The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER COOK COUNTY JAIL IN RACE WITH CICERC Guard Threatens to Put Judge in Barrel How to keep booze out of Cook County jail is becoming mote of a problem than to keep bootieggers in- side. Things are coming to such a ass nowadays that prisoners Indicted fo; murder lurch into court as If they were promenading the deck of an ocean liner in a heavy sea. May Wear Nose Bags. Honorable judges may soon have to wear gas masks to protect themselves from the strongly flavored breath of the prisoner on the witness stand when he turns around to askjhis honor i privileged question. It might be vonsidered contempt of court to even suggest that the day may come when the judge would accept a nip from a prison ip flask to show that there was no hard teelin particularly if the prisoner happened to be a repub lican or democratic ward leader, whose only crime was the dispatching of a political rival. The Deiuded Sheriff. That the jail is “running wide open” for those who have the money is an open secret. No sooner was Sheriff Hoffman released from another jail where he spent thirty days for liber- ties extended to the millionaire boot- leggers Druggan and Lake, than new troubles confronted him. That poor fellow has a dog’s life with unfaithful and indiscreet underlings, Crowds Flocked to Court. While Martin Durkin was on trial, a snooper smelled liquor off his breath, The following day saw the court crowded with peop tanding on the window sills and reaching in a long que down three fl of stairs. The bailiffs cleared the corridors. There was not enough smell to go around anyhow. The jury got envious of Marty and handed him a thirty-five years sentence. The judge also was sore. The Judge Got Fresh. A few days ago a man who is sus- pected of killing somebody in Indiana was taken to court by a jail guard. He was the star actor in a hearing on a plea to have him retnrned to Indiana for trial. The prisoner expressed his desire to throw the judge out the window and said what he thot of States Attorney Crowe. When the guard got busy to remove the prisoner to the jail, the former had locomotion difficulties and there were other indica- tions that he had been imbibing a prohibited, but it seems very available beverage. It Must Be Good Stuff. ‘When his suspected condition was commented on by his honor, the guard felt insulted and threatened to pry the judge loose from his underwear. As anybody, who ever sat in a court knows, this borders on sacrilege or lese majesty. Contempt of court is not expressive enough. Hoffman May Be Framed Again. This only taps the keg, so to speak. Worshippers of Bacchus are reported to be seen daily in the vicinity of the county jail with extended nostrils hop- ing to catch a y whiff of liquored breath from Chicago’s Bermuda, The sheriff is doing the best he can to stop the illfcit traffic but we are in agony lest a still is discovered in his Private office one of those days. In that case it will require the resource- fulness of an Aimee McPherson or a Mrs. Eddy to explain the “plot” away. 5 MORE SHOPS SETTLE WITH FUR WORKERS Levy 15% Assessment to Aid Strikers Five more shops, members of the Fur Manufacturers Association, have settled with Local 45 Chicago Fur Workers’ Union, At the mass meeting of all of the workers in shops that have already settled it was unanimously decided to assess themselves 15 per cent of their wages to aid those still on strike. The strike headquarters have been moved from West Side Auditorium, Racine and Taylor St., to 30 North Wells St. Strike meetings are held at 10 o'clock every merning. Every picket must report at the new head- quarters this morning. Avalanche Buries Train. BELGRADE, July 18, — Eighty pas- sangers were believed dead in an avalanche which buried a train in the state of Bosnia, near the town of Allo, j CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. —_— (Continued from page 1) on a basis that would involve a sur- render on the part of the government and the mine owners and a breathing spell to the coal diggers, Baldwin was not having anything. The clergymen Suggested that the miners return to work under the pre-strike conditions and that the government grant a fifty million dollar subsidy to enable the mine owners maintain the old wage scale while a solution was sought. This is only a makeshift proposal. The miners would immediately have to prepare for a renewal of the strug- gle after four months, The only solu- tion of the coal situation is the na- tionalization of the coal mines and their operation and management by the miners, “ee ISPATCHHS from China say that the Communists are embarking on an ambitious move to seize control of all China. What they mean is that the nationalist revolutionary govern- ment of Canton apparently has dis- patched a strong army northwards to unite with the northern armies of General Feng. According to unpub- lished stories from China, which were cilled by the capitalist papers, the re- ictionary forces in China have suffer- 2d severe defeats recently, ee FTER telling of the vandalism practized by the armies of Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin on the Chinese farmers, Charles Dailey, Peking correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, winds up with the following gruesome paragraph: “A woman with bound feet circumambulating twglve hours a day in the unmerciful sun of the Chihli plains, dragging or pushing the log that turns the heavy stone roller, always under the rifle of @ loafing soldier, would turn a strong man’s heart, but it is even worse. Tho utterly exhausted by nightfall, these women get x rest; instead they aré victims of the lust of these same soldiers.” That is the brand of civiliza- tion the capitalists have brought to China, Strike of I. L. G. W. U. in New York Faces Fight with Employers’ Courts (Continued from page 1) manufacturers and jobbers, Settle- ments may begin Monday. Each strik- er returning to work will-be assessed 15 per cent of his wage for the relief fund, Strikers who are taking work in other trades and relieved from strike duty by the union, will be assessed 10 per cent of their wages. Little Augie Feels At Home, The “Little Augie’ gang who shot down strike pickets last week were on trial in the Jefferson Market court. “Little Augie” himself, whose name in Jacob Orgef, was identified by Samuel Landman ,a union picket, as among the gang who had shot him. Orget, feeling himself in the hands of friends, bawled out a detective who had arrest- ed him and when the detective an- swered, Judge Rosenbluth reprimand- ed the detective for his impoliteness toward the bosses gunman. Meanwhile, the court fined thirty pickets one dollar each for “obstruct- ing the sidewalk.” Smith Answered. The union, thru Morris Sigman, in- ternational president, and Louis Hyman, head of the local joint board, have replied to Governor Smith who saw fit to defend his commission that spent two years “investigating” the industry but whose recommendations fell far short of what the union con- tends is necessary. In polite lang- uage the union reply states, in part: “The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and the Cloakmakers’ Joint Board sincerely appreciate the ‘florts of Governor Smith to bring bout peace and stability in our indus- ry. The commission’s report, while presenting a sincere attempt to medy the ills, failed, however, in the opinion of the union to reach the crux of the critical situation of the in- dustry.” Bosses Would Not Confer. The union reply shows that both the jobbers which control 75 per cent of the production, and the small manu- facturers, who control about 15 or 20 per cent, refused to confer upon the union’s proposals following the com- mission’s report. Of the jobbers, the union says: “This group of employers, mainly re- sponsible for the waste, inefficiency and chaos that have today demoralized all labor standards and work condi- tions, has since maintained the same attitude of defiant indifference.” Of the smaller group in the Industrial Council the reply states: “The Indus- trial Council categorically refused to continue negotiations, leaving the un- jon no alternative but to declare a strike.” WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! CHICAGO CONFERENCE FOR RELIEF OF PASSAIC STRIKERS OPENS ITS HEADQUARTERS AT 328 W. VAN BUREN The Chicago Conference for Passale Strikers’ quarters on the third floor at 328 West Van Buren St. Relief has opened its head- Alt communications regarding relief should be addressed to Victor A. Zokaitis, secretary of the Chicago Conference for Relief of P. Strikers, All cheoks should be mer payable to Chicago Conference for Rellef of Passaic Strikers, Duane al . \ FRENCH TURN THUMBS DOWN ON CAILLAUX Briand Cabinet Falls Before Herriot PARIS, July 18.—By a vote of 288 to 243, the Briand-Caillaux govern- ment fell Saturday night before the assaults upon its proposals for a dic- tatorship, which it claimed was neces- sary to stop the calamitous fall of the franc. Edouard Herriot, the millionaire “radical socialist” mayor of Lyons, president of the chamber of deputies, is the man to whom is ascribed the overthrow of the sixth government France has had in the last sixteen months, He will’ probably be called upon to form a cabinet to take the place of the Briand-Caillaux combine in which Caillaux was the ruling ele- ment, France Follows the Mark, The opening of the bourse today is expected to show the franc nearing the vanishing point on international exchange, It closed Saturday at a value