The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1926, Page 2

Page Two re INDIANA KLAN GRAFT EXTENDS TO UTILITIES Appointed Commission- ers ‘‘Favoring”’ Insull (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., N: of this city’s heated opp proposed $55,000,000 m f local Public utilities, there came today an- other blast of scandal involving D, C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Indiana K, K, K., now serving a life sentence in the state penitentiary for murder, and a number of promi- nent state officials and financiers. Asks Injunction, Asking for a restraining order pre- venting the Indiana public service commission from hearing the merger Petition of the Indianapolis Light and Heat, the Merchants’ Heat and Light and the Indianapolis Power and Light companies on November 18, Corpora- tion Counsel Alva J. Rucker, in his petition filed in circuit court today, charged that Stephenson, Governor Ed Jackson, John W. McCardle, chair man of the Indiana public service com- mission; Samuel Insull, Chicago utili- ties magnate, and other prominent financiers, conspired for a considera- tion of $19,000 to appoint to the ‘public service commission persons favorable to the Insull interests. The $19,000 was alleged to have been paid for use in political cam- paigns. * Asks Information, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 16.—In an open statement to the people of Indiana, thru the press, Attorney Gen- eral Arthur L. Gilliom today called upon anyone in the state having any testimony of fact relating to any al- leged illegal activities of the klan in Indjana, to submit to the proper, con- stituted authorities immediately, Gilliom strongly criticized the klan in his statement. Condemns Klan. It read in part: ‘In asking for tes- timony of facts I refer not to the already generally known activities of this always ill-advised and now hap- pily disintegrating organization or of its leaders, but I ask for testimony of facts, if such there is, which would show that anyone in public life had contact with them contact may have vi nal code of the state.” ated the crimi- WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Fa FOR RENT Well furnished, attractive front bed- room. All modern ‘conveniences, Rudman, 3940 W. 18th St., Chicago. nd who in such} CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from page 1) Here he is now, a member of a British “labor mission,” busying about the interests of British m while more than a million miners are fighting for their very ex- istence, With such leadership the workers cannot expect to win. re ae HE ability of the capitalist press to suppress news was never dem- onstrated.to better. advantage than during the visit of Marie of the bloody Roumanian government to Chicago. With the, exception of an inadequate story of the demonstration staged by the Intl, Labor Defense on the day of the parasite’s arrival, only a few lines appeared since. Efforts have been made by the wealthy flunkeys who are in charge of tht queen’s entertain- ment, thru their newspapers, to create the impression that Marie’s panhan- dling excursion has a popular appeal They have not succeeded, eee | sapiens that have any respect for themselves subtly express their contempt for the disgraceful conduct of our parasite class who scratch each other's eyes out in a mad competition for the privilege of going on their hands and knees to the wife of a moron king. A woman, too, even | tho she may be a successful panhan- |dler and peasing to the eye, who has given no indication that her mental development is higher than @ child of ten. A hase steel magnates and meat pack- ing kings that would turn the guns on their employes if they insisted on more wages are spending thousands of dollars entertaining Marie and her useless brood. When Marie wants a radio in her suite she gets it. The prince’s valet spends half an hour get- ting the prince’s cigarette lighter into | shape. While Marte was getting her face massaged in her room, she ex- pressed her perturbation over the | demonstrations made against her by the “reds.” How this expression of royal discontént got by the city edi- tors is more of a mystery than less, sae O much for the queen. Other {tems of interest that happened recently |are: The revolt in Dutch Batavia. | Holland is @ small country with a | very prosperous ruling class, Their prosperity can be attributed to the misery of their colonial slaves. The Communists led the revolt. The crown | prince of Germany was seen by a group of workers going into a depart~ ment store on Friederickstrasse, This waster had a fine automobile with his coat of arms on it and a couple of flunkeys to open and shut ‘the doors for him. The workers demonstrated against him and the Communists fol- lowed it up by raising the issue in the Reichstag. They charged the LOS ANGELES International Grand Concert of the International Labor Defense SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, at 8 P. M. + CALMON LUBOVSKY, ie Violin Virtuoso FREIHEIT GESANCGS VEREIN CHORUS One Act Russian Comedy “DENSCHTIK PODVIOL” and other attractions. Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Avenue ADMISSION (Children Proceeds to American Political Prisoners, Hungarian Beethoven Junior Orchestra 50 CENTS 25 Cents) Recention to greet CHARLES CLINE famous class-war prisoner just in prison for trying to help the oppressed workers of Mexico on Friday, November 19, 1926, 8 p, m. | is A MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 East 4th Street NEW YORK CITY Under Auspices of International Labor Defense, New York Section | | MCKETS 50 CENTS—For sale at 799 Broadway, Room 422; Worker, 108 E, 14th St., Room 32; Jimmie Higgins Book Store, 127 University Place, released after serving 1% years Daily | | found, || Birger roadhouse after dropping three — By iT. J, O'FLAHERTY | prince with inciting the population to riot and the next thing we know is that the prince made himself scarce. se @ HE biggest news of the week, how- ever, is the conference be tween the foreign ministers of Turkey and the Soviet Union at Odessa, with a view to maintaining peace as far as | possible despite the warlike pro parations of that mad-dog of fascism, Mussolini, It was reported too, that Persia, China and Afghanistan were ready to join a league to preserve peace in the Orient or rather to de- fend themselves against the imperial- ist robbers, The Soviet Union is the guiding spirit in this peace move. And yet We are told that Communists are crazy for blood, arson and their by- products! se @ WING to the failure of the work- ing class of the world—outside of Russfa—to aid the British miners, the strikers are facing defeat, British in- dustry has lost, directly, enough money since the strike started to sub- sidize the coal industry for the next ten years at least. But, the British capitalists were determined to come to grips at this time with the most mili- tant and most exploited section of its working class andgthe right wing la- bor leaders very neatly enabled the British capitalists to inflict a defeat on the miners. Now, the other sections of British labor will get it in the neck, Of course the defeat is only tempor- ary. The long struggle is not over yet, and class bitterness has been in- creased by several thousand per cent. see ‘TALY and France are watching each other suspiciously. One press agency put out a story that France mobilized troops on the Italian frontier and that Turkey took similar precautions with a view to be prepared for.a move by Mussolini., In all probability the cap- italists will hold their dogs in leash for the time being. But-there is noth- ing more inevitable than a war before long. * HIS is more or less of a digression, or a random thot, There is a story told of Mussolini's threat to in- vade Turkey, a few years back. Benito expressed the opinion that his fascists could go thru Turkey like a dip thru a purse. Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Turkish premier wired back saying that he had no objection to the fascists coming in, as Turkish farmers needed fertilizer for their fand but some con- sideration ‘should be given to the law of supply otherwise there might be some trouble in finding appropriate clay jackets for dead blackshirts, The brave Mussolini took refuge in silence and organized another plot against himself. Gang Warfare Has Quieted Down Again in Williamson County (Special to The Dally Worker) HERRIN, Ill, Nov. 16.—The threat- ened continuance of gang warfare in Southern Illinois failed to materialize and the week-end passed in William- son and adjoining counties with but little to indicate the existing factional e* | | hatred, One man, Claude Craig, 35, was shot || and killed near a roadhouse late Satur- ||day night, but authorities today said ||he was not connected with either the Sheltons or Birgers and did not con- nect the incident with the feud, || Craig was shot three times, twice ' Lwith a revolver through the region of || the heart and a charge of buckshot in the right side, No one has been ar- rested and no witnesses have been The airplane which last Friday in- jected & new method of waging gang warfare, has not been seen since it disappeared from the region of the home-made bombs. The Birgers who Saturday threatened. in reprisal to “wipe out the Sheltons” failed to carry out the threat. Garibaldi Goes to" Prison with Macia (Continued trom page 1.) raising a militant nationalist spirit thruout Italy. Open Trial. r of justice to take charge of the trial, He in turn has decided to-press a charge of secreting ammunition and arms only. There ig much temerity |about the staging of an open trial for Garibaldi. It is feared that the testi- mony necessary to such @ public hear- ing will further fan the flames that have flared up between Italy and France over this affair, combined with the border incidents of few weeks ago, Twenty-three others, Italians and Spaniards are to be tried with Gari- baldi and Macia as accomplices in the two cases, Forfeit $50,000 Bon DANVILLE, Ill, Nov, 16.