The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 3, 1926, Page 3

PACKING HOUSE LORDS SEEK TO DODGE BANKERS Banks Have Packers at Their Mercy By CARL HAESSLER, Federated Press Crawling humbly before the Ghi- cago bankers, shivering almost at their own shadow, is the present fate ‘of the once proud packer aristocrats of the stockyards. Four men, two of them lawyers, one ‘a metropolitan capitalist editorial writer, the fourth a labor reporter, were exchanging notes on the once Big Five of Packingtown: Armour & Co., Nelson Morris & Co., Swift & Co., ‘Wilson & Co,, and Cudahy, Armour Dodging Creditors, “I wouldn't be in the shoes of any ‘of them,” said the older lawyer to his partner, both members of a firm that handles big corporation cases in the Illinois and federal courts. “Poor old J. Ogden Armour. Everybody used to be afraid of him and hate him for his surly, enarly way of putting thru his will. Now he’s glad to be alive and prays that the Continental and Commercial Bank will look the other way when he has to pass their door. I’m almost sorry for the fallen ty- want The Morrises. His partner chuckled about the Mor- vis family which recently sold their plant to the Armours, leaving their old employes, who had relied on a com- pany pension scheme, in the lurch. “It’s an awful comedown,” he said, “when the Morrises have to count their nick- els. They sure were cleaned good and proper, kicked out of bank direc- torates, closed out of homes and forced out of business. A dime has bedome a very close friend to them.” Wilson & Co. was the theme of the editorial writer. The firm, which used strong methods to gain control of Schwarzchild & Sulzberger, an old German packing establishment in Chi- cago during the war, had stumbled along in receivership after the defla- ‘ tion until finally the owners consented to a drastic writing off of watered capital and reorganized on what the fi- nancial writers termed “a capital structure more in proportion to the assets.” The Cudahys had also pulled in their horns, Swift's Embalmed Beef. The labor reporter told his story of Swift & Co., one of whose, subsidiaries had during the world war resurrected some of the famous embalmed beef of the Spanish war of 1898, and resold it to the army, according to a govern- ment chemist who spotted the stuff in the army testing laboratory at Savan- nah. He told further how labor pa- pers had printed the story, including half a dozen in New York and Chi- cago, without a peep from Swift, whose chief, Harold Swift, was named in the article as informed of the facts. And then when an isolated woman edi- tor of a country weekly in Nebraska had run the story, how Swift jumped on her and tried to get her to retract. The Federated Press, which had car- ried the original embalmed beef story, thereupon repeated it, sent a marked copy to Swift and challenged the com- pany to deny it. But not a word from the once haughty packer, the labor re- porter added. A Sorry Lot. “Yes, they are a sorry lot,” one of the lawyers concluded. “Nothing effi- cient about them either, in spite of the money they used to make. During the federal investigation right after the war their carelessness got their law- yers into all sorts of trouble. Imagine having them swear on the stand that they had never discussed price fixing with their supposed competitiors and then having government counsel trot out the actual correspondence that had been left lying around in the files. No wonder the watchful bankers were able to bleed them white and grind their bones for fertilizer.” ROBBERS DRILL 90-FOOT TUNNEL TO BANK VAULT ) A band of daring bank robbers Ia- ‘bored more than three months digging @ fifty-foot tunnel to the vault of the Marshal Square State Bank in Chi- cago only to be balked after receiving but $9 of the prospective $200,000 loot. . The plot had its inception four months ago when the Marshal Square Bank, to accommodate its increased business, was completely remodeled, One of the plotters was a workman who left out a sheet of steel that be- longed in the floor of the vault, Knowing the bank would be closed from Saturday noon until Tuesday morning on account of Memorial Day, the robbers planned to make their big “haul” during The an i ROTE FAHNE, BERLIN, SAYS COOLIDGE FAVORS THAT OTHERS DISARM (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, June 1.—The Rote Fahne (Red Flag) organ of the Communist Party of Germany, In an ironic review of the decoration day speech of President Coolidge at Arlington, remarks that the United States is In favor of disarmament by other nations, but not for itself. On the other hand, some of the stupid bourgeois papers, particularly the Tageblatt (Day’s Page) praised the speech for its “neutral view- point” regarding the causes of the late war. Other capitalist papers were of the opinion that Coolidge’s hope for disarmament of Europe would not produce favorable results. Only the Communists perceived the real meaning of the imperialist outburst of Coolidge. MANY WORKERS ENJOY CHICAGO T.U, EL. PICNIC Foster and Trumbull Speak to Crowd More than a thousand happy prole- tarians attended the fourth annual picnic of the T. U. B. L. at Cher- nauska’s Grove on Decoration Day. It was not until later in the efternnoon when outside activities had been more or less adjourned for the dance hall that it began to rain, The newly constructed dancing au- ditorium was amply large to hold the crowd that listened to speeches by Wm. Z. Foster and Walter M. Trum- bull, League Team Licked In the early part of the afternoon the Young Workers’ League baseball team received a terrible drubbing in a seven inning indoor, baseball game with veteran ball players who are members of the T. U. E. L.. The score was 14 to 6. The young team was captained by I. Greenberg and the old timers’ team by Walt Carmon. Charley Krumbein was the umpire. Fat Man’s Race. A series of lively races for all classes was held on the green. The fat man’s race required to be run three times. In the lost beat, Bill Simons won. Dancing continued until late in the evening. Relief Conference Stands Back of Big Passaic Mill Strike (Continued from page 1) defensive, the policy of union-smash- ing all over the country, the special at- tack upon the textile workers, the origin of the United Front Committee and its tremendous spread in the whole textile industry, the brutality of the bosses and the govrenment in this battle, the reign of terror, the jailings of the leaders, the stubborn- ness of the mill barons and their block- ing every effort to settle, the tremen- dous support given to the strikers’ re- Hef the swinging behind the strikers of the forty-seven societies and. the power of the workers and their fidelity. Organize Whole Industry. “Now we will organize all the work- ers in the textile industry—one mil- lion of them must get into the union and be able to defend themselves against the horrors of the bosses. This summing up made a tremen- dous impression upon the delegates. They rose and cheered, they cheered the speaker, but more they cheered the determination to “Organize the Unorganized.” Gurley Flynn Speaks. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn reported for the defense. She showed how nearly 300 had been arrested and that many face trial with possible sentences of years in the penitentiary. A resolu- tion for adequate defense was passed amid much enthusiasm, Robert Dunne reported for the American Civil Liberties Union, and laid emphasis upon the work that mugt be done to preserve the few rights that we are guaranteed under the constitution. Relief Work Advancing. Wagenknecht gave an extensive re- view of the relief work. He showed how the relief committee is now car- ing for nearly 5,000 families and how the support has come in from the unions and all kinds of organizations. He showed the need for sustained ef- fort and tor the great need of taking care of the children especially. Homes and camps and kitchens must be ar- ranged for, Extensive plans are now on foot for these ends. Then the delegates broke loose with their reports from their unions and their organizations. Short speeches full of pep and ginger, all of them ready to go back to double their ef- forts so that the strike may be fought out till the strikers win, THE DAILY WORKER SCOPES CASE NOW BEFORE HIGHER COURT Defense Assails Anti- Evolution Law (Special to The Daily Worker) STATE CAPITOL, Nashville, Tenn., dune 1, — The battle of modern science to free itself of all secular domination was carried before the supreme court of Tennessee today to test the constitutionality of America’s first anti-evolution law. Brought to the states highest trib- unal on an appeal from the conviction of John Thomas Scopes for teaching a@ Dayton, Tenn., high school last sum- mer that “man descended from a low- er order of animals” the hosts of science fought to have the law set aside as violating America’s freedom of religious worship, thought and con- science. Scopes in Chicago, Scopes was absent, attending school in Chicago, but a brilliant array of counsel pleaded for a reversal of his conviction. They pictured the Ten- nessee legislature as inaugurating a modern “Spanish Inquisition” in an effort to restrict science while steep- ing the people in ignorance, lest the truth might weaken christianity. The plea for an unrestricted public school system was opened by Dr. John R. Neal, chief of local counsel. He followed Charles H. Strong, president of the Unitarian Laymens’ League, who intervened as a “friend of the court”; Arthur Garfield Hays, of New York, counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union; Robert Keebler, of Memphis, Tenn., Henry E. Colton, of Nashville, on behalf of the Tennessee Academy of Science, and Judge Thomas H. Malone, of Nashville, who also pleaded as a “friend of the court.” In the background sat Clarence Darrow, famous Chicago criminal law- yer, whose defense of Scopes and evo- lution featured the trial at Dayton last summer. It was a different Darrow, however, for he kept his blue suspenders hidden and sat silent while his colleagues held the spot- light. He will close the defenses argument tomorrow after the state has defended the law. See Law Doomed. After that, the August court will ponder its decision. Rumor here is that the decision will not be handed down until next fall, in fact, until after the same five judges have been