The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER - INSULL BOUGHT LEASE ON SHiITH AND G. BRENNAN Gave One $125,900; the Other $15,000 (Continued from page 1) | in the daily papers. Hard-boiled and | cool, with the eternal cigar between | his thin lips this man is the embodl- | ment of everything that did not make | the Mayflower famous. His face is red | but it is that pinky red that indicates anti-puritanism, There Are Factions Everywhere. He plays with his glasses but not Decanse of nervousness. Kansas City Kmows Reed and Reed knows his Kansas City. What New York is to Tammany, Kansas is to the faction that keeps Reed in the senate. There are many stories told of Kansas City politics, It is no secret that there are two factions in the democratic party there. It All Depends. One day a lowly worker walked in- to the office of his faction’s boss. He was angry. He had a fight with an- other democratic retainer and was telling the story to the boss. I am giving fictional names. “Johnny Murphy is a soxa——a——” he growled. “I know he is” replied the boss “but he is OUR son——” » a Kansas City politician might the streets of a vig city without being in danger of paying good money for a piece of glass disgnised as a sapphire. It Has Good Intentions. Reed is questioning Frank L. Smith, ‘who may soon represent this state in the U. S. senate before long. Reed would like to see George E. Brennan there. Of course this is not the pur- pose of the investigation. No, even Frank L. Smith would not say it for the record. Smith is on the witness stand. He has admitted that Samuel Insull con- tributed $100,000 to his campaign fund. Smith forked out only $5,000. But then, perhaps Insull had more to gain than Smith. Brennan and Insuli Chat. Here is where the fun comes in. George Brennan is chatting affably with Sam Insull And doggone if Brennan doesjnot go and admit with- out mounting the witness stand, that Insull gave him $15,000 for his cam- paign. So he had them both on his purse string! The room is fall of politicians, re- porters and photographers, Smith is writhing on a witness stand. A $15 a week wage slave would not be more Inmble in the presence of his master than this man Smith sitting before the inquisitorial Reed Yet this man Smith makes the labor lead- ers of Iliinois dance on his palm. ' Walker and Olander There. Among those present in the specta- tor’s row is John H. Walker, president FOR A GOOD TIME, FOR A GOOD CAUSE * For-Your Own Benefit attend the CONCERT AND ) PACKAGE PARTY dh ranged by\the}Workers (Com-j fs carmphedan of Los Angeles, Cal., at” Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooktyn Ave. on FRIDAY HIVENING, JULY 30th. Good musical, program,and other fea- tures., Admission 25 cents. SST ] t Le Under the \ Ww. E, STEINECK, President i Trades 10 AM. _DIRECTIO. BY AUTO: Drive “via Speedway to Picnic Grounds; ¢ Hill Station. What Price | Election? VEN tho the gods seem to be willing to destroy the democratlo and republican parties, those who would be benefited thereby do not seem to be Interested. The Investigation now going on In the Chicago federal bullding is as good a moving picture of capitalist corruption as one could wish to be Interested In. And It is directed by capitalist politiclans whose last thought Is to destroy the system ion which they prosper. The democratic and republican parties of Illinois are struggling for the United States senatorial plum. The republicans have nominated Frank L. Smith and the democrats have named George E. Brennan. Both parties had a primary contest and this Is where the senate Investigating committee butts In. The big news broke at the first session of the committee. No mat- ter what Is revealed In the future thle is what every worker should paste In his hat: SAMUEL INSULL, PUBLIC UTILITY MAGNATE, CONTRIBUTED $100,000 TO FRANK L. SMITH’S CAMPAIGN FUND AND $15,000 TO Rt eat to read his prepared statement. LOS ANGELES ‘Huge Joint Picnic On Behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti 5 \ LL. D, andtSaceo & Vanzetti United Front Defense Conference ‘Palisades Del Rey Beach, Sun., Aug. 1, 1926 . Prominent National Speakers: ‘BATHING — SHOWERS —~ SPORTS — GAMES — HOME-COOKED k MEALS — REFRESHMENTS TICKETS 75c, Including Round Trip. Come One! Come All! Busses will leave cor. Brooklyn and Mott, and 5th and Los Angeles at senatorial aspirants. he prefers Smith to Brennan. the solons what they want, resent the workers! | THE CAMPAIGN FUND OF GEORGE L. BRENNAN, SMITH’S RIVAL. It Is not dut of place to mention that Frank L. Smith was chairman of the publio utilities commission of the state of Illinois. There Is a sharp lesson in this for the American workers If they only