The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1926, Page 1

*% *The DAILY WORKER Raises | the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government _ Vol. Ill. No 210. a . o, 8 yr (+) . 4 | (sf 2, : fe ty$o oo bay N48? ¥o Subscription Rates: 5 ' { ‘ i - f In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. | ¥, H. THOMAS, political secretary of By T. J, O'FLAHERTY J. the National’ Union of Ratlway- men, Wngland, and colonial secretary in His. Majesty's government, under the. premiership of Ramsay Mac- Doyald, has just returned to England from a.visit to Canada. Mr. Thomas did not open his mouth about the great whiners’ strike during his stay on this hemisphere—at least 0t publicly. And on >his return, he was not interested in how the struggling coal diggers and their families were getting along. But} he .was happy. to tell the imperialists that the Canadians were crazy about the empire and would never desert their glorious traditions for the sake of affiliation with the United States. + ee H.US spoke Thomas, the man who | once pretended to be a socialist, and. still considered one, by American | Socialists. Thomas spoke too soon) about the Canadian’s love for the em-|~ pire, The result of the Canadian elec- tions prove otherwise. The liberal Party. of Canada plays up to a strong mass leaning for a rupture with the empire anda closer relationship with the United States. The interests of imperialism are closer to Thomas’ heart than those of the British work- ing class. : see UDYARD KIPLING has turned an- : other chunk of literary offal loose on the public. Like most Brit- ish poets (working-class poets except- ed), Kipling is but a rhyming press agent for British imperialism. For Many years back, his output only bears favorable comparison with that of an advertising agency. Kipling’s memory will be honored for what he wrote before he became corrupted with the wages of popularity. In his Idtest book he versifies for the cancel- ; lation of the British war debt to the United States. This is about as low as the imagination can conceive a poet sinking Yo, unless he were to write come-on jingles for a bawdy-house |. barker. eee NOTHER testimony to the wisdom of practical politicians! The De- troit Federation of Labor once paid lp service to the principle of inde- penden: working-class political action. Then it slipped and for the past few years has been operating as a political auxiliary to Mayor Smith. The feder- ation officials had a falling-out with the latter and they supported Gov-| ernor Groebeck in his campaign for rénomination on the G. 0. P. tickét while Mayor Smith supported Groes- beck’s opponent. +e ROESBECK was defeated and the . capitalist politicians in Detroit can now tell the D. F. of L, that its in- fiuence on voters is nil and is not worth a dog catcher’s job. Smith Seems to have taken to himself the ‘vote that formerly obeyed the direc- tion of the Iabor council. And after Smith milked the federation dry he turned the cow loose on the highway, This is another testimony to the futility of non-partisan political ac- tion. Rewarding your friends and de- feating your enemies. Bosh! The.only practical politicians are the Commun- lata who stick to the class program and ayold short-cuts that lead the workers in the capitalist corral. ni f 8, & JNLESS France stops harboring. + enemies of fascism, Mussolini will show. his teeth. Despite’ the “duce’s’> agsumed nonchalance’ over the latest Madeiros Gave Confession In Danger of Life By ESTHER LOWELL, Special to The Daily Worker. _. DEDHAM, Mass., Sept. 16.—Celestino Madeiros took a great risk when, at the time he was appealing for a new trial after | being sentenced to death for the. murder of a Wrentham bank cashier, he confessed to participation in the South Braintree murder and robbery for which Sacco and Vanzetti have been unjustly convicted, was the opening argument of defense council in the hearing for a new trial for the two Italian workers. The sanity of Madeiros has been granted by both the prose- cution and defense. Madeiros said that when he saw Mrs. Sacco and her children visit the prison to see their husband and father, he “felt sorry for the kids,” according to witnesses and made the confession, even at the risk of his own freedom. At the same } Caraway's ; time he refused to implicate MANLY MAKES FORMAL COMPLAINT AGAINST ALASKAN OFFICIALS Basil Manly, director of the Peo- ‘ple's Legislative Service in Washing- ‘ton has entered a complaint against federal. officials in Alaska for the matadministration of affairs inthe ‘territory, i STREATOR MEET DODGES ISSUE OF FARRINGTON (Special to The Daily Worker) STREATOR, Ill, Sept. 16.