The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1927, Page 2

? NEGLIGEN DAUGHERTY FACES COURT AGAIN ON CHARGE OF GRAFT Allege He ‘Shook Down’ Alien Property Owners the jury whi h will decide the fate M. Dougherty, former ¢ eneral and Thomas W. Mill custodi of Harry torney former alien property | charged with conspiracy against the government in connection with the} return of $7,000,000 in seized enemy alien property to all 1 German in- terests, was completed late this after- noon, government had Scene at the’mouth of mine of th by which the war confiscated during ony Serger ; wrecking ten ears in the tunnel and setting the mine afire. the office of the Alien Prop Cus- - ten , 2g The U. S. Bureau of Mines reports B ion with} i® properly inspected mines. BIGGEST BANK MAK inued from page 1) tieut politican, ed him to Jess n of Harry paid the bonds and a bribe John who in t m: in Liber to Kir ash h his purp last 3 the trust company has Left Trail. turned fit of $440.60 on each e dead, and can-} $100 in while the great Mor- o answe However, the ution has handed own- this payment of on each $100 of capita aced to the hands of Mil- In fact evidence al showed that Mil- 000 went These in Mal Daugh- of which were New York Bank Profits, 1 Chatham-Phenix National ... Chemical National National ank, the recorc destroyed. Paid For Votes. a clear case. Practically disputes the validity of the 1 2, and it was ated that the ved the defendants ut the graft pay- used by the Ohio gang the 1920 pre: Park N Seaboard National ° change National .. F: al (6 months) .. ppearing in s approached by some political eiate gd Saas wered: “I never| 4 Irving Trust sd in politics, not} Manufacturers Trus : attorney general.”| New York Trust ...... Title Guarantee & Trust t the trial will last " . ye . “ks, and that the] United Statés Trust ..... n will demand a verdict of Mergers Help. This group of 20 banks had a com- bined profit of $116,128,000 if we as-) sume that the Chase bank made ap- proximately $8,000,000 for the full Attack On Women. Feb. 7.—Women and Another LYNN, Ma girls of this city were terror stricken year. The 10 largest banks in the today as the result of the twentieth) ji.¢ had a combined total profit of assault in the last seventeen days on] ¢; 18,000 ur about 2-3 of all the girls and women. Thirteen-year-old Eva Bline is the latest victim. She was burned about the face by a n who threw the contents of cid as fits made by the 38 banks and trust companies in the Wall Street Journal compilation. These 10 finan-| cial institutions are the chief instru-| ments of New York banker control ever the country’s economic life. The report shows that. these big New York banks are merging to form) pro: E a small bottle of she was’ walking home after visiting friends. Rochester Workers Muster Forces for Titta Ruffo, Singer, Once Iron Worker ROCHESTER, Feb. 7.—‘“Saceo and Vanzetti arg innocent and must be freed.” This is the slogan with which the Rochester Defense Committee has approached its task of enlisting the help of the entire local labor move- ment to work towards the freeing of these two men. A mass protest meeting against the continued persecution of these mar- tyrs and against the decision of Judge Thayer, wil be held in this city at the where four miners were killed by a gas explosion, blowing down tons of coa profit | tional Butcher: Sacco-Vanzetti| THE DAILY WORKF ER, NEW YORK TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 58. CE KILLS FOUR ¢ Norton Coal Mining Co., Isley, Ky show that gas explosions do not occur which brings together Kuhn Loeb and the Standard Oil interests reported the largest actual profits, the amount. being $15,853,000 or 3 on $50,- 000,000 capital. The 1926 profits of the 20 leading banks together with the percentages earned on capital and on capital sur- plus and undivided profits were: Pet. on pital Annual On capital 000 1,645,000 2,599,000 2,885,000 2,203,000 2,681,000 4,240,000 5.5 9,069,000 17 21.3 12.4 10.4 7,074,000 15.0 9,700,000 16.7 18.7 12.5 21.9 120.0 11.5 larger aggregations of credit The most important mergers involved"the Chase National American Exchange-Irving Chase National absorbed the National bank the and Trust. Mechanics & Metals at the same time, increasing its capi- tal from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000. The American Exchange-Irving Trust is the result of a series of mergers, the first bringing together the Ir- ving National bank and the Columbia Trust,” the others bringing the Na- & Drovers bank and the American Exchange Patifie bank into the combination. British Charge Said To Favor Diversion Of Troops Fr LONDON, Feb. 7-The British | cabinet met today to consider the fre-| }eommendation of British Charge | O'Malley -that the British troops now enroute to Shanghai be diverted. Chan Tso Lin, northern leader, is reported to have agreed to Secretary of States Kellogg’s suggestion that the international settlement in Shang- hai be considered outside of the war | zone. Wait For Chen's Reply. Eugene Chen, nationalist leadet, | sold ‘om China! ARREST HUNDRED | AS EMPEROR OF JAPAN 1S BURIED. Ostentatious Funeral For State Purposes: (Continued from P 1) those too old or Ik, was in the proc The army’s gu of honor, escorting the coffin, consisted ot 3,200 men