The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1926, Page 2

Page Two BOSTON PAPERS. SCREAM DEATH FOR DEFENDANTS Police Busy on New Frame-up Federated Press. BOSTON, June 2—With screaming eight-column headlines, all Boston pa- Pers for two days have been carrying on a most violent campaign of propa- ganda against Sacco and Vanzetti, worse than at any time in the six- year history of the case. Without of- fering a shred of evidence, an explo- sion that wrecked the house of a man mamed Johnson at West Bridgewater is attributed to agitators for Sacco and Vanzetti, State and local police are quoted as blaming Sacco and Vanzetti agitators because Samuel Johnson, whose house Was destroyed, is a brother of Simon Johnson, whose wife was a minor wit- mess against Sacco and Vanzetti. The Police are melodramatically guarding the homes of Trial Judge Webster Thayer and seven supreme court jus- tices. District Attorney Thwarted. District Attorney Wilbur has taken advahtage of the hysteria by calling for the immediate Sentencing of Sacco ‘and Vanzetti. That move has been lefeated by a motion for a new trial Pending before Judge Thayer on the hasis of new evidence shortly to be Tevealed, Newspapers say police are investi- gating a protest meeting at Lawrence to trace a connection with the explo- sion. This meeting was addressed by Wlizabeth. Flynn, Albert Weisbord, Stanley Clark, Joseph Salerno and "INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE MEETINGS TO BE HELD IN CHICAGO THURSDAY, June 3 the Lake View Scandinavian Branch will hold an open air street meeting at Wil- ton and Belmont. 6.8 South Slav Branch. SATURDAY, June 5, the South Slavic Branch of the International Labor Defense will meet at 1806 South Racine Ave. se 8 Finnish Branch Meets, SUNDAY, evening, June 6, at 7 o'clock, a meeting of the Finnish Branch will be held at Imperial Hall, 2409 North Halsted St. + #8 8 Bulgarian Branch. SUNDAY eveningJune 6, at 7 o'clock, the Bulgarian Branch will meet at 816 West Adams St. se * South Side Scandinavian. SUNDAY afternoon, June 6, at 3 o’clock the South Side Scandinavian Branch will meet at 647 East 61st St. GENEVA DEFY IS SIGN OF CHINA'S NEW STRENGTH “Will Tolerate No More Interference” (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, June 2. — Chao Chin-chu, Chinese minister in Italy, has served notice on the powers here that his country will no longer put up with others who discussed the evidence in their continual interference in the in- the case in a logical manner ana | *T?@! affairs of China. called for the continued support of organized labor. Possible Police Move, His statement came after Sir Mal- colm Delevigne representing Great Britain on the opium commission, had # é accused the Chinese government of Nothing would be more fantastic, bi but it is not impossible the police {C°™Tuption in the matter of drug per- will try to frame up speakers to Sacco and Vanzetti meetings and arrest everyone connected with this case, which the American Federation of La- bor has endorsed. zetti a nse committee has struck back at the police in @ statement re- pud mits. “You insult my government and I am not afraid to insult yours,” said Chao Chin-chu. . | forced opium on China in 1840, but The Be0ce- VaR! Se simatite. 1 do so now. Great Britain had “Today,” continued the Chinese rep- ibelous charges and assert- | "°Sentative, “I have the courage to IN BRITAIN I ing that the police make them with. |™#Ke a statement publicly against the out a shred of evidence for the soie | reign interference with China’s in- purpose of exciting prejudice against | ‘©P4l affairs. I can inform the com- the two innocent men in the shadow | Mittee that the time is nearing an end of the electric chair. when China will tolerate any longer FIGHTS UNION JOB CONTROL existence and against which there is mass resentment among all classes of Scale Unimportant If Union Is Crippled the population. . ‘The Structural Iron Workers’ Union of the Chicago district, on strike since Tuesday morning against the open shop Iron League contractors, is in conference with negotiators of the Iron League over the union demand for $1.50 an hour and the right to withdraw from any new work con- tracted for on which non-union men, * The latest news from China is that the Chinese national army, the Kuo- minchun, in receipt of powerful sup- port from Canton and other southern provinces, has fought its way back