The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1927, Page 2

Page Twe THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927 SENATORS RAISE EXCUSE T0 STOP: GRAFT PROBING Part of Reed Committee Balks at Private Funds : WASHINGTON, March 18.~The Reed investigating committee will face a legal battle if it attempts to use private funds te impound Penn- sylvania ballots, it was indicated here today. Backers of senator-elect William S. Vare are expected to contend that private funds cannot be legally used to carry on a function of the govern- ment, Don’t Want to Probe. ted fram Page One) ha meal or he might have be ‘or stealing a bottle of milk step, in which case an irate ge would e him a ride to the 1 est hoosegow without waste of time. inclair is due of one month humiliation he pillars of The big oil thief is a well-earned rest on v the ordeal of a trial. a bad idea to get in touch w y Daugherty, A. B. Fall, Dc and Col. Miller and throw a little party in Bermuda. It would break the monotony of life be- tween tri and the immune patriots Million Dollars Is But there | Senatorial legal authorities were) @ ERE “as ginaily divided upon the reported re + ae ps proposal of Senator Reed (D) of enry For. a’ er Missouri, to have members of the y 9 8 y committee contribute money to send ( after questioned ballots of two Penn- sylvania counties. itinued from Page One) ll the potato growers of Col- to oné organizat le said Senator Borah (R) of Idaho, holds the opinion that the Reed committee would be fully within its rights in financing the effort, while Senator Curtis (R) of Kan is understood to take the opposite v Meanwhile Sergeant-at-arms Da- vid 8. Barry of the senate was said to he prepared to refuse to go to Pennsylvania on funds that do not come out of the treasury. The Reed committee has been un- able to wrest from Senator Keyes (R) of New Hampshire, chairman of the audits and control committee, enough of the funds of over $30,000 to. the credit of the committee, to carry on its Pennsylvania inquiry during the summer recess. The committee’s course will be mapped out here Saturday. Complete International Merger of Film Makers; Eastman, Pathe, United ~ petraats ROCHESTER, N. Y., March 18.— Economies ih the manufacture and distribution of kodak and motion pic- ture film was seen today as the chief purpose of the merging of the Pathe Cinema of France and the Eastman Kodak Company. Charles Pathe, president of the vast French combine, stated in a cable to George Eastman that it was with the greatest pride he signed the papers coupling the two great film con- eerns. The two greatest names in the plhptographic industry will he combined under the title of Pathe- Kodak, Settle for Coupons Immediately Thousands of Children of the Passaic extile Strikers Are HUNGRY AND DESTITUTE HELP US FEED THEM Help Build a Strong Union! Take Some More To Sell Office open from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. daily General Relief Committee 799 BROADWAY ROOM 225 NEW YORK CITY Stuyvesant 2343 Sapiro tried to get Mortimer Stone, counsel for sevéral local associations to bring in his grouns of farmers. Quarrel With Stone. “Sapiro offered to split the organi- zation fees with Stone,” said Reed. “It didn’t Colorado people wanted Stone to head it and Sapiro wanted to rule it him- self. So they split.” Touching on the financial rewards, Reed told how in Colorado, Sépiro ked $10,000 for organizing a sep- arate association of potato growers. This was refused Retd said, and Sa- piro then asked $5,006, When this too was refused he added, Sapiro sued go the association and got a judgment | | of $8,100 and costs. Got Over Half. In Oregon, Reed said, Sapiro asked $10,000 for organizing the fruit grow- cr, The farmers thought this too jinuch, Reed added, but compromised | by paying Sapiro $5,500. ~ | “Sapiro spent the funds of his co- operative associations with-a lavish hands, according to Reed’s explana- tion to the jury. In Kentucky, Reed said, Sapiro took $48,500 of the far- mers money for organizing burley leaf tobacco growers and $30,000 more for uniting the dark leaf tobacco growers with $22,800 more as counsel fees. Some of the latter sued to get the $80,000 