The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1926, Page 2

tod Page Tws THE DAILY WORKER 1 [MANUFACTURERS ENTHUSED OVER ROTTEN MILK GUNS, BOMBS, ETC., THE U.S. IS PREPARING FOR THE COMING WAR By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press, I$ FORCED ON GOTHAM POOR WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—-(FP)——Preparedness for war was demon- H . | strated to big manufacturers and their te¢hnical experts at the eighth an- 1 | Campa. gn Brings Out | nual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association by the ordnance depart- Adulterations ment of the army at the Aberdeen proving ground on Oct. 8.’ The Aberdeen Wnamrenen ground is on the Maryland bank of the Potomac, below the capitol. NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Charges that | Canitaliats “thare: In: Faroe + Of Dad milk ate being sold to’ poor re gathered representatives of the|'These names explain what is meant Sauiiiios pa hehe se Me by Ciedan L. | ional Association of eck anv a hes military experts who say that the 3 ‘ PONY RET eke ee the National Industrial Confer-|next war will spare nobody among Mille. | Mills declares that this nu er has | been brought to the attention of erngr has refused ence Board, the Reserve Officers’ As- sociation of the United States, and the American Society for Steel Treat- ing. The show arranged for these guests are espee The Bronx and Queens I cially flooded with the impure milk, | ¥25 designed to cover the latest mod- he safd y lels of artillery, tfactors, anti-aircraft | devices, gas bombs, ete. On the offic- al program was printed the slogan of the A. O. A—*Pledged to industrial preparedness for War as the strong- guaranty of Peace.” Ford and Colts Together. Manufacturers ‘who had exhibits on |the field were the Ford, General Mo- tors, Dodge Bros., Packard, Meade- | Morrison, International Harvester and Caterpillar Tractors, Inc., concerns, represented by tractors, trucks and engines; the Colt’s, Fire Arms com- any represented by machine guns, and the DuPont de Nemours by flash- less powder. All of the government arsenals also had exhibits, Nobody Spared the Next War. The morning program opened with the firing of the 16-inch gun, the maxi- mum range of whose shells, backed by 860 pounds of powder, is 30 miles. One shell per minute can be fired from this type of gun. Next a 12-inch field piece was exercised. It “sends a 700-pound projectile about 17 miles Samples Tested. Out of 47 samples of milk sent into tho Bronx that we tested by a r utable laboratory, came back la beled as failing to come up to th standards New York City san itary code. 3 is particularly true of milk offered to the poorer classes he charged. in Que s 40 samples of milk in rated districts were taken, | and only one was found to even a proximate the c are the minimum. he the samp} he said, violated 101 sep- arate provisions of the code, How Come? ~ to know how Smith ree ynciled his “love for the poor people” with this rottenness and corruption in the milk supply of the poor fami Mills want Two Surgeons Killed. MONTREAL, Oct, 21.—Two veteri nary surgeons, Dr. Honorius Aubry]and can be elevated to an angle of 38 and Dr. ickert, field inspectors} degrees. After that the anti-aircraft of the federal department of agricul-] guns of smaller sizes were shown in ture, were instantly killed by the}action, and the guests turned their Canadian Pacific Ra Montreal-j attention to an exhibit of army air Toronto flyer at St. Emmanel, 31 miles from this city corps equipment. Beside the foreign bombs used dur- ing the war, there were shown Amer- ican bombs of recent development, in- cluding the types known as fragmen- The size of The DAILY WORK- BR depends on you. Send a sub. |the civilian population when a city és | bombarded from the air. The pro- {gram announced that demolition bombs are intended for the destruc- tion of ammunition dumps, store- houses, terminals and similar targets. Tanks Added to Guns and Bombs. | There was a tank show, also. The Mark VIII tank weighs 40 tons and jcarries 11 men and an officer, with 2 |six-pound guns and five machine guns. |Its speed is six miles an hour. The |medium tank, of 1921 mode], runs 12 ;miles an hour but has only one 6- |pounder and two machine guns. j Gas and Fire—But No Peace. While the government of the United States has been talking world peace and arms reduction its army experts have been working on new ammuni- tion. One “supersensitive fuse” has ben developed which will ignite while cutting thru the fabric of an airplane wing. There is also a chemical mortar for firing gas and smoke shells at ma- chine gun nests. And there is a pro- jector which fires gas, high explos- ive and incendiary filling, weighing 60 pounds. In the demonstration be- fore the business men, white phos- phorus filling was used. Enthuse The Manufacturers, This field-day of mimic warfare was stage by the Chief of Ordnance and by various units of the army for the purpose of renewing the enthusiasm of the manufacturers for war-prepar- edness in their own plants. The ex- hibits carried the suggestion that war brings a profit to the manufacturer who is ready, and big profit to the one who is ready first. 