to positions north and west of Pekin, from which it is threatening the forces of Chang Tso-lin, Japanese sympathizer, now occupying the cap- ital. Wu Pei-fu, former ally of Chang Tsodin ,is unable or unwilling to render appreciable assistance at pres- ent, due to the consolidation of the nationalist forces of workers and peas- ants dn his rear. ing jury. who refuse to join the union, are em- ployed. The Iron League objects to the con- trol of the job by the union more than to the slight wage raise demanded over the old scale of $1.37% an hour, believing that if it can undermine the union it can reduce the wages later. Another factor in the situation is the return to work of some 600 orna- mental iron workers at whose union meeting, it is reported, the vote car- ried to go back “pending adjustment” of their wage demand, which ds the same as the structural iron workers. The structural iron workers point out that their fellow workers in the east and middle west are getting the $1.50 scale, and the sheet metal work- ers are said to have signed a five- year contract at the scale of $1.50 an hour. Missouri Pacific to Buy Capital Stock of Marion Railroad SPRINGE uD, iil, June 2—The Missouri Pacific railroad was author- ized in an order released by the IIli- nois commerce commission to buy all outstanding capital stock of the Mar- ion & Eastern Railroad Company for $190,000, IN NEW YORKI The Next Lecture of the Course of Nine Lectures on COMMUNISM AND CIVILIZATION LEON SAMSON at the LABOR TEMPLE, 244 E. 14th St. (Cor. 2nd Ave.) SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 5 at 8:30 P. M. Subject: “Civilization and the Coming War.” Questions and discussion after the ie 5 issi ot alee é Admiss: god} Cente. | Gurley Flynn, Coyle and Hayes to Speak at Cleveland Protest CLEVELAND, 0O., June 2, — The provisional committee for the organ- ization of the Cleveland Sacco-Van zetti conference, which will hold its first organizational conference meet ing on June 15 at the Insurance Cen- ter building, is also arranging a huge protest mass meeting. The meeting will be held at Moose Auditorium, 1000 Walnut Ave., on Friday night, June 4, at 8 o’colck, A splendid list of labor speakers has been secured for this meeting, in cluding Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who has been connected withthe defense of Sacco and Vanzetti from the time of their arrest; Albert F. Coyle, edi- tor of the Locomotive Engineers’ Journal; Max 8, Hayes, editor of the Cleveland Citizen and prominent in Cleveland labor circles, and James P, Cannon, secretary of the International Labor Defense. The meeting will be presided over by Carl Hacker, secre- tary of the Provisional Committee in Cleveland, PORTUGUESE ARMY IN MARCH ON LISBON T0 ESTABLISH DICTATOR LISBON, Portugal, June 2.—An- other military dictatorship for capl- talist Europe looms today as Gen- eral da Costa concentrates seven army divisions around Lisbon with the Intention announced in a tele gram to the Gabeca government, which was appointed by the retiring president, Machado, that the Cabeca government does not merit the con- fidence of the army and that the army is preparing to set up a gov- ernment of its ewn choloe, COAL SHORTAGE BECOMING ACUTE Move to Import Foreign Coal LONDON, June 1.—The British coal moners have so successfully tied up the coal trade of the island that Premier Baldwin is preparing to sub- mit measures to the house to facili- tate imports of coal trom abroad. Very little foreign coal is now be- ing imported. One of the reasons for this is the solidarity of miners and transport workers on the continnent, who refuse to allow coal to go to England during the strike. The tory press is hinting that lead- ers of the railwaymen will support a policy of free passage and facilities for the transport of foreign coal. 8-Hour Talk. But since the calling off of the gen- eral strike, their prestige with mem- bers of the rail unions has fallen off considerably. However, there is every possibility that’ some of these union heads e given the government private assurances. The English press is carrying on a consistent propaganda for settlement by the introduction of an eight-hour day. It is upon this, more than any- thing else, that the miners are firm. They will not stand for lengthening of hours. Baldwin’s offer of a $15,000,000 temporary subsidy for the coal indus- try expires tonight. There have been very few conferences between the gov- ernment and the miners of late. The miners’ executive remains adamant on its demands, In England, Scotland and Wales, the miners, altho undergo- ing great suffering, are as firm now as they were the day the strike began. JURY PICKING SLOW PROCESS IN DURKIN TRIAL Jury picking goes on slowly in the trial of Martin Durkin for the mur- der of Edwin C, Shanahan, a red-bait- ing department of justice agent. The state’s attorneys seek to get a hang- in the box after the first patel of 10 had been examined. It is believed it may take a week to procure a jury. Dynamite Kelp in Search for Body of Aimee McPherson LOS ANGELES, June 2—Mgre than a dozen charges of dynamite were set off in the dense kelp beds just off Cas- tle Rock, five miles north of Santa Monica, today, in a new effort to re- cover the body of Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson. Captain Fred Henderson, who set off the charges, said he be- lieved the body might be caught in the kelp and the explosions would dislodge it and allow it to rise to the surface, Chicago Heights Jeweler Killed in a Roadhouse Brawl With 20 unset diamonds in his pock- ets, and $3,755 in his’ purse, James Lamberta, wholesale jeweler of Chi- cago, Heights, and Mrs. Crystal Bar- rier, also of Chicago Heights, were shot and killed, and Mrs. Violet Bass, Chicago eHights, was shot thru the right arm as they came out of the Derby Inn, a roadhouse near Thorn- ton, IL Will Investigate Disappearance of Aimee McPherson LOS ANGELBS, June 1.—The first official investigation into the disap- pearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, a female Billy Sunday, was begun by the Los Angeles police department. Captain Cline announced that all witnesses who saw Mrs. McPherson shortly before she entered the surf would be questioned. If any conflict- ing statements result, the matter will be turned over to the grand jury. House Ratifies the French Debt Pact WASHINGTON, June 2, — The French debt agreement, under which France will pay her $4,200,000,000 war debt to the United, States install- ments running over 62 years, was rati- fied by the house. The bill now goes to the senate. Bandits Rob Bank, DALLAS, Tex. June 2, — Four masked white men forced twelve clerks into the vault of the Jefferson Bank and Trust Company, in Oak Cliffe, a suburb, and escaped in an automobile with $20,000 cash, THE DAILY. WORKER Far From the Fight in Chili While the fight between Chili and Peru over Tacna-Arica Is being aggra- vated by the Intérference of the United States that has quite as much at stake in the struggle as either of the Latin belligenents in the form of concessions for railroad construction and nitrate and copper mines, the president of Chili, Arthur Alessandri, is spending a quiet vacation in New York| SCOPES? TRIAL ARGUED BEFORE TENN. COURT Railroad Lawyer Talks . : Against Evolution NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 2.—Pre- luding his attack on the anti-evolu- tion law in defense of John T. Scopes, Clarence Darrow of Chicago touched lightly the capitalist character of the fundamentalists when he sarcastically alluded to the weepy, speech of Ed- ward Seay, counsel for the state, by saying: “I noted that Seay’s,lea for religion almost made him ery, but a mere rail- road lawyer never made me cry.” Darrow closed the arguments for the defense of the young teacher who was absent from the trial,.remaining in mind and of thought gnd of educa- tion,” said: Truth Needs Aid $4 Police. “The theory of our ¢onstitution is that in the competition pf ideas, truth will prevail. We ask is court not to permit the perversion of this prin- ciple to the effect that truth will pre- vail only if enforced by crimina) law.” Hays’ added appealifor “the con- servation of our institutions,” seemed strangely mixed with the same sort of an appeal from youhg William J. Bryan, whose written’ brief for the anti-evolution law stated: “It is the deliberate, thoughtful en- actment of a sovereigtt people, which was designed to protect their children in their own public schools in their belief in the divine origin of man. This act contains the protest of the preponderant religious and moral sentiment of the people of Tennessee against the kind of scientific infidelity that was being taught in their schools,” Charles Strong of New York, rep- resenting the Unitarian Laymen’s League, adopted the middle course of trying to harmonige christianity and science, His paige was that teaching evolution would not interfere with the christian faith of the pupils. For the Unitarians be claimed the unique position of ing in both evolution and ctving Hebei: —~e Cook County Police Investigate ‘tortion by Markham City Cops Investigation into J than 200 complaints of motofists, alleging il- legal cash bond ext nm by motor- cycle police of Mar! City, a new subdivision under independent village Sovernment, near Hf y, Ill, was started by Cook coy high chief of police, Leroy Davi Motorists state led to pay $20 cash’ rested for Speeding, that they were given rest slips; that they were advised not to Bo to court and pay probably $50 more; and that they were arrested even when going as slow as 15 miles an hoyr. Joynson-Hicks Finds ‘Bolsheviks’ Working in Church of England LONDON, June 2,—Home Secretary Sir William Joynson Hitks, noted for making a fool of himself with fairy tales about the “terrible Bolsheviki,” continues in that role by his attack on the section of the Church of Bng- land which is seeking aecord with the man catholic church, Hicks says this, too, is Boluheviemy were compel- is when ar- Australia Helps Point the Way Toward World Unity of the Workers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. “ 4 USTRALIA is a chip ofsthe old British block,” was the com- ment made by A. Losovski, sec- retary of the Red International of Labor Unions, in commenting on the efforts being made by Australian labor to build the unity of the work- ers in countries bordering the Paci- fic Ocean, That was written before Austra- lia’s labor delegate, Mr. Beasley, turned loose the wrath of Australian. workmen on the assembly of the International Labor organization of the league of nations at Geneva. Beasley’s speech at Geneva will no doubt frighten the high official- dom of the American Federation of Labor, that has already turned its back on the proposals of Australian labor for a pan-Pacific conference. The last convention of the A, F. of L, did not take kindly to the pro- posals of A. A. Purcell, coming from the British Trade Union Congress, for world trade union unity, while the offer of pan-Pacific trade union unity seems to fall on equally deaf ears. | Purcell brought his message of unity from Great Britain because it was the demand insisted on by great masses of British workers. Beasley tells the league's satellites at Geneva that it is the Australian workmen who have no confidence in what the labor wing of the league is doing at its headquarters in Switzerland. It is very evident that the American labor officialdom will also begin to move or get out when sufficient masses can be rallied in this country in behalf of world trade union and pan-Pacific unity. see Gompers placed the American Federation of Labor in support of ‘the world war. He had a finger in the Versailles “peace pie” thru his connections with the late President Wilson. He lined up the A. F. of L. for the league of nations and the world court. He dragged it into the so-called “international labor organ- ization” of the league, headed by Albert Thomas, the socialist min- ister of munitions for France during the war. He was the best ally of the Harding-Hughes-Hoover combi- nation in fighting recognition of the Union of Soviet Republics. All of ‘thenr ae Wldehor. Made Pred eHE GRR regime. The A. F. of L. joined and dominates the pan-American Fed- eration of Labor in the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine of American im- perialism, seeking to subjugate the workers of the rest of the western hemisphere to its reactionary will., We yer Beasley attacked the “labor bureau” of the league, declaring the report of the president was nothing but “statistics,” which could have been brought to the attention of the various governments in the form of a booklet instead of assemb- ling a vast conference. What the people wanted from the labor bureau, he said, was not ‘statistics, but action to ameliorate labor con- ditions thruout the world. To be sure the labor bureau has made Investigate Passports of Those Attending Eucharistic Congress WASHINGTON, June 2.—Passports granted to delegates to the Eucharist Congress, soon to convene in Chicago, are to be subjected to close scrutiny as a result of reports that “irregular- ities” were being practiced which would permit the entry of many Ital- jan immigrants, now barred thru the iggy restrictions of the immigration law. Sufficient evidence of these “irregu- larities’ has been developed, it is un- derstood, to lead American authori- ties in Italian ports to make a thoro investigation, Christian Cowardice Before Imperialists Angers Mohammedans DAMASCUS, Syria, June 2—An- gered by the submission of the Chris- tian element to the terms of the French imperial high commissioner, Henri de Jouvenel, the Mohammedans -{and Druses are not only objecting verbally but rallying their religious followers to fight to the last against any acceptance of a rule by French bayonets, however sanctified as a man- date by the league of nations, INVESTIGATE LEGALITY OF COOLIDGE’S ORDER BEHIND CLOSED DOORS WASHINGTON, June 1—Behind closed doors the senate Judiciary dub-committee began its investiga- tion into the legality of President Coolidge’s order penmitting the en- listment of state officers as federal some gestures. At its first meeting in Washington it “resolved” for the universal eight-hour day. But it hag made no effort to exert any real pressure upon the governments in various countries to put it into ef- fect. The universal eight-hour day remains now as much of a dead let- ter as ever, especially with the sub- siding of revolutionary ferment in some Huropean countries and a partial stabilization of capitalism. Beasley told the Geneva gather- ing: “In that which concerns the pre- vention of wars we Australian work- men have not any great confidence in what you of the countries of Bu- Tope are doing here. We have ac- cordingly taken the initiative in con- voking in Honolulu a workmen's conference, because we have the im- pression that the next war will break out on the Pacific Coasts.” fll RS. That is not the statement of what is considered in Australia as a “left winger.” No militant, not even from Australia, would be allowed to make the trip to Geneva, Switzerland, to taunt the labor puppets of the Ver- sailles imperialists in their home lair. Beasley is a right winger in Aus- tralia. This is brought out by the tact that he mentions the Honolulu conference, in Ndvember, and not the Trade Union conference of the countries bordering the Pacific call- ed by the Trade Union Council of New South Wales, to be held at Sydney, in July. Invitations to the Sydney conference were sent to la- bor in China, Japan, Russia, India, South Africa, Java, the South Sea Islands, South America, Canada, North America and England. The New South Wales trade unionists are building their conference on the broadest possible base. This is not to the liking of the right wing in control of the Australian Labor Party, the leaders of which are carrying on a campaign against the Jeft trade unions, which includes ‘the New South Wales trades coun- cil. eee The only conclusion to be drawn is that the Sydney conference is in earnest in its fight against imperial- ism in the Pacific. The MecDonalds “@ita 2 nvumavED VE UDC WOU sabotage this struggle with their Honolulu conference. Yet they are dragged along by the irresistible strength of this mass movement of labor, They cannot hold it back. . ss Labor in the United States got beyond its own borders thru partici- pation in the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor. Here it must cease to act as a conservative, paralyzing influence. It must also broaden its view to include enthusiastic support of the Pan-Pacific Federation of La- ‘bor. But these should be only steps toward full American participation in real world trade union unity that must come, Australia, “a chip off the old British block,” that chal- lenged its imperialism with a gen- TRAINING FOR WAR VETERANS TO BE STOPPE Many Will Not Be Able to Finish Courses (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, June 2—Unlese congress enacts eleventh hour legis- lation many veterans of the world war will be unable to complete vocational training that will enable them to take their places In the ranks of useful workers, It was learned today. These veterans, many of them wounded and permanently disabled, will be thrown into the streets, after spending many months and in some cases years in an effort to learn a new trade or occupation that will enable them to live in spite of their in- firmities. The Coolidge administra- tion does not believe in spending money on rehabilitating the veterans of past wars, but in lavish expenditure for future wars. The veterans are considered no more worth of consideration than worn-out guns and other war material. Many Affected. About 6,000 ex-soldiers are now in vocational training schools, A major- ity will not be able to graduate by June 80 when, under the present law, training must end. By June 30 vocational training will have cost the government approx- imately $645,000,000. Abolition of vocational training will reduce government expenditures over $50,000,000 a year, according to offi- cials, altho it was anticipated that in case of failure of legislation extend- ing the courses at the present session of congress, it would again be pro posed next December. USE UNTESTED MILK TO MAKE DAIRY PRODUCTS Govt. Officials Fail to Aid Farmers Nearly three-fourths of the milk that was barred from Chicago as com- herds that were not tested erculosis is being used in the making of butter, cheese, evaporated milk, oleomargerine and to a certain extent in ice cream, declared Mr. Herman N. Bundesen, Chicago health commissioner, Ship Near Chicago. The remainnig 25 per cent of this milk is being shipped into towns near Chicago, Cicero, Elgin, Berwyn, Evan- ston, Hawthorne, Villa Park are some of the towns that are getting the un- tested milk. Aurora has already pass- ed an ordinance to guard itself against ‘untested milk, Companies that use untested milk in their products are not allowed to buy the milk on a sweet milk basis. The farmers are allowed to sell it only as butter fat. Where previously the farmer sold milk $2.50 a hundred assembly, in which he denounced all attempts at modification of the dry laws and urged a more strict enforce- ment of the Volstead act. have him enter their state in an ef- fort to defeat the proposal that will be submitted to the voters asking] “Say it with i bedi y It with your pen in the worker eral strike, helps point the way. TRAIN KILLS MOTHER AS SHE SAVES HER 7-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, June 2.—Mrs. Rosa Stolar, widowed mother, sacrificed her life to save that of her 7-year‘old daughter, when the two were trapped on the track of the Pennsylvania rail- road at Duquesne, near here, Mrs. Stolar was taking her daugh- ter from their home. After waiting fo an eastbound train to pass, the two walked on to the tracks, unaware that another train was approaching from the east. Realizing her plight, Mrs, Stolar, without @ moment's hésitation, hurled, the little girl to safety beyond the track as the train thundered down on the mother. ¢ Drys Propose Senator Borah as Presidential Candidate for 1928 WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.—The dry forces centering around the Anti- Saloon League, Women’s Christian Temperance Union and other such or- ganizations, have begun to rally about Senator William B. Borah and pro- pose that he be the republican presi- dential candidate in 1928. This move of the drys came after @ speech made by Borah in Balti- more before the presbyterian general weight today for the same amount of milk as butter fat he receives but $1.50, Dairy Inspection, The state and the federal authori ties have taken no eteps to aid the dairy farmers in getting their herds tested. Many of the farmers are fac- ing bankruptcy because of this action of the federal and the state officials, “Ma” Ferguson and Dan Moody in Texas Gubernatorial Fight AUSTIN, Texas, June 1,—Attorney General Dan Moody, announces @ wager made between him and Gov, Miriam A. Fergusan.’ It the present governor wins by 25,000 in the gubernatorial primaries, July 24, Moody declares that he will resign, If Moody wins, “Ma” Fergu- son has declared she will resign. The acceptance of the challenge means that whichever party loses they will go out of office, but tempor- arily as they will be able to par- ticipate in the runaway primaries on August 20 if mone of the candidates receives a majority of the votes cast in the first primary. . * Taylorville Miners * ° 7 Aid Passaic Strike TAYLORVILLE, Ill, June 2, —(FP) Notwithstanding the unemployment among Illinois miners the past two years, Local 3473 of the United Mine Workers with headquarters at Taylor- ville voted to send $1 per member to the Passaic textile strikers, who have been out 4 months trying to regain a | wage cut and obtain recognition of their union. The sum amounts to $200, . “We hope all other local unions will follow suit,” Local 8478 declares. The New York drys are planning to correspondent page of Y on the modification | \ > eae