The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1926, Page 2

eta BETO ae Page Two eer ore PRESIDENT IS STRENGTHENED BY NEW WRIT “God Knows” Taft True to Form (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, October 26—The power of the president to remove a federal otticer without the consent of the senate was sustained by the supreme court today, thus ending a dispute as to constitutional rights that has waged between the legisla- tive and executive branches of the government for half a century, acis ded down in now Port- ap) pointed by nent had » his he to be senate’s con- 1 ce Taft delivered th Back Chie stice Taft f n 17S usse to 1789, ind that con rincip! have broad ment and remoyv is the president’s power of removal held by le tion but also by the nature the office, the court pov not only of y the sena at the pre appointme onfirmation not imply a similar ight of a check upon removal. In its opinion oustitutional the of 1867 in which r imposed upon the Of Basic Importance, The decision is considered by tenia} must om 38 authorities as the most im- portant ever de the supreme court. Solicitor g 1 James M. Beck, in arguing the right of the pre- sident to remove, declared “the prin- ciple involved is of the very founda- tion af our gov the president officials, however nfit and unworthy they may be,” he , “then he has neither the independence nor the power than has been attributed to the office.” The Myers case has been before the courts for several years. When Myers originally sued for $8,838 back pay, the government merély set up the defense that delay in bringing the suit was fatal to recovery of damages, The court of claims sus- tained the government, and did not pass upon the legality of the re- moval. Justice McReyolds, Holmes and Brandeis dissented, Justice McReyolds, who wrote the dissenting opinion, called the court’s decision revolutionary in character. “* * Court Recesses, WASHINGTON, October 26.— The supreme t nounced today it would re m November 1 to November Cal’s Oregon Senator to Be Defeated, G. O. P. Campaign Head Admits WASHINGTON, Oct. Senator St eld of Oregon, Coolidge defeated by Steiwer in the will run a poor thi ember election, says Se Phipps of Colorado, chairman of t 26.—(FP)-- . O. P. senatorial campaign com- inittee, Phipps says Steiwer will win, with Haney, democrat, second. He speaks of ‘Stanfield as having been “over- whelmingly defeated” in the seh Rihie and says the independent cand!datc effort to enlist support from other republican senators has been “of no avail.” Trolley ge Injures 27. BUFFALO, N. Y., Oot. 26.—Twenty- seven persons cid e injure d, three per- sons perhaps fatally, when a trolley ear crashed into a truck here today. The car was crowded with persons on their way to work. 3 con, | He used the age-old high tariff ar- SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS SENTENCE UNDER KANSAS COMPULSORY LABOR LAW (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct, 25,—The sentences of August Dorchy, Kan- sas labor leader, for violating the Kansas industrial court law was up- held today by the supreme court in affirming the Kansas supreme court. Dorchy, alleged to have fomented a coal mine strike, contended that the United States supreme court had declared compulsory features of the law Invalid and that the penalty features fell with this de- cision, ‘DRY’ SOLON SAID -T0 BE COLLECTOR IN RUM GRAFT |Over One Million Dollars Paid in Two Years stories of how wine flowed illegally, at a cost of a $1 ft, to the extent of more ivion gallons in two years, scheduled to be told in the fed- court today at the trial of Maj. B. Owen, former prohibition strator for the Chicago district, and State Senator Lowell B. Mason, his alleged chief collector, Former alleged partners, associates and hirelings in what federal officials have called the biggest wine scandal in prohibition times were on the list of government witnesses. . Charge of Conspiracy. Chief of ‘the witnesses are six men who were indicted with Maj. Owen and Senator Mason on charges of con- |spiracy to violate the prohibition en- forcement act, All have confessed according to gov- nment officials. were scheduled to tell how more than a hundred allegedly “fake” | congregations were organized to ob- |tain “sacramental” wines for peligious | ceremontes, at a cost plus graft price, “Dry” Was Collector. Senator Mason, a candidate for re- election and known as a “dry” in legis- jlative circles, is charged with having {been tho chief collector and “fixer’ in the wine ring. Maj. Owen is alleged to not only have issued permits fllegally, but to have accepted various and sundry pay- ments of money therefor, in one in- stance a tidy bit of $60,000, and other various sums in “boxcar” figures. ADMINISTRATION TO FIGHT CUTS IN U.S. TARIFF WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—The ad- ministratiOn has taken the lead in an effort to prevent tariff lowering at the coming session cf congress. Mellon Makes Statement. This was the view Washington took today of Secretary of Treasur- er Mellon’s reply to ‘the international bankers’ manifesto. In a formal state- ment, he added but little to his oral one of last week. Mellon said, in effect, that leveling riff barriers would be fine for ‘ope, and he wished the plan well, ut it would be not so” good for the United States, and the administra- tion is going to fight any moves to cut tariffs here. “Harm Labor.” wer of gument that a reduction of the Amer- ican tariff world be detrimental to American labor and American pros- perity, and, in addition, would ad- versely affect Europe thru America’s decreased buying power. This sam< argument has been used by republicas speakers on the stump in the present campaign. Sethestncsiscpelicliatien Belgian Ship Sinks, BORDEAUX, Oct. 26—The Bel- gian steamer Caledonier, which left Bordeaux October 12 for Hampton Roads, is reported to have sunk off Portugal following an explosion in her hold. The report, as yet unconfirmed indicates that the crew of 41 was lost. KEEP THE DAILY WORKER For Militant Trade Uni Workers Win Strikes—0: im—For a Labor Party—To Help anise Unorganized—To Protect For- aign-Born—To Rstablish a Workers’ and Farmers! Government! a eemnnn cen nnnennenvennensensnennr iors iesbseneseneenseamettnieneneee® pemee samnreernsvensserommmvessers SUBLO seeosermmeeenanenes EEE AIL 8 ac EB Rh es Bo ia era all eS: Ace vera eo FREE TRADE © FOR EUROPE, SAYS MELLON But U. S. Must Keep Its High Tariff By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press) " WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury and head of the American aluminum trust will defend the high protective tariff on aluminum and other big industries to the last ditch, That is the mean- ing of the statement he issued after long consultation-with President Coo- fidge, agreeing with the international bankers that Europe should reorgan- ize itself into oné economic unlit, but denying, that America should lower its tariff wall toward European com- merce, With the traditional air of bene- volence which Pennsylvania manu- facturers have shown in political campaigns for generations past, he pleads for his high tariff privilege in she name of labor, Applies to Europe, Says Mellon, Mellon says that the internatfonal bankers’ “Plea for Removal of Re- strictions Upon European Trade” is brought about by the breaking up of old political units such as the Austro- Hungarian empire, and the re-arrange- ment of the continent along ethnical lines which are hostile to the natural flow of corgnerce. Big cities like Vienna are left without markets or sources of raw material for factories. Europe Should Emulate U. S. “The situation in Burope,” he de- clares, “is different from that in America, The two would only be; come comparable if we should con- sider each of the 48 states a separate nation, each having its own tariff, its own railroads, its own currency and its own language. Under such con- ditions the industrial power of the United States must and would end. “What the plea of the bankers seeks to accomplish in its final analysis is not a change in the world but to bring about in Europe a condition similar to that in the United States. It is not criticism of us but emula- tion.” For Trade War. ‘Thus in the closing days of the cam- paign the Coolidge-Mellon administra- tion gives its approval to the eco- nomic soundness of the plan for-a United States of (non-Soviet), Burope which shall enter into a fierce race for world markets against the organ- ized business of the United States of America. It rejects the suggestion of a federation of all capitalist na- tions around the world in the task of eliminating national tariff barriers for a new era in the evolution of private enterprise. It is American capital against west- ern European capital, with just a hint that the war debts are to be thrown overboard rather than interfere with the profits of the tariff monopolists. ASK CANDIDATES THEIR POSITION ON INJUNCTIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—A queftion- naire to determine their stand on the question of injunctions in labor dis- putes has been sent to every candi- date in the five boroughs by the Emergency Labor Conference, 130 E. 25th Street, recently formed to help the striking cloakmakers and to com- bat labor injutictions. Created by 800,000 trades unionists of Greater New York and having the support of the New York State Fed- eration of Labor, the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York, the United Hebrew Trades and other cen- tral labor groups, the conference to help the cloakmakers is seeking to establish publicly, prior to election lay, the attitude of every candidate for office on the injunction issue, The questionnatre, in the form of a letter, asks whether the candidaje is in favor of “checking the evil of in- Ra DAILY fica 2: SOUTH SHATTERS ALL PRECEDENT} LYNCHING GANGSTERS ARRESTED DOUGLAS, Georgia, Oct. 26.—For the first time in the history of the south, the law has stepped in a lynching case and brought action against the mob. Nine of sixteen members of a mob that shot to death Dave Wright, alleged slayer, after taking him from the jail, have been indtsted. They are under arrest. The mob commit- ted the violence August 19. MARIE RECEPTION DISGUSTING, SAYS GOTHAM MINISTER Another Points to Her As Fine¢xample (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Gotham’s churchmen are considerably at va- riance “concerning Queen Marie's American trip, it was revealed today by a survey of Sunday sermons in New York churches. “A Shining Example.” While the Rey, S: Edward Young, pastor of the Bedford Avenue Presby- terian Church, was praising the Rou- manian queen as “another Victoria,” and urging American women to fol- low her example of “service and pa- triotism,” quite another note was be- ing sounded by the Rev, Christian F. Reisner of the Chelsea Methodist Church, Disgusting Bootlicking. “To what are free-blooded Ameri- cans coming?” demanded Dr. Reisner, referring to the adulation that has been heaped upon Marie since her ar- rival here. “How can any good come to us from such ‘disgtisting dust-lick- ing and exaltation of a flesh and blood person who does not even represent a nope? Why not rather select an un- known American mother and glorify her than revive a false notion in dem- ocratic America that born royalty is better than character? We are cheap- ening ourselves and exalting wrong ideals by such praise.” Relief to Stricken Isle of Pines’ Being Rushed by Airships HAVANA, Oct. —With Cuban aeroplanes crippled jad unable to fly, American warships and aeroplanes from the American naval base at Gu- antanamo are enroute to the Isle of Pines to aid in the’-hurricane relief work. Efforts to send relief to the Isle of Pines from Havana have proved fruit- less as the road between this city and Batabano, the port of embarkation for the Isle of Pines, is impassable. There has been no addition to the list of seventeen Americans.who are among the dead at Isle of Pines, Havana newspapers this morning and 3,000 injured’‘in Havana were probably exaggerated.” Two national relief organizations— one to raise funds, the other to dis- tribute tood—have ‘Ween organized in Cuba. At Batabano, south of Havana, 50 were injured. The city is in ruins, “What’s a Suit Among Friends?”’ Says Trust in Office Equipment NEW YORK, Oct. 26—Free adver- tising for the “government sponsored National Management Week” is given in a New York newspaper by the Rand Kardex Service, part of the Rand Kardex Bureau, Inc., which is under suit by the federal government for violations of the Clayton anti-trust act. Rand Kardex is one of four com- panies, a trust company, and six in- dividuals in the government court ac- tion to block trustification of the office equipment business, Rand Kardex’s efforts to buy Globe Wernicke Co, brought the government action after earlier mergers had gone thru. Management Week is approved junctions in industrial disputes” and whether he favors the enactment of an antiinjunction bill by the state legislature limiting the power of the courts to issue injunctions in trade and labor disputes, The questionnaire is signed by J. M. Budish, secretary of the Emergen- cy Labor Conference, by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover as part of Ais elimination of waste in industry program. To Keep Your Jobs Vote Republican, is Sec. Davis’ Warning STUBENVILLE, O,, Oct, 20—James J. Davis, secretary of labor, made an appeal of the workers here to vote the republican ticket in the November election with the argument that his party’s tariff program would keep the factories open, “Th is only one road to prosper- ity,” said Davis. “And that the re- publican party has always stood for, Let's keep our laboring men busy and prosperous, Continuation of the pro- tective tariff will do it.” Chicago Republicans Shocked when Dawes, Denounces Primary Republican political circles here to- day were emitting rumblings and roarings in the wake of a speech by Viee-President Charles G. Dawes yes- terday in which he denounced the direct primary system, particularly ay it applies to United States sena- tors. Dawes spoke at a gathering of reported that estimates of 200 dead |. a Fail Rats SOE eee re s A e a ac SNRs ARC ae A PRS a SO a Be RIEL Sad le Ee: Aa eA Sse Co ad Exploiters’ Rule Trods Pathway Bloodstained By Martyrs of Labor By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘VERY capitalist newspaper in the land printed something about the decision of Judge Webster Thayer denying a new trial to Nico- la Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Tens of millions of workers, there- fore, are fully aware of the certain death that threatens their comrades, in the shadow of the electric chair, in Massachusetts. The fact that a great wave of protest does not roll up over the land may be accounted for, in part, by the attitude of masses of work- ers stated in these few words, “They won't put them to death, They don’t dare. Something will appen to stop the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.” ee This is, of course, a criminal] at- titude. The worker who takes that attitude shows that he has -been sctively doped by the ruling class under which he suffers, Somehow, this type of worker has come to the suicidal conclusion that the capitalist exploiter today doesn’t kill his prey. Attorney William G, Thompson, counsel] for Sacco and Vanzetti, not a member of the workingclass, not even a radical, or even a liberal, fought this viewpoint all thru his energetic participation in the five day’s of argument for the new trial, that has just been rejected by Judge Thayer, Thompson held up the electric chair as offering an im- mediate ‘danger, waiting at the courtroom door, as it were, with a powerful electric current turned full on, hungry for its victims, Attor- ney Thompson said: “If these men are executed, the cry is going around the world that if a man doesn’t believe in private property in America, he can be killed.” eee Labor must not wait until after Sacco and Vanzetti have been done to death, to learn whether it can be done, or will be done. It will then be too late to turn back and undo the crime that has been committed. The time to make the fight fs now, with the full gealization that Amer- ican capitalism, now as ever, wor- ries little about the blood of the workers upon its hands, as long as its dominant position is secure, *e 8 Doubting workers, who question the brutality of American greed, need but to scan thru the November issue of the Labor Defender, the monthly publication ‘of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, to trace the blood-stained path trod down thru the years by the capitalist over- lords in their ruthless pursuit of profits, In 1887 the gallows in Chicago claimed the Haymarket victims, just as guiltless as Sacco and Van- zetti, Joe Hill, the poet of the In- dustrial Workers of the World. was shot to death by a firing squad in the Utah state Jenitentiary, Nov. 19,1915. The next year, at Everett, Wash., the lumber trust didn’t wait for arrests, trials, convictions and executions. Thru its hired assas: sins under the direction of Sheriff McRae, it launched a veritable massacre against the free speech fighters of the I. W. W., at this Puget Sound port, taking a toll of 11 workers dead and 32 severely wounded. This list does not in- clude the killing, by hanging, of Frank Little, by an employing class mob near Butte, Mont., during the war, It does attempt to review the bloody record of the owning class in every strike that has taken place. There are workers who ask, “Will the American ruling class kill?” Here the workers have their ary. swer. The bosses will kill, None of these victims immediate- ly threatened the existence of the capitalist state, The Haymarket victims had merely declared for the eight-hour workday, launching the campaign for the