The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1927, Page 2

Page Two SOVIET UNION WORKERS CELEBRATE Weisbord, Bambach, MAY 1 AS THEIR FACTORIES GROW Smelkinson, Have THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1927 {Beffel Swears Judge Thayer Very Hostile (Continued from Page One) ton Globe, Jack Harding of the As- PASSAIC GRAFT Needle Trade Defense Other questions were then asked by | the reporters, One of the questions | NEWS FROM NEW JERSEY NEWARK, N. J., May 6.—Local | electricians. who walked out on strike | May 2 are still out and are demand- | ing an increase of wages from $12 to | $14 per day. The bosses are begin- {ning to advertise in the local préss in an attempt to prove that the de- The office of the Joint Defense {Committee is overwhelmed by groups |of workers bringing presents for the Bazaar. Two storerooms have al- ;ready been filled with goods, Re- MOSCOW, May 6.—The first of/000 tons or 114 per cent as compared | May was celebrated in all towns’ of| with before the war. the U.S.S.R with quite exceptional | enthusiasm. In many towns with quite exceptional enthusiasm. In many towns there were unusually|with the normal power stations, the} large mass demonstrations followed by carnivals, torch light processions, and all kinds of popular gai 3 Peasant University. The first Peasant University of the Soviet Union was solemnly inaugura- ted at the White Russian agricultural academy. The foundation was laid of the Novorossissk regional electrical sta- tion, to generate twenty-two thousand kilowatts of power. ceived from Kharkov, Smolensk, Tif- lis, and other towns of the opening of new factories, electrical plants, clubs, hospitals, ambulance station: schools, and of the laying of the co: ner stones of all sorts of industrial buildings. Much Needed Power, Large Meetings the} Union of Socialist Soviet Republics| stations opened during the current} Reports were re- | The total power of the new power) year was 78,000 kilowatts. Together total power produced would be 186,000 | kilowatts. Further, work has begun | in many parts of the Soviet Union, for {instance Dnieprostroi, upon still further power stations. The total number of power stations in the | countryside will reach 446 during the | course of the current year having a | total capacity of 7,500 kilowatts, as | compared with 78 power stations be- fore the war with a total capacity of 1,800 kilowatt. 1,100,000,000 gold roubles have been % aside as capital investments for the current year, of this, 575,000,000 vill be invested in heavy industry. 2,000,000 in the finishing industries | and 153,000,000 roubles for electrifica- | tion. The erection of three engineering | se! | | Great Spinning Mill. ks is planned for the current year, At Ivanovovosnesensk there was| in Siberia, the Urals and the Ukraine, laid the foundation of a spinning mill| respectively, at a total cost of 250,- to use a hundred and twenty thou-| 900,000 roubles. Further it has been sand spindles: The mill will cost | decided to build a great tractor fac- eleven and a half million roubles to; tory in Stalingrad. build, and will embody the latest in| Support Norway Workers. textile technique, and have the ge A joint session of the Central- machinery, There are now over four | Council of Soviet Labor Unions with| million members of worker sports or-|the central committees of the unions | ganizations in the R. During} listened to the report of the delega-| the last two 'S sport teams from | tion of the Norwegian Trade Union es the Seviet Union took part in sixty-} Council which requested support on three competitions abroad, This year| behalf of the locked-out Norwegian Soviet Union athletes are invited to| workers. (Special to The DAILY WORKER) | | PASSAIC, N. J., May 6.—Jewish | workers filled ors Hall here to- night at a campaign rally arranged | for the labor candidates for city com- | missioner—Albert Weisbord, Simon Bambach and Simon Smelkinson, Last night’s open air meetings where five large gatherings were held in the working class centers of the eity were unusually successful. Reach 5000 Workers More than 5,000 workers heard the message delivered by the Communist orators and received it with great enthusiasm, Albert Weisbord, ‘one of the labor nominees, was the prin- cipal speaker at all the meetings. As soon as he appeared upon the scene the assembled workers burst into | volleys of applause. Among the other | speakers were: Emil Gardos, Work- ers Party