The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1927, Page 2

it TO GIVE INSULL stovos } _ that Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY. ) REED COMMITTE UNTIL SATURDAY ‘Check May Show Graft Paid for Companies WASHINGTON, Feb While Stil] threatening to prosecute Samuel Treull, the “super-angel” of TMiinois Politics, and two other recalcitrant Witnesses for contempt, the Reed campaign fund committee turned away from slush funds today tc sthe senate for additional authority t srecount the 500,000 ballots seized in Pennsylvania, that were in last November’s senatorial t Need More Power. The Pennsylvania recount cannot be started, it was explained, until the senate authorizes the committee “open the ballot boxes.” It already has 2,904 boxes in its possession, 1,404 seized in Pittsburgh and 1,500 seized in Philadelphia. Even with this additional authority, it was said, the committee may decide to postpone the recount until after the Seventieth congress next December. What About Check? The contempt ‘proceedings against Insull, Daniel F. Schuyler, his per- Sonal attorney, and Thomas W. Cun- Ningham, a Philadelphia republican leader, will be delayed until after the utility magnate turns here next Saturday to t about a $190,000 check he drew to cover with cash ad- vances he made to Illinois poli last summer. In all, Insull testified, he spent $237,935 in that. campaign, of which $125,000 went in cash in one lump sum to Col. Frank L. Smith, now senator-elect from Illinoi The same total included $40,000— two gifts of $20,000 each—which both Tnsull and Schuyler refused to reveal, | They admitted making the donations | but declined to who got the money, Insull protesting that “his conscience” would not permit him to “violate the confidence” imposed upon him by the men who got the money, | An After-thought. The $190,000 check assumed tre-| mendous importance in the eyes of members of the committee because of a belief that Insull had spent the} $237,935 on behalf of the $500,000,- 000 worth ‘of utility corporations which he controls. Insull explained that he drew the check to repay cash advances, which he took out of the “tills” of his various companies} while making contributions to Chi- cago politicians. The committee felt the advances were acfaaily made by Insull.on behalf of his cor- porations and that the check, refund- | “ing them, was an after-thought, which followed opening of the sena- torial inquiry. Aside from the check, members of the committee were determined upon citing Insull, Schuyler and Cunning- ham for contempt. Senator Reed (D) of Missouri, chairman, said that the contempt citations would be handled by the committee after next Saturday's session. | Find Man and Wife Dead. TOLEDO, O., Feb. Mrs. Alex Schuste and beaten to de t their home here today. A revolver was lying on the floor near the bed, together with several srvall bars of iron. According to police, Schuster had been arrested two months ago on a charge ¢f wife- beating. He had just recently com- pleted a sentence in thn Toledo work- house. * ° jon. to convenes Mr. and found shot re Jersey Tories Plan Election Switch to ‘AIMEE HOPES T0 , Favor Republicans N. J, Feb. state senate, by a vote of 18 to passed a preposed constitutional amendment today which provides for an increase in the terms of governor and state senators from three to four years, from one to two years for as- semblyman, and for biennial sessions of the legislature. The amendment, sponsored by the reactionary majority, is designed to throw into presidential years the gubernatorial elections in New Jer- The republicans normally have a majority of the vote in presidential years in this state. The amendment must now be sub- mitted to the people in a referendum four months from the. date of ad- journment of the legislature. Pro- | gressiyes are expected to wage a vig- orous campaign against it, | Senator Abell of Morris County in- | troduced a bill reducing the franchise taxes on street railways from five to two per cent on gross receipts, The traction lobby backs the bill. 22.—The 2 | sey, Read The Daily Worker Every Day | NeY. GOAL MEN PLAN HARVEST IN MINE STRIKE Will Gouge Public to: Fare-You-Well Not anticipating, but praying for a strike in the bituminous coal fields + April, those New York brokers who deal in soft coal are already laying plans to reap a harvest when the union mines are closed down for the} bitter struggle. One brokerage office in this city,! cheered by word from one of-the op-} erators that he expected negotiations in Florida to be broken off in @ couple | of days, is signing as many contracts | as possible for the total output of} non-union mines in various parts of | the country. As soon as the union mines are not working, the price of | coal will begin to soar, and those who! control a supply of coal will be able} te demand higher and higher prices | and reap a fortune. i It is understood that the owners} now operating under the Jacksonville | agreement have leased mines in non- | union fields, and as soon as the strike | is called their union mines will be/| closed tight and they will open up the non-union mines in Kentucky or} West Virginia and continue piling up! the cash. They should worry how long the strike lasts. Rosses Profit as Workers Suffer. This is the sort of situation which | has been created by John L. Lewis,/ president of the United Mine Work- ers of America. For two years the Jacksonville agreement has been vio- lated by one operator after another! Executive Committee of the All Union| Which profits of the stronger raile | ———————---——— and the bituminous fields have gone increasingly non-union. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY} WORKER. j GET CASH QUICK | Summer or even sooner, | York where conditions are terrible, | deseribed |Wall St. Attorney | Rounder, Wife Says; He Tells Tales Too Supreme Court Justice Charles J. Druham in Brooklyn yesterday re- {served decision on the application of IN GARDEN BOUT Mrs. Martha Chapman Blatchford, of Phillipse Manor, Tarrytown, N. Y., alimony pending trial of her suit for To Eclipse Tex Rickard On Return Here Aimee Semple McPherson, notor- ious California evangelist, will at- tempt to throw Satan over the sky- line of New York some time next | ford, Jr, a Wall Street lawyer. Mrs. Blatchford said that her hus- band lives in a $30,000 home at 118 Willow Street, Brooklyn, and that he expects shortly to receive $50,000 as a fee for his legal services from Mrs, | Fdward R. Thomas, owner of the New | York Telegraph. She said he also ‘ She. hopes to hold revival .meet-/has a large income as attorney for ings in the new Madison Square | other interests 4 Garden, where she hopes for tre-} “Mrs. Blatchford said her husband | mendous collections and a quick was in the habit of becoming intox!- clean-up of cash registers. : | eated: ‘four oF ‘five times a. week: “There is the night life in New| that he was abusive, and that he was | eruel to her and to their daughter, | Betty, 7 On one occasion I visited three night clubs to get my 7 years old. Hiern e ds -hand. b SaW One} he blamed her when their daughter P - Hy led aor nge gy boys | contracted pneumonia, pursued her and girls from the ages of 16 and 17! through their home and finally broke 9 " ; ip tigi a high school| down a door to get to her, and then 8 8, a nk. ty é ‘ struck her. she alleged. So said Aimee at) Syracuse, N. Y., th shortly after hér arrival to conduct a three-day series of revival meet- ings. PSmRNE HS |Read The Daily Worker Every Day Confined to Parasites. ' “This night life condition is de- COURT DECREE plorable, but it can be stopped when- | ever the country wants to stop it,”| said Aimee. | “This type of night life is open to| only the rich, the people who have | money to squander. It is not gen=| eral, I believe those who indulge in it will see the error of their ways and will remedy the situation them-| NOT DECISIVE While she talked of the evils of Commerce. Commission | for $5,000 counsel fes and $100 weekly | separation form William W. Blatch-| | especially active in the great indus- FEB. 23, 1927 Point Way Ry J. LOUIS 6 Fs gatherings, historic in the development of The DAILY WORKER into a mass Communist daily, have just been held at Boston and here in New York City, In the words of M. J. Olgin, speaking at the Yorkville Casino, New York, assemblage of DAILY WORKER Builders in the metrop- olis and vicinity, “The coming of The DAILY WORKER to New York turns another page in the progress of the working class move- ment in this country.” It is because The DAILY WORK- ER is in New York City, striving with might and main to develop as a powerful propaganda weapon and organizing instrument of labor, that great significance was given to these meetings, pledged to aid in this task. * The DAILY WORKER has been in existence for more than three years. Yet it still faces the task of enlisting an irresistible army of Builders, covering the nation, but * trial centers. New York has been leading in or- ganizing The Builders. One year ago a much smaller banquet hall at | the Yorkville Casino afforded com- fortable accommodations for the Builders’ Celebration. The numbers New York, Aimee’s smile and the/| 7 |light in her eyes almost belied the | Expects New Case WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Physicai | fact that she thought them evil. She laughed heartily as she told how! | one of the dancing girls in a night} jclub had kissed one of her escorts. | valuation of all railroads in the United | Stetes will be pushed steadily ahead | Does She Like It? }as a result of the supreme court de- | y A | cisi in the “fifteen billion dollar | She described her embarrassment | © *'0" 7 | | valuation case,” Interstate Commerce | bak an eS a eae | Commission officials said today. ‘ * €' The true measure of the value of| jumped on a chair to dance for them | a road for-ratesmaking purposes, how- and tried to get them to join a gay} Las st gd | party at another table. For a minute | °Y™ remained an open question. H it seemed as if Aimee was going to Negative Victory. t stand up and give an interpretation; The case was that of the Los Ane of the dance, }geles and Salt Lake valuation, and “I come fresh from the evils of | WS not decided upon its merits, but | New York City.” Aimee continued. | 0 a legal technicality which gave | “I saw there things that seem al-| the decision to the government. \ most unbelievable to you Syracusans,| _ This constitutes a negative victory but they exist there.” | for the Interstate Commerce Com-| mission, as decision for the companies | os 6 would have stopped their attempts to} Britain Sends Note value the roads at all. But at come Th ‘. " future date, the point of the right! reatening Sov iets of the commission to value the roads | (Continued from Page One) will bacbict be Falget. Re countries by the use of forged let-! New Fight Scabies sa ters, and offers of conce&sions to oi) , Thete 18 no prospect of an early | and business interests. | determination of the question, ac-| * * rs cording to P. J. Farrell, counsel for} the Interstate Commerce Commission. | MOSCOW, b. 29.—Acti . | He predicted that the first, big test | jacana deg! fecha creccs | would come when the commission at-| Litvinoff, appeared yesterday before | tempts to apply the recapture clause | a group of members of the Central, °< , the Esch-Cummins Acts, under, Litvinoff Denies Charge. roads are to be divided with the weak- | er lines. Experts have estimated that there Congress of Soviets and made a pub- lig statement on British relations, with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Tells of Plot. He received a great ovation, and lars in the railroad and commission | interpretations of the true value of | had grown at The DAILY WORK- | summer on Long Island Sound. The is a difference of fifteen billion dol-| Too Much Water. | then began to speak of the strain on) CROTON, Feb, 22.—With a blanket | international relations caused by the! Ne of 10 inches of snow and sleet, the | plots of reactionary Russian emigrees | U. S. Mail Clerks equivalent of 1 inch of rainfall, upon/in England, and the intrigues of oil : the vast Croton watershed, and a/company owners who desired to ex- Appeal to Coolidge | vataract of 5 inches of water splash- | ploit the workers of Soviet Russia in | ing over the wide spillway of the | the oil fields she is developing. He; WASHINGTON, (FP).—Final and} big Cornell dam, there will be an! regretted that concerned in these in-| direct appeal to ident Coolidge to | enormous waterfall going to waste trigues were even members of the| Withdraw his opposition to their bill} over the dam within the next few! pritish cabinet. | granting higher pay for night work days as the snow and sleet melts. | Kept the Bargain. \has been made by the National Fed-| all the voads in the country, NEW BRIDGE COLLAPSES pt ni | Litvinoff pointed out that though | eration of Post Office Clerks. the government of Soviet Russia had| This hill is awaiting action by the} never concealed the interest and) house. The president has blocked it | \ friendly feeling it has for the Chin-| because he opposes salary increases | ese people, struggling for independ-| in general. Secretary Thos. F. Flah-| jence against the brutal inroads oferty of the clerks, accompanied by | foreign imperialism, the government | Wm. Green, president of the A. F. j has studiously kept the strict letter of L. went to the White House on of the trade agreement, as is evinced | Feb. 17 and laid the case before Cool- | lby the fact that no single specific |idge. Flaherty said 75 per cent of | [case of violation is mentioned in the | the mai) distributed in the postal ser- general charges af “propaganda”! vice is handled at night. This night | which the British cabinet has fro-|vork brings added hardship to the quently hurled at the government of | clerks and should be compensated ac- the USSR. cordingly by higher pay or shorter In this connection the speaker par-| hours. Even the Postmaster Gener- ticularly emphasized the recent| #t has recommended the higher pay | Speeches of the Japanese premier and | rate of 10 per cent proposed in the | foreign minister, who “appeared to} pending bill. have a more just and liberal com-| Coolidge made no promise to cease prehension of the true state of af-| his opposition. fairs than certain other countries. rors pickin | “ Chieago Federation to Move. Sacramento Overflows. | CHICAGO, (FP). — After many ; SACRAMENTO, Cal. Feb, 22.—) years at its present location, 186 W. , Warned that the Sacramento River) Washington Street, the Chicago Fed- will overflow its banks some time | eration of Labor is about to move into | today, residents living near the river|the Brunswick Bldg., 629 S. Wabash lat Knight’s Landing, Yolo County,| Avenue. It will have 10,000 square i today fled from their homes, drag-| feet of floor space in the new quar- ging their belongings to higher} ters with a radio studio for its sta- | ground. - } tion WCFL in connection. | against the Flathead lands. ‘ing and smiling. ER Builders’ Encampment last | affair on the eve of this year’s an- | niversary of Washington’s Birthday marked new progress, increased | numbers realizing the tremendous | task that lies ahead in winning a growing support frdm labor for La- bor’s Daily. It was Joseph Brodsky, the work- ers’ lawyer, who fights their bat- tles in the courts, who came to the Builders’ Celebration direct from the prison house that walls in the | militant fighters of the Interna- tional. Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, victims of the capitalist class | justice of the infamous Judge Otto | Rosalsky. “Tell the Builders at The DAILY | WORKER Celebration that our im- | prisonment will not have been in vain if, when we are released, we find that progress has been made in the building of our party and our press.” These prisoners of the class | struggle have been sent away, not | for a few days, or weeks, but some | of them for years, having incurred upon the picket line the vicious wrath of their employers. The as- | sembled builders cheered the greet- Daily Worker Builders in | New York and Boston | dustry. of the world’s | unconquerable. to Victory ENGDAHL, ing, a pledge to fulfill all expec- tations of those leashed in master class _bastilles. It is here in New York City where the reigning officialdom of the American Federation of Labor uses the uninformed members of the so-called trade unions of the na- tive-born as weapons against the foreign-born section of organized labor. The realization is to be found on every hand, whether in Boston or New York, that The DAILY WORKER is a_ ready weapon to carry the truth to the English-speaking workers, linking up their struggles closer to those of the foreign-born who have their | Freiheit, in Jewish; the Elore, in Hungarian; the Daily News in Ukrainian; the Laisve and Vilnis, in Lithuanian; the Novy Mir, in i he Eteenpain and Tyomies ; the Il Lavoratore, in Italian; the Ny Tid, in Swedish, and other publications, Thus | workers of all nationalities gath- ered at the Yorkville Casino, in New York, as they did at the In- ternational Hall, in Boston, to help build The DAILY WORKER. ee ek It is in Boston, the hub of New England industry, with its vast, al- most totally unorganized army of textile and shoe workers, that the need is felt for The DAILY WORK- ER, to cement the solidarity of the workers, developing their unity and helping to make the organization of the unorganized, long sought for, an immediate possibility. ee ey Thus New York City, the city of publication of The DAILY WORK- ER; and Boston, one of the leading cities of the east, point the way to all the nation’s centers of popula- tion, east and west. Philadelphia, Baltimore and Pittsburgh, as we as Cleveland and the cities hevond must be heard from. Detroit is ever active, but it can and will do better in the struggle within the in- Henry Ford. No time can be lost in strength+ ening The DAILY WORKER as one of labor’s weapons most feared and hated by the presert ruling class, office staffs pledge themselves to do their utmost in the struggle toward this goal. The DAILY WORKER builders, co>ganized everywhere, so they are now being organized in New York City and Boston, will be a tower of strength in the march against the capitalist foe, well armed with its own horde of subsidized publications, but not MONTANA INDIANS APPEAL AGAINST BUREAU’S PLAN TO STEAL WATER AND FLOOD WITH DEBT WASHINGTON (FP),.—In despair at the stupidity of the Indian Bureau | Harriet Russell’s Croesus, | The editorial and business | TORY ASSEMBLY “KILLS BILLS FOR ‘HONEST ELECTION ‘Plans to Delay Action On Water Power ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 22—Reac- tionaries in the Assembly today had killed two progressive bills. One pro- vided for the restoration of direct primaries for state and judicial of- | fices. The other would have com- | pelled candidates to file a list of | their expenditures and contributors | with the secretary of state ten days before election. The Legislature will adjourn March |18 or March 25. Only a few major | problems, such as water power, the | proposed tax of two cents a gallon on gasoline, and the $300,000,000 New York City subway bond issue remain to be disposed of. Wealthy Don't Get Tax Cut. With the total cost of the state | government for the next fiseal year | well above the $200,000,000 mark, re- |actionaries have abandoned all | thoughts of reducing the income tax j this year. For the last two years the income tax has been reduced 25 per cent, saving approximately $10,- | 000.000 to wealthy tax payers. | The six year old deadlock between | Smith and Republican leaders of the | Legislature over water power may |be broken at a conference today. Al | wants a “power authority” to plan for state development of hydro-elec- trie power.sites. Republicans favor | private exploitation by the power \trust. Republicans are willing to | create a commission to investigate water power to kill time and post- | pone any action. i More Time On Bonus. | The bill which would give golden | wedding couples a pension of $100 |a month was killed today. The bill | extending from January 1 to April |1 the time in which veterans of the | World War may apply for the state bonus, was sent to Governor Smith | today. It was passed unanimously in both houses of the Legislature. | Punishment for arson, first de- | gree, would be death instead of im- prisonment for forty years, under a | bill introduced today. | Read The Daily Worker Every Day Appalled by World’s Degeneracy, Student | Snuffs Gas, Ends Life | The student suicide toll of the past | few weeks reached nearly a score | today when Leo Meisel, a philosophy | and music student, took his life by locking himself in his room and | turning on the gas. The youth had been dead several hours when discov- | ered by his father, | Members of the family said Leo had lately been merbid and meian- | choly, and had expressed dissatisfac- | tion with life. He frequently ¢om- | plained of “the wickedaess” of the world, and said he was tired of it. ) He left no note to expl: his act. ‘disease”—an un- of the interior department, which is burdening them with debt while de- | conquerable urge that prompted her stroying their chief commercial asset—a 100,000 horsepower hydro-electric! t) jeave behind her everywhere a Piled Up Big Bill. When the Flathead tribe bought} and paid for their reservation of 1,250,000 acres in 1855.they saved for | themselves the falls of the Flathead | River where the stream leaves Flat- | head Lake. Since 1910 the Indian} Bureau has expended $5,000,000 on an irrigation project on the reservation, | bringing water to 113,000 acres of! land, of which the Indians have brought under the plow only 33,000 acres. When the work was begun congress declared by law that the costs would not be chargeable against the Indian land ‘allotments. Later congress, at the instance of the bur- eau, made the $5,000,000 charge Bum Engineering. Recently the bureau decided—in the face of adverse reports by the Mon- tana state engineer and the Montana Railroad and Public Service Commis- sion, who have wired protests to Washington—to expend $2,133,000, more on a project of boring 1,800 feet through rock to take away this water- power, use some of the power to pump the water 325 feet into the air, and develop a new irrigation project on a higher level. The cost will again be charged against the Indians, and con- gress, by granting the bureau au- thority to take away the water, has in effect confiscated the 100,000 horsepower asset of the tribe, The Montana Power Co. is watch- It will logically sit Engine Crew Victims. | Engineer Marlow Cool is dead and | fireman Maurice Crump is in the hos- | pital in a serious condition today Photo of baggage car and passenger coach in which one was killed and from injuriés received last hight nineteen injured in wreck near Demorest, Ga. A new bridge fell from under | when a Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts- the train as it was crossing. Bridges built with honest material, by union! burg Railroad locomotive overturned workers, following a plan drawn up for use and nof entirely for profit, do|on a curve. Both men were from not fall over this way. | Bradford, Pa. Al SALAMANCA, N. ¥., Feb. 22.-—| | 45 Marries 21, MAPLEWOOD, N. Y., Feb. 22.— Mrs. Mary Kavanaugh, 45, threw a bonib-shell into the social life of this town by suddenly marrying Verne BE. Moon, a twenty-one-year sailor of In- dianapolis. The biide is a wealthy widow whose husband died a few months ago, leaving her a quite con- ‘ siderable fortune. WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! HANDS OFF CHINA! | quietly until, a dozen years hence, the | pumping project has been admitted a fiasco, Then it will buy the property, serap the jpumping plant, build the and take away their wealth over its cables. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY power dam where the Indians want it, | WORKER. Russian Public Health Posters on Exhibition Workers of New York who may be interested in Russian public health posters have an opportunity to see a collection on display at the East Hall, Russell Sage Foundation Bldg., 180 East 22d St., Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. “The collection is interesting for} the application of Russian art to the production of inexpensive posters for educational purposes,” says the Rus- sell Sage Foundation. “Those con- cerned with education and publicity for social work will be interested in the less simple poster common in so- cial work in this country. The health work will find the simplicity and highly practical nature of the in- struction of particular interest.” The collection was brought to the United States by the Russian Public Health Service. A representative of that service will be present at one showing to meet social and health workers to whom the Russell Sage Foundation caters. The exhibit is open to the general publie as well. Threw Girl Downstairs. Charged with throwing Violet Granpeer, formerly. of White Plains, N. Y., down a flight of stairs to her death, Edward Fischter, 42, of 826 East 155th St., the Bronx, was being held in $10,000 bail today, charged with homicide. Fightér Maintains Innocence. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 22..-Held on a charge of killing Walter P. Noonan, a merchant, during: a brawl, Eddie Hanlon, once a famous light« weight fighter, today declared he was innocent of the crime, | site—the 2,800 members of the Flathead Indian tribe in Montana have AD- trail of swindles and petty thef pealed, through the American Indian Defense Assn. to President Coolidge. | today has earned her an indetermin- jate sentence in jail. | Miss Russell, who for six months | prior to the first of the year wes a | teacher in the Scarseale, N. Y., high | school, faces a possibility of spending _ three yéars on Welfare Island. Ske pleaded guilty to a charge of petty larceny in Special Sessions Court yesterday, and was immediately sen- | tenced. BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Feb, 22.— | Mrs, Rosie Gaboza and Peter Szopt- ich, her fourteen-year-old son, were | today held criminally responsible for |the death of Frank Vanco, 58, at Danbury on January 19. Mrs. Ga- boza’s flight to Yonkers, N. Y., and a | statement by her son after their ar- rest, justified the action, said auth orities, who lack any shred of evi- dence. Mrs. Edmund Gaffney was near collapse today in her Brooklyn home while police continue their search for her four-year-old son, Billy, who was kidnaped 11 days ago. Police believe he was drowned in the East River. Cribbing at Naval Acade: ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 22 (INS). Another “cribbing” scandal threat- ened to rock the United States Naval Academy today. Academy authori/ ties are investigating reported wide- spread irregularities in the mid-year examinations, and if their findings bear out reports circulated in’ stu- dent circles it is probable there will be a number of expulsions. Ask Action on Subway. New York Gity will be officially requested about March 15 to ¢xpress its opinion in regard to the proposed commuters’ subway under Madison Avénue, from the Bronx to New York City Hall, Don’t Delay! (¢ ™ f h