fee back, Reed added, but lost. In California, Reed said, Saptro took $7,500 from tomato growers and scat- tered big money jobs among his friends in the prune growers asso- ciation. One instanee cited by Reed was the appointment of a $65 a month spuunstenographer as a sales executive with a $6,000 a year salary. The largest lump sum mentioned by Reed, as going’ inte Sapiro’s pockets, was $142,000. This sum, Reed said, was paid Sapiro by the Tri-State To- bacco Growers Association in Ken- tucky. This included organization and counsel fees. * * Stop Ford Trust. WASHINGTON, March 18,—Henry Ford lost a case before the Interstate Commerce Commission today. The autemobile magnate’s plans for a consolidation ef his railroad, the Detroit & Ironton. with the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, through acquisition of stock, were rejected by the com- mission as being “not compatible with the publie interest.” Delay Action on Water Power Grab Bill ALBANY, March 18,—Lack of votes caused the republicans to delay action on their water power bill when it came up for passage in the senate this afternoon. | Under the bill, a commission of five members would be created to investi- gate water powcr development and-re- port back in 1928. This would delay any change in the present laws, which enable republicans to hand over the rich resources of the state to the An- drew D. Mellon interests. islature, which is likely, Governor Smith is sure to veto it. Governor through because the | could philosophize on the ups and downs of life and the hurdles that are thrown in the way of honest citizens who take the capitalist system at its word, * * * HE Shanghai ma s are ready to receive the Nationalist troops with a grand demonstration. The working s of the big city have de- clared a general strike to go into ef- fect today. If a commissioner of pub- lic defense orders his headsmen to get busy this time. the beheading will not be on one side. Thousands ‘of northern soldiers in Shanghai have re- volted and ned the Revolutionary ca This is good ne: Now for the fall and rise of Shanghai and ‘the dip of the revolutionary boot to the’ imperialist powers. LEGISLATORS CUT TEACHERS’ WAGES: TO DROP GAS TAX | Educators Organize to | Pass Ricca Bill | with the decision of Republican leg- islative-leaders to drop the proposed gasoline tax which would bring into the State treasury revenue totaling $18,000,000 there is a great possibil- lity of the thousands of teachers in the public schools of the state losing {all chances of a decent increase in pay. Easier to Be Rich. The reason given by the State law- makers for dropping the gasoline tax idea is that the estimated resources | for the next fiseal year will be suf-) ficient to keep the state government | going. a comfortable surplus the proposal ‘to cut $4,000,000 from the total ap- porpriation of $18,500,000 carried ‘by | the so-called Friedsam bill for “ad- justing teachers’ salaries” is now be- ing seriously considered. Teachers Fight Bill. Representatives of the thousands | of New York teachers are making an active campaign to fight this pro- posal, and at the same time are urg- ing the adoption of the Ricca bill which is aimed to override the New York City administration in inereas-| ing the pay of teachers. Committee Urges Increase. Salary inereases for every member of the teaching and. supervising staff of the public school system of Hun- ter College and the College of the! City of New York, totalling more than $14,000,000 a year, were ree- ommended to the Board of Estimate yesterday in a report submitted by \‘Lincoln Cromwell, chairman of a | citizens’ committee which has been studying the demands vf the teach- ers for higher pay. The increases recommended by Cromwell's committee, officially des- ignated as the “Mayor’s Committee on Teachers’ Salaries,” are practi- cally the same as those contained in the Ricca bill now before the State legislature. ‘Lawyer Who Ought to Know Decides Justice Absent from New York | In spite of the fact that he is one of the highest-priced lawyers in this | city, Max D. Steuer, declared yes- |terday that the “administration of justice in New York is a miserable failure.” The outburst occurred at the indue- tion to the bench of a collegue of | sions. | Courts Clogged. | Steuer cited the fact that there | were 26,000 civil cases pending in | the supreme court, 10,000 in the city pal court, After the excitement caused by his HAS BANK STOGK, UNION WANTS IT No Restraining Order; Real Fight Next The restraining order asked for! by the New York Joint Board of the cloak and dxessmakers to pre- vent Morris Hillquit, acting in behalf ‘of the reactionary officials’ of the International, from carrying on any more slight of hand tricks with the stock of the International Union Bank, was denied yesterday by Jus- tice Nathan Bijur, in the state su- preme court. Wanted Bank Stock Back. The Joint Board has asked the re- turn of their bank stock and other stock which had been put into the Nt pyeNTS oes ovum |HILLQUIT STILLICOPS IN ALBANY 70 BOOST BAUMES LAM ADDITIONS ‘Oppose Only Provision | Making Them Study Police Commissioner McLaughlin, | District Attorney Joab Banton, to- |gether with scores of police officials | and prosecutors from various parts jof the state made a pilgrimage to | Albany yesterday in an effort to tighten the provisions of the present |Baumes Law. | Move than 20 bills recommended by the Baumes Crime Commission were ading for passage, and the added prestige” of the New York officials | helped the process along. While® the | assembly was hearing the various | measures denounced as being attacks The Manager's Corner THE PARTY AND THE SUSTAINING FUND. In every unit of the Party the comrades are taking up seriously the Ruthenberg D. AILY WORKER Sustaining Fund, The Party has undertaken to establish on a firm basis The DAILY WORKER as the collective monument to its dead leader. The Party has undertaken to give direction to the widespread grief of the workers, to turn their deep regard for the achievements of Comrade Ruthenberg into a channel that will bring concrete and valuable returns for the revolu- tionary movement. Inasmech as Comrade Ruthenberg was the leader of our Party, the workers look to us and expect us to take the lead. spire them, We must not disappoint them. We must in- Units throughout the country are making it mandatory upon their members to become members and contributors to the Ruthenberg DAILY WORKER Sustaining Fund. It mat- ters not how much the amount-pledged as long as each com- rade gives according to his means. It is up to each party unit to take up this matter and mai membership so as to insure the maximum results. Party responds we can be sur will take the cue. The Ruthe ntain a careful check-wp on its If our ‘e that the workers generally nberg DAILY WORKER Sus- hands of one of Mr. Hilquit’s law|@gainst the traditional rights of in- clerks in the role of trustee, and | dividuals, many of the bills were slid- which was later discovered to have|ing through the senate with little been transferred to his name. Justice | difficulty, taining Fund will win real mass support and The. DAILY WORKER will have taken a long step forward toward finan- cial stability -BERT MILLER. ALBANY, March 18,—Coincident | % At the same time to make sure of | Bijur, in denying the Joint Board’s application, stated that: “Regardless of any other consid- eration, I find that no substantial rights, of the plaintiff has been for- feited by the acts complained of”. * Emergency Measure. According to Louis Hyman, ager of the Joint Board: “The restraining order whigh the Joint Board asked to prevent further transfer of its property until the case can be adjudicated in court was merely an emergency measure.” “That Judge Bijur has denied the restraining order simply means that in his oPinion there is no immediate danger to the Joint Board of loss of its property. Hs decision does not mean that the case which will come up in court has been decided on its merits. Judge Bijur did not go into the merits of the case, so the Joint Board still has an opportunity to’ show in court how the property and stock that were offered as ‘security for the loan were misused by Fed- erick F. Umhey, clerk in Morris Hill- quit’s office who was made trustee of the security at Mr. Hillduit’s sug- gestion, and has transferred it to his own name in spite of Hillquit’s