of only 2.44 cents as compared to 20 cents, in United States money before the war. “Now you've done it!” cried sup- porters of Caillaux at Herriot, as the votes were counted. “The franc will drop to 60 to the dollar tomorrow!” Herriot Blasts Caillaux, The chamber was astonished and the Briand govrenment taken by sur- Prise when Herriot, leaving his chair of president of the chamber, mounted the speaker's tribune and delivered an impassioned speech against granting the dictatorship demanded by the cabinet. He pleaded first that con- stitutional rights should not be sacri- ficed on the altar of Joseph Caillaux’s ambitions. He pleaded with the cham- ber not to commit suicide by handing over its legislative powers to Caillaux and allowing the Briand cabinet to rule by decree, “These deputies have rights and obligations to the people. It is im- Possible for the people’s sworn dele- gates, the deputies, to delegate their legislative powers to anybody else, and that is what Monsieur Caillaux really asks. “I mount the speaker's tribune, not as party chief, but as president of the chamber, which I have had the honor to direct, and which I could direct no longer if ft willingly impaired its own powers. Gentlemen of the cabinet, try to co-operate with the parliiament, Do not suppress it.” Seeing a sneer on the face of Briand, Herriot in anger pointed an accusing finger at the cabinet benches, and cried: “You need not sneer, Monsieur Premier, for there are plenty of tenacious men in this parliament who feel the need of energetic measures, but who, having heard the rumors of a dictatorship, demand that the neces- sities of the moment be conciliated with the fundamental principles of the republican regime.” “I do not want merely to save the parliamentary machinery and perhaps sacrifice my country,” replied. Briand, when the applause for Herriot had ended. “In forty-eight hours this coun- try must have a government capable of acting. It cannot be saved other. wise. If parliament understood this it would make a gesture of abrogation which would win the approval of the country and not endanger, but strengthen republican institutions. Look at the Belgians, They have made their king the dictator.” “I would rather have a king than Caillaux!” shouted Leon Blum, the so- cialist. “A naive lot, this cabinet,” observed the center leader, Marin, “to ask this chamber to cut its throat in order to enhance its prestige. The parliament which abdicates shames itself. We do not want to ratify the ‘ashington accords. It would keep France down for sixty-two years. France can save herself.” INDICT 44 MEN AND WOMEN IN BALLOT FRAUDS The net result of the investigation of ballot thievery in the last primary election is the indictment of 44 men and women by the grand jury under the direction of Special State's At torney Charles A. McDonajd, The twentieth ward, @ Crowe-Barrett stronghold, supplied 33 of the in- dicted, Judge Trude, who lost out to As- sistant State's Attorney Savage in the primary contest for the county judge. ship, was refused a recount of the votes cast, by Judge Holdom, Many Quizes On, There are three primary slush-fund and vote-stealing investigations now on, or forthcoming. That capitalist politics is corrupt was generally acknowledged, but recent revelations have shocked even the most cynical observers of bourgeois democracy. JOSEPH CAILLAUX, WHO BID FOR POWERS OF A Joseph Caillaux, who as finance minister of France and the “strong man” of Aristide Briand’s cabinet, was defeated by the French Parlia- ment Saturday and the cabinet forced to resign, when the chamber voted 288 to 243 to refuse to grant Caillaux a dictatorship on the plea of saving the French franc from fur- ther collapse. The session was one of the most spectacular in the his- tory of the republic, FARMER-LABOR | FORCES BUILDING PARTY IN EAST (Continued from ‘page 1) to curb the present tyrannous use of injunctions in labor disputes are back- ed. Labor representation on the In- terstate Commerce Cominission is de- manded in protest against the discrim- inatory freight rates granted by this body to favor non-union southern coal operators. 