The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1926, Page 2

Page Two a THE DAILYWORKER 2 BIG FIGHT FOR | THE MAYORALITY I$ NOW OPENED William Hale Thompson Lining Up Support | | tumult of the | died down in | 1 oliticians | No sooner had t congtessional ele Ulinots, than the of Chicago began to | Yor the next big t for the mayoral plum of this we city. Successful candidates on the repub Ncan and democrat tickets th their respective tioned as aspirants. Patrick Carr, sheriff and Ch who was re-elected presi f the Board oi Review. Doctor Got Much Dough. Last Wednesday nigh Dr. John Dill Robertson m wit a@ goodly Thompson, for he Thomp Will is king citizens who for hin 1p with the 300,000 pledg Thom) Crowe ( nbershi them to sign. tige. vage for | erably im ate’s Attor o was looked he most pow state. His as- gst however, joyed by them off this notor- ers, has rubbe: ious foe of labor, The Lundin ton faction is im alliance with the notorious Len Smail, and is officially dry unless the wet eyclone that hit the state last Tues day will cause it to “rsh the growler.” On the democrat side Mayor Dever is mentioned, but in all probability | the mayor has had his last fling at the city hall. Dever pointment to the thirsty f there a goodly number in the demo- orat ranks. He is a willing tool ot big business.’ Paddy Carr would be is popular candidate and he oozes re- freshments from every pore. o Doing Some Thinking. This should be a good time for the | Workers to begin preparing for the ielty election. A United Labor ' Ticket would attract thousands of ;?workers who cannot fail to be doing gome thinking over the folly of trans fransferring their support from one eepitalist fiunkey to the other. Not me of those political grafters take the trouble to mention the needs of \ithe working class. Why should they ‘gince the workers themselves seem ‘eo have mo concern over their own )gmterests? Denies Incommunicade. ‘A flat denial of charges that Frank Chicago gangster, awaiting for murder in Porter county, was being held incommunicado his attorneys was made today by W@alter FH. Daly, warden of the Indiana L ™ With Al Smith carrying New York for Tammany by a huge margin and Vie Donahey winning Ohio for the Democrats there, the two governors will command attention at the next Democratic national convention as possible Al Smith stands In very well with Wall| Street and Donahey has done nothing to make the money lords think ehoices for the presidential run. HL of him, Brush and Larned Streets ~ SUNDAY, NOV. 7 at 2:30 p. m. 4X ov CANT f/ FooL ME | WITH “THAT = MILLIONS OF LVES ABOUT Soviet AAst ene met covet! ofA FARORE Milltant workers, gathered In dozens of huge demonstrations thruout the country on November Seventh, are letting the capitalists of America peasants’ government. | know It is high hime to stop their misrepresentations about the workers’ and MUSSOLINI GALLS EXTRA | SESSION 10 GET DEATH | | PENALTY FOR ASSASSINS | | | ROME, Nov. 4—Premler Musso- lint has decided to convene an ex- traordihary session of the chamber of deputies on November 9, to en- act the proposed bill providing the death penalty for those who make | attempts on the life of the premier. | Agitation for the Immediate pas- | sage of this bill has been great since the attempt made In Bologna | on Sunday to shoot the premier. | NICE, France, Nov. 4— Colonel! Ricclotti Garlbald! was summoned before the police here today and subjected to a lengthy examination, with regards tq.a reported pilot against Premier Musso!ln! of ‘Italy. “Socialist” Weds Royal | Couple as Four Kings and Two Queen Look on | STOCKHOLM, Nov, 4.—In the pres- ence of four kings and two queens, and scores of lesser royalties, Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium and Prin- cess Astrid of Sweden were this after- noon married in a civil ceremony in the throne room of the royal palace. | The king of Sweden, the king of Belgium, thé king of Denmark, the king of Norway, the queen of Belgium and the queen of Norway, were all seated’in the throne room when the crown prince and Princess Astrid en- tered and went thru the ceremony, which is to be followed by a state re- lgious cersmony in Brussels next week, performed by the “socialist,” Mayor Cari Lindhagen, of Stockholm. | | Vic DONAHEY |and Massachusetts. BUTLER DEFEAT BRINGS GRIEF TO ‘SILENT GAL Voters Have Seen Thru Pasteboard Giant . WASHINGTON, D. ©., Nov. 4+ There is no attempt to conceal admin- insterial chagrin over the loss of the two senatorial seats in New York The literary touls who have been gurgling