The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1926, Page 3

! 4m this country. _ lecture, TO DEPORT ALIE Peoria Seeks to Abolish the Illinois f 0 R C R | M E a F Commerce Commission DID NOT COMMIT Innocent Worker to Be Sent Back to Italy (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, May 26.—Unless Gov. Moore of New Jersey shall par- don: him for a crime which the state ‘of New Jersey acknowledges he never committed, but for which it kept him im prison seven years, Raffaele Mo- rello will be deported to Italy as an ex-convict, False ‘Interpretation. This is the demonstration of the majesty of American law and justice ‘which is to be given the victim and to ‘the world, according to W. W. Hus- band, assistant secretary of labor in charge of deportations. Morello was recently paroled from prison when the state authorities became convinced that he had been convicted and sen- tenced for the murder of his wife on false interpretation of his own story. He had explained to the court inter- preter that his wife committed sui- cide when he was drafted to serve dim the American army in 1918; that he came home, found her dead, and tried to kill himself. He spoke an ob- scure dialect of Italian, and the court interpreter told the court that Morello was confessing the murder and at- tempted suicide. He learned in prison to speak English, and then learned what had been the cause of his con- viction, The interpreter admitted that he might have been mistaken in what he told the court. To Deport Morello. Now, says Assistant Secretary Hus- band, the law is mandatory: it re- quires deportation of an alien who shall, within five years after arrival, have been ‘sentenced to a prison term ‘of one year or more because of convic- tion in this country of a crime involy- ing moral turptitude,” committed If the man shall be pardoned, as has happened in many cases where guilt was established, the United States immigration authority at Washington has considered that fact, as it may under another section of the law, as removing the necessity of deporting him. Morello has been arrested by the tmmigration agent at Philadelphia, and is about to be given a hearing on the question, solemnly put: “Has this alien been sentenced to a prison term of more than one year, because of con- viction of crime conimitted in this country?” Guilt or innocence will have no hearing in the case. Only me whim of Gov. Moore will count. Stricter deportation laws are being urged. e DISCUSS DRY ACT REFERENDUM IN THE SENATE House Assails Coolidge Enforcement Order WASHINGTON, May 27.—The wet and dry controversy flared forth again in both houses of congress, and led to spirited debating. In the senate the wets and drys clashed over the project for a na- tional referendum, and in the house the president’s executive order put- ting federal badges on local officers was attacked. PEORIA, Il., May 26.— The city clerk of Peorla is drawing up a call to representatives of Illinois munici- palities to meet here and adopt meas- ures looking to the abolishment of the Tllinois commerce commission. Preparation of the call follows ac- tion by the city council last night in passing a resolution declaring the commission has taken over superyi- sion of Peoria streets to the detri- ment of Peoria citizens. The date for the meeting will be fixed later, it was said. CHURCHES T0 INVESTIGATE TWO STRIKES Probe Aims to Break Future Conflicts NEW YORK—(FP)—May 26— Two important strike studies are projected by church groups, the department of research and education, Federal Coun- cil of Churches, announces, The Western Maryland railroad strike of engineers and firemen, which has been on since October, is one situation and the textile strike in Passaic, is the other to be investigated. The Social Action department, National Catho- lic Welfare Conference, is to co-oper- ate and possibly also the Social Jus- tice Commission of the Central Con- ference of American Rabbis. Ministers’ Inquiry. The Federal Council research de- partment says that it “does not make a practice of investigating conflict situations unless requested to do so by responsible and representative lo- cal groups.” Urgent requests have come, however, from the ministers’ as sociations of Cumberland and Hagers- town, Md., where the rail strikers live, Strike supporters in these towns also appealed to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., because he is @ stockolder, altho he claims a minor one, in the firm. If financial resources are fothcom- ing, Passaic ministers are expected to approve the outlined study proposed by the research department on their request. “It calls for a full inquiry into the present industrial situation and the economic and social causes underlying it,” under auspices of a local committee and co-operation of the Federal Council research depart- ment and the similar agency of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. “The plan contemplates not merely a study of the strike, but an effort to discover ways by which such disasters may be avoided and, in particular, what contribution the churches can make to that end.” The rail strike probe follows the 1920 precedent of the Denver streetcar strike joint in- qury. Seek to Break Strikes. “The theory on which the project is undertaken is that the church has a definite responsibility in any conflict situation because of the effect of such @ situation upon its own fellowshinp and because industrial war thwarts the aims of the church in its service to the community,” says the research department. “The present ctudy is one phase of an inquiry which the de- partment hopes to continue over a long period into the relation of or- ganized religion to industrial con- flict.” We need more nows from the shops and factories. Send it in! BRITISH STRIKE IS A FORERUNNER OF MANY SIMILAR CONFLICTS WITH CAPITALIST CLASS IN ALL NATIONS The British general strike will prove the forerunner of similar conflicts, not only in England but in all capi- talist countries. Its result means only @ temporary setback -in labor’s ad- vance to political power. The first great effort collapsed ‘be- cause even the leaders were not clear about what they were really doing. They were afraid to admit the real aim of the movement, Leaders in Doubt. British labor was in fact challeng- ing the government. The government had declared war on labor. Ernest Bevin said for the Trades Union Con- gress general council on the day the general strike decision was taken: “Neither the general council nor the miners have any quarrel with the people. We are not declaring war on the community. War has been de- clared by the government.” This government which labor chal- Tenged does not represent the whole IN NEW YORKI The Next Lecture of the Course of Nine Lectures on COMMUNISM AND CIVILIZATION will be given by LEON SAMSON at the LABOR TEMPLE, 244 E. 14th St. (Cor. 2nd Ave.) SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 29 at 8:30 P.M. Subject: “The Civilized Masks,” the Sociology of Hypocricy. Questions and discussion after the Admission 25 Cents, er people, It is recognized as a capital- ist government just as the government prior to the 1t7h century English rev- olution was a landlord government. Following the earlier revolution the commercial capitalist class forced its way to the dominant position in gov- ernment. Challenged Capitalist System. Labor challenged this government because it upholds a system which has come to be uneconomic in terms of the wellbeing of the people. The miner's plight is the outstanding evidence of the failure of profit-making as a social motive, The miners’ struggle revealed the government attacking the living standard of the people in the interest of profit. Labor can make the well-being of the workers the objective of the country’s economic activity only by securing a dominant position in government. A general strike in support of wages is bound to fafl unless the leaders recog- nize that the result will be political, not merely industrial, unless they aim at @ definite shift of political power to organized labor. The unions can succeed only as they become a greater power in the state, Workers Must Win. In challenging the existing govern- ment labor is not challenging the country. It is challenging a small minority, the absentee-owning class. It is this authority which increasingly limits labor's freedom to produce a full life for all. Step by step the ow ers must give way before labor's ad- vance just as feudalism retreated be- fore capitalism. The alternative is an age of industrial slavery and social decay A cr A it ca nN i nc THE DAILY WORKER IMPERIALIST AIDS FRAME-UP SOVIET CREW Wu Pei-Fu Henchman Seizes Steamer Oleg PEKING, China (Tass), April 12 (By Mail).—E. C. Osarnin, Soviet consul general in Tientsin, sent the following note to Chang Tung-Li, spe- cial commissioner for foreign affairs for Chihli province, of which Wu Pei- Fu, an imperialist tool, is military dictator, in connection with the de tention of the Soviet steamer Oleg. Military Authorities Seize Steamer. “On March 13, 1926, the Soviet mer- cantile fleet steamer Oleg, carrying a cargo of Chinese cabbage (seaweed) was sent to Tientsin. At Taku Bar the aforementioned steamship was de- tained by the Chinese military author- ities and prevented from proceeding to Tientsin. The real reasons for the detention of the steamer are unknown, altho in the local foreign and Chinese press false information has appeared to the effect that ammunition was car- ried by the S. S. Oleg. “One of the foreign papers went so far in its efforts to mutilate the facts as to give alleged particulars of the ammunition carried as well as the value of the same. Fail to Notify Soviet Mission. “Upon the detention of the steamer the Chinese naval authorities, with- out notifying the Union of Socialist Soviet of Republics government rep- resentation of the proceeding, re- moved the steamer to Chingwantao, where it was subjected to a careful search and the officers and crew to a strict examination. “Following their examination, the officers and the crew of the ship were confined to a special part of the deck and were forbidden to leave it. A fresh search of the ship was then made without any of the officers or créw present. Frame-Up Crew. “In the course of the second search, which lasted for five days, 1,611 car- tridges of various makes were dis- covered in various parts of the steamer. The manner in which these cartridges were found on the ship in the course of a search conducted un- der such peculiar conditions has never been investigated. According to the ship’s officers, the cartridges appeared on the steamer after the officers and crew had been actually placed under arrest and confined to a special part of the steamer. “At present, in spite of the fact that the examination and the search of the steamer have been completed and it has been.established that Chinese cab- bage was the only cargo it carried, the ship is still being detained by the Chinese military authorities at Ching- wangtao on an unlawful attachment. Protests Illegal Action. “The unlawful attachment of the S. S. Oleg by the Chinese authorities in itself is a gross infringement of the sovereign rights of the Uunion of Socialist Soviet Republiccs, while its unwarranted detention and the fact that the parties responsible for the detetntion go unpunished aggravates the situation. Consequently, I am com- Delled herewith strongly to protest against the unlawful detention of the S. S. Oleg, its removal to Chingwang- tao and the very peculiar conditions under which the search of the steamer was carried out by military authori-/ ties instead of the competent customs officials as is required by the regula- tions. “I demand, therefore, that the S. S. Oleg be immediately released’ and be allowed to proceed to its port of des- tination, and that the parties respon- sible for its detention be tried and fittingly punished. “Furthermore, I would draw your attention to the fact that the detention of the S. S. Oleg inflicts great losses on the Soviet mercantile fleet and every day of the continued detention of the ship considerably increases these losses, which will have to be covered by the parties responsible for the unlawful action in this connec- tion, “E. C, Osarin, “Consul General of the U. 8. S. R.” 6,000 Collective Farms in Ukraine MOSCOW, U. 8. 8S. R. (Tass), May 26.—There are now 6,000 collective farms in the Ukraine, the total area of which amounts to 880,000 acres and on which are engaged 256,000 farmers and their families, according to the report of the Commissariat for Agri- culture of the Ukraine Soviet Re- public. During the period of war Commu- nism, the farmers of the Ukraine showed bitter hostility to the efforts of the government to introduce col- lective farming. Now, however, there is a marked tendency among farmers of the poorer class voluntarily to join their farms and run them on a col- lective basis, In the process of the redistribution of land now taking place all over Russia special attention is being paid to arrange that farmers desiring to run collective farms shall receive lots adjoining each other. The state and co-operative banks provide special fa- cilities for credits to these collective farms for the purchase of seeds and up-to-date equipment, The six thou- sand collective farms mentioned have between then one thousand tractors and orders have been placed for an- other 623 to be delivered this season. Urbana Police Heads Seek to Stop Races (Special to The Daily Worker) URBANA, Ill, May 26—Promoters of automobile races to be held here Decoration Day, Sunday, are determin- ed to stage the affair, altho Sheriff Gray declared a civic organization will try to get an injunction to stop them and failing in this, he will be at the track with warrants for the ar- rest of all drivers and others con- nected with the races, on the charge of creating a public disturbance, The race track adjoins a cemetery and it is claimed by those opposed to the affair that the noises will inter fere with Decoration Day services. ‘BATH-TUB? GIRL IS A‘DUMB DORA,’ SAYS JAMES CODY Carroll Show Manager Assails Joyce Hawley BULLETIN. NEW YORK, May 27.