The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1927, Page 2

Page Two NO CENSOR BILLS. AT THIS SESSION N.Y. LEGISLATURE Boston Now After New! Sinclair Lewis Book NY, N, Y., Mareh 13.— g for state censorship of the and of books and magazines i not Y d the ession of the legi John Knight, republican pr house, indicated today. do not believe any stage censor- ship bill fill be enacted by the pre- be p The so-called ¢ been defeated at the sions of the legislature. ie © After ‘Sinclair Lewis. BOSTON, March 1 With nine under the ban, Boston ttention al censors today turned their to “Elmer Gantry” | novel of Sinclair Lewis. The censors are members of a com- mittee appointed by local retail b lealers, named following the ce of Rev. J. Frank Chase, secretary of the watch and ward society, wh acted for years as unofficial censor of literature here. The nine best sellers under the ban are: “The Plastic Age” by Per- y Marks; “The Hard-Boiied Virgin”, by Frances Newman; “The Rebel Bird”, by Dian Patrick; “The Butch-| er Shop”, by Jean Devanny; “The Ancient Hunger”, by Edwin Gran- berry; “Antennae”, by Herbert Foot- ner; “The Marriage Bed”, by ¥ ho Pascal; “The Beadle”, by line Smith; “As It Was”, by H. T. . Sw ee Publishers Demanded. While the majority of New York publishers were unruffled today by the action of the Boston authorities in suppressing and removing from the Shelves of booksellers certain of their “best sellers”, others were contem- pee immeliate action, while sev- eral already have launched investi- gations and declare that they will use every legal means to stop the ban on these books, No Witness to Carry Out Chicago Police Frame-Up of Mexican CHICAGO. lien the case of stin Morales, the Mexican who is for the murder of Policeman Stahl, at Melrose Park, J. . Tth, was called in Judge Miller’s court Thursday, no witness for the state appeared. The case was post- poned at the request of the state and against the protest of Morales’ at- torney, Mary Belle Spencer. It is the opinion of those who are support- ing Morales that the case will never come to trial. An investigator for the Chicago! Crime Commission was on hand and learned from Mrs, Spencer the details of the abuse, beatings, and robberies | which were practiced by the police| force on the Mexican colony at Mel-| rose Park, after the shooting last De- cember. He says the commission will make a thorough investigation. “Peaches” Still in Spotlight. NEW YORK, March 13.—Frances Heenan (Peaches) Browning today is threating to bring about another law- suit, this to be aimed at the Society of Independent Artists because they are exhibiting among other pictures one entitled “African Gander” at their annual exhibit at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, The picture objected to depicts a young woman in the nude in a re- clining position with a goose at her side, white in a bowl on a nearby table are several peaches, Read The Daily Worker Every Day (Continued from Page One) | effort against Mexico through the| THE DAILY WORKER, | NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1927 ARMERS’ IMPURE MILK IS yaurson su \¥ columns of the congressional record, the literary garbage repository for congressional waste matter. Gallivan is a faithful disciple of the vatican, | the institution that sold his ancestral country for a penny a head to the | British king. Gallivan is a notorious latherskite, . appreciated) only by those whose favorite oratory is the kind indulged in the holy. jumpers. bush baptists and auctioneers, He é xTean governmetit with 000,000 to spread pro- ican propaganda in the United This is only one million more nan the Knights of Columbus raised "lto help Doheny,- Sinclair and Andy *| Mellon plunder the Mexican republic. * . ALLIVAN did say in criticism of Doheny ntle ‘grafter grabbed the * nia, Doheny is a papal tool and mil- ire to boot. Priests and capitalist icians always kiss the hand that es the checks. Mr. J. A. G. re- sents the resentment of the Mexican people at the thought of having their country looted by a gang of land burg- lars whether their forays are blessed by the pope by a hill-billy evan- geli And if the Mexiean govern- ment spent a couple of million dol- lars in the United States countering the lies of Kellogg and “Knits”: of lini let hope the information inst a more receptive brain that of the befuddled Gallivan. Lame Duck In Debt. WASHINGTON, March 11.