The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1926, Page 2

% Page Two bint. GENEVA ARNS MEET BREAKS ON CONFLICTS Nations Dare Not Face Facts of Collapse (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, Switzerland, May 23.— Again the league of nations has de- monstrated its bankruptcy. The meet- Ing here of the preliminary arms con- ference has reached a deallock and the sponsors of the thing are afraid to move either way—either to give the thing up and confess inability to go thru with attempts at limitation of armament, or try to arrange a date for the regular conference and take ehances on something happening that will help them out of their dilemma before the next assembly of the league. ° Britain Faces Facts. After four days in conference the British representatives have reported t their foreign office at London that @my attempt to arrange an arms con- ference in the near future would be ® fiasco which would be prejudicial to the cause of disarmament for many years to come. Britain can neither accept the French proposals that armaments be determined by the ability of nations to place armies in the field and equip them; that the basis for the quota allowed a given nation be determined by it industrial power anad its ability to get ona war footing. Those countries that are backward indus- trially would be permitted a larger army than the better equipped coun- tries. Then also the proposal of a sys- tem of armament “zoning” by the agents of the United States is not ac- @eptable to either Britain or France. The contradictions between the wers dooms to failure any effort to say a conference in the near future. Blame Germany and Russia. The official reason given by the powers for the collapse of the prelim- fmary conference is the ancient hoax that the refusal of the Soviet Union to attend makes discussion among the other powers impossible. Added to this is a second excuse that Germany is not yet a member of the league, therefore, nothing can be done until she becomes a member. Such exc}ses are recognized as crude attempts to avoid admitting the truth about the violent differences ex- isting between the nations that can- Met openly be discussed without seri- ous diplomatic consequences. . MANY EUROPEAN WILL SAIL HERE FOR EUCHARIST LONDON, May 23.— All Europe is being flooded with publicity for the 28th Eucharistic Congress to be held in Chicago June 20 to 24 under the auspices of the Roman Catholic church. The newspapers in the Latin countries are filled with matter con- cerning the congress and the southern part of Ireland has been strung with Yeritable miles of billboards announc- ing the event. It is a subject of widespread conver- sation. In the hotels printed matter tells details of the congress. A great Many Europeans are preparing to go to Chicago for the ceremonies. They expect the coming Chicago congress to be a greater spectacle than the first Eucharistic gathering at Lille in 1881 or the big congress of London in 1908, Steamship companies report their early June sailing quotas filled. Ships are being chartered by Catholic groups. Despite the large number of groups preparing to come in a body the steamship companies anticipate even more individual passages. He will like it! Give your union brother a sub to The DAILY WORKER. 40 CENTS AN HOUR IN U.S. THE AVERAGE WAGE OF COMMON LABO The average hourly wage of common labor in the country’s leading in- dustries April 1 was 40.5 cents, accord tics. age of 40.2 cents an hour. Ing to the U. 8. bureau of labor statis- This is a slight increase over Jan. 1 when the bureau reported an aver- The highest average rate April 1 was 47 cents, In the auto industry. The lowest was 32.4 cents an hour, pald In sawmills, In iron and steel the April average was 42.2 cents an hour, ranging from a low of 20 cents to Mexican and Negro wor! in northern mills. kers in the south to a high of 50 cents SACCO AND VANZETTI POSTERS ON WALLS OF PARIS URGE PROTEST PARIS, May 23.—Paris walls are plastered with colored posters urg- ing workers to protest against the death sentence given Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti on the famous frame-up in Massachusetts. The world renowned railroading to the gallows of Albert Parsons and his companions in 1887, Is the com- parison used to bring to French workers the gravity of the danger confronting Sacco and Vanzetti, LLL. 6, W. SEEKS TO ORGANIZE NEGRO WORKERS Union Will Co-operate With A.N.L. C. The Chicago joint board of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers in a letter of reply to an invitation of the American Negro Labor Congress to have a speaker of the union at the mass meeting, called by the American Negro Labor Congress, accepts the in- vitation to participate in the mass meeting and will send its best organ- izer, I. L. Davidson, to speak to the unorganized Negro garment workers. The American Negro Labor Con- gress has arranged a mass meeting to be held tonight right after work, at 30 North Wells street, at which Lovett Fort-Whiteman, national organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, will speak on “Higher Wages—Better Conditions” to the unorganized Negro ladies’ garment workers, The joint board in its letter de- clares that it is more than willing to co-operate with the American Negro Labor Congress in organizing the un- organized Negro workers in the gar- ment industry and states that the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is a union which takes in all workers regardless or race, color, sex or creed, Frisco Carpenters Strike. SAN FRANCISCO.—(FP)—The car- Denters’ strike in the Bay District is becoming a miniature war. Three men were wounded, one probably fatally, in the latest clash. The business agent of the carpenters union brought into police headquarters a_ strike- breaker and had him jailed for theft of an auto. The strikers claim that most of the imported scabs are gun- men and ex-convicts. Bankers’ Apprentice. NEW YORK, May 24—Gilbert W. Kahn, son of Otto H. Kahn, president of Kuhn Loeb & Company, sailed for Europe today to spend 18 months working in the banking houses of the various capitals to fit himself upon his return for a position in his fath- er’s establishment. OPEN SHOP IN FRANCE LOCKS OUT 25,000 IN FIGHT AGAINST UNION PARIS, May 23, — Twenty-five thousand automobile workers of the Renault factory at Billancourt in the Paris suburbs locked out by the firm, which is fighting the ef- forts of the trade unions to organ- ize the plant. ISEN. McKINLEY BLOCKS PASSAIC TEXTILE PROBE WASHINGTON, May 23.—Absence from Washington of Sen, Willlam B. McKinley of IIlinols, chairman of the senate committee on manufactures, Is the present obstacle to securing a meeting and a vote on the LaFollette resolution for Inquiry into the Passaic textile strike. McKinley may return about May 24, Frank P. Walsh, counsel for the strikers, asks that the resolution be favorably reported to the senate be- cause two federal laws are being vio- lated by the mill owners, and hence congress has jurisdiction. The laws in question are the tariff act and the Borah-Hughes act forbidding unfair competition. Walsh said the textile manufacturers had fooled congress in- to believing they needed a tariff of 78 per cent in order to pay a living wage when they made profits of 93 per cent on watered stock and did not grant a living wage. Appearing before Senators Borah, LaFollette, and Wheeler, Anton Luter- an, a strike sympathizer, testified that he was blacklisted for 14 years be- cause he picketed a mill during a strike in 1909. Rev. John Wroblewski said the people of Passaic feel that their efty officials are in the pay of the mill owners. Rev. Michael Sotak said that the reason why most of the children in the Rahway reform school are from Passaic, is that the little ones are left alone at home for hours at a time ‘because both father and mother must work in the mills to feed and clothe even four children. The working hours of the two parents often overlap, requiring that the chil- dren be left unwatched. U. S. Government Aids Mussolini in Murderous Attack (Continued from page 1) some of them have been deported to death—for deportation to fascist Italy of those who even mildly criticize the regime of terror means sudden and violent death. To send a political exile to Italy is like sending a man to the gallows, the stake or the electric chair without a trial. And in this contemptible busi- ness the United States government is playing the role of bloodhound for Mussolini in order to enable that mon- ster to carry out the threat he made a few months ago to the effect that fascism was going to silence every vestige of opposition on foreign soil. The story of the operations on Unit- ed States soil of Italian spies and hired murderers is one of the most Sensational exposures in the history of the country. So cleverly have these creatures op- erated and so carefully concealed has been the role of the Coolidge-Mellon administration in this affair that only now, after many victims have already been sacrificed, are the facts coming to light. Future articles will deal with names of agents of Mussolini now operating in this country, their ac- tivitles against anti-fascist elements and the role of the United States government in this murderous busi- ness. Mussolini Takes to the Water ROME, May 23.—Premier Mussolini left by sea today for Genoa, where he will open a marine conference. aaa eee eee rere ss The present situa- tion in China threat- ens to shake the world. Chinese la- bor is playing a new part—and American labor is definitely af- fected. Giimpi is of the Soviet epublic British Labor B Power How the first workers’ re. public author from there, Stopping a War looks today. The <A graphic story of has just returned An account of the remark- able achievements of the Communist Party of France Giving facts about ject being discussed whole world of labor, Russia Turns East What Russia is doing in A record of a new diplomacy, Asia. Send 50¢ for all ext steps of the great la- bor movement of Mngland. World Labor Unity 10 Cents Each This new book is @ thorough and impor- tant study of . the situation. A beauti- ful edition of 270 pages, many maps, illustrations and original documents, $1.00 postpaid. ids for STATE AND REVOLUTION By LENIN the lat- @ sub- i bythe <A classic of Communist literature in @ new, at- tractive, duroflex bound edition, 25 cents. ¢ ? : ‘ ; 4 : : ? : ‘ ¢ ¢ ty ‘ r ; r ; ‘ ? ‘ P) : ‘ ? ¢ ¢ ¢ r ’ : ‘ ‘ : ’ ¢ r) ‘ ‘ Q : é ‘ ¢ ; ‘ ¢ five. ; ¢ é 4 THE DAILY WORKER alWALL STREET SEEKS CONTROL OF FRENCH CASH] Behind Bankers Plan Control of European Finances (By LAURENCE TODD, Fed. Press.) WASHINGTON, May 23, — Secret conferences in London between Gov- ernor Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Montagu Nor- man, head of the Bank of England, with M. Parmentier, financial repre- sentative of the French government, indicate the development of the most gigantic scheme of ea Hs A imperialism in the history of the world, Serve France “Uitimatum.” Cable dispatches from London, des- cribing the negotiations between these three men, have reported that Strong and Norman agreed in sefying on Par- mentier an “ultimatam” as to the terms which France must meet be- fore she can stabilize her currency and get loans from the erican and British bankers. Experts in Washing- ton who know the attitude of the Fed- eral Reserve Board members and are familiar with Secretary Mellon’s hopes for future American contro] of European finance, declare that the maneuver is as dangerous to the American workers as was the defla- tion operation of the board, in 1920, to the American farmers. In substance, the scheme now un- der discussion in London appears to be one by which the French govern- ment would hand over to the Ameri can enterprise, the control of French finance. The gold standard would be, re-established, thereby putting an end to inflation. France’s internal debt would be largely wiped out, by issu- ing new bonds in payment for the ex- isting depreciated ones, on a basis of current market value. The effect of stabilization in Germany, Britain and other countries which«was to cause widespread unemployment, and a re- duction in the standard of living, would be expected to follow in France. The buying power of the French peo- ple would be seriously crippled for a time, particularly since the holders of her huge internal debt. would be im- poverished, and the American export market in France would suffer. Wall St. and London Scheme, Then American loans/would flow to France, to be administered under reg- ulations dictated front America and London. American money would be invested in France, \% American power, as expressed i! "American pol- icy, would be invoked to maintain ex- isting French sovereignty as a means of safeguarding these investments. Moreover, the war debts, for which the settlement pact has been signed and is soon to be ratified in Paris, would be used as an excuse for re- garding the territorial integrity of the French republic and its colonial em- pire as a matter of concern to Amer- ica. aus, It is reported that 8. Parker Gil- bert, American financial expert in charge of operation of the Dawes’ plan payments by Germany, took part in the London negotiations, In Washing- ton this fact is interpreted as mean- ing that he was called in to explain to the French spokesman the way in which a Dawes scheme could be ap- plied to France without destroying her national dignity. Seek Control of Europe. Back of France, in the bankers’ plan for re-establishing the gold standard in Europe, are the satellites of France, Poland, Roumania, Czecho-Slovakia, Yugo-Slavia and the small Baltic states. If American and British banks can take charge of French finances, and thereby indirectly gain control of French policy, why cannot they do the same with the rest of the continent? Consolidation of the financial prob- lem of all of Europe wést of the Sov- iet Union is mentioned’ as being the actual task involved, as the various currencies continue to fall, The Amer- ican people have declared against the Jeague of nations, but the American bankers move forward, backed by the treasury, to bolster up the conse- quences of the treaty ofVersailles. When the bankers’, scheme shall reach a stage where if, requires offi- cial sanction, a political attack upon it will be made by the progressive republican and democratic element in the senate, But by that,time congress will have adjourned for the summer, and the Coolidge cabinet will remain in control in Washingt ‘on, FOREIGN EXCHANGE. NEW YORK, May 23.— Great Bri- tain pound sterling, démand, 4.85 7-8; cable, 4.86 3-8; France, franc demand, 8.29%; demand, 3.30; Belgium franc, demand 3.2914; cable, 3,80; Italy, lira, demand 3.84%; cable, 3.86; Sweden, krone, demand 26,78; cable, 26.76; Norway, krone, demand 21.74; cable, 21.76; Denmark, krone demand 26,21; cable, 26.23; Shanghai, taels, demand 72.00. Brickmakers Walkout. HAVERSTRAW, N. Y.—(FP)— White and Negro brickmakers are striking at Haverstraw, important clay building materials center, for pay in- creases of $1 to $1.50 per day. Five state troopers were rushed to the yards under a sergeant to act as spe- ejal guards for the mauufacturers, ALAMOSA, Colo.