The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 2

oy 4 ® frome eee are cl Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1927 WON'T DISMISS FORD TAX TRIAL; | EVIDENCE !$ IN Dodge Got $25,000,000 For Ford Stock WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Decision by of tax appeals in the gov $30,000,000 tax case against Senator James Couzens of | Michigan and other former Ford Mo- | gy, will be de pring, it was tor Company stockholder ferred until late in the s announced today. Hearings Concluded. Hearings were finally concluded with testimony on special issues af- fecting the John F. and Horace E Dodge estates, and an agreement was reached to allow days for filing of briefs. r will be allow y replying briefs. Oral arguments summarizing and interpreting the mountains of docu- mentary and statistical evidence will be arranged for some time after May ist. Former Ford Motor Company stock- holders lost the fight to. dismiss the government's long-disputed $30,000,- 000 tax claims and end the case at once. They moved to disallow the claims on the ground that their Ford stock value contentions had been upheld by the evidence. Only by an unconsti- tutional construction of “fair market price or value,” it was asserted, could a lower value be found. Withhold Ruling. } The board of tax appeals, however, withheld any ruling on the motion leaving it as one of the issues to be | disposed of when it decided the case. The attempt to win an immediate decision for Senator James Couzens of Michigan and other former stock- holders was made a moment after the tax cases had formally ended with the completion of their rebuttal tes- timony. $25,000,000 To Dodge. Twenty-five millions. in cash was | paid to the Dodges within a month after they. made their deal to sell out to Ford. it was testified by Walter ZL. Dunham. vice-president of the first | and old Detroit National Bank, of De-| troit. Consolidation of News | Reel, Comedies, Short | Scenarios in New Trust | LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27.—One of! the most important alliances evr} made ip the ibut» pieture. industry, avolving the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, William Randolph Hearst and Hal} Roach organizations was. completed | today, according to advices received by Louis B. Mayer, head of the M. G. M. Studios here, from Nicholas M. Schenck, executive vice-president in New York. The deal concerns the creation of an M. G. M. news reel service to be produced by the Hearst organization and the affiliation of Hal, Roach, world’s foremost producer of come- dies, as the first step in establishing a large M. G. M. short subject de-| partment. Two news reel cameramen will be| constantly on duty covering the news of Los Angeles and Southern Cali- fornia, which will be distributed in hundreds of theatres throughout the world. The amalgamation also means. that the motion picture industry in Los Angeles will receive an impetus | fm production, particularly in the short subject field to fully round out the new M. G. M. short subject de-! partment. "Petty Bourgeois Indicted. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Feb, 27,—| As a result of a dispute over a box! of cough drops two local storekeep- | ers have been indicted by the federal | grand jury on a charge of kidnapping | a@ letter carrier and interfering with | the mails. ’ Pewee. All Workers but particularly Irish {| workers will want to read “Jim Connolly and the || Irish Rising of 1926,” by || G. Schuller with an intro- duction by T. J. O’Flaher- ty. “Connolly,” name of the military leader of the Easter Week Rebel- lion, is a magic name to every Irish worker who has within him a single spark of the divine fire of revolt, PRICE 10 CENTS. The Daily Worker 33 First Street New York City \to antihilate each other. CURRENT EVEN (Continued from Page One) counted for the balance of 50,000. the 2 ee BNE Insull went to Washington in re-| Sponse to a senate invitation, He was| received like the rich uncle that he| is, Frank L. th, the beneficiary | of the greater part of Sam’s election | swag had the can tied to him by the | same indignant senators who are now developing callouses on their bellies| grovelling before the money Mahatma. | “To whom did you give the $40,000} that is left unaccounted for?” politely | purred the inquisitors. “Gentlemen, I am deeply distr ed b » does not permit me to an-| »” almost sobbed Mr, Insull, The | senators had to adjourn to their hip pockets to relieve the emotional strain, the hearing was adjourned, an aval- anche