The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1927, Page 3

‘ eers, who have ire ' temperamentally, CHIEF OF POISON GAS DEPARTMENT FOR MEXICO WAR pees Ry LAURaNCE TODD ment of his threatoniay ward Mexieo froin a bedy of The board of offisera of Gio N Patriotic Couneil, dors'act Gen. Antos Frive, ehicl of ile ¢ feal warfare gervice sad lend 0° American Logion ia tho I Columbia, hes come to It ealls upoa sil ps “Jend themselves to istic propaganda Wy (aking poe newspapers oi cli under such gla you want wer? This appeal by the Gownsil’s the alleged bolshevintic most of the liboral and Movements ia the Ur fers to the siraw yo Seripps-Howard cha: } which snowed a ratio of 40 to against war with Mexico oa the basi. of facts to date, Explains Straw. Ballots. Gen. Fries and his fellow officerc point out that “highly sensational edi- torial or news matter emphasi the terrible consequences of war witi Mexico or Nicaragua,” generally ir printed in the papers that contain the straw ballots. “Seriously,” they say, “there is no suggestion of war in the very prop- erly firm attitude of the Department The Canal Is in Danger! My God! The Bolsheviks! of State in its maintenance of the age- long tradition of protection of the lives and property of Americans abroad, Legislation by Mexico, con- fiseatory of the property of American citizens, under this policy of course will not be tolerated. As a matter of fact, the mere presence of an Amer- ican gunboat off the coast of a little country of Central or South America, or the’landing of a few snappy Amer- ican marines, has on various occasions revented civil. strife and useless Bloodshed in the distressed countries thus visited. It is believed that a cessation of civil strife speedily will follow the landing of U. S. marines in Nicaragua. ‘ “Pray to God to guide our beloved land to its high and proper destiny; keep your gun handy and your pow-| der dry, in the event that they should | ever properly be needed; but. don’t. waste your pencil points or worry tne state department with valueless and meaningless votes on war.” Jolt From Baltimore. In the same mail with this encour- ment the Department received a jolt from the Baltimore mass meeting which adopted resolutions demanding that secretary Kellogg be “perempto- rily dismissed from office, as being intellectually and morally unfit,” a copy of those reso- lutions and a leaflet. The leaflet, signed by Mercer Green Johnston as secretary, read: “Which? Shall we cast down the Statue of Liberty. Enlightening the World from its pedestal and replace it with the statue of Fury Scattering Slander and Flame? If not, let Amer- icans in Congress and throughout our land who nae in the essential American tradition symbolized by the Statue of Liberty speak NOW in lan- that the State Departinent and ie White House cannot fail to un- derstand—or else hereafter forever hold their peace when the name of Liberty is mentioned among honor- able men! “Who? Liberty looks down today asking ‘Who's a slacker now?’” The resolutions demand withdrawal of American armed forces from Latin America, and adoption of a friendly policy toward those republics. Women Workers Protest. The White House is hearing alsc the protest of members of the Na- tional Women’s Trade Union League against its Mexican and Nicaraguan aggressions. Telegrams and letters, arbitration and friendliness toward Latin America are arriving in Yesponse to an appeal issued by Rose Schneiderman, president, end Eliza- beth Christman, secretary of the Le , from its Chicago office, g working women,” they said, “beliove that tho rights of Amer- iean citizens to make money out of oil concessions, lumber, fruit, land or any other revoureos of other coun- tries ave a subject which is never a justifiable eanke of war.” Hit Intervention in Nicaragua at Meet Here Sunday Afternoon Intervention in Nicaragua is to be protested by prominent liberals at a meeting arranged for next Sunday afternoon, at 3:30, in the Lyric The- atre, \ f Arbitration of the Mexiean prob- Jem will also be urged by this gather ing which is to be held under th auspices of a committee headed br the Rey. Dr. J. Howard Melish, chair es The Rev. W. Roe a ll preside and the speakers wil Hubert ©. Herbert, leader of th American unofficial _investigatin ion which has just returne? CIVIL LIBERTIES RECOGNIZES PASSAIC STRIKE AS OUTSTANDING BATTLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN REVIEW OF PERSECUTIONS AND ARRESTS IN 1926 By CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION. The breakdown of civil rights in the Passaic textile strike in New Jersey, which continued throughout eleven months of 1926, is the outstand- ing feature of the civil liberty situation for the year. Martial law was virtually established by the civil authorities (under the Riot Act) and en- | RECORD GATE RECEIPTS FOR 1926 SHOW SPORTS What Shail We De Now? Shall We Arbitrate? ~|liament and Japan is disposed to discuss the China} VERY PROFITABLE BUSINESS The attendance and gate receipt ball games in this country. The following figures on attendance and money taken in at some of the biggest sport events of the season show the grip that professional sports has and do much to explain the why and wherefore of many of our scandals, The record for attendance at National league ball games was broken in 1926 when the mark reached 4,800,000. records for so-called “amateur” foot- 5 ator mmr POWERS ALLIANCE OF THE EASTERN PEOPLES Report Japan Rejects Chang-Tso-Lin BERLIN, Jan. 25.—Russia, Ja- pan, China—elose on to 600,000,000 people. Is that the great triple en- tente of the future that western im- perialism notably Amerian, finds it- self confronted with? That is the question about which there is much thought and concern in| more than one European chancellory az a result of the daily developments in China, according to reports lomatic circles, Berlin is to the effect that powerfu forces in each of those countries arc working towards that goal geogra phically and in interests which are yuite logical and natural. Dispatches to the Deutsche Allge- meine Zeitung, semi-official organ of the German foreign office, empha- the news from Moscow that Ja and Russia are coming daily ¢ together on a joint or coopera- in China. Prestige Shaken. The paper says that the occasion of the obser 1 iversary of the death of 5 a made in stressed that ish prestige i badly shaken and that Ja ‘ance of the Moscow realizes that opposition to Soviet Rus- | sia in China does not strengthen Ja- panese influence there. The Soviet press empl importance of the speec' panese Premier Wakatsuki Foreign Minister Shidebara in par deduce therefrom that question with the Canton governmen and with Moscow. Tokio Thru with Chang. -The official Soviet news ager circulating a Tokio dispatch stating that the Japanese general staff ha decided to give up working with Mar. shal Chang Tso Lin and draw neare to the kuomingtang party. Sovie agents in the orient are alleged to DREAD AN { in dip- Information reach'ng | recently on .. | and 58 of Newar! ball were hung up last year when over $30,000,000 was paid to view foot- have been instructed to stress the friendly relations between Russia and Japan. foreed by armed guards. picketing injunction led to brutal police attacks on the picket lines. Strike meetings were banned; a sweeping anti- Strike leaders, strikers and their sympathizers were arrested and held in exces- sive bail, and in most cases were never brought to trial. The determined fight of the strikers to maintain their rights, supported by the American Civil Liberties union and other interested groups, finally forced the authori- ties to a return to lawful methods in Damage Suits. The first of the damage suits, to be brought -by those whose civil sights were violated in the Passaic textile strike was filed this month by Nor-} man Thomas, who was arrested last) April in his attempt to test the “Riot Act.” The U. S. Supreme Court's re- fusal to re-hear the case of August Dorechy marks the end of the spee- tacular attempt of the former leaders of District No. 14 of the united mine workers to break the Kansas Indus- trial Court law. The picketing of shops not on strike as a means of or- ganizing non-union workers is for- bidden by New York City judges; nine unionists are held in contempt of court for violating an injunction forbidding such picketing. Troops In indiana. Civil liberty issues were also prom- inent in industrial conflicts in In- diana, where state troops were called on strike duty at non-union mines. ln the Rhode Island textile strike sroops were used also. Hundreds of | strikers were arrested while picket- ing in the fur workers and garment workers’ strikes in New York City, the authorities evading a court test of the drastic anti-picketing injunc- tions by making arrests on disorderly conduct charges. The police brutality against strikers in these and the paper box workers’ strikes called “orth protests from public-spirited sitizens. | No New California Cases. Prosecution of workers under the| state criminal syndicalism and sedi- ‘ion laws has practically ceased. In California, where most of the prose- vations have oceurred since 1919, no new cases have been reported since 1924, and no cases are pending at ‘his time. Fifty-five criminal syn- fiealism prisoners serving sentences n California prisons were released in 1926 either on parole, by expiration of sentence or on reversal of convic- tion, Only one person entered prison the district. | Will Rogers On Mexico | Will Rogers, the humorist, sent a message to the New York Times yesterday dealing with the Mexican situation. It sums up very nicely Mr. Coolidge’s latest statement. It reads in part: “Mr. Coolidge says he is not go- ing to submit the Mexican trouble to arbitration. He says he feels so sure we are right, there is no one he would trust to decide it in our favor”. In other words, Mr. Coolidge doesn’t have to prove we are right. He admits it. Porters Brotherhood . Denounces Coolidge Imperialist Policy Twelve thousand pullman porters expressed thru the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters their opposition to the Coolidge-Kellogg Mexiean pol- icy in a resolution passed unanimous- ly at their meeting last Saturday. In the resolution, signed by A. Philip Randolph, general organizer for the brotherhood, and Frank R. Crosswith, special organizer, sympa- thy and friendship was expressed to the workers of Mexico, and the hearty co-operation of the brother- hood in the interests of peace was pledged. The resolution called upon the workers of the United States in gen- eral, and the workers of the Negro race in particular to make manifest to the government their opposition to war and desire for peace. It was forwarded to President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg, President Calles of Mexico, and the leader of the Mexi- under that law in 1926. He was con-) cen Federation of Labor. vieted in 1920. Four of the five syn- dicalist prisoners in Washington were released during the year. N. Y. Teachers’ Union 132,000 pepole paid $1,000,000 to see the Dempsey-Tunney battle set- ting an all time record for attendance at prize fights. Dempsey’s share of $800,000 sets a record as the highest money ever paid an individual athlete in sports history. Red Grange and many other ex-college football players turned profes- sional for large considerations, as did Suzanne Lenglen in the tennis field and other athletic starts. Altogether a pretty good record, making sports one of the best busi- nesses in the country. " DAILY WORKER GETTING ACQUAINTED IN NEW YORK: is _AVISIT TO ZERO'S “TUB.” By FRED HARRIS. | Having established ourselves in| New York, we are now looking around | to get acquainted. Thus, your reporter | is tramping the streets, asking peice one what he or she thinks of The! DAILY WORKER, whether there is any news to report, and whether they may be depended upon to become con- stant readers of The DAILY WORK-; ER. Along St. Marks place, at No. 26, there is the resort known as “The Tub,” a sort of “last chance” place, maintained by Mr. Zero, otherwise known as. Mr. Urbain Ledoux. If modesty is a virtue, then the “Tub,” its proprieters and patrons may be classed as Leiug virtuous to the fullest extent of its meaning. Still Obseure. jn Eat Five-Cent Meals. The main purpose of Zero’s Tub is to feed the destitutes on an individ- ual charge of five cerits a meal. Also to supply jobs, if there are any, Ac- cording to manager O’Brien, there are more men and more job-agencies than there are jobs. “Take this immediate vicinity,” he said, “and you will find dozens of places who cater to the lucrative busi- selling jobs.” He enumerated veral of them, “the labor temple on 44th Stveet, St. Marks clinic, social service dept., State dept. of labor em- ployment office, church of all nations, Salvation Army, Bowery branch, Y. iM. C. A. No. 3 on the Bowery, All night mission, Chatham Square, Doy- er St. Mission, the famous old China- town Mission, of which Mr. Noonan, ex-conviet of Sing-Sing, 1s the man- Tt is said, that “Zero” pawned his ager, Father Rafferty’s Holy Name watch on Oct, 15, of last year, to have} mission, and many others. They are funds with which to establish the )all in the job business, some of them “Tub.” At any rate, despite its mod-|charge a fee as high as 10% of the esty and obscurity (literally as well/ first month’s wages, but the trouble as symbolically) the place is doing |is there are no jobs, and the men are business “as usually.” It serves three meals a day, and all who have a nickel, may partake of the viands, plentifully served in a one-course meal, (soup, coffee and bread). | Should any estethe’s who might per chance be guests at the Tub, find fault with the simplicity and lack of artist- ry in the arrangement and quality of the paraphernalia (silver and table- cloth), then they can satisfy their de- sire for art by glancing at a sign on the wall, which is immortalizing Zero’s philosophy. Beautiful words they are, Good Words at Least. The pleasure of reading them al- most compensates for all that has been denied us. For anyone, wishing to write a biography of Zero, I give here an exact replica of this inserip- struggle. such shelter places as this one, really: starving.” Hopeless and Forlorn. I looked around in the interior of the Tub, saw the crowd of men crouched in the corners; some devour- ing their frugal meal, others just sit- ting there, pinning their eyes on the floor as if looking for gold pieces; all void of any purposes; living fe whieh must seem to them a great I wondered then whether helped them, To me it seemed as if such refuge places like the Tub are just shacks of despair, which perpet- uate hoboism. These men are not even energetic enough to voice a protest. Much ed- ucational work is needed to re-estab- lish their faith in themselves. If they) understood the mechanism of capital- A dispatch from Tokio to the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung states that the Japanese government has de- cided not to send any land military ferces to China unless unforeseen events make it imperative. A dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung | declares that Japan rejected the British proposal for joint defensive measue at Srhanghai Technical Aid Creates Building Cooperative To Go to Sov. Russia The Central Bureau Technfeal Aid to Soviet Russia has organ- ized a building Co-eperative for Sovieb Russia. This co-operative will go to the USSR with all the necessary machinery and cquip- ment and will build there houses. All those joining musi be sym- pathisers of Soviet Russia, and must know the by-laws of indus- trial co-operatives and also the present conditions in Soviet Rus- sia. The co-operatives will consist of 100 members, specialists in the building lines. Workers of the following trades are wanted: Plumbers, Electricians, wiremen. Carpenters, framers. Parquet floor layers. Painters. Bricklayers. Plasterers. Iron worker. Tinsmiths, coppersmiths. Steam shovel engineer. Motor rep. truck ignition. Glaziers. Steam fitters. Millmen, shop. Carpenters, trimmers. Parquet floor scrapers. Tile setter. Cement finishers. Lathers, Blacksmith, millwright. General -nachinist, locksmith, Architect. Stenographer. A meeting will be held Sunday, » Mn onm eS atm asanaka Jan, 30,3 P. M., at 143 E, 103rd St, All those interested New York City. are urged to attend. Jail Communists. < In Pennsylvania alone has there Joins m the Attack heen a continvfance of prosecutions “ 9 ay, opinigns, Two convictions of On Dollar Diplomacy Workers Party members under the In a resolution adopted by the| tate sedition act took place, and po- , 4 state end hesaid Teachers’ union, the Latin-American lice raids on home: rters of members in the steel districts re- sulted in several arrests. The only other sedition conviction in 1926 was that of Anthony Bimba in Massachu- setts, who was charged also with vio- ‘ation of the state blasphemy act oaased in 1697, ; ‘The number of state political pris- ners on Janu 1, 1027, is 18 as _ompared with 77 on January 1, 1926, Strike Film in Allestown policy of the United States is bitterly denounced and President Coolidge is called upon to see that our weaker neighbors! are given “the full con- trol of their internal affairs without any interference by our state, army or navy departments,” Henry R, Linville, president of the Teachers’ union, issued the statement in behalf of the union and said that: “The Teachers’ union is unalter- ably opposed to the tactics of Secre. tary of State Kellogg in supporting ALLENTOWN, Pa.—-The Passaic) ;he unrestrained economic imperial- sa Will be shown WaJdneslay aigh, 26, at tho Lyrie thontro at \ size egies thas ‘violates. ism of dur oil and banking interests in the territerios of our pot Sora of the sover- tion, to wit: “To bring a greater measure of loye and beauty into the life of the long denied.” I was as- sured by the manager of the Tub, that the terms “love” and “beauty” are to be interpreted in their fullest sense and meaning. By the way, the manager of the Tub is Mr. Daniel F, O’Brien, hobo, philosopher and former editor of the “Hobo News,” printed in St. Louis. At present he is Zero’s chief lieuten- fant, and as such arranges the bill of fare of the kitchen. Being also an artist, he is now planning a dramatic play entitled “The Hobo,” to be staged in the near future. What it will lack in beauty will be offset by its genu- iness; for the actors are to be ex clusively hoboes. The play will sym- bolize a hobo’s protest against unjust society. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. istic society their self-pity would mould itself into a fighting spirit, in- to a determination to be free, and to join the ranks of those who are mak- ing it the purpose of this life to free Garibaldi, Suspected sional destitutes. chance, these lines should be read by the proletariat from the bondage of slavery. Makes Professionals. Just as it is said that a prison turns out professional criminals, so can it be said that social relief institutions of the Tub’s type turn out profes- If therefore, per- men with whom I have dealt here, then I want to say to them: “Wake up! There is no Messiah; the only way to get out of the rut is to leave your present environment, join the ranks of the revolutionists, read The DAILY WORKER, educate yourself, and in the struggle to emancipate yourself, forget your individuality, with a collective body, join the quer: emigrate ovkers Party!” \ \ Fascist Spy, Coming WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Ric- ciotti Garibaldi, who has been ordered deported by the French government, may enter the United States as a visitor, the state department an- nounced today. Garibaldi had previ- ously applied at the American con- sulate in Paris for a visa permitting him to come here, He'll Chuck the Masquerade, BERLIN, Jan. 25.—Louis dinand von Hohenzollern, Prince of Prussia, second son of the German ex-crown prince, is going to “chuck all this antiquated monarchial mas- .” ws he told a friend, and to Argentina, Page Three 2] Stolberg Promises To |1Give Workers School | {Talk on Labor Banking | Benjamin Stolberg, who has con. tributed many articles unfriendly | to the Communist party, and ar- ticles dealing with various aspects of class collaboration tendencies in the labor movement to periodicals s, will speak at the 108 East Four- night at is is one of a series of Friday night lectures in the course of prob- lems of the American labor move- ment. In this lecture, Stolberg will deal with such subjects as labor | banking, labor insurance and other such phases of trade union: capital- ism. As his viewpoint on this central problem of the American labor | movement today is considerably d'f- | ferent from those members of the | clas labor problems who incline | to the Communist position, consid- erable contro is expected in the general sion which fol- lows the lecture. On the following Friday night. February 4, Theresa Wolfson, au- thor of the “Woman Worker and he Trade Unions,” will speak on | “Woman in Industry.” Newark Fur Workers | Accept Agreement Denounce Executive NEWARK, ment between the —The new agree- urriers’ locals 25 N. J., and the econ- dated fur dress association was ted by the membership. The main points in the agreement jare the 40-hour week and a raise in ; wages, | At the same meeting the question | ¢ Montreal convention was dis- d. |The members protested the ion of the executives in clearing ‘he Newark manager who has been found guilty by local 25 of spending thousands of dollars from the union asury, It was also decided to ask the In- ternational to send out the call for the Furriers” Convention for next May. It was decided to call to responsi- bility, Messrs. Steinberg and Eidel- man for reporting before the Essex County Labor Council of New Jersey, stating that this local is a center of Bolsheviks and gangsters. Newark local applied for membership in the | council. Drop Thirty Tons Coal On Workman in Chute; Find Body Later NEW YORK, Jan., 25.—The body of Michael Wobel, 45, of 330 East Fifty-fourth Street, Manhattan, was found today at the bottom of 30 tons of coal in an overhead coal chute in the Burns Brothers coal yards at 847 Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens, on the waterfront. It is believed he was in the chute, regulating the flow of coal when a crane, unloading coal | from a barge, covered him. | A driver, drawing under the chute to load his wagon, saw Wobel’s foot | projecting from the opening. Fire- \men of engine company 262 and hook and ladder company 117, Long Island mouth of the chute to extricate the City, had to cut away one side of the body. Wobel had been dead for some time, according to an ambulance surgeon. He came to work at 7 o’clock. Two hours later the body was found. ‘French War Mongers | Would Retain Rhine | Because of Big Debt PARIS, Jan. 25.—Evacuation’ of the Rhineland, as agreed upon by M. | Briand, and the interallied debt ac- eords were attacked in resolutions passed by the French national union of former combatants in convention here. Delegates attended represent- ing some 400,009 former French soldiers. The resolution against the debt pact says that the matter should be referred to the soldiers “who must undertake the consequent burden’ and should not be left in the hands of politicians. They declared they opposed evacuation of Germany “as long as moral disarmament of Ger- many had not been proved through loyal execution of the treaty obliga~ tion.” Norris, Fundamentalist Preacher, Acquited AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 25.—The Rev. J. Frank Norris was acquitted late today of a charge of killing D, E. Chipps, wealthy lumberman of Fort Worth. The jury was out a little more than an hour. The Rev. Mr. Morris is one of the fundamentalist leaders of America. HOLTMAN TO LECTURE, The first of a series of four lee- tures by A. Holtman wlil be given at 1940 Benson Ave., Brooklyn, on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 8:30 p, m,, under auSpices of the United couneil of workingclass housewives, Bath Beach branch. All workers are cor- dially invited. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER.