The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR ATURDAY, MAY 14, 1927 CITY OWNERSHIP Finat Forum reerwee FINNISH Co-0p OF TRANSIT LINES AIDED BY PROBE But Old Parties Stand In Way Although the private negotiations | j between Samuel Untermyer, counsel | for the transit commission and the two subway systems apparently ended in futility, traction students ster- day pointed out that at least the} high-handed methods by which the tr it crowd is defre ng the city of millions every year has been ex- posed, Untermyer, in his statement, ac- cused the companies of demanding that any sale of the leases they hold| provide that their stockholders be guaranteed forever dividends equiva- Yent to those issued on last year’s earnings. This is the first intima- tion made by the compan that the! city’s subway lines have ever earned profits. By insisting that there! a large yearly deficit, the com- panies forced the city to issue them an annual subsidy. The transit companies the sale of the surface lines and ele- vated lines, Untermyer said. All these lines have not paid expenses for many years back, and in most cases cause greater traffic congestion in- stead of decreasing it. Bus lines! are! now running in competition with the | street car lines, and the elevated lines are so slow and dangerous that they receive very little patronage. | Solution Easier Now. The present situation places the| municipal authorities in a unique! position; the easiest and most ex- pedient solution of the transit prob- | lem, municipal ownership of all tran-} sit lines, one of the leading planks in| the program of the New York section of the Workers (Communist) Party, can be effected more easily now than at any other time in the history of| the problem. | In 1930, according to provisions of | the dual. contracts, the city can re- capture key lines of the I. R. T. and| B. M. T. By running these lines, for! which $300,000,000 has been appro-| priated by the state legisture, and the! independent lines now under construc- | tion in competition with those of the | companies, the latter can be forced to sell out to the city at reasonable} terms. This was mentioned by Unter-| myer in his statement. Old Parties Against Solution. Only by municipal ownership, it is evident, can the five-cent fare be| also seek | country, | within the American working cl. The effect of Amercan imperialism } jhas been found Bertram Wolfe Speaks The Workers ool Forum, 108 East 14th Street, will wind up its) most succe season tomorrow. Bertram D. school, will give the final lecture of the year on a subject of extreme import: “The Working Class.” The speaker¢ diy y the di Changing American ll analyze the grow- ons in this country, visions taking place upon the workers, the influence of the unorganized workers, the grow- ing rift in the trade union burean- cracy—are some topics that will be treated. Those who wish to take part in this discussion should come early as it nee the doors in the past at 8:15 due to the huge crowds, The Workers School Forum will ; open again early in the fall. ‘Union League Fears Calling Convention to Amend Constitution The Union League Club issued a hectic appeal to the nation at large yesterday to rally to the immediate defense of the constitution. Twenty- four .states in recent years have asked the calling of a constitutional convention and only four more states need add their names to result in the convocation, Wet forces are anxious to hold the convention in order to eliminate the 18th amendment and are campaign- ing to have four more state legisla- tures add their act. The Union League Club, hang out of the most reactionary elements in the country, fear that a constitution might attack other provisions beside the 18th amendment, such as those protecting property rights and giv- ing the supreme court arbitrary pow- er to overrule congress and the presi- dent. The club urges chambers of commerce and business bodies to op- pose the convention, Bronx Youth Co-op. : Plans Big Schedule The “Cooperative Youth,” recently organized by young people living at the Workers’ Cooperatives, 2700 Bronx Park, East, invites all young people to join their ranks. The club is interested in social and athletic ac- tivities and will devote a great deal y to close| eral weeks Wolfe, director of the| e to the workers ef this} | maintained, for the companies are! of time to playing baseball, tennis, | financing a powerful lobby at Albany | that is gradually winning legislative | support. Governor Smith has already acceded to the demands of the tran-| sit barons, “Inasmuch as the roads are now| operated at a profit,” Unterm r | said, “it is not apparent how an i: Py creased fare to these roads would) abate or improve the present atro-| cious service, or provide a single ad- ditional seat for the car riders.”} Many democrats, however, have united | with the republicans in aggressive op-| position to municipal ownership. | Lectures and Forums | INGERSOLL FORUM anti-religious center of N. Y. CHAMBER MUSIC HALL, CARNEGIE HALL SUNDAY EVENING, 8 P. M. HARRY KELLY will speak on “THE FREE: MAN IN A FREE SOCIETY” LECTURES AND FORUMS Questions and Speeches from floor, Admission free. All_weleome, rowing, hikes and other sports, It will also have lectures and discus- sions as part of its program. The club will hold a dance at the Cooperative, Saturday, May 21. Patronize Our Advertisers ANYTHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO OR OUTSIDE WORK Patronize Our Friend SPIESS STUDIO 54 Second Ave., cor. 3rd St. Special Rates for Labor Orgabiza- tions, (Bstablished 1887.) JIMMIE HIGGINS BOOK SHOP Announces its removal to 106 UNIVERSITY PL. (One block south of its former location) Telephone: Stuyvesant 5015. MR. PIM PASSES BY MEET MR. PIM In that delightful, gay comedy Presented by The DAILY WORKER thru arrange- ment with the Theatre Guild BUY YOUR ‘TICKETS NOW A few choice seats still on hand at special prices for DAILY WORKER readers at LOCAL DAILY WORKER OFFICE 108 East 14th Street Telephone Stuyvesant 6584. | planning commission, | | | Festival Planned At Ulimer Park The annual festival of the Finnish Cooperative Trading Association will be held foot of 25th Ave., Brooklyn, An elaborate program has been ar- ranged including a concert, sports and dancing. The concert will be rendered b band; Brooklyn F a solo by Hjalmar Nylander. The sports include running, jump-! ing, shotput and discus throwing. The 1,000 meter relay race starts at 11 a.m. Valuable prizes will be given. Speeches will be made by Cedric wong, secretary of the Cooperative League of America, Henry Askeli and others. Lower Bronx Holds China Protest Meet The “Hands Off China” open air meeting held Thursday evening at 1 . and St. Anns Ave., was the best attended meeting ever held in the lower Bronx. The speakers were Louis A. Baum and P. Buckenberger. Another “Hands Off China” open air meeting will be held tonight, cor- ner of 148th St. and Willis Ave. The speakers will be Rebecca Grecht, Louis A. Baum and I. Lazarowitz. Protest Account of Bronx Soccer Game Irving Steinberger, member of the National Referees Association, has written to The DAILY WORKER protesting against the article by I. Kurland, appearing in the May 7 is- sue of his paper. The article ob- jected ta refers to a soccer game played by the Bronx Workers Club and the Bronx Sport Club that re- sulted in a tie score, Steinberger says that “as an offi- cial referee, I object to such remarks that Mr. Kurland stated about the second goal which was scored by the | Bronx Sports, that he calls illegal. I presume that Mr. Kurland does not Ynow anything about the rules and regulations of soccer football. New York in Bad Way Architects Are Told New York’s building speculators are not merely robbing the rent pay- ers but ruining the city, the Amer- ican Institute of Architects, meeting in Washington, was told yesterday by Henry Wright, chairman of the city Cheap and flimsy construction is blamed. Henry Curran denounced the sky- scrapers as a nuisance and declared building new subways merely adds to congestion. tomorrow at Ulmer Park, | the Brooklyn F. S. Club! *, S$. male chorus and British Navy Attacks Yankees in War Trial On Rhode Island Coast Rhode Island today took on the appearante of war time, as the j advance guard of the big British- American war game forces began to gather, Twenty-two seaplans from Nor- folk took trial flights over New- pért and the U. S, S. Patoka, mast ship of the dirigible Los Angeles, anchored off shore with twelve planes aboard, The U, S. 8. Wright, naval air- ship “mother” ship, was also in port, An air base was being set up in Middletown. On Monday a fleet of 137 battle- ships and smaller naval craft, the British invaders, will launch an at- tack against the American defend- Britain Wages War On Soviet Union at _ Geneva | Conference GENEVA, May 13.