agreement that no such action would be taken. ‘Will Not Be Hindered. man- | Cruel Law. | The Baumes Law under its present | working calls for the sentence to life |imprisonment of any person who has | jbeen four times convicted of crime, | the violation being at least in the |elass of a felony. The courts have | interpreted in recent cases that sen- | tence is obligatory on the part of the \judge sitting in the fourth case. |. As far as the New York City po- (lice department is concerned, all but |two of the 40 proposals to “eurb jcriminals and prevent crime” has its jsupport, Commissioner McLaughlit | told the Codes Committee at the hear- ‘ing yesterday, | Police Won't Study. The commissioner said his depart- ment was opposed to the bill which would compel police to attend train- |ing schools before they could be pro- | moted, and the measure providing for |central bureaus of criminal records |in cities of more than 200,000. “The so-called police educationbill,” complained McLaughlin, “would ac- complish nothing in the way of rais- jing the standards of police officers. “It would, however, be the means of | depriving the police force of the right kind of men. It would be a blow at | the civil service system.” Merchants Approve. Arthur M. Travis, representing the | RUTHENBERG RECRUITING DRIVE 1S LAUNCHED BY THE WORKERS PARTY. (Continued from Page One) and meaning of Comrade Ruthen- berg’s revolutionary activities in which there is espegially stressed his role in building the American section of the Communist International. A pamphlet dealing Ruthenberg’s contributions to the ad- vanecement of the interests of the American working class is being pre- pared by Comrade.Jay Lovestone. The following statement was made today by Jay Lovestone, the Acting General Secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party: \ “If ever we put all our best forces into a campaign to build the Party, | we will now fut even more into the) present Ruthenberg drive to carry! out the last wishes of our leader, ‘Build the Party.’ I feel sure that, every district organizer, every sub- district organizer, every section or- ganizer and every member of every shop and street nucleus, realizes the pressing need of all of us working “As for tife statement of the In-| Merchants’ Association of New York | harder than ever and closing our ternational that; this ‘decision will | City, seid his organization approved | ranks so that we-can carry on in the ‘prevent the Join Board from collec- |ail the new amendments to the present | spirit of ovr dead leader. I am con- ting funds with which to carry on its fight against the Sigman machine, it is clearly ridiculous. If an adverse decision were to be given even on the | ¥ieious Baumes Law with the excep- | tion of the police education bill. | Assemblyman Esmond, vice-chair- | ian’ of the Baumes Commission an- vineed that every class conscious | worker should feel it the highest} honor in his life as a member of the, working class to join the party now, | with Comrade | |The drive will last until July 9th, the day on which Comrade Ruthenberg was born, | Every national language fraction | bureau, as well as the Young Work- jers League and Pioneers is being | drawn closely into the drive. |. Among the slogans in the Ruthen- berg Recruiting Campaign are the ‘following: “Every Member Get A | Member” “Double The Party Mem- ' bership” “Let's Fight On!” “Get A |Ruthenberg Member” “Build The |Party” “Let’s Close Our Ranks” \“Ruthenberg Died Building The | Workers Cause—Communism; Build The Workers (Communist) Party”. Organize Memorial Library. | ‘The national Ruthenberg Memorial | Library is now being organized. Com- vade Ruthenberg, on his deathbed, turned over to the party his gee | library on Marxism, Leninism and the labor movement. This library will be used as the basis for the development of the Party National / Ruthenberg Memorial Library. / f Warren, 0., Memorial For Ruthenberg WARREN, O., March 18.