The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1926, Page 3

od MANY HUNDREDS IMPRISONED IN BRITISH JAILS Even Strike Bulletins Called “Seditious” LONDON, July 6.—In addition to the 1,000 striking miners the secre- tary of the union announces are in prison under the “E. P. A.” (emer- gency protective act), hundreds of other workers, some of them members of other unions, sympathizers, and large numbers of Communists, are in jail or awaiting sentence under this act, similar to the infamous “espion- age law” of the United States. Thomas Alfred Jackson, editor of the Communist ‘Workers’ Weekly,” is serving two months’ sentence at Marylebone prison for a charge made against him ‘under Clause 20 of the E. P. A, for —‘having in his possession and under his control documents like- ly to cause disaffection.” These were nothing, but strike bulletins, contain- ing some of the reports current dur- ing the general strike about a mutiny of the Welsh Guards, and articles on scab, transport, etc. Jailed For Criticizing Bad Leaders. One of the most glaring examples of persecution is that of a worker named Birkhead at Pontefract, who was jailed under HB. P, A., under a charge of “attacking trade union leaders” when he criticised the treachery of tha Trade Union Council for calling off the general strike. He was re- leased on bail only on condition that he refrain from such. criticism and now sentenced to three months in prison at hard labor. David Evans, a’ steel worker of Gorseinon, was charged under the E, P. A. with having in his possession seditious books “likely to cause dis- affection among the civil population.” Fifty dollars and costs. Railwayman Fined. Alfred Walter Wood, a railwayman, who playfully drew a picture of a tomb- sténeyon the mess-room wall at Clap- ham Junction station, inscribed as “Sacred to the memory of Claude Gaster and Reginald Andrews who worked to dealth scabbing on their mates in the national strike,” got $20 and costs, with the judge remarking that this was “lenient.” England is full of such cases of which the above are examples given to illustrate the workings of HE. P. A. against the workers. ATHEISTS SUE PREACHER FOR LIBEL DAMAGE * Judge Puts Plaintiffs at eet Disadvantage NEW YORK CITY, July 6.—Five students of the University of Roches- ter are seeking the services of Arthur Garfield Hays, who was one of the attorneys for the defense in the Scopes evolution case in Tennessee, in their suit for $10,000 damages against Clinton Howard, a preacher of Rochester, who last March in a sermon, copies of which were given to the press, declared at the Memorial Presbyterian church that these boys, who are atheist members of what they term the “Damned Souls Society,” were perverts, moral degenerates and morons. pial Partisan Judge. Their suit was entered at the time in the Rochester courts, but State Supreme Court Justice Adolph J. Rodenbeck, ordered the boys to prove that the belief in atheism is “normal,” thus putting them under great disad- vantage in establishing that they are not “perverts.” ‘The case will be heard in the Fall, and although Mr, Hays is out of the country, the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, of 49 Vesey street, promised Salvatore Russo, the boys’ representative, that the association would aid their case in what promises to be another Scopes affair. Russo says the “Damned Souls Society” has about sixty members in the various colleges. Unemployment Inere: PORTLAND, Ore.—(FP)—Surplas of labor is reported from almvet all the dogging districts of the baaific northwest. A number of camps and sawmills have closed down, the com- pany union of the lumber interests «announces, WU SUPPRESSES UNION OF CHINESE | a Displaced by Caillaux Altho Aristide Briand, shown above, is the premier, the real dictator in France is Joseph Caillaux who has been chosen by French big business to go the limit in getting France out of the ditch. One of his proposals is a “liberal” interpretation of the eight-hour day and increased taxes for the workingcelass. HAITIAN TELLS STORY OF HIS NATION’S SUBJECTION TO U. S. IMPERIALISM; BORNO DISLIKED By HENRY CH, ROSEMOND. (First Advisor of the Haitian Patriotic Union of New York and Sec- retary of the Haitian Society of National Welfare.) ‘We will use the opportunity while Louis Borno, so-called president of Haiti, is parading the streets of.ithe United States, to expose a few facts of the misery suffered by the Haitian people from American occupation, pro- tected by him as a destroyer of Haiti. Haitian. newspapers have several: thes published the fact that Mr. Borne is not a Haitian at all, but a miserale French subject, and a tool in the hands of General John Russell, so-called “high commisioner” of the island. President—But Not a Citizen. Mr. Borno is not a citizen of the Haitian republic of which he is sup- posed to be president. I believe that the idea of his voyage to Washington was to try to prove to President Coo- lidge that his father was a Haitian. I want everyone to know ‘that this traitor has not been able to produce any papers to show that the is Haitian, unless he made them himself—or found them in ‘the kitchen of the na- tional palace at Port-au-Prince some morning before the rubbish man passed. Mr. Jules Morau, now living in Mon- treal; Albert Martin, living in Cuba; and many others in the cities of Haiti who have known Mr. Borno ever since he was a kid before his father natur- alized himself as a Haitian; those who knew Borno when he was study- ing law, when he was down on his luck, before and after he as a teacher at the College Loverture (one of the preliminary schools), all say“that Mr. Borno has always been jterrible hypocrite and dotible-crosser. | Stool Pigeon for Both, All these people claim that Mr. Borno has shown. himself q consci- enceless trickster ever since, he en- tered politics and that during the “Civil War of Mars” in 1883, between the two largest political parties, the Nationalists and the Liberalists, Borno was a wonderful spy—to both of them. On October 10, 1924, after ten years of torture, the Haitian people, hope- fully expecting the immediate evacua- tion of American troops from their re- Public, were struck again with sorrow when General John Russell, the big fish of that little nation, announced that he and his gang were in Haiti for ten years more—the American gen- eral of marines having got a “renewal of the 1915 agreement”—secretly fixed up with the ex-president, Jhilipe Su- RAILMEN AT BRITISH REQUEST PEKING, July 6—(FP)—General Wu-Pei-Fu, British favorite in the Chinese military leaders’ struggle for control of the country, has ordered the suppression of the employes’ unions on the Peking-Hankow railway, The labor union movement in China was encouraged by General Feng Yu Hsiang, leader of the national armies, who was looked upon as a friend of Russia. Labor leaders blame the British chamber of commerce in Hankow—the the city which is at once the interior stronghold of British capital and the political stronghold of Wu, for his anti-labor activities. The British Cigarette Co, arranged a $4,000,000 loan for Wu, and the chamber openly offered him its support, | In return, it is anticipated that Wu will undertake to deliver a moré docile quality of cheap labor to British industrial concerns in central and northern China, |INDICT COUNTY ATTORNEY UPON PERJURY CHARGE Was Partner of Rich Bootleggers Louis H, Denbo, assistant state’s at- torney of Cook County, today was in- dicted on a perjury charge