The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER SCORE POLICE FOR ASSAULT ON STRIKERS Police and Company Officials Dodge NEW YORK CITY, July 27.—Police Commissioner McLaughlin is silent on the accusation of Samuel Untermyer, who took up the case for the I. R. T. strikers, of the unprovoked and brutal attack on the strikers by twenty-five city detectives last Friday. Untermyer addressed a letter, yet unanswered, to McLaughlin, asking for an inquiry with the right of. cross- examination. He told how the meet- ing of the strikers had closed at about 11 o’clock, most men going home, a few remaining with the officers of the union closing up the hall, When they came out, the detectives set upon them with blackjacks and beat a number of men whose names are given. Deliberate Attack. “I am assured,” says Untermyer, ‘that there is evidence that these men from headquarters went there for the purpose of making such an assault. Two women who were upon the scene testify that they heard one of the plain clothes men say to the others, ‘Don’t wait, give it to them as soon as they come out.’ And that appears to have been the program that was adopted.” Three reporters from capitalist newspapers are named as witnesses, as are seven uniformed policemen whose numbers are given, who would testify that the attack was unprovok- ed and brutal, as well as the strikers who were attacked. Untermyer takes a fling at the capitalist press by say- ing: Capitalist Press Kills Reporter's Stories “Men tell me that while the report- ers who have covered the case and know the facts have been most sym- pathetic with the point of view of the men, their stories have been so blue penciled that they have not been able to acquaint the public with the facts. “They say they have repeatedly called attention to the fact that when the Interborough was earning 22 per cent per annum on its capital stock, it was paying the men $1.70 per day for ten hours work, When they were coining money the men did not par- ticipate in their prosperity, but when they are no longer making money the men are asked to submit to being un- derpaid. Apparently it is one of those rules that works only one vhy.” Police Fairy Tales. The police commissioner, strangely, says he “has received no complaint.” So he officially refuses to taik. Un- officially, he says that the strikers “were fighting among themselves and the detectives sought to break up the melee, whereupon the strikers turned on the detectivs, who had to resort to their clubs to protect themselves.” James L, Quackenbush, counsel for the company, tells a different fairy story. He says the strikers took the detectives for “secret service men of the company, who were organized by & man named Beakey a few years ago. The police acted properly, said Quack- enbush, who seemed highly to approve of the beating of strikers, though he dodged the question as to whether he had asked the detectives to do it. Pickets Pull Out 63. “The strike committee resents and denies the statement that the strikers were in a fight,” says the strike com- mittee, which adds that their pickets have pulled out 63 more men since the renewal of the strike. “The strike committee points out the obvious fact that the I. R, T. officials are behind the unprovoked attack upon the strik- ers. No one at police headquarters could be found to take the responsibil- ity.” Shell Kills Four Soldiers in Maneuvers CUNEO, Italy, July 27.—Four sol- diers were killed and five wounded when a shell exploded in the midst of maneuvers of a mountain artillery reg- iment here. Wall Street and Reme Against Mexico Te Tt Ate OMe CT oe ree ee rt of the church among the masses of Mexico has been broken, It is the international phase of the conflict that makes it so serious, According to the public admission of Archbishop Mora y del Rilo, It was the pope of Rome who advised the interdict upon the country. In the United States there has been an undoubted rapprochment between the pope and the dominant capitalistic interests, as was evidenced at the recent eucharistic congress, in the glorification of which protestants and Jews participated—so ostentatiously in fact that there could be no doubt that the congress was not Roman catholic, in the religious sense, but political, * * * * || POINCARE GETS T Is no accident that the eucharistle congress occupied itself so ex- tensively with assaults upon Mexico. interdict from Rome follows closely after. The eucharistic congress came at a time when American imperialism was carrying on its ruthless offensive against Mexico's land and oil laws. Wall Street and Washington, no less than the catholic church, is interested in fomenting counter-revolution in Mexico. It is now plain that the rapprochment of Amer- inseparable bedfellows. It is no accident either that the Imperialism and reaction are ican capitalists with the catholic church was largely for the purpose of utilizing the church as a political instrument for the sujugation of Latin- American countries. That is why the present church conflict in Mexico receives such prominence in the United States. ducted here, That is why public “praying” is con- The whole move bears the unmistakable earmarks of having been