take it, Here we have the man Insull, who dominates the public utility services of Illinolg contributing to the campaign expenses of both What did he spend the money for? knew that no matter which of the two won he would not loose. Evidently But otherwise he is impartial, Those who pay the piper call the tune. Italist candidates with the sinews of war can walk Into their senatorial offices afterwards, put their feet on the senatorial offlce desks and tell Because he Those who supply the cap- Yet the workers continue to rely for assistance on capitalist parties. And labor misieaders like Walker, Farrington, Olander and Fitzpatrick act the flunkey to those capitalist politicians, while they pretend to rep- Labor must have Its own political party. This Is the lesson the work- ers must draw from the present investigation. that Is not the creature of the money power. They must organize their own labor party and In alliance with the farmers begin the task of sweeping from power the corrupt parties of capitalism that use the machinery of government against them. They must have a party Jor the Illinois Federation of Labor and Victor Olander, secretary of the same organization. Both are sup- porters of Frank L. Smith, Walker’s name was mentioned by Senator Car- away as one of the beneficiaries of the alleged Smith slush fund. Walker wanted to take the stand. Perhaps the Smith caucus demanded this of him. When the first session adjourn- ed, Walker approached the committee table and talked to LaFollette. The latter suggested to Mr. Walker that their committee was looking for facts and did neg start the investigation be- cause of a@ything Caraway said about Walker or Walker thot of Caraway. Olander Handed In His Card. ‘Walker then appealed to Reed. He wanted to take the stand and clear things up. It is doubtful it he will. Olander was also there. He hand- ed his card to Reed who took it with several smiles. Two Andy Gumps. George Brennan visited the commit- tee table. George has a double chin. It is a little huskier than Smith’s. The faces of both senatorial candi- dates would not incite one to write poetry. But they offer excellent ma- terial for the pen of the author of Andy Gump. There is no appearance of hurry about this investigation. Reed plays with his cigar. Frank L. Smith starts to read a reply to a speech made by the democrat Caraway in the senate. He speaks in a low voice, so the re- porters do not catch it, Anyhow, Reed soon stops him and he must quit. Reed explains sauvely that the com- mittee is not interested in defending Senator Caraway. “Better a friend in court than a groat in the purse” said the proverb. Woe unto the witness who does not own his own investigat- ing committee. | The Flag Is There. A big American flag almost over- shadows the committee table. Per- haps that same flag hung there when Wilkerson issued the injunction that smashed the shopmen’s strike! Any- how it looks down on a multitude of hypocrites, Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin did not take much part in the ques- tioning. Most of it. was done by Reed. “What was the reason that Insull gave so much money to your cam- paign?” asks the Missourian. “He'll have to answer that.” “Were you surprised at it?” “Frankly, I was.” Again the court room buzzed with conversation. Then Reed gave Smith permission In it, Smith said he wanted to.know who Auspices of ED OWENS OF DETROIT, of the L. A. Allied Printing Council. SHARP, out Washington Blvd, Leona Bivd., or take P, EB. (red) car at 4th and SSS SEES SSS were his accusers and what were the charges against him. When the statement began to at- tack Senator Caraway, democrat of Arkansas, who had voiced charges against the interests on the floor of the senate in June, Red stopped him. “We are not here to defend Cara way,” said Reed, “but we are not go- ing to sit here as a committee to af- ford you a forum to attack him.” QUIT CHURCHES AS NEW BLOW AT MEXICAN STATE Use Excommunication Threat at Officials (Special to The, Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, July 26.