The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1926, Page 1

ad | The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 220. Subscription Rates: In Chicago, by mati, $8.00 Qutside Chicago, by mail, Entered at Second-clays matter September 21, 1928, at t the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. er yoar, 6.00 per thse aii aes hae eo THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1926 =e” PUBLISHING CO., Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, iI. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents THIRD DEGREE USED ON PASSAIC STRIKERS J, OFLAHERTY By T. Hi age manager of Heametreet’s press clipping bureau heard of Karl Marx, but only recently, Unknown to ins the father of modern socialism has been getting unusual publicity of late od we might not have known that this was so but for a certain Mr. Boyd, Heamstreot’s manager. thinking that Marx was as prominent & figure in modern society as Gene ‘Tunney or at least Calvin Coolidge, Mr. Boyd offered the services of his tlipping bureau to Mr. Marx jn care pf the International Publishers. one OTHING is too good for our read- ers so here is the letter: “My Pear Mr. Marx: Don’t you’ want to fead what the United States is saying pbout your writings? Your name is pppearing the press or you would ot have received this letter, and we Te gUte you will see the value of eeping everything about yourself or literary matters in which you are . +. Order form enclosed.” Marx takes our advice not only will @ instruct Mr. Boyd to keep him in- formed on what is being said about im but what is being done to his heortes by some of his alleged follow- pre, . 1 pastors in the churches of northern Michigan and Wisconsin put in a little time last Sunday pray- jng for the entombed miners in the Ironwood pit. The spiritual aviators were as amiable to the mine owners as they were to their deity. They did not mention the defective shafting in the mine. They did not upraid their god for nodding on the job. Why should an all-seeing all-knowing, all- morciful deity permit so much sorrow- {ng and suffering to fall on his freatures? That question began to bother me when I was fifteen years pid? , ee UR wire news service informs us be the entombed miners will not be a “In spiritual “sustenance, |” what with the presence of Leonard Uren, a salvation army leader of Iron- yood, who happened to be in the mine, ministrating to the Finnish workers when the pit shaft got block- ed. We venture to say that a pail of water and a good feed would be more eppreciated by the 43 miners than all the spiritual hokum Mr. Urén could produce in ten years. . HE Daily Herald, official. daily of the British Trade Union Congress ee in for hard panning from some figlegates for its action in accepting vertisements from the coal owners attacking the striking miners. Aside from tho fact that the miners are on earege od are the heaviest subsidizers wriine Hereld, ‘This is a most amazing oa seabbery. Several delegates extremely caustic in their critic- jem, bat Mr, Ernest Bevin in behalf the directors of the Herald said he tog the paper wee broadminded the directors would not establish Aictatorship over the press, All we pan eay in comment is that since Mr. ‘was-the “little Napoleon” of the ee = ri 3 gi opened battle on Briand by verbal thunderbolt at Ger- a view to blesting the Ger- wocord that is now being if f j i H i i | : & $ Bvidently, | COMPANY LIES ABOUT TRAPPED IRON MINERS Steel Trast Agents Be- gin Whitewash (Special to The Dally Worker) !RONWOOD, Mich., Sept. 28.— sanity, cold, starvation, These three grim perils statk side by side blazing the way of death 727 feet below the surface of the ground where 43 miners have been imprison- ed In the G. Pabst mine here since Friday at noon. Shortly after dawn today a news- baperman descended the wrecked G. Pabst shaft to the lowest level where a crew of ten men, working on a sus- pended platform, are relining the opening with steel, concrete and tim- ber. Rescuers Work On, This rescue party is working 280 teet below the level of the ground and a survey of their black workshop, dimly illuminated by carbide lamps, reveals that if the entombed men are to be saved it will not be thru this method of rescue. In the F, Aurora mine, however, re- ports come to the surface of fast progress on the 300 foot bore being made from the thirteenth level of that mine to the eighth of the G. Pabst where at least forty of the vic- tims of the slide are trapped. Believe Only 25 Feet Left. Late today may see the completion of this drift. The rescuers believe they are 25 feet from the victims. If such is the case it is believed that the men on the eighth level will be found alive. + Thess 4 ment of which it was necessary to blast thru granite in the second level of the G. Pabst shaft, has required constant repair and little faith is pin- ned in it as a means of reaching the men, Company Rumors. Altho the officials of the Oliver Iron Mining company have been sending out reports of tappings heard in the main shaft since last night, workers on the job discredit these announce- ments. Because of the apprehension held by relatives and friends of the men below they serve to placate the townspeople here, altho mumblings of lissatisfaction are to be heard on all sides.” A telegraph operator who descend- ad the G. Pabst shaft to the emergen- cy platform early this morning, came to the surface with the report that he could hear nothing which might be Morse code signals, The whole weirdness of the jagged rocks, the blinking of the carbide lights of the miners, the echoes of their hammers and the occagjonal falling of some loosened material preys on the mind. This combined with the fear of death, is what the rescuers. are trying to defeat. Altho the men held below in the 1,000, foot tunnel may survive the pangs of hunger,-many doubt their ability to withstand the mental strain. It is thot that some may, as has been. known to be the case in similar disasters, hurl themselves in- | (Continued on page 2) |cHURCH SEEKS TO GET A. F.OF L. TO URGE MEXICAN FEDERATION TO BREAK WITH CALLES GOVERNMENT ARTICLE |, ah WALTIMORE, Sept. 28.—The struggle of the Mexican people thru the Valles government, backed by the "C, R. O, M.”—the c@nfederacion Regional QObrera Mexicana, or federation of labor, to free themBelves of the reaction- ary hierarchy of the catholic church and force it to bey the fundamental laws of the nation has brought into att ranks of American labor the question of clericalism versus progress. Church Working on A. F, of L. The church, which is working might and main to bring the pressure of the United States government to bear up- on the Mexican republic, even to the point of armed intervention on any excuses, and well joined to the oil and land interests of the United States seeking to chain Mexico to their im- perialist chariot, is not overlooking (Continued on page 5) F.-L, PARTY IN DAKOTA FILES COMPLETE SLATE Old Parties Surprised by N. D. Comeback (Special to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N. D., Sept. 28. — A complete state and congressional ticket was filed Friday by the Farmer- Labof Party of this state. This sec tion is the culmination of the organ- ization of the Farmer-Labor Party last December in this city. It came as a complete surprise to the capitalist party politicians, who had fondly hoped that the insufficient percentage of votes that the Farmer-Labor Party obtained in the primaries last June, would put the farmer-laborites out of the running. “File Candidates, BALDWIN RELIES ON STARVATION TO END STRIKE: Slaps Owners on Wrist and Continues E. P. A. = (Special te The Dally Worker) LONDON, Sépt. 28—The house of commons late télay voted to continue the “state of emergency” regulations deemed necessaty because of the situ- ation created by the prolonged coal miners’ strike, BY a vote of 196 to 99. see LONDON, Sept. 28.—There is no sign of settlement of the great min- ers’ strike, the government counting on the miners being starved into sur- render and hopeful that the union’s delegate conference tomorrow will re- sult in that surrender. The Baldwin government, that has had ample powers under the emerg- ency powers act to combat the strik- ers with special polices and engage in the coal importing business on a huge scale, will do nothing whatever to force the mime owners to even meet the miners and the government in a three-cornered conference. This proposal was made by the gov- ernment, but when it was rejected by the mine owners, the government Under the state law governing elec: |evades further tesponsibility by say- tlotis, the exseutive conimittee’ or the: — ‘yesterday in the party “is “permitted to fill all the vacancfés'on the ticket. “Dad” Walker as chairman of the committee and L. C, Miller of Williston, its secretary, filed the ‘following state and con- gressional candidates: For United States senator, William Lemke, Fargo, one-time non-partisan