The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1927, Page 2

ee ec eee Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK,’ THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1927 aie bai INDICTED UNION | KANSAS TOWN QUIETS FOLLOWING MOB SCENES BANK OFFICIALS © ATTACK “REDS” Accused of Looting the Venture; Try Diversion | “Out } s the | ery of an angry crowd of ¢ tes | to the Central Labor Council their last meeting. The bar answered by saying any att put them in jail was Bolshe of the prossed by Distret and no punishment ¢g Depositors To Lose They were also told t positors in the union bi the course of several r as much as three quarters of t money, and that the stockholders, union men and unions, would proba- | bly get nothing at all. | The conservative wing of the Labor Council seemed satisfied with this, and | disposed to protect its friends, the | bank officials. The rest of the coun- After the jail had been stormed UNION COMMITTEE MEETING TO PLAN Events Prove Warning Of Militants Correct (Continued from Page One) he has made temporary agreements coal to be mined there competitive dis’ vict”; the agreement carries no reference to any strike reached. The United Mine Workers Journal, official organ of the international, and the Illinois Miner, official organ of the largest district in the union, all thru last summer reaped invec- tive and ridicule on progressives who for its life on April 1 and succeeding months. The Illinois Miner ran a pseudo-scientific series of articles, quoting statistics to show the impro- bability of a strike or lockout. Coffeyville, Kas., has quieted down following mob scenes when attempts were nade to yet at 6 es 6 negro held in jail and thought to have been an attacker of two girls. and the national guard had been called, officials announced there was no evidence against the man held Ohio Lock Out. GIGANTIC BATTLE in all posaible outlying districts for| “until an} agreement is reached in the central | coming before such an agreement is| warned that the union would fight} COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 23. —| | Brophy and Hapgood, || Progressive Miners, To Speak at Dinner | John Brophy, former president of Dist. 2 of the United Mine Workers of America, and Powers Hapgood, | the delegate to the. recent conven- | tion at Indianapolis who was twice | heaten up because of his opposition | to the policies of the official ma- | chine, headed by President John L. Lewis, will be the speakers at a | dinner arranged by the “Democracy | in Trade Unions” committee, at the | Cafe Boulevard, 41st St. and Broad- | | Way, tomorrow evening. | | _ These two members of the United | Mine Workers, who have been among those most active in trying | to overthrow the powerful bureau- cratic machine which rules the | union, will tell some of their per- sonal experiences, the conditions ex- isting in the union, and general con- | ditions in the coal industry. | This is the second dinner ar- ranged by the “Democracy in Trade | Unions” committee, the first being | a meeting at which Louis Hyman, We Have Just Received a New Shipment of Important Publications | and other representatives of the | left wing members of the cloak and | dressmakers union spoke. | The committee, which is made up | of writers, artists and others in- | terested in the problems of pro- FROM ENGLAND NOTE and released him. ‘T'wo other negroes had been released previously. Other suspects were arrested later elsewhere. Photos above show a strect scene during the excitement (top) and (below) the combination jail and city hall, around which approximately 100 shots were fired. Every window was broken. Four persons were injured (Central Press Photos.) Ohio bituminous operators said to-| gressive trade unionism, includes |day they will close down their union} Art Young, Boardman Robinson, |mines April 1st to await the outcome| Paxton Hibben, Col. C. E. 8. Wood, of the fight in Pennsylvania between| Mike Gold, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, cil, however, favored the hiring of a| lawyer to push the cases against all | those accused of complicity in the | These are now being offered at especinily low rates to reach swindle by which the bank lost $32,- | 000 and had to close its doors. A compromise was effected by which the executive board of the council was to | - x; Frank T. Redman, al- | see Gardner and get him to agree to prosecute. defunct ban’: Also Will Demonstrate leged broker in the bond deal; J. L. | Against De Pinedo Nelson and William Kelly, officers of | the bank, and Knapp. District Attor- | ney Gardner has twice, in the past | two days, refused to say whether} these cases are to be noll« prossed. | Knapp Confesses The men indicted on conspiracy charges in connection with the crash of the Brotherhood Savings ard} Trust Company, which followed the | $302,000 bond swindle with Charles | E. Knapp as the central figure, are | Roland A. McCrady, president of the | (Special to the Daily Worker). PORTCHESTER, N. Y., March 23. Another anti-fascist mass meeting - le | will be held here soon, according to Oe Sees NOs Geren: 50.8 | the leaders of the local branch of the char; f embezzlement in the bond 7 + pos ey gpd " yu. | Anti-Fascist League of North Amer- swindle case and was sentenced to Hing wes halite sannenkeut meeting here prison, but still faces the other charge. | {°* nb ce Edward A. Goodfellow, at whose home | !@8t Sunday after attempts to disturb Saeko? the stolen bonds. were’ re- “ were made by the local Mussolin- ‘ 1 its. Great Reaetionaries ressed by Enea Sormenti, Carlo AN of the indicted lala are| c nd other leading anti-fascists. meant “red hunter.” | Anti-Fas¢ ist Still In Jail. Damciastv, ineluding th The two anti-fascists who were ar- ich ‘they. area making | "ested here after Sunday's méeting af gor es tie hank ¢ fae a sams: | are still in jail under $10,000 and $5,- paign against progressive and militant | big pail poy BC gee : members. % Most of the nine fascists who were Nor have they ceased this cam- arrested at the same time have been jl. L.D, ASKS HELP L. D. shows itself to be a real “Shield The real internationalism of the by the fact that along with the $500 ously fighting the white terror. Money from the bazaar is comin: urged to settle up immediately. ENGLAND MAKING ATALY WAIT TILL | WORKERS; $500 FOR CLOAKMAKERS The International Labor Defense once more proved its usefulness in the great work of helping class war prisoners, Latest information from the New York office shows that a donation of $500 has been made to the Cloakmakers’ Defense. been sent to help the oppressed workers of Lithuania, who are courage- yers’ bills are being paid. The Sormenti case, for which Clarence Darrow has been engaged, will cost.thousands and thousands of dollars. outstanding on many arrested workers have also been paid. Organizations and individuals with money outstanding on bazaar are The I. L. D. appeals to all workers for support, so that it will be able to render greater assistance in the near future than it has done in the past. non-union coal operators and the | United Mine Workers. |are almost identical so far as com- IN FIGHT FOR | petition is concerned, but there is no general disposition among Ohio oper- \tain a wage reduction from the union, Willing To Fight. Ohio, therefore, is willing to sus- |pend for many months to see if the |union can be forced, or persuaded to | grant a competitive wage scale based |upon the non-union pay. Ohio is a cradle for unionism and it would re- quire almost superhuman efforts to | smash the mine workers’ union there. |. If the Pittsburg Coal Co. succeeds in driving the union from Western Pennsylvania, Ohio operators believe they will be in a positien to dictate | terms of a new wage agreement. On |the other hand, if the union wins, Ohio operators will be no worse off |than at present because the union is | demanding only a renewal of the ex- jisting wage contract. | A danger, however, to Ohio fs that it may lose permanently to West r . * | Virginia and Kentucky its rich mar- Nearing Will Analyze | kets, if the suspension this year is a Trends of Capitalism long one. Ohio production has fal- In 4 Boston Lectures len off between 25 and’ 80 percent since 1923, BOSTON, March 23.—Scott Near- By this act, the I. of the Working Class.” organization is brought to the front given to the cloakmakers, $218 have gz in slowly. In the meantime, law- Fines “We must clése dowh our wines or get a wage readjustment”, said W. H, Haskins, secretary treasurer of Problems of Ohio and Pennsylvania | ators to run non-union if they can ob-| | ing, well-known author and lecturer, alan. On hearing of the outburst in released on bail. Many of them are leaders of the local fascist organiza- the council’s last meeting, McCrady issued a statement that he was be- |? the Ohio operators’ association. Since capitalism in a series of four lectures | 1898, when joint bargaining was es- lat Lorimer Hall, Tremont Temple, img persecuted by “Reds,” saying, “The very labor men who are howling that we bank wreckers be jailed, are the very ones who refused to help the bank before the swindle took place” —which observation may have bee Prepare For De Pinedo. Preparations for the visit of De Pinedo, fascist aviator who will be in this city within a week are being lcarried on by the fascist league of | America, Preparations are also being | made by the anti-fascist elements of e fac’ t p ive inggl — * Loe birag oe Sens | this city, who will have numerous de- wisdom of such “Labor” banking as | "0nstrations against the fascist jingo. the Brotherhood venture typifies. i Aided By Headquarters Gang \Green. Organizer For . David J. Davis, secretary of the | , . Amalgamated Sheet, Tin and Metal | Y. W. L. Is Slated to Workers hurried to the defense of ‘ 4 the indicted bank officials with the| SP€ak in Peoria, Ill. CHICAGO, March remark that he always had trouble — Gilbert 23. British to Mechanize _ Even Cavalry - LONDON, March 23.—Diplomatic | exchanges between Great Britain, | France and Germany have made it} | practically certain that Italy will not {take action against Jugo-Slavia on} | her own initiative, it was stated to- | | day. is | Great Britain favors an inquiry by | military experts into the Italian | charges that Jugo-Slavia has made | warlike preparations on the Italian | ARMY IS REBUILT =: analyse the tendencies of world! April 18 to May 9th. tablished between the union and the operators, Haskins said production The Rise of the American Empire; | has increased as follows: Dollar Diplomacy; the British Em- Ohio, 100 percent; Indiana, 365 Robert W. Dunn, Ann Washington Craton, Floyd Dell, and many others, | CURRENT EVENTS | a (Continued from Page One) in consideration of a sum said to ap- lawyer is having trouble with his com- | mission, |THE Washington Post, | McLean, the multimillionaire pub- | lisher and bosom friend of the late | Warren G. Harding and the “Ohio| gang” that made the “little green, house on K. street famous in modern jhistory, is insistently demanding that! the United States step in and crush the Liberal movement of Nicaragua! presided over by President Sacasa. | McLean demands that the United! States government dispateh enough troops to Nicaragua to run the Lib-| erals into the ocean. ee 2g | PPURING the oil scandal quiz held in; Washington, McLean’s name often cropped up in cipher telegrams that! were exchanged between A. B. Fall) and the department of justice. This | burglarious outfit worked hand in hand with the oi companies and it is not’ surprising to see’ McLean again | demanding more stern measures| against the Latin-American peoples | and putting out anti-Mexican propa- ganda. McLean absolves the Wall street bankers from all blame for the | Nicaraguan civil war but attributes it | |to-a “war of aggression by Mexico} ge eee ‘pire, the Japanese Empire, and the| percent; Mlinois, 272 percent; West|®8@inst American interests in Nicara- | Soviet Union; and the Role of Amer-| Virginia, 748 percent; Kentucky, 1530/8%%-” It is believed that the Post | iean Labor are the subjects of the four lectures. | percent. | Non-union Field Grows. The growth of American capital-| In this period, Ohio, Indiana and ism and its effect on American for-| Illinois have been solidly union while eign policy, the rise of the Japanese | in late years, West Virginia and Ken- Empire, the decline of the British|tucky have operated open shop; in Empire, the role of Soviet Russia in| other words, development in union the Far East, and the creative role|fields has lagged far. that American labor is bound to play | Behind growth in non-union fields, in world history will be some of the | Hackins said two-thirds of the coal points touched upon by Scott. Near- | being mined in the United States now | propaganda is not frowned on by the state department. * * * |[NFORMATION supplied by state de- | |* partment officials to the Senate |Foreign Relations Committee show that American marines and blue- |jackets now in Nicaragua or on |American warships in Nicaraguan, waters outnumber the forces of! |Sacasa and Diaz about two to one. Stokeley W. Morgan, chief of the! without equity in either wife or child | proximate $300,000, but perhaps. his | owned by/ the greatest number of work- ers possible. 1—LENIN AS A MARXIST * By N, Bucharin This Splendid analysis of the rinciples of Lenin should reach every worker, No Communist should be without It, —25 CENTS 2—-BOLSHEVISM—S o me Questions Answered By I. Stalin Answers to ten questions put by the students of the Communist Syerdiow Uni- versity on the tasks of the Comintern: and the R. G, P. in connection with the > temporary stabilization. of Capitalism and the policy ot the proletarian state to- wards the peasantry, —25 CENTS 3--RUSSIA’S PATH TO COM- MUNISM By G, Zinoviey Dealing with the most im- portant problems of the frome and foreign policy of the U. & 8. R. In an ate @ tracttve edition. —25 CENTS 4—ON THE ROAD TO IN- SURRECTION By Lenin This book includes every thing written by Lenin be- tween the Korniloy rising of 1917 and the November revolution while hidden from Kerensky’s spies. A study of the practical stra- tegical problems of tm- pending revolution. —50 CENTS 5—THE AFTERMATH OF NON CO-OPERATION (Indian Nationalist and Labor Politics) By M. N. Roy ing. is non-union, Admission to a single lecture costs | thirty-five cents; course tickets “* “Radical” Charge Gets controlling the members who are now agitated over losing their savings in | Latin-American division under Kel-| \logg testified before the senate com- |mittee that no American had been | killed during the present civil war in Green, organizer for district No. 8,| and Albanian borders and into the | the swindle put over by Knapp and Young Workers League, who is tour- | Jugo-Slavian charges that Italy has | is Be alsto oal tea and Kalice, aia un- | ing all southern Illinois units, is; made preparations for undue exten- | dae Widictment, added his ‘wands ‘slated to appear in Peoria Friday, | sion of her sphere of influence in Al- | A splendid study of the forces in India—important nh understanding of the Y lutionary trend in the A new book of et+ one dollar. “The agitation was stirred up by beer re pony di 2 bunch of Reds at the meeting, who|, “Teen fas already appeared in somethi » throw stones ier, Christopher, Benton, West = oe ee | Frankfort, Sessor, Belleville, {Louis and Springfield. ALBANY. x Y. March 23,—Re- | Man Is Crushed To Death publicans in the Assembly today de-| Edward True, 32, of 26 Sutton feated a bill by Assemblyman Hack- | Place, Brooklyn, was killed today at enburg, New York» Democrat, pro-|the Borden Milk Company plant at viding for the abolition of the motion | 65 Steinway avenue, Long-Island City, picture censorship. | when he was crushed between a loaded “Tt’s time this foolish law was wiped | milk truck and the wall of the build- off the statute books,” Hackenburg | ‘ng: declared, in pleading for favorable | action on this bill. | Read The Daily Worker READERS! TAKE NOTICE! Standing Notice to Readers, Correspondents and Sup- porters of the DAILY WORKER. ‘ MAIL To avoid confusion and unnecessary delay all mail for The DAILY WORKER must be addressed as follows: News, notices. correspondence and letters to editors intended for pub- ligation must be marked plainly EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. 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Every Day St.j | bania. | | Mechanizing Artillery. | While Great Britain makes over-| | | res for naval disarmament, the re- | |port of the secretary of war in pre- | senting estimates for the coming year }shows that great strides are being | | made to improve the efficiency of the | | land forces. | | Among the innovations noted in the | reports of the secretary of war are these: Mechanical Cavalry. | All regular medium artillery is to {be mechanized; | Six regiments of cavalry are being provided with cross-country mechani- eal vehicles for normal first line trans- | port; | A reliable crossscountry armored |car is being experimented with; The number of machine guns al-| lowed in war to cavalry regiments and infantry battalions is increased from eight to twelve; Experiments are being made with | a self-loading rifle and light automa- tie rifles are being used to replace the heavier guns; | | Improved gas masks are beipg is- | sued to all troops. Civil Liberties Asks Share in Debate With Legion Over Criticism The American C! with headquarters in New York City, | offered today to send one of its law- yers to West Chester, Pa., to aid the | Liberal Club of the West Chester State Normal School in debating the local post of the American Legion on whether students may criticize the President of the United States and h® foreign policies. Forrest Bailey, a director of the Union, intimated in a letter that he may ask Arthur Gar- field: Hays of New York to be a team-mate to Ray H. Abrams, min- ister of the Olivet Baptist Church and member of the Normal School Liberal Club—providing the legion- naires will accept the challenge. The chatlenge resulted from an at- tack by the Legion on the Liberal Club for placing President Coolidge’s Nicaraguan policy under fire. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS FAIRY TALES gue WORKERS CHILDREN NOW ONLY 50 CENTS BY HERMINIA ZUR MUHLEN TRANSLATED BY IDA DAILES DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY * 43 First Street, New York, N, Liberties Union} | Before Ford Jury (Continued from Page One) in presenting his own case to the jury. There was no evidence that the let- ter.to Ford was ever read by the auto king, but the warning to the editor of the Dearborn Independent was vead, having been made the subject of an investigation by the publication. A magazine article purporting to show that Henry Ford had admitted his crusade against Aaron Sapiro was “improper,” was barred from the mil- lion-dollar libel suit this. afternoon. Federal Judge Fred M. Raymond ruled that William J. Cameron, Ford editor and his “copy reader” could not be questioned about the magazine article, which was published in “Farm and Fireside.” Sapiro’s counsel said the article had been approved by Cameron at Ford’s request and in- cluded an admission by the auto king that the attaeks on the so-called wheat king were improper. Judge Appeals to Newspapers. William H. Gallagher, chief of the plaintiff's counsel, sought to get the or ipa article hefore the jury. He The judge appealed to all newspa- per men not to publish any of the matter ruled out of evidence. None of them agreed to make any promises. The judge also told the jury not to listen to the arguments of counsel vver what ‘should be admitted to evi- dence. Want To Poison Booze. ALBANY, N. Y., March 28.—A wet and ry fight was on tap in the low- er house of the legislature today. Assemblyman Jenks, republican, and leaders of the dry forces, an- nounced he would press for passage [me poison liquor bill, Foes of the | Mexico and that no American proper- \ty had been destroyed, { Gaby Wee |THE interference of the |* States in Nicaragua is as brazen a piece of imperialistic bulldozing as history records. The futile effort of: Kellogg to conjure up a fairy tale weaved out of an alleged conspiracy on the part of the Calles administra- tion to “Bolshevize” Latin-America in | order to justify his threats of war against Mexico fell flat originally, but even some of the capitalist papers are now publishing evidence of American corruption in Nicaragua since 1909, when Diaz, the $1,000 a year employe of an American corporation came into power after “loaning” $600,000 to the reactionaries who assured Washington they “would be friendly to American interests.” The “white man’s burden” alibi that went in England was never popular here. Where is our boasted originality? A Bill, Against Charity Frauds Likely to Pass ALBANY, March 23.—There is! every indication that the bill now be- | fore the legislature aimed to protect the public against fraudulent chari- ties will pass. The bill, drafted by Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, prominent New York social worker calls for pe- riodic reports to the State Board of Charities in which are listed the an- nual, collections and disbursements of those engaged in any form of public charity work, Commenting on the bill Mrs, Mos- kowitz said: “It is certain that any organization opposing this bill is lay- ing itself open to serious ‘criticism, if not to suspicion. No charitable in- stitution using the money that it so- licits for legitimate 8 can ob+ measure were not sure ti could| ject to the public’s reviewing its fi- wuster sufficient votes to it it, } nances.” as ' . > { United } wens interest, —i CENTS 6—THE MEANING OF THE | GENERAL STRIKE By R. 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