The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1926, Page 2

Page Two EGYPT YIELDS TEMPORARILY TO JOHN BULL Fake Independence Is - Zaghloul Issue (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, England, June 4— The British foreign office has Issued a statement to the effect that Zaghloul Egyptian nationalist leader and former premier, who was deposed after the assassination in 1924 of the sirdar, Sir Lee Stack, will mot take the premiership of the new govern- ment, but that the office will be taken by Adly Pasha, when and if the pres- ent lackey of British imperialism, Ziwar Pasha, resigns. Pasha, British Terrorism, The nationalist party of Zaghloul won an overwhelming victory in the Tecent elections in spite of every ef- fort on the part of the British backers of Ziwar Pasha, the premier and Fuad, the puppet king, to brand the former premier as a blood-thirsty as- sassin. British imperialism used the acquit- tal of six men charged with various political crimes against Britain to again threaten Egypt with the mailed fist. It is probable that the Zaghloulists yielded to the insulting demands of Britain in order to gain time in which to prepare to defend the independence of Egypt against the invader. Fake Independence. “Limited independence” granted Egypt by Britain in 1922 is the most flagrant fraud, some of the conditions being that Britain is responsible for the defense of Egypt (meaning armed invasion under the pretext of main- taining defensive forces in that coun- try), control of foreign affairs, protec- tion of foreigners, protection of the Suez canal and control of the Sudan. Because Zaghloul refuses to accept such terms, Britain claims that he has sacrificed the “independence” of Beypt. The logic of events will drive the Egyptians to take up arms against British despotism and the Baldwin government is rather uneasy about the situation and is preparing for the impending colonial uprising that ap- Dears inevitable at this time. New York Passaic Strike Relief Meeting Postponed to June 11 (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 4.—Meeting for Passaic strike relief, under the aus- pices of Council No, 2, Bronx, of the United Council of Working Class Housewives, which was to be held tonight at Bakers’ Hall, 1570 Web ster avenue, Bronx, has been post- poned to Friday, June 11. QUESTIONS FOR CLASS IN MARX'S ‘CAPITAL’ ON MONDAY, JUNE 7 The class in Marx's “Capital” will meet Monday, June 7, as usual at 8 p. m. at 19 South Lincoln St, New students are welcome to join, The assignment for this week Is from pp 619-944, If possible bring the following questions in writing. Gertrude Brown will lead the dis- cussion. 1. What Is the value of knowing the relative price of labor? 2. Define money. 3. Distinguish between money and capital. What Is a capitalist? 4. On the basis of the first half of the lesson—in what sense is it true that workers are not paid for their labor? o& What Is the source of the money used by the capitalist? (a) for wages, (b) for rent, (c) for machinery, (d) for his individual consup- tion? 6, What are the fundamental con- ditions for capitalist production? 7. What is meant by the per- petuation of the laborer? 8. Explain simple reproduction? 9. What Is the difference, be- tween production consumption and Individual consumption of the ta- borer? How are they inter-related? What is the difference in a Commun- ist society? 10, Define “accumulation of cap- ital,” and compare with simple re- production, IN SPOKANE, WASH. You can buy The Daily Worker and The Workers Monthly at the cigar store of S. P. JACOY, N, 230, Stevens, Drop over for a paper and a smoke! ‘‘Loaned”’ to Peru Commander Harold B. Grow, United States Navy, was sent by his depart- ment down to Peru to organize an alr service for that country. Anybody who thinks this gentleman was “loaned” for nothing, knows little about how United States Imperialism operates in a country with so much good metal and with so many potential and cheap slaves as Peru has, CHICAGO LABOR RALLIES TO AID SACCO-VANZETTI Conference on June 11 to Organize Campaign The campaign of the labor move ment to save Sacco and Vanzett! in- creases its force in the Chicago dis- trict as the various delegates are be- ing chosen by the organizations to the Chicago Sacco-Vanzetti conference to be held June 11 at 8 p. m., at 30 North Well street, in Hall No. 304. The con- ference was initlated by the Interna tional Labor Defense. Dele: s Elected. The Machinists’ District Council, the Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Painters’ Local 194, Hotel and Restaurant Emloyes No. 7, Bakers’ Union No, 237, Watch and Clock Makers, Wood Turners, Wood Carvers’ Association, Painters’ No. 199, the Workmne’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund No, 249, etc., have elected dele- gates. In addition, the 27 organizations affiliated to the I. L. D. locally will, of course, send delegates. These in- clude: Machinists’ No, 84, No. 837, No. 390, the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers No. 39 I. L. G. W. No. 104 and No. 5, branches of the W. S. D B. F,, Workmen's Circle, and others. The conference will go into the Sac- co-Vanzetti case thoroly, with com- plete reports, and take up ways and means of rallying Chicago organiza- tions for a great campaign to arouse public opinion and demand a fair trial and release of the two victims of the Massachusetts frame-up, All labor bodies and sympathetic organizations are invited to send dele- gates to the conference. Meeting In South Chicago. The workers of South Chicago are expected to turn out in large num- bers next Tuesday evening, June 8, to attend a mass meeting of protest against execution of the two workers. The meeting will be held at the Croa- tian National Home, 9616 Commercial avenue at 8 p. m., the speakers being Marx Schachtman, editor o fthe Labor Defender, who will speak in English, and M, Krasic of the I. L. D, who will speak in Croatian, Admission is free, McSWIGGIN AND GUNMEN STUFF BALLOT BOXES As the special grand jury impaneled to investigate the murders of Assist: ant State’s Attorney William H. Mc- Swiggin and his two bootlegger pals neared adjournment, McSwiggin’s name was brought into an election row in which Municipal Judge Daniel P, Trude is demanding a recount of votes, The late assistant state’s attorney is charged with having taken part in in- (imidating voters and election officials. Judge Trude, in a petition asking for the recount, filed in superior court, charges that: “Large numbers of ballots were un- lawfully cast, counted and tallied tor Joseph P, Savage, and among the law- less persons conspicuous for their sin- ister activity was James Doherty, the same man who was recently prose- cuted by William MeSwiggin, and who, after acquittal, was the companion of McSwiggin on a fatal ride in an auto- mobile in Cicero with McSwiggin, James Duff and two other persons whose identity have not been re- vealed; friends im life, companions in death,” |PROGRESSIVES IN IN DEBATE DEFY Johannsen . Challenges Reactionary Leader Chicago carpenters are anticipating the appearance at a mass meeting which is scheduled to be held tomorrow in Douglas Park Auditorium of Charles H. Sands, secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Council of Carpenters, to an- swer a challenge to debate issued by Anton Johannsen, a prominent mem- ber of the carpenters’ union, on be- half of the United Progressive Caucus of carpenters, which is contesting the forthcoming elections with the candi- dates of the conservatives led by Harry Jensen and Mr. Sands. Former §&. L. P. Sands, who is an ex-member of the Socialist Labor Party, once an avowed advocate of revolution and overthrow of the capitalism system, now looks with ill-concealed displeasure on that section of the membership of the crg- penters union which has for its object the development of that organization into a fighting instrument for the overthrow of the capitalist system of exploitation, In fact, union carpenters declare that he does not even stop at attack- ing Soviet Russia, where the workers own and control the government, The Challenge. In a recent speech made by Mr. Sands before Local Union No, 62 he challenged Brother Johannsen to de- bate, charging the Progressive Caucus with» receiving its orders from Soviet Russia, Brother Johannsen immediately ac- cepted the challenge and in a letter to Mr. Sands offered to meet him in Douglas Park Auditorium tomorrow at 4 p.m., Mr. Sands to be free from all liability for expense of the hall. The carpenters are doubtful that Mr. Sands will accept the challenge, A prominent member of the carpen- ters’ union declared to a DAILY WORKER reporter that Sands was once the foe of reformism and was the editor of the Svenska Socialisten, now the Ny Tid, organ of the Swedish language section of the Workers (Communist) Party. Progressive car- penters apply the term ‘renegade” to Mr, Sands because of his retreat from the advanced position which he once held. Elections June 12. The elections for officers of the dis- trict council will be held on June 12. The progressives have a full ticket in the field against the reactionaries, led by Jensen and Sands. UNITED STATES AND JAPAN GET READY FOR WAR Barrage Both Peoples with Patriotism (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, June 4, — That the Geneva “disarmament” parley, where the United States and Japan tried to dis- arm each, is but part of the prepara- tion for war, is seen by the way both nations are preparing their popula- tions by patriotic propaganda for war. Japanese magazine cxrry articles agitating for war upoh the United States. Teisuka Aklyama, who, be- cause of his political influence with the Mikado’s court is called the “Col- onel Honse of Japan,” writes that the warning of war given Secretary of State Hughes in 1924 by Ambassador Hanihara on the occasion of the exclu- sion law, is nearing its fulfillment, “That phrase was a warning from heaven, which God spoke thru the pen of a clumsy diplomat,” he says. Seijiro Kawashima, a famous pol- ftical writer says that the question of population is one of life or death to Japan, “One evil spirit restrains Jap- an’s desire for friendship with Amer- ica, Australia, Africa and others—the United States. Not only do they ex- clude Japanese themselves, but they encourage other to exclude us. Japan can no longer stand such injustice. The Japanese-American war has been decreed by heaven.” This is the Japanese version of the outcome of the imperialist conflict be- tween the two nations for domination in Asia, General Meeting of W. P. in Grand Rapids GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 4, — A general membership meeting of the local Workers (Communist) Party will be held Monday, June 7, 8 o’clock at the down town headquarters, 211 Monroe Ave. As the points on the agenda for this meeting include the election of a new city executive committee, a program for summer activities and further plans for reaching the Grand Rapids quota of 7,000 points in The DAILY WORKER campaign, the at- tendance of each member is absolute- ly necessary. Comrades will show membership card for admittance. Those in arrears may purchase stamps at this meeting. Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop ae ie — eee CARPENTER UNION | 4 SHE DAILY WORKER Rubber Guardian Ever since Herbert Hoover threw a fit about Britain's rubber monopoly, he has been scouting jaround for a rubber expert to look after the sup- plying of American ‘rubber manufac- turers with a cheapér product. From now on Everett G. Holt will act as lialson officer between the rubber grower and the department of com- merce to get cheaper raw gum for Mr. Goodrich and Mr, Firestone. Did you ever hear of the department of labor attempting to get cheaper food for workers? IMPERIALISTS QUARREL OVER OTHERS’ ARMS Geneva Scene of Fake “Disarm” Meeting (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, June 4.+France and the “little entente,” together with Italy, are giving the big boye-of the league of nations conference, on arms a chance to spilt hairs.as all angle for advantage trying to disarm the other fellow while artis sn own forces untouched. The French submitted a definition of the peace-time armaments specify- ing “material and Uve, stock in the service in the army navy and air force in time of What “In Service’ “Leaves Out. It is pointed out t this quietly provided that even battleships made ready for war could be built at will without being counted as armaments “in service” until, when necessary to use them, the fire could be built under the boilers, the flags. . ‘raised and the fleet sent to sea. ‘Tho the doughboy might be listed as the “live stock,” especially when cov- ered with cooties, the French have a provision similar to the one on mate- rials to apply to man power, no re- serves being counted as peace-time forces. This coincidés with the de- sires of the United States, which has no-intention of letting her militarist schemes for a great army reserve be prevented, by the league of nations or anything else. Brazil Plans Strike Breaking. ‘The French proposal provided, how- ever, that police, forest guards and all forces “available without mobilization are to be counted as peace-time forces.” Brazil was afraid that militia reserves called out to break strikes of workers would be counted, there- fore, evidently expecting to break strikes that way, Brazil objected. The French replied :that calling out militia to break strikes was not mo- bilization, therefore such militia had to be counted as peace-time effectives. Brazil was voted down thirteen to four, three, including the United States, not voting. 4 THE SECOND ISSUE OF THE LIVING NEWSPAPER WILL APPEAR TOMORROW In addition to the, picnic and the ninth Issue of the’ Prolet-Tribune to be given tomorréw by the Rus- sian, Ukrainian and Polish workers clubs at Marvel thn Grove, Mil- waukee Ave., opposite Adalbert Cemetery, The DAILY WORKER bullders and worker correspondents jo are going to have their second issue of the English living newspaper. Fred Ellis will be the cartoonist of the living newspaper. Tickets for re for sale at the follow- Workers House, 1902 West Divi- sion St.; Russian Co-operative Res- taurant, 1734 West Division St.; DAILY WORKER office, 1113 W Washington Blvd. Tickets can also be had from the Members of the Russian, Ukrainian and Pollsh work: ers’ clubs, Ticket»bought In ad- vance are 40 cents,, At the gate 50 cents. Bathtub Orgy Not an ' Isolated Incident in Life of Bourgeoisie By J. LOUIS ENODAHL. |APITALIST morality again claims it ‘has been vindicated. WHarl.. Carroll, producer of risque shows on Broadway, has been sentenced to a year and a day's imprisonment, It is risky to go the mit, even on New York’s Great White Way. But it seems that hiring a 17-year-old girl to ‘bathe nude in a bathtub of cham- pagne, while debauched parasites drank their fill, didn’t constitute “the limit.” That came when Carroll, the showman, fafled to tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” to the grand jury that investigated the bacchanal. Sacred capitalist “Justice” must not be trifled with, OO. 6 It is poor old Arthur Brisbane, Hearst's editorial buffoon of the kept press redlights, who whispers: “Mr. Carroll, who hired a girl of 17 to appear naked in a bathtub partly filled with alleged cham- pagne, Is fined $2,000 and sentenced to prison for one year. “But he Is punished for lying to the grand jury, not for outraging public decency and contributing to the degradation of a 17-year-old girl. This is a queer civilization.” LAM, eR Yet it was a Hearst editor, Philip Payne, of the New York Mirror, who was at the bathtub side as a mem- ber of what Carroll calls “ a private gathering attended by ladies and gentleman.” Carroll compared the Hearst-Brisbane kept man with Judas who betrayed the Christ for 30 pieces of silver when he declared bitterly after receiving sentence that: “For 30 picas of type he broke a story which not only broke one of the cardinal rules of friendship, but also proved that a gentleman, who is always a reporter cannot always be a gentleman. I understand that Mr. Payne's salary increases with the circulation of his paper.” oe © Thirty picas of type constitute about five inches in a column. That isn’t much in the day’s work of the capitalist press. No more than the giving of a bathtub orgy is part of the activities of the American stage. But they are symptoms of the disease that permeates both. Hearst started “The Mirror,” a tabloid sheet, to compete with the Daily News, another tabloid, the first of its kind in New York, launched by the Chicago Tribune. The tabloids revel in smut. “Every reporter a snooper!” is the com- mand of the editors that rally the hired writers to their daily tasks. The editor, Philip Payne, was at the Carroll party in his role of “snooper” who knew that five picas of type would quickly expand into many pages of type and pictures as days wore on, the stuff that gets circulation. Carroll dragged the stage into the gutter with his party, in full view of the nation, and thus became part- ner with Payne, the editor of a gut- ter newspaper that finds its suste- nance in the social filth of the capi- talist order that rules in the land. Carroll’s shows cater to the “tired business man” just as the Hearst- Brisbane-Payne newspapers offer So far but three jurors have been chosen in the trial of Martin Durkin for the murder of the red-baiting Fed- eral Agent Edwin C, Shanahan, The three are: Benjamin Affleck, president of the Universal Portland Cement company; John Dyke, loop department store salesman, and William J. Dawe, an industrial engineer at the Western Electric company. The state has announced that these three are acceptable. The defense declares that so far they see no reason to challenge them. The picking of the jury goes on slowly, Most of those called seek to evade jury service, THREE JURORS ARE CHOSEN IN DURKIN: TRIAL Clarence Darrow to Speak in Chicago to Aid Passaic Strikers Clarence Darrow, famous labor lawyer, will speak at the Passaic De- fense meeting to be held Wednesday, June 16, 8 p,m, at the. Plasterers’ Temple Hall, 1644 West Van Buren street. Darrow’s subject will be “The Courts, the Law and the Workers.” The speaker and the subject is ex- pected to attract an overflow audi- ence. But in addition another fam- ous labor orator, Stanley J. Clark, who has been in the struggle with the textile workers of Passaic, will tell the story of “What I Saw in Passais.” WRITE AS YOU FIGHT themselves as narcotics to the fag- ‘ged minds and tired bodies of work- ers dragged thru the daily grind of America’s metropolitan maelstrom. ee Not that the stage generally under capitalism is on any plane higher than the level of Carroll's bathtub, nor the capitalist press as a whole any degree less filthy than the Hearst sheets. They merely try to appear so, veneered with the fake respec- tability that prompted Carroll to refer to his drunken parasite guests as “ladies and gentlemen,” oe The Chicago Tribune, for instance, carefully publishes the Hearst con- nection with the Carroll party, dis- playing its customary “holier than thou” attitude that has placed this self-styled “world’s greatest news- paper” in a class by itself, a class toward which the Hearst sheets aspire. Thus the veneered Tribune, in its more modest black attire, that does not so easily give evidence of mud and filth, proclaims in defense of both stage and the law, that the Carroll incident: “, . « ought to encourage a little more respect for the restraints of common decency in quarters ac- customed to immunity from public criticism which seems to have been abused. “But Mr, Carroll was punished, at least technically, not for scandal, but for false swearing. In this legal aspect of the case, as in the more notorious social aspect, there is acute need of the lesson given.” e¢#+ 8 This is laughable coming from The Tribune, (or it might be the New York Times) with its vicious trail running a broad swath thru Chicago’s whole civic history. When Carroll’s bathtub party and sub- sequent perjury are long forgotten, the workers of Chicago will still re- member the school leases secured by The Tribune thru fraud, that has robbed thousands of the working class children of the little education to which they are supposed to be entitled. Carroll’s crime consisted in getting caught, or