The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1926, Page 5

' } MELLON TO SEE POLITICIANS IN SPITE OF VOWS Coolidge Says Europe Can Pay in Goods PAUL SMITHS, N. Y., July 29.— Thru the president’s interview with a reporter, it is learned that Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury, who has been vowing to high heaven that he went to Europe “for a vacation,” is, after all, going to confer with foreign statesmen. Coolidge lets it be known in unof- ficial statements that the’ administra- tion regards tho movement in Eu- rope of hostility toward America over the debt question, as an attack on American trade and this is being closely watched. Must Buck Borah. This agitation for cancellation and more favorable terms, Coolidge holds, is making it more difficult for the government, and he thinks the een- ate may now reject the Mellon-Ber- enger agreoment. Senator Borah has been furnished with fresh argument, much to Coo- lidge’s displeasure, against the ac- ceptance of the agreement.’ The ad- ministration, so it says, finds itself un- able to combat Borah’s arguments. Denies Trade Agreement Talk. Regarding a report that Coolidge had said that the U. S. would make favorable trade treaties that would al- low debtor nations to pay their debts in goods, the president claims he is misquoted. He issued the following statement on the matter: “The president has made no state- ment and authorized no interview con- cerning our foreign’ debts or trade agreements. Any claim to the con- trary is without foundation. He did remark to a social visitor that for- eign debtors could pay theiir debts in part from foreign trade. He has not mentioned trade agreements.” Twenty Years in Joliet Prison for Stealing Chicken JOLIET, Ul, July 29,—Miss Louise Porter, 17, is in the penitentiary here, sentenced to serve 20 years for steal- ing a chicken, Bowdoin Approaches the Arctic Circle The Bowdoin, carrying the Rawson- MacMillian expedition of the Field Museum of Chicago, was approaching the Arctic circle, a radiogram to the museum here advised. SUE EREEeeunae tan Florida Train Collision, ORLANDO, Fia., July 29.—Two pas- senger trains of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad crashed in a head-on collision here at 11:25 o'clock this morning. The number of lives lost, if any, has not been ascertained. FARM FOR SALE 80 acres, Prague, Ark. Five minutes waik from depot. Farm fenced with hog wire. About 18 acres under cul- tivation. All level land, no stones, plenty of good water. Includes ali stock“and farm implements. A bar gain for quick sale, Cash or terms $2,200. Write Andrew Remsik, Prague, Ark. INTERNATIONAL BARBER SHOP Private Beauty Parlor M. SALA, 2016 Second Ave. (Between 103rd and 104th Sts.) New York City YOU CAN EAT WELL IN LOS ANGELES at GINSBERG’S VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 2324-26 BROOKLYN AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CAL. MUST FOLL — THE DAILY WORKER U. S. AID TO BRITISH MINERS APPRECIATED, BUT MUCH MORE OW; TERRIBLE NEED NEW YORK, July’ 29.—Up to the $360,000 had been sent to the strikin| end of the first week in July, about British miners by various organiza- tions in the United States and Canada, states Lucy Branham in “The Miner,” @ British labor paper devoted to the miners’ cause. “The largest single donation of 10,278 pounds from America (over $50,- 000) came from the United Mine Workers of America.” She, praises the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ donation of $10,000 and mentions some of their lifts to New York and Passaic strikers, had sent “a big gift of 1,029 pounds” plus (over $5,000). But what has been sent is not enuf, much more must fol- low. Battered old miners’ lamps are be- ing sold by the women’s relief com- mittee, of which Evelyn Preston is representative in the United States. Some of the lamps bring more than $50. Pins duplicating the Davy lamp in miniature are also being sold wide- ly, These lamps are the tall ones car- ried by the miner by hand and stood or hung up, instead of having one on the cap. Mines Paid For Three Times Over. In the column, “Points for the Pit- man,” the miner is told what they get out of you: “The total capital in- vested in the British eoal industry is 160,000,000 pounds ($800,000,000) but during the lost 25 years the mine own- ers have taken 404,000,000 pounds ($2,020,000,000) in profits and the roy- alty-owners 150,000,000 pounds, ($750,- 000,000) in royalties. That is to say, in 25 years profits and royalties were sufficient to buy out the mines