selected from the imperial guard division—the old guard of the Japanese army, The navy providea an h guard of 4,000 blue jackets.) The colors of every regiment of the Japanese army: in all c&r- ried in the procession by picked) representatives. i A the route of the procession and sailors lined t left side of the street while the public oc- i the right. More than 30,000 officers men under com- too inform sion which followed. svere d mand of Li Gen. jsomura, commander of the Tokio garrison, icipated... More than 9,000 police | \ 1,000 of Over faith took part in the priests Jithin the flow lanterits began at 6 time), when es the cerenion the they Ngashi-Asaka country en the Musa plaing about 30 miles from Tokio, when the mortal remains ef the one hundred and twenty-third occupant of the world’s m neient throne, will. be to in the mausoleum espe iy built to receive Socialist Labor Party Advertizes National Cash Register Wares (By a Worker Correspondent.) AKRON, 0., Feb. 7.—A humorous lecture illustrated by sterioptican| slides was given last night by Adolph Silver, national organizer, of the so- cialist labor party before an audience of fifty-five in the Music Hall. This lecture is the first of a series of four which “promises” to solve the problems of capital and labor. Un- fortunately, the first lecture, “Do We Need the Capitali ’ was illustrated principally by pictures of improved types and caleulating and tabulating} machines furnished by the National Cash Register Company. Watchful Waiting. The purpose of these pictures was to prove that modern machinery is doing away with bookkeepers and white collar help, and by simplifying management is also. doing away with the necessity for the capitalist. “The overthrow of capitalism then becomes simplified. Join the 8. L. P. and watch the system é¢rumble! No Listeners, Needless to say there were few present and little applause. This is in striking contrast to the reception Seott Nearing got Monday night where the entire speech was pune- tuated, by applause and enthusiasm of 400 workers and where hundreds of pamphlets were sold. Nearing spoke under the auspices of the Internation- al Labor Defense on the subject, “The Attack on the Labor Movement.” Roll in the Subs For WORKER. The DAILY Senate Insurgents Now Completely Swallowed By RepublicanOldGuard By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, i ; LL the maneuvers of the repub+ lican “old guard” to snare the group in congress bore full fruit in the senate vote defeat- ing democratic hopes to force so- called tax reduction in the present sess of congr f W House bre of committee positions and party patronage for loyal vote getters have spawned rich results, ry republican, from Smoot to LaFollette, stood hitehed, with a | rope around the neck even of the farmerslabor senator from Minne- sota, Mendrik Shipsted, Every pre- diction by The DAILY WORKER of the ‘backward drift of the LaFol- lette group, including Shipsted, is sts, promises thus completely fulfilled. * * Republican unity 100 per cent, was mustered against the effort of the democrats to steal a_ little compaign thunder for 1928 thru support of a resolution introduced ator Pat Harrison (demo- sippi) seeking to have sury surplus devoted to | tax reduction, The reduction of taxes, to benefit the gr rich, is one of the “econ- omy” stunts that President Cool- idge and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. x ¢ exclusively for the | republic Every invasion of this territory by the democrats is fought bitterly. * But it remained for the republi- can insurgent from” Nebraska to lead the oid guard battle against the dem lt enator Norris, « still h from last November invasion of Pen Vania | to fight the candidacy of Vare by seeking votes for the democratic senatorial offering William B, Wil- son, who ‘presented the substitute to Pat Harvisen’s resolution de- manding thaw arf) treasury surplus be applied to the reduction of the | fiational debt. Norris, getting ev insurgent vote, led the repub- » “old guard” td victory with the ballot result standing at 52 to + * Thus the LaFollette group has no tax policy separate and apart from that offered by the chosen few on hghalf of the preda- tory interests. Fiven Shipsted, who insurgent joined Cal Coolidge in his morning | of repast flapjacks and maple syrup ed no voice agains® the | president’s fake economy schemes, | against the government financier- ing by Melion. He just went along. | This should be valuable news to the discontented farmers of the west, who have been demanding | that the government use some of its surplus funds to aid bankrupt agriculture. ‘The whole farm bloc / Frazier and Nye, Norbeck and Norris, LaFollette and Shipsted, Howell and MeNary, all went along with the Peppers, the Smooths, the Watsons and the other bellwethers of the plunderbund, ce The next step in the insurgent surrender Will be the admission of the LaFollette, group to the old guard caucus. ‘he republican re- action has already issued the invita- tions and the so-called “progres- ” are expected to accept, with ‘Thus the insurgent alliance with the democrats to crash the gates if reaction and give the middle a feeble voice in congress goes ‘glimmering. In the words ot one Washington correspondent,. on the day after the vote of the Norris tax measure was taken, we find: “The congressional firm of Dem- ocrat, Insurgent & Company, which has done a thriving business on capi tol hill since the 1924 election, and embarrassed and defeated President Coolidge on innumerable occasions, apparently was on the verge of dis- sulution today.’ Thus the so-called “balance of power”, that has been touted as a tremendous weapon as between the two old parties, also goes on the rocks. With the division of strength in the coming congress almost equal us between the two old parties, the insurgents completely surrender and make it possible for the old guard to control, in spite of the fact that republicans in the next congress have a paper niajority of only one, and this even inciudes the votes of Senator-elect Smith, of Mlinois, and Vare of i’enns » Who proba- bly will neyer get a chance to cast a ballot in the next senate, ? * It is declared that the informal understanding between the admin- istration regulars and the progres- sive insurgents provides that on ali matters of strictly partisan divi- sion, the insurgents have pledged themselves to yote as republicans rather than as insurgents. In mat- ters affecting publie policy and. is- sues. having a progressive tinge, the insurgents will vote, as one cor- respondent puts it, “qs their con- sciences dictate’, The insurgents have consulted with their consei- ences and have come to the decision to place their, political fortunes in | the hands of the agents of Wali Street. That is not the way of the masses moving leftwards. ee ea This whole development should’ be the greatest stimulus yet in the | organ Congressman Warns of Radio Monopoly Congressman Sol Bloom. Sol. Bloom, of New York, speaking in the House of Répresentatives against the Dill-White Radio Bill, said: “Inside of five years we'll be trans- mitting power and heat and light, we'll be cooking and running auto mobiles and railtoads by radio, Witb- in ten years w6 won't have to have gasoline to drive our automobiles. “Are you going (,turn all this over, in advance, to a monopoly?” CURRENT EV.ENTS « (Continued from Page 1) without you.” The professoy also tells of ese “gentleman” who exp: ympathy for the Can- cone government but preferred to live under British rule. Most gentle- men would. deman will have a choice unl takes ship to some British poss chat admits Chinamen. It is doubtful if the gen- is he OW that William Randolph Hearst has stopped pulling the British lion’s tail but instead has taken to stroking the old boy down the back, we are waiting to hear the sound of gnashing teeth confing from all parts of the compass where Irish nationalist patriots live and® flourish Hearst was the great American who blamed John Bull for everything that as garlic to the nostrils of the patriotic Irish politicians who favor the exploitation of 0, Nicaragua and the Philippines the United States but gag at Ireland by the Bri by he enslavement of h. * Mussolini was one of the heroes of the Irish Republican, party. The Italian correspondent ‘of The Irish Republic, at that time the official of the republican party. of which DeValera was president, prais- ed Mussolini highly, the dictator shar- ing eulogies with the pope. I was in- formed sagely by ari editor of that paper that Mussolini was the sworn foe of John Bull and was out for the fat boy's scalp. Now Benito turns development’ of independent politi- |, eal action of the workers and far- mers thru the Labor Party. Eight Jurors Selected In Murder Trial. CANTON, 0., Feb. 7—More than half the panel of venire men drawn to serve as jurors in the case of Ben Rudner, alleged instigator of the ¢on- spiracy to murder Don. R. Mellett, had been excused, with eight tenta- tively seated. Subscribe for The DAILY WORKER, LIGHTNING SPIRAL, NOT JAGGED Amalgamated Clothing Workers Hall,| has repeatedly stated that he does on Feb. 26th. Arthur Garfield Hayes | not intend to occupy the international | will be the principal ,speaker, and | settlement in Shanghai and this is be- John Flynn, president of the Central | lieved to be his probable reply to Sec- ;Trades and Labor Council, has been | | asked to preside, | To date there are 383 organizations | |in Rochester who have affiliated with | the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Commit- | tee. Between now and Feb. 26th, all | A. F. of L. unions will be visited by | the committee and the necessity of | e support will be explatned, All labor Titta Ruffo was an iron worker, a| pyust be aroused to free these two native of Pisa. He could sing. But) men who have now for six years been when he presented himself to the| tho vietims of capitalistic “justice.” Santa Cecelia Conservatore in Rome to cultivate his voice, they gave him! the laugh, as they would any other! proletarian who appeared, and said:| BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Feb. 7. “He has no voice, and he cannot act”,| —“King” Benjamin Purnell, head of Ruffo had a musician relative who| the house of David, was held for trial coached him for his first appearance) in circuit court May 16 on three erim- in a minor part in “Lohengrin” and| inal charges when arraigned today convinced the world that he could) before Judge Charles E. White. Ben- both sing and act. He is the latest) jamin was brought into coum on a Metropolitan Opera star to broadcast.| strétcher. He stood mute after the | Central Press Photo “King Benjamin’ nds Mute. He has built a palace on the hill over") iuformation in the three cases brought looking the Santa Cecelia Conserva-| by the Bamford sisters and Mrs. tore. Bessie Woodward were read. retary Kellogg. American missionaries in Nanking have cabled the state department urging against the landing of Ameri- can troops in China as unnecessary and likely to create difficulties, . * @ British Troops Parade. HONG KONG, China, Feb. 7.—The| second battalion of British light in- fantry arrived from India today. Parading through the streets, the se¢- ond Suffolks, headed by the regi- mental band were received in gloomy silence by the huge throngs of Chi- nese that lined the curbs. The first cruiser squadron is due to arrive here tomorrow from the Mediterranean, Military authorities, it was rumored, plan to take over the| new and commodious buildings of the Diocesan boys’ school and Kings’ ¢ol- lege, using them for military ‘hospi- tals, J. W. Legg, an engineer of the Westinghouse Company, has just in- vented a high-speed camera capable of making 2,600 pictures a second and by which he has demonstrated in experiments that lightning and electrical flashes do not travel in jagged lines, but in complicated spirals. The jagged line is only an optical illusion, due to the inability of eye and cameras hitherto in use to record the true natie of the flashes, Legg says. Picture shows Legg photographing an electrical flash with his new camera, in Subseribe for The DAILY WORKER;| New York. and Battle Continues Along Banks of Doure (Continued from Page 1) slow and uncertain. Martial ldw is maintained in all parts of the country controlled by government forces. The government of Geéneral Car- mona, Whose abolition is the first de- mand of the revolutionists, has is- sued a statement claiming victory, but other reports indicate that along the northern bank of the river Doure the tebels had consolidated themselves, énd were exchanging a hot fire with the government forces draWn up along the south bank today. Oporto Captured? The official (Carmona) report claims that the mutineers in the Oporto gartison have surrendered and relates that: many of the rebels were killed and hundreds were wounded m the battle between the rebels and the governnient forces; which continued from Friday to Sunday. Following a parley between repre- sentatives ‘of the vebels and the Mim- eter of War, at which the minister demanded unconditional surrender, which the rebels refused, the Mini- ster of War warned all foreign resi- dents and the civil population of Oporto to leave the city.--The gov- ernment troops brought up artillery and bombarded the rebels’ trenches, especially in the vicinity’ of thetr headquarters at Place Batalha. lommunications between northern southern Portugal were still in« terrupted today, and it was difficuit to gauge the full extent of the revo- lution, The uprising is headed by General Souta Diaz, chief military commander of North Portugal. A movement, which involves the building of barricades by small mobs that the police refuse to attack, has started in Lisbon, It is made up of sympathizers of the Oporto mutineers, and the railroad strikers, Subscribe for The DAILY WORKER around and agrees to join England. in a campaigt against China. ‘Iwo dis- appoinunents in one month is two too many. Concentrate 20,000 Roumanian Troops BERLIN, Feb. 7.-Twenty thousand troops have been concentrated at suchfirest in anticipation of a coup Vetat by the peasant party and the Transylvanian nationalist party in favor of Prince Carol according to dispatches from Bucharest to the Berlin Lokanzeiger today. The already rigid censorship has been tightened still more. Six Bucharest newspapers were confis- vated and suppressed yesterday for making preferences to impending events, ~ ‘Deputy Migail Popovitch, a friend of Carol’s Who has just returned from Paris, has been excluded from Par- liament for ten days for defendi the prince in a speech in Parliamerte. Administration Opposes Farm Relief. WASHINGTON, Feb, 7.-—The ad- ministration’s fight to substitute the Surtis-Ashwell bill for the MeNary- Haugen farm relief measure was opened in the senate this afternoon. Senator Curtis (R) of Kansas de- clared the substitute would benefit all agricultural commodities instead of wheat, corn, rice, swine and cot- ton which are specified in the Me- Nary bill. Curtis also urged adoption of his bill because it provides loais ‘o farm organizations to help them store crops without including the equalization fee, which is a part of the MeNary bill, fy Expect New. Booze Bill Soon. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, — Rep. Hawley (R) of Oregon, informed Gen. L. C. Andrews, dry chief, today, that a substitute for the treasury’s whiskey purchase bill might be reported out of the ways and means committee this week, Andrews announced that “an emer- frency exists” in relation to the coun- try’s supply of medicinal liquor, Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. { \ ‘4 | } | j HARLEM GASINO, 116TH STREET AND LENOX AVENUE Tickets in advance 50 cents, at the door 75 cents. Arranged by the YOUNG. WORKERS’ LEAGUE, 108 East 14th Street, Sat., ‘ 1