The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1926, Page 2

————— ee Page Two Bre J = > / COAL FAMINE IS PRESSING IN GREAT BRITAIN Imported Coal Is Found Unsatisfactory (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept, 15. — The approach ef cool weather is bringing a rising apprehension at the shortage of coal, and not a little of the protest is direct- ed at the mine owners’ association, which refuses to settle with the strik-/ ers on the basis of a national agree-) ment, Orders for British coal.are pouring into the offices of coal merchants, and. coal consumers decldre they are em tirely dissatisfied with the/kind of coal imported from other countries. “Everyone is heartily fed up with; it,” says one big coal merchant, The owners, who have rejected‘the Proposal of the government, that the @wners participate in a three-cornered conference with the government and the strikers’ representatives, think that the strikers are beaten to theiy knees and concessions to them jane unnecessary. The owners boast about thesminers who have returned towork, yet their claim: of 55,000 now werking thruout the country is not enough to affect /the issue, there being 1,000,000 on strike and standing firmly for the unfon in spite of the most bitter suffering. The government, which has-been ready at all times to‘coerce the miners, now has the task of showing its attitudesto- ward the mine owners who refusedithe proposal. of the government made by Winsten Churchill. It is expected/that Premier Baldwin, called back from his vacation in France, will have the job of continuing the negotiations in thed coal strike, as well as determining British policy) in, China, the ostensible, reason for his return. President Green Agrees Workers Need » Shorter Work-Day WASHINGTON, Sept. 15—4FP) — Further reduction of the standard working day in American industry was suggested by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, in his speech at the laying of the corner-stone of the new office- buitding of Garpenters’ Local 132. “Working men are human beings and must be given the.same oppor tunities as other men to develop their spiritual, moral and mental faculties,” he said. “If we find it necessary to further reduce hours of labor then our labor movement will lead in seeking the further reduction of working hours.” t ke “Wvhat-and:Fowito.Read,”” With photographs Cartoons by Vose, A. Jerger First inst: {Hie Yount’Protetatre,*'a fairy tale by, Michael Gold « + “With:ilustration byeFred Ellis A iy MtityhIsBack{” by:N. Sparks ennie,* a story by. Rose Pastor-Stokes Mllustrations ‘by, the ‘author “The Theatre Season in Moscow,” by Ruth A. Kennell “History of the Catholic Church in Mexico,” concluding article by Manuel Gomez “American Capital Conquering Poland,” by B. K. Gebert’ ° T “A Week in Cartoons,” by Hay Bales COMING—-SEPTEMBER 25: “The Life of Karl Marx,” by Paul Lafargue Watch for Next Week’s Announcements of Paes UNDAY LABOR PARTY BIG ISSUE BEF ORE CONNECTICUT STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION IN DANBURY DA.NBURY, Conn., Sept. 15.—The Connecticut Federation of Labor/met | here yith a hundred and ten delegates present representing local trade. ‘unions and central botliies from all over the state. The big issue arousing a lengthy dis¢yssion in the convention was the question of independent political action aral the formation of a Labor Party. i | The Labor Party question was bronght ‘before the convention by the local | Painters’ Union on the basis of the resolution of the national convention of { painters last year which committed +—— # that organization to the formation of ia, Pace eatin = 2°] | PRIMO DE RIVERA SENDS NEW ENVOY OF MILITARY ~ DIGTATORSHIP TO U, 8, |necticut was defeated by a vote of 23 jin favor and 88 against. | Support Growing. The fight for the Labor Party was led by Morris Rohinsky of the New| 4 Haven Painters’ Local and supported by George Moffit of Stamford and John Vanietly of New Britain. President O’Meara of the federation declared that he would fight “to the last drop” against the Labor Party be- cause he, said the Communists would be the leaders in the Labor Party if it were formed, The 2%.votes cast in favor of the formation of the Labor Party is a sign of the growth of the movement in the ystate of Connecticut and.an indication that in the future conventions an even stronger support will be found for in, ‘dependent political action