The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1927, Page 2

aed ; a SS es a Page twu aac one ma THE CALLES STOPS DRILLING OF 4 NEW OIL WELLS U. S. Companies Make, Court Fight (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 16.—The Calles | government has taken the first active step towards the enforcement of the oil and land laws over which the United States threatens a break In re- lations. The Husteca Oi! company, a Doheny concern, Have been denicd four permits to drill new wells on the ground that they failed to comply with the law t conc turn fo A Sure Case Aim e not yet affect- to be to before sure at will case give the oil to provoke a untry and appealing for ; nd compar a chance n that c u. S$ whom th are companies, it aring to si Firm Anticipating thu ment 1 to be on the lished that while As Ever, alles govern- fight or than b- 1 in official quart and flis cabinet are 8 e as firm 5 2 chaton ae shaping the of Calles. in the a he r confidence of the ove ity of the people and that every step j kK bebo the enforcement of ill be supported sment. sure yr move Farmers Told How to Reduce Damage from European Corn Borer CHAMPAIGN, IIL, Jan. 16.— With the European corn borer now a real- aty in Illinois, there are eight ways farmers of the state can reduce fu- ture losses from the pest, H, W. Mum- | ege of agricul- | ford, dean of the coll eure, University of Il Ss announce: The program contains recommend. tions as follows: 1. Adopt soil management prices to | produce maximym yields of corn on large, healthy stalks. 2. Select and grow-earlier matur- .4ng varities of corn, with heavier stalks, that can ‘be planted late. 3. Adopt a good rotation of crops, | using as a basis the ten rotations | suggested by the agricultural college. 4. Utilize as much of the corn crop as possible thru the silo and as fine- fy shredded material. 5. Imcrease the acreage of legumes. 6. Practice clean plowing. 7. Become familiar with quaran- tine regulations. 8. Watch fields for the presence of this insect and send suspected spect- mens to the state entomologist. Enterstate Businaes Asks Federal Help to Reform State Taxation WASHINGTON, Jan, 16.—Co-opera- tion of the treasury in assisting state governments to remodel their tax Jaws and establish budget ee | eventually may lead to a general : vision and standardization of tae tion methods thruout the United States, it has become known. Women School Teachers at Cambridge Organize By a Worker ge ay vast BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 16. — Cam- bridge women school teachers expect to become affiliated with the A. F, of IL. goon. Many attempts have been meade previously (to organize the teachers, and many meetings have teen held, but always they have failed, unti] now. Finally a committee | representing these women school teachers has made application for a charter. ‘This was made the first step in the campaign of unionization, Miss Ber- nice Rogers is chairman of the com- mittee. Newsprint from Straw. ROME, Jan, 16.—The appearance of ‘the newspaper Popola di Roma print- ed entirely on newsprint paper made from straw thru a chlorine gas process "was hailed as an achievement of sig- GET YOUR SAMON TO TELEGRAPH CONGRESS TODAY! ation to en- | But it is; whelming major- { jie nl CURRENT | EVENTS By T. J. |. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) | people a chance to spend their money tei if not too wisely never know when a disappointed dotective ser- geant will come along with his axe and begin, to peck at the furniture ee OW things seem to brighten con- siderably, A mayoralty election is round the corner and the various rants are cateri to various ele- ; of the population, One aspirant to those who take the business men cate: of sav other peoples’ souls serious- he} would enforce the law osten- tiously, which would mean that it would cost more to violate the law under such an administration, Another aspirant catering to the voters who don’t give a hang how many souls go to hell as long as they have a good while they are living, promises blind in both eyes when certain e being trodden on, e308 time to b laws 4 1B phil on the south side of this city ther led with an iron hand for s a colored boss by the me of Wright. This man was a cog he Crowe-Barrett-Galpin G. O. P, In return for delivering the votes the machine placed about 200 i friends on the public payroll. But Wright was offered a better pro- from ther faction of the ) he idate for mayor. Crowe, f n of action, bounced Wrigt and now another colored boss is f the south