The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1926, Page 3

¢ FARMERS LOSE 13 BILLION ON 6 YEARS CROPS Solon Is Worried Over Farmers’ II] Will (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘WASHINGTON, May 16.—American farmers have suffered a loss of more than $13,000,000,000 in the past six ears thru the fact that the. price level of their crops fell below the price level of manufactured goods, Rep. Jacobstein of Rochester told the house, during debate on farm relief measures, “Farm Truét.” Recognizing the farmers’ grievances as legitimate, Jacobstein told the house that the farmer must seek to push his own prices upward, and this can best be done by complete na- tion-wide organization, The steel trust Stabilized the price of steel rails, and the farmers, if well enough organized, ‘can do the eame for their crops. A Joss of about 20 per cent in the pur- chasing power of ‘these crops has been borne by the American farmer wince $119. Organization of the farm- ers into strong co-operatives would ‘enable them, the congressman argued to market their surplus abroad under favorable conditions. In the prelim- fmary stages of organization, however, he thought congress must furnish a revolving fund in order that exports may be promptly handled. Farmer Like Labor. Describing the complaints he had heard farmers make while waiting their turn to testify before the house ©ommittee on agriculture during the (past six months, Jacobstein said he got “the same kind of reaction you get at a labor meeting when the work- ingman feels embittered against his employer. That ts tragic. We do mot want that in America.” “The farmers,” he added, “are de- veloping an ill-will toward the in- dustrial and financial east, so that we are now developing an east against tthe west problem, in place of the north against south problem which harassed this nation for over 60 years. I could feel it every time I went into that committe room. These ‘Wall Street people, they would say, they are holding us down. That is the same attitude of mind that the working men of England must have at this time against the employing class and the governing class.” Bakery Workers Plan Free Speech Fight in City of Los Angeles (LOS ANGELUS, Cal., May 16—-With the bosses ready to come to terms with the Jewish Bakers’ Union No. 453, a strike mass meeting has been called under joint auspices of the un- ion and the International Labor De- dense at the Co-operative Center, If the strike is not settled within @ few days, steps will be taken to hold free speech meetings. Numerous ar rests have been made of women who were picketing the shops. Dave Sim- inow, a member of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League, was in- jured by a strikebreaker, He ap peared at a mass meeting arranged by Civil Liberties Union and appealed for support to the strikers. A settlement of the strike is expected this week, Los Angeles Gets Behind Daily Worker Subscription Drive LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 16—Com- munist Press Day was celebrated here by a general membership meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party and sympathizers of The DAILY WORK- BR to start off the national DAILY WORKER campaign. Tom Lewis of San Francisco spoke on the “Workers Press,” and Reiss, DAILY WORKER agent, outlined the campaign for subs. An active com- mittee was immediately elected to take charge of the drive in the city. ‘The chief candidates in the field here are Paul Reiss, Frank Spector and 8. Vast. San Francisco had better look to its laurels, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! | eral strike showed signs of weakening possibility of peace. Below to left is ers and lower right is A. A. Purcell, president of the International Federa-| tives from performing or training for tion of Trade Unions and a member of the General Council of the British| skilled mechanics’ work. The native Both the latter were in the middle of the struggle | is restricted to common labor. Trade Union Congress. and belong to the left wing. LABOR PARTY OF AUSTRALIA HEADS EXPEL LEFT WING Reactionaries’ Campaign Prelude to Conference SYDNEY, Australia — (By Mail)— (FP)—The New South Wales Labor Party executive has started its cam- paign of trying to expel left-wingers from the labor movement. Already several leading left-wingers have been cited to show cause why they should not be expelled. The charwe against. them to thet} they “attended a conference convened by the Communist Party and organ- ized for the purpose of assisting to impose the Communist Party upon the Australian’ Labor Party. The charge is a faked one, inasmuch as the con- ference (held at Sydney on February 20) was called by the labor council of New South Wales to protest against the manipulations by political reac- tionaries to secure control of the /la- bor government at the forthcoming annual labor conference. It is the general opinion of left- wingers that these men are being at- tacked to prevent them attending the conference and that the attack on them is the prelude of an attack on others in order to weaken their strength at the conference. If this is done it will enable the political reactionaries to retain control of the labor movement. A crisis between the political and in- dustrial wings of the labor movement in New South Wales seems to be fast developing. U. S. Cruiser Concord Crew Stricken with Ptomaine After Meal (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, May 16—The 89 sailors and officers, comprising the skeleton crew of the U. 8, cruiser Concord, now at League Island navy yard here, will be discharged from the navy yard-hospital, after they had been treated for ptomaine poisoning, following a midday meal aboard the Concord according to navy yard of- ficials. Officials refused to say of what the midday meal consisted. Right and Left! THE DAILY WORKER ——_—_—_—_—— MASS TROOPS 10 Places That Figured in the News of the CRUSH COLOR BAR BILL OPPOSITION Natives Demand Repeal of Discriminatory Law | (Special to The Dally Worker) CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 16 —Military forces are being concen- trated here as the resentment of the natives against the color bar Dill, which restricts the natives to certain industries, has passed at a joint ses- sion of the assembly and senate and Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog in- tends to put it into effect, has begun to manifest itself in demonstrations against the Hertzog government. The color bar bill passed the as- sembly twice, The senate rejected the bill, ‘A°joint session of the two houses was then engineered by friends of the bill and the bill was jammed thru, As the natives have very little organization outside of the churches, te churches carried on an agitation against the bill. Natives on hearing of the action of / Arthur Henderson, upper left and J. H. Thomas, upper right, leaders of the right wing of the British labor movement who thruout the great gen- and who were the first to jump at a Ernest Bevin of the transport work- ‘MOTHER’ JONES WANTS BRITISH SPIRIT IN U.S, Old Fighter Aroused by Labor Solidarity (Federated Press.) Mother Jones, heroine of a thousand battles of the United Mine Workers of America, has all her fighting spirit m Amalgamation. “Amalgamation—that’s what labor needs in this country. Too many senate marched into Cape Town from the surrounding country and spent the hymns in an effort to get Hertzog to This detail map of the heart of London, England, shows the refuse to allow the measure to go into] the belligerents’ headquarters, food depots and places where cl operation, The Hertzog ministry ts| and police. determined to put the bill into opera- . able troops to put down all protest Mother of Thirteen demonstrations of the natives against i i the color har bill on the Hertoz gov- Finds America Is No ernment. Mrs, Frances Kowalkowski, a mid- RF 0 dle-aged mother, awaiting the arrival of her thirteenth child, was in a cell : — here, the confessed slayer of her hus- . St. Louis Forms Council/Hurricane Takes Heavy |") sine: sim: ana rm ‘es # ; for Protection of the Toll in Rostov I did,” she told Captain Joseph Pal- Mf e cezynski of the Chicago avenue police Foreign Born Workers (Special to The Dally Worker) station, “He brought us to this coun- have been lost and millions of dollars |When he failed he became mean and Terence of delegates representing 16) yon of damage has been done by «{cTuel: I couldn't stand his curses local unions, fraternal societies and yaa lany longer, so—I killed him.” SNe OMMMMistions ¢ parhenent great hurricane that has whipped the |®"Y longer, s: om Couneil tof the Protection of Foreign-|yaeTs Of the Azov Sea and the Don [Sort we MORE JOIN THE i A resohition condemning and pro] The hurricane arose suddenly and esting ageinst the passage of the! aid untold damage. The greatest ca- bills and providing for the organiza- 7 sh Bi tastrophe came when the high winds Protection, of Foreign-Born was car-|the mouth of the Don River, convert- 5 ried unaninously, ing the lower basin of the river into An exgcative committee of nine|one great stormy sea, innundating the Si The River Don rose eighteen 000 . the 3,000,000 British workers who are Moulders’ Union No, 59; ‘The flood is said to be the worst 5, : ee Recogni- ki ‘ ( i e@ wors backing their coal miners in a general gldnt of the Metal Trades| tor twenty-five years, and reports state tion of Their Union moe aereh irman:. Taoch .Gtaneteh,|that the damago is most extensive, here, she cried ae sho sat in the office | 0venian ational Beneficial Society, |Reliet ships have been ordered to | NEW YORK—(FP)—May 16.—BSev. Teamstersi{-Cooper of the Stati: Thi Joined the strike of the American Federation of Labor, “When we be- onary e upper Volga is also reported to a gin to use the general strike in Amer-| 2"ineethb» John Matosich of the|have flooded, its waters having swept |S20e Workers’ Protective Union ica our miners won't be so respectable | S/0vemlsn National Beneficial Society |for thirty miles beyond the normal |4é@inst Brooklyn shoe manufacturers as they are now but they'll get a lot | Lodge Noa70; I. Feingold, Interna-|banks of the river, driving 50,000 from | Who are trying to go on an openshop Anna Kiplan of Woman’s Auxiliary or-|_ In Nijnnovgorod there are 26,000 | Ognition of their union. Employers, ganizatin; C. H. P. Foley of the Ma-|homeless, and 10,000 are homeless in | organized in the Shoe Board of Trade, chinists Lodge N. 41. The remaining | Kasen, where the Volga is at the high-|charge the union with breaking its committe member is a representa-|@St Point it has reached since 1888, contract in calling shop strikes, t little isms—anything but cat sack against the po haa oi The cmmittee will arrange protest |T@Public of the Don Coassacks, with|council American union, insists that meeting: take charge of circulating|% PoPulation of 204,000, The city of|there were not over eight ' shop the Scotch and the Welsh and the |Petitions ‘the establishing of {Rostov is on the Don River, which| strikes and that these were unau- IMaW Staniing together solid. ‘There's national center for the furtherance |0Ws into the Gulf of Taganrog, arm | thorized by the council, which did all ns f fightig the proposed law: .| city extends over a delta region where Mother Jones poised her white head | © 8. An estimates that the 42 shoe factories and looked militantly through her | ther coference will be held June ¢|'¢ dam flows into the sea, covered by his union are nearly 100 glasses as she told of the cable she |#t DrulG Hall. Fraternal and labor per cent tied up by the strike. The is going to send to England reading: |°rsanizaons not yet represented are| Chevrolet Motor Co. employers, he says, refuse to submit true die only once. Cowards and trai- to Spend $10,000,000 tion. tors die agai Let ieee cad 2 ne The American union is an indepen- wants to, you ‘live an ight.— Py dent group of seven locals in Brook- Mother Jones.” byte Bong? cong After DETROIT, May 16.—The Chevrolet lyn, borough of New York City. It argeVia a) eeting Motor Car Company will spend $10,- ‘The American miners’ organization v 7 000,000 in an Penenia program start-| ticularly children’s shoes. The strik- is in bad shape, she says. “Our union| NEFFSOhic, May 16, — Neffs, a|ing June 1. Plants in Detroit, Fiint,|@"8 have asked the Shoe Workers’ more fighting spirit 20 years ago. But|penind Ty DAILY WORKER sub. | 4nd St. Louis will be enlarged, the an-|4ent organization with Brooklyn lo- it will come back and, come back | scription qpaign following the most |20UNcement says. Production will be | Cals, and the Boot and Shoe Workers’ “The workers have all the power | over heldere, Federation of Labor, to see that none it they will only unite to exercise it.) 4+ thistay Day meeting Mrs. Pel- of their members enter struck fac- the joint meeting of the assembly and night and day praying and singing tion and has mobilized all the avail- . L0 T WHE THE Paradise; Kills Husband The color bar bill prohibits the na- : band. Bt