The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1927 LAST WEEK OF CONGRESS WILL DO BUT LITTLE Wets Gagged to Pass Stricter Prohibition | WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — In a desperate move to end the legislative blockade in the dying sixty-ninth congress, the senate s afternoon adopted cloture, limiting debate on the Andrews prohibition reorganiza- tion bill. It was the fourth time in its history that the drastic “gag-rule” was invoked and the dry bloc won only after the senate had rejected cloture three times in as many days’ on other bills. This action brought the Andrews bill before the senate, permanently sidetracking the Bould- er Dam bill, and insures its enact- ment over a determined wet filibyster. The vote was to 27, exactly the required two thirds majority. Probably No Building. A few minutes previously, the sen- | fate refused to invoke cloture on the $165,000,000 new public buildings bill and thereby seriously impaired its | ehances for enactment at the present | session. | The’ senate immediately proceeded | te debate on the dry bill, which the| administration had supported. Under | eloture, each senator will be limited | to one hour’s debate and the measure | then will be finally enacted, as it al-| ‘ready has passed the house. | Much Talk, Little Done. | The sixty-ninth congress will die} at noon next Friday with the final} enactment of a radio control bill, pas- | sage of the new branch banking act, | the vetoed farm relief measure, the prohibition reorganization bill and a/ dozen appropriation bills as its prin-| mous consent. | Congress found itself in jammed condition partly because of | the eight-day filibuster against the Boulder Dam bill. Third Term Resolution. Leaders expected the final week to ed to considrable politics. + which faces certain de-| involve President Coolidge’s dent, was pending and will provoke | con: a hearing. The administration forces however were determined to block a vote on it to save the president em- barrassment. Look After Smith. The political campaign investiga-| tions also have a place on the clos- ing program. The senate is due to| take final action on the contests| against Senator-designate Frank L. Smith (R) of Mlinois and Arthur R. Gould (R) of Maine, but may post- pone both cases until next December. There will also be the matter of pass- ing upon contempt citations against Samuel! Insull, of Chicago, Daniel F. Schuyler, his attorney, and Thomas W. Cunningham, a Philadelphia court clerk, who defied the Reed commit- tee. And lastly the Reed committee will seek extension of its powers throughout the coming recess. All these will be highly controversial matters. Short Skirts and China Hated by the Pope ROME, Feb. 28.—Sermons peatnet| the modern woman’s immodest garb and prayers for Mexico and the} church interests in China were urged} by the Pope today when he received | the curates of Rome in audience, | All Workers but particularly Irish workers will want to read “Jim Connolly and the Trish Rising of 1926,” by G. Schuller with an intro- duction by T. J. O’Flaher- ty. “Connolly,” name of the military leader of the Baster 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 | | | | | ‘tem on all of its vessels. FISHING SCHOO NER WRECKED A view of the battered fishing schooner “Elsie G. Silver” being pounded to pieces by the Atlantic’s rollers on a sandbar off Cape Cod, near Truro, Mass.--the fifth vessel to meet a similar fate this winter in the same vicinity.* SEAMEN OF NEW YORK OPPOSE PLAN FOR TWO WATCH SYSTEM Shipowners Violate Protective Measures Granted by Seaman’s Act. By FRED HARRIS. The re-introduction of the two watch system by the Standard Oil Co. of | this. cipal legislative achievement. Unless; New Jersey on all of its vessels marks a definite move of reaction and places | political miracles occur, administra-| the seamen again in the position prevailing some 30 years ago, which forced} tion leaders admitted, there will be| them at that time to organize the International Seamen’s Union of America|the Reed senatorial committee inves- | no other major legislation enacted | and seek protection against the conditions of during the four remaining days. The | Ever since the Seamen’s strike of ; —— Yone chance for any measure of na-|1921, conditions on American ships| tional interest becoming a law, they | have been getting from bad to worse. | said, lay in its enactment by unani-| Wages which at that time were $90 a} month, with a three watch system, this| were reduced to as low as $45 a| month. Overtime work, recognized as such and paid for at the rate of $1 per hour, was at the end of the strike regarded as necessary work for the safety of the ship for which no pay- ment could be demanded. The Sea- men’s Act, granting the right of dis- charge to any seaman in all Ameri- can ports and to all American seamen pirations for a third term.