The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1926, Page 3

EIR ~Sesqui-Centennial Head DAILY MAL IN MORE RAPS AT UNGLE SHYLOCK Urges Cancellation of ‘All War Debts (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, July 25.—Altho some English papers are uttering words of caution against the policy of the Daily Mail, the property of Lord Rother mere, of launching attacks against the United States as a Shylock, that pa- per again utters an editorial blast in greeting Andrew Mellon, secretary of the United States treasury, demanding that the whole of the debts owed by Europe to the United States be can- celled, “In the present disturbed state of Wuropean currencies and trade it.may be necessary to explain to the United States government that while our pay- ment of interest on our debt to the United States and the instalments on the principal is a gesture of good will, tt cannot be maintained if Great Brit- ain is to receive nothing from her debtors,” the editorial continues, Will Crush Industry, “The burden will be one far beyond : their capacity to bear; Indeed, there ® \ no @xample of a nation in ancient or modern times paying such an amount toa foreign country, “If there is only the extremely re- mote chance of France and Italy being able to pay us any fraction of what they owe us, then our heavy payments to the United States must completely crush ‘our industries, May Flood U. S. with Goods, “It must bo remembered that prac- tically every penny Germany pays in reparations, supposing she ever ful- fills the terms of the Dawes plan, will go to the United States, not to the European allies of America, who fought, bled, and suffered and now sit overwhelmed with debt, with their economic structures shaken from the foundation to the summit by these violent currency troubles, “Tn the long run we cannot pay the United States unless we export to her more than we import from her, “As we said from the first, when this debt question was raised five years ago, it always has been our firm conviction, tho we loss by it more than any other country, that there is only ons solution to the problem, which is simultancously to cancel all war debts between the allies and give Burope a chance.” PASSAIC POLICE ATTACK PICKETS AT LODI MILL Girl Strikers Get Six Months in Jail PASSAIC, N, J, June 25.—Legal ter- rorism is again being used by, the mill barons to crush the textile strike. Police on dyty at the Lodi picket line assailed Maggie Pitocco, 17. Mag- gis was marching in line with about 300 other pickets at the entrance of the United Piece Dye Works in Lodi, when Officer Louis De Rosa sprang across the street and wrenched her brutally from the line shouting: “You are under arrest, you damn ——” The men in the line were all he men and did not witness the brutal assault unmoved. Even the women in the line sprang at the police and a general melee followed, The fight was over when Reta Ver ile, a striker, appeared on the scene and was knocked down by a policeman for inquiring as to the cause of the excitement. She was taken to a phy- ‘Sician, who declared an immediate “operation was necessary as the result of complications arising from the as- sault, Maggie, with five other women and two men strikers, were arrested and arraigned begfore Judge McCarthy of Hackensack. Before they were able to get in touch, with the strike committee quarters they were given heavy sen- tences and fines. Maggie was given six months for being beaten up by the police, The cases are being appealed. Fined $4 for Blue Sunday Law Violation PHILADELPHIA, Pa. July 25-— BE. L, Austin, director general of the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial expo- sition, was fined $4 in a magistrate’s court for violation of Pennsylvania's blue laws of 1794, Members of the methodist men’s committee of 100 brought charges against Anstin of violating the Sunday blue law by oper ating the exposition on Sunday. —_—_———+ SEND IN A SUB TODAY TO THE DAILY WORKER, ee ete Above Is shown a view of Zocolo Cathedral, Mexico City, where two catholle societies have been raided and thelr officers arrested for urging a “social and economic boycott” in Mexico in protest against the government's regulation of education which does not permit priests to be teachers of children. shown In the Insert. POLISH DIET GIVES POWER TO PRESIDENT Extends Pilsudski Tool’s Rule by Decree WARSAW, July 25. — The govern- ment succeeded in rushing thru the Polish Sejm a measure giving sanction to presidential decrees by the presi- dent between sessions of the diet. This enormously increases the powers of the executive, Re-Introduced. These rights for the President, sum- marily dropped in Tuesday’s vote on the approval of the government’s pro- gram, but confidently reintroduced to- day, gained the favor of deputies, in- cluding the Jews and the German minorities. Power To Dissolve. While they are lmited to certain occasions, the president wil lalso re- ceive the right to dissolve the Sejm and to call new elections within ninety days upon the failure of any single government issue, ‘The right to rule by decree, won over the socialist and Slavonic minori- ties, caused surprise by reason of the sudden exhibit of strength by the gov- ernment, Joplin Gas Company to Buy. Natural Gas Distribution System JEFFERSON CITY, Mo,, July 25. — The Joplin Gas company has been authorized by the state public service commission to purchase the natural gas distribution system in Alba, Pur- cell, Neck City, Oakland, Royal Heights, Lake Side, Duenwig, Prosper- ity and Porto Rico, Mo., from the Kansas Natural Gas company. The cost of the properties is placed at $32,744, City Engineers of N. Y. Plan Joining Union of A. F. of L. NEW YORK, July 25.—Seconding the action of the Chicago city en- gineers who joined the International Union of Technical Men, the en- gineers of New York City in the em- ploy of the board of transportation are planning to organize and affiliate to the American Federation of Labor. More than 1,000 men are employed by the board of transportation in New York and meetings are being held with J. Rosemond, president of the inter national union. Affiliation is expected. States army medical corps stationed in the Philippines to drain the swamps and rid the province of mosquitos and had successfully extracted sugar ot the native nipa palm, Upon Page Three AMERICAN COAL GOING TO BREAK BRITISH STRIKE; NORFOLK AND BALTIMORE LARGEST COAL PORTS t President Calles of Mexico is 1,000 MAY GO T0 JAIL FOR PART IN VOTE FRAUDS Grand Jury Seeks Morris Eller ~ One thowsand election judges and clerks face prison sentences for their Part in the vote frauds that were committed during the April 13 pri- maries. Special State’s Attorney Lloyd D. Heth has been selected by the Chi- cago Bar Association to conduct the prosecution of those involved in bal- lot-box stuffing. The Mlinois Supreme Court ruled several weeks ago that Judge Jarecki could impose pun- ishment on those involved without granting them jury trials. Contempt of court charges for not carrying out his instructions to count the ballots in accordance with the laws are to be made, Sanitary District Trustee Morris Eller, boss of the 20th ward and union smashing State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe's right-hand man is being sought by special grand jury investi- gating vote frauds to tell what he knows of the 35,000 votes that were stolen in his ward. Eller is in Mack- inac Island vacationing. When he is found he will be asked to sign an im- munity waiver so that the grand jury may indict him. Eller’s 24 precinct captains are to appear before the special grand jury today. They will all be asked to sign immunity waivers, Investigators searching for the books of the 20th ward republican organization controlled by Per have declared that whatever books and re- cords may be found will be of little value to the grand jury as records and books of the Eller organization were destroyed when the grand jury began to indict clerks and judges in that district. By LAURENCE TODD, Fdereated Pross, WASHINGTON, July 25.—American coal, both union and nonunion mined is now flowing steadily into the British markets, due to the British miners’ strike, which has been in progress since May 3. New York exporters esti- mate the shipments from this country, on account of the British strike, to be at least 2,000,000 tons, The department of commerce, which is watching the development of this trade, has not yet compiled its statistics of the ton- nage shipped in the past month. It is convinced, however, that the total is very high. ' Scab Coal. Gas, coals are the chief item in this new export of fuel. They can be used for steam purposes also. Ordinary steam coals have not been in so great demand. British industries are get- ting them from Germany, Belgium and: Holland. The department has learned, inci- dentally, that production in the coal mines of France, Belgium and Hol_ jand has broken all previous records. Half of the mines in Holland are state-owned, and these state mines are so efficiently operated that their gain in production has been greater than the gain in privately owned mines, Take Market From British. Orders from former users of British coal have come to the United States from the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and northern Africa, American shippers have tried to see in this new business a permanent outlet for American coal, but the government experts do not believe that American coal can compete with German and British fuel after the strike is set- tled. They say the German plan, of a low freight rate to seaboard for ex- port coal, must be adopted in Ameri- ca before the coal of the United States can compete in the world mar- ket. Norfolk, the Main Port, Norfolk is the great port of ship- ment of American fuel to Burope. Two weeks ago the Chesapeake & Ohio, which carries a great share of this coal from West Virginia to tide- THOMPSON FINDS VAST RESOURCES IN PHILIPPINES LOS BANOS, P. I, July 25. — Col- onel Carmi A. Thompson, in his visit to the province of Mindoro, known as the “isle of gold,” found that unex- ploited gold and coal deposits exist on the island and that vast quantities of gum copal, tho basis of high-grade varnish, can be procured cheaply, The barrier to the exploitation of these riches he found was malaria, Governor-General Leonard A, Wood has been seeking to use the United thus open these riches for exploitation by American concerns, In his visit to the College of Agri- culture at the Untyersity of the Phil- {ppines here he found that the college & grade as good as cane sugar from that vast quantities water, had to place an embargo on shipments until its crowded terminal at Norfolk could be cleared, Balti- more has had a sudden increase in coal ships, and the same has been true of New. York and Philadelphia. Baltimore handles the product of the western Maryland field, and some coal from Penysylvania. In the opinion of agents of the de- partment of commerce abroad, the German coal industry, which is inter- locked with the German steel indus- try, will be the incipal gainer, both now and in the future, from the ina- bility of British mine operators to fur- nish coal. German mines are run with cheap labor, employed long hours, and they have been to a great extent moderniged. German repara- tions coal is now used by the Italian state railways, in place of British coal, German fuel is selling in France, in the Italian industrial centers, and in Englands factory ‘towns. Expect French Slump. When the strike is over, French coal mining is expected to slump. One reason for this prospect is the com- ing stabilization of the franc, with low purchasing power, unemployment and a nationwide industrial depression for a while. Belgium’s coal industry will probably share this collapse, Hol- land is not a big factor in the mar. ket. British and German coal will struggle for supremacy, while Ameri- can coal will fall back to its normal export levels, In none of its reports does the de- partment of commerce learn as signifi- cant a refusal of transport workers to handle shipments of coal because of the existence of the strike. LOREE SEEKS APPROVAL OF RAIL MERGER NEW YORK, July 25.—Approval of. the interstate. commerce commission is being sought for the merger of the Kansas City Southern, Missouri Kan- sas-Texas and St. Louis Southwest- ern railroads." The merger is to be headed by L. F. Loree, who engineer- ed the consolidation of these three companies whose total assets amount to $600,000,000 and mileage to 6,000. The board of directors of the three roads have approved the merger. The three roads will retain their corporate identities but Loree will be in full BORAH MAY TAKE MEDIATOR'S JOB IN MILL STRIKE Weisbord to Step Out of Negotiations WASHINGTON, July 25. — If the mill owners will accept the mediation of Senator William E, Borah of Idaho, the Passaic textile strikers will be willing to submit the dispute to him, it is announced here. A committee from the Passaic strik- ers visited Washington last week and asked Borah if he would act as medi- ator, Senator Borah declared he would do what he could, but that he had been informed that the mill owners would not listen to any proposals, so long as Albert Weisbord, the young collegian leading the strike, had any hand in the proceedings, The strikers’ committee returned to Passaic and after a conference with Weisbord, Senator Borah received the following teleBram: “I have just received word that you might lend your aid to a settlement of the Passaic strike. We welcome your aid and I assure you if settlement can be secured I personally will do everything in my power to help, even to the extent of completely stepping aside in settlement negotiations.— ALBERT WEISBORD.” What the developments may be is not yet known, but the offer of Weis- bord to eliminate himself is expected to bring settlement nearer, especially if Borah will agree to act as mediator. Sausages Heavily Watered in Mass., Health Head Finds BOSTON, Mass., July 25.—Massa- chusetts sausage has been found to contain as high as 50 per cent water declared Prof. L, B. Allyn of the state department of health. I¢ is not stated what action will be taken against corporations that are turning out half-~water sausages. ’Frisco Prohibition Head is Suspended WASHINGTGON, D. C., July 25.— Colonel Ned M. Green, prohibition ad- ministrator at San Francisco, has been suspended from office by the treasury department pending an investigation into charges that he had liquor in his room and gave many wild parties, New York I. L. D. Outing August 8 NEW YORK, July 25—The New control thru his position as chairman of the Kansas City Southern. This Loree merger 4s the culmina- tion of a year’s negotiations and it is said will rival the Greater Missour! Pacific system, which completed one of the largest mergers in the south- west section, and the pending Frisco- Rock Island consolidation, ———$— $200,000 Boston Fire, BOSTON, July 25, — A four-alarm fire swept theAtlantic works in Hast Boston today, causing an estimated York section of the International La- bor Defense will hold its outing at Pleasant Bay Park August 8, In ad- dition to athletic events, the execu- tive committee is arranging to havea moving picture taken of the affair, Brooklyn Shot Gun Murder, NEW YORK, July 25,—Miss Caro- line Sckol, 25, was shot and killed to- day in the front yard of her Brooklyn home. The slayer who escaped be- fore the arrival of police, used a saw- ed off shot gun, according to wit- Foe he — UNTERMEYER TAKES JOB FOR |, R. T. STRIKERS; TO PROBE BRUTAL COPS NEW YORK CITY, July 25, — Following the unprovoked and brutal attack by police upon the |. R. T. strikers yesterday as they were coming out of their headquarters, Edward P, Lavin, strike leader, visited the home of Samuel Unter- meyer, who has written a letter to Pollce Commissioner McLaughlin, in which he states that he will act as special counsel for the strikers and demands a hearing on the af- fair, in which the police who did the slugging of both men and women are to be subjected to cross-examina- tion. RED’ GRANGE IN OPEN CONFESSION TO OUR REPORTER BUGHOUSE FABLE No, 5. By Our Retiring Reporter. The famous football magnate “Red” Grange, was manicuring a ¢ of ice in front of a soft drink parlor when your reporter emerged wip his face with his necktie. It was a hot day and thirsty. “Is there any truth in the report that you kissed another Hollywood?” I asked, without gtv the lightfooted fairy of the grid-iron a chance to look at his wrist watch. “I never kissed a girl in my life,” replied Grange, as hotly as he could, considering the proximity of the cry tal chunk of frozen water. “Except,” ‘in my business relations.” “Would you be good enough to elab- orate?” I suggested, “Oh, hell,” he answered, “if you are not a Kiwanian, a Rotarian, a Metho dist or a composite of all three, you should know that kissing is encour- aged by the Lip Stick Trust, and once a handsome fellow ike myself gets famous he is besieged by publicity agents of all nationally-advertised products for the use of his signature. “The Lip Stick Trust secured an engagement for me with Snappy Scenarios, Hollywood, and my prin- cipal duty in the studio was to kiss the heroine. It did not matter what brand of paint she wore on her Ifps. When it went off the profits went into the same pockets, “After the ~ osculatory exercise, which was accompanied by much roar ing from the director—who kept say- ing to me: ‘Pull the rough stuff'—the heroine was ‘hot’ repairing her inju- ries at the dressing table. “Now, this is how I got in bad with the handsome wife of the oil duke, One day I forgot to wash my face after one of those wrestling matches On this same day the oil plute’s wife visited my studio. I was having a drink of near beer when the director blew his nose, I thought it was the whistle calling me to work, so I took fright and ran for the lot. Seeing this lady standing in front of the director, I mistook her for my heroine and kissed her savagely. She did not ob ject. Not expecting an ex-ice man and football hero to use lip sticks, she forgot to take a bath before she re- turned home. The rest is history.” “What is your favorite amuse- ment?” I asked, “Delivering ice to my favorite boot- legger,” he replied, as he swung the now thoroly manicured piece of ice on his shoulder and walked into the soft drink parlor. Cardinal Bonzano Sails for Italy NEW YORK, July 25. — Cardinal Bonzano, papal legate to the recent Bucharistic Congress in Chicago, has left on the liner Conte Biancamano for ats TWO-YEAR PACT SIGNED BY THE Bosses Response for Work Done Outside NEW years agre: ween the YORK, ment signed be- Clothing the New eturers’ Ex- tted to the on Monday for and The un joint stat ater unix ing no increase tion. The union ndards, It ase in the mfin- or two dollars a s the respoms- facturer,”” all work 3 provision continues the ap v Jacob Bit- L000’ HEADS SELL INTEREST INN. Y. BUILDING Putting Screws On Big Financial Schemes kopt as “ NEW YORK, hood of Loc interest in t 120 Broadw H, Vanderbilt, Le ident of the E and Harry C. C lated to marriage, The Hquitab office str —The Brother. gineers, sold its le Building at , to William 3ald-win, pres- e Trust company g Srd whe is re- rhilt family by fs one of the largest in the world and ig of the building last year. It ts also reported that the union has relinquish- ed most of its stock m the Empire Trust company. Frenzied Finance. Whether fhe engineers’ unton finds it expedient to curtail its financial operations due to-stringency or merely seized a favorable opportunity to real- ize a profit on the deal fs not certain. There are rumors that all fs not well with the business ventures of the un- ion, and that there is a growing feel- ing among the membership that noth- ing but disaster can result from the frenzied financial adventures inittated by the late Warren S. Stone, former head of the brotherhood and the found- er of the organization's tanking schemes, Artificial Lungs to Aid Aviators in Altitude Flights PARIS, July enabling aviat undreamed of Ss has been fin vented by the French physicist” Gar eaux, Artificial Inngs, adjusted te = ghee stat, provide pilots with increasing amounts of oxygen as the plane caiimbs, Experiments have shown that aviators can stand a minimized air pressure corresponding to a-cfimb of 50,000 feet, Hindenburg Suppresses Rote Fahne and Club for Two Week Period BERLIN, July The Rote Fakne, organ of the Conimnnist Party of Ger many, has been onered suppressed for a period of two weeks by the Hindenberg goverrment. The Oom- munist comic paper the Club was also ordered suppressed. Both papers are suppressed for a poem entitled, “Beware of the Dog” in which Hindenberg in compared to a monarchist dog breaking ihe chafn of the constitution. Heat Wave Broken In N. E, BOSTON, July 25.-— The backbone of the terrific heat wave was believed broken in New England today follow ing @ severe olectrical storm that swept the entire coast, from Cannéo- ticut to Maine, causing two deaths to add to the fifteen kifed by the Sizzling ‘weather and the thirteen drowned while seeking relief from the torrid speil. Million Dollar Lightning Fire, HARTIVELD, Mass, July 26-—ind resulting from lightning caused an és timated quarter of a million damage in the tobacco