The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1927 RADIO CZARS GET BUSY TO DECIDE WHO CAN USE AIR Overlook Ship Stations; Take Up Broadcasters) WASHINGTON, serting full control ove its lack of funds and e new federal radio comr started machinery to rule on who shal broa st to the nation’s 20,000,- | > 000 listene: | Chief steps take Arrange- ment of a serie: ec hearings | © in Washington from farch through April 1 on methods of elim- inating inter nee. A call for new license ay from the 783 existing | stations. Action on these app! will determine what stations hi how many, vive. Requirement that each application mmendation by tor before com- all be permitted to s' ing to the commis Sidetracking of 18,000 amateur and ship radio stations by indefinite ex- tension of their lice . leaving the iss’ free to grapple with Jury Is Picked In Ford-Sapiro Suit (Continued from Page One) It is felt®here that the reluctance of the Detroit ness philosopher to appear is justified as a result of his experience at the hands of oppos- ing attorn in the last libel suit in which he demanded a million dol- lars from the Chicago Tribune for calling him an “anarchist.” At that time display of ‘ance on social questions was cruelly revealed. Sapiro’s Career Spectacular. Sapiro’s caree’ spectacular in his way as F in his own. He spent the first years of his life in a San Francisco orphan asylum. After wo as a newsboy, Sapiro studied law and became a practising attorney of § Francisco. Through the influence of Sen Hiram Johnson, who was then x of that state who had appointed law partner, Harris Weinstock, to Agricultural apiro became inter- ” marketing pro- “farmers' in what later fi alifornia plan,” or Sapiro plan” of co- Operative marketing. This “cooperative plan” is cooper- In reality involving elling, with com- $ a commerc whole and retail ith these big business “cooper- atives.” An amusing of the stateme that Sapiro’s activities are “Commu- nistic.” Besides being a millionaire, some of his partners in his business enterprises have been Frank 0. Low- den, of Illinois, and other “gentleman farmers” of the Middle West. He has also been ociated with Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck enter- of Co., and numerous financial prises, ey ‘ The Attorney General’s Aid As Girl Bandit SAN MARCOS, Texas, March 15 Mrs, Rebecca Bradley Rogers, Ll versity of Texas graduate, former ploye of the attorney general’s of and alleged flapper bandit, went trial in District Criminal Court here today on an indictment charging her with robbery and fire-arms. She got about $1,000, the indictment says. m- once again we great day in « booklet (No. 8 in A Library) ix a mt of that ere: t at proletarian dictatorship. 10 cents Twelve Copies for a Dollar. THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. eM Bigs | Exposure of Indian Reservation Steal By Defense Society LOS ANG Calif., -In a statement ued by the In- dian Defense Association of Califor- nia, the admi Pueblo reservations by the govern- ment bureau in charge of Indian af- fairs is attacked. The attempts of the notorious See- retary of the Interior Fall, now re- signed, to rob the Indians of their land by the crudest methods were des- eribed. The bill which was sponsored by the Commissioner of Indien Af- fairs to cel the inviolable land- titles and to confiscate Pueblo land- | eated, but a new and religious and tribal customs Indians. oner has autocratic powers to an ee, including its own police system, i -called court sy: tem, and a spy of the former czar. WATSON-PARKER LAW SINCERITY PUT UNDER TEST Virginia Railroad Not Recognizing Unions By LAURENCE TODD (Fed. Press). WASHINGTON, March 15.—Test of the good faith of the railroad ex- ecutives of the United States in pro- moting the enactment of the Watson- Parker railroad labor mediation act is to be made by the shopmen of the Virginian road, at Princeton, W. Va. Threatened by officials of the road Match 15.