The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1927 ‘Hackenburg Says That Ch. Becker Is Innocent; |Against Death Penalty | That the innocence of Police Lieut, 3,000 MOTHERS SCORE DELAY IN HOUSING RELIEF Filth in Tenements a’, Organize t | Charles Becker who was electrocuted | |in 1913 in connection with the Rosen- jthal murder in New York has been | established, was charged yesterday by Assemblyman F. L, Hackenburg, Appearing before the codes com- By ROBERT MITCHELL | As compared with the part played| | by the “Beakey”, the character of the |“dollar-a-day” man stands out as} he Traction Workers |ART, VI. THE SPY SYSTEM: ART OF THE “DOLLAR-A-DAY” MAN duty by relating every scrap of news| stop the steadily increasing organi- he has overheard. Sometimes he has| zation and agitation. Circular let- a whole set of improvements to sug-| ters threatening dismissal have been gest! Either Corrupted or Quits Sooner or later, of course, he dis- to renew their oaths of allegiance to the Brotherhood; the “yellow-dog” sent out; the men have been forced | covers ‘the true nature of tho role contract has been extended to men ttee at a hearing on his bill to|that of a star performer. His im- jabolish capital punishment, Hacken-| portance was early recognized by the Menace to Workers | burg, who has been making vigorous Btocsornchn ‘Intelligences od it is Protesting the wretched housing} conditions in New York City, three thousand mothers gathered at the Hotel Pennsylvania Tuesday night to urge city and state officials to take more active steps toward pro-! viding satisfactory dwellings for families unable to pay more than $5 or $10 monthly per room. } Representing 105 mothers’ clubs, forty-five women described . the frightful congestion and filth which | is characteristic of the tenements in- to which New York workers are herded. The meeting was the cul-/ mination of a ten days’ organized campaign for better housing. The women suggest three concrete schemes, all of them more or less} ineffectual, for housing relief. They wish to have the Emergency Rent Laws of the e retained; they de- mand the scrapping of unsanitary | tenements and they ik the enact- ment of a city ordinance to permit the building of low-priced tax-ex-| empt houses by limited-dividend corporations. | The menace of the poorly lit and poorly ventilated tenements to New York workers was indicated by Com- missioner of Health Louis I. Harris, who declared that he saw a “con- stant potential source of danger in the congested areas should there be/ an epidemic in New York.” Even now he said there was three or four times as much scarlet fever as there} was last year. Colored Children Go On Strike; Segregated | By School Principal | TOMS: RIVER, N. J., March 16, (FP).—Colored children and their teachers are fighting the efforts of Toms River supervising principal, Edgar M. Fink, to segregate them from their white fellow students. Fink, upon his return from Texas, or- dered the colored children out of the fine new school building into an aban- doned little church house. Both the National Association’ for the Advancement of Colored People| and the American Civil Liberties! Union have protested to Governor Moore. Aid is being given the colored | parents in the court fight against segregaton. t | Sinclair Jury Has Little to Decide (Continued from Page One) ceeding growing out of the senate in- vestigation in 1923-24 into the leas- ing of naval oil reserves. In the first, | former Secretary of the Interior Al- bert B. Fall and Edward L. Doheny, wealthy California operator, were ac- quitted of charges of conspiracy to defraud the government in the leasing of the Elk Hills California reserve. In the present case, Sinclair is charged with contempt of the United States Senate for having refused to answer certain questions propounded | by the senate committee upon his ne- | gotiations with Fall for the Teapot Dome, Wyoming, reserve. Both leases | were executed in April, 1922. | Bribery and Conspiracy. Six legal proceedings wgre based upon the revelations of the senate | committee. Two attacked the leases in civil proceed: criminal conspirac heny and Fall with bribery and an- other cited Sinclair for contempt. The Doheny civil suit recently ended in the supreme court, where the lease year and as you all know the first voted to report “leave to withdraw” | ganization was invalidated. The Sinclair civil suit is now before the same court. Fall and Doheny were acquitted last Necember in the Elk Hills conspiracy ease. The Fall-Sinclair case, involv-|Red Revel will go to spread