The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1926, Page 2

‘the employers Page Twé6 * (SSeieeerr ere 1000 OTK CORRESPONDENTS BY P SANUARY 13 | 1927 SCHOOL BOARD CANCELS PLAN FOR EDDY TALK es ‘Babbits Are Getting Worried (Worker Correspondent) MUSKEGON, Mich., Oct, voard of education of the 1} Be public schools has ped into the fight to prevent G berecoe Eddy Asie for a-series of public meetings Novem- ber 2 and 3. As with the members of the Muske- gon Employers’ A on they fear that Eddy with @ message of | the Russian Soviet government, and | no doubt he will y something of the conditions of workers there | and perha will reaffirm his stand favoring the recognition of Russia by | the United States government. Board Meets Especially. Governed largely by the words of L, C, Walker, president of the Shaw- Walker Filing Cabinet Company of this city, who is a leading member of the board of education, that body has held a special meeting and notified the superintendent of schools, M W., Long- man, that Mr. Eddy must not speak tat the senior high school and junior «college, as had been planned, The board of directors of the local Y ., under whose auspices Mr. Eddy is being brought to Muskegon, met this noon and, altho no action was taken, several members, influenced by the stand which has been taken by association, attempted to show w the Y. M. C, A. should withdraw its invitation to Eddy, Hold “Secret Sessions.” What the final result of the battle will be, s erged as it is behind closed doors and decided upon in se- cret meetings the results of which are not being given to the press, is not apparent. Meetings at the Y. W. also is co-operating in ly to Muskegon, the Oc- the Central ch cannot be vs, no matter cidental Hotel and at Methodist Episcopal Ch stopped by the employ how hard they try. ‘Telegrams are being sent to various | cities thrnout the country in which Baddy has recently talked to get state- ments as to how he was received, by the community and the manufacturers. “The pen is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use ft. Come down and learn how in the worker correspondent’s classes Chicago Garment Workers Vote Day’s Pay to N. Y. Strike (Continued from page 1; where the action was taken. Enthusiastic speeches were made by members of the unions, who reiter- ated their support to the New York cloakmakers, pledged at a similar meeting last week. lg Additional Donation. The day’s pay, which will be given this week, is in addition to the weekly | assessment of from 50 cents to $2, voted by the members at the former | Meeting. Vice-President Julius Portnoy of the , international, one of the strike lead- ers, and Manager J. Levine of the Joint | | Board of Chicago addressed Tuesday night’s meeting, urging the unionists to realize that the fight in New York is theirs as well as New York's, More than $30,000 will be sent to the strike relief from the Chicago needle workers. A definite campaign to raise $120,000 from other labor ‘unions of the city is to be launched soon by the Chicago Strike Confer- ence, representing all organized labor here. Md stelore Can’t Estimate Value of Purloined Jewels GREENWICH, Conn., Oct. 27. — Percy A. Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller, said today he was un- able to estimate the value of the Jewels of Mrs, Rockefeller which were stolen from the palatial Rockefeller residence here on Monday night. Mrs. Rockefeller said that the valuable jewels was a gold brace- Jet set with diamonds, a diamond ring and wriet watch as well as other as ticles not yet enumerated. $50,000 Jewel Theft. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 27-- A trunk containing between $35,000 and $60,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from the Hotel Syracuse last night, according to reports to the police to- day. The trunk was owned by V. 5. Chapman of Newark, N. J., a jewelry salesman. We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friends~ send us name and addroes, C. Ay which | among4 INCREASE SO BARONS | MINERS GIVEN SMALL || GAN RAISE ON USERS | | By ROMA, | Worker Correspondent. | MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Oct. 27. | ——When the Ben Franklin Coal Co. of this city increased its wage scale | from the 1917 basis to an equivalent | Of the Jacksonville agreement much comment was aroused as to the | cause of such a move, | The statement of the company of- ficlals that their action was due to the favorable bituminous coal mar- ket alone was disproved in a day or two, when the price of coal, to the | consumers was Increased 5 cents | per bushel, | In line with the Ben Franklin Coal Co., the McKeefrey Coal Co., op- erating a local non-union mine, an- | nounced that thelr wage scale would be Increased from the 1917 basis to that paid the union miners in Ohio. | This will be effective November 1, 1926. It is rumored that tHis In- crease will be general In the entire county, Now watch the price of coal rise! Iefererefere SUBSCRIBE SHESICAAT Wome WORT wie Chiang, Me Ane, 1 egpeine —_Pribe # Corts Det Ha Mit Aloo Write) jand learn whgre, what, when and how to write. | Only 50 Cents a Year. 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) | mental slobberers like David Karsner, but what Debs himself said and wrote. | Was Debs a pacifist? He was not. Listen to this: “The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. It thrills and vibrates; |spires. Tyrants and time-servers fear it, but the oppressed hail it with joy. | Let us glorify today the revolution of | the past and hail the greater revolu- tion yet to come before emancipation shall make all the days of the year May Days of peace and plenty for the sons and daughters of toil.” |JDERLIN diplomatic society is all aflutter because Mme. Krestinski, wife of the Soviet ambassador, suc- ceeds Viscountess d’Abernon, wife of the British ambassador, as doyenne of the diplonratic, corps, The doyen of the diplomatic corps is the papal nuncio Mgr. Pacelli, and, unfortunate- ly, the reverend gentleman is not mar- ried. Mme Krestinski’s task will be to introduce new female arrivals in the diplomatic colony to the Mrs. Streseman. But it is said that Mme. Krestinski prefers to attend to her self-imposed duty as free doctor at a clinic than to waste her time with parasites, ‘OST of the Negro papers pub- lished in Chicago have declared for George EB, Brennan, democrat, as against Frank L, Smith, republican. Why? Is it because Smith offended the sensibilities of the Negro editors because of his acceptance of a heavy slush fund from public utility mag- nates? Not on your tintype. The Negro editors in their eulogies of George BE. Brennan show every indi- vation that they were convinced ‘in private conference that Brennan was the best bet, if not for the Negroes at large, at least for the Negroes who own those newspapers, 4 Tourist Club “The Friends of Nature.” NEW YORK, Oct, 27,-This Sunday, Oct. 31, we hike to our camp at Mid- vale, N. J. The countryside around our camp presents a spectacle of rare beauty, for autumn is here in all its glory. It is a picture no artist can paint. Meeting place: Erie RK, R. Ferry, Chambers Street and Hudson River, Time: 4 p, m, Saturday after- noon, Fare: $1.70, Walking time: 8 hours. Leader: Hugo Koch.—Com- radely yours, William M, Beck, The American Worker Correspondent | cheers and in-| 2 ait | SCORN REQUEST “OF NEEDY WIDOW OF FORD WORKER Can’t Cin. | Her Job, | Says Aid Head | By ROSE LOMAK | (Worker Correspondent) | DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 27.—In the |Special Ford edition of The DAILY WORKER there was an article which | stated that Ford pries into the pri-} |vate affairs of his employes. Many |readers may doubt this statement. I |want to tell them about an exper'- jence of this kind which I had acting ;@s an interpreter for a widow of a | Mord worker who died jafter nine years of faithful service in the High- land Park plant. The widow had two children and jmeeded help badly, She went to the Ford factory and was referred to the |sociological depgrtment. She was j willing to go to work in the factory |and provide for her children that way. |The sociological department is in |charge of a man named Anderson, who no doubt was picked for the job be- \cause of his cold and heartless look ; Which he uses to throw a scare into {people who come to see him, | The following interview followed: Anderson: “What do you want here?” Widow: “I want help, my man die, two children hungry, no money, give me job, I work same as my man. Anderson: “What have you got jleft from your husband?” | Widow: “Nothing left.” Anderson walked to a file got the |man’s record and informed her that | she got $1,900 insurance from a cer- tain insurance company. “What did you do with the money from your husband’s insurance?” Widow: “I gave him a decent bur- |ial and the rest went to pay the doc- tor bills.” | Anderson: “I am sorry I can do nothing for you, you have been too extravagant to spend $500 on the bur- ial, You could have buried him for $200.or less and live on the rest of the money. As for a job we employ 600 women and no more, there are now 145 on the