over | Coolidge and turning s cardbourd pol iticlan into a giant, will have to cud- \get their mental vacuums for new tricks. This sucnt nonentity simply will not stand up. Blame it on Volstead. Republican apologists attribute the repudiation of Coolidgeism to tte re- volt against the Volstead law and the snooping of the sourfaced gtafters who run the Anti-Saloon League. That this was a factor is quite obvious. But this does not explain why the wet Wadsworth of New York was de- feated or why William M. Butler, the millionaire magnate lost, while the republican candidate for governor who was not so closely connected witn Coolidge won by a tremendous major- ity in the same state. Six of the eight states that voted on modification of the prohibition law expressed their disapproval of Volsteadism. Only in Colorado, did the drys win a victory, a slim one. Missouri voted down the question and elected a wet senator. The Mis- sourians did not like the way the question was framed. Prophets Differ. Prophets have differences of opin ion as to whether Senators Smith anc Vare will be allowed to take their seats in the ssenate. Some believe that the democrats will let them seat but will open fire on them during the winter session of 1927 when both par les are laying their plans for the presidential campaign. They expect that a new airing of the scandal would. then wreak the most damage. The go-called republican insurgents will have the chance of a lifetime to show their stuff in the next congress. With 48 votes at the disposal of the republicans and 47 in the hands of the democrats, one foot-loose farmer-la- bor senator, the insurgents who ars listed ag republicans can make things disagreeable for the administration. should the insurgents propose any radical legislation, it remains ‘to be seen how the democrats will vote. Some of the papers are predicting that Senator Shipstead, farmer-labor- ite of Minnesota, will’ return to the G. O. P. fold in view of the defeat ar Magnus, Johnson. Communist Elementals Class Meets Tonight The Chicago Workers’ School class in the elements of Communism will meet at its regular time Friday even- ing at 19 8, Lincoln street, Text books DETROIT ARMORY. CELEBRATE THE NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE for study are ready for tho students, | ~~ RECENT CLASH FRANCE, ITALY: AT ODDS OVER \French Fotslan Office Sends Protest PARIS, Nov, 4—The French for eign office has delivered an emphatic protest to Rome over Fascist excess- es at Ventimiiie, an international | town on the Franco-Italian border | where the French consulate was raid- | ed by black shirts and French rail- | waymen severely beaten because it | was claimed they neglected to raise | | their hats to the Italian flag. 1.00 Imperialist Demands. There is also: considered pertumba- | tion dn offictal quarters here over the | imperialist demands being made by the Fascist press for the Italian aqui- sition of the French Rivera, includ- ing Nice and an Italian share in the | | French North African possession, Tunis, The Italian press 4s filled with charges that the various plots on | Premier Musgolini’s life have been | engineered in France with the French | officially winking at the maneuvers. Fear ts expressed of further clashes- in the Rivera where there is a large Itallan Population. eee Fascist! Slay Opposition Members. ROMB, Nov. 4.—It is reported here | |that many persons have been killed | | and injured in fascist rioting thruout the country following the attempted assassination of Premier Mussolini at Bologna last Sunday. Newspaper plants of the opposition have been sacked. Homes of known members of the opposition have been entered and damaged. In Naples, the home of the famous philosopher, Bennedet- to Croce, was wrecked, Mussolini returned in triumph to | Rome. A meeting of the Fascist | Grand Couneil to meet here soon is expected to take up the following questions: Dissolution of all oppo-| sition parties, suppression of all op- Position newspapers, a housecleaning within the party, and the organization of @ separate fascist police. Fish Dealer Admits He Engineered Delivery Attempt in N. Y. Prison NEW YORK, Nov, 4.—A signed con- fession was obtained by the police to- day from Robert Weiner, @ 24-year-old fish dealer, that he éngineerd the dar- ing plot of a Tontbs jail delivery which resulted Jate yesterday in the death of four men ani the wounding of two others. Weiner was the ‘bosom pal of “Hymie” Amberg, one of the prison- ers, who blew his brains out when the plot fafled andvhe was ringed around with shooting: policemen. Two Affairs for Daily” Worker in N. Y. Tonite NEW YORK, Nov. 4.