The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1926, Page 3

ere see eet oe eee i b] , oo ALIEN PROPERTY RANK AND FILE PASSAIC POLICE FRAUDS WILL BE CAMPAIGN ISSUE Seek Investigation of Grafting Officials WASHINGTON, May 18. — The ad- ministration of the allen property cus- todian's office since the close of the war, with its control of $500,000,000 worth of seized German and Austrian holdings In America, may become an Important Issue in the 1928 campaign, @t appeared today. Seek Investigation. The indictment of Former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, member of both the Harding and Coolidge cabi- SATURDAY MAY 22 “The Diminishing Empire of Ice and Snow” Byrd’s publicity stunt for the navy— An unusual and timely article by THURBER LEWIS in Aantent amn with A short history of polar ex- plorations beginning 325 B. C.—with illustrations, Who owns the Arctic? @ets, and of Col. Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, on e@harges of defrauding the government fm connection with the handling of Beized alien property has provoked a growing demand among independent republicans and democrats for a tharo investigation of the whole administra- tion of the office. The ball was started rolling by Sen- ator William BH. Borah, republican, of Idaho, who declared alien property had been “embezzled and stolen to a very remarkable extent.” It was given a push by Senator Norris, republican, of Nebraska, leader of the socalled in- @urgent bloc, and kicked further on its way by Senator King, democrat, of Utah, who has led a minority demand for the last three years for an investi- pation. Norris said the New York fudictments had only “scratched the surface.” Demoorats Seek Company Issue. The democrats believe they can earry the 1928 election on a “clean How's the Weather at the North Pole? Get this issue on SATURDAY! BOSTON LABOR IS UP IN ARMS OVER SACCO DECISION Plan Great Mass Protest on Boston Common (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, May 18. — Boston work- government” issue. May Walt to 1928 Elections. The inquiry probably will be de- ferred until the next session of con- gress so that its revelations, if any, will be fresh in the public mind when the people go to the polls in 1928, At the same time the subject of return- ing the seized property still held by the American government will be thoroly aired, as democratic opposition already has blocked action on the Mills bill, which the administration Bponsored this session, proposing an American bond issue to pay off Ameri- ean claims against Germany while re- furning German and Austrian prop prty. If the republican tmdependents and insurgents revive their coalition with the democrats, as now appears prob- ‘able, the administration would be un- fble to block the inquiry. Democrats In On Graft. Administration leaders have not voiced serfous opposition to the pro- posal yet, chiefly because they believe the democrats would be smeared as much as their own party if the inquiry went back into the conduct of the office during the war and the last two years of the Wilson administration. Sormenti Will Address Italian Fraction Tonight A membership meeting of the Ital- fan fraction of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party will take place tonight at 2434 South Oakley Ave., at 8 o'clock. Comrade E. S.%aenti of the Italian fraction will address the meeting. Thursday, May 20, Sormenti will speak on Russian Economic Condition at a mass meeting at 511 North Sanga- mon St., near Grand Ave. Friday, May 21, Sormenti will speak at a mass meeting under the aus: of the local branch of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America at 2450 South Oakley Ave. Sormenti will deal chiefly with present conditions in Italy and the anti-labor activities of the fascists. Saturday, May 22, Sormenti will speak at an open air meeting on the mortheast corner of Greenwood Ave. and 78th St. to the Pullman and Grand Crossing Italian workers, oD Italian Labor and Fascism. Columbia Printers’ Union Wins Increase WASHINGTON, May 18.—A wage scale of $54 a week for day work and $60 for night work is established for the 450 printers employed on news- papers in Washington by an arbitra- tion award.to the Columbia Typo- graphical Union. The scale is retroac- tive to November 11, 1925, in all ex- cept the item of a four-hour leeway. This leeway is abolished beginning November 11, 1926. The wage in- crease amounts to $7.80 a week for day men and $9.60 a week for night workers, Price and one-half is to be paid for night shift hours before 6 DP. m., and the hours worked are to be 7, day or night. Washington's Birth- day is added to the list of holidays. This contract will run three years— to November 11, 1928. It involves payment of about $105,000 in adjust- ment of back pay at the higher rate. Chapman's Accomplice Sentenced. HARTFORD, Conn., May 18.