The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1927, Page 2

BERT: } i . his home,” Raison said. Pacino Page Two * £& DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1927 ORDERS JERSEY SCHOOL 10 LET NEGRO BOY ‘IN Raison Says Son Sent to Unhealthy Building TK TON, N 7.—Su- preme Court Ju Lloyd here today signe sked by. John F, Rais ing the board of edu on of Berkeley town- ship to admit R. s son, Frar years old, to the school, or, failing to show ¢ on April 6 next for refusing to admit the boy to that schoo: While Raison w order, State Senator Ale son, democrat, of Hudson Cou troduced a bill in the se the segregation of ch son of color, race or r demeanor. To Insariitary Bu Raison said that h been attending the for the last two 1 last, Frank an dren were ta River school, and moved to a school established in a Negro church at Bushwick. The church building has walls without pla , retains mois- ture, is cold and damp, poorly heated, and unsanitary, and drinking water there is kept in an unsanitary gal- vanized pail, Raison said in an affi- davit. 80) king for this Color Discrimination. “ believe I have a right to have my child educated in the school nearest “That is, ip school at Toms the Dover tow River, a half mile from v lives. My son has been excluded from that school ause he is a Negro, which m is ex- cluded because of his co British Imperialisis Failed to Prove Their Case, Says “Pravda” (Continued from P: only concrete accusa against the Soviet gov in connection with the s: oviev letter” which w tured in the workshops o tish secret police and the existing British gov win the election campaign. It was a well-known fact that this letter was a forgery and that up until one has been punished for forgery was used as s off diplomatic r to peaceful relation berlain for ins with Kamer know whether pe has been instruc to ex- the lat- ai is not verlain con- sider it necessary to interfere in the affairs of the Sov mbassador in Italy? When oniy Anglo-Russian re- lations are under ¢ haps in the meantir come a part of the And the presence of the Kameney there is not agreeable to Scotland Yard?” Answers With Dignity. The Soviet government had, de- clared the “Pravda”, despite the absurdity of the accusations made against it and despite the challenging | tone of the British note, answered with the greatest reserve. The So- viet government had bited great self-control and a great will for peace by expressing once again its com- plete preparedness to settle ail dif- ferences and conflicts by peaceful negotiations. However, the cabinct of Diehards was pursuing its own plans. There was a certain danger in this and it was the task of the working masses to curb the conserva- tive extremists. * * . Protest Treaty. (Special To The Daily Worker.) ODESSA, U. S. S, R.—Odessa and Balto held many meetings, protest- ing the ratification by Italy of the Bessarabian protocol. The Red International Unions in a mar unions which participated in te re- cent anti-imperialist congress at Brussells declares that it considers it of Labor sto to all trade its class duty to respond to the ap-! peal of the congress. and is prepared | to do everything in its power to meet its decisions. The Red International of Unions as previously deciared pub- licly, is willing to take part in any conference called to elaborate prac- tical measures for the establishment of the unity of the international trade union movement. Mothers’ Clubs Ask That Rent Laws Be Continued Re Na Ys Governor Alfred E. Smith has re- ceived a resolution adopted by repre- sentatives of 105 mothers’ clubs at a conference held at the Pennsylvania Hotel that demands that the emer- gency rent laws be continued, unsani- tary tenements scrapped, and that a city ordinance be enacted hermitting Labor Hd erection of low-priced tax-exemp uses. ! /| William = Pickins’ New Book Will Be Issued By The Soviet Union | kens, field secretary of Colored Advancement ead chairman of the recently form- ed “Flands Off China Committee,” has received a letter from Moscow informing him that his latest book, ’ ng Bonds,” will ehortly be ed by the state yublishing “My dear three letters and the copy of ‘Bursting Bonds’ 1 received a few days ago. Many thanks for them. About the ‘Burst- i is just the kind of ooking after—It is a matter of some petty formalities, which are going to be settled on coming Monday the Mth (so in- formed me Mr. Lundberg) and the hook will be accepted by the ‘Gosis- dat’ (governmental publishing) for the purpose of translating it. “As a matter of fact I have al- ready translated the Chapter ‘Ar- kansas traveler’ and will see it put in press (probably in the ‘Evening Moscow’). Further information I will send to you, as soon as will get them. “Very truly yours (Signed ELIAS SREDNIK” Moscow, Russia Zemlianoy Val 47, Apt. 1a, SACASA SECURES MORE VICTORIES OVER U.S. AGENT PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua, March 17.