LOU, Mol May 10-2At 0 con. MOSCOW, May 14—Many lives try from Poland, expecting to get rich. Born was. formed. River into flood tides, innundating the tion of @ tgrmanent Council for the] drove the waters of the Azov Sea over NEW YORK SHOE roused by the remarkable solidarity of as follows: Chas. Blome,|feet in a few hours. strike, of President John Fitapatrick, Chicago | S¢cretary, /Martin F. Dillman of the | Rostov. eral hundred more chop workers bays patted tional Crganizer of the Cap Makers; |thetr homes. basis. The 5,000 strikers demand rec- ittle labo! Ts, unions, too many little labor pape! tive of a Hungarian lodge. Rostov is the principal city of the} James A. Grady, president Joint our trouble. Look at the British and our lesson.” of the novement and other ways |°f the Sea of Azov. A portion of the it could to settlé the disputes, Grady “Keep up fight for justice. Brave and | invited 1 send delegates, the present controversy to arbitra- : * . NeffsGets Behind Daily| in Expanding Production U. M. W. of A. Badly Off. takes in workers on women’s and par- is sick and doing very little. "We had | smal ming town of 4,000, is getting| Bay City, Cincinnati, Janesville, Wis.,| Protective Union, national indepen- strong,” she prophesied. successtuMlay Day meeting that was | increased from 750,000 cars to 1,000,| Union, affiliated with the American 00 We make the good things of life ¥ ‘ totles. and yet our children starve and live | ‘TM, Ros)Shramma, Annie Pumpa, (Slump in Building in rags. When we make up our minds preaidene | ve Julia and Rosie Bre- ink in Chi b to produce these things for our elass, BeOneL: 1: ya i ncaa and Agnes Begins in cago Organize Open Forum nobody can stop us. England is a be- a » lexa and Jessie * ginning. I hope their example spreads | V°!chechski, Sophie Steinert, Con| Building trades activities are show- at Salt Lake City to the rest of western Europe and to and Joe Oaska, Katy Koryta, Jennie |ing distinct signs of a slump, accord- this country. But we need a lot of |2%d Mativ Peitrak, Annie Dolko,|sttucing to figures for Chicago by the} SALT LAKE CITY, May 16. — The labor education here first, not fancy |John Opic and Franck Opaterny|F. W. Dodge corporation. April's con-|People’s Open Forum Assembly, an Pugs Three General Strike r oO j g i important sections of the city, ashes occured between strikers POLITICIANS USE JAILS FOR OWN ENDS, IS CHARGE Special Grand Jury to Call Pardon Head JOLINT, Tl, May 16.—Charges that the penitentiaries at Joliet and State- ville have been operated by politicians for political purposes marked the re- sumption here of the special grand jury inquiry into the slaying of Deputy Warden Peter Klein and the escape of seven convicts last week. A. R. Carver, former deputy warden at Stateville, in an interview declared that if the “public knew the condi- tions at the prisons they would rise up in righteous anger and wipe out the entire prison system.” Warden John Whitman,, Will Colvin, head of the state parole and pardon board, and Judge Chauncey Jenkins of the department of public welfare may be called before the grand jury soon, --Federa!-anent? rolunteaped-the sigs formation that Deputy Warden Klein was arrested and convicted of bootleg- ging in August, 1922, while then a prison official. At the time of hig ar- the federal men said, Klein of- fered the arresting agents a bribe of $6,000, forty gallons of alcohol and the automobile in which he was riding. Convicts Rob Bank, The amazing story of how eight convicts left the honor farm near Jo- liet in a penitentiary-owned automo- bile, held up the First National Bank of Lockport, end returned with their $18,000 loot to the refuge of the prison farm, was told to State’s Attorney Robert EB. Crowe by a convict recently released after six years at the honor farm. Unwilling to believe the sensational story, Crowe got in touch with the Lockport bank officials. He talked with A. P. Bailey, cashier, who. was present during the holdup. Bailey said: “As the bandits left the bank we commandeered a car and followed them. They ‘headed straight for the penitentiary. We trailed them to the gates of the honor farm and there the trail was lost. “We never dreamed of looking fm side the honor farm for bandits, Bailey said it was “easily possible” that the wituess told the truth, American Federation of Textile Operatives’ Convention on June 30 NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—(FP)—~ May 16—Three of the matters to be took part; the ‘am. Th struction volume for Chicago amount- |°TSanization with the purpose of pro-|considered at the 11th annual con- eget pars apire as euaias wag did very wi and aided in natn ie ed to $26,997,100. This is a decrease |Moting “free and open discussion of} vention of the American Federation use it.” celebratiothe best ever held, of 37 per cent from March of this |®By and all subjects, principles or con-]of Textile Operatives beginning June year, ditions pertaining to or bearing upon|30 in Lawrence are: lection of a Prote Sale Into Slavery. The amount of new construction |the life of man, with a view to bring-| full time secretary-organizer; specific WASHINON—(FP)— An appeal /St@tted in Chicago the first four ing about a condition ot Justice, peace | constitutional provision of victimised from a labspokesman in Nicaragua }™ths of this year shows a drop of |4nd happiness for all” was organized | pay for workers discriminated against to Pres, Gm of the American Fed. |5 Per cent from the amount begun in |®t @ meeting at the Carnegie Public|after duly endorsed strikes; proxy eration of bor, on behalf of 400 In- |the corresponding period last year, | Library here. voting for future conferences, dians whoe said to have been sold The organization is to be headed by| Secretary William B, G. Batty Se Into virtuslavery from that country |Beer Conspiracy Probe |ycrmon cecroters and fee cemnic| Sending out calls for the convention. Peasant Leaders Are Jailed While Election in Bessarabia Is On (Special to The Daily Worker) It May Be on This Ship! chairman, secretary and five commit- BUCHAREST, Roumania, May 16.—|to lumber mpanies in British H A bitter election campaign is report-|duras, sayhat $6 is the price paid ed to be taking place in Bessarabia, / by the coanies to Nicaraguan offi- where the peasant party, according to|cials for dvering them. This slave ° ~ The American Federation of Textile Opens in Cleveland |teemen. Officers will serve “until the | Operatives, independent, is holding @ need is felt” for new officers. ‘There unity conference in New York om OLEVELAND, Ohio, May 16, — The |!# to be no dues-paying membership. | jung § to which representatives a report, hag been prevented from| trade was de possible by the recent'|/argest brewers in the middle-western |Alfred Sorensen was elected chair. other textile workers’ organi: ‘ d Emmett Ramey secretary. filing candidacies by open force. The| military mre of the Nicaraguan | states, officials of Ohio railroads and |™®0 an are invited. The United Front Com+ peasant leaders and others of, the|governmeny Emilio Chamorro, for-|more than 500 other persons, includ- |The seneral committee, consisting of mittee of Textile Workers has already party have been arrested. mer favorof American bankers in |ing many “prominent citizens,” will be |©: T. Stoney, M. H. Badger, J. rd accepted, Central Asica. supoenaed before the federal grand be sgt Magee bidet. te as . * jury which convenes here to probe an oy Wee ch 3 ® Baptist Convention Fri Train Derall alleged nationwide beer conspiracy, |@24 conduct other affairs of the oa h Affirms Belief in BIRMINAM, May 16.—Severai |The conter of the alleged deer con-|FOTUM VOLUNTEER! it’ i i ifeti A Passengerstffered minor scratches |SPiracy is located at Scranton, Pa., it er" come over and help. The but it’s going to be the trip of a lifetime for the Bible’s Fairy Tales and bruisand many others were | Was learned. be held Saturday night, May 16, at iste jobs that rig can on inane ie the public library. A discussion of the HOUSTON, Texas, May 16.—Short| Frisco cre train petween Kansas Lathers Get Increase, British strike and trade unionism will shirft was given the evolution theory | City and Hingham, was derailed at| BOSTON, May 16.—Boston wood, |>¢ led by William S. Dalton, prominent ‘by the Southern Baptist convention | Pocahontas miles north of Bir |wire and motal lathers in Local 72 |/0cal attorney. here, which adopted a resolution af-| mingham, will get $1.37% firming their belief in the fairy talea WRrAS YOU FIGHT! th oScoW! od =| im the bible on the creation, 4 \ winners of TRIP TO M badly shakup when the Sunnyland, They'll be glad to see you. If you have any time to spare— VOLUNTEER ANY DAY!