—A Ruth- main @ction, which is not the ease nounced that the bill which would/during the Ruthenberg Reeruiting |enburg Memorial meeting will be now, giving money to support the Joint t would not prevént the | have revolutionized the probation sys- | Drive, membership from paying dues and | ‘m™ in New York City, will he amend- | forward to most of the former mem-| Workers (Communist) Party at the Especially are we looking j held by the Warren Section of the ed to meet objections raised by judges. bers of our party who left us tem- Hippodrome Hall, Sunday, March the bar, Max Solomon, in special ses- | Should the republican bill pass the }court and over 200,000 in the muniej- | They were held for March 23 under Smith, under the guise of “publie de- | startling remark calmed down, Steuer ‘ris Rosenberg, and Louis Antonof- velopment,” hopes to hand fat power-, presented Solomon, the new justice, sky, who were charged by Morris marketing contracts to the General with a gavel as a gift from the Cay-| Katz with assaulting him on Febru- Electrie Company, whose vice-presi. dent Owen D. Young has led th uga Demoeratic Club. Smith-fo resident eampaign. ‘Read The Daily Worker Every Day (CHARLES « b Radios and Victrolas $ 1225 FIRST AVENUE + Corner 66th Street, $ Cash or Easy Payments— ¢ Stromberg-Carlson Radios % Fada-Neutrodyne Atwater Kent 4 Radiola Super-Heterodyne Freed-Eisemann Freshman Masterpiece, Etc. No Interest Charged. INSTALLED FREE, Everything Guaranteed. OPEN EVENINGS. | itp | Fascist Flier Loafs. | RIO JANEIRO, March 18.—Mar- ' quis Francesco de Pinedo, the fascist world flier, is still at Sao Luiz Ce- cere according to reports received here. De Pinedo has no radio on his THE BRITISH STRIRE —10 cents THE DAILY WORKER LITERATURE DEPT, 83 FIRST ST. NEW YORK _ ADMISSION PREV 8:30 P. M— FIORELLO H. LaGUARDIA “Special Privilege, the Govern- ment and the People” ADMISSION FREB Freethinkers’ Society of N. Y. 226 WEST 58th STREET SUNDAY, at 3 P.M. THEODORE SCHRODER “MOR MONISM’ ” Admission Free. Quest: Board.” Judge to Influence Jury. |porarily during the period of reor-|20th,2 P.M. | } International Kidnaps. Some of the amendments to the | ganization to come back into the! I. Amter, District Secretary, will 3 ion | Baumes Law which are pretty certain | party now with a keener desire and be among the speakers. Hyman also condemned the action) y¢ passage call for the “tightening | st debieminetion tir. | of the International in continuing its | o¢ the presumption of innocence now | peng is Hy pageriterapnel an Viera a . 7 policy of forcing workers by intimi-| resting with the defendant,” and dombsmathedoen rd «s atouh pkey 4 Chicago Armenian. dation and the use of gangsters 10 | permitting judges to pie aoe te enberg oe age is the iggest | Armenian Bureau, Workers (Com- ‘vegister at the International. “The | soiatens on the case during the pro- ing rath before t! epee: |munist) Party)—“We mourn the workers of two shops were forced to| gvess of the trial. Polieethen on the Slogans For Campaign. death of Comrade C, B.. Ruthenberg go to the International today by basis of a minimum of two for cach |, -'°toe@Phs, articles, buttons, mov- | along with multitudes of workers and gangsters who threatened them with | 1,000 residents, and in some localities | ing pictures, speakers’ manuals, | will express ourseives with the pledge iron bars for weapons,” he.said. “In| tor 250 pacar rel fs also called for | ™255 meetings, , party membership to carry on the work of emancip»- the Holland and Fleckner snop atin the amendments to the geeseut law. | meetings, all of ‘these are to be re- tion of the working class for which 575 Eighth avenue, a veritable riot! Sai *\ sorted to in the great Ruthenberg our great leader fought and strug- was created so that women’ workers | Silent on Gambling Probe. |Drive that opened on March 18th./ gled till his last breath.” fainted with fright, and at the R and| “ae ‘ughli E Garment shop, at 22 West 15th etamed br ge gage ed DETROIT WOMEN MOURN RUTHENBERG'S DEATH. } j Street, Norkers weve foreed into taxis| te conferred with Governor Smith|| "DETROIT, Mich., March 18.—The Detroit Women’s Educational Circle t ibae, Ri. once tod: Sig. | 2nd refused to discuss reports that || has adopted the following resolution on the death of C. E. Ruthenberg: | axe hoe ne phic 4 io pag len, i he nln peer more gambling raids |] “We mourn the loss of C. E. Ruthenberg and shall perpetuate his mem- | deer woekake Sho have repudiated |°" political clubs. ory by working for the cause to which he gaye his life.’ | his leadership. It is my experience | Regd The Daily Wi zs z | that workers wh are forced to regis- bats of si ye. Worker Frey ‘Daz | ter with Sigman by terror or by fear LECTURES and FORUMS | jot losing their jobs are all the more ee ete) | jloyal to the Joint Board, which they TWO P grenpeecas sesame saree sero epee I |eonsider the real representative of THE PEOPLE'S INSTITUTE || TOMORROW NIGHT | | |the workers”, NEW BOO Be Pesaee Dolan (0 06 6 Ae | J. MINDEL | j Workers Held On Bail. " Sunday, Mar. 20—Dr. ln W. Femrns |) arias eakie nr cacinna yeeee Joe Dimond and S. Anshor, pickets PO lhe al Ris ce aaah | " | [before the Arline Dress shop at 352/The Watson - Parker || rucsasy, xr. 22—amere x. wie || UNDER CAPITALIS Seventh avenue were arrested yes- 1 “Will Civilization Kvolve a ||} The special difficulties and prob- vilime an?” lems of @ co-operative vemen \terday morning complaint, of | L&W villses ¥ lr the. dat in coteren ane | Phillip Venere ‘csnbiear, a ¥riday, Mar. 25—Eeverete Dean Mare | a3. ane land of chain stores and ‘las, whe charged them with assault. By: Wm. Z. Foster Me orn ideas?-—" The Peychologe a ~ | The latest scheme to ham-|| ica! Hofnt of View in’ Modern ||| WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM |bail of $7,000. sisieg American labor is bril-|| any MANHATTAN TRADE scHoou ea be oa ran ‘sis ge eae | - » AY. se rel ex! MO" The cases of Aaron Wortuns, Mor- i Ad ote li ee pee Meingls Admission, So centa, will event Gn kre State vs. Re- duction for Course Tickets. ° je ” cially no railroad worker|| ,,,.\. wee Pet ADMISSION 256. should be without this analy. || “fauvert aud te World of Thiu- || ary 24 was heard in 6th district court sis of the vicious law that ‘is |] _ S00 "The Ane ot eet er ite jand were held for the grand jury.| CENTS aor a, the vitals of the bab si tl the Reuentiae Worn maiineuel aanetin | | These men were “identified” by Katz road ns. “How the \ Investigator’s m |although Wortuns was under care of By the same eptedr ‘ Bid sage iS an peanalone INGERSOLL FORUM hs acto at the ane of his assault | STRIKE STRATEG Y—25 cents Questions People 2x rect a Philos anti-religious center of N. Y. ‘having been assaulted on February | be opher to Answer.——"Wh aie z 128 by gangsters as he was entering SAGAMIED THE USORGAN-||\ 9 Unity Has the Univeree? — | CHAMBER MUSIC HALL, at “his shop. The other men were equal- The Threat To ‘Th bpauiding, the New Rationalism. CARNEGIE HALL /- ily innocent. + p e Threat To -The Sif aychological siativicy: the Four || SUNDAY evening, MARCH 20th | Psychological Relativity: The Four evening, / er Katz. £ th ul—"Phe 8 o'clock y | Although witnesses of the incident bor Movement Transformation Formula.” PEP ia aioe yp te | failed to identify the three men, Katz By Wm. F. Dunne * “will: speak | . F, ly Worker Eyery Day peak OF maintained in court that they were 7 Read The Dail re de” ‘his assailants, and upon his state-| Documentary evidence of the ha Poskiag of the Cobia | ment the three were held. | conspiracy against the trade LABOR TEMPLE Raabe fee Att eens | The cases of Joseph Goretzky, | unions. Proof of the present 14th Street and Second Avenue + M * manager of Local 35, Albert Castig-|~ drive against all progressive THIS SUNDAY \lia, L Cohen, Jack Braff, Sam Gross- tendencies in the labor move- |! <p x4.Contemporary Authors. g _man, Anton Romenchuk, and Joseph 15 ment as the open combina- ? OF. H. W. L. DANA THE EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM | Perlman, who were called to general tion of trade union official-|| | PROF. H. W. L. of the Church of All Nations sessions yesterday, were postponed | cyypg dom, the capitalist press, em- inte ng vl 9 Second Avenue, near Hourton 8t., juntil Friday, They are charged with | ~~" ployers and government, SD MIBBTOR 2e CES SUNDAY, MARCH 20th, at $:80 P. Mt. misdemeanors growing out of the By the same author 715 P. Mm ‘arnt wanton ‘uaheasantl _cloakmakers’ strike and picketing ac- spexcn ar rne portiann|}| EDMUND B. CHAFFEE UNIONISM.” | tivities, A. F. OF L. Niece ld “The Answer—Man and Beyond”