The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1926, Page 2

SOONG oS A Te Ny § EMBARGO LOANS ARE PAID Washington — Adamant on Collections (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Renewed agitation for lifting the American| dollar embargo against France fell | upon deaf ears in Washington today. | Officials read with interest—but no apparent sympathy—the letter writ- ten to Vice President Dawes by Irv-| ing T. Bush, New York financier, ad- vocating abandonment of the present policy of prohibiting loans to France until she ratifies the war debt agree- | ment. Bush said, “The present situa-| tion is critical and our position should be reconsidered.” He said a loan at this time would “restore the last sick @urrency among the great nations of Burope.” Dawes Silent. Wioe-President Dawes decilned to eomment on Bush's letter, but treas- ury Officials were not so reticent. They declared there is no reason why the dollarembargo against France should be lifted at this time, e@nd they particularly deplored a re- mewal of pro-French agitation at a time when the French chamber is meeting with the Mellon-Berenger agreement before it. “Encourage Cancellation.” “Mcident of this kind,” satd the treasury spokesman, “merely serve to delay the ultimate adjustment They encourage the cancellation- fats in France to further efforts to defeat the agreement, and raise en tirely unjustifiable hopes on the part of the French public. Such incidents are to be deplored.” Members of the American debt funding commission showed scant sympathy with Bush’s position. Sen- ator Reed Smoot, of Utah, the sen- ate’s representative on the commis- sion, declared France should be ac- ‘corded no credits, either government- al or private, until she accepts the debt pact. Must Settle First. “Whenever France settles her obli gations,” said Smoot, “then we can lend her money. But at present 1 believe it would be unwise for the gove loans. Smoot’s’ views were echoed by a number of other senators, irrespec- tive of party. nent to sanction private Russian Fraction W. P. Will Meet Tuesday at Workers’ House The Chicago Russian fraction of the Workers (Communist) Party will *meet Tuesday, Dec. 21, at 8 p. m.,, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. Final arrangements for the Novy Mir Masquerade Ball to be given Saturday, Dec. 25 at Mirror Hall, will be made. SHOWING TONIGHT BREAKING CHAINS A Russian super photoplay of ro- mance, and reconstruction Ashland Auditorium at Ashland and Van Buren TWO SHOWINGS 7:30 and 9:30 P. M, ADMISSION - . revolution 60 CENTS FOREIGN-BORN | Dec, }1902 West Divisio: FASCISTI, URGED BY ENGLAND, STAGE COUP; ARREST LITHUANIAN CABINET c’ ON FRANCE "TIL ¢..,eor3e azn have carried out a coup d’etat a Lithuania, Dec. 17—Fascisti, Thave the Lithuanian cabinet und under M. Smetona, nd are in control of Kovno and er arrest. A state of siege has been“declared thruout the entire coun- Bae The coup d'etat has been bl n the early hours of the morni char reported, * ie. Clerical Fascisti. Smetona is the leader of a nation- alist party supported by the large land owners, The fascist elements with which he allied himself for the coup were largely in the clerical party, called Christian Democrat. The former government was a coal- ition between a section of the na- tionalists and the socialists, the lat- ter having two portfolios. The in- ternational implications of the coup ti oodless, having been carried out ing without any serious clashes a@’tat are that England looked with disfavor upon the rapprochment be- tween Lithuania and the Soviet Un- jon and assisted the fascisti in the overthrow. C. P.. tMlegal. | The Communist Party has consid- erable influence in Lithuania but is/ entirely illegal, existing under a con- stant state of terror. The popula- tion of the country is about two and a quarter million. COUNCIL MEETS SUNDAY, DETROIT Will Discuss Campaign on Anti-Alien Bills DETROIT, Dec. 17.—The Detroit Council for Protection of Foreiga Born Workers holds its first meeting of the season on Sunday, Dec. 19, at the Electrical Workers’ Temple, Adelaide street at 10 o’clock a. m. The representatives of trade unions and fraternal organizations who make | up this council will gather to discuss plans for reopening the work of fight ing the various anti-alien bills which will soon be coming: up for cons eration in congress. This will the first meeting of the council sin the organization of the work on a na- tional scale. Begin Natlonal Drive. The Council for Protection of For- eign-Born Workers has now estab- lished headquarters in New York City, and in addition to co-ordinating the local councils and amalgamating the sentiment in opposition to the anti-alien bills, they will send out or- ganizers to open naturalization classes, and bureaus of legal aid for the foreign-born. Sugar Hears Classes. Maurice Sugar, as a member of the Detroit council will supervise the de- velopment of the naturalization classes in Detroit, and those foreign- born workers who want to become citizens will be given every opportun- ity to do so. However, at the same time, the councils will fight those bills which are being proposed to force aliens to become citizens and threatening deportation if they are not naturalized within a certain per- iod. Such bills are part of the Depari- ment of Labor's whole program to persecute the foreign-born, and eve: 55 be | part of this plan will be vigorously opposed by the council. Every worker, whether foreign or native- | born, should join with the Council |for Protection of Foreign-Born Work- ers in fighting all such bills which are aimed directly at labor and hay. been hatched in the brains of labor's “open shop” enemies. SEEK TO DISMISS ‘SINCLAIR CHARGE ON TECHNICALITY WASHINGTON, Dec, 17.—Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, who wag acquitted in trial for con- }spiracy with E. I. Doheny in the Pear Harbor oil leases, will be ar- raigned Tuesday for conspiracy with Harry Sinclair in the Teapot Dome conspiracy. Fall was to have been ar- raigned Friday for the Sinclair in- dictment, but Justice Bailey postponed it until he could hear the argument for quashing the indictment, which has been petitioned by Sinclainjs attorneys. Claims Indictment Illegal, George Hoover, Sinclair attorney, alleges that the indictment was ‘un- constitutional and petitions that the | case be dismissed on this account, He |claims that because the district at- torney did not appear when the grand jury returned {ts indictment that “Sin- clair and Fall were singled out for a jism. .|raptures of the happy couple. ~ —— CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) been charged with Bolshevism or athe- Which leaves him a 100 per cent American. see ROWNING is on the wrong side of 60 but that handicap did not pre- vent several precocious female in- fants from falling in love with him. A Miss Heenan, who happened to be 16 years old was looked upon as an octogenarian by Browning but under threat of legal action by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren he married her and William Ran- dolph Hearst got half a dozen report- ers on the job to record the mutual Then the storm burst. Mrs. Browning fled from the scene of her disgrace to a courtroom and “Daddy” was hit be- tween the eyes with a bill of particu- lars wheth called for half a million dollars, being the sum figured by the lawyers as minimum compensation for the loss of virtue and mental anguish sustained by their client while she vas in the immediate vicinity of addy.” OT to be outdone by “Peaches,” Marie Louise Spas, whom Brown- ing adopted in 1925, hands her former | benefactor a bill for $500,000 thru the medium of a lawyer who expects to collect his 25 per cent if the suit is successful, Thus American virtue goes to bat and sin is on the defens- ive. ‘Fhose who have despaired of America, because of the recent ‘wave of jazz-dancing, gin and divorce, should be encouraged by tha spec- tacle of those two brave girls aho are standing at the Marne of innno- cence, telling the devil of seduction that he shall.not pass, unless he has the money. *?e @ ANK TINNEY, the comedian, adopted a novel method to avoid bill collectérs. He leased a room in a hospital for a year. Not having any money the hospital people will not turn him loose until they have some guarantee that somebody will) pay them for his keep. His wife, from} whom he is separated, has a bunch of alimony collectors waiting at the hospital gate, ready to seize his per- son as soon as he is invalided out. {t looks like a tragedy for the poor comedian, oe wo HE minor employes of the Vatican have been raising the devil on ac- ount of the low wages they receive or sweeping out the papal chambers nd other menial work. The pope de- cided to give them a raise and made it retroactive but it appears that the flunkey who had charge of the distri- bution of arrears had glue on his fin- gers and the employes let out another yelp. The flunkey resigned. What tho pope needs is a small army of eunuchs, The sultan never had any |tention that the farm bloc proposals PROVIDE ADDED trouble with his servants. They were safe and contented, REPORT MIKADO DEAD; IS ALIVE SAY OFFICIALS LONDON, Dec. 17.-Emperor Yosh- ihito, of Japan, is d according to a Central News dispatch from Tokio special manner and method of prose- eution wholly different from the prosecution of other persons” for sim!- lar crimes, If the motion 1s denied, the new trial will probably start Jan, 15, The government in this case will seek to stablish the fact that Fall recetved $230,500. in Liberty bonds from Sin- clair to surrender the Teapot Dome ofl, Lithuanian Little Folks to Entertain Tho Lithuanian Children’s Club will give @ concert and danco on Sunday, 19, at 4 p, m, ot Rubsian hall, atreet, Tho little folks are anxious to see all their friends, both kids and grown- ups, at that time and promise them a rea) treat, Bear in mind that this ts an after- noon entertainment and will not inter- fere with your evening engagements, this afternoon, TOKIO, Dec. 17.—An official bulle- tin Issued at 10:40 p. m. tonight de- clared that the emperor of Japan was still alive. © 6.8 Withheld News. The news of the death of the emperor of Japan, in accordance with custom, may be withheld for many days af- ter his death, No announcement of the death, js made until all membors of the family have been notified and arrangements for the succession are made, Furthermore the announce- ment of the death would probably be withheld until the body had been re- moved to the royal palace, since an emperor must always die in his pal- ace, #0 far as official records Graduate of Moscow University, re- cently from Moscow, gives private and Group lessone In Russian (theory and practice), Eveninga at the Russian Children’s School, 8925 8. Kedale Ave, Ly “WAY IS CLEARED IN CONGRESS FOR FARM AID BILLS Administration ~ Shows| Weakening Signs (Continued from page 1.) Haugen to have destroyed one of the chief Objects of farm relief, “Without the provision that the tariff differential will govern the domestic price there is no definite basis on which to operate,” Haugen | said. “There is no direct mandate of congress to any board which is estab- lished.” Board Has No Power. Failure of the McNary bill to give) a federal farm board ‘the right to buy | and sell farm products also was point- ed out by Hatigen as a glaring de- ficiency. The bill, he said, provides only that the board may make con- tracts. 3 “The bill now is simply a banking proposition, said Haugen. ee 8 WASHINGTON, Dec, 16.—Farm re- lief legislation has become the out- standing issue before congress, with members of the farm bloc apparently pinning their hopes for success. upon forcing a compromise with the ad- ministration, Oppose Equalization. With the revised McNary-Haugen bill shorn of some features which were unacceptable to President Coo- lidge and his advisers, some members from agricultural sections indicated they were willing to go even further in an effort to reach an agreement. The equalization fee and the con- vill put the government into the farm commodity business appeared to be the chief stumbling blocks for the new program, Talk of a fillbuster to provoke an extra session on farm legislation has subsided pending the result of efforts to unite warring factions, House Clears Way, ‘The farm relief bill tobe offered in the house will be similar to the meas- ure placed before the senate by Sena- tor McNary of Oregon. Farm bloc leaders have appealed to representa- tives who stand well in administra- tion circles to aponsor’such a meas- ure. Little lost motion will accompany the final drafting of the farm relief Program, according to present plans. Representative Hatigen, of Iowa, chairman of the house agricultural committees, has announced that he is opposed to holding public hearings. The senate agriculture committee has agreed to hear Sensverelect Brook- hart, of Iowa, on his mew plan, but exhaustive public patgigarstion ds not anticipated, The house agriculture committee has been assured of preferential status upon any farm relief bill it presents. With the McNary bill intro- duced, the senate steering committee is now expected to add farm legis- lation to its tentative program. PROGRAM: WITH MOVIE SHOWING At the Ashland Auditorium, Satur day, Dec. 18, where the Russian su- per-moving picture “Breaking Chains” will be shown, additional attractions will be offered to the audience. A 12- year old mistress of the violin, Min- nie Joffe, who has thrilled thousands of persons with her unique mastery of the string instrument, will play a number of selections. Important Conference of All Organizations at Lyceum on Sunday All sympathetic organizations. party organizations, and nucle! branches are urged to send delegates to the important conference to be THE DAIL¥Y WORKER Steel Czars Divide Up Quarter Billion in Loot Taken From Workers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. HE United States Steel Corpora- tion has joined with the General Motors Corporation, also a Morgan trust, in the cutting of huge, juicy, melon—more than $250,000,000 being dropped into the laps of the parasite stockholders, in the form of a 40 per cent stock dividend. Thus the steel trust also follows in the footsteps of the telephone combine, the rubber interests and other great industrial concerns in spreading joy among the idle rich. The quarter of a billion dollar Christmas present is reported to have thrown Wall Street into fits of ecstacy, see Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the steel trust’s board, at a joint gathering of the combine’s direc- torate and representatives of the capitalist press, announced that it was possible to distribute this ex- tra dividend to the common stock- holders because: “The earning capacity of the corporation justifies the proposed ac- tion at this time.” * s ®@ This is the Judge Gary who swooned away while making a 30- minute speech before the American Steel Institute urging the continu- ance of the 12-hour day in the in- dustry. Not long afterwards, how- ever, as the result of unrest among the steel workers, the 12-hour day was put on the scrap heap in spite of the repeated declarations that any change was “economically un- sound” and wouldn’t work, not in the steel industry! “Earning capacity” in the produc- tion of steel and its by-products is affected by two big factors that are present in all other industries: First: The introduction of labor saving devices, resulting in a high degree of specialization that dis- places large numbers of workers, imany of them highly skilled, with a smaller number of unskilled, lower paid workers, This is “economy in production.” Second: The success achieved by the owners of industry in keeping the! workers unorganized, thus mak- ing it impossible for the workers thru organization, to force higher wages and better conditions. This keeps “operating costs” down. eee a The steel trust has heen peculiarly successful in both these directions. Unskilled labor, thru the introduc- tion of “improvements” has dis- placed large numbers of skilled workers. The Morgan interests, financial capital enthroned, fights the organization of the workers everywhere. The House of Morgan was the driving force back of the relentless opposition to the steel strike in 1919, bringing the whole capitalist strength to bear against the steel workers. The victory of 1919 against the steel workers made possible the distribution of a quar- ter billion dollars in stolen wealth by the steel trust during these 1926 holidays. se e@ When the ordinary victim of the highwayman is held up at the point of a gun, deprived of his belong- ings and left penniless, he not only lets out a yell, but tries to recover some of the loot taken from him. Not so, the labor officialdom that sees the workers plundered on ev- ery hand, It lets out a yell, to be sure, but usually it is a muffled squawk not intended to get results. Thus John P, Frey, editor of the Moulders’ Journal, at the Detroit convention of the American Federa- tion of Labor, lamented that: “We have read in the papers that President Gary of the steel trust is alarmed over a five-day week, The statistics of the department of labor prove that since 1914 the per capita production in the steel industry has increased 50 per cent, and during that period the eight-hour day has replaced the 12-hour day for over one-third of the employes of that corporation, “We have no conception, until we ‘begin to delve, of the enormous increase there is in production. Taking some figures which were published recently by the Pollock Foundation, we are told that in some departments of the steel in- dustry two men are now doing the work formerly done by 20 men, that two men, working with a machine, have replaced 14 others, that in the _ handling of pig iron seven men aro doing the work which formerly re- quired 128.” ee @ But what does Frey, Green, Woll, Lewis, McMahon, Sigman and the rest do about it. Nothing! Less than nothing! Because they try to convince the workers that it is sufficient to pass resolutions plead- ing with the employers to increase wages and shorten the work-day with the growing efficiency and pro! ductiveness of imdustry, without de- veloping the organized strength and enforce this plea. Byery effort of the militant sec- tion of labor to strengthen labor’s position thru amalgamation, organ- ization of the unorganized, world trade union unity and the Labor Party is viciously fought, the latest example of this being the reaction- ary onslaught against the left wing in the needle trades. a aa There will be no Christmas gift of increased wages, better working conditions or the shorter work-day for the hundreds of thousands of workers in the steel industry: The steel czardom, including such mon- archs of finance and industry as J. Pierpont Morgan, George F. Baker, John S. Phipps, Eugene Buffing- ton and James A. Farrell, never grants a concession to the work- ers unless it is forced out of them. Instead the workers in this in- dustry may face another disaster this Christmas as they did recently at Ironwood, Michigan, where scores of iron miners were drowned when & swamp fel] into an unprotected mine, because precautions were “ex- pensive”; or the blast in the by- products plant at Gary, Indiana, that murdered more than a dozen and ‘injured scores. Disaster in the steel trust owned coal mines are so frequent as to pass almost unno- ticed. é *_*2- 8 b The United States Steel Corpora- tion was hailed as “the first bil- lion, dollar trust when it was in- corporated in New Jersey, Feb. 25, 1901. At that time its stock was watered to the limit and it sold for almost nothing. But, as Gary, or Schwab, or Farrell, or Carnegie might say, the earning capacity (the power to exploit) of the privately owned steel industry justified this method of financing by Wall St. Now another quarter billion’ is add- ed to the capitalization with the stock selling, not at $43.75 per share as was the case when it was first traded March 28, 1901, but at $160.00 per share, the price paid for the first batch of 40,000 shares put on the market today (Dec. 17, 1926), Wall Street jubilantly an- nounces that that was the highest price yet paid for the shares of this big corporation, that repre- sents the ability of this trust to ap-' propriate for itself the fruits of la- bor in the steel industry, Not only the steel workers, but all Ameri- can labor, must seriously consider this condition. held Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock at Workers’ Lyceum, 2736 Hirsch Boulevard, Organizations which have not met prior to the call for the conference and could not elect delegates are urged to be repre- sented by thelr officers, etnies WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! with over seventy cartoons and drawings by seventeen proletarian artists, Size 9x12 attractively bound, CINSBERG'S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Northwest Side Parents Oppose Platoon and Junior High Schools and Demand McAndrew’s Dismissal The members of the Northwest Side Parents’ League have sent a commu- nication to the school committee of the city council, expressing their postion to*the platoon and junior \ school systems, “The constructi of platoon schools,” the letter reads, ‘Is more costly and the children get must Jess out of these schools when they are constructed,” They commend the committee's in- vestigation inio school board affairs and demand that it not be choked off.| “Ig it possible,” ask these parents, “that one woman on the board and one man brought here from New York should know more about what is good tor our children than the 12,000 teach- ers who work with our children ten months of the year?” The letter demands also the remov-| can Consul, Vilinmeak anise Will Hear Request for Warrant Against Oak Park ‘ark Policemen » Judge William J. Dh J. Lindsay, chief jus tice of the Criminal Courts, has con sented to sit as an oxaming magi: trate on Dec, 29, at 2 o'clock to hea: application for bench warrants for th arrest of two Oak Park policeme: icon and Lindbald, on a charge « ult on the person of August! Morales, This {s an unusual assig * for a chief justice to give hi: self, Tho judge offered to act in this « pacity when Mary Belle Spencer, the BUOY, WEY bud Lapin, eee appeared before him ; 4] of McAndrews as superintendent of] ask redress for the brutal beating th schools and of Mra, William 8, Hef+| Moraloz had feran a8 a member of the board, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Got a copy of tne Amoertoan Worker Correspondent. it'e only 6 cents, Tecelved whon arrest at Oak Park on Deo, 7, after th shooting affair at Molrose Park. _—, We will eend sample coples of * DAILY WORKER te your friends NEGROES RISE IN PROTEST AGAINST POLICE TERRORS Mayor to "Be Forced to Stop Raids Negroes thruout the city arb voicing a protest against the unwarranted raids staged on the south side Wed- nesday night by the Chicago police department, when the police broke. in- to houses,. accosted men, women and children on the street, and destroyed property belonging to Negroes in the search for the slayer of Patrolman Bonfield. The announcement that the police have in custody a man, not a Negro, who has confessed to slaying the policeman, added to the indigna- tion of the Negroes, Form. United Front. A united front of all Negro organ- izations: in the city is being formed to force the mayor and the police chief to discontinue wholesale arrests and terrorristic raids on Negro districts every time a crime is committed in which it 1s auspected a Negro is im- plicated. Prominent Negro leaders are point- Ing out that the raid Wednesday was an attempt of the police to distract at- tention from the inefficiency and cor- ruption in the police department, which is allowing real criminals to escape and others to continue opera- tions under police protection, 4 N. A. A. C. P. Acts. Friday the Chicago branch of the National Association for the Advancte- ment of Colored People met inexecu- tive session to draw up a formal pro- test to be lodged with.Mayor Dever and Chief of Police Collins. Morris Lewis, secretary, announced that the N. A. A. C. P. brands the Wednesday raid as an illegal and shameful at- tack on the Negro population of Chi- cago. “The raid was outrageous,” said Lewia, “and such things must be dis- continued. There is no justification for them.” Submits the Facts. The N, A. A. C. P, will bring to the mayor’s attention similar outrages committed by the police and will also inform: him that no such action is taken in a murder case where only white persons are implicated. The American Negro Labor Con gress is also taking up the action.of the police to protect the rights..of Negro citizens from police onslaughts. Homes Broken In. Nearly 500 members of the race were rounded up like cattle by the police. They visited homes late at night, and when there was delay in opening the doors, the cops broke them in. Men and women were stop- ned on the street and forced to sub- nit to searching of their person for concealed weapons. Anyone that pro- tested the mad action ‘of the police was promptly jailed. The John Reed Junior Group ‘is giving an affair for the benefit of the class war prisoners Saturday, Dec. 18, at Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, near California Ave, ang Py. Red Calendar ate your Home or in your v4 Aall / @ A PICTURE OF LENIN nd a list of revolutionary dates n attractive red card-board vith a calendar attached, 25 Cents 15 cents in lots of five or more. aA ad ate THE DAILY WORKER Pus, co 1118 W. Washington Bivd, “CHICAao, MLL, swronesuicannnbidhdie