The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1926, Page 2

Page Two SMALL LAGKEY!| TAKES WHITMAN'S PLACE AT JOLIET Deposed Warden Plans Legal Fight JOLIET, Til, May 28. — Elmer J. Green, state superintendent of prisons, ig now in full charge as warden of the Joliet penitentiary. John L, Whitman, deposed warden, is preparing to go to Chicago to con- sult with Clarence Darrow, his attor- ney, regarding what action, if any, he shall take as a result of his removal, Resume Inquest, The Will county coroner and a coroner’s jury, today resumed their imquest into the death of Deputy War- den Peter M. Klein and have sum- moned as witnesses all prisoners in solitary confinement at the time he was murdered, including Nathan Leo- old, now serving a life sentence, along with Richard Loeb, for the murder of little Bobbie Franks. Colvin Fears Convicts, Green, accompanied by Chancey H. Jenkins, state director of public wel. fare, arrived at the prison and as-| sumed charge. Later in the evening Will Colvin, head of the state board | } | of pardons and paroles, and large Stockholder in a Chicago ‘pardon mill,” visited the prison and both Jenkins and Colvin were takekn thru the institutions by an armed escort. Colvin, who had not visited the prison for some time, is said to have declared that. he was afraid he ‘would be at- tacked by convicts if he were unpro- tected within the walls. Probe Leopold Story. At the inquest Leopold is to be THE DAILY WORKER Demand Union Labor on These Baildings * | asked to repeat for the coroner’s jury the story he told of the escape and killing of the deputy warden. Leopold tirat he was put in the solitary block after food was found in his cell, When the escape occurred, he said, he was in a cell with his hands shack- Jed to the bars above his head. After the seven convicts had killed the deputy warden in his office, Leopold eaid, two of them, Mexicans, stopped just outside his cell and he talked to them in Spanish. One of them asked if Leopold wanted to go along, and he answered no, he declared. One of the Mexicans, however, en- tered his cell and released his hands. Leopold declared that he thought he was going to be killed. The Mexican left him, but, the youthful slayer asserted, he still thought he was to be killed and wrote a farewell note to his father on the wall of his cell. He denied any part in plotting the escape. Racetrack Scandal Looms; Attempt Made to Poison the Horses TEXTILE WORKERS OF LAWRENCE FOR AMALGAMATION Elect Delegates to Nat’l Amalgamation Meet LAWRENCE, Mass., May 28—The Lawrence United Front Textile Com- mittee met at its new headquarters, 8la Common street, yesterday and elected three delegates to attend the big amalgamation conference of tex- tile workers’ organizations, which will meet at Hotel Imperial, New York City, on June 5th and 6th. A fund was raised by the organiza- tions present to pay the expenses of the delegates to New York. It was the feeling of the committee that all ex- isting textile workers’ unions should amalgamate their forces and that there should be one union for the tex- tile industry embracing all skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled into one powerfyl organization. Lawrence Mill Conditions. Conditions in the Lawrence mills are so bad that a strike is liable to break out any moment. Because of this the United Front Committee has repeatedly urged the textile workers of Lawrence to become organized and prepared. Hundreds of workers have heeded the call, but there are thou- sands of workers in Lawrence. It is felt that this conference will stimulate the workers to feel the necessity of becoming organized. That it will becoming organized, that it will create a feeling of national solidarity. Industrial Unity. That it will break down the preju- dice that has been existing between one union or another and become inited into one solid organization to do away with wage cutting, long hours, speeding and doubling up, un- employment, company unions, and to fight for more wages, less hours, and sanitary conditions, Coolidge Order Will Get Short Shrift from This Senate Committee WASHINGTON, May 27—Five of the senate’s leading constitutional lawyers were named as a “court of in- quiry” by the judiciary committee to The cases of these—with many | investigate the legality of President illustrations and photographs—| Coolidge’s order offering federal pro- are in every month’s issue of| hibition jobs to an army of state of- THE LABOR cacao: DEFENDER Senators Cummins, republican, Iowa, {chairman; Borah, republican, Idaho; The Magazine Which Fights For Men Who Fight For Labor, Goff, republican, West Virginia; Walsh, democrat, Montana, and King, democrat, Utah. All save Walsh have Bundles—7c per copy. Subscriptions—$1,00 a year publicly declared the president had no SEND A DOLLAR legal authority to issue his order. to The Labor Defender 23 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill. AURORA, Ill, May 28.