The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER » FEBRUARY 14, 1927 LETTER HINDERS DUAL UNIONISM OF SCHACHTMAN Frayne Shelves “Greek | Brotherhood” et Evidently the letter from the New| York Joint Board of the Furriers’ un-| fon, charging the American Federa- | tion of Labor officials with fostering | dual unionism, made them pause in| their job of openly violating the con-| stitution of the International Fur Workers’ union by chartering a local ef fur workers outside ‘the jurisdic- tion of the Joint Board. | It is learned that this letter arrived on Friday just a few moments before | the opening of the conference between | representatives of the International, the A. F. of L. and the Greek Broth- | erhood where they were to settle the matter of handing a charter to the company union, which the Joint Board had brought to the point. of voluntary dissolution before the interfererice of the International. Tales Don't Jibe. Aguinaldo Denounced By Student for His MANILA, Feb. 12.—General Emilio Aguinaldo, who has opposed Manuel Quezon in his championship of Filipino independence, was bit- terly denounced at a student demon- stration last night. The demonstration followed an attack by Aguinaldo on Quezon's policies. Aguinaldo has supported Governor-General Wood's policies and is helping to make the Philip- pines safe for American rubber in- vestors. POLISH GABINET MAY FAIL; SEJM New Budget Rejected | By Middle Parties RAPS PILSUDSKY Yhe wants to wait until the question of | Following the conference, the In-| ternational officials and Mr. Hugh Frayne, who had represented the A./|Pilsudski’s cabinet in the near future F. of L,, told two different stories as |i; regarded as likely as the result of to what had happened; and the Greek | the Sejm’s attack on the budget bill | Brotherhood.. which heretofore has jn its second reading, Every estimate been very talkative about all its plans submitted in the bill was considerably and actions, refused to say anything! reduced or completely rejected by the at all. P. Stylianides, spokesman for | Sejm. the Brotherhood, said, “He did not} ‘The estimates submitted by the want to get things mixed up”; and|Foreign Office and by the ministers the report is that other members of|of Posts and Telegraphs, who is a the conference forced a promise of! personal friend of Pilsudski's, were silence from him. |completely rejected. The Nationalists Dodging Issue. jand Middle Parties voted - solidly Judging by what everyone did not against the Foreign Office budget. say, and by well authenticated | rumors, it is certain that the question tempt to shelve his ministers and as- of taking the Greek Brotherhood into! sume complete dictatorial powers de- the International Fur Workers’ union | spite the fact that the deputies re- has been shelved for the present—/gard today’s action as a protest perhaps indefinitely—to avoid a show- | against Premier Pilsudski rather than down now on the matter of the \against his ministers. Brotherhood’s contract with the Greek | ed manufacturers, and on the question of | . dual unionism which was raised by Open Shop Paid Well the Joint Board. | According To Schachtman. | But There Was More According to Ozier Schachtman, | president of the International Fur | To It Than He Thot Workers’ union, the Brotherhood was granted affiliation with the Inter-| CHICAGO, Feb. 13 ae national a month ago at the execu- Ages hele Re sar Met sores Dieu tive board meeting in Montreal. “All| ™@? ina Los Angeles pring that remains now is the procedure by | he’s back in Chicago where men are which the Greek workers shall be|™en and not crazed victims of open- taken into membership. To arrange | Shop speedups. x ¢ these details a committee of the fed-| That. sums up the experience o A eration has been appointed to work! member of Local 3, ‘ International with a committee of the Internation-| Frinting Pressmen’s union. Tiring of al.” The question of the Greek con-| Steady uneventful employment. under tract, he seys, is “a’ minor detail | union conditions in Chicago, he fliv- which can be worked out.” |vered to southern California. ': He Frayne Grows Cautious. | found most of the pressrooms in Los Organizer Hugh Frayne was loath | Angeles openshop, though no particu- to give any information alfout the | iar objection was made to his carry-| conference at ‘all, and simply stated | ing a card. He was surprised to have that. no definite decision was yet | work offered him