3 DENY STRIKERS CIVIL LIBERTY ASSERTS C.L.U, Constitution Ignored to to Break Strikes NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—“The denial of civil Jiberties to strikers in indus- trial trial disputes” gets chief posi- tion in the report of the American Ciyil Liberties Union for the months | of May, Juné, July and August. The | report cites the wholesale arrests of strikers under anti-picketing injunc- tions and on general police. charges in the strikes of New York fur work- ers, subway workers and garment workers, In the garment strike some 1,000 arrests were made in the period. In Rhode Island martial law and state troops broke a cotton workers’ strike and in Passaic police brutality con- tinued thruout, tho the attempt to en- force “riot law” had to be given up. Have to Fight for “Rights.” Free epeech fights staged by the Liberties Union ended in one victory —in Pittsburgh, where the Workers’ Party gained the right to hold meet- imgs im private halls without police interference. In New York City the union had to fight for its own liberty of speech when the New York City school hoards denied the use of several audi- tontans. Tveo Communists in Penn, Prison, Conviction of the second Workers’ Party member in Pennsylvania under the state sedition law occurred in this CHICAGO FEDERATION RADIO STATION WILL BROADCAST PASSAIC Rebecca Grecht, field organizer of the Relief Committee of the Passaic Textile strike, representing .Local 163 of the United ‘Textile Workers, will speak over the radio Wednes- day, Oct. 27, at 6 o'clock from sta- tlon WCFL, the Chicago Federation of Labor broadcasting station, Her subject will be “The Passalc Strike.” Notice of the showing of the mo- tion picture of the Passaic strike here on October 29, Ashland Boule- vard theater, will also be made over radio. CHI GANGSTERS TO HAVE THEIR DAILY MURDER Reports of the signing of an armistice. in Chicago’s gangland, after two years of intermittent war- fare which brought more than 100 deaths, were shattered today before the ink on the. papers which heralded the truce was dry, The body of a well-dressed, unidenti- fied man, a bullet wound behind the left ear, was found in a westside al- ley. A .45 caliber automatic—the favorite toy of the underworld—had brought his death. % Police said they believed he had In Massachusetts the famous Sacco-|been “taken: for a ride” and thrown Vanaetti case had a hearing for a new |from the automobile in which he had trial that was featured by Attorney-|been Killed. : General Sargent’s refusal to permit the fies of the department of justice, hearing on the case, to be opened, Three September lynchings of Ne groes were added to seven in the pre- vious months, showing a considerable increase over the total of three in the first four monthe of the year. Longshoreman Wins Suit for Damages Against Company WASHINGTON, Oct, 21, — Long- shoremen doing the work of seamen Get a copy of tne Amertcan Worker /in stowing cargo in the hold of a ship Correspondent. !*’> only 5 cents, in port are entitled to the same legal ——————————— renee | redress for accidents in that service | . 48 are seamen, the federal supreme WCFL Radio Program | court declared Oct, 18 in the oud of R, Haverty of Seattle. Haverty sued Chicago Federation of Labor radio|the International Stevedoring Co, for broadcasting station WOFL is on the| damages suffered when he was in- air with reaular programs. It {8/jured by a bale of cargo that was broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length | carelessly lowered by a hatch tender. from the Municipal Pier The company sought to evade pay- jment of damages on the ground that TONIGHT 6100 p. m.—Chicago Federation of La-| the old fellow-servant negligence rule dor, and bulletins. | prevailed. Justice Holmes, who wrote E ‘oort Concert Trio; Joe! ‘he. court’s opinion, held that the work of placing cargo in the ship was a maritime service, aint, Lit Warner, Clarence Sullivan, 9100—Alamo Cafe Dance Orchestra, 11:00—Alamo Entertainers. BLOOR CROSSES CONTINENT FOR PASSAIC FUNDS Western Labor to Hear Story of Mill Strike DAYTON, 0., Oct, 21—Completing her first lap of 223 miles in her 3,500- trip across the continent to raise money for Passaic strike relief, Mother Bloor, veteran labor leader, arrived in this city today. Tonight she will appear before a mass meeting of workers to tell of the heroic strug- gle waged for the past eight months by the Passaic strikers against the powerful mill barons and the mill- controlled police and courts of the strike zone, Mother Bloor says she is feeling fine, “never felt better in my life,” and feels confident of success for her cross-continent trip, which includes: Terre Haute, Vandalia and St. Louis on Oct. 20; Oct. 23, O’Fallon, Colum- bia and Kansas City; Oct. 26, Law- rence, Topeka, Manhattan, Clay Cen- ter; Oct, 27, Beloit, Plainville, Colby; Oct, 28, Goodland Burlington, Limon; Oct. 29 to 31, Denver; Nov. 2, Colo- rado Springs; Nov. 3, Pueblo, Trint- dad; Nov..4, Raton, Taos, Santa Fe; Nov. 5, Albuquerque, Gallup; Nov. 6, Holbrook, Winslow; Nov, 7, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon, Williams, Ashfork; Noy. 8, Seligman, Kingman, Needles; Nov. 9, Amboy, Barstow San Bernar- dino; Noy, 10 Pasadena, Logs Angeles. Cleveland Will See Passaic Strike Film _ Friday, October 22 CLEVELAND, Oct. 21.—The strike of the Passaic textile workers will be shown here in film at the Engineers’ Auditorium, St, Clair avenue and On- tario street; on Friday, Oct, 22. There will be two showings: one at 7 p. m. and one at 9 p. m, This film is one of the finest labor films that have ever been shown in this country. It gives a clear picture of the struggle of the Pi ic textile workers, their heroic struggle for the right to organize, the sufferings that they have gone thru at the hands of the police, the beatings-up by the dep- uty sheriffs, the picket lines and the splendid demonstrations—all of this will be shown in the “Passaic Strike” film, which has already been shown in the Hast and has met with unqual- ified approval, pay Worker CHICAGO LABOR BACKS GARMENT STRIKE RELIEF Sunday’s Conference to Rally All Trades The conference which was called by the Chicago Joint Board of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers for Sunday, October 24, 1926, was en- dorsed Sunday, October 17, at a Chi cago Federation of Labor meeting and all affiliated organizations are urged to participate, Conference Next Sunday. The committee which attended the conference of October 17 report that in order to. do the work more effect- ively it was decided that a joint con- ference of all organizations be held on October 24. Edward Nockles, secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor, was se- lected treasurer of this conference. It was also decided to urge upon. all organized workers to donate $1 each for the New York strike, which it is estimated should raise a fund of over $100,000. Increase Goes to Strikers. While the readjustment in wages is going on in the ladies’ garment shops the workers who received increases made a motion that their first week’s increase be given to the New York strikers, This ig in addition to the approxi- mate average of $1.50 per member weekly tax they have already been assessed with thru a decision ren- dered October 3 by the Chicago Joint Board. Palmer Shop Progres: The workers of Percival B. Palmer, which is the largest shop in this city, after a lengthy conference with their employer, have obtained an increase and have unanimously decided to give this increase to the New York strik- ers, This shop, which previously man- aged to hold out against the union, has now, by the efforts of the Chicago Joint Board, been brought fully into the union, with its workers enthusias- tically co-operating in active work. The next largest shop, Schenker, Michel & Weinstock, did likewise. These voluntary contributions will net about $300 from each shop. Smaller shops, like I. Victor & Co, and others, are acting in the same man- ner. : The originators of this movement are the workers of B. Kirshbaum & Co., who have given over their first week's increase to the New York strikers last week. It is thought that iat agent of the depastmant vet Sue: this movement will followed in every ae . Re tice in Boston, may be authorized to talk with me concerning the Sac- individual human being, without doubt, in HE most powerful Massachusetts, which means New England, is William Morgan Butler, United States senator, multi-million- aire textile manufacturer and the reputed political boss of the repub- lican party. He is the typical American indus- trial kaiser. He is a director and heavy investor in more than a half dozen of the largest textile mills in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, employing tens of thousands of workers enslaved under the so-called “American” or “open shop” plan. Senator Butler has established one of the most elaborate spy sys- tems in the land in his mills in or- der to root out, immediately they appear, any sprouting seeds of unionism, eo & It was to this Senator Butler that Attorney William G, Thompson, counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti, wrote requesting some assistance to force the department of justice to disgorge information it had in its possession absoluely proving ‘the innocence of the two Italian work- ers of the charges on which they have been convicted and sentenced to death. Senator Butler is a politician. More than that, he is up for re- election, It would not do for him to come out flat-footedly and declare that the Sacco-Vanzetti case did not concern him, That would cause large masses of textile workers to ques- tion the right of Butler, the mill owner, to represent them in the sen- ate, Butler, therefore, pursues the usual political strategy. Butler did not get into action him- self to force the department of justice to reveal its records. Not at all. That would have forced the department of justice to act. Instead Butler wrote to Attorney Thompson requesting that Thomp- son write to Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent. This | Thompson did, He wrote as follows: an “At the suggestion of Senator Butler, I am writing to inquire whether William J. West, now a spe- co-Vanzetti case, and to show me Brookwood College whatever documents and correspond- Opens Sixth Year ence are ‘on file in his office, deal- With Varied Group ing with the investigations made by, the Boston agents before, dur- ing and after the trial of Sacco and KATONAH, N. Y., Oct, 21—Brook-| vanzetti, which occurred in June wood Labor College opened its sixth | anq July 1921.” year here yesterday with students rep-| ‘The letter related in detail the resenting eighteen industries in at- startling revelations made by the tendance, Industries represented in-/ oy department of justice agent, cludes painters, garment workers, min- Fred J. Weyand, showing that the ers, upholstery weavers, hosiery knit- 3 ters, railway carmen, stenographers, bankers, tailors, machinists, electri- agents of the department of justice never believed Sacco and Vanzetti ey: lett cians, cap workers, pet comes clerks, iil Psa Fe ag eee ca jeri ploin & forkssn ity ah te the cited the confession by Celestino enrollment. They include California, et i Gah site af eye ble se a) Pani Wyoming, Colorado, Oregon, Delaware, at the scene of the South Braintree Maryland, Illinois, Minnesota, Ken- crime and that Sacco and Vanzetti tucky, Texas, Massachusetts, Pennsyl- ‘were not sna Mig S vania, and New York, One student comes from England and another from Canada. The course of study includes, eco- nomics, labor problems, trade union organization, English, history, psychol- ogy, public speaking and a study of basic industries. Issue Injunction to Stop Pickets, Altho Peaceful; Fine Union Butler’s attorney general, Sargent, never replied to that letter, Thomp- son told the Dedham court. The blame, therefore, rests on Sargent, Britain Demands an For Massacre Plaint | PEKING, Sept. 28—(By Mail)—Ac- cording to reports here, the British press demands that the Chinese Te- NEW YORK, Oct, 21.—(FP)—Vio-! presentative who protested against the lence is not necessary for an employer |bombardment of Wanhsien by the to get an injunction, The New York| British before the league of nations, Retail Clerks Union have had one|Should now apologize to the league thrust on them, altho it was not|an@ to Great Britain, otherwise Great claimed that their pickets were any-| Britain would hold it to be incompat- thing but peaceful on the picket line, |!ble with her dignity to sit together The clerks’ union has been trying to| With the Chinese representative at organize workers of the L, Daitch &|the council of the league of nations, company, Inc., a small butter and egg : concern. The 6mployer claimed that he employed members of his own fam- fly chiefly and that they were not in- terested in joining the union, The first application “or injunction was denied but the appellate division of the court granted it and fined the union $10 costs, te PRS ARIE MacDonald on Health Tour. LONDON, England, Oct, 21.