—Another racetrack scandal loomed here after it was discovered three horses entered \in the fifth race at Exposition Park track here had become ill in their sta- bles. It was said the horses, Eliza- beth K., Sandrae and Apology, had been poisoned. The race was declared off and an investigation launched. Presiding Judge Martin Nathanson was informed two men were seen in an automobile near the stables of the three horses shortly before the ani- mals were discovered ill. Lumps of sugar containing arsenic were thrown ‘in the horses’ stalls, it was reported. SEND IN A SUB! SACCO VANZETTI The Strikers Arrested PASSAIC Other Men in Jail for Labor s Here are shown some of the palaces and halls that compose part of the structural arrangements nearing com- told prison officials and the grand Jury | ptetion for the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declara- tlon of Independence. Labor unions everywhere are demanding that only union labor be used in their construction, (Continued from page 1) threw them at the police and began to unhorse them, When the police saw they were being beaten they fled to their barracks, A number of the higher police heads then came before the demonstrators and sought to drive them away. The ynemployed dis- armed these officials, beat them up and then let them go. The demonstra- tors then entered the town hall, destroyed the furniture and sought for the officials that had called the po lice. The mdyor was beaten and his assistant barely escaped being thrown out of a window. The demonstrators then marched to the police braracks. One guard was disarmed and beaten. A second guard hid behind a corner and from his hiding place killed five workers. Try to Release Politicals. The workers then marched onto the jail, seeking to liberate the political prisoners there. Tho the demonstration Was a spontaneous one and not a Communist was in the demonstration, they sought to liberate the Commun- ists from the jail, Three companies of soldiers had been thrown around the jail. The unarmed workers were forced to retreat. One eompany of soldiers, which was sent out to shoot down the workers, proved “unreliable” and was called back, Martial Law Declared. The officials did not dare trust the other two. Companies from outlying districts were called in. Martial law was declared. Struggles between groups of workers and the soldiers continued thru the night. Numerous arrests were made by the military. HUNGARIAN FORGERS FOUND GUILTY, GET FOUR YEARS EACH (Special to The Daily Worker) VIENNA, May 28.— Dispatches from Budapest say that Prince Lud- wig Windisch-Graetz and Police Chief Von Nadossy, charged with being the chief conspirators in the forgery of 1,000 france notes that has caused a implicating many high offici: have been found guilty. Each was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and fined 10,000 the leaders of an In- ternational gang of forgers who made and passed thousands of 1,000 French franc notes. The defense was that the forgery had been un- di ken as a patriotic measure. It was shown In the trial that Bethien, prime minister, himself aided the forgers, CHICAGO WORKERS PARTY TO HOLD MEMBERSHIP MEETING ON JUNE 4 Chicago Workers (Communist) Party membership meeting will be held at the Northwest Hall, corner North and Western Ave. Friday night, June 4. William Z. Foster, C. E. Ruthenberg and William F. Dunne will be the speak- ers, A report on the work of the plenum and on the role of The DAILY WORKER will be made. Admission will be by membership card ONLY. Unemployed Demonstrate in Poland i (Continued from page 1) and similar institutions. Legion “drives” and the Detroit Community Union Fund have increased its dn- come. The administration of these funds has been controlled by a small group of professional legionaries, Of the amount received from tie state, onl\ $12,499.22 remained Jan. 1. No Accounting Made, Although $56,977.68 was spent in seven months in 1919 and 1920 for “or- ganization expenses,” not a penny of this amount was accounted