The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1926, Page 2

Page Two i A THE DAILY WORKER PICKETS MAY FILL JAILS OF NEW YORK Zinimerman Refuses to Pay Fine; 10 Days NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 6.—Setting the example for scores of striking cloakmakers arrested Monday on the picket line In the garment zone, Charles S, Zimmerman, vice chairman of the General Strike Committee, and feading left winger, took a ten day sentence to the work-house rather than pay a $50 fine fon picketing when sentenced by Magistrate Silber man in Jefferson Market Court, With Zimmerman were Samuel Yaldin, manager of the Brownsville district of the cloakmakers’ joint board, and Jack Goldstein of 9929 48nd avenue, Corona, & dress cutter, who also took the jail sentence, May Flood the Jalls. Last night, counsel for the joint board, Cloak, Snit and Dressmakers unions, 180 Hast 25th street, were busy getting papers ready to appeal the conviction of Zimmerman, Zeld{n, Goldstein and’ others who received sentences varying from three to ten days. In practically every case where pickets were given the choice of pay- img a fine or going to jail, they chose the latter. It is estimated that 200 striking cloakmakers faced Masgis- trate Silberman in a session that dragged aib day yesterday. Rochester A. C. W. Donates $5,000 The union announced last night that the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of Rochester, N. Y., voted $5,000 towards the strike. This is in addi tion to the $25,000 already voted by the national office of that organiza- tion. BRIBERY RATHER THAN HUNGER IS SMITH’S ALIBI , One Coonk ' is as, Good as Another DANVILLE, IIL, Oct. 6.—Frank. “A Smith, recently chairman of the Illi- nois Commerce Commission and less recently beneficiary of a $200,000 gift from Samuel Insull, spoke here on LJ issues of the campe for the U, senatorship from Illinois. If the democrats win, declared Smith, there will be bread lines in the cities and still worse in the coun- try. What is an Insull bribery com- pared to starvation? A man may be bribed, but he is never out so long as the voters remain dumb! This was the substance of the slim-chinned Smith’s speech In the meantime George EB. Brennan whs nursing a wooden leg and all was well on the banks of the Chicago river. General Von Seeckt Resignation Heralds New German Crisis BPRLIN, Oct, ;—General von Seekt, creator of Germany’s post-war army, today tendered his resignation as a result of the reichswehr service of the eldest son of the ex-crown prince, which he considered ag the first indi- cation of former Kaiser Wilhelm’s return to politics. military and political crisis. Presi- dent Hindenburg, it is believed, will accept General von Seekt’s resigna- tion, PASSAIC LOCAL TO.ASK FLOOR AT CONVENTION Woman Tells of Fight for Organization By CARL HAESSLER, Fed. Press. DETROIT, Oct. 6.—It'’s a different story in the British textile mills, says Ellen Dawson of Local 1603, United Textile Workers. of America, the new- est local in the veteran organization. She hopes to address the American Federation of Labor convention in be- half of the 16,000 woolen mill strikers in Passaic, Speaking to the Federated Press, Dawson told of entering a Scottish textile mill at 14, later working in Rochdale, the birthplace of the co- operative movement, and then coming to the textile hellholes of New Jersey. Some Difference. “As soon as I got into a’ Passaic mill, after landing in America,” she told, “I asked the girls when we pay our union dues.g They immediately looked frightened and whispered that I must not talk about unions if I wanted to hold my job in the mill. That struck me as queer, because in England everybody belongs to the union and you pay your dues just as you pay your rent and other necessary bills. WII! Hold to Union. “But we have our union now in Pas- saic and we don’t intend to let go of it. We could have settled our 9- month strike long ago if we had not insisted on union recognition. We have held out against police clubs, tear gas, wild-riding motorcycles, sluggings in police cells, frameups by private detectives and, above all, against starvation. Had it not been for the splendid response of the labor movement of America to our needs, the millionaire bosses might have forced us to surrender. » Still Need Aid tn Battle, “Now we are able, With careful economy; to manage our resources so that the babies won’t starve, and®we can still keep on fighting. But we {must still beg our brother and sister unionists to stand by us a little longer, When our battle is won we shall prove our gratitude when other branches of the labor movement need assistance.” President Thomas McMahon of the textile workers is at the convention and will assist Ellen Dawson in get- ting the floor. ~ The action is expected to cause a; Here is Henry the Great Himself The old man Is pxamining one of the new alr lizzies that he Is thinking about making when the “Leaping Lenas” go out of style. Ford has become a very famous man, known thruout the world, But In spite of this he has been narrow enough to wage a bitter campaign against the Jews and foolish enough to say “History Is bun The fact is that, outside of the narrow circle of his technical and business knowledge, Ford Is what the workers in his plant would term a “dumb-bell.’” under his name are written for him by clever press-agents:whom Ford pays. The technical achievements for which he has become famous, for that matter are the work of his highly trained engineers. Ford’s “greatnéss” and “phil- anthropy” are myths, both of which will be exploded as soon as his workers organize and demand a word or two in his Industry—as they justly deserve. HIGH WATER TAKES GAMALIEL COMES HUGE TOLL FROM 3} LIKE PRODIGAL MIDWEST STATES) TO DAUGHERTY Three Lives Lost; Big|Dead Men’s Tales Mean Property Loss Nothing (Speciat to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, October 6—Warren While flood waters continued to ‘ menace cities and towns and exact their toll of property and crop dam- age in central Illinois; other sections of the midwest were counting the cost today as the high water which for days has inundated sections of three states receded, Three lives were claimed by the high waters, In Oklahoma and Kansas early esti- mates placed the damage at over $2,000,000. No accurate estimate of the damage in Illinois is possible, altho farm bu- reaus say it will run into millions. literary style, was Daugherty and Col. Miller, profits in view. The gentle reader will remember that the United under the regime of Woodrow Wilson became quite displea8éd with the par- What books and publications appear | Gamallel Harding, he”of the rotarian wiShed out of his grave yesterday by thé-hired attorneys of Harry M. Daugherty, in order that the shades of a departed president might be*invoked im influencing a jury to deal kindly with the aforesaid Daugherty in the matter of a $7,000,000 claim allowed to a Teuton claimant by whether with. malice aforethought or with § government Beardstown, center of the ‘Illinois flood area, raced possible annihilation as the waters, led by swollen up-state ty of the first part in the “Me Und Gott” faction, on or about April 1917, and that henceforth’ America main- SOVIET WORKERS SPURN PLEAS OF OPPOSITION TO CENTRAL COMMITTEE The Moscow correspondent of The DAILY WORKER cabled the follow- ing story on the controversy that is now taking place in the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Tho the revolutionary workers of the Soviet Union do not forget the services rendered to the revolution by Trotsky and others in.the past, they feel that the present attempt to break the unity of the party, under the leadership of Trotsky cannot fail to be inimical to the best interests ee the Soviet Union and the world revolution: streams, continued to rise. tained diplomatic relations with Gott, only spelled in the English way, + Cost 100,000 Lives, ALVIN CONFUSED Therefore the United States blew 100,000 perfectly good Americans in- BY QUEER LINGO . to smithereens in order to show its 5 displeasure with the Teuton alphabet, However, all that blew over and so did the war, but the capitalists on both sides of the big pond continued to exist outside of Soviet Russia, and in the course of time the Teutons be- ee By JOHN PEPPER. All the largest organizations of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union after hearing of the attempts of the opposition feaders to force a new discussion upon the party, adopt- ed resolutions of protest emphasizing the fact that the opposition has over- stepped all limits of permissiblé methods of inner party controversy. These resolutions demand unanimous- ly of the Central Committee to take drastic measures against the opposi- tion leaders who are striving to break the unity of the party. SILK MILL WORKERS STRIKE; WANT BETTER NEW BEDFORD UNION (Specic! to The Dail, Worker) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 6.— (FP) — Workers of the National Spun Silk Co, walked out after two workers were discharged in the lepartment. The workers effective organization, LENINGRAD, Oct. 6, — Forty-nine ernment agents charged with military espionage in behalf ot Latvia,” All the prisoners face death upon _/f BRITISH DEPENDENCY DIS- ~ COVERED BY SOVIET GOVERNMENT Lithuanian-Russian treaty British spies in Latvia have intensified FAMILIES MUST WAIT WEEKS FOR MINERS’ BODIES (Special to The Daily Worker) ROCKWOOD, Tenn, Oct, 6— Thwarted by fire and the danger of another explosion, rescue workers to- day admitted it may be days and ev- en weeks bofore the bodies of 21 min- ers still remaining in the wrecked workings of the Roane Iron compa- ny’s mine here can be recovered, Owing to the danger of the fire said to be ranging in the mine, the rescue crews were obliged to work slowly and cautiously, The fumes emanating from the interior of work- ings were still heavy, further hamper- ing the work of recovering the bodies, The families of the missing men, now given up for dead, have resigned themselves to patient waiting at the mouth of the mine for the bodies to be returned to them, persons were arrested today by goy- conviction, ..Since the signing of the} pea nie AP wheal Court Ddeumens Worse Than Cross Puzzle WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 6.