Com- hours of labor of women in cotton| 'ing.” sing Teapot Dome, is set for trial in the supreme court of the District of Columbia on April 25. The Fall-Do- beny bribery case is yet to come to trial. Judges Decides Pertinency. Attorneys for Sinclair laboriously reared an elaborate defense before Justice Hitz only to have it. toppled over like a paper house by a ruling of the court that the pertinency of che unanswered questions was for the determination of the court rather than the jury. This ruling and its com- panion, holding that all the questions Sinclair declined to answer were per- tinent to the oil inquiry, left for the consideration of the jurors only the admitted facts that Sinclair had ap- peared before the eommittee on March 22, 1924, and had refused to answer certain questions, Under the law, a jail sentence of ‘the beautiful and beautifully garbed | attacks against the Baumes Law, de- clared that “Henry M. Klein, former a oner Accounts of New Yor y, has in his possession com- plete vindication of Becker. This con- sists of sworn proof and documentary evidence which, before long, in a proper way, will be made public.” BIG RED REVEL DRIVE TO END NEXT SATURDAY Gathering of Gaiety Seekers Guaranteed (Special To The Daily Worker.) CHICAGO, March 16.—The Fifth Annual Red Revel Masquerade Ball is already the talk of radical circles here. In fact there is little clse to talk about, outside of the approach-}| ing mayoral elections and until the Red Revel “is over politics take | wnat is best for them. What we need back seat. | ; 4 “ a “ to know is what they want, what! Mirror Hall, 1136 North Western! a. their grievances and demands. avenue will be the scene of this gay) ay, ae ; rite et J ¥ ‘Now, Mr, Smith, if you are the | festival. which will take place $0! nan who can help us with ideas and | March 19, next Saturday evening. In can’ learn 4 derstand th + | addition to other attractions, chiefly | °°". | eebciniing pale panic ” | ances and complaints of the men, you| will do a great deal towards making | this the best railroad in the country. | only in recent times that the role of the dollar-a-day man has ‘been brought to the necessary perfection. A highly developed technique has come into use: Use New Men. A new man seeking employment with the Interborough who shows | himself to be above the average men- | tally may be sent to the intelligence | {department, There he is received by! Mr. Rhatigan, chief of the “Beskey” | | division. (The men say: “There goes} |the rat again! Mr. Rhatigan con-| gratulates the worker upon having! jheen singled out from the large mas: of employes. The procedure there- after is about as follows: “Now, Mr. Smith, our intelligence | |department needs men like you for | of | i | we are trying in every way to im-! {prove the conditions of our men, | business, ete. We are trying in every | way to make our employes contented and happy. All For Kindness! “Naturally, when we have such a| large force it is almost impossible | to know exactly what is desired by | our men. Nor can we always tell damsels of many lands, there is an incentive offered for the costume) that makes the best impression on} the judges. The chairman of the committee of arrangements insists that there are | more entries for the prize this year| than ever before, One hundred dol. | lars is nothing to sneeze at. Nobody} is barred except the judges and the| Chicago correspondent of the DAILY | WORKER.- | A Closing Speech. Arne Swabeck, general secretary | of District 8 of the Workers Party,| in a final appeal to potential cus- tomers in the closing hours of the Red Revel drive said: “I predict—and I am | thing in addition to your salary, even | as high as a dollar a day, perhaps! ten dollars a week. As you see, your} You will become one of our “im-| provement” squad. But in order to} do your work most successfully, it | your special task so that the men | will feel more free in talking to you. Just Be A Spy. “In other words, you have to keep | your eyes and ears open but say! |nothing. Make friends with the men, get them to confide in you, learn | what their grievances are from them | are |"? that we may know exactly how to} |correct them.” The new worker is usually highly | jelated at receiving the special work | as “welfare ‘expert”. He ‘makes! ‘friends with the others and draws | | no false prophet—that when the dollars HERE IS THE EVIDENCE! |demands. Being honest, and speak-| ing quite openly about unsatisfactory | | conditions, he soon wins confidence. | Perhaps weeks or even months go by | | before the dollar-a-day man is sum- moned to report. Usually he seeks to prove his ability and attention to | BILL WEAKENING WOMEN'S 48-HOUR LAW HITS SNAGS 'Adversely Reported In| Mass. Legislature | BOSTON, March 16.—Organized | This unique picture of Jack Johnstone, local labor leader, was snapped by Steve Rubicki, tuchun of the Balkans, as Johnstone was washing up for the Red Revel. Since Jack or- ganized the stockyard workers he is suffering from an obses- sion that there is not enough soap and water in the world. “It’s three days off,” says Jack, “but it is never too soon to start.” In fact that is the general attitude towards the Red Revel. counted in the early hours of next | ; two charged | Sunday, the progressive movement of | jahor’s state wide campaign to prevent ent depicting strawberry, celery, and me charged Do- | Chicago, Milwaukee and points west|a partial repeal of the forty-eight | Pet fields in California. Over each | | will have again‘ proven that they/ hour law in Massachusetts, seems to have this great insitution at heart.| be winning. The Red Revel is now in its fifth} ‘The labor and industries committee | five years are the hardest. I eatno!on the measure filed by the Arku-| man’s doughnuts and I feel that the| right Club, an organization of tex-| good workers of Chicago will see that| tile manufacturers, asking for a re-| I don’t have to. The proceeds of the| peal of the law as it affected the | jmunist propaganda and this banner | mills. ‘district must still retain the lead that! Under the bill women would be al- \it has held for severa) years. I thank|jowed to work 54 hours a week pro- |the members of the party in this | vided the average for the year was |district and the sympathisers who | not in excess of 48 hours a week. have helped to make the Red Revel | The bill will be adversely reporte |the success it is sure to be, My elee-/ to either the senate or the house an tion is certain”. (Comrade Swabeck | g debate may be launched to over- | forgot himself momentarily and thot! throw the adverse report of the com- he was running for office—Fd.) | mittee. | Greetings From Daily Worker Staff. | PERL TO REM NN Mother Freezes But | | The following touching message | |was received in Chicago from the| |DAILY WORKER editors who left) |Chicago for New York when the Rescues Her Infant | Daily moved: j pail as BGS Comrades: Red Revel publicity ap- | LAKEVIEW, Ore., March 16. — pearing in Daily has us all weeping, | Mother love which sacrificed self for If we were in Chicago we would not | her baby was expected today to save have enough money to take a street | the life of the 15 month old baby of | car home from the Red Revel not to| Mrs. D. W. Amburget but the mother mention a taxi. In fact we might have | charges that the Sapiro cooperatives |to walk to as well as from but we which he hae been playing. Then one of two things happens. Hither he leaves the company or; as is more! way Company, they have even gone often the case, he accepts definitely | to the length of compelling the new and consciously. the part of a paid/employes to make out an affidavit $ that they do not and will not belong ntion has already been made|to any labor organization. the company legal department| these schemes, however, have pre- is in many of its workings the chief | vented the steady growth of the new} spy agency of the Interborough and/union. Even the recent injunction that Mr. BE. L. Quaekenbush is the| has not prevented the movement) leading inquisitor and “Beakey”. which has now become inevitable. “Put On The Car Raise Their Price. When there is any rea As a last desperate effort the In- pect that a particular worker is} terborough has offered a reward of “agitating” or is connected with any | $100 to any employe who will report movement towards organization, he | another worker who speaks to him is sent to 165 Broadway, the office |or agitates in any way about organ- of the Interbtrough and “put on the| izing. No questions are asked nor carpet”. To be “put.on the carpet”|are steps taken to verify the truth of is to be put through the third degree | the report made by the spy who} jthe work we are doing. You know|in a manner which would shame the) “turns in” a man. The intention 1s} ...|merely to intimidate the workers and CONNOLLY. 4 Jew | for this purpose it does not matter ingenuity of the heroes of “the adopt better ways of conducting our| York industrial squad of the police; Whether the information is accurate} force. Men have reported that to be| oF not. Tt must be said to the great grilled for three hours is no uncom- | ¢redit of the men that in spite of the | mon thing. temptation of the reward very few of The method is usually to inform|the many thousands of men have re-| the man first that he is fired for dis-| Ported anyone. ; loyalty to the company or the “bro-| In order to make some kind of! therhood”, When he protests, he is| showing, the company in one instance! told that that he has been carefully | put forward one of its chief “rats”, watched for the past few months,|a motorman by the name of Bill that all his movements have been| Ryan to make a report about a work- known and that if “he had not been/| er. such a good worker’ in the past no| This worker was fired according to consideration would be offered him the pre-arranged scheme. Big Bill at all. The attempt is then made} Ryan received no reward and no one to anger him by all manner of insults is deceived by the trick. Everyone and abuse. This method usually | knows that he is just a petty ‘“dol- “works” to secure what little in-|lar-a-day” man. He was one who “Besides, we will pay you some-| formation or suspicion he may have | stayed in during the last strike. The} of, for instance, organization plans | reason has* now become clear to and members. If he possesses even|everyone. Although he has never the slightest bit of information, he| passed the regular motorman’s ex- job will be a very important one.|is forced to make an affidavit of| amination, he is being “made” into | his. claims. Thereupon he is graci-|a motorman. ously sent back*to work with a warn-| The Law of The Club. ing, and the man or men whom he| These aye the kind of “petty lar- ted are called in and “put on the car-| poration, The Interborough Rapid pet”. In their case the procedure is|Transit Company, resorts to. They even more abusive’ and insulting.|are the methods of the pickpocket Very often, however, these tactics do|and the sneak thief with this dif- ot work. | ference that the law is on the com- Defiance Pays. |pany’s side as was so well illustra- Many a man has told Mr. Keegan! ted during the last strike. Men like or Mr. Quackenbush to “Go to Hell!” | Frank Hedley and E.\L. Quackenbush | or “You know what you can do with| Stop at no extremes to secure their your job!” The most interesting fact | ends. The law which they are always is that nothing is done to them there-/| calling upon and the order which after. They are invariably sent back| they do piously sgek to preserve is to work because the company needs|the law and order of the possessing the men much more badly in most| class: the law of the policeman’s them out as to their complaints and | cases than the workers need the kind| club and the order of the soldier's | Joint Board. If he did that, the »re- | of employment which this corpor- | bayonet. ation provides. | It was no idle boast which Mr, Yellow-Dog Oath. | Quackenbush made during the 1926 A further development of the spy) Strike: “All the law which is re- system should be mentioned. Since! quired in this case will be found at the last strike, the company has been the end of a policeman’s billy.” at its wits end to.devise plans to! (To Be Continued) Sapiro’s Associates ‘Governor Smith’s Bill Were U. S, Senators To Consolidate County ‘Governments Is Beaten (Continued from Page One) | ture Jardine in President Colidge’s | ALBANY, N. Y. March 16.—Gov- |eabinet, are identified with and mem- | ernor Smith's bill providing for the| pay rum manufacturer, has brought | | bers of, the so-called Sapiro coopera- | creation of a commission to study)q charge of grand larceny in the| |ecounty governments with a view of \consolidating many of the smaller counties, was defeated by republicans in the assembly today. A motion by minority leader Bloch to take the bill from rules committee was lost by a vote of 50 to 73. No Goshen Hospital. Over the opposition of the demo- cratic minority, the senate today gave final legislatiye approval to the bill by Assemblyman Hall, republi- can, requiring the consent of town authorities of Goshen, Orange county, ‘before a tuberculosis hospital can be erected within three miles of the town limits. The vote was 26 to 20. tive association,” said Gallagher. Cash From Government, urthermore, according co Gallagh- er, the “cooperatives” founded by Sa- pizo did not even borrow their money from Jews, Gallagher showed the jury a series of pictures, published in the Independ- photo was a caption saying the Cali- | fornia growers were “paying tribute,” or were dominated by the Jewish or- No Jewish Ring. “We will prove,” said Gallagher, “that not one cent of tribute