of upturned palms massaged Samuel’s, and it never occurred to any- body to sing “The Prisoner’s Song.” What would happen to a radical labor leader hailed before a senate ecommit- tee for violating an injunction can be left safely to your imagination? ee Alfred L, Smith, governor of the Empire State has his headgear in the ring for the presidential nbmination on the democratic ticket. A nation- wide publicity campaign is now being conducted to break down the wall of anti-catholic opposition that divided the t demoeratie convention into two hostile camps when Madison | Square Garden, Tex Rickart’s private theatre of war was the scene of the greatest bloodless battle ever fought out in that arena. Even the art of William Jennings Bryan could not keep the two sections of Wall Street’s and the Lord’s armiés from desiring The out-| standing figures in the protestant and | catholic camps were eliminated and a colorless Morgan attorney was picked jonly to pass out of the political pic- ture in an election that placed the crown of victory on the brow of a Vermont bill collector and_ strike- breaker. ne Me William Gibbs McAdoo is now as! dead politically as A. B. Fall is out-| side of New Mexico. Al Smith’ has the backing of Wall Street. , Which |means that Wall Street would be sat- isfied to see Al ride the douikey in the next political race. Its agents in the O. P. camp will sef to it that a oyal jockey mounte the elephant.} Then the circus will be introduced with the press «gents painting the| wonders of the scenes inside the big| tent and the Barnums announcing the | “next act” to the voting multitudes. The attention of the workers will be attracted and their thots distracted by the commotion. While they should | be building a Labor Party and laying| the political foundation for political | mass action against the capitalist sys- tem they will be quarreling with each | other over the relative merits of the| capitalist cireus performers. | ae i General Ben Butler of Massachu- setts, the famous orator and advocate, | was once pleading a case ina Boston! court. The general was a master be-/| his “peers” with his tongue than other | attorneys could with the purse. But| in the middle of his exhortation aj small army of cats set up a tefrific) caterwauling from a nearby alley.) | Everybody in the courtroom laughed, | Saturday from the judge to the bailiff. general was irritated. the effect of his speech. The This weakened feline host on the outside. Always | equal to the occasion the general | meeting arranged by the Four A’s in| Shanghai |vaised his hands and said seriously, ! Lincoln Hall, 3rd floor, Walker Audi-| with the most eruel and vandalistic | pointing to the direction from which|torium Building, March 8, Tuesday | and barbarous methods. | the sound came: “Gentlemen, this only | means more cats.” Likewise a vic- tory for a democrat candidate or a republican candidate means only more | exploitation for the workers. Ramsay } MacDonald to Study American Plan) LONDON, Feb, 27.—Ramsay Mac- Donald is planning a. trip to New York during the Easter vacation. During his visit, which will last a week or ten days, the former premier | says he will make a brief suryey of labor conditions, BUY THE ee | AT THE NEWSSPANDS |Read The Daily Worker Every Day | his room and board. ‘ause my con- | * |tral competitive field, Miller D. antl |declared today following ‘a canvass | wide-spread strike {pecially ins | Labor Defense. |eal program is being arranged for all | axoney to a bank in Italy. | WILL NEGOTIATE OVER SOUTHWEST GOAL AGREEMENT Bosses Desire Separate Contract and Wage Cut {1 In Chemist's Test Tube Tex Guinan’s $30 Rum | | Only Denatured Alcohol | | “The yery finest Scotch whiskey, for eur own exclusive trade,” whis- pered the waiter. “It's expensive, but you have to pay to get the best. Three pints, | $30. Thank you sir. I'm sure you'll be surprised by the qual: OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 27.) Joal operators in Oklahoma, Kan-| s, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas/ will not enter into a new wage agreement with miners effective| April 1 if unions st on the me | basic terms as applicable in the cen-| chief mine inspector of Oklahoma, of operators’ organizations. A joint meeting of operators and miners will be held in Kansas City} in March and the former will insist | local conditions must be the basis for | a new contract without reference to| the decision of miners’ national or- ganization in the Florida conference, | it was said. Effects Lewis Prog 4 President John