The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1927, Page 2

Sik H an Page Two COURT BATTLE NEXT TO STOP GRAFT PROBERS Powerful Opposition In Pennsylvania Case WASHINGTON, March 21 with the mandate of the R paign Fund Investigating Co Jerry C. South, the committe sel and special deputy, prepared to- day for a new inv: n of Pénnsyl- vania to seize election paraphernalia in four counties for the utiny in connection with the Vare-Wilson sena- torial contest. His arrival in the Keystone state, probably Wednesday, is set off a legal battle which fought to the supreme cou Tn- volved quéstions of constitutional law are involved, for South's attempt to impound the ballot boxes and voting lists of Delaware, Lackawan Schuylkill and Luzerne coun’ be fought in the federal courts. Hate To Be Investigated. Challenged at e turn adjournment of th gress on March pressés on. Strip ing of the se Armed ed Cam- mi coun- ill the ninth con- = senate serg- lot-seizing chore. Denied access to the senate coffers for expenses, it has provided its own? funds. Characterized by its opponents as dead, powerless and impotent, has pavéd the way for cne of the most spectacular court battles American history—the spectacle the judicial branch of the government called upon to curb the activities of a committee claiming to represent the |) was tested as to whether I could | ™ legislative branch. | Reed Accuses Senators. “The adjournment of congress has in no way impaired the authority of the committee.” Chairman Reed said. “We are proceeding in these four counties because the committee was asked by Mr. Wilson, (defeated demo- évatie candidate against William S. full of chairs and desks, was jwheve| One of them worked a week. t was sent next. Here I spenteseveral | Vare) to impound the ballots there. “The filibuster was undertaken order to prevent a full investigation | of the elections in Pennsylvania, Mi-| sibly in one other sta have to judge the m enators who that nois and p The public tives of th course.” U. S. Denies Canadian | HINGTON, March an government h ficially approached the Unit epneerning any reciprocity treaty — The at af. tween the two countries, it was said|? at the state department today anent the speech of Premier MacKenzie King at Ottawa yesterday. King told the Canadian house of commons that reciprocity was a policy of the liberal government in the do- minion, and intimated that there had beén some negotiations with Wash- ington about it. The state depa ment, however, disavowed any know! edge of overtures. . Rush to Photograph Lou Tellegen Knocks Woman Into Amnesia PANA, Til, March 21—Her memory suddenly restored to her after an attack of amnesia while she sat in the Commodore Hotel | in New York, Mis. Helen Hawker | Berroyer of Pana, Tl, returned to her home today after two years of strangé wanderings. She brought her sen, Billy, now four years old, back with her. On March 15, 1925, she said, she was in the Grand Central station in New York, waiting to board a train. Photographers in 2 rush to snap pictures of Lou Tellegen, moving picture star, knocked her down in the stampede. Standiny Notice WORKER must be addressed as fol tharked the same way. New York City and vicinity. For other editorial business simp! wi the party ‘These rules are The DAILY WORK phone calls and to ensure its proper xpected to! .. ill be | 5, in | READERS! TAKE NOTICE! to, Readers, Correspondents and Sup- porters of the DAILY WORKER. MAIL To avoid confusion and unnecessary delay all mail for The DAILY News, notices, correspondence and letters to editors intended for pub- licwtion must be marked plainly EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. ‘o members of the editorial staff not intended for publication must be Letters dealing with subscriptions, financial matters, circulation, complaints, etc., must be marked plainly BUSINESS OFFICE. TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION Ask for CITY EDITOR when telephoning all néws and notices for The switchboard operator is instructed to make no connection until ing has stated his or her business. essary in order that the small editorial staff of does not Waste time answering unhécessary tele- (This-intéresting story of the B. M. T labor journaliém class at the Workers’ School, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUE SWITCH BOY ON THE BM, T, TELLEZ RETURN sw ich boy was turned in at the Read it and see why thé traction workers *neéd a real union.—Rd.) By JACK GLASS. (Worker Correspondent). Out of work. Tshpossible to get a job, and ridfhg in the subway where are displayed advertising “Con- sigr ductors and Motormén Wanted, Steady Position, Heathy Work, etc., apply at B. M. T.” i thing I pplied. Went uo a flight of stairs nd was given a piece of paper, with; information as regard pay for learners, “All students will be paid at the | ate of 20¢ an hour for time spent receiving instructions on cars. . . Students will not bé paid for time | spent lass rooin. | “Only half (10¢ hour) will be puid vy day. . .The other half will! only when qualified. . .| 1 not be paid the other the eowipany dischargés them | while pittpils.” On the wall a sign said that regu- | lar employes got between 42 and 62c an hour. Training in Patience, p rather éarly and had to ‘ hours before they started . a private room for ex- everal hours passed be- tion. fore my “Next” Under 21 the only! job I could get was “Switch Boy.” I was asked to comé back next day and O for hat and badge, also tirth certifieate, and start to work immediately (8 a. m.). Next day I waited till 8.30 before they called me in. Several questions were asked; a paper with many more it is-| was given to me; I was téld to go| / i ja . sued orders to carry on, and thereby |into the nett room for doctor's ex-| mind to quit. It’s impossible for me nination. Examined and Photographed. Eyes 0. K. I-tvas told to go into 2 xt room and undress. I was ed thorougily. Again dréssed. exa distinguish one color from another, In another room my picture was taken in two positions, front and sideways, the way it’s done in prison to a man held for murder. A pic- ave of my birth certificate was also | taken, A room, something like a class room nours. I gave them _e paper with questions answer, and received an- other, fory “iges of additional ques- tions, I wever dreamed I’d ever be facei with such a list of questions. % nad to give my life history for the past five years, telling where I work- ed, when and why I was laid off or \ fired. If I hadn’t worked at any par- ticular period in the five years what : ™Sliprested* ieiprocity jhad I been doing? Yellow Dog Contract. I had to agreé to join the Brother- hood (eompany union) and to promise that I SHALL NOT join any other union (meaning the REAL union) and not listen to any “Bolshevik agita- tors” (real union men.) After I agreed (maybe?) to every- thing I was weighed and measured and then told to go into anothér room to get my “hadge,”—which I did, giv- ing $1.00 deposit. I was also given a “Rules and Regulations” bdok, for which 50e was to be chargéd, if lost. At last I was outside in the open air again, with the badge and rules n one pocket, and two notes; one for | Browning & Kine Co., to give me a) | hat, costing me $1.50. The other note | to the inspector to put mé at my) post. Freé Ride. I felt proud riding on the car wear- “\ing the hat with the sparkling badge and not paying any carfere, I went! over to the inspector and introduced niyself. He told me to go to Park Row, that’s where I'll work. I got there about 1 p. m. and was received with open arms. Two switch boys were there instead of four. Two quit several days ago and there two had to do double work. Running from one switch to another as fast as their legs could carty them. | Ons of the fellows had his lunch. | The other went out to get his as soon jas he showed me what to do. | “Don’t forget to be back on time,” the fellow who was left shouted to the other. “It is flow 1.15, be back at 3.15.” vas the faint answer from | Oy” lows: Letters ly ask for EDITOR OF THE DAILY funetioning. * * the fellow who was several away, running for his lunch. I buttoned my coat tightly and Started to work. T had no glovés and nearly froze my hands. My feet were cold and began to freeze, (It was November). Evéiy Once in a while we had a few sééonds to ourselves. We made use of it. I began asking questions. “Say, how is it that the other fel- low has two hours for lunch?” 7 to 7 on the B.-M. T. “Don't you know,” he asked, “that we work from 7 to 7 and two hours for lunch in between?” “No, [ thought that I'll have to work 8 hours, 9 at most.” “Go on, we work from 7 to 7, some- | times from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. and vice versa.” yards “What! Do you have to work at night, too?” “You bet.” “How many days a week?” “Every other week we get a day | off, if they can gét a substitute.” “Hf not?” “Then vou keep on working.” Another time, a féw minutes latér. “How much do they pay you?” T asked. “Twenty-seven cents an hour,” he snapped back. “What!” I shouted, at *the same time swallowing a mouthful of dust (from a passing auto, “you're jok- | ing.” i He geve me a look and I knew he} | meant it alright. : | I Decide to Quit. An hour passed. I made up my | to work so many hours, and at night |into the bargain. Seventy hours a} | week no matter whether day or night you get 27¢ an hour. I have to go {to sehool, Workers’ School, attend | etings, etc. In other words either | drep the job or school. | As soon as the other fellow returned I told them that T quit. They argued with me trving to convince me to stay, but didn’t succeed. Vhen I got to the imspeéctor, three ether fellow Weve there. They were olso switch boys from other stations. The TI, two other two about two days. hours. | The inspector took my badge and | rules. He gave me a slip to collect $1.00 for the badge and two hours | work. | “How about the hat?” I asked. He told me that I can’t return the | hat. Maybe they will return the money if I'll go down to the place where I got it. “We refund no money,” was the answer I got. After arguing for some time T was told that I can exchange it |for something else. I took a tie as that was the only thing I could get for $1.50. T got my dollar for the badge, but no more for the tite I wasted. Not even for the two hours I worked. I felt faint and dizzy from hunger. It was about five o’clock and I had no dinner, as yet. I also felt furious to think that I had to go through all the “red tape” for such a damn rotten job. . .Tomorrow I'll have to look for another job. . e se (Editor's Note: Another article on the Traction Workers hy Robert Mitchell on this page tomorrow. Watch for it.) | ment had any foundation. | supposed to be recalled, when he left | Washington hurfiedly a. couple of KNOCKS KELLOGG INTO CONFUSION Queer Mixture of Fear, Hope, in Utterances WASHINGTON, March 21.—The | state départinent is all worked up fo- | day over the return to this city of Manuel C. Tellez, ambassador from Mexiéo, fresh from 4 conférence with his superiors at home and demand- ing an intérviéw with Kellogg to- morrow, In the first place, Telléz should not have returned, if rumors care-| fully undenied by the state depart- He was weeks ago. Many explanations were given, the most official being that he | was caught in “anti-American propa- gand@.” However, he is back, and Washington. is again laughing at Kellogg, as a poor prophet. SDAY, MARCH: 22, 1927 f Sinclair Lewis’ Old Baptist Teacher in | Pain at Elmer Gantry | “Sinclair Lewis wrote ‘Elmer | Gantry’ when he was if a fage. | There never was a mitistér like that eharactér, The author was literally foaming at thé mouth, and | a gféat work of art is never é¢rea- ted that way.” Thus spake Prof. William Lyon Phelps, of Yale, at Town Hall yés- terday. The gérial essayist and popular Women's club lectuter said | he Had a right to speak on the sub- | ject with. authority, “beeause I know somriething about Baptist ministérs. Ail my living brothers até Baptist ministérs, and there tist ministers walkifig through my | house for years, and I have never | kitown one liké ‘Elmer Gantry.” | Prof. Phelps also has the dis- tinetion of havinig been one of Sin- clair Lewis's college teachers. MEXICO SENDS has been a constant string of Bap- | | day. | terpreted” Talked Too Much Already. | To inquities yesterday Seeretary | Kellogg replied: . i] “IT am not going to say anything about Mexico.” The ccursé of the department in the Mexican controversy has been| puzzling to observers since Kellogg's | return from his vacation, on Wednes- Kellogg expressed himself to newspaper inquirers as somewhat | NEW “MYSTERY © SERIES” NOTE 'N. Y. Consul General | <papei Denies Charges “optimistic” concerning the state of satlacay + affairs. Réee developments;~he! MEXICO CITY, March 91. — The} said, had been of a reassuring nature. | Mexican government has sent a few } On Thursday, Kellogg told news-|note to the United States, which it | paper inquirers that his remarks of/is understood will be delivered today. the. preceding day had been “misin-|The contents of the note are said to | and indicated matters) be conciliatory and deals with miat-| were still very serious. Friday came|ters raised in the recent American | the White House optimism, which | “mystery note.” fdund no echo on the part of Kellogg.