in not having sufficient power to bully his way out of a tight situation. In that alone he ‘has set a bad example, and must be punished. But if he will do bet- ter next time, the convict’s stripes he may have to wear will soon be forgotten, eee The Carroll incident is not an iso- lated one. It is just another revela- tion of the decadent bourgeoisie seeking stimulation in its pleasure cesspools. Every day almost the saffron press reveals some new similar incident that raises another stifling stench, In the days before the world war it was the Russian aristocracy that was given full leeway in the licen- tious life of Paris. Now this de- posed aristocracy waits on the new- rich American parasites who have taken their places in the gambling houses, assignation dens and pleas- ure resorts. Carroll’s efforts to bring a bit of this Paris atmosphere to Broadway was not appreciated. But where he failed others will suc- ceed. Parasites under capitalism insist on it, MASSACHUSETTS LABOR INVITED 10 JOIN IN ORGANIZATION DRIVE BOSTON, Mass., June 4.—The committee in charge of the trade union organization campaign for the state of Massachusetts has called a state conference which will be held at Salem on Sunday, June 6 A number of conferences have already been held in the city of Boston. The conference to be held in Salem will be more of a state-wide char- acter. All labor organizations are Invited to send delegates. Further particulars can be obtained from the office of the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor, room 819, 11 Beacon street, Boston; telephone Haymarket 0124, Two Killed When Fast Freight Train Hits Automobile ELYRIA, O., June 4—Mr, and Mrs. George Bengler were killed instantly and their two daughters, aged eight and one, were seriously injured when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a fast freight train at a Big Four crossing at Wel- lington, near here. Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN 1238 Madison Street N. E. Cor, Elizabeth St, Spaghetti and Ravioli Our Spec Special Arrangements for Parties on so. Short Notion senate as well as the primaries, will meet occasionally tn Washington, but most of its investigations will be conducted in the states where “slush fund” charges are made, The democrats, represented by COMMITTEE ON ELECTION GRAFT WILL ACT SOON Will Hold Sessions All Summer (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4.—The senate’s “slush fund” Inquiry, growing out of chi 8 that millions of dollars were squandered in the senatorial primaries in Pennsylvania and Illinois, will get under way as soon as congress adjourns, It was learned today. The investigation will carry the committee into each state where charges exist that “slush funds” were used to influence the electorate in its choice of party candidates for tue senate. Its inguiry will cover dem- ocratic as well as republican primaries but the start will be made in Penn- sylvania, where newspapers declared $5,000,000 had been spent in the Vare- Pepper-Pinchot contest, The committee will function thru- out the summer, keeping a wary ear open to “slush fund” whispers in the campaigns preceding the November elections. Conduct State Investigations. The committee will convene regular- ly thruout the summer, it was said, as the senate gave it authority to in- vestigate.the general elections to the It James A. Reed of Missouri, chairman, and William H. King of Utah, by an alignment with the progressives, will control the committee’s deliberations, the progressives being represented by Senator LaFollette, republican of Wisconsin, Thru this democraticin- surgent alliance, they hope to provide considerable campaign ammunition in the next few months, Pennsylvania First on List. The situation in Pennsylvania will be investigated first. Later, the com- mittee will go to Chicago to determine the truth of reports that from $1,000,- 000 to $1,500,000 was spent in the McKinley-Smith fight for the repub- lican senatorial nomination, Tf $5,000,000 were spent in Vare’s defeat of Pepper and Pinchot, it was pointed out, the amount would exceed the total expenditures of republicans, democrats and progressives in the 1924 presidential election, As com- pared to the last off-year of 1922, the amount would be ten ¢imes,as much as was spent by both the republican and democratic national committees thruout the whole country. In that year, the republicans reported that they spent $489,263 and the democrats reported $114,344, Senator Reed will call a meeting of the committee shortly to map out @ program. “VILNIS” PICNIC TO BE HELD AT STICKNEY GROVE Lithuanian Communists Plan to Launch Daily This month marks six months since the Lithuanfan Communist organ “Vil- nis” came into existence. “Vilnis” started as a weekly during the Palmer “red raids.” From a four-sheet weekly with a few hundred readers it has now grown to an eight-sheet semi-weekly with thou- 8 of subscribers. “Vilnis” now plans to become a daily in September. “Vilnis” is arranging a picnic at Stickney Grove, Lyons, Ill., tomorrow. 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