three times over—and they still belong to the mine owners.” Overwork Causes Disease. “The Deadly Kighth Hour” is an article by Dr, Maurice Newfield, who tells from a medical point of view the disastrous effects of long working hours on miners. He says that when work is too hard and carried on for too Jong a time, the body never com- pletely recovers from the fatigue and hence is weakened in resistance and made more susceptible to disease. “Every authority on industrial med- icine knows perfectly well that the oc- cupation of the miner, involving as it does, working in bad atmospheres contaminated with poisonous gases and coal dust, in dim and insufficient light, and often immersed to the waist in ‘water, has within it all the factors that make for a high degree of indus- trial fatigue within a very short space of time.” An eye trouble known as nystagmus —a disease of sight,—may come from working in insufficient light, says the doctor, but the miner is not responsi- ble for that and if he were not so fa- tigued he would probably not develop nystagmus only from the poor light. Anthracosis (miners pththisis, or min- ers’ asthma) is caused by the inhala- tion of coal dust, “but the over-work- ed, debilitated. miner with sapped re- sistance is the soil” for the disease to develop in. Nationalization The Issue, “The time is passing in nearly ali important industries when it és of any use for labor to discuss the questions of wages, hours, and working condi- tions, apart from the questions of or- ganization and policy on which wages, hours and working conditions de- pend,” declares R. H. Tawney, econ- omist who presented labor's case to the British coal commission. “In the coal industry it has long since pass- ed,” he continues in his plea for na- tionalization. Labor should have be- gun fighting in 1919 for its program of nationalization, he asserts. Private Ownership Must Go, “I hold that a coal industry nation- alization council should be formed, representing the Miners’ Federation, the Trades Union Congress, and the Labor Party, that it should establish similar councils up and down the country and that it should organize a campaign for public ownership to last till public ownership becomes a fact!” Tawney concludes: “The case is made clear that private ownership and operation of the coal industry cannot be expected to meet the needs of the miners for a living wage.” John Strachey ig editor of The Miner. The American Worker Correspond- ent is out. Did you get your copy? JULY ISSUE NOW OUT! GMEDICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT A Magazine By and for Workers m the Factories, the. Mines, the Mills and on the Land Subscribe! Only 50 Cents Per Year! Become a Worker Correspondent! " AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT, 11138 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. PHONE BELMONT r elie d BERGSTROM TAILORS SUITS AND OVERCOATS MADE’ TO ORDER We Clean, Press, Repair and Remodel Ladies and Gents Garmonte We Furnish the Union Label. 3218 North ‘Avenue, Near Kedzie Price 5 cents CHICAGO, ILL. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS The One Big Union of Canada ‘MA’ FERGUSON GALLS SESSION OF LEGISLATURE Announces She Will Re- sign Governorship AUSTIN, Texas, July 29.—Governor Miriam A. Ferguson has issued a call for a special session of the Texas legislature and senate to corivene Sept. 13 and has declared that she intends to resign from her office, in accordance with an election bet made with her opponent, Attorney General Dan Moody, following her defeat by Moody in the primaries. The belated special session of the legislature and senate, which is now being called, is empowered to carry on an investigation of the highway and other state departments against which charges of graft and fraud have been made. It is expected that this session of the legislature will be the most stormy ever held. It is said that Jim Fergu- son, husband of the governor and who was the real power “behind the throne,” prevailed on his wife not to resign until after the special session of the senate and legislature had ad- journed. As winning the democratic nomina- tion means election, the next governor of Texas will be Dan Moody. He will be inaugurated January 18. Lieutenant Governor Barry Miller will automatically step into office upon the acceptance by the legislature of the resignation of the present gov ernor. Aimee Threatens Her Persecutors with Fires of Hell LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 29, — Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson at her wits’ end to keep her flock of faithful souls from straying out of Angelus Temple simce her escapade with her radio operator staged a show in which she described herself as a “poor little woman beset by the devils of persecu- tion.” On the stage, from which she spoke to about 10,000 that had come to Angelus Temple, seven of her congre- gation attired as little devils appeared from craters. The painted background pictured the hell in which those that failed to believe in the kidnapping yarn would be tortured “forever after.” Soul-saving Aimee when asked by Deputy District Attorney Joseph Ryan to submit to identification tests thru handwriting and finger-prints refused to do so and in a statement bitterly assailed the prosecutor for insisting on these means of identification. She also refused to go to Carmel, where it said that she and her radio operator, Kenneth Ormiston, spent 10 days in a cottage, and face those that have made affidavits that she was the begoggled and veiled “Mrs, McIntyre” that occupied the cottage. Prosecutor Ryan in a statement, after an investigation of the Carmel cottage where he found an expensive radio set, wearing apparel, a lonely bible and a number of other articles that belonged to “Mr. and Mrs, Mc- Intyre” declared “the McPherson case is no longer a mystery. We have definite proof in written statements and positive identifications that Mrs. McPherson was in Carmel.” Ryan is now seeking to find the store in which Almee purchased the “resurrection” dress and satin slippers in which she “escaped” from her “Kid- nappers” across the Mexican desert. Eller’s Henchmen Must Testify in Vote Fraud Quiz Sanitary District Trustee Morris Eller’s precinct captains have been subpoenaed to come before the special Cook county grand jury to tell what they know of how 35,000 votes were stolen in the 20th ward. This decision of the special grand jury came following their inability to get any information of value from Eller , Premier Taxi Cab Investment Total Loss The $1,500,000 investment of stock- holders in the Premier Taxicab com- pany of Chicago will be a total loss, Samuel Howard, receiver, predicted today. The company, recently forced into receivership by creditors, with claims aggregating $1,200,000, had all of its physical property mortgaged to the limit, Recéiver Howard said it has been found. The company operated nearly 1,000 ANOTHER MILLIONAIRE OPTIMIST COMPETES WITH JUDGE ELBERT +H. GARY | William Boyce Thompson, above, is after Gary’s crown as the optimist of American capitalism, He just re- turned from Europe, where one gov- ernment after another is going thru the most severe crises and says, “It’s not as bad as it’s painted.” Incidentally Thompson is one of the richest copper magnates in the world, N.Y. TAG DAY TO BE STAGED AGAIN ON SAT. Passaic Milk F und Drive to Be Repeated rie tla NEW YORK, Jhly 29.—The tag day held in Greater New York July 24-25 to collect money for the milk fund for the children of the Passaic textile strikers is being extended to the fol- lowing week-end. The New York committee is not satisfied with the results and is appealing to Passaic sympathizers im New York to give next Saturday's tag day their full sup- port. Last, Saturday many of the workers failed to show up at the sta- tions to which they had been assigned. Returns for Saturday. Complete returns are not yet avail- able for last Keend’s collections, but a few “sect “have ‘reported. These are Coney Island, $282.96; Bath Beach, $501.49; @Hungarian Hall, 350 East 81st a $108, and $318 from the x. Two volunteers found one very friendly restaurapt in the Bronx, Fine- stone's Restaurant, at 876 East Tre- mont avenue. The owner gave $6 and each of four waiters $2 apiece. Big’ Concert. Preparations. a¥e being carried for- ward for the ley Island Stadium concert to be héld August 28. Alexis Kosloff and thé’ Metropolitan ballet have been securéd in addition to the symphony orchestra of 100 under irection and the Fretheit Gesangsyerein of 200. Sev- eral speakers who have been closely associated with the Passaic strike will also be secured. All of these special drives are part of the general drive to raise $300,000 in New York for the relief of the Pas- saic strikers during the rest of the summer, Senator Johnson Urges Withdrawal from World Court WASHINGTON, July 29, —(FP)— Quoting the bitter attacks made by European newspapers on the United States, Sen. Hiram Jolipson has issued a statement urging that the United States quickly withdraw its applica- tion for