The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1926, Page 2

Page Two MORE STRIKE BENEFITS 10 CLOAKMAKERS A.C. W. and A. F. of L. Aid Garment Strike NEW YORK CITY, October 1, Strengthening their position in the present strike of 40,000 cloak makers, the Generai Strike Committee of the unlons last night announced Increases in strike benefits in the 18th week of the strike. Fifteen hundred shop chair- men meeting at Webster Hall cheered the announcement of an increase from $5 to $7 per week for single men and women strikers, and from $8 to $10 per week for married men and women. Answer to Bosses. This move was annow d last night as the union's answer to rejection of proposals f peace conference by inside m cturers and jobbers early this wee The union was also able to a nat the Amalga- mated Clot have voted fund, k for $10,000 being re- ceived yesterday. Louis Hyman, chairman of the Gen- eral Strike Committee, stated that the ac appeal for funds, made to Federation of Labor in unions and other sympat ic bodies, is obtaining a favorable response and money has begun to pour in. Speak- ers were applauded when they de- elared the union is prepared to strike fMmto next season if necessary with un- abated strength. Cloaks Few and Costly. It was pointed out t in‘the trade press, buyers and retailers are com- plaining there is a serious shortage of cloaks, Those cloaks Which are ob- tainable, they complain, e being of- fered at profiteering prices and warn- ing is being given manufacturers, who are taking advantage of the present crisis, that they will regret ft, when the strike is settled. Others who spoke at Webster Hall yesterday in- eluded Morris Rubin and Joseph Boro- uchowittz. The temporary national injunction against the I. L. G. W. pickets was made permanent, or technically speaking “continued,” by Su me Court Jus- tice Phoenix Ingram. It was first is- sued by Justice Oh s L. Guy and has brought the New York trade unions generally into a realization of the menage of injunctions against la bor. Justice Ingram adds a new wrinkle to definitions of “crime.” It is not necessary, his opinion says'in effect, to show actual violence on the part of pickets. It is only necessary to » show that they picketed en masse, that there were lots of pickets, enuf to create an impression of mass power, enough to be effective. His exact words are: “It suffices to say that on several occasions hundreds of the strikers, or so-called pickets, have been arrest- ed and brought before city magis- trates. “The courts have already comment- ed upon the vast numbers of strikers who daily congregate in front of and in the vicinity of the places of busi- hess of the manufacturers. Such crowds in the particular neighborhood make for disorder, impede traffic and have a tendency to incite violence.” Sherwood Eddy Mission Writes on Soviet Union SHERWOOD, Oct. 1.—Recommend- ing recognition of Russia, the Sher- ‘wood Eddy commission, an unofficial delegation of American citizens which visited Russia this summer—has writ- ten its report in a letter to President Coolidge. When the group’s return and proposal of recognition were first reported in the press Coolidge reit- erated to newspaper men the position the United States has taken on recog- nition since 1923, The Eddy commission, headed by the Y. M.C, A. head, included editors, business men, educators and social workers. They did not all agree on the merits of the Soviet system, but were unanimous for recognition. CATHOLIC PRIEST STARTS LITTLE. *WAR OF HIS OWN IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY, Oct. 1.—Father Soto, a priest, is at the head of sixty catholics and in revolt against the government, according to dispatches to- day from Guanajuato state. Yesterday the party attacked the village of Salvatierra and burned the railway station. General Jose Alvarez, chief of staff, asserted the movement was without particular signifleance as there are ample federal forces In the vicinity to crush the revolt, Student Paper Raps Domination of “U’ Life by Athletics EVANSTON, IIl., Oct. 1.— Athletics, the cancer of the institution in which faculty and students alike pay brie to the great god, football. This denunciation of the constantly growing importance placed on collegi- te sports is contained in an editorial printed today in the Daily Northwest- tern, official publication of North- western University here. Colleges today, the editorial de- clares, have become merely annexes of football stadiums, and the promi- nent athlete, regardless of his scholas- tic abilities, Qominates the campus and the school. “The ‘N’ man,” the editorial con- | tinues, “is elected to positions for which he 4s not qualified. He is given special examinations which are de- nied ordinary students. In short, he rules the campus and dominates all forms of school life.” Commenting on this, the editorial says simply: “Northwestern is still an educational institution, we hope.” ARMOUR SWINDLE IS CONDONED BY BOARD OF TRADE Sensation’ € Charge Is Made by College Head CHICAGO, Oct. 1—The pits of the Chicago board of trade buzzed with speculation today in the wake of the charges and insinuations concerning the Armour Grain company's alleged adulteration of rye, contained in the open letter to John A. Bunnell, presi- dent of the board, published in the current issue’of the round-up. College Chief Charges. The letter és signed by J, Ralph Pickell, chief of the round-up college of scientific price-fixing, of which ‘the round-up” is the official publi- ation, Additional weight was lent o his remarks on the floor, of, the xchange because of the close rela- tionship said to exist between the col- lege and Secretary of Agriculture W. M. Jardine. Most of the charges contained in the letter are hidden in questions di- rected at Bunnell. All deals with the alleged mixing of rye screenings with lirst quality grain with which Armour company was charged and later ex- onerated by board of trade directors. Among the questions which Pickell asks are: “If you, as president of the board, saw that report containing spe- cific evidence of criminality, did you act immediately?” “Would you like to have me print that report and at the same time ex- plain why you failed to act on it un- til about five months later?” “Can you tell me how five cars of rye were loaded out of the Northwest- ern Public Elevator when, according to the records, there were but 593.22 bushels in the elevator?” “Do you know that it seems to be only the Chicago ‘board of trade among the exchanges, that condones criminality?” Bunnell has not, as yet, issued an official answer to the letter. . Scab Building Busy. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—Construc- tlon of a $5,000,000 apartment house on a l2acre tract near Rock Creek Park is announéed as the next job of Harry Warsman, foe of the organized building, trades if the District of Co- lumbia, The local building trades council has for the past two years been conducting a long-distance picket of the British government to prevent its giving to Wardman the construc- tion of its new embassy building. CARPETS RUGS 2635 W. North Avenue, 2408 W. North Avenue, 1618 W. Chicago Avenue, 1600 W. Roosevelt Road, The Best Place to Buy Your LINOLEUM FURNITURE Is at Comrade OSCAR I. BARKUN’S 4 STORES Phone Humboldt 4983 Phone Seeley 5500 Phone Humboldt 6941 Phone Monrde 6264 SEMINARY TAILORS CLEANERS & DYERS Pressing—~Repairing—Remodeling Hats cleaned and blocked—Shoe Shining Parlor—Laundry All Our Work Guaranteed. We Call for and Deliver, 812-14 Fullerton Ave., Chicago, Ill, Phone Lincoln 3141 i} lators, he said: WORLD SERIES TICKETS SHORT; RAKE-OFF IS BIG |Fans Suspect Motives Behind Shortage NEW YORK, Oct. 1—Infuriated subscribers for world series tickets, who have paid for seats that are not available, hounded the Yankee busi- ness office today. More than 15,000 fans have been unable to secure tick- ets. Rumors of Scandal. The ticket shortage gave rise to humerous rumors, chief among them one that a scandalous situation would be uncovered when speculators begin to unload—at high prices—the vast numbers of reserved seat tickets they were said to possess. At the Yankee business office post- ers announced that all reserved. seat tickets had been sold and that 38,000 grandstand and bleacher seats would be put on sale on the morning of games one, two and six, which are to be played in this city. Too Busy. Ed Barrow, business manager, was too busy to discuss the situation. A report that Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, arbiter of the baseball world, had been unable to obtain a suffici- ent allotment of seats, was denied by the judge, who is at the Hotel Roose- velt. \ “I probably have not had all the tickets I want for the minor leagues —they are entitled to them, you know—or for other people thruout the country,” said the judge, “but I think I have enuf to cover the demand.” Admits Speculation. When asked whether he had heard a report that tnousands of tick- ets had fallen into the hands of specu- “A certain percent- age of tickets for the world series inevitably fall into the hands of the scalpers. There does not seem to be any way to prevent it.” THIS WITNESS COT NOTHING AT ALL IT APPEARS Messrs. Daugherty and Miller Hogged Boodle NEW YORK, Oct. 1—George Wil- liams, former managing director of the alien property custodian’s office, resumed the witness stand in the trial of Harry M. Daugherty, former at- torney general, and Thomas W. Mil- ler, former alien property custodian, on conspiracy charges, today denied that he had been given the papers in tha $7,000,000 American Metals com- pany property return by the late Jesse Smith, close friend of Daugherty. Williams said that the papers were delivered to him by Richard Merton, German industrialist, thru whose of- fices the holdings which had been seized during the war were returned. He denied knowledge of any connec- tion with the deal of the late John T. King, Connecticut politician, We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER’ to god friends—send us name and ad- dress, THE DAILY WORKER The Underworld of Crime Knew the Real Criminals in Sacco-Vanzetti Case By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, | AL SMITH IS TAMMANY NOMINEE 40 SUCCEED “HIMSELF AS GOVERNOR Governor Al’ Smith, Gov: Al Smith of New York will be governor for the fifth time if he Is elected over higiopponents, which he probably will be, Al Smith’s “po- pularity” hae been consistently built up thru many years of steady pub- llelty te fool the workers of New York Into putting the Tammany man Into the State House at Albany. Ben Gitlow, the workers’ party candidate and a worker himself Is telling the exploited mifilone of the. empire state that Al Smith Is a tool of the boséts—and Is proving It. A. F. of L. Metal Trades Dept. to Join Amsterdam (Continued from page 1) aie and we are selfish enough to hope that you can be of some service to us.” The delegation of ‘the Metal Work- ers’ International in addition to Diss- man included J. T. Brownlie, president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union of Great Britain; Konrad Ig, of Switzerland, secretary of the In- ternational; Henry Labe, general sec- retarytreasurer of the French Metal Workers’ Association, The action of the metal trades de- partment here today is taken as a prophecy of similar action by the American Federation of Labor meet- ing here next week iif its relations with the International’ Federation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam). Increase Salaries. One of the Moulders’ delegates led a lone fight to stop the increase of the department's officials’ salaries from $6,000 per year to $7,500, the same ag the officials of the building trades department. The officers got the raise altho the effort to extend the. term of the officials more than one year was defeated. Chicago Organization Resolutions, Resolutions coming from the Chica- go Metal Trades Council calling for an organization drive of the metal trades unions in the Chicago district 4nd urging that wage agreements ex- Pire at the same time, were pigeon- wholed thru reference:to the executive gouncil. 4 ‘The usual platonic resolutions for the organization of the auto industry were also adopted. Officers for the coming year were elected as follows: James O'Connell, Machinists, president; Joseph A. Franklin, Bollermakers, first vice- president; John Coffield, Plumbers, second vice-president; John J. Hynes, Sheet Metal Workers, third vice- president; Michael J. Keough, Mould- ers, fourth: vice-president; W. W. Britton, Metal Polishers, fifth viee- president; Roy Horn, Blacksmiths, sixth vice-president; Albert J. Berres, Pattern Makers, secretary-treasurer, CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1) ure. When you take into considera- tion the agony of parents who lost their sons, sisters their brothers, wives their husbands and children their fathers, the cost of the war in suffering is incalculable, And what is the result? More armed men in ®u- rope today than before the war. More money spent on preparedness. Capi- talist dictatorships. Lower standards of living for the workers, and another war @ question of a few short years. ee @ D° the people, who must fight wars, think of this? Only very few, we must admit. Some cynical Journalists even argue that the people get a kick out of war; that only addle-brained pacifists are opposed to war. It may be true that a comparatively ssmall number of morons get a thrill.out of the slaughter of human beings, the type of mind, represented by the two young sons of Chicago millionaires who murdered a young lad, for the thrill of the deed. But normal peo- ple are not particularly anxious to witness the sight of mangled human bodies, and seeing human flesh being spattered over the landscape. Any human being who craves for that kind of “amusement” is not higher in the scale of civilization than a dog af- fiicted with hydrophobia, ND yet we admit that a war is inevitable, under capitalism, In fact, we have a feW wars going on now, due to capitalism. There is the war in China and the protracted strug- Sle on the part of the Druses with French imperialism, But they are comparatively small compared to the next debacle into which the human tace will be thrown if the demons of greed who fatten on human sweat and |, blood thru the capitalist system are not stopped in their tracks, Commu- nists are accused of, having a hanker- ing for bullets and. a profound con- tempt for all “peaceful” methods of struggle. eee HE people who make this charge are either ignorant or malicious. It seems to me that the events of the past twelve years should prove to anybody's satisfaction that a step-at- a time policy, towards working class emancipation is impossible under cap- {talism. The capitalists rule by the sword, and when the exploited masses step beyond the dead line, the capital- jets draw the sword and the step-at- atimer draws back or loses his foot. Only when the ig in the other hand will the shog,be on the other foot. HAT the underworld knows, the police are supposed to know, or try to find out. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent annually to de- tect crime, Elaborate police systems are built up, especially in the great cities, It will be the purpose of this and the succeeding article to show that thg daily workings of this police sys tem, in the cities of Boston, Mass.; Providence, R. I., and down in New York, not to mention the smaller mill towns involved, could easily have uncovered the real criminals in the South Braintree holdup and murders that were charged against the two workers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. It will be shown, however, that immediately the police got the cue that the United States government wanted to frame-up Sacco and Van- zetti, the police quit the hunt for the actual payroll bandits and mur- derers. ees The real story of the holdup and shootings at South Braintree, Mass., April 15, 1920, was told in the con- fession of the 26-year-old Portu- guese, Celestino Madeiros. This con- fession is supported in every detail by James F, Weeks, whose real name is Croft, a confederate of Madeiros in the Wrentham National Bank murder on Noy. 1, 1924, for which the former is now serving a term of life imprisonment, while the latter is sentenced to death, the work of the executioner, however, having been stayed temporarily so that Madeiros might appear as a witness in case Sacco and Vanzetti ere granted a new trial. James F, Weeks says: “IT IS WELL KNOWN, AND HAS LONG BEEN WELL KNOWN AMONG ACERTAIN CROWD, WHO DID THE SOUTH BRAINTREE JOB.” Weeks undoubtedly refers to the criminal elements that move about under the eyes of tha police very often, as has been frequently shown, committing their crimes if not with the aid at least with passive con- sent of the, police system. The adriissions of Weeks are also of tremendous importance in that they show,that Madeiros ad- mitted his pafticipation in the South Braintree affair long before (about a year) he sent his note of confession concealed in a magazine to Sacco in the Dedham jail, James F. Weeks says he has known Madeliros for six years. He declares that Madeiros frequently, especially in planning the Wrent- ham National Bank robbery, told him about the South Braintree job and gave him the names of his as- sociates in that crime as members of the Morel or Morelli gang of Providence, Rhode Island. Weeks knew this gang, consisting of Joseph, the leader, with his broth- ers, Mike, Pasquale .or “Patsy”; Fred, sometimes called “Butsy”; Frank, a man called Bibber Barone; one called “Gyp the Blood,” not, however, the “Gyp the Blood” as- sociated with the Rosenthal crime in New York City years ago. Weeks begins his affidavit, now affiong those filed with Judge Webster Thayer, who has the power to grant or refuse a new trial, with the story of preparing with Madeiros the job at the Wrentham, Mass., National Bank. Shortly before this crime, Madeiros and Weeks were in a@ barroom or “speak-easy” at the corner of Southampton St. and Dorchester Ave., in Andrews Square, South Boston, for the purpose of arranging some of the details. Maderios sald it was strange that he should be in the very barroom he visited four years before when he was in the South Braintree job. Madeiros told Weeks that he and the gang inthe South Braintree job came to this saloon early that morn- ing to get information. Earlier in the summer of 1924, Weeks says, he was in the Bluebird Inn at Seekonk, Mass., which was run by Barney Monterio and Mary Boyce. The place was a roadhouse and a disorderly house, he says, Bibber Barone drove up with some others in a motorcar and de- manded a girl named Tessie, who had recently been brot to the house. Madetros, who was at that time em- ployed as a bouncer, told Barone that he and his gang had double- crossed him (Madeiros) once on a job (the South Braintree affair), and that he might fbrgive them for that, but if they took the girl he would bump them all. sf @ Weeks said Madéirog told him that the South Braintree job was ar- ranged by the Joa Morelli gang, whom he had known as a gang of thieves with headquarters in*Prov- idence, R, I., where they had done most of their stealing, shipping the stolen goods to be disposed of in New York City. Some of the Mor- elli gang had been arrested months before the South Braintree job for robbing freight cars in Providence, but were out on bail, Madeiros said that for the Wren- tham bank job he wanted a Hudson car to get away with, and did not want & Buick; that he had used the Buick in the South Braintree job. eo e828 ‘Weeks also says that - Madeiros often talked about the Sacco-Van- zetti case, saying they had plenty of money to get out with, but that if they were ever convicted he would come to the front before he would see them go to the chair, Thus Madeiros had divulged the part played by the Morelli gang in the South Braintree affair, absolv- ing Sacco and Vanzetti from any part in this crime, at least a year before he finally got in touch with Sacco in the Dedham jail, In order to show that the above evidence is new evidence, as re quired by capitalist law in order to secure a new trial, Jeremiah J. McAnarney, counsel for Vanzetti in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, declares in an affidavit that he never heard of the Morelli gang of Providence, nor of their connection with the South Braintree murders, nor did he ever learn of the existence of Ce- lestino Madeiros until after the Wrentham bank affatr. There is another affidavit from Edward J. Lennon, a newspaper re- porter of Boston, in which he says that he knows that for many months thera was a saloon at the corner of Southampton St, and Dorchester Ave., South Boston, that it was in operation during the autumn of 1924, and continued in operation un- til within six months of the date of his statement—June 7, 1926! De William G. Thompson, attorney for Sacco and Vanzetti, filed an ad- ditional affidavit, presenting the court proceedings against Joseph, Fred end Pasquale Morelli for freight car thefts in Proyidence, showing that on March 15, 1920, just a month before the South Brain- tree crime, Joseph Morelli was sur- rendered by his bondsmen and ob- tained another bondsman who gave him bail in $5,000, ‘Thus the Morelli gang of freight car robbers was in sore straits to furnish bail money and raise funds to pay lawyers to fight their case in the courts. So they turned from petty freight car thieves to the more lucrative role of payroll bandits, committing the crime at. South Braintree on April 15, 1920, that the United States government and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts seized upon as a weapon with which to railroad Sacco and Vanzetti to death in the electric chair, “to dis- pose of them.” Here is the powerful truth. Labor must use the truth as an effective weapon to fight for and free its own —Sacco and Vanzetti. se @ Tomorrow:—The affidavit of John T. McKay, a captain of the New Bedford, Mass., police department, who admitted that pursuit of the Morelli gang was “dropped” with™ the arrest of Sacco and Vanzetti. PASSAIC STRIKERS NEED CLOTHING Overcoats, shoes and other clothing are needed for the Passaic textile strikers and their families. The strike is now on for eight months and those brave men and women are still bravely marching on the picket line in spite of all the cruelty of the authorities used against them in order to whip them into submission, This battle is now raging more fiercely than ever, arrests and tortures in the Passaic and Clifton jails are the latest weapons of the textile barons and their tools, Now the winter is coming with its gnawing colds and Shab people have no shoes or clothes on their backs to protect them, Do what you can to help them, LOOK AROUND NOW! See what clothing you can spare. Discarded things which you do not use any more will be very welcome to the strikers: Send all you can, ing which they want to give away, Speak to your neighbors and see if they have any ‘cloth- Send the packages to THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ ees Room 287, 799 Broadway, New York City, KEEP THE DAIL c ansaid ihe oat . bad) ASHLAND DALY TIMES DEMANDS. ! IRONWOOD PROBE Associated Press Lax in Reporting Cave-in (Special’to The Dally Worker) ASHLAND, Wis,, Oct. 1. — Forty- three iron miners, trapped for five days deep on the eighth level of the Pabst mine at Ironwood, Mich, have been rescued alive but the demand for federal investigation of the prob- ably avoidable accident Is being rais- ed in all quarters. Three men were killed when a cave-In in a shaft caus- ed the cage, or mine elevator, to drop to the bottom. Intimating that the Oliver Iron Mining Co., a steel trust subsidiary, deliberately allowed its greed for pro- fits to outweigh the safety of its min- ers, the Ashland Daily Press has tele- graphed to Pres. Coolidge a demand for a federal probe of the causes lead- ing to the fatalities. e Safety Exit Caved In, Among the thinly veiled charges directed against the Oliver Iron Min ing Co. by the Daily Press are that the safety exit had been allowed by the company to cave in, that the shaft was almost constantly in dan getous condition, that estimates for making it safe were allowed to gather dust in the company office, that the Associated ‘Press for many hours fail ed to report the terrific accident, that the wives of the dead and entombed men were mot notified by the com- pany, that the so-called safety lugs on the elevator were no good and that callous indifference was shown by the company officials, As evidence of the last charge, the Press states that a prominent com- pany official, when reached by tele- phone at his house after there had been no response at the door, refus ed to say anything except, “This is a hell of a time to wake a man up.” In the past 30 years, according to this ‘Coolidge-Lenroot ‘daily, there have been over 500 fatal accidents in Gogebic county with an average of 1 miner killed for every 300,000 tons of iron ore mffied, A. F. of L. to Fight for Five-Day Week (Continue from Page 1) means decreased production, which, in turn, is a dead loss to the employer.” With Ford, Green believes that in- creased leisure goes hand in hand with increased production. Sound Economics He Thinks, “The five day week is a sound economic principle,” satd Green, “The employer should bear in mind that it ig good business, ag Henry Ford said.” Green declared that this was the Principle under which the federation would fight for the shorter work, “Social Inequality, industrial in stability and injustice must increase unless the workers’ real wages, the purchasing power of their wages, conpled with a continuing reduction in the number of hours making up the working day are progressed in pro- portion to man's imereasing power of production.” + Green leayes tomorrow ‘for the Fed- eration’s annual convention in Detroit starting Monday. As last year, the federation is ex- pected again to adopt a strictly non- partisan attitude in the coming elec- tions. Leaders said that this policy has reaped the greatest rewards for labor. Mexican Fireworks. There may be some fireworks over Mexico, though leaders are trying te keeep this question from breaking out on the floor for fear it may stir up a religious fight. The Mexican labor leaders are staunchly supporting the Calles government in its struggle with the Catholic church, SHOEMAKER WANTED. FIRST Atay SHOE REPAIR MAN, man that has been working In (Bood ops in city or ins shoe stores o: far ment stores. wi eens a hate a day or $40 a to good a man "hat it eta Nay 8700 week all, year ‘round SHOE FIXRY, 104 Patio de Leon, Fort Myers, Fla. SNES To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on their dental work. DR. M. RASNICK DENTIST 2050 Center Ave., Cor. Evrin St. PITTSBURGH, PA. 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