league leader; for congress, first dis- trict, Donald B. MacDonald, Grand Forks;. second distriit, C. W. Reichert, Carrington; for governor, Ralph In- gerson, Burke county; for commis- sioner of agriculture and labor, D. I. Todd, Williston; for attorney general, Milton K. Higgins, Golden Valley, Mercer county; for secretary of state, Charles Johnson, Grand Forks; for insurance commissioner; Magnus Snowfield, Fargo; for state auditor, Allan McManus, Grand Forks; for state treasurer, E. W. Cart, Kenmare; for railroad commissioners, James Wenstrom, Dover, Wells county; Os car Korsmo, Northwood, Grand Forks county, and J. A. McGovern, Fargo. Real Campaign, An intense campaign is in prepara- tion and will be carried into every voting precinct of the state, It is highly probable that a state paper will be launched by the Farmer-Labor party, not only as’ a campaign instru- ment, but also as a permanent organ of the Farmer-Labor Party of North Dakota. Why not a small bundie of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular- ly to take to your trade union meeting? THE GOVERNMENT I GUILTY! N 63 AFFIDAVITS the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti hurled the charge of “Guilty!” against the United States government in its efforts to send two innocent workers to death in the tric chair In order “to dispose of them,” In the words of two agents (now out of the service) of the department of justice, Lawrence Letherman and Fred J. Weyand. The government, fearing these two workers and falling to get enough evidence to deport them, Joined with the Massachusetts’ prosecutors in an effort to put them to death, J, Louls Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, who spent some time in the courtroom at Dedham, Mass., where Attorney William G. Thompson, for Sacco and Vanzetti, presented the 63 affidavits and argued in support of them, will review this damning evidence against the Amer ican capitaljst tyranny In a series of short artictes starting in The DAILY WORKER tomorrow. Get workers everywhere acquainted with this new phase of the attack against Sacco and Varizetti.* Distribute bundies of The DAILY WORKER everywhere in an effort to davelop new interest in the Sacco and Vanzetti case, ington Blvd., Chicago, M1, end orders to The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Wash- “We are pretty well at the end of our powers of mediation.” BRITISH MINE LEADER FLAYS T.U. CONGRESS Cook Praises Action of Soviet | Workers London, Eng., (By Mall) —“The T, U. C. was a great farce,” A. J. Cook told me. “The miners be- lleved that there was yet some hope of getting active sup- port from the T.U. C. In view of the fact that the miners’ struggle affected all workers, “What did the A. J. COOK = miners receive from the T. U.C.? Merely sneers from Mr. John Bromley who appears to be pre- pared to do anything for the master el “I regret to have to say that from the opening of the congress the atti- tude of the General Council—and this was also reflected in the chairman's address—was of absolute despair. No lead was given, and there was not even a word of cheer for the miners in their terrific struggle. “There wag no preparation to meet the capitalist onslaught—an onslaught not only on the miners, but on the whole of the working class, “Bournemouth was the most re- actionary congress ever held in. the annals of the British labor movement. Attacking Russia. “The Yelegates met under the cloud of the mining dispute, yet not until the fourth day of the congress was there even a mild resolution put for- ward by the General Council. This paratively small sum of money which had been given, and which, when com- | (Continued on, page 2) CONFIRM TALE OF WHITE TERROR IN CUBA; UNION LEADERS KILLED WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Private letters reaching Washington from Cuba confirm earlier reports’ that the Machado government has instituted a terror against officials of labor unions, many of whom have been assas: ated or have disappeared. Appeals for help for Cuban labor n- are coupled with warnings that for a worker in Cuba to receive a letter from an American labor organization or labor feader may mean the death of coming and outgoing mail. the Cuban. The censors open both in- CASH IN BRIBE TRIAL TRACED TO DAUGHERTY Ex-Attorney General is Caught in Toils NEW YORK, Sépt. 28.