—Great Britain \is waging her unofficial war against | the Soviet Union at Geneva Economic Conference as well as in Peking and London. Sir Arthur Balfour has been mak- ing every effort to discredit the Sov- ict Union and to balk the extension of credit by foreign powers to her. Despite the efforts of the British dele- | gation, Ossinski and Sokolnikoff, Sov- iet Union delegates, are conferring with the delegations of other coun- tries about loans and concessions, it is understood. When Balfour attacked the sociali- zation of trade in the Soviet Union, | Sokolnikoff repliéd, “Other countries | have sold goods to this ‘monopoly’ and | have received good money.” Explaining the need of the Soviet Union for credits, one of the USSR | delegates said, “We want to buy loco- |motives and electrical equipment in vast quantities. We don’t need money, |we need goods. The government stands behind every transaction. It has paid for everything thus far.” Snyder, Gray to Burn In Sing Sing in June The agent and. warden of the state prison of the state of New York at ;Sing Sing-was commanded yesterday {to execute and to do execution upon” | Ruth Brown Snyder and Henry Judd Gray during the week of June 20. | The sturdy blond widow and the | little-corset Salesman, convicted mur- |derers of Albert Snyder, the woman’s |husband, were thus sentenced to | death in the electric chair by Justice Townsend Scudder. Tei. Lehigh 6022. 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Comrades are urged to report any time during the day, Main Office of The Current Events || (Continued from Page One)’ But while the former are the recog- nized leaders of the ultra-reaction: section of the British ruling clas the latter owe their positions to the workingclasses and must make a {show of loyalty to workingclass in-| terests, | es *) Pe sE Le | ITH General Feng and the gov-! ernor of Shansi province now telling the world that they will sup-/ port the Hankow government; with} | the almost assured support of the} peasant mil 'y organization known | as the Red Spears and with the re-| | markable growth of the trade unions |in China, the position of the imperial- | jist powers is less secure than ever, despite the treachery of Chiang-Kai- | Shek. This is an added reason why Great Britain should wish to crush the Soviet Union, since without the | aid of the Soviet government, the im- HII tion is handing out dividends to its fortunate stockholders, the Italian are getting thei from the “Charter of Labor” recently | jt ved on them “by their “savior” 1d lini. This has taken the form | of a 10 per cent wage cut. It is| consoling to note that the employ- ers have also been requested to/ make sacrifices. They are willing to ; cut the cost of production at the ex- pense of a ten per cent cut in the wages of the workers. This is the kind of economy that is NOT prac-} tised in the Soviet Union. There, |economy is never at the expense of | the producers. basic difference between Fascism and | | the proletarian dictatorship. . . * |THE United States government is buying rifles from Nicaraguan liberals at the rate of ten dollars each, The idea is that it is cheaper) to buy rifles than to buy reaction- aries to take the place of those who might be killed by shots from liberal rifles. Here isea good chance for some enterprising patriot to make a | fortune by buying those rifles from |the government as junk and selling |} them at a high price when the Uni- ted States government engages in an- other SERIOUS war in behalf of civilization. The was started in a similar way and in | things financial the Morgans are no {mean guides, ey |] Booth Phones, Dry Dock 6612, 7846, Office Phone, Orchard 9319. Patronize MANHATTAN LYCEUM Large Halls With Stage for Meet- ings, Entertainments, | dings and Banquets: 66-68 KE. 4th St. New wk, N. ¥. Small Meeting Rooms Always Available. 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The agreement will be signed in Paris, Jeremiah Smith, who acted as ancial dictator of Hungary, is dl as a possible nominee for American financial adviser to the Bank Polski, as agreed upon under the terms of the loan. * * (Negotiations. for loan to Po- land were delayed by the refusal of the Sejm to agree to the control of Polish finances by American bankers. The terms of the loan are yet unknown). |perialist buzzards would be able t | . . | gorge themselves on Chinese vioot| Irish Will Hold for many years to come, | . * * | _ Memorial Meeting The eleventh anniversary of the execution of James Connolly, Irish socialist revolutionist will be commem- orated