—This Satur- day night, November 6, every DAILY WORKER reader in New York should enjoy one or both of the following affairs: At the Workers’ House, 108 East 14th street, there will be a Vetcher- inka in celebration of the opening of the building next door. A door has been cut thru the wall, doubling the size of the top floor, making it ideal for a DATLY WORKER builders’ so- cial and dance. A good orchestra has been secured and good eats are promised, The same evening a splendid musi- cal program will be rendered by the Lettish workers in connection with the ball in the Bohemian National Home, 321 Bast 73rd street. Half the proceeds of each affair will go to The DAILY WORKER. GRAND RAPIDS HOLTIs NOV. 7. MEET SUNDAY. GRAND |RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 4.— Grand’ Rapide will hold its anniver- sary celebration of the Russian revo- ‘lution on Sunday, Noy, 7, at 7:30 p. m. at the 8, & D, Hall, 1057 Hamilton Ave., N. W. Barney Mass of Detroit, will be the principal speaker. The meeting is under the auspices of the Grand Rapdis branch’ of the Workers (Communist) Party. Why don’t you write it up? It may be Interesting to other workers, | WCEL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT, 6:00 p. m—Chicago Federation of La- bor Hour, y | the suggestion of the Mexican Fed- | ognize the Mexico City conference, Real World Trade Union Unity Will Come in Spite| of Reaction’s: Opposition By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. N THE same day that the Detroit convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor adjourned recently, the International Federation — of Trade Unions (Amsterdam) issued a declaration refusing to officially rec- ognize the proposed trade union con- ference to be held at Mexico City at eration ‘of Trade ‘Unions, There fs no doubt considerable significance to this conincidence. The American Federation of Labor officialdom has also refused to rec- altho a little more diplomatically than Amsterdam. President William Green was given permission by his executive council to go, He did not decline, but merely stated he didn’t have the time to make the trip, a threadbare evasion, The outright rejection of the Am- sterdam International and the eva- sion of the A. F, of L, drive toward the same goal. It is a very evident and joint blow against the militancy of Mexican labor. eee Amsterdam is clearly taking the orders of the A. F. of L., with which it is seeking an anti-Bolshevik alli- | ance. It was therefore to be ex- pected that it would make the most of the excuse that it had heard that Michael Tomsky, secretary of the Russian Trade Union Congress, had also been invited. The officialdom of the International Federation of Trade Unions therefore issued its blanket refusal of participation in the gathering at Mexico City by de- claring: “The executive, in view of the conditions under which the delega- tion is to go to Mexico, decides that, on its own behalf and on that of the I, F, T. U., it must decline to take any responsibility whatever for it.” There were two votes cast against this declaration, however. It is not stated who cast the two insurgent ballots. Thus the press service of the Amsterdam International con- cludes that, “The result is that net- ther Purcell, altho he is the presi- dent of the I, F. T, U., nor Brown, It has been reported that Arthur A. Purcell, president of the I, F. T. U, would not attend because of his activity in the British coal miners’ strike. Purcell made the trip to Mexico City following his attend- ance at the A, F, of L, convention at Atlantic City, last year, as fraternal delegate of the British Trades Union Congress. * Among those who originally were tnvited and planned to come to Mex- | feo were Jouhaux, of France, and Mertens, of Belgium, vice presidents of the I, F, T, U, Bvidently heavy pressure was brought to bear upon these two, since it is now announced that neither of them will attend, | Thus the I. F. T. U., in common with the A F. of L., does all in its power to wreck the courageous efforts of the Mexican trade unions, now num- bering glose to 2,000,000 members, to bring unity into the world trade , union movement, eee : Buropean trade officials going to Mexico City, therefore, will go on the same basfs as the A, F. of L. has | forced trade union officials from this country to go to Moscow, merely as individuals. But it will be a begin- ning, It was three years ago that the Mexican tradé unions expressed