—Mem- bers of Washington’s exclusive social set who-were guests a little more than one year ago at the brillant wedding of Miss Barbara Stanfield and Henry Teasdale Dunn, were pro- foundly shocked today by the insti- ted not have a word| ‘aval oil reserves in Califor- | | | | | A unique feature of the Fiat automobile plant in Italy is the roof race course on which both racing and stock cars made within the structure are tested. The track turns, as can be seen from these photos. NEW YORK CITY Old Time Grafters on Job, Says Harris Impure milk continues td flood the city despite the few ineffectual’ at- tempts that have been made to bar it. Bootleg Milk. That impure bootleg milk and cream is being smuggled into New | York by members of the gang in- volved in the graft scandals for which Thomas J. Clougher, secretary to former Health Commissioner | Frank J. Monaghan, is now serving la sentence in Sing Sing, was revealed | | } | terday. Endangers Lives. The lives of thousands of New York workers are endangered by bootleg shipments of milk and cream made by the Valley Company of New Jersey, Dr. Harris. said. | “The same old gang of milk and jold tricks,” he declared. ‘Until the | State of New Jersey as a whole es- ‘tablishes the same fellowship with us | which has been manifested by the | Hackensack authorities, both New | York City and New Jersey will suf- is of concrete, with high banked danger to life and health.” USE OF RADIO HELPS ORGANIZE Permit Revoked. The International Milk Company {of Irvington, N. J., and the Beakes under, investigation. The former, STILL FLOODING © by Health Commissioner Harris yes-} | eream bottleggers is up to its same! Dairy Company of Hackensack are| BILL NO RELIEF By ALFRED KNUTSON | | Secretary, United Farmers’ Educational League. | We pointed out in an editorial in| the January number of The United | Farmer that the working farmers of | ie country should refuse to get ex- | cited over the McNary-Haugen bill be- | | cause it will not afford them relief in |any basic sense. It is recalled now ‘that the farmers | were to be helped through the law | fereating the Interstate Commerce | Commission, the Federal Farm Loan | System, through tariff laws and laws regulating.the packers and a host of | jother “farm relief” laws. Where are these laws today? Are the bankrupt | farmers of the west getting any help | from them? Not so you can notice it. The MeNary-Haguen bill passed |the senate by a vote of 47 to 89. There are powerful political forces back of jit, not forees which care about the | welfare of the farmers, but the kind of forces which are interested in lin- | ing up the farm vote for 1928. That’s | what counts. Politicians must have | votes in order to “get in.” The bill provides for a Federal | Farm Board of twelve members, ap- pointed by the president of the United | | States, and the secretary of agricul- | ture is to decide what organizations are representative of agriculture. des- \ignate the farm organizations eligible | jand the number of votes ee “arm! ‘organization in any district shall be | jentitled to. Not much chance for any | kind of “democracy” here. The MeNary-Haugen bill is-a foot- | ‘hall used by the politieians to get which did business here under the! the support of the farmers. Coolidge, name of the Valley Dairy Company, the representative of eastern finance | SECTION, OWS McNARY-HAUGEN president, who never has been accused of fighting for the farmers’ interests, opposed Coolidge and helped to hold the “farm relief” senators together. In order to get. relief the farmers must fight their own battles. In every locality throughout the country there must be developed active groups of farmers who will conscientiously and energetically press for the solution of the farm problems. Our work or organization must be political as well as economic, and in order to get somewhere with our fight, we must form an alliance with the workers in the industries and work for the realization of a farmers’ and workers’ government, Scripps Foundation Finds Farmer Youth Consumed by Cities WASHINGTON, March 13 (FP).