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

page an DEPTS i ai | j case by ikfurter, professor |gog of poor taste, and miscellaneous | ficials, by the onward sweep of the ] at Harvar: w School. Frankfurter epithets of Bolshevist, fool, Teapot FARM BILL VETO vicious contract system, serious | ublishes hi udy in the March At- Dome, pacifist, scandal, and disloyal- wage reductions and widespread un- ! antic Monthly, old conservative pub- ty are the principal fruits of a Wash- | employment, the yank and file hard | ; lication. ington birthday dinner that was in- coal miners are girding for a fight. Case Still Open. tended to initiate a $2,000,000 drive 5 Particular value comes from Frank- | for political senaid dri ictanaai 000 miners, has shut down indefin- | furter’s statements at this time, be- Cash’ Desired: | itely, while Lehigh Valley Coal Co., | cause the case is still before the The dinner was given by the Amer- down a long time, has just re- i cision is awaited on a second appeal | from trial judge Webster Thayer's | ahh lar teaapnedl yrs Acid iba work in vain up and down the entire 4 5 ca Pe a Dag lngy ME PY | c 8 ssingly slow ] mn anthractt . denial of motions for new tria twat | in materializing. In fact the cash is Cal Is Losing Suppor- wealth edo 1 Thayer's conduct of the Fe ada many months overdue. The organiza- Cappellini_on Job. Yi) , _ trial and his later ruling against new tion, which ostensibly encourages ters to Lowden Rinaldo Cappellini, | reactionary | trial are strongly attacked. Thayer's | good citizenship, but is actually a president of District 1, has just i last opinion is called “a farrago of mnilitarist snooping outfit, had an-|. CHICAGO—(FP)—The middle west | broken a strike of Lehigh Valley i raisquotations, misrepresentations, nounced a victory dinner for Dec. 14] #8 aflame with anger over President | miners. This strike, called because 5 suppressions, 9 id mutilations... . The last year, at which the corraling of Coolidge’s veto of the McNary-Hau- | the company insisted on cutting the ' opinion is literally honeycombed with the $2,000,000 was to have been cele- | #°? farm relief bill, which had passed | former flat rate for rock contract- | demonstrable errors, and a spirit brated, That day came, but neither both houses ef congress and had been | ing from $4.70 a yard to $2.34, was { Page Two fHE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WE AUTHORITY RAPS SACCO-VANZETTI. TRIAL METHODS: Felix Frankfurter Lengthy Analysis in acco\and Van- in their fight BOSTON—(FP).— zetti get important a’ for freedom in a most careful 23- lysis of their remarkable | rt. De-| Massachusetts supreme cov | alien to judicial utterance permeates Sas whole.” ‘ by public sentiment in general in| company loyalty f C lini, : Admirat- Snarls. y , | ipany loyalty rom; Cappellini, | Scores Court. ‘ a on Waphins toa Aida the agricultural states. The old sec- |who insisted on “honorable” con- i Frankfurter does not spare the su- —tihere was another fluke. A: number tional feeling against the tariff-pro- | tracts. ‘ i tected eastern seaboard, where finan-| His claims were punctured by preme court for its upholding of Thayer and his decisions on the first appeal. He shows the inconsistency of the crime of which Sacco and Van- zetti were convicted in 1921 with their previous lives as a skilled shoe worker and fish peddler. He links up their radical views with the red yaid period of their arrest. The law expert tells briefly the ease built up by the defense against the Morelli gang of Providence as the real payroll robbers and murder- ers. The unsolicited confession of a criminal, Celestino Madeiros, who risked his own safety by his act, gave the lead to defense attorney William G. Thompson Laws Imperfect. Frankfurter was one of five mem- bers appointed by the Massachusetts legislature as a commission to work out a prospective revision of the Bay State legal code. Such ancient laws as that against blasphemy and other blue laws still stand, as the Bimba case ht out over a year ago. The Sacco-Vanzetti case has th § WARDEN LAWES OF News item.—Congress takes no action on the demand for an in e department of justice in the frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) diers interfere in Latin American to} protect the interests of Wall Street. | Having caught Kellogg lying more) than once, Borah, communicated di- rectly with President Calles of Mex- ‘o and the reply convinced the sena- ING SING HITS NOTHING DOING IN WASHINGTON vestigation of the activities of TURN CHURCHES INTO GABARETS, DAY, MARCH 2, 1927 DOLLAR PATRIOTS DINNER A FIZZLE; NO MONEY RAISED American Citizens Scrap at Affair in By CARL HAESSLER, (Federated Press). CHICAGO,—An admiral dubbed a mobocrat, a rabbi branded a dema- ican Citizenship Foundation in Chi- the dinner nor the cash. of good people, taken in by the foun- dation’s false front, had accepted in- vitations to hear the old navy auto- erat, Admiral Wm. A. Moffett. The admiral, possibly under the in- fluence of patriotic toasts, threw off the lamb’s wool and revealed himself | as a ripsnorting ‘sea-wolf baring his fangs at pastors, pacifists, liberals and their like. Rabbi