—Wal- ter FH. Shean, alleged accomplice of Gerald Chapman in robbing the David- son & Leventhal department store at New Britain in October, 1924, was to- day sentenced to the state peniten- tiary for a term of one to five years, Shean pleaded guilty to two counts, one of breaking and entering, and oné ot carrying dangerous weapons. ers are aroused over the decision of the Massachussetts supreme court condemning to death the two frame-up victims, Sacco and Vanzetti. The headquarters of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee were filled last night with representatives of various labor organizations seeking informa- tion and offering their support to a big protest demonstration. Mass Meeting. +A mass meeting has been arranged by the defense committee for Sunday May 25th et 2:00 p. m. on Boston Common. Benjamin Gitlow, Bugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Roger Baldwin have been invited to speak, Get More Time. The authorities are eager to speed up the sentence and execution of the two condemned Italian workers. At- torney Thompson for the defense asked for a rehearing on points of law relating to the arguments of the case and thus got a few days postponement. The plans of the district attorney and Judge Thayer to have a conference last Saturday morning to set a date for execution were thus thwarted by the defense, Guards Again. An ostentatious display of guards was thrown about the houses of Chief Justice Arthur P. Rug and Judge Thayer in order further to prejudice the case against Sacco and Vanzetti. I. L. D, on Job. The Boston local of International Labor Defense will co-operate with the defense committee in the fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the electric IN CAPITAL HAIL GENERAL STRIKE Veteran Recalls A.R.U. Strike of ’94 By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press, WASHINGTON, May 18.—American labor is thrilled by the example set it by the British workers’ general strike. It may not, for many years yet, fol- low that example, but American labor is glad that the British unions have dared to try out their massed strength and have found that they can stop the industries of the mightiest power in Burope when the ruling class attempts to degrade the condition of the work- ing class. For the courage of the Brit- ish workers in blazing this trial Amer- ican labor is grateful. It will not for- get, and it knows that American em- ployers will not forget the proven fact that the masses still have power over the machines. Talks With Scores. That is the unofficial, sincere, un- edited opinion of the conflict in Brit- ain which your correspondent has ‘gathered in talk with scores of work- ers in the capital—trade unionists whose first anxiety is to say what they think, and not to worry over how they may be quoted. The reaction among federal em- ployes, shop workers, railroad men, machine operators and streetcar mo- tormen is pretty much alike—they say that the British general strike has proven that imillions of intelligent modern workers can quit their jobs in concert, without serious disturb- ance to their own lives, in order to protect their standard of living. If enough of them quit together, and stand together for a constructive pro- gram, any government will have to listen and redress their grievances. And they do not believe that Amert- can or British employers will ever again be so arrogant toward organized labor as they were before this walk- out, Recalls '94. “It is very much like the American Railway Union strike of 1894,” one veteran railroad mechanic said. “That strike was called hastily as a sympa- thetic strike on the railroads to aid the Pullman shop strikes. It was a strike of good-will and enthusiasm, and on the far western roads it was fought with an intensity that no later strike has matched. “The strike was last, and yet it put the whole labor struggle in this coun- try on a new basis. The fear of God was put into the hearts of employers, and a lot of self-confidence was put into every branch of the labor move- ment. Labor began to have guts when it walked up to a lot of bosses. “This British walkout is going to give more self-confidence to trade unionists all over this continent, and it is going to make the Judge Garys wateh their step.” Contrast to Officials. ‘These opinions are in cotnrast with official statements from executives of the American Federation of Labor and various international unions, who as- sure