The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1927, Page 2

rican ata Page Two THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, WAY 6, Y9Z7 LITTLE ROCK MOB KILLS NEGRO AND LITTLE ROCK, Ark. May 5.— Armed troops patrolled the streets heré today to prevent a race riot fol- lowing the lynching of the one Negro, the beating and threatened lynching | of a second and the wounding ef a white boy by mobs that took contre) of Little Rock last night. John Carter, 38, Negro, was lynched and his body thrown on a funeral pyre in the Negro section, and a second Negro was found to be armed and. was severely beaten only to be saved by a white man who pleaded ith the mob to let him put him in jail. Reckless Firing Robert Love, 18, white youth, was accidently shot by the mob while par- ading through the Negro section fir- ing indiscriminately. Found hiding in a tree, Carter was tortured by the mob until he con- fessed that he had earlier in the day attacked Mrs. Rt. E. Stewart and her daughter as they drove into Little Rock. Mrs, Stewart was taken from the hospital by the mob and stood thirty feet away while he was hanged to a tree and riddled with bullets. Dragged and Burned The Negro’s body was tied behind an automobile and dragged through the main section of the city and then through the Nogro district. The au- tomobile was followed by- more than a thousand members of the mob. In the heart of the Negro section, the body was placed on a bonfire and burned to a crisp. Negroes fled as the mobs marched through the streets for hours. It is suspected other Negroes were killed by the genéra! fusilade. Japanese Premier Says Will Not Attack China (Continued from Page One) KELLOGG NOTE TO CHURCHILL MEANS “PAY AND SHUT UP LONDON, May the debt controversy was raised in the House of Commons this after-| | noon. Colonel Howard Bury asked Chan- cellor of the Exchequer Churchill | Whether he was aware that Secretary Mellon had repeated his statement that Great Britain is receiving more from the allies than she is paying America. Churchill was asked whether the British note had been given wide pub- licity in the United States and he stated that it had. Churchill refused to adopt the sug- itake an early opportunity to draw the attention of the United States find its people to the civil war debt of some southern states which is still due some English bond-holders. | * * * Kellogg Insulting. WASHINGTON, May 5.—The | Coolidge administration informed the world today that the matter of inter- national war debts is a closed book |so far as Washington is concerned. This is the practical effect of Secretary of State Kellogg’s curt| note to the British government, an-| swering a formal communication | from London which sought to make a| controversy out of an exchange of | letters between Secretary of the} Treasury Mellon, and John Grieg Hib- | ben, president of Princeton. “The government of the United | States regards the correspondence be- | |tween Mr. Mellon and Mr. Hibben as |a purely domestic discussion, and does not desire to engage in any for- mal diplomatic exchanges on the sub- ject,” said Kellogg’s note. | The Creditor’s Argument, | For brevity and bluntness, this} |government’s icy rejoinder to the |British communication is almost un- | precedented in diplomatic exchanges betweén London and Washington. It jis, in effect, a timely disguised re-| lists drawn up by Chiang’s agents. |buke to the British foreign office for) The police are exercising a rigid cen-|taking up something that was not sorship over all university publica-| addressed to the British in the first tions. place. It constitutes, as well, the second diplomatic slap that Washington has handed London this week, the other eee Nationalists Take Towns CANTON, May 5.—Sympathizers of the Hankow Nationalist govern- ment have taken contzpl of a number advice to the American people to dis- occasion being President’s Coolidge’s | Another Plane for Marquis Francesco de Pinedo, the spectacle for the curious by flying from city to city in South and North gestion that the government should| America and reviewing blackshirt militia organized there, has been sent an- | other airplane by Mussolini to take the place of the one he lost in an Arizona irrigation Jake. It is called the “Santa Maria 11.” Blackshirt Envoy fascist flier, who has been making a Tell of Plot to Kidnap Weisbord (Continued from Page One) who directed the terrorism against the strikers. Turner disclosed how the plans were | laid to kidnap Weisbord, have him | brutally beaten, hoping in that man- ner to disorganize the workers’ forces. | Turner made a plea of his “being fair” towards Weisbord. After the meeting Weisbord issued the following statement Statement by Weisbord “Last evening at a Negro rally held on Chestnut street, Captain Turner made a very important statement. | “He declared openly that during the strike I was supposed to have been kidnaped and he implied I was also to |have been severely beaten. | “I believe at this time when Captain Turner and others who may have known or even been involved in this | plot are running for political office, | that these facts be made public. “The people of this city want to | know now and not after election from Captain Turner: Puts Five Questions “1, What does he know about this outrageous plot? Who were involved jin it? Was Mr, Van Veck in it? Was | Mr. Preiskel? Was Cabell? Was |Chief Zober? Was the Chamber of Commerce or the American Legion? “2, Who was to furnish the funds and the men for this dirty job? AT PLUTE CONFAB U,S.S.R. DELEGATES KEPT PRISONERS Protest Against Swiss Police Measures ‘in Court; whereupon the cases of Boston Unions Say State Labor Office In Bosses’ Control By PHYLLIS FENIGSTON. BOSTON, May 5.—The Central La- | bor Union of Boston has appointed a committee of five to investigate the Department of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts. The evidence brought out in the public hearing of the case of Mary Donovan, they felt, showed clearly that one of the rea- sons for dismissing this factory in- spector from her job was a too~ conscientious attempt to protect the workers of the State by seeing that employers observed the labor laws. Much Evidence. When these facts were presented at the Central Labor Union, many dele- gates rose to give their evidence of the methods employed by the Massa- chusetts Department of Labor. They charged the Department with an_at- titude of partiality toward employers, and hostility toward workers in all strikes and labor disputes, Officers of the Department, it was stated, take every opportunity to use technicalities to protect employers from living up to labor laws, instead of protecting and safeguarding the workers, Connivance, One delegate told how the State} Attorney meets the attorney of the employers before their cases come up GENEVA, May 5.—The delegation} violation of labor laws are nolle of the Soviet—Union to the World) prossed or disposed of with signifi- Economie Conference, has thru Val-| cant fines even below the minimum erian Ossinski, lodged a strong pro-| demanded by law. test against the “excessive and un-| [neapable inspectors are retained wanted” police protection given it by | who gloss over violations and take the Swiss authorities. ‘ | their reports from employers instead Under the guise of protecting the | of getting information from the work- delegation from attack, the Swiss po-| ers who suffer under unsanitary con- lice have virtually kept the Soviet) ditions, without proper safeguards Union delegates prisoners. Accom-| from machinery, or beyond the hours panied by several of his comrades, M. permitted by statute. Nearly every Ossinsky told Sir Eric Drummond, union represented in the Central La- secretary-general of the league of na-| hor Union has cases of such violations tions, that the police measures were | to report. ridiculous, an annoying and unac- Committee Appointed of towns and villages ‘nm outlying dia- tricts. The right wing which has seized control in the city sent troops in an attempt to suppr them. he four Nationalist armies re- cently ordered by the Hankow Na- lionalists against Canton are moving rapidly through Hunan Province, ac- curaing to reports received here. a ede eda cda cha che le abso fe regard much of the British-colored| “3. When Captain Turner ordered news that is now emanating from| my arrest and the union papers seized London and the Far East concerning | Without any legal warrant or right | America’s Chinese policy. whatever, did Captain Turner do this thie on his own initiative or was he or- } dered by Mr. Preiskel? “4, Was Captain Turner ever or- derel to place a gun in my pocket, cause my arrest and thus break the strike? Why Was He Quiet? Sacco-Vanzetti Case at Climax Now (Continued from Page One) | up anarchists. Now that tide has | | “5, Why did not Captain Turner, if | The Japanese delegate, T. Shicachi, \addressing the conference, indirectly | | referred to the American exclusion of Japanese. “The post-war protective policies iby different nations, monopolistic | \control of raw materials and natural | | resources and inequitable distribution | }of population are undoubtedly the three outstanding and tnfortunate tendencies of the world today, liable | to effect the peace of the world,” said | Shicachi. ‘“We emphasize the abso- lute necessity fox countries to study these three problems and search for fundamental solutions, The deferen- ‘tial levy of customs and discrimina- | tory treatment of persons and goods |offer no small obstacles to com- | merce.” | ceptable restriction of their liberty. A Committee of five was appointed with full authority to investigate these charges, to ask for public hear- ings, and to take whatever action they deem necessary. Needle Trade Defense: ——————————————————————————————————————————— Who is Behind the Prosecution of the Militant Needle Trades Workers? Who Are Matthew Woll’s Fellow Conspirators? They Are Leaders of the National Civic Fed- eration! Woll is Acting President of the Labor Hating Civie Federation. There is a United Front of the Special American Federation of Labor Committee, headed by Vice President Woll, and the Na- tional Civic Federation, dominated by the most powerful capi- ists in the United States. Matthew Woll is the connecting link in the conspiracy. With him in'the Civic Federation is: NICHOLAS F. BRADY, President, New York Edison Co., 80 Broadway. Director, Amsterdam Electric Light, Heat and Power Co. Director, Anaconda Copper Mining Co, The Director, Astoria Light, Heat and Power Co. Director, Atlantic and Gulf Petroleum Co, Director, Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation. Director, Bronx Gas and Electric Co. Chairman of the Board of Directors, B’klyn Edison Co., Inc, Director, Branch Electric Uluminating Co. of New York. Director, Central New York Power Co, Director, Chattanooga Estates Co, Director Chili Copper Co. Director, Chili Exploration Co. ‘Trustee of the Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Director, Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Co. The Director, East River Gas Co. of Long Island City, Director, Edison Light and Power Installation Co. Director, Electrical Storage Battery Co. Director, Electrical Testing Laboratories, Inc. Trustee, Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank. Director, General Rubber Company. Director, General Rubber Company of Brazil. Director Helderberg Cement Co. Director, Meyers Rubber Co. Director, Morristown Trust Co, Director and President of Municipal Gas Co. The Director, National City Bank of N. Y. Director, National City Company. Director, National City Safe Deposit Co. Director, National Surety Co. Director, New Amsterdam Gas Light Co. Director, New York and Queens Electric Light and Power Co. Director, New York and Queens Gas Co. Director, New York Carbide and Acetyline Co. Director, New York Edison Co. (and President) Director, New York Mutual Gas Light Co. Director, Northern Union Gas Co, Director, Northern Westchester Lighting Co. Director, Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Co. Director, Prudential Oil Corporation. Director, Rubber Regenerating Co. Director, Thomson-Houston Electric Light Co. of Yonkers. Director, Union Carbide and Carbon Co. President and Director, United Electric Light and Power Co. Director, U. 8. Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Co. Director, U. 8. Rubber Co, Director, U. S. Rubber Export Co., Inc. Director, U. S. Rubber Plantations, Inc. Director, U. S. Tire Co. Director United Timber Corporation. + The Bazaar is growing by leaps ‘ana! Director, Yonkers Electrie Light Director Westchester Lighting Co, and Power Co. bounds. Philadelphia sends word that it will want a booth. Cleveland sent word that goods are being shipped for the Bazaar. Many of the letters we have received will speak for themselves, It is becoming evi- wed that this affair will be one of the greatest events of the year. Additional organizations having| Broad Demand For Complete Review of bei ic Scab Miller Shoe Concern Discharges drenched Governor Fuller and his | booths are The Unity House, The Mil- \he is as honest and fearless as he is | A Red Army State House with a nearly unanimous protest against the burning to death} represented, speak up before and tell linery Workers, Progressive group of | Local 88, The fancy Leather Goods ~ Vanzetti Frame-Up Does Not ‘vavel on Stomach Food for the stomach is not enough, Napo- of the two men on July 10 in the | the public about these erimes which dark walls of Charlestown State| Were being hatched with his _knowl- Prison. jedge? i. 68 tila ty Only employers’ associations, pro-| “Let the newspapers of this city fessional patriots and narrow legal-| 8° their voices also and demand ists intent on upholding the courts, | Captain Turner tell us the whole | whether right or wrong, have oppos- | “Atbert Weisbord.” leon’s army was finally defeated ‘ed the mighty demand for justice. | On Top of Ballot Vanzetti’s own appeal for justice, not _ By Richmond Labor Justice for Sacco And Vanzetti Asked | Workers. There will be a dress dept., a Men’s Straw Hat Dept., a Fur Dept., t sheaf of mail thi and a Men’s Clothing Dept. tae ame he Pues on. ae ee yer governor’s desk every day asking a review of the Sacco-Vanzetti case is the list of organizations and indivi- duals tabulated herewith. From all kinds and conditions of Letter From Milwaukee. Dear Friends: Herewith is a Bazaar Honor Roll BOSTON, May 5.—Typical of the} mercy, crests that tide of public op- inion and makes it imperative on Gov ernor Fuller that he formally review The Red Army According to a ruling by the New | Jersey courts, the names of Albert} RICHMOND, Va,, May 5.—Further | Weisbord,-Simon Bambach and Simon | proof of the widespread nature of the the case, | Smelkinson will top the list on the | Of Russia | Freedom Not Assured. | ballots May 10. The judge said that} as the three labor men were running with common slogans their names should be bracketed together, and as | Bambach is the first name alpha- betically, Weisbord and Smelkinson | Travels on its knowl- ae Fi 5s | It was regarded as certain today edge as beta In the |that Fuller will act, either through | Red Army or bee. appointing a commission or some| 1,500 permanent libra- | trusted individual, to investigate all | ries and 5,600 travel- — Getails of the case. While’ liberals| ling Ubraries. The Red may rest on their cars after this Army soldier reads and studies to become a better fighter for his class. READ Labor Lieutenants of Amer- ican Imperialism. > Jay Lovestone ........ 10¢ The Threat to the Labor Movement. Wm. F. Dunne ........ l5e Strike Strategy. Wm, Z. Foster 25 Left Wing Unionism. TRA, .CAROUs: o2.0 5. « + $1.60 Woman Worker and the Trade Unions. Theresa Wolfson .... $1.75 ON RUSSIA Russia Turns East. Scott. Nearing ......... 10¢ Russian Workers and Work- shops in 1926. Wm. 2: Foster ........ Russia Today, (Paper) Cloth $1.75 Broken Earth. Maurice Hindus ...... $2.00 HISTORY Peasant War in Germany. Friedrich Engels .... $1.50 Social Forces in American History. A. M. Simons ........ $1.60 ‘Thos. More and His Utopia. Karl Kautsky ....... $2.25 England on the Eve of Indus- trial Revolution, L, W. Moffit ........ $3.50 he he he he he he he oh + follow. Hold 6 Meetings Tonight six open air meetings were held in the working class sections of the city. They were addressed by the candidates and by Emil Gadros, Workers Party organizer, Sylvan A. Pollack of the DAILY WORKER and other speakers. Open air meetings | will also be held Saturday evening | when 5,000 copies of The DAILY WORKER will be distributed. | happens, the real battle to save Sacco) }and Vanzetti will only have started,| }and workers must guard carefully to) prevent the commission’s report being an exeuse for the electrocution of the workers. | Nicola Sacco is not insane.| | Thoroughly disillusioned by his seven | years’ fight for freedom and the ab-| solute class bias which has kept hir n jail during that time, he has given 2 nash ipuiies ye effort te jens Indoor meetings arranged for this |the burning on July 10 for which| weet include a Yewish mesting Tit | nivttaaut etri me | day ee professional patridts are clamor. |Italian meeting Sunday at Hod Car- Flexibility Lost. Beas" Hall. Oma “Tavould not say that Sacco was on, wep ae ot Dayon ares Pri the border’ line “of: insanity,” said | 4 p.m a conference will be held |Abraham Myerson, alienist, who ex-| a4 arrangements for distributing the }amined Sacco in his cell in Dedham 7 ~ fail WERE a! anid: hed lost the} oe eee ee {flexibility which enables a man to adjust normally to situations.” Flexibility indeed! 1t would seem that Sacco has adjusted his mind perfectly to capitalist justice! “There is no question the seven years of his incarceration maily with- out employment and entirely pre-oc- cupied by ‘his situation have helped | bring about an abnormal state in which his fanaticism has been inten- |sified to an obsession,” said the alienist. Return Lists At Once, The campaign committee urged all those having contribution lists to re- turn them at once with all money collected to date to 27 Dayton Ave., | Passaic,N. J. : | Watchman in River Six Months, | DETROIT, May 5.—The body of a \man, bound with wire around the neck, taken from the Rouge River, | |was identified “today as Abraham) i Dearold, a night watchman for the} ay, Attorney Explains |Hanna Furnace Company. Dearold| William G, Thompson, counsel for | disappeared December 4. The body | the defense, explained that Sacco has | the ter nearly si |frequently stated that he was sol eee i che ange * pletely discouraged: that he had no} more hope in any efforts that might) ¥ be made in his behalf: that he Jolt} eee Bally Wore erry oy sure that every department of the! petition being written by Vanzetti— government was determined upon his| But held that as it was not addressed death: and that he believed that if he|to “the people” (the working class) were dead and out of the way it|and that therefore he would not be | might relieve the suffering of his| consistent with his philosophical views | wife. if he signed it. Both Sacco and Van- Sacco agreed with every statement) zetti declared that they are innocent the petition to the governor—the! of the erime of murder. y Hin | reads in part as follows: |to Wm. Green, President, American revulsion against the intended legal assassination of Sacco and Vanzetti was given when the local Central | Trades and Labor Council, at its last | meeting, passed a strong resolution, reasserting its belief in the innocence | of the two Italian workers—protest- ing against the “justice” given them, and requesting the governor of Mas- sachusetts to grant a pardon. * * | NORWOOD, Mich., May 5.—The Finnish Workingmen’s Society with International Labor Defense held a meeting in the Finnish Hall. The fol- lowing resolution was adopted; it Resolved, that this meeting of Fin- nish Workingmen’s Association of Norwood, representing 150 members,, request the Governor of Massachusetts to intervene and give justice to our two persecuted fellow workers, who | have devoted their lives to the cause | of labor, by ‘releasing them uncon- ditionally from all penalties of this unjust conviction. Be it further Resolved, that copies of this reso- Intion be sent to Governor Alvan T, Fuller, State House, Boston, Mass, Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C., and to the press. . Millionaire Mlorist Killed RENSSELAER, N. Y., May 5. — Kryskos Psikoyius, 62, vice-president and director of the New York Florist Supply Company, of 103 West 28th street, New York City, was instantly killed near here today when his auto- mobile turned turtle, ’ His daughter, whose stage name is Alice Roberts, was badly bruised. Theodore Zikos, of New York, friend of Miss Roberts was in a serious con- dition in St, Peter’s Hospital in Al- | bany with a possible fractured skull, | Bride Killed In Bed, DETROIT, May 5, — Mrs. Ida Glazer, 19, of Cleveland, who was found shot to death in bed was mur- dered, Cleveland authorities declared today after they had exhumed the girl’s body at Forest Lawn Cemetery here and performed a_ searching autopsy. {better .in the near ‘future, and a check for $10.00 from a group of friends from Milwaukee. We greet the brave clogkmakers and furriers people come the letters, telegrams and cables, from ladies on Beacon! Wood-Heel Chairman The scab coi ern of I. Miller, man- vfacturers of ladies shoes on Long \Island, fights against organized labor \by maintaining a so-called shop or- ganization controlled by chairmen of | various departments who do the bid- |ding of the company and play the | part. of stool pigeons against any worker who dares to talk for real i} Hill and from cigar workers in/ unionism, in their struggle against the union bureaucracy and their allies. We feel Tampa, from bronzed Montana farm- The chairman of the wood-heeling ers and lily-handed professors in that this sum is very small, but we| leading colleges. Here’s the list for will make this good by collecting ar-|one day: ticles for the Bazaar. We hope to! Coruna Cigar Co.’s 300 workers, collect $150.00 worth of merchandise|Tampa, Fla.; M. Valle & Co. 240 and forward it to you. workers, Tampa; Several maiden I wish you all success in the work, | Jadies with Beacon St. addresses here. and remain for the group, Mr. Ber- son, Milwaukee, Wise. . « . Camp Nitgedaigit. Dear Friends: I have collected $87.00 on the Bazaar Honor Roll List at the camp for which I send you a check. Please acknowledge this in the press and send me some more Honor Rolls so that I may make another collection next week. With best wishes, (Signed) Yetta Shaffer. ‘ * * * A Surprise. Although many of the leading of- fice workers were lately expelled from the union for daring to think, which is contrary to the policy of Big Bill Bright, they nevertheless have maintained themselves as a unit and sent $20.00 to the defense to show that they mean to build an Of- fice Workers Union in spite of Bright, Fruchtor and Company. * * * A Shop Collection, We the girl workers of N. Axels Fur Shop, 333 Seventh Avenue, con- tribute $30,00 to the defense fund to help free the prisoners in Mineola and other jails, who were imprisoned as a result of the frame-ups of the offi- cers of the International and the A, FB. of L. We pledge our loyalty to the Joint Board and Imprisoned workers.— Lena Braverman, for the committee, . . . A Letter From Canada, | Editor, The Freiheit: | Anything be expected from American Justice so I send you a check for $10 for defense book No, 7002 for the cloakmakers and furriers defense. As I am alone in the city and was unable to sell the coupons, I decided to send you this as my own contribution. I fee) that. I have done very little, but I expect to do much Gary Workers Cooperative Society. Lynn Lasters Union of the Boot and Shoe Workers. 381 students of Mt. Holyoke College. John M. Maguire, law facylty, Harvard University. Workers School of Springfield, Mass. Providence, R. I. tile and marble workers. New York Brewers Local 1. Haverhill, Mass. Show Workers Protective Local 8. Brooklyn Heights, N. Y. Public Forum. San Franciseo Central Labor Council. Slovak Work- ingmen’s Society of Bellaire, O. Ever- ett, Wash. Central Labor Council. De- troit Machinists Local 82, Regenburg Cigar Co.’s 700 workers, West Tampa, Fla. Libertarian Alliance of Argen- tina. Liberal Club of the University of Chicago, Farmers and workers of Plentywood, Mont, Garcia & Gegas cigar workers, Tampa, Fla, Arango y Arango cigar workers, Tampa, Fla. Guerra Diaz cigar workers, Tampa, Fla, La Traduceion, Tampa, Fla, daily. La Integridad cigar fac- tory, 200 workers, Tampa, Fla. San- taella cigar factory, 850 workers, ‘of Labor. Park Ave. Congregational Church pastor. Labor Sports Union of Detroit. Boston Carpenters’ Local 17, Asbury Park Suppresses Lewis. ASBURY PARK, N, J., May 5.— Following in the foot steps of Boston, Asbury Park has barred Sinclair Lewis’ novel, “Elmer Gantry” from the shelves of the Public Library, Miss Josephine Porter, librarian, an- nounced today. The decision, Miss Porter said, was reached by the directors of the Library on the grounds that the book “might be harmful to young readers.” Miss Porter said that the library had received many requests for the book. The book fearlessly exposes a common type of Protestant vainiite department, Joseph Berg, was dis- charged from the I. Miller concern last week becduse he was held re- sponsible for unanimous sentiment in | that department against a three-year | agreement that the concern proposed |to the men, | As soon as the three year contract was proposed, carrying with it, of course, the yellow dog provisions maintained by such firms, the “chair- men” of the departments got busy and terrorized the men in their de- partments to accept the thing. Berg, in the wood-heeling depart- ment, employing 80 men, agitated against the thing and exposed the scab character of the shop organiza- tion and the trick behind the three- year contract, which was designed to prevent the men organizing into a veal union for three years. The men in his department voted unanimously against accepting the firm’s proposal. Called Into Office Because of the fight Berg put up against the agreement, the men elect- ed him chairman of the department. When. this happened he was called into the office and one of the part- ners of the concern, Mike Miller, who handled the “industrial” end of the business, demanded that another vote be taken. The general shop chairman , was also present and backed up th arguments of the boss, because he sind the chief pigeon stool for at pga Lirseiig. 3 of the dep iment the v in was.ageingt “agreement. on the following morn- ing the superintendent of the place met Berg as he came to work and in- formed him that he was charged, that his tools were packed and that he could not even enter the shop. The bosses feared he would tell the work- ers in the department about his treat- ment, which would result in a walk- out, tiles So, in spite of the fact that Be: was chairman of his department, he was kicked out without eyen a chance to inform the men hae they should select another one in his place. The only remedy for this sort of thing is organization in a real labor