The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 1

uw / yah The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government “vere nee near penreenaree eremeenanttn inte en Vol. Il. Ne. 284, &, 8 C3 Po 45% > « fe 4 Fe a N.Y. “junctions i _(Spectal to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 17.—The new Madison Square Gar- Hden’ will revive the memory of n sin the old structure now gone when every labor organization in Greater New York will participate next Tuesday at 5:30 p. m. in ‘a mass meeting called by 40,000 striking cloakmakers in protest jagainst the temporary injunctio by Supreme Court Justice Charles L. Guy. While individual pickets are disregarding service of these ‘injunctions on the picket line in tion of their constitutional) guarantees of peaceful assemblage, labor leaders in the city are priming themselves for a contest sboth in the courts and on the picket line with their traditional Subscription Rates: ze, 411 Labor STATES CASE Against jotable labor demonstrations held n issued to cloak manufacturers the garment zone as an abroga- In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. By T. J, O'FLAHERTY / FPYHE league of nations, organized os- tensibly to enforce peace, is the ‘theater of a struggle between England jand France for control, The league ‘can be of use to the winner in the diplomatic war that is being waged be- itween the two countries. All this {jockeying for permanent seats and jnon-permanent seats on the council ‘has to do with this rivalry between the former allies. ses TH Poland, Roumania, Belgium and Czecho-Slovakia on the coun- veil, France can outyote England. But $¥ngiand, no doubt, will drag in some other puppets and the game will con- ‘tinue until diplomacy can no longer {solve the problem and Hngland will (find some convenient slogan to give ithe world as her reason for waging jwar against France, eee HE Journal of Commerce of New York, considered the leading ‘busi-. , ROSS Newspaper in the United States, ‘has published a special edition on the )Soviet Union, with the object of arous- }Ing public opinion in favor of recogni- “tion of the U.S. °S. R. by the United States. The Journal ‘of Commerce yhas turned out an excellent piece of “work. There are articles by promi- {nent individuals in the Soviet Union, tin Germany, France, England and the * }Umited States. All agree that the op- }portunities for extending American “business in Russia are great. Maps are printed showing the various kinds ; of mineral wealth with which the soil ; abounds, and where those minerals are located. + #8 HE Journal of Commerce makes it quite clear that Communism is just as repugnant to its capitalist soul as it is to William Green. But much cap- ital is lying idle in the United States. Vand it is looking for a job. A dollar in profit from Russia is just as wel- jcome to the American investor as a jarce from Italy. The U. S. S, R. has no 186 for capitalism and is building up a socialist economy on the ruins ‘of eapitalism. Our American capital- iste, those who favor recognition, be- Neve’ that the sooner the Soviet Union's industries are developed the sooner will Communism be relegated to the limbo of history. The Soviet government does not think so. Neither does The DAILY WORKER. * 'N all probability another year or so will see the United States well on the way to recognition of the Soviet Union, When such an influential paper as the Journal of Commerce openly espouses such a move something is liable to happen. Nothing succeeds like success. The very people who were demanding unending war on the ‘Workers’ Republic a few years ago are now spending thousands of dollars in @ campaign for recognition, ;e @@ UEEN MARIE of the bankrupt gov- fj ernment of Roumania is sailing for the United States on the giant liner Leviathan on October 12. We aro in- (Continued on page 2.) - * * TUMULTY AND CORBISHLEY HEARTILY “RECEIVED BY HARRISBURG, ILL, MINERS (Special to The Daily Worker) HARRISBURG, II1, Sept. 17, ~ Joseph Tumulty, candidate for presi- dont of the lilinois Mine Workers’ Union and Henry Corbishley, well- ‘known as the chief defendant of the famous Zeigler framo-up case spoke . te an enthusiastic audience of min- ore in the court house here last workers evinced much Inter in Tumulty's statements of pol- and generally agresd, In a die auselen that followed, that the or zation would have to make a bars from “Farringtoniem” or it 4 eannot survive, Y, . +enemy—injunction, peaceful picketing. Louis Hyman, chairman of the gen- eral strike committee, and Morris Sigman, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, have invited William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to address the protest meeting. In ad- dition the follewing leaders’ of this city are expected to participate in the demonstration: John F. Coughlin, secretary of the New York Central Trades ‘and Labor Council; Hugh Frayne, organizer of the A. F. of L.; John Sullivan, presi- dent of the New York State Federa- tion of Labor. Organizations which were yesterday invited to be repre- sented at the mass