The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1926, Page 1

|The DAILY WORKER Raises | the Standard for a Workers’ ; and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 207. Subscription Rates: By T. J. OFLAHERTY | HE feelers sent out by the British government for a united campaign be the interested powers against China ave been turmed aside. Unofficial "}tatements from Paxis, Tokio and Vashington say that those govern- ents have no intemtien of interven- in China, at least not for the pres- pot. The stupidity of a British cap jain in turning over his consignment arms to the Cantonese instead of ‘Wu Pei Fu’s man, and the subse- juent shooting, has expesed Britain the role of quartermaster. general fo Wu. ! 4 ee 8 RITAIN may now make the best of a bad situation and recognise the Panton government equally with Pe- jing. In which event Britain will only changing her war policy. When tain recognized Soviet Russia she id not discontinue her conspiracies wainst that country. She carried em on under the cloak of diplomatic lations. With things going from to worse for Britain in the Orient, is not surprising that Winston thurchill could demand that Premier Jdwin return from his vacation in jouthern France and attend to busi- 1688. USSOLINI’ escaped again, but the “happy subjects of fascism” are most certain to persevere in their ‘orts to make him happy by provid- mg the “duce” with that excitement e loves so well. Last Friday’s news Pei information that Mussolini in- ended to revamp the penal code in der to provide for the death penalty fe attempted assassination of the Evidently and he mg and the dictator. mito expected something, ‘as accommodated. se ‘TINERANT Americans who visit Italy find a ready market for their boosts of fascism in the columns of phe capitalist press. But their efforts show that the Italian people are ppy and contented is literally shot pieces by bombs and bullets. The e issue of the Herald-Examiner at carried the news of the latest at- tempt on the life of Mussolini also ntaimed an article by Vera Bloom, ughter of a New York congressman, which..eulogized. the fascist regime | bnd told us how happy the Italians ere under Mussolini. The lady spoke foo soon. . . 5 RIMO DE RIVERA’S dictatorship will be endorsed in the plebiscite eld in Spain a few days ago-unless vera’s tallymen make a big mistake fa counting the votes. But that is impossible. Primo fixed the plebiscite that only those who favored. his wime were allowed to. vote.» .The iésts rallied the women to the polls a ordered them on pain of eternal damnation to vote for Rivera. We @oubt if the plebiscite will stop the gun on bombs. an ee ‘A RISTIDE BRIAND must have been feeling good when he delivered the speech of welcome to the German (Continued on page 6) ¥ orp, ma (GH IN HUGE DEMONSTRATION Parade Marks Entry In- to New Union By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press, PASSAIC, N. J., Sept. 13.—The pur ple banner of the painters’ local of Passalc and the red banner of the city carpenters shone bright In the after- noon sun as the old line A. F. of L. trades led the !Ine of march In the great demonstration that welcomed the woolen strikers into the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. Behind the building tradesmen, six and eight abreast, marched the strik- ers in a formation that stretched from Main avenue, by the railroad station, in the center of town to a mile and a half out in the aristocratic outskirts where Julius Forstmann of the big woolen company that bears his name lives. The boom of drums and the shrill music of the brass instruments kept time with the feet of the marchers as they sang their songs of solidarity and hope, Others Join Labor. It was a gala day parade that took in not only the entire labor move- ment but the Associated Societies and Parishes, the big Slavish Catholic or- ganization grouping of Passaic; and a host of friendly organizations from other New Jersey towns and New York. Flags and bands and the mighty throng at last came to a standing rest in First Ward Park where the people overflowed over acres of ground. And here they were addressed for the first time by Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Work- ers Union whose membership has nearly doubled with the addition of the humming big local union No. 1603 that the united front committee that had been conducting the strike for its first eight months turned over to the, A. F. of L. organization, _ Sing “Solidarity.” : Phe spirit of the.audience ~ was: eaught by the chairman, Edward F. McGrady, formerly legislative agent of the Massachusetts A. F. of L. as he called for that rousing workers’ song, “Solidarity Forever.” Charles Walsh, secretary of the Passaic central labor union, got applause as he promised that the rest of the local A. F. of L. and the strikers would be as one in the fight. Helen Todd, and Mrs. Cushing, president of the Consumers League of New Jersey, applauded the |strikers for the wonderful solidarity they had shown and Louis F. Budenx, editor of Labor Age, exhorted them to continue the fight till the company union in the woolen mills was buried *10,000 feet deep.” A. J. Muste, of Brookwood Labor College, told of the fight of 1919 and said unionism must not be allowed to die. Alfred Wagen- (Continued on page 2) TO SELL FIVE U, §, SHIPS AT $17,460,000 LOSS Shipping Board. Knifés Government Ownership. ‘WASHINGTON, D, C.,,Sept. 13. — Five passenger vessels in excellent con- ition are being offered by the United’ States shipping board to. private steamship lines at a loss of $17,460,000 to the United States government. This does not include the sums that will have to be paid to the German owners of some of these vessels that were seized during the war. The Leviathan which is being offer- ed for $6,867,900 cost the government $11,342,030. ” $8,000,000 of this re- presents the actual cost of récondition- ing. The George Washington is: being offered for $2,146,300, It cost the gov- ernment $4,209,049, $3,000,000 was spent on reconditioning, The Republic is offered for $3,348,200. It cost the government $4,847,562 of which $3,- 500,000 was for reconditioning. The President Roosevelt and the President Harding which were build by the ship- ping board at a cost of $6,000,000 a- piece are to be sold for $1,287,000 apiece, These apPraisal values were placed on the ships by the shipping board and are now offered for sale with a guar- antee of continued operation for a period of ten years. A minority of the shipping board opposes the sale of these five ships at these ridiculously low prices to private combines an are seeking to block attempts being made to sell the ships before their objections can be heard by congress. vi} Send us the name and address of 3) progressive. worker to whom we can’ send a. simple oopy ef The DAILY WORKER, v Win A NATIONAL AGREEMENT TURNED DOWN BY THE BRITISH MINE OWNERS (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 13.—Opposition to ‘ negotiations for the conclusion of a national agreement with the striking miners was registered by the dis- trict associations of the coal opera- tors today, when the central com- mittee of the mining association met to consider reports from the various operators upon the proposal of Win- ston Churchill, chancellor of the ex- chequer, that negotiations be re sumed with a national agreement as the objective. The operators are standing out for district agreements, while the striking miners are demanding a na- ‘tlonal agreement. District agree- ments are desired by the owners as a measure to break up the union _and its fighting solidarity, U. S. Warships Steam to ‘Make Peace” in Nicaragua Conflict WASHINGTON, Sept, 18—~Peace negotiations are under way in Nicar- agua with Lawrence Dennis, Amert- can charge d'affaires, as mediator, the state department announced, Three American warships are in Nicaraguan waters, Fighting Chamorro tionists. continues between the government and revolu War On Quacks, . 1 Chicago today began a war on un- Heensed medigal men, chiropractors, ostedpaths and druggists, Fifty Warrants, the first of a bateh which ‘itis gafd will run into hundreds, were issued thié morning asthe apusade got ee ee In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per y Outside Chieago, by’ mail, §6.00 | Kalous ~ |charge is 15. cents. Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1 Up Chinese River As Ca River Hankow, important Chinese city, recently captured by the tionaliet forces from Wu Pel Fu, reactionary general and tool of Great Britain. been ordéred up the river to be near a situation that is very serious Insofar as It.means a de- cided weakening of foreign im- perialist power over China. nese Beat Back Reactionary Troops Here is a scene on the Yangtse In the neighborhood of na- Gunboats have WALKER SEES DEPRESSION IN YEAR 1926-27 Tells Ill. Federation of Gloomy Future (Special to The Daily Worker) STREATOR, IIl., Sept. 13. — Presi- dent John H. Walker of the Iilinois State Federation of Labor in his re- port to the forty-fourth convention of the lilinois State Federation of La- bor being held here brought-out that immediately following the congres- sional elections ‘he foresees the setting in of an industrial depression, He points to the fact that many of the factories are now placing much of their produce in warehouses as there is a small demand for goods, Six pages of his report are devoted to a denial of the charges made by Senator Caraway of Arkansas that Walker was paid to deliver the Il- linois labor vote for Col. Frank L. Smith, winner of the republican noml- nation to the senate. W. P, CAMPAIGN OPENS HERE ON SEPTEMBER 22ND The Workers (Communist) Party of Chicago will fire the first gun of its campaign in support of J. Louis Eng- dahl for the senate and three con- gressional candidates at a meeting to be held in Mirrer Hall, 1136 N. West- ern Ave., on Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 8 p. m, Besides the candidate Engdahl, William F., Durfne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, and Max Shacht- man of:the Young Workers League will speak. The main topic of discussion at the rally will be the I!Mnois slush fund. With the ‘one exception of Pennsyl- vania, the. Illinois primaries were marked with unprecedented graft and corruption. was revealed. How much more remains unrevealed will be one of the points to be touched by the speakers. The wholé question of the old par- ties and the workers in the coming elections’ will be gone into by the speakers?: ‘The congressional candt- dates, Sam Hammersmark, Matilde and Elizabeth Griffin will be present at the meeting. The admission DECLARATION. MOSCOW—(By Mail).—The Red International of Labor Unions has issued the followin, declaration on the Britis! Miners’ strike: ef HE executive bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions at- firms that the British miners’ strike is at present passing thru its most criti- cal period after four months of heroic struggle. ‘ At home, in Britain, the mine own- ers, bourgeoisie and state are lined up ‘gainat,the \iners. Come what may, the ¢ are dotermings to bring CONFESSED SLAYERS’ AFFIDAVIT PRESENTED FOR SAGGO, VANZETT fy Dally Worker) 4 Wept. 13.—Two affidavits, one by Celestino Medeiros, convicted Wrentman, Mass., bank slayer. and another by James F. Weeks, serving a Jife term in the Massachusetts state’s prison for his part in the same crime today fur- nished a sudden turn In the plea for a new trial fer Nicola Saceo and Bartolomeo Vanzettl. Medeiros, now awaiting execution in the Dedham jail, made direct ad- mission of his connection with the South Braintree holdup, describing the operations of the gang involved and charging apes in gang of as- soclates’ with > Slayings; “He refused, In the affidavit, to name the gang. He charged that he had been bilked of his share of the spoils and had been thwarted after having fol- lowed the accomplices to New York and then to Chicago. We » in his affidavit, said that Medeiros had told him of his con- nection with the South Braintree slaying while they were planning the Wrentham holdup. (Special te, DEDHAM, Roy Tagney Jailed as Slayew of Landis Awad Contractor Roy Tagney, busigess agent for the Machinery, Safe Movers’ and Riggers’ Union Local No. 714, was arrested by Chicago police, after a raid on a south side apartment for the murder of Morris Markowitz, a Landis award contractor. ed by an unknown assailant at his tool Princeton Ave. August 3. Shortly af- ter the murder police began a séarch for Tagney, declaring that Tagney was the murderer. Tagney denied he committed the crime and denied any knowledge of the attack on the open shop contractor, at the detective bu- reau. The Employers’ Association have spent many thousands of dollars in an attempt to locate Tagney. Markowitz was murder- | shanty at 37th St. and South} CAL CHALLENGED TO OUST THREE MORE GRAFTERS They Flourish Even in Alaskan Snows (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 13, — President Coolidge is severely criti- cized and blamed for the present wide- | spread bootlegging, dope peddling and flourishing red-light districts in Ala- kan cities, in a lengthy telegram sent by Basil Manly to Coolidge demanding that he remove two federal judges and }a federal district attorney for their misadministration of Alaskan affairs. Judges Reed and Ritchie and District Attorney Shoup, altho the senate judi- ciary committee disapproved of the re-appointment and pointed out that these men were wanted for crimes committed in various states. Judge Ritchie is a fugitive from justice in Utah. These three were originally appoint- ed by the red-baiting Attorney-General Harry M. Daugherty, who is now on trial in New York for accepting bribes to “settle enemy alien estates illegally. While Daugherty was still in charge of the department before he was forced to “resign” because of the Tea- pot Dome scandal, these three had been the subjects of investigation. When the question of re-appoint- | ment came up, the senate judiciary committee recommended their with- |drawal so as to “avoid an expose” of Alaskan governmental conditions in the senate. One senator declared that the “conditions were too scandalous to be publicly discussed.” In spite of this opposttion these three were re-appointed by Coolidge. They are considered excellent work- ers for the Coolidge-Mellon-Dawes combination in the open-shop repub- lican party. This undoubtedly accounts for the staunch support they are now receiving from the Coolidge machine. NEW FILIPINO MISSION TO COME TO UNITED STATES IN NOVEMBER ‘TO WAGE FIGHT ON BACON BILL MANILA, P® 1, Sept. 13—A new independence mission will leave the Philippine Isiartds in November, This ‘new mission which is being sent by the supreme council of the isiands plans to wage an active struggle against attempts to pass:the Bacon bill thru the United States Congress. in the 1926-27 Governor-General Leonard A. Wood also plans a trip to Washington at about the same time. s the British Miners? the miners to their knees. To this end the government is passing legis- lation for the introduction of the eight- hour working day for the workers below ground; government is threat- ening the trade unions with new laws that will render null and void the right to strike, and. is thereby pre- paring to break up the trade union movement, Municipal relief for the strikers is being reduced and in many localities completely stopped; Joynson Hicks is carrying out mass arrests among the miners, 'N order to carry disintegration into the united front of the miners, the coal owners for their part are submit- ting district agreements in the hope army of the miners. Having broken that army into separate sections, the mine owners will tighten up their pressure along the whole front thrown up by the miners, and this will be immediately made use of by the eh- tire bourgeoisie to undertake an at- tack against the whole working class. The “compromise” memorandum of the bishops is one of the methods adopted by the government and the enjployers to shake the miners’ ranks, In face of this concentrated pressure of the bourgeoisie the behaviour’ of the working masses of the miners re- mains astonishingly militant. In spite f the fact that certain groups, in- aiing the miners’ leaders, have i $OOntaNAA on DEEN 9) Published Datly except Sunda PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Chinese Masses Pres. Coolidge re-appointed Federal | tthe Post Office at Chicago, Unots, under the Act of March 3, 1879, et year, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1926 <4” x STRIKERS Warships of Powers Sail op ‘ashington Bivd., Organiz (Special Cable to movement of China is greatly are growing rapidly. The administration of the ized. Political inspectors are affairs. being organized. ton flag for the old five-colored School programs must contain parties being the same. by THE I AILY WORKER NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents Chicago, Il. e Their National Revolt The Daity Worker) CANTON, China, Sept. 13—-The nationalist revolutionary developing since the occupation of Hunan province by the Cantonese armies. Mass organizations, |tabor unions, the Kuomintang party and the Communist party province is completely reorgan- appointed for each district to superintend the activity of magistrates, administration and party In view of the complaints of peasants of their oppression by |the former rural militia, who were instruments in the hands of landowners, this militia has been dismissed and a new force is Among other decrees published is one substituting the Can- flag. All schools must dedicate a part of every Monday’s sessions to the memory of Sun Yat Sen. an explanation of Sun Yat Sen- ism and the national revolutionary movement. Thruout the whole province popular meetings are arranged where Kuomintang speakers emphasize that the Kuomintang party does not intend to introduce Communism, but works joint- ly with the Communist party, the immediate problem of both In connection with the victories of the northern expedition, great celebrations have taken place at Canton, with a demonstra- tion staged by over 100,000 participants. WOULD-BE SLAYER OF MUSSOLINI DENIES HE WAS SUPPLIED FUNDS _ ROME, Sept. 13-—“Mine was & proletarian attempt,” declared Gino Lucetti today when he was grilted by the police in an effort to prove that his attempted assassination of Premier Mussolini on Saturday was the result of a widespread plot. “If | had been supplied with funds, as you suspect, | would have in my alm and alao Lucetti boasted to the police, Despite Lucetti’s insistence that his, ast was. that of an_ individual, the police continue to round up com siderable numbers of anarchists and radicals. SOMEBODY LIES ABOUT PRIMARY CAMPAIGN GOST Suspect Candidates Con- ceal Expenses WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, —(FP)— While Gen. Harbord and other stand- patters are joining Sen. Reed of Penn- sylvania in denouncing the “high cost” of senatorial primaries, the sworn statements of senatorial candidates, filed with the clerk of the senate, point to a very low cost. Sen. Oddie of Nevada, an adminis- tration supporter, claims to have spent only $2,553 in his successful primary fight. Gooding of Idaho ad- mits $1,880 spent. Williams of Mis- souri says his cost was $3,000. L. B. Hanna, defeated Coolidge can- didate against Sen. Nye in North Da- kota, lists expenses of only $610, while Midbto, the independent candidate in the same race, spent $3.75. In Oklahoma the democratic nom- nee, Elmer Thomas, spent $2,748, and Jack Walton, the loser, acknowledges $2.550 paid out. President Coolidge and Sen. Butler, G. O, P. national chairman, are op- posed to the primary election system, and attempted after the disclosures of million-dollar expenditures in the Pennsylvania senatorial race to make the facts of corruption an argument for a return to the convention system. Slush Fund Collected by Open Shoppers to Fight Labor Measures COHOBS, N. Y., Sept. 13.—New York state employers organized in the Associated Industries, Inc., have col- colected a huge slush fund to defeat legislative measures favorable to la- bor, declared Joseph R. White, na- tional organizer for United Textile Workers, to a mass meeting of Cohoes unionists. Union representatives must appear at the hearings of the state industrial commission appointed to investigate the many laws proposed for and against labor in the last legislatures, Unions must state their cases to the commission to get any sort of action on the compensation bill and other measures backed by labor, » Diamond Bandits Make Haul. Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 13. Five bandits today held up the automobile of John Henderson and escaped with idigmoends valued at $10,000, Fa Mh me nnataatnanie bmg nm 6 ak GERMAN PLUTE WHITEWASHIN H. DAUGHERTY Declares on Stand the Big Bribe Was Fee NEW YORK, Sept, 18—Richard Merton, German metal magnate, re- se for his successful efforts in nego- tlating the return of $7,000,000 of as- sets of the American Metals company, held by the United States government. eve (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept, 138—Richard Merton, German finaneter, so-called star government witness at the trial of Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney general, and Thomas W. Miller, former allen property custodian, charged with conspiracy, appeared virtually «= & “white-wash” witness for the defence today under cross-examinetion, “Did you have any reason to suspect that any government officials recetved part of the $441,000 retainer fee fou paid John T. King for aiding your claim to the seized property of American Metal company?” Col, jam Rand, counsel for Miller, asked the former German army captain, “I certainly did not,” replied Merten emphatically. “Did Col. Milter ever say anything to indicate he had any knowledge of the contents of your claim papers be- fore they were filed?” Had No Recollection, “I haven't any recollection that he showed any knowledge,” Merton re plied after several evasive answers. “Have you any knowledge that the attorney general knew the contents of the claim papers?” “Not that I know of,” Merton. The witness related the “helping out” In arranging the claim papers by George Williams, of the alien praperty custodian’s office as a “frank transac- \tion.” He said Williams made him rewrite his first papers submitted be cause they lacked certain substantial details, answered Speeding Up Fea, He pictured the $391,004 given to King for “speeding up” the claim as a “fee,” approximately five per cent of the $7,000,000 property wanted retarn- ed. Merton also explained $50,000 was given to King the time the claim wag filed. The witness maintained that this “fee” was considered cheaper by him than the possible ten or fif- teen per cent fee of lawyers. Guaranteed Payment of Lose, Merton testified he told Williams of the Swiss organization and the trans- fer that had been consummated from German to Swiss interests, he told him that the Swiss stockholders had been guaranteed payment of loss thru shares they would receive in Amert- can Metal company’s assets held by the alien property custodian, Picked Du Pont Hotel. Merton said tn reply to a question that the reason he picked the McAlpin Hotel as the place to talk with Colonel Miller In April, 1921, regarding means to he taken to effect the returm of selzed alien property was because he understood Miller was connected with the Du Pont family. The Du Aber.» pee sey 2, ecm