L. Lewis of the Mine Workers stated, after kdown of negotiations with ators at Miami, that he re- the signing of agreements with coal companies in the outlying | s such as Oklahoma, Kansas, | and Washington to break the oppo- sition of the coal pperators, and pre-| pare for a renewal of the conference | just ended. But this presupposes | that the new separate agreements will be signed on the basis of the| n. United | Jacksonville scale. Proves Progressives’ Point. | Progressives in the miners’ union \gee in the demands of the south-| | western operators for wage reduc- tions proof of their claim that sepa-| |rate agreements are not the best way | is being to approach the problem, and that} only immediate preparations for a campaign are effective as arguments with the fairly well w d mining companies. The progressives are es-| istent on strike prepara-| ganda for the union,| and. organization, among the non- union miners. They charge that) Lewis has neglected this work in the| past, and demand that he busy him- self with it before it is too late. tions, pr Several Meetings for | Heretic Bishop in and Around City of Angels (By a Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Calif—tThe Inter- national Labor Defense of Los An-| geles announces that Bishop William | Montgomery Brown, the famous au- thor of “Communism and Christian- | ism, will speak under its auspices in Trinity Auditorium, 9th and Grand, | ject will be “The Power of the Work- | ers.” Meetings have also been arranged | in Pasadena and Long Beach, The meeting in Long Beach will be held evening, March 5, at! Holder’s Auditopium, 240 West Ocean | Monday evening, March 7, has| St. He was in| been reserved as a meeting date in| Party and also some members of the | danger of playing second fiddle to the | Pasadena Hall, to be announced in a| Communist Party, which participated | few days. He will also address a evening. res A banquet for Bishop will be held | Friday evening, March 4, jointly with | the Four A’s and the International | An elaborate musi-| the above mentioned meetings. Church Roster Robs Poor Box. | \the to work for $9 and $i0 per week. \Facts About Beheading | lfore a jury. He could fix more of| Sunday evening, March 6, His sub-| These soft spoken w were | purred into the ears of two prohibi- | tion snoopers by a waiter in Texas | Guinan’s “300 Club,” but it turned out that the waiter was the one that was surprised. Today J. W. Quillen, chief chem- ist of the prohibition headquarters, announced that the “whiskey” is nothing more than «re-dietilled de- natured alcohol cut to an alcoholic content of 37.95 per cent. He added that if a person drunk enough of it he would be poisoned slowly. Denver Capmakers’ | Strike Continues; | Scab ‘Ad’ Is Killed (By a Worker Correspondent). | DENVER, Colo.—Capmakers in two | shops have been on strike for about | two weeks and are still out, asking} for an increase in wages, especially | for the lower paid girls. | At the Midwest. Cap Factory the} matter of wage increase was brought | before the State Industrial Commis- | sioner Williams. j It was agreed to by both the com- pany and the representatives of the| union that the 40-hour week be post- | poned until 1928. The girls who were | getting as low as $15.00 per week were allowed an igerease of 5 and 10 per cent. ‘ The strike is still on at the Per-| fection Cap Company and no effort | made to run the shop. Look For Seab Help. At the Capitol Cap Works an ef- Mr. Cohen, to run same with non- union help. He has advertised for help and not stated that a strike was | on in the shop which is against the state laws. Cohen was called into district atterney’s office and warned not to repeat the advertising unless®he states a strike is on, Co- hen says he ean get plenty of girls | The journeymen have no wage! scale at present, buf, an agreement has been reached for apprentices. A year ago a well known Com-! munist capmaker represented the na-| tional organization and secured a/ good agreement with all of the shops | while this year a non-Communist | was present and the result has been| a partial failure up to date. Columbus Communists | Tell the Local Press COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 27.—The Workers (Communist) Party branch here has passed the following resolu- | tion, to be sent to the Ohio State) Journal and other papers: According to press dispatches of | today members of the Kuomingtan) strike at were executed in the present general (China), Strike agitators, pickets and stu- dents were beheaded and the decapi-/ tated heads of the victims are now} | the adoption of an amendment to exhibited on poles in the principal | thoroughfares of the native quarters | at Shanghai. The men and women throughout | |the world who are members of the Communist International realize that | ENATOR WHEELER (demo- crat-Montana) declared _re- cently that the preat bankers were only awaiting the adjournment of congress to plunge the United States into war with Mexico and open actual’ hostilities in order to crush completely Nicaragua. The senator takes himself and @ongress too seriously. This has agsin becit shown hy the meek obedience with which the senate committee on foreign | affairs, against the wishes of its chairman, Senator, Borah, voted against a trip to Mexico and Nicaragua to actually investigate conditions there. R Secretary of State Kellogg sent | a clerk to capitol hill urging that the Borah request be rejected and the “administration senators” ef- fectively clamped the lid on the proposed investigation. The best that Senator Borah | could do in the hope of securing | some favorable action, was to urge his resolution providing simply that the committee have authority | to investigate Central and Mexican matters leaving the country.” American “Nervous Nellie” Kellogg would thus be per- | mitted to tie his apron strings se- curely around the legs of the se- date senators, permitting them to hobble about within sight where they would be incapable of doing any damage to the policies of ‘“dol- | lar diplomacy.” On fair days “Nervous Nellie’ might take his d organization | fort has been made by the manager,| senatorial wards across the strect from his ow- offices, for a stroll through the White House grounds where “Cautious Cal,” Street's parliamentary nurse ex- traordinary, could beam upon his good little children, See Wel But the “asaministration sena- tors” even refused to demand this iberty. Senators Moses, Lenroot, Willis, Pepper, MeLean, Edge, Capper and Gillette went over the top for the complete vassalage of the legislative wing of the govern- ment to the executive power em- bodjed in the president and his cabinet. Borah got the support of the farmer-labor senator, Shipsted, and the democrats rallied back of | him but this oily gave him a bare majority of 9 to 8 on the commit- tee, with stiram Johnson, of Cali- fornia, absent. Hiram, the run- ning mate of the late republican “progressive,” Roosevelt, on the 1912 “insurgent” ticket, is with the administration crowd, sup- porting the White House. and state | department in its Mexican, Nicar- Congress Talks Its Way Toward Adjournment (Continued from Page One) tricked into supporting, was already influencing the actions of the Federal Reserve Board today. Middle western senators had the bitter sweet experi- enee of seeing the board grant au- thority to the Richmond and Dallas banks to establish branches at Char- lotte, N. C,, and San Antonion, Texas, hardly before the ink ‘was dry on the president’s signature—or on his veto of the farm relief bill, Johnson Powerless. The Boulder Dam_ bill, against Quentin Prosperi, porter of the | the class struggle is a severe affair.|which an eight-day filibuster was Faulist Fathers Church, admitted to} police today, after being caught in} the act, according to the officers, that he had robbed the church poor boxes of $10,000 during the past fourteen months, He said he was sending the | For his work in the church, where he has been employed since 1923, Prosperi received $65 a month and) HUGE WASTE IN CAPITALIST INDUSTRY (Continued from Page One) | production of goods, including trans- | portation. The percentage so engaged, : ineluding manufacturing, transporta- | tion, mining and agriculture, has fallen from 29.3% in 1910 to 24% in 1925. If we could segregate from this producer group the number en- gaged in production of non-essentials, the small percentage of the population carrying the remainder on their backs would appear even more striking. This minority of productive work- The ‘following table. shows the pr tion in 1910, 1920 and 1925, taking the, Distribution of population Manufacturing and mechanical .... Transportation Mining and quarry’ Agriculture, forestry, ete. Trade ... Clerical Public service . Professional Total gainfully employed .... Not gainfully employed ......... Total population ers must produce enough food, cloth- ing, housing, fuel, ete. to provide for the entire population. They must pro- vide not only for their normal de- pendents such as wives, children, aged persons and invalids but also for the class of idle rich and its host of hang- ers-on, and for the millions of work- ers serving competitive private inter- ests fostered by a social structure centering around private profit. Such an arrangement materially increases the burdens and decreases the rewards of productive workers. ‘oportional distribution of the popula- total population as 100%: 1910 1920 1925 11.5% 12.1% 11.1% 2.9 2.9 28 Ll 1.0 1.0 13.8 10.4 91 3.9 4.0 4.0 1.9 3.0 4.0 5 A a 18 21 21 4, 32 81 39.4 2 60.6 62.8 100.0% + 100.0% 1000% ‘and uncompromising foe. | courtesy of the firing squad, | troops, We recognize that the capitalist class perceives in us Communists a bitter But we feel also, that as enemies we work- ers should not be murdered like dogs, but should at least be treated to the The local (Columbus) Workers (Communist) Party has passed this resolution to» protest emphatically against these cruel, inhuman out- rages, which occur in the presence of French, British and American A copy has been forwarded also to the American section of the Kuomingtan Party. « Movie King Disclaims Chaplin Divorce Move | Samuel Goldwyn, film magnate, who arrived yesterday from Holly-| wood with Joseph Schenck, flatly de-| would serve as a filibuster against! |their own measure, while: the wets) ,opposed cloture because the same nied reports that their mission is to urge a quiet settlement of the Chaplin divorce suit, “Mr, Chaplin needs no assistance in managing his marital ») any more than in his professional inter- ests,” said the producer, “Further- more, the film industry is in no way affected by his wife’s divorcee action.” New Custom House. J Construction of a new custom ap- praisers’ house in New York at a cost to the government of not more than $8,000,000, was called for in a bill approved by the house ways and means committee at Washington. ‘The building is to be erected uj the plot bounded by Varick, King, Hudson and West Houston Sts. pes te Read The Daily Worker Every Day waged, was fundamentally an at- tempt to increase the property values of Imperial Valley, California, at some injury to the present exorbitant pro- fits of the power companies controll- ing in Arizona and Colorado. Senator Johnson of California elo- quently pointed to the power interests as his chief opponents, but his hand- ful of realtors did not have the driv- ing power to line up the senators and shut off debate, Gag Unpopular. Johnson went down to defeat be- cause of the bitter factional differ- ences in the senate and not upon the nierits of his bill. He had maintained a big majority of the senate on ail previous votes, but upon cloture he lost both wets and drys as well as | those senators opposing the Tyson of- ficers bill. The drys thought fur- ther debate on the Boulder Dam bill “gag rule” has been asked on the dry, bill, He also lost a number of in- surgents who are opposed to cloture in any form. Some of the democrats also deserted the bill in order to help their col- league, Ashurst, win his fight against jit. Two more cloture petitions are pending in the senate, one on the Ty- son emergency officers’ retirement bill and the other to stop debate on the new public buildings: bill, Still another petition is circulating call- ing for the end of icoate on the An- pon | drews reorganization bill, a prohibi- tion measure. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. : By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. “without | Wall | now | Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Dodges War Probe in Latin America | CREATES TRUST aguan and Chinese policies. Borah’s threatened trip to Mexico and Nicaragua is therefore squelch- ed. He will,not even be allowed to play his timid game of anti-imper- ialism in. the government’s back yard in Washington, unless he can secure some action from the senate itself, which is doubtful. Borah fight. Ce ee It is hoped that Borah will fight. The New York World claims that Senator Johnson might be won for the “stay at. home” investigation. Even such an investigation might turn up some revelations that would be of interest to the masses of the American workers, But even if the amended Borah resolution | passes the senate, the “administra- tion leaders” are planning to over- | look the matter of an appropria- tion to meet the committee’s ex- penses. These incidents merely show again how congress abdicates in favor of the centralized govern- | ment concentrated in the nation’s | executive power. Members,of con- not even dare ask for the informa- privilege of declaring wars. Wheth- strings that makes its puppet, Coolidge, wave