—Failing in its boycott maneuver against the Mex- lean regulations restraining religious education In the sehools, the Roman | Catholic church in ‘Mexico has drawn another weapon which it thinks will rouse the faithful to struggle. The churches of Mexico will suspend services after July 31, according to an episcopal letter sent out in the name of Archbishop Jose Mora y Del Rio, seven other archbishops and thirty bishops, Excommunication Threat. Suspension was ordered in protest against the new religious regulations promulgated by the Mexigan govern- ment. The manifesto, which took the form of a pastoral letter, lists the pen- alties which may be imposed on those of the catholic faith responsible for the new laws, including excommunica- tion, Altho formal services will cease in all churches, they will remain open for prayer and meditation. Calles Answers. President Calles in a statement charged that the present disturbances thruout Mexico were the result of ef- forts of “reactionary elements to over- throw the revolutionary government under the guise of relfgious zeal.” Calles belittled the possible effects of the boycott of the churches by the clergy. His statement continues as follows: “Even were the proposed economic paralysis of the country actually pro- duced by the Catholics, while it might mean disorders and tumult, the gov- ernmefit could not itself be injured, and the net result would be to bring down upon the leaders of the move- ment the hatred of those who had suf- fered from the boycott. Work of Scoundrels, “T well understand that for the peo- Reed asked Smith who had support- ple of the United States it is difficult ed him in the campaign. Smith named William Hale Thompson, former mayor, Robert E. Crowe, the state’s attorney, and Charles V. Bar- rett, as being among the leaders who aided his candidacy. Spent $250,000. When Allen F. Moore, campaign manager for Frank L. Smith took the witness stand at the afternoon “ses- sion he admitted that the sum of $253,547.51 was spent on behalf of his candidate in the primaries. Moore testified that Samuel Insull, electrical czar of the mid-west, had given $125,000 to the Smith campaign and that between $40,000 and $50,000 more came from persons whose iden- tity he would not reveal to the com- mittee. Moore also admitted “being the second largest contributor,” and his figures showed he spent approxi- mately $75,000 out of his own pocket in the campaign. That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. French Banks Struggle for Cabinet Rule (Continued from page 1) It is not altogether to be taken ser- iously that the supposed program of Poincare is to reject the idea of for- eign loans. While this may appear as @ sop to national sentiment, Poincare will reject no loans and in fact his in- timation to ratify the debt agreement indicates that in due time all will be arranged. Workers Forced to Pay. The balance of the Poincare pro- gram, of national economy and of tax- ation, is made to fit the plan of. press- ing the entire cost upon the backs of the workers. For by following popu- lar capitalist sentiment against loans from foreign interests for a time, the excuse can be made that as an alter- native, the workers must speed up, produce more, and pay more indirect taxes upon what they buy. Meanwhile the levy on capital is dodged and capital generally avoids paying taxes. The workers are asked to pay the war debt. Meanwhile the france has recovered to 38.92 to tho dollar. BiG NEW YORK MEETING OF |. L. 0. MEMBERS ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 28 A general membership meeting of the International Labor Defense, New York section, will take place Wednesday, July 28, at 8 p, m, at Ukrainian Hall, 15 West Third street, How to make the Interna- tiona) Labor Defen: mighty shield for the defense of the workers and important matters concerning the coming national conference will be discus: J. P. Canno, national sec- retary of the International Labor De- fense, will speak, All members are urged not to forget our Imprisoned to grasp the fact that the agitation in Mexico is simply the work of scoun- drels who are seeking to conceal their political motives under the mantle of religion, Passaic, New Jersey, Police in Attack on New York Furviers (Continued from page 1) ning their seventh month of struggle, the police acting under orders from Mayor MacGuire, Commissioner Pre: iskel and the rest of those who have claimed that they “welcome American Federation of Labor organizers” in the sity of Passaic made a vicious attack both on the strikers and the American Federation of Labor members, who had come to speak at the meeting. The meeting was called by the United Front Committee. Several hundred furriers came to the meeting from New York in busses led by their leader, Ben Gold, Cheér dfter cheer from the many thougand textile strik ers greeted the furriers as they pled- ged their solidarity with the Passaic strikers and promised to help in every way possible. Police Attack Parade. As the strikers were walking peace fully, the police began their brutal as sault beating up ruthlessly the men and women and ‘boasting that they would get the furriers. The furriers’ union is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. « The police drove away the busses that were waiting to take the furriers back