next Sunday evening beginning 8 p. m. at a mass meeting which will be held in Bryant Hall, on Sixth ave- jnue near 42nd street under the joint auspices of the Irish Workers Repub- |lican Alliance and the Leitrim Iris Which indicates the | Republican Club. James Connolly and Sean MacDer- mott, two of the signers of the pro- clamation of the Irish Republic were by the British government of which jthe yellow socialist Arthur Henderson, | secretary of the British Labor Party was a member. Among the speakers at the meet- ing will be B. Gilgunn, who fought in the 1916 rebellion and in every suc- j}ceeding struggle until the Republican |forees were defeated by the Free | State forces aided by the British. T J. O’Flahert ER editorial staff, Patrick L. Quin- llan, associate of James Connolly, J. F. O’Kelly, president Leitrim Irish |Republican Club and William F. | Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORK- |ER and member of the Central. Ex- ecutive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party. Joseph O'Byrne, secretary of the \Irish Workers Republican Alliance | will preside. ‘New Tenement Bill Is | Postponed for Month Jimmy Walker's pet bill relieving }model tenements built by corpor- | ations limiting their return to 6 per cent, was given another sleeping {powder y lay by the board of lestimate. Maybe it'll wake up again } next month. , of The DAILY WORK-| WILL DURANT AND SENATOR NYE ON NEW SACO LIST Civil Liberties Adding More Names United States § Nye of South Dakota has joir | Will Durant, author of ‘ Philosophy,” Judge Ben B. land Ernest Poole, magazine w in the demand for a review of Sacco-Vanzetti ulated by the A petition Ameri can Civil Liberties Union has been signed by leading educators, yers, |elergymen, writers and editors repre, senting practically every section. of the. country and forwarded to Goy ernor Fuller of Massachusetts. The list of signers includes two bishops and three college presidents. Twenty members of the, Cornell University (New Yo faculty alone signed the document. Other ties repre te: > Colum Ne- Oberlin ouri, an, neeton, Wesley petition urges a review of the on five grounds: That wide spread belief in the innocence of the two accused make such reassurance to the popular mind ne ; that a confusion of issues existed at the as between the political radical- ism of the accused and the charge of murder against them; that new evi- dence has been adduced since the trial; that the supreme court of assachusetts, in passing on the case, | weighed only the questions of errors of procedure; and that an exercise of | executive discretion in this case would therefore protect the state judiciary jexecuted on the same day (May 12)|against “loss of prestige and confi- jdence.” Additional signatures to the peti- tion are pouring in, _ Those ceived up to Friday follow: re Gerald P. Nye, U. S. senator from South Dakota. Ernest Poole, author, New York City. Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Denver, Colo. Herbert A. Miller, professor of so- ciology, Ohio State University, Col- umbus. Sumner H. Schlicter, Economies, Washington, D. C. Edith Ayres Copeland, Seymour E. Har: Stephen M. Jaquith, Mary Phelps Endese, Ruth I. Carlson, Mel- vin J, Koestler, Orik Lew November, & Cc. 0, Roden Fuller, 1 - Bayne, Jr., M. Slade Kendrick, Frank W. Note- stein, M, L. Holmes, Bruce L. Melvin, Theo. F. Abels, F. G. Mersham, Rob- ert L. Sibley and Robert E. Cush- man, all of Cornell Ugiversity, Ithaca, Pioneers On Hike. } New York Pioneers are going on |a hike today to the Palisades. | All Pioneers meet in their |quarters and then go to the head- Dyke- man St. Ferry at 9:30 a. m. at the Workers School BERTRAM future forum lectures, Name . Address .... } | 1 | TODAY TOMORROW ADMISSION TODAY asino LAST FORUM LECTURE Tomorrow Night, 8 P. M. (Director of the Workers School) will speak on The Changing American Weozlzing Class. A study of class divisions in the United States with special em- phasis on divisions within the American working class. ADMISSION 25c¢, FILL OUT THIS FORM WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM, 108 E. Mth St., New York City. Please put me on your mailing list to receive information on | | | | | } Evening, 75c. Forum, 108 E. 14th St. D. WOLFE Oe ne a ee en nen ed A Full Line of Ladies’ Clothes 107th STREET and PARK AVENUE CONCERTS AND DANCING EVERY NIGHT Auspices JOINT DEFENSE AND RELIEF COMMITTEE, 41 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK