The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1926, Page 2

Ps Page Two JARDINE TRIES TO COVER UP ~ FARM FAILURE Farmers Can Expect) Nothing from Coolidge (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, May 25. — Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, in an address before the national association of credit men, endeavored to apologize for the total failure of the Mellon- Coolidge administration to pass any legislation that would ald the farmers of the United States who are in one of. the greatest agricultural crises known in the history of the country. “More than anything else,” said Jardine, “the farmer needs at this time to find a solution of his market- ing problems to put agriculture on its feet.” Proposes No Resohution. Though Jardine said he was hopeful | of the passage of something similar to the Tinclier bill that was withdrawn last week just before the house defeat- ed the Haugen “price stabiXization” bill, he had no concrete solution for the farmers’ ills. He refrained from reference to the demand of the mort- gaged farmers that the administration grant them the same consideration on their farm mortgages that was 80 graciously extended to Mussolini in the Italian debt cancellation. CONFER HERE TO UNITE FOR SACCO- VANZETTI ACTION Protest Mass Meeting on Friday The Chicago local of the Interna- tional Labor Defense has just issued a call to all labor and sympathizing organizations in this city for delegates to a special Sacco-Vanzetti conference. This conference, held solely to discuss way and means of helping the frame up victims Sacco and Vanzetti and to decide upon lines of action (such as eampaign of resolutions, petitions, mass meetings and leaflets) will take place on June ith, 8:15 p. m. at Redifer’s Hall, No. 304, 30 North Wells Street. For Unity. The call appeals to all organizations that want to help Sacco and Vanzetti to put all partisanship and difference of opinion aside and unite all energies im the task. Bring Before Unions. Members of organizations who read the notices of this conference in the labor press, are urged to bring the matter before their meetings and have them notify the secretary of the Chi- cago International Labor Defense (23 S. Lincoln St.) of the names and ad- dresses of delegates elected. Protest Mass Meeting. On May 28th at Temple Hall, Chi- cago, a great Sacco-Vanzetti protest mass meeting will be held with Prof. R. M. Lovett, Jas. P. Cannon, Ralph Chaplin, Wm. Z. Foster, L. Candela (in Italian) and other speakers. Ad- mission is free, everybody invited. Pullman Meeting. ‘South Chicago and Pullman workers will rally in a protest meeting for Sac- co and Vanzetti on Monday night, May Commercial Ave. There will be good 31, 7:30 p. m. at Templin Hall, 8801 speakers in English, Italian and other languages. Also musical numbers. The Committee asks all workers of that section to come—and raise their voices to demand the freedom of the two frame-up victims. Receives Medal For Measuring P Far Star Clouds Dr, Harlow Shapléy, H. sity astronomer, who h the Henry Dra inal Academy of Sciences for In measuring the distant Md een memencon ct eS SIMA Y 1 SOUTH SLAVIG LABOR DEFENSE BRANCH HAS CONCERT ON SATURDAY The South Slavic branch of the International Labor Defense, Chi- cago, is arranging.a Concert. The famous traveling Croatian Tambu- rica Orchestra will be the main at- traction. The orchestra will play and sing famous opera pieces. The concert will be held Saturday, May 29, In the National Croatian Hall, 18th street and Racine Ave, Ad- mission 50c. Beginning 7 p. m. James P, Cannon, secretary of the International Labor Defense, will speak at the concert. ‘BAPTIST CLERGY FACES BIG FIGHT OVER MODERNISM Pious Gents Lambast Each Other (Special to The Daily Worker) fight over evolution, modernism and funiiamentalism was brewing today as the Northern Baptist convention met for a six-day session. A clash also centered about the Standard Oil and Rockefeller millions. | Fundamentalist delegates charged |that naodernists have gained the as- cendemcy in church control because of the influence and money of the Rockefeller family. Church Faces Split. Some delegates predicted that a split in the church would result if the convention passed @ proposed resolu- j} tion by which a person may become affiliated without baptism. The trouble over this issue rose when the delegates of the Park Avenue Baptist church, New