—EHarl Carroll, theatrical producer, was found guilty by a jury of perjuring himself when ‘he testified that no dancer plunged nude into a bath-tub full of liquor during the Washington birthday party on the stage of his theater. eee NEW YORK, May 26,— Both sides rested their case in the perjury trial of Barl Carroll, New York theatrical producer, after a vicious attack on the part of James W.-Gody, Carroll’s the- atrical manage,’ oy the character of Joyce Hawlgy, 0 sx-old chorus giri, who bathe. ’ ‘h tub of wine at a in ®Aday party in Car- re Aheatattdin order to give New Yorn society dames and gentlemén @ “kick.” James W. Cody, Carroll’s stage man- ager, testified that Miss Hawley was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and was twenty years old, according to the ap- Plication card which was filled out when she applied for a position as “a nude model.” She testified that she was seventeen. Joyce “Dumb Dora.” Cody explained a notation of “D. D.” on Miss Hawley’s index card as his “personal grade.” “D. D.” stands for “Dumb Dora,” he’stated. The witness said that “when Miss Hawley applied fora position she told me she had a “nuntber one figure and began disrobing.’ “I stopped that and told her I’d see her in a bathing suit,” said Cody. ty young chorus ‘girls from Carroll's front-row bench for their employer. Thomas testified he was not a guest at the midnight-to-morning party given by Carroll at which Miss Joyce Haw- ley, beautiful 17-year-old show girl, bathed in a bath tub of champagne. The playwright said he had known ‘Carroll for some years and testified as to his reputation for veracity and general good character. Edwin Farrell and David Schneider, of the Carroll theater staff, followed Thomas on the stand and told of Joyce Hawley, the bath-tub girl, visiting the box-office in March for an appoint- ment with Chris Scaife, Carroll's right hand man. Chris Scaife, Carroll’s manager, the next witness, told of a visit from Miss Hawley in which “she demanded money,” Sought $1,000 Bribe. “Miss Hawley said, if $1,000 was not paid her she would make trouble for Earl Carroll, but if she got the money she wouldn’t gay anything,” Scaife tes- tified. “What did she say about the grand jury?” Scaife was ‘asked. “That if she got $1,000 she would say anything we wanted her to say.” Miss Hawley in her testimony ad- mitted visiting Scaife to obtain $1,000 she claimed was promised her by Car- roll for her “wine bath” performance. Makes Second Visit. Scaife told of another visit from Miss Hawley in which she said she would take $500, “Did she say what she would tell the grand jury if she didn’t get the money?” Herbert C. Smythe, defense counsel asked. “No,” the witness replied. “Miss Hawley said that on the night of the party you gave her drinks?” “I might have given her ginger ale.” Soviet Mercantile Fleet Opens New Sea Lanes MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R. (Tass), May 27.—With the opening of the 1926 navigation season the Soviet Mercan- tile Fleet (Sovtorgflot) proposes to open a round Europe express route from the Baltic to the Black Sea con- necting Leningrad with the ports on the Black and Azov seas. Other services to be run by the Soviet Mercantile Fleet include: Arch- angel, Murmansk-Vardo leaving Arch- angel once a fortnight; Leningrad- London, twice a week; Odessa and the Near East, once a fortnight, and Odessa-Viadivostok. This \will be a circular route, Vladivostok, Shanghai, Canton and Odessa, making five voy- ages @ year. Get your friends to subscribe to the American Worker Correspondent. The price Ig only 50 cents a yer Comedia id Carroll, Augustus Thi } Playwright, and Al Jolson, were summoned as defense s while eight pret- musical revue rodted silently from a Page Three NEWS OF SACCO-VANZETTI MUST NOT END WITH STORY OF THEIR EXECUTION, SAYS CARL HAESSLER By CARL HAESSLER, Managing Editor, The Federated Press. The long, pitiless frame-up on Sac! ghastly conclusion in the Massachusetts death chamber. co and Vanzetti is now speeding to its For six years, al- most from the day of its organization, the Federated Press has had its re- porters and editors on the story of the relentless drive of the financial and anti-~union oligarchy of New England to show the foreign-born that the penalty of independence and labor organiza- tion is death. In Iron Cages in Courtroom. In 1920, the arrest of the Italian- American labor radicals was first re- ported. In 1921 the Federated Press Boston Bureau sent out daily reports of the amazing trial in which the de- fendants were exhibited in iron cages in the courtroom and all the tricks of the prosecution against aliens and radicals were trotted