The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1926, Page 2

tapes ' i $4 % —— Page Two Se THE DAILY 'MORKER SHOWS ‘ A Evangelist’s Hair Is Now | on the Air LOS ANGEI “The sen- sational Aim McPherson case was blown wide open again *here today, On her attorneys re r the prelimina: ist, her mother, and Mrs, Lor- , all charged acture false u five weeks, @ bombshell by an- neth G. AOrmiston’s discovered. in New nouncing th trunk had b m ¢ York and that it was expected to ar rive at the district attorney’s office at any time, Ormiston, former Angelus Temple, is alleged to have been the companion of Mrs. McPher- gon at a cottage at Carme}, Cal., while her “four square gospel followers thought her drowned. Trunk Full of Clothing, Tm Ofmiston’s trunk, according to the district attorney, is sufficient evi- demos to make a settlement of the case, quickly and concTusively, tt is crammed with women’s wear ing apparel, dainty frocks, expensive shoes, imported lingerie, silk stock ings—and a silk “evangelist’s" robe, Practically every article in the trunk was purchased in Los Angeles. Rader’s Nose Rag. Only one article of masculine use was found in the trunk. This was a farge Silk handkerchief, on which is engraved the name of Paul Rader, an evangelist. Rev, Rader, it is recalled, eacupled the pulpit at Angelus Temple while Mrs, McPhersoh made a pil- grimage to the Holy Land a year ago. The trunk also contained a lace boudoir cap. In this cap was a single strand of hair—a hair of decidedly reddish hue. This single strand of hair was sent to District Attorney Keyes from New York by air mail. That single strand of hair, according to Keyes, is going to have an impor t bearing on the outcome of the case Phila. Carpenters to Follow up $1,000 for 1. L. G. with More Aid PHILADELPHIA, Qct. 29.— The Carpenters’ Local No, 1073 voted $1,000 for tho cloak workers of New \York who aro now out on strike. In Audition a collection was taken at the same meeting which amounted to over $100. A resolution was passsed unani- mously to stake the cloak workers as s the battle between them and the bosses rages. Many, of the car- penters are out of work, but they pledged themselves to help neverthe- Jess, as they deem it very important that the cloak makers should win. Honduras Prisoners Revolt. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, — Three men were 1d and several wounded during a revolt of prisoners yester- day in the penitentiary et Ceiba, Hon- duras, the Btate department was ad- vised today. ® | radio operator at | URED TRUNK | "RELIEF FROM UNITED STATES HELPS | BRITISH MINERS TALE I$ BUNK WAGE BRAVE FIGHT Britistf minera’ soup kitchen main: can workers by the International Wo: by sending your contributions to I, W. talned by funds collected from Amerl- rkere’ Ald. Keep soup kitchens golng A» 1553 W, Madison St., Chloago. By JACK BRADON. is now nearly seven’menths since the British minets left the mines In their effort to spike the ambitions of British capitalism to reconstruct its economy at the immediate expense of the miners and ultimate cost of Britain’s entire working class. The struggle of the miners against a cut in wages, which were already extremely meager, actually bordering on- pauperism, is a most strenuous and testing one, and is marked by great heroism and privation, not only of the miners, but of their women and children as well. 7 Whole System Questioned. Tnterlocked with the problem of wages and hours of the miners is the question of British economy in its entirety. Having lost its world economic dominance and political prestige to Wall Street, as a result of the world carnage and its subse- quent developments, British capital- ism is seeking a way out of its des- perate plight of chronic unemploy- ment, colonial pressure, general in- stablity and inability to compete on the world market even with its most plentiful commodity, coal. T cannot, as a way out of these dif- ficulties, further the exploitation of its colonies or the industrially back- ward nations, by obtaining from them vheap raw material and labor, and in turn charge them high rates for the finished product. For in those’ col- onies and so-called backward nations, where Britain formerly held economic way, industry progressed—it moved forward, and in turn must obtain raw material, labor and a market for its finished product. It is this economic force that is at the bottom of nation- al movements such as in China, In- lia, Morocco, etc., making it highly lifieult for Britain to make those col- sules and backward nations carry the urden of making her a thriving in- stead of a decaying capitalist coun- try. > War Is Too Risky. To continue her former grip upon the colonies and backward -nations, to say nothing of tightening this grip, an extensive and costly war must be carried on ‘against the peoples of these territories. And Britain can- not afford, nor risk such wars, be- cause of her inner instability and “in- LABS articles on ev | Enclosed §. STREBT ...... CITY ose STATE ..... For the Special 12 page issue on November 6. There will be ry phase of Soviet life by outstanding writers. SPECIAL PRICE—TWO CENTS A COPY Printed to reach all parts of the country on November 6. Clip the blank and attach remittance The Daily Worker | 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. oy AOE cs the special NOVEMBER 6 ISSUE of 12 pages. a . copies of eee nae dependability” of her working class. Mor these very same reasons, she cannot chance a war egainst a large power even tho the conquest of which may mean a new lease on life for British Capitalism, or at least may temporarily save it from its present speedy and unmistakable deteriora- tion, Saw Labor Opportunity, rounding her without, Britain has INDFUL of those difficulties sur-|® CHCAGO LABOR TO HONOR’ DEBS AT MEET TONITE Workers Will Pledge “Carrying On” Bugene V. Debs, the great American rebel and Iwbor leader, will be hou- oped tonight by the workers of Chi- cago in mass meeting at Templo Hall, Marshfield and Van Buren. Chicage labor will gather not only to mourn the loss of the old warrior bat to pledge themselves to carry on. Tho meeting is being held under the aus pices of International Labor Defense. Cannon to Speak. James P; Cannon, secretary of the International La’ Defense, upon the national committee of which Debs served since its ineeption, is one of the speakers. Debs was a ready and enthusiastic supporter of the work of I. L. D., Himself @ former class war prisoner, the heart of Debs was con- stantly with the cause of united working class defense. The last pub- lio document of Debs was his appea’ to American labor for Sacco and Van- zetti which was. spread broadcas* set out to stabilize herself on the bas- is of lower wages and longer hours of her own working class. She rea- sons that cheapened labor would pro- duce commodities at a cost low enuf as to allowunder selling other nations capture her former influence. And, again, the British lion would roar as of old, But to bring this about the trade union movement had to be shat- tered. Such an undertaking is prov- British sbourgeoisie supposed. While itecorrectly appraised the dependa- bility of the officials of the labor movement, feeling that this element could be counted upon in an emergen- icy, it utterly underrated the aggres- siveness and consciousness of a pro- voked rank and file, who could force + general strike, contrary to the wishes of its official leaders. It ap- years that the British bourgeoisie did not anticipate the general strike. ven the labor leaders, both within and without the T. U. C., who are supposed: to know the temper of the rank and file, did not suspect that the general strike would occur, I am persuaded to credit this point of view on the ground that, had those labor saders who were opposed to the gen- oral strike sensed the probability of it, they would haye actively engaged in a campaign beforehand to prevent the occurrence of a situation that was most distasteful to them. (To be continued.) ITALIANS IN U.S, TURNING ANTI-MUSSOLINI NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—Italians liv- | ing in the United States that had pre- viously supported the fascist regime or remained neutral are now going over to the opposition’ as a result of their conviction that Mussolini intends to fasten a permanent dictatorship on Italy with himself as uncrowned mon- arch, This is the declaration of Luigi Cris- cuolo, an Italian leader of New York, in a statement calling attention to the on the world market, and thus re-)% ing infinitely more difficult than the |## This picture of Eugene V. Debs was taken at the Ralph Chaplin home near Chicago while Chaplin was still in prison. and about a year Labor in Europe Speaks Up in Fight for Lives : of Sacco and Vanzetti By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. to in Burope ts speaking up in the fight for the lives of Ni- cola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- vetti, Laurence Todd writes for the Fed- erated Press from Washington that the “state department officials are visibly worried at the storm of pro- test” which has greeted “the.re- fusal of Judge Thayer of Massa- chusetts to grant a new trial to |, Sacoo and Vanzetti.” ‘The workers of the United States must join in this effort, so that not only the state department, nor the White House alone, but the whole capitalist dictatorship in this coun- try will become seriously worried. . es @.8 The realization that Huropeah workers are bearing the brunt of the fight for the class war prisoners in this country, should spur Amer- ican workers to increased activity. Another Federated Press corres- pondent,. this time in Boston, de- clares that public opinion “seems to be shifting somewhat from its hos- tile attitude toward Sacco and Van- zetti toward the position that there must be something in these work- ers’ claims of innocence after all.” This is an inevitable result of Judge Thayer's course handling of the case, his light disposal of the confessions of the two ex-agents of the department of justice, his slight- ing references to defense counsel, his zealousness in seeking to belittle the testimony of Celestino Madeiros, and especially his reference to “the verdict of a jury approved by the .supreme court of this common- wealth.” In fact, the supreme court never proved the guilty verdict against Sacco and Vanzetti, All that the supreme court did, in its own words, was to “examine care- fully all the exceptions in so far as argued, and finding no error the verdicts are to stand.” The high court merely went thru the tech- nical procedure of the trial, It had nothing to do with the question of whether the testimony presented after Debs had been released. The baby Debs is holding is Eric Haessler, son of another wartime political prisoner. Chaplin and Haessier speak at the meeting to- night. 