initiated In the United States, to provide an entering wedge for American interests eager to weaken the Calles regime. * 8 N the present situation, Calles must rely more than ever upon the Mexican masses. They are sure allies against imperialism and counter. unfortunate from all points of view that he should at this very moment be engaged in a maneuver to break up the organization of the Mexican railroad workers. vers must stop If Calles Is to have the solid support which he unquestion- ably should have In his struggle against reaction. The Mexican govern- ment is making a sincere fight against imperialism. time demonstrate its confidence in the masses of its own people. Never was the Mexican government in greater need of support. The revolution. It is, therefore, imperialist and reactionary elements The Mexican clergy would never dare to go as far as they have gone if they were not stimulated from outside, The Mexican archbishop now threatens to excommunicate President Calles and all his subordinates. And ganized public prayers—is intended to influence a non-earthly god. Boss Parties Divide Political Offices (Continued from page 1) cudgels for the political purity of Mr. Walker and waxed wrathy. Reed sald it was by no mans defl- nitely decided that no labor teaders would be called. Reed For Polite Language. If they Bad any statement of facts to be made he said the committee would consider such a statement. | But the committee would insist on facts. Alluding to the attempt of} Frank L. Smith to read an attack on| Senator Caraway into the record, Reed declared that he would not stand for anybody coming before the com- mittee and calling a senator, a con- gressman, a constable or even a news paper editor a scandal-monger. Mr. Wise continued to erupt so fin- ally the senator got peeved and said: “You have more heat in your head than sense. I have to give you court- eous treatment but if you are not able to take it, then you can do as you please.” The internal squabbles of the Cook County republicans may be aired at future sessions of the committee. As Charles V. Barrett, pillar of the Crowe machine, was leaving the courtroom yesterday after adjournment of the morning session, he said to one of his henchmen, “We have not started yet.” Had Plenty of Boodle. West with a cynical grin gave the names of the principal leaders of the various republican factions in Cook County. He is a McKinley man, Mc- Kinley is supposed to have spent $1,000,000 in trying to win the G. O. P. nomination for senator. Fred Lundin had his own organiza- tion and while the “poor Swede’” sup- ported McKinley, at least one of his ward organizations of which a man by the name of Monaghan was chief, supported McKinley. The McKinley crowd simply let this ward go and did not bother with it. West testified that the Lundin- Small group controlled about six or seven wards in Cook County and were strong in the southern part of the state, James Simpson, president of Mar- shall Field and Company was supoen- aed to appear before the committee. Chester A. Willoughby, Senator McKinley's secretary, was the first to take the witness stand at the morn- ing session. He resumed his testimony where he CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. ———TGontinued trom page 1) So Woodrow returned and got a whip ping. Which was the end of Woodrow. 6. © AM finally decided to leave Europe to its fate and proceeded to col- lect the moneys he lent them to make the world safe for democracy and inci- dentally give more elbow room to the products of American manufacfurers in markets which were formerly near- monopolized by the nations which did most of the fighting in the world war, Sam found that he had some difficulty in getting his money back and he got sore, Who wouldn't? ee 6 ‘F settled with some of them. But even those that settled had a bellyache every time they had to pay an instalment on the debt. England was the first big power to cough up. Sem Italy and several small nations, pe we mae ‘ é a. vin . Te i £ As soon as they settled they got a loan from Wall Street. France dodged and is still dodging. Now England is squawking. Angry words are being tossed back and forth across the ocean, Money talks, whether you have it or not, . . THE capitalist press would make it appear that our Uncle Sam is about as easy as the country hick who buys his annual municipal build- ing when he pays his yearly visit to the city. The sap who holds the weep- ing lady's child while she goes into the store to buy a nipple is a smart aleck compared to him, But Sam is about as crazy as a fox. He is not worrying. A haggler will stand a lot of punishment if he thinks he can make a profit out of a deal. Uncle has the dough. He is taking it from every- where. He can afford to let the bank- rupt European capitalists howl, tho to amuse himself he will feign tndigna- tion for a while. He is now enjoying himself extracting his debtors’ teeth. They will be worse before they get better, j lite insurance ee by the dead 16 These dubious maneu- It must at the same are united on an international scale. this—no more than the carefully or- INSULL, TRACTION KING, CONTRIBUTED 10 THREE DIFFERENT PARTY CHEST Samuel Insuli