membership in the world court of the league of nations. John- son fought the world court resolution when it was before congress, and was instrumental in making the American application so diluted by reservations that most of the big powers will not agree to the American proposal. Now Johnson points out that public opinion in Britain, France, Italy and other debtors of the United States is hostile to this country because they owe America a lot of money that they have spent. He,asks what chance America has before a court made up of those who denounce her as a usurer and oppressor, He notes that one of Mussolini's papers.suggests that even tho all of Europe may be enslaved by the American commercial empire, yet there is still Japan to be reckoned with, “Scarface Al’ Capone in Federal Custody “Scarface Al’ Capone surrendered to Patrick Roche and Clarence Con- verse, sopcial agents of the United States department of justice, at the Illinois-Indiana state line. Capone was sought for the murder of Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggen and two,bootlegger pals in Cicero, He is algo, wanted to tell about ballot box, stuffing in Forest View (Caponeville); Capone was a worker for the Crowe-Barrett-Thomp- Seis aadiedinaa as BORAH PROPOSES ARBITRATION OF PASSAIC STRIKE Calls on Johnson to Start Negotiations By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press WASHINGTON, July 29, —(FP)— Senator Borah has notified Colonel Johnson, manager of the Botany Worsted mills in Passaic, that a com- mittee of citizens desires that the tex- tile strike in Passaic, now more than six months old, be arbitrated. By in- ference he has suggested to the lead- ing anti-union manager in the mills that the managers consent to discuss terms of settlement thru arbitration, Wait Johnson’s Reply. What Borah will do when Johnson replies is another matter. All that can safely be predicted of his further ac- tion {s that he will take no steps that will mark him as endorsing the United Front committee which has led the strikers, but will find a way to raise the issue of industrial self-represen- tation, by the workers’ own chosen spokesmen, as a right of all workers. Borah knows that Weisbord, leader of the strike, has offered to retire from the field if a settlement can be secured better in this absence. He knows that the United Front commit- tee has asked the American Federa- tion of Labor to take the strikers into the United Textile Workers of Amer- ica, He knows that the American Federation of Labor and the United Textile Workers of America have re- fused to accept these recruits until their strike is settled. So Borah is anxious that a settlement shall be se- cured, and that the American Federa- tion of Labor shall then enlist these 16,000 strikers into its textile union for their future protection. Fear Tariff Revision, One reason why Colonel Johnson may decide to arbitrate rather than be put in the position of defying Borah, is that the Idaho senator is go- ing to have a powerful influence on the next tariff revision. Unless Pas- saic mill owners take a more humane attitude toward textile workers, their industry will be used .as a bad ex- ample in the debates in congress next winter and the following year, on the demand of the farmers of the west for a sharp downward revision of the tariff rates. Textile mills have made millions in profit for their owners, since the war, because of tariff fav- ors from the republican party. But now their political sipporters at Washington are slipping. The farm element is gaining in strength, and be- coming insistent in its demands for early action. Garfield Citizens Protest Against Police Outrages PASSAIC, N, J., July 29.—That Gar- field citizens living near the mills are not permitted to go near the mills or stand on the streets, and are often driven off their own property, was brought out here when a protest was filed with the city council. The pro- test bore the signature of 150 resi- dents in the neighborhood of Jewell street, Garfield. Councilman Jack Moro confirmed the complaint of the citizens, when he arose with the statement that “even a councilman is not allowed near the mills. I have been told by the police to keep away from the Forstmann and Hoffman gates. I think something should be done to remedy this condi- tion as these people pay taxes and have a perfect right to stand in front of their homes.” Radio Corporation to Broadcast Doings of Dems and G. O. P. NEW YORK, July 29.