—Dr. Juan Sacasa, liberal | leader, and constitutional president of Nicaragua today stated that his forces | ral Association for the | People || Organize the Traction Workers ARTICLE VIII. By ROBERT MITCHELL The picture which has thus far r ted of the New York raction ation, particularly of {the Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany is so striking and unusual that it becomes diffienlt to understand how the conditions have continued in th way for over a score of yea Fearful overwork, starvation {vile and unsanitary working condi- ns, a “reptile” company union sap- ping the life blood of the workers, an organized spy system which poisons ali possible trust and comradeship among the workers and hounds their a lives—how have these things Ps on for so many years without \the most violent kind of rebellion? They Have: Fought. The answer {s that there have been | rebellions; some of the bitterest and |most violent in labor history. That jthe Interborough workers have not |reaped the rewards of their struggles jhas not been their fault, as will be|against old age pensions and social | .¥i+), shown, That they remain still with- out recognized organization to pro- téct them and advance their inter-| ests, is due to a peculiar kind of be-| trayal which has been practised upon them. Nor should it be supposed that the traction workers have always been unorganized. To many men on the (line and particularly to workers in |other trades who can not look back {with aceuracy for a quarter of a |century, it may come as a surprise |that the Interborough once had a | most powerful and militant labor or- ganization. Previous to the year 1905, the In- terborough was not only organized, but it was affiliated with two of the | most powerful national labor organ- izations in the country, the Brother- jhood of Locomotive Engineers and |the Amalgamated Association of |Street & Electric Railway Employ- jees of America, had met with “tremendous success” in their campaign against the govern- | ment troops of President Diaz in the past few days, In Spite of Marines. spite of American interven- Sacasa said, “my forces experi- enced the greatest success of the war on Monday when they captured Bo- aco, following their victory up on Tuesday with the capture of San Jer- onimo, Acoyapa and Tierra Azul, where they secured quantities of arms and ammunition from the enemy. “Huge reinforcements will be rought up to these cities, to prepare ‘or the attack which General Gortez is expecting from General Moncada at Tierra Azul.” + . P © The liberals here are now extremely | first guess you will make is that it opeful of success, and are celebrat- | #8 8 organization of Fascists and ing the reported victories. ay er Fight In } galpa. BLUEFIELDS, aragua, 17.—Fighting has been in progress | dis' here today. result may determine the outcome of the revolution. * * * No Peace If Diaz Wins. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 17. —A peace mission which was to have ” started for Puerto Cabezas to attempt to urge Dr, Sacasa, liberal leader to give up his efforts to win military success, has been abandoned as those interested feel that the war will have been brought to a conclusion by a decisive battle before they could reach | Puerto Cabezas. They expected the recent battle in which Diaz was beaten to be a victory for him. Diaz announces that he lost sixty- one dead and seventy wounded in the battles at San Jeronimo and Tierra Azul on Tuesday. Admiral Latimer has left for Cor- into, but prior to his departure he congratulated the editors of La | Prensa for their initiative in putting out an English section of their pa- per, carrying international news ser- ice dispatches, for the benefit of Anterican marines and sailors. THE DAILY SYMPOSIUM Conducted by Egdamlat. The Question. What do you believe will be the outcome of the Ford-Sapiro trial? The Place. Tremont Avenue corner Boston Road. The Answers, Sam Koral, Boston Road, Bronx, restaurant employee: “Tehre is no racial issue involved. Sapiro is sim- ply out for publicity. No doubt conductors were affiliated with the | pay, | The motormen and} THE 1905 STRIKE—WHO CAUSED IT? jare to disrupt labor unions and cor-| pute to an arbitration committee of rupt labor officials invariably adopt | such a name as the above to serve | as a disguise for their real purpose. In the case of the National Civic | Federation, its vicious activities are ‘all the more effective because it |works under a cover of pretended | friendship to organized labor and collective bargaining. Provides Market Place. The National Civic Federation | jbvings together the capitalist and) ithe “labor leader” in a co-operative | ;Scheme to sell out the workers. It} jorates about common interests and [the removal of conflicts from the }economic plane; it prates about a ‘square deal for labor and agitates {for compulsory arbitration; it advo- | cates trade agreements and approves | of scabbing and strike breaking; its | jleft hand writes in glowing¥erms of | | abstract welfare work for employees |while its right hand prepares def-; linite and dishonest propaganda} | legislation. In short it is a fake,| tand it is supported by the highest} fficials of organized labor! | “Advanced” Opon Shoppers. | Draw the curtain from before one lof the Civic Federation meetings. | Knowing already what this organiza- jtion stands for you will not, of |course, be surprised.to find there the collection of regular open shoppers | —only the more “advanced” variety, | however—likewise you will discover there the 57 varieties of union bus- | ters and labor exploiters. But even though you have already been warned you can not help gasping at your first view of the others, There sits old Sam Gompers, President of jthe A. F. of L., a full quorum of \his vice presidents, Duffy, Duncan, i } jther: there is old fighting W. D. ;Mahon, president of the Amalga- mated Street & Electric Railway Employes of America, Warren S. tone of the B. of L. E., and many, |B. of L. E. and most of the other} many others. How many, does not| | workers with the Amalgamated. The | now matter, for to them all and their! jheads of the local divisions were | activities we shall do justice at an- jthree honest and hard working .lea-|othér time and in another place. | ders who rentind one, as he reads of| The connection between the Na- itheir struggle against the Interbor-| tional Civie Federation and the 1905 ough of Lavin, Bayk, Phelan and|Interberough strike now becomes a Walsh who put vp such a_ heroic ‘battle against that unscrupulou company last July. The leaders o: |the 1905 strike were Jencks, Pinney and Pepper. The first two were of the locals affiliated with the B. of L. E. and the last, of the Amalga- mated. National Civie Federation. Now, if you have never heard of the National Civic Federation, the | American Legionists; secondly that it is a body of labor officials. You ;are right in both guesses! But your March | Suesses were not so difficult after ll, for everyone knows by this time past three days in the Matagalpa | that organizations whose motives! cannot airee, we will refer the dis- ict, according to news reaching | It is believed that the! FY . ad bag gall a ¢ Claim Proof Will Be Offered to Show Sapiro Cheats Farmers, | (Continued from Page One) | Im one instance, Reed declared, Sa-! | piro threatened to make “grass grow | in the streets of the town of| | Wilson, N. C.” | | Implicates Baruch. Late in the afternoon, Reed drew Bernard M. Baruch, the New banker, into Sapiro’s activities. BP. said Sapiro had conferred with Re ert H. Bingham, of Louisville anc Baruch before organizing the B ley Leaf Tobacco Association. Ree declared he would prove that Baruc' |had advised Sapiro to organize association and had promised to | monies to the cooperative to marie! the tobacco crop. To Save Merchants. Reed declared Baruch sent Sapiro | to Kentucky to organize this asso- |clation because the tobacco ware-| | house owners were “facing bankrupt- | jey.” Under the plan evolved, Reed | | said, Sapiro was to organize the to-| baeco farmers, pool their crops, bor- | row money on the pool and then _buy the warehouses from their own- ers for the association. | “This plan was carried out,” Reed | said, “and we will show that Aaron Sapiro wrote out the minutes for the first meeting of the board of direc- tors in advance and these minutes di- rected the purchase of the ware- |housés.”; | | Generous to Middleman. | Reed said the minutes contained an | | | little clearer. Who was then Presi- |dent of the Interborough? August elmont. What was his position in | the National Civic Federation? Also | President. Did he meet with’ bro- thers Stone and Mahon? Oh, yes, jmany times! Did they talk about| |the weather? Yes, and about the traction situation! Listen to bro- |ther Stone for s¥minute: Promises No Strike. “There will be no strike on the !Interborough, Mr. Belmont. You néed not hesitate to go away on your! j vacation. If any disagreement aris- es between the management of the ; Yoad and our local committee, it will |be referred to you and me. If we six, each selecting three.” To which Mr, August Belmont re- plied, “All right, Mr. Stone, and if we get to that point, you can name all six of them.” This conversation took place sev- eral days before the March 7, 1905 strike. Hedley and others were taking .din- ner together before the departure of Mr. Belmont on his regular vacation to Florida. Workers Complain. But at this time the air was al- ready full of complaints and even threats of the workers ‘whose in- terests had been betrayed and who were unable any longer to endure the increasing savagery of the Inter- borough tactics, Some of the men were receiving $1.40 per day. The averagé was about $1.75 for a ten, | twelve or fourteen hour shift. As early as January of that year the men, particularly those affiliated the Amalgamated under the leadership of Pepper, had threatened to strike when the Interborough broke the terms of an agreement with them by increasing the schedule of trains against all accepted prac- tice and mutual understanding. The agreement with the Amalga- mated was due to expire in Mareh, whereas the agreement with the B. of L. E, had still three years to run. When the men went out on strike on March 7, 1905, the ery was, of course, raised that the walkout was in vio- lation of the existing agreement but this outcry carefully concealed the fact that the Interborough had, as we shall see, very deliberately brok- en the agreement with the men for the purpose of breaking up the | Woll, Rickert and others; look fur-| Union. Used Labor Fakers. y The facts are now clear:* When the Interborough officials realized that through their association with the International labor leaders in the National Civic Federation they had the support of these labor fakers in whatever steps they might take, they decided upon the extreme measure of breaking the union. For this purpose the Interborough adopted two methods of procedure. First, the officials began to break the terms of the existing agreements with the local unions; secondly they began to import scabs from Chicago. Weeks before there was even a defi- nite threat of a strike the Interbor- ough had aleady collected over a thousand scabs who were being fed and prepared for the coming events. The accounts of such papers com- pletely antagonistic to the strike as “The New York Times” will bear out this assertion, The local workers knew these} facts; the International Labor offi- cials likewise were aware of them, yet in spite of this knowledge they dared openly to sabotage the strike. (To Be Continued.) Average Wage in ailroads Under $1,600 (Continued from Page One) there were more workers on the pay- previous December. i Altogether there |were 20,656 more railroad workers {rolls in December, 1926, than the | than a year previous. But there were | 7,802 fewer shop employes. The 1,773,864 railroad workers employed during December received a total of $252,939,491 in wages or an average of $142.60 monthly apiece. Devember .... Yearly average The $142.60 average w: in De- cember 1926 is a gain of a $3.10 over the average for December 1925 and $4.20 over December 1924, This average roflects the earnings of all employes including salaried execu- tives and officials, If we consider only employes paid on an hourly basis the average tor December 1926 was $126.75 and the average for the year under $1600, The average hourly rate for straight-time work on the railroads rose slightly from 59.1c in December 1925 to 59.9¢ in December 1926, In- creases to the shoperafts and the train and engine service employes were chiefly responsible for this Ford will win since there is so much | instruction for the association “to err! gain, Shop wages averaged 60.8¢ in money backing him.” jon the side of generosity toward the | December 1926 with 59.4c in 1925, a Louis Des Ruisseatx, Bronx Ave.,| warchouseman,” in making the pur-| gain of 1c. ' Bronx, woodworker: “Ford will win out with his hands down.” Harry Goldberg, East 178th St., mechanic: “Sapiro won't win be- cause the jury and judge are gentiles. | fluence that the Jews were barred from the jury.” Bronx, bookkeeper: to foretell what a jury will do. jnot the first time Ford has made j himself vidieulous.” if the jury is unbiased. time that Ford should be ber a a defend Ne leah se § for | chase, { Minneapolis Conference Calls “Hands | Off China” Demonstration, Sunday. | | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 17. The train and engine service aver- |age straight time hourly earnings rose from 78.2¢ to 79.%c¢, a gain of 1.5c. In the other departments in- creases amounted to a fraction of a /{t is undoubtedly due to Ford's in-|-—The “Conference Against Interven- | cent ra’ jtion in Moxieo, Nicarargua testing against the @nnexation of Nic- | | believe that Sapiro will win. This is|and China recently, has issued a call | $2,990,215,719. for a “Hands Off China” demonsira- ing from 9/10 of a cent for The total distributed by the rail- 1,778,864 1,806,639 With the December report we can recapitulate 1926 as follows: ry i if Average Rail Employes Number monthly wage January, 1926 1,730,071 $139 Pebruary r 132 £ Coal Barons May Lock Out Illinois (Continued from Page One) lowed to run pending a contract for the entire district. It is possible Lewis may declare a contract in ef- fect when he has signed up 60,000,- 000 or more tons of production. Ohio operators, thru their associa~ tion, have again announced that they will not confer with the union except on the basis of a wage cut. * * * Another Accident. _ . LIBERTYVILLE, Indiana, March 17.—Between 400 and 600 miners em- loyed in Shirkey Mince No. 1, at Shirkeyville, a mile east of haere, crawled to safety today through thp airshaft after the ropes lifting the cages snapped and dropped one of them twenty feet to the bottom. Nobody was injured, Hugh Shirkey, | president of the Shirkey Coal Com- 4 x and yard service employes down to noth-| pany announced. _ China,” ovganized recently in Minnea-| ing for maintenance of way em-_ Henry J. Sullivan, Daly Ave., | polis, which held a mass meeting pro- ployes. “It is difficult | | The accident was caused by a de- | foctive mechanism whicK allowed one of the cages to hoist too high. This I) aragua and intervention in Mexico roads in wages in 1926 amounted to {snapped the rope dropping one of the According to ‘The cages to the bottom while the safety ‘ail Street Journal railroad execu-!extch caught the other one and held tion to be held on Sunday, March 20 tives expect that the wage increases |it half way from the bottom. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Mrs. H. Winters, College Ave.,|in Yeoman Hall, 3rd Avenue South| whieh are going the rounds will raise Bronx, housewife: “Sapiro will win} and 7th Street, Minneapolis at 2 in! this about.5% or nearly $160,000,000 it is high | the afternoon, | in 1927, That is, if the railroads do | not succeed in further speedit cree a ‘| With the cages out of commission ithe miners’ only way out was through i man-way. The men filed through this shaft in orderly fashi orderly fashion. Read The Daily Worker Eyery Day Mr. Stone, Mr. Belmont, Mr. | “YOUTH FAILURE | IN BANDIT JOB Darrow Points a Moral; Poor Fill Prisons SORROW CRAZED Broke and anxious to reach the bed- side of his dying father in Lawrence, | Mass., Leo Marsafa, 19. year old high | school student yesterday chose crime | and lost because he lacked the nerve of a bandit. Young Marsafa entered a delica- tessen store in Brooklyn, mumbled | that he wanted to make a purchase | and then struck the proprietor a ter- | rific blow over the head with the butt of a revolver, Panic-stricken as his victim slump- ed to the floor, Marsafa fled to the street, throwing the revlover to the pavement. He was seen by a passing letter-carrier, who summoned Police- man William J. Feeney. Grief Stricken. As the youth jumped on a passing truck, Feeney commandeered a taxi- cab and caught him after a chase of four blocks. Grief-stricken and hysterical, young Marsafa readily confessed the crime. He said he hed come recently from Lawrence to live with an uncle. He had been unable to find work and yesterday received a letter from his sister, urging him to come home as his father lay at the point of death in a hospital, Unable to obtain the money lawfully, Marsafa had decided to steal it. He was charged with fe- lonious assault. ° *. . “Men who are trained to make a living don’t go to jail,” declared Clar- ence Darrow, famous Chicago lawyer, yesterday in a talk before the West Side Unitarian Church. “You don’t find carpenters and bricklayers and doctors in jail in any number, but the poor and the ignor- ant who follow the easiest way. Crime ig caused by poverty and by hate, and if you would devote one-tenth the money and effort now expended on punishment to a sincere effort to re- move its causes you would practically eradicate it.” U. S. Government Will Agitate for Less Tax On Foreign Commerce WASHINGTON, March 1i7.—The U. §. government is summoning a congress of taxation experts in Lon- don to lay a basis for propaganda | for lower taxes by European coun-| tries on American commerce. The United States is reported by the department of commeree to have about $13,000,000,000 invested abroad {and to be doing about $5,000,000,000 | worth of international commerce yearly. A certain amount of double taxation has crept in, the foreign in- vestment and its product both being taxed abroad, and sometimes its com- merce also paying a tariff to the U.S. | Adams For U. 8. | | Professor I. S. Adams, Yale econ- lomist, will represent the United | States at the gathering, to be attend- | ‘ed by delegates from Great Britain, | France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Ar-| gentina and other nations. | Mitchell B, Carroll, chief of the tax section of the commerce department, | | disclosed that among the questions | \to be considered at the London con- ference are: (1) Where business profits should be taxed. | (2) Whether dividends should be taxed in the country where the cor- poration is located, or in the coun- vy_of the sharcholder. | “The experta plan to draft models | ior conventions governing tho elim- | nation of the multiple impetition of ome and inheritanee taxes,” Car-| roll said. | “They will diseuss the feasibility | _ of establishing a permanent organi- | \zation, Action of tha experts wili \not be binding on the governments | which designate them.” . Reed Calls Another Slush Fund Meeting James Reed, (D) of Missouri, today sent telegrams to ail members of his primary fund investigating commit- tee calling them to Washington for a conference Caturday. The slush fund committee will con- sider the Penasylvania situation at the meeting, it was learned. Senator Reed said that he planned to leave Detroit Friday night follow- ing the week-end adjournment of the Ford-Sapiro libel suit, Read Phe Daily Worker Every Day Flora Anna Skin Ointment for PIMPLES, RLACKHBADS, LARGE PORES : freckles, raah, itehing lin, eczema stubborn skin trouble of any 4d witli be banished by uae of FLORA ANNA SKIN OLNTMENT, tye Sold on money back guar- antoe, A NEW WAY LABORATORIES 270 Went dird 8. New York City 25% of all sules are donated to DETROIT, Mareh 17. — Senator |: capone “SHARPER THAN WORDS.-” “More Effective Than Argument” By A. JERGER. 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