scored again in the senate slush investigation when Roy O. West, secretary of the Na- tional Republican committee ad- mitted on the witness stand that the public utility monarch contributed $10,000 to the Deneen group candi- date for the senatorial nomination, William McKinley. Insull gave over $150,000 to Frank L. Smith and $15,000 to Brennan, the democrat. This brings the Insul| contributions to $168,735, left off the previous day, first telling of a second McKinley headquarters in Chicago. It was operated by Andrew Russell of Jacksonville, Ill. “Why didn’t you tell us about this headquarters yesterday?” asked Sena- tor Reed, democrat of Missouri. “I forgot it,” Willoughby explained. “Where were your headquarters?” “In the Great Northern Hotel, and the other was in the New York Life Insurance building.” “Why did you have two separate headquarters in Chicago?” “The first headquarters was in Mr. Russell’s own private office and we used his rooms until we opened the headquarters at the hotel.” “Why didn’t you move your whole business over to the hotel?” asked Reed. “Mr. Russell stayed there to con- duct his own business,’ was the re- ply. Did Not Know What Russell Did. “Did you know what Mr. Russell was doing there?” “No sir?” The Philanthropic Senator. Reed sought to learn the extent of McKinley’s philanthropic contribu- tions before and during the senatorial campaign. The senator’s political foes have charged he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in this fashion to popularize his support. “Did the senator make any sub- scriptions or contributions to churches, colleges or other public in- stitutions in the last twelve months?” Reed asked. . “No sir,” said Willoughby. “He made regular donathions every year. Mr. (H. A.) Green can tell you about them, I don’t know.” “Isn't it a fact that Senator McKin ley made several large contributions to churches and colleges during or just before this campaign?” Reed asked, “No more than in the preceding years,” “Well, if he made these contribu- tions, how much were they?” “I don’t know,” answered the wit- ness. “It was his usual plan to give so much a year to schools, colleges and churches,” “Didn't Senator McKinley make a large contribution to a colored church here in Chicago during the campaign “He made a contribution to a Ne- gro college.” Arrest Bnother of Slain Man. DANVILLE, Ky,, July 27.—Virgil Gastineau, 33, brother of John M. Gastineau, wealthy Lancaster farmer, mysteriously murdered last February, was jailed here today, charged with killing his brother to obtain $23,000 in BY FIRST TEST IN PARLIAMENT England to Grant Loan Pending U. S. Credit PARIS, July 27.—By appealing to “clear-sighted patriotism” to shorten the discussion on the question of ad- journing all intereilations unti! the financial bill was) discussed and passed, the new Poincare cabinet got a vote of confidence today from the chamber of deputies ‘of 358 to 131 votes, This first vote of confidence was ex pected, but whether Poincare can put across his financial jf: bill is another thing. |¥ It is his plan to load the burden of taxa- tion upon the work- ers by an increased indirect taxation up- on necessities. The workers already p: more than their ‘ share of taxation by this method, andthe POINCARE rich simply refuse to pay direct taxes against capital, As a compromise, Poincare’s decla- ration to the chamber said that indi- rect taxation would be increased, but that some direct taxes would be im- posed upon “acquired wealth” to form a repayment fund for the national de- fense bonds. Pay by “Capacity.” As to the foreign debts, the Poin- care declaration was somewhat enig- matical, He said: “As well as ourselyes, our creditor nations, whom we havea firm desire to pay in so far as our capacity will permit, have an interest before all in our putting an end to this monetary crisis.” There is considerable optimism in the tone of the premier, but few facts to back it up. It is known that rati- fication of the British-French agree- ment will be easy compared to that of the Mellon-Berenger agreement. The majority of the chamber is against ratifying the latter. Even some of Poincare’s cabinet are opposed to it. Hopes to Cut Terms. It is believed that Poincare intends to get the chamber to adjourn for va- cations, and before it meets again ob- tain such formal modification as pos- sible in an effort to get it ratified at a later date. The declaration of Jacques Duboin, member of the national “experts’ com- mission, published Sunday, gives an idea of what France expects to help ger thru until the Mellon-Berenger pact is ratified and loans can be ob- tained from America, He says: England Gives Loan. “It is true, so far as America 1s concerned, that no direct credit wih be granted us before ratification of the Wasihngton agreement. But it the Washington agreement. But it land and Holland specifically, a for- mal promise of immediate and amply sufficient aid to assure complete func- tioning of the experts’ plan.” Part of the experts’ plan includes a lengthening of the work day. Oakland and Frisco Will Join in Labor Day Parade, the Plan OAKLAND, Calif., July 27.