for, A report showed that $210,611.66 were spent in traveling expenses and salar- fes alone to administer $16,122,12 of actual cash relief to veterans. It has been found that the welfare fund has been paying five eighths of all the legion’s operating expenses in the state. State Senator A. H. Gansser, drawing pay from the legion even while sitting in the legislature, has since 1923 drawn $9,370.37 of the money contributed by people for the relief of soldiers. A thousand dollars of that amount was listed in the formal report as having been paid to Gansser for “legal aid.” But Gansser ig _not a lawyer. « Maj. John F. Roehl, chief investiga- tor for the Detroit department of health, at a good salary, was given a “ponus” of $1,000 last year for his services as legion commander the previous year. He was also given $375 “salary” out of the welfare fund in 1925. Lyle D.. Tabor, first state adjutant of the legion, remained on the payroll to $4.500 he quit. But a few weeks at $6,000 a year, as long as the money given by the state held out. But when the salary of the firat adjutant was cut afterward he appeared on the payroll of the welfare department at $4,000 a year as “legal aid representative.” And at the same time he was working for the “Forty and Eight” legion or- ganization at $300 a month, When those salaries were abolished he work- ed on the legion endowment fund at a salary of $4,500. The legislation turning over nearly a million to the state legion required that complete administrative report be made to the secretary of state, the LEGION SEEKS The next day the unemployed were to hold a mass meéfing. The military officials sent soldiers to the meeting place to meet and disperse the unem- ployed. The soldiers were met with a hail of stones and bottles. The sol- diers fired several times at the work- TO STOP LL.D. AE ee Vee ne Lawrence Workers to Mayor Stefansy was dismissed be P. . Pl. roceed with Plans cause of lack of “determination to suppress the rebellion.” A special com- mission was sent to ‘investigate the By S. D. LEVINE. (Speclal to The Dally Worker) BOSTON, Mass., May 27—To kill revolt, A resolution proposed by a member of parliament that a thoro in- vestigation of the it and its causes | Sacco and Vanzetti and forbid all pro- be made was rejected by the bourgeois/ test against it seems to be the supporters in ent. American Legion’s chief function in Spontaneous di trations against | carrying out their conceptions of pa- the government are being held in dif-| triotism. The Lawrence Post No. 15 ferent parts of Poland. These demon-| of the Legion wants to prevent the strations will continue. The attempt} workers of Lawrence, Massachusetts, to stabilize the zloty has failed and| from voicing their protest against the the militarist adventurer that seeks to|Tuling of the supreme court in the rule Poland now will not be able to|Sacco-Vanzetti case. stabilize it. t Commander A. Doyle of the et rence Post, petitioned Judge David A. Moccia 4 pica Lourie of the superior court, now in session at Lawrence, to restrain the grows greater and greater. These!) national Labor Defense from demonstrations will “occur more and ; th ched- more frequently. The attempt of ine the protest meeting agham led for Sunday afternoon, sudski to forestall the real revolt by| " itt staging a coup for a dictatorship only The judge denied the Sad being beyond his jurisdiction. How- postpones the final struggle of the aveee Teeth Smemonane Doyle as- wee workers @nd peasants for) .re3 all that the meeting will odd be stopped, by what methods he Pilsudskt deliberately staged his|jogg nov state. The reason Doyle move at a time when the situation gives for this suppression is rather was ripening for a real revolt of the| quaint, that it is “unpatriotic to pro- Polish workers and peasants against} test on Memorial Day against @ rul- the capitalist system in order to pro-| ing of the state supreme court.” long the existence of the capitalist Those who know the conditions of system. the workers in Lawrence state that TO FUR STRIKE COMES IN WELL of agitation that might awaken the exploited workers. Workers’ Organizations Respond to Appeal The meeting is arranged by a joint (Special to The Daily Worker) conference of eighteen labor organ- izations of Lawrence. Albert Weis: bord, one of the leaders of the Pas: saic strike, is advertised among othe: speakers, * Wesley Westbrook May Start to Serve * NEW YORK, May 27.