—Senator Caraway, who said some labor poli- ticians in Illinois might have gotten some of the Insull slush fund given to Frank L, Smith, naming John H. Walker and Frank Farrington, was uotified by wire that the State, Federa- tion of Labor, in convention here, “has faith” in Johnny Walker and resents hint that Walker money for handling the labor vote.” “There is no labor vote in Illinois and the trade unionists cannot be handled,” the convention declared. Some of the delegates thought that attempt on his life it {8‘said that sia ae senatorial slush fund gommittee, popping champagne bottles no longer: Jntrigue him as they used. France. will not turn Mussolini’s enemies out into the cold or to be draped around a fasclet dagger. Thanks to the con-| fiicts between capitalist states; the pirates sometimes hasten their owit end by helping the erémies of their rivals, ap ee 6 Lip situation is something like this: Italy wants room to expand, She jook with a hungry eye on France’s African possessions and again at Turkey, ‘Italy is lying across France’s (Ceptinued on page 6) ‘Senators Reed and LaFollette, did not do enough to help Walker'#et clear of the charge of corruption: Harry Jensen and Edwin B. Wright, ofthe carpenters and printers respect- ively, brought in a, committee resolu- tion eulogizing Walker in the highest terms, “ain _.A measure is introduced backed by this sort of thing to increase the sal- ary of;Walker and. Olander from $5,000 a year to $7,000, J 1 Discussion on senatorial candidates is shut off by a motion to confine en- dorsement of candidates to state and local officers. GOVERNMENT MOVES TO REINSTATE CONVICTIONS OF 25 CHICAGO LABOR UNIONISTS TRIED HERE IN 1921 _ WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—An appeal will be taken to the supreme court this October to reinstate the convictions of 25 persons who were indicted In Chicago for alleged conspiracy between building trades unions and con- tractors, the department of justice announced today. The Indictments were returned in Pf Carpenters and Joiners and manufacturers of. millwork. 1923, the car; of appeals reversed” e OF nh that there waacno. p MO 1921 against the United Brotherhood “In the trial in "ra were convicted and''thé manufacturers were acquitted. the*eonvictions by upholding the car- antitrust law.ylolation because inter- others by his confession. A summary of the details contained in the deposition taken of Madeiros’ confession shows a marked similarity to the facts established by the de- fense about the crime at the original Sacco and Vanzetti trial. Morelli Counsel Nervous, Daniel Geary, counsel tor the Mo- relli gang who are under charges for stealing freight cars and are the gang implicated in the South Braintree murder by the Madeiros confession, has refused to give Sacco, Vanzetti counsel confidential information “which might tend to incriminate my clients.” Defense Attorney Thompson takes this as acknowledgement of the guilt of the Morelli gang. During the tak- ing of the deposition, Thompson said, it. took three’ hours grilling to get Madeiros to admit that the Morelli gang was the group he was with in the South Braintree hold-up, altho, un- til the ‘last; he tried to conceal their identity, Pr Federal Agents’ Testimony. In his atgiitent today, Thompson stressed the ‘uncontradicted testimony of the federal agents who told of the participation of the department of justice inthe frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti, “Who is a worse murderer,” he said, “than the man who takes eight dollars a day from the govern- ment to try to convict two men he knows ar¢, innocent for murder for the benefit of a chief who wanted the nomination, for president of the Unit- ed States?”