side or the so-called black ne, positior G, 0, P., as it that no soc ned than his ¢ opened his gam- | joints and made merry, assuring ‘and sundry that the lean days tall | over and that “Bobby” Crowe, the “hanging prosecutor” of | County, intends to make it possible jfor honest gamblers to make a living. | ES - oo COUNCIL BEGINS FIGHT ON ALIEN |Holaday Introduces His | “Volk atary” Measure | NEW YORK, Jan, 16— A telegram | jof protest against the new “voluntary registration of aliens” bill introduced in the house Jan, 9, by Rep. Holaday of Illinois, was sent by the National Council for Protection of Foreign Born Workers to Rep. Albert Johnson, chairman of the house immigration committee. Hit Prussian Espionage. ‘The telegram reads: “Any form of registration of aliens is opening edge for compulsory registration jand a Prussian espionage system in | America. In behalf of thousands of ade union workers in this country e voice our opposition to new re- stration bill introduced by Rep, Hol- \aday on Monday, and ask you do all | possible to prevent its passage. “National Council for Protection of | Foreign Born Workers, | “(Signed) Nina Samorodin, tary.” This same telegram was sent also | to Rep, Adolph J, Sabath, also of Illi- nois, because he has continuously op- | posed the various compulsory natur- | alization, registration and deportation bills which have been introduced from time to time since 1922. Rally Opposition. j “Our organization was formed to jcombat just such legislation and we jare planning to call on all those who have previously taken a stand agains} |such bills as the Aswell and Sosnow- sky registration bills,/to help now in the fight against this newest anti- alien measure,” said Miss Samorodin in commenting on the Holaday bill. “Byidently this has been introguced in accordance with the statement of ‘Secretary of Labor Davis in his an- nual report that he was willing to |try out a scheme of voluntary regis- tration of aliens since there was such fear of the proposed compulsory re- gistration, Must Forget It Now. “This concession was made only be- cause of the strong public sentiment aroused against the proposal to force a system of police surveillance on our alien population. We intend to help rouse the same resentment against this voluntary registration proposal, for we feel certain that when it has tailed to accomplish its purpose—as it surely will—there will come com: pulsory registration; first for aliens and then for everyone in the country. The scheme must be fought now be fore it goes any further.” secre- Reaction Rules in Wisconsin Senate MADISON, Wis, Jan, 16.—Control of the Wisconsin legislature split be- tween conservatives and progressives, the former having captured the organ- ization of the senate and the latter of the assembly. John W, Dber, Milwau- kee lawyer, was named speaker of the house. refused to support the | Cook | BILL IN HOUSE SHIPPING BOARD PAVES WAY FOR TREASURY HAUL Merchant ‘Marine Sub- sidy Necessary, It Says (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—S ing of the Uni 3 rine is inevitabl marine is to be maintained, declares the report of the shipping board to the senate, The report is significant in that it advocates government own- ownership, Ship owners have conduct- ed an extensive campaign to have the United States surrender its ships to private companies at an xtremely low price, coupled with a subsidy. Stress Defense Angle. The board urges a subsidy not only al part of “ade- no to maintain the, commerc the marine, but also to provide juate defense reserve.”. It make ifference what form of owner wrevails, private or public, a subsidy is y, it said, favoring public hip “for the pre if | “If the government is our merchant marine to the extent contemplated in the merchant marine | act, and continue its operation, appro- lations both for operation expenses nd for replacements and improve- ments are necess ” it says. “Under ate) govern- {ment support indispensable.” Direct Payments, The board urges direct subsidy pay- |ments, both for freight and passenger , based on speed aand on the of days at sea while carrying | basa plah (public or pri | | vesse| num bi argo to and from the United States. | | Man contracts, providing for “liberal” ment from the government for car- ng mail should be entered into, the | board says. Fort-Whiteman Tells Negroes Here Aims of Negro Labor Congress | An interesting and educational meeting of the American Negro Labor Congress was held when Lovett Fort- Whiteman and James Ford spoke on ae race as an industrial factor in the Jnited States. Fort-Whiteman told the | if meeting that impor rtant in- Lustrially than racially. yer cent of the race are workers, he pointed out. The aim of the American Negro Labor Congress is to build up unions and organize the unorganized, regardless of color, he told them, Ford outlined the history of organiz- ed labor in this country, pointing out the good points and defects in each movement since the Knights of Labor. The A. F.-of L. takes in only skilled workers and in many cases bars Ne- groes, he said, declaring the Negro | workers must organize to combat this, MINERS FIGHTING NON-UNION COAL BEFORE THE |. 6.6. | Appeal to LC C.C. Against Discrimination WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—The inter- state commerce commision has been urged by the United Mine Workers of America “to see the mine worker's side of the freight question,” and to give protection to “his interests, in- vestments, home and family.” Hoist Freight Rates, This plea was made in a brief filed | in connection with the lake cargo coal jcase now under investigation by the commission. Speaking specifically for the Illinois fields the brief said that the loss in production in that state and the in- crease in»production in West Virginia and Kentucky has been due solely to changes in freight rates, favorable to those states and prejudicial to Illi- nois, Coal Discriminated Against. “We now have the spectacle of see- ing great trainloads of coal being transported from southern preferred flelds thru the Illinois coal belt, tue greatest bituminous coal field in the world, destined for the northwest,” the brief said. “You have the spectacle of seeing coal shipped from the preferred south: ern flelds hundreds of miles farther to the great northwest, with Munois coal, closer by~far, excluded frum a market it has enjoyed for years.” Crowd Out Illinois Product. The brief also said that not only have these rates permitted other coals to exclude Illinois from ites market in the northwest, but it has permitted and encouraged other flelds to ship their coal to Chicago market in direct competition with Illinois coal, with the result that Llnois coal is largely excluded from the Chicago market, Workers! Attend the Lenin Memorial Meetings! ership and contro] instead of private | to develop | Ninety-eight | DAILY WORKER 0. F.OF L inh SCHOOL TYRANNY OF WM, McANDREW Brought Have to Break Up Teachers’ Unions School Superintendent William Mc- Andrew was the object of a broadside n the Chicago Federation of Labor | meeting on Sunday during which Al- |derman Oscar Nelson, vice-president of the federation, charged the boss- jes of Chicago brot himyhere to crush | organization among the. teachers and to run the schools for the tax dodgers. Condemn Platoon System. A resolution was branded the platoon, system and the junior high scho@l system that Mc- Andrew initiated as @ plan to save fioney for big tax, payers by building fewer school structures. It also con- | demned the intelligence tests for chil- dren as a fraud. | The reappointment of Mrs. Wm. S. | Hefferman and Dr. Otto Schmidt to | | the school board was opposed because of their support of the McAndrew passed which | Opposition an Aid to line of its leading first page article, the following: “Congress and People Alone Can Prevent War.” alee The article declares: “This position (that of the Coo- lidge administration) is such that unless the American people voice an irresistible mandate for peace, or congress acts to prevent a rupture, or the Mexican and .constitutional Nicaraguan governments surrender abjectly to American capitalism and imperialism there will be a break between these countries... “Mexico is the first line of offense policics. Call Him Czar. | Another resolution took exception ; to McAndrew’s ezarlike conduct of the schools, Lillian ,Hirstein of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation declar- ed thdt McAndrews refuses to talk to the teachers or accept any recom- mendations from them. She said that unless a labor member is added to the school board, the public and the labor movement will have no source of information concerning the conduct of schoo] affairs. “The main issue is whether the parents or the business institutions, notably ‘the Rockefeller Foundation, will have thé last word about the education of Chicago’s children,” Nel- son said. “Business interests seek to control the educational system for two reasons. First, to dodge taxes by cutting down the building program and second. to mould the minds of the children to make willing indus- trial slaves of Biro ant an , ANTI-EVOLUTION “LAW IS UPHELD BY TENN, COURT| Fundamenhifitets Score Victory; Will Appeal (Special to ThE Daily Worker) NASHVILLE, Peith, Jan. 16.--Ten- nessee’s famous anti-evolution law was held constitutional by the state supreme court. But the conviction of John Thomas Scopes, Dayton school teacher, was orderet! reversed because Scopes was i. instead wt $50, ; Trial Remanded. The high court rentanded the case to the circuit court for retrial on the ground that Judge John Raulston violated the Tennessee constitution in | fining Scopes more, than $50. Justice Green, who read the deci- sion, recommended that the case be nolle prossed because Scopes had left the state, Justices Cook, Chambliess and Green assented, while Justice Mc- Kinney in a dissenting opinion de- clared the act was invalid, Overruled Defense Points. The majority opinion overruled all assignments of error made by Clar- ence Darrow, Dudley Field Malone and other lawyers for Scopes and held that the legislature had the right to determine what should be taught in state tax-supported schools, “Fight Should Go On.” “The fight ought to go on,” John Scopes said, at the University of Chi- cago, where he is now studying, “It is not a case in which science is lined up against religion, It is rather an issue in which the, American people are asked to withhold certain facts from their children, because of the belief of a certain’ few that those facts conflict with religion.” Civil Liberties Ready Officials of the Civil Liberties Un- ion, who were reported present at the recent conference, “were reported to have anticipated thé Tennessee trib- unal’s action and Jafd all plans for an immediate appeal, * oe Antl-Evolutionists, RALEIGH, N, C., Jan. 16—Bncour- aged by the Toriner supreme court's decision upliolding the anti- evolution act, Rep, D. Scott Poole, of Hoke County, declaréd that he would introduce an “anti-@volution bill” in the North Carolina legislature next week, Poole is author of the 1925 anti-evolution bill, which failed to pass, Draft Foe Remains Diebarred. SAN FRANCISCO.—(FP)— Danie. O'Connell, San Francisco attorney dish barred for anti-draft activities during the war, has lost tho latest of Ms mony attempts at reinstatement, the district court of appeals having re fused his application, O'Connell serve ed seven years at MoNeil's Island fo opposing the draft. in its path, Once over that barrier it will dominate Latin-America as a base for further conquests... “If the people permit this first step to be taken, America will earn the honest hatred of the whole world. We will turn the world against us. We will place ourselves in the position of the Germany, of the kaiser and we will suffer the same fate.” +* * It would be difficult for the of- ficial socialist organ to depart a greater distance from socialist prin- ciples without coming out actively as the champion of imperialism it- self. Not one of the three possible al- ternatives to war advanced by The American Appeal, can be realized. #8 First: The American “people” cannot “voice an irresistible man- date for peace” because there is no unity of interest that ties the whole people together, not even against war, Socialism teaches, something that the editors of “The Appeal” want to forget in the face of the war danger, that “the people” are divided into classes based on their economic interests, The capitalists, sp2aking thru the Coolidge-Mellon-Morgan ad- ministration, want war whenever it advances their interests, or “to pro- tect their property.” The press, the pulpit and other mediums of pro- paganda help beat the middle class into line to defend propertied. in- terests that are also sacred to this class, all defenders of the capitalist social order. It is only the exploited workers and farmers, the working class, that can be definitely arrayed against the capitalist war, and then only when it becomes conscious of its own struggle for emancipation, uniting its efforts with the oppress- ed colonials, The werking class, thru achieving its own emancipa- tion, abolishes war thru the aboli- tion of capitalism. The workers alone can voice “an irresistible mandate for peace” thru their class power. Labor’s voice must be heard in the trade unions fighting the alliance of the officialdom with the capitalist masters, That is one way, right now, to build the war against the war, Communists lead in this stFuggle. Socialists in the trade unions, especially in the needle trades, make war on the Commun- ists and launch campaigns of ex- pulsions against them, thus becom- ing the best allies of the capitalist war, The fraudulent appeal to “the people” is merely a mask under which socialists try to hide their real treason to the working class. se Second: The socialist “hope” that congress will prevent a rupture leading to war is merely: another sample of the infantile socialist faith in capitalist institutions. It grows out. of the belief that con- gress is something to be “captured” some day at some election by an aroused electorate—the phantom “people.” Socialist party spokesmen like to turn their backs on all s0- cialist teachings, especially that con- gress is part of the capitalist state, an instrument of oppression in the hands of the capitalist class, estab- ished and bulwarked with a grow- ing police power for the protection of private property rights, It may be said that no congress that has ever sat in Washington has shown itself more servile in the face of a threatening war. The foreign af- fairs committee of the house of rep- resentatives even voted against re- questing Secretary of State Kellogg to appear before it and give infor- mation that might be demanded of him, The constitution of the United States specifically states that “Con- gress shall bave the power to de- clare war.” But the house foreign affairs committee, that must inform the members of the house of rep- resentatives ag to the vital causes leading toward war, isn’t interested in getting the information, either for or against, In the senate the foreign affairs committee is won over to the Wall Street viewpoint | WITHDRAW ALL U.S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! ‘HANDS OFF CHINA! Fraudulent Socialist By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. CHINESE RESENT WARLIKE FRONT OF FOREIGNERS People of Shanghai for to War Is Imperialists ° HE American Appeal,” the of- | by the mere sight of Kellogg's “red Kuomintang ficial organ of the socialist herring.” Borah, the middle class party, offers its readers as the head- | political leader, makes a speech on SHANGHAI, Jan. 16. — With the constitutional and international law, labels it “anti-war” and lets it go at that, LaFollette demands that the senate foreign relations committee investigate the charges that the state department had attempted to influence the news services to carry his “propaganda” on their wires. Why investigate? The truth of this is already out. LaFollette could employ his energies better by de- manding the immediate ousting of Cantonese armies nearing the city and the forelgn concessions arming to the teeth, large bodies of workers In Shanghaj are expected to go on strike shortly In support of the Kuo- mintang and against the northern war lords who, thru Marshal Sun Chuan Fang, hold Shanghai. The populace of Shanghat makes no secret of its overwhelming sym- pathy for the nationalist cause and is showing resentment towards the Kellogg and the impeachment of | unprovoked military steps being tak- ; Coolidge, the two “warmakers,” of- |en for the defense of the foreign | fice boys of Wall Street, But he {concessions as well as the presence will not do that. That would be too un-pay-triotic. And all the time Victor L. Berger, the socialist con- gressman, is silent, offering nothing, not even in his daily newspaper, The Milwaukee Leader, There is no basis for the childlike faith that the socialists have in capitalism's demo- cratic sham, its so-called congress. This capitalist parliament can be made useful only as a forum to ex- pose Wall Street's parliamentarism. No member of this congress will do that. The workers and farmers, in the recent elections, failed to send |, Communists to Washington to per- | form this task, They are therefore weak now in their war against the war, of numerous foreign warships in the harbor, Hankow Qulet, Reports from Hankow, the ocewpa tion of the British concession in which place brot about the panic among foreigners here, indicates that every- thing is quiet. The nationalist gov- ernment is holding the British con- cession until negotiations with the British are completed. They are de- manding satisfaction for the death of a number of Chinese at the hands of British troops. Needless Panic, It is remarkable that in all the storm and turmoil created by the for- eigners themselves by the hasty and needless evacuation of Yantze towns, that not a single death, injury, or even serious inconvenience to foreign- ers is reported from any source. FURNITURE TRUST MEMBERS FACING FEDERAL CHARGE Seventy-nine furniture companies, charged