The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 5, 1926, Page 2

Page Two THE oA EY WORK TO ASK U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COLOMES Open Imperialist Policy Suggested MANILA, Oct. 3, — Filipinos are profoundly stirred at the cable reports from Washington saying that Colonel Carmi A. Thompson, the personal representative of President Coolidge is considering a recommendation In his report to the president providing for placing the Philippines and all other “outlying possessions” of the United States into a new department of the government or Department of Colonles, A Colonial Bureau. A second alternative considered is Placing the Islands under the con- trol of a special Colonial Bureau in the Department of State, This is also opposed by the Filipinos, who de- mand independence, as promised them by the United States. At present the War Department rules the islands, and Filipinos are ‘very bitter against what ie called the “Oavalry Cabinet” of General Wood. Even the few who modify their de- mands for independence detest the present barrack rule. Firm for Independence. The Nafional Supreme Council has endorsed this resolution, submitted by Senator Quezon for action by the Leg- islature: “The Filipino people are firm in their stand that the only solution of the Philippine problem consistent with their aspirations and the permanent interests of the country is to grant im- mediate, absolate and complete*inde- pendence to the Philippines. In other words, any other measure will not satisfy the Filipino people, “The Filipino people will oppose whatever legislative measure, adminis- trative action or financial project which may in some way postpone, re- tard or make impossible the conces- sion of immediate, absolute and com- plete independence to the Philippines.” ENOUGH NAMES TO PUT ENGDARL ON THE BALLOT The thousand names required in or- der to put J. houis Engdahl, Work- ers Party candidate for United States * senator from the state of IMnois on the ballot, have been filed in Spring- field, with a substantial margin of names. This is the opening of a vigorous campaign thruout the state of Illinois to place before the workers the pro- gram of the Workers Party in®the Present elections. Shop Meetings Planned. Factory meetings at the noon hour are being planned, to be addressed by Engdahl, Swabeck, Shachtman, and others, where the issues will be dis- cussed and literature sold and distri- buted. On Wednesday, Oct. 6, Benjamin Gitlow, well-known for his long and active record in the revolutionary la- dor movement, tions at Emmett Memorial Hall, 2179 8. Ogden Ave., (corner of Ogden and Taylor). Long Fighting Record. Gitlow has been a _ leading left winger in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union for many years. He has spent years in Sing Sing for his revolutionary opinions and activities. will talk on the elec} | The other speakers at the meeting} will be Mathilda Kalousek and Arne Swabeck, district organizer of the Workers Party, who will act as chair- man of the meeting. | Every worker is invited to come to MILLSTEIN A BAD LOSER; WANTED TWO WEEKS VACATION, GOT ROUGH WHEN UNION MADE IT PERMANENT The Chicago Furriers’ Un! Millstein tactics. The new busir | tion, Hangs Like a Barnacle. At this meeting, Millstein demanded that in this meeting he and his gang have all the say. Israelson and Fin- klesteizg the new president, warned Millstein that the old officers haye no, right to decide anything and their only duty and function wag to turn over | affairs to the new officials. In spite of this warning, the Milj- stein group of used-to-be officers car- ried on some union business, author- izing payment of bills, but particu- larly granting Millstein two weeks va- cation with pay. A “Friend” from the International. m Local 45 has again had an example of $s agent elected on the prog to take Millstein’s place, arranged with Millstein for a meeting of the old and new executives in order that the new officers. take over the administra- phd This was objected to by the new progressive executives, since the mem- bership had voted already to give Millstein a@ permanent vacation with- out pay. In the argument it develop- ed that Ida Weinstein, vice-president of the Internatonal, was a strong sup- porter of Millstein, insisting that he get his two weeks’ vacation, Faced with the prospect of a per- manent vacation without pay Millstein ] was furious. Seeing a fur worker, | Max Mendelson,” reading the Freiheit was too much. Millstein for some reason doesn’t like the Fretheit. Pos- sibly because so many fur workers do like it. Filled with rage Millstein spit. He spit in the direction of Mendelson who resented it and said so. Wields the Gavel. Millstem then seized a gavel and struck Mendelson a vicious blow in the face. A big fight started in whichcation, permanently. METAL TRADES DEPARTMENT LEADS WAY TO AMSTERDAM (Continued from page 1) ish Trade Union Congress are John Bromley, of the Locomotive Engi- neers, and George Hicks of the Build- ing ‘Trades. Bromley, with whom Brownlie is often confused, was one of the members of the British Trade Union delegation that visited the Un- ion of Soviet Republics in 1924. Social Reformists Head Delegation. Brownlie’s fellow delegates to the Metal Trades department convention were Conrad Ig, president of the Me- tal Federation of Switzerland and al- so secretary of the International Me- tal Workers’ Federation; Robert Dis~ man, president of the Metal Workers of Germany, and also a social-demo- cratic member of, the German reich- stag; and Henry Labe, general secre- tary-treasurer of the Metal Workers of France. lig challenged the claim of the American trade union leaders that the workers in this country are much better off than those in Europe. He said: U. 8, Labor Not so Far Ahead. “As far as working conditions are concerned we are willing to admit that wages are far better over here than they are over in Europe. How- ever, relative to the working hours I don’t think you have advanced much farther than the workers of Europe. I am of the opinion that the working hours in this country are pretty much the same as they are over in Europe.” Tig declared that at one time the workers of Great Britain had the same idea as the American labor offi- cialdom has now, that no benefit was derived from ‘the international affilia- tion of the workers. The British workers have changed all this. He declared that the American labor movement must also change. Danger in Dawes’ Plan. Dissman sounded the alarm against inactivity in developing the interna- tional unity of the workers. He de- clared that without unity the 500,000 metal workers of the United States and Canada and the 2,000,000 metal workers of Europe would be forced ve slate Max Mandelson Brother Milistein figured as the loser in physical combat. Police came, as they have before, but the progressives persuaded them that the fight was over and the union could settle its wn affairs. Millstein is on his va- President James O'Connell was worried about the authority of the International Metal Workers’ Feder- ation in connection with the ques- tion of industrial disputes in the various countries. Brownlie replied, “The Internation- al Metal Workers’ Federation has no authority, nor does it attempt to ex- ercise any authority over any indus- trial dispute that may take place in the United States, Great Britain or elsewhere.” SIR, MP» DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 8.— Victory over the open shop interests in both Chicago and San Francisco 4s clatmed in the report of William J. Tracy, secretary-treasurer of the Building Trades department of the American Federation of Labor, to the depart- ment convention held here. “Out on the Pacific Coast, particu- larly in San Francisco and Los An- geles,” says Secretary - Treasurer Tracy, “where boss contractors, at the urge of big business and the banks/ attempted to inaugurate the so-called ‘American’ plan of ‘company unions,’ open shops and low wages, the building trade unions have suc- cessfully weathered the storm and are again writing regular wage con- tracts. Claim Victory In Chicago, “The same is true in Chicago, where it was sought to establish the ‘open shop’ under terms of the Landis award. Today the unions have con- tracts there calling for a higher wage scale than has ever hitherto prevail- ed. Of course, the reason in each in- stance is that the building craft un- ions held their ground and refuse to surrender what they have gained thru years of struggle.” Secretary-Treasurer Tracy declares that the international unions compris- ing the building trades departments have added more than 30,000 new members since the first of the year.” Tracy predicts that building per- mits indicate that the total for the United States this year will pass the six billion dollar point. . | railroads. ER NEW PLAN FOR CONSOLIDATION OF RAILROADS Coolidge in Favor of Voluntary Unity WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 1— President Coolidge today gave at- tention to proposed legislation de- signed to facilitate permissive con- solidations of railroads. Alfred P. Thom,igeneral counsel of the Association of Railway Execu- tives, called on the President and sub- mitted a copy of the testimony heard by the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce last June on the voluntary consolidation bill in- troduced by Representative James S. Parker’ (Rep.,’N. ¥.), chairman of the committee. ¢ Voluntary Cdnsolidations. In his annual “message to congress in December, the President in refer- ring to railroads gill renew his recom- mendation that congress amend the present consolidation’ provisions of the transporation act to the end that proper consolidations, subject to the approval of the interstate commerce commission yoluntarily may be ef- fected, The principles éf the Parker bill are approved by a majority of the The bill dges not have the approval in its entirety of’ all the railroads, but the fact that it contains no element of compulsion is approved by all the carriers, In,the testimony left with the Pre- sident, Mr, Thom said he was not au- thorized to appear as an advocate of the Parker bill, but that if there were going to be consolidations the major- ity of the railroads would want that kind of a bill passed. ‘Parker Bill Will Be Pushed, Speedy passage of the Parker bill has ‘been urged by the interstate com- merce commission,. which approves the general principles\of the measure. The dill would repeal the provision of the existing law searing the com- mission to ‘prepare a plan grouping the railroads of thé country into a limited number of systems. Actual consolidations of railroads are now blocked by tlie provision of law requiring the preparation of a plan, because there’ “is no plan, and consolidations cannot be approved un- til there is a plan, Under the Parker bill two or more railroads could pro- pose a consolidation’and the commis- sion could approve Or disapprove it. Two or more railtoads under the bill could unify theirpreperties. by, ac-| quisition of control of one by anoth- er thru lease, stock control, or other- wise. President Coolidge, it is believed, favors the general Parker bill. eopens Today, More to Follow HARRISBURG, Ul, Oct, 3 — Mine Number 2 of the Saline County Coal corporation, four miles south of here, which has been idle for nine months, will be reopened Monday, it was an- nounced today, Three hundred and fifty men are employed at the mine, Two other mines will resume opera- tions Oct. 15, according to an unoffi- cial report. ON THE EVE OF THE 46TH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE A. F. OF L. AT DETROIT (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 3. — Not even a whisper has so far been heard among the delegates In op- Position to the re-election of William Green as president of the American Federation of Labor, 4 eee Morelli Gang Suspected, But Crime Was Charged Against Sacco, Vanzetti By J, LOUIS HIS morning I picked up a copy of The Detroit Free Press, The first page displays the story of the arrest of Joseph Gomez, 26 years old, alias James Mills; after an un- successful holdup of a branch of the Jefferson Savings Bank, Cash, bonds and liquor, valued at $75,000 were found in his rooms. The early edition of The Detroit Newe tells of a payroll bandit start- dng the day at nine o’clock by get- ting away with the $1,200 payroll of the Cameron & King Plumbing Co, Thus the trail of crime, bank rob- beries, payroll holdups and what not pours daily thru the kept press. Sometimes the bandits and highway- men are caught. More often not, Sometimes innocent victims of the Police system are taken, framed-up and sent away to penitentiaries for long terms of years. This last is exactly what happened in the case of the two Italian work- ers, Niccola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, arrested for, charged with and convicted of the murders grown out of the South Braintree, Mass., payroll holdup April 15, 1920. One of the most damning admis- sions, that helps shatter the case of the United States government and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against Sacco and Vanzetti, comes from the Jips of none other than Ellsworth C. Jacobs, of the New Bedford, Mass. police, who de- clares: “At, the time of the South Braintree murder, | suspect- ed the Morelli's, and discussed my suspicions with the then Police Inspector Pieraccini, who seemed to share them. | DROPPED THE MATTER AFTER THE ARREST OF SACCO AND VANZETTI.” Thus, from the very lips of the Police itself, comes the admission that the Morelli gang f white slavers and freight car thieves of Providence, R. I, was suspected of the South Braintree crime from the beginning. But it remained for one of the members of the gang, Cele- stino Madeiros, five years later, in Prison, to bare the guilt ofthe Mo- relli gang while all the time the federal department of justice and the local prosecutors in Massachu- setts were trying to use this crime as a means of snuffing out the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti in the electric chair of the law's executioner. re ih, In an affidavit now in the hands of Judge Webster Thayer, who has the power to grant or refuse a new trial to Sacco and Vanzetti, Elis- worth G. Jacobs says he was an in- spector of police in 1920. He says * that a short time before April 15 (1920) he saw Michael Morelli and two other men in a new Buick tour- ‘ng car in New Bedford; the car bore the number 154E, Rhode Island. Morelli was then living in New Bedford, but came from Providence, and had a bad reputation, being con- nected with the white slave traffic. He was an Italian, and the affiant knew him as one of five brothers. Yoo. Jacobs says he made a note of the car number and the date in his note- book, He saw that car again on the Miners Strike When Four Men are Fired (Continued from page 1) ENGDAHL. afternoon of April 15, 1920, the day of the South Braintree murder and again made a note of it. This time, he recalls, he was on his way to police headquarters, where he was due at 5:30 p, m, He saw the car.as it passed him near the postoffice, and again noted the number. On the afternoon of April 24, 1920, he found @ Cole Hight touring car, standing at the curb in front of Fiore’s restaurant at Hampton and Purchase Streets, New Bedford. This car bore the number plate that had been on the Buick. 8 Jacobs claims that Fiore’s restau- rant had the name of being visited by men of bad reputation. The policeman went in. and found Mike Morelli’s brother, Frank Morelli, at a table with three other men who appeared to be Italians. They were were extremely nervous at his ap- proach. Jacobs says one was a short, heavyset man, with wide, square face, high cheek bones, smooth shaven, dark brown hair, 35 to 40 years old, weighting about 175 pounds and probably five feet, six or seven inches tall. This man, as Jacobs approached the table, reached for his hip pock- et and the policeman believed that he was going to draw a gun, Frank Morelli asked why jacobs was pick- ing on him all the time, and what he wanted. Jacobs asked him how it was that the Cole tar had the same number as the Buick he had seen Mike driving, Frank replied that he was in the automobile busi- ness, and that the plate was a deal- er’s plate which he transferred from one car to another, Jacobs says he never saw the Buick car again after April 15, nor Frank Morelli. Mike Morelli remain- ed in New Bedford for some time, possibly a year. Tlien he too dis- appeared. Thus the U. S. secret service and the local and county police, for the asking, had sufficient clues to lead them to the arrest of the real crim- inals in the South Braintree job. But the U. 8, secret service decided it was’ not after ordinary criminals. ‘They are no real danger to capital- ists rule, They wanted,Sacco. and Vanzetti, the organizers of the work- ing class. So the police “laid off” the Morelli gang, in the words of the police inspector, Jacobs, when Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested. Ores ‘Tolay the United States govern- ment is faced with these facts: The actual criminals in the South Braintree affair are known. Sacco and Vanzetti are proved ab- solutely innocent of any connection with this crime. But the real criminals -are hot brotight to trial for their part in the South Braintree holdup and killing. Instead Sacco and Vanzetti re- main in prison, facing the electric chair, for the crime they never com- |, mitted. These facts also face the workers of the United States and of the world with the challenging question, “What are you going to do about it?” (pee Tomorrow:—The goyernment of- fers James F. Weeks, the pal of Ce- lestino Madeiros, a cigaret, as it at- tempts to persuade him to repudiate his share in the revelations showing Sacco and Vanzetti INNOCENT! Pose res ene POR Masataka RE, Chicago T. U. E. L. to Hold Meeting Oct. 6; All Workers Invited AUTO INDUSTRY UNIONIZATION IS ‘HARDY ANNUAL’ (Continued from page 1) for withdrawal was accepted by our executive council.” No Organizing Campaigns, President O'Connell says that, “No real active general organizing cam- altho there wére campaigns conducted by local organizations, special efforts being’made in Chicago, O'Connell is not as enthusiastic about the workings of the Watson- Parker bill on the railroads as are some of the other officials of organized labor. He says? “When the individual records of the members comprising the new railway Labor board (provided by the Watson- Parker bill), appointed by the presi- dent, are taken into account it cannot be said that they are overly sympa- thetic towards the hopes and aspira- tions of organized labor.” Women in the Metal industries. Officials of the metal trades are ap- palled at the increasing number of woman entering the industry. This has been held to be a man’s industry, but it is now pointed out that, “There are hundreds of manufacturing plants turning out specialized articles in. the manufacture of which female labor is successfully employed,” The department convention declares that, “we should see to it that our or ganizations make it possible for female workers to join our unions under the most favorable considera- tion.” Efforts will be made to organize the flying machine industry in which it is pointed out that large numbers of workers will be employed, especially as a result of the decision of the gov- ernment to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in building 3,000 airships. Employers’ Schemes Exposed. it is declared that, “Among the most important schemes devised by the em- ployers of recent years solely for the purpose of reducing the ranks of the unions are the so-called open shop, the so-called American plan, company or- ganizations, individual contracts, pre- miums, piece work, bonuses, welfare work, group insurance, accident insur- ance, stock gelling, pensions and vaca- tions with pay as a reward for special loyalty on the part of the workmen to their employers.” These methods are all severely condemned. President O'Connell condemns the delegation recently sent to this coun- try by the London Daily Mail. Whon the delegation came to Washington, however, O/Connell complaine that they spent only three minutes at the headquarters of the Metal Trades De partment. He says, “Altho they spent several days in Washington no further visit -was made to our headquarters.” It is pointed out that other, similar delegations will be selected to visit the United States in the near future. A. J. Berres and John Coefleld are the delegates of the Metal Trades De- partment for selection as fraternal delegates of the A. F, of L. to the next British Trade Union Congress, (CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continue ‘from Page 1) the silly coal diggers who obeyed those instructions. Be UT news leaked out that this gal- lant protector of American virtue frequently held wassail in his palatial mansion and on his yacht, that mem- bers of both sexes made merry under hig roof, while the probibition law the defense of which was the first plank in his platform, was trampled under foot. And suddenly this virtuous gentleman was arrested for rape, the charge later on changed to murder when his victim died. Now Mr. Stephenson is cooling his heels in an Indiana jail and the editorial ostriches who crawled before him a few years are now “exposin; paign was attempted during the year,” “ was planted, Four miners were dis- charged. Chicago workers ix interested in left wing activity in the trade unions are invited to attend the regular monthly meeting of the Trade Union Bduca- tional League local general group which will be held at Northwest Hall, corner of North and Western avenues into the bitterest kind of competi- tion, thanks to the investment of American capital abroad, to the trust- ification of the, iron and steel indus- tty in Europe, and to the adoption by the European metal masters of high speed production methods developed In the elections George F. Hedrick, paintews; A. M. Huddell, steam engi- neers; John J. Hynes, sheet metal workers; James P. Noonan, electrical workers; and Edward J. McGivern, plasterers, were elected vice-pres' dents in the order named. The terms this meeting. The admission charge is 15 conts. RELIEF FUNDS LOW; THE STRIKE CHILDREN FACE the 2exalted cyclop or whatever the devil he called bimselt. ‘THE AMERICAN All the big hotels here, instead of being placarded with “Welcome, A. F. of L.” carry greetings as fol- lows ‘Welcome, A. F, A.” The “A. itands for American Foundry- Cutting Wages. A special meeting of the local was called and the miners related their grievances. Many miners corhplained of not receiving the wages they were entitled to. The boss is in the habit ~ thing. thru pure MILK ANO WARM CLO- ‘ a. HUNGER; AID 1S URGENT NEW YORK, ‘Os "Four weeks have passed since we held the con- cert at the Coney Island Stadium for the benefit of the Passaic Stri- kers’ children.”, says a statement of the General Relief Committee for the Textile Strikers. School has started and the children go to school without shoes and warm clo- Also the food stores are empty. These children must be fed by you and |, They’ cannot be neg- leoted. We have cared for them un- til now and must provide for them until the strike is brought to a suc- cessful conclusion.” “Fellow-workers, the situation in Passaic and vicinity is the most cri- tical, The committ ippeals thru the press for all friends and sym- pathizers to send in their money for the tickets if they have not paid for them, already. You all enjoyed the concert. Send in your checks and the poor kiddies, the Innocent victima of this terrible industrial struggle will derive the benefits in the United States. Munsey’s Papers Are Bought from Museum; This Is a Darned Pity NEW YORK, Oct. 1--The New York Sun and the Evening Telogram and the Mohican Merchandising, prop- erties of the late Frank A, Munsey, have been bought from the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, residing legatee in the will of Mr. Munsey, by William T. Dewart, who for many years* was manager for and close friend of Mun- sey, Mr. Dewart announced the transac- tions involved in the neighborhood of $13,000,000 and that the newspaper properties would be mutualized, so that employes might acquire stock in them, In preparing for the mutualization of the properties, Mr. Dewart said he Was carrying out what he knew to be the last wishes of Mr, Munsey, who had contemplated taking such a step ‘he died on Dec, 22, 1925. employes of the Sun numbers 1,000. Oils DAIL ere ge be Oe of the other officers held over. “The Biggest Boob in the World,” New Play NEW YORK, Oct. 3, — ‘The Work- ers’ Drama League announces that the first rehearsal of the labor come- dy “The Biggest Boob In The World,” under the direction of Jasper Deeter, will take place on Monday, Oct. 4, promptly at 8 p. m., at the League studio, 64 South Washington Square. The play Will be read and the cast chosen, There will be room for all serious workers. The play was written by Karl Wittfogel, has been translated from the German by Rudolph Lubich, Workers’ Press Picnic will be held. anna wit men’s Association meeting here with the Second International Foundry- men's congre: One of the princi- pal speakers before this gathering of open shoppers was Charles F, Kettering, vice president and gen- eral director of the research labor- atorles of the General Motors cor- poration, the Morgan wing of the auto Industry, eee Frank Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of L., has established his head- quarters in Room 633, Tuller Hotel, which faces the public square most frequently haunted by the homeless unemployed, ** The local capitalist press special- izes in interviewing the labor offi- clals concerning the Ford five-day wi The usual run of labor official claims to be much enthused over the Ford fiveday week. One local capitalist sheet named the Fur- riers’ Union in New York City as one of the labor unions that had won the five-day week, This only happen- ed In one edition, however. It was taken out In the next. Every effort must be mado of cutting their wages and refusing to pay them for hours of work. After a disctission the members unanimously decided to strike and, to demand the dismii of the m boss and the reinstatement of the discharged work- ers, Threatens to Smash Union, Boss Goldstown is known in this region as an arch enemy of the miners’ union, This 1s the fourth place where he is employed with the object of breaking the union. In fact he openly admitted to Thomas Burke, the militant president of the local, that he was going to smash the organ- ization, and make it hot for those who are fighting for the miners, Burke was already digcharged by the’ com- pany, but a t lay strike forced the bosses to take him back. Miners in this colliery organized in Local No. 3076 are well known as fighters, They are sure of winning this strike. When they return to work they will go back with the discharged miners and without Goldstown who came looking id found plenty of it. Make it rhe allt vou ‘ EN li er Bia ce Doe MD te dt oS 2 oR cr ER ah A I RY Pac AE I Se ee eT ee ee ae Sine rae progress! at 8 P. M, on Wednesday, October 6, The speaker will be William Z. Fos- ter, who will talk upon the question of the A. F. of L. convention, the growing movement in the mining industry and other outstanding situ- ations in the labor movement, All militant workers are invited and urged to bring one or two fellow workers, ILLINOIS TOWN MENACED BY CATASTROPHE; FLOOD WATER OUT OF CONTROL NAPLES, IIL, iy Oct. zu with levees on both sides of this little town of 300 people threatening to give way momentarily, with the en- tire village under water, and the Il- linois river rising steadily after an overnight rise fifteen inches, workmen are feverishly busy striv- ing to avert a catastrophe, Citizens are using rowboats to reach the. Srnec sage ey aim, eg Ne EER eS i CLE oe eR a. Se ES 8 A SE Ce OE ES, EES ERNE CSE: BEAL ATMOS TATTER mse SS ee ©6®@ COMMUNIST MOVEMENT “The Workers (Communist) ‘Party—What ft Stands For— Why Workers Should Join” » By C. 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