—The Radio Corporation of America, which is to broadcast the doings of the republican state convention to bé held at Madi- son Square Garden and the democrat state convention to be held at the Arena in Syracuse that is being held on identical dates, Sept. 27 and 28, is attempting to arrange the speeches and the order of business of both gatherings go that when one conven- tion is in session the other will be recessed, so that the two conventions can be broadcasted by their stations, Durkin Lawyers Prepare Appeal to Ill. Supreme Court — Attorneys for Martin Durkin, slayer ot the red-baiter federal agent, Edwin , Shanahan, plan to appeal to the Illinois supreme court, following Judge Harry B, Miller's denial of a new trial for Durkin, New York Pressmen Have Athletic Meet NEW YORK, July 29.—Thrée thou- sand watched the athletic games of New York Printing Pressmen’a Union No, 61 at Coney Island. Most of the (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) F WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, . J. Arnold Ross, oil operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, is unsuccessful signing a lease with property holders at Beach City, Cal., because of verionee of other operators and quarrels among the holders. While he is at Beach Citys Bunny, his thirteen-year-old son, meets Paul Watkins, slightly older. | Pa has run away from home. His father is a poor rancher in the San Elido Valley who is a “Holy Roller.” Paul goes away to make his living on the road an! Bunny goes about learning the oil business from his Dad who is bringing in i well at Prospect Hill. Dad was working hard and Bunny suggests a qua hunting trip to the San Elido Valley. Dad agrees and shortly they arrive at ve Watkins ranch and pitch their camp. In hunting for quail they find oll oozing out of the ground and Dad wheedles the sale of the ranch out of old Watkins and also arranges to secretly purchase adjacent lands. Paul's little pened Ruth, and Bunny become friends, Bunny starts to high school at Beach Clty, With plenty of money and social standing he enters into the life of the seheat His Dad warns him of dangers, tobacco, drink and women—a little bashfully on the latter. He falls in love with another student, Rose Taintor, In the means time Dad's oil business grows rapidly. The World War begins and Dad, along with other capitalists, benefits by selling oil to both belligerents. Christmas holidays come and Dad and Bunny go quail hunting on their new preserve. Bunny meets Ruth again. Ruth tells him that Paul sent her a book that spoke against the bible and that her Dad caught her reading it and whaled hers ee Vv The next day was Sunday, or the Sabbath, as the Watkinses called it; and by the time Dad and Bunny had got their break- fast in the morning, the family had hitched up their one old horse to their one old wagon, and departed—the father and mother riding, and the four young people walking ahead, on their way to the weekly debauch at the Apostolic Church of Paradise. That left Dad and Bunny to hunt quail, undisturbed by public opinion; and in the afternoon they got into their car, and rode about to make an inspection of the domain they had pur- chased, and to meet some of the neighbors, now their tenants. Dad had a map, showing the various tracts, and as they drove he was laying out roads and other improvements in his mind; some day this country would all be settled, he said—and the thing to begin with was a rock-crusher! There came riding along the fellow on horseback whom they had met the first time; they knew now that it was young Bandy, the son of their enemy, and they exchanged greetings—the cat and ‘the gopher being olite! They rode up into one of the arroyos where there was @ vacant ranch, the Rascum place. charming little bungalow, with a good porch in front completely buried under a bougainvillea vine, which would be a mass of purple blossoms in the spring. “Gee, Dad,” exclaimed Bunny, “this is where we ought to come and stay!’ The other answered, there should be somebody to keep it up; there was a well here, and with a little fixing it would be quite a place. There was even a cat, and she looked contented; there were plenty of gophers, Dad said, and it was a good sign for victory over Mr. Bandy! They laughed together. They followed the “slide” down to Roseville, and saw the old mission there, and had supper, and came round by way of Para- dise in the evening; and on the outskirts of the town, just after turning off the highway, they came on a building, standing in a grove of trees, with lights shining in the windows, and a murmur of voices within. One voice rose above the others, a bellowing which needed no identifying. It was the “holy jumpers’” church, and Eli was preaching. “Oh, Dad,” exclaimed Bunny, “let’s hear him!” So they parked the car and got out, and stood in the shadow of the trees; and this is what they heard: “for days of your trials. is ended. Come unto me all ye that travels and is heavy ladened and I will refreshen you. For Iam the bearer of the True Word! I bring the signs—the sick shall be healen, and the devils shall be casted out—the lame shall walk and the dying shall take up their beds! Brethren, I am sent for to announce unto you the Third Revelation! Once moreover the Holy Spirit disclothes Himself, the New Gospel is unfolded to you, according to the prophesies hithertofore explained. There was an Old Dispensation, and it was outgrowed and superced- ended in the same way, and the True Word of freedom is handed unto you, and I am him that is sent to make it known. And woe unto they that doth not heed, for he shall be casted down into the bottomless pit, and it were better that a millstone was hanged about his neck and he was drowned in the sea. that cometh as a serpent creeping in the night, to tempt the souls of they that waver! I say, beware of spawns of Satan, that lure the soul with false doctrine, and blast away the Rock of Ages! I give the signs that all men may know; and he that fol- lows me will I bless, and his pains shall be healen, and he shall see the glory of God and receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the talking in tongues! Glory Hallelujah, and Salvation unto they that has washed their sins in the Blood of the Lamb! Hallelu- jah!” ' The bellowing voice of Eli was drowned in a chorus of ac- clamation, shouts and shrieks and groans, as if the whole con- gregation of the Apostolic Church of Paradise were jumping in their seats or rolling on the floor. As a matter of fact, it was but a little while before that very thing was happening; but Dad wouldn’t let Bunny go near to see it, it was too degrading, he said, and they got into their car and drove off. “Gee whiz, Dad!” exclaimed the boy. “Eli was saying every word that you taught him! Do you suppose he really believes it all?” Dad answered that only the Holy Spirit could tell that.’ Hit! was a lunatic, and a dangerous one, but a kind that you couldn’t put in an asylum, because he used the phrases of religion. He hadn’t wits enough to make up anything for himself, he had jist , enough to see what could be done with the phrases Dad had. given him; so now there was a new religion turned loose to plague the poor and ignorant, and the Almighty himself couldn't, stop it. . ” That came next day a man riding out from Paradise, bring- ing a telephone call for Dad; Ross-Armitage No. 1 was in trouble, and Dad was needed at once, Before they started for home. Bunny managed to have a talk with Ruth, and told her a won-; derful plan that had occurred to him: Dad said there ought to! be some one to live on the Rascum place and keep it up, and/ Bunny suggested that Dad should buy some goats and stock the place, and rent it to Paul, and let Ruth go there to keep house | for him; then Ruth could read all the books she pleased, and there would be nobody to beat her. Ruth looked happy, but she said Paul would never do that, he wouldn’t take anybody’s charity. Bunny insisted that it wouldn’t be charity at all—Dad really wanted some one on the ranch, and he would make a business arrangement, Paul would work the place, and pay Dad part of the money. But Ruth sighed, and said anyhow, Pap would never let her go; he was jealous of Paul and of Paul’s claim to know things. Eli had always been that way, but now he was worse, because the city people had backed Paul, and so Pap didn’t even want her to talk with Bunny or his father, for fear she would lose her faith. Ruth was just Bunny’s age, almost sixteen, and Bunny said it wouldn’t be but two years before she would be of age, and then she could go where she pleased, Dad said; she could join Paul, or she and Paul could run the Rascum ranch. Bunny told her not to be afraid, but to wait, and not bother with that fool, jumping business; it was hateful nonsense, and it wouldn’t hurt her the least to think for herself, and use her common senses, and wait till she had grown up. Dad would be glad to help her get an education, and get free from Eli and his prophesying—for’ Ruth might be sure Dad didn’t like Dli'any better than Bli liked Dad! , My Ys sem, * ) They were surprised to find a , Woe unto he’ es