— Not enough children are born in American towns to maintain their population, says a report which P, K. Whelpton b»s made, after much study, to the E. W. Seripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems. Whelpton finds that industrial civilization consumes a great annual haryest of children drawn from the farms, because townspeople do not |fer from the smuggling of bootleg | to participate in conventions and des-| breed enough children to. keep the |milk and cream and its attendant|ignate the number of represe~’ tives | towns alive. Yet 65 per cent of the American population is classed by the 1920 census as industrial, com- pared with only 21 per cent industrial in 1820. And while for every $100 worth,of farm produets raised in 1809 there were produced only $1 worth of manufactures, in 1919 ‘manufac- tures were $121 worth to each $100 CHARGES 7,00 RICH NEW YORK MEN DODGE TAX Senate Report Declares Corporations Defraud WASHINGTON, March 13.—Thous- ands of corporations in New York City, each controlled by one man, are dodging federal taxes aggregating hundreds of millions of dollars, ac- cording to a report submitted to mem- of the Congressional Taxation Committee, it was learned today. Fraud On Government. An investigators for the commit- tee found that there are abou corporations in New York Cit practically controlled by one man or one family. He estimated that half of these concerns were formed for the purpose of dodging federal taxes. Notice was served by members of the committee that they will open a drive upon the treasury department at the next session of congress to force enforcement of Section 220 of the Internal Revenue Law. Don’t Enforce. That section directs the Internal Revenue Bureati to levy a tax upon a corporation’s undivided surplus, bers when it is believed that the surplus | is being held in the treasury and not divided among stockholders for the purpose of saving the stockholders from paying a tax upon their divi-| dend, “Failure of the treasury depart- ment to enforce that section has cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes,” charges Rep. Col- lier (D) of Mississippi. AT THE NEW STANDS NEW RIGHT WING COMMISSION COMING TO AMERICA TO DISCOVER THE AMERICAN PLAN the unorganized over the radio is the | new method the American Federation | of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers is using with good r The hosiery union and vigorous section of the A of L. that has met with fine success almost everywhere except in Reading. But in Reading the Berkshire Knit- ting company is exploiting several thousand workers under the open shop plan. Its three monster plants pro- duce full fashioned hosiery, in one mill, ribbons and garters in another and in the third mill the company turns out the knitting machinery that it uses itself or sells to new com- nanies starting on the open shop plan in other cities, Standard ways or organizing were | failing. The Berkshire knitters live in a company town on the outskirts of Reading. And there in Berkshire houses, Berkshire social halls and Berkshire company stores they were under the eve of Berkshire spies. The knitter seen talking to an or- ganizer or turning the pages of the tution of st the bride’s | father, Unit Senator Robert F N. Stanfield 0° Oregon, for the cost § of the brid ~\rousseau, amounting ' ie pers hice Sn eitees | (By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press) | Readiny Tebor Advocate was in | NEW YORK—(FP)—Organizing | dan~ Ms as Workers Hear and Join had its permit revoked several months ago. Many Rothenberg Memorial is a youthful | Ab a radio experimen- ter put up a small station in Reading. Would he let the union go on the air | oncea week? Certainly, the same as any one else. And the new campaign began. $ “Welfare dees not take the place | of wages: join the union,” says the | voice on the air. It listens so well that fifteen to twenty workers phone \in their appreciation to Station | WRAW at the close of the hour. The union keeps up interest with | many different sneakers, telling the! |labor message in many different |ways. The night Golden was there he told the story of the life and work |at Brookwood Labor College. And ida Weissman, young Passaic striker, told the stery of the dramatic and linspiring battle of the 16,000 Jersey | workers. | Things are ripening in Berkshire mills for a big union move. And all | because labor had the imagination {to go on the air when it failed on ‘the street, ‘Meetings in Last Two Days all over the at meetings pay a final Thousands of workers United States gathered ‘during the week-end to tribute to the memory of Comrade ,_C. E. Ruthenberg, leader of the Com- munist movement of this country. eases drew tremendous crowds, scores of new members were secured for the Workers (Communist)) |Party. Many workers were heard to say: “Now that Ruthenberg is dead, redoubled effort |that Ruthenberg helped to form.” | In Many Cities. | Pittsburg, Pa., at the Labor Ly- |eeum, and \while yesterday the following cities ‘held memorial gatherings: Milwau- kee, Wis., St, Louis, Mo., Buffalo, N. Americans and Chinese | Laud Sun Yat-sen | (Continued from Page One) |in the overthrow of the Manchus, but its objects were thwarted by the am- | bitions of Yuan-Shi-Kai and the weak- ness of the Chinese proletariat. Refusing to accept the reactionary | government of Yuan whieh had been negotiating loans with foreign pow- ers, Dr. Sun set up another govern- ment in Canton. In 1920 he was elec- ted. president of the Nationalist gov- ernment at Canton. Histattempts to unify China were frustrated by the treachery of his military commander, Chen Chiun-Ming. National Convention. In 1924 he called the first National Convention of the Kugmintang and reorganized the party which is lead- ing the struggle for. China’s libera- tion. Dr. Sun died on March 12, 1925, too soon to witness the successes of ‘the Nationalist armies, but left in his “will” an inspiring message to them to continue the work. Better Made Curtains For Railroad Cars In Y., Passaic, N. J., Los Angeles, Cal., Stamford, Conn., St. Paul, Minn. Minneapolis, Minn. | Bridgeport, ;Conn., and Hartford, Conn, Duluth, Minn, Utica., N. Y., and sev- REPUBLICAN BOSS FOR I-CENT FARE. The following meetings will be |held this week: Upper New York State. | Utica, N. Y., March 14th, ESS er + | Schenectady, N. Y., March 15th, Livingston Protects Big hoy. x i March 16th, Sobs Realtors of Italy Hall, 120 Madison Ave. Troy, N. Y., March 17th. Declaring that the republican leader | Binghamton, N. Y., March 18th, of Kings county, finetely Livingston, Jamestown, ee Y., March 19th. was trying to foist a ten-cent fare| Ithaca, N. Y., March 10th, on the people of New York, William | Niagara Falls, N. Y., March 20th, J. Boers, president of the Eighteenth , be | Assembly District Republican Club, Memorial at Luzerne, Pa. | startled a meeting of the Kings Coun-| LUZERNE, Pa.—A mass memorial | ty Republican Committee held at the | meeting will be held in commemora- | Kismet Temple, Brooklyn, Tuesday |tion of the death of Comrade C. E. | evening. | Ruthenberg, Tuesday, March 15,7 p. The Ki county leader is*“con-|m., in New Italian Hall, 206 Oliver spiring with Assemblyman Edward F. | Street, Luzerne, Pa. Fay of the Seventeenth Assembly Dis- big |trict to put a ten-cent fare bill through | the legiflature,” Mr, Boers abi Newark, Friday, March 18. A. , The bill referred to by Mr. Boers is| Markoff. Montgomery Hall. é |the Brown-Fay bill which would} ¥ 7 * | raise fares to protect real estate mag- Newark Meeting. Superior Meeting. Tonight workers will ‘gather «in| By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press). WASHINGTON, (FP).—Seeretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor has decided to take in good faith the Australian federal govern- ment’s industrial mission which has come to the United States to guess why American wages are high. Although there was strong protest in labor cir- cles in Australia against the choice of labor members of the delegation, made by Bruce, the Tory premier, the A. F. of L. is without official knowledge nates from taxation for subway con- Wisconsin Demanded | **trtet'on and maintenance. WASHINGTON, March 13 (FP).— Complaint that curtains in railroad , cabs used in northern climates do not | Negro Worker Saves Man’s Life But Fire Tuesday, March 15, Superior, Wise. | Two More Students / Are Suicides CHESTERTON, IND., Match 13.— that this is a mission hostile to regular trade union policy or hostile to the Labor Party program at home. Accordingly, Morrison has handed out copies of statements made by Sir Nugh Denison, Australian commis- sioner in New York, reciting who the visitors are, and where they are go- ing. Look For Arguments . What they hope to determine is thus hinted at by Miss Matthews, one of the two woinen observers with the party, in an interview at Seattle: “The London Daily Mail in 1926 sent cight engineers to America to 4d cover the secret of high wages, 5 ley Bruce, our prime minister, (N. tionalist) favored sending an Aus- tralian delegation on the same mis- sion, and the government authorized it,” Daily Mail Mission, which toured the industrial centers of the eastern United States last year, went home and reported its admiration for the industrial policy of the biggest anti-union corporations in this cour try. It gave the impression that the anti-labor employers rather than by the sacrifices of organized labor. Capitalists At Work At Seattle, it was the Chamber of Commeree and the Business and Pro- | fessional Women's Club, and not the |Contral Council or the State Federa- tion of Labor that undertook to show the visitors around. The Department of Commerce is- sued p confidential statement, early in December, pointing out that Aus- tralian labor was much excited by disputes as to the good frith of the Commonwealth premier in sending this mission. Labor spokesmen charged that its waal purpose was to make a report which would be an at- tack upon trade union standards in Australia. The main object of inquiry is to be the most efficient mode of pro- duction in American factories-—~mass production and mass management of labor. On Mar. 4, the department issued a public statement which ig- nored the fact that Australian labor wages had been ruised in America by { B) has challenged the enterprise. as contemplated by the federal boiler inspection law, has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Wisconsin, Railroad Commis- sion. Wisconsin first undertook to regu- late this matter itself, but the federal supreme court held that the I. C, C, had sole jurisdiction. Accordingly Wisconsin asks the I. C. C, to do its duty by protecting the locomotive en- gineers and firemen from “inclement weather, and enable said employes to operate said locomotives and tenders without unnecessary peril to life and limb as provided by Section 2 of the Boilers Inspection Act, amended.” Second Death From Blast, CARNEY’S POINT, N, J., March 3.—Gilbert Whitesell, 41 years old, died today in the Dupont Dye Works Hospital at Deepwater, the second vic- tim of the blast of 2,000 pounds of smokeless powder at the Dupont pow- der plant here yesterday. | His cousin, Howard Whitesell, BR | years old, died yesterday a’short time iafter the fatal explosion, afford proper shelter for engine crews | Company Hogs Credit j MeIntyre, 19, university of Chicago student, today was the latest victim of the suicide epidemic now sweeping American colleges, according to au- thorities. Harsha’s body, a bullet through (Rv A Worker Correspondent). CINCINNATI. Q. (By Mail), — Frantieally digging and shoveling to | save his fellow worker who sank in| a 12-foot cave-in, Neal McCracken, a Negro worker, succeeded in liberating his man by working from top down, rettine him clear and out, with life | still going. | At this moment the fire depart- ment arrived and transnorted the in- iured man to the hospital. Next morn! ing the case came to our notice thru the paper. The fire department got jall the credit, playing the hero and _ch@ting our worker life-saver out of his just credit, not even mentioning his name, Buckner Defers Reitrement. United States Attorney Emory R, Buckner, prosecutor in the Daug! ty-Miller conspiracy case, yesterday announced that his retirement from office, scheduled for this week, wil!’ be deferred until his successor has been chosen, | the head, the right hand still: elutch- ing a pistol, was found on a lonely sand dune near here, In Harsha’s pocket was a news- paper clipping describing student suicides during the past several months. Asks Mother to Order Casket LYNN, MASS., March 13.—A Lynn youth has been added to the increas- ing number of student suicides, Telling his mother to order his casket, in what she believed to be a joke, William pean rine tn n graduate of Lynn ish’ avast went to his pl er fired a bullet into his brain. He frequently talked of death and the Chinese custom of ordering a coffin two days before an act such as his, Articles on the suicides among students were .found in his room. {capital is against the bill while Frank |0. Lowden, multi-millionaire and an | aspirant for the presidency and a rep- resentative of the western farm capi- | talists, is for it. Dawes, the vice- | of farm products. | The birth rate on American farms, ‘he reports, is one-third higher than \in towns, where health and sanitary | preeautions are better. 'Ex-Soldier Shows Up | | Swivel Chair Patriot | | Who Opposed Laborite | | | | DENVER, March 13 (FP). — Be-| eause Captain Ralph E. Hanson,/ |Q.M.C, Reserve, irothed belligerently | | criticism of military training in col-| jleges the Colorado Labor Advocate, | |in which the offending article was | written, replied: | ‘Captain’ Hanson, ‘Q.M.C. Reserve’ | be stated that | ‘of the service, it ma: 1 ion as captain aman gets a commi be a patriot, be prepared to have a |GET SHOT! | | “The Q.M.C. quartermaster corps, | stays safely behind the lines in war | nd sends food up to the unpatriotic | \soldiers who serve in machine-gun ‘companies of combat divisions as did |the person who wrote the editorial that the ‘safety-first captain’ so bit- | terly criticizes. “War is pretty soft for Q.M.C. re- | serve captains!” | { { MANY MEETINGS | _ FOR RUTHENBERG (Continued from Page One) Young Workers Hold Memorial Yesterday Branch No. 1 of the! | Young Workers League of Cleveland, \will hold a mass meeting for the purpose of honoring the memory of E. Ruthenberg, noted working-class leader and Communist whose death took place on March 2 in Chicago The meeting took place at the Frei- heit Hall, 3514 E, 116th St. . ° . . . Memorial At East Liverpool | EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO.—The | Workers (Communist) Party of thi8 | city arranged a memorial in honor of | Comrade Ruthenberg. Israel Amter, District Secretary of the Party, was the speaker, . Comrade Amter reviewed the life of Comrade Ruthenberg and then outlined the tasks that confront the revolutionary and militant workers of this ecountry—in the struggle against imperialism that threatens with new wars. “We can do nothing better to fol- low in the footsteps of our leader than by building up the movement, und strengthening the Party, in order that the working class of this country may have a fit leader in the strug- gles to come. That lender is the Communist Party, and nothing the government can do, or the ry trade union officials may attempt, will keep the workers from their revolutionary. work,” said Comrade Amter. ey Memorial At Jamestown, N. Y. JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—A meeting to express our sorrow and bereave- ment becauce of the loss of Comrade Ruthenberg and to commemorate his death will be held Saturday, March P ifth at 8 P, M., at Swedish Brother- |. hood Hall, cor. of Main and Third Streets. Herbert Benjamin, district org@nizer, will be our speaker. A trio has been engaged with a revolutionary and c! propriate to the occasion. of sie ap- Chicago Bootleggers Again Stage Machine Gun Battle; Two Dead CHICAGO, March 12.—Two dreaded chieftains of gangland lay dead here today following a spectacular street At these meetings, which in all|through his clenched teeth against | battle between rival factions of hoot- leggers. Others may have been killed and wounded. , Frank “Lefty” Koncil, chief lieu- tenant for Joe Saltis, recognized head of a powerfyl south side beer running is needed from | is a patriot. For the information of | Syndicate, and Charles Rubrec. alias | many to fill up the gap in the ranks.|those who ‘have never been in’ the | “Big Hayes” are the men known to |My place is in the ranks of the party! army and do not know the branches | have been killed. The bodies of Koncil and Rubee, riddled by machine gun bullets, were On Saturday meetings were held in| in the ‘Q.M.C. Reserve’ so that he can |found in the street at the corner of Ashiand Avenue and 39th Street, near in New Haven, Conn.,! soft job if war should come and NOT | # Lincoln sedan identified as the prop- erty of Joe Saltis. “The circumstances of the fight were not unlike those in which recently a member of the district attorney's of- fice got himself riddled by a ma- chine gun in the hands of bootlegger enemies of the bootleggers he was with, Anti-Smuggling Treaty With France in Effect WASHINGTON, March 13. — The Anti-Smuggling treaty between France and the United States became effective yesterday. 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