The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government r me ‘0 ar 8 ; eh, k Phe : Vol. Hil. No. 223 Oa Rates: &9 5 $ 430 oe LABOR WAITS EARLY DECISION IN SACCO AND VANZETTI CASE ‘ By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. 1—Reports that Judge Webster Thayer will hand down his decision on the new trial demand of Sacco and Vanzetti some time in the second half of October are circulat- ing among newspapermen in Boston. The amazing revelations - linking the department of justice with the plot against the two defendants and the circumstantial affidavits of Celestino Madei- ros and his corroborators argue strongly for a favorable decision but the cold sarcastic manner of the judge at the hearings does Be ise Rare cain lesa et TRE ETS BO not indicate a change in bias. Kannrorp Sento Outside hem murder is set for October 27. If Thayer listens to the new evidence In cheno, by mail, $8.00 vhicago, by mail, eS Madetros’ execution for the Wrent- By T. J. FLAHERTY bi dagen London correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who tells us that Great Britain is striving to keep Mus- solini in leash lest the fascist mad- dog should break loose and start an- other world war out.of his turn, must be extremely naive or very willing to pess the diplomatic lies of Downing Street along as facts. Every trained. newspaper man knows that 99 per cent of government official statements are lies meant to cover up the truth. | When Mussolini intended to meet | Chamberlain at Leghorn he had the | faseist papers say that he was going somewhere else. The idea is to throw the people off the track. soe . kaleidoscopic changes that are taking place in the politieal rela- tionships between the European pow- ems are of tremendous importance. The new alignmentsethat are now throwing their shadows on the politi- cal waters are but the forerunners of another war more catastrophic than the last. The former chief rivals on the continent of Hurope, the former no-<alled “traditional enemies,” France and Germany, may be allies in the ‘hext war. How often has it been said get together because of differences of “blood?” But the basis for an al- liance was found in coal and iron, just ag coal and iron, separated by a fron- tier, were the two principal causes of the enmity between the two countries prior to the world war, se rTHOSE who have the time could spend it to less advantage than to read the war files of the capitalist papers. In those days it was “glorious France” and “barbarous Germany.” It if not so today. The American bank- ers, thru the Dawes plan, put the Ger- man capitalists on their feet, and now England is learning that she only pushed the dagger deeper into her own commercial heart “when she affixed her signature to the Dawes plan. every mark in reparations her former enemies get from Germany they lose two marks worth of market. .The United States was not an “ally” in the late war, but just an “associate.” And now the papers have nice things to say about the Germans,“while they keep hopping on England and France with hobnailed boots. see HE papers will not tell the truth about what actually happened at the Mussolini-Chamberlain conference. But anyone who is acquainted with the financial, commercial and political rivalries of Europe will not be far wrong in assuming that England and Italy are framing up on France and Germany. And no doubt Briand and Stresemann, when they meet again will not cherish the most cordial sen- timents towards England and Italy. The antagonism of England and Italy towards France puts the latter in a mood to make valuable concessions to Germany. Tho defeated on the battlefield only eight years ago, Ger- many is today more stable than either one of the allies, » oe I I HE defeat of “German militarism” cost over seven million lives. The number of wounded is triple that fig- (Conttnued on page 2.) and rules for a new trial Madeiros Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the P ost Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. er year, 6.00 per year, METAL TRADES DEPT. TO JOIN ANSTERDAN Said to Forecast A. F. of L. Action By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 1, — Affilla- tion of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor with the International Metal Workers Federation was ‘practically assured as will have to receive an extension of|the result of action taken here today life so that he may testify in the second Sacco-Vanzetti trial. But if the |Judge follows his ancient custom and | again shuts his eyes to the Sacco- |Vanzetti arguments an attempt will jbe made to rush Madeiros to his doom. |Such a move would, of course, be |fought by*the defense which would jappeal the Sacco case again to the {supreme court and need Madeiros again for his vital testimony if the new trial were later granted, International Move. by representatives of American Metal Trades Unions gathered at the Hotel Tuller, Final action was referred to the executive council to adjust such detalis as the per capita tax to be paid and American representation in the world organization. But affiliation is assured. Reassure Americans Metal workers in the unton of So- viet Republics are not affiliated with, the International Metal Workers Fed- eration and Robert Dissman, social- There is much speculation as to the|democratic member of the German \effect the expose of the federal gov-|reichstag who heads the delegation ernment’s part in the conspiracy will|from Europe now attending the con- could not For} have on international agitation, The general opinion is that European la- ber will enter into the case again with an ardor that will eclipse all previous agitation. The faets are these: For years European labor has been asking Weshington: What about-our two comrades, Sacco and Vanzetti? And Washington has always answered, in effect: The federal government is not interested in the prosecution. It be- longs solely to the criminal courts of Massachusetts, Pase Buck. that answer. lan ambass: consuls have taken up the case and the buck has always been passed to Masachusetts. Richard Washburn Child, former ambassador to Italy, tells two years ago in the Saturday Evening Post how he was daily be- sieged in Rome with inquiries about Sacco and Vanzetti and how he.asked the state department about the case and got the conventional answer that it was solely up to Massachusetts. Since then practically every European labor movement has asked Washing- ton the same question, under the regimes of Wilson, Harding and Cool- idge alike, and always got the same answer, Agents Confess, tow Lawrence Letherman and Fred J. Weyand, former depart- ment of Justice agents—two of 12 who worked on the case—said they were assigned to help convict Sao co and Vanzetti as one way of dis- posing of two radicals. Assistant District Attorney Ranney of Nor- folk county admits the truth of this, eral Sergeant refuses to open the files that Letherman and Weyand would prove the lef of the agents themselves in the innocence of the two men, Gurley Flynn Comments, “Certainly,” said Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, commenting on the case, “the federal government can no longer say it is not interested in Sacco and Vanzetti.” - Two of the last big Huropean labor groups to protest were the British labor party and the German socialist delegation in the Reichstag, And now the Buropeans find they have been lied to. The American gov- ‘ernment is shown up in its own Drey- fus case, only in this case not a middle-class Jewish captain but two radical immigrant workers whose case has been taken up by the labor move- ment of the world. BUILD THE DAILY WITH A POLISH CRISIS INCREASES; ARMY OFFICERS ASSAULT A MINISTER WARSAW, Oct. 1.—Extreme tension today followed the resignation of Five yeers ago the Italian fot | wonton of- the So" lors and | France; the Bartel ministry as a vam, of the government's failure to obtain a vote of confidence on the budget proposals. by _ The serious nature of the friction between the enemies and adherents of Marshal Pileudski wae indicated when several officers early today raided the bedroom of former finance minister Vichowski, leader of the opposition. The ex-cabinet member was beaten into unconsciousness and a gas bomb was left in his room, ' LR Sek ae WARSAW, Oct. 1.—Plisudski today wal charged by parliament with the -taak of forming a new cabinet, following the failure of the Bartel ministry | to obtain a vote of confidence on the budget question, He accepted, and Immediately called a conference of political leaders, Ka | ENE fs vention here, promised the American labor leaders that the workers of the Soviet union wouid not be admitted “until they provide assurances that they will not use affiliation as an in- strument to interfere in the internal affairs and politics of other countries.” This is the usual argument used by capitalist countries against Soviet recognition, especially by the Ameri- can government . A. F, of L. as Buffer. It is felt here that affiliation of the American trade unions js highly de sired as a buffer oa growing unions in Western Buropes ue” oe “In adjourning the convention of the metal trades organizations today, President James O’Connell, addressing the foreign delegation, declared: “You have given us a new fire and anew spirit. Say to your friends and your colleagues when you return home that we are hand in hand with you (Continued on page 2) CONTINENTAL STEEL TRUST ESTABLISHED Europeans Combine to Control Markets {Special to The Dally Worker) BRUSSELS, Oot. 1. — A giant steel combination of French, German, Bel- sian, Luxemburg and Saar Valley in- but complains about the baring of |‘erests is being formed to end com- department secrets. Attorney Gen- petition and divide the market in fixed proportion, The consortium output will be from a minimum of 26,000,000 tons to a maximum of 30,000,000 tons. The per- centages allotted the different mem- bers are: Germany 43.18; France 31.19; Belgium 11.63; Luxemburg 8,23 and the Saar Valley 5.77. Divide Up Production, This gives a monthly output of 795,000 tons to Germany; 670,000 to 295,000 to Belgium; 310,000 to Luxemburg and 220,000 to the Saar Valley. Each country is to deposit $1 in a common fund for each ton of steel turned out within its percentage. For each ton over such percentage it is charged $4. A yepayment of $2 4 ton will be paid any country failing in any one year to produce its percent- of steel out of the minimum of 26,000,000 tons. British and U. 8. Hit. A central international office is to be. established and all accounts bal- anced yearly, As the British and American inter- ests are not party ‘to this combine, both, particularly the British who claim the continental market, are faced with the combine's strong com- petition. 0 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1926 CHINESE WAR LORD WHO JOINED FORGES WITH WU PEI-FU AGAINST CANTON Marshal Sun. One of the big Independent Chi- nese ‘Generals is Marshal Sun Chang Feng, shown above, who controls five provinces in the lower Yangtse Valley. Recently, how- ever, he set tip an alliance with Wu. Pei Fu, English Imperialist tool “who-has been beaten by the Cantonese, or nationalist forces. Es DAY WEEK, SAYS WILLIAM GREEN Calls Fasriers and the Printers Pioneers KE (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1. — En- couraged by action of Henry Ford In adopting the fiveday week, the Amer- ican Federation of Labor will fight vigorously for a shorter working week in Industry, William Green, president, declared today, Green does not believe that there will be universal acceptance immedi- ately of the five-day week, but he thinks that in a few years employeré will realize that with the increased production thru time saving machines, wages will be increased and working hours reduced. The federation, not Ford, should be given credit for first bringing about the shorter week; Green said. Praises Furrlers. “Ford seems merely to have accept- ed the philosophy of the federation in regard to hours, wages and produc- tion,” Green declared, Thru the federation’s activity, the five-dlay week already has been estab- lished in two important trades, print- ing and fur working, said Green. “The week now for the day print- ing trade is 44 hours, or, five and one half days,” Green explained. “in most of the night printing trades, it is 40 hours, or, five days.’ | “Two months ago, we made agree- ments whereby the fur working trade has a 40-hour week, or, five days, as Ford has now established.” In Confined Trades. The fivexlay week will come first in the so-called) confining trades, Green said. “It is essential’ in these trades, where the workers labor at top speed and under confining and oftentimes un- satisfactory conditions that the hours should be reduced,” he said, “Drudgery (Continued on page 2) jf 4 , j <>” STILL HELD ON - EXCESSIVE BAIL Winnick Is Freed After Brutal Grilling (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N J., Oct. 1.—Tom Win- |nlk is out. Winnik was released from the -Passaio county jail on 81,000 bail after unsuccessful at- tempts had been made to implicate | him In the bombing frame-up, and af- ter he had been. held without ball for days while police attempted to force a \confession from him. They hoped to} |make him Implicate himself and his | fellow-prisoners in the bombing frame-up. Ten strikers are still being held un- fer the excessive bail of $450,000, and for one no bail at all has been set. Justice Charles W. Parker, who re- cently set bail for Mrs. Hall when she was first arrested on suspicion of murder, at $15,000, yesterday named $80,000 as the collective bail for the five textile strikers in Hackensack jail. These men ‘have been held with- out bail since their arrest last week. In addition there are the five men held in Passaic county jail at Pater- son on $359,000. William Sikora is being held there without bail. When the $80,000 bail was set at the hearing before Judge Parker, Jack Rinzler, attorney for the defense, asked prosecuting attorney, A. C. Hart, to produce the confessions which he claims the accused strikers have made, and on which the men are supposed to be held. According to the reporter of the Passaic Daily Her- ald present at the 'time, “Mr. Hart admitted that he did not have signed statements and that he could not get them.” Weakened Condition. Weak and baggard, with an eight- days’ growth of beard on his pale face, Winnik was too unstrung to tell a@ connected story when questioned at strike headquarters. In disjointed phrases he told only a little of what happened to him after his arrest. “Fire-station near the jail,” said Winnik. ““Beaten up there first—I was knocked out—senseless—don’t re- meniber—don’t know how long—hun- gry—nothing to eat there—.” Winnik looked dully at his young wife who had been waiting around anxiously at headquarters for hours. “He hardly seemed to comprehend who she was. Negro Editors Are Victims of Sedition Charges in Kentucky NEW YORK, Oct. 1. — Two colored editors of Louisville, Kentucky, I. Wil- lis Cole and William Warley, have been offered the aid of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in defending them- selves for alleged violation of “crimi- nal syndicalism” and “sedition” sec- tions of Kentucky law. The two Negro editors, Cole of the Louisville Leader and Warley of the Louisville News, are accused for an editorial which con- demned the double standard of justice prevailing in Kentucky. A colored man charged with murder and assault had been promptly hung whereas a white man charged with as- sault upon an 11-year old colored girl had been declared insane without any questioning of ‘his guilt. The county attorney charged that the editorial “was designedly written to create race hatred.” PETITIONS FOR W. P. CANDIDATES MUST BE IN BY 10 A.M, TODAY The district office of the Chicago Workers Party requests that all comrades having signed petitions to put’ the party candidates on the state ticket in the coming election, turn them In to the district office, 19 &. Lincoln St. by 10 a. m. today, Saturday, The need for additional petitions is urgent. EP THE AILY WORKER J Published Dallf except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Cilcago, il. » aise This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. Price 5 Cents 0 BAIL FOR PASSAIC STRIKERS ‘TEN STRIKERS POLICE, PRESS AND SPIES COMBINE IN HUGE PLOT TO FRAME-UP STRIKE LEADERS (Special to The Dally Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Oct, 1—All the minions of the Passaic mill barons, the police, the press, private detectives and labor spy agencies, are combining in a monstrous conspiracy to break the strike thru the medium of the most brazen frame-up in the his- tory of labor struggles. Passaic newspapers carry sereaming headlines accusing the strike leaders of throwing bombs and assaulting police. The police have reverted to the methods of the inquisition to impose Professional fake “confessions” on maltreated strike leaders. labor spies do their share by planting bombs, that so far have injured no one, but that serve the purpose of the frame-up artist. The conspirators have only begun on their uniquitous pro- gram of frame-up. It is high time for the workers of the land to turn their eyes towards Passaic and to be ready to help their fighting brothers in the brave battle that at no time in its long career has been as critical as it is now. wile WY, GRAPHIC HELPS UNCOVER Proved Fiction in New Jersey By Federated Press. NEW YORK—(FP)—"Riot law” in- vented by sheriff George Nimmo of Bergen county, New Jersey, is a vicious fiction, without standing in the legal statutes, Proof of this is found in the dismissal of cases brot against New York friends of Passaic strikers who were arrested in the sheriff's assault on a picket line five months ago. Norman Thomas and Robert Dunn, both Civil Liberties rep- resentatives, are free after being out on $10,000 bail each since their three- day imprisonment. Esther Lowell, Federated Press cor- respondent, who was arrested after helping up a woman knocked down by police, has been out on $1,500 bail, white Robert Wolf; a -writer, was on $5,000 bail for asserting his civil right to stand on a Passaic sidewalk. Thom- as will make the test suit for false arrest. Petitions for writs of habeas corpus to release seven Passaic textile strik- ers held without complaints or war- rants for alleged implication fn