—Four Liber- ty bonds, part of the $591,000 which Richard Merton, German industrial- ist, claimed he gave the late John T. King, Connecticut politician, Yor put- ting thru Merton's claim to $7,000,000 in seized alien property, were traced to the Midland National Bank of Washington Court House, Ohio, at the Daugherty-Millér conspiracy trial in federal court today. Daugherty, former attorney gener- al, and Thomas W. Miller, former allen property custodian, are accused of having accepted bribes. Mal, 8. Daugherty, brother of the defendant, is president. of the Midland Bank. The four Liberty bonds were de- posited to the account.of Mal. Daugh- erty, subsequently a check was made weer to Harry M.! Daugherty by his brother, testimony showed. Stenographers Ald British Strike. MILWAUKEE, Wis,—The Stenog- raphers, Bookkeepers and Assistants’ Union, No. 16456, of Milwaukee, af- fillated with the American Federation of Labor, a small struggling organ- ization of office workers, made a do nation of $20 trom {ts treasury In aid of the British miners’ The nnton set aside all precedents Peet tne He contrite a its contrthution. \ ARTHUR GARFIELD HAYES WENT 10 RUSSIA AND IS PLEASED WITH JOURNEY NEW YORK—(FP)—That Russia is the “only live and’ interesting country in Europe” is the opinion of Arthur Garfield Hays, American Civil Liberties Union attorney, who has just returned from a trip abroad. Under the title “A Liberal’s View of Russia,” Hays told mem- bers of the New York Civic Club some of the new experiments “which distinguish Russia from the, moribund continent.” Robert Morss Lovett presided, as editor of the liberat New Republic, Worker Buried Alive. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 28.— Thomas Millej, 41, laborer, was buried alive here today when the bank of a ditch in which he was working caved in upon him. = Just what ie it all about? took the form of thanks. for a com-. SPECIAL FOFD NUMBER ‘HE announcement that Ford is GIVING his workers a five-day week with six days pay has bécome the talk not only of the bos: thruout the country but is a topic of conversation among the workers. Is Ford generous? ig he actually GIVING the workers something for nothing? The DAILY WORKER will answer these questions in a special edition to appear under the date of Thursday, October 7, Working- class writers will analyze this new departure and explain whether Ford Is actuated by a desire to improve the standards of the workers or Is simply using a new method to squeeze more work and con- sequently more profits out of his wage b WORKERS OF CENTRAL AMERICA REJOICE AT DEATH OF ORRELLANA MEXICO city, deck: 28—Radical Central American revolutionary juntas functioning here believe that the death yesterday of Jose Maria Orreliana, president of Guatemala will open the way for establishment of a labor government in that coun- try. This in turn, they assert, will bring nearer the consummation of a union of the Central American Re- publics along radical labor lines, Cobos Batres, generally recogniz- ed as one of the principal Guatemal- | an revolutionaries now living here, today received a message of felici- | tation on the president’s death from | the supreme council of Central American’ workers at Tegucigatpa, Honduras. The message reféffied to the dead executive in disparaging terms, call- j ing him a tyrant and the destroyer of Central American unity. An enemy who “maintained his country in a condition of slavery to foreign capitalists.” DOUGHLEGGERS WANTED TO GET CONTRIBUTIONS Politiciaie -Abveid Take the Coin Colonel Smith, favorite pet of Sam tel Insull, will have a three-cornered contest for the senatorship on his iands im the capitalist sweepstakes 1ext November. The latest jockey to enter the race is former State Senator Hugh S. Ma- sill, who has found his big butter ant ¢gg¢ man in Julius Rosenwald, head “f_ Sears. Roebuck, and cempany and one “of thé most outstanding Dhilan- thropists of his@lay. In fact Rosen- wald gives money to many worthy causes and takes it all from’ his sweat- ed employes. Financial Bootleggers. to Magill’s candidacy is designed to purify the political atmosphere of money-bag pollution, It is funny, but nevertheless true that capitalist candi- dates are employing financial boot- leggers to sneak in the contributions us they fear another blast from Jim Reed's slush-hunting committee like the- very devil. Nevertheless it is believed that they will get theirs and damn the bookkeepers. Anyhow, a plute who wants a receipt for his con- tribution cannot be much god. Mash For Brennan's Still. The democrats are not worrying about Magill's entrance into the cam- paign. The more republican votes that get divided up, the more mash thet comes to George E. Brennan's still George is in a bed with a pain in his wooden leg but his wife is going around the state swinging a wicked bung starter and it is admitted that tho she is weak around the knees when she begins to talk, before she gets thru she has her audience try- ing to get a foot on the rail and paw- ing the air for the shining mohagony. This is a woman's day. What happened to the candidacy of Parley Parker Christiansen? Since the Streator convention, the six-foot Dane has not even growled. We hope the blindness of the labor leaders to Parley’s fedora in the senatorial ring will not entirely dampen the ardor of the “progressives.” Surely Christian- sen could not expect the personal friends of Samuel Insull’s twins to regard a political purging drive such as Parley promised, with anything but coldness, [TRY EXTORTION OF CONFESSIONS FROM VICTIMS (21 Textile Workers Are Framed Up (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Sept. 28. — Positive evidence that the textile strikers ar- rested Tuesday in the strike area around Passaic on an alleged charge of bomb-throwing are being subjected to a third degree torture was brought to light today with the release of Teddy Tomachko, a seventeen-year old striker who has been held incommuni- cado by the Police for four days. Confronted with a statement of con- fession ‘ged in his own handwriting, Tomachko related at strike headquart ers this afternoon how a crowd of plain clothes detectiv room of the Passaic po! station at tempted to force him to sign his name to a paper which he was not allowed to read. When he refused, young Tomachko said, the men began kick- ng him around the room Forged Documents Statements of confession which the detectives told } were written and signed by Joseph Bellene and Thomas Regan ‘were also shown to him, ‘ro- machko said, The statements named Tomachko as being implicated in the bomb throwings. He was informed that the men had told on him and so that he might just as well confess himself. When he denied any knowledge of the charges made against him, the boy aid the men began to kick and push him around again. After an hour or more of such treatment by the “boun- cing squad,” be was thrown into a cell and left to think it over for awhtle. Then the ordeal was repeated, Awakened At 2 A. M, Once “hé was “awakéned “at two o'clock in the morning and an attempt made to force a confession from him. Friday afternoon he was taken to the Clifton police headquarters where still another third degree took plece. He was then released and told never to stick his nose around there again or he would be lynched. Two of the prisoners, Tony Pockno, now being held on $100,000 bail and Michael Elasik, were being taken lownstairs as he left, said Tomachko. He also saw Joseph Beliene, on whom he police have been focusing much of their attention. Bellene’s facq was wollen and battered, according to fomachko, who saw him as he was being removed with @ group of other trikers held prisoners, from Clifton o another jail. Moved ‘Around. The strikers are moved around ontinually from one jail to another o make it difficult for their lawyers and friends to find ont where they are ond take measures for their release m writs of habeas corpus. ed Hunt Defends Strikers, PASSAIC, N. J., Sept, 28 — Henry Hunt, counsel for the Passale local textile union, issued the following statement today after a conference (Conttnued on page 2.) WISSIONAIRES KIDNAPPED BY, WU BANDITS British -Press Fumes; Government Helpless LONDON, Sept. 28. Marshal Wu Pei Fu's bandit soldiers seem to have a special faculty for making trouble between Wu and the British govern- ment. Their latest piece of political indiscretion was to seize six mission- aries and hold them for ransom, Some of the missionaries are British. The papers are getting quite angry over the tendency of the Chinese to take liberties with British subjects and are urging the government to take “appropriate action,” but the gov- ernment has its hands full and does not know what to do, See Ruseo-Asiatic Bank Closes. SHANGHAI, Sept. 28.--The Ruseo- Asiatic Bank, established here in 1896, with a capital approximating $30,000,000, will close on tnetructions from Paris, originally by czarist Russians on oap- ital borrowed from France. The bank was organived The bank financed the Omimese Fastern Railway during the period af czarist expansion in perth Chima,