| A Washington dispatch received Secrecy Continues. |here today forecasts an agreement | Meanwhile, the most recent ex- | hetween the United States and Mexi- change of correspondence between|¢o on all oi] matters before the end | Washington and Mexico City is with-|0f the week. : | held. g “El Universal” stresses importance | Secretary Kellogg and Assistant|t? 2 meeting between the Mexican | Secretary Robert E. Olds had a lorig|®™bassador at Washington and Kel- | conference with President Coolidge |!0%@ where the proposals of President | yesterday. | Calles are said to have been discussed. | * . * Elias Denies Charge. Poor Palm Beachers |. Arturo M. Elias, consul-general of | Nearly Bankless Now) Mexico in New York, today issued a! Palm beach in its palmiest days vigorous denial against the charges | boasted a dozen or more banks with | made in congress by Representative James A. Gallivan, who stated that swell Greek pillared fronts and nifty marble work in the interior, Today the “Mexican embassy at Washington two of them are still hanging on for) and the consul general at New York dear life. In Palm Beach. proper | Propaganda in behalf of the policies have been ¢éonducting an intensive | there’s not a bank“léft while in West | °! their government.” . Palm Beach the two aforesaid banks The statement continues by saying: are the lone remainders. Six banks |“! deny categorically that any of the failed within the past 10 days in the | Publications issued by this consul gen- country. Twelve have failed in | ¢r@l contains one single word which Florida in two months while 60 have|™4y be construed as an attack, or Suspended since the collapse of the| Veiled attack, against any American real estate boony last year. | public official.” — | Wallprol mentions the Palm Beach | Did Not Write Pamphlet. | situation as prophetic. Florida re-| 1" regard to the pamphlet Hands | presented merely a rather intensified Off Mexico,” it is sufficient to quote example of what is true financially the statement made to the press by | and economically the country over.|‘*S,2uthor. * ‘ “The Mexican consulate did not Florida today with vast hotels de-| sérted, real estate developments drift- | know of the publication of "Hands Ost ‘ASK PARDON FOR THE CENTRALIA 1, W. W, PRISONERS. | Five Jurors TestifyThey | | | (By the Federated Press.) | Write to Gevience Roland Tt. | Hartley of Washington state urging | |that he pardon the eight Centralia | |prisoners, director Forrést Bailey | asks friends of the American Civil! Liberties Union. |. The workers were menibers of the! Industrial Workers of the, World and) | recéivéd sentences of 25 to 40 years. jin 1919 when they defended their |hall against an American Legion at- |tack on Armistace Day. Four legion- |naires were killed when their parade | marehéd on the I. W. W. hall. | Jaty Was Terrorizéed, Five of the jurofs have sworn af- fidavits since the trial saying that the men were convieted because the Jury was terrotized. These jarots say that they do not bélieve the men guilty of sétond degteé murder. The trial was surrounded by a red hys- teria campaign. The defense pointed out that the Industrial Workers of the World had been terrérized, that its hall had been wrecked before and that the Ameri-, can Legion attack was deliberately) plotted. The défense found later that thé detail of 50 uniformed legion men! who sat daily in court to intimidate | the jury Were paid $4 apiece per day and expenses. An anti-labor juage ruled out much of the evideri¢e favor- able to the defense, particularly that) about the legion plot. Centralia is a small town in the center of ‘the western Washington lumber district where the head of re- actionary and financially powerful lumber interests control. DIAZ “ACCEPTS” LOAN FROM HIS WALL ST. BOSSES MANAGUA, Nicaragtia, March 21. ~The final act fo -pla¢e Nicaragua under the hegemony of Anierican fi- , nance capital will be reached next Wednesday, whén the National Con- gress is expected to vote approval to the $1,000,000 loan “granted” to Nica- yYagua by thé New York bank firms, the Guaranty Trust Co. and J. & W./ | Seligman. Neégotiations for this loan have heen in progress for the past few! weeks and was made necessary due to the depletion of the Nicara#uan treas- ury thra the military campaigns of | the puppet, President Diaz, against the liberal forces led by Sacasa. $900,000 of this loan will be used | immediately to tepay the National City Bank for financing the war, | $100,000 to repay other loans, while | | México’ f! i G ing back into the primeval sand and | in AP Ah td ipl GBP ed 24 mud, hundreds of millions lost, is just a forerunner of days not too far dis- tant when the United States as a! whole must come to a reckoning. PROGRESSIVE TEXTILE ORGAN STARTS THIS MONTH; FIGHTS WAGE CUTS, LONG HOURS AND WAR By CLARENCE MILLER. } “The Progressive Textile Worker,” the monthly organ of the National Textile Workers’ Progressive Com- mittee made its first appearance with the March issue. The program of the paper is stated as follows: To Fight | for the Organization ef the Unorgan- | ized, the Amalgamation\ of the Textile Unions, Industria! Unionism, Militant | | Leadership, International Trade Union | Unity and for a Labor Party. The pa- | per also promises to fight agaifist | Wage Slavery, Imperialist Wars, All Capitalist Parties, Wage Cuts, Long | Yours, Speed Up, Company Unions, Unemployment. Workers’ Mouthpiece. This paper will be the expression | of all the workers in the industry | whether they are organized or un- _ organized. The paper is written not | Only by editors but also by the work- | ers in the shops. It is a real organ | of the workers. Articles by silk, | Woolen, cotton, dye and knit goods workers bring the life and problems of these workers to every one of the eight pages. Attention to Youth. Another interesting feature of the | paper is the page devoted to the probé \léms of the young textile workers | and the children of the textile work- ers, The articles on the lessons of the Passaic strike by the children of the strikers is one of the most interest- ing features of the paper. These tieles should encourage the textile workers to make their children write for the future issues of the paper. The issue this month is a real call to action. On the front page is printed the call that the progressive commit- tee has issued for the New EPrigland Conference against the introduction of the 54-hour in the New England tex- tile mills, The articles by the editor John J. | Ballahy oh thé role of the so-called | 'from Italy, Bohemian Newspapers Expose Fascist Plot For Siege of Vienna PRAGUE, March 21—Czecho- Slovakian newspapers report that | Tyrolean and Hungarian fascists, with the support of Italian fascists encouraged by Mussolini, are pre- paring to “march on Vienna” for the purpose of wiping out the so- — cialists who now control the capital. The newspapers declare arms and munitions are arriving in Hungary “leaders” of the U. T, W. and the other unions in the indastry s well as the analysis of the conditions in They havé had nothing to do with distributing them. “T also deny that this consulate gen- cral has expended the éxorbitant |aniount mentioned by Mt. Gallivan in his statement, as this office has not spent but an insignifiéant sum | necessary for the printing of its pub- | ication.” Election Campaign May End Lame Duck Session \the rest of thé moénéy Will be used to Bring the révolution to ah end, which meahé the strangling of the liberals. A commission, composed of | the niinistér of finaneé, Lotiis Rosen- thal, répreséfiting the New York banks and the American high com- missioner, will ‘supervise the expen- dittite of the funds, This seems te be in compléeté harmony with Diaz and. prestipposes that the latter will be liberally rewarded. { As a guaranty for this loan the Diaz government put up its batik and ‘railroad stock and a mortgage oi | public property. Following the recérit success of the G. O. P. machine in the House of Paperless cay | Representatives, in filibustering so |that they killed all pending legista-; CURRENT EVENTS | tion, ineluding the Norris resolution | proposing to do away with lame dick (Continued from Page One) |sessions of Congtess, the Democrats who “would destroy the great organ-- |are planning to come to the voters! ization, the United Mine Workers of | with this problem at the next élec-| Améfica.” And while they were hol-, | tion. ‘Yering their loyalty and patriotism In a statement issued by Represen- their arms were up to the elbows in |tative Ayers (democrat) of KanSas, the union's treasury. lis seen the beginning of a new cam-| Se hee: | paign for a constitutional besvene hE Baa is food news fot lovers of | | eRe which would bring the newly horse-meat. It is taken from the | \eleeted “House and Senate into ses- Western Progiessive Farmer: “White | sion in January following their elec- Sulphur Springs, Montana. — The |Yon. At present the old Congress Hanson Packing Company of Butte |sits for a few weeks—the lame duck | have purchased 400 head of horses the industry make the paper import- | 8@8sion—beginning in December; and ant for every textile worker in the | Sinée many of its members have not country. |been re-elected the previous Novem-| for ‘eanners’ at $5 a head from the ranchers of the valley.” tj * * This paper is of interest not only to the textile workers but to every progressive worker in’ the country, for it gives an insight into one of the largest industries employing about | one million workers. The paper can be obtained for five cents for a single copy or fifty cents for one year by writing to the N. T. P. W. C., 80 Rast 11th Street, N. Y. C. ( Indecent Manufacturer ORANGE, Mase., March 21.—-J. B. Reynolds, 78, wealthy, retired shoe manufaeturer today, went to Green- field jaif for 200 days rather than pay a fine of $100 for Ulsplaying ins decent literature, 4 After he had an argument over parking his autormobile without lights in front of his business block here, Reynolds received an unsigned letter, He posted it in the window of the block and had copies printed and mailed to almost every home in town. This led to his dtrest, | ber, they Imow they are politically dead, and they make no pretense of caring what they do or do not accom- plish. _ Advocates of the Norris resolution, (or similar measure, believe it is “an | imperative correction of our legisla- ‘tive procedure,” needed to prevent ‘any further such “disgusting pers |formances” a’ the recent adminis- ‘tration filibuster in the lame duck session. } More Women Alcoholics, ALBANY, N. Y., March 21.—Use of aleohol by women in New York State has been increasing in the last four years, the state hospital com- mission reported today. Female aleoholic cases admitted to the state’s insane institutions in 1926, cight over 1925, the commission said, The male insane cases due to liquor ci to 188. as compared with hey a ich e totalled 89, which was an inevense of | the dB officials of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York | are not permitting the grass to grow | andier”thete fee’ ‘ their campaign to drive Commu out of the trade unions, If the, lowed as much’ con. ‘cern for the organization of the workers into trade unions as they do for the disorganization of thise al-. ‘veady organized, the trade union, “movement Would not be the weak in- | stitation it is. bab | ¥ | aoe * TH is not the first attempt to. drive radi¢als out of the trade) unions. It will not be the last. And even tho we do not minimize its pos- sibilities it can be safely predicted that it will fail like its predecessors, The radieals are the backbone of the trade union siovement. They are aggressive elements, Without them ig owed prdigve big be so m . Aga r We Have Just Received a New Shipment of é f i i ! ¢ Important | Publications | FROM ENGLAND NOTE ‘These are now being offered at Capectally low rates to reach the greatest number of work- €fs possible, 1—LENIN AS A MARXIST | By N. Bueharin | | This splendid analysis of the principlés of Lenin | should reach every worker. | No Communist should be | without ity | —t5 CENTS | 2+BOLSHEVISM—S o me_ Questions Answered By I. Stalin Answers to ten questions yut by the students of the Communist. Sverdlow Uni- versity on the tasks of the Comintern and the R. C. | P, in connection with the iereporaty stabilization of Capitalism and the pelicy of the proletarian state to- wards the péasantry. —25 COBNTS 3-RUSSIA'S PATH TO COM- MUNISM By\G. 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