by.labor. BANKERS FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF SURFACE LINES Two Groups in Battle, Before City Council | Lisman and Company, a New York concern, acting for a syndicate of New York, Chicago, and other bankers, has offered the Chicago city council trans- portation committee to take over the street railway system when the pres- ent franchise expires and to work for the consolidation of the existing ele- vated, bus arfd street car lines and to establish bus lines where needed, This concern, acting on behalf of a syndicate of bankers, points out that it has the necessary cash to refinance the roads and to operate and maintain them provided the city grants them a 20-year franchise, Competition between two groups of bankers is on now before the city council. One gsoup is composed of a number of Chicago and New York bankers that now control the lines and the other group is a syndicate of New York and Chicago bankers seeking to gain control of the roads, Neither of the two groups state in their proposals whether there will be a return to the former 5-cent fare or whether the fare will be increased. Alexander Padilla, Spain’s ambas- sador to Portugal, will arrive soon in the United States ta become the am- bassador of the fascist government of a land ruled by a military junta in the interests of Spanish capitalists and landowners. PRIMARY SEASON CLOSES; PREPARE FOR ELECTIONS Coolidge Calor Fear More Defeats (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—The 1926 primary .season, which has been marked by more political upsets than any in recent years, came to an of- ficial close with balloting in a dozen states, Hot Fight in Maryland. In Maryland Senator O, B, Weller, republican, who came into the senate on the crest of the Harding landslide in 1920, is opposed for renomination by Representative John Philip Hill, Ine acknowledged wet leader of the house. Hill is anti-world court. There has been a slam-bang campaign which HENRI BARBUSSE of will leave scars in the republican or- ganization in Maryland, irrespective the great French novelist, author of the outcome, Observers believe of the famous work “Under Fire,” the contest will be close, with Hill writes the second of an unusual leading. series of articles on the Balkans. Klan Backs Means, His recent trip to investigate the In Colorado Senator Rice W, Means, extent of White Terror caused a republican, is oppose 3 violent attack on hig person and og ag hk Bi a dates, Charles W. Waterman and centered world attention on con- e ditions existing in?“The Hell of George A. Luxford. The klan has en- A tered heavily into this fight and is Butope: / seeking the control of the state ma ‘ chinery, Means is supported by the # klan, In Louisiana Senator Edward 8S. Broussard, democrat, a wet, is opposed for renomination by Ex-Governor Jared Y, Sanders, who favors a ref- erendum on the liquor question. Broussard is favored to win. Withdraw Cals’ Man, In President Coolidge’s home state of Vermont, Senator Porter H. Dale, republican, is unopposed for renomi- nation since the withdrawal of Ex- Governor Stickney, law partner of At- torney General Sargent. Stickney en- tered the race ostensibly as an admin- istration candidate against Dale, who refused to follow the White House leadership, by, V. F. Calverton “Count In” Butler, In. Massachusetts the president's campaign manager, Senator Wm, M. Butler, is expected to be renominated, He is opposed by Washington Cook, a wet. It is expected that Cook will be smothered when votes are counted. Ex-Senator David I. Walsh is unop- posed for the democratic nomination. In Washington state Senator Wes- ley L. Jones, dry and pro-court, has three opponents for the nomination, The division in the opposition is ex- pected to allow Jones to ride in, Start Election Campaign. ‘With the end of the primary season the candidates will start their seven- week race towards elections in No- vember, and others allment of Jones Ahead in Washington. SEATTLE, Sept. 15.—-Senator Wes- ley L, Jones was leading his opponent, Frank BE, Hammond, by four to one |for the republican nomination for | United States senator with practically all the precincts in the state, heard \from early today, 4 THE DAILY.WORKER Rr ‘EIGHT WORKERS TRAPPED UNDER MISSOURI RIVER Blast Cuts Off Tube Drillers (Speclal to The Dally Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 15.— Hight men were trapped in a tunnel under the Missouri es here today, when an explosion urred where workmen were constfucting a water main between Clay county and Jack- son county. All afr) passages were cut off. ‘f In Center of River. The men were Working in two crews, driving the shaft from either side of the river, and‘the cave-in oc- curred behind the crew in the north Side of the tunnel, imprisoning them between the ground Which had not been dug, in approximately the cen- ter of the river, and the mass of earth that fell. ‘Chiet Engineer Charles S. Foreman the barrier, 2100 feet in the shaft, be- fore he was blocked. Little Hope, The cave-in virtwally sealed the por- tion of the tunnel into an airtight pocket in which themen are impris- oned. Officials of the Smith Broth- ers, Inc., who were in charge of the construction, expressed doubt that their air supply would last eight men more than a few hots. Altho there is a strong possibility that the men are all dead, according to workers, either killed by the explo- sion, which was so powerful that it knocked workmen on the surface from their feet, or smothered. GREEN WINNER FOR GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 15.—Fred W. Green, mayor of Ionia, winner of the republican nomination for governor in yesterday's primary election, con- tinued today to pile up his lead over Goy. Alex J. Groesbeck, fourth-term aspirant. Lieut.-Gov. George W. Welsh was battling with Luren D, Dickenson for second place on the ticket. A total of 2,196 precincts out of 2,935 for governo#{Zives: Green, 298,- 755; Groesbeck, Means, republican, United States senator from Colorado, was running second today to Charles W. Waterman, on incomplete returns from junior yesterday's state pfimary. 502 pre- cincts out of 1,501, giving Waterman 19,805, Means 10,586 and George A. Luxford, 5,123. P In the republican gubernatorial race, Oliver H. Shoup was leading John F. Vivian, backed by Senator Lawrence C. Phipps by 7,000 ‘votes, the count being Shoup 19,874;, Vivian 12,836. * * +* Senator Broussard Re-nominated. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 15. — Re- nomination of Senator Edwin E. Broussard, democrat, appeared prob- able on the basis of returns from all sections of the state today. With the city count complete and 831 out of 1,084 precincts in the Parish reported, Senator Broussard was lead- ing his opponent, J. Y. Sanders, by a majority of 4,307 votes. Ask New York Labor Join Injunction Fight (Continued from page 1.) of the city water department imme- [Labor Must Expose the Capitalist Government agit agan ne bay former agents of the depart- ment of justice have admitted, in affidavits read at the reopening of hearings demanding a new trial for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, that our two comrades were deliberately “framed” by the powerful United States government that wanted to get td of them, This is what The DAILY WORK- ER has always charged. Without ceasing The DAILY WORKER has thundered that Sacco and Vansetti are innocent of the murder commit: ted in the South Braintree, Mass, payroll robbery, April 15, 1920, more than six years ago. The actual mur- derers have been revealed as mem- bers of the Morelli gang of Provi- dence, R. I, thru the admissions of one of the gangsters, Celestino Ma- deiros, now facing a death sentence for another crime, “ee The two ex-agents of the depart- ment of justice, LaWrence Lether- man and Fred J, Weyland, iow gon- fess that Sacco and Vanzetti were being railroaded to the electric’chair as “one way of disposing of them.” The frame-up job was merely part of red-baiting drive of President Wood- row Wilson's Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, “WITH THE AP- PROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT IN WASHINGTON, TO WHICH FULL REPORTS WERE MADE.” In Letherman’s own words: “It was the opinion of the depart- ment of justice agents here (Boston) that a conviction of Saeco and Van- zetti for murder would be one way of disposing of them.” oe Let those words sear themselves into the minds of every worker in America. They reveal, better than many volumes, the real nature of the employing class tyranny that has reared a government in Washington to keep labor in slavery. In attacking the spokesmen of la- bor the government has two alter- natives. It can either bring them to trial for the principles that they espouse or it can frame them up on some fraudulent criminal charge. The government fears the former. It results in a court clash over vital principles as in the, Michigan cases growing out of the raids on the Communist Party convention at Bridgeman. Communist principles gain a hearing before broad masses of workers. Then no death penalty has as yet been fixed for those espousing the cause of the social re- volution in this country. The government, therefore, pre- fers the frame-up, in the case of Mooney and Billings, in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, and in many other similar cases that dot the pages of American labor history. The tactics of the Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies, become the tactics of the United States gov- ernment, altho William J. Burns did not get into the department of justice until the democrat, Palmer, had been succeeded by the notorious Harry M. Daugherty, now on trial for collecting graft totalling $441,000 out of a deal to return alien pro- perty in his custody valued at §7,- 000,000 to its German owners. Murder is the popular frame-up charge. It is legalized lynching. Thus Joe Hill was put to death by the government in Utah. It was a lynching bee as much as the murder of Frank Little, slain by a mob dur- ing the war. Only the vorce of labor has so far halted the legal lynching diately went into the north tunnel with a crew of men, and penetrated to tion is another glittering but false hope dangled in front of the manufac turers by their leaders to get a settle- ment on their own terms. They will feed them this hope for some time to come, but the manufacturers who be- lieve the strike will be broken this way will soon find their mistake, Nothing will break the determination of the workers to obtain livable con- ditions. Mr. Finder and their other leaders will never seé the day when workers will return on their indecent terms, “Injunctions do not, make cloaks, 3ooner or later the manufacturers will have to come to terms, with the union. Gvery effort they mae to delay the inal settlement will redound to their own disadvantage. They can get the workers back into their shops not thru the intervention of the governor nor thru an injunction, but only by con ceding to the workers their just de mands.” Replying to full-page advertisements appearing yesterday in the Yiddish press, inserted by the Industrial Coun- cll, Hyman declared that the appeals contained in them, urging the workers to return to the shops, did not coin- cide with Finder's recent statements that, as far as he was concerned, the strike was broken and ove: Magistrate Rosenbluth, sitting yes- terday in Jefferson Market court, freed 420 cloak pickets arrested yesterday for violating the injunction, tho the papers had not yet been served on strike leaders. The magistrate warned the police counselfor the manu- facturers that arrests violation of the order can be made aply after pick- ets had been served imdividually, on the picket line, with injunction papers, of Mooney and Billings, Sacco and Vanzetti, The attacks on Sacco and Vanzetti was cold-blooded and. de- liberate. The ex-agent, Letherman, in the employ of the detective serv- ice of the government for 39 years, mainly in the post office department, further states: “It... was the general opinion of such of the agents as had actual knowledge of the Sacco-Vanzetti case that Sacco and Vanzetti... were not highway robbers and had nothing to do with the South Brain- tree job.” . rae a The Wilson-Palmer department of justice had 12 men on the jobbing of Sacco and Vanzetti, carefully pre- paring the frame-up in order to make it airtight. Some of these Two Children Die in Farm House Fire FRIENDSHIP, Wis. Sept. 15—Two children were burned to death and their father was fatally injured in an effort to save them Sunday when fire destroyed the farm home of Jake Hoft- master in the town of Big Flats, northeast of Friendship, Mrs, Hoffmaster leaped from an up- stairs window to escape the fire, which arted while the family was asleep, and feet. say injuries that may prove fatal. ' Crossing Death in filinois. ROCHELLE, Ul, Sept. 16—Charles B. Nixon, 48, of Clinton, Ia,, died in a hospital here today of injuries suffer- was struck by and Quincy crossing near as well as possible, as authoriti day are attempting to prepa By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ee pe were undercover. One was “plant- ed,” in a cell beside Sacco in the hope of entrapping him into confes- sions, Others served on Sacco-Van- zetti committees, one as a collector. An effort was made to place another in the home of Mrs. Sacco. So care- fully and deliberately does the gov- ernment plot its attack on the ad- vance section of the working class. “ -* @ The Wilson-Palmer democratic ad- ministration was succeeded by the Harding-Daugherty republican re- gime that in turn gave way to Coo- lidge-Bargent rule, also republican, in the department of justice. The last, however, is just as guilty as the other two. The frame-up is not characteristic of any single adminis- tration. It is an established weapon of the capitalist tyranny. Attorney William G. Thompson, for Sacco and Vanzetti, charges that he wrote to Attorney-General Sar- gent demanding that the records of the Boston office be opened as a matter of justice where two human lives are at stake. Yet Thompson declares that not only has the at- torney-general failed to answer his letter, but that Inspector Dowd, in ||PITTSBURGH As Murderer of Workers||,, HAS ROUSING CAMPAIGN MEET orkers Party Wins in Free Speech Fight (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 15.—With the local police department well rep- resented and to the strains of the “International,” the Workers (Com- munist) Party opened its congression- al campaign here before an enthus- iastic throng in Carnegie Music Hall,, from which the party was barred by the police on\last May Day. Abram Jakira, district organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party, in opening the meeting as chairman pointed out that the gathering had a double purpose. To celebrate the free speech fight won by the party and to inaugurate the party’s 1926 parliamen- tary struggle in the Pittsburgh dis- trict, J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The: DAILY WORKER, aroused great en~+ thusiasm from the fight to free Sacco and Vanzetti by pointing out the reve- lations brought to light in the confes-. sions of two ex-department of justice agents in the court hearing at Ded-' ham, Mass., Monday. He used these} revelations admitting the govern-/ ment’s frame-up against Sacco and; Vanzetti to explain the real nature! of the American capitalist govern-4 mental tyranny. Mrs. Parthenia Hills, the party’s can-; charge in Boston now, hes refused |qigate for lieutenant governor, won | help, giving as his reason unwilling- ness to exceed his instructions. Mur- derets were never more cold blood- ed. * 2 * Thus Cal Coolidge, president of the United States, stands revealed great\applause by her excellent state-| ment of the part that the worker is! taking in the American class struggle. ; Her declaration that the Negro was | in a class fight and not a struggle for his race was enthusiastically ap-| plauded. She’ eloquently exposed the as one of the executioners seeking republican party as the enemy of the to strap Sacco and Vanzetti in the electric chair, instrument of the cap- italist assassins in Massachusetts. Coolidge, thru his close contact with the department of justice, dominate: by his own appointee Sargent, and errand boy as he is of the textile and shoe barons of New England, must have known the facts about the frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti. He must have known the truth when he was visited by William Green, president, and the rest of the of- ficialdom of the American Federa- tion of Labor, at his summer retreat in New York’s northern woods. 1 the greater the crime of Green, Woll, Ryan, Duncan and the rest who shook hands with a would-be mur- derer of courageous workers. e+ * With the fake charges against Sacco and Vanzetti thus blasted, it is well to study their actual crime against America’s ruling class. They still sit in the Massachusetts death house actually because they took up the cause of a fellow worker, Andrea Salsedo, seized for deportation and held by the department of justice on an upper floor on one of those high skyscrapers that canyon Park Row, in New York City. Salsedo was held prisoner for months. Efforts to secure his release were futile, One day in early 1920 his body came hurtling thru space, from the open window of the department of justice offices. It was crushed lifeless against the pavement in the street below. The inference is that the de- partment of justice agents, failing to get Salsedo to confess to any of the numerous blasts that were tak- ing place at this time, like the Wall Street explosion and the Chicago Post office disaster, had thrown him from the window knowing that cer- tain death waited below to silence Salsedo forever. It is charged that this is the meth- od used to “dispose of” Salsedo in New York City, just as the electric chair was to be used “to dispose of” Sacco and Vanzetti in Massachusetts. oe ee The workers must now put the United States government on trial. Sacco and Vanzetti have not been murdered, But Salsedo was slain in cold blood. The murderers can be found. The whole American working class must be aroused in this new effort. A new phase of the Sacco-Vanzetti case opens. Labor has been too much. on the defensive, struggling valiant- ly, to be sure, to save the lives of a fers (Communist) League, Negro workers. Organize Young Workers, George Papcun,.of the Young Work- urged the organization of the young workers in the steel mills, the mining and electri- ca] industries. A special musical pro- gram was furnished by the Kendra brothers. This was the first of a series of four campaign meetings. The next meet- ing will be held Sept. 28, addressed by William W. Weinstone of New York City. AIMEE’S ALIBI FALLS DOWN ON MISS X DOUBLE LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15.—A little black book and the notes in it have undone a perfectly good alibi for Aimee Semple McPherson, the woman evangelist who disappeared at a Cal- ifornia beach and appeared some weeks later in the desert at the Mexican border in Arizona with a suspicious tale of having been kid- napped and held for ransom. The little black book was the prop- erty of one Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman, who was arrested recently for pass- ing worthless-checks. The police dis- covered notes in the book showing that she had had some business deal- ings with Aimee. Good Alibi, But— It developed that Mrs, Wiseman was the woman who made an affidavit that she was the woman other wit- nesses had identified as Aimee Me- Pherson, who was charged with spending ten days in a love nest with her radio operator, Kenneth G. Ormis- ton, at Carmel-by-the-Sea during the time she was supposed to have been “kidnapped.” Mrs. Wiseman had sought to clear both Aimee and herself by saying that a certain “Miss X,” Mrs, Wiseman’s twin sister, was the lady who re ceived Ormiston’s attentions, Twin Sister Objects. The twin sister, Mrs. Virla McDon- ald Kimball of Oakland, California, objected to being put in this light, so Mrs. Wiseman confessed. The confession specifies in great detail how the alibi for Aimee was worked out with Aimee’s assistance and a promise of $5,000 if Mrs. Wise- man would go thru with it. She tells our two comrades in prison. Latur how she got a certain Miss Rachel must now enter upon an offensive challenging the would-be murderer in the Sacco-Vangettt case, the ac- | si4 wells tual murderer in the Salsedo c: —challenging the United States cap-, italist government itself. Menace of Illinois Flood Causes Alarm Wells to appear at Salinas, Cal, and make an affidavit supporting her own, claiming to be the mys- terious “Miss X." ‘ Coached to Get $6,000, A man named Martin, supposed to be a Chicago lawyer, who had sent in an affidavit from Ormiston in which “Miss was named as being his companion, and Aimee was cleared, is now said by Mrs, Wiseman to have BEARDSTOWN, Ill, Sept. 15. —|ttalned her in her story to put the Levees are being reinforced, and |#libi across, roads and sewers pro| Pe ea In addition, Mrs, Wiseman says: “Mrs. McP! mn coached me on for a | Points which were vital to the story. threatened flood. Many streets already | Her attorney, Mr. Woolley, took me have been flooded by back Es to a handwriting expert. I was in- several sewer mains have broken, |8tructed to try to copy the words and flooding several additional streets. nature of ¢ 'y Mets found at The east end of town and tho levee|Carmel. Those were the words found district are being doserted in the face | bY reporters in my black book.” of the threatened peril. The Mitnois river is rising and the | COM! When the news of Mrs. Wiseman’s on reached Aimee McPherson here has been closed to traffic, | the evangelist issued a flat denial and eddie at Naples, it 1s reported, is shut herself up with her attorneys, safe from a break, We will send sample coples of The DAILY WO fond us jaddress, to your friende—|iabeled St. . the market, St. Louls Glovers Organize, ST, LOUIS—(FP)—St. Louls glove workers have organized and unton- ey