—(FP)—The Colo- rado State Federation of Labor con- venes in Alamosa Jung 2, (SE Ss aS Se SESS = Aba Se sac Rea, SEE Ec eae ae eee ff I A is ERT 8 Ra ee ena et oe eel es cd IIB it AA AS Ee TEP A Se A St At I nA Ae Pee These Women of Labor Must Not Be Placed Prison’s Bars By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. "THERE is a grand jury sitting at Joliet, Illinois, investigat- ing the charge that thousands of pardons and paroles have been granted criminals in The figures are eloquent. tics for the year 1923: this state within recent years. - Here are some of the statis- crimes against children released, four, sentenced, three; rape, released, 24, sentenced 17; big- amy, released, six, sentenced, three; burglary, released, 88 sentenced, 59; larceny, released, 69, sentenced, 69; robbery, released, 108, and sentenced, 105, board freed more than were sentenced. In every case the parole In the case of mur- der and manslaughter, 59 persons were sent to Joliet, and a lesser number, 47 were released, e This condition cannot help but make a laughing stock of “Injunction Judge” Denis E. Sullivan, the employers’ lackey in the superior court, who just refused to exercise the slightest leniency in the case of 40 women, most of them mothers, who were unjustly declared guilty of contempt of this hireling’s court because they dared picket their jobs dur- ing the strike of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union two years ago. tion: Here is his honor's judicial declara- “You want me to take the sword out of the hands of the Goddess of Justice and give her a powder puff, You are making it appear It is the duty of the courts to help keep people out of jail.” To be sure it is not the duty of the courts to put all so- called criminals behind bars. Under capitalism they operate to keep the biggest offenders, the worst criminals out of jail. One of State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe's assistants, Mc- Swiggen, was assassinated while out automobiling with a millionaire bootlegger. He was very evidently shot down because he had secured the liberation of this bootlegger on a charge of murdering another of his kind. This is only one sample among the many that crime. It does not even touch turn up in the daily grind of the great crimes of a capital- ist ruling class against a subject working class. . * » ° The thousands of pardons and paroles granted are not for innocent victims of capitalist law. They are granted to the criminal class with ‘‘a pull,’ to the criminal who returns to his precinct, ward or legislative district, to help re-elect his benefactor to political office. This kind of criminal is a of the political machinery of the capitalist parties. He is an inseparable part of the capitalist social order, much as the despicable Judge just as “Dennie” Sullivan. . The crime of the 40 women of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is that they challenged that social order of the employers when they went on strike for in- creased wages, the shorter workday and improved conditions, Judge Sullivan worries for the police, not for the thousands of men, women and children whose very lives are dependent upon the dress making industry. Listen to him weep: when he says in defense of his actions: the following: ‘ “Why, some of these women were Amazons, fighters! One threw a policeman down a ten-foot areaway, crippling him for life, Do you want people like that turned out without punishment?” The chances are that the policeman, on anti-strike duty, was under the heavy influence of poisonous moonshine fur- nished the strikebreaking contingent of police by the struck employers. still lives, . - Under the circumstances he is lucky that he The dressmaking industry produces human wrecks as well as clothes. It was pointed out to Judge Sullivan that two of the women he sentenced to jail are now in sanitariums suffering rom tuberculosis, an industrial disease which they no doubt became afflicted with on the job. : If these women are permitted to go to jail, even at the ganized trade union movement of Chicago and _ Illinois. order of Judge Sullivan, it will be another blot upon the or- Every worker in the state, organizer and unorganized, must unite in a protest that will result in their not spending one single hour behind prison bars. PROBE OF SLUSH Arrest Wealthy Hotel Owners Daughters Here FUNDS WILL BE jo immorality Charges UNDER WAY SOON May Investigate Anti- Saloon League (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 23.