—An alleged copy of the new world court Protocol recently devised by the league of nations in connection with the reservations of the United States as a condition of entrance to the world court gave secretary of state Kellogg a terrible headache accord- {ng to information secured from the ugually reliable quarters. Kellogg’s head was net built either for speed of punishment but report- ers who are accustomed to grab off the high spots in obtuse documents confessed after a half hour’s labor that the job of making head or tail of what the league assembly meant was still on the other side of the mental dead line, One article sald that such and such a thing could be done provided it did not conflict with another ayticle, And when the reporters scurried to the ar- ticle whose name was taken in vain they found a similar story. Reporters Went Wild, Reporters with solvent papers wired the whole document to their managing editors, leading off with a rediction that the Yankees would in the world’s series or that Jack Dempsey's bolls would not burst be- fore Susanne Lenglen married Red Grange. Kellogg was never #o glad of any- thing in his life as of Coolid; de- cision to pigeon hole the world court issue. Now it can be told! ge of them knew what ey gan to be welcome in our land. so that our politicians could speak to them without losing their constitu- encies, And it came to pass that Harry M. Daugherty and divers other patriotic politicians looked with favor on Ger- man capitalists in return for a trans- fer of divers marks to Daugherty and divers patriots, And in the course of time other patriotic politftians,. expecting to make hay out of the troubles of country did sue said defendents, with the result that Daugherty and his con- federates may go to jail or may live happily ever afterwards even as it was in the days of Hans Anderson's fairy tales, * * . NEW YORK, Oct, 6. — George B. Williams, managing director of the alien property custodian’s office under Col. Thomas W. Miller, today took the stand at the opening of the fifth week of the conspiracy trial of Miller and Harry M, Daugherty, former attorney general, The chargos against the two defend- ants are in connection with the aj proval of the $7,000,000 claim for w: seized assets of the American Metals company, A memorandum was introduced, giving the evidence of Miller, Will- jams and Adnah Johnson, former assistant attorney geénoral, in the Brookhart-Wheeler investigation in 1924 when the American Metals case first came up. ‘Tho mémoranduya showed that the Erie | claims in question, were Daugherty and other lovers of their WALL STREET BORING FROM WITHIN AGAINST HENRY FORD state commerce commission. ANDREW MELLO APPROVES FORD'S 5-DAY WEEK IDEA O. K. If You Speed Up Workers, Treasurer Says WASHINGTON, Oct. 6,—Andy Mel- longweactionary secretary of treasury of the United States, Wall Street Heutenant, and alu- minum trust mag- nate, has placed his stamp of ap- proval on Henry Ford's 5dlay week plan, This was the word passed a- round in financial circles here and which startled in- dustrialists, who, ANOREWWMELKON failing to ‘see thru’ Ford’s plan, expected disapproval from such a quarter. But Andy Mellon, who has much experience in’ exploiting both the workers and the people in general, is shrewd enough to know what the “5- day week” means, Why Not? Mellon is quoted as saying that if the workers can be made to produce as much in five days as they do now in six, he can see no reason for not “giving” them the extra holiday. Mellon said, also, that he has come. to realize that shortening of the workers’ hours is more necessary now than in former years because of the mechanical “speed-up” production methods. Must Be “Developed.” Success of the plan, Mellon was careful to point out, depends upon how it is “developed,” meaning that indus- tries should be certain they could speed up their workers enough in five days before they establish the five-day week, PLUTE JOURNAL TELLS TRUTH AND THEN EATS CROW Seme ‘Hisshle Scathe Will Lose Meal Ticket CHICAGO, Oct. 6—(FP)—Att the anguish and agony of a frenzied edi- torial mind is poured into the apology publicly offered by the Chicago Jour- nal of Commerce to the clothing firm of Hart Schaffner & Marx in its issue of Sept. 80. On the preceding day, in a column