Louis I. Mann, one of the good people, got angry at the fraud practised on him by the foundation and let loose with rea! pulpit thunder. ‘The dinner became interesting to guests, but the slick promoters of the foundation felt as though they had swallowed a barrel of tabasco sauce. They saw their. $2,000,000 dwindling to a non-union. barbershop tip. So the Chicago Tribune trotted over to their rescue a few days later and Rab- bi Mann is now branded editorially with the scarlet mark of “clerical demagogy.”” Is He Mad? The Federated Press last Decem- ber exposed the American Citizenship Jail Call Good Place | | To Concoct Home Brew R. L. Prisoner Claims CRANSTON, R. L, March 1—~A prisoner in state's prison was dis- covered making “home brew” in his cell today. Warden Charles E. Linscott con- fiscated the apparatus, which con- sisted of a‘ single glass jar. The prisoner, whose name was withheld was understood to have placed malt, sugar and yeast into @ jar of water and let it ferment. AROUSE FARMERS OF MIDDLE WEST indorsed by farm organizations and | cial capital is concentrated and where the policies of the national govern- ment are set against labor and the farmer, is once more at fever heat. Newspapers. ordinarily pro-Coo- lidge are busy launching the presi- dential boom of former Governor Frank Lowden of Illinois, who poses as a farm supporter though he is chiefly -known as the son-in-law of | the Pullman millions and as a repub- | lican politician and lawyer. His lieu- tenants attempted in 1920 to buy delegates for him to the national convention that finally nominated | Warren Harding. | | ‘No Hope To Farmers. | Nowhere in his long veto mes- | sage did Coolidge give the farmers any hope beyond that cautiously ex- pressed in his message to congress of Dec. 8, when he cynically said: | “While the government is not to be blamed for ‘failure to perform the | impossible, the agricultural regions | ‘are entitl¢dd to know that they have 2 constant solicitude and sympa- | | thy.” STRIKE NEARING IN. ANTHRACITE; PAY BEING GUT Cappellini Sits on Lid Defending Companies (Special to The DAILY WORKER) SCRANTON, . March 1.—Goaded into desperation by the callous ne- glect of union affairs by district of- Hudson. Coal Co., employing 20,- opened on a three to four day a week ‘basis. Miners are seeking featured by loud protestations of George Gould, secretary of the Le- high Valley general grievance com- mittee. In a statement replying to Cappellini he wrote: “Mr. Cappellini in a statement to the newspapers in regard to the strike at Henry colliery of the Le- high Valley Coal Co., which is threatening to develop into a gen- eral strike of Lehigh Valley Co. em- ployes, declares that district offi- cials were not notified of the griev- ance in question which concerns a matter of rock contract wages. It is true that the district officials were uninformed as to the state of affairs but this was through no fault of the men in charge of the grievance who went to the Miners Bank office and found the United Mine Workers room was locked: and that all officers had left for the con- vention at Indianapolis, without ar- ranging for any protection whatso- ever for the workers who remained at home. District Officials Not Thera ; made clear other deficiencies, chiefly that the supreme court cannot judge én evidence but only on points of law, |tor that Kellogg could not be de- pended on to give the facts. Foundation as the organizer of @| Speaking for the joint interests | " . . " “As secretary of the general a fae arn Rg on I. | reptesented if the Farmer-Labor ex- | 8evance committee I happen to if » SPY n pane S| change, manager C. F. Lowrie says | Know that the Henry committee did on_their movements, preventing their | of the Coolidee veto Wabhares pol | all in their power to come to a sat- > and filling the land with hatreds |" “)Y rt Sy wenn a oe | Someta ge -abbbde wendy. with. thio.c0f/ im tha name of patriotism. Yn. the | Permanently handicap’ the farmer as | liery officiajs but this settlement February issue of The American Citi. | *@#inst ‘the protected position of the | could not ke arranged as the dis- gen, the foundation’s publication, big eagtern industrial cotporations | trict office was closed. When in- Prisident Geofdim Rdinend Foss of the and finance, | formed of the absence of district Organiastion writes: ¢ | ak REP aera | officials the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. SSomecne Wiseatl That the Aina Farmer’s Family Burns. officials refused to meet with the ican citizen is a great man, if you| HIBBING, Minn. March 1—Four| Henry committe, as they consid- can only get hith mad epouch.. Isn’t| children of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pas- | ered the affairs of the district to be there enough to be mad at?” ° .