1 Legislation to compel coal com- panies and other conjoanies leasing houses to their employ')s to obey the 30-day eviction notité provision is made another issue. Companies have been forcing workers to sign leases permitting three and fiye-day eviction notices which are used‘ in strikes or lockouts. Prison For Election Crooks. Severe prison senten¢e is advocated as proper punishment to accompany a corrupt pratcices law which the labor party demands to stop “wholesale election purchasing” such as the Penn- sylvania primary showed. “A mere fine would mean little to men who are able to spend millions in elections,” the convention declared. Courts should be compelled to open ballot boxes to verify disputed elec- tion results, the labor party asserts in its denunciation of the election steal which deprived its candidate, Warren Worth Bailey, of his congressional seat in 1924, Nationalizations of Mines. “The gathering of the labor party here spells hope for the future,” John Brophy, president District 2, United Mine Workers, told the convention, He urged delegates to make a real fight for their program, asserting that the program itself would attract votes for their candidates. “We can force the operators to be on the defensive,” Brophy stated, “by pushing for nationalization.” Private management of coal stands indicted by present conditions as well as by com- petent engineers, en the labor party helps the union demand nation- alization, it is giving an answer to the question: “What are you going to do about depressed conditions in the in- dustry?” Must Add to Strike Weapon Unification, public ownership, dem- ocratic management of coal are neces- sary to get a reasonable sécurity and @ fair annual earning to the miners, In the present overdevelopment of the industry, ordinary trade union prac- tises fail because they do not go far enough, The strike is seen to be a limited weapon, Fighting for national- ization doesn’t mean giving up the old true and tried policies of the trade unions, but it is supplementing, adding to, them. Rall Labor Joins In, Joseph Washington (locomotive en- gineer) and Pat McDermott (miner), Cambria County labor party assembly- men, and Charles Plummer. additional candidate for assembly, spoke, James Gindlesberger, locomotive firemen and enginemen’s Lodge No, 381, mentioned that two roads hauling non-union coal now have strikes of the railroad men: the Virginian and the Western Mary- land. Discriminatory rates of the Inter- state Commerce Commission directly affect the amount of employment of railroad men, he said. William Welsh, United Mine Worker district execu- tive board member from Nanty-Glo and labor party executive board mem- ber, stressed the need of nationaliza- tion of coal and urged the party to use its issues to the fullest in the campaigr ‘ ™ America’s Workers Must GTATUR MO FALED| | Stand By the Filipinos During Peace and War — ‘T is important to understand what is going on in the Philippine Islands today for two great rea- sons: First—The islands may be the center of the next imperialist war ,to be waged by the United States, with Japan as the probable op- ponent. Second—The effort to keep the islands will inevitably result in open struggles by the natives to win their own emancipation. ‘ This situation is important to all workers and farmers of the United States because they will be called upon to make all the sacrifices, whether in an imperialist war waged against Japan, or in a war of sub- jugation against insurrectionary Filipinos. tee ie. | The Chicago Tribune, for in- stance, is doing its best to prepare its readers for the inevitable. This organ of mid-west industry and finance, which does not respond so quickly to Wall Street’s imperialist interests, has hitherto demanded that the United States release the Philippines. It is now changing its front, if one is to judge by an edi- torial appearing in its issue of Satur- day, July 17, in which it argues for its slogan of “Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong,” an ut- terance attributed to Stephen Deca- tur, an early American naval hero. The Tribune argues that whatever attitude may be held towagd the American occupation of the Philip- pines, that attitude must be drop ped in favor of the official imperial- ist decree in case war breaks out. It states the case as follows: “Some day a definite decision will be made in congress. It certainly ought to be. We cannot go on promising one thing and doing an- other, That at least is not a square deal and it will make trouble. The decision may be to remain and to hold the islands as American ter- ritory, That might cause a war. It might in time involve us with an Asiatic power applying our own Monroe Doctrine to its own needs. It might bring about a Filipino in- surrection which would have to be put down. “Then what are the Americans going to do who do not like Decatur’s sentiment and who do not like that decision to keep the Philip- pines? Will they obstruct American effort? Will they organize to run supplies thru the blockade to the Filipinos? Will they do everything they can to prevent their country from carrying out what they still regard as an iniquitous policy? Will they work so that more Amer- ican soldiers are killed than need be? Or will they shut up and do what falls to them to do, work for success that the war may be as short as possible and its destruction as little as possible? That's all Decatur asked them to do and they are still permitted to have an inner regret that what their country de- cided to do was not what would most have pleased their con- sciences,” : diet, 8 This is the usual jingo piffle. The interests of Wall Street imperialism in the Philippines are held to coin- cide with the interests of the whole ENGDAHL. American people, This is the same stuff with which the deposed czar and kaiser tried to hold the Rus- sian and German masses in line for their imperialist adventures. There will be many who utter brave words in defense of the Filipinos, as the Tribune ‘has been in the habit of doing in the past, that will turn turtle immediately the war drums begin to beat, This happens in all wars. But the number of workers and farmers, who will oppose the next Morgan war, will be many times the small handful that dared stand out against America’s participation in the last slaughter in Burope to make the world safe for Wall Street’s international bankers, Evi- dently this is what the Tribune fears, sinca it begins so early its campaign for the next spilling of blood, this time in the orient. fe * Nothing can indicate better than the ‘Tribune editorial that the United States intends remaining in the Philippines. That is inevitable. Many Filipinos refuse to recog- nize this fact. This resulted in a very friendly reception being given Colonel Carmi A. Thompson upon his arrival in the islands as a rep- resentative of Coolidge. The horde of American newspaper correspond- ents accompanying the colonel im- mediately interpreted this friendli- ness as an indication that the Filipinos have no desire for inde- pendence. It was heralded thru the land that they were satisfied with American rule. No greater injury could have been done the cause of Filipino independ- ence. It will take some time to counteract this impression spread among great masses in the United States, The belated declaration of the joint session of the senate and house of representatives of the Philippine legislature unanimously asking Colonel Thompson to inform President Coolidge of the intense desire of tha Filipino masses for immediate, absolute and complete independence, will help correct this impression. The fact that the Filipino legis- lators sat silent and sullen when Governor-General Leonard Wood, the agent of American imperialism, appeared before them in the com- pany of Colonel Thompson, should go thundering thruout the land, as indicating the resentment of the Filipino against the foreign oppres- sor. ses Against what is “right or wrong” for the capitalist class, labor holds up what is “right or wrong” for the working class. It is right for Amer- ican labor to develop its struggle against the exploiters at home by developing their unity with the liberation struggle of the Filipinos. It is wrong for American labor to voice its pious wishes for the future emancipation of the Filipinos and then, when the inevitable war is declared, spinelessly acquiesce as the Tribune suggests, and as was done by the officialdom of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor during the last war. Opposition to the interests of Wall Street imperialism must continue even more energetically after war has been declared, Amer- ican labor must stand by the Filipinos in peace times and in war, LOGAL TRACTION PLUTES INSIST ON WAGE CUT By CARL H LER, Federated Press. Wage negotiations on the Chicago transportation systems are under their annual way. The 20,000 employes on the elevated lines of the Chicago Rapid Transit Co and the Chicago Sur- face Lines demand a 5 cent hourly raise, while the employes of the Chi- cago, North Shore & Milwaukee inter- urban want 6 cents. All demands have been refused and cuts threatened by the managements, In 1922 there was an unsuccessful strike, Since then arbitration and negotiation have kept the peace, In- ternational officers of the Amalgam- ated Association of Street and Elec- tric Exiployes are assisting local of- ficers of Division 308 (“L” Lines), 241 (surface) and 900 (North Shore) in the conferences, Strikes are consider- ed unlikely, particularly as the surface lines franchises expire in 6 months, Hosiery Workers Strike DURHAM, N, C.—(FP)—Branch 31 of the American Federation of Full- Fashioned Hosiery Workers is still on strike, These employes of the Dur- ham Hosiery mill have been on strike since December for Tecggnition ot the union, , oo ee iy: \ MOORE DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF TRIPLE MURDER Edward F. Moore, Crowe-Barrett Neutenant disclaimed any knowledge of the triple murder which wiped out assistant state's Attorney McSwiggin and his bootlegging companions Do- herty and Duffy in the now famous machine gun fusilade which threw the politicians and their underworld allies into hysteria a few months ago. How McSwiggin Got Job, Duffy and McSwiggin were mem- bers of Moore's ward organization and it was admitted by Moore that the young assistant prosecutor was not placed on Crowe's payroll until the ward leader said the word. Besides being a Crowe lieut: Moore is also an employe of the tary district, a ‘stronghold and cash box of the Crowe gang. Plan to Examine McCray ATLANTA, Ga., July 17, — An order for a physical examination of former Governor Warren T. MeCray, of In- diana, a prisoner at the Atlanta Fed- eral penitentiary, has been received here from the department of justice in Washington Warden John Snook announced today. The examination will be made by an Atlanta physician and forwarded to Washington, FITZPATRICK’S “ULTIMATUM” TO RADICALS They Spread Propa- ganda Is His Charge John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, yester day delivered what he called an ulti- matum to the Communists in the trade unions during a discussion which took Place at the federation’s meeting over a report made by I. Davidson of the International Ladies’ Garment Works ers’ Union, in which he said that he was unable to secure Fitzpatrick, Nockels or Olander to speak at a mass meeting for the purpose of fighting the injunction menace and greeting the release of the women trade unlon- ists who went to jall for defying the injunction in the last strike of the cloak makers In Chicago. Fitzpatrick threatened not to give Communists the floor in the future unless they die cussed “trade union policies.” Davidson declared that being unable to induce the officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor and other promi- nent labor leaders to speak he in- vited men who were not afraid to come out and say what they thot of the injunction, CHARLEY DAWES ANSWERS MANY PERT QUESTIONS BUGHOUSE FABLE NO. 3. By Our Retiring Reporter, “Calvin Coolidge is the best presi- dent that ever rode an electric hack in the White House,” declared “Charley” Dawes to a DAILY WORK- ER reporter as he (Charley, not the reporter) blew another whiff of smoke from his topsy turvy pipe, into the clean, clear, blue atmosphere of Chicago. “What do you thing of the members of the upper congressional asylumn?” asked the reporter. The vice-president took a pinch of snuff before he replied after sneez- ing thrice. “The members of the senate are wonderful,” he beamed, “perfectly wonderful. They are working fools and say nothing. In fact I do most of my sleeping in the vice-presidential chair, At one time I riled Cal by going to sleep when one of his fellows needed my vote to connect with a Payroll. But drat my gizzard, I have my own lads to take care of.” “Have you ever heard of the Min- ute Men of the Constitution?” was the next question put to Mr. Dawes. “Hot malted milk and chewing gum!’ swore the general, “they were all wined out in the last presidential election, Caught in an enflaming fire between the Communists and the shock troops of John Fitzpatrick, they never had a chance. They were not even able to make a gesture at the polls. Those who survived the bat- tle are now employed by the Central Trust Company.” “In other words,” remarked the re- porter, “to parody the gospel, ‘they went back to the desks from which they were taken’ for dirt they were and into dirt they shall return.” “If you run for president, what would be your main slogan?” perti- nently persisted The DAILY WORK- ER reporter. “What this country needs more than anything else,” mused Charley, “is an army of honest bank burglars, but under our present system of edu- cation, an honest man stands no chance of election unless he is sup ported by tho banks. Take my old friend ‘Billy’ Lorimer for instance, He was ruined because he was an honest banker and the people whose money he took care of were the first to jump on him. If I am elected (and I will be, if “Scarface” Al Capone is not dead by 1927) my first act, after repealing the Volstead Act will be, to turn all the imprisoned bank robbers loose and place one at the side of each bank official, I believe in co- operative banking as well as coop- erative farming, but I insist that it must be done by experts.” “What do you think of Commu- nism? I asked, “There are lots of good features attached to it,” he replied, “but it should not interfere with the home.” At this moment a patrol wagon passed, carrying a democratic hus- band who had shot his republican wife after accusing her of having an illicit love affair with an “independent.” “Hell an’ Maria” shouted the gen- 'Jeral, and the interview closed, “Say it with your pen in the worker correspondent page of The DAILY WORKER." YOU CAN EAT WELL IN LOS ANGELES at GINSBERG'S VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 2324-26 BROOKLYN AVENUE, LOS ANGELES,