The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1926, Page 5

Nees — eee LYNCHERS BURN NEGRO TODEATH IN COUNTY JAIL First Chop Off Foot; Blind Him With Poker (Special to The Dally Worker) WYTHEVILLE, Va,, Sept. 1. “‘We want him to scorch first, and then cook slow,” said the white hooded leader of a mob here, as with a dull axe he chopped a foot off the living, burning body of Raymond Bird, a Negro. Bird was in jail, arrested for no crime that anybody seems to know anything about, tho the rumor is that he was accused of being spoken to and smiled at by a farmer’s daughter near THE DAIL'Y WORKER HOW WORKERS REST IN U.S. S. R. SOME VISIT “WATERING PLACES” (By The Woman W: The train rolls at full speed. ing place station in the Caucasus. orker NEFEDOVA) In two hours it has to reach the Water- The special car for the working people is filled with those who are go- ing to spend thelr vacation, or take a viet Union. There ds lively talk among the trav: elers. Many of them are riding hero for the first time and they are anxious to see how the Caucasus looks, They have heard. many tales about its beauty and about the famous Cau- casian. watering places, They say it is a paradise. The train stops. ‘ng Place station. There is a shout, “Here we are. Go ahead comrades!” Romantic Scenery. Another train which has to take us to the different watering places is It is the Water- + medical cure in that part of the So- A STORY ABOUT YOUR JOB WORKER CORRESPONDENCE HOODED SLAYERS LASH AND SHOOT PUTNAM NEGROES Terrorize Florida Town Beat Whites Too PALATKA, Fla., Sept. 1. — J. L. Hancock, the sheriff of Putnam coun- ty, is suspended from office by order of Judge A, V. Long and a general in- vestigation has at last been ordered by District Attorney Adkins into the reign of terror conducted here by men wearing the regalia of the K. K. K. Two Negroes have recently been shot to death and an unknown number have been severely beaten and tor- tured during the last year and a halt. Between fifty and sixty white persons, x Page Five STEEL WORKERS TO HAVE LABOR DAY PICNIC THIS MONDAY, EAST GARY, IND. (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Sept. 1. — Big pre- Parations are being made here, by the Lake County conference for the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, for the Labor Day picnic and protest meeting to be held on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6, at the picnic grounds, Pine Street, East Gary. J, Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, and Paul Petras, in Hungarian, will be the speakers. The Lake County committee, which covers the Gary steel district, represents 15 labor and fraternal organizations, and is constantly in- creasing its Influence. The picnic grounds can be reached by taking the Valparaiso car at 11th Ave. and © Upton Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciatr) ah WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. J. Arnold Ross is a wealthy independent California oi! operator who wai m Ross, a teamster and then a merchant before he went into the o siness. Gunny, his son, is a sensitive boy, learning the oil business and now 9 to high school, Dad has a field in the San Elido Valley on the Watking ranch. The Watkins family are holy rollers. Eli Watkins has become & religious fakir with a church of his own. Bunny had met Paul Watkins when they were both much younger. He liked Paul who had run away from home because he didn’t like the religious discipline imposed by his father. Paut is now a carpenter in the new Watkins field and his sister Ruth is keeping house for him. The Watkins field is really Bunny’s and he has been made very Wealthy thru the bringing in of a great well which has grown to fourteen ders ricks. In the meantime war with Germany looms and the men in the olf sent in this week may win one of G field under the leadersh il Workers’ U i here. A crowd of about 150 men, at-|#Teady awaiting us. It is a small one several of them women, have been | Broadway to Pine St., East Gary. fel e leadership of an organizer for the Oi! orkers’ Union, To tired in fantastic regalia, some as With little cars-that look like tramway || these prizes (winners announced In udduapped bpd lashed by. the same xton, prepare to strike for an eight-hour day and a raise in wages. Pau! becomes a leader of the strikers and a battle is on between the oll workers women, some as clowns, but most in| Wagons. Thru the window. of this Issue of Friday, Sept. 10). group of masked night riders and the Oil Operators’ Association which supplies thugs and gunmen to the xleres tea pan poling ochge ere | RRIAIL Sant gtanite lee eas Gt ihe +. Various operators, including Dad, during the strike. Bunny is back at school approached the jail at 12.45 Sunday morning, while Bird slept in his cell. They were handed the keys by Jailer J. C. Richardson, Burn His Eyes Out. Bird was soaked with gasoline, and set on fire. As the flames seared him 2e was mutilated with axes and other mstruments, and wet brooms were sased to keep him from burning too cast. When he screamed and tried to ‘wreak thru the line of rifle barrels that penned him in the corner, some one moked out his eye with a red hot poker. The jail guards stood around and watched with buckets of water to pre. vent the fire from spreading to other cells, but made no move to interfere with the ceremony. When the dying man’s groans soft: ened to a murmer, a rope was brought and the charred body was dragged out- side to an automobile, It was tied to the car to be taken further, but first, as it passed along the line of mob- sters who could not get into the jail, it was beaten and hacked until the head was only a mass of pulp, A long procession of automobiles followed the car that dragged Bird down a country road to the neighbor- hood of the farmhouse where the white girl is said to have smiled upon him, and there he was hanged from a tree, “just high enough to be a good target,” the same white hooded leader announced. From fifty guns in the crowd shot and bullets were poured into the blackened, bleading corpse of Raymond Bird, and then the guns were loaned around so that other pro- tectors of the honor of the white race could enjoy the sensation of firing round after round into a Negro’s dead body, The mob dispersed and the sheriff got out of bed and came to cut the country, entirely covered with green vegetation, The train passes the mag- nificant mountain ranges. of Mashuk, Verbludka, Sholdivka and here is the place where our famous: poet Lermon- tov was killed in a duel, At the several railway stations the agents of the watering places receive the invalids. After revising the spe- clal traveling pass-booklets given to every man or woman entitled to be admitted into a sanitarium, they in- vite them to enter autocars and take them to one of the cure houses, After the clients pass the medical examination the regular life in the sanitarium begins. The gong becomes our guide, At 8 o’clock it rings for breakfast; at 11 o'clock for lunch; then at 1 o'clock for dinner, At 4 o’clock again some food is offered and at 8 o'clock in the evening it calls us for supper. Healing Waters, After supper is finished we take our cups and walk into the park to get some water from the mineral springs. This has to be done according to the Prescription of our doctors. One is drinking water from source No, 17, an- other should have it from No. 4 or No. 20 and so'on. From all parts of the union work- ing people come here in order to rest and to better their health. There is here also an institute for a mud-cure, It is in full activity as can be seen by looking at its chimney, busily puff- ing and sending toward the sky clouds of smoke and steam, In this institu- tion about 500 persons’ daily are looked after, Many invalids also en- joy the sun bath. There was:a time Buffalo Labor Ticket 5 abies COAL—A splendid novel by Upton Sinclair, in a cloth- bound edition, bid be WING UNIONISM—By D, J. Saposs. A new book every worker should read. Baia pe AND SHADOWS—By Ralph Chaplin. A beautiful book of poetry written by the noted working class poet. when only the nobles and the rich bourgeois were admitted there, but now the matter looks quite different. This wonderful place henceforth is for us! For the working people! Textile Workers Thrive, Look at those women! They are our Moscow weaver girls. Look how they walk proudly as peahens and they do not feel abashed when many spectators admire them. © Their heads are enveloped in the silk Caucasian bright colored shawls, Their pretty faces are sunburned and look happy. After the water course all visitors go to enjoy the music which an or- chestra plays in the garden. Usually on Sunday a party is or- ganized to make a trip into the moun- tains where many most picturesque waterfalls can be seen. Warly in tho morning.the visitors admire the ma- jestic snow tops of the gigantic moun- tain, Elborus, “How. do. you feel now?”—asks onc comrade of another at the railway sta- tion after the term of leave is ended. “Very well, I:think I am quite ‘re- paired’ enuf to.work hard the whole year.” Conference Sept. 9 Murdered in Car, The Negroes killed were a certain William Pinckney and a friend of his. They were in a car searching for the mother of Pinckney, who at that very time was being taken, along with a man found visiting her, to the out- skirts of the city, where they were afterwards 80 badly beaten with leather straps that they were unable to make their way home. ‘When the car containing Pinckney and his companion came near the mob went to meet it, and after stopping it and ascertaining who was within, fired a volley at close range and killed both of its occupants, Thruout all of these assaults the sheriff’s office and the police depart- ment have failed to bestir themselves. When one white woman, Mrs, Pearl Casad, the proprietor of a beauty shop, was being stripped and lashed right on the street the electric lights in that part of town went out. After the beating was administered the Nghts were turned back on again. While the town was in darkness the police left their posts and disappeared. They returned with'the lights. Kluxers Blackmail, Defuniak Springs, home of former Governor Sidney J. Cats, has been ex- periencing a similar visitation of hooded and masked thugs. They re- sort to blackmail as well as inflicting sunishment on those who provoke heir ire, A courageous farmer who met a vand of thirty of them with a shotgun ind defeated them in the unequal com- rat arrested seven of his assailants, They were tried, but let off with light fines, The grand jury of Putnam county is meeting now and calling witnesses, but many of those who undoubtedly MEXICO PLANS PROTEST AGAINST PRESS ATTACK (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1. — The Calles administration may protest to Washington against the vicious cam- Ppaign conducted in a section of the United States press against the Mex- ican government. Precedent for such action could bo found in the protest of the American embassy in Mexico City during the Wilson administration when certain actors in Mexican theaters used Woodrow Wilson as the butt of their jokes. Boycott Played Out. The catholic boycott has lost its kick and this form of sabotage no longer merits serious attention. The action of the Mexican Federation of Labor in threatening to start repris- als against catholic leaders who were actively directing the boycott, was decisive in forcing the boycotters to come to their senses. The catholic end of the struggle is now being directed openly from Rome. The episcopate declares its readiness to carry out any instruc- tions the Vatican may see fit to send. War Time ‘Frame-Up’ Artist Now Arrested for Old Embezzlement By CARL HACKER (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Sept. i. Fred Kohut, active as a spy in the I. W. W. and receives the reports only thru the press. He is somewhat sympathetic te the strikers and doesn’t believe the calumnies printed in the press about the strikers, ° . * ° Bunny asked about Paul, and learned that he had been put on the strike committee, and was editing a little paper which the union was publishing; it was lovely, and had Bunny seen it? They produced a copy—a double sheet, mimeographed on both sides for economy, and with a little oil-derrick at the top of the first sheet, alongside the title, “The Labor Defender.” It was full of strike news, and exhortations, and an appeal to the gov- ernor of the State against the violence of the deputies and the refusal of the sheriff to take their whiskey away; also there was a poem, “Labor Awake, by Mrs, Weenie Martin, a Tool-dresser’s Wife.” Paul had just got back from a trip to some of the other fields, where he had gone to persuade the men to join the strike; in Oil Center they had tried to arrest him, but he had got a tip and got away by a back road. America was going to war, and everybody was thrilled about it; at school they were singing patriotic songs and organizing drill corps. This oil war was so little in comparison that nobody heed- it; but it got hold of Bunny, and came to seem the big war to him. All this arrogance of power, this defiance of law and de- ceney, this miserable lying about workingmen! Here Bunny gots the truth, he got it face to face with the men and women whom he knew; and then he would remember the tales he had read in the newspapers—and would hate himself, because he lived upon, money which had been obtained by such means! His father was’ paying the “assessments” of the Federation, and thus paying the salaries of these blackguards—paying for their guns and ammu- nition, and for the bottles of whiskey without which they would (not stay! . ra What did it mean? What was back of it? One thing—the greed of a little ruling group of operators, who wouldn’t pay their men