|in any foreign port and the right to| a¥ollette resolution, declaring | demand one-half of his earned wages | ‘against a third term for any presi- | at any time, is now grossly violated. The American seaman as such has rable debate whenever it gets|been divorced from any of these| rights. He is held to a twelve month contract, encounters difficulty in drawing his pay, is compelled to work overtime without payment for the ame and has been subjected to a dis- vict than a free man. One of the pet schemes to punish tem, the penal code on ships. For every one day absent the captain may impose a two day fine. The am- biguity of this law permits the mas- ter of the ship to make three or four charges out of one. Thus for staying on shore for one day the sailor may him such as “leaving the ship with- out permission,” “endangering the |safety of the ship,” “being drunk and | unfit for service” and “attempting to desert the ship.” For each a two-day fine may be imposed, thus sometimes leaving a sailor indebted to the ship| after completion of the voyage. Board Cuts Food Allowance. Much as the disciplinary measures have increased, yet his living condi- Only recently the U. S. Shipping Board reduced the food allowance for its seamen from 62 to 52 cents per day. If it is taken into consideration that the Shipping Board has always, and is now, maintaining the best con- \ditions of all American ships, little} jimagination is needed to realize what} the Sunday law was strictly enforced, private ships may be like. Wage which on Shipning Board boats run from $62 to $65 per month for sea- men are as low as $45 on private liners. Previously the American ship own- ers pleaded continuously that the high ivate of wages for American seamen kept them from competing with for- eign ships, It is significant therefore to note that at present the condition |” is completely reversed, so that Mexi- lean wages are as high as $90 and wages for Australian seamen are $100 and over per month. The greatest danger at present however is the re-introduction of the \two watch, twelve hour a day sys- tem. According to waterfront infor- mation, the U. S. Shivping Board is now going to follow the example of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey ‘and will, so it is stated, beginning April 1 to enforce the two watch sys- With such a strong lead it would only be a mat- \ter of a short time until all American -' vessels resort to this former system, jand will thus completely abolish the greatest gain ever made by geariten. Mass meetings are being arranged by the Marine Transport Woskers and the International Seamen’s Club, to formulate the necessary protection against the two. watch system, and to defeat the Shipping Board and American ship owners in their en- deavor to reduce the American sailor ‘to, the level af a colic. ‘ ipline more appropriate for a con-| slavery, ‘Counter Revoltionst | Mexican General Given | | Light Sentence by U. S. | LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28.—Gener- to serve one year and five months in a federal penitentiary and to conviction on charges of conspiracy to violate the neutrality laws of the United States. Estrada tried to overthrow the | Calles regime and re-establish the clerical De La Huerta rule. His | light sentence is in striking con- trast to that inflicted upon Rangel, Cline and others who were con- | victed of attempting to overthrow | extremely reactionary governments |. mn Mexico and set up more liberal | ones. |him is the nefarious “logging” sys-| Governor of Carolina ‘Enforces Sunday Law; \Paralyses Whole State COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 28.—A ti- | Carolina legislature over the state’s | century old “blue law.” Following Governor Richards’, en- | forcement of the ancient Sunday law | yesterday on a state-wide scale, pro- ponents of pending legislation to | modify the law announced they would | press for early passage of their bills. First arrests in the governor’s drive jagainst Sunday law violators were | made at Greenville, when four golfers | tions have been reduced continuously. | were nabbed on the Greenville Coun- try Club links. The Aiken winter calony went un- molested. Golf and polo were played outside the city limits, but within the city itself even the sale of newspa- |pers was prohibited, At Camden, another tourist town, | but, many tourists left for Pinehurst and other nearby resorts. In the larger cities the law was | generally enforced. Ministers, as a rule, commended the governor in ser- mons yesterday. . Cal Is Ready to Name Radio Commission WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — Presi= dent Coolidge is expected to name he five federal radio commissioners who will guide the destinies of the infant industry for the next year, ither tomorrow or Friday. There are “ver 1,000 candidates “in the field.” Americans Leave