sub district organizer; Syl- van A. Pollack of the DAILY WORK- ER and Herman Ehriich of the Young Workers League. F. Panarisi, G. Raznikoff, S. Gede, G. Rusko, and} others, , | Turner Is Excited | Captain Ben Turner, who on Wed- nesday disclosed that during the strike he was supposed to have kid- naped and then beaten up Weisbord, yesterday tried to repudiate his state- ment, as he realized that it had started to send his chances of being elected down the tobaggon of defeat. | | i} had to do with Fred H, Moore, of counsel for the defense. Mention of | Moore’s name aroused signs of hos tility from Judge Thayer. (This was| on the day when the special venire of | 175 extra talesmen had been gathered in, and all morning the defense had} strenuously opposed the use of any of these talesmen ag jurors, on the ground that they had been summoned | not from the highways and byways | as required by law, but from special places such as a Masonic meeting.) Thayer Indignant. | Referring to Attorney Moore’s ob-| jections to this special venire, Judge | Thayer said: “And what do you sup-| pose that fellow wanted me to ask| those veniremen? ‘Are you a mem-| ber of a labor union? Are you op-| posed to union labor? Are you a} member of a secret society?’” The judge made another gesture of anger, and went on, addressing the nhewspapermen in general: “Did you ever see a case in which so many leaflets and circulars have been spread broadcast saying that people couldn’t get a fair trial in the State of Massa- There was no mistaking that Judge Thayer was thoroughly angry. His remarks were uttered in a high voice and his face was flushed. He was now near the doorway lead- ing out in the hall of the inn. At this point I stepped forward and tried to explain to him that I had given the other reporters Consul Ferrante’s statement at the consul’s express re- ‘Corruption Rampant in) Textile Town By HOLLACE RANSDELL. Federated Press, PASSAIC, N, J., May 6.—(FP).— Workers in the textile district are | learning much from the political cam- paign for the election of city offi- cials May 10th, Coming so soon after the settle- ment of the strike when the struggle | is still fresh in the minds of all, the campaign offers a choice opportun- ity—in the scandals thrown up by| the political opponents—for the work- | ers to get the “low down” on the/| trickery, the sneak thief methods used by the little crook politicians to | cheat and rob them and to discrim- inate against them when they were | on strike. In their zeal to run down opponents, candidates have let a number of unpleasant looking cats out of the bag. | One of the exposures which has} been getting headlines recently in the Passaic press has to do with a certain “overlord of the cells,” as he was called by the Daily News. Dur- ing the course of the campaign mud- slinging, a story was uncovered which came néar to exposing this grafte’ who preys upon the poor of the city. But the exposé stopped short when it came to giving his name. Chief Detective Snitches. ports from stations are staggering, and Landy, who thinks of everything, is commencing to wonder how so much goods can be sold in four days. “Wait for May 12-13-14-15, at the Star Casino,” say we, “and see.” However, carpenters, electricians and sign painters are needed. Work must begin early next Wednesday morning. The fifty booths must be up by Wednesday noon to allow, the placing of goods. All together on the last big drive! * * * A Few More Bazaar Booths. The Raincoat Makers’ Progressive Group will have a regular rubber goods store. More booths by the In- dependent Workmen's Circle Schools, Harlem Workers’ Center, Polish Branch of the I. L..D., Coney Island | Workers’ Club, with Women’s Coun- cil No. 5, and*more to follow. * * *. The End Is Near. mands of the journeymen are unjust. All their arguments and propaganda are bound to fail as’ the men are sticking together and are determined to win their increase, | All electricians and helpers are | urged to stay away from Newark | where the strike is on. If you get a. job here or answer,any of the ad- vertisements you will merely scab on | your fellow-worker who is attempt- }ing to maintain decent standards in | the trade. Czar Quits Union. JERSEY CITY, N. J., May 6.