a living wage, but would work them twelve hours a day. They were driving the men with revolvers and rifles, hold- ing them away from the wells, their only source of livelihood, and starving them back to work on the old unfair terms. That was the story, just that simple; and here, in Ruth’s little kitchen, you saw the process from the inside. The girls had to reduce the price of the bread they sold, because some people couldn’t afford it . os body down, No arrests have been Hd oe «esha eigtees dhaeo and the socialist party during the war |Otherwise! Oil-workers never do save much, because they have made, 1 period, is reported as being held in |to move about, and to bring their families, or to send them money, - UFFALO, N. Y., — The Central {agencies of government from the | With death if they do not preserve i abe wgeroaeem 2g 3) © | silence. Birmingham, Alabama, on a four-year: | And now their savings were used up, and the contributions which B be 7p id f Labor Council of Buffalo has|hands of. the employers who today old federal indictment for embezzle- ft hav Geinas h a Paul. who had & arbers President for issued @ call to all local unions for a| maintain undisputed control of these ment of funds while he was the |°#™é from other fields were not enough, and Paul, who had been Wages Instead of Tips Hap Haden sees pe Ae anes agencies and use them for the purpose Chicago Needle Trades | “nemesis of accounts” for the Cleve-|88Ving money to study and become a scientist, was using it to ie a! ude 0: e trade unions NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.—Barbers should depend on high wage stand- ards rather than tips, General Presi- dent James C. Shanessy of the inter- national union told the 23rd annual Journeymen Barbers Association. The state barbers urged the passage of a Heense law requiring the licensing of all barbers and all persons doing bar- bering work in beauty parlors and providing for the examination of all applicants for such licenses. The Dill also calls for the supervision of san- itation in barber shops and beauty parlors. Fifty-four state local unions were represented, Officers elected by the state association for the ensuing term were: President, Harry Quinto, New York City; Vice Presidents, Ju- lus Frank, Buffalo; Barney Jacobs, Brooklyn and Charles Battaglia, Sche- nectady; Secretary-treasurer, Patrick Reagan, Rochester, Where you will meet every active militant Left Wing trade unionist in Chicago. Sun., Sept. 5th. Where you can hear the in Buffalo in the political campaign which is to be held on Sept. 9. This action of the Central Labor Council was taken after local No, 84 of the Molders’ Union had issued a call fora united labor ticket confer- ence to be held on September 3rd. The decision of the Central Labor Council does not commit it to any Particular line of action but simply asks all the local unions to send dele- gates to the conference for the pur- pose of discussing the coming elec- tions and the attitude which labor should take. After the decision of the Central Labor Council to hold such a confer- ence, Molders’ Union Local No, 84, withdrew its call for a united labor ticket conference on September 3 and gave its endorsement to the Sept. 9 conference in the following resolution: WHEREAS: The Central Labor Council has finally agreed to call a conference for the purpose of inau- gurating a more. cohesive political movemert of Labor; and, WHEREAS: Confusion may. now arise should we proceed . with the plans to cuil a similar conference as we decided to do some weeks previous- ly after the Council refused to act on our insistent demand that such a con- ference be called; and, of defeating the workers who are com- pelled to engage in struggle for higher wages, shorter hours and better work- ing conditions; and, WHEREAS: The conference now called by the Central Labor Council, can and should result in placing a United Labor Ticket in the field in the coming elections, thus unifying the forces of labor behind labor candi- dates; Now therefore be it, RESOLVED: By Local 84, Interna- tional Molders’ Union of N. A., that we heartily endorse the conference called by the Central Labor Council for Thursday, September 9; and be it further, RESOLVED: That we send copies of this resolution to every local union and to the press so that all concerned may know that we have rescinded our call for a conference and do support the conference of the Central Labor Council; and be it further, SOLVED: That we respectfully urge every local union to send del gates to the conference called by the Central Labor Council and that these be