—Bonds of five Chicagoans totaling more than $50,000 were declared forfeited in the cireult court today by Judge Augustus Partlow when five Italians, indicted on the charge of assault to kill, assault to rob, and violating the state probibi- tion law, tailed to appear in court when their cases were called for trial. ‘The five men are Mile Cartalond, Joe Decanardo, Tony Giordano, Fred Man- cugo.and Teny Ponzi, AJ 36 THE DAILY, WORKER: STALIN SPEAKS AT ALL-UNION PARTY CONGRESS : oye Assails Opposition as . wee Anti-Leninist (Continued from page 1) ialist surroundings, At that time Marx admitted the possibility of an excep- tion for England and America, where, owing to feebly developed militarism and bureaucratism, the proletariat had some chance of obtaining political | power “by peaceful means.” | Lenin's Thesis, According to Lenin this exception ts | madmissible under the present condi- tions of the development of impertal- | ism, when militarism and bureaucrat- ism are thriving in England and Amer- ica as well as in other countries. Lenin, having established the law of the unequal economic and political de- } velopment of capitalism, adopted in consequence the idea that it is pos- sible to have a victory of socialism in one single country. The Communist Party acknowledges that victory of the | sockalist elements over the capitalists is possible in a single country, but a complete triumph of socialism or the elimination of the contradiction exist- ing between a Soviet country and the capitalist world would be possible only in the case of the victory of the re- volution in several countries, Divergence of Opposition. Unlike the opposition, one must make a difference between the victory of socialism in one country and its final and complete construction. The declaration that the party underesti- mated the international efforts’ of the working classes to secure the victory of the revolution in our country is sheer calumny. The Comintern policies, such as the united front, policy to help the British miners, etc., are united efforts of the international proletariat tending to world revolu- tion, and also the development of our revolution, The opposition is disorganizing and discrediting the Communist Party of the U. 8S. S. R., which is the vanguard of the Comintern; is supporting all sorts of Maslovs and Souvarines and ig trying to disintegrate the Comin- tern, The oppositionists in declaring war on the Comintern ceased to be re- volutionaries and internationalists and hecame babblers giving vent to sonor- ous phrases only, Assails Trotsky’s Theory. Referring to Trotzky’s theory of the permanent revolution, Stalin reminds us that according to Lenin this theory is aesemi-menshevijpt, theory, ignoring the revolutionary roléof the peasantry in the Russian revolution and doom- ing the proletariat of the U. 8. S. R. to a fatalistic passivity, The Trotzky- ist point of view is nearer to Otto Bauer than to Lenin, The party will mot. tolerate any longer that the opposition, though re- maining a minority, should abuse the party group, that all dissatisfied ele- ments slander the leading party ap- paratus and break the iron discipline of the party, that it should organize all condemned groups, preparing ac- cordingly a new party under the ban- ner of factional liberty. Will Not Stand Attacks. The party will not allow attempts of the opposition to use the difficulties standing in the way of socialist con- struction for the purpose of attacking the party, making demagogical appeals to the masses about the urgency of increasing wages 30 to 40 per cent, knowing that industry is unable at the Present moment to stand such an in- crease. The opposition is pursuing solely demagogic aims, using the dissatisfac- tion of the backward labor groups against the party. The party cannot allow defeatism to be encouraged, cannot allow it to be sown nor attacks made on the Comintern and the dis- organization of its sections. The op- position will either fulfill these condi- tions necessary for party unity or the party, having beaten the opposition yesterday, will beat it finally to- morrow, Referring to the fesults of the inter- national party struggles, Stalin made ironical comments on Trotzky’s letter, written to the oppositionists last Sep- Workers In\HE Federated Press correspond- i* ent at Washington reports that Senator Curtis, of Kansas, Coolidge- Mellon republican leader in the up-) per house of congress, upon meet- ing Senator Lynn Frazier, of North Dakota, a week following the recent elections, jovially slapped the west- ern.solon on the back and address- ed him as follows: “Hello, Lynn! How are you? I’m coming in to see you and have a talk, before long.” ; This should be important news for the workers and farmers, espec- ially labor out in Minnesota and the Dakotas, where the Fraziers and nonpartisan political action consti- tute an employing class antidote for the Farmer-Labor Party and inde- pendent political action. ae a Frazier was elected on teh re- publican ticket in North Dakota. He was supported by what remains of the nonpartisan league. In Minnesota some remnants of the repudiated nonpartisan league leadership in that state are trying - to lure the workers and farmers back into the democratic party. At the same time there are rumors that Hendrik Shipsted, the farmer- labor senator from Minnesota, is being urged to run as a republican in 1928, when his term expires. When Curtiss slapped Frazier on the back at Washington, it was, to. some extent, a verification of every charge that the Coolidge administra- tion is seeking to enmesh all the so- called insurgents in its all-inclusive political net. There are indications that the Coolidge cry for “Help!” Will Slap Last In Their Struggle With the Capitalist Politicians By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. : tion clear. wil not go unheeded. Ph Rea The republican “old guard” put Frazier owt on the back doorstep in 1924 when. the North Dakota sena- tor supported LaFollette. Not only Frazier, but the whole LaFollette outfit, stayed around that same back doorstep making the worst kind of a racket asking to be let back in. The door has been gradually op- ening. The republicans need the votes to keep the democrats from coming in the front door. The negotiations between the “old guard” and the “insurgents” are not based on principle. It is merely a matter of jobs. If Fraz- jer can be prevailed on to accept some committee chairmanship, then it is felt that he will be hogtied to the machine of the G. O. P. sufficl- ently to maintain a working repub- lican majority. All this will take place next year with the assem- bling of the new congress. * Efforts to’ win over the “insur- gents” however, will be made even at the rapidly approaching short session of congress. First attempts at mollification will be made in the case of Senator George W. Norris, of Nebraska, who is in line for the chairmanship of the senate judic- jary committee as a result of the’ x death of Senator Albert B. Cum- mins of Iowa. There were threats against Norris, demanding that he be barred from this committee ap- pointment because he went into Pennsylvania during | the recent campaign and urged the election of the democrat, ‘illiam B. Wilson, to the United States senate. The pre- dicament of the republican “old guard” may be judged from the fact that it isseven willing to overlook this breach of party regularity. It is expected that the republican committee on committees will meet in a {6w days and make its posi- It is also declared that Senator Charles L. MeNarty, of Oregon, one of the authors of the McNary-Hau- gen farm relief measure that was rejected by the Qoolidge cabinet with Mellon as chief opposition spokesman, will be promoted to the chairmanship of the senate committee on agriculture. Senator James Couzens, of Mich- igan, who is somewhat “irregular” at times, may become chairman of the committee on education and la- bor, thus helping to spike his guns. mx. B® Norris, Frazier, MeNary, Couz- ens, and perhaps Shipsted, will hail these appointments as “victor- ies” for the progressives in con- gress. They are nothing of the kind. They are merely maneuvers to bring insurgency under the wing of the old guard. The “old guard” maneuver will help destroy the influence of these Politicians even as “spokesman of the middle class. It should also help unmask them as political agents of the great capitalists and therefore the worst enemies of the workers. In the days ahead the LaFollette group will be drawn, more and more, into the regular republican machine. This is inevitable. But this should act as a stimulus to- ward the development of the Farmer-Labor movement, not only in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Mon- tana and Washington, but in Iowa, Nebraska and other states as well. The LaFollette politicians have been slapped on the back by the “old guard” in.loving approval of what may be expected of them in the’ future. In the next election struggle these LaFollette politicians will again come @mong the workers and farmers, in their back ‘slapping stump speeching campaigns, seek- ing the votes of those they have betrayed. The time for the workers and farmers to repudiate that back- . slapping, vote-seeking campaign is now. The method is thru the build- ing of the independent political ac- tion of the workers and farmers thru the Labor Party. That will be @ slap in the face for both the big and little capitalist class poli- ticlans, But he who slaps’ last slaps t. Se aeaeanacahaieri diets is et icc Se tembér, in which he predicted the future consolidation of the opposition bloc. Stalin emphasizes the disorgan- ization of the bloc, its best elements, like Comrade Krupskaya, having for- saken it. The results are quite con- trary to those predicted in Trotzky’s letter. The party long ago turned its back on the opposition, whose com- plete failure is obvious, The conference, standing, cheered Stalin long and loud, Athletic Commission Ruling, SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Nov, 16,—At- torney General Carlstrom in an opin- ion today told the state civil service commission that the secretary of state athletic commission is not subject to the rules of civil service, being an official of the commission. Other clerical employes of the commission are subject and should be classified accordingly, the opinion says, Rev. Hall Planned to Elope with Mrs. Mills Trial Witness Relates COURTHOUSE, SOMERVILLE, N. J., Noy. 16—Mrs, Eleanor Mills, slain choir singer, and the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, were planning to elope four years ago, shortly before they were shot to death, the murdered woman's sister, Mrs. Elsie Barnhardt, an attractive dark-eyed woman, testi- fled at the Hall-Mills murder trial yes- terday, “They were going to Japan as soon as Charlotte (Mrs. Mills daughter) Was out of school,” said Mrs, Barn- hardt, . “She told me she thought more of Rev. Hall's little finger than she did eb ipye Mills’ (her husband) whole VARE AND SMITH WILL BE OUSTED SURVEY REVEALS Senate Alignment Now Against Seating WASHINGTON, Noy. 16.—William 8, Vare of Pennsylvania and Frank L, Smith of Illinois, whose senatorial campaigns were featured by huge ex- penditures, will be ousted from the senate in the seventieth congress ‘by an overwhelming vote, a partidl poll has revealed, G. O. P.’s Join Dems, The poll revealed that at least 17 republican senators will vote along with virtually the entire democratic membership of the.new senate to nul- lity their election. Such a lineup would result in the ousting of Vare and Smith by a two-to-one vote, as the republican organization will have but a single vote plurality after next March 4, The republican senators who are known to oppose the seating of Vare and Smith are: Jones, Washington; McNary and Steiwer, Oregon; John- son, California; Borah and Gooding, Idaho; Norris and Howell, Nebraska; Frazier and Nye, North Dakota; Me- Master and Norbeck, South Dakota; Brookhart, Iowa; Capper, Kansas; La- Follette and Blaine, Wisconsin, and Couzens, Michigan, , n't Condone Graft. Not all these senators have come out publicly in denunciation of the Vare and Smith campaign funds, but those who are not. as yet on record either voted to oust Tryman H, New- berry in 1922 for spending $195,000 or have told friends privately they would not condone the Pennsylvania and Illi- nois primaries. This poll, incidentally, does not represent the maximum anti- Vare or maximum anti-Smith strength in the senate. A half dozen more re- publican senators were reported ready to vote against both men, altho not yet committed, Democrats Nearly Solid. To date the democratic ranks have remained almost solid against the two senators-elect, The lone break came when Senator Cole Blease, of South Carolina, announced he would vote to seat both Vare and Smith on the ground the senate had no contro] over primaries in the states. The attitude of several prominent re- publicans ‘in denouncing slush funds has done much to turn sentiment against Vare and Smit®. “Old guards- men” were shaken first when Theo- dore Roosevelt took to the stump to attack slush funds and their users. A far greater shock came only a few days ago, when General John J, Per- shing criticized lavish use of funds in campaigns, Pershing Backs Norris, The Pershing statement, incident- ally, hag given fuel to Senator George W. Norris, insurgent leader, who cam- paigned against Vare in Pennsylvania. Norris declared Pershing’s utterance Was an endorsement of his own doc- trine that the use of slush funds meant auctioning off of public offices, British Coal Mine Strikers to Act on, New Terms Proposed , (Continued from page 1) tricts from registering their votes against the motion, But the matter is as yet far from settled. On a previous occasion the vote of the miners rejected an import- ant recommendation of the delegate conference. It is possible that the same thing will occur with regard to the present recommendation, which, without question, spells defeat for the union, Fighting Alone, But the miners are fighting a lone battle. The government has mobilized its entire force against them and they have been derived of support from the rest of the British movement by the right wing leaders of the Trade Union Congress, It will be at least a week before the result of the voting in the districts is shown. And there'is the other ques- tion, of the owners not yet having fully agréed to the proposals set forth by Baldwin as outlined above. Who Will Carry the Message of Passaic fo the Unorganized? Sixteen thousand textile workers of Passaic are on the brink of victory after a hard-fought nine months’ struggle. 16,000 unorganized textile workers are establishing thelr right to organize and bargain collectively in defense of their own interests, Their brave struggle has been a shining’ example to the millions of workers who, unorganized and unprepared, face the prospect of the coming onslaughte of the American employers, These unorganized workers need the message of Passaic—need It urgently and energetically until they learn to follow the textile workers’ example. The rubber workers, the auto workers; the food, workers, the steel workers, the miners, must come into the ranks of the organized labor move- ment, must build up a bulwark of defense against the attacks of the em- pl ‘ess, which in many instances is in ers. The kept press will surely not carry this messa » Even the labor the control of the labor bureaucrats, who are more anxious to maintain their soft berths, than to tread the stormy path of organization among the unorganized workers, has not yet taken up this urgent duty, It therefore falle to the Communist dally~The DAILY WORKER—to take up this task, energetically and with vigor, as it has done consistently in the past. From The DAILY WORKER will come the stimulus toward or ganization in new fields and toward the mobilization of new forces Inside the labor movement, against the forces of American caplitaliom, Should The ILY WORKER succumb at this critical ‘time, when the Passaic strikers aro on the verge of victory, the task of organizing Passaice pigaty ‘ wee thruout the United States, the task of organizing the unorganized, would receive a serious setback. The present financial crisis in The DAILY WORKER must not be permitted to halt its work. THE DAILY WORKER MUST CARRY ON. The DAILY WORKER must be kept alive. The DAILY WORKER must reach an ever Increasing number of organized workers. The DAILY WORKER must help to make Passaic a reality in every field of Industry. You must do your share by securing donations among your fel- low workers, Turn your book In at once. If you have not received one, we shall be glad to send it upon request. DAILY WORKER. 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