headed, ironically enough “What's Be- hind Chicago Stocks,” the Journal had detailed the strong financial condition of that clothing corporation. It wound up a paragraph on net profits with the words, “but of .course this is all a lot of bunk, although the crooked officials say different.” Journal Ate Crow, The explanation came the following day when, under the same heading, “What's Behind Chicago Stocks,” the journal published the following notice: “Presumably those who read the article will recognize in the words a wanton act of sabotage. Obviously the words have no context with the rest of the article and must have been in- serted by an illiterate person, and presumably by one whose mind is warped.” Whether ‘the wanton saboteur’s mind had been warped by shattering personal experiences with what's be- hind Chicago stocks, the Journal of Commerce was too frantic to specify. Main Anti-Daugherty Witneés’ Testimony Ruled From Record NEW YORK, Oct, 6.—The defense closed its case at noon today in the trial of Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney general, and Colonel Thomas W. Miller, former alien property cus+ todian, charged with conspiracy in connectiqn with the return to foreign the American Metals company which had been seized during the war, Motions were promptly made to dis- miss the indictments against the de- fendants, Two motions were mad one by Max Steuer, . counsel for Daugherty, the other by oClonel Will- fam Ran, attorney for Miller. The motions were denied by Fe eral Judge Julian Mack, Federal Judge Mack overruled Steter's motion to have the testimony of the late John T, King, Connecticut republican politician, before + 4 grand jury, read into the record, | King was paid $441,000 by ‘Rlanrd| interests of the $7,000,000 assets of | th WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—The plan of Henry Ford to consolidate the De- trolt, Toledo and Ironton Railroad with the Detroit and fronton was attacked by minority stockholders of the former road in a brief filed with the Inter- Examiners of the commission have already recommended that the plan be disapproved. Even ‘“Non-Partisan” Politics Passed Up by Detroit Meeting By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 6.— There isn’t much discussion of the congres- sional campaign among the delegates to the 46th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor now in seseion here... “It was ignored completely in the pre-convention department gatherings except for brief mention in the report of J. W. Hayes, president of the Union Label Trades Department. Hayes is also secretary of the International Typographical Union, Good Policy—But Won't Work. The brief mention of the subject by Hayes is pretty much a gesture of despair. He says he has not yet turn- ed traitor to the non-partisan policy of the A. F. of L., but he frankly ad- mits that it doesn’t work. Of course. he blames the workers, as is the custom with all officials, He says: “The political weakness of the labor movement is proverbial; the worker ig a republican or a democrat for some silly reason that has nothing what- ever to do with the welfare of his clase. Worker Needs Arousing. “The banker and the manufacturer are much wiser, They cast their votes and their influence for those who serve them and against thosé who have injured them. “T am not advocating any departure from our traditional non-partisan pol- fey but am only citing evidence that the worker hag never been sufficient- ly, aroused to the importance of sup- Porting his own interests.” — Oppose “The Inevitable.” In the discussion of the labor party at the Atlantic City convention a year ago, Jim Lynch, president of the Typographical. Union, confessed the organization of the labor party was an inevitable development in the United States, but he joined with Hayes in voting against it. There are now 46 national and in- ternational labor unions, out of the 107 chartered by the American Fed- eration of Labor, affiliated with the Union Label Trades Department, AIMEE’S TALE CONTINUES TO EXCITE PEOPLE Is Ryan Agent of Devil or the Pope? LOS ANGELES, Ovt, 6.—After re- lating how he traveled into Mexico in search of the shack in which Aimee Semple McPherson, woman evangel- ist, said she had been held captive by her’ kidnappers; how he sought to check up her story step by step, Joe Ryan, deputy district attorney, today resumed his place on the witness stand, a place he occupied all day yes- terday as the state's witness against the exponent of the “four-square” gos- pel, her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, and Mrs. Wiseman-Seilaff, all chargéd with having conspired to manufacture false evidence in connection with the alleged kidnapping episode. Ryan unfolded his story from the time he went to Mexico until he went to Carmel, where the state holds that Mrs, McPherson occupied a cottage with Kenneth G. Ormiston, former radio operator at Angelus Temple, and gain related how written grocery slips, which he ‘claims were written in Mrs. McPherson’s handwrifing, were given to the grand jury only to have them subsequently destroyed by a member of that body. Who Killed McSwiggin? Ask Cicero and the Echo Will Answer: “Who”? CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—There will be no indictments for the slaying of Willia: H, McSwiggin, paniatane state's attorney. This announcement was made here today by Charles A, MacDonald who was appointed special prosecutor in triple machine gun murder which took the life of the young attorney, Of the three special grand juries which were impanelled in an effort to solve the crime, MacDonald’s report ys ‘ ‘While the report of this work does not name the slayers of McSwiggin, it might indicate who they are, We had ‘no positive evidence, howe: 10 we could return no indictmen pe Helen Reads Books, BPRKPLDY, Oct, 6.—The athletic prowess of Helen Wills is well known, but rae it was disclosed by reports USE POLICE AND SLUGGERS ON CHI WINDOW WASHERS Police were in league with paid sluggers Wednesday in an umsuccess- ful effort to intimidate members of the Chicago. Window Washers Union, Local 40, in order to break fheir strike, Business Agent Held. Steve Zarachuk, business agent of the local, was placed under arrest by police officers at union headquarters, 673 West Madison, Wednesday after- noon, Armed with a trumped up warrant, the coppers invaded the union head- quarters and forced the business agent to go with them to headquar- ters. He was released later, however, when the police realized they could not place any, charges against Zarar- cbuk, Sylvester Washkereles, a member of local 40, was also arrested by the coppers, and charged with disorderly conduct, because he was picketing. Efforts were being made late Wed- nesday to have him released. Bosses Have Armed Sluggers, Strikers reported that armed slug- gers had been stationed in many parts of the city by some of the win- dow cleaning companies, No clashes between the strikers and the slug- gers were reported, altho one was nar- rowly averted on the north side, it is reported, : Union officials declare it is their determination to carry on the strike peacefully, but will be ready to meet any hoodlum tactics of the bosses, The window washers went on strike Monday when their, demands for $1.25 on hour and $40 @ week guaran tee were denied. "eee There was no letup Tuesday in the strike of Chicago Window Washers’ Union, Local 40, which was called Monday when the bosses refused to” grant the union demand for $1.25 an hour and a gugrantee of 40 hours a week, Every window cleaning company in the city is affected except the Boston Window Cleaning Company, South Wells street, which signed with the workers om the new scale without pro- test. Twenty-two companies refused to grant the increase. No member of the union is allowed to work without obtaining a special perm from the busizess agent, it is announced. A special strike meeting was held Monday night, and every membor voted to “stick” until their demands are met. Picketing is being continued thru- out the city. Scab Metal Workers Find Arto Transport Unsafe; in Hospital Two policemen stopped a truck be- longing to the Rindsberger Lamp Com- pany of 18 West 24th street at Jack- son and Canal when they found that two of the five scab metal workers who were riding in it had collided with bullets, one -being woundéd in the foot and the other in the leg. They said the truck was fired on from an automobile. It has long been the habit of em- Dloyers to take scabs home in autos. With two out of five in the hospital it is seen that this form of transporta- tion is beginning to have its draw- backs. The scabs at St. Luke’s hos- pital are Theodore Stemer, 1523 West Van Buren street, and Anton Mo- neuszko of 3121 Augusta street. School Board Head Denies Charges of Treasury Surplus Efward B, Elliott, president of the Chicago board of education, denies that the treasury of the school board will show a surplus of four million dollars on ‘December 31, as it was charged by Margaret A. Haley, bust- ness representative of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation. Bllicott made the denial in a letter Tuesday to Mayor Dever. He claims there will be a deficit, and for that reason the school board must slash its expenditures, with sal aries coming under that head. (Continued from page 1) to convert Detroit into a “closed shop” city, Churches Obey Their Master, — An open letter to churchmen of De- troit, promulgated thru “The De- troiter” on SePMt. 27, was released for newspaper publication by officials the board of commerce as their ply, to Green's statement. ter called on churchmen to = #2 Es ES 5 niveraity of California that| ©, killed as a while. We -omabiin | j \ j 3 5