waiting list. If one of the 600 quits or dies the next on the list gets a job. You can file your appli- cation and it will be put on the list ‘and you may get a job about two |years from now. Good bye.” | This is the way the widows of the |Ford workers are treated, the best that can be done for them is a job at $5 per day if they can wait long enuf. German Communists in Move to Help Save Sacco and Vanzetti (Continued fron# page 1) spent for defense of Sacco and Van- zetti, “Was Madeiros given to under- stand that he would receive the same aid if he had the power of this or- ganization behind him?” Thayer asks. Here the judge goes beyond direct evidence and even beyond the impli- cation offered by assistant district attorney Dudley P. Ranney, altho Thayer declared at the hearing that he would regard “only the evidence.” While Thayer severely rebuked for- mer defense counsel Fred H. Moore in his decisions on other new trial motions, he now attacks counsel Thompson. He becomes somewhat comfused in his implication that Thompson suffers from “logo-psychic neurosis” or “hysteria”—a belief in the existence of things which do not exist, Because defense counsel indi- cated conspiracy between federal and state governments to send Sacco and Vanzetti to the chair not as murder- ers but as radicals, Thayer thinks Thompson suffers from this disease of his own invention. Assisfant dis- trict attorney Ranney himself ad- mitted that such co-operation between governments was a part of regular court procedure, virtually granting Thompson’s assertions, Thruout the decision Judge Thayer shows again his prejudice against Sacco and Vanzetti and his determi- nation not to ehange his original opinion, despite all new evidence to the contrary, He takes the stand that the new evidence must prove con- clusively the opposite of the old to make him change his mind and tho the mountain of new evidence since the original trial has changed many minds on this case, {ft has not yet changed Thayer's. He shows his relli- ance and confidence in the state su- preme court by referring to their up- holding his previous denials of new trial, Government Asks for Bids for Furnishing of Armored Mail Cars WASHINGTON, Oct, 27.-—-In contiec- tion with its war against mail bandits the postoffice department today called for bids for the construction of 100 «.uored cabs tor installation on mall truckr | than they were before the war.” THE DAdubY WORKER TORONTO SPOIL MARIE'S VISIT Present Her With Pro- | test Against Tyranny (Spectal to The Daily Worker) TORONTO, Ont., Oct, 27.—The large Ukrainian colony of Toronto, thru its representatives, pressed into the unwilling hands of Queen Marie | of Roumania a “petition” that had | rather the tone of a protest against | the treatment of the Ukrainian popu- | lation of Roumania, An official guest. of the city and provincial governments, because, no doubt, Marie is an English duchess | and a granddaughter of Queen Vic- | toria, the intended, picture being | greeted by an admiring population was worse than spoiled when, much to her | annoyance, the royal lady was forced | to acknowledge the document at the crowded station as she was departing for Montreal, Brands Tyranny. Dealing specifically with the tyran- nical regime that rules in the name of greater Roumania over the province | of Bessarabia, formerly part of the Ukraine, the document drew the qeen’s attention to the political, edu- cational and economic restrictions ex- ercised upon the population by the new rulers and told of the robbery of the peasants and the jailing of at least 2,500 political prisoners. It ended, “We are convinced that the conditions of our brethren under your govern- ment are deplorable and far worse UKRAINIANS OF | Il at Ease. The resolution was taken from the queen’s hands by a retainer. She was obviously ill at ease. But she made no comment, and the indignant Ukrainians had to be satisfied with the knowledge that they at least caused the representative of the oppressors of their countrymen some annoyance on, a triumphal tour on which she is being lauded by the bourgeoisie of two coun- tries, Lord Birkenhead Is Agitating for Rupture With Soviet Union (Continued from page 1) in the cabinet plot to isolate the South African, South African spokesmen insist that they have no intention of leaving the empire but the follaging statement of policy made to a DAILY WORKER representative by a South African of- ficial who is accepted as Hertzog’s mouthpiece leaves very ‘little of a consoling nature to the imperialists. Our Own, Free Will. “We have no intention of ledving the British empire or British com- monwealth of nations, as I prefer to call it,” said the South African dele- gate. “It is to our interest to remain a member, but we want the world to know we are there of our own free will and can withdraw any moment we decide it is no longer to our inter- est to remain, “We believe we are freer inside the British commonwealth of nations than we are inside the league of nations. As mnembers of the league of nations we are obliged to do certain things in certain events, but in ‘the common- wealth we have no obligation to do anything we do not find to our inter- est. Free to Leave. “We are members of a great alli- ance, or partnership, in which each partner is free to leave or remain and in which each partner’s responsibili- ties are limited by articles of associa- tion, “For instance, take the case of our neutrality in case\some other unit of the empire is at war, Suppose under the league of nations tules Canada is declared an aggressor. We would not be bound to support her, At the same time I do not believe we will be bound to attack her, because the league of nations accepted us, knowing full well that we are members on the out- side and parallel with the league, to which we have certain obligations of friendship and common interest, What Did U, §. Want? “We want the right to be interna- tionally recognized and to conduct our own business with other nations where we alone are affected. For in- stance, some time ago America raised the ‘point about preferences in man- date territories in southwest Africa. She raised it thru the British foreign office, which communicated to us thru the dominions office, We replied that if America has anything to say to come and say it directly, but in the end it was decided that as the British had begun and half carried thru the negotiations, it was proper for her to finish, Wants Diplomatic Rank. In the dispute with Portugal, who ig also our neighbor in Africa, we will conduct the negotiations directly. That does not m that we want to set up a full-fledged diplomatic ser- vice, In most matters we are quite satisfied with the British representa. tion, but we do think, for Instance, that our trade reventative in ‘Washington should have a diplomatic, or at least consular rank, so that he can communicate directly with your officials,” United States Supreme Court Decision Reveals Growing Dictatorship By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. HE courts are but the creatures of the capitalist social system that they serve. “his lias again been vividly shown in the decision just handed down by capitalism’s highest tribunal, the United States supreme court, that has decreed to President Cal Coo- lidge, or any executive that may follow him, the authority to remove White House appointees without the consent of the senate. This is just another step making the executive power supreme in the government, centralizing the gov- ernmental dictatorship in the hands of the president, making of him a constitutional czar under the merest chimera of fraudulent “democratic” forms, In order to reach this decision the majority of the supreme court kicked over all precedent until even Justice McReynolds, in a minority dissenting decision, was forced to ery out: “This goes far beyond any prac- tice heretofore approved or fol- lowed; iit conflicts with the history of the constitution, with the ordi- nary rules of interpretation and with the construction approved by congress since the beginning and emphatically sanctioned by this court. To adopt it would be rev- olutionary.” . of This case shows clearly how the judicial system bends to the will of.the dominant ruling class, Like the dog in the phonograph adver- tisement, the United States supreme court hears “His Master's Voice.” If the exploiting class, therefore, can mould the opinions of the high- est court in the land, dictating its decisions in its own interests even against a minority of this same court and the outraged parliamen- tarians in congress, workers may readily realize how much easier it is for this same owning class to get the kind of a decision it desires in the isolated court room of Judge Webster Thayer, in Norfolk Coun- ty, Mass., against two working men, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti, eee This latest opinion of the supreme court, that gives extreme tyrannical powers into the hands of the pre- sident, is the result of a suit brought by Frank S. Myers, former post- master of Portland, Ore., who was removed by President Wilson and who sought to recover back