York, were seated at the last convention. Harry Emerson Fos- dick agreed to take the pastorate of this church if the practice of ducking comverts under water were dispensed with. Fundamentalists declared that John D, Rockefeller, Jr., insisted upon this stipulation. Assail Rockefeller, In a preliminary session, Rev. Frank M. Goodchild, of New York, de- clared that “the money of John D. Rockeféller, Jr., is the principal force behind the modernist movement.” He saidl the Park Avenue delegates were admitted “because otherwise the church would lose a few millions of. dollars. Modernists,” he added, “dre sycophants of wealth.” A Pious “Argument.” Rev. J. Frank Norris, Fort Worth, Texas, assailed modernists as “spine- less cowards. If you will take out the money of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., you will find your problems solved,” he said. Connecticut Holds First Conference for the Foreign-Born (Continued from page 1) as Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, Bridgeport, New Britain, Ansonia and others, Many Fraternal Orders, In addition to the number of trade uniors represented at the confernece the conference was also attended by the delegates from a large number of fraternal organizations of Italian, Polish, Ukrainian and workers of other nationalities. The Ansonia city conference laid the foundation for financing he organization by collect- ing approximately $50. The state conference adopted a plan to build up thruout the state large city organizations and a state organ- izer was appointed for this purpose. The state conference went on record in favor of establishing a permanent or- ganization and also adopted a reso- lution in favor of a united front of all labor organizations on this issue, The state conference also established the basis for an organizational, legal and naturalization department, The following executive committee was elected: Executive Committee, President, J. Pede, Cigar Makers’ Union, Secretary, L. Alfano, business Barbers’ Union, Organizer, R. Kling, Conference. Vice-President, business agent of New Haven Laborers’ Union, Recording Secretary, L. Leone, rec: retary of Meridan Barbers’ Union, Treasurer, §. Bronin, Painters’ Local of New Haven, The other members of the executive committe are as follows: M, Mrasco and J. Feldman of Bridgeport, 8. Cra nitsky of Waterbury, Gilbert of Nor- wich, Sockel of Stamford, C. Yoang- quint of Hartford, J. D, Angelo of Shelton, J, Pol of New Haven Typo- graphical Union, Conference Success, The Connecticut conference proved that the state form of organization is very effective in rallying a la! num- ber of organizations and establishing new units in almost every city in the state, agent, New Haven That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER, | WASHINGTON, May 25—A sharp‘ TELLS COURT OF CARROLL PARTY Bathed in Tub of Wine on Theater Stage NEW YORK CITY, May 25.—Joyce Hawley, 17-year old “wine bath” girl, testified how she stepped undressed into a bathtub of red wine at a Wash- ington’s birthday party staged by Earl Carroll at his Broadway theater. The “bathtub fans,” who succeeded in crowding into the federal court- room, cupped their hands behind their ears. A silence as tight as the cork in one of Carroll’s champagne bottles prevailed as Joyce Hawley began her testimony. Speaking in a low voice, Joyce Haw- ley testified she was a chorus girl, 17, born in Chicago and that real name was Teresa Dougles. “What happened when you went to the party?” she was asked. Bathtub Filled with Wine, She dropped her voice and murmur- ed something about a “bathing suit.” “Did you sée a bathtub on the stage?” “Yes.” “What was in it?” “Red wine.” “Did you have anything to drink?” “Yes.” “From the bathtub?” “Several.” “Anymore?” Carroll Serves Wine. “Some from the table—Earl Carroll gave me some.” “What effect did these drinks have on you?” “They got me drunk. I was told not to mix my drinks.” Miss Hawley was asked to tell about the bath she took in the tub wheeled out on the stage of the Earl Carroll theater. | Her voice dropped even lower as she said: “I wore a chemise and a pair of shoes. Mr. Carroll held a cloak for me when I came out of the wings, I dropped, off what I had on.” “You stepped into the tub?” 0S. fed “Did Carroll say anything?” “Baby All Right.” “He said ‘Baby all right.’” “What happened after you got in the tub?” Carroll lifted up his glass and said, ‘let’s drink to this beautiful creature.’ Then he invited a lot of men up on the stage.” “What happened next?” “I started to ery and Carroll told me to ‘keep my head up.’” Failed to Pay $1,000. The witness said Carroll had prom- ised her $1,000 for the bathtub episode but had not paid her anything. She said she planned to sue Carroll for the money. o Sie Cancel Dance Engagement. PITTSFIELD, Mass., May 25. — | Joyce Hawley, who bathed in a bath- tub of wine at Earl Carroll's party, was scheduled to dance for the bene- fit of members of the Pittsfield Boat Club June 2. A furore of criticism discended on the heads of the club officials after they had announced the coming en- gagement of Joyce, These officials straightway got together in executive session, and decided to cancel said engagement, General Wood’s Prize Bullies Kill Unarmed Filipino Students MANILA, May 25.—The resentment of the Filipinos to those of their race who enlist in the service of United States imperialism, yesterday brought about a clash in which four were. kill- ed and seventeen wounded at San Fernando, forty miles north of Manila. The constabulary, an armed force of mercenaries recruited by General Wood to keep the islands “pacified,” tried to force their attentions upon unwilling Filipino girls at a dance of native students, The students ob- jected to associating with hirelings of the imperialist oppressor and asked the municipal police to prevent the entrance of unwanted native traitors. Angered at this rebuff, the armed constabulary opened fire on the dancers and city police alike, killing two police and two students and wounding nearly a score of the stu- dents, among them some of the girls, Grand Rapids Holds Picnic on Sunday GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 25— Preparations are nearly completed for the picnic to be held under the aus- pices of the Workers (Communist) Party, Local Grand Rapids, all day Sunday, May 30, at the beautiful Richmond Park of this city, A very suitable program has been arranged for this event, including games and sports of all kinds for young and old, some musical numbers and short speeches by members of the local Communist Press Builders’ Club, who will announce the latest developments in reaching the 7,000 points allotted to this city in connec. tion with the annual drive for The DAILY WORKER. An attractive line of food ang drinks will be serv nm the grounds, and no admission will by ‘WINE-BATH’ GIRL | {Locomorive ENeINEERS THE DAILY WORKER UNION AIDS HITE AFTER RAILROAD DENIES PENSION DANVILLE, Ill, May 25.—RoBert E. Hite, locomotive engineer on the Eastern division of the Wabash rail- road, has been placed on the pen- sion list of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers, It was announced. Hite has been unable to work for a year, and altho he had been an en- gineer for forty years, was ineligible to a Wabash rallroad pension be- cause he went out In “Deb’s strike strike” In 1894, WEB PRESSMAN KILLED AT THE HERALD-EXAMINER Speed-Up Blamed for Worker’s Death A. B. Hutchinson, one of the press- men at the Chicago Herald and Exam- iner-Evening American plant, was killed on the Goss press Saturday night. This Hearstowned sheet in an attempt to cover up the details of the death of this pressman is attempt- ing to make it appear that as Hutch- inson was threading a sheet thru the moving press, the press caught him, mangling his arm and that Hutchin- son died of heart failure, Gears Crush Ribs. A number of the workers who were in the room at the time declare that as Hutchinson was working on the second loft he fell into the press and that the gears crushed im his ribs and that he died soon after of his injuries. The death of Hutchinson is due to the speeding-up of the workers in this plant. A number of| years ago the Hearst sheets had a foreman in the pressroom that would stand near the press and continually jump up and down beside the workers, shouting “shake a leg, shake 4 leg,’ The com- pany was forced to /get.rid of this foreman. 24 Speed-up To Blame. Tho|the foreman went the speeding- up of the workers stil continued. The Hearst papers, in their mad rush to 3.85%. Sweden, krone, demand, 26.73 make the stands ortime after hold- ing the final newspafer ferms to a late hour, forced the > work fast in order to | onto the press and, the press was would be made. i f 4 Workers were force to thread in paper and do other ork on the presses while they y turning out papers at a terrific rv of speed, thus endangering thé livés., the workers. To Be Buried in In ianapolis. Hutchinson’s son, wh, is on the In- dianapolis fire dep: mt, has ar- rived in Chicago and nds to take the body of his fathe} back to In- dianapolis with him. Hutchinson, who was familiarly known as “Hutch,’ is ¥ell-known to Chicago pressmen. He] was a mem- ber of Chicago Web smen’s Union No. 7. Bosses Try to Force Plasterers to Work Without Settlement The union plasterers of Chicago, who have been on strike for about three weeks to demand a contract wage of $14, are bluntly asked to go back to work first and talk to the bosses later about wages. Such is the meaning of the proposal submit- ted to the plasterers’ negotiators of Local 5 by those of the Employing Plasterers’ association. The audacity of such a proposal is said to be rather raw in view of the fact that the jobs are either tied up by the strike or have been signed up according to the union demands, In addition, many employers are being threatened with lawsuits by building owners if the work is not completed according to contracts. The, move of the\ employers is looked upon as a ju, but will be considered by the union at its meet- ing Wednesday night. Come to the Sacco-Vanzetti meeting Friday night, at Temple Hall, Van Buren and hfield, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, Great Britain, pound sterling, demand 4.85%; cables, 4.86%. France, franc, demand, 3.31%; cables,'3.22. Belgium, franc, demand, 3.31 cables, 3,82, Italy, lira, demand, 3.81%; cables, cables, 26.76. Norwa; cables, 21.64, Denmark, krone, de- mand, 26.22; cables, 26.24. Shanghai, taels, demand, 72.00. INVESTIGATE PAYMENT OF WHITE HOUSE SERVANTS OUT OF ALIEN FUNDS ‘ krone, 21.62; WASHINGTON, May 25.— A reso- lution initiating an investigation of charges that White House employes have been carried on the payroll of the allen property cuétod, offic in rent violation of law, was id by the senate without a dis. jenting vote. Senator Norris, re« publican of Nebraska, sponsored the Assail Constitutionality WASHINGTON, May “Jegal battle of the century” over Tennessee’s anti-evolution «law, -will be resumed next Monday before Ten- nessee’s state supreme court in a sec- ond test of the law’s constitutionality, it was announced here today by Dr. John R. Neal, Thomas Scopes, teacher. that the conviction of Scopes for teaching his Dayton, school classes that man is a mam- mal, was a denial of the constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion. and liberty of thot. will be represented at the hearing on his appeal by the same brilliant array of counsel, including Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays, who de- fended him at Dayton last summer, peal to Tennessee's high court to have the law declared unconstitu- tional, they will take an immediate appeal to the United States supreme court. paid his nominal fine, will continue his studies at the University of Chi- cago, regardless of the outcome in his case, Mexican Troops After troops are in the field in the state of Durango pursuing bandits who have kidnapped two American mining engi- neers who were engaged by an impe- rialist enterprise from which ransom of Texas and a man named Gallagher. It is expected that the United States ambassador will again make d iplo- matic protest in sp! made to capture the lease the prisoners. Labor Must Develop Its Own Sports and Fight Sports for Mere Profit By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. HIS is the time of the year when the major attention of | the nation is turned towards outdoor sports. The box offices of professional sporting activities, especially baseball, witness a ceaseless flood of profits into the pockets of pro- moters, who have no other interest than to exploit the mass demand for this form of recreation. Fight promoters, for instance, are thus able to make a million dollar offer to Jack Dempsey to battle Harry Wills, well knowing that they will get huge returns for themselves, . * American labor has been slow to develop its own sports. Wherever so-called “labor temples” are erected by workers’ organizations, and some of them are rather pretentious, no provision is made for gymnasiums. This is left to the Young Men's and Young Women’s Christian Associations, or to rofessional athletic clubs.. The former have an entirely anti- labor outlook while the latter are usually in the control of | old party politicians. Some labor unions have developed baseball and soccer teams. But these are so few as to be almost unnoticeable. The few who make the team, which often includes outside professionals, are considered something apart from thie or- soe itself. No effort is made to draw large numbers nto these sport activities, * Foreign-born workers, like the Germans, Hungarians, Scandinavians, Poies, Finns, and of other nationalities, have brought workers’ athletics and gymnastics to this country. But they have remained isolated in their own colonies to a very large extent. They have not been able to unite their forces in promoting a nation-wide sports movement among American workers generally. It is inevitable that such a movement should develop; especially as a result of the growth of the class conscious- ness of America’s workers. Labor will gradually rebel at the profit incentive in professional sports. That will be the beginning of a real workers’ sports’ movement.in the United States. It is pointed out that the younger generation in the Union of Soviet Republics is taking to sports of all kinds to an extent not dreamed of Under the czardom, when the szar- ist police viewed all popular public gatherings with suspicion and alarm. Soviet newspapers are giving increasing atten- tion to all branches of athletics. Very successful winter sea- sons of hockey, football, skating and skiing have just closed. When the Moscow football team returned from France, where it twice blanked the French champions, it was received with great acclaim. Soviet ski-runners won another international victory over the best ski experts of Scandinavia and Fin- land, at the international contests recently held in the latter country. There are now athletic organizations by the thousands in the Soviet Union, not only in the schools and colleges, but among the organizations of the workers as well. The Soviet authorities encourage the development of this movement. A supreme council of physical culture has been formed under government auspices. The spring has seen plans mature to enter Soviet teams in athletic contests in Czecho-Slovakia, Latvia and other countries. ” America’s workers may well draw inspiration from Sov- iet labor in developing its own sports movement. SECOND TESTS OF/"EQUAL RIGHTS’ SCOPES ‘MONKEY’ HIDES REACTION CASE ON DOCKET of Tennessee Law for Labor Abolished (Special to The Daily Worker) 25 — The tional to open next Sunday. counsel for John convicted sthool Darrow on the Job. women are free.” Attorneys for Scopes will argue Tenn, high contrary, The young teacher Scopes Studies in Chicago. If Scopes’ attorneys lose their ap- Another Gangster Scopes meanwhile, having about two months, and then thrown in the drown, years old, Kidnappers of Yanks clothes. MEXICO CITY, May 25.—Mexican Deportation Dept. sought. The two are C. C, Braden planning w of all aliens confined in | insane asylums, both | OF SUFFRAGISTS Want Protective Laws PARIS, May 25. — Prominent upper class American women who are ardent suffragettes and members of the na- women’s suffrage party of America are here to attend the Inter- national Women’s Suffrage congress In issuing the statement of the dele- gation, its head, Miss Doris Stevens, correctly observes that, “The subjec- tion of women is universal and no women will really be free until all The party's conception of “freedom” however, has nothing to do with free- dom of both men and women workers from capitalist exploitation. On the under the catchword of “equal rights for women in industry.” the party is fighting to abolish the protective laws which prohibit long honrs and night work or minimum wage scales in the exploitation of womeg and girl workers by employers. Killed in Rum War Chicago police have another gang murder on their hands, following the finding of the body of a man in the drainage canal near Summit, The body apparently had been in the water Police believe the man was slugged into unconsciousness canal to He apparently was about 40 All marks of identifica: tion -had ‘been removed from his to Sift Prisoners WASHINGTON, May 25.