—probably meaning A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney-general at the time, Attacks Former D, A. Thompson also attacked former District Attorney Katzman for allow- ing a radical speech by Sacco to be used in the trial. Thompson charges this was Katzman’s share of a bar- gain with federal agents hoping Sac- co would give information to be used against his friends. The defense lawyer also took oc- casion to ridicule the witnesses of the state as crooks, pimps and com- mon street walkers, incomparable to defense witness John Richards, for- mer United States Marshal of Rhode Island, a reputable lawyer who prose- cuted the Morellis. “Say It with your pen In the worker correspondent. page of The DAILY WORKER.” ft Entered at Sscond-class matter September 21, 192%, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926 Ss” T ANTI-LABOR INJUNCTI + stl REPORTED ASSASSINATED:; RUMOR LAGKS CONFIRMATION LOND Sept. 16. — The Italian embassy ited this evening that it had no information concerning rumors current here that Premier Mussolini had been assassinated by a woman. |The embassy stated that the rumors were undoubtedly false. }) p 2. ¢ GENEVA, Sept. 16. — Count Seia- jota, Italian delegate to the league of nationg,)made frantic efforts to establish telephone connections with Milan this afternoon in an attempt to. make Inquiries concerning the London rumor of Mussolini being assassinated by \ woman. Count Solajen. was unable to get a connection with Milan, after half an hour's attenipt. He then made at- tempts to get in telephonic com- munication with Rome. BUTLER UNVEILS DAUGHERTY LIFE IN WASHINGTON Lived it h McLean and Smith (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Morton D. Miller, a butler, was the first witness called today at the conspiracy trial in federal court of Harry M. Daugh- erty and Coloné! Thomas W. Miller. Daugherty, formerly attorney gen- eral of the United States, and Miller, formerly ali operty custodian, are alleged by governinent’ to have failed to give their best moral and mental efforts: in approving a $7,000,- 000 claim of the German-controlled American Metals company—assets seized during the war as alien prop- erty. Worked For Daugherty and Smith. Miller testified that he had been at on time employed by Edward B. Mc- Lean, Washington publisher, and that later when Daugherty and his close friend, Jesse’'Smith, went to live in McLean’s house in Washington, he was employed by them. ‘The witness said Daugherty and Smith moved’ into McLean’s house ai 1509 N. street, Washington, D. C., on March 5, 1981, and stayed there many months, Jesse Paid Bills. “T acted as butler for them,” Miller testified. “They used Mr. McLean's private office and slept upstairs in his home, Mr. Daugherty using the front the back. While there Daugherty and Smith frequently went away over week-ends.” “Who paid the expenses run up by Daugherty and Smith while they were in McLean's house?” the prosecution asked. “Jesse Smith,” replied Miller. Smith pafdithe bills by checks, he said. “Did you ever see the check book,” he was asked. “Yes, it was on the Midland Na- tional Bank, Washington Courthouse, Ohio.” MINE STRIKE NEEDS URGENT, SAYS PURCELL | Quick Aid Vital ; World| is the answer that Louis Hyman (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN (By Mail).—The president | of the International Trade Unions (Amsterdam), A. A. Pur- cell, who recently was in Berlin, mi the following statement to a represen: tative of the International Press Cor- respondence, who asked the aim of hi visit: | Our journey to Berlin is a section of | our program to obtain financial assist- advantage. thru the intervention of the Published Daily except Sunday by THE I AILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Strikers Defy Tyranny of N. Y. Courts (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—“Injunctions do not make cloaks,” , chairman of the New York joint card of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and leader of the ' strike of 40,000 cloakmakers, gives to the sweeping temporary ance for the British miners as quickly as possible, for both the Miners’ Fed- bedroom and Smith having a room in| eration of Great Britain and the Gen, eral Council are conyinced that the coming month will see the culminating point in the struggle of the British miners. If the latter are able to hold out another three weeks then they will win, altho the difficulties facing them are tremendous. Uses Army to Break Strike. The government has sent the army into the coal districts so that it can be used at any time against the miners. Not only the police have been mobilized in masses against the min- ers, but a spetial police force with mounted sections tas been mobilized. The magistrates are mostly repre- sentatives of the coal barons, who punish and fling, in the most unheard of style, hundreds of miners into prison for crimes which are very often no’ crimes at all. In its merciless struggle against ‘the miners the gov- ernment even goes so far as to in- struct the local authorities to cut or. even abolish completely the support which the minefs receive to feed their wives and children. Over and above that, miners’ fami- lies who, on account of their desper- ate situation, are unable to pay rent, are mercilessly evicted from their cot- tages. The fact that under such cir- cumstances the miriers have been able to hold out for 17 weeks in an iron front with only, absolutely negligible break here and there, proves the he- roic character of ‘the struggle which is now going on. The coming weeks will bring @ de- cision and this’ decision will go in favor of the minérs if the workers abroad do all they can to support their British comrades. It must be con- tinually stressed that this struggle of the British miners is no purely British struggle, but a struggle the outcome of which will be of the greatest sig- | nificance for the whole international | working class. Should the British mine owners be | successful in forcing an increase of the working hours, then this will | quickly make itself felt in the other }countries where the employers will |foliow the British example and simi- |larly demand an increase of the work- ing hours. Should the British mine owners be successful in abolishing the national agreement, then this would mean an attack upon agreements altogether. {It would go so far that there would be no longer agreements for whole branches of industry, but for districts, (Continued on page 3) Let Us Keep the Daily Worker! By WILLIAM F, DUNNE HE press;,is the most powerful single weapon of the working class, The BAILY WORKER is the weapon of the working class and the exploited fanmera of America. We have;not learned yet how to use it to the best,advantage but we will and tha. present campaign “to keep The DAILY ,.WORKER” is testi- mony to our will to learn to wield this weapon hard and well, ree working class of America is forced to struggle. It has to struggle whether it wants to or not, It is the task of The DAILY WORKER to give expression to this struggle, to rally the whole working class to the aid of the sections which are attacked, to expose the enemies of the workers ~in and out of the labor movement— to teach the inevitability of struggle and prepare our class for it. There are important struggles in progress in America now. Three of, thy alone are enough to show the, va character of these struggles he. different sectors on which the sen ‘L. "Tha stfugmle to save Sacco and Va. cao fhe electric chair, 2, The strike of 16,000 textile A workers wal i 3. The struggle of the rank and file of the Unite: Mine Workers of Amer- ica to save ithe union in the face of the coal bavon’s offensive and to rid it of the deadening grip of the Lewis machine, Do You Want To Fight For Your Class? HEN her@are three great struggles in which you can take part. You do net need to be a miner to help defeat the corrupt union leader- ship and save the union. You do not need to be a textile worker to be able to take part in the Passaic strike, You do not have to live in Mass- achusetts to help save Sacco and Van- zetti. The DAILY WORKER is the only daily in the United States published in the English language which gives all the news of all these struggles and which puts forward the correct pro- gram for fighting and winning them. Do You Want To Save Sacco “And Vanzetti? THEN HAVE THE DAILY WORK: ER SENTTTO EVERY CITIZEN OF MASSACHUSETTS! Send ThesDAILY WORKER a sub- seription afd. it will send the paper to 4 Masgnchyeatis worker, | we, ae uae oe © YOU WANT THE MINERS TO. CLEAN’ OUT CORRUPTION IN THEIR UNION, DEFEAT JOHN L. LEWIS AND ORGANIZE THE NON- UNION FIELDS? Then subscribe for The DAILY’ WORKER for a coal minet, SEND IN A SUBSCRIPTION AND THE’ DAILY WORKER WILL BE SENT TO A MEMBER OF THE U. M, W, of ‘A, Make ‘yourself a factor in this tre- mendows straggle. DO YOU WANT THE PASSAIC STRIKERS TO WHIP THE TEXTILE BARONS, THEIR POLICE AND JUDGES, AND GET A WAGE IN- OREASE AND RECOGNITION OF THE UNION THEY HAVE WORKED AND FOUGHT NINE MONTHS TO BUILD? Then have The DAILY WORKER sent to another worker who is not yet a reader of it. F you want to be part of all the struggles of our class this is the way it can be done. Let The DAILY WORKER speak for you to other workers and carry your fighting mes- em. Keep The Daily Worker!” Keapit i ‘the forefront of the strug- gles of tid” Whole American working BALLOON PIONEER REFUSES BRAZILIAN OFFER AS AIR HEAD Santos Dumont, famous Brazilian authority on aeronautics “and known as the world’s greatest balloonist has refused a government offer to make him air general of Brazil. He said he does not desire to make his own invention, the navigable balloon, an instrument of destructive war- fare, SMITH RESIGNS AS CHAIRMAN OF COMMERCE BODY (Worker Corresvondent) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Sept. 16.—Gov. Len Small today accepted the resig ‘nation of Col, Frank L.. Smith of Dwight, as chairman of the Illinois {Commerce Commision and candidate for the United States senate. In his letter accepting Smith's res- ignation, the governor states that he does not feel justified in asking him to reconsider his action, understand- ing that he will need all of his strength for the coming campaign. Smith re- cently underwent a major surgical op- eration. In his letter the governor praises the administration of affairs of the commission under Smith's’ chairman- ship, Send us the name and address of a progressive worker to whom we. can send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKER, ness Agent Millstein’s machine: For President: urer: For Recording Secretary: SCHEIN. For Executive Committee: ALEX SKOLNICK, JOHN SCHILLER, For Conference Committ CHICAGO FUR WORKERS! VOTE FOR THESE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES! The following is a list of candidates put forward by the Progress- ive Group of Chicago Fur Workers’ Local Union No. 45 against Busi- A. FINKELSTEIN. ident: Write in the name of ROBERT GOLDSTEIN. EMIL P, JOHNSON. Write in the name of J. SONNEN- FRANK ROTH, MRS. FELKE, KAPLAN, SAM COHEN, MAX HALPREN, and write in the name of : JOE ROSS, MAX GREEN, and write Im the names of SAM GOLDBERG, the present president of Local 45, UL FENDRICK, STANLEY PETERS, NEW YORK EDITION s cteebinisnoaatnneniveneeniabeesansesniesiommnipsntiapet ail Price 3 Cents Will Federation of | Writ handed down by Supreme Court Justice Charles M. Guy against the union and in behalf of the Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, Inc. “Sooner or later,” continued Hyman, “the manufacturers will have to come to terms with the union. Every effort that they | make to delay the final settlement will redound to their own dis- They can get the workers back into their shops not governor nor thru an injunction, but ——t only by conceding to their workers their just demands,” The writ is so sweeping that even pro-strike articles in the union journal might lead to arrests if it were fully enforced. Virtually all strike activi ties are prohibited Will Defy Court Tyranny. The talk in union circles is that the union will *tand on the constitu- tional rights of its members and go about its business as before if the court attempts to affirm the temperary order. 600 Arrests In One Day. Nearly six hundred arrests were made the morning, after the injune- tion, pickets and strikers generally being swept up on the sidewalks by police, But city magistrates discharg- ed 540 of these, fining the rest $8 jeach. He would not consider injume tion violation charges, holding that till the individual unionists were per: sonally served with copies of the writ they could not be held under it. BRITISH MAKE READY TO WAR UPON CHINESE SHANGHAI, Sept. 16—A strong British force prepared for a punitive expedition against the Chinese under General Yang-sen in Szechwen prov- ince, where the battle took place re cently and two ships of British owner- ship are being held for damages, is waiting at Hankow for instructions from London. Anti-British Feeling High. Meanwhile Rear Admiral John Ewem Cameron has gone up the Yangtze to Ichwang, with a view to conferring with Yang-sen, who says he is willing to hand over the two steamers. As a result of the British massacre of 5,000 in the Wanhsien clash, however, the Chinese thruout Szechwen province are advocating a boycott against the British. Anti-British feeling is rua- ning high at Chungking. Cantonese Consolidate Position, In the Hankow region the Canton- ese ate moving south and east to ex- pel Sun Chuan-fang’s troops from Kiangsi province. Wu_ Pei-fu is quiet and has not sent the column he prom- ised against the Cantonese at Changsa. The Cantonese are moving along the Peking-Hankow railway with the pur- pose of capturing and holding the Wu Shen-kuan pass near the Hona border to prevent Wu's counter-attack on Hankow. In the north there are reports of wide revolt among the froops of Chang Tso-lin. One of Chang’s generals with 10,000 troops have mutinied and are holding Kalgan against a force sent there by Chang's son. Fierce fighting between the mutineers and young Chang's troops.is rumored and a sedi- tious @pirit among all his troops is worrying the Manchurian militarist, MEYER ADLER, MRS. FLEISCHHAKER, BENY