the flag as a signal for the lawmakers of the old parties to fall in line and whoop it up for war. Pat | The senate committee on foreign affairs duplicates the care taken by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor in turning its eyes away from the troublous situations in Mexico and Nicaragua. At the Detroit con- vention of the A. F. of L., it was impossible to get President Wil- liam Green to agree to go to Mex- ieo, Labor officials came all the way from Europe to atiend the gathering held at Mexico City, but Green refused to budge from Washington. The call for the meeting of the Pan-American Fed- eration of Labor was also issued . With, no mention of steps to be taken on the new depredations of Wall Street imperialism south of the Rio Grande. | | The A. F. of L, officialdom,has | shown itself, in these instances, as | obedient to. the will of Wall Street | as the “administration senators” on Borah’s committee on foreign affairs. Every effort is thus being made to shut out the light on this drive toward war. The workers and farmers must demand that the full glare of the truth be shed on this situation, Open the war on secret diplomacy. ~ Fight the im- pending war by opposing the drive in the dark toward war. “Bin” | will probably not even make the | er congress is in session, or out of | session, the plunderbund pulls the | CHARGE MOTION PICTURE TYRANT Department of “Justice Investigates Hayes WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — That Will H. Hayes, moving picture ezar, {has built up a ruthless monopoly of {the production of moving picture plays and their distribution, is the essence of charges preferred against him with the department of justice |by Frank J. Rembusch, head of’ the | Motion Picture Theatre Owners Assog ciation of Indiana, D. of J. Won't Explain. | The department of justice admitted | receiving the charges, and acknowl- edged it would ask for further in- formation, but otherwise would not comment. Rembusch states that the companies operating. under Hayes, constitute an | association for producing plays, and that they have crushed out nearly all competition. Wrecks Opponents. If a theatre owner does not like | their prices or other terms, and tries to deal with a rival, they are not |eontent with threatening him with boycott, but will send agents into his city to break do&n the good. will of ‘the publie for him, and in the final ‘act, if he does not succumb before, {to build a theatre of their own near |his and put him out of business. gress, especially of the senate, do | a ie tian upon which they are supposed \College Students at to carry out their constitutional | Workers School Are Visibly Impressed Two hundred men and women, many of them college students, visited |the Workers’ School and Workers |Party headquarters, 108 East 14th St., Saturday afternoon as a part ot their tour conducted by Clarence V. Howell, director of the Reconciliation Trips. Previously they had visited the Russian colony of Harlem and had jheard speakers representing the former nobility. present their point+of view at a meeting held at 5 West 125th St. They then had visited the Jewish Daily Forward, where B. Charney Vladek, spoke on the social- ist point of view towards Russia. According to Howell, they had not learned very much from either the emigres or Vladek, and were keenly linterested in the Communist point of view. ; | Dr. Abraham Markoff, instructor, jand lecturer in tha Workers School, told of conditions in Russia before the revolution and then recited conditions | at the present time. Referring to the trade unions, Mar- koff pointed out the importance they play in the life of the workers. \ How all workers in the lighter industries obtained a two weeks’ vacation while those who done heavier work received a four weeks’ vacation. 5 _. Anglo-Saxondom Again. A triple alliance between America, Canada and Australia in time of war in the Pacific, is seen by Hugh Deni- son, Commissioner for Australia in the United States. straightforward presentation priee of The Battle is on for | Shanghai , This is the latest phase of the heroic struggle resulting from the How did it happen? Read the book } and find it out for yourself, A “THE AWAKENING OF CHINA” By JAMES H. DOLSEN. One of the reasons for the success of this little book is its simplest language. Get it today for the very special reduced $1.00 A COPY. : Send orders to the DAILY “WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. \ of important incidents in the Ma SORES eRe com peRRRNRERNTT meme ae car RS NN EGA