— | Theodore M. Brandle, president of the |New Jersey Building Trades Council | of New Jersey, prominent in Hudson County labor circles and vice presi- | dent of the International of the Iron | Workers has resigned as an official | of his organization, Many rumors are afloat as to the motives of his resignation but nothing official has There is a new spirit entering into | come from his office. Teddy Brandle the defense work. Reports that the|as he was known among the labor Lureaucracy is weakening and begin-| and trade union workers was con- ning to talk about a compromise to-| sidere one of the must influential gether with the surrender of the fur) and powerful mea in the State of trimming manufacturers, indfcate the and that the needle trades unions. will |be saved if the great defense fight lis not slowed up. Money is needed. All must help. Let the fight be over nd the prisoners will not be long in jail. a ee Progressive Grocery Clerks. Friends of the Joint Defense Com- fight is rapidly coming to a finish| | New Jersey. Truck Drivers on Strike. HIGH BRIDGE, N. J. May ¢. -— Thirteen. men, all truck drivers, went {out on strike against the long work- ing day they wre yatting in for the state highwav commission, They were working Route No. 9.on the Lebanon-Clinton section. Some of the men who went out on strike to pro- | quest. But the judge would not listen mittee: ~'ripate in sport competitions in ny, France, Belgium, Austria, and other countries. A sum of one million Norwegian lerowns has been granted from the |funds of the Soviet Labor Unions Big Business Won't to my explanation. He brushed me aside, and as he turned to leave the Benjamin Turner, Captain of the Detective Force of Passaic, told part of the story, which was reported by Herewith we send you $53.00 which is the first proceeds of a standing tax on our members until the time test have been working on the job for many years. Meanwhile the job is temporary held up. | | room he shook his fis sai +, : re sn Ee for the support of the locked-out Nor- | cahie Sabieen re iganchrg . the News. Captain Turner is run-|when you have gained the release 200 Lose Jobs in Fire. lustry Progressing. | Wegian workers, Of this sum, 200,- , April 21.—(By Mail)—| 900 crowns pel ibe cast * an thie’: as expression of solidarity by the Rus- Te Snmrmnan of sian workers, the remaining 800,000 crowns were granted as long term pas es H loan without interest. Responsible Stone Winn | authorities in the Soviet labor unions| 4 compared with pre-war, | formed press representatives that onomic year 1926-27 the | the Central Council ef Soviet labor uction of the state industry | unions hed set no date for the repay- med to be worth approxi-| ment of the loan. In the opinion of thousand million gold rou- the Central council the Norwegian is to sayan increase of 99 | Trade Union Council should itself fix as compared with the eco- sie pave ae mops yinett wa’ seconiance ear 1925-26, | with its financial situation and ac- he current year engineering represent 34 per cent more xe period prior to the war,| roduction would approximate ,000 tons, that is to say, 14 - sent more than before the war, | this ‘vaet id-imeke it possible to| give up the import of foreign anthra- | cite. The oil production for the cur-| rent year was reckoned to be 6,700,-| “Lectures and F Economie Council of the . declared in his speech at the Norwegian unions to recover from the effects of the lock-out. Laundry Workers « In Vigorous Fight For Pay Increase Forty-three workers of the North | American Laundry who have been on |strike since April 25 are continuing | their struggle with marked success. |The 28 inside workers are affiliated with Local 290 of the Steam and Laundry Workers’ Union while the 20 drivers belong to Laundry Drivers’ | Union, Local 810. | Most of the inside workers are Ne- groes who were receiving $15 to $17 a week. They demand a two dollar a week increase in pay and extra pay |for overtime, Since the strike started seven workers have been arrested, five be- ing out on $1,000 bail and two on $50 jbail, The boss refuses to arbitrate the differences. orums TOMORROW NIGHT,.8 P. M. Joseph Freeman will speak on “CULTURAL CHANGES IN SOVIET RUSSIA” A brilliant proletarian journalist, who has just ed from a year’s in the Union, tells of in culture and art | | | | stay advances ma in the first Workers’ State. At the WORKERS’ SCHOOL FORUM t ast 14th Street. TRAM D, WOLFE changing Amex INGERSOLL FORU anti-religious center of N. Y. CHAMBER MUSIC HALL, CARNEGIE HALL SUNDAY EVENING, 8 P. M. MEYER APPLEBAUM will speak on “IS THE BIBLE A SAFE MORAL GUIDE” LECTURES AND FORUMS Questions and Speeches from floor. Admission free. All welcome, Hudson Maxim Near Death LAKE HOPATCONG, N. J., May |6.