re-elected in August to another series of eight-year terms. Among local attorneys, the betting is two to one that the verdict then will be to set aside young Scopes conviction by holding the anti-evolution law uncon- stitutional. The whole fight against the law, in the arguments advanced today, was that it violated both state and federal constitutions. There was first, a three- fold technical objection that the bill was so badly worded its meaning was unclear and therefore a violation of the state constitution. The Scopes counsel argue that the anti-evolution law deprived the young teacher of his job “without due pro- cess” and by denying Tennessee scientists from practising their profes- sion, would destroy science in the state. a Scopes Loses His Interest in the Evolution Trial John Thomas Scopes, who was the center of the “evolution trial” at Day- ton, Tennessee, and now an instructor in the department of geology at the University of Chicago, declared that he lost all interest in his case and will not go to Tennessee to hear the arguments of Clarence Darrow in the appeal. ARREST CHICAGO POLICE CAPTAIN UNLOADING BEER Lieutenant Albert Winge, the “mil- lionaire copper” of the Chicago police department, twice indicted for beer- running in federal court, was arrest- ed in Cicero while delivering five bar- rels of beer to the Sportsmen's Head- quarters’ saloon at 5713 Roosevelt Road. The saloon is but one block from that before which Assistant State's Attorney William MeSwiggin and his two boozerunning pals were killed by submachine gun fire, Presbyterian Church Favors Coolidge Dry Act Enforcement Order SHARON, Pa, June 1.—The sixty- eighth general assembly of the United Presbyterian church of North Amer- fea, in session here, went on record as approving President Coolidge’s re- cent order asking local and state of- ficers to volunteer as federal officers for Fedo enforcement of the Page Three British Tory M. P.’s Report on Soviet Union Te. DAILY WORKER gives herewith a number of extracts from a report on the Soviet Union just submitted to the Conservative Party of Great Britain by four members of parliament on their return from a tour of investigation in Russia. The report is signed by Lieutenant-Colonel T. Captain R. E. Bourne. C. R. Moore, Robert Boothby, Frank Nelson and Regarding their purposes the signers of the report state: “The underlying idea of this mission was to place at the disposal of the Conservative Party of the House of Commons first hand knowledge of the present state of affairs in Soviet Russia, for we felt the party would welcome an unbiased account of the impressions of four of their members as to the present administration of the Union of the Soviet and Socialist Republics and incidentally its effect upon Russia as well as the effect upon Britain of prolonging of political and economic estrange- ment between the two countries.” The extracts from the report are given verbatim and such comment as they contain is only that of its compilers. CES Ore HE government * * * * ® Is pledged to institute a rule of the proletariat, receiving its main support from a people soaked in such slogans as “All power to Soviets,” “Workers’ contro! over production,” “Down with capital- ism and bourgeoisie.” , The * * * * fountain head of power in Russia today is the Communist Party. While some changes in policy and even in some political tenets of that y party have ocourred and are bound to occur, its atrength and position in the country is on the whole setadily increasing. It contains at present about 600,000 members, four-tenths of 1 per cent of the population, upon all of whom the government may absolutely rely. Moreover, by means of various organizations, such as the Young Communist League and trade unions and an ably developed system of internal propaganda in which slogans relating chiefly to production play a large part, the party maintaing a strong hold upon the masses of the people. The governing body of the Communist Party Is known as “politbureau.” The fact that the members include Stalin, Bukharin, Rykoff, Tomsky, Vero- shilov and Trotsky is proof that the fall of the Communist Party would in- volve also a fall of the government, an event which we now believe highly improbable, Transition from fact to theory proceeds in our judgment surely, If very slowly. An example of this is the toleration now accorded all forms of religion. Class distinctions as we know them have been swept away but there exists a class of more or less prosperous civil servants who bear striking resemblange, (it is possible to say this only outside of Russia), to the hated bourgeoisie. furthermore are remitted taxes and at the rates they obtain for the educa- tion of their children at reduced costs, or entirely free, they pay less for their accomodations, and less for their food while having the first call on both. They enjoy cheaper traveling facilities, on tram, train, bus or whatever local means of tocomotion may be available and in the big towns are supplied with open air concerts and wireless appartus on a scale and system far ahead of anything’ we in western Europe possess. ‘ In effeét, they are treated as a privileged class of the community and are continuously kept impressed by the government of this fact, and such is the result of much propaganda and a certain amount of truth that the people are more conscious of what they have gained than what they have lost. The information supplied to us by many sources indicates the bulk of workers and peasants are better off since the revolution than before. This does not mean that we consider Communism, as such, to be a success. Class and caste have largely broken down. Regarding finance, the posi- tion generally bristles with complexities, but the situation is in no sense dangerous and the government is far removed from bankruptcy, which lat- ter view has been voiced of late in many quarters, The 1926 budget calls for a revenue of $2,000,000,000, and there is no doubt that the receipts will reach this figure. The Soviet national debt is $254,000,000, or about one and a half month’s normal revenue, The present fiscal policy is sound, in fact it is almost austere. A peri- odical balance of the trade budget is produced in which the probable exports for the next few months are forecast. Upon this forecast, imports are ra- tioned. The paper money at present in circulation amounts to 1,240,000,000 rubles. Against this as backing is held 265,000,000 in gold and the remainder in com- mercial bills. A rigid policy of credit restriction to check inflation is in force. The Russian exchange is strictly controlled. A shortage of foreign credits and curreney is the keynote of the Russian currency problem. The imports are less than exports by at least 100,000,000 rubles annually, and this naturally involves the curtailment of industrial programs requiring machinery, etc., but financial experts are confident and we were impressed by the calm and wise outlook of those in command of the finance department. This confidence is inspired by the fact that not a single foreign trade com- mitment has not been punctually honored. Eliminating the possibility of ex- ternal war, the future trend of Russia’s exports cannot fail to be upward. The trade of Russia’s good industries is inheritently healthy but Is suffer- ing from malnutrition due to lack of raw materials and machinery. Produc- tion increased 60 per cent in 1924-1925 and even in 1925-1926 after a heavy curtailment of production there will be an increase of 40 per cent shown over the previous year. Unemployment approximates 1,000,000 out of a population of 160,000,000, Greed for knowledge among the younger members of all classes is impressive, also the efforts to meet this demand. Efforts looking toward public health provoked admiration. Streets, theaters, public institutions and business houses have many clean receptacles for waste, and in all thorofares penalties are exacted for non-observance of regulations. Fountains of distilled water are available for the public in the streets, and the mortality among every section of the community is diminshing and the people are an advertisement of administrative success. The regular army and militia numbers about 560,000, all ranks of the exist- ing army being rapidly reduced to a militia basis. Officers are chosen from the ranks for their ability. The discipline is excellent and all ranks meet on an equal footing in the club. The red army is a formidable weapon but, only in our opinion as regards insurrections and external aggression. We do not believe it is either in a position or willing to take part in an aggressive campaign outside Russia. This does not imply a lack of military spirit, dis- cipline or enthusiasm, but the army like the rest of Russia is weary of war. The successful creation of this army from a war weary, disillusioned, un- disciplined force which was all that remained of the old czarist army, is one of the striking tributes to the ability and imagination of those who have fashioned this new Russia, ‘Tiere 0m De a foun setetagnane ek the nisions erevaemens st, Rae For Instance, all workers, including soldiers, are dally given a proportion of the free seats,in theaters, concerts and cinemas thruout Russia. TI! sia is stable and has come to stay. On that point all opinions worth consider are unanimous. If political and economical developments continue at the present rate, It is quite conceivable that in a few years a system of administration will have evolved not unsuited to the requirements of this extraordinary country of 14, 000,000 square miles and its 160,000,000 people of all kinds and conditions, To judge such a form of administration from the viewpoint of weetern party politics would be to plunge immediately into the realm of false values. Germans and Americans are beginning to enter the field in large name bers. Therefore we suggest that no favorable opportunity be missed for securing between ourselves and Russia a diplomatic and commercial settle ment that will be satisfactory to both sides, for we believe such an opportunity. will shortly present itself. ATA Walter M. Trumbull Hawaiian soldier, recently released from prison for agitation in the army, made this drawing for The DAILY WORKER and says: DIG IN FOR THE DAILY WORKER! “Roll your sleeves up and get on the job! 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