER ae PUBLISHING COMPANY Whither England? A brilliant analysis of the forces that have brought about the present great A book that has attracted world-wide attention. Here is part of the comment of the capitalist What Is Happening In England? Why? READ press on this unusual book: 13 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. Chicago- ILL. By Leon Trotsky SSS SSS EEE SS sss Associated Press Blasts Tale of an “Independent Press”’ An important admission by the Associated Press that most British papers are capitalist and not inde- pendent is made in its. London dis- patch of May 6 dealing with the gen- eral strike, “In a general way,” says the Asso- ciated Press, “a large majority of the newspapers—and this applies espe- cially to London—represent the capi- talist cause.” ‘ This remarkable confession occur- red in the midst of the long discussion of the advantage to the strikers in shutting down the press. It is prob- able that the Associated Press censors would have stricken it out but for the overwhelming flood of cable news from England these days that has swept them off their feet. TARIFE. BODY AIRS THREATS OF CODLIDGE Cal Attempts to Bribe Sugar Commission WASHINGTON—(FP)— Testimony by tariff commissioner Costigan before the senate special committee investi- gating interference in'the work of that body by the Harding-Coolidge ad- ministrations, disclosed that Pres. Coo- lidge employed both threats and offers of preferment, toward commissioner Culbertson, now minister to Roumania, to make_him delay completing the su- gar tariff report in the summer of 1924, Culbertson. Costigan and David J. Lewis, the progressive half of the com- mission at that time, were insisting upon a prompt report in order that the cost of sugar to the American people might be reduced. The late Sen. La- Follette had aired the scandal of high sugar tariff rates in the senate. Coo- lidge sent for Culbertson July 9, 1924, and when he reached ‘white house he was shown by private secretary C. Bascom Slemp, a letter from a man named Silverman, a tariff lobbyist be- fore the commission, charging that Culbertson was breaking the-law by delivering paid lectur at law school of Georgetown univer: ity. Culbertson, according to Costigan, had had permission fygm Pres, Hard- ing to give these leogures, and Coo- lidge had never obje to them. Nevertheless, the matten was referred by Slemp to Atty. tone. An as- sistant made a report favorable to Cul- bertson, but Stone disgarded this and reported against him, or At the time Culbertsgn was threat- ened, Costigan pointed, out, chairman Marvin of the tariff commission had told the members that (Coolidge want- ed them to shelve the sugar report al- together. When that report was final- ly made, Coolidge kept it in cold stor- age for more than a » and then announced that there no need for altering the tariff rates. is Mayo Attacks Bar of German Surgeons from Society of Surgery ROCHESTER, Minn, May 12—It has just come to light that the German surgeons who were driven from the International Society of Surgery by war insanity, have never been rein- stated. Dr. W. J. Mayo has come out in strong protest against this and says that “medical science, like all other sciences, has no country and no lan- guage. To continue international rancor, based on prejudice, is unthink- able in neither prin¢iple*nor fact.” Imperialists Renew Peace Negotiations With the Riffians FEZ, French Morocco, May 12—The sultan of Morocco assures the peace commission of French, Spanish and Rifflans that he “believeg; peace could be realized without any, prejudice to his own sovereignty.” This is said to mean that the “self- banishment” of Abd-el-Krim will be withdrawn and that onge more the commission will not adjourn as they baye threatened to do seyeral times. Luther Burbank Leaves Estate of $200,000 SANTA ROSA, Calif. May 12, — Luther Burbank, the plant wizard and scientist, left an estate of $200,000. Most of it is in garden properties, which he built up for the advance- ment of mankind’s food, He placed evolution before the eyes of the world so that in a man’s lifetime he could see by aiding natural selection that evolution is a fact, This set the spookologists wild and so that they have consigned him to hell along with the other scientists and thinkers, Cotton Mills Shut Down, SPARTANBURG, 8. ©, — (FP)— The largest slump in the, cotton mill industry in some time occurred May 1 when the majority of mills in South Carolina, Georgia and North Caroljna curtailed operations 25 to 838% as a result of over-production, ” 2 sans le pple na MONT. COURT TO HEAR WINTERROWD LIBEL CASE PLEA I. L. D. Makes Appeal of Case Possible By JOHN GABRIEL SOLTIS. GREAT FALLS, Mont., May 12—The motion for a new trial in the Win- terrowd libel case was promptly denied by Disprict Judge Stephen Cow- ley, last Monday morning. The action of the judge did not surprise the de- fense. In fact it was predicted. The wires of the A. C. M. are many and devious, Appeal to Supreme Court. The denial of a re-trial of the case, has necessitated the taking of an appeal to the state supreme court, This has been done. The prompt and timely assistance of the International Labor Defense, in this case, has made the appeal possible. The Issue. Winterrowd was found guilty two weeks ago, by a jury in Judge Stephen Cowley’s court, of libel. The complaint was sworn to by Constable Christie, as the result of a broadside being published against him in the Town Topics, the local labor paper that the subservient politicians of cap- italism fear. He was fined 200 dollars. The article in question proved that Christie was violating the law as con- stable. At the trial the constable, who by the way poses as a union man, ad- mitted that he did violate the law in regard to illegal fees which he was charging, as constable. Winterrowd also charged him with being a capper for a private collection agency, owned and operated by a professional hater of labor. This also was proven up to the hilt at the trial. The supreme court of this state will now have an opportunity to declare itself on the question of the freedom of the press. Organize Branch of I. L. D. As a result of this frame-up on Winterrowd, on the part of the minions of the A. C. M., a strong branch of the International Labor De- fensé was launched here. It will de- velop into a broad mass organization of the workers. The workers see the imperative need for this defende or- ganization. It will, in all likelihood, be many months before the supreme court will hear the appeal. Probe Grafting of Carpenter Union Heads in New York Court NEW YORK, May 12. — In the}last elections of Local No. 2717 of the ‘United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners’ Union, the old officers were defeated. The Carpenters’ District Council of Greater New York refused to recognize the newly elected officers and by a fictitious election in which only 18 out of 1,100 members partici- pated put back into office the old officers known as Sam Goldberg and Company, The legally elected officers of Local No. 2717 brought legal action accus- ing tHe old officers of the local and the president of the New York Build- ing Trades Council, John Halkett, of graft and misappropriating the funds of Lecal No, 2717 for thé past five years—during their conduct of the business of the local union. The hearings are being held before official referee Judge Benedict in Part 10 of the Supreme Court of Brooklyn. Many affidavits, exhibits and_state- ments under oath were admitted into the records by Judge Benedict which prove that the old officers misappro- priated the funds of Local No, 2717, and that John Halkett, president of the New York Building Trades Coun- cil, received various sums from the officers of thé local aand was nick- named the “quarter-meter.” Chinese Professor Denounces White Guard Mercenaries “For $10 a month the Russian white guards who were driven out of Siberia by the soviets will enter any armed force in China, regardless of its prin- ciples,” says Prof. Peter 8, T, Shih of Soochow university near Shanghai. “Officers get $18 a month and every white guardist, officer or man, is prom- ised $500 for his family if he is killed in service, “They are disgusting to look at, say- age, unkempt, and ruthless destroyers. One can at least say for the Chinese pillagers that they use what they carry off but these Russians destroy just for the lust of destruction. They kill in the same spirit.” Torrio-Capone Gang Gets $3,000,000 Yearly Chicago gangsters’ books show, for the Torrio-Capone interests alone, $3,000,000 income a year, A few items of income:—beer and alcohol $100,000, gambling $100,000 and disorderly houses $50,000, , This has all been discovered since the killing of the “hanging prose- cutor.” Why don’t you write It up? It may be interesting to other workers. BORA daoupen o WITH THE. Y CONDUCTED - BY TH WORKERS NG WORKERS LEAGUE Young Shoe Workers and the Youth Conference By S. YONES. T the very beginning we should ask the question, are there any youth problems in the shoe industry? Many trade unionists do not think so. Their argument is that the wages of expe- rienced young and adult workers are alike,/secondly that high admission fee or other restrictions do not prevail in the shoe workers’ unions. So think not only conservative unionists but even a great many of the progressives, and do not see any necessity of putting up special youth demands in their in- dustry. Now, let’s see if those views are correct. First we must state that out-of the 55,000 shoe workers in New York state only 10,000 are organized into three trade unions. The other fact is the great concentration of the industry into a few big shops, which mostly are unorganized and where hundreds of young workers are em- ployed, receiving $15 to $20 for a 52- hour week, such as Bndicot & John- son, who employ thousands of young workers, paying them starvation wages, or Rossenwasser Bros. and Ja- cobs & Son. Are not those youth problems worthy the attention of the shoe workers’ union? More than that, the shoe industry was always consid- ered highly industrialized and techni- cally developed. But lately the process of the industry in this direction pro- ceeds still further. We find now in 1,500 Young Workers Attend the Passaic Youth Meeting Boost N. Y. Youth Conference PASSAIC.—Last night (May 4th) we held a meeting for the Young Workers. It was attended by 1,500 Young Workers. And the spirit was splendid. Later in the evening moving pictures were taken, to be shown all over the world after the strike, to show what a-hard struggle we had to go thru to win this strike. The object of this meeting was to unite the Young Workers in fighting for equal rights in their struggle in the textile “mills, and to flight the bosses, who are always ready to crush and prey on the Young Workers as a fox or a wolf would prey upon a lamb. The object of this meeting was also to, get the Young Workers to con- centrate their minds on this great struggle so that they may be able to meet any emergency that may arise in the future. Because, after all, this is mostly their fight. In getting the Young , Workers in the union we are getting the future fighters in this great labor movement, and they must be educated to face any crisis that may arise. The Young Workers of today will make the world of tomorrow. In the textile mills they are more crushed than their parents. The bosses do their best to keep the minds and bodies of the Young Work- ers weak, so that later on it will be easy for them to crush them at ease. They are kept in ignorance of what they are supposed to know about a real edcuation, because, after all, if the Young Workers get the education they are supposed to get the bosses figure they would be getting too wise. The speakers of the evening were Mike Intretor of the arrangements committee of the youth conference of New York City; Al Shaap of New York City,,Miriam Silverfarb, Clarence Miller, Jack Rubenstein and Steve Gede, Jr, Mike Blasik acted as chatr- man of the meeting. ' —P. T. Maddelena. Why We Want a Leninist Youth Camp? By a Young Pioneer, 1 Mord’ summer the Young Pioneers of New York for the first time suc- ceeded in having a Leninist Youth Camp. This summer we are starting anew to build a better ahd bigger camp, that will be a real working-class children’s camp. This is because we see that the scouts and other similar organizations are having camps for the purpose of poisoning their minds into being enemies of their class, which is the working class. We, the Young Pioneers, see the great importance of drawing these children close to us and to train them to be real fighters for the working class. When the children come back from our camp they are strong and healthy and are well able to carry on their school struggle all the year round. Then they are really ALWAYS RBADY to fight against the capitalist class. In camp they are de- veloped both physically and mentally, N. Y. Pioneer Camp Affair May 23 The Pioneers are going to hold the first concert and entertainment to open the campaign for the Leninist You Club ip. Where? At Webste' hall, 11th street between 2nd and ard Seung Life and Work of Young Pioneers our shops folding, lasting and cutting machines. And the work which was previously done by adult workers is now done by machines operated by young workers, From the above mentioned facts we come to the conclusion that there are youth problems in the shoe industry, and those are not only the miserable wages the young shoe workers receive, but the fact that the bosses use these young workers as a tool in lowering the wages and the standard of living of the adult workers engaged in the shoe industry. Now what can be done to remedy this situation? We must admit that never was any serious at- tempt made by the shoe workers’ unions to organize those young work- ers. As it proved itself the awaken- ing working class youth went further than the trade unions. This was ex- pressed in the youth conferences which are held in the various parts of the country. And the youth conference which will be theld in New York City will have to pay much ‘attention to the young workers employed in the shoe indus- try. But to make this organizational move successful it will be up to the shoe workers’ union to utilize the awakened cansciousness of the young shoe workers, to take them into the trade unions, which will raise the standard of living of the young work- ers as well as of the adult workers. LEAGUE MEMBERSHIP MEETS TO DISCUSS Y. C. |. DECISION The Young Workers (Communist) Leagues of New York and Chicago, the two major leagues connecting the east and the west for the Communist Youth Movement, are the first to respond to the call for membership meetings to discuss the last decision of the Young Communist International on the Amer- ican question. IN NEW YORK. The district executive committee is calling a general membership meeting of the League for Sunday, May 16th, at 2p. m., at 133 Second avenue. This meeting is called for the pur pose of discussing the decisions of the Young Communist International on American League, adopted at the en- larged Plenum of the Young Commu- nist International. Every member of the League must- be present at this important member- ship meeting. .The decision of the Young Communist International ana- lyzes the situation in thg league from every angle, and every member of the League, in order to be able to carry on his activities in the League must be acquainted with this decision. All other meetings and affairs that may conflict with this must be set aside. IN CHICAGO. A special city membership meeting of the Chicago Y. W. L. will be held Friday, May 14, at Vilnis Hall, 3116 South Halsted street. Comrade John Williamson, who has recently returned from Moscow, will report on the de- cisions and resolutions of the last plenum sessions of the Y. C. L. Com- rade Williamson was a delegate at the plenum. The resolution clearly dis- sses the tasks of the League and every League member in Chicago is expected at this meeting to learn of the further work that must be car- ried on. Come Ahead Into the Young Workers League avenues. When? May 23rd, at 1 p.m. sharp. The program? Moissaye J. Glgin, “Pioneers of Soviet Russia,” concert, Ukranian Children’s Orches- tra; dances, Pioneer daancing class; plays, Schools Days, by Pioneers. Chairman, a Pioneer. -Will we be there? Sure, BOSTON PIONEERS GIVE UP ICE CREAM FOR PASSAIC STRIKERS, By NAT KAY, BOSTON—The Boston Pioneers are. certainly ready to sacrifice for their brothers and sisters out in Passaic. This was proven at their last meet- ing where the question was discussed, After many suggestions were made and discussed, it was unanimously de- cided to spare the money from two ice creams every week for Passaic relief until the battle is 100% won, Meal tickets are being sold like hot cakes by the Young Pioneers. The following greetings was sent to the Passaic strikers by the Pioneers: Comrades, fighting workers, we are with you 100%. We shall not stop to do all we can for you until we know that your battle is won! Keep ‘ound You must win against the 8 Put a copy of the DAT WORKER in your pocket rs you go to your union meeting,