The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1927, Page 3

_ $7.85, and we told him we did not PEONAGE RESULTS IN FIVE MEN BEING JAILED IN TEXAS. Local Officials Helped | Rent Out Boys (Special to The Daily Worker.) | CORPUS CRISTI, Texas, Feb. 15 —Five local officials were convicted] by a jury in the federal court here on the charge of peonage resulting from the ‘hiring of young men to cotton farmers thru arrest for vag-| rancy. | The case grew out of the exper | ience of Leonard, Swanson, 19, a} Washington D. C. college student who was roped in by the local police} authorities in collaboration with the} ‘eotton farmers and forced to work to pay “debts” that he did not owe “I came down from Washington last summer to visit chum Allen Ni- chols, at Galveston,” Swanson testi- fied. “Later we went to Houston. “One day we got an opportunity from a labor agent on the street to! the go down to the Rio Grande Vailey to pick cotton and we decided to ac- cept. There were 52 of us in the car that night. We got off the next morning at Lyford and went out to a farm owned by a man named Mr. Jobnson. Sud Pacifico de Mexico railway. Left First Farm. “We discovered that instead of getting $1.25 per hundred and room and board, that we would have to pay board and room extra. We had no place to sleep except in a shack, so that afternoon about 5 o’clock we decided to leave. There were five of us.” “About two miles beyond Lyford a car droye up and Deputy Hargrove stopped us and said we were going for a ride.” “Did he tell you why you were ar-| rested?” “He said we owed Mr. Catalina Swimmer Jonnson| owe him anything because conditions were not as represented in the agent’s talk to us.” Must Work For Debt. The boy then recounted how he was placed in jail that night, with- out food, and that the next morning,) after black coffee and cornbread,) they were taken downstairs to Jus-! tice Dodd’s office in the court house at Raymondville. | “Who was there?” | “County Attorney Robinson and several deputies.” “What was done?” | “The justice said if we worked) that. $7.50 off everything would be) all right, but if we did not we would be fined $13.70 apiece for vagrancy.” Swanson and others were then sent! to work for a certain Mr. Burnett. | McDonald Embarrassed _ By Labor Leaders’ Aid To Pilsudsky’s Victims: hen geRe ya Hanne rig LONDON, Feb. 13—Ramsay Mac- | of @ beauty shop, mother of an eleven- Donald, leader of the independent la- | year-old boy, is the first woman to bor party, has suffered great embar- |SWim Catalina Channel, California. WASHINGTON (FP).—Unaware that the administration was to ae-| flate them by calling for further naval disarmament, the 100;delegates of 20 organizations of women who defend a dig army and navy and denounce pacifists and liberals of all kinds, met in the D. A. R. auditorium in the rassment over the activity of a dele- How many textile worker mothers THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1927 MEXICAN TROOPS GUARD TRAINS AFTER WRECK The Yaqui insurrection, timed to aid risings farther south, is practically suppressed, but wandering bands occasionally blow up bridges. photo shovs Mexican infantry in a steel gondola attached to a train, to drive away such bands, WOMEN MILITARISTS MEET AND HURL INVECTIVE AT ALL RADICALS; WANT BIG ARMY AND NAVY; TEACH LADIES BEST WAY TO BE LABOR SPIES| ACCEPT OFFICES capital on Feb, 9-11. ) Literature distributed free at the | doors included propaganda for bigger | appropriations for the army, the navy |and military training in schools and | camps, as well as anti-radical pamph- jlets and documents issued by the | American legion lobbyist, John Thomas Taylor, against the poison- | gas abolition treaty. | Even Rosalsky! | One pamphlet handed ott was en- titled “La Follette, Socialism, Com- | munism,” by R. M. Whitney, and con- | tained an index of radical organiza- tions and individuals. These latter in- cluded the American Association for Labor Legislation, American Civil | Liberties Union, Farmers’ National Council, Federal Council of Churches, | Fellowship of Reconciliation, Foreign | Policy Association, Institute of Eco- | nomies, People’s Legislative Service, | League of Woman Voters, League for | Industrial Democracy, National Popu- |Government Research, Women’s In- | ternational League for Peace and | Freedom, and Zionist Oragnization of | America. bd | How to Detect. | A press statement handed out at the doors consisted of suggestions by jernment, on “how to detect socialist | propaganda, and those engaged in it, |who in order to make progress must resort to deception.” These disguised socialists, it ap- |lar Government League, Institute of | Miss Hermine Schwed of the National | Association for Constitutional Gov-| The top photo shows a train wreck caused by blowing up | a ‘amall bridge on the Corral-Tonichi Bey line of the clerical counter-revolutionary up- The lower FLOWERS, CHEERS, AS PROGRESSIVES Left Wing Fur Workers Congratulate I. L. G. W. On a platform banked with flowers, the recently elected officers of Locals 2, 3, 9 and 35, of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ union were formally installed on Saturday after- |noon, at Manhattan Lyceum, by C. S. 4immerman, manager of the dress de- partment who represented the Joint Board. The meeting was conducted by the Shop Chairmen’s Council ‘which had supervised the elections, and I. Brauner, chairmian of the council pre- sided. Joyful Occasion. It was an ‘enthusiastic celebration, with the hall filled to capacity, and }as Joseph Boruchowitz, of Local 2. | Joseph Goretzky of Local 35, A. Zir- lin of Local 9 and Abe Krauth of Lo- eal 3 spoke, after they had been in- ducted into the office of manager, | each expressed the hope that the next installation proceedings would be that of left Wing president of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ union, Furriers Congratulate. Wreaths and baskets of flowers were sent by the New York Joint Board of the Fur Workers union; the T. U. E. L. of Local 2; the T. U. E. L. of Local 22; the office staff of Local 2; the office staff of the dress de- Chairmén’s Council; Local 22; the partment of the Joint Board: the Shop | have ‘this much strength left after a ti f f gation of four members of the labor few yeutn 4h the ‘Saills? party who recently visited Poland, os- tensibly to make an impartial in- | vestigation, but were accused upon} their return of having carried on Com- | munistie work while in Poland. Two members of the delegation, A. ” . 4 Shepherd and J. Beckett, both Labor Their Organization M. P.’s, applied through MacDonald | to the Polish minister in London for | Over two hundred young men and facilities to study conditions in Po-| women, both whites and Negroes met land, which were readily given to them | yesterday in a Douglas-Lincoln mem- on MacDonald’s recommendation. | orial meeting at the International | They are alleged to have lent aid and House, 500 Riverside Drive, and took relief to workers in Pilsudsky’s pris-| part in the open forum discussion on ens. |“Youth and the Negro Problem.” MacDonald is said to be infuriated| The discussion was lead by A. G. about this alleged breach of confi-| Dill, managing editor of The Orisis, dence, and will try to have the two | and was followed up by Devere Allen, men expelled from from the labor party. editor of The World Tomorrow, and | Alain Locke. Coa st Guar d Seize 4 | Representatives from other Negro $250,000 in Booze -organizations, the intercollegiate club SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18. — A of New York City made up of groups of Negro students, and the Young Peo- | ples’ Fellowship, took the floor and stressed the necessity of a closer and Sine ack syle p Peril bake stronger Negro organization. at approximately $250,000 was seized Sree eee today by a coast guard cutter off) Hunter’s Point in San Franciaco| Diesel Engineers Ask Coincident | with the seizure, the | More Pay; ines Run cutter frustrated what is believed to, By The Federated Pregs.) have been an attempt to hi-jack the guch special training ig required to poe ‘ operate diesel engines that the Ocean | Awsociation of Marine Engineers asks the U. §, Shipping Board to pay a} New York’s Negroes Aim to Strengthen Read the ‘BOLSHEVIK’ A DRAMA IN PLAY FORM written on the American style by Leon Hausman Author and Playwright =~ Per Copy at $1.10 to Leon Hausman “Bolshevik” Pom: ‘oftice Box 187, Hilanbeth, a Ro of “Bole ‘engmeers’ scale, for diesel’ men. Th |shipping board is introducing more of these motorships buf pays only |tive and ten dollars over the old rate for the new work. The union points ‘out that an engineer with a chief's li- 4) cense cannot step aboard a motorship ‘unless inc haz passed the most rigid ‘examination, Motorships need less {than half of ‘the engine-room force ‘required on coal burning ships. hy caval A special feistbing a? the Inter- national Branch, 6-A, will be held on Monday, Feb. 14, under the a copy in ‘omelish for the present. ‘Trainsintions may be had mt a Inter date. On und after Maren (16th, 1027, SHOLSTEVEG! | wi A vntionad ine role, advises oo 5 Mr, tehde to play ‘the vite Mi ide ugintance to first read uthor is finding: t HOUSE Tee “BOL, bp YN lla ta joult to trial democracy, democratic. control,|the workers in the shops of Eisen- | prouction for service, ‘public owner- | stein & Hyman, Lapkin & Billing, and peared, included advocates of indus-| Progressive Italians of Local 89; and | | differential of 25 over the reguler, | ship, freedom of speech, peace by way of disarmament, and prison reform—- “tending to undermine discipline, au- thority and punishment for crime. Also certain occult spiritist and fad movements. on the order of psycho- analysis, many of which are influ- enced by the radiacls.” Don't Dare Laugh! Detectors are assured by this docu- ment that red socialism ‘is all the core of all who criticize the supreme court and ‘the electoral college, or who “try | to ridicule those who believe in ‘the old ‘standards, by pasting on them | labels like ‘reactionary,’ ‘imperialistic,’ | ‘Chauvinistie, ‘eapitalistic? and the Mike, beeause the New Republic and the Nation set the fashion.” Asst. Secy. of War McNider made a speech, denouncing the anti-mili- tavists forthe deaths of American soldiers killed in 1917 when they were not fully trained for the world war. | Nider, “is walking hand in hand, integrity of our government.” -Seeretary of the Navy Wilbur de- {elared the money spent on the navy could well be taken from the schools, sinee the navy was “the greatest edu- cational institution in the world.” | Civil Liberties Union Wins Right to Hearing The American Civil Liberties Union won a round over the New York Board of Education when Supreme Court Justice Gavegan »signed an or- der requiring the board to grant the) union a hearing upon its application to use high school auditoriums fo free-speech meetings. The Liberties Union has been fight- ing «since ‘last May for equal right) with other organizations for the use of the school auditoriums, Last May, its scheduled meeting at Mt. Morris High School was stopped ‘and in June another at Stuyvesant High School, The board aid it diseriminated against the union because of ‘its “Wail and Walk.” | : “The wailing pacifiest,” said Mac- | with those who would tear down the | | deliberate Goldberg & Hurowitz. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. Workers Prepared for Weisbord’s Columbus Speech by Big Debate COLUMBUS, ‘Ohio, Feb. 13.—Con- siderable interest is developing among | the workers here about the coming of Albert Weisbord to speak here, Wed- nesday, Feb. 16, 8 p. m., at Old Ma- sonic Cathedral. Communist lecturers will find the ground partially prepared by a de- bate which District Organizer I. Ampter ‘held ‘here with Major B. F. Dukewell a few weeks ago, on the question: “Is the Communist Program a Necessity fot Human Progress?” Shows Contradictions. Ampter ‘told of the inherent con- | tradictions in capitalism, described the League of Nations’ function in the modern world as a predatory but in- | effective weapon for capitalism, and pointed out the use the capitalist lead- ers make of such anti-social activities as war, the Ford speed-up system, and | unemployment to keep | themselves in power. Nothing New. The major provided the usual, and ancient, arguments ‘thet capitalism is fine, and only needs a little reform- ing, that Communism is likely to keep people from working as hard as they | should, and that Russia is a horrible place, which last point he blostered up with quotations from white guard and renegade socialist books. Gitlow Talks on Right And Left In Unions and Imperialism in Boston BOSTON,—-Benj. Gitlow will speak here on Sunday, February 20, at 2 p. m, in Victory Hall, 841 Dwight St., on “Imperialism and Labor.” On the same day he will speak at 8 p. m. for “radicalism.” Samuel U: er is representing the Liberties organiza- tion in its present court move. Subsetibe far ‘The DAILY WORKER. ° . ) the Workmen’s Educational Institute of Roxbury, on “Right and Left Wing in the Labor Movement.” Page Three RAKOS! PROCESS AGAIN IN COURT; TO DEFEND SELF Hungerian Co Comrades to| Demand Freedom | (Continued from Page One) honest intellectuals succeeded in pre- venting the carrying. out of this plan | at the Jast moment. Then came the main process before a normal court. Trial Stirs Country. This process and the heroic attitude | of our comrades before the court | made a tremendous impression both | upon the oppr d and isolated work- | ing class of Hungary and upon the| working class of the whole world. Ra- kosi, Oeri, Haman, Goegoes and | Weinberger fought in the shadow of | the gallows for the freedom of the Communist Party of Hungary, for the Communist International and for the Soviet Union. Their attitude was the greatest ‘revoluationary propaganda in the history of pc al processes of recent years. The judges attempted | in vain to crush the spirit of the ac- cused by disciplinary. punishments, | }but they were unable to abolish the propagandistie effect of the process. | The process had a tremendous po- litical effect in Hungary. Terrorist to be Trial Judge. As far as can be seen the proceed- ings during the appeal will not be merely formalities. The proceedings will take place under the leadership of the president of the court of ap- peal, Gado, one of the most infamous judges of the white terror who sen-| tenced the accused to death during | the white terror without any reason | at the order of the government. | Drunk With New Power. * | The Rakosi process has already cost | the Bethlen government two defeats. | The protest of the international work- | ing class and the propaganda before the court through which Rakosi and | his comrades worked for the Com- munist Party of Hungary, were very bitter pills for the Bethlen govern-| ment. Druken with its election vic- tory, the government now wishes to revenge itself for the defeat it suf- | fered.’ The appeal is taking place in a situation in which the Bethlen gov- | ernment has been internally strength- | ened and externally it is justified in| its reactionary hopes. It proposes to open en offensive against the whole Hungarian working class movement. Will Stand Firm. The Hungarian government, how- ever, does not intend to satisfy itself with the attempt to terroize Comrade Rakosi with the bloodhound Gado. Ac- cording to newspaper reports the proseeutor is preparing an indictment of Rakosi, the people’s commissar, and thus preparing for the “actual Rakosi process” in which he will be | accused amongst other things of 283 murders dating from the time of the Soviet Republic. This trial will be an absolutely separate process deal- ing only with his activity before he} left Hungary. This ‘means that Ra- kosi will énce again stand in the! shadow of the gallows. This’ threat is intended to induce Rakosi to mod- erate his tone. There is, however, no doubt that the accused Communists will conduct themselves at the appeals | as they did at the main process. Proletariat Must Protest. Once again the proletarian masses | of all countries and all the opponents of the white terror must unite in pro- | test to defend Rakosi and his comrades against the murderous intentions of the Hungarian government. The real | defense of this process lies in the hands of the international proletariat. | Tortured, Dies in Prison, One of the accused, the shoemaker Peter Nemet, who was accused of participation in the congress of the Hungarian Communist Party, will not appear before the court of appeal. | | | The reason for this is that he is dead. | Comrade Nemet who was a tom-| mander of the Red Army in Soviet Russia and one of the first to receive | the Order of the Red Flag at the) hands of the Soviet government, was | fearfully tortured after his arrest in! Hungary by the minions of Bethlen. As a consequence of the tortures to which he was subjected he became seri- ously ill and died about a week ago | without having received any medicel | treatment whatever. The authorities did not even inform his relatives of j his death. The repeated request of | Nemet that he should be released in order to receive medical treatment was regularly rejected by the authorities despite the fact that he had already | served more than half his sentence. The leader of the franc forgers, Prince Windischgraetz, however, is staying at one of the best sanatoria in Buda- | pest. | | Heretic Bishop ‘Speaks March 6 in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES.--A change has) been made in the date of Bishop Brown’s lecture here for the Tnter-| national Labor Defense. He will spenk| at Trinity Auditorium Sunday eve- ning, March 6. Other places and) dates will be announced later, REL ILM Buy Your DAILY WORKER \ | Woolen Company and other | meeting, for they neither complained | Peter Kropotkin. The meeting w presided over by Comrade Wilh | berg. who introduced the’ vorio speakers. | Phone Girl's Testimony Hits Daugherty TOR Gladys Weeks and Elizabeth ‘Miller Department of Justice telephone operators, Were gov at the conspiracy trial of Harry ernment surprise witnesses M. Daugherty, former Attor- ney General, and Colonel Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, in New York. They testified to fre» quent telephone calls between Daughe rly and the late Jesse King, Daugherty’s “right hand Soviet Russia Gives More Land to Jewish | Additional American aid for the colonization of Jews in Soviet Rus- sia is solicited in a cablegram re- ceived from Moscow yesterday by the “Icor,” a local organization as- sisting in the work of settling Jews on land. The cablegram sent by the “Ozet” (Colonization Society) of Moscow reads in part: “The government has just al- lowed new tracts of land for Jewish colonists. For the cultivation of this land we must have an addi-. tional $500,000 above the budget for the current year. Cable what sum you will be able to forward.” The “Icor” is carrying on a cam- | paign for the creation of ‘the neces- sary funds. Lawrence Mill Owners ‘And Mayor’s Committee Confer Without Result By SAMUEL BRAMHALL. LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 12.—The | conference of mill-men and the Lawr- | ence special industrial commission took place here with the unsatisfac- tory results that were foretold in this paper about a week ago. The public | was allowed at the meeting, but given no chance to take part in the proceed- | ings. Edwin Farnum Greene, treas- uver of the Pacific Mills was the only one that spoke at great length, while | the representatives of the American miner | concerns spoke very briefly. Issue Lost Sight Of. The strange part of the whole pro- ceedings was that ihe manufacturers | entirely ignored the ‘purpose of the | of their tax burden, the hours of la- bor, nor did they ‘even admit that there was any depressions so far as they were concerned. Mayor Expectant. Mayor Rochefort and his commis- sion were all primed up to listen to these giants of industry divulge some great plan for improving business and filling up the thousands of idle tene- ments and empty stores that exist here. Instead, they were told ‘to try /and run the city’s affairs more eco- |momically and to hire an efficiency | expert, if deemed advisable. After two hours of hemming and | hawing, some person out of the audi- ence attempted to address themf but he was choked off by ‘the mayor and | the meeting adjourned with nothing more coming out of it than has just | been stated” The mountain labored and brought férth a mouse, Commiemorate ‘Kropotkin’s Career aud Death By ALEXANDER POTOSKY. (Worker Correspondent) About 200 workers asse: ternational Center, 149 FE street, to commemorate the death of Kropotkin’s life was reviewed brief biographical sketches, his Maticns and imprisonment in the ious capitalistic countries for his ac tivity in the labor movement. Harry Kelly, who was very intimate with Kropptkin during the latter's stay in London; Hippolyte Horel, edi ‘tor of the Road to Freedom, while David Nicol and Mrs. Shapiro told of| | Kropotkin’s cooperation with the Soviet government after the over- throw of the Czars’s regime. Etter the meeting everyone was asked to view a statue df Kropotkin, which had been made for the occasion ‘by Comrade Seitlin. to these advertise- ve et it There will at the Newsstand . “a musical program, questi ‘satter'the Webeire. I tn cee | dustry,” said Sherman. ;agent of the Furriers’ | peared, wild applause broke out. Sne | ize the women. man,” WORKING CLASS: HOUSEWIVES B00 JUDGE ROSALSKY Agree to Organise for Cloakmakers’ Victory (Continued from Page One) “Women and men must together work unitedly for the betterment of their conditions.” Tells Women to Organize. When Fannie Warshafsky, business Union, ap- told the women to hold fast and ‘or- ganize with their husbands for the release of the arrested cloakmakers. No injunctions, nor even. inquisitions can scare the needle trade workers. They have struggled too much to give up. Sigman was booed all along. A resolution was passed condemn- ing Judge Rosalsky’s actions and de® | manding immediate unconditional re- the arrested cloakmakers. Not a Social Club. Kate Gitlow, the secretary of the United Council of Working Class Houswives of New York City, told of the work the councils were doing to help the cloakmakers, and to ‘organ- “Every struggle gets our support,” she said. “The Pas- saic strike, paper box strike, turriers and cloakmakers. We are not a mu- tual aid organization where women gather to discuss socials, but we are working women concerned in the bat- tle of the labor movement.” “Religious Duty” Another speaker was the wife of Joseph Turetsky, one of the cloak strikers who is serving a severe sen- tence in the penitentiary as a result of Judge Kosaisky’s methods of dis- pensing justice. Mrs. ‘iuretsky came with her little girl to tell the other women about a letter she had received from her husband. He said that soon after he reached his prison cell a rabbi was sent to him and to the other cloakmakers to try to persuade them it was their rellgious duty to give information that one of the joint board officials had sent them to ‘the picket lines where they were arrested and had instructed them to commit illegal acts. Turetsky Refuses, “My husband refused to say any such thing”, said Mrs, Turetsky. “He absolutely refuses be a squeele: and I stand with hith.” There was loud applause of end” speech, and Mrs. Turetsky will be urged to join the women’s committee which has been appointed to eortinue the agitation for release of the cloak . 3, and \hich will visit their lies and see that they are taken lease otf cure of, ' Resolution Mentions Sigman, , The resolution, which was présent- xs. W. Hartlieb of the United of Working Class House- and was unanimotisly adopted veting, read: \hereas, the 16 cloakmakers were vey loug sentences for carrying on © acivities; ‘ ad whereas, Sigman and the rd machine are responsible for » unheard-of terms. therefore resolved, that this lled by the United Couneil ng Class Housewives, ‘the Closkmakers’ Housewives Council, and the Joint Board of the Cloak and. Dressmakers Union, protests against the sentences of Judge Rosalsky; And be it further resolved, that this mecting protests’ against the Sigman and Forward acts of betrayal which are aiming to destroy the workers’ union. And we further resolve, that we demand that Sigman keep his hands off the Cloak and Dressmakers Union , and that this meeting demands im- mediate release of the 16 strikers and ‘fight for will do all in its power to their freedim. aida) iA i \