The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1927, Page 2

FE “ miners, Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16, 1927 FORSTMANN-HUFFMANN STRIKERS PREPARE NOW FOR ORGANIZATION Local Union President Issues Explain Situation; Back at Work | | PASSAIC, Feb. 15.—In explanation of the ending of the strike of the tmann-Huffmann mills here, a statement has heen issued 3, United Textile Workers, by the Loeal president, workers in the Fo in the name of Local 1¢ ticular mill all they desired, bat went DEADLOCK STILL LASTS AT MIAMI COAL WAGE MEET Miners’ Wage Too Low To Stand Any Cutting | (Continued from Page One) of the crew into bad working placés, 3 an make little money. Don't Enforce It. Furthermore Jacksonville avréement has | largely ated, through tionary officials of the u twin large districts to insis striet fulfillment. The violations are usually to reduce the workers’ wage: forcing him to do “dead wor ng out rock, or breaking up coal that take unreasonably Jong to mine, mak- ing the miner set the braces in his working pl or the entry to it, ete. Mines quently ut down, and when they start agai they do not always pay the wag he miner was cheated out of on his last pay d From one cause or another, ege wages of union miners, working under the Jacksonville scale are close tc, based on the amount of work done in a year, about four dollars a cay, instead of seven-fifty. Rank and File Struggle. The struggle against a still fur- ther cut in the coal miners’ already low wages, is largely dependent on tlie energy of the rank and file of he union, following the progressive aders. such as Howat, of Kansas, | 14 John Brophy, of Pennsylvania. official leadership is too much} 1 to trust to intrigue and is| imid. Thus International Presi- | cent John L. Lewis at the conference | jay, attempted to meet the attack | Baker of the operators’ by drag- | eng in a side issue, Baker denianded | that the union wages be cut to where | the union mines “could compete with the non-union mines south of them.” | Side Issues. Instead of showing thé low cost of mining in the union fields, and proving that in many cases, the same company uses union and non-union Lewis abused the senators from West Virginia, Kentteky and Tennessee for opposing the confirma- ; tion of Cyrus E. Woods, of Pennsyl- yania, to the interstate commeree| commission. These senators, he de-| clared, were either “in the service | or direct employ of the non-union | coal operators who are attempting to | maintain discriminatory freight rates | on lake coal shipped from the non-| union fields.” | Page Tom Fleming! If Tom Fleming ealls at The: DAILY WORKER office he will find a letter from Glasgow awaiting the owner. ’ Peee-++ +e. the t on its in All Workers: “Jim Connolly and the Trish Rising of 1926,” by |) G. Schuller with an intro- duction,by T. J. O’Flaher- “Connolly,” name of ty. the military leader of the Easter Week Rebel- | lion, is a magic name to ' | every Irish worker whe [ ' has within him a single spark of the divine fire of | ' but particularly Irish |) workers will want to read | revolt, ' ' PRICE 10 CENTS. The Daily Worker 33 First Street New York City icates that the strikers did not win in this pat-] {tantial concession wrung from the comp Statement to} back to work on the basis of a sub- , which can be retained if organ- | ization work continues. The ion of the Forstmann-Huff- many strikers in voting to discon- tinue the strike is the result of care- ful consid ron of all the faetors enteting into the present situation. The whole cbije. e of the struggle, which bas now ed more than one | yeat, has beef to +z #u'.¢h the union | for the téxtile workers in Passaic. | This object has been the keynote and | has won the support not only of the | E aie textile workers, but of the | entire American labor movement and of all friends of labor. | We have been successful in get- ting agreements on the basis of col- lective bargaining with the two plants of the Botatiy Consolidated Mills, the Passaic Spinning & Wor ed Co., and With the Dundee Te Co, ‘the Worst Foe. With the Forstmann & Huffmann Yo. we have faced a situation where we have entered inte a struggle with one of the most powerful corpora- tions in the United Utates. The } orst-| mann & Huffmann Co, has always maintained a company union and has refused to grant the right of organ- ization in iegitimate unions to its workers tly, thru the mediation of the | . W. Cattington Cabell and the Kt. Rev. Thomas J. Kernan, the Forstmann & Huffmann Co. has is- | sued a letter to the workers to the effect that theré is no objection to the membership of their employes in legitimate outside organizations, Whether religious, social or otherwise, and that they will ré-employ as many of their former workers as they can without discrimination on account of membership if legitimate outside | unions. Not a Good Letter. This letter was considered by the Forstmann-Huffimann workers and by our union as not being acceptable, | in that it does no§ recognize the principle of collective bargaining, which is the basis for recogmtion of the union and which is the principle upon which the American labor| movement is built. The Fotstmann-| Huffmann workers and our union, | however, acdept the Forstmann-Huff- mann letter as a distinct concession to the strikers and retreat from the| former anti-union attitude of the Forstmann-Hufimann Co. | This letter is in efffect an agree- | meént between the werkers of the! | Forstmann-Huffman Co. and its man-| two workers who received sentences | agement that no workers will be vie-! of two and one half to five years | timized on account of his or her mem-| under Judge Rosalsky, the Interna- bership in our union and forms the Huffmann Co, can be unionized. It! was wjfh this objective in view that | the of ers of the Passaic local union | of the United Textile Workers ad-| vised the Forstmafn - Huffmann! workers to terminate the strike. { It now ‘becomes out task to ofgan-| | recently, from a church pulpit, defied | SIGMAN MISUSES | oven Hall last night, the right wing | | of the International Ladies’ Garment | | Workers’ union, thru its official or- jwho have been Dares Sinclair Lewis) To Look in Camera and| Say There Ain’t No God} Sinclair Lewis, the author, who! the lord to strike him dead, today| was defied to look himself straight in the eyé throygh a mirror or moving | picture camera without wavering for two hundred seconds and then pro- laim his unbelief in the diety. | Allen Stone, masonic lecturer, who | issued the defi in the form of an open letter to Lewis, offered five dol- lars a second for the full time if Lewis would Win, | ‘STRIKERS NAMES TO GET A CROWD. Rusbin and Shubin Out With Repudiation In an effort to gather enough workers to hold a meeting in Beeth- gan the Forwards, made the false an- nouncement yesterday that Louis Rusbin and Jack Shubin, cloakmakers réleased from the ‘Tombs on bond of $2,500 pending the} appeal of their cases, would be pre- sent at the meeting which was held} under the auspices of the Internation- al officialdom. “Please deny for us that we are going to have anything to do with Sigman’s meeting in Beethoven Hall tonight”, Rusbin said yesterday “Sig- | man # merely trying to trick friends of ours who naturally are glad that we are released into coming to his meeting by advertising falsely that we will be there. Neither of us would go to a méeting called by the union, | splitting Sigman.” Shubin reiterated his fellow pris oner’s statement and added that the International had nothing to do with | affecting their release. “The Joint | Board has taken care of us and fur- nishea bond tor our release”, he add- ed. The two were triea in suage/ Otto Rosalsky’s court on December 6 and found» guilty on an assault charge. Their cases are being ap- pealed. | Third Lie. This is the third time within a few days that the International has tried to claim credit for helping pris- oners. In the cases of Phillip Dan- nenberg. and Jacob Gluck, who ‘were discharged by Judge Collins on Fri- day the International, through the Jewish Daily Forward, attempted to) claim credit for their dismissal, al- though they were represented by at- torneys of the Joint Board. In the case of Lenz and Cohen, the | tional tried to fool the workers into | basis upon which the Forstmatn-| believing that it alone was respon-| sible for the reduction of their sen- | tences to one year, although the sentences were reduced when restitu- tion was made, and the International had nothing to do with the making of restitution. { The sentencing of Max Borenstein | | from the jail by police and tantaliz- | Sessing explosives witp intent to m- | try and to the Atmerican labor move- | initiated will go on. ize a local of the United Textile| and Osear Newman was postponed | Workers of America in the Forst-! for the third time by Judge Rosalsky | work wili begin at once, with the un- | time they will have served two weeks any others of the management of the Year Old Son Slain, contposed of their émployes. cts herdic incidents is now 4 matter of Celia Brown, 27, and het son, Fred- workers of the whole textile indus-| According to Fred Brown, ‘the hts- | The Passaic strike has achieved) found, he said, that the door of his} ago to form a union. The union is here| In the sleeping porch the woman's | mann & Huffmann Co.'s mill, With today. They will he sentenced on} derstanding that neither Mr. Julius| in the Tombs awaiting sentence. milis can now have any objection to Heroie Passaic. CONNEAUT, 0., Feb. 15.—Beaten | histor# in the labor movement of | erick Brown, Jr., 5, were found early | band and father, he returned from his positive results for the textile work-| house was open, and the radio was as a result of our struggle. It has| body was lying. In the basement was | the assistanee of the workers, this| next Friday, he announced, at which | Forstmann ner Mr, Reinholdt, nor ~ . re * ‘Finds Wife and Five the organization of a labor union The Passaic strike with all of its| almost to a pulp, the bodies of Mrs. America, and is an inspiration to the! today in the Brown bungalow. | ment. | work shortly after midnight. He) ers of Passaic. We started one year | grinding out a tune, | | been established in struggle and thru’ that of his son. Nearby was a bloody | School, committed suicide today by the devotion, determination and solid-| baseball bat, } arity of the toxtile workers in Mas- saic. It will be maintained and it wil] grow until every textile worke: in Passaic carries a union card. | Pauline Haydin, 17 years old, an) Vietory Won. active member of the Young Work- We have won a substantial victory.!ers League in Milwaukee, digd to-| The work of ofganization must now| day after a very short illness. go on with more intensity and deter-| She is the daughter of John Hi mination than evér before. |din and his wife, two of our most | ‘The work of organization in the | active and trusted comrades in the textile industry which Passaic has! local movement for many years, | The Passaic! The body will be cremated Monday, strike remains an inspiration to the 2 p. m.” unorganized workers in America, The | achievements won thru a year of! Ruth Ormiston Wins Decree. | struggle will not be lost. LOS ANGELES, Calif, Feb. 15—) Forward to the work of organi-| Brief testimony that Kenneth J, Or- zation! | miston, who figured as the elusive Every textile worker in Passaic m radio man in the Aimee Semple Me-| union man! Pherson trial, deserted his attractive? Build the union! | wife, Ruth Peters Ormiston, won a Join the union! divorce for her in Judge J. W. Sum- Long live our union! _merfield’s court jate this afternoon. | Gustav Deak, President, Ormiston did not appear. He was Local 1603, U. T. W. of A. represented by counsel, however. IN MEMORY OF COMRADE | PAUL HAYDEN Rain Stops Ringers. | ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Feb. 15,; —Rain today halted the opening |round of the national horseshoe | Solomon Pollock, brother of Abraham, ANOTHER PASSAIC CASE PROSECUTED Torture Prisoner With | Short Visit Home (Special to the DAILY WORKER) PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 156-—The see: ond of the five Passaic strike pris-| oners held by Bergen county author-{ ities on framed bomb charges is to be tried tomorrow at Hackensack. | Tom Regan, a young striker active | on the general strike committee and} vigilant picket at Forstmann-Huff-} mann mill gates, is the im. } Only Third Degree. Prosecutor Archie Hart has only} the third degree statements brutally | wrung from these prisoners as evi-| dence against them. Police are now| pressing on these textile strike vic-| tims in 4 desperate endeavor to make | one or more turn state’s witness. | Cruel Tantalizing One of the prisoners Was taken} ingly shown his wife and children at home. He was asked cunningly if he did not want to be with them soon— or if he preferred imprisonment for 20 years. Similar traps have been} set for others of the five held on! these flimsy bomb charges, carrying five to 20 years for conviction. Besides. Regan, there are Paul Kovac, Joe Toth and Nicholas Schil- laci awaiting trial. Justice of the Peace Wisnefski, elected while in jail, was convieted on third degree} evidence last week and waits sen- tenee, Evidence [legal. | Legally, third degree statements} are not supposed to be used agai st | a prisoner, but actually they are fre-| quently—as here—the sele basis of | prosecution. In the cases of the six} prisoners tried at Vaterson on similar! tramed bombing charges, the third} , degree statements were used against the men. The five remaining victims | at Hackensack remember the double-! crossing authorities dealt the Pater-| son men Who threw themselves on| the mercy of the court and are en- couraging one another to resist pres- | ent police pressure unitedly. Provoeateur’s Work. | Both groups of bomb cases in the} mill strike bear unmistakable marks of an agent provocateur’s work. It} is well known that the management | of at least one big mill several times consulted with a certain labor spy on} bombing possibilities. This was just before the United Textile Workers | came into the strike and seems to| have been part of & plan to prevent} the A. F. of L. unions entiance into Passaic. It is a fact that one explosion oc- curred after the eleven men were ar- tested, but mill town policé passed it} off as “an attempt to distract” thei | from prosecuting those already ar- rested. In the cases to which these Hackensack prisoners have been! linked by police, oniy harmless Ital- ian fire-cracker bombs wete used. Yet the men are charged with “pos-| jure property!” More Cases Coming. In another week the cases of 21 strikers charged with minor offénses in connection with picketing begin to come up in Passaic. There is no evi- dence against thesé workers But the joint detense committee for Passaic, sét up by the American Civil Liber-! | ties Union and the International La- | bor Detense, expects that Massaic po-! , lice |against the strikers as they have! will be as ready witnesses been previously, | Funds are urgently needed for de-| fense work. oney should be sent! to iHoliace Ransdell, secretary-tréas- | | in Stere.” | cious words, the old trick of the The Boasts of The Times | Quickly Exposed by the BY THIRD DEGREE Facts in the Day’s News By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, HE New York Times, energetic propagandist against progress of the capitalist class, again in- forms us that, “More than prosper- ity, our defenses against Comimun- ism are democratic freedom and opportunity.” But in the same issue of the Times, and in all the other simul- taneous ¢@ditions of the New Yerk jailies, one of the teading first page stories t¢iiy of a boy who | murdered for food. The headtine of ke = 'Times stated. “Boy, iL, Murders Queens Shopkeeper in Hold-uo fs) end; Hlungty Runaway Kills Merchant in Hove of Getting Cash from Till The next day in jail the boy, 12 year's old, upon being visited by his father, declared: | “Sure, Il teil you everything, | Dad. Int not afraid and I like this jail anyway. It’s better that at home.” A land in which the jails, rotten as they are, vermin infested and offering the worst possible excuse for food, can be offered as “some- thing better” than home, is cer- tainiy not in a position te brag of its “prosperity.” {ts boasted “op- portunity” merely consists of lus- banech of carrots at the end of the stick to lure onward the tired work- mule, human as weil as mere ani- mal, These conditions grow directly out of the existing ciass rule. st is mere hypoctisy w taik of “dem- ocracy” ander a social system Where the gfeat masses are en- slaved to the profit producing ma- | chine of a smali entrenched all powerful class. That is the United States, in whieh the kept press hysterically beats itself upon the | chest and blatantly shouts itself hoarse concerning “democracy” in this country, claiming at the same time that democracy does not exist in the Soviet Union. It is only in the First Workers’ Républic, where classes have been abolished, that the basis is laid for real demo- eracy. * * * That the vile housing conditions, that make a jail preferablé to. a home, are not exceptiohable,* but rather the rule in New York City is again revealed in the struggle to have the so-called “emergency rent laws” continued. These laws have been in exist- ence for seven yeats and will ex- pire on June ist, yet it is admitted that during this time little or noth- ing has been done to supply homes for that large group in the popula- | tion unable to afiord more than $8 to $10 a toom a month. Intolerable conditions, -resuiting in the doubling and tripling of fam- ilies in totally inadequate accom- modations, exist on a large scale. Human beings still nest in rooker« jes built 50 years ago and don demned as unsanitary and unii- habitable even béiore the present emergency laws were passed, Wit- nesses revealed before the State hiousing bward sitting In atigust session at the commodious city dai that evéd im ceéilars two famines could be fourid iiving in rooms ae- scribed us “unfit sor a pig vo ve ine” a ee The Times on its editorial page boasts ox “prosperiy” wider tie prevailing Copitsitsm in tis coun- wy, but on tes fitst page, in para lel cottimmis with tite hewWs story of ine boy who fiurdefed tor iodu, there is the foliowing: “the testimony shuwed that fam- ilids with growing Chtiuren, wiics, prior t the adVande in reits Wik segan ih LyL¥, cot ditord a Lew hnoted faxuries, wets how geduced to the barest necessities; that vd cuties barely duie to pay reiit Aitiuerio HAVE Deen CoTipeieu to gY t asunshouses oecdlise Us Lie Fou in renés; that landwtus fave beech hotttying tebanis to “Wie Until the fet jaws iapse in JUNG afid We Wil give Youu uw rimiiing of your uves;” chat tatidivtu afid teiuatit Hugation if Ly2u iievehoed CVer wie beevieus years, afd wlit ii vu per cent of these Cases ine tivariawie sepiy of iuiianis Ww tie COures Was inabihvy to icivid the MIgiier Felice. “UG Was disu sHUWD vy Wstuiuily that musi of Uie vaddtleles now vw De Louiiu Wee Mi UisuieLe Clu Uti ildvivuis G0lsts Wilkin, iv was us sefted, shoud fave ween usmoe ished LOY AYU; OF Uh nOusts 1 ivi {Gin h10 W444 & cUUtL RLU Uf. “p@VOrui Cases Were Uesiiccu Of three muerte dupes, sumeiines Temled WW ebeh Guts bhU sulud- Uitmes not, siltififiy the saint’ isve of SIX toumi dparuneti.”’ eee this is “prosperity’ with a ven- Seance, 1b is wie prosperny of tue «itisnouse and the paupers grave. ihe public s¢nuvi vewciters os tne Youthiui murderer deciarea ne was vely Gright in his sitdies, Lue boy is atinrtvedly very mieliigent, Lot the Lirsé wang propesea by ine laW entoreers ci vis Capivadist Guy i$ that ine mehias stave of ide buy be mvVesugated., Kather saouid wese facts arouse the masses oi America to invesu- Gate mmto the sanity ot the capriax Ist social system under wiea they five and sutter, ic is a crazy sys- tem and tne meresy study of it shoutd result m a veruict of “eanity!” : it was futile for the 12-year-old boy, Michaei sonxraskow, to mur- dex to satisty his hunger. Bui it is not tutite for the enildren, for the youth, for the grown-ups of the working ¢l4@s to unite their Power for the ending of this capi- tailist system that breeds poverty, not prosperity, despair instead of opportunity, aiid tiie worst forme GAG RULE MAKES BRANCH BANK ACT CERTAIN TO PASS Wheeler Charges Bribe Was Offered WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—For the |second time in decades, the Senate | prepared today to authorize cloture in order to force a final vote on the MePadden-Pepper Banking Act, and | itsargents charged that the Amer- ican Banking Association was prac tically using bribery to get the pill | Utrough. | The “gag rule,” restricting debate to one hour for each senator, was in- | voked by administration leaders be- cause insurgents announced a war to |the finish against the bill, which ex- tends the powers and sétivities of national banks. and the federal re- serve system. The only modern precedent for the use of cloture was established du:- ing the world court fight. Dawes Suggested Gag. | Insurgents’ leaders declared they | welcomed the nse of cloture, and |ch#tged that the bill could not be enacted except under the “gag rule.” Tho wée of cloture, it was under- stood, Was stiggested by Vice-pres- | ident Dawes, who has waged a cam- | paign for revision of the Senate’s rules—to limit debate—ever since he took office, Vote Without Knowing. Senator Wheeler (D) of Montana, eharged today that only a few. séna- tors understood the contents of the lll. The provisions he attacked the | Most would give the federal reserve syttem an “indeterminate charter” as a substitute for the present one, | which expires after 1934. | He éharged that New York bank- jing interests tried to “reach” Sena- | tors Howe]l (BR) of Nebraska, and Dilt (D) of Washington, who opposed the bill, and all “small bankers” who | had protested against its enactment. | Wheeler further charged that Rep. | Morton D. Hull (R) of Illinois, who opposed thé measure in the House, had been “approached” by the bank- ing interests. Wheeler read a letter aent Hull by Thomas B. Patton, gen- eral counsel for the American Bank- ling Association, offering the con- |gressmian legal business. Patton |said: “You have frequently been | glad to recommend to you any bus- \inéss we can.” As Hull has not en- |gaged in law practice for years, | Wheeler said, the offer was an at- tempt to suppress his opposition to |the Wilt. | "The vote to take up the Branch | Danking bill was supported by 27 Democrats and $1 Republicans, and epposed by four Democrats. four Republicans, and Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Labor member. Detailed Vote on the Bil. The detailed vote was as follows: For taking up the bill—58&. Republi- cans—81: Bingham, Cameron,- Cap- | per, Couzens, Curtis, Dale, Gillett, | Goff, Gooding, Gould) Greene, Har- | veld, Howell, Johnson, Jones (Wash.), | Keyes, Mclean, MeMaster, McNary, | Means, Oddie, Pepper, Phipps, Pine, )Reed (Pa.), Schell, Stanfield, Stew- | vecornmetided to us and we shall be” ot human degfadation instead of art, Warren, Watson, Willis.—Demo- its boasted “democratic freedom.” JOHN D. WRECKS A FEW CHURCHES WHEN HE TRIES TO WRECK UNION fee WASHINGTON (FP)—Protestant along the line of the Western by hatred of the Rockefeller rail Catholi¢ groups in the same terri-, tory are found by catholic investia| j urer, Joint Committee tor vassaic De- gators to have failed to live up to| Then chureh congregations in’ some towns Maryland Raflfoad have been torn seabs in their midst. ne Rockefeller Leads Reaction. in 1924 Rockefeller’s manage- tense, Room 14, 745 Main Ave., Fas+ the social teaching of the Bishops’) ™ent jumped into the battle against saic, N. J. | Fears Parasitism; Takes Life, | HEMPSTEAD, L. L, Feb, 15.—-Ob-! sessed with the idea that thé expen-| ses of his education were too much} of a bruden to his family, Thomas J.! O'Donnell, eighteen-year-old senior | student of the Hempstead High! shooting himseit through the tempie | ih a dressing room behind the atidi-| torium stage of the sehool building. | pitching championship for 1927 and the contestants will weigh in their) shoes tomorrow, weather permitting, for the round-robin tournament, which, in six days, will reduce to 12 the entry list of more than 25, Four Killed By Coal Gas, Two men and two women were killed and four persons were over- come yesterday by coal gas escaping in an apartment house at 1414 Bist Street, Broklyn. The dead: Abraham Pollock, Mrs. Mildred Pollock, his wife; Mrs, Rose Pollock, sister-in-law of Abraham; ‘churches of the United States. Program, a8 to safeguarding labor's | rights. thropist and moralist, felt so grieved by the erueity of his own railroad toward the locomotive engifieers and firemen in the lockout and strike of the past two years, that he actually tried to interest himself in a settle- ment, However, he has found him. | Self, as capitalist, unwilling to listen to himsélf as humanitarian. Business is business. Dividends are gilt. And “| the clergy along the lime of the road with appealed to him in vain to acknowl edge that his stock. ownership—the largest of any—permits him to veto | ae union-crushing program of the | Cynical Strike Breaking, | These are in substanes the findi in the sedond half of the report made publie by the joint investigating com- mittee on this dixpute, appointed by’ the protestant, eatholie and J Public opinion’ along the Western Maryland was first wrought up th the shop strike of 1922, by the hard« boiled cynicism of the management of the road. Hundreds of veteran shop- men Mere driven from their accus- tomed jobs and had to take employ: ; ment at lower wages in other places, Strikebreakers caused endless quar- rels in the towns, train crews, dismissing the men who would not sign confracts hostile, | John .D, Rockefeller, Jr., phtlan-|to, union peat Brey The brotherhoods at first refused, but at the fequest of mediators agreed 6 accept arbitration. The company refused. More quarrels and bitterness in the chutches developed. Wouldn't interfere. When Rockefeller the moralist w: found powerless to persuade his we re + — an 49° was im to mediate person his own To this iaet appeal “ a plied with a letter clai; could not do anythings —* Coolidge In Action. ‘The Coolidge administration as- slerey tf pelt did I they ittle—oxcopt rights against brutal Rocketeller’s road. Subs For The DAILY Roll in the 5 WORKER. “/ evats—27: Ashhurst, Bayard, Bleas>, Bratton, Bruce, Caraway, Ferris, Fletcher, George, Glass, Harris Hewes, Kendtick, King, MeKellar, Mayfield, Overman, Ransdell, Robin- son (Ark.j, Sheppard, Simmons, Smith, Stephens, Steck, Tranimel!, ‘tyson, Walsh (Mass.). Against taking up the bill—9. Re- publicans—4: Frazier, LaFPollette, Nortis, Nye —Democrats—4: Di | Heflin, Neely, Wheeler —Farmet- Labor—1: Shipstead. Of the twenty-nine Senators not voting, it was belleved all would have leen in the affirmative. World ‘War Veteran Refuses to Train; Given Five Months PRAGUE, Feb: 15.—Franz Led- érer, a veteran of the World War and recipient of numerous decorations for valor, has been sentenced by a court martial here to five months impris- onment in a military prison for re- te-| fusing to don a uniform and shoulder ela rifle. Lederer, as a liéutenant in the re- serve army, Was recently called to the colors for aimual training and re- fused. He maintained that his paci- fic creed forbade him to bear arms. ‘The testimony showed that Lederer had distributed his savings, amount- ing to 20,000 Czechoslovak crowns, a| mong the poor and had even given up @ good job in favor of another man whom he felt needed it more than he. In the coldest weather, he had .| left his coat in a field for anybedy to piek up. When asked why he had not given Nis coat to some tieedy person, he re- plied that it would obligate per. son to express his gratitude. A board. of alfenists pronounced him entirely sane, j HARLEM CASINO, 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, M 6 Sat, Feb. 19th.