| ford, a farmer living south of here, , Conducted in a slipshod manner. Lite of Bees. | and the father of Basford were | “Cappellini claims that the miners Among those blacklisted, as re- burned in a fire which destrayed | *t the Henry colliery violated the their home today. The mother was|™imers’ and operators’ agreement by DEATH SENTENCES Capital Punishment as Modern Class Weapor| The League for the Abolition of Capital Punishment laid a defini besis for activity at its yesterday's meeting in the Hotel Pennsylvania. | when Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing in a speech, deplored the fact that modern society still seeks revenge by taking a prisoner's life. Analysing the origin of capital} cunishment Lawes declared that “ ~— AIMEE’S ADVICE oP ae boeunenitba ater a \Ke ad to Latin America to study the situ- ation at first hand. The administra-| ate. Ui tion is opposed to this plan, evident) re, “gate i gage intending to spring a couple of |” _ 3 is cay wars = the aiitey while con- | vis ip all Bike! fee gress is not in session. As we point- ware? tied ees ed out yesterday the test of Borah’s | i 4 opetate Beg on sincerity avill be proven by his will-| is : ‘ a a ingness to go to the masses with the| . F pene? “a bis country are truth about the conspiracy betwe n | ng for salvation,” she said, the administration and the imperial- n't going to go out and ist plunderers of Latin America. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY = WORKER. 48-HOUR LAW IS PENDING BEFORE her ar look for it. THE LEGISLATURE ALBANY, N. Y., March 1—A bill providing for a modified 48-hour working week for women in industry, was pending before the legislature today. The measure carriés out the recom- mendations made by the Industria! Survey Commission in its recent re port to the law makers. Under the proposal, women wh work six days a week would have « 48-hour week; women who shave ¢ half holiday each week would work 49% hours. The bill also provides for 72 hours of overtime in each year. qcecentilaeticeictiocin: BUY THE DAILY WORKER ® AT THE NEWSSTANDS Comrades and Fellow Workers: After a year’s heroic struggle of the Passaic textile workers, the mill barons were forced to submit to a union in the textile industry of Pas- saic. They are however putting ob- stacles in the way of maintaining such an organization. Although the strike is almost over, they are taking the workers back very slowly, with the result that-thousands of families are without means of existence. Their children are hungry. There are many families whose sole supporters were sent to jail for long periods because of their activities in the strike. You must come to their veseue, Relief must go on with full peed! The General Relief Committee, who s maintaining a few food stores in rassaic, appeals to all those who have aken milk coupons to send in their as soon as possible, no matter Send he money immediately to the Gen- ‘val Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, noney yw much you have collected. jeath penalty is a relie of savager’s perpetuated by custom and ignorance, -onsummated in the k ling that is legal in the name only.” | + * * That Lloyd George $5,000,000 fund which has enabled him to remain leader of what is left | of the Liberal Party th of peerages is the charge made Lord Roseberry, liberal ex-prime minister. The politicians are having a serap and the laundry is being pre- pared for the line. Selling titles is a major industry in every European country where titles exist. In the United States wealthy men with so- cially ambitious wives contribute to campaign funds in return for am- bassadorships. Not much difference! naintained on false assumption and Hitting at the class character of | capital punishment he asked his audience if they had ever heard of 2 vealthy man or woman being exe-} suted, this in spite of the fact that | he largest number of murders are} committed by the rich. Yet, he tated, it is the poor and friendless, he physically hendicanped and | feeble-minded who die at the hand} f the law, because their -poverty | wrevents them from engaging tne ecessary legal defendants, ich so ably rescue the rich from suffering | he same fate. “What will it profit us to destroy sne man,” he said, “if we permit the | bad social conditions which influenced | sim to continue and breed additional nurderers.” Derloring also the fact that the very men who impose death sen- Read The Daily Worker Every Day | Bill for Longshoremen. Be Compensated When) Hurt, Killed, by Sponser | WASHINGTON (FP). — Chairman | Graham of the House Judici Com- amassed the |“. ences do not have to executs their victims, Lawes continued by stating: ‘How many executions do yon think ‘here would be if the law made it mittee has waited for the closing days of the session to fatally knife his own measure—the longshoremen’s indus- trial accident compensation bill. The House Rules Committee nad ordered Chairman Snell to report out a rule that would bring the bill to necessary, for the judge or some member of the jury to “null the switch,” that, in the flash of an eye) tums a fellow human being into 2 | : ve ill saere mess of senseless clay? Have | vote in the house. It had alr we the right to pars laws that make passed the senate. Host: le 2 tt necessary for some one else to do |ments had been dropped. Then Rep. shat our conscience would not per- | Free of California, leading anti-labor f it us to do?” |republican, announced that he would Ws 2 ; wos presided over by | offer on the floor an amendment re- i ipeeastond Gave The League | staring pene i i the sabe slected its new officers for the com- \fected by the bill, This was be i { i tile move, as the seamen ing year and is determined that ac- \against being brought into the n jcongress. Oil Fire In/Roumanin. | Protests to Graham from the legis BUCHAPFEST, Mar. 1,—Consider- |lative council of the labor unio’ t able damage has been done in the capital was in vain. His tri is not yet explained, by his long 2 upons ity of Polesti in the Roaman r rau Pee er | cit fields by a “sea of fire.” The fire | record of hostility Me humane legisla o sell. 3 ; le ions induced him t fee i x | 4 in oi ks which overflowed |tion, The unions in luced him to spon- The office is open from 9 8. m. to| <tarted in oi! tanks | wed 4 v ho) geenagetan i |e hk oil flooded. a wide |sor this bill in the hope that thereby Ee ses ey: eter Go he. his opposition would be avoided SLIEF COMMITTEE are’ tive work is going to be conducted jure. Graham then notified Snell that to finally realize ther ambition Of) 1, need not report the rule—thereby abolishing capital punishment, |preventing action on the bill in this “Keep will be n sh ic coast, Put Picket Around Island. “My upst: she stated, nes ot respor The butter and egg men are. “If censor derful thing for the city.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS The Vuleania, 26,500 oil burners, “Italy has no he churches open so that ther places to go be- nd wicked shows. The agging behind with nile the rest of the is flying ahead with magic gelist plans to rest here r da y, when she will start ate tour convinced me,” hat the big butter and egg men from out of town are the who are branding New York as wicked. The people of New York are ible for the obscene plays. will keep these peo- ple out of New York it will do a won- ITALY LAUNCHES WORLD’S LARGEST MOTORSHIP vealed by inspection of the founda- tion’s private files, are Jane Addams, H. L. Mencken, Mary McDowell, Vic- tor L. Berger, Robert Minor, Scott Nearing, Norman Hapgood, 0. G. Villard, The Federated Press, the So- cialist Party, Workers Party, Farm- er-Labor Party, League of Womer Voters and the American Association of University Women. rescued by her husband. The fire is said to have started from an overheated stove. The chidren ranged in aged from 5 to 10 years. Mf Lita Grey More Bitter. LOS ANGELES, March 1.—A well known Hollywood motion picture ac- tress will be named as co-respond- ent in the amended divorce complaint of Lita Grey Chaplin against her famous husband, Charles Chaplin, film comedian, Lyndol L. Young,. at- torney for Mrs. Chaplin, said today. The attorney, however, would not divulge the actress’s name. Convicted of Train Robbery. BOSTON, March 1.—Verdicts of guilty were returned by the jury in Lthe trial of John Boyd of Chelsea and Michael and John Andrews, father and son, of Nashua, N. H., after 2 hours’ deliberation in federal court this afternoon. The trio were charged with the $65,000 Salisbury train mail robbery! LONDON, March 1.—The judicial of last July. They were indicted on| committee of the privy council de- two counts, robbery while armed and | cided today that Newfoundland has a with putting in jeopardy the life of| valid claim in the dispute over the the baggage-master, William 0. Jor-| boundary between Newfoundland and dan. Canada. Newfoundland Wins Dispute. / tons displacement, sliding into the water at Monfalcone. Italy, in re-establishing the old Roman empire, her fascist. dj encourages the building of all sorts of shipping, especially motor ants had WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! “HANDS OFF CHINA | Striking but I differ with him, as the | operators’ violated their section of | the contract by cutting the wage on | rock contracting from $4.70 to $2.84 | per yard. I also happen to be a | miner. that filed a grievance against {® wage reduction at the Prospect colliery in Harel, 1926, and a de- cision was handed down in favor the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., by = pire Neil which I contend was an outrage. “This decision concerned .a de- crease in wages amounting to ap- proximately $20 per month and that sum means considerable to a miner who has no way or regaining the money. These unfair decisions have oceurred and our district officials have done nothing about the matter in any. way.” fs oo) eorge Gould, Secretary, Lehigh Valley General Gyuenion, Committee. Government Insurance Making Large Profits WASHINGTON, March. 1—The veterans bureau has made a profit of $13,600,000 in the increased price of securities purchased for the govern- ment life insurance fund, it was an- of liberty loan, treasu: farm loan board issues ehnioatet $209,573,000 have a present market value of $223,187,000 with annual in- terest of $9,376,000, Bi Iron Pipe Company Puts Some Men on Street. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 1.—The A. M. Beyers company, makers of wrought iron pipe and one of the leaders* of an efficiency program, have just rationalized their galvaniz- ing plant by introducing a new gal- vanizing machine. This machine will do away with the work of six men on each shift, at five dollars per day, or a saving of $60 for the 24 hours.