to New York and prevented the furriers event from -going into the streets, closing them in the Ukrainian National Home, Club Organizer, One of the organizers of the United Front Contmittee Francesco Coco was seized by the police while he was standing on the private property of the Ukrainian National Home and most criminally beaten, At the same time wholesale arrests were being made. There can be but one answer to these made to order police riots. They have openly boasted that they have driven American Federation of Labor organizers out of the city and now comes this attack upon the Amer- ican Federation of Labor furriers’ union, A most widespread protest must be made against these vicious attacks. The American Federation of Labor must take a definite stand against these police *brutalities which are being visited now upon American Federation of Labor organizers as well as the United Front Committee. Be- hind all this police brutality stands the citizens’ committee that deliberately fomentts and encourages it. All decent and honest citizens in this locality aro called upon by the strikers to band themselves together and break this disorderly crew, “The strikers are only the more en- couraged and determined to stand firm until the strike is won,” declared lead- ers of the United Front Committee, “and wo have a union that will prevent the repetition of these brutalities, Lincoin’s @pn Dies, MANCHESTER, ¥t., July 26.—Robdt. comrades and attend this Important | T, Lincoln, son of whe former presi Meet Ge, rs nes. amnmennc ~T.Seaetin, dent, died be apie oe - ava be se, } French Now Realize the Real Purpose Behind the Coming of “the Yanks” ——— OR the third time within recent years the French are joining in a reception to “The Yanks,” as they have learned to dub all Americans. The first time was in 1917 when a mifiion or more of American youth were rushed to France and into the trenches, presumably, as the French thought, to aid them defeat the Ger- mans. They were welcomed. Then the second time the late President Woodrow Wilson sailed with his retinue and his “14 points,” but since he permitted the French politicians to frame the Versailles peace, his coming was overlooked. Now for the third time the French witness a new invasion of their country. But now only for the first time do they realize the significance of the first two invasions by “The Yanks,” as the advance guard of the international bankers of Wall Street arrives, The reception given these visitors is not so welcome, In fact it is quite hostile. **e Day after day the newspapers pub- Ushed the casualty lists containing the names of the dead among the first arrivals in France, They were “heroes” to France, at the time, but now mock funeral ceremonies are being held at their graves in Paris, They died only for Morgan. Wilson’s “14 points” were but camouflage for Colonel E. M. House, Wall Street’s agent, who always stood at Wilson’s side advising him how to diplomatize for the dollar, even as he has done for the two succeeding republican ~ presidents, Harding and Coolidge, down to the present time, “* *@ After the nine years of prepara- tion by these two previous dollar crusades into Europe, the unmasked agents of Wall Street now make their’ appearance. Here they are: J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., himself son and heir of the founder of the House of Morgan, credited with being the head of world finance, Andrew J. Mellon, secretary of the United States treasury, Pittsburgh banker and acclaimed the third rich- est man in the world, coming next to Rockefeller and Ford, Charles Steele, one of the partners of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co, S. Gilbert Parker, American agent general of reparations under the Dawes plan. Benjamin Strong, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In addition there is a retinue not only of lesser financiers from Wall Street, but also of small-fry political agents from the government at Washington, who have found it con- venient to have “vacations” in Eu- rope at the present time. ‘je iy This little. coterie is not as numer- ous as the aggregation of “Yanks” that went over in 1917, nor is it as communicative as the Wilson ex- pedition in 1919, but it is the most powerful, It was in the interests of this crowd, and the social order for which they stand, that the United States entered the war. Wilson did its bidding. That is what the work- ers and peasants of the Union of So- By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. viet Republics, when they came into power, in November, 1917, told the workers of the rest of Europe and of the world. But sufficient numbers of them, at that time, would not