4 thruout the country. by Internationa! Labor Defense. 1. W. W. Poet Talks. Ralph Chaplin, another ‘speaker, is the famous I. W. W. poet, and was one of Gene Debs’ good friends. Chap- lin was prosecuted*in the Chicago I. W. W. cases and his term in Leavenworth penite with scores of others. ah Carl Haessler, who will also talk. was a militant objector to the imper jalist war and served his term in Leavenworth for it. He was one of the leaders of the famous~ Leaven- worth penitentiary strike, in which the prisoners presented @ united front to the prison officials: and won their demands for better conditions in the “pen.” ; : Hyman Schneid, general organizer of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of America, a member of organ- ized labor for many years, will also speak. i Work to Be Related. Workers are urged to attend this meeting in numbers to pay a solem. tribute to a great working clas: fighter and leader® The story vo! growth of pro-fascist organizations among Italian people in America, Instead of restoring Italy to the [talian people, says Criscuolo, “wo find Mussolini and fascism firmly. en- renched, with no evidence of any de- sire or plan to relinquish any powers, to the king, to parliament or to the people, Mussolini is the supreme lord of all Italy and no greater despot has ever existed in Italian history.” Many former admirers of Mussolini, carried away by t glamour of his movements, are now seeing that he has destroyed whatever liberties the Italian people had already enjoyed in the interests of big capital. a Ambassador's Home Burng, FALMOUTH, Mass., Oct. 29.—Fire of unknown origin destroyed the home of Albert H. Washburn, ambassador to Austria, today, causing damage es- timated at 200,000, | WCEL Radio Program Chicaga Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It 1s broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. 6:00 p. m.—-Chicago Federation of La- bor, talks and bulletins, 6:20-——The Brovoort Concert Trio: Little Joe Warner; Hickey & Johnson, Hawal- lanes; Ann Post, Vivian Lawrenée, Oscar Heather. gop, OCTOBER 31, 4:00 p. me—Wicker Park Lutheran Church, Rev. 8, P. 7:46—Belden A\ tlet Churoh, Rev, J. Ye Hoyt. Debs’ activities in the American la bor movement, his leadership of the Pullman strike, the organization ot the American Railway Union, his aid in founding the Indiistrial Workers of the World, the S0cial Democratt. Party of America, his fight for prog- ress and militancy in the labor move- ment and his severe and uncompro- mising castigatton ‘of misleaders and fakirs, his famous Canton speech and the last years of his Mfe—these incl- dents and milestones in Debs’ life and work will be Telated by tho speakers. Admission to the meeting, is frge. ci Seventeen Years a B. A. Gets Elected as General Sec’y-Treas. Gus. Soderberg‘ of Chicago, has been elected to office of general secretary-treasurer of the Journey- men Tailors’ Union for the ensuing two years, He takes office January 1. Soder- burg has been business agent of Lo- cal No, 5 in Chicago for 17 years, —— Set Huge Still. ATLANTIC CITY, N, J., Oct, 29.~ Federal prohibition agents today seiz- ed tho largest still ever found in New Jersey—a plant valued at half a mil- lion dollars and so large they said % would have to be dynamited be- cause it was too huge to be disman- a justified the verdict. That is all that it can do when the_present appeal from the decision of Judge Thayer denying the new trial demanded comes before it. If some capitalist were on trial, of course, the court would quickly find an endless procession of er- rors on which to free him. But it is different when a worker faces the court, Then the judges of the high court blink themselves blind ignoring the fraudulent manner in which labor is declared guilty be- fore the bar of the lower capitalist tribunals. Soviet Union Sets Fast Pace in Development of Its Industries (Continued from page -1) rallel with the realization of the elec- trification plan. The electro-technical industry is now on twice as high a level as in pre-war times. Moreover, industry pursued the course of adap- tation to the pedsantry. The resto- ration of the rural economy proceeded on the basis of the new land property relations, The new agricultural tax was followed by a co-operative move- ment that penetrated into the villages and by the birth of agricultural com- munes. The complete restoration would have been impossible witout vn enormous internal accumulation