The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1927, Page 3

Judge Lashes, Then Lies PREPARE VETO ON PLEBISCITE BILL FOR PHILIPPINES Coolidge Says Islands Not Advanced Enough WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—President | Coolidge is prepgring to veto the plebiscite bill passed by the legisla-| ture of the Philippines over the veto 1 THE DAILY WORKER. ‘W YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1927 Page Three SALE OF WESTERN) “™E STUDms MARYLAND STOCK MAY END STRIKE ‘Owners May Make It! Excuse for Yielding WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Whether | railroad labor will get a better boss | is the problem raised by the sale by | | John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of his West- | ern Maryland Railroad stock to the | of Governor-General Wood. The proposed plébiscite would set- tle the question, always posed by) imperialist apologists in the islands} and in America, as to whether the, Filipinos themselves wish indepen-) dence. It would haye no other eftect. ‘the bitter opposition of General) Wood and of tne Washington admini-' - stration to this simple test, is taken by all! pro-independence groups as’ proof that Wooa and Coohdge know| that the Filipinos do want indepen-} dence, but that it is not wise to let) them show their desires in such a public way zs the .plebiscite contem- plates. “Not Convinced.” Coolidge stands on his letter to Speaker Koyas, sent two years ago. ‘e has caused to be issued a state- ment that he is not convinced that the Filipino people “have made suffi- cient strides in self-government to enable them to. carry on as an inde-| pendent nation.” He believes, it is} said, “that ultimate liberty has been! pledged them, but that the guiding! hand of the United States must be! used for years to lead them throug! the arts of* self-government, edue: | tion, sanitation and kindred necessi-| ties.” Left to their own resources,| they might become the prey of jeal-| ous nations, he is said to feel. Nor would their commerce and business provide them with the funds suffi-| cient for a self-sustaining country. He is said to be pleased with what Baltimore & Ohio, and his Wheeling | & Lake Erie stock to the Nickel Plate, New York Central and Balitmore & Ohio interests. Train service brotherhoods’ of- ficials in Washington were confident, when the B. & O. statement was is- —— strike on the Western Maryland was near. Rockefeller Control. Rockefeller was identified as the largest stockholder and actual con- trolling influence behind Byers, and during the past year he has been under fire from many quarters because of the ruthlessly unfair labor policy pur- is made just on the eve of the pub- lication of a joint report on the causes and effects of the strike, by investi- gators for the Federal Council of Churches, the National Catholic Wel- fare Conference and the Central Coun- cil of American Rabbis. A. 0. Wharton, president of the International Association of Ma- chinists, leader of the railroad shop erafts and for four years a member of the Railroad Labor Board, refused to express optimism over the «stock deal. 4 Battle of Cash. “Wait and see what the Interstate Commerce Commission does on this, sale of stock in the Western Mary- land and the Wheeling & Lake Erie,” was his advice. “If the B. & Q. is Judge E. E. Zesiger of Akron, O., ‘ Hig really to dictate policy, then it is a sued, that the end of their two-years’ | sued by Byers. This sale of his stock | 1 | | Dorothy Newson, of Wayne, Ark., ing. She is studying at University of industrialism are breakin “women’s work.” considerably luckier than the average are usually one or two girls taking similar courses. ig down the barriers between “men’s work” and | But they usually operate to force women to do a double shift, one at home and the other in the factory, where they get lower wages than the men for the same type of work. These engineering students are | ENGINEERING COMMITTEE VOTES SMITH TO SIT IN ‘SENATE; THEN 60 ‘Problem of Man Caught | In Act Irks Solons WASHING \lengthy in |the senate electior | ed informally today to r immed of Senator jnate Frank L. Smith (R) of | and to récommend further After s precedent te is ate seating ement over the manner of writing its report to the senate, A majority take the oath of offi |then to declare his seat vacant. | Minority reports probably will be filed | by some mem | | } protesting against both decisions. The committee will meet again to- morrow. ed to Smith for primary election pur- poses by the electrical super-power and traction magnate, Samuel Insull, of Chicago. It also disclosed that Insull had financed Smith’s chief op- ponent, though to a lesser amount, evidently dealing with the Central Press avored letting Smith] at once, but} |! ers of the committee] tt The Reed investigating committee} i uncovered vast sums of money grant-|t victor,} |“Eagle W orkers Point” Directs Young Pencil ‘Workers in Struggles By TARR (Worker Correspondent) workers of the Eagle , see their emancipa- newspaper, “Eagle They also feel the rind it striking the heart, (the pocketbooks) of the The neil Co the Pp. |tor in \v | dri fort | very pened in the last came and passed, e and passed. e the young mas and New vacation lasting of turkey, as quent exclusion from the ed no wages and had emp- | cause of expenditures in last No- hs, also preparing for a New | vember’s senatorial primary. and more likely worse than the The committee failed to take final jaction in the case because of a di o had a vaction but from the sweat and the factory, and entory so that they unt of capital the New. Year even more ffitn e toil and speed- workers in the n Years are not legal “holiday h no pay, and out on. a Fri- urday also, v are off wit the holidays comes day, they a Recently, memorial meet of the Young Workers’ e in front of the pencil com- What was the demand of the ing were distributed by whoever might win. is another woman student of engineer- Arkansas. In other universities there Capitalism and modern | City of Angeles to Hear Bishop Brown Speak March Sixth LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9.—William woman worker, MIDDLE CLASS BEING LIQUIDATED WHILE BIG Montgomery Brown will speak in Los Angeles Sunday, March 6th, at 8:00 P. M. at the Trinity Auditorium, 9th ing W ? Where the “Eagle Workers’ - Point?” They know that the Y. Workers’ League through the “ i 3’ ” are lead- ing the ainst the bosses of the factory they work in, Even the adult workers, who are fifty per cent of the total number of workers in the plant, ich is about two thousand old timers, and new are grumbli about the conditions there, a at they must stick with tk h in the struggle, which he regards as the remarkable prog-/ Sprang into fame the other day and xess which the Filipinos have made excited favorable editorials in all the since their dominion by Spain was'biggest papers by beating up John ended, but considers it not snfficient,| Caves, walting ce? bp him, me a rubber hose. udge esiger as Rent: Resnens Not Told, Hong advocated the whipping post for _ The president does not mention the| wife beaters, and immediately issued increasing investment of American 4 statement that he had lashed Caves capital in the Philippines, the exploi- ‘ J for that crime. tation there of cheap native labor by! Qne trouble with his argument that capital, the laying out of rubber i a seems to be that Caves was not ar- plantations, nor the importance of the|rested for wife beating at all, but Manila naval base in a campaign merely for drunkenness. He is a brick- against China, as reasons for deny- i 3 a layer, who sought refuge from the ing the Islands their promised inde | monotony of laying one on top of an- + pendence, but these factors are| : other by a moderate bottle or too, and known to influence the government. (got something stronger than he meant. | PLENARY SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE OF THE CHINESE SEAMEN'S UNION REPORTS PROGRESS CANTON, China.—The Chinese Seamen’s union head office in this city. has sent the following letter to the Red International of Labor unions, head- fortunate thing for rail labor organ- izations, But there are billions of dol- lars involved on both sides of this contest in the stock market between the Loree group and the New York Central, the Nickel Plate or Van Swearirigton interests and ghe B. & 0. We do not know what happen next, to effect the labor policy on any of these big roads or the little ones. It’s a gigantic battle, involv- ing the determination of Loree, with his backers who are not identified, to have a road through the eastern ter- ritory. The Pennsylvania has been obstructing the moves of the opposi- tion, for its own peculiar ends. It is |a battle of big money, and labor does not figure in it at all except as la- bor gains or suffers by the policy of the winner. Don’t Trust B. & O. The rank and file on strike see no assurance that the B. & O. will treat BUSINESS CALLS IT A PROSPEROUS YEAR IS STATISTICAL RECORD OF BUSINESS FAILURES By LELAND OLDS (Federated. Press). j open. and Grand Avenue. He will speak on the interesting subject, “The Power of the Workers.” Dates are being arranged for him in Long Beach and Pasadena. You are requested to keep the above date For further details watch the The | A decided increase in the number of business failures in 1926 shows that the prosperity of American capitalism rests on an insecure foundation. great banker corporations are bulwarked by huge reserves which would carry them through a long depression. But smaller private businesses would be | weeded out or absorbed while labor would be faced with unemployment. The number of commercial failures duting 1926; according to both Dun’s and Bradstrect’s reviews, exceeded any year since 1922. With the excep- tion of 1922 the 1926 figure is the jhighest on record. Dun shows 21,773 failures in 1926 compared with 21,- 214.in.4925 and 20,615 in 1924. Doctors Disagree, Dun and Bradstreet disagree on the liabilities of the concerns | involved. Green Tells New Haven. Workers AboutAmerica Being a Perfect Heaven (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW HAVEN, Feb. 9—The much/| heralded mass meeting of William Green, president; of the American Dun places the 1926 liabilities at] Pederation of Labor, under the au- | $409,232,278 compared with $453,744,-| SPices of the New Haven Trades |272 in 1925, a decrease of about 8%. { Council, drew a big crowd at the | columns of The DAILY WORKE Paul C. Reiss is in charge of the ar- rangements for the meetings. Denounces Stupid Officials. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Plans of Maj. Chester P. Mills, prohibition ad- ministrator for New York, to have Rabbis supply him names of all per- sons that consume sacramental wine, started Rep, La Guardia of New York on the warpath today. In a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, La Guardia said: “It is only the ‘hopeless bewilder- merit of your administrator, Chester Py. Mills, and the stupid, impossible quarters at Moscow: ! Red International of Trade Unions, Moscow: | Comrades: ‘| It has been fifteen months since we joined the Canton - Hongkong strike, immediately after the impe-| rialist massacre in Shanghai on May) 30, 1925. Amidst our struggle, ai-| though our attentions were chiefly, directed to external affairs, we never forgot our internal work. Conse- quently a re-organization conference was held last January, and for the following eleven months we devoted our energy to the development of our union and the coherence of our} strength, In the span of eleven months, near- ly.three thousand new members en- rolled, ship committees on board! twenty-three ships have been inau-| gurated and many schools for work- ers and their children have been es- tablished. There is also organized an employment bureau, through which seamen comrades have acquired their jobs. To review our fighting strength for! further struggle, the third plenary! Mexican Gunboat Saves and which has done much to strength-| | rades! | | them any better than the Rockefeller session of the executive committee! interests did, but think that the trans- sat at Canton on the 16th inst. It)/fer may be made an excuse for re- found our past work satisfactory and) treat on the part of the railroad man- recommends continued efforts. ‘agement, before the determined ef- We are thankful to recall the moral: forts of the strikers to win. and material support which the’ p aR Canton - Hongkong strike received from our comrades of every country,| Scandinavians Form * . A en our decision to stand to ‘the last Cooperative Society; in the struggle against our mutual Deals in Foodstuffs enemies. * é — Comrades! We know from expe- A group of Scandinavians met at rience that the unity of the working) Vasa hall, 52nd street, near 3rd ave- class is imperative, for unity. is our) nue in Brooklyn, to discuss the pos-| power. With this spirit we shake | sibility of organizing a co-operative hands with you, and hope you will store in the Bay Ridge section of guide and help us, your juvenile com- | Brooklyn. M 3 At this meeting Mr, Molin, the ex- The Third Executive Committee ecutive seeretary of the Co-operative of the Chinese Seamen’s Union, League in Sweden, addressed the Chairman, SON CHEN HING, | meeting on the subject of “Co-opera- rs |tion in Sweden.” Mr. Cedric Long, Frank E. Campbell, Jr., 14, is in-, executive secretary of the Co-opera- sured for $1,000,000, it became tive League in the U. S. A. spoke on known’ today gheteby supplanting some of his experiences along these dackie Coogan, the movie star, as; lines in America. ‘ 4 the world’s most heavily insured. Tells of Finnish Trading. hoy. Jackie’s policy is for $650,000, Mr. Nil Kruth, one of the directors |of the Finnish Trading Association, 'gave the history of this institution. | Mr. Wirkkula, the last speaker, spoke on the inside facts and data of the Finnish Trading Association. Mr, Wirkkula dealt mainly with the mar- agement and financing of the associa- tion. He also announced that the Finnish Trade Association would give financial and other assistance to the fuiure co-operative store. After the spoakers had concluded, the audience participated in a lively discussion which resulted in a com- mittee of nine being appointed to in- vestigate about a future co-operative association in Bay Ridge. : Committee Meets. This committee met a few days later in the office of the Finnish Trad- ing Association, 4301 8th Ave., Brook- lyn. It was suggested that a store dealing in food products, such as bakery goods, meats, groceries, etc., would at present be the best to start as it is most needed. The best loca- tion was found to be between 89th and 68th street and between 3rd and 8th avenues, Last of Elephant Seais Chaliapin’s Daughter Works. NEW YORK,’ Feb. . 9, -— Stella Chaliapin, daughter of Feodor Chaliapin, former bass of the Met- ropolitan Opera, has gone t6 work as a sales-girl in a fifth avenue de- partment store. Her decision to become a working girl was made while her father ac- companied his own opera company on a tour, Because he ht he against the idea, she acted while was away, | Bradstreet has reported only on the | failures of the first 11 months of the year, the figure being $560,022,323 compared with $436,528,101 in the first 11 months of 1925, an increase of 12.8%. Bradstreet’s final total for | 1926 will undoubtedly exceed $600,- | 000,000, Plenty Fail. Bradstreet’s figures for the failures | end ‘liabilities of the first 11 months |of each year since 1912 are: | Business Failures Number Liabilities | 1912 12,502 $180,353,034 | 1913 12,885 253,422,989 | 1914 14,567 823,489,441 | 1915 17,447 256,483,716 | 1916 15,149 157,605,641 | 1917 12,043 150,081,871 1918 8,810 128,016,124 | 1919 5,029 106,608,353 1920 6,727 330,032,016 1921 17,581 674,342,828 | 20,553 602,042,462 17,301 550,921,644 17,801 637,086,384 17,231 436,528,101 18,042 560,022,323 The last month of the year, accord- ing to Dun, showed a very material increase both in number of failures and in total liabilities. There were 2069 December failures with $45,619,- | December, 1925.' The increase in lia- bilities was 25%. | Middle Class. Dun’s figures for December classify \the failures according to line of busi- ness. There were 494 failures among manufacturers, 1469 among store- keepers and 106 in other commercial lines. Among the classified manufac- turers those producing lumber and | lumber products suffered most with 60 failures and $2,480,739 liabilities. Manufacturers of machinery and tools ¢ame next with 33 failures: and total liabilities of $2,249,236. Among the, traders, food stores, clothing stores and furniture stores suffered the heaviest casualties. As a whole the figures show clearly large the persons hit belong to the class of petty capitalists who bridge the gap between the dominant busi- ness interests and the working class, | In Chicago, Feb. 26th CHICAGO, Il, Feb. 9.—The. next issue of the Prolet-Tribune, the Rus- | sian living newspaper of the Chicago Novy Mir Worker Correspondents, will be out Saturday, Feb. 26, pub- lished st the b dige-n eng 1902 West Division St.,. begin at 8 P. M. Admission is 25 cents, }578 liabilities’ compared with 1878) |failures and $36,528,160 liabilities in} that although the totals involved are | Prold-Tribune “Appears t orders sent out by him that again aes compels me to direct your attention A mixed group of labor men and/¢, “the last blunder’ of this incom- those interested in the organized lees atont official.” Bijou Theatre, last Sunday, Feb. 6. | is their o Cont ch as articles and d be sent in for the bu on. next issue of the » Workers’ Point Above all, t workers should n the r the Young .| Workers’ League, and help bring the y to the rest of Pencil Com- nediate demand of, zal. holidays,” 1 cle n more the workers in the . With the im ull pay for all Li e Carpenters’ Strike in San Francisco Not Yet Settled; Officers Talk SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 9.—The carpenters’ strike is still going on here. The union officials, working under strict control by Hutcheson, the reactionary dictator of the union, have been meeting with the contractors, but without an agreement to date. The strike has been in progress April 1, 1926, and is for the closed. shop. bor movement awaited eagerly to} - CURRENT EVENTS hear what the “head” of the A. F. of| L. had to say regarding the burning) | questions that at present confront or-| | ganized labor in America, They ex: {Continued from Page One) | Pected to hear what the successor of) 4,21 is an extremely useful inst | the , Breatest labor leader. of. our! tution to the catholic church and t | time,” Mr, Sam Gompers, as the) the capitalist: government. Fosdic ;wants to foist this bit of 11th cen- tury “modernism” on his flock. * +S |chairman of the meeting put it, | thought about the intensive campaign |that the manufacturers’ association | is waging at presept against the trade! | unions, in their ef. prs smash com- LEEFUL chuckles can be heard | pany “unions.” in Washington and London over | Expected Much. |the reported retreat of the Canton- | The public had all reasons to ex-| ese. It seems the imperialists feel | pect to hear the spokesman of organ-| their nationals quite safe under the ized labor express himself on his at-| tender care of Sun Chuan Fang's titude towards our state department’s| bandits. But their big guns were | stand against Nicaragua, Mexico and| ready to roar when tne armies of | China and the struggie of the Chinese| the nationalist government were ap- | to be. free of the toreign yoke. |proaching. Yet, even the mission- | If the people expected to héar Mr.| aries admit that the Cantonese, thra Green touch upon these subjects —/the Koumintang Party, are the only | Mr. Green’s mind was turned in a| China with a program other than different direction and this is—to| murder and pillage. ‘he capitalists glorify the ideal conditions that the| favor the brigands, Fang and Chang- workers enjoy in this country. He|Tso-Lin, because they are purchas- said that all is well with us; that we|able. ‘hey are hostile to the Can- are better off here than the workers in any European ¢ountry, ascribing these blessings to the “safe and }sane” policy of the A. F, of L. in dealing with the different labor prob- | lems. restore China to the people of Chi They purpose to clear out the for eign imperialist. armies of occupa- | tion and to clean up the native mili- tarists. ke ee | N eight month jail sentence and a $1,000 fine were imposed on a soston publisher for caricaturing ‘¥Yormer mayor James #. Curley in {a eartoon representing a convict with ball and chain and editorializ- Green Is Proud. Mr. Green pointed out with pride that different labor commissions are being sent here from European coun- tries to study our methods as to “how we make it work,” getting such high wages that enable workers to own automobiles. And all this we attained,| ing on the’ mayor’s alleged partiality | he exclaimed, in spite of our oppo-|foy the cup that cheers. The former | sition to independent political action,| mayor once served a jail term, the And here Mr. Green pleaded most elo-| best political investment he ever quently the cause of “rewarding our! made.. While a young man he evad friends and punishing our enemies,”| ed laborious work but spent much and pictured the horrors that would) time in the public library, thus ac- result if organized labor would join|quiring a fair acquaintanceship with | @ labor party movement, | the classics. He also learned enough No Questions Allowed. The meeting was over. great advantage for Mr. Green, as | he, would have a hard job to prove | | his assertions that all the workers in| Curley’s offense was brought to! }this country are getting such high! official notice, a trial followed and} family but little education, 1 * A | wages that the methods used by the! he was sent to the penitentiary on) | A. F. of L, in organizing the work-| Deer Island for a few months. Later! jers deserve to be followed by, the!on, when running for mayor the} workers of other countries, | wily James would plant a hardy! ne ~ wight in the crowd attending his) STATESVILLE, N. C., Feb. 9.—-A' meetings and have him ask the man-hunting mob of 500, armed with) question: “Is it or is not true that) rifles, pistols and shotguns, this; you served a term in jail?” In a} afternoon was surrounding a dense| deep voice that hinted a trace of swamp, near here, searching for John! wistfulness the candidate would first, R. Rector, alleged slayer of his wife.| caution the audience not to slaugh- they were greatly disappointed, as) political group in the history of | tonese because the latter intend to} ter the miscreant and then he would reply: “Yes, it is true that 1 took an examination for a poor man with a large family. It is true that thru my etforts he sggured a position that nabled him ta Manaeate his wife and | little ones in comfort. And it is also true that owing to the machinations fot the blue-stockinged, poodle-pet- ting parasites of the Back Bay | (Boston’s aristocratic colony) Iwas sent to jail. But I am not ashamed of my action, and I would go to jail |any time to help a worthy friend in | need.” * * * By this time the candidate’s elo- quence would be put to the test to save the questioning culprit from the angry crowd. Curley became mayo’ mainly because of a few months | jail. The publisher, who expected excite the populace against a ma. who went to jail for a friend, ha a reputation for never having beat- en his mother or sent his wife out to do washing and in addition could | hoist a stein of beer. with the lads, |is a candidate for an asylum for the feeble-minded. ‘ * | \A/E are so busy trying to clean up | the. stage, magazines and ‘pe- viodicals thac cater to the salacious- | minded, abate the evils that are } preying on our legal institutions— jeniesiy vendors of straw bail—that | we completely overlooked the trou- ties of honest astrologers whose ion has been invaded by |nordes of “pretenders and charlat- |ans who for twenty-five cents will | deliver a ready-made horoscope.” In other words the legitimate fraud will get at least one dollar for what the illegitimate interloper will turn out jout for two bits, Brooks, who is holding the Dr. about arithmetic to enable him to| thin red line for the “genuine” as- No ques-| pass an examination for post office} trologers, wants a law passed that tions were allowed, and this was a clerk, for a friend who ,had a large| would provide for a yearly license | jfee of $25 for those practising as- trology. This would drive the twenty-five center into bootlegging his horoscopes, Dr. Brooks claims that the profes- sion is a social necessity. He says: “Many times we are consulted on marriages—whether a comparison of the prospective bride and shows the union would be a y one.” We suggest that the ; bring his mystic art to the attention ot the Hollywood movie colony: He would be kept as busy there as furniture mover, i