out, Against all expectation the bureau had to report a conviction. Since then the details of the frame-up came out one by one. The secretly exchanged bullets by the jury foreman, the per- jured evidence of witnesses with pre- vious criminal records, the refusal to permit new evidence that would over- turn the fatal persecution. Federat- ed Press files reveal how science de- monstrated in vain that the death bul- let did not leave the defendant’s gun; how threats of further prosecution si- lenced the perjurers after they had confessed. They show how labor al! over the world rushed to Sacco and Vanzetti’s aid. A. F. of L. Resolutions. Convention correspondents of the F. P. at American Federation of La- bor sessions wrote of the action of the A. F. of L. in a new trial for the men. Twice they reported such ac- tion, Then the news of the refusal of a new trial by the trial judges. Then the news of this refusal confirmed by the Massachusetts supreme court. Now the news of protest meetings life. history of oil. eta \ & ONS ace EACH 190 POINTS Gem the ark f Subscriptions: The Daily Worker 1 year—100 points % year— 45 points 3 mos.— 20 points 2 mos— 10 points The Workers Monthly: 1 year— 30 points % year— 10 points The Young Worker: 1 year— 30 points % year— 10 points The Young Comrade: ¥ 1 year— 10 pointe $2.00 1.25 in hundreds of American and foreign citizens and of telegrams and cables to the Massachusetts governor. But never the news that Sacco and Vanzetti have been murdered by the state in the electric chair. Labor ev- erywhere must prevent that. The news must be made not to happen. National Grange and Big Business to Hold a National Conference WASHINGTON, May 26—(FP)— John B. Edgerton, Tennessee textile magnate and president of the National Association of Manufacturers, an- nounces that the National Industrial Council, of which he is likewise presi- dent, has accepted the invitation of the National Grange to hold a national conference of organizations of “agri- culture, industry and finance.” This conference is planned “to promote bet- ter understanding of their mutual problems, and mutually contribute to the progress of our common country.” The National Grange and the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers were leaders in the fight—promoted by Southern textile mill owners—to kill the child labor amendment. They also co-operated to pass the Esch- Cummins transportation act in 1920, and have stood together on railroad issues ever since. Why don't you write it up? It may be interesting to other workers. STRIKE JUNE i A NEW NOVEL BY Tih @ by EVERY POINT COUNTS FoR. SCOTT 10 GET « SECOND SANITY TRIAL TUESDAY Judge Refuses to Pass Execution Sentence Russell Scott, slayer of a Chicage drug clerk during a holdup, cannot be executed until a jury has again pass- ed on his sanity, ruled Judge William V. Brothers, when Scott was brought before him for sentence. The second santiy trial was set for next Tues- day. The case is making legal history. It is without precedent in the annals of American jurisprudence. Scott wae sentenced to hang for the murder of Joseph Maurer, a drug clerk, during aholdup. Two hours before his eched- uled execution, a writ was issued or- dering a test of his sanity. A jury found him insane and sent him to Chester, with it being understood that if he recovered he should be returned to Cook county and hanged. A week ago state alienists declared he had recovered. With Judge Brother’s ruling that Scott cannot hang until a jury has declared him sane, and with his at- torney prepared to go to the supreme court, if necessary, to prove that his release from the Chester asylum was illegal, Scott is believed to have bet ter than an even chance of escaping the gallows. Pittsburgh I.L.D. Picnic Postponed to June 24 PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 27. — The International Labor Defense pienfc here has been postponed to June 24. It will be held at. Schuetzen Park, Millvale, Pa. Friendly organizations are urged not to arrange conflicting affairs. IN THE DAILY WORKER UPTON SINCLAIR. Author of “The Jungle,” “100%,,” “King Coal,” ete. HE one outstanding American novelist, whose many stories of the lives of American workers have sold into millions of copies thruout the world—and is most popular in Russia—has written a new novel of American It is an intimate and complete picture of the California oil fields—the growth of great wealth in the exploitation of Labor—and the filthy muck of politics—part of the ¢ A BUST OF LENIN WITH EACH 500 Pointy a ALLY WORKER he W. —- NAME . STREET |S SSE ae nM TS Oe EES oe oe ca rere COTrNeee: orate tome nnawernn sememmens cue 10040008 sess sns goens sosesssesseemnm eel WASHINGTON BOUL, c hia go. in