The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for’ a Workera’ and Farmers’ Government A @ Vol. lil. No. 234. Subscription Rates: Sustac'& By T. J. O'FLAHERTY ©. STEPHPNSON, former grand dragon of the Indiana ku klux Klan will not say anything that might herm the state, political bosses. He bad his day in court and kept his mouth shut, Of course the murderer- rapist made a deal and that is the reason why he maintains silence. If the present Hoosier administration manages to hold office Stephenson may be turnéd loose. A little talk was velvet for Stephenson last week but now his silence is golden. eee HE American Federation .of Labor indulged in its annual outburst against the Soviet Union, but Timothy Healy, of the stationary firemen, sug- gested! that Russia would be recog- nized if for no other reason than be- cause Wall Street is beginning to favor it. And Tim can bet his necktie that just as soon as Wall Street de- cides to recognize Russia, William Green will be able to find a conve- _ pent excuse for changing his mind. Z eee A. F. of L. officialdom follows the United States governmient’s foreign policy very much like a tail follows a dog. Had Wall Street sup- ported the vatican in the Mexican religious trouble, in all probability Green and his tuchuns would do like- wise. But it did not happen to be in the interest of American imperialism to come to grips with Mexico just now so the dutyful Mr. Green rolled over and followed suit. The influence of the officials of the American Federa- tion of Labor on political thought or action is Gverestimated. The masses have no faith in them and the capital- {st politicians know that théy are a bunch of crooks who are knocked down to the highest bidder. § _ eee There are some radicals (the word should be in quotes) who think that alleged liberals, who are reactionary in public, but radical in private, can be used to further the workingclass movement. Karl Marx knew what he was talking about when he said that diplomacy never was and never could be a weapon of the workingclass, The kind of diplomacy, that leaves the lever in the hands of the fake liberal or the private radical is the bunk. It is a stepping stone to disaster. o. Ore HERE are no short cuts to revolu- tion. One cannot conceive of a revolutionary movement arriving at its destination unless it is founded on the support of the masses, the people who have a bread and butter inter- est in seeing it succeed. For this reason the Communists are not in favor of helping one gang of adven- turists to get into power in the A. F. of L, at the expense of the present office holders. In the long run, indus- trial conditions will force the workers to,move forward, but it is always " mecessary to point the way and or- ganize for the march. It is much better to lose in an honest fight than to win a victory that really succeeds in fooling the victors. eo .6 R the one thousandth and ninety- ninth time the Chicago police force have announced their intention to crush gangsterism. And for the same number of times the attempt will end in bluff, The poltee force is run by politicians and so are tfe gangsters, Just as soon as the pub- licity resulting from the latest batch of murders dies out in the press, everything will proceed normally, and fatally. e028 .4 Y spr following Washington dispatch should prove instructive: ‘ “With the state department refus- ing to invite Russian soil experts to the fifth international conference of soil selence here next June, agri- culture department officials said to- day it would be futile to hold such a session without Soviet government representation. “Russia has many leading scien- ists in soil,’ Dr. W. W. Weir, soil technologist of the agriculture de- partment, said, ‘Without Russia the conference would be incomplete, Russia is, the second agricultural country in the world, and second only to the United States in soil science, Many new conceptions of soll have come from Russia, Without that vountry participating the conference could hardly be. a success.’ “While. America cannot invite Sov- jet representatives, as. Russia is not recognized by the United States, pressure is to be brought on the state department to have Soviet delegates (Comtinued on page 2.) REED DELVES INTO INDIANA KLAN SCANDAL Action Forecasts More Revelations | _ | (Specia! to The Dail, Worker) WASHINGTON, D. G., Oct. 14.—-An- Nouncément by Senator James A.; Reed in St. Louis today that the spe- | cial segate committee of which he is | chairman will meet in. Chigago next | Monday to consider the stories of cor ruption in Indiana’s political struc- | ture caused considerable surprise in the capital today. It had been understood by members | of the senate here and by political-| leaders generally that the Indiana | situation would not be made the sub-| ject of inquiry by Reed’s committee because of the local character of the charges, | | The Committee, » Members of the committee are | Senators Reed (D.) of Missouri, King (D.) of Utah, LaFollette (R.) of Wis- consin, McNary (R.) of Oregon, and Goff (R.) of West Virginia. None of the members of the com- mittee were in, the capital today. Senator Goff is in Europe, and the other members of the committee are scattered about the country, either at home or fulfilling speaking engage- ments. May Have New Facts. The surprise over Reed's decision to call the committee was intensified by the fact he had previously indi- cated he saw no reason for the sen- by mail, $8.00 joage, by mail, ate’s delving into a situation that was considered by political leaders here ‘to be of state, rather than national 5 an ee ee as Whether Senator Reed has received new information or facts. which deter- mined him to begin an inquiry is not known here. Reed Issues Subpoenas. ‘The first batch of subpoenas for the Reed committee's investigation was issued today by the sergeant-at-arms of the senate. In the absence of in- structions from Senator Reed, the senate Officials refused to make the list public. It was indicated that four or five subpoenas went out in the first lot today. - ee Indicating that the senate investi- gation of the Indiana klan scandal would not get under way here until late next week, Hecklin Yates, secre- tary to Senator James A.-Reed, com- mittee chairman, announced, today that subpoenas hi) been issued for prominent Chicagoans, who will testi- fy before the senate committee con- cerning the Illinois slush fund in- quisition. Those names in the were: James Simpson, president of the Marshall Field Company, who was in Yellowstone Park at the time of the previous Illinois slush hearing. Clement Studebaker, Chicago finan- cier. George B. Stafford, state superinten- dent of the Anti-Saloon League. E. J. Davis, superintendent of the Better Government Associatian. Mrs, James Falk Morrison, presi- dent of the Ulinois League of Women Voters. G. 0, P, WORRYING OVER OPPOSITION OF INDEPENDENTS (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—With elec- tion day only a matter of three weeks away, republigan leaders here were feeling somewhat glum today over three senatorial spots where they had considered G, O. P, victories as good ag “in the bag.” illinois Is Sore Spot. The republican sore spots are in New York, Oregon and Ulinois, and in each instance the aggravation is the same—party insurgency and inde- pendence, In each state, the regular republican nominee is menaced by an independent republican candidacy and the leaders do not mask their fears that the split vote resulting trom this situation may allow the democrat to slip in. Wi subpoenas not a bundle of The DAILY “WORKER sent to you regularly to take to your. trade union meeting? | ar year, 6.00 por year, GANGLAND QUIE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1926 CHICAGO MAY HAVE TO BUILD A SUBWAY YET me Entered at Second-class matter September 21, 108%, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Publishes a>" rot et FS BIR aoe NESE Pi Rea EA } i a | PUBLISHING CO., Saltis Trial Juror Had Been Inmate of AS INVESTIGATION) Asviumsts Testimony IN BATTLE 18 ON John Riley, ome of the jurors in the trlal of Joe Saltis and “Lefty” Kon- cil, charged with the murder of John “Mitters” Foley, has been confined tn Habeas Corpus Writs are |‘! Miinois insane asylum four times. Being Denied Gangland continued quiet today, This testimony was given before Judge Harry B. Miller today by Mre. Riley. It is considered probable that a mis- and with a four-ply inquiry getting] trial will be pronounced by Judge Mil- down to the routine business of in-{\er, and a new jury called. vestigating all angles of the myste- rious machine gun ambuscade Mon- day in which two men were jkilled and three others wounded, much of the tension, portending a renewal of the gunplay, had lifted. ‘Cooperating with the police in this drive, chief justice William J. Lind- say of the criminal court, temporarily withheld writs of habeas corpus be- cause “a gang war exists.” The writs denied were those asked for gangsters wounded’ in Monday’s shooting. The inquest over the bodies of Earl “Hymie” Weiss and Patrick Murray, the two gang leaders killed in front of Holy Name cathedral last Monday, continued today. Little evidence has been introduced thus far that would help in identifying the assassins or advance a motive for the attack, Authorities generally are of the opinion that “Scarface Al” Capone, Cicero vice lord, who is said to have been jealous of Weiss’ growing busi- ness in the beer and alcohol industry, was the instigator of the crime. W. W. O’Brien, chief of defense counsel, who was wounded in the ma- chine gunning Monday night, had urg- ed his assistant, Frank McDonnell, to continue with the trial and not let any jurors be withdrawn, it was stat- ed. A list of jurors and witnesses was found on the dead body of Earl “Hy-| mie” Weiss following the shooting. Mexico Replies to U. S. Interference on Land and Oil Property Law WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.— Mexico's reply to the latest American note in the controversy @ver Mexican land and petroleum laws was delivered to the state department today. ; The note % understood to insist that no foreign rights are invaded by the application df these laws—a posi- tion Mexico has«maintained since the controversy started. CLOAKMAKERS OF CHICAGO ASSESS SELVES FOR N.Y, Garment Toilers Pledge Financial Aid Members: of the Chicago Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union voted to assess themselves from 50 cents to $2.00 each week to aid the strike of the New York garment workers in | their battle for the 40-hour week at a especial membership mass meeting | Wednesday night. The members of the Chicago unions accepted unan- imously the recommendations of the joint board for relief for the New York workers. . Weekly Ald Until End. It was voted that workers earning $30 a week be assessed 50 cents a week; workers eafning $50 a week be assessed $1, and workers earning} more *than $50 a week be assessed $2. The weekly contributions to the New York strike fund will be made for the duration of the strike. The meeting, which was held at Schoenhofen Hall, was an enthusiastic | one, the workers rising to their feet | several times when reports of the mil- | itant struggle of the New York union | were made. Handsewers and pressers of the ‘ (Continued on page 2) Keep The Daily Worker! By BEN GITLOW. he (.HE DAILY WORKER is the fight- ing organ of the American work- ing class. Wherever workers are en- gaged in bitter struggles against their powerful capitalist exploiters you will find \The DAILY WORKER on the job Nporting the truth about the struggles and inspiring the workers to solidarity and militancy. 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LABOR PARTY RAPS VERSAILLES, LOCARNO AND THE DAWES PLAN (Special to The Daily Worker) MARGATE, England, Oct. 14.—The labor party conference, In session here today, adopted a resolution demanding the annuliment of the Vem | sailles treaty and the Dawes’ plan and repudiation of the Locarno pacte, l which were described as a threat directed at Soviet Russia. The resolution also urged the adoption of a policy of world disarmament, ASQUITH QUITS AS LIBERAL LEADER (peoial to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Oct. 14.—Lord Oxford and Asquith have resigned the leader | hip of the liberal party, It was announced tonight. Sr 5’ A.F.OFL.MEET (PAPER ATTACK DODGES FIGHT | ON CAPITALISM ON INJUNCTION] MARKS SESSION |Samuel Memorial Fund|Brave Phrases Hurled in Two Years, $98.50 By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The’ Daily Worker) Convention Hall, Detroit, Mich. Oct. 14.—Charging that the use of the injunction by employers against the workers. is on the increase, the delegates to the American Federation of Labor went into a lengthy discus- sion of methods to be used in com- batting this powerful weapon in the hands of the enemy. Delegate Andrew Furuseth, Sea- men’s Union, came to the front with the suggestion that labor must at- tack the rights of the courts to is- sue injunctions declaring: “Say to the judge that you refuse to answer any of his Questions, be- cause yon deny his right of jurisdic tion in these matters. Then you must be ready to take the consequences.” Shudder At Thot of Jail. Delegate Furuseth inferred that the delegates must be ready to go to jail in their fight against the injunc- tion. This caused somewhat of a shudder of horror to ‘run thru the convention. Most of the speeches were of an extremely technical nature. These labor lawyers. some of them, claimed th were t lawyers, in the words of Deleg: D. G. Ramsay, of} the Telegraphe Union, than the sheepskin product itself. 1. L. G. W. Mum On Great Struggle. No member of the delegation of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, for instance, got up to tell of the brilliant struggle waged against | the injunction, mostly by the women members of that organization in Chi- cago during the last strike of the union in that city, scores going to jail i Delegate John P. Frey, moulders, first got the floor and argued the prob- lems confronting fhe labor movement as @ result of the use of the injunc- tion by the employers. He was fol- lowed by Delegate Furuseth. Clayton Act a Fraud. “When the Clayton act (hailed as labor’s Magna Charta by the late Sam Gompers), was passed, I told the con- vention at that time that the Clayton act was a fraud from beginning to end,” declared Furuseth. “I charged that the Clayton act granted moré power to the courts and that we would soon find that out. Don’t get excited at the egotism of this roughneck sailor when he says that the decision in tho Duplex case confirmed everything that I claimed at that time.” Furuseth said that @ whole day was spent at the Rochester convention of the A. F. of L., but at that time not'a single word expressing a new thought on the injunction problem was heard trom any of the marly speakers who | spoke on the matter, ferred to the dissertations of econom- ists on this question saying, “I don't know whether to say, ‘God bless ‘em,’ or, ‘God damn ‘em.’” Delegate Matthew Woll declared that the injunction process was devel- oping so rapidly that he wonldn’t be surprised ff some morning court would {ssue an injunction enjoining some (Continued on page 2) Furuseth re) by A. F. of L. Heads By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. (Special to The Daily Worker) CONVENTION HALL, DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 14—Paper declarations galore, filled to the brim with brave phrases attacking the growing Amer Tean Industrial tyranny were tossed into the American Federation of Labor convention here in the reports of the committees of resolutions, gate council and education. Matthew Woll, closing the resolu tions committee report, visioned “around us and bearing down upou us, a paternalism, a despotism and antocracy, that will be none the less tolerable because of occasional evi- dences of benevolence.” The gigantic manipulations of finance capital, the yellow dog con- tract, lack of protection of workers in industry and other evils were all condemned. It was declared that the ‘measures adopted by this A. F. of L. convention provided the only “agency thru which the masses may check the arrogance and the autonomy of an automatically growing concentration jof industrial power. Still “Nonpartisan.” All this was preceded by the un- animous declaration of the convention to continue the non-partisan political action ofthe A. F. of L. within the two old political puppets of Wall Street, the democratic and republican parties, no mention being even made anywhere of the struggle of the Min- |nesota farmer-labor party that already has a United States senator in con- |gress and ts the second party Im that | state, | Farmers Mentioned, It is in this endorsement of ad- jherence to the old parties that the only approach to the farmers of the ‘country gets any mention. It declares jthat, “Labor urged congress to pase the farmers’ program and is willing at any and al] times to afd the farm- ers seeking legislation that will ad- vance their economic interest. It re fers to the efforts of the industrial and financial imterests to prejudice the farmers against labor and warns them that they must defeat the. attempt to enroll them on that side.” Thus the A, F. of L. stands stock still politically in the struggle againat the capitalist masters of labor while at the same time confessing that, “The development of our industrial life, from the standpoint of mechanical changes in its general method of oper- ation, is proceeding at an ever in- creasing rate of speed. Phe rate of | change is immensely more rapid today | than was the case even ten years ago or five years ago.” , | No Attack on Coal Barons, adop calling jfor the strictest observance of trade junion agreements, no attack being ‘directed, however, against employers who have tora up agreements at will, | a8 in tha case of the Jacksonville | agreement between the mine batons jand the bitumious coal miners. The delegation of the miners’ union was silent, In fact there was not ome (Continued on page 2) a | Declarations were RIT MINERS CALL OUT SAFETY MEN