meeting Tuesday included: American Federation of Labor, State Federation of Labor, the New York Central Trades and Labor Council, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Furriers’ Union, the United Hebrew Trades and Affiliated organizations, ‘the Capmakers’ Union and the Italian Chamber of Labor. To Rally All Labor for Stnuggle. Following the mass protest meet- ing, a conference of representatives of all labor bodies of Greater New York will be held. at Beethoven Hall Friday, Sept. 24th, to frame ways and means {o combat the injunction should it be Tide peryyg rent. The following. is..t” ippeal..ot:the garment strikers to New ‘York~ or- ganized labor inviting participation in Tuesday’s mass meeting: Strike Is Winning. “Dear Brothers: You are, without doubt, aware of the 12-weeks’ struggle (Continued on page 2.) STANDARD OIL MIXES IN WAR ON CANTONESE U. S. Navy Protecting Rockefeller Ships (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Sept. 17. —Dispatches from the Hankow region indicate that imperialist interests are trying to pro- voke a situation that will lead to Unit- ed States intervention in China against the Cantonese. An unidenti- fied shore battery hidden behind Standard Oil property and foreign houses at Chingling’ Ki has fired up- on an American mine sweeper, which answered with machine guns. Two Standard Oil boats are being guard, ed by U. S. marines. Protect Rockefeller. Reports of the affair wirelessed to Washington by Admiral Williams of the Asiatic fleet admits there “were no hits or casualties, due to the fact that the emplacements were 80° lo- cated that heavy gunfire would seri- ously endanger Standard Oil coni- pany and foreign houses.” The ship fired on was a U. S, mine Sweeper, the Pidgeon. It is regarded im nationalist circles that remnants of the reactionary troops of Wu Pel-fu in collusion with imperialists in the foreign quarters are trying to pro- yoke a clash between the United States and the Canton government. Cantonese Advance. The successful advance of. the Can- tonese continues, now being mainly directed against Sun Chuan-fang, and the fighting has forced Sun's troops to a general retreat down the Yangtze | 100 miles below Hankow. The Can- tonese are engaged with the retreat- ing troops of Sun at Wusueh, 20 miles above the important city of Kiukiang. The Cantonese are also continuing the siege of Wuchow. They have per- mitted foreigners to leave the city to obtain food for others in the city, mostly Americans, Here, too, the troops of Sun are surely facing defeat, Warns Against Provocation. The Peking government has pro- tested to the British against any puni- tive expedition in the:upper Yangtze, stating that antt-Britieh feeling ig so acute at Chungking that any more provocative attacks: by the British may result ina slaughter of all for- cigners in Chungking,. against cd Entered at Second-class matter Sepeemhan 2, 1908 at the Psat: Mitton a: Ciritvogn, Mimo. under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1926 ° SHOWS UP WEAK IN SACCO TRIAL Prosecution F ails to Shake Defense BULLETIN DEDHAM, Mass,, Sept. 17. — Mo- tion for a new trial for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, convicted slayers, will be under advisement for several weeks. Judge Webster Thayer, sitting to day In Norfolk County superior court, so announced at the conclu- sion of the rebuttal argument by defense counsel, eee By ESTHER LOWELL (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) BOSTON, Sept. 17. — The prosecu- tion in the Sacco-Vanzetti case today 1 { FILIPING PROFESSOR, AN OSMENA FOLLOWER, OPPOSES INDEPENDENCE opened up by attacking the credibility of Celestino Madeiros, whose confes- sion declares that neither of the two ttallan workers are guilty of the murder charged against them. Assist- ant District Attorney Dudley Ranney sald that it was common for criminals to confess crimes of others, citing the Kelly case in Massachusetts, Ranney charged that Sacco had lacked diligence by’ destroying the early notes of Madeiros concerning the Braintree crime. He stated that both Sacco and Vanzetti lacked dili- gence by not filing the affidavit of the spy Ruzamenti when former defense councel Fred Moore obtained it four years ago, and also for apparently concealing the Moller testimony im- Plicating Joe Morelli three yearsjago. Thompson Punctures Argument Defense Counsel William Thompson had argued that these documents were meaningless when secured with- out the light of the Madeiros confes- sion. Ranney attacked the introduction of evidence of spies being active against Sacco and Vanzetti as irrele- vant. “Altho it may. be called an extreme method,” he said, “police in- timidation is not unusual,’ former Federal Agente “Wey and Letherman for violating secrecy, the watchword of detectives, implying a “breach of loyalty.” Ranuey con- tinues tomorrow. Thompson, in closing, hit at Judge Thayer's acceptance of the theory of consciousness of guilt in charging the Sacco-Vanzetti jury. He asked for the same test for the Morellis when corn- ered, as the Jacob's affidavit shows. “This case started in an atmosphere of persecution and intolerance,” said Thompson. He attacked the notorious “Red raids” of 1920 and explained that the so-called “consciousness of guilt” of Sacto and Vanzetti was their fear of the fate that awaited them merely for being radicals. Thompson again emphasized the un- angwered testimony of federal agents who believed Sacco and Vanzetti to be innocent of the Braintree crime. He insisted that no ulterior purpose should be permitted to enter into the decision as to whether Sacco and Van- zetti were guilty or innocent, Enough for New Trial, “The mere suppression of evidence by federal authorities is sufficient to grant a new trial,” said Thompson. He reiterated the fact of the world interest in the case and said the deal- ing with elementary questions of right or wrong was not a legal technicality. During the speaking, Judge Thayer was smiling sarcastically and seems to be more at ease since the state's case was begun, MOTION PICTURE SHOWING PASSAIC STRIKE IS READY PASSAIC, N. J, Sept. 17—"The Passaic Strike,” a motion picture, of the heroic struggle of the 16,000 Pas- saic textile strikers for a union and a living wage, is now ready, and will be shown shortly in all of the leading labor centers of the country. Nothing will so simply, graphically and vividly bring home the big strike and its lessons to the workingclass ag 'will this gripping motion picture of strike events snapped as they occur- ted. In. this picture, the Passaic textile strikers are shown in action, facing with magnificent courage and superb fortitude the brutal attacks of the mill barons, braving police clubs and shot guns, fire hose in zero weather, gas bombs, and withstanding the star- vation offensives and strikebreaking attempts of the bosses and their tools. The huge mass meetings of strik- ers are shown, with the strike lead- ors and outside ers addressing the strikers. Rellef activities are de- picted, the food. stores, the ploket Ine lunch, co: the Victory. Play- ground. ' childrea, lot of businesmawaey from them, Ween MAAMMO Wi, Wane, vr wie University ¢ Philippines is an- other of the ‘ao-called Independence advocatés who follow Sen. Osmena, suddenly stricken with a case of cold feet. The professor has an- nounced ff in favor of a “round tal onference” to com- HER COD AND SMITH IN LONDON Excitement Reigns as Baldwin Dickers (Special and tense excitement prevailed Downing street tdday as Premier Bald- win made efforts to bring about nego- tiations for the settlement of the coal strike. A huge crowd, aided by a uniformed band from Wales, assembled before 10. Downing street and welcomed the Jeaders of the striking miners, Herbert Smith and A, J.\Cook, as they entered a conference with the premier. As Cook and Smith entered by the front door, Evan: Williams, representa- tive of the operators, left by the rear door. Williams had been summoned into conference by the premier to dis- cuss the possibility of the operators proceeding to negotiate district agree- ments for the settlement of the strike, these district agreements to be later. given approval by the national body of miners. The Miners’ Federation has recently opposed district agree- ments in previous negotiations. After the conferences were under way the police dispersed the crowds in Downing street and Whitehall. Raid Workers’ Literature. Flying squadrons from Scotland Yard made two raids during the night, seizing Communist literature dealing with the strike situation. Additional terrorism of the Baldwin government to aid the mine owners break the strike is reported from Doncaster, where repeated brutal police charges against the mass picket line of 2,000 miners and their wives resulted in many miners injured and arrested, The pickets were posted to stop the return to workiof the so-called “safety men,” some of-whom are digging coal while posing as workers keeping the mines in repair, The police attacked the picket line, including the women, with clubs, when the miners sang the “Red Flag”’and jeered the scabs. There was novviolence but that used by the police. N. Y. Window Cleaners May Strike October 1 NBW YORK, Sept. 17.—(FP)— New York window cleaners who balance like flies on the:-narrow copings of the windows of the tall apartment houses and office buildings object to risk their Hives more than 44 hours a week. They threaten—thru the Window Cleaners’ Protective Association—to strike October 1 unless the 44-hour week is granted, as well as a $44 mini- mum wage. They also demand the elimination of the non-union men who have ben making their appearances on jobs, Employers organized in the Amalga- mated Window Cleaning Employers’ Association are complaining, not mere- ly at the union's demands but at a successful cooperative window clean- ing company, the Mineola Window Cleaning Cojuthat the union has pro- moted and which has heen getting teal alee abn ne | ( ‘a the levee, aon e i ' Publis PUBL! —=” HARRY FISHWICK EXPOSED WITH _ F-FARRINGTON Signed Names on Note for Peabody Boss Harry Fishwick, president of the Mlinois. Miners’ Union, by action of the district executive board after Far- rington was deposed, Is now a candi- date to succeed himself for that office. State Senator William Sneed, of Herrin, has withdrawn from the con- test and agreed to accept the position of vice-president so that the reaction- ary front may not be broken when the ballots are cast next December. Saeed was the candidate of John L. Lewis against Farrington before the { jatter's contract with the Peabody. Coal Company came to light. When Lewis “got the goods” on Farrington and forced his deposition as district present Fishwick announced his can- didacy, Fishwick is a Farrington man, Clean-Cut Issue. As the situation stands now, there is a clean-cut issue between the reac- tionaries led by Fishwick and the progressives led by Joseph Tumulty of the Springfield sub-district. The ex- posure of Farrington in the role of retainer of the Peabody Coal Com- pany puts the reactionaries on the de- fensive. So far none of them, out- side of John L. Lewis, commented pub- licly on the matter. To all appear- ances they do not consider the sell- out a-question that should interest the coal diggers of Illinois. To Refresh Memories. The reactionaries hope that the min- ers will forget all about Farrington in the coming campaign. But the coal diggers know that Fishwick and Sneed and Lewis and the whole bureaucratic district machine are tarred with the same Peabody brush and that Fish- wick in particular was Farrington’s loyal Heutenant in all the dirty work the deposed official was guilty of dur- ing his official life in the Illinois Min- ers’ Union, i o. Some Telling Evidence. ~~ Should Mr. Fishwick attempt to deny any connection with the Pea- body Coal Company activities of Frank Farrington, The DAILY WORKER is taking the trouble to call (Continued on page 2) ILL, LABOR MAY APPEAL TO THE STATE ASSEMBLY Pursues Legalism to Beat Injunctions STREATOR, Ill,, Sept. 17.-—The re- organization of the once active Mli- nois stafe conference of printers was the. principal business accomplished at today’s session of the Illinois Fed- eration of Labor here. This, and the adoption of resolution, occupied the entire day. The printers’ conference, made up of 52 different classes of printers’ groups, was reorganized for the avow- ed purpose of securing equal and unt- form wages for its members. Will- fam J, Hedger, Chicago, was elected president, Harry B. Schaudt, vice- president and W. R. Bean, Streater, secretary and treasurer. Disobedience Beats Any “Recourse.” The federation went on record as favorable recouse to the state gener- al assembly if the state supreme court upholds the decision of Judge Denis E. Sullivan denying the constitution- ality of the injuction and limitation laws. It also adopted resolutions oppos- ing “yellow dog” contracts by employ- ers and favoring an increase of $10 in the state auto license fees, the excess to be held as a compensation fund for persons injured in motor ac- cidents. Such victims, according to the federation’s program would re- céive $4 per day while they are dis- abled and $2 per day while receiv- ing medical attention. Dependents of persons. killed would receive a lump sum of $6,500. Tragic Love Suicide, BEARDSTOWN, IIL, Sept. 17, —A clandestine love affair between the wife of a railroad engineer and the telegraph dispatcher who gave him his orders ended in tragedy here to- day when Mrs. Mary Young, mother of three children, shot and killed her- self with a shot-gun as she got in her sweetheart’s automobile, Prisoners Repair Levee, FORT MADISON, Iowa, Sept. 17, — Twenty-five’ prisoners from the state peniten: here today were pressed into serviéé th afi’ effort to reinforce eight mill ‘ en This Issue Consist: of Two Sections. ~ SECTION ONE. hed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, “Keep The | Daily Worker” Every Supporter of the Daily Must Subscribe Immediately to Meet the Crisis Oar Paper Is Facing. The supporters of The DAILY WORKER are responding to the need of the $50,000 “Keep the Daily Worker” fund. 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This is a question that is being sert- ously asked today after the first wave of rejoicing over the victory of the anti-klan elements receded. Water- man and Means are both-pillars of the G. 0. P. In view of the fact that Wa- terman never opened his mouth against»the klan, voters who were in duced'4o support him,on the ground that he was'a‘foe of kluxism are won- dering if they were not played for a. bunch @f suckers, e ee ae Monday; King Steps In TORONTO, Ont, Sept. 17.—The conservative cabinet of Prime Min- ister Arthur Meighen has met and de- clded to resign Monday, giving over the government to the liberal Mac- Kenzie King. ‘The province of .On- tario will hold a provinical election early in November. Killed by Lightning. WOODBURN, Ore, Sept. 17, Struck by a bolt of lightning as they were taking refuge from a storm be neath a tree, Edith Pokerny, 16, and her aunt, Stella Pokerny, 88, were in- stantly killed and Edith’s two younge? sisters were severely’ burned pear here last might, il —— oe we Bn ‘ m