—At- tacked a4 a serious bronchial® trouble, J, Ramsay / Mac- Donald, former labor premier, has, left for a tour of several weeks in an attempt to regain his health, it is announced. MacDonald's tour will take him to the southern Sahara. He has been under the care of a doctor for some time. Chicago Forum Opens Sunday, October 31 A discussion on the confiict between church and state in Mexico will tea- ture the opening of the Chicago Forum on Sunday, October 31, at the Erlanger theater, Clark and Randolph, Alva W. Taylor of Indianapolis, leader in social work of the Protestant church, and Charles Philips, professor Catholic, recurrence of of Notre Dame University, will discuss the situation, Among speakers; at the meetings will be Senator Robert M, LaFollette, John Haynes Holmes, Rabbi Stephen 8, Wise, Kirby Page, Sidney Hillman, Harry Dimer Barnes, William Allen White, and Mordecai W. Johnson, Capitalist Government Protects Its Lies From the Truth-Telling Facts By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. the political appointee, for rejecting the simple request that all the facts in the Sacco-Vanzetti case be made khown, as they exist in the files of the government. But even the lackey attorney gen- eral felt that. he had to cover up a little. Og orders from Sargent, the Boston agent of the department of justice, Mr, Dowd, telephoned saying that the attorney general had asked him to get in touch with Mr, Thomp- son and find out what it Was the defense lawyer wanted, as if there was any doubt about it. The matter ended by the refusal of Mr. Dowd, on the ground that he had no authority to do so, tovallow Mr. Thompson any acoess to the sfiles or any information from Mr. West. That is where this situation stands at the present hour. + ee Let the blame be traced back to its source, Attorney General Sar- gent could, on a moment’s notice if he desired, instruct Mr. Dowd to grant Thompson the right to go thru the department’s files. If Sar- gent didn’t get into action, then his mentor, Senator Butler, could get all the results desired. The blame for hiding the department’s records, therefore, and covering up the crimes of the department of justice in aiding the frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti, rests directly on Senator Butler, the textile mill owner, whose creature President Coolidge is, and who keeps his thumb on Governor Fuller, of Massachusetts, who has the power to pardon Sacco and Vanzetti, if he desired, and thus blast this conspiracy against labor, But Governor Fuller does not move, in spite of the fact that he has been bombarded with protests by American and world labor, This letter incident shows better than anything possibly could show how the New England frame-up gang—Coolidge, Butler, Fuller, Sar- gent—sticks together against the working class, ex @ Attorney Thompson also points out how he suggested to the attor- ney general of Massachusetts and to Mr, Ranney, the assistant district attorney in. charge of the. Sacco-., Vanzetti case for the government, that material witnesses should be examined in joint conference by both sides, that the truth might be brought out and that the proceed- ings might not degenerate into a mere “contest of affidavits.” Both these men agreed. But later Dis- trict Attorney Wilbar wrote At- torney Thompson that he would not agree to such a proceeding. The master’s voice had made itself heard once more. fe @ The capitalist government is not interested in getting at the truth in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. It is only interested in the les that it may concoct to help it put two workers to death. That is the plain truth about the Sacco-Vanzetti case as it stands today. The frame-up agent, William J. West, working under the’ direction of the United States department of justice, is still on the job in Boston, Massachusetts. Women’s Work Is to Apology From China | . be Subject of Meet * sah) in District 2, Mon. NEW YORK, Oct. 21—A very im- portant meeting of the organizers of all the units of women’s work and all housewives’ party members will be held on Monday, October 25 at 8 p. m., at the party headquarters, 108 East 14th street. This meeting is of great importance, All must’ be .present. A roll call will be taken, Members of the district committee for work among women and a member of the district executive committee will be present at this meeting, Million and a Half Italians Affiliated With Fascist Crowd ROME, Oct, 21.—According to offi- clal records there are now 1,500,000 members of fascismo in Italy, Of these 934,000 are full-fledged, 53,000 are women, 211,000 are juveniles be- tween 14 and 18 years, and 270,000 are children of 14 and less, FLYNN IN NATION WIDE TOUR FOR LABOR DEFENSE Noted Labor Organizer in Chicago Nov. 24 ‘ = Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, one of the most popular labor organizers and speakers in the country, will be the guest of honor at a “proletarian caba- ret” to be held here on November 2 by Local Chicago, International Labor Defense, to welcome her as the newly- elected national chairman of the I. L. D, and to greet her in the heginning of her coast-to-coast tour for the class war prisoners. Comrade Flynn has been a fighter in the forefront of many historic strikes and labor struggles in the United States. ‘During the war and immediately after it she gave most of her energies towards the building of a working class defense organization and she has been actively engaged in labor defense to this day. She was one of the active leaders and organ- izers in the Passaic textile strike and in her tour she will tell the story of this heroic fight of thousands of work- ers for better conditions of life and labor and how their most energetic fighters are still being held under charges which may mean imprison- ment for having dared to organize and battle for their union, ‘Comrade Flynn will speak at a few meetings in Pennsylvania on her way to Chicago. From Chicago she will go directly to the California coast, where she is scheduled to address numerous meetings. She will then proceed to the northwest and return to the east- ern coast after speaking at meetings in every town and city where such will be arranged. Response to the tour of Comrade Flynn has been very enthusiastic and scores of meetings have already been arranged. It is expected that when the tour is brought to an end in New York City upwards of 150 meetings will have been addressed by Comrade Flynn under the auspices of Interna- tional Labor Defense, The national office of International Labor Defense, 23 S. Lincoln, Chicago, Il, hag asked that all labor organi- zations and branches of I. L. D. that wish to arrange meetings for Comrade Flynn send in their requests imme- diately, before the final itinerary is completed. HAMMOND TO TURN OUT FOR. CLINE MEETING (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Oct. 21.—Charles Cline, who was recently released from a Texas prison for participating in a Mexican revolutionary move, and who is now touring the country for the In- ternational Labor Defense, spoke at two enthusiastic meetings last week, here and at Hammond, Indiana, Tells of Suffering. Cline recited his experiences in the revolutionary attempt and the 18 gruelling years that followed in prison, He closed his talk with a stirring ap- peal for mobilization of the workers into the International Labor Defense, in order that class-war prisoners can be given adequate defense, legal and financial, Protest for Negroes. At Hammond James Ford, of the American Negro Congress, spoke on the case of the Houston martyrs, Ne- gro soldiers who are held in Leayen- worth prison for defending their race. The following resolution on the case was passed at Hammond and enthu- siastically endorsed by the Gary meet- ing: é x “We, workers and citizens of Ham- mond, at the Holy Trinity hall, deplore the fact that at least 14 Negro sol- diers, a part of the 65 who were origi. nally court-martialed, are still suffer- ing iniprisonment in the prison at Leavenworth, “Of the 65, 13 were hung, two died in prison, and one went insane, The brutal punishment of the Negro sol- diers, whose only crime consisted in. defending their race against the in- human fegime of oppression to which they are subject in the south, have justly earned the name of ‘Houston martyrs.’ “We protest against the continued imprisonment of the Houston martyrs as a violation of all rights of man, We demand their immediate and un- conditional release. We pledge our- selves not to rest until the public opin- jon is aroused against the injustice committed against the innocent men and they are freed with full rights of citizenship, “Be it resolved that a ‘copy of this resolution be sent to the Houston mar+ It is now the custom to admit no|*Y? t© the president of the United one to the movement, unless they have been admitted when small children, and gradually promoted, There are 3,000,000 belonging to the fascist trade ee, the figures show, Siates and to the press.” Your nefghbor will apprecia' the favor—gtve him this copy of the DAILY WORKER, “BE SURE TO GET YOUR CoPY OF THIS SPLENDID ISSUE | |