—One of the biggest events in the labor move- ment of the East Bay district is ex- pected to come with Labor Day, when not only will the labor unions of Ale- meda county turn out to show its power in a great parade, but these will be joined by the labor unions of San Francisco, who will come to Oak- land en mass to join their fellow workers on the Oakland side. Oakland locals are making arrange- ments to make it a 100 per cent turn out, while the co-operation from San Francisco is looked npon as sure to make the whole demonstration a suc- cess. “The organization which fails to re- spond on this occasion will be an odd- ity,” says one Oakland labor leader. | A ; Auto Collision Fatal. PEORIA, Ill, July 27,—Henry Royer, Schuyler county farmer and his daugh- ter, Mrs, Clarence Hickman, are un- conscious in a hospital at Rushville and believed to be fatally injured as the result of a collision on the Ma- comb hard road this morning with a car driven by S. J. Stahner of Daven- port, Iowa. The Stahner party was enroute to Keokuk to attend a funeral, Investigate Freight Rate. WASHINGTON, July 27.—The in- terstate commerce commission today ordered an investigation of the pro- posal to increase freight rates on iron and steel articles, in carloads, from Terre Haute and Brazil, Ind., to Chi- cago and intermediate points via the Chicago, & Eastern Illinois railroad, The proposed increases average six cents per 100 pounds, Lincoln’s Son Helped to Crucify the Workers WINDOW WASHERS OF NEW YORK IN OPEN SHOP FIGHT Under Capitalist System Union Appeals to Work- By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. OBERT TODD LINCOLN, the can properly be classed among the DAILY WORK! only son of the civil war presi- dent, is dead and with him ends the name. Abraham Lincoln, the father, died a martyr to the cause of emancipa- tion; the son ended his days in the lap of luxury and ease, Lincoln, the father, helped strike the chains of chattel slavery from the limbs of millions of black men, Lincoln, the son, helped fasten the chains of wage slavery on the limbs of labor, of all colors. a Ve Both the father and son were law- yers. Both entered the politics of their day. Both were human symbols of the deep-going struggles of their times. Abraham Lincoln typified the ener- getic, industrial north struggling against the landed, slave-holding aristocratic south. Lincoln became the political head, in Washington, of youthful American capitalism in its great crisis, He was its war presi- dent, The success of “The North” unleashed the forces of capitalism over the whole nation, not only for “The North” but also for “The South.” In fact, the capitalist devel- opment of “The South” dates prac- tically from the ending of the civil war, = “ee @ Robert Todd Lincoln, the son, just coming to manhood in the heat of the civil war, became the embodi- ment of the social forces let loose by that war, He was a captain under General Grant and saw the fall of Petersburg and the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox, He saw an old social institution die. Then he became secretary of war in President Gar- field’s cabinet in 1881. Later he went as American ambassador to London, returning in the panic year of 1893. Lincoln, the son, immediately took up the practice of law in Chicago, becoming special counsel for the Pullman company, just organized in 1867. Evidently Lincoln, the son, did well as a corporation lawyer, for he rose rapidly in the favor of the para- site stockholders, *e @ It was in 1893 that the Pullman company reduced wages one-fourth altho the cost of everything in its model town, of rent, water, gas and other fundamental necessities re- main the same, Gustavus Myers, in his “History of Great American Fortunes,” tells of the conditions at Pullman, that Lincoln, the son, as lawyer was call- ed on to defend, in these words: “As the average yearly pay of at least 4,497 of the company’s wage workers was little more than $600, or to be exact, $613.86—this reduc- tion of (one fourth), in a large num-~ ber of cases, was equivalent to forcing these workers, to yield up their labor for substantially nothing. Numerous witnesses testified before the special commission appointed la- ter by President Cleveland, that at times their bi-weekly checks ran variously from four cents to one dollar. The company could not pro- duce evidence to disprove this. These sums represented the com- pany’s indebtedness to them for their labor, after the company had deducted rent and other charges. Such manifold robberies aroused the bitterest resentment among the com- pany’s employes, since especially it was a matter of authentic know- ledge, disclosed by the company’s own reports, that the Pullman fac- tories were making enormous pro- fits. At this time, the Pullman workers were $70,000 in arrears to the company for rent alone.” ¢ ai These were the conditions that led up to the historic Pullman strike that was inaugurated May 11, 1894. Carroll D, Wright, for a time United States commissioner of labor, sald of this struggle, and the greater strike following, that it was “prob- ably the most expensive and far- reaching labor controversy which INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID NEW YORK STREET MEETINGS FOR THE WEEK NEW YORK, July 27.