| vation of the Indian | s revealed that the Indian com- | system rivalling that | Organize the Traction Workers By ROBERT MITCHELL. |methods of which have already been | deseribed, can be understood only in {connection with several other | to suppress its men. | The chief of these is the spy tem. Every railroad and pract every large corporation employs a émployes, The means | which sed and the ends to which }rant any extended description here. | Has District Spies. In general, it may be said that the Interborough system conforms to the type in that it stops at nothing to secure its ends. It is instructive to note, however, that the Interborough spy system is almost an exact reflec- tion of the low character and deal- ings of the company officials, its president, its vice-president, its chief legal advisor, its superintendents of departments, its company union of- ficials, etc. While it cannot be claimed, for instance, that the snoop- ing tactics employed by the Inter- borough are more vicious or extreme than the methods practised elsewhere |by employers, it is unquestionably true that the local traction corpora- |tions hold a record for pettiness and small dealings; “petty larceny” meth- ods, as the men on the road call them. | The “Beakey.” | The Interborough spy system is directed from a division which goes jby the imposing title of “Intelligence |Department.” The intelligence de- {partment is closely related to the legal department and may, indeed, be considered a part of it. As will | be shown later the chief spy and in- | quisitor is none other than Mr. E. L. such | | devices which the Interborough uses | aborate organization of | with loss of their jobs and their homes| Quackenbush, chief counsel of the —for without the jobs they must| Interborough. jleave their homes—64 of the 70 shop! Acording to information furnished mechanies and apprentices who re-|by Mr. Quackenbush himself, the spy cently applied to the International As-| system was founded a number of | lowers. come to be applied to everyone on the former and stool pigeon. To do “Beakey” work for the com- pany is to carry out anything from y acting as the chief of the intelligence department, a position now occupied by a gentleman called Rhatigan, to rving as a petty ‘“Dollar-a-day” jman, Of this latter, very intere: obvious line of attack-is being|the spy systems are carried have] brand of informer more will be said 1 now by interfering in: the | been too frequently described to war- | presently. No Brains Needed. In ordinary times the work of the “Beakey” jis not very trying; nor does jit require any even ordinary amount of intelligence. The force at such jtimes is relatively small, varying from ten to perhaps twenty men. But in times of 9 threatened or ac- jtual strike, in a period following a walkout or during a process of ac- jtive organization such as the pres- ent, the force is increased to fifty, ‘sixty or even a hundred. The new circumstances compel the employ- ment of numerous “private” detec- tives, secret service agents, Burns | operatives, etc. The customary work of the “Beak- ey” is to “ride the railroad.” His | business is to keep tabs of the men, | to report any violations such as |smoking on the job, “speeding” the train, sleeping in “dead” cars, ete. The penalty for these minor of- fences is) usually a suspension of sev- }eral days. As has already been | pointed out, it is these petty suspen- |sions which, pasticularly since the jlast strike, have become so neces- |Sary to the functioning of the com- pany union. or none at all the men are taken \off the job. In the past they would | have been sent to the company oF ficials to adjust their grievances. In Claus returning to them his bag of railroad acting in the capacity of in-| For the slightest offence} workers directly. {every case, however, they must now | found to be unsatisfactory and the |report to Paddy Connolly, who as-| technique has ‘sumes the role of a benevolent Santa} subtle. ARTICLE VI—THE “BEAKY” ;to see the full fruits of his labor. His men need their jobs and they go to|miles from here, was enjoying its |name, however, has passed down as | Paddy Connolly because of the Pres- | place in the sun today, by reason of | The company union, the nature and/a herifage to his now numerous fol- | sure of their needs and not because | the gold strike made there last week, The term “Beakey” has) they have any faith in the company |yeports of great variance concerning | union. In addition to the fob of bringing labout these petty suspensions, the! “Beakey” must, of course, keep tabs | jon the agents who collect the money | from the turnstiles; he must always |be on the look-out for evidences of | “agitation,” keep his eye on company | ; union meetings. etc. When business | | becomes slack, when there is nothing | | to report and the “Beakey” is faced | with-the prospect ‘of losing his job, | he may resort to chasing up the| newsboys who ride the trains. The | \Interborough is not above prosecut- | jing these victims ofthe capitalist |grinding machine which compels boys of twelve and fourteen years to spend the night hours seeking to| make the few pennies which in many | cases are the chief support of a fam-| ‘ily. Largely Ornamental. | The “Beakey’s” work ,among the! ;men soon makes him known and he | is easily recognized. In fact, his part in the elaborate spy system is a very | |secondary one, and he may be said) |to act as a sort of smoke scree to | hide the more subtle snoopers with-| in the ranks of the men. | One of the chief sources upon| which the company relies for infor- jmation is a group of stool pigeons known as the “Dollar-a-day” men. | The name has arisen from the fact | |that certain of the workers. receive a dollar a day in addition to their |regular wages for the special service jof supplying information to the com- | Dany. | was | At first the dollar-a-day man | “appointed” from among the} That is, the par-| | tieular men who for one reason or an- | | other were thought to be suitable, were approached and given the “ap- pointment.” This crude method was since become more To develop a good “Dollar-a-day” sociation of Machinists for a local| years ago by a man called Beakey. [company union tricks the gift of the| man is no mean accomplishment and charter have been advised to go back} The founder, who died but a few) to their company union, while 6 men| years back, nevertheless, did not live | have been chosen to make application | to the U. S. Board of Mediation to de- | x me fend the right of the whole group to} CURRENT EVENTS | join the regular trade union. Their] : " | mediation application was duly filed| (Continued from Page One) with the Board by President Wharton'| Right Wing, if allowed free rein would of the I. A. M. on March 14, turn the country over to the imperi- | Seab Herding Road. alists for a price. But the Left Wing | This Virginian railroad is a coal-|is strong and holds the upper hand. | carrier which locked out and crushed ng * * its organized employes some years ARRY SINCLAIR, the oil mag- | ago, and has furnished s¢abs to the Western Métryland and other anti- union roads since that time. Its pres- ident, Hicks, some time ago declared in a speech that he would be glad to see grass growing in the streets of Prince This outburst was due to a quarrel with the local business men over the privileges claimed by his company. Local sentiment against the corporation became acutely aroused. Then a number of prominent men in the shop were discharged. Shopmen on the Virginian Railroad are told they belong to a Mechanical Department Association or company uni The discharged employes asked the committee of this company union to take their grievance to the boss, who is one Sasser, superintendent of motive power, The committeemen re- fused to act, saying they did not pro- pose to lose their jobs. Form Union. Some of the bolder spirits then got into touch with a union organizer, and 70 of the 86 men in the shop asked for a union charter. Sasser, learning ~'of this frem his spies, proceeded to inspire or dictate a petition addressed to himself, and circulated among the “loyal” employes for signatures, ask- ing himself to dismiss all agitators’ for a trade union, since they were “destroying the peace and harmony heretofore existing.” President Hicke sent a general rep- resentative, Markham, to advise Sasser, who posted a notice warning all employes to stay out of the I. A. M. or suffer “drastic action” on his pa He then called in the men and threatened to dismiss every one of them, closing the shop if necessary, to “bust up” the new union. He or- dered 10 apprentices to go to the union representative and demand re- payment of their $3 initiation fee. The pprentices made affidavit that they were sent, on company time and with carfare paid. Violate Law. Sasser’s overt acts violate Para-| nate, is pictured smiling as he appears for trial on a charge of shdw- ng contempt for the United States | courts after having taken rich oil! jlands from the government by deceit! | and fraud. And well he might smile. | | If anybody thinks that Sinclair is go- | ing to dwell in a hoosegow for a term, | jthat person must have recently ar-: rived from some uncivilized country | | where big thieves are punished. This | ig a free country. 5 ae~ es | | bie is an ingenious country as well as a beautiful one. French | {ambassadors of the old school had trouble in Washington trying to con- vince Andrew Mellon that their coun- | try is almost broke and that it would ibe quite nice of Mr. Mellon to forget such an indecent thing as money. But | Andy needs all the money he can get | |hold of to buy powder for the good | and welfare of Nicaragua, China and | other parts of the world where our | bankers have their money invested. And France needs all the money she ean collect to hold the Riffians and Syrians in subjection. i ey Se | GQ} RENCH ambassadors used their | {4° grace and polish on the wives of | Washington’s upper political circles | and the female retinue of the Gallic | envoys brought their charms to bear én the male section of Washington's | political elite. But to no avail. Uncle | | Sam talked money and the old-type | |ambassadors went home. Now the | | French government tried a new one. | | They sent a poet. The next time Mel- | ‘lon talks cash to France's represen- | | tative the poet may turn a pair of | | soulful eyes ‘on him and sing “Coming | | thru the rye,” even tho Andy has dis- | posed of his distilleries, Wealthy Suffragette Glories in Marriage “Even the staunchest suffragette ' rated association, or by other means well have everything associated with japplication for a trade union charter. | pig colleagues who were forced down graph 8, Section 2, of the Watson- with the most advanced ideas of a Parker law,, which guarantees free-| woman's place in politics prefers the dom to the workers to select their) eternal feminine when it comes her own spokesmen in dealing with griev- turn to go to the altar,” Miss Rosalie ances, |Gardiner Jones, wealthy suffragette, “Representatives,” it says, “for the said today on the eve of her marriage purpose of this Act, shall be desig-| to United States Senator Clarence C. nated by the respéctive parties in such | Dill of Washington. manner as may be provided in their; “I think that since a’ woman is to corporate organization or unincorpo-| be married only once, she might as! of collective action, without interfer-| the age old ritual of that lovely cere- ence, influence, or coercion exercised | mony,” Miss Jones said, “I am going by either party over the self-organi-| to wear a bridal veil of very old lace, zation or designation of representa-|a bridal gown that some people may tives by the other.” | think is distressingly short, but I will If the new law is not a fraud on| have a train and carry a bouquet of the shopmen’s unions, the Virginian | flowers from my own gardens.” Railroad must deal with the Prince- we ton local o fthe Machinists as an ac- Larre-Rorges At Canaries. complished fact. A"! other anti-union) LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, |yoads must do likewise when a ma-|Maych 15 (INS).—Major Tadeo jority of the men in any shop sign an| Larre-Borges, Uruguayan aviator, and BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS in Africa and held for ransom by Moors, arrived here today on the ! suspended bread basket. RED REVEL FOR CHICAGOESE ON NEXT SATURDAY The Heavy Ticket Sales Bring Joy to Many CHICAGO, March 15.—Fun will be the main business of the Red Revel which wwill be held here next Satur- day night in Mirror Hall, 1136 North | Western Avenue. The revellers will gyrate according to the latest whims of terpischore to the strains of Kis- sin’s famous Russian orchestra. Read The Glad Tidings. The above is an abbreviated picture of Arne Swabeck, General Secretary of District 8, caught in the act of read- ing reports of ticket sales for the Red Revel which will take place next Saturday. As you may gather from the joyful visage there will be consider- able clinking of coin in the district treasury after the faithful make returns for their tickets. In appealing to the radical workers of Chicago to attend the affair the arrangements committee did not call for customers to come as a matter of duty, learning from experience that the kind of a sensitive soul that likes | to dance and make merry than a duty | of any kind, On the contrary the committee stressed the enjoyment to be derived from a trifling investment in the price of an admission ticket. Pennington to Head Legal Liquor Trust WASHINGTON, March 15,—Pro- hibition Administrator J. D. Penning- ton, of Pittsburgh, today appeared de- finitely slated for the new commis- sionership of prohibition created by the reorganization law. Whiskey owners and distillers soon will be called into conference to plan replenishment of the medicinal whis- key supply, Andrews announced, Con- centration of existing stocks into the hands of a small group also will be sought, Financially strong groups would buy out the small owners, under An- plan. Spanish cruiser Bonifiaz, | drews' No one is} deceived by this cheap trickery. The} the resources of all the Interborough intelligences were set to the task. \New York Firm That | Moved to St. Louis, Closed ‘by a Strike | (By, a Worker Correspondent.) ST. LOUIS, Mo. March 15.—On Friday morning March 1ith, 100 |New Nevada Klondike TEXTILE TOILERS FIGHT WAGE CUTS } _ IN NEW ENGLAND the possibilities of the strike could : . te hod ton Ha ae ‘Strikes Spread; 3.000 There are those claiming the mine, | Out in Woonsockee where: the original strike was made, | } PAWTUCKET, R. I, March 15,— | Results In Very Many ‘Conflicting Reports TONOPAH, Nev, March 15, — While the settlement of Weepah, 88 was “salted.” | These assertions have been spiked | New England textile workers are bit- by Fred Ninnis, president of the|terly fighting the savage wage-slash- West End Consolidated. \ing policy adopted by the mill owners. “The ore is there, and no doubt) Strikes are breaking out throughout about it,” he said. “It is enormously |New England as a result of the at~ rich and the same character of| tempts of textile manufacturers to quartz is in all the surrounting | lengthen hours and cut wages. ° ground.” | Although strikes are sporadic as There are still others who will tell yet, it-is quite likely that textile you that the vein discovered by two| workers throughout New England will youths is but a surface vein and that) unite in an effort to resist the latest the specimens, admittedly rich, were | onslaught of the mill owners. brought out only after long months | 3,000 Workers Strike. of work. | The Globe and the Social Mills, of | Woonsocket, R. I., owned by the Man- | ville-Jenckes Company, which employ | about 8,000 operatives, are both com- | pletely tied up by strikes. Workers in {the Social Mill refused several weeks | ago to accept the fifty-four hour week RIGHT WINGERS BREAK UP FUR |which the Manville-Jenckes Company attempted to foist upon them, and | operatives in the Globe Mill joined UNION ELECTION |them in a sympathetic walkout. | $510 8 Determined To Fight. A | LAWRENCE, Mass., March 15.— Chicago MeetingTurned | Two hundred striking dye workers of ° * . the Pacific Mills textile plant unani- Into Riot by Millstein |mously refused to arbitrate with the CHICAGO, Til, March | mill owners. 15.—At| The strikers walked out a week ago the meeting of the Fur Worker: | Union Local 45 of Chicago that was|a time card system, which cut their to protest against the installation of jheld at the Musicians Hall last Fri-| wages and increased their work. day, to elect another member on the | iment * executive committee a riot broke) ™heown Ont OF Work. loose. The right wingers, seeing; TILTON, N. H., March 15.—One that they could not carry the elec- | hundred and thirty operatives were tion, called police. | thrown out of work when the Ameri- | The chairman, A. Finklestein, said} can Woolen Company closed down for that this meeting was called to elect | an indefinite period. |a new member of the executive com- | * * ae | mittee to replace the seat made va-| Continue Wage Slashes. ‘cant by the withdrawal of Morris | MANCHESTER, N. H., March 15. | Liberman who took a withdrawal | _Desnite the recent improvement in |eard as he was in partnership with the textile industry, mill |his employer and was at last to come| throughout New England are jout in the open with the facts. luing their wage-slashing pol Affiliation Brothers. The New England textile ustry | Then the minutes of the regular is picking up, Robert A. Amory of jexecutive meeting were read, in|the Amory-Brown Company told a {which there was a recommendation | body of business men here today. | that this local take up the matter of | detinipemeicanenniane affilating to the United Hebrew} Small Pox In Brooklyn. \trades and that this matter be left | BEACON, N. Y., March 15.