the public and the employers that American labor stands first of all for the maintenance of wage contracts. This implied rejection of the possi- bility of future sympathetic strikes is in part due to the belief that Ameri- can employers are far better organ- chair. I. L. D. ig,one of the sponsors of the protest meeting next Sunday. Arctic Expedition Will Search for New Land in Northern Sea DETROIT, May 18, — The Detroit arctic expedition will press forward in an attempt to discover new land in the far north and plant the American flag on it, E, S. Evans, general man- ager of the expedition, announced to- day. “The main results of the Byrd and Amundson expeditions do not sesm to necessitate any change in the plans of the Detroit Arctic Expedition,” Evans said. The expedition, however, in its flight will not explore that part of the coun- try already covered by the Norge, Evans said, Nevada Lethal Chamber Gets Two New Victims ‘CARSON CITY, Nev., May 1 Nevada's lethal gas chambers in the state penitentiary here was being made ready today to enuff out the lives of two convicted murderous— Stanko Jukich, 28, sentenced for the killing of his 16 year old sweetheart, and John Randolph, 66, sentenced for the slaying of his mother, The double execution has been or- dered for Friday, May 21. The death izéd than is American labor, and that labor must, in consequence, be very inoffensive and placatory ‘in its ap- proach to all bosses. European labor, confident of its strength, proclaims its intention to nationalize industry and remove the capitalist system. American labor, aware of its weak- ness, denies any ambftion to become master of the tools with which it pro- duces the wealth of American indus- try. That is, official American labor denies ambition for mastery. Indt- vidual American workers, free of the cares of office, throw up their hats for the advantage the British strike has given them, 10,000 Watch Fire Destroy Garibaldi & Cuneo Warehouse No. 1 Ten thousand workers in Chicago's famous loop district jammed the streets when fire swept the Garibaldi & Cuneo Warehouse No, 1. No one was in the building when the flames were discovered, The building was used to store empty boxes and bas- kets, Firemen prevented spread of the flames to other buildings, Negro Couple Murdered in Fort Wayne, Indiana FORT WAYNE, Ind, May 18,— Their bodies horribly mutilated by blows of an axe, King Clark, 50, and his wife, both colored, were found chamber is a one-room building located in the prison yard. It was first used two years ago when an aged Chinese, the first murderer to die by lethal gas, in the United States, paid the penalty for his crime. Mexican Troop Train Wrecked, MEXICO CITY, May 18.—Fifteen soldiers were killed and thirty were seriously injured when a troop train overturned near Pachuca. The accident was due to a washout. ‘The train carried troops of the 75th regiment, proceeding under emér- ency orders to Ixmiguilpan, dead in bed in their home by their son-in-law. Gas Price Goes Up. The price of gasoline today was ad- vanced 1 cent a gallon by the Standard Oll Company of Indiana in the ten middie west and Mississippi valley states in which it operates, it was an- nounced here today. In Chicago the price was increased from 20 to 21 cents a gallon, Cylinder oils, napthas d refined oils also were included in the raise, THE DAILY WORKER Dinner Pail Epic By BILL LLOYD, Fed. Press. T see the foremen is a-getting from higherups a lot of petting to make the foremen handy tools to turn us work- ers into fools. “Key men” they say the foremen is, which means, I guess, that it’s their biz to be policemen, guards and jailers, stool pigeons, dicks, perhaps blackmailers, The straw boss gets a monthly treat, with all the pork chops he can eat, and when they've stuffed him to a fill, the company will pay the Dill, Between the soup and hunk of fish, a speaker serves an oily dish to make the foremen proud to feel they are the spokes within its wheel. And when the salad cums along, the President, he sings a song to make the foremen have a Kunch how they can train the working ‘bunch to swallow all the bosses’ fakes, which otta give ‘em belly -aches—insurance and this moochal faid, sum wage ineentive, never . Well, that’s the dope on a ‘taining to swell the flood of profit-galiiing, but if it taint a haynous sin, I mad where us guys cum in, INVESTIGATION OF*BABY FARM IS UNDER WAY Probe, Disappearance of Thirteen Babes (Special to The Dally Worker) PEORIA, Ill, May 18.—Authorities launched an investigation into the disposal of thirteen babies, for which no birth or death records can be found, but said to have been traced to the “baby farm” revealed here gour days ago with the arrest of Mrs. Alice M. Cramer, its alleged operator, Mrs, Cramer was arrested following the deaths within a few days of two babies “adopted” by her, Officers are seeking a connection be- tween ithe activities of Mrs. Cramer and thosé of Dr. H, H, Whitten and Dr. ‘Bessie Atherton, the latter a chiropradtor, both under indictment for illegal operations on three young girls fouhd in a “love nest” on the north site in Peoria. Dr, Atherton was indictef'a year ago on a murder charge ‘growing out of the death of a Chillecothe, Ill, woman following an operatiai: Mrs, Cramer is being held in jail here ing completion of an analysis of the sfomach of one of the babies who led recently. This baby's mother, Police learned, was an unwed Peoria “irl. ‘The other infant that died, police say, was born to a Peoria high sclfool girl, Good Talents Will Participate in Concert to Benefit Novy Mir Some of the best talents of the Rus- sian colony will participate in the con- cert given this Saturday night at the Workera’:House, 1902 W. Division St., for the benefit of the Russian Com- munist weekly Novy Mir. Among those who will participate, are the following singers: Mrs. Maller, dramatic,soprano; Mias R. Sokolovska- ya and Miss R. Rubin; Mr, Misha Kol- tunov and the Singing Society of the Workers’ House; Miss I. Dolberg at the piano. Among the actors there will be Esfir Lyes, A. Pokatilov, L, Kopelevich- aiganoy and others. The worker correspondents of the Novy Mir will also participate in the Program, After the concert there will be dancing. Beginning at 8 p.m. Ad- mission 35 cents. Cold Comfort in March Jobe. NEW YORK—(FP)—March brought only a negligible increase in factory employmént in New York state, ac- cording té the report of the state in- dustrial ¢ommissioner, He points out that the first quarter of 1926 ended without the heightened activity which has marked the spring of other years, Decreases are especially noted in the furniture; “plano and clothing indus- tries, The commissioner comments that lowéred earnings may be the forerunner of coming reductions in working férces, Automobile plants in the Syracuse district have begun to cut produétion, The Prison Ship YESTERDAY, with my old friend Fred Warren, I vistted the Prison Ship now anchored in the Chicago river. It has been on exhibition for several years now in practically every well known port of the world. It was one of five ships that Great Britain used for political and working class prisoners in Australian waters away back as early as 1794, Altho the ship is most intensely in- teresting with its*torture chambers, balls and chains and anchor rocks, its iron maidens and airless cells where men could netther stand up nor lie down, it was not that that interested me most, for we still have those things in Alcatraz federal prisom and others in “enlightened” America, There wore images of six men molded in wax that the guide out as the, #ix men who organised fret trike in England of our modyrn { ATTACK WORKERS AT UNION HALLS Assault Strikers as They Leave Meeting PASSAIC, N. J., May 17, — Crowds of orderly strikers, proceeding from their meeting halls to their homes were brutally attacked by police and more than a hundred strikers beaten. Many received serious injuries and were sent to hospitals, There was not even the exeuse of a@ picket line with which the police could whitewash their inexcusable brutalities. Old men, young children, @ woman about to become a mother, dozens of people were attacked indis- criminately and beaten to the ground by policemen’s ¢lubs. Need Medical Aid, Strikers who had been injured pour- ed into headquarters all evening to give their names and to ask for medi- eal aid, Union doctors were kept busy caring for other cases too painful to be brought to the office, The strikers were going from two meeting halls toward their homes when they were attacked. Some of them were on the way to the Forst- mann-Huffmann plant in Clifton where a test picket line was being success- fully carried on. They were stopped near the Botany mill and assaulted. Garfield Police Club Strikers. In Garfield, police beat several strik- ers and made a few arrests on similar pretexts. Jack Rubenstein received a severe beating, and was later arrested on charges of inciting to riot, and taken to jail. Brutal Scenes Enacted. “The terrible beatings which the police of Passaic gave to innocent strikers and passersby was one of the most brutal scenes that has yet been enacted here. This time. the police were even so bold as to rush right into the houses, dragging out people from their homes and beating them mercilessly. One woman, it is report- ed, who is about to give birth to a ehild, was beaten so very badly that involuntary cries of rage and protest burst forth from those who witnessed the attack, . Clamor for Retaliation Grows. “All over the strikers are clamor- ing for retaliation, and the union has had a hard time to restrain and calm the people. We can do nothing to pro- tect our workers. When we had a mass picket line many people believed the mill owners propaganda that mass picket lines stood for violence, There was no mass picket line today. Our people were merely going home from the meetings when they were assault- ed. Now the honest people of Passaic ean see that mass picket line or no mass picket line, the violence of the Police goes on unchecked and un- abated with the addition that the scabs, acting under instructions, grow bolder under police protection and participate in the attack against the workers, Protest Mill-Owners Terror! “The whole city of Passaic must unite in a cry of protest against these outrages of the police and the mill owners who have bought them. The people of Passaic must not allow the condition that there is no protection for the strikers but that they are to be clubbed and clubbed until they are clubbed back into the mills. If no protection is afforded the strikers and if these entirely unprovoked beatings continue, the union will find it harder and harder to restrain and calm those workers, who having been beaten in violation of the law and having no practical redress given them, against the instructions of this union, pursue their own methods of redress against their cossack oppressors.” Forest Fire in Minnesota, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 18, — Lashed onward with devastating fury by high winds, forest fires today swept over five counties in northern Minge- sota, destroyed hundreds of acres of timber, and stubbornly resisted the efforts of 2,000 volunteer fire fighters and forest rangers who attempted to stay the rapid advance of the flames, Another Ol! Fire, OAKLAND, Cal., May 18.—Bombard- ing the town of Rodeo, Contra Costa county, with huge chunks of tron from exploding oil drums, a fire of unde- termined origin swept the properties of the Banner Oil Company and did damage estimated today at $90,000, By J. E. Snyder industrial age away back over a cen- tury ago, What a contrast! Six then and now six million men have just: made all the wheels of great Britain stand still for ten days. It is dificult to express the grati- tude we owe these six men, It is hard to even realize the progress made since then, Altho the country that sent them to the dungeons of that hell From six to six million! The six carried away in a prison ship to a far foreign land, The six million oom- manding every ship in BWngland to was ship yesterday, with my friend, ON THE JOB NATIONAL BUILDERS’ CAMPAIGN They Let George Do It—And He Did! In some towns they “let George do it.” One or two or more loyal Builders carry the brunt of the work and it’s their ever watehful, never-ending perseverance that does the job. Now this is not the case in Seattle—tho there are not too many good Builders there either. But they are very modest—like George O’Hanrahan, for instance. He sends in a note saying: “Please find enclosed a check for $10.00 for 5 subs, List enclosed with cheek.” Just this and no more. Some people let their work speak for them, Fair enough! Are there any fellows in your city named George? Give them your subs—“let George do it.” Spine Rubbers Count! ‘ We're developing Double-Builders”! Just look: Robert Kahle of Outlook, Montana, is a Chiropractor (one of those fellows who rubs the kinks until they ain’t no more). He got a sub for a year so he got a book of RED CARTOONS. He liked this book so much he writes: “I received a book of RED OARTOONS today and want to thank you a million times for it. It certainly does help a fellow to reason. General conditions in this vicinity are not so hot right new. The slave has his belly full so naturally, he doesn’t think. But The DAILY WORKER is doing great work and many that come to my office read it.” He rubs their spine,... they read The DAILY WORKER and they themselves rub their eyes—and then he rubs a sub blank under their nose. going to try a red-rubbing Chiro! Boy, if we ever get a kink in our back we're G. 0, P, LEADERS SEEK AN EARLY ADJOURNMENT Want to Close Congress Sessions June 1-15 WASHINGTON, D, C., May 18. — Administration leaders are maneuver- ing to have both houses of congress adjourn between June 1 and June 15 so that the supporters of the adminis- tration policies will be able to carry on their electioneering compaigns. The lower house is still discussing but one of the three farm relief meas- ures presented, The administration forces declare that if the House does not end its discussion of these bills “within a reasonable period of time” attempts will be made to keep the farm relief legislation off the floor of the senate. A number of the administration supporters are trying to get Coolidge to agree to allow the ratification of the French debt to lay over until the next session as they declare that if the bill is presented it will be July 1 before the senate will be able to adjourn and a late adjournment would not help administration supporters in the primaries and elections. Pope’s Agent Leaves Mexico for Washington MEXICO CITY, May 18. — Rev. George J. Caruano, the agent pf the pe, who entered Mexico illegally and was ordered to leave Mexico within six days, has departed for Washing- ton, In Washington he will await fur- ther instructions from the pope, Letters from Our Readers A Few Good Suggestions! Dear Comrades:—I thought perhaps you would be interested in how I am distributing The DAILY WORKER. The moment I am thru with my own paper and back issues, I prepare them for distribution by folding once and rolling into a compact roll, Then I wrap a sheet of paper around it, plac- ing on the outside a “Sub” brick, By securing the whole with a small rub- ber band it makes a neat important appearing parcel. When I have no “sub” brick or other literature, I use two substitutes—both have proven successful, One is writ- ing phrases such as “good for work- ers, poison for boss,” “To do away with the taint of labor” “Important”— anything appropriate on the typed sheet to attract attention. The other plan is to put a blank sheet around the newspaper. After all preparation are made, I put The DAILY WORKDR parcel in my pocket and boarding a street car I place the package in a vacant seat and watch finder who next oc- cupies the as he enjoys himself. I also place them in the public library, seamen’s institute, etc. The paper is always read. T received my 100 copies of the May Day issue on Monday about noon and Tuesday morning I was newsboy long enough to scatter ninty copies on workers’ porches, The’ remaining ten copies I gave to friends, Assuring you of my desire to co- operate with you to build The DAILY ‘WORKER, I am~—J. W. W.,—Houston, Texas a did Ro LABOR DEFENSE BRANCH MEETINGS TO BE HELD IN CHIGAGO THIS WEEK Workers and sympathizers are invited to attend the following International Labor Defense branch meetings, of their language or In their neighborhood. Cicero International Branch, WEDNESDAY, May 19, 8 p, m. Cleero international branch at Liberty Hall, 14th & 49th Ct., Cicero. Yee Se Irving Park Br. English THURSDAY, May 20, at 8 p. m. Irving Park Branch (English), 4021 N. Drake Ave. 2-3. Lithuanian North Side, THURSDAY, May 20, at 8 p. m. Lithuanian Branch No. 3 (North Side) at Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Ave, *-e2 8 North Side English FRIDAY, May 21, at 8 p. m, North Side (English) Branch at Belden Hall, Belden & Lincoln Ave. Senate Approves Conference Report on Buildings’ Bil) WASHINGTON, Mey 18.—The sen- ate adopted the conference report on the new $165,000,000 public buildings bill. The measure was amended in conference to authorize the secretary of the treasury to allocate the $100,- 000,000 appropriation for new federal buildings to the various states “on the basis of area, population and postal receipts.” The secretary was further author ized to recommend the contract on of “at least two buildings in each state for tpostoffices with receipts of more than $10,000 for the last preceding year, for which postoffices no publis buildings have been provided.” Abd-el-Krim to Move His Headquarters to Set Riff in Internior TETUAN, wapoees, May 18.—Abé- el-Krim is said to be preparing @ move his headquarters to Set Riff tm the interior. Nobile Made Italian General. ROM, May 18.—Colonel Nobile, who navigated the Amundsen-Ells- worth dirigible Norge over the North Pole to safety in Alaska, will be made a general and given a gold medal im recognition of his achievement, Pre- mier Mussolini announced today, Liner Hits Iceberg, LONDONDERRY, Ulster, May 18.—~ (Ins)—-The Anchor-liner, California, struck an iceberg during a heavy fog but was not damaged, while enroute from New York and Boston to this port, according to passengers who + ag here from the California te- ay. Floods in Italy, ROME, May 18.—-Heavy damage is being done by floods along the Italian rivers, which are. overflowing due to continued heavy rain storms. Many bridges have been swept away and villagers have been forced to flee from their homes, A book of cartoons with every