~The appeal Jail Sentence Sunday of the fur workers for financial help from their union brothers in their] Wesley Westbrook, former warden great strike for better working condi-|f the Cook county jail, will go to tions has met with @ prompt response jail May 30 to begin serving a four in many quarters, months’ sentence for permitting Terry Already funds aré coming im to the |D'ssan and Frankie Lake, two Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union and | Wealthy ‘bootleggers, to roam thru the general strike committee has Chicago cabarets and use the jail as a given out today the following state-|°!¢aring house for their booze when ment of receipts not previously an-| ‘ey were supposed to be serving a nounced: one-year jail sentence, Sheriff Peter Hoffman, sentenced to Local , 5 Union, shee teat cork Kin a month on a similar charge, obtained a@ stay of sentence until June 7, In the meantime, it was said, Hoffman will take his case to the supreme court. Union, $500; Bessarabia Podolier Cul- tural Society, $200; Radical Branch 436 of the Workmen's Circle, $50; Kodzer Branch 324 of Workmen's Cir- cle, $100; Chotnier Branch 271 of Workmen's Cirele, $100; Branch 89 ot} Work Train Kills the Workmen's Circle, $25; Branch ker i . 122 of the Vorkmen’s Circle, $25;| Worker in the Big Branch 69 of the, Workmen's Circle, ilroad rds $5; M, Simon of se branch, $5; Rad- Four Railr Ya omer Branch of Workmen's Cir- cle, No, 369, $10; sollection from mom-| MATTOON, Ill, May 28.—George bers of Local 91yof I. L. G, W. U, | Dunigan, 34, was instantly Iilled when working in shop of Klein & Krawitz,|run over by the engine of a work 42 West 17th street, $15, train in the Big Four yarda, a FAME EIA IONE SEPA OT EDD money having been subscribed for the state originally for patriotic and other public or popular purposes, But the men who handled the money combined the books of two branches of work in such a way that the secretary of state could not find out where the money went. And he never will find out. He demanded an accounting. But it was too late. Peanut politics has finally brought the matter before a legislative com- mittee here, Legislative committees of course must have something to do. And political enemies of Sen. Gansser and other are happy to have them sternly cross-examined by investiga- tors, Make Slaves of Workers. One of the witness called by the investigators was the wife of an in- valid soldier. She was one of the legion’s “beneficiaries.” She told of having been given a job at the Chil- dren’s Billet by the professional patriots to whom she went for aid. Overworked there, she broke down from exhaustion in a short time and was discharged and discredited, Lieut. Col. John G. Emery, of Grand Rapids, former national commander of the legion, is to be called as a wit- ness. The legionnaire who has marched for- ward to “assume responsibility” for the failure to make a report to the secretary of state is Mark T. McKee, who lives mostly on Pullman cars but who maintains a residence in Mt. Clements, a bath city suburb of De- troit, He is chairman of the legion’s state welfare committee and an under- cover “influence” and wire puller for the republican party. Most of McKee’s republican influence is in McKée’s imagination but he possesses enough to become one of the inner ring of the legion. His war record is unique even for a professional politician. He spent 19 days in uniform. McKee also was indicted in the Sen. Newberry slush fund investigation several years ago, On Memorial Day, however, McKee, Tabor and the others will lead the loyal legionnaires in solemn parade for the edification of the men, women and children of the working class. GERMANS MAKE PROPOSAL ON. REPARATIONS Want Troops Removed from German Soil , PARIS, May, 27—It is reported that Germany is making a pro} to France for payment in cash of repara- tions~in order to get the troops of ocupation evacuated from German ter- ritory. The scheme depends upon capital- izing the reparations railroad bonds by using them as security, backed by a government guarantee of France to the investors. . As the allies have now officially recognized that Germany is at least formally disarmed, the troops of occu- pation remain only to’ insure repara- tion payment. If these can be paid in cash by eapitalizing the future earh- ings of the railroad bonds of Germany, so rung the scheme, the troops have no reason to remain in German terri- tory. One of the objections to the scheme, aside from the high finance method of capitalizing debts, is the present