—The condition of Hudson Maxim, |noted inventor of smokeless powder, | has grown steadily worse, and is, now very grave, it was learned this after- |noon. Barring an unexpected rally, |little hope is held out for his life, | Maxim, who is 74, is suffering from | general anaemia, aggravated by a | stomach ulcer. AT PECIAL PRICES THE RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS Decisions and Resolutions of the First (1921), Second (1922) and Third (1924) Congresses Held in Moscow. . For every worker—and for the trade unionist especially—these booklets give a ready source of invaluable information. Sep- arately each of these sell for 15 cents. To- gether with STRIKE STRATEGY—By Wm. Z. Foster (25 cents)—a book that should be read hy every militant worker. (A total of 70 cents) ALL FOR 50 CENTS Books offered in this column on hand @ in IMmited quantities. All orders cash e and filled in turn us recelved, cording to the length of time it takes | ‘| plonship is mentior Pay For- Monuments To Dead War Heroes (By a Staff Correspondent). WASHINGTON, May 6. —> This city of the nation, in its six year effort to raise sufficient funds to erect a memorial to its World War dead, offers a most significant com- mentary on the value that politicians place on what they so piously pro- claim as patriotism, Not A Cent For A Tribute. Five hundred and thirty-five Wash- ington men and women lost their lives \the war a movement was gotten un- |derway to erect a suitable monyment |to their memory, “a A competition for plans for such a memorial was instituted and a choice | made. Then the local patriotism| \bosses, the newspapers and so-called | patriotic societies started a campaign | |to raise the $500,000 desired. Since | 1920 the drive has been underway and a so-called final effort is in prepara- tion. There is still to be raised about | $150,000. The leaders in the move- |ment have loudly called upon the gov- | ernment clerks and underlings to }eome across. “They gave that you might enjoy,” and other similar | blurbs are to placard the city. | But the politicians, the senators, the |representatives, the lobbyists, the | Chamber of Commerce, who were re- | sponsible for the deaths of these and | 50,000 others, they only nod assent. Apparently they haven't given very much, because if they had all con- | tributed only a few dollars apiece| |there are enough of them here to| | have paid for the memorial several | | times over. | | So the drive is on again, and once | jmore the clerklings and the $1,200 |@ year boys and girls will be called} jon to do their bit in recognition of | those “who gave that they might en- joy.” | Banker Heads U. 8. C. C. WASHINGTON, May 6.—Lewis E. Pierson, New York banker, was | elected president of the United States | Chamber of Commerce at the closing | session of the fifteenth annual meet- ing here, sueceeding John W. O’Leary of Chicago. The new board of directors consists of Judge E. B. Parker, Texas, chair- man; A, J. Brosseau, New York; Rob- jert R. Ellis, Memphis; William M. Butterworth, Moline, IIL, and Paul | Shoup of San Francisco. Award Building Contracts | The general contract for construe- | tion of Mt. Vernon’s city hall, to start in the next ten days, was awarded | by the Board of Estimate to Johnson |and Miller, Yonkers contractors. Their |bid was $488,160. Subcontracts for heating, plumbing and electricity were awarded three local firms Auto Victim Dies Frank Acinipura, 24, a violinist, of 6223 Tenth Ave., Brooklyn, who suf- fered a fractured skull Monday when his automobile skidded and overturned on the Cross Bay Boulevard near Howard Beach, Queens, died last night in Rockaway Beach Hospital. Crafts Organize Baseball Leagues CHICAGO, (FP). —- Machinists, street car men, laundry drivers, milk- wagon drivers, printert. and postoffice workers in Chicago have full-fledged baseball leagues, some of them with, over 20 teams. A city series in the fall to settle the union labor cham- by the Labor Sports Union as a possibility. I give my charge to the jury. I'll show ’em!” Suppress Story. Immediately after Judge Thayer left, there was a consultation among the newspapermen as to what they ought to write about the incident. This discussion lasted until we were all back in the courtroom. Harding of the Associated Press looked upon the occurrence as controversial mat- | | in the war. Soon after the close of |, and none of the newspapers nor | Associated Press and one to a Boston ter, quite apart from the issues if- volved in the trial, and the policy of his organization was to keep clear of controversies. Sibley of the Boston Globe was of like opinion, and said: “Let’s all agree that we won’t say anything about it.” This was agreed | Press associations mentioned the in- cident. It has never yet been made ‘public. " On July 13, 1921, the day preceding that on which Judge Thayer was to deliver his charge to the jury, he gave out two advance copies of that charge—one to Jack Harding of the Transcript reporter, At the court's request, Harding agreed to make a digest of that charge and to give out copies of the digest to all the other newspapermen, Changes His Address. But the court’s charge as delivered to the jury differed from the ad- vance copy given to the newspaper- men in that several paragraphs were omitted. One of the omitted passages called upon the jurors to “seek courage in your deliberations such as was typified by the American soldier boy as he fought and gave up his life on the battlefields of France.” The other omitted paragraphs were kindred. in substance. Both the Boston Evening Globe of July 14, 1921, and the New York Times of the following day (3-star edition, page 6, column 2) in@@ade in their dispatches outlining Judge Tha- yer’s charge the above admonition concerning the American soldier boy in France. Many times during the selection of Jurors in the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, I heard Judge Thayer address the talesmen with regard to “the courage of American soldiers in France.” He | exhorted them to “render this service here ... with the same spirit of pa- triotism, courage and devotion to duty | as was exhibited by our soldier boys across the seas.” And frequently, in my hearing, he reminded the tales- |men of “the blessings of govern- ;}ment,” and urged them to be loyal to their government, Charge Graft; No Arrests MANCHESTER, N. H., May 6.— Secret indictments charging Arthur | W. Phinney, city clerk, and William |J. O’Brien, former city clerk, with embezzlement of , municipal funds | were made known today by Thomas D, Lull, clerk of Hillsboro County Superior Court. Phinney is specifically charged with embezzling and fraudulently convert- \ing for his own use $5,237.30 on Jan- juary 27, 1925. O’Brien is charged | with converting to his own use | $2,235.46 on Jan. 15, 1922. Think French Flier In Sea PERMABUCO, May 6.—-Convinced |that Captain St. Roman has been forced down in his attempted flight across the Atlantic, French residents here today sent an urgent appeal to the French Government to re-consider its attitude towards the St. Roman flight and to order ships out to search for him. The French Government had re- fused St. Roman permission to at- tempt the flight as he had removed the floats from his plans, ning for city commissioner along with eleven others. A young Italian woman whose hus- band was arrested last November went to Albion Deane, now campaign manager for Thomas L. Saxe, also running for city commissioner, to ask for help in getting her husband out of jail. In the words of Captain ‘Turner, she told Deane that “when she was in the police court trying to see if she could get her husband out, a gray-haired policeman came to | her and said to her: ‘What do you want?’ She said she told him she wanted to get her husband out of jail. “This gray-haired policeman then took her to who told her it would cost her $200 to get her hus- | band out of jail, as he would have to see Judge Davidson, and whateyer | he said to. the judge he would have | to do for him. The woman then told | that she did not have any | money and ~ told her he could not do anything for her.” | Rob Poor People. | “That's just the way they do things | here,” Captain Turner was quoted | later as saying. “They get from $15,- 000 to $20,000 a year out of the poor reople of this city in that way.” Another part of the same story told by Captain Turner touches on the strike and shows the habit of the police to blame everything on the} strikers. The Italian husband in question, a tile-setter, went to Clif- ton just before his arrest to collect | some money due him on a job, As/ Captain Turner relates it, he took a few drinks of wine there which went | to his head. | “He got on a bus to come to Pas- saic, and got into an argument with someone and the jitney bus stopped in front of the Botany mill gate, and an,officer came out and arrested him. The officer thought he was mixed up with the strike. He was taken into the Botany gate office and héld there for several hours.” Poormaster Involved. James Donnelly, Poormaster of Passaic, was also brought into the af- fair according to the account of Deane who zealougly started out on a plot to expose the “overlord of the cells” who extorted $15,000 to $20,000 a year out of the poor, but abandoned | his plan after a talk with Donnelly’s| campaigning at the present time for John McGuire, mayor of Passaic. | At a political meeting several days ago, Deane :told of conferring with Donnelly about the arrested Italian. “Jim said he knew the case and then I began to realize why the man was in jail. Jim explained that this young man had been arrested in front of the Botany Mills and was one of those wise guys” (strikers), Fung, Biedenkapp, to Speak in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA May 6,—Despite an impression circulated in this town that the speech of Fung Sing Quong and F. G, Biedenkapp have been for- bidden by the police, the committee in charge announces that Quong will speak on Hands Off Revolutionary China, and Biedenkapp will talk on “Hands Off Soviet Russia,” as an- nounced. The lectures are in Labor Institute Hall, 802 to 810 Locust St., Sunday, May 8th, at 2 p.m. * Child Killed By Poisoning. HOLYOKE, Mass., May 6.—One child was dead and three other per- sons were in a critical condition at the Holyoke hospital today as the result of gas poisoning. The dead is Blossom Jacobson, one year old, her mother, Mrs, Aurelia Jacobson an- other daughter Fay, 6, and a maid in the Jacobson home, Miss Beatrice Normandin, are all in the hospital, Chairs of the imprisoned workers. H. Silver, Secretary. Here's How. Workmen’s Circle Branch 84, Plain- field, N. J., sefids $43.84, proceeds of a collection at a May celebration. Workmen’s Cirele Branch 673 sends in $10.00 donation. A Bazaar list with $14.00 is received from Dor- chester, Mass. The Ladies’ Coat Makers Association of Boston sends $25.00. Five dollars comes from Memphis, Tenn. Worcester, Mass., sends a long letter with $26.00 and greetings to the prisoners. Lenin Branch Workmen’s Circle 625 for- wards a check for $20.50 with com- pliments to the prisoners. This isn’t the half, but ten times more is needed. HOBOKEN, N. J. May 6.—A two alarm fire in the factory district of Hoboken resulted in damages esti- mated at $10,000 and forcing 200 em- ployees to loose their jobs all of them girls. The fire broke out at Tenth and Clinton Sts. ir the floor oecupied by the Hoboker. Land and Improve- ment Co, Lnemplo;men? Parley PASSAIC, N. J. May 6.—On Sun- day afternoon at Belmont Park, Gar- field, the District Council of the United Textile Workers of Passaic atd vicinity have called a mass meet. ing for the purpuse of solving the great unemyloyment problem = that confronts the workers in this area. Veomirent jabor ¢yeakers will speax, The general offensive against the Party and against the labor movement as a whole has assumed as a major objective the attempt to suppress The DAILY WORKER. The bosses and their agents, the labor bureau- crats, and the government have found a com- mon ground in their attack upon our paper. . Throughout the country the capitalist of+ fensive is being answered by the organized power of the masses behind the Communists and the left wing. In solid ranks they are rallying to the growing army of contributors to The DAILY WORKER Defense Fund. The existence of our paper in the face of the pres- ent attack depends upon the mass support given to this fund. The same self sacrifice and devotion which the workers have shown again and again on the picket line, will have to be shown now in the effort to raise money with which to carry on the fight for the defense of The DAILY*WORK- ER. No party member is carrying out his full responsibilities unless he has mobilized his fellow workers behind the de- fense of labor’s militant organ. Let us hold the fort! DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, i New York, N. Y. Inclosed is my contribution of +++e+. dollars .... cents to the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund for a stronger and better DAILY WORKER and for the defense of our paper. I will pay . the same amount regularly every aneed es voeeroebeeweare NBME i iiccecdeesccgegenes BARE Shy asso vnsius oecebete Jity HME vesseseesecneegevesooes Attach check or money order.