was ever paid by those farmers to a Jewish Entombed 18 Hours. COPINTH, N. C., Mar. 16,—After 18 hours of toil, a crew of workers early today rescued Jeff Ashworth, farmer, who was entombed 40 feet down in a well, Gallagher also touched on Ford's borrowed money from Jewish bank- ers, “We will show that millions of dol- lars were borrowed by these coopera- tives from the American government and national banks,” he added, “but that not one cent was borrowed from Jewish bankers.” ' Gallagher told the jury how a group of western cooperative leaders sought to see Ford to “set him right” on their movement while it was under attack in the Dearborn Independent. . The group was denied an audience with the auto king but did succeed in stopping Lege of the attacks for a little while, Read The Daily Worker Every Day Ford Wouldn't Listen. “The evidence will show that when {who had not previously signed one; | {in the case of the Third Avenue Rail-| None of| sete ete ete ch ee fo abe eto abe ae al of te ede eon elo ee eh ele ele ae 6 RUTHENBERG Memorial Meeting one month to one year and a fine of $100 to $1,000 is mandatory when a would be there and depend on luck. New York is a great city but we hausted, her legs frozen below the! or to give them the chance to set him |have yet to see a Red Revel or any- | thing like it here. { hope you raise |enough money to buy postage stamps Degenerate Crime in and send some news about your city. Black Shirt Capital | (Signed) Four Little Editors. ROME, March 16. — The humble | 400 Pieces of Pork. home of pretty little Armanda Leon- | WASHINGTON, March 16.--The! ardi, five-years old girl who was|war department this afternoon made outraged and strangled by some de-! public its recommendations for al-! generate in a field which was once|lottments for rivers and harbors im- . Caesar's garden, was not large| provements all over the country. Be- enough to contain the floral offer-|tween 400 and 500 projects were | jury returns a verdict of guilty. knees, was found by a searching par- ty in the timbered mountain district near here after being missing for three days, ! aged 5 and 8, were dead beside her will probably live. Walter Goldberg, 19 year old Brooklyn youth, today was arraigned In homicide court on a charge of |murdering Anna Harris, 14 year old school girl, who was shot to deat! ings sent by sympathizers. listed. in her home late yesterday. late wemt Two of her children,|A co | expla but the infant huddled to her breast t right. He finally granted them an audience with Fred Black, business manager of the Dearborn Independent, unittee did see Mr. Black and ined how unjust the articles were that had been published. * “The articles stopped after that for a few months but were started again later. The later articles all libelled Mr, Sapiro in the same mahner as before.” BUY THE DAILY WORKER may die and two other children are! this group appealed to Mr. Ford for dead. 5 |a hearing to explain how ng he if 00 Vil, ale Mrs, Amburger, trembling and ex-| was, he refused to hear their appeal ‘ SPEA Pruserka and a SEEEEEELEEEEEEE SELES EE EN \ 16 Manhattan Ave., near Broadway. Engdal, Winstone, Rebecca Grech, Ray Ragozin, Lithuanian Chorus, singing, “Aida.” ATTHE NEWSSTANDS |REPEEEEREPEEEEEEEEHES EES HER {Rumored That Standard {16 Oil Saves Nervous Nell | ‘From Sudden Retiring | WASHINGTON, March 16 (FP).—- | Official Washington is buzzing with | a report that President Coolidge de-| finitely informed Ambassador Hough- |~ ton, two months ago that he would be | made secretary of state in place of | Kellogg; that Houghton came from | London and discussed it with Cool- | idgeé; that suddenly Coolidge was in- | ORIGINAL HAT” BOSS VIOLATES HIS AGREEMENT Chicago Strike at Once | duced to change his mind, and that he Begins Again told Houghton that he would not be | CHICAGO, March 16.—The strike promoted, after all; that Charles | at the Original Hat Works, 21 South Evans Hughes, counsel for Standard | Wabash, is still on. When the work- Oil and its associates, is credited with | on. came down yesterday morning, having blocked the appointment. |after a, settlement of the strike had Teenie rereten te | been effected, they found the bosses ' Ketan g their agreement by refusing FRIEDMAN SCORNS to take back the women millinery | workers. Fine Solidarity. BRIBERY ATTEMPT The strike started again immedi- lately. The cutters and operators re- | fused to work until the agreement was {kept with the women millinery work- jers, | A joint meeting of all millinery |workers is arranged for, tomorrow, per ean March 17, at-the Redwyn Bldg., 30 i i North Wells St., immediately after In Prison Cell Writes of | work. It is for members only, and Scheme to Fool Him __s representatives of the Chicago Fed- ci eration of Labor, Women’s Trade Another imprisoned cloakmaker | Union League, Millinery Workers In- has written to his friends about the | ternational Union, and the Chicago or- tricks the reactionary international | Snizers will speak. — officials have played in their efforts | Caused by Discharge. to make him attack the joint board} The strike in this plant first started and its leaders. over the discharge of a union cutter, From the Tombs comes his letter |All men and women handworkers and addressed to “Comrade Goldman, and joperators walked out in solidarity. all other comrades of the joint). Judge “Injunction Denny” Sullivan Right Wing Bribery. | yaaa racy aallell ga acing which I have received the 9th of bea | 4 ruary from those fakers.. They have | tried to bribe me in different ways) Klan Dragon, Up For so that they may have some sensa- | . * tions for their treacherous news. Murdering Girl, May paper. Still File His Appeal “If I could only be free at pres-| ent I would have exposed a great) INDIANAPOLIS, March 16.—The deal. of my discoveries. My strong-| Indiana supreme court today granted est desire is now to express my full| D, C, Stephenson, former grand dra- hate and condemn that Sigman and gon of the Indiana Ku Kluk Klan a his gang. 60-day extension, until May 25, in | “I've read the letter that my com-/which to file briefs in his- appeal rade Perlman ent you from Sing! from his conviction at Noblesville, Sing prison, and my best wishes to!Indiana, of the murder of Miss | will be necessary to keep quiet about|may have mentioned or only suspec-|ceny” tactics which that great cor-| him and his family. Good luck and| Madge Oberholtzer, Butler co-ed, for good health for his strong bravery.) which he is serving a life sentence We all here in the Tombs consider jin the Indiana penitentiary at Michi- the bravery of our comrade. My/gan City. | best regards to our comrades Boru-| | chowitz and Hyman, I remain, yours, as comrade,| KEY WEST, Fla. Mar. 16.—(Ins.) | Harry Freedman. Local 2.” | —Dr. J. Y. Porter, Sr., who made the The telegram referred to by Freed-| first demonstration of the mosquito man, was sent by Sigman’s appointed law of yellow fever transmission, | officers of Local 2, and in it they | died here this morning at the age of \tried to convince the imprisoned | 79, following lingering illness. ‘cloakmaker that the progressives | | had betrayed him and it would be to| Read The Daily his best interests to condemn the Scientist Dead. ker Every Day ‘actionary rights’ would try to do_ | something for him. Another protest against this same | sort of telegram was printed in The |) | DAILY WORKER on March 7th, and ‘was sent by Perlman who is eho carrying on behind prison bars: the | struggle for a cloakmakers’ union | \free of all the union-smashing trai- | tors like Sigman. } | Rich Idler Robs Old Man. | YONKERS, N. Y., March 16. — ‘Henry Michelson, Sr., 83 years old, lof 272 South Broadway, a wealthy | Jubilee SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 2nd, 1927 in | Yonkers city court against his son, | Henry Michelson, Jr., of 100 Belvi- |, | dere Place, whom he accuses of ap-| | propriating 4,000 shares of stock | valued at $13,000, a radio set, a gold) snuf box and other personal articles. | Aldehol Compulsory. WASHINGTON, March 16.—Alde- hol, a non-poisonous denaturant for industrial alcohol, will beeome com- |‘ppulsory in the government’s de- |naturing formula on April 1. Dr. J. H. Doran, treasury chemist, said today that this substitute for | poisonous pyridine, promises the end) | of industrial aleohol with the “death | | kiek.”” MADISON SQUARE GARDEN i 49th Street & 8th Avenue Freiheit Gesangs Verein accompanied by, Yew York Symphony Orchestra will present the poem of the Russian Revolution TWELVE written by Alexander Block, Musie and Conducted by f JACOB SCHAFER. S JACOMO RIMINI at SERGE! RODOMSK a special program The well-known soptano Chicago Children Killed, GARY, Ind., March 16.—The ap- parently slain bodies of Donald, 6, | and Vivian, 8, children of Mr. and, Mrs. Walter School of Chicago were | ‘found jn the closet of a vacant house ; here today. §, at Royal Palace KERS: ROSA RAISA in a special program. This will be her first\ recital in New York within t! 2 years. ALL SEATS RESERVED. * + + ad * + : Saal + | + oa + Jewish speaker. Tickets: $1, $1.50 and $2 at Freiheit, 30 Union Square, es, Bega