—James J. Davis, secretary of the “deportation department” of the government, is pon a sifting of the cases ns and and fed- EXPOSE FASCIST SPY CONDUCTING TERROR IN U. S. Thaon DeRevel Heads Murder Bands (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 25. — The bloody fist of Mussolini reaching across. the Atlantic in an effort to carry out the threat to stifle all critic- ism of and opposition to fascism in the United States is organized in all Italian centers and carries on a relent- less campaign against even American labor organizations embracing Italians. Its aim is to completely destroy the proletarian movement which chal- lenges fascism as the mortal enemy of the working class. The Chief of U. 8. Fascism. A special agent of Mussolini is oper- ating in the United States, and two years ago the first fascist organization definitely connected with the Musso- lini regime in Italy was formed here. His name is Thaon H. De Revel and he is a som of an ex-minister of war of the fascist regime in Italy. The first act of fatal violence at- tributed to this assassin was the mur der of an Italian exile in Brooklyn, whose antifascist sentiments were too freely expressed to suit the agents of Mussolini, Anti-Fascisti Act. Other violant acts were traced te the fountain-head of fascism in this country and so the Amnti-Fascisti Al- liance began to get in action against this sort of thing. A number of suc- cessful demonstrations were held, and invariably the fascist spies and agents provocateur would appear and try to carry on their nefarious work. But in spite of their interference. successful rebukes were administered Mussolini and his regime. An impressive demonstration was held against the arrival of the fascist aviator, Locatelli, who came here to encourage fascism and anti-labor agi- tation in this country. The Italian agents of Mussolini who came here to attend the meeting of the interparliamentary union met with a hot reception at the hands of the enemies of the bloody regime in Italy. This demonstration was especially ef- fective because of the barring of the British Communist member of parlia- ment, Saklatvala, who desired to at- tend the sessions of the interparlia- mentary union. Another effective demonstration was staged against the Italian debt mission when it arrived in this country on the mission that resulted in the Mellon- Coolidge regime cancelling seventy- five per cent of the debt so thet Mus- solini could obtain more loans from Morgan to enable him to impose more frightfulness upon the workers of Italy and also carry on fascist agita- tion in other countries by organizing expeditions of murder and terror, such as he has already done in the United States with the full knowdge of the state department and with the ective aid of the department of labor and im- migration officials. Congress Should Investigate. A sweeping investigation of the fascist conspiracy to exterminate those who criticise in this country the tyranny now ravaging the people of Italy should be launched by congress. Especially flagrant is the action of departments of the United States gov- ernment in aiding the fascist spies secure the deportation of political exiles to Italy, which means instant death the moment they set foot on Italian soil. Future articles will deal with more details of the activity of fascist agents in the United States. Bus Lines and Motor Trucks Compete with Railways; Probe On (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 25. — The in- terstate commerce commission today took cognizance of the growing com- petition of motor trucks and busses with railroads by ordering an extens- ive investigation into motor and rail transportation competition. The inquiry will embrace the legal- ity and “propriety” of motor bus oper- ation, rates and fares, and the extent to which the railroads have been af- fected by motor competition, All rail- roads of the country were made a party of the investigation, Nancy Sandowski in Canton, O., Tomorrow CANTON, Ohio., May 25. — Canton workers will have the opportunity of Nstening to Nancy Sandowski, the Joan of Arc of the Passaic Textile Strike, tell all about the heroic strug- gle for better conditions of over six- teen thousand workers of New Jersey. Just how these unorganized worke: have been able to hold out for the last four months against the united offens- ive of the mill owners, police, courts, and just how they were fed, clothed and assisted in every way, will be told by Fred G, Biedenkapp, national secretary of the International Work- ers Aid and Dora Lohse, a prominent relief worker, The mass meeting will be held at Canton Music Hall, 810 Tuscarora St. on May 27th, at 8:00 p, m, FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT