The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NE PRUDERY WINS AS GLADSTONE JURY VOTES TO ACQUIT | Gladstone’s "Associates All Defend Him LONDON, Feb, 3. ietorian Eng- lend had its day in court when the came in tonight with a verdict | of Pit of “not guilty” in the libel suit Capiain Peter Wright against V count Gladstone, son of the stat Man and several times England, William Ewart Gladstone, now deceased. Viscount Gladstone had jockeyed Wright into the position of plaintiff in the case by calling his statements about Gladstone's private life “foul and cowardly lies.” In the trial much evidence was presented to show that Gladstone was personally engaged in clandestine relations with the actres: IMy Langtry, as well as with a fe- male agent of the Czar, and various ether women. Same Old Excuse. The defense argued that Gladstone was merely trying to “reform fallen Women,” and naturally, all those still) alive who were involved in the scan- dal hurried to deny their parts, thus Becoming witnesses for the Gladstone | fumily. | Vly Langtry, now Countess de Bathe, by virture of a marriage into} British nobility, repudiated her ac- quaintance with the elder Gladstone, but a curious confirmation came from| Chicago of the truth of Captain) Wright’s story when a grand nephew! ef “the Jersey Lily” found references te it in some of her letters. However, | the Chicago witness did not get be- fete the court, and Lily tangtry’s! telegram did. Tay Pay’ O’Connor on Stand With Brand New | Meaning for ‘Seraglio’ LONDON, Feb. 3.—‘Tay Pay” O’- Gonnor, prominent in the old Irish party in the House of Commons, has yushed to the defense of the memory of his former ally, Gladstone. Echoes of lohg forgotten pre-war political} deals were heard about the court- room when “Tay Pay” took the stand] in the libel,suit started by Captain! Péter Wright’s book, “Portraits anc | Criticisms.” ‘i Wright had stated as a matter of| fact that the statesman Gladstone, the| representative of British liberal fac-| Miss tory owners, was a hypocrite on sex matters, and while posing as the ex- tremist of Victorian puritans, actu «ily knew intimately various ladies o | the demi-mond, and was susceptibl | to the intrigues of female interna “tional spies of loose morals. ~ O'Connor caused 2 few smiles while premier of | Paper Box Striker During mass picketing of the paper box manufacturing district, New York City, a New York mounted police- man rode his horse on the sidewalk, charged the crowd of pickets, and seriously injured one striker, The paper box union has been on strike for ei turned to work in shops that have for help in the way of relief for strikers’ families. hteen weeks, and has 2,000 men and women out, with over four hundred re- settled, and a mere dozen or two back at work in struck shops. The union calls It holds regular meetings at the Church of All Nations hall. NEGRO SLAVERY STILL PRACTISED BY LA, PLANTERS Two Whites Arrested For Enslaving Family NEW ORLEANS, Charges of who ale pr: cient slave tactics in Amite Miss., were being investigated federal officers out of New Orleans teday, following the indictment of two nen by the federal grand jury or charges of violating the Peonage act. The men, Webb Bellue and John Alford were specifically charged with abduction, sale and enslaveme: of a family of five Negroes. Federal officers said they e e the home of Craw gro xro, his daughter, wife and two smal! children took them to F. Hurst, plan- ion owner, and sold them for $20. The five were forced to work with- wages for several weeks, federal ers declare Federal investigators said they al- so learned that many families of Ne- © trying on the stand to explain that} groes are being worked in that sec- his repetition of Lord Milner’s accu-|tion under pretense of farm-hands or sation (quoted by Wright) that! share croppers, while they are virtu- =, © was governed by his|ally slaves and live under worse c Seraglio,” meant only that his family} influenced, him. i ditions than slaves before the C War. IMPERIALISM SEEKS CANNON FODDER (Continued from page 1). uniformed man-catchers were busy in the crowd of spectators, soliciting each young man to “be a soldier—see the world.” To Invade China. The most brazen admission of the reasons behind this activity comes now, however, when has‘i!; scrawled signs appear on all the lar en-| ligtment posters, as pictu above, “Enlistmen now open for China.” A Washington dispatch shows that this’ is not mere local enthusiasm ot a desperate recruiting officer trying te show results. Inspired statements’ from the capital say: “Twelve hundred marines, many of whom have seen service mn France, Nicaragua and the Philippines, are making ready at San Diego ror ae- parture this week on the transport Chaumont for Far Eastern duty, while army recruiting officers have called upen corps area commanders for 250 recruits to fill up gaps in the, Fifteenth Infantry garrison of Tein- tain. is Penetrates Interior The American infantry garrison at entsin (the seaport of Pekin, capi- of China under the North China government), is part of the foreign tary patrol of the Pekin, Tientsin) r d. This involves service in the; {nferior of China, and in case of a} advance of the Kouminchun,! the army of Feng Yu-hsiang, now al- lied with the Koumintang, or Canton- ese movement, American troops would very likely be placed in a position} where they could defend imperialist interests against Chinese nationalists | There is every indication of a de- sive to meh replacements and rein- forcements from New York to China.| ‘The war department states that the) nove is a “routine one,” but at the; “Only Americans.” None but American citizens will be accepted, as the war department feels that the effect of propaganda coming into American lines thru the Cantonese, and perhaps from Russia, will be less with the more ¢ otic Americans than with foreign born. The war department is not over- looking the fact also, that imperial- istic interests in China are not en- tirely parallel, and that if trouble de- velops between the United States and European countries over choice bi of loot, it will not be advisable to have nationals of those other voun- tries in the American army. Usual Bunk. Special inducements offered to sol- diers for Chinese service do not seem to be very different from those prom- ised at all times. buted by the recruiting officers carry the usual appeals to men crushed and despondent from unemployment, hard work and low wages. ‘They emphasize especially regular pay (without stating how very low it is), regular meals and shelter and clothing, advancement (without a word about the exclusiveness of the otficer caste, or the difficulties thrown in the way of self respecting’ men who wish promotion), and # final uppeal to the man who lacks class consciousness altogether; the soldier “never to quit work and go on strike. ¢ fact that the soldier who tries to quit-work with or without “going on strike” cangbe court: mar- tialed and shot in time of war, or im- prisored, for long terms in time. of peace, is not brought out in the hand bill. Kuhn Loeb & Co. Have Fire Noon day traffie in the financial same time is known to have ordered, distriet was disrupted, and thousands recruiting officers to pick for Chinese] of office workers were forced into |tion of Handbills -distri-, duty “specially promising” man who) tho street yesterday by a fire which | will not need a long course of phy-| smoldered for more than an hour in sical culture to overcome the starva-|the 23-story building of Kuhn, Loeb tion of a life in the slums. 1 & Co, Senate Committee Not To Hear of Inspired Mexican War Stories| WASHINGTON, Feb. ¢ ate Foreign Affairs Comm letracked a proposed in igation into the alleged efforts of the state departmen tto induce press associa- tions to carry anti-Mexican propa- ganda. The committee voted 8 to 5 to post- pone indefinitely action on the resolu- Senator Morris (R) of braska demanding the inquiry. was done, member: barrassment to the sta rent. é STOWAWAY FROM MUSSOLINI LAND TRIES TQ STAY Darrow Will Argue Case Against Deportation The Sen- 2 today MOBILE, Ala., Feb, 3. — George youthful stowaway, issued an i today for any information con- cerning the Mie: family of New York or of Florida so that they may come forward and save him from be- ing. deported Immigration authorities ordered Miers deported following his arrival Mii m Gai re from Genoa, Italy, Jan. 23,, , AGA fi #}¥ | sboard tho steamer Texas. He had th Wh WL Bl towed away for five days before NICARAGUAN WA + WA Admiral to Run Country Is the Inference hunger caused him to come out of his hiding place. Phe attention of Clarence D © criminal lawyer, d to the case and he has promised Judge Ervin. terested the local firm of Ambrecht and Hand-to aid the boy. “There are 125,000,000 Americans n this country”, Dorrow said. “One boy of his age. who speaks English and claims to be an American cannot ‘ow, | has been} to argue Miers’ side before Federal, Meanwhile he has in-| hurt them by remaining here.” s who claims hg“is 17 years old, ays he was born in New York City and taken to Naples; Italy when four years old. His father was John Miers, an American, and his mother of Italian birth but he" does not re- member her name. His parents ‘died several years ago , | in Italy, Miers claims, When the fam- y ily moved to Italy, they also took two rs, both of whom married and are living in Italy, but he has forgotten Washington repre- e of the Saca libera’ - Dr. Sacasa 1 illingne: e in @ peace co’ nee un- r the auspices of Kellogg and Cen- American diplomats. tate department t Vaca vw n n. The government i 8 vols “unr their names. u 3 An older brother, now about 35 . . 7 y old, was left in this country Australia Mail Workers | ina it is through him that George + eks ve his claim that he is Strike When Insulted |< Seer itizen. an American citizen. A, Feb. postmen drivers was called he —A general strike| _, d «mail wagon! Germany | toc in Race Again It is the result of a teprimand|Sells Iron Goods Here given to a postal worker because: he did not take off his hat in the pres- BOSTON, Feb, 3.—The first Diesel enc eof the postmaster of the Vienna | direct-dr locomotive to be operated district. in the United States will be imported The other workers took offense and|jfrom the Fried Krupp works at Es- called the strike sen, Germany, by the Boston-Maine Railroad, the management announced today, This indicates the competition that the revived German steel indus- \try is. offering American industrial- ists. The purchases of the locomotive is part of the Boston and Maine’s new policy, which will add twenty- six locomotives to its fast freight ser- viee. A itomobile Prodgetion Picks Upa Little DETROIT, Feb. From 1,400 to- 1,600 more automobiles are being turned out daily in the Detroit district than for any day in January, it was learned today. Factories working short time in January are now working full time and in some cases overtime to meet the increased demand. Production in- creases ranging from 12 to 15 per cent are being put into effect by manufacturers, Three Million Deaf School Children. The extent of deafness discovered in recent surveys among the children of New York State indicates that there are more than 3,000,000 hard- of-hearing children in the United States. It therefore seems important that all children should be tested for hearing, and a method has been de- vised, through ‘the use of a phono- graph and individual telephones, by which 40 children may be examined at a time. Argentina Prohibits Night Work in “Bakeries. Night work in bakeries has been prohibited in the Argentine, accord- ing to an announcement of the De- partment of Labor, which states:| “The president of Argentina has is-| sved an executive decree putting into} Take $14,000 Champagne. effect Law No. 11338, which prohibits work in bakeries between the hours of 9 p.m, and 5 a. m,” Roll in the Subs For The DAILY 1,200 quarts of champagne, valued at! 'The trial of King Benjamin of the WORKER. BALTIMORE, Feb. 2.—-A raiding party of customs officers boarded the French steamer Pennsylvania at Locusts’ Point today and confiseated American bootleg prices at $14,000. By J. LOUIS ‘HE whole race creeps constant- ly toward old age. For the multi- millions of workers, old age is a time to be dreaded, too often a pe- riod of penury and want. For the parasites it is a period of ease thru declining years. The contrast is revealed in start- ling manner in the stories of Jo- seph Goldstein, the 57-year-old garment worker of New York, and David R. Mathias, “less than 60 years,” retiring superintendent of the Joliet (Illinois works of the Illinois Stgel Company, a subsi diary of the United States Steel Corporation. | is Goldstein is out on bail awaiting sence al the hands of the vicious Judge Otto Rasolsky. He may go to prison. Mathias, according to the New York Times, is planning “to spend the rest of his life’in travel.” That is the varying lot of the | victim and the beneficiary of the present capitalist social system. Re ae Goldstein is a member of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- |, ers’ Union. He fought with his | class. He came out on sttike. He Was among the pickets, in the van- guard of the struggle to win the | strike. He was arrested. He was thrown§ into “The Tombs” with | many of the occupational ills that | attack workers in the different in- dustries, that the infamous Rosal- sky denounced as “thugs” and “gangsters,” trying to put them in the same class with the Hessian army employed by the bosses to help break this and every other strike. Goldstein was in a continuous | agony in “The Tombs,” without medical attention, and suffering all the resulting physical and mental ; tortures. It was probably inevitable that Goldstein, under these conditions, should give way. When he was re- leased on bail and returned home | to await sentence at the hands of j} the notorious lackey of the bosses, Rosalsky, he surrendered to the | terror of the employers’ prisons. Rather than return, he tried sui- cide, and at this writing hovers near death. * * ! Suicide is not the road of escape for militants in the elass struggle. "The working class soldier of the | class war remains in the fight un- til the last breath is gone. In every land the working class is giving of its best fighters, to | dtath and to prison, in order that | the cause may make progress. The agony of Goldstein, driven io an attempt to take his. own life, [ makes glaring the fact that the | American despotism apes closely | the tyranny of the czardom that is | | gone. There is a new Siberia in + the East River, on that spot of | land seemingly named in horrible jest, Welfare Island (formerly | struggle, | and develop a trade union move- Vivid Contrast of What |AQUI UPRISING Old Age Has in Store for Workers and Parasites ENGDAHL, Blackwell’s Island). There many of the prisoners sentenced by Ros- alsky have now been taken. There they suffer for their cause, the cause of the working class. * * * If Goldstein dies, the murder will not only be on the head of the capitalist judge, but also on the head of the capitalist social system that gives this human tyrant the power and the right to sit in judg- ment over workers striving to litt their meager standard of tiving. We @ It is only because “such as Gold- stein are plunged into the agony of deepest despair, that it is pos- sible for great capitalists like Mathias, the friend of Judge K. H, Gary, head of the steel trust, who fought for the 12-hour-day for workers, to earn great profits, en- riching themselves and their class, The sufferings of the Goldsteins in all industries speed the ships on which the Mathias parasites sail for sufiny climes to enjoy them- selves gorging on luxuries made possible by wealth stolen from la- bor. As Mathias starts his tour of the world, as Goldstein wends his way toward prison, the creation of greater and even greater. profits goes steadily forward. The steel trust that favors Mathias develops its southern mills, where labor is even cheaper and more oppressed than in the North, especiaily the steel trust mills of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, located at Birmingham, Alabama. Similarly the cotton spindles of New England move into the south- ern states so that it is possible for Kilmore Ne Higgins, president of the Bank of America, that: “For the first time in the history of this country the number of cot- ton spindles in the southern states has at last exceeded that in New England. Moreover, the southern mill owner is producing twice as much as the New England mill owner per unit of machinery.” ‘Inat means that the wage slaves of the South are being driven twice as hard as those of the North. as are The capitalist plunderers are not satisfied with crushing the life out of a Goldstein with a union to give him some protection. They must move their indusiries intg the Southern states where la- bor is unorganized and helpless. Alt the greater need, therefore, for labor in the North to develop its overeome all obstacles ment that will spread into every corner of the land. It is in this fight. that the mem- bers of the International Lacies’ Garment Workers’ Union are now going to jail and prison. Thru their sacrifice it will be incteasingly pos- sible for the cause to conquer, | RRENT EVENTS | (Continued from page 1) from the most flat-footed policeman. | So it was with the noble Gladstone. The man who intrigued with Mrs. Kitty O’Shea to scandalize Parnell would not be the kind of a man to} chase “fallen” women. Thus spoke} Gladstone’s son on the witness stand, | He testified that a large part of his father’s wealth was spent in trying to save the “wicked.” Gladstone was firmly convinced that | he was ordained by his deity to save | the, world and that he thought the! British empire was the instrument through which the divine will could be carried out. All those who hitherto had doubts about the truth of the stories concerning Gladcstone’s amor- ous activities should shed them now. A fellow with a divine mission is just the kind of a man innocent girls should avoid. . * * ba ERNARR MacFADDEN, physical culture protogaonist and foe of flesh meat has no objection to using animated human flesh as an aid to his circulation department. Hearst and MacFadden are running a race for the salacious championship of the United States. Both offer prizes for the snappiest double-meaning puns on the “Peaches-Browning” trial. Mac- Fadden has an editorial in one of his filthiest editions, denouncing crim- nals and congratulating a jury that ‘sentenced a moron who killed two po- licemen, to death. The moron is a , public assets compared to MacFad- den. Hearst's rag cheers up the drooping spirits of those who feared that their daily morsel of slush would be snatched from their intellectual | teeth, when the Browning trial ends. House of David is next, says Hearst ! WITHDRAW ALL U. $. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! 0 INTERY TO IN MEXICO! C 4 It is said that) Anne Louise Strong Will Talk on Russia CHICAGO, Feb. 3.—Anna Louise Strong, just returned from Soviet Russia, will lecture on “Religion and Morality in Soviet Russia,” at the Workers’ House, 1962 W. Divi- sion St., Chicago, on Sunday, Feb- ruary 6, at 1:30 p. m. Admission 25 cents, They Smoked "Em Anyway TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 3.—Governor Ken S. Paulen today signed the meas- ure that repeals Kansas’ twenty-year old anti-cigaret law. The bill, which taxes cigarets, pro- hibits advertising them and other regulations relating to licenses, will become a law in May when the sta- tutes are published. For the Life of a Sailor HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 3. — The steamer Emprey without a rudder is it 35 miles off Sable Island according to a wireless message received here by the marine and fisheries depart- helpless at sea and drifting south ment today. Rail Workers Killed BEACON, N. Y., Feb. 3,--Two men were critically injured today in ‘a freight wreck on the Central New England Railroad between Hopewéll, N. Y., and Stormville, N. Y., about ten miles from here. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. gnd Browning is only a lame duck compared to Ben. Those are the cus- todians of public virtue and the watch- dogs of social cleanliness! CHI} HINA! 0 HANDS nhl 4 Don't taal Segnalo a um alee NEAR END WITH 1900 ENTRAPPED No Support for Indians After Priests Fail MEXICO CITY, Feb. 3.—With the clerical rebellions practically crushed, and a stream of individuals forced into the reaetionary bands hurrying to take advantage of the govern- ment’s offer of amnesty, the atten- tion of the public is directed at the Yaqui uprising. Yaquis Surrounded Annihilation threatens 1,500 rebel- lious Yaqui Indians and their leader, Luis Matuz, surrounded in their stronghold in the wild fastnesses of the Sierra’ Bacatetes Mountains in Central Sonora, by 6,000 Mexican fed- crals under command of General An- tonio Rios Zertuche, according to of- ficial advices received today at Mexi- van military headquarters in Nogales, Sonora, across the line from Nogales, Arizona. A Timely Revolt There has always been something queer about this Yaqui uprising, in the opinion of anti-clericals here. There is the undoubted fact that it was timed to coincide with the catho. lic rebellion farthe? south, and there are constant rumérs of Americans acting as military advisers of the indians, or connected with their serv- ice of supplies. With the collapse of the clerical uprising, the Yaqui re- t also appears to break down, as if there were no further need of it. * * * ROME, ,Feb. 3.—The Osservatoroe Romano, official organ of the Vatican, | contains horror tales of Mexican priests alleged to be deported ftom the country by the Mexican govern- ment because they. concealed church vroperty. s 9 Lighter Embargo WASHINGTON, . Feb. 3. — The wovernment today clamped down tighter the embargo on munitions to Mexico. The ban was ordered teim.posed on sulphur and. sulphuric acid, both of which are used in munitions manu- facture. Valerian Dovgalevsky New Ahbassador of U.S. S. R. to Japan | MOSCOW, Feb. galevsky has been bassador at Tokio, succeeding M. | Kopp, whe is row attached to the | foreign office. Dovealevsky, until re- } cently was minister to Sweden. LJ M. Dovgeleteky, a native of Kief, © is a graduate engineer of Toulouse | University. He was Commissar of © x anl Telegraphs in 1923. 8.—Valerian Dev- | ppointed as am- With Telephones WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Direct telephone communication for com- | mercial aircraft passengers will soon be possible, according to the U. 8S. Bureau of Standards, which has been studying the possibility of an aero- nautical radio telephone system. Dr, J. H. Bellinger, chief of the | radio laboratory, declared that the | radio telephones would operate on 2/ wave hand from 540 to 600 meters. | The first>installations will connect | ports and commercial aircraft chiefly for the communication of in- | formation to the pilots. | Tt will be but another step to con- | nect passengers with the commercial | telephone switchboards, according to | experts. Fs Bill in Pennsylvania Ending Child Marriage The Public Charities Association of | Pennsylvania plans to introduce in| the 1927 general assembly, a child marriage bill raising the minimum age to at least 16 years for both sexes, and a hasty marriage bill requiring a five-days’ interval between the ap- plication for and granting of a li- cense. The present legal minimum age is 14 for boys and 12 for girls, and #® recent study made by the associa- tion’s child-welfare division revealed that 521 girls under the age of 16 ae married in the state during Explosion Kil BEACON, N.Y result of the expl locomotive of the land railroad at G: about twelve miles one man is dying, serious condition and minor injuries § Lenin Me A Lenin mem ) Workers. b, 8.—As the of a-freight tral New Eng- Haven, N. Y., |- m here, today, ther is in a third suffered Paterson. 1 meeting in Pat~ ruary 4, 1927, at p.m, at Car- penters’ Hall, 54 Houten Street. Admission will be 25 cents. Speakers: Bert Wolfe, H. M. Wicks. Connect Airplane Radio | erson, N. J., will be held Friday, Feb-(._ }