The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1926, Page 5

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A. the same as the workers have done in Russia.” Rice’s 10 points against a workers’ press caused the audience to laugh continuously, and he even at times had to conceal a little laughter as he progressed tin his arguments. Comrade Snyder replied with sledge- hammer blows to the 10 points against The DAILY WORKER in reply to Rice’s arguments, and when he fin- ished his reply the audience was of one accord, that The DAILY WORKER and a workers’ press was very necessary to combat the lies of of the capitalist press. As each per- son left the hall he was given a sam- ple copy .of.The DAILY WORKER. Quite a number of subs were taken the past few days by Comrade Snyder with -help.by the local comrades for The DAILY. WORKER. funda- organ- Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children By HERMINA ZUR MUHLEN. The most attractive book for workers’ children ever issued. Beautiful stories with over 20 black and white drawings and 4 color plates and cover designs by Lydia Gibson, Duroflex covers}. 75¢, Cloth bound) $1.25. «ois 3 Oil Imperialism By LOUIS’ FISCHER, The inside story of the rivalry between American and British ofl interests for Russian oil, The author presents sensational dis- cloures of the atic maneuv- ers in behalf of the great oil inter- ests in the effort to get control of the oil resources of the world. Price, $2.00, Selected Essays By KARL MARX, A selection of the early essays of Karl Marx, Among them are in- , cluded essays on the Jews, French Materialism, Proudhon, the Hegel- olution and other subjects, Price, $1.75, 1000 WORKER. CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 KLANSMEN FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO CONVICT NEGRO Jury Frees Miner of Murder Charge By a Worker Correspondent. VESTBURG, Pa., June 2.—Robert L. Payne, a Negro coal miner, was dis- charged of all responsibility for the death of Edward White, a klansman and Negro hater, at the grand jury inquest, Died After Drinking Spell, Edward White met his death after going on one of his drinking spells. White had a habit after one of his drinking spells to go around the mine howling that he would kill every Negro in Vestaburg. On May 13 after he got drunk in Fredericktown, he went to the house next to him in which there were three or four Negro families. White stood in front of the house shouting that he was going to kill all of them except six that would be needed for pall- bearers. Robert L. Payne, who was seated on the porch, told White to move on and mind his own business. Unable to Provoke Payne. White, unable to provoke Payne, brought two revolvers from his home and threatened to kill Payne. Payne ran into the house. White followed. Payne seized a shot gun and told White to leave the house as he was determined to protect his wife and children against attack by White. White threatened to shoot. Payne knocked the revolvers out of White's hands. He later gave these revolvers to White’s stepfather. White seeing he was unable to carry out his plans, went back to his home and fell asleep on the porch. He was picked up and brought into his own house in about a half-hour. Klansman Dies. The klansman was found dead in the morning by his roommate. The stepfather then accused Payne of kill- ing his stepson. At the grand jury inquest the step- father and five witnesses gave per- jured testimony trying to blame the Negro miner for the death of this Klansman. The lawyer for Payne and a number of doctors brought out that death was not due to use of any vio- lent means but that it was due to al- coholic poisoning and from going on too many moonshine parties. Negro Workers Aid Payne, The Negro mine workers did not let Payne fight his battle alone. They rallied to the support of Payne. They secured a lawyer to represent him be- fore the grand jury and did all they could to keep him from the gallows. The American Negro Labor Congress also was an important factor in the defense of Payne, Bellingham Plumbers Debate Raising the Union Initiation Fee By B. LEFCOSKI, (Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash. (By Mail).—While recently dn Bellingham I talked with an official of the Plumbers’ Union about how things were going in the local, He told me that a short time ago the local’s meeting, after the usual routine business, discussed a motion to raise the initiation fee from $10 to $25, or even more. This official fought against the mo- tion, on the ground that the union initiation should be as low as possible to get as many of the plumbers in the union as possible. That was the way to make the union strong, he said, as it could not be strong by maintaining a small unit just to raise money. That would defeat the purpose of the union, The one who wanted the motion passed stated that the union should not take any more members, as it had “too many already.” But the official contended, so he stated, that if the union would not take in any more workers who work as plumbers that would not stop them working at the trade, but only compel them to work as sdabs, getting the benefit of the union scale, which ordi- narily determines that even the plumbers who are not members get higher wages than they would if there were no union; at the same time these unorganized plumbers would be for- bidden by the union trom raced union, The union, therefore, be to blame for non-union work, and not the unorganized workers. (Worker correspondents should be careful to include all essential news in their articles. It will be noted that the writer of the above entirely forgot to tell us whether the motion to raise the initiation fee was carried or was lost.—Editor.) THE DAWLY WORKE TENNESSEE LAW THAT LEGALIZES {GNORANCE AND PUNISHES SCIENCE (Special to The Dally Worker) NASHVILLE, Tenn,, June 2, — Tennessee’s famous antl-evolution law, over which the forces of re- ligion and science are clashing, reads: “it shall be unlawful for any teacher in the universities, normal and all other public schools of the state, which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the te, to teach any theory that denies that story of the divine crea- tion of man ag taught In the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from, a lower order of anim: Scg John T. Soppes, a high school teacher at Da; ton, Tenn., was con- victed by a farmer Jury last July and fined $100. He is now a student at University of Chicago. THREE EDITORS FRAMED UP FOR ROUSING LABOR May Be;-Deported by U. S. Government (By ESTHER LOWELL, Fed, Press.) BOSTON, June 2. — Massachusetts has another blasphemy case. Scene: Fall River, town of 110 cotton textile mills. Characters: Three young Por. tuguese mill worker defendants, prose- cuted by the aid of the catholic priest and Portuguese consul. Thru their paper A Luta (The Struggle), the three young workers have been trying to stir the Portu- guese population from stagnation in the industrial’ centers of southern Massachusetts, They wrote about “privileged. classes” and said “Our family is Humanity.” They attacked the immoralities of churchmen when the Fall River priest launched a broadside against the Portuguese theater. There. are 25,000 Portuguese in Fall River, alone and the effects of A Inta’s blasphemy against the church and state were feared by mill owners as well as by the priest and the government. Use Any Old Charge. Anthony Bimba’s case in Brockton proved that blasphemy under Massa: chusetts’ anefent blue law was hard to make stickstoday. So Diaminillo Texeira, De Costa and An- tonio Pe “hot being held di- rectly for ir ‘blasphemy. Massa- chustts al ities even relinquished their first cl of sedition against the workers.) “But the federal officers were waiting &t the court room with their warrardts for the men on a framed up rum-running charge and un- der the federal anti-alien act. Hearings the liquor charge have been post; , the government’s case is so flimsy. But deportation awaits the thiée young workers, and probably theif ‘four associates in edit- ing A Luta, if the federal immigration authorities suéceed in their plans. A Lata’s point of view is that of philoso- phical anarchism and the govern- ment amended its war-time hysteria act in the 1920 deportation delirium to permit the exclusion and expelling of aliens propagating such a view- point. 1. L. D. on the Job. But the Portuguese workers of Fall River are rousing to the fight, Al- ready a branch of the International Labor Defense has been formed and 4 mass meeting with Bishop William Montgomery Brown as speaker plan- ned. The men are out on $3,000 bail each. If immigration commissioner George E. Lilley accepts the case against the workers and forwards it to Washington recommending deport- ation, defense ‘counsel will seek habeas corpus writs when the men are actually called up for deportation. Paes 1 Anata Get your friends to subscribe to the American Workéi Correspondent, The price is only 50 cents a year, | LETTERS FROM OUR READERS Thanks to Comrade Schreiber! Thru the generous donation of R. Schrefber for the purpose of giving subs to workers unable to subscribe at the present time, Theo, Barber was placed on our dist. His letter fol- lows: Dear Sirs :—I desire to express to Mr. R. Schreiber, thru the medium of your paper, the appreciation of myself, and several friends who are desirous of reading a publication devoted to the interests of the working class, but, owing to the misfortune of ill health, are unable, at the present time, to contribute as we would like, to tho support of such a periodical, l assure Mr. Schreiber that his kind- ness will be appreciated by a dozen or more readers, many of whom are former readers of The DAILY WORK- ER, and are impatient to resume their reading of this truly representative standard bearer of our class, With best wishes for success and prosperity for The DAILY WORKER, rR > a el Page Fiv DEMOCRATS PLAN RE-ELECTION OF DEVER AS MAYOR Republicans Split in Many Camps Democrat ward heelers are making plans for the mayoralty elections next spring. A number of the leaders are preparing the ground for the re-elec- tion of Mayor Dever. Barrett-Crowe Candidate. It is declared that if Charles V. Bar- rett is re-elected county reviewer, he will be immediately put forward as the likely candidate of the Crowe-Bar- rett faction in the republican party for mayor, Lundin Backs Robertson, County Reviewer Edward R. Litts- inger and County Recorder Joseph F. Haas are seeking the nomination in the Deneen camp. Dr. John Dill Rob- ertson, who was indicted in school graft charges during Mayor William Hale Thompson’s administration, is being groomed as Fred Lundin’s choice, Brennan May Back Dever, George Brennan, one of the bosses of the democrat party in Cook county, has not declared whether he will sup- Port the candidacy of Mayor Dever or whether he will put forward another candidate. Thompson Hat in Ring. William Hale Thompson, who aided the Crowe-Barrett alliance during the Chicago, county and municipal primaries, is also seeking to be the next mayor of Oil Kaiser Shown as Labor Tyrant in Maryland Rail Strike (Continued from page 1) responsibly squarely on Rockefeller, despite the statement by President Byers of the company that Rockefeller had disapproved of his anti-labor pol- icies. Scabs Caused Wrecks. Ten persons have been killed in ac- cidents on the Western Maryland, and during this struggle, Paddock testified, and 36 have been injured. One wreck alone, which the Interstate Commerce Commission has blamed on ©. E. Massie, strikebreaking engineer, cost the road enough to have paid the 5% ber cent increase in wages—over which the dispute arose—for all its engineers and firemen for five years. “It is absurd,” said Paddock, “to Clatm that a road owned in large part by the Rockefellers, the richest men in the world, is the only Class 1 rail- road in the United States which can- not pay this comparatively modest wage to its engine service employes, “We have been forced reluctantly to the conclusion that it is not a question of ability to pay but rather a determ- ination on the part of the Western Maryland management to wipe out every semblance of: organization among its men. In other words, the Western Maryland is what is called by railroad men a ‘hard boiled road’ Forced Workers to Buy Stocks. Paddock showed that the company still keeps Massie, the strikebreaker who had the $500,000 wreck, and that it also keeps A. Williamson, super- intendent of the Elkins division, and his chief clerk, F, M. Bottner, these two men having been president and treasurer, respectively, of an alleged ofl company that faded away after many employes of the road had been cajoled or intimidated into buying stock, Byers, on the stand, seriously testi- fied that Rockefeller urged on him a Dolicy of conciliation, but he brushed Rockefeller’s views aside. He ordered the engine crews to sign what they call the “yellow dog” contracts, as individual: employes, surrendering all claims that were in dispute. Thirty- six of the men were dismissed when they refused. This lockout then be- came a strike of all train crews belonging to the brotherhoods, Still, he asserted, he was not opposed to unions, Tried to Frame Up Sabotage. W. P. Crabtree, a former brakeman on the road, testified to having seen & strikebreaking official of the com- Dany turn an angle-cock connected with the airbrakes, in an attempt to create the impression that someone had tried to cripple the control of the train while on a mountain grade—in @ case involving a runaway train and wreck. He charged that he was dis- charged for refusing to sign false statements in connection with this runaway. Byers rejected suggestions by Sen, Wheeler that the strike be settled. He said that he had guaranteed perman- ent employment to all his strike- breakers. “Louisville Slugger” ‘Baseball Bats Given Rap by Union Labor NEW ORLPANS, June 2.—The cen- tral trades and labor assembly has notified the New Orleans Baseball Club management that the baseball bats known as “Louisville Slugger,” manufactured by the firm of Hillerich & Bredsbury, is the product of un- organised labor. SEND IN A 8UB! Whether he likes it or not, he will get a good dose of it at the next election. (Continued from page 1.) boy turned round, and saw the motorcycle pass them with a roaring of the engine. follow them!” “It’s a race! It’s a race! Oh, Dad, let’s Dad was not too old to have some sporting spirit left; be- sides, it was a convenience to have the enemy out in front, where you could watch him, and he couldn’t watch you. Dad’s car leaped forward, and the figures again crept past the red line of the speedometer—thirty-five—forty—forty-five—tifty—tifty-five. The boy was half lifted out of his seat, his eyes shining and his hands clenched. The concrete ribbon had come to an end; there was now a dirt road, wide and level, winding in slow curves through a coun- try of gentle hills, planted in wheat. The road was rolled hard, but there were little bumps, and the car leaped from one to an- other; it was armed with springs and shock-absorbers and “snub- bers”, every invented device for easy riding. Out in front were, clouds of dust, which the wind seized and swept over the hills; you would have thought that an army was marching there. Now and then you got a glimpse of the speeding car, and the motor- cycle close beheind it. ‘“He’s trying to get.away! Oh, Dad, step on her!” This was an adventure you didn’t meet on every trip! “Damn fool!” was Dad’s comment; a man who would risk his life to avoid paying a small fine. You couldn’t get away from a traffic-officer, at least not on roads like this. And sure enough, the dust clouds died, and on a straight bit of the highway, there they were—the car drawn up at the right, and the officer stand- ing alongside, with his little note-book and pencil, writing things. Dad slowed down to the innocent thirty miles and went by. The boy would have liked to stop, and listen to the argument inevi- table on such occasions; but he knew that the schedule took precedence, and here was the chance to make a “get-away.” Passing the first turn, they hit it up; the boy looked round every half minute for the next next half hour, but they saw no more of the “speed-cop.” They were again their own law. (To be continued.) BRITISH CAPITALISTS HAIL ENDING OF GENERAL STRIKE AS CLASS COLLABORATION VICTORY Captains of industry in all lands are hailing the end of the British general strike as a victory for class co-opera- tion. Chairman Gary of U. S. Steel, ad- dressing the American Iron & Steei institute, went out of his way to con- gratulate British leaders who settled the strike, adding, “We may hope for immediate, permanent and uninter- rupted peace between employers and employes all over the world.” MacDonald Bosses Lackey This does not differ materially from Ramsay MacDonald's special state- ment for the New York Times. Mac- Donald says in part: “The sharp division between man- agement and workmen must be oblit- erated. It is not only promotion of capable workmen that is required, but a body of workmon must somehow be assured that they belong to the famlly of the firm.” This, says the New York Times, edi- torlally, “marks a sharp break with the traditional socialist doctrine, Em- phasis on reconciliation between man- agers and workers in industry places Mr, MacDonald much nearer the Brit- ish coal owners than it does to Karl Marz.” , Government Shouts In Glee, That the results are worth the price paid seems to bo among Brit- ish apitaliste, Wall Street Journal quotes @ British banker, who suggests that the British government used the subsidy to delay the confiict, affording time to perfect a system for carrying on the nation’s activities when the strike came, and more, Says the banker: “The goVernment wanted more time to make a thorough inves- tigation and to show it had given rea- sonable assistance to the miners. In other words, the government's hands were clean in the matter, and the onus of the strike was placed squarely on the strikers. The result demonstrated that the subsidy was money well spent.” Thus the British government spent over $100,000,000 of public money to prepare the ground for a successful capitalist assault on trade union mili. tancy and then {t co-operated in pres cipitating the gtruggle when every. thing was set. The success this attained raises the question: of future of British trade unionism. Thomas With Rall Barone, But the diehard union s have evidently had to yiekl to thosq employers who believe in conservative trade unions as an aid to capitalism, ©, W. Barron, owner of The Walk Street Journal, says, “Today Thomasy the great head of railroad labor union, and other English Jabor leaders are lined up behind premier t 4 in his efforts to make it clear to ; land that the lesson of the strike be ® lesson of union and good-will tween capital and labor.” — }