The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 22, 1926, Page 3

MEXICAN ATTACK | SHOWS PURPOSE OF EUCHARIST Bolshevik Bogey Raised by, Prelates (Continued from page 1) has given an interview which is evi- ently the beginning of a campaign of (propaganda against the Mexican gov- ernment. “The church in Mexico lives in a state\of utter persecution which finds its every activity handicapped,” said the spokesman. “The facts of the sit- uation are that the Mexican govern- ment has. decided to eliminate the church in Mexico.” “Secret Agent” Tales, ‘Tales are being circulated of Mex- ican “secret agents” who are in the ‘city to watch the action of Mexican wlergy attending the congress. One of the delegates, Archbishop Orosczo, claims he was dragged thru the streets of Mexico “in chains.” “Moscow's Hand” “Moscow's hand” is revealed again, The church is going into its anti-Mex- joan propaganda with a vengeance and 4magination unrestrained. The same “high and widely respected church- man”, continues, “There is only one agency which san save the Mexican pation from radicalism and that is the young catholic layman. Moxico is the center of an extensive movement by which Moscow hopes to invade the United States with bolshevism.” Self Expose. The church is vigorously denying that it is using any other than “spir- Itual and educational methods” in Mex- fico, and yet out of the mouth of one ‘of the highest of the visiting prelates, plainly a spokesman for the sacred college, comes the story of the politi- cal activity of the Mexican catholic church against the government of Mexico, Chicago has been turned over to the catholics. Hundreds of thousands of the “faithful” have flocked to the city for the ceremonies. The eucha- ristic colors, yellow and white, are to tbe seen everywhere. In the loop and on the boulevards motorcycle police- men are to be seen racing at high wpeed and ‘clearing the traffic with sirens for rich limousines carrying this or that cardinal from one churhe to another, 6,000 Masses. Sunday morning 6,000 masses were sung in almost 400 churches im the Chicago archdiocese with hundreds of prelates from ‘all over the world of- ficiating. Cardinal Mundelein: of Chi- cago has stated that communion will tbe-given to 1,000,000 catholics during the congress. Given the Keys. On Saturday night, Mayor Dever of ‘Chicago and Governor Len Small of Illinois, accompanied by hundreds of city and-state officials, gave the key of the city and state to the churchmen at a great gathering in the auditorium. More Ring Kissing. The dozen or more cardinals from the United States and the principal! countries of Europe are followed every- where by throngs seeking to kiss their episcopal rings. One of the cardinals visited the stockyards. The catholic workers milled and kneeled about him, touching his robes and kissing his rings. President Coolidge sent a note of regret that he could not be present at the congress. Pierce Butler, justice of the United. States Supreme Court, arrived today. He will be the princi- pal speaker at one of the ceremonies on Tuesday at Soldier’s Field. Pope’s Blessing. Two messages have thus far been received from the pope, praising the “great republic” and bestowing his apostolic blessing upon the partici- pants of the congress. It is estimated that almost a million visitors have arrived in Chicago to witness the medieval ceremonies at Chicago churches and the mass rites in the completely rebuilt archdiocese center at Mundelein, Ill, PLOT TO KILL KEMAL PASHA, PREMIER OF TURKEY, 1S THWARTED CONSTANTINOPLE, June 20— A plot to assassinate Mustapha Ke- mal Pasha, by a bomb, has been dis- covered at Smyrna, A number of ar- rests have been made. Mustapha Kemal was said to have been the object of a bomb plot when he visited Smyrna a year ago. TWO HIGH PRELATES HERE FOR EUCHARIST IN POLITICS AT HOME COOLIDGE MAY BIVE ALL LAND TO PERUVIANS As Arbitrator Has the Power to Make Award WASHINGTON, June 20.—Peru is being agitated quietly by the Wall Street interests to appeal to Coolidge, as arbitrator in the Tacna-Arica dis- pute with Chile, to issue a decree sim- ply awarding the territory to Peru, on the grounds of the claim that Chile made the plebiscite impossible by in- timidation and violence towards Peru- vians, While General Lassiter, the plebis- scite supervisor named by Coolidge, is leaving for home with Chile's rejection of his aid in any further ne- gotiations, Coolidge still remains the arbitrator and has a formal right to settle the boundary lines according to his own desires, Coolidge either has to proceed on this line or disclaim any further inter- est in the dispute and resign as arbi- trator. General Wood Trying New Trick to Defeat Philippine Freedom WASHINGTON, June 20.—(FP)—As forecast two months ago by the Fed- erated Press, Representative Bacon of New York has introduced a bill to divide the government of the Philip- pines, setting up a “Moro province,” including the island of Mindanao, the Sulu and Jolo groups and other islands inhabited by Mohammedans. This is one of the bills brought back Cardinal Reig Archbishop of Toledo and leader of the catholic party in Spain is a sup- porter of the dictatorship of Primolrrom Manila last fall by Bacon after he De Rivera, who in turn is a stool of] aq been a guest of Governor General the industrial interests of Spain, Leonard Wood. Its purpose is to make Py impossible the independence of the islands by cutting them in two and creating a purely colonial type of gov- ernment in the Moro half. Under this Wood-Bacon plan, the Moro province would be ruled by a governor, secretary, attorney, treas- urer, director of education and engi- heer, appointed by the president of the United States, and acting with the auditor of the Philippines, who is likewise appointed in Washihgton. All would be American citizens, and all but the auditor would be members of the legislative council which would make the laws. Three other members of this council would be permissible, they to be Philippine citizens named in Washington. This bill, like the Philippine auditor bill reported from committee in the senate, will be brought up next winter for passage. Banker Thinks Stock Buying Workers Will Be Against Unionism NEW YORK, June 20.—Phillip W. Haberman, vice president of the Com- mercial Investment Trust, Inc., says Cardinal Piffle Archbishop of Vienna, is the deci-/that “installment buying is making sive, altho not public, head of the powerful clerical party in Austria which is one of the sustaining influ-| and customers, ences of the reaction in a country that] “The three largest industrial corpo- has one of the largest organized labor|yations in the country—the United movements in the world. States Steel Corporation, the Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany, and the Standard Oil Company (N. J.)—have a total of 123,670 em- ployes owning stock, a large part of which was purchased on installments. The Pennsylvania railroad added over 19,000 employe-stockholders to its al- ready large list by encouraging them to buy stock thru two organizations operating on the time payment plan. By this method, also, 11,000 employes of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com- pany were able to join the number of stockholders in that company in 1925. “As a result, the laborer is encour- aged to be thrifty, and the corporation achieves greater efficiency arising from bettter industrial relations.” possible the wide distribution of the stock of corporations among employes Five Passengers Are Burned to Death in U. P. Pullman Car LAS VEGAS, Nev., June 20.—An in- quest will be held today into the fatal burning of five passengers in a Union Pacific Pullman car yesterday at Crys- tal, Nev., about midway between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. The bodies, held here for the in-~ quest, have been partially identified today. Defective wiring in the roof of the tourist car was believed to have been responsible for the fire which charred to cinders the five sleeping passengers. News of Land Grant Steal Arrives Fifty- Nine Years Too Late WASHINGTON, June 20.—(FP)— Testimony by D. F. McGowan, counsel for the Forest Service, June 15, before the joint congressional committee in- vestigating the Northern Pacific land grant frauds, was that the promoters of the road stole from the company $49,000,000 of its $100,000,000 stock. On Jan, 18, 1867, they issued this to themselves as paid up stock for which the company received nothing. Con- struction was thereby delayed, but their lobby in Washington secured Dynamite Wrecks Los Angeles Theater Bldg. LOS ANGELES, June 20.—Five ter- rific explosions of dynamite wrecked the Brooklyn Theater building early today, rocking the entire Boyle Heights distrtict. Police investigators found more than 100 sticks of dyna- mite, with fuses attached, scattered about portions of the block left stand- ing. The entire building had been plant- ed with dynamite and floors in the upper rooms and an adjacent ‘candy store were soaked with gasoline. THE DAILY WORKER GALESBURG HOSPITAL NURSES STRIKE; SEEK 22 SCABS IN CHICAGO (Special to The Daily Worker) GALESBURG, Ill, June Twenty-two nurses in training at the Galesburg Cottage Hospital have gone on strike. Maynard Swanson, president of the hospital board, threatens to abolish the 20.— | ae et training school. The girls walked out in sympathy with a fellow nurse who had been denied a certificate of graduation. Physicians and intennes took over the duties of the strikers until a sufficient number of graduate nurses willing to scab can be re- cruited here and in Chicago. CHILEAN STATES FRIENDSHIP FOR U, S, DESTROYED Riles Kellogg Into a Propaganda Spasm WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20.—The former president of Chile, Arturo Ales- sandri, has issued a statement here in which he flatly declares that jus- tice has been denied Chile in the mat ter of the. Tacna-Arica dispute, and the the United States has lost the friendship-of his country. Meanwhile, Secretary Kellogg, in a huff over the loss of United States imperialism’s prestige, is issuing un- official statements attempting to pic- ture the popular demonstrations in Chile against the attitude of General Lassiter as “threatened violence” to the person of his precious general still remajning in Santiago. Officially, the state department maintains “silence.” The United States cruiser ‘(Galves- ton” has arrived at Santiago to take the unsuccesssful general back where he came from, providing Chile does not change its mind before the five- day period‘ expires. Both Lassietr’s residente’’and that of the Peruvians are guarded by Chilean troops, to in- sure no hafm befalls them. Dresden and Prague Partly Under Water in European Floods BERLIN, June 18.—Continuous heavy rains brought rivers in Germany to their highest mark in twenty years today. Many of the rivers have over- flowed theirsbanks and flood conditions in many parts of the country are seri- ous. Thé‘@amage to property is very large. Parts of Dresden were report- ed under’ water. PRAGUE, June 18.—Immense dam- age to crops and property has been wrought thruout Bohemia by floods which*continued to grow worse today. Prague itself is partly under water and scores of residences have been abandoned! Street car traffic has been suspended)and the river Moldau is rising steadily. Floods have also dev- astated huge farm acreage in Moravia. New York Butcher Workmen Seek to Organize Unorganized NEW YORK, June 20.—Butchers Union, Local No. 19, A. F. of L., is striving to organize the butcher work- ers here. The standards of the New York butchers has steadily been de- clining for the last five years. Dur- ing slow seasons the bosses take ad- vantage of the workers’ plight, forc- ing them to accept miserably low wages. This is as a reseult of no organization since 1920, The approxi- mate wage is $38 a week for 68 to 70 hours’ hard work. Housewlves can co-operate by shop- ping early and demanding union show- cards at the markets. The local union meets on the sec- ond and fourth Thursday of each month at Bibor Temple, 243 East 84th street, at $p. m. Initiation is free for a limited fime, CHICAGO SCANDINA The Seandinavian section of the Voreign-Born, which was organized May 23 with a large number of local —$<—$—$—$—+; SECOND FOREIGN-BORN CONFERENCE ON MONDAY, JUNE 28, AT LINK’S HALL end of the Pittsburgh-Washington Express near As usua the workers who ran the train. GARY BUILDING TRADES BATTLE THE OPEN SHOP U. S. “Conciliator” on Scene of Lockout Blairsville, Pa. FOOD COSTS SIXTY-SIX PER GENT ABOVE 1913; 6 PER CENT OVER 1925 WASHINGTON, June 20. — The retail. cost of food to the average family jumped over 6-4 per cent since May, 1925, while there has been an increase of 662-3 per cent since May, 1913, the department of labor announced today. A _ slight drop, amounting to three-fourths of 1 per cent, was reported In May. During May the average cost of food decreased in 39 selected cities. Among them were: Boston, 3 per cent; Omaha, 2 per cent; Chicago, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwau- kee, Minneapolis, and Springfield, lll, 1 per cent; St. Paul, and Wash- ington, less than five-tenths of one per cent. Eleven cities reported food price increases, among them were: Louls- ville, 2 per cent; Baltimore and Cin- cinnati, 1 per cent; New York, Phi- ladelphia, San Francisco, less than five tenths of 1 per cent, (Special to The Dally Worker) GARY, Ind., June 20.—B. M. Marsh- man, commissioner of conciliation of the United States department of labor is arriving here to attempt to settle the lockout of the building trades unions by the contractors of Gary in an effort to force the open shop on Gary labor. While labor observers, who have seen that the government usually “conciliates’ in favor of the bosses, the Building Trades Council is willing to enter a conference with Marshman and the contractors. Straight Open Shop Fight. That Gary labor is fighting against a straight-out open shop movement is clear from events as commented on by the following statement by the Fifteen persons were killed and fifty seriously injured when the Cincinnati Limited crashed into the ream 1, the company Is laying the blame en Those accused are dead and make it easy for the road to dodge all blame. Passaic Relief Work Must Continue Thra — Organized Support (Spegial to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N, J., June 20—The neefig of the Passaic strike relief work must continue to enlist the whole-hearted aid of the working class. Many of the unions are now sending in thefr third and fourth contributions, amd are promising to keep up the good work. Among the large donations during the last week are: Yiddish Literary and Dramatic Circle, Elizabeth, N, J, $125; Ida Hoffman, collection at Kin derland, N. Y. C., on an outing on Decoration Day, $67.10; United Re- lief Committee of Brockton, $86; Amalgamated Public Service Workers’ Union, N. Y. C., $33.40; Moving Pie ture Machine Operators of -U. 8. and Canada, Chicago, Il, $50; Workmen’s Circle, Winnipeg ool, $50; Ladies’ Auxiliary of the U. M. W.. of A., Shea- town, Alden Station, Pa., $25; Local Union U. M. W. of A., Alden Station, Luzerne Co., Pa., $2 SEND IN A SUBI Building Trades Council: “The government conciliator of labor got in touch with Mr. Boron, secretary of the Contractors’ Associa- tion, and made an especial request that all action be deferred pending his investigation, and he would have an international officer here with a possible assurance of getting an ad- justment. The Contractors’ Associa- tion ignored the request of the repre- sentative of the government by im- mediately declaring a lockout on the trades to force a disagreeable situa- tion on them. Bosses Violate Contracts, Even “Bona Fide Ones, “Bach building trades craft has an agreement made, approved and signed by both the craft and its employer, to continue in force for a period of one year, neither party to violate same. It is a bona fide agreement. Now the general contractors are in- WIN BOTH BEFORE JULY 4th Be x A RE AP AR 2h A REN BS RONNIE ttc: le ee cD SY ADA STREETS sistent that the employer and crafts- man must violate this agreement.” The contractors, who don’t seem to regard “bona fide” agreements in such a religious way as do uinon officials, tried to force non-uinon glazed sash on union workers. That is what the open shoppers used as an excuse to begin the lockout. The unions, which declare that the material men are forced to close by the contractors upon whom they are dependent, add that if Gary material men do not open up, they will supply material from Chicago yards to all contractors who want to go ahead with union workers, You'll be proud of this book. 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Rostrom, secretary of the Scandinavian council, has announced in an oe 4 interview that a second conference has already been called for June 28, 8 ¢€OmMPANY |UNION WORCESTER, Ma: June 20,—Dis- missal of Miss Beatrice Dominis, a young colored woman, from her posi- tion as a public school teacher here, is being contested. A protest mass meeting has been held against her dis- missal. Miss Dominis declares that she was demoted to the status of substitute teacher, without any charge of inef- Md ficiency or other fault being made, } By oo = = ian bya a kia and that she was told by school of- ) conclusions 25 ist fictals that the action was due to her \ by Cc ts 156 W. Washington St. color, WILLIAM Z, FOSTER. Chicago, Ill. We need more news from the shops and factories, Send it Int Pp. m., at Link’ shall, 3435 Sheffield avenue. The call has gone out to hundreds of local lodges in Chicago and surrounding territory, The Couneil has a very active pub- licity committee, which will send out a monthly bulletin to organizations and newspapers all over the country. It will be issued in Swedish and Nor- wegian-Danish, Most of the leading Scandinavian newspapers showed their interest in the subject; by publishing a one to two column long report on the forma- tion of the: gouncil, The seoretary also expressed his hope that) similar councils will be formed in most Scandinavian at , of the United States during the sum- mer. The president of the council is At- torney William Bauer, representing the Danish-American Sick Beneficial Society, one of the most important Scandinavian organizations. 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