The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927 THOMPSON-DEVER FIGHT 1S BOOZE AGAINST WEALTH Circulate ’ Petitions. for Ruthenberg ‘ (Continued from Page One) the school books of Chicago public schools. Little Bob Crowe } Thompson’ ng includes Robt. | E. Crowe, district ney, whose | chief claim to fame. aside from hav- ing his special police ment strikers, i assistant district Jast year in com of bootlegzers. Dever, with h schools, McAndr the platoon the Catholic business eleme will run nec neck. Dever will get the A Thompson will promise booze. | up supe nd his he ote as well as t Ruthenberg For Workers. Neither is for the worker. this in erg, ot by pe He fs thé nominee of the Workers Pa ty, and his local supporters have sed the following statement calling for active circulation of the petitions: | The job ean be done! We can get the signatures, if 2 ilize the party. Getting signatures looks big, until you realize that if every member does a little, the job} is done. We have till March Sth. Two more | Red Sundays. Almost 3 more weeks. | It Can Be Done? Tt ean be done! Anyone going out | gets signatures. Al Zuris of Section | 3 heads the list with 120 signatures; | Nellie Katilus, Margaret Miller (Sec-| tion 3) and N. S s of Nucleus | £5 have 60 each;. Bratton has 48; | Valentin has 36. Lists of 24 names} have been sent in by Olehowsky, Marie Houston, Axel Carlson, N.} Green, Penoff, S. Baumstien, Mathe- J. Cohen. These are the pace} It can be done! Well Done, Sec. 1. Section 1 got 200 signatures last! Sunday, with 16 members on the job. These were gotten in the Negro! , where the old party poli- are king a heavy cam-j{! paign. The pson (Republican) forces pub! statements in the “Defender” warning the voters that if they signed any statement at all, Settle for Coupons Immediately Thousands of Children of the Passaic Textile Strikers Are HUNGRY AND DESTITUTE HELP US FEED THEM Help Build a Strong Union! Take Some More To Sell — Office open from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. daily General Relief Committee 799 BROADWAY ROOM 2 NEW YORK CITY Stuyvesant 2343 25 | they would lose their right to vote THE NEW MASSES > influence of the New Masses. Attorney Smith. New Masses must. GOES TO NEWARK iin Sieoet J HE hero in this picture is none other than District Attorney Smith, of| ave a whit less imperialistic than Newark, N. J., who is determined to save his fair city from the insidious | Ba The fact that the poor wages paid young | cance of the victory is that the mas- girls in Newark, drives them into prostitution and makes Newark one of |ses are jurning their backs on the the largest centers of prostitution in the east does not disturb District | two capitalist parties and voting the He has decided that the New Mass lecherous and obscene, (and he doesn’t like its political views). is lewd, lascivious, So go the for him. Litsinger, his opponent for the | Republican nomination ‘in the pri-; maries, had vote pledge cards dis-, 4 abs | state department with the dispatch. || teports a revenue of over five billion tributed. The Thompson forces came | with pledges repudiating the Litsin-j The voter$ have been} ger pledges. seared into not signing and other petitions. And in spite of this, sig- natures are being secured. Lydia Beidel is pushing the work in this section. Competition Develops. Section 3, with Nellie Katilus in charge, is getting into the campaign ' with both feet. Last Sunday, four comrades got a total of 184 names. Section 3 already has well over 250 nam A triple challenge has been ex- tended and accepted by tke Section Secretaries of Sections 1, 3 and 5. Last night. Bill Matheson of Section said to Nellie Katilus: “We're go- te get-more names than Secticn But.. Nellie said “You won't.” day; when section 1 was asked to get into the three-cornered fight, Lydia Beidel said “I’m game.” The fight is on. And speaking of challenges, Sec- tions 4 and 6 are evenly matched. vill watch them hoth. Section 6 secretary has accepted. And: we are sure that Section 4 will respond. Rem r—you have until March Sth to bring the last lists to the party office at 19 S. Lincoln St. Each party member should now have filled at least one list of 24 names. Have you done your Communist duty? If not, do it now! Read The Daily Werker Every Day Vielin and Viola Lessons Given by expert teacher. « For reasonable rates, write to JOHN WEINROTH 6156 LARCHWOOD AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. A U. S. Marines Ready “(Continued from Page One) | Troops of the other powers are al ready patrolling the international set- tlement and throwing up barricades, Outside the settlement, in the native city, the masses are ready to welcome the Cantonese. Troops of the de- feated Shanghai ‘army are falling back on the city and troops of the northern army are coming in, pre- sumably to act as reinforcements, but lootng is feared. In the meantime the Cantonese army is sweeping on toward Shanghai with all defenses swept aside. U. S. Forces To Land. Landing of American forces to act jointly with Britain in Shanghai was forecast earlier in the day when the American minister at Peking joined in a note of warning to the Chinese, Most of the American warships are alongside the wharfs of*the interna- tional settlement, and can land troops in this way without passing through the seething native section, it was | stated. Imperialists Extend Lines. HANKOW, Feb. 25.—The imperial- ist powers today extended their lines outside the international settlement and landed heavy artillery from their warships as the armies of the na- tionalist government captured Sun- kiang, the last stronghold of the mili< tarists in the way of the victorious revolutionary fore fers of the Sun Chuan-Fang are now in full retreat and are looting in the suburbs of Shanghai. Italian and Japanese troops are said to be aiding the British. The imperialists have practically taken over the entire city of Shanghai. They threaten to establish a “neutral zone” taking in a territory extending twenty-five miles beyond Shanghai. | Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. si | | of First Workers Cooperative Colony Bronx Park East +. Consumers Finance Corporation SUBSIDIARY OF THE UNITED WORKERS COOPERATIVE 69 Fifth Avenue, Cor. 14th St. Telephone Stuyvesant 6900 $500 6% DAILY DIVIDENDS Secured by a SECOND MORTGAGE OF THIS SQUARE BLOCK $300 the and Allerton Ave. GOLD BONDS To Land in Chinas, | CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) | in his can, he donned his evening| clothes and drove in his $38,000 car | to a gay roadhouse, there to spend his earnings on whatever the boot-| leggers were able to supply. But} the millionaire beggar must have got | in wrong with the minions of the law | ov some other disgruntled beggar | may have squealed on him. The! judge gave him 30 days in the poor-| use and Mrs, Malone will be back | rom a trip to Havana by the time Malone is able to resume his Malone should open a_ bank, job, ask the people to let him take care of their money, give himself a title land a respe ale salary and spend half the y in Europe. No judge | would dare send him to jail, even |if he robbed the bank. Even beg- gars should be choosers. Another big labor victory scored in England. The tory candi- | date was defeated by a large ma- jority. This Labor Party success is} further proof that the gentleman by was | | | } | the name of Casson who. recently wrote in the New York Evening Post that British 1s was turning away from class political action and go- ing over to the capitalist parties was Not that the leaders of the Labor Party, such@men as acDonald, Snowden and Thomas win and Churchill. The signifi- labor ticket. Later they will turn their backs on the MacDonalds and |réeognize in the leadership of the Communist Party the only one that points the way to the overthrow of | Umperialism. * * HE Central Executive Committee of the All-Union Soviet Congress rubles and expenditures of 4,900,000,- 00. The government is able to place the sum of 100,000,000 in reserve. Not so bad. This does not prove that the workers cannot run industry. The Soviet Union started out with. out nothing left over from the Czar- ist regime but a legacy of demorali- zation, inefficiency and corruption, combined with a hostile capitalist world which waged war on the young s’ Republic with fire, sword yeott. That the Soviet Union could survive despite this hostile ar- is the greatest marvel in his- It should bring a thrill to the heart of every worker in whom the divine fire of rebellion has-not turned into ashes. It is an omen of the complete victory of the socialgrevo- lution. jf HE New York World finds the British note to the Soviet Union | proper and».a. Jegitimate protest | | against “practises, that, as Mr. Mac- | |Donald said no government could tolerate.” The World compares this action with the accusations of Bol- shevism made by Coolidge and Kel- logg against Mexico. The World is just as dishonest and hypocriticaltas the British note. Pulitzer’s organ is} aware of England’s conspiracy to or- | | rath, “athe ganize hostile blocks against the} Soviet Union. Indeed before the edi- | torial in question saw the light of} ‘day a Polish-Lithuanian pact was | signed at the instigation of England | with the object of isolating the Soviet Union and giving the empite a base of operations. The “liberal” World is just’ as reactionary under the skin as its more candid contem- poraries, N2 SOONER was William Hale | Thompson successful in winning the republican nomination for mayor | than he proceeded to make deals} with his fattional opponents accord- | ing to reports from the Windy City. | Why not? There are no fundamen- tal differences between the political gangsters that are gunning for the | privilege of looting the second rich- est city in the country. Thompson | is almost certain to be elected mayor. The workers will be ho better off | under his regime than they were un- | der that of the big business servant Dever. * Roll in the Subs For The DAILY) WORKER. | Supreme Court Will Dodge Issue in Case Of Kansas vs. K.K.K. WASHINGTON, Feb, 25.—Formal | opinion by the supreme court dismiss- ing the appeal of the Ku Klux Klan | of Georgia from a Kansas order deny- jing the klan the right to operate in | that state unless it complies with the State Foreign Corporation Laws is | expected to be Bg down next Mon- |day. After hearing attorneys for the |klan argue the case, Chief Justice | Taft and other justices indicated that the court is without jurisdiction, Plan Westchester Charter. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Feb, 25.— Members of the Westchester county ‘home rule civic associations attended the first public hearing today called by the cofinty supervisors for the dis- cussion of the third proposed new charter for Westchester county. They | voiced unqualified opposition to the document chiefly because of its pro- | vision which gives the county presi- ‘dent the indirect control of three of the five votes in the board of estim- ate. Subs For The DAILY | toll in the | WORKER. ‘ a Big Banking Interests Guide the Pen of Cal Coolidge at Washington By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ————_. T no time has the puppet na- ! ture of the Coolidge presidency been better revealed than in his veto of the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill and his signing of the McFadden-Pepper both upper and the lower houses of con- gress, Out of the west comes the roar of protest that the industrial East has dictated the Coolidge decisions. “But that hardly hits the nail on fhe head. Coolidge’s pen, as he signed comes to him from congress is mov- ed at the dictates of the great in- ternational financiers, whose power is centered in Wall Street, and who have more to say today about what transpires in the White House than at any time since the executive mansion was built. * * * The U&nkers control in great in- dustry. This is shown in the Mor- gan organization and control of the | steel trust and the General Motors Corporation that pushes Henry Ford to the wall in the auto in- dustry. established over the Chicago pack- ing industry. The banks run the railroads, clearly revealed: in the disposition of the Chicago, Milwau- kee and St. Paul Railroad, follow- ing its bankruptcy, and clearer still in the struggle raging between the New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroads. Let the farmers understand, therefore, that it was great finance with its home in the East, that crushed their hopes for the very conservative McNary-Haugen Farm Relief measure, while at the same time getting the seal of approval of their government at Washington for a bank bill that will “wipe out | all the little bankers inside of ten years”, according to one sen- ator. Thus finance capital delivers a | double blow at the small capitalists | and. struggling middle class ele- ments, 8 The McNary-Haugen bill was de- signed principally to aid the rich farmers and those who live off the working farmers—the landlords, food profiteers, the railroads and small bankers, who are in a stra- tegic position to seize for them- selves any increases in prices won for the staple products of the land, The MecNary-Haugen bill was not intended to alleviate in the least the “conditions of the millions of farm workers, tenant farmers and mortgage farmers, whose lot grows steadily worse, but who have not 4 yet developed sufficient class solid- | arity to wage a national struggle in support of their grievances. * 8 & Of course, the arguments ad- vanced by Coolidge in support of his veto of the McNary-Haugen measure are too thin to offer even the slightest screen t® hide the president's servility to Wall Street. Coolidge objects to the seléction of a Federal Farm Board from nominees suggested by farmers’ or- ganizations. He claims that is “un- constitutional” because it will take away his appointive power. . That ought to rouse a roar of laughter. When it comes ‘to appointing mem- bers of the interstate commerce commission, or any other important | government body, Coolidge quick- ly turns his ear to Wall Street to get his orders. The truth is that the money power is jealous of its hold on the executive power in the government. It will not surrender any of this power to even the rich farmers and their allies. Taking the pogition that, “We are the government!” these financiers rather struggle to strengthen the government's executive department power. Similarly, Coolidge raises the ar- guments that the McNary-Haugen bill concerns itself with only one third of the products of the Ameri- Daily Worker Wants Workers’ News From New Jersey's Mills The readers of The DAILY WORK- ER will be glad to know that news of the labor movement in New Jer- sey will be published under @ special head. Ali workers are requested to send in storis of any happenings that oc- cur in your union, sho ur fraternal organization that is of interest to the labor 1aovement as a whole. Also send ut the facts about all the pro- gressive movements 1 the s-ate. omer Student Drinks Acid. CENTERVILLE, Iow: » 25. — The toll of student suicides was i creased today with the death of Deena Reich, pretty 16-year-old Moravia high school pupil, Miss Reich ended her life by taking carbolic acid. This is the fourth student suicide in Towa in two weeks. Banker control has been | Banking Bill, | of which passed thru the | | year. or refuses to sign legislation that | can farms, That is not the fault of the authors of the bill, They included everything they could, uniting for the first time, for in- | stance, the cotton growers of the | South with the corn and wheat | | raisers of the North. They are, | willing to bring in all the rest. * * og | | It was long argued that Coolidge | | thight sign the bill as a matter of | political expediency in his effort to win the republican nomination next | This hope has now been | crushed. Wall Street does not need to play this way. Coolidge’s veto of the MeNarysHaugen bill helps him into the pousical ash can, But Wall Street has many other candi- dates that it will trot out, claim- | ing for them the political purity of driven snow. And Wall Street has hopes that the workers and far- mers will again come forward, hap- py and obedient, to again offer themselves as victims of the capi- talist political shell game. { Bitter disappointment will be | visited upon the capitalist mentors | of Cal Coolidge, if the workers and farmers develop their unity in the | building of the Labor Party, that will not only fight the big capital- ists but also the servile middle class. Coolidge will not be re-elec- | ted next year, but labor will have | made no progress unless it drives | forward in the building of its own | power independent of and in bitter opposition to the exploiters, big and | little. ¥}} UNLESS CLOTURE RULING CARRIES |\Six Day Filibuster to Go On Unless Gagged WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — After surviving a six-day filibuster, the senate this afternoon’ “suspended”, consideration of the Boulder Dam to begin consideration of the new public buildings Dill. This action did not displace the Boulder Dam measure from its privi- leged status as the senate’s “unfin- ished business” because of an old and seldom used rule, The rule was in- voked by Vice-president Dawes to aid the westerners. The chance of the Boulder Dam to pass seems to depend entirely on se- curing a two-thirds vote of the senate tomorrow for the gag rule shutting off debate. The cloture petition is headed by the name of Hiram John- son, who.has often denounced such procedure, One of the worst legislative jams in memory developed in the senate as a result of the filibuster against the *Boulder Dam measure and the efforts of its advocates to force it to a final vote. A dozen other bills of major importance languished on the sidelines while senators fought over the Colorado River bill or quarreled over precedence fgr other bills. Few | of these measures can be passed be- tween now and adjournment one week |hence, it was apparent, unless the Boulder Dam filibuster is broken. Quake Shakes Rio. Rio De Janiero, Feb. 25.—A slight earthquake, with subterranean rum- bles, lasting about 20 seconds, were reported at two o'clock this morning from Matto Grosso. LECTURES and FORUMS At Cooper Union (8 fat 8 o'clock Admission Free ay, Feb, 27—Lewls Browne: “This Beliéying World.” —Dr. Frank wood E. “Can Youth Be Co- & Astor Pi.) } | z rett Dean Mar- e Matter With '—"'The Influence of meriean Political Theory . De, Lawrence How. the Scientist Wonks. ‘Adjustmeiit of the Human Thurs. Mar, 3—E Questions People Expect a Philos- opher to Answer.—"What Is Po- tentiality, or Can Something Come Out of Nothing?”—Conklin. Sat. Mar, 5—Mortimer J. Adler: Psychological Relativity: The Four Geometries of the Soul—"The Morality of Health.” G. Spaulding: LABOR TEMPLE 14th Street and Second Avenue THIS SUNDAY 5 P. M.—Contemporary Authors. PROF. H. W. L. DANA CENTS | | 7:15 P. M— EDMUND B. CHAFFEE “The Religious Sanctions of the Doctrine of Free Speech” ADMISSION FREE “The United States and China” ADMISSION FREER Se | ‘ 8:30 P. M— LEWISGANNETT * ooo s-------- the Discov a Wettlement of S merica ongModigrsy Ideas.” Ww AT MANHATTAN FRADE SCHOOL) | + BERT OLFE Lex, Av, & 22d St, at 8 o'clock.| - z Gingis Admission S¢.centeo $ Director, Workers’ School, who Reduction fér Course Tickets, % took a leading part in the recent {Monaay, Feb. 28—Dr. Morris r.{ |‘ general railroad strike and was Cohen: American Philosophy.—] | deported from Mexico by th H | | | | i eteetenttitedlentntett = BRONX WORKERS’ OPEN + * FORUM 4 1347 BOSTON ROAD near 169th Street SUNDAY, FEB. 27, 8 P. M. z ; =~ €alles government, will speak on *“What’s the Matter With Mexico” Questions and Discussion. Paetetedennnndntnttetetattetettet INGERSOLL FORUM _ Chamber Music Hall Carnegie Hall, 154 W. 57th St. SUNDAY EVENING, FEB. 27 8 o'Clock + LINN A. E. GALE of Washington, D. C. Will Speak on “THE CATHOLIC PLOT AGAINST MEXICO” Admission. Free. Welcome, Presa Sas Ra BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Ce ee ee ee FLOYD DELL vs. Famous Novelist and Essayist SUBJ Floyd Dell, Says YES CHARLES Saturday, March 12, Tickets..... Gb b ainsignd bade -4rins jee HARLEM OPEN FORUM Sunday, Feb. 27 8 P.M. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PASSAIC By JOHN BALLAM Harlem Workers’ Center 81 East 110th Street. Come and bring your fellow Debate IS MONOGAMY DESIRABLE? Chairman COMMUNITY CHURCH AUDITORIUM 34th Street and Park Avenue For Sale at Jimmy Higgin’s Bookshop, 127 University Pl. NOW. eoteobetonloobentecententetenentodontesestertesfentecteeenteteeontectonetee \East Side Sebo Ce i ee A Ok VY. F. CALVERTON Noted Critic and Lecturer BCT V. F. Calverton, Says NO W. WOOD. 1927, at 8:15 P. M. ee seceseves$110 and %5 cents. | Open Forum CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS Nine Second Avenue (Near Houston) ee VAMES MYERS Industrial Secretary Federal Council bor and Religion” Negro Crew Revolts Against Ship Tyranny Goaded by the tyranny of a white master and mate, the colored crew of the lumber schooner Alice Pendleton mutinied off Norfolk, Va, and were being held today by coast guard of- ficers. William King, a Negro sailor, is charged as leader of the mutiny, workers. The ship was en route from Portland, Me, to Jacksonville, NO BOULDER DAM )