at $7 a week above ready to be announced. It is believed the scale. i But when he took it he was still the graft charges in connection with more surprised. He had to keep dash- the furriers’ strike has been settled, | ing from one press to another most and such embarrassing matters as of the day, At the end of the week Mr, Eitingon’s statement about the he figured that his $7 extra had saved attempted bribery have blown over,| the boss about $126 extra in wages. before he takes another’ step which! At the end of another week he. was is bound to involve him in endless It is believed that Pilsudski will at-| difficulties, | Greeks Resent Action. Infuriated by the action of the In-/} ternational officials and the American Federation of Labor in connection, with this whole Brotherhood matter, the Greek branch of the Joint Board is calling a general membership meet- | ing this week to discuss the question. | The committee of the Greek branch, | John Pappas and George Arvanetes,| who signed the letter sent to the, American Federation of Labor, will) take up with the members the propo-| sition of tackling this problem of the! Greek Brotherhood and will show how the union officials broke off the pos-| sible chance of dissolving the Greek | company union. Matty Scolds Motty. } It is announced that Matthew Woll, | acting president of the National Civic Federation who headed the American! Federation of Labor's committee of | investigation of the fur strike, has) sent a letter to Mr. Motty Eitingon, | fur merchant, asking him to name the man who asked him for money to stop mention of his name in the com- | mittee’s report. | Mr, Woll ignores the fact that Mr. Eitingon’s statement said he had pledged himself not to reveal the identity of the man who approached him. However, just what the fur merchant’s reply will be is not yet known since, when questioned, she stated that Mr. Woll’s letter had not yet reached him, Roll in the Subs “or The DAILY WORKER. nearly a wreck, doing 3 men’s work. Then he sold the Ford for $50 and eame back to Chicago. Work in a@ pressroom under union conditions looks sweet to him now. Training Course, fo Co-operators Starts April 18th in N. Y, C. A new departure in cooperative de- velopment, and one of great signifi- | cance, appears if the announcement | which is made from the office of the Eastern States Cooperative League that a full time training school is te be conducted in New York from April 18th to May 28th. The school will be directed by H. V. Nurmi, veteran cooperative account- ant and teacher from the nogth cen- tral states. The course in bookkeep- ing and accounting will be given by Mr. Nurmi; the course in cooperative management and administration, by Cedric Long, executive secretary of the Cooperative League; and the course in history and principles of cooperation by several instructors, among whom will be Henry Askeli, educational director of the Finnish Cooperative Educational Institute of Brooklyn. Other special lecturers will be Dr. | James P. Warbasse, Solon Leon (Rand School of Social Scien), A. J. 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Ward, president | of the Ward Bakery Company and | the American Dairy Products Com-| | pany, will not be in court today when} trial is held on a $75,000 damage suit | |for the killing of Clarence Peters, some five years ago in Westchester ! County. He will be away in far-off Cuba | living in his palatial residence at the Country Club Park near Havana. He} will possibly not even think of it; while he is speculating as to which| | will be the right horse to lay his bet | upon. | Sued For $75,000. | Meanwhile in far off New York City | there is the father of a murdered} victim suing him for $75,000 damages | \for the loss of his son. The,amount| |of the sum will not worry him, for he} plays that much any day when the/ } WARSAW, Feb. 13.—The fall of;race track is within his reach, and! |for an organ to be installed at his |palace, he spends the like amount. |. No, it is not the sum which i8 keep- |ing him a fugitive from justice but | the principle involved in the case. | | For if the court recognizes the! damage suit then it becomes evidence | {that Ward actually did kill Peters, | which fact could not be proven during |his trial for murder. | Fled’ From Suit, | This suit for damages was started | \last May, but was not carried through | because Ward at that time “disap- |peared” and could not be served with ‘a notice to appear in court. How-| ‘ever, detectives trailed him from race track to race track and have found jout now that Ward has become a} | resident of Cuba and cannot be forced | |to appear. His wife and brother have | been subpoenaed to come to court and te face the parents of the young | Ward's victim. | F Suit Goes On. The prosecuting attorney stated {that irrespective of the defendant’s absence the trial will be held. He jalso said that the very fact of Ward jmot appearing in court, would influ. | pressed confidence that the suit’ will {be won. ‘Sigman-Beckerman Gang Attempt - Disorganizing Of Anti-Fascist Group Is the Sigman and Beckerman group | making the needle trades unions safe | | for fascism? Every indication seems | to point toward such an aim. He has; just attempted a split in the anti-fa- | seist ranks. | The facts in this case are that a |group of members from the Anti- Yascisti Alliance of America has se- ceeded from that organization and has | started to form a new group to be known as the Anti-Fascisti Federa- tion of North America. The secession- \ists are mostly members of the Ital- jian section of the Amalgamated | Clothing Workers and of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ ‘union, which are known to be under the control of Sigman and Beckerman. The reason given for the break and the formation of the new federation is that the “alliance is controlled by the Communist Party seeking the | overthrow of fascism for the purpose (of instituting Communism.” This is not theeaim of the federa- | tiow, which insists on the principle of “democracy” and advocates the over- throw of fascism “to establish a demo- cratic republican form of government in Italy.” The belief expressed by members of the Anti-Fascisti Alliance is that | Sigman and Beckerman are the spon- | sors of the new organization and that (the new federation’s main activity | will be to try and restore the regime ‘of reactionary leadership, and that its | effort to deal with fascism will be to | introduce its principle in the needle | trades unions. |International Womeg’s ‘Day Has Good Speakers March 8, the international Women’s Holland Helps Germany Finance Deliveries of Goods to the U. . 8. R. Dutch capital is participating in the German credit of 300,000,000 | marks for financing of deliveries of goods to Russia, according to the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging, in its monthly review. The Dutch share in this credit amounts to 30,- 000,000 florins. Holland’s participation in the scheme is notable because Holland did not recognize the Soviet govern- ment de jure up till now. 2 DISARMAMENT 1S AN ARGUMENT FOR BUTLER HASTENS TO DISAVOW.OWN CANDIDACY PLAN Billionaires’ Dinner Rebuke to Him Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- | dent of Columbia University, is not a candidate for the republican nomina- | tion for president in 1928, a state- ment issued by him today declares. In making the statement, Dr. But- ler pointed out that -his- recent re- marks at a political gathering were | interpreted by a portion of the press | and public to the effegt that he was| seeking the nomination. Bawled Out Coolidge. Butler had stated that Coolidge was | | the Northwest. | too sensible to think he could win if \he ran for the presidency again, Wad LARGER NAVY M ve | turthermore, if the republican party | won next time, it would have to have esi a wet as its leader. | “Must Build Ships to |_ Immediately after this speech of | Be Able to Trade” Butler's, politicians and big business men worth $5,000,000,000 gathered in _ the biggest banquet hall in Washing- WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Fear of | ton, with Coolidge as the guest of a possible impasse in President Cool-| honor. By many this was taken as idge’s proposal for the further limi-| a direct rebuke to Butler, and Butler | tation of naval armaments stimulated |as though accepting it in that sense, | the American cruiser building pro- | now hastens to assure all and sundry gram in congressional circles today. | that he didn’t mean to substitute him- It was indicated that the fight to! begin construction on at least three light cruisers will be renewed with vigor during the week. It was ex- plained, however, that congress will enact any legislation in such a way self for Coolidge. “Merely Private.” He asserts he set forth his opin- | ions merely as a private citizen and that when he discussed Coolidge’s | third term candidacy and prohibition, as to leave to the discretion of the he had no inclination towards the nom- president the actual start of construc- tion operations. : Rumanian Police Will Permit Union Meet If | It Will Support Pinks BUCHAREST, Jan. 21 (By Mail). —In connection with the planned con- gress of the Unitarian trade unions, | the general director of the Roumanian | Siguranza» (secret police) Voinesku, informed Ghempet, the secretary of the unions in Bucharest officially that official permission would be given for the congress should it agree to af-! shop, but | ence the jury against him and ex-/filiate the unions to the Amsterdam|G. | International. All over the country | jmembership meetings of the Unitar- | \ian unions have declared against any | | affiliation to the Amsterdam Inter- | national. Pani Sails from Mexico| ‘To Argue American Oil | Imperialists Into Quiet | MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13.—An at- tempt to placate American oil mag- nates will be made by Alberto J. Pani, former finance minister, who is leav- | ling for New York, officially author- | ized to confer with them. The con-| ferences have been arranged through the intercession of J. P. Morgan & Co. Pani’s mission represents a move on the part of the conservative fac- tion of Mexico’s Jabor government to| reach a settlement with the American | joil companies. Pani’s report may j bring about a crisis within the Mexi-) can cabinet since the Ministry of In- |dustry, Commerce and Labor stands for the enforcement of the petroleum laws of 1925. The meeting between Pani and the oil interests has been arranged by J. |P. Morgan & Co, and Blair & Co. The latter has invested heavily in the Pan-American Eastern Petroleum and Transport Company. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. SOME COMPLICATIONS. | CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—The tangled | matrimonial affairs of Robert Ames, | stage star, and his bride of five days, | Muriel Oakes, New York society girl, are due for further complications to- | morrow. | Complieation No. 1.—Helen Lam- bert, pretty night club hostess, who claims Ames was to have married her | Oakes, will bring into the Superior | Court here a number of love notes and | ardently signed photographs to es-| tablish a foundatiom for her $200,000 | breach of promise suit against him. | Complication No. 2.-Ames’ former | |Day, will he fittingly celebrated by ) the workers of New York in Central Opera House, 67th Street and 3rd Avenue, on March 8, 1927 at 8 p. m. Tn addition to a fine program of music and songs many leaders of the labor movement, Comrade M. J. Olgin, W. Weinstone, general secertary of the Workers Party Distriet 2, Fanny War- shafsky of the Furriers’ union, Rose Wortis of the Dressmakers union, Kate Gitlow of the United Councils of the Working Class Housewives, will address the meeting. Admission is 25c. Tickets can be obtained at 108 East 14th Street. Bring your shopmate along. Stabs Doctor To Death. Dr. Caspar Pendola, 25-year-old Brooklyn physician, was stabbed to death with a carving knife this after- noon by Frank Carueo after the lat- ter's six-year-old boy, Joseph, had died of diphtheria, Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. wife, Miss Vivienne Segal of the | “Castle in the Air” company, will pe-| tition the Supdérior Court to reopen | their divorce case and order the actor | to pay her alimony. | Nominate Chinese to Stand for Parliament For British Workers LONDON, Feb. 13. — English “Communists have recevtly nomin- ated a Chinese by the name of Fing So as their candidate for parlia- ment from the District Holberden, in London. Fing So was born in Hong Kong, an English seaport, and is there- fore considered as an English citi- zen. He was a revolutionary so- cialist in his youth among the Chinese seaport workers in Hong Kong. He organized the Kuomun- tang in London, ination and does not propose to have any such intention. j “For more than a generation we) have fallen into the habit of leaving public discussion of political principles and policies almost exclusively to of- fice-holders and candidates for office. | The result is that when a private citizen discusses public questions he is almost certain to excite suspcion that does so because of desire for political preferment. “Not Fortunate.” “This is not a fortunate cireum- stance. In my youthful days we flocked to hear the discussion of pub- lic questions by men like Wendell Phillips Henry Ward Beecher, Robert Ingersoll and President Eliot of Harvard University without ever sus- pecting that they were offering them- selves as candidates for governor, senator or president.” Religious Fanatics Nearly Starve Woman To Drive Out Devils BRIDGEWATER, S. D., Feb. 13.— Exorcism, practiced on a dying wo- man near here by a strang religious cult, may bring a legal action, it was announced today by Sheriff J. C. Hin- dricks. ’ ; | Mrs. John J. Wollam was possessed | of devils, her husband reported to the cult leaders,’ and he wanted them driven out. Tied Her Down. The leaders of the faith proceeded then to tie Mrs, Wollam in bed. There, bound hand and foot and unable to move, she was denied any kind of nourishment for three days. Unable to protect herself, and hard- ly able to protest, she was forced to lie there while the cult members knelt by her side and prayed, and then west into strange gyrations which » were supposed to drive the fiendish devils from her body. About the only thing that happened, it was said, was to make her hungry. Food would feed the devils it was said and prevent them from leaving the body. Mob Threatened. Threats of mob law were heard, when frignds and neighbors found her | tied in bed. This feeling has to a cer- | tain extent died down now, but Sher- iff Hindricks, who has just completed his investigation of the matter said that in all probability some form of legal action will follow. She will probably be in proper physical condition by Monday or "Tuesday to decide whether or nét she |on the very day he eloped with Miss | Wishes to take the mdtter to court. Hungarian Royalist Uniforms His Court; | Ready for Crowning. e BERLIN, Feb. 13.—The first steps toward providing a i¢ for the! “royal republic” of Hungary are re- ported in a Budapest paper which | claims that Archduke Friedrich has | placed an order with one of the best | known tailors in Budapest for several hundred uniforms for court officials. He is said to have placed this order | for his own Albrecht, who is a rival | for the throne of Otto, son of former | Empress Zita. Youth and Imperialism | At Bronx Labor Forum. On Sunday, Feb. 20, the Bronx | Workers’ Youth Open Forum will be | addressed by Carl Weissberg, on the | subject, “Youth and American Im- perialism.” The lecture will be fol- lowed by questions and discussion. The meeting starts at 8 p. m., at 1347 Boston Road, near 169th St. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. ne, Centralia Jurors Ask For Release of Those They Sent to Prison | | SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 13 move has been started to rele the Centralia’ victims now incarcer- ated at the Walla Walla peniten- tiary, for defending the I. W. W. Hall in Centralia in 1919. A group of jurymen who convicted the de- fendants in 1920, have sent a pe- tition to Governor Hartley, stating that they have every reason to be- lieve that the men did not have a fair trial, that much of the prosecu- | tion’s evidence is disputable, and that it is ‘their opinion now that these men should be freed. The Centralia affair was a most atrocious attack waged against the I. W. W. by the lumber trust of The men were at their hall when a group of Ameri- can Legionnaires, armistice parade, detached itself from the main column, and attacked in their hall. One of Warren Grimm, was shot and died of his wounds. The hall was captured. That night they dragged Wes- ley Everest, one of the men who had been arrested in the meantime, from the jail, mutilated him, and then lynched him. Eight of the men were later convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to serve from 25. to 40 years in the penitentiary. marching in an Lots of Graft Found In New Jersey State Troop Organization! ‘Whole- sale graft among } ” state troopers, and their violation of disci- | pline through extortions is compell- | ing a rigid investigation into the con- duct of the state police. According | to reports seven state troopers were! dismissed, and another ten: will be reduced in their ranks, } An effort which had been made some time ago to dismiss large num- bers of troopers resulted in the resig- against the dismissals. However, the | facts that officers have been found guilty of graft and extortion com- pels the higher officers to continue their investigation and to dismiss many more. Sits in Movie While Cops Look for Him ROCHESTER, N. Y., Feb. 13. — Harry Katz and Samuel Toltz, who