a’ bombing affair are being argued by John Larkin Hughes, Civil Liberties attorney, in Jersey City. Henry T. Hunt, another Civil Li- berties attorney and counsel for Pas- sale Local 1603, United Textile Work- ers, asserts that the bombing charge hag all the appearance of a frame-up. Thirty strikers were held incommuni- cado without complaints or warrants, supposedly for connection with the bombing. Hunt says the bombs were probably planted by “some detective acting under the hire of the mill own- ers,” Cal Glad of Chance to Have Comedian as White House Guest WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—President Coolidge this morning knows exactly what's wrong with Europe and what should be done to rectify conditions. He got a complete earfull of low- down on the situation last night from America’s self-appointed diplomat, Will Rogers, by name. The gum-chewing comedian, just re- turned from Europe from whence he sent innumerable postal cards of ad vice to the president, is a White House guest. He wired Everett Sand- ers, the Coolidge secretary, yesterday afternoon that he would be in Wash- ington for a few hours and would ike, if possible, to pay his respects to the office. When the president heard this, he directed Sanders to ascertain when Rogers’ train arrived so that a White House automobile might be on hand to meet him, and to extend an invt tation to stay overnight. A long telegram came back immedi- ately, its tenor being in effect: “Oh boy! isn't this swell? I've never been in the White House before. You bet I accept!” And in conclusion, the master of the lariat stated. “Sand- ers, if this is a joke, for God's sake thead me off at Philadelphia.” PASSAIC PLOT Metropolitan Journal Charges Frame-Up (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N. J., Oct. 1.—The latest attempt of the police of Passaic and Garfield to break the big textile strike has been marked with such acts of atrocious brutality and out-and-out framing-up of strike leaders as to In- vite the wholesale condemnation of ithe New York capitalist press. The New York Graphic, one of the leading New York evening papers, yesterday printed several photographs showing some of the arrested strike leaders after they had been beaten up by the police and forced by the most brutal third degree methods to sign unread statements implicating themselves in the latest fantastic plot of the mill-controiled police. The fol- lowing editorial appeared in the same issue: JERSEY JUSTICE, If Gev. Moore of New Jersey wants something to think about let him contemplate the spectacle in New Brunswick and compare it with what is taking piace in Passaic. While Mrs, Hall, the chief figure in a four-year-old murder case, is enjoying freedom on bail of $40,000 on a charge of first degree murder, a@ group of underpaid and almost starving workmen who dered to pro- test because their wages were out in the textile mills are held under bonds of $350,000. One striker is held under bonds of $100,000. The prisoners are husthed from one jail to another at night to prevent their lawyers from serving writs of habeas corpus. If the im- prisoned strikers refuse to admit the charges against them tn written confessions they are brutally beaten with lead pipes. One man wag strap- ped to the bars of his cell with leathern thongs and struck until he was almost unconscious, That is the method which the police of Passeic and other textile towns in New Jersey are using to break the mill strike. Seme 18,000 workers are still out and they have been taken into the fold of the American Federation of Labor, This seoms to have infuriated the police, If Gov. Moore wants to be the champion of justice ia New Jersey, as indicated by hie activity in New Brunewick, there is a broad field for him to exempltfy it in the textile sone. Who elects the governor in New Jersey? Is it the people who work for a livelihood or the textile manu facturers? We will send sample copies of Thy DAILY WORKER to your friende— send us name and address, Deen eee TT t-te y RED CROSS RAPS FLORIDA STATE OFFICERS FOR BLOCKING RELIEF WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—By minimizing the toss in Florida's hurricane, state officials, including Governor Martin, and real éstate operators “have seriously handicapped” the Red Cross in its efforts to provide relief for the storm victims, John Barton Payne, chairman of the Red Cross, declared today’ in a message to C. C. Pinekney, chairman of the Richmond, Va., chapter. “The poor people who suffered are regarded as of less consequence than the hotel and tourist business of Florida,” eald Payne,