instructed to support the proposi- tion of placing a United Labor Ticket in the fleld in the coming elections, The progressive trade unions of Buffalo will fight at the September 9 Workers Celebrate at Saturday Night Affair It is said that every dark cloud has a silver lining.We can’t vouch for it, but if this is so then the lining must have been sewed in by the needle workers with a distinct contempt for the gloomy outlook of the reaction- ary union officials as they contem- plate with sullen eye the fourth great needle trades conference of progres- sives to take place soon in New York. If you were ever on pins and needles, you know how we felt when we were trying to devise some new and original ways of entertaining you. But we have worked that all out now and have arranged for the slickest time you ever had in your life. So when you come down next Satur- day, Sept. 4th, at the Workers Lyceum 2733 Hirsch Blvd, to make merry with the rest of the needle and thread wielders, to t(h)read the light tan- tastic kindly leave your worries and troubles safely locked up in your old sewing box. Foe of Imperialists to Send Delegate to Congress at Brussels land Credit Men’s Association. Together with A. E. King, Kohut tried very hard to “frame-up” Mayor Hamilton of Piaua, a socialist, in 1918 on a liberty bond charge. Failing in this they came to Cleveland, entered the socialist party here and became active members. However, it was not long before they were discovered. King, the bolder of the two, maintain. ; ed his innocence and tried to remain within the organization. A short time after their exposure in the socialist party here members came across an article in the Legal News, which is received by all at- torneys in the city to keep them post- ed on the court docket, praising King for his work in the radical movement and at the same time announcing his appointment to a position of collector of accounts for the Creditors’ Associa- tion. It also pointed out that he was a capable attorney, speaking seven languages, Only a few months after that the daily papers of this city had quite a different story to tell concerning him, They reported that the “nemesis of accounts” had disappeared from the city, and with him was gone eight thousand dollars Blind Poet Arrested; support hungry families, and Ruth and Meelie were giving all their time and even old Mrs. Watkins was helping when she could. Bunny carried this anguish back to his father. What were the people going to do, when they no longer had food to keep alive? Dad gave the answer, they’d have to go back to work! “And lose the strike, Dad?” Yes, he said, if they couldn’t win, they’d have to lose—that was the law of strikes, as of every- thing else. Life was stern, and sooner or later you had to learn it. They must give up and wait till a time when their union was stronger. “But, Dad, how can they make it stronger when the operators boycott them? You know how they weed out the union men—right now, if they give up, most of the compantes won't take back the active ones.” And Dad said he knew that, but the men would have to keep on trying,.there was no other way. Certainly he could not support the strike by keeping his wells idle! The men must understand that he couldn’t stand the zaff much longer, they had no right to expect it; they must either close the other wells, or see the Ross wells opened. And Bunny turned sort of sick inside, and went about hiding a thought Uke dirty vice: “We’re going to bring scabs into our tract!” "4 (To be continued) etch sh ST TUTTI LLL LA LL AL LLC Attention, Philadelphia! Trade Union Educational League LABOR DAY RALLY PICNIC q conference for the nomination of a ‘ organizer for Passaic WHEREAS: Our insistence and| United Labor Ticket in county and Union Comes to Help MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1926 strikers’ relief. finally our decision to call such a con-| congressional elections and will not} American representation at the >: ‘ ‘ SPEAKERS: P ference was prompted by a realization| support any proposal to endorse so-| Brussels world congress against op-| Persecution of blind vendors on Chi- Rebecca Grecht ‘When you can enjoy yourself as you never have before, of the need for united action by Labor to take steps to wrest control of the GOVERNMENT SHOWS LIVING COST called friends of labor on the old party tickets. Pression of colonial and semi-colonial peoples to be held in November is as- sured by the participation of the All- America Anti-Imperialist league, which will send a delegate, Imperialism, torture and exploita- tion of backward countries and sup- cago streets, allayed for a time by pressure on Mayor Dever from the Chicago Federation of Labor, has be- gun again with the arrest of T, Paul Sullivan, a blind poet, Sullivan, who belongs to the Fraternal Order of WILLIAM Z, FOSTER, Secretary of the T. U. E. L, H M. OLGIN, Journalist and writer, Editor of “The Hammer” | SASHA ZIMMERMAN, Secretary of General Strike Committee Refreshments, Dancing and Singing ii oreeteer ate Rae v2 T. U. E. L. Picnic AVERAGES 75% HIGHER THAN 1913 Tickets are 50 cents, and as you Can get them at The WASHINGTON—(FP)—-The cost of living in the United States in June, DAILY WORKER office 1926, was 74.8% above 1913, according to the semi-anuual report ‘of the U. 8. or T. U, E. L, office, 156 dopartment of labor, | This level is about 1.6% below December, 1925, but is West Washington, Send fitty and we'll mail you slightly above the level of June, 1925, It is 16% below the average of 1920 Blind Men, was selling his booklet of verse, Antidotes for the Blues, when the police arrested him. The Fraternal Order, with labor backing, immediate- ly summoned the mayor, Welfare Com- missioner Mary McDowell and others to appear at the trial but when the case came up it was dismissed. pression of independence movements are among the evils to be considered by the congress, Many colonial and nationalist leagues in various parts of the world have arranged to be repres- ented at Bru Tickets 250 At New Maple Grove Directions: Take No, 60 car on Sth Street, stop at Olney Ave. 5600 North TTT IIL LULL LLL LLL LLL TLL LLL LLL E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS HE editor of the radical maga- zine Rational Living, Dr, B. Sb52OESC35 LOR ROTELAS FOES ISSSSSSLASEER GST DBTE SEAT TS Rad t fa goe ta tene i} 4 one. when the cost of living reached a peak, Bing rape ll 7 Eg ‘The police were first set to hounding 400'N. Clark ” nyt 8, Clark Liber, has just returned from } The department's figures are based on the ‘erage cost of the budget of | oq by the Natl. Bro, of Operative Pot: the blind on the streets when an al- pot w Washi 407 N. tate abroad and will resume the publica- | 4 worker's family of five, including three children, The budget is actually |ters in conference with the U. 8. Pot-| le8ed pent orenls src eg Kon aw. Noo 234 8. Halsted || ‘19H of the journal within a short | f that of workers relatively better paid than the average, Lighthouse, sought a monopoly of beg- time, Details about its suspension ters Assn. The agreement expires Oct. 1, John T, Wood, president of the unfon, from East Liverpool, Ohio, leads the union group. The union reported 8100 mombers last year, ging funds for the blind. Investiga- tion showed that a large proportion of the money begged by The Lighthouse went to salaries of directors and super- Intendents, all of them able to see, while the blind had to work long hours for from $11 a week up, The superintendent told The Federated Press that $11 a week was plenty for the blind to live on. PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 and its future plans will be found in the first issue. Old subscribers are requested to notify us at once in case of a change of address, The editor or manager may be seen by appointment only. Address: 788 Riverside Drive, New York (Corner West 166th Street, Subway station Broadway and 167th Street). Tele phone Wadsworth 5929. Mail address: Box 2, P. O. Sta tion M, New York. Sample copies The increase in living costs since 1918 varies considerably. Detroit re- ports the greatest increase, the cost of living in that city Standing 84.7% above 1918. For Portland, Ore., the increase is 64.6%. For other cities the increases are Baltimore, 78.4%; Buffalo, 82.8%; Chicago, 77.8%; Cleveland, $1,9%; Houston, 69.1%; Los Angeles, 71.2%; New York, 78.6%; Philadelphia, 40.6%; San Francisco, 60.7%, , House, furnishing goods.cost 110.4% above 1918, Increases in the other budget items are fuel and light, 80.7%; clothing, 68.2%; food, 59.7%; mis- collancous 103.8%. As shown in previous Federated Press articles the de- partment tends to waderestimate the advance in rents, Rents charged for worker living quarters have advanced more Remember the class-war pris. oners! Demonstrate at the La bor Defense Rally, Sept. 6, at Ashland Auditorium. eaemitnbttns nats seunn.-0i 9stenaden stsne ——S - Bakery Phone West 2649 GINSBERG’S Vegetarian Restaurant GRANITE CITY, Ill.—(FP)—De- apite the federal anti-picketing irjunc- tion, the strike of 500 employes of the National Stamping & Enameling Co. of Granite City; is being prosecuted with vigor. 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