shorter day of toil. Joe Hill was the poet of the migra- tory, unskilled. workers, putting in- to song the trials of itinerant la- bor. The Everett slaughter grew out of an attempt of labor to enjoy the right of free speech in the drive to organize the lumber workers in this western section of Washington. Little had voiced his views against the war, For this they all died, eee In writing about the Haymarket affair, Lucy EB. Parsons, widow of one-of the victims, says that seven years after the wholesale hanging, Governor John P. Altgeld, of Illi- nois, reviewed the whole case, and proved from the testimony that the workers hanged were absolutely in- nocent, It is a poor time, seven years af- ter workers have been murdered, to learn that they were innocent of the crime charged against them. That happened in the Haymarket case, This must not happen in the Sac- co-Vanzetti case. A great mass of evidence has already been pre- sented, that proves beyond doubt, except in the minds of the New England frame-up gang itself, that Sacco and Vanzetti are guiltless. a8 The New York World, Sunday, October 24, in reviewing the con- tents of the decision of Judge Thay- er, denying the new trial, said: “He (Judge Thayer) also rejects the testimony of Lawrence G. Le- therman, for 38 years a member of the sécret service forces of the United States, and Albert J. Wey- and, also a former secret service man, that attaches of the Boston office of the department of justice had conspired with state officials to convict the two radicals of a mur- der they did not believe them guil- ty of as ‘one way of disposing of theni’.” see ‘What did the prosecution do to wipe out the effect of these affida- vits? What did it say in reply to them? Nothing! Asolutely noth- ing! In the words of the New York World, same issue, we find the fol- lowing: “These affidavits (of Letherman and Weyand) the state did not an- swer, Dudley P. Ranney, the assist- ant district attorney now in charge of the case, contenting himself with denouncing Letherman and Wey- and for revealing secrets of the department of justice.” s**e* & Sacco and Vanzetti are innocent! Everyone at all familiar with the case knows it, But the executioners of the capi- talist class are determined to put them to death, What is the workingclass going to do about it? Rm ae The least that every reader of The DAILY WORKER can do right now is to order a bundle of the November issue of the Labor De- fender, 23.8. Lincoln Street, Chica- go, and get it distributed among workers who have a wrong view- point toward the Sacco-Vanzetti case, 4 NUMBER OF LYNCHINGS OF NEGROES IN U. S. INCREASES, THIRTY-SIX ARE VICTIMS OF MOB SINCE JAN. 1 ’ “Judge Lynch”/seems to be on the uphill climb again in the United States, increasing his toll of lives among the Negro race. Since January 1, there have been twenty-four lynchings in the country CHINESE MASSES HAIL BANTONESE |. AS LIBERATORS Strength Ran Beyond Number of Soldiers PEKING, Oct, 26.—In the present northern expedition of the Cantonese armies the Canton troops have main- ; . tained an exemplary conduct quite in contrast to the murderous, plundering tyranny of the reactionary militarists. These militarists were and are en- couraged by the foreign imperialist powers, who used them as tools to keep the Chinese masses terrorized and divided, Eyen the comparatively wealthy Chinese, robbed by the ma- rauding militarists, have weleomed the Canton troops as liberators, Masses Welcome Cantonese. How much more welcome have the Cantonese been to the farmers, whose crops and livestock have been stolen and destroyed by the reactionaries, and the coolie workers, who have been conseripted to both military and labor without pay, or slaughtered without pity, may be seen by the wild six more in the ten months of 1926 than there were during the entire 12 months of 1925. According to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, during the last 38 years there have been 3,583 lynchings, an average of almost 100 a year. There is 10¢——$<<—<—$$_$_______. comparison between the number of lynchings which have occurred in the Biker radi the Tea tee south and the number in other Sec-) era) Jaw against lynching, Hons of the country. Of course there} mpg Dyér-Anti-L: -Lynch act was intro- ary more Nearses in be be at duced, but the senate has failed to ‘e are other reasons, pointed act upon it. It is contended that this out, And among those reasons are failure has aided in the recent in- disrespect