—The spot- light of “pitiless publicity” will be turned full upon senatorial campaigns in eighteen eastern, western and northern states once the senate slush fund committee undertakes its sweep- ing investigation of campaign ex- Penditures, it was learned today. The committee will delve almost ex- clusively into campaigns where repub- lican senators are up for re-election, This will happen chiefly because the handful of democratic senators, whose terms expire next March 4, are from states in the solid south and have lit- tle or no opposition, Probe Anti-Saloon League. The inquiry incidentally will ‘develop another wet and dry war as Senator James A. Reed, democrat of Missouri, author of the resolution creating ‘the committee, is determined upon in- vestigating the Anti-Saloon League's contributions to political campaign funds. This will be the first opportun- ity the wets ever have had to pry into the financial operations of the great dry organization. Eventually, the names of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Elbert H. Gary, who are known as the league's “angel,” will be drawn Into the inquiry, “The pen is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use It. Come down and learn how in the worker correspondent’s opreete xt Two girls, reputed daughters of J. J, Budd, wealthy owner of hotels in Palm Beach, Toronto, New York and Buffalo, were arrested in an apartment here with two young men who sald they were chorus men from “Artists and Models,” and are being held on charges of immorality. The young women gave their names as Marjorie Budd and Mrs. Thelma Wallace. They were arrested, accord- ing to police, after their mother, Mrs, Budd, came to Chicago to investigate the reason reports of their work in school had stopped, Mrs. Budd was said to be accompanied by Jack Wal- lace, husband of Thelma, 19, but es- tranged from her for several months, N.Y. COUNCIL SUPPORTS FUR UNION DEMAND Refer Action on Sacco and Vanzetti (Special te The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, May 28—The Central Trades and Labor Council has elected a committee of three to visit Mayor James J. Walker and Chief Magistrate McAdoo, to lodge protests against the way Magistrate Harry A. Gordon and other municipal court judges have treated the cases of etrik- ing furriers brot before them for trial. After hearing a plea by Leibowits of the joint board of the Furriers’ Unton, it also called upon all the members of the New York labor movement to at- tend Saturday's 40-hour week mass meeting at Madison Square Garden, ar- ranged by the general strike commit- tee of the’ Furriers’ Union, and com- missioned State President John Sulli- van and Secretary John P. Coughlin A motion by Steiglitz, of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, to endorse the move for a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti, was re- ferred by a substitute motion of John Mulholland, to the executive board, which ia to review the case and take action accordingly. Coughlin pointed out that four years ago the Central Trades and Labor Council took favorable action on the question and contributed to the de- fense fund. Lefkowitz Attacks Smith. Abraham Lefkowitz, of the Teachers’ Union, in reporting on the vote of the Ricca bill to increase the salary of school teachers by Governor Smith, declared that the only opposition to the bill came from the real estate group and Mayor Walker of New York City. He poined out that the New York City budget was padded to make it appear that it could not afford the raise in pay. “No consideration was taken of the facts that there is a growth in the city. Since 1900,” con- tinued Lefkowitz, “the teachers have received only one general increase, in 1920. Since then they have received no increase. We have been promised an investigation which does not mean anything. They have told us that we have a friendly board of education but we will not obtain anything unless we- go out and fight for it. “With all respect to the governor, he has not given us a square deal. For the teachers I want to state: We are going to fight! There will be a reaction this coming fall.” Wanted Labor Day Parade. Delegate Thomas Johnson opposed the usual Labor Day celebration at Fort Hamilton with a proposition to have a parade on Labor Day. Refer- ring to the Tammany Hall politicians, Johnson said: “We've got to stcp these fellows kidding us. During the last campaign I NWeard them all speak, Walker, McKee and Berry. We have to tell them that we want the prevail- ing rate of wages. We must come out and show them where they get off at.” Coughlin spoke against a parade, gtating that no one would show up. In his opinion, most of the trade union- ists would prefer to go bathing or to the races. State President John Sullivan said: “Labor is dead in this state. The pol- iticians don’t take us seriously. We are too satisfied. We want more!” Lefkowitz opposed the Fort Hamilton celebration, poigting out that et last year’s celebration there was “a glort- fication of the United States Army” and this year he would not be pres- ent. The Labor Day committee announc- ed that it would report further on progress at a future meeting. Alien Persecution * in New Orleans, La. NEW ORLEANS. — (FP) — Special agents of the department of justice in the past two weeks arrested 50 so- including 8, Mexicans, Spaniards and Chi- to be deported, called undesirable aliens, Itali speak at the meeting. Refer Sacco-Vanzetti Motion. HELP TO DISTRIBUTE ONE MILLIO ON THE N LEAFLETS CASE OF Sacco-Vanzetti $1.25 A THOUSAND 10,000 FOR $10 Send Your Order to INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 23 S. Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill, =]