which was used to create a compara- tively large floating capital, Industry is now actually yielding five hundred million rubles profits not including the amortization fund, Industrialization, The further development of the country’s economy, he continued, will proceed on the slogan of irfdustrial- ization, The industrial plan provided for eighteen per cent growth in the current year and twelve per cent next year. In spite of the defeatist af- firmations of the opposition such an enormous pace has never been reached by any capitalist country whose yearly growth in industry reaches from oné-fifteenth to four per cent, 7 In. the current year one thousand million rubles will be inwested for fundgmental expenses to be directed primarily towards machine building, fuel, eléctrification, transport, Coal Production, ry Rykoff pointed out particularly the progress in the Don Basin where for the last two years the coal output hag increased by seventeen million tons as well as in the progress of electrification, New electrical stations are starting work this year, ‘The most important tasks in respect to industrial readjustment are the necessity to carry out fully the eco- ‘nomy*regime and the modification of the system of administration of the industrial organizations. Between in+ dustry and the rural eceonomy there must exist close harmony as expressed in the party’s agricultural policy. The opposition is presenting the situation im the rural districts in wrong light, Wa 99, America’s dollar diplomats in Burope think they can fool the workers on» the other side gf the Atlantic, Thug Councillor Poole, of Wall Street’s embassy at Berlin, told a visiting delegation of Com- munist members of the German reichstag that “there was no dan- ger of immediate execution of the two men, citing the possibility that they may be pardoned. Reports to the contrary he said were ‘incor- rect’.” What a fraud? What a typical bluff of American dollar diplomacy! Practiced on the self-satisfied of- ficlaldom of American labor, such tactios usually get satisfactory re- sults. But Poole showed he does not understand European labor, Probably his eyes were opened a Uttle when hé'read in the next issue of the Rote Fahne (Red Flag), of- ficial organ of the German Com- munist Party, that it considered “the American councillor’s. assur- ancea weré mere bluff” and urged the German workers to renew their protests against the scheduled exe- cutions. Labor in Germany that struggled valiantly for a Soviet re- public, that saw its martyrs go to death by the thousands, that saw other tens of thousands imprisoned on the slightest pretext, under-y stands fully every characteristic of the capitalist beast with which it has to deal, It is well trained against the pitfalls that capitalist rule continually prepares for it. The same may be said, perhaps in slightly lesser degree, of the work- ers of every other west-European capitalist country, 2. @ The same must also be said of the workers of the United States. The Sacco-Vanzetti case should teach American labor its much needed lesson, that there are classes within the social system ufider which we all live, that there is a continuous war going on between these classes, that the capitalist class seeks with every weapon at its disposal to maintain its supremacy, while the working class struggles for the power that will enable it to achieve its emancipation, Sacco and Vanzet' it be the victims. of this war if Amer- ican labor does neo its, class’ power to shield them. European labor, thru its ceaseless fight, for, Sacco and Vanzetti, should inspire the workers in the United States to enlist in ever greater and irresist- ible masses in this war against their historic enemy, that must be crowned with labor’s triumph over this nation’s ruthless ruling class. Instead of a dissolution of the middle layer we have in the country a rise in the general welfare of all groups of peasants including the consolida- tion of middle peasant masses, The percentage of peasant economy with- out sowing has fallen from 6.9% in 1922 to 4.2% in 1925. Farming econo- mies up to two dessiatins constituted 46% in 1922 while in 1925-26 they constituted 33%. Over the same period economies over ten dessiatins have increased from 1.2% to 3.3%. Wellto-do and employing peasants constitute 15% of all peasant farms amd pay 47% of the whole agricultural tax, while from 25% to 30% of the peasant economies are altogether exempted from the tax, Data Belles Private Capital Legend. The legend of the opposition about private capital is belied by the data showing the part played by private capital In commerce: 1923-24, the gross trade in the hands of private capital amounted to 22%, in 1925-26 this percentage has fallen to 9%. A correspoMding fall ‘of from 57% (1923-24) to 89% (1925-26) has. been observed in the retail trade. The part played by private capita) in other parts of the national economy are at a minimum point, The policy of lowering prices must be continued. The demand of the opposition for high industrial prices means the alliance} of the rich peasants with the town bourgeoisie and the disrupture of the alliance of the workers and peasants, the destruction of the basis of indus- trialization and the defeat of the rev- olution, The party will not permit a defeat- ist policy. Trotsky, the leader of the opposition, has forgotten that it is a good thing to be a defeatist during imperialist wars but a bad thing to be a defeatist when the proletariat is engaged in a war for the consolidation of its dictatorship. at Defeat Opposition on All Fronts, In the course of the debate the speakers, mostly provincial work emphasized the correctness of thi theses on Rykoff’s report potting out that the party and the Soviet, power have, in the work of industrial con- struction achieved perfect unity of the workers, a fact which is keenly felt locally where industrial construc tion is proceeding at a rapid pace, | The opposition suffered defeat on all fronts. Keeping silent at con- ference on economic questions | "|/GRAFT DODGES FOOTSTEPS OF RUM SNOOPERS Ralph W. Stone, who succeeded Major Perey Owen as prohibition ad- ministratoer in Chicago, today was ac- cuséd in federal court of continuing the graft of sacramental wine permits which Owen 4s charged with sharing and for which he and state Senator Lowell B, Mason are now on trial. Stone's mame was brought into the testimony by Irving Friedman, for- ~ mer wine salesman, who swore that Stone had raised the pricé of illegal wine permits from $300 to $400 and granted them when the money was fortheoming, Arguments over the admissibility as evidence of lists of spurious “cofi- sregations” td which the permits os- tensibly were fssued resulted in an adjournment of the ¢rial until tomor- row, after Friedman had left the Federation of Labor Endorsing 200 Boss Aspirants for Office WASHINGTON, D. ©., Oct. 29.—Tho the A. F. of L. has conducted not cam- paign in behalf of its favorite capi- talist candidates William mn ay nounced that it has 200 of labor” among them David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who opposed the anti. child labor bill which was endorsed by the federation. : If & considerable number of those endorsed win, thé federation chiets will cailm the credit. e In Ohio the federation pronounces Senator Willis, republican, unfavor- able, while the railroad brotherhoods favor him. Will is a member of the “Ohio that fed at the pubic crib @ the Harding regime. Bootleggers In South Illinois. Fire Each Others’ Roadhouses WEST FRANKFURT, Ill, Oct. 29,— Four roadhouses, all of which generally regarded as the Property of the Birger faction, were laid to waste by fire early today, two miles south of here, just over the Williamson county line. According to persons residing near the roadhouses, a machine gun bar- rage preceded. the burning of the buildings, which were in a group on ee Johnston City-West Frankfort ine. a Bandits Kill Merchants, KANSAS CITY} Mo., Oct. 29—Otto Zecafoose, merchant, whose store had been robbed twice’ Previously, today shot and killed an unidentified band- it, who, with a companion, was break- ing into the reat of his establish- ment, in they most bitterly “criticized the party, the opposition only confirm their bankruptey, * As the economic difffeulties that arose in the autumn of 1925 are being outlined, the attention at first attracted by the opposition has gradually waned, The statements of the oppo- sition have proved- to be miistaken because they failed to take into con- sideration the rapid development of small and big industry. In the next period the attention of the party must center on questions of economic re- construction, the development of local industry, the ‘consolidation of lodal finance, In characterizing the progress of in- dustrial development of the U. S. 8. R., the:speakers pointed out that the _ development followed the line of con- solidating the union of the proletariat and peasantry and stated that it will _ be possible to attain the tasks of in- dustrialization only if such a union is maintained and secured, " Trenton Uni Praise. TRENTON, N, J., Oct. 29.—Labor union locals here have enthusiastically endorsed the motion picture presenta- tion of the big Passaic textile strike which was shown here last night in the Central ¥y M, C. A. Auditorium, A capacity erowd packed the large auditorium, and hundreds had to be turned away, Wave after wave of enthusiastic applause swept the audience as the scenes of mass picket- ing were thrown on the screen, and: when the long line of pickets appeared in gas masks and steel helmets follow- ing the gas bomb attacks by the po lice, the crowd of working class spec tators went wild. of Cleveland Enthusiastic. CLEVELAND, 0, Oct. 29.—The Pas- saic strike picture went over big here last night at the Nngineers’ Audi- eee Se et St. Clair ocal unions show so much enth asm over it, it i entteaiy Wee. able that it will be shown again im the local theaters. A Polish organiza- tion will also have a showing on Octo- ber 31, es SPRINGFIELD, Ml, Oct. 29.—Rich- ° ard Evans, convicted Bs the ion of Policeman Edward C. Finegan in Chicago, today was denied a writ of Court, Be: ie poe la ed eau | s ® «