—The New” York local of the International Workers Aid will hold the following open-air meetings on the Passaic textile workers and the British coal- diggers’ strikes: Thursday, July 29, Seventh and Avenue A. Friday, July 80, Stone and Pitkin, Brooklyn, Saturday, July 31, Columbus Cir cle and 59th street. $ Read It today and everyday In The Gen NEW YORK, general strike of @ Tx to become effe Strike Called on I. R. T. 27—Interborough strikers issued a oall today for a loyes in all departments of the |, R. T. at five o'clock Saturday morning ' ae ae historic controversies of this gen- eration.” The class struggle was deepening. It was the American Railway Un- ion, composed of various grades of workers on a large number of rail- roads, that declared a sympathetic strike under thé leadership of Eugene V. Debs. The young Amer- ican capitalist tyranny, using its gov- ernmental power in Washington, ruthlessly crushed this strike. The whole press, that had called for the freeing of the slaves in the South, now united as one to crucify wage labor in the North, The strike lead- ers were thrown into prison, the’ strikers were shot down by the troops, while the whole judicial machinery was placed at the service of the railroad corporations, a8 Back of George M, Pullman, head of the Pullman company, stood Marshall Field, Chicago's most pow- erful merchant prince. The Pullman strike was therefore a struggle on behalf of all labor to organize and fight for its rights in the metropolis of the west, Lincoln, the son, was on the side of the bosses in this class war and when George M. Pullman died, he was made president of the Pullman company. When he resigned this position, in 1911, he was made chair- man of the board of directors. It is significant that during the closing years of his life, Lincoln, the son, saw the Negro porters of the Pullman company waging a suc- cessful struggle against the modern slavery to which they are condemn- ed, ee While the Pullman workers were girding for new struggles, Lincoln, the son, who had received his re- ward from his capitalist masters, lived on the Lake Shore Drive, or what is commonly known in Chi- cago as “The Gold Coast.” He was a member of the Union League Club that fosters “open shop” schemes and “Landis Award” plans for the crushing of the aspirations of labor. In his closing days he safely con- fined himself to the study of alge- braic problems and astronomy, and Played golf after the fashion of John D, Rockefeller, Even the capitalist press gave but Uttle space to his going. There are too many “bought and paid for” of his kind, for any one of them to at- tract much attention. New “rail-splitters” will rise from among the people to wage the new struggles of the now rising social order, ers for Co-operation NEW YORK, July 26.—New York window cleaners, members of Local No, 8 of the Window Cleaners’ Pro- tective Union, are engaged in a fight with seven companies who have de- clared for the open shop and non- union conditions. The unjon has issued the following appeal to organized workers in New York City. Appeal to Workers, Seven window cleaning companies have declared a lockout on the men, and made war against the union The union has taken up the chal lenge and is putting up a fight. But in order to carry on the fight more effectively the Window Clean. ers’ Protective Union, Local No. & appeals to all unions and members for moral support, The following window cleaning companies are on strike: Pruden- tial, Empire City, Dry Dock, Grand City, Majestic, Commercial, Ace and Reliable. Every union member is requested to use all his influence to see thai men working for the above concerns shall not clean windows at their places of work, and see thst only union window cleaners shall do the cleaning. Fraternally yours, Window Cleaners’ Protective Union, Local No. 8, Democrats to Use the . Tariff as Issue for Fall Election Drive WASHINGTON, July 27.—(FP)— Tariff is the issue in this year’s elec- tions, says the democratic national committee in an exultant statement, based on the failure of the republican administration to relieve the distress of the farmers. It argues that the farm relief debate disclosed the injustice of the Fordney- McCumber high tariff law in a way that will seriously embarrass the ad- ministration in the November elec- tion. Moreover, the uncovering of bribery and corruption and wholesale use of money in Pennsylvania, the cit- adel of high tariff protection, is look- ed upon by the democratic managers as especially helpful to themselves. They suggest that the republicans were setting out to buy control of the next senate in order to continue the private benefits of high tariff rates to manufacturers, Vare of Pennsylvania is cited, with his $800,000 bid for a seat. The democrats propose that all senatorial nominees be pledged as to how they will vote on the seating of Vare. ‘ ON TO A HALF MILLION! Distribute a half million copies of the pamphlet, “The Workers (Communist) Party—What It Stands For, Why Every Worker Should Join” by the end of this year. party member? of them, Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. 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