China. HONOLULU, T. H,, Feb. 28— Numerous American refugees from China ‘arrived here today on the liner Korea Maru enroute to their homes bringing vivid tales of conditions in China. C, A. Bryant, A. Y. M. C. physical director from Foochow, said: “It was an everyday experience in Foochow to see mobs march down the street shouting, ‘down with christian- ity and down with the British’.” Prof. E. M. Poteat of Shanghai Col- lege said Shanghai is crowded with refugees. He said he did not believe foreigners are in danger and pre- dicted that the nationalists will win if the long yun. al Enrique Estrada, former Mexican | minister of war, was sentenced here |\Man Out of Work Gets Six Months for Taking | pay a fine of $10,000 following his | | | SCHUYLER AND INSULL CITED FOR CONTEMPT Millionaire Says Feels a Duty to Give Money WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — Samuel Insull, the Chicago utility magnate, Daniel F. Schuyler, his personal at- torney, and Thomas Cunningham, a Philadelphia court clerk, were cited to the senate this afternoon for con- tempt by the Reed campaign fund committee, Gifts A “Duty.” While the citation for contempt was being prepared, Insull relaxed a lit- tle, and made a statement to the press as to his reasons for giving over a quarter of a million dollars to influence the course of elections in Milinois, Insull’s excuse, made with| a smile, was that he firmly believes | | his contributions were “a duty”—a/| necessary duty in his “guardianship | of the well over a billion dollars in- | vested in the public utilities under | his control.” He “sleeps with an easy | conscience and he feels that to have | ignored the local elections in Illinois, would have made him faithless to the | trust imposed in him.” The invest- thents in his care, he estimated, to-| | taled more than the value of all Henry | Ford’s properties. Must Run Country. | The implication was, that he be- | lieves it necessary for his companies | to control the government out his| way, and that anything short of this} is treason to his stockholders, | He added that he loved politics, spent a lot of time in the houses of | parliament while’ in London, but | wouldn’t have anything to do with |national politics in America after Admits Huge Gifts, Insull, while being investigated by | tigating graft in the elections of U. S. | |senators, admitted giving $125,000 to! | the candidacy of Frank L. Smith, now under fire in the senate. He admit- ted giving Robert E. Crowe, state’s attorney in Chieago $5,000 and other sums elsewhere, a grand total of $287,000, but refused to say where two gifts of $20,000 each went. It was for this refusal that he was cited | for contempt. Apples in Gary’s Town (By Worker Correspondent). GARY, Ind., Feb. 28.—The indus- trial depression in Gary is driving some men to steal food. Joe Rooster of this city was brought before the Lake country criminal court on the charge of stealing a few apples from ja fruit vender. Judge Martin Smith ot Crown Point fined Rooster $5, and sent him to the state penal farm for six months. The apples were valued 60. cents. } a | Boost Burglar Round-Up. Robberies totaling from $500,000 to | $1,000,000 may be'cleared up through | the arrest of thirteen members of the “head-ache” gang which effected the Labor Must Show Its Own Face in the Fight With Its Class Enemy By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Bests most important question be- fore the American working class today is the attitude of the Wall Street government at Washington toward Mexico, Nicaragua and China. Every bit of light that can be shed on these maneuvers of American that leads inevitably toward new wars, is of great value-in arousing the masses to the approaching danger. The dollar diplomats always choose to move in darkness. This is shown in their bitter hostility to the demand made by Senator | Borah that the senate foreign rela- tions committee be allowed to make an investigation of conditions in Mexico and Nicaragua by visiting these countries. Opposition is even raised against an investigation car- ried on in Washington. Pe Ree This war of secret diplomacy against every effort to bring the facts about Mexico and Nicaragua into the open, where the worker and farmer masses of the nation can get a good look at them, easily becomes the outstanding issue dur- ing the closing days of congress, The fight for publicity is worthy of a filibuster that would keem every bit of legislation off the floor of the senate, if it would merely | bring to the attention of the nation the fact that the Coolidge-Kellogg- Mellon-Morgan government is try- ing to carry forward in secret its dark designs against Pan-Ameri- can countries, alge eae, 3 Whatever struggle has been made thus far, has been waged by | Senator Borah, as chairman of the senate committee on foreign rela- | tions, here, as in all other ques- tions, notably the battle over the MeNary-Haugen farm relief bill, the so-called “insurgents” have no independent position. Borah does not consider himself an “insur- gent.” He was never a part of the LaFollette group. Just as Dawes and Lawden, two great capitalists, led the fight for the McNary- Fewer Men Work in British Mines But Produce Same Amount | LONDON, Feb. 28. — A hundred thousand miners have been thrown | out of work in the last year. Re- liable estimates place the number of miners employed at present at 1,006,- 200 as against nearly 1,200,000 for the same week last year. Despite the increased unemploy- ment British coal output has reverted to normal. This indicates that the England has been increased by a hundred thousand. | $90,000 aspirin theft fro mthe Bayer |find as many as six charges against | tonic battle loomed today in the South |Company plant in Brooklyn, police stated today. Roli in the Subs Por The DAILY WORKER. WORKERS’ SHOP NUCLEUS One popular antidote to workers’ iean Plan-Open Shop Conf., ete. In outlining ways to make the em-| ploye magazine a “go” with the work- ers, Tead and Motcalfe in their book “Personnel Administration” sa, “there is one personal note that al- ways claims the attention of the work- ing force. Nothing appeals to the average man more than his babies, Most of the company magazines rec- ognize this fact, and print all kinds of reproduction of proud parents and) their children.” Another expert writing in the | American Management Review says,| “They like to see their names in print. The wise editor will see to it that every worker’s name appears in the publication at least once a year... . Next to seeing their own names in print, they like to see the names of their friends. The alert editor will ask workers to write short stories about factory things and help them to do so if necessary.” The personnel director of a preat paper company who edits a plant pub- lication as a substitute for higher wages and collective bargaining tells the management world that his con- tents deal with thrift, “ambition in- spiration,” “Americanization,” “baby pictures,” “birth records,” “economic prin¢iples,” “the history of the com- pany and its employees’ mental im- provenient.” Not one word about wages, hours, trade unions, the labor movement or other “controversial is- sues” is permitted to appear in these publications, Labor Spy Papers. One specialist on the company mag- azine is the notorious Sherman Cor- % PAPERS BEST discontent is the employee magazine. Between 500 and 1000 are published by American corporations, They are highly recommended by all leaders of the personnel and industrial welfare profession as well as by anti-union organizations—Natl. Mfrs. Assn., Amer- poration, Engineers, the largest labor spy concérn in the world. In a sales booklet prepared for prospective clients, the research divfsion of this super-espionage company mentions among its services the “House Organ —A ‘dummy’ copy of House Organ, suitable for Employees’ Association, with suggestions for suitable con- tents.” A few magazines are published directly in the name of the company union, or the mutual benefit associa- tion, or boosters’ club of the plant. Given Free. Most of these magazines are given away free but in some plants work- ers have a small amount checked out of wages on the theory that they will value more highly what they pay for. In the\Lynn plant of General Electric Co. the workers pay 20 cents a year which doesn’t cover the cost of get, ting it out. Especially since the rise of work- ’ shop papers urging organization into real unions, have personnel man- agers urged the employe magazine as a counter-propaganda weapon, The shop nucleus papers have in some plants already eclipsed the employer- edited sheets. The Ford Worker, for example, has a 25,000 paid circulation, while the Ford News, (the company’s organ) is finding its way to the gut- The effective answer to the man- agement-edited house organ is the publication of real workers’ shop pa- pers, some 40 of which already exist in this country with a ciyeulation of over 80,000, imperialist diplomacy, [ | | | | | ANTIDOTE FOR COMPANY HOUSE ORGANS. By ROBERT DUNN (Federated Press). | | | | | Haugen legislation, so Borah, al- ways a regular’ republican, with the aid principally of reactionary southern democrats, becomes the forefront of the demand for pub- licity on American relations with Mexico and Nicaragua. LaFollette, Shipsted, Nye, Fra- zier and the rest accepted the leadership of Dawes and Lowden, on the question of farm relief, and now they have no independent stand in the Wall Street imperial- ism, altho the workers and far- mers of the states from which they come demand, in overwhelm- ing numbers, that an effective at- tack be carried on. Both these situations arise out of the surrender of the LaFollette group to the reaction in congress, | so that they might have their regu- | larity restored and committee as- signments returned tosthem, ea a The argument was made by its members that if the LaFollette group remains silent, then the Me- Nary Haugen bill would have a chance to pass. The actual result is now bitter history. The bankers goth their McFadden-Pepper law, as a result of this maneuver, while _ the farmers got a veto by Coolidge. The LaFollette insurgents not only hid in the .trenches while Dawes and Lowden were up front making the fake fight under the false colors of the farm-bank bloc. | They even tried to sneak to the rear and out of sight. The result was that they got shot in the back, and must return to their various states thoroly discredited. * * * The same development is taking place in Borah’s fight for publicity to rout the dollar diplomats out of their cellars of secrecy. Borah car- ries on a lukewarm fight against imperialism. Senatdr Wheeler (Democrat-Montana) was active for a time, But he, too, seems to have let down. ,LaFollette, Ship- sted, Nye and Frazier merely play the role of “me, too” men when a vote is to. be taken. But the real struggle has not yet lured them “over the top” in an effective at- tack against the administration policies. Nor will it, - - * * Even if the LaFollette group flares into a display of fireworks during the closing hours of this congress, it cannot wipe out its complete capitulation to the reac- tion, which must mark the open- ing of a new epoch in the political struggle in their various states back home. This new period will be ‘signalized by a rapid develop- ment of independent political ac- tion of the workers and farmers thru the labor party, as a result number of constantly unemployed in| of a growing realization of the fact that the working class cannot fight with a capitalist class front, Labor must show its own face to its elass enemy. A a a ee 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 ) WAR DEPARTMENT MAKING CAPITAL OF FLYERS’ FALL Demonstration to Awe | Latins Goes On ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, — The | death of Captain Woolsey and Lieut. Benton, two of the “Good-Will” American military flyers touring over Latin America with their great bombing planes, did not stop the flight. The political exegiencies are | the same as before, and the necessity |of overaying the Latins remains. The war department anounced’ a cable from the ranking survivor Ma- jor Dargue, in which all the blame for the mishap is laid on the dead flyers, and in which, it is said, a plea is made for the continuation of the flight, “in the spirit of the best traditions of the service”. This re- quest was immediately complied with, | after a conference of Secretary Daw- son and Major General Patrick. War department officials have seized. readily on the fact that the accident provides them with a | martyr, and are capitalising it for all | it is worth. In all publie statements the hero- ism of the surviving officers is in- sisted upon, tho their heroism seems to have been merely that of trusting their lives to what a recently deposed head of the air service declared to be “toy planes”, nearly useless. Once up, and once in the wreck, the men not knocked unconscious jumped with parachutes dnd came safely to earth. Yesterday's crash occured after the | aviators had gone through maneuvers over Buenos Aires. The four planes were flying to- gether six hundred meters high when | suddenly two swung to the right and | the Detroit and’ New York swung to the left in their maneuvers. It was ‘then that the New York and Detroit | became tangled. Dargie and Whitehead jumped | with their parachutes, but Woolsey ;and Benson were evidently unable to |find their own parachutes. Benson {made a heroic effort to reach Wool- !sey’s parachute but missed and fell. He was badly mangled. Woolsey fell in his flaming plane and was burned |to death. Dargue and Whitehead were knocked senseless but as soon |as they recovered consciousness they |ran back to where their compaions | lay dead. . Dargue wept bitterly. The plane Detroit was burned and the New York was dashed to pieces. The war department explanation of the mishap as gathered from Major Dargue’s report was: Major Dargue in the front plane gave the agreed signal to break formation and land. This was under- stood. The planes behind and to his right and left obeyed, one turning | out to the right, the “Detroit” to the left. In his maneuver the hull-of Capt. Woolsey’s plane evidently hid from him the plane “New York” which was |} at a slightly lower attitude, and turn- | to the right as he started his glide to | land the nose of his plane struck the |“New York.” | “The planes, each traveling at least | 100 miles an hour, locked together |and were out of control. SE tinted and find it out for yourself. “THE AWAKENING OF CHINA” By JAMES H. DOLSEN. 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