involving Terry Druggan and Frankie Lake, mil- lionaire bootleggers. Denbo, the indictment alleges, de- clared during an investigation of in- come tax returns from Druggan and Lake that he did not know either man, The inquiry revealed Druggan and Lake each have property worth more than $1,000,000, and that Denbo, has been found to be nfanager of the Mutual Investment company and the Mutual Mortgage company, concerns organized by the two bootleggers. Sheriff Peter Hoffman of Cook coun- ty is serving a jail sentence at Wheat- ley, Ill, for liberties granted to Drug- gan and Lake while they were prison- ers in thé Cook County jail. dre Dartiguenave and Louis Borno, at that time the Haitian secretary of state. In April, 1924, Mr. Borno gave a certain amount of cash money, $100 a month increase on the monthly pay- ments to his twenty-one advisers to vote the “Interne Tax,” a tax the Hai- tian people are forced to pay, even when they are out of work and starv- ing to death. In November, 1924, Mr. Borno agreed to give the American govern- ment the “Mole Se Nicolas,” for na- val and aerial bases. General Russell sent to that point an “investigation committee” of several hundred U. 8. marines. When the Haitian people demonstrated, even by fights and arguments that such robbery of our country was not liked, the newspapers were ordered by General Russell not to publish a word of it. \ Haitian Tells Story. Mr, Jolibois Fils, editor of the Courrier Haitian, was jailed for a month and a half, merely because he protested against the abuses of Amer- ican imperialism. Mr. Borno's ideal is to go to Bu- rope (then the Haitian treasury would indeed be empty) to drink some wine, because, so it is said, he found nothing stronger than tea at the White House; or to go back to Mar- tinique, the French island where his old man was,born, to get their na- tional food, green pea soup and coco- nut cake, Wherever he goes, the most neotount Arai of the Haitian THE DATLY WORKER MELLON DENIES DEAL MABE WITH GAILLAUX ON FRENCH DEBT PACT PARIS, July 6. — An astonishing cablegram signed by Andrew Mel- fon, secretary of the treasury of the United States was received by Joseph Calilaux, finance minister of France last night, In the cable Mel- “lon. promises “unofficially” that the United States will never apply Ar- tlole No, 7 of the Mellon-Berenger debt agreement. Article No, 7 provides for the mobilization of France’s debt and Issuance of.bonds for public sale at America’s discretion. It is some- thing approaching the Dawes’ plan of Wall Street contro! of Germany. The franc fell almost a full point against the dollar yesterday, clos- Ing at about 36. An expert's com- mittee appointed a month ago, yes- terday recommended that the franc “be stabilized at between 35 and 40 to the doar.” How this is to be done is not disclosed. BIG INCREASE IN TRADE WITH LATIN AMERICA U.S: Gets 21 21 Per Cent of Region’s Total WASHINGTON, D. C., July 6—The U. S,. Department of Commerce has issued two monographs showing the remarkable gain in U. S. trade with Latin America since 1922. It dis- closes that exports from this country to Latin America last year were three times larger than before the war, while imports from there are rapidly rising. Last year; the trade total between the U. Sj,and Latin America was $1,919,236,682,;or 21 per cent of that region’s trade with the rest of the world. This is the striking feature of the report. The total. value of U. S. exports to Latin America in 1925 was $880,404,- 794, a gain of 44% per cent over 1924. U. S. exports gained to every coun- try except Quba, Bermuda and Peru, the first named failing on account of the depression from the fall in sugar prices. In Mexico,.the United States and Germany aregholding about the same ratios as befpre the war, while eng- land-has | heavily... The U. S. has increas@é} its share of the import trade in Cogtral America in every country exeépt Costa Rica. South rica considered alone shows a are relative increase than Latin Amerfea as a whole. The ex- ports to Latin America in 1925 were about three-,times larger than the average for tl the five years before the war. Beforé}the war these exports were 14 per cent of the U. S. total exports. In» 1925 they were 18 per cent, PERJURY CHARGE MAY BE MADE BY REED COMMITTEE Sen. Peper Verifies Big Bribe Story (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, July 6.—While the senate slush fund committee hasten- ed to wind up its inquiry into Penn- sylvania’s $3,000,000 senatorial pri- mary, the capital today speculated over the ‘ible filing of a perjury charge against Judge Frank X. O'Con- ner, Philadelphia city magistrate, in connection with his testimony about a reported offer of $100,000 for his support fromthe camp of Rep. Will- iam S, Vare, who won the senatorial nomination. Interest in Case. Altho Wayne B, Wheeler and Ern- est H. Cher on were summoned to give further details about the political activities of the anti-saloon league of America, @ greater interest cen- tered on the committee's probable ac- tion toward O'Conner, The case against the Philadelphia magistrate apparently was completed when Sen- ator George Wharton Pepper took the witness stand, “Angel” Made Offer. Pepper substantiated the testimony previously given by three Philadel- phia newspaper men, who said O'Con- nor had boasted to them of the of- fer from the Vare camp at a time when he was eupporting the Pepper- Fisher ticket, Pepper went a trifle further, testifying that O'Conner told him the offer—amounting then to $75,000 in cash—had been made by Albert M, Greenfield, Philadelphia capitalist and Vare “angel,” after Vare had introduced them and_ put his approval on Whatever offer the capitalist would make, The newspa- per previously testified that O'Con- nor told them the original offer was $75,000 but that it later was increased to 100,000, a Your neighbor will apprec' we e Saree temas this copy of te, Binns ee marcel vage Threé CALIFORNIA--PITTSBURGH--NEW YORK THE RACE TO MOSCOW UP TO JUNE 28 Detroit Steals Ahead of Denver This record includes subs received up to and including Monday, June 28. The first three leaders remain In thé same position on this date. Another record, including last week's subs, J the LAST ONE until the final court of points is made by judges announcing district and city winners of the Trip to Moscow and banners from Moscow and Berlin. SUBS WILL BE COUNTED AND PREMIUMS AWARDED ONLY WHEN MAILED BEFORE MIDNIGHT OF JULY 6. ” CALIFORNIA—DISTRICT 13—45 PER CENT 1,000 100 2. Percent of 1,000 176 75 Points Quota Cima 1,000 130 m% Quota Secured Reached | Martin's Ferry, Ohio . 1,000 405 OS Berkeley, Calif. 4,000 940 23.5 | Neffs, Obio . 000 570 or. Eureka, Calif, 2,000 185 9.25 | TOLEDO, OHIO 10,000 3,815 15 = LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 17,500 14,630 o2.6g | Warren, Opto 3,000 " Oakland, Calif. ...... 7,000 820 11.71 | Youngstown, Ohio 3,000 376 8 | San Francisco, Calif. 17,500 2,695 16.97 Miscetlaneous 2,288 } San Pedro, Cal 1,000 330 33. Miscellaneous... 2,930 District total .. ene 15,430 “bar ‘te aen ‘ DISTRICT 4 { District total . 22,530 iene sisi ‘ eee v PITTSBURGH—DISTRICT 5—37 PERCENT Binghampon, N. Y. 148 bral Ambridge, P. 2,500 148 $35) Zee 2,418 ' Avelia, Pa. x 45 1.5 345 L3 Cannonsburg, 105 : Daisytown, Pa. 3, 580 16.57 1 i —. PITTSBURGH, PA. 1,500 4,815 321. be | 1. McKeesport, Pa. ... 1,500 195 13. i $ | McKeesrocks, Pa. » 1,500 400 6.66 |, Miscellaneous 440 : Monessen, Pa. . 3,500 520 14.85 i, — t PITTSBURGH, PA. 30,000 12,518 Airey”) Papen tatal ir) “Shy Woodlawn, Pa. 275 13.75 ot DISTRICT 8 "hig co, Miscellaneous 1,235 Chicago, III. b| ba sar 0,000 «16,928 sal District total goes eraa-] grr tingey 2,000 “200 ~* i ; ¥, ind. 8,000 625 i NEW YORK—DISTRICT 2—30 PERCENT D Hammond, ind. 2,000 65 } Astoria, L. I., N. Y: 3,500 So ace NEE Clty, Me 9,000 2,386 } Bridgeport, Conn. 1,500 110 7.33 | Madison, tl. 2,000 278 ELIZABETH, N. J. 4,000 1,780 44.5 | Madison, Wi 1,000 46 Hartford, Conn. 3,000 320 10.66 | Milwaukee, Wii 1,000 180 Hoboken, N. J. 2,000 165 8.25 | Motine, lll, ~ 9,000 1,348 496 Jersey City, N- 2,500 585 23.4 | PEORIA, ILL 1,000 390 a8. 1,500 50 3.33 | Rockford, il.” ~ 1,000 1,080 10% {© 4,000 775 1987-1 ge Loiley’ Me 3,000 120 a ° New Haven, Con 3,000 375 12.5 | Springfield, Ill 7,000 1,010 ‘ NEW YORK CITY 160,000 81,335 32.08 on 3,000 ‘820 23 Passaic, N. J. 3,000 50 1.66 4,000 925 23.42 | Patterson, N. J. 3,000 475 15.83 2,000 260 . ee Stamford, Conn. 1,500 465 31. Wo 4,000 500 12.8. Waterbury, Conn, 1,000 20 2 | Zelgier, 2,000 110 65. i West New vork, N. J. 2,000 50 2.8. | Miscellan 2,000 100 6-4 Yonkers, N. 3,000 100 3.33 nila tse 1,525 Srsanaiects: 2,645 District total saeoaee ae > District total 000 89,590 29.79 DISTRICT 1 ” DISTRICT 7 Boston, Ma 60,000 19,140 227 Detroit, Mich. .. . 68,000 16,960 «29.02 | Rardner, Ma 2,000 45 2.25 Grand Rapids, Mich. - 7,000 1,758 Be - tensa a 2,000 665 33.25 Indianapolis, ‘ind. 2,000 190 98.) sgaynara, bane 3,000 115 3.83 1 Lansing, Mich. 1,000 55 S85. Beepianes te 2,000 535 26.75 Muskegon, Mich. 1,500 250 ieee] Greyisemosy: 34 7,000 75 1.07 Newberry, Mich: 1,000 110 tt) bayeretieen’ ieee 3,500 895 28.87 Pontiac, Mich. 1,600 185 12. f Sn 4 240 Miscellaneou: 4 33. | Miscellaneous 2,185 * District total 70,000 19,440 27.77 District total sesso 15,895 7 DISTRICT 11 DISTRICT 10 Butte, Mont. . 4s 4s | 5regeriek, §. Dak 2,000 100 5. DENVER, Colo. 3,500 1, % 5,000 390 J Klein, Mont. tame e 40. | Sioux Sty ei 2'000 4 " Plentywood, M 1,000 5 5 a) “auananiame iptables 2,070 16% Pocatello, idaho 1,000 45 45 ; —_> Rock Springs, Wyo. 1,000 55 ? District total ...... “ 2,570 17.13 Rupert, Idaho 1,000 4.5 ‘ Salt Lake City, Utah 1,000 208 20.5 id vicksbe4 Superior, Wyo. 1,000 45, 4.5 | Glifton, Ariz. 1,000 100 w. Miscellaneous 2,018 ue 2 * Pisin 14 45 4 District total ..... 5 3,940 26.26 1 7 73 1 DISTRICT 15 1 be bs r 175 17.5 Atlanta, G: 100 10. Miscellaneous 965 20 2. é — District total ... cnr TORT = 48 Coulee, icy. 120 % DISTRICT 3 a! Nee ane 101. Allentown, Pa. 1,000 315 a5 Miscellaneous ono 3. | Baltimore, Md. 5,000 795 188 b 5 Camden, N- J. 1,000 130 a Philadelphia, Pa 35,000 3,655, District total .... 2,480 268 | Richmong. Va “ns pond bi: DISTRICT 12 Trenton, "N. J 1,500 45 Aberdeen, Wash. 30 Washington, D. C 3,000 308 wee Astoria, Oregon . os Wilmington, Del. 1,000 120 me; Portland, Oregon 4429 Miscellaneous 1,240 Seattle, W. 1,690 —. tr " a District total wae 50,000 6,820 et) Miscellaneous 1,555 DISTRICT 9 i 4 Ashland, Wis. 1,000 d District total ..... 5 4,870 23.35 | Duluth, Minn. 10,000 % i DISTRICT Faribault, Minn 1,000 148 Akron, Ohio , = Hancock, Mich. ... 3,000 pa Alliance, Ohio rig Minneapolis, Minn 25,000 3,030 Seana eee 110 Rochest n. 3000 as ellaire, Ohio : Canton, Ohio | M4 St. Paul, Minn. 15,000 310 CINCINNATI, OHIO ns Superior, Wis. 10,000 ‘245 nd, Ohio -. pis Miscellaneous a i bus, Ohio 185 District total ... 20,000 * 9,020 CALLING FOR EIGHT-HOUR LAW’S ~, Conneaut, Ohio will be printed this week and will be ADOPTION, AMSTERDAM DECLARES NEAR DISILLUSION IN THE I. L. 0. GENEVA, July 6.—The Amsterdam International Federation of Trade Unions is arranging in all national trade union centers a special agitation, between September 13th and 18th, during the celebration of the I. F, T. U's 25th anniversary, for the eight-hour work day statute which has been gen- erally ignored by the members of the league of nations, altho agreed to by them thru its International Labor Office convention at ‘Washington in 1919. What little standing the I. has had remaining from the flaunting of its timid suggestions by the great powers, seems likely to be lost by Mussolini's recent decree, which not only provides that existing long workdays be continued, but that where there is now an eight hour day it shall be increased at least to nine hours. Strong Unions Labor’s Main Power, Hinting sorrowfully that after all the workers must rely on the strength of their trade unions rather than on legislation, Peter Grassman, vice- president of the German Federation of Trade Unions remarks as follows in a statement issued officially by Amsterdam: “The position of the workers in every country is less dependent on the general level of political liberty than on the amount of influence they can bring to bear on conditions in the industrial world, Valuable as the franchise may be, in that it enables the workers to vote in favor of social progress, tasting results, in the ap Plication of this advanced legis- lation, are only obtained where the trade unions are strong factors con- tinually able to exert pressure on the late government and fn favor of reforms. “Labor Has Lost Ground.” “The weakening of workers’ posi- gue Re ate tion since 1922 shows that wage re- ductions and longer hours are insep- arably bound up with the evils of cur- rency depreciation, with the disloca- tion of markets, with divisions in the ranks of the workers, ete. It also shows that the best laws are in the long run ineffective, if the power of the workers is insufficient to enforce their strict application. “It 1s therefore not a destructive criticism of international agreements and conventions, to insist that in spite of the existence of these, the position ag regards the eight hour day is to a certain extent an indication of the position of the trade union movement, If this is granted, it cannot then be denied that the international trade union movement has lost ground in re- cent years—ground that it must re- cover.” Fight for Wage Increase. BOSTON—(FP)—Undaunted by the state legislature’s refusal to grant them 50c more per day, making their pay equal to that of Boston city Ia- borers, the Metropolitan park water and sewer department employes are carrying on their fight. The men get $4.50 per day now, Pennsylvania Supreme | Court Backs Against Striking PHILADELPHIA — (FP) —Pennsylvania's supreme held the Jefferson coumt; junction against union miners of trict 2 who are striking against ” Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co. mine at Adrian, Pa, The court struck out the word before picketing but otherwise sum tained the ban on the miners’ parad- ing on highways as “intimidation” The union workers are fighting to ex force the 1924 wage scale which ‘company violated, Yakutia Co-Operatives Increase in Members, MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 6, ee, K The co-operative organizations in York kutia purchased 97 per cent of marketable goods, Of these goods per cent were disposed of among the primay co-operatives, while 83 per cent of the furs were sold to co-operee tive organizations, The membership of the primary CO operatives increased from 15,000 in| 1924 to 25,000 in 1925. The turno’ of the primary co-operatives of has! | reached 3,500,000 roubles, an increase of 68 per cent as compared with " year, ih i Firemen to Get Pension, PRESCOTT, Ariz, -— (FP) — pensions for retired fire fighters approved by the Arizona Fire: annual convention. A commit present @ plan to the state Ss ie