were slain by Harry Gordon, the “mad butcher,” on Friday night, were buried today. Gordon’s insane death splurge has been the talk of Rochester since the radio sent out a warning Friday night that a “mad butcher” was at large | after killing two men and wounding | two others. ‘CAPTAIN SENDS CREW TO CHASE VESSEL IN FOG Lightly Clad Sailors Row Around in Channel LONDON, Feb. 13,—The dense fog which has blanketed the English Channel for forty-eight hours has enshrouded several sea dramas which the official rescue service is now try- ing to elucidate. From the viewpoint of tonnage the most important accident was the col- lision early: this morning between the royal mail steamer Nebraska of 8,268 tons and the admiralty steamer Oleandor of 7,045 tons. Woman. Life Saver. They crashed off Dungess in a heavy fog. Both were severely dam- aged. A wireless call for “help brought out a life boat party who were aided by a woman in launching the rescue ‘¢raft. The life boat was at sea threé hours without finding a trace of either ves- sel, In the meantime wireless mes- |sages said. the Nebraska was sailing |to London ata reduced speed while the Oleander was also progressing jslowly with its hull leaking badly, | About the same time the Ellermann | liner City.of Tokio ran on.a sand bar near Margate. She called a tug and was towed off safely. Ordered To Chase Ship. The most exciting experience befel the crew of sixteen, manning the Norwegian steamer Raa, of 458 tons. She collided with the Spanish steamer Gordejuela, of 1,120 tons, off Folke- stone and the creW immediately took to life boats and boarded the Gorde- juela, reporting the Raa sinking. The Spanish ship was feeling her way slowly through the dense fog when the engines of another vessel were heard running a few yards from the Gordejuela’s portside. Realizing the Raa had not sunk but was run- ning around wild in the sea, the caj tain ordered his crew back into t life boats in an effort to locate the [nation of many others as a protest | vessel. Make Shore. They failed to find it, however, and they steered by the aid of a compass to land and arrived safely on the shore near Folkestone, most of them wearing only a shirt and trousers. The derelict is apparently steaming, without a crew, in the channel. Hungarian Association Finds General Failing Morally Under Horthy BERLIN; Feb. 13.—The Hungatian Statistical. Association has appointed a special committee to recommend some action to prevent the growing number of suicides and divorces. The minister of the interior at the same time has issued a decree warn- While this warning was being broadeast, Gordon was sitting in a picture show watching a hanging scene on the screen. THE MODERN SCHOOL, Ferrer Colony, Steiton, N. J. Exhibit - Bazaar FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY 18th, 19th and 20th of February, 1927 at the y TC of the e Walde AND SUNDAY Exhibit_and Bazaar of the Children’ work, Weaving, Clay Modelling, the SATURDAY BVENING, AT 8:30 COMMUNAL D R and reunion of all members, and symp: rs of the Modern §ehool. SUNDAY EVENING, AT s:30 PLAY AND DANG Merchant of Ve shool and folley TAL ATT The Play and Dance on Sunday INTERNATIONAL CENTER, 149 Kast 28rd Street, near Lexington Ave. Selected scenes fr of the ATTEND! THE SECOND ANNUAL BANQUET DAILY WORKER BUILDERS OF NEW YORK to be held at YORKVILLE CASINO (Main Ballroom) 212 East 86th Street, near Third Avenue. The leading contributors and ed be present, among them bein. BERTRAM D. WOLFE, WILLIAM O'FLAHERTY, ROBERT W. of the le Casino. ‘ EVERYBODY WILL BE THERE. Don't fail to come former principa rincipal of the AFTERNOONS, Basketry and M ATTEND! i J. LOUIS DUNN, leading figures in tho local labor movement. be accompanied by concert numbers given by an be followed by a ing against “indecent” influences, prohibiting cursing in public, accost- ing women on the streets and.-the> exhibition of indecent pictures and. . literature. - Entertainment 1H of the Manumit n Schoo ru » Modern School. hool, chairman, 30 TO 8:30 ntings, Cuts, Wood- ine, “The Voice of Modern s Drawings, given by the children by a Dance. TION ing will be given at the itors of The DAILY WORKER will SDAHL, SCOTT NEARING, DU E, VERN SMITH, TO MICHAEL nee in the beautiful ballroom Monday (Washington's Birthday Eve.), Feb. 21, 1927 Banquet starts ot 7 P. M—Dancing at 9 P.M, COMBINATION TICKETS FOR BANQUET AND DANCE $1.50 TICKETS FOR DANCE ONLY 500. fi lied y ibn ; §) Lobia ere