Msten and thru united action make it possible to throw off the yoke of all capitalist oppressors, That real- ization is now dawning, not only in France, but in other countries, It becomes the keynote even of the bourgeois press in all European countries. er One of the first big outbreaks of anti-American feeling was shown in the demonstration of the crippled war veterans in Paris, protesting against the terms of the Mellon- Berenger arrangement for the settle- ment of the French war debt, most of which was incurred after the war to bolster French militarism and carry on the imperialist attack against the Soviet Union, There is a statue of George Wash- ington in Paris holding aloft a mighty sword, One of the French war veterans drew a caricature of the statue, with the American dollar sign pinioned on the sword. That’s a great change from the time that Benjamin Franklin came to France seeking sympathy and support for the first American revolution. ere An echo comes from Italy with the fascist organ, Il Tevere, declaring that: “Things cannot go on thus. The Americans are sowing to the right and left hatred and a désire for vengeance, The right to enslave a whole continent is not to be secured even on the battlefield, with risk of lite, They must think it can be ac- quired behind the teller’s window of a bank, manipulating loans at so much per cent. “The Americans have their eyes full of figures. Their ears are ab- sorbed with the clicking of adding machines. They have a knife up their sleeves, namely, their most powerful dollar, which can crush 20 Europeans. They live in a* state of superb obliviousness which is aston- ishing and offensive. “We cannot foresee the future, but we can read in the hearts of the men of this old Europe, written in letters of blood, condemnation of that cer- tain slavery which has the dollar as its symbol.” Thus the Italian fascist daily can speak freely. Mussolini's tyranny has already been granted a cancella- ,tion of most of the war debt, and re- ceived a loan of $100,000,000 from Morgan. It speaks the jealousy of Mussolini who would like to see him- self, not Morgan, the Emperor of the world. These European attacks on Wall Street and Washington serve an ex- cellent purpose in that they reveal / to the American worker and farmer masses the real nature of their boasted “democratic” government and exposes to view the financial power that dominates it. Only Amer- ican labor uniting with Buropean labor can overthrow this dollar ty- ranny that seeks to enslave all man- kind. TWO COMRADES (CANCER CURE LOSE LIVES INSTITUTE HEAD IN OHIO RIVER} SENT TO JAIL PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 26, —The Workers (Communist) Party suffered a great loss when two members, Reba Unickel, twenty, of Pittsburgh, and Thomas Kaliginian, 25, of Wilkinsburg were drowned in the Ohio river at Sewickley. The accident occurred when Unickel slipped from a log and went under. Kaliginian made a courageous attempt to save her but failed and was drown- ed together with her. Their bodies were recovered ten minutes later, All attempts of a phy- siclan to revive them failed. The funeral takes place today from the La bor Lyceum, 36 Miller St., Pittsburgh. Unickel was an active member of the party and the Young Workers (Communist) League and a member of the United Garment Workers’ Un- ion. Kaliginian recently arrived from New York and one of the most active party members. He was espe- cially known among Armenian work- ors, TAYLORVILLE, I, July 26, —With H. M, Hoxey, head of the National Cancer Research Institute, in jail here, a warrant for the arrest of Arvid Per- sons, Hoxey’s assistant, has been issued. Hoxey was arrested after Samuel Antonow, assistant director of the state board of registration, demanded investigation of death of patients, More than twenty persons have died while taking the institute's “cure” for cancer. Persons was said by Antonow to have been an associate at one time of Dr, Charles C, Faiman, notorious “germ” witness of the McClintock- Shepherd murder trial at Chicago. The cancer “cure” inquiry and its revelations have divided businessmen of Taylorville into factions, one sup porting the institute and the other de- claring it was a “cancer on the busi- ‘ness life” of the town, ‘The subscription price to the Amer- lean Worker Correspondent is only 50 cents per year. Are you a subscriber? CHICAGO WOMEN’S CONFERENCE FOR RELIEF OF PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKERS WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY NIGHT In an appeal addressed to all women's rganizations the Chicago Con- ference for the Relief of Passaic Strikers urges the women's organizations to send two delega' to a conference to be held at the Workers’ Lyceum, corner Ogden and Kedzie, Thursday night, July 29 at & o'clock, The Chicago Conference has been unable to get In contact with all women’s organizations in the city. Every organization that desires to sond delegates may do so, If the organization has already met, the éxecutive com- mitteg should appoint delegates or the offlolals come themecivem p= alee ae ayn POWER SHOWN ON | STREETS BRINGS BOSSES TO TIME Garment Workers Win 150 Applications NEW WORK, July 26.—A week of rapid fire activity in the cloakmakers‘ strike of 40,000 is, promised beginning this morning when 20,000 pickets will make a show of strength in the gam thent zone under police escort. This will be directly in contrast to the pol- iey of wholesale arrests previously pursued during Monday morning mass | picketing demonstrations. The union threatened to pay no more fines and fill the jails. Negotiate With 150 Shops. Coincident with the public demom strations, the work of settling, on union terms, with some of the most prominent manufacturers and jobbers will begin at the Cadillac Hotel under the direction of Salvatore Ninfo, chain man of the strike settlement commit- tee. To date 150 applications for get tlement have been received, a good number from members of the indus- trial council of the Cloak and Suit Manufacturers’ Association, Settling independently of the indns- trial council is likely to mean expul- sion of these firms from the manu- facturers’ association. The union de- mands include @ guarantee of a minimum of 36 weeks’ work per year, a 40-hour week, an increase of 10 Per cent in wages and, most impor tant, limitation and registering of the number of contractors per jobber. Mass Meetings. Tuesday and Wednesday a series of mass meetings covering Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx will be held at various strike halls holding an aver- age of 1,000 strikers per hall, Prom- inent labor leaders will address these gatherings, Friday, the union will defend itself against the application for a perma- nent injunction made by the bosses thru the so-called “Mutual Aid” asso- ciation of designers. “Mutual Aid” Like Company: Union. Adolph Schock, manager of the United Designers, Local No. 45 of the LL. G. W. U. yesterday replied to allegations made in the manufacturers’ affidavits supporting their plea for an injunction. The employers had charged that the union had no real designers as members ynd therefore had no right to seek non-uinon designers as members. Scheck, in reply, declared: “The pretensions of the industrial council that only their employes are the real designers is a joke. In reality, their designers are merély copyists of models imported from Paris every season. The designers (union) who work in the American Cloak and Suit Association and independent shops and for jobbers must make original creations since they get no models from Paris to copy. Union designers make 80, per cent of the cloaks. ighty-five per cent of the designers in the union had previously been mem- bers of the Mutual Ald Society, but seeing the futility of trying to secure improved conditions thru it, they quit the organization and joined the union.” CHURCHILL FOR CANCELLATION, - DECLARES BORAH Hits Chancellor With ~ Sharp Satire WASHINGTON, July 26.—The ad- ministration unofficially views the up- roar in Europe over the war debts of the allies to the Unfted States, particularly from Britain, as propa- ganda for the cancellation of the war debts. Senator Borah of the foreign relations committee, in a counterat- tack, comes back at ‘the British gow ernment: m “Mr Churchill, {t would seem, fs conducting a Gallipoli campaign for cancellation, His strategy is except- ional, but there is no doubt about his objectives,” ‘ , Citing the fact that of the 4,207,392 square miles of territory divided up’ by the imperialist victors in the world war for “democracy,” Great Britain got 3,805,000 and France 402,892,, Borah added: “It would seem that Green Britain's quarrel is not with the United States, but with France, It was France who got 402,000 square miles.” Saying that the terms given Britain were lenient, Borah said he would not criticize the leniency. “It might have been justi- fied owing to the small portion of ter- . ritory Great Britain secured. Our settlement with Bngland, Italy, Bel- gium and France represents a cancel- lation of $7,000,000,000." — ~< y Peculiar Pig Born In Peru, SALDM, Ore., July 26—A pig with two heads, two mouths, and four eyes, was born at the state penitentiary here today, according to a report from the warden’s office, The animal is normal in every respect, and in good health. Since it mouths wig einer is