salary on the ground that his removal was illegal without the consent of the senate, which had ratified his ap- pointment, Wilson, the ‘democrat, initiated this move in the centrali- zation of capitalist government, while it is approved by the supreme court headed by William Howard Taft, the former republican presi- dent. Both of the capitalist parties, therefore, stand back of this de- cision, It has already been shown how the great army of postmasters is used in support of the dominant political party, This supreme court decision means that any postmaster, if he does not dance to the snap of the White House whip, will lose his job, But it also means that the president will get tyrannical pow- ers over all the numerous members of the multitudes of government commissions that inject themselves into every avenue of human life. Congress will be helpless, It will be permitted to conduct endless dehates, The senators and repre- sentatives will be permitted to have their remarks, including the leave to extend, in the congression- al record. But when decisions are to be made in the various depart- ments of government, they will be dictated from the White House, be- cause, according to the editorial heading in the Chicago Tribune, ““The President Holds the Reins,” and it is “common sense,” it de- clares,-to give the president the © power to “remove those who do not accept his leadership.” It urges that this is the road to “discipline,” meaning of course, the discipline imposed by a political tyrant nest- ling in the lap of the Wall Street oligarchy, bn In the meantime the school child- ren will continue to be taught the same old bunk to the effect that the United States government is one of “checks and balances” be- tween the three branches of the government, the executive, the judi- cial and the legislative Wings of the government, Nothing can testify more to the disrepute into which the legislative wing of capitalist rule has fallen than the present meaningless con- gressional campaign where old par- ty candidates are permitted to run wild over the country, making speeches about any and everything, as long as they do not touch vital issues, In the meantime the judi- cial branch smirkingly does the bid- ding of the executive department of the government, which dominates over all. What the children of the working- class, however, are taught in the public schools dominated by the capitalist class, they will later un- learn as workers in the growing class war, ee ON The United States has developed during these recent years into the mightiest empire on earth, Its political head is the uncrowned em- peror, Cal Coolidge, in whom capi- talism centralizes its power, know- ing that “Silent Cal” is its obedient agent, its ever-ready office boy. In order to give Coolidge new pow- ers, which means strengthening its own position, capitalism thru its own courts, overthrows the accepted precedent of a century and a half. It reiterates, “What is the constitu- tion between friends.” It is this same Cal Coolidge that heads “The New England gang” that is seeking the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti. This gang sneers at labor’s demand for a “just trial,” “a fair trial,” for the enjoyment, of constitutional guarantees, for the safeguarding ‘of the civil liberties of speech, press and assemblage. /There is nothing in the form or substance of the United States goy- ernment today that guarantees any- thing to Sacco and Vanzetti, or any © of the other class war prisoners, except the certainty that the vicious hatred of the present ruling class of exploiters and profiteers will be invoked against them to the limit. se 6 It is stating the whole truth to say that labor must achieve its own emancipation. It is equally true that only the working class, thru its own organized and militant pow- er, can prevent Sacco and Vanzet- ti from being legally murdered by the judicial ssins who cloak their crimes as the orderly pro- cedure of “the most perfect form of democracy.” The United States supreme court, in its latest decision, has helped tear the shielding mantle of so- called “democracy” off the hideous body of the anti-labor Wall Street dictatorship, The butcher of work- ers stands. revealed before labor thruout the nation. Let labor rise against this horror. Workers of Montreal Denounce Queen Marie for Worker Treatment MONTREAL, Canada, Oct, 25.— Workers of Montreal have been urged to denounce the visit of Queen Marie to the United Stdtes and to aid in the fight against the terrible conditions of Roumanian workers by the city déen- tral committee of the Canadian Labor Defense League, A buletin issued by the league says: “The visit of the queen of Roumania to the United States and Canada has directed attention to the persecution of political prisoners by the Roumanian government, “The city central committee of the Canadian Labor Defense League calls upon the workers of Montreal to stand by their comrades all over the world in denunciation of the political and capitalist intrigues which constitute the real motives of the visit of the queen of Roumania.” SEE CANNON ON TOUR OF MEETINGS IN MEMORY OF DEBS 1. LD, Begins Dive for “Bebs Enrollment” James P. Cannon, national secre- tary of International Labor Defense. will tour the country to address a series of Debs’ Memorial meetings which have been arrangd by I. L. D. to pay tribute to the life and work of the old rebel fighter Debs in the ‘labor and revolutionary movement. These meetings in the numerous cen- ters of the country will also initiate jthe “Debs Enrollment Campaign” of organization into the I. L. D. of work- ers from all sections of the labor movement to help to carry on the work to which Eugene Debs so en- thusiastically. gave him support, \ Debs’ Message. In a mesage sent before his death to International Labor Defense, upon, the national committee of which he had served since its inception, Debs wrote: “We must not for an instant pause fm our activities in behalf of the vic- tims of the class struggle. We must remember and never for a moment forget Tom Mooney, Warren Billings, Matthew Schmidt, Anita Whitney, Sacco, Vanzetti, Rangel and Cline, the seventy members of the I. W. W. in the festering black holes of California and all other rebels under capitalist imperialism in prison or on trial, or placed under arrest for their loyalty to the working class. Not only this but all the Ifberal, radical and pro- gressive forces of the labor move- ment and all others who belfeve in the right of free speech, free assem- blage and free press should rally to the support of the International La- bor Defense in the campaign to wipe all anti-criminal syndicalism and anti- sedition jaws from the statute books of tle states which have enacted them for no other purpose than to gag the lips of the working class and strangle all progressive tendencies of the la- bor movement.” Schedule. The meetings tohonor the work of ’Gene Debs in the movement of tho working class have thus far been ar- ranged as follows: Chicago, on October 30, at Temple Hall, Marshfield and Van Buren, 8 p. m., with James P. Cannon, Ralp Chap- lin, the I. W. W. poet and former clas; war prisoner; Hyman Schneid, geu- eral organizer of the Amaigamated Press, who served a term in Leaven- worth during the war-as a political prisoner, and others. Detroit, on Oct 31, at the Detroit Armory, Brush and Larned streets, at 8 p.m. with James P. Cannon and other speakers. Youngstown, on Noy. 1, at the Ukrainian Hall, 525 W. Rayen ave- nue, 8 p.m. with James P. Cannon and speakers from the local -labor movement. Pittsburgh, Nov. 8, with James P. Cannon and other speakers at the La- bor Lyceum. Boston, Noy. 4, at Tremont Temple, Lorimer Hall, at 8 p. m., with James P. Cannon main speaker. Buffalo, Nov. 5, with James Cannon. Akron, Nov. 6, at the Perkins Audi- torium, Bowery and W. Evchange streets, 7:30 p. m., with James P. Cannon, and Dr. J. N. Simmons as chairman. Philadelphia, Nov. P. Cannon. St. Louis, Nov. 13, with James P. Cannon and other speakers. Kansas City, Nov. 14, with James P. Cannon. A highly successful overflow meet- ing has already been held in New York where the Carnegie Hall and the Central Opera House were filled to capacity. In Cleveland a success- ful meeting was addressed by Charles Cline, Tom Clifford, veteran in the labor movement and an old friend of Debs, and Israel Amter. Carl Hacker was chairman, P, 7, with James NORTHWEST SIDE PARENTS’ LEAGUE MEETS TONIGHT The Northwest Side Parents’ League announces a membership meeting to be held Thursday, October 28, at 8 p. m,, at 3301 Lemoyne street, For almost a year this organization has been carrying on a struggle for better A Stirring, Thrilling, Thought-Provoking Movie of the Long Battle of the Exploited Textile Workers for a Living Wage and a Union FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1926 Two Performances beginning with 7 and 9 P, M., at the | ASHLAND’ BOULEVARD AUDITORIUM—Van Barer & Ashland ADMISSION 50 CENTS school conditions. All Northwest Side parents interested in the welfare of their children are urged to come to this meeting and apply for member- ship, ——