a desire to have a delegation from across the Atlantic visit their coun- try, in the hope of establishing clos- | er relations between the trade un- ions of the old world and the new. The Mexicans were even ready to provide the necessary funds for this purpose, The invitation was origi- nally accepted, but it was claimed that the European situation at that moment prevented the various trade union leaders from leaving their re- spective countries, ‘ Instead of trying to build upon the Purcell visit to Mexico City last year, the I. F, T. U. executive went out of its way in an effort to belittle its results. This was a prophecy of the repudiation of the Mexico City conference that has now been issued ‘by this same executive altho he is secretary, have had any instructions to represent the I. F. T. U. in Mexico or in other American countries, any more than do the oth- er members of the delegation.” eee It fs not known definitely who will go to Mexico City from Europe. It was rumored about Detroit that Edo | Fimmen, former secretary of the I. F, T. U., but now head of the Inter- tional Transport Workers’ Federa- tion, would attend, But he has not ‘een heard from. eee ‘ | ‘Thus the’ labor reaction in the | United States and capitalist Europe tries to place itself as an obstruction “in the road that leads to trade union progress and unity. It will be bowled over and left in the dust unnoticed by the forward moving masses. Real world trade union unity, embracing the trade unions of all countries, including those of the Union of So- viet Republics, will blot out the re- actionary alliance of the Internation- al Federation of Trade Unions with the American Federation of Labor. | EIGHT MEETINGS ARE - ARRANGED BY DIST. 4 FOR STH ANNIVERSARY BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov, 4-—Dis- trict 4 of the Workers (Commu- nist) Party has arranged the fol» lowing meetings in commemoration of the ninth year of the Russian rev- olution: Buffalo, Nov. 7, Workers’ Forum Hall, 36 W. Huron St.; speaker, John Batlam. Erie, Pa. Nov. 6, Forward Hall, 24th and Peach Sts.; Chas. Krum- bein, Endicott, N. Y., Nov. 10; speakers In Russian and Polish Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 5, 580 8t Paul St.; Bert Wol Niagara Falls, Nov. bell, Binghampton, Nov. 7, Lithuanian Hall; Randgiph Katz. Jamestowf, Nov, 14, Hercules Hall; Herebert Benjamin. 3 4, P. Camp- Marty Durkin Again in Court; This Time For Dyer Act Offense Martin J. Durkin, under sentence of 85 years for slaying Federal Agent Edward Shanahan, in addition to a five-year federal sentence, was again arraigned in court today, this time charged with violation of the Dyer act in transporting a stolen automobile, Banker Hogan Comes Here, John H. Hogan, president of the! Des Moines national bank and a mem- ‘ber of the Iowa State Banking com- mission has been elected vice-presi- dent of the Continental and Commer- 6:30-—-The Brevoort Concert Trio; | Vella Cook, rald Crolissaint, Little Joe | Warner, Clarence Suilivan, Mildred Colucio. 9:00—Alamo Cafe Dance Orchestra, 11:00—Alamo Entertainers, cial National bank of Chicago, it was MURDER NIGHT DESCRIBED B Y HALL WITNESS Stevens Collapsed at the Scene Year Later COURTHOUSE, SOMERVILLE, N. J., Nov. 4.—Ralph Gersline, tall, thia, | vestryman in the slain Dr, Edward W. Hall's church, denied on the witness | stand today that he had seen or spo- | ken to Henry Stevens on the Phillips farm the night four years ago when the Rev Hall and his choir singer, Mrs. Eleanor Mills, were shot to death in De Russey's lane, He told of going to the scene which was a “Lovers’ Lane, at about 10:30 on the night of the double murder. He was accompuanied, he testified, by Miss Catherine Rastall. He parked his car near the famous crabapple tree where the murders were committed. Soon he heard the mumbling of voices, a shot, a woman's scream, then three shots—and then moans, Didn’t See Stevens, “Didn't you ever tell a man that you in the lane that night and that you saw there Henry Stevens and that he said to you: ‘Get to hell out of here!’ and fired two shot into the ground?” Special Prosecutor Alexan- der Simpson shouted, “T did not,” the witness replied. He said he met Miss Rastall in front of the Y. M. C, A., in New Brunswick, about 10,o’clock on the night of the murder. He invited her for a ride in his car They then drove to the lane, about 700 feet from the crabapple tree, and put out the automobile's lights “How long were you in the lane announced here today. 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