—With \to the majority to decide as the/ three cases of small pox reported at local was expelled due to the fact| Brockway, three miles from here, |that Robert Goldstein was one of the | state and local authorities were today firm, went on strike. This firm when | getting rid of Robert Goldstein than} in New York employed about 12 to expel the local, thereby not letting workers. In the four years since they | Robert Goldstein report the part) |have operated their sweat shop in| some of its members played in the, St. Louis the firm has increased | breaking up of the regular meeting their force until now they émploy) of December 14, 1927 when Brother! 100 workers, | Ben Gold was here in the city to ad- | Several: weeks ago the boss of the | dress us. | firm declared that wages would be| The recommendation from the ex- cut 40%. An organization campaign | ecutive was to carry the election! |was started by the Local of the Am-/and then proceed with the business | algamated Clothing Workers, and of taking up the matter of the United | H Wont Recognize Union. Hebrew Trades after the election was |. This morning the Committee of ¢he| dyer, but Millstein and his clique de- local demanded the return of the|cided to filibuster the floor. Then wage-cut which had been enforced | Milstein rehashed the whole history | jand recognition of the union. The|of each and every member of the! fi declared that they would re-;union that he had any grievance ‘tugn the reduction and even grant an} against. jincrease if the workers wished, but) But fortunately every thing must | ;that under no circumstances would have its end and so the leather-lungs | they grant recognition of the union| and the parched throat of Milstein |The committee countered that they | gave way as did the appeal of Isreal- | would not accept the return of the! son, Every one felt that this was wage-cut unless the firm granted enough and there came a time that | jrecognition of the union; and the a yote was to be taken. | strike was declared. | At this junction a. motion was! | The workers of this shop are show-/| made to send a delegate to the Uni-| jing the proper spirit and the deter-| ted Hebrew Trades in the place of | mination to win this strike. The| Robert Goldstein. This was ruled workers of ‘the Western Leather! delegates and the United Hebrew] taking all possible steps to prevent a Coat Co. a. former New York City) trades did not find any other way of | possible epidemic of the dis ase. Freiheit Jubilee SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 2nd, 1927 | stigma of St. Louis being an open- | shop town where no union can suc- | cessfully carry thru a strike is in a \ fair way to be broken, | out of order as it deprived Robert | Goldstein from running as a candi-| ‘date to fill his vacancy. Then a MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ~ there is nothing more repugnant to) | second motion was made that the | Fur Workers Union, Local 45 of Chicago be affiliated with the Uni-| |ted Hebrew Trades, this motion} carried, no one voting against. | Then Millstein raised the that this meant that Robert Gold- stein could not run, and demanded | that the International vice president take over the chair. This ‘the Presi- dent, <A. Finkelstein, refused to yield and the right wingers started the riot. \ | j Visit By Husky Burglars. BAYONNE, N. J., March 15, — Opening his butcher shop at 409 Ave- nue C today Phillip Rakoff, the pro- prtietor found that his safe had been moved from the center of the room to a corner and forced open. Two valuable diamond rings were taken from the safe, Read The Daily Worker Every Day | net | Lt E te Eh eke h hehehehehe ae ery fj a | 49th Street & 8th Avenue Gesangs Verein accompanied by New York Symphony Orchestra will present the poem of the Russian Revolution BEERS LAL EAE E EE EES Brooklyn, March 1 SPEA Pruserka and a RUTHENBERG Memorial Meeting 16 Manhattan Ave., near Broadway. Engdabl, Weinstone, Rebecca Grecht, Ray Ragozin, Lithuanian Chorus, singing, “Aida.” TWELVE written by Alexander Block, , Music and Conducted by JACOB SCHAFER. JACOMO RIMINI SERGE! RODOMS a special pro; nd in 8, at Royal Palace The well-known soprano ss 08 ROSA RAISA in a special program. — This will be her first recital in New York within the last 2 years. ALL SEATS RESERVED. Tickets: $1, $1.50 and $2 at Freiheit, 30 Union Square. FEFEEEEEEESEFFEEF Jewish speaker.