for Jaw, collusion between rease the law and the mob, ignorance, and * peste oii: aaa danatical race hatred. “Protects Pure Womanhood," Whites argue in defense of lynch- ings—there are some that do—that the only way to “prevent the Negro from attacking our pure white woman- hood” is to use the punishment of lynching, But the figures show that less than 20 per cent of those who . Washington Slush Charges. A possibility that the senate slush fun@ inquiry in Washington may be delayed until after the November elections was seen today when Sen- ater Charles L. MoNary, republican, of Oregon, telegraphed Senator James A, Reed, democrat of Missourt, slush 6,000 Polish Americans, Prva dy, bye coe ontes of probe ‘wits ain ook Se ee oe ” v7 g RKB. YOUr | were falsely harged. Also, since The sizo,.of The DAILY WoRKER| friends—send ge name and ad- iD00 a total ae “ Negro women have| Send The DAILY WORKER jterande 2m, em Send @ ate fh been Hates aoe aero (nee aie aa, enthusiasm. with which they greet the victorious Canton armies, This is the strength of the Canton troops, with goes far beyond the num- ber of their rifles and equipment. This sort of “propaganda” takes quick effect on the masses, and no northern general is sure what will happen to him and his army if he dares open an offensive against the Cantonese or even resist their advance, Militarists’ Power Crumbles, It is very doubtful if the northern generals will be able to hold out against the Cantonese advance, Their power crumbles into dust before the skillful maneuvers. of the Cantonese commander, Chiang Kai-shih, as can be seen by the fact that altho the Canton armies are still some 300. or 400 miles from Shanghai their sympa- thizers hawe acted and cut off that city from rail communication im all directions, If the Cantonese win all China they will surely carry out their demand for the abrogation of all unequal treat- ies and special privilege granted for- eign imperialists. So the imperialists continue to support the reactionary militarists and thereby seal their own fate by antagonizing the masses, CAMBRIDGE COPS ARREST WORKERS PARTY SPEAKER CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 26—Cam: bridge is the latest to follow in lina with the regime of reaction in the state of Massachusetts. Bert Miller, district organizer of the Workers’ Party, campaign manager for Massa- chusetts, was arrested on Thursday evening, October 21, as a result of an open air meeting held on Massachu- setts avenue and Essex street, on the charge of “disturbing the peace.” The district in which the meeting was held is strongly pro-Walsh and ap- parently the “disturbance of the peace” consisted in the attack on Walsh by the speaker as an enemy of labor, Exposes Walsh. Miller showed that Walsh was tied up with the bank interests, that “he had supported for president John W. Davis, attorney for J. P, Morgan & Co, and that he had been a sup- porter of the railroad interests, Tak- ing objection to these remarks, one of the local supporters of Walsh pro- ceeded to make a disturbance at the meeting. Instead of removing the dis- turber, the police proceeded to arrest the speaker in spite of the fact that the meeting was’ held with & local permit. Wagon Called. Without, further ado Miller was rushed off in a patrol wagon to a dark cell in the police station and he was given no opportunity to call up an attormey ‘or a bondsman. At the trial the police could only produce as witnesses storekeepers who ‘felt that the meeting had inter- fered with their business. The de fondant, however, was able to produce workers from the audience who came in spontaneous protest to the unjust actions of the police officers, In order to protect the posed that the defendant enter a plea of nolo or willingness not to prose- cute further, and thereupon the case was filed. This {s but one more case added to the long list of violations of the constitutional right of freedom of speech arid assembly of which Massa- chusetts can boast. Boston Barbers Gain Members in s in Campaign BOSTON, Oct. t, 26-Rarbers’ Unio: No, 182 reports 38 more shops orga! jzed and 100: new members in thd local due to organization efforts 4 the past few weeks. The Auerica: Federation of Labor membershig drive in Boston will be continued the fall and winter, organizer Fran! H, MoCarthy states, We will send sample coptes of DAILY WORKER to your one mand to your shop-mate. {vend us name and addrew, nice emetbttnmeentn a police the judge pro- / | vy