The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1927, Page 2

Page Two eaomaerarnpterrserterrarsees fHE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927 CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) being concerned in a conspiracy to assi nate King Ferdinand. The members of the tribunal may have la little fun but Rakovsicy will have a lot more sitting in the palace once occupied by the late Czar’s ambas- sadors in Paris. NEGROES ASKED TO JOIN UNIONS; A. F, L. INACTIVE * SI ka I ' HE Russian refugee ri psoagr vs nferna- Okhotsk, the last ot a fleet tha Study — * left Vladivostok carrying white tionals Are Inactive guardists afier the Soviet occupa- tion, has been seized by a local Chin- se court to cover debts contracted y the Cossacks who traveled on it, egro work- since 1922 the vessel has been rot- and district ting in Shanghai waters. The brass e to enlist Negro iymmings of the vessel were sold to of t itself ac- er, many councils cd members. _ provide food for the refugees. Had T. Arnold Hill, research worker injthe Russian workers ana ‘peasants the industrial relati ed to crush the ruling classes, would now Be under the heel of this conclusion aiter an intensi refugees and their fellow para- study of the field. He declares timent favo in trade unic In Atlanta, + “HE vatican has accepted the fas- cist corporate laws, so the much vouted break between the pope ana ssolini appears to have fizzled out. | ahe pope did not like the idea of see- ee ng. growing. abor union officials have recorded their opinion that “The } | | labor movement in Atlanta does not Negroes out of the feel safe with union,” writes They have ex-| ing his catholic fledgelings coming pressed a desire to organize Negroe: | completely under the intluence of in auxiliary unions certain trades. | .,ussolini’s propaganda. The pope Building Laborers Loyal. would have them swatiow his dope. Jn Philadelphia wi 00 tobac-} Sut, as we said many times, thieves eo workers are employed, efforts arc| ,ali out when they can best afford being made to. s pret sipaagioal tt, hype sgece yer: ard regard 5 ship” in the union. “Ninety per cent! ithe pope ani ussolini cannot at- of the hod carriers and building la- | ford ss induigg in the luxury o: a borers in Kansas City are Negroes.| drastic rupture. The alleged break They remained loyal to the union! petween the vatican and the fascist during a carpenters’ strike in July.” | distatorship was mainiy a ciever Hilt mentions that colored motion | piece of acting under cover of which picture operators have been admitted | siussolini was able to effect a satis- to the union in New York City; re-| factory compromise with tne pope. lates the progress of the Brotherhood ‘i cite ef Sleeping Car Porters; tells of ORTUNATELY our warning to colored workers in the New York | readers to be prepared for afresh cloakmakers' and paper box strikes; | ioaq of militarist victories in China and of colored women date workers | need not be heeded yet. The predic- striking in Chicago. | tion was almost perfect. In fact, if “In Columbia, S. C. the nu Sun managed to stay put for a few eed arc ay teks titwe in| more days pd clone nyt — creased, these trades bein; , spondents wou. ave done their which very rigid restrictions | prevail Grate. But Sun fell down on the against colored membership, he re-! job. He took to his heels and the counts, In Chicago an electrical] Qantonese took Hankchow. As it is workers’ union made concessi: a | now, our warning must be put in cold colored electricians . . . In Phil-| storage for future use, adelphia and Harrisburg efforts were * * * made to organize building trades HERE are rumors that the noted workers and in Atlantic City colored boxing impressario, Tex Rickard, waiters were sought for union mem-| may be invited to assume the posi- bership.” tion of congressional czar. Baseball A. F. of L. Refuses to Act. — | has one, so has the movie inqustry. 5 eatin gree shang Bouca oy not congress Judge Landis’s jons there are a number os instances | joh has to do with exposing piaye which show that considerable Pre- | who bet on the opposite ‘saarn's judiee still exists against | Negro | chances. of winning. Will Hays is membership in trade unions,” states | busy trying to soft pedal the amor- Hill. “An ape ye get the American would be to see that senators and Federation of Labor, thr ve peers to eich Nt aga =r nat gage toon pugilism, by pulling oft visor and organizer . no-hit fights. metal lathers’ union denied a charter * t6-evlored men in Chicago. None of | the international trade uniong, which | inmates get untuly refused membership to Negroes at! hurls his stein at ue the beginning of the year changed its | him, beer and all. The gentleman is Mee. x Ke aati ta : reasonably safe in taking the offen- ¢ National Urban League 18 2/ sive since a German solon can have Negro social welfare organization | ai] the beer he wants without leaving largely interested in helping Negro | the reichstag building and is there- cg ened ot a and more skill-| fore not obliged to carry the stuft ed kinds of work. Ris In the German reichstag, when the |flask at “Jam” Reed of Missouri, Tex Guinan’s Hangout For Rich Loafers Is Placed Under Padlock As the result of the most sensa-| tional liquor raid staged on Broad-| way, the “300” Club, of which the famous “Texas” Guinan is the host-| disturb the stmosphere? Grippe in Moscow; iod of six months by Federal Judge | were two thousand new Bondy here yesterday. The joint was closed on charges | the past week. of violating the prohibition law. | however, Texas herself will be haled into} court today, to face charges of pos- session and sale of liquor. United States Attorney Lowell Wadman an- nounced that contempt proceedings also would be brought against the jovial hostess, charging that she vio- lated a previous injunction restrain- ing her from selling liquor. ; $200 In Coins. which with interest now Read The Daily Worker Every Day| more than $2,500. the president | | what a hurricane of glassware would | Epidemic But Mild | “BREAKING CHAINS” A FILM OF RE-BORN RUSSIA Under the Leadership of the IMMORTAL LE 2nd and Last Time in New York SUNDAY, FEB, 20th, 1927 Four Showings—2, 4:15, 7 & 9 P.M. WALDORF THEATRE 50th Street, East of Broadway ADMISSION 99¢ AT DOOR. ‘Tickets in advance Toc at the following ES eo heels enssciptgtaaiis me taceesnssnecsasenn sanguinea emtnin eet mink places: DOWNTOWN Joe Lissky, Book Store, 202 1%. Broad- way. Dinewell Vegetarian Restaurant, 78 Second Ave Sollin's Private Dining Room, 222 Bast 14th St, The Kretchma, 216 Second Ave. Dally Worker Local Of- flee, Room 108 East 14th St. Jim- mie Higgins, Book Store, 127 Univer- sity Place; bd . HARLEM Fine's Restaurant, 1690 Madison Av. BRONX Rapoport & Cutler, Printing, 1310 8. Boulevard, : BROOKLYN Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, 504 Atlantic Avo. Goldstein, Books, 865 Sutter Ave, cor, Stone; and at the Box Office of the WALDORF THEATRE, 50th St, near 6th Ave. CAL'S VETO OF FARM BILL WILL ~ ASSIST LOWDEN to President’s Action Affect 1928 Race WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—A foun- dling has appeared on President Coolidge’s doorstep, and no one knows whether he will adopt and nurture it, or kick the embarrassing brat into the nearest snow bank. Congress laid on him the task of either ning or vetoing the McNary- n Farm “Relief” Bill, offspring of some of the weirdest political t genation of modern What Will Cal Do? tration supporters ided in their predictio Admin sharply di The majority opinion is that he will | veto the bill. Those who believe in the veto denounce the bill as a price- fixing measure and a ‘dangerous ex- periment which would put the gov- ernment in the fafning business. Sponsors of the bill, on the other hand, declared that Mr. Coolidge had left the problem to Congress and thereby was virtually pledged to sign it. Political observers. saw in Mr. Coolidge’s action an answer to th riddle of 1928, they asserted, would be tantamount to a declaration of -his candidacy jfor the next Republican presidential nomination, Veto Aids Lowden. With the middle west aroused over the farm relief problem, a veto would boom the stock of two other | presidential aspirants, Ex-Governor Frank A. Lowden of Tllinois, and Vice-President Charles G. Dawes, it was predicted. An alternate course open to the | president is to permit the bill to be- eome a law without his signature, but few believe that he will adopt | so negative a course, Party Lines Melt. The bill was passed last night by | the House, 214 to 176, after a spec. |tacular fight of nine hours, in which | |the farm bloc rode down all oppo- | sition.” The margin of victory, 36 | votes, was about what had been an- icipated, and it is too small to per- nit of hope of re-passage over a | veto, Party lines were badly split, The it Generally, the line-up found the |Support, and the industrial east against it. The south has divided, tut a majority of the southerners supported it. Vote Trade Passes It. The bill came to the House from a fight in the Senate, in which th so-called “farmer” senators made | deal with the Morgan group to trad {support for the farm bill for votes | |to put over the imperialistic McFed- |den-Pepper branch banking act, cen- ‘onal Wall Street | trust, Bankers Cheated Bloc. After they did it, apparently some \of them regretted it. A few “in- surgents” fought the branch bank- ing act, in vain, and the bankers | double-crossed the “farm bloc” by MOSCOW, Feb. 18.—The epidemic| having Mellon write a last-minute | ss, was ordered padlocked for a per-| of la grippe here is growing. There | counterblast against it. cases report-| both bills have passed. ed in one day and ten thousand in It is of a mild form, | However, Creates Board. The MeNary-Haugen act is brief- |ly_as follows: | It creates a Federal Farm Board, appointed by the president from MILLBURN, N, J., Feb. 18—Po-| nominees selected by cooperatives, M p lice and workmen ‘who cleaned = banks and state departments of ag-| Make deals with the reigning free- ramshackle home of Mrs. Annie Mc-| Tic Monigal on Elm street here today| found $200 in coins, some of which| from the Federal treasury. were dated 1865, and a hankbook showing deposits of $474.41 in 1880|emergency exists in wheat, cotton, amounts to| corn, rice, tobacco and swine, on ap- ture, Loans $250,000,000 to the Board Permits the Board to declare an | proval of more than half the pro- | ducers. : | Permits the Board to make agree- | ments with cooperatives or proces- ‘sors to finance the purchase, stor- | age or sale of the commodity to re- | move a surplus from the market. | Creates a stabilization and for | this purpose, provided by the levy- |ing of an equalization fee upon each bale ef cotton, each bushel of wheat, ete., whichsis sold. | By Sanit the surplus from the | market, it is contemplated that the |domestie price of the product shall jbe higher than the world price. | Permits the Board to insure pro- ducers against price fluctuations and loan money to cooperatives to estab- lish terminal marketing facilities, President Coolidge has not yet de- | cided whether to veto or,sign the | MeNary-Haugen farm relief bill, he told callers at the White House to- day. ‘ The bill was discussed at today’s cabinet meeting, and will take the usual course of being referred to th j various departments for Plan Catskill Bridge. ALBANY, N, Y., Feb, 18.—Three sketches of a proposed toll bridge |over the Hudson River at Catskill | have been submitted to the legislature uperintendent of public works. The bridge, and its approaches, would be about one mile long and would cost | Upwards of $6,000,000, Col. Greene | said, were | Approval of the bill, | consider- | | ation before either signature or veto. | | by Col. Frederick Stuart Greene, state | |Reyeal Conspiracy to Invade the Union of (Continued from Page One) tion will “automatically become of- | ficial once we succeed in bringing | about a rupture in the diplomatic | relations of Britain and the Soviet.” | | A White Guard Bloc. | Sablin tells gleefully of relations | he has established with leading Brit- | jish conservatives, including Lord | Birkenhead, Winston Churchill, Joyn- son-Hicks, and Commander Locker- | Lampson, etc., together with oi] mag- jnates and others. These, it is said, j with the British association of Rus- | sian creditors, form the backbone of | jan grganization of which Locker- | Lampson is president, called “Out | With the Reds” which is devoted to} a rupture in Anglo-Soviet relations. | | Sabin permits himself free criticism | of the British mission in Moscow,. Proposes Forgery. He relates the trickery he had to} se to introduce Russian monarchist sropaganda into British newspapers “which might suspect ‘white’ propa- ganda if we gave it to them direct | through the good offices of our par- liamentary and other friends.” He | adds the cynical suggestions that M. De Giers prepare anti-Bolshevist docu- }ments “which we can get published | | here as intercepted letters from lead. | |ers of the Russian Communist Party opposition.” a ee Churchill Wants Rupture. | LONDON, Feb. 18. — Coincident |with the revelations that Winston Churchill was part of the White Guard | Russian intriguer Sablin’s conspiracy | to rupture ‘trade relations between \the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics |and Great Britain, comes confirma- \‘tion through a speech made last night {by Chancellor of the Exchequer | Churchill, in which he said: “Well, | nothing could be less alarming from | the government’s point of view than |a gesture to sweep the Russian dele- vation, trading associations and diplo- | matic representatives out of the coun- try,” but stated that though the | government shared the opinions of the ritics of the Bolsheviki, certain con- | siderations hindered this action just at” present. Wall Street Plans to Smother Nicaragua (Continued from Page One) | which carries thousands of bluejack- | ets. They could be landed at any spot in Central America in a short tinfe, and there are Quantico, Paris | ous affairs of screen stars. Tex's job leaders in both parties voted against | Icland and San Diego, another force |of 1,000 marines available for duty > €X- | vepresentatives stopped lowering the | 2@Ticultural middle west and west in| and “awaiting orders.” | To ‘Bully Latins. | It was developments outside Nica- ragua, rather «than inside, that prompted the administration to make | this new and greater display of armed | strength in the Caribbean, it was said | oday. Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, the Nicara- uan revolutionary leader, has re- used to be intimidated by the ma- |rines sent to | | weeks ago. Despiie their presence, | outside his skin, But let us suppose |tralizing the banking business’ as| Sacasa has regularly purchased arms that Charley Dawes hurled his hi - | much as Marx ever predicted, and, and ammunition from other countries eveating the basis for an interna-| Which recognize him, as well as peso | owned money | loans, and so marked has been his! | military successes over the American- supported President Diaz that anti- American revolutionists throughout | Central America have been encour- |aged to “start things.” There have | been rumblings of a new revolution |in Honduras for several. weeks, The great days of Diaz of Mexico, | Latins Resist Plundering. |Chamorra of Nicaragua, and’ such \like highwaymen, who ruthlessly | plundered their own countrymen of \jand and mineral rights, to sell to | their secret allies, the industrialists |of the United States, are gone. | Formerly American banks could booters in the contemptuously named “banana republies” of Central Amer- ica, and by giving them loans at ruinous interest, could get half the | country in pledge, the local tyrant |using wat of the loan he did not squander on himseif to maintain an army of “rurales” or other armed forces to whip his countrymen into the American yoke, Use Own Forces, Since the series of rebellions started in Mexico in 1911, however, these tac- tics have failed. More and more it has been necessary for the oil, copper jand cattle and fruit interests of | AmericA to call the state department to their aid. This process reaches a culmination now, in the brutal inva- | sion of Nicaragua, so open a war of | conquest that a wave of indignation | is sweeping all Latin America, and | anything may happen, from a boy- | covt of Amerigan gonds go open de- clarations of war. Presbyterian Minister Swindles His Six Wives DETROIT, Feb. 18.—Robert Alon | Browne, Presbyterian minister, and | alleged bigamist with six wives, was | arrested here today on a charge of passing a worthless check. -Accord- ing to police statements he swindled his wives out of various sums of | money. Aimee Wants More Coin, WASHINGTON, Feb, 18.---This was sheaf-gathering day for Aimee Semple McPherson, however, at the afternoon meeting, Mrs. MePherson stated that expenses had not yet been met by the free will offerings, in spite of the size of the pans that have made-the rounds, Soviet Republics! impress him many| | | For Fake Progressives | 0. 10 RENEW WhoBetray the Workers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, ICTOR L, Berger, the lone so- cialist congressman, voted in favor of the McNary-Haugen Farm Kelief Bill and thus gave what aid he could in its passage. The socialist program is sup- posed to be one separate from and against the capitalist program. Since the war, however, it has be- come the practice of socialists, in all countries, to get their leader- ship trom the capitalists, the so- cianst parliamentarians _ trailing along in the wake of their bouw- geois compatriots. ‘This was the tendency under the development of the Second (Socialist) Invernation- ai, accelerated by the events fol- lowing the world war, when the capitalists needed the socialists more than ever to combat labor’s struggle for victory. eR ae It is not necessary to array any testimony against Berger to show that he tollows this course, that in other countries makes socialists members of anti-labor governments and even premiers of the capitalist state. Berger admits it. He con- fessed it in his speech on the me- Nary-Haugen Bill before the as- sembled members of-the house of representatives and they applauded him. Berger voted against the Mc- Nary-Haugen legisiation in the last congress. He has now changed his mind, which is always the privuege of the socialist poutician who re- fuses to stand on the firm basis of the class struggle. buc listen to berger speaking: “pir, Chairman, I admit that when the MeNary-Haugen Bill was ‘up iast year I voted against it. I was not quite sure at tne time that I did right. 1 am going to vote tor it now, and I am not any more cer- tain that I am right now.” Soe oe Thus Berger says he finds him- self in the position of the “Penn- sylvania-Dutch” justice of the peace who listened to the lawyers in a damage case. “He agreed at tirst with one of them and then with the other,” according to the story. “And finally he said that tacy were beth right, and decided ‘that the constable had to pay the costs.’ Which brought laughter trom ber- ger’s fellow congressmen, laughter at the expense, however, not of Berger, but of the working farmers of the nation, BOR, BEET, 3 Berger’s decision to yote for the McNary-Haugen bill was then reached thru this line or reasuu- ing: ‘ “Thinking the matter over, how. ever,” said Berger, “I thought that of the various evils before us it might be wise to choose the small- est. And I believe that the Mc- Nary-Haugen bill in its present form is the least dangerous,” which brought more applause, * * * Thus Berger bridges the way to support of old party legislation, with the same argument that great High-Priced: Lawyers * ? Save Heir to Baker’s “ne ° . Millions in Lawsuit Backed by a high-priced legal staff, Walter S. Ward, wastrel son of the baking trust magnate, es- caped judgment yesterday of $75,- 000, asked by the parents of the boy he slew five years ago. The jury disagreed, but Judge Anderson immediately ordered a new trial. Young Ward claimed in the White Plains trial in 1922 that he shot in self-defense. In this case he refused to testify. The wealthy slayer fled the United States and was discovered only a month ago living in the lap of luxury at Country Club Park, a suburb of Havana, where his father’s home is located. The old millionaire has stayed in the background, lavishly finan- cing his son’s trial but refusing to come out in the open. Read the BOLSHEVIK’ A DRAMA IN PLAY FORM written on the American style By LEON HAUSMAN Author and Playwright Per Copy at $1.10 nent to Leon Hansman “Rolshev!k" Post Office Box 137, Ellwaberh, N. Jy secures a copy of “Bol. shevik” In English for the present, ‘ranslations may be had at a ” later date. On and after March 16th, 1927, “BOLSHBY: will be 82.00 4 copy. As Mr, Loon Hausman in- tends to play the title role, advises his wide Aon ban stios to first read the book. he thor ts. findin, “BOLSHUV LK” pA AND, wow! masses of workers use in voting the old party -tickets, supporung the “best man”, or, where there is no good man in the «field, giving | aid to the least dangerous, claiming | that this is the only way to “get | something now”, | That was the basis on which the Nonpartisan League was organized for functioning with the old par- ties, rather than develop the in- dependent action of the workers and farmers. * * Speaking of the -declaration of | one of the chief organiers of the Nonpartisan League, Laurence | Todd, the Federated Press corres- pondent at Washington, writes: “That a day of reckoning is com- ing, tor senators and members of the house who voted for the re- chartering of the federal reserve system and for loosening the reins on branch banking, was the warn- ing given by Senator Frazier of | North Dakota, Nonpartisan Lea- | | guer before the senate adopted the auellon banking bill.” It seems, however, that the day of reckoning is not coming for the legislators who have always re- mained loyal to their class inter- ests, who did so in supporting the MeNary-Haugen bill and the‘ Mel- lon-Morgan bank bill, thru the | | building of the tarm-bank bloc, and who will continue battling for their | masters. They will be well taken | | care of. Take a look at “ervous Nellie” Kellogg, who was made ambassador to Great Britain and then secretary of state after he had been repudiated by the voters of Minnesota in his attempt to ve re- elected to the United States senate, * * * | The reckoning is.due instead for those who have been parading as the champions of labor, loudly pro- claiming it in election campaign speeches, and then following the tarm-bank bloc in aiding Wall Street achieve one of the biggest legislative victories it has ever won, which even Senator Frazier, in weeping for his little banker friends, declares will “sound the death knell to independent banlang in the United States within ten | years”. But this giorious victory | was only made possible by the aid | given this Morgan-Mellon, bill. .by | supporters of the McNary-Haugen Relief Bill, Berger, Frazier, Nye, LaFollette and the rest may not know where | they are at in congress, Very evi- dently they don’t. - | But the workers and farmers, as | a result of these bitter experiences | with “know-nothing” members of | congress, will awaken to the fact | Uhac they must build an indepen- dent political power of their own, | ‘The support of the masses drifts | to the labor party as the false friends of the working class con- fess their treason in Washington. Labor needs spokesmen in con- gress who know why they fight, how to fight and when to fight. 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The company is continually expand- ing its system, opening up new pow- er plants back in almost inaccessible parts of the-mountains. Its construc- tion gang camps have many times | been shut down by strikes organized by the I, W. W. General Construction Worker's Industrial Union No. 310. The fighting point on which the I. W. W. was able to organize the walk-outs was dangerous work, poor food, and mistreatment of the men. The lastest disaster is nothing more than could be expected, say the work- ers familiar with Edison Co. work, for the location of the camps is made without reference to the convenience or safety of the men, meen atte mene — acter eT THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE {rr Cooper Union (8 St. & Astor PI.) at 8 o'clock Admission Free Sunday, 20—John Cowper Powys: chology of Modern Literature,’ Tuesday, Feb, 22—nDr, Charles R. Ss rd: “The Skin and Individ- b, ualit Friday, Feb, 25—Everett Dean Mar- tins What Is the Matter With io Ideas?—Modernism in Re- gion. 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