with illeyal combination, are Third: Neither Mexico, Nicar- agua, nor any other subject people can solve the problems growing out of imperialist oppression thru what the socialists call “abject surrend- er.” They may be temporarily be- trayed by their leaders. President Calles offers to arbitrate the differ- ences between the United States and Mexico. Calles may accept some form-of surrender, But the struggle goes on just the same. A trade union official may betray a strike, but that does not eliminate the problems growing out of the wage ‘on trial in. Chicago before federal systems. The class struggle con- udge George A, Carpenter, Special tinues. The break between the im- istant Attorney General Roger perialist homeland and the subject coolnial countries grows just as the class war develops, the conditions alone determining when either shall break into’ opentstruggle. No sub- ject class, or sitbject nation, ever surrender for an indefinite length of time, as the organ of the socialists infers might be possible, thus offer- ing a solution of the present crisis. Shale announced in the opening ses- sions that he has evidence to show that the companies gouged furniture buyers by price-fixing, causing furni- ture prices to rise 250 per cent in re- cent ‘Years, ..” The suit is a continuation of the one started some months ago when 100 other firms pleaded guilty and were fined a total nf $500,000 for their operations. see Wall Street imperialism moves |, The defense of the furniture manu- forward, earning the “honest | fcturers is that they had formed only an “association” for the purpose of cutting down production costs. The government has in its posses- sion a circular letter sent to members of the trust, just after it was formed, which said, “If we can show you where you can price just one article higher than you otherwise would, then the dues are not an expense but an investment.” Millinery Workers Hold Mass Meeting Here Tuesday Night Millinery workers, operators, cut- ters, blockers, trimmers and hat frame makers are invited to attend a mass meeting Tuesday, Jan. 18, at 6:30 o'clock Women’s Trade Union League, 311 8. Ashland Blvd. Speakers are Miss Agnes Nestor, president Women’s Trade Union League of Chicago, J. Roberts, officer, International Millinery Union, and Anna E. David, secretary and organ- izer Women Millinery Workers, hatred” of the whole world, but it is only the world’s working class, accepting Communist leadership, that moves forward to the destruc- tion of the rule of Wall Street. In the final struggle, even as in the present time, as is more clearly shown in all western capitalist European, the socialists are among the best allies of the imperialists. This is revealed in the helpless, middle class attitude toward war championed in their publications, especially in the official organ of the party, It is definitely revealed by the socialist attack against the Communists in the trade union movement, Thus the socialists worry that Wall Street's “America” will be placed in the same” position as the Germany of the kaiser.” The Ger- man workers got rid of the kaiser, but the socialists helped establish the German capitalist republic, La- bor will supplant Morgan’s America with a Soviet America in spite of socialist opposition, Plan New England Daily Worker Conference in February to Add to Paper’s Power There BOSTON, Jan. 16.—Extensive preparations are being made here for a New England DAILY WORKER conference to take place on Feb. 29 at the New International Hall, 42 Wenonah St., Roxbury. Delegates from many unions and fraternal organiations are expected, Every reader and sympathizer of The DAILY WORKER should see to it that as soon as the call is received by his organization, three delegates be elected. The conference will take up ways and means of strengthening The ‘DAILY WORKER and increasing its benefits for the New England workers. BANQUET ON FEBRUARY 19, The conference will be preceded by a banquet, which will take place Feb, 19, Saturday evening, at 8 p. m. In the same hall. All out of town dele- gates that wish to attend the banquet will be provided with sleeping accom- modationa, Tickets for the banquet may be secured from The DAILY WORKER Boston Agency, 36 Causeway St., Boston. Dora F. Lohse ORA F. LOHSE, who was active in the International Workers’ Aid, died Friday, Jan, 14. The cremation of the body will take place on Monday, Jan. 17, at 10 a. m. from Stutzman Funeral Parlor, 2001 Madi- son &t., Ridgewood, Brooklyn, N. Y. 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