cha- otic state of French finance. President Schacht of the Reichsbank is on his way to London to discuss the plan with Montagu Norman, gov- ernor of the Bank of England, and Benjamin Strong, Jr., governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. Rich Oll in Siberia. MOSCOW, May 27. — What may prove to be one of the richest oll fields in the world, has been discover- ed along the banks of the Yenesei riv er 300 kilometers from the sea, 200,- J00 acres of this land have been pros pected by Soviet experts. | Legion Under Fire for Graft in Michigan | PASSAIC STRIKE COMMITTEE RAPS COMPANY UNIONS (Continued from page 1) modern and most flexible of union structure, “The workers of each mill are or ganized into a mill workers’ council. In each room or shop of the mill there is a shop chairman or delegate elected by the workers and changed by the ‘workers at any time they see fit to do so. All of the shop delegates in a particular factory form themselves in- to a factory or mill committee. And the mill committees from the various mills of a particular locality are form- ed into a general executive board which in the present instance is the United Front Committe of Textile Workers of Passaic and Vicinity. Shop Delegate System. “These shop delegates are the real representatives of the workers. It is the shop delegates who bear the com- plaints of the workmen to the man- agement and provide the only ma- chinery whereby workers can fearless- ly and adequately express their griev- ances, Recognition of Local Union. “What is the real reason why you refuse to recognize our union? It is not because the union can not meet the problems arising from the needs of the workers in the industry. It is because you cannot control our union, This is the real issue, “What do you propose instead of our United Front Committee? You propose a “company union” a boss- controlled union. This is a union only in name. In fact it is but a machime used by you to spy upon and terrorize us more efficiently than ever before. This has been the case in the Forst- mann-Huffman Company plant where it has earned the undying contempt and hatred of all the honest workers there. We ere far better off with no union at all than with the trap which you wish to construct for us, under the name of ‘unionism.’ Reject Company Union, “When did the ‘company union’ ever fight for an increase of wages? When did the ‘company union’ ever fight for shorter hours? The history of ‘com- pany unionism’ fs a history of the be- trayal of the working class. In other industries just as complicated as you make out the woolen industry to be, the workers there are organized in bona fide unions and are fighting the menace of ‘company unions.’ We join forces with those workers in our de- termination to see that the union which we have fought for so long and 80 well is not stolen from us by clever phrases, “We have learned the lessons of 1919. We have come to disbelieve that you will ever keep your promises unless you are forced to. We shall See to it that we achieve the right to organize not in phrases but in sub- stance, and that we, the workers, our- selves control our union,” Stanley Clark on Tour for Passaic Strikers Stanley Clark, the well known labor orator, is making a very successful tour for International Labor Defense in behalf of the defense of the ar- rested leaders and sympathizers of the Passaic textile strike. His sched- ule for the coming period is as fol- lows: Sunday, May 30, 2 p. m., Lawrence, Mass. June 3, Albany, New York, June 5, Buffalo, New York. 1 June 6, Jamestown, New York. June 10, Cleveland, Ohio. June 16, Chicago, Ill. ' Workers are urged to come in mass- es to these meetings since Clark has been in the strike field for some time and knows his subject very well. He will tell the moving story of the strug- ele of sixteen thousand workers for life and labor and union, and the at- ‘tempts of the textile barons to kill the strike by arresting its leaders. SEND IN A SUB! CROATIAN TAMBURICA ORCHESTRA WILL PLAY AT THE SOUTH SLAVIC I. L. D. CONCERT ON SATURDAY NIGHT The Chicago South Slavic International Labor Defense Branch will hold a concert at which the traveling Croatian Tamburica Orchestra will perform, Saturday evening, May 29, at 7 o'clock in the National Croatian Hall, 18th street and South Racine avenue. James P, Cannon, secretary of the Inter national Labor Defense, will speak. Admission is 60 cents, All the late BOOKS, PAPERS AND MAGAZINES worth reading, can be found at