The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 21, 1927, Page 2

Pare Two” © THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, WAY 21, TORR ~™ COOLIDGE GANG FEARS FAGTS ON. FLOOD SCANDAL. | — | Could Easily Avert! Grim Disasters (By A Staff Correspondent) | Washington, May 20.—The contest in the next Congress on flood control legislation wilt’ center about the O'Connor bill. The measure has been before Congress for more than a de- cade, and once, from 1917 to 1919, was actually a law. But the power and pressure of the contractors who build levees was strong enough to force its repeal and it has been fought over since, | The O'Connor bill was originally | formulated by Senator Newlands of | Nevada, and was known as the New-/| This remarkable photo, snapped from a coast guard patrol boat, carrying Secretary Herbert Hoover's party into the flooded parishes of Louisiana, was taken less than five minutes after the levee broke ‘Railroad Stocks | Advance Despite | Commission Order The stock market pooh-poohed the | Interstate Commerce Commission's j action in turning down the proposed Loree merger” of southwestern rail- | toads when railroad stocks advanced | yesterday. | | The Commission’s rejection of the | Loree deal, by which the anti-union | boss of the Delaware & Hudson, who lis trying to build a fifth trunk line | system between New York and the | west, fought to gain control of the | Missouri-Texas region, simply didn’t \feaze the gamblers in rail stocks, Ap- | parently well informed that the Com- | mission would eventually ratify the | merger when certaih objectionable de- | tails were changed, the speculators | | advanced the entire stock list in a i ' | | “King’s” First Wie | Worcester Workers ~ Refusing U. $. Aid jA general strike of laborers was de- locals as well as Call Strike After WORCESTER, Mass, May 20—| clared last night at a special meet- ing of Local 620, International Hod-} earrier’s Building and Common La- borer’s Union. | The strike starts at once and will affect every construction and build- ing job in Worcester. A roll call of members was taken before® adjoining the meeting and pickets were as- signed to the various jobs which will be picketed en-masse. Have Support. Local 210, Hodcarriers, have agreed | to walk out if necessary and other, bricklayers will be asked to support the strike to a/ | Suecessful conclusion. About 700 men, R. B. Moore Speaks at Big Negro Meeting in Philadelphia Sunday | PHILADELPHIA, May 20.— Richard B, Moore, who was a dele- gate to’ the Brussels Conference against Imperialism held early this year will be the principal speaker at a mass meeting at the Shiloh Baptist Church, Lombard and 12th Sts., tomorrow afternoon at 3. Arranged by the local branch of the American Negro Labor Con- gress, this meeting will be the first of a series to plan a campaign of agitation among Negro workers. 'De Pinedo Halts Again ‘For Fascist Speeches; Doesn't Mind Accidents SHIPPEGAN, N. B., May 20.— Francesco De Pinedo, aviator, propa- %, | gandist for Mussolini, arrived here in Sadie Dn Leake aa after a series of minor accidents. Dis- | 620 are expected to quit work. “ r; & rt It was stated in Wall St. that Kan- | + The main object of the strike is to| argh a Raid tie pe tor }sas City Southern, the Loree road Mrs. Asgelzs ee eg re |gain recognition of the union apd | UR cle Beir rica e | i r tak ii amin Pur- | i i ’ . : jattempting the merger, would take! first wife of King Benj establish a minimum wage of 65 cents) ettiniasiernd tha coukiey ieapinet | Prompt measures to comply with the| nell of the House of David, came |an hour for laborer’s, the fact that hé ty veselving tb wale lands bill. It provides that an inde-} pendent commission, consisting of} representatives of the war, navy, in-| terior and commerce departments, as | well ‘as engineers from civil life, be created for the purpose of studying} | vigorous advance, Many stocks went | to the highest price of the year. | at Borodino, The raging water is seen engulfing the home of a wealthy planter in the “Sugar Bowl” district., — ; Engdahl, Daily Worker Editor, At Ozery Needle Trade Defense flood control and preparing a plan to | Commission’s requirements for the from her present home at Ports- Two contractors have already sig- prevent such disasters as that now] ravaging the Mississippi River Valley. | For this work an appropriation of $500,000 is authorized. Millions Squandered. | A half million dollars is 4 large sum, but it is merely a drop in the| well compared to the hundreds of mil- | lions that have been poured out in the futile plan known as the “levees only” | method for flood control. Since 1879 | more than $200,000,000 has been spent | by the federal and state governments for the building of levees and yet every time a great flood takes place these breastworks have been broken and swept away to the ruin of thou- sands of poor farmers and workers, Plea for More Graft. Of course this is great business for the contractors who build levees. They have grown rich and politically power- ful. In fact so influential are they | All New York Workers Will Be At} The Reception Ball Given In Honor Of The Recently Released. Prisoners. Due to the strenuous efforts of the Joint Defense and Relief Committee, the furriers who were condemned at the famous Minébla@ trial were re- leased on bail. Chas. Wolfish who was behind bars for over four months, was also released recently. Chas Wolfish is a man of about 40 years of age and has been for over 18 years a‘ good standing member of Local 2, I. L. G. W. U. He was at all times a devoted member of his union. Four months ago he, to- gether with several other cloakmak- ers was tried by the famous Judge Rozalsky and sentenced to prison, thanks to the efforts of the Sigman machine. After serving his term, |She was evidently very popular. among (Continued from Page One) American Communist Party to the} workers of Ozery. | The chairman opened the meeting by ealling on one of the members of the Local Soviet to read off the names of the Praesidium decided on for the gathering. The comrade, a woman worker, with a red kerchief bound round her head, mounted the platform. her comrades as she was greeted with considerable applause. “You are one of the members of the Praesidium,” one of the comrades as- sured me, in a tone that indicated it was considered a great honor to be selected for this post. Sure enough, my name, and the fact that I represented the Communist In- ternational and its American Section, was read off in & clear voice so that | | promotion.of the merger. mouth, O., to testify at St. Joseph, Mich., where the state of Mich- | igan is trying to dissolve the cult. She testified that the “King” mar- | ried her fifty years ago at her | Kentucky mountain home when | she was 15 and Ben 17 and that he deserted her a few years later. | Imminent Danger of | Fall for Tory Cabinet | (Continued from Page One) trade of the Soviet Union is neces- | sary for tottering British industry. | Would Remove Immunity. | | nified their intention to pay 58 cents} | they will come across. support of both Italy and the United States. De Pinedo left Detroit several days ago, after a large fleet of Henry Ford’s, planes had been sent out te bs search for him. The large number a nA 7 ig ak oeaead bese landings which ie aero Sse ag bh dest “|has made during the past few days | tervened in an attempt to avert the | coincides happily with his pre-ar strike when news of the impending | ,anged program’ to make fascist per hour, but with an efective strike | Strike Is Late. This strike is about 3 weeks late. The more moderate faction is said} to favor the abrogation of the agree-| ment of 1921 and the sighing of a} new agreement devoid of the rights | of immunity. That the Soviet Union will consent to an agreement that does not guarantee the safety of her representatives of the immunity of her offices is extremely unlikely. * * * By Women in Trial Of “House of David” ST. JOSEPH, Mich., May 20.—Mrs. Virginia Wheeler, of New York, a Moderate Note. | MOSCOW, May 20. — Commenting Man of God Accused |strike reached Washington. ig ‘Bi ti in his hones Many futile conferences were ald | reece mani cy a United jand while the International represen- States. / tatives were suggesting that the local present Miss Weinstock, the govern-| |ment conciliator, with some “suitable | |token of appreciation for her efforts, to settle the controversy peacefully,” | |the rank and file members demanded! 7 |that she be kept out of this struggle |seab Yellow Taxi Company owned by | and. replied that since Miss Weinstock | the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co gets paid by the government, it would | will soon find itself competing with be more appropriate for Calvin €ool-| the Checker Cab Co. of Boston which Boston Scab Taxi Co. Enters Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, May 20.—The will buy the bankrupt Quaker Taxi he is now released. The New York even I, with knowledge of only half a /0n the note of the Soviet Government * hours of labor with sandbags, city | that in the midst of the present dis- | asters while levee after levee was/ SCHILLER crumbling and sinking, Secretary of | Commerce Herbert Hoover and Secre-| i974, st. and Park Ave., on Friday | mounted the platform with the other tary of War Dwight Davis had the brazenness to issue public statement | announcing that the “levee only” plan ‘was the only commendable method for } controlling floods and urging the| necessity of building higher and great- er levees, costing of course tens of millions of dollars. Of course levees are essential. No one denies that, certainly not those who. criticize the present policy of putting the whole burden of flood con- | trol on levegs. But leve¢s do not pre- | vent floods, They confine the excess | water but outlets must be found for | it. And outlets are found by either | blowing up the levees and inundating great areas es Mr. Hoover himself did in the present flood, or the river | sweeps over the levee or brushes it aside and creates its own outlet. | Could Avert Floods. | If a system of levees were built | provided with spillways, artificial | openings that allow the water to run off in prepared passes, it would mean, | of course, that once the system was built the fat, juicy contracts for! perpetual levee building would end. | And this is what the politicians with | their eyes on patronage, graft and ap- | propriations do not want. And so Mr, Hoover and Mr. Davis, with the approval of the good Mr. Coolidge solemnly denounce the spillways plan as visionary and cry loud for more levees. But there are indications that the | South is somewhat aroused and has made up its mind that it has been fooled long enough. Appropriations, fat ones, as much as $25,000,000 in fact, will have to be made to restore the shattered levees. But at the same time it is the determination of those urging spillways that the O’Connor bill besagain enacted into law and an independent survey of the situation made. | Army In On Same. | The army engineers, who have flood | rontrol work in charge, have proven too willing accomplices of the politi- cians. They are a part of the vicious wasteful system and it is now pro- posed to make a disinterested inquiry | and draw up an intelligent method for dealing with the problem. Pitiful as is the sum asked for by the O’Connor bill in comparison with the tens of millions to be expended for more levees nevertheless it has already in- curred the disapproval of “economy Cal.” After Mr. Hoover's profound observations about the iden being “visionary” Mr. Coolidge ‘further damned it by parading his old wooden war-horse “economy.” But Coolidge and Mr. Hoover are going to be very much outsiders at the next Congress. The Democrats and the farm bloc are going to be in control and there are indications that they propose giving the president and | his ubiquituous secretary of combherce | a hard time of it. At least all of Washington, including their Republi- car colleagues, hope so, | * . White River Rises. | INDIANAPOLIS, May 20.—After police and firemen and three compan- | ies of the Indiana National Guard suc- ceeded in holding White River within its bounds today. SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL; NOT DIE!. | the working class. workers are preparing a big recep- tion ball for the released fighters of The reception will take place at the Star Casino, evening May 27th. The ball is being | arranged by the Joint Defense and) Relief Committee. _ All the released | prisoners will be present, also their} brother workers whom they did not see for such a long time.. | A Metal Worker Sends $5.00. | We received the following letter: Dear Comrades: Enclosed please find a check for $5.00. I am sorry I cannot send any more at present. I wish you success in your fight against the hooligans of the right) wing machine. fight, but your victory will be the) more glorious. With greetings—A metal Worker from Toronto, Canada. a * ee Two Lonesome Immigrants In Cuba Send Four Dollars. Dear Comrades: -As I am very far from any center and there are only two of us here, we cannot raise lots of money and we therefore send you our $4.00 and hope that you will be | successful in your fight against the traitors of the working class. With greetings——M. K., Cuba. . | You Can Get The Jungle. | the audience rose singing. The Joint Defense and Relief Com-| mittee wants to give those of you who have not read The Jungle, a chance to read Upton Sinelair’s famous book before they see the pic- ture. The book will be sold at the office of the committee, 41 Union Square at reduced prices. Come and get your copy of The Jungle. . ° . Tomorrow A Mass Meeting. Next Sunday, May 22nd at 1 p. m., there will be a big mass meeting arranged by the East New York Workers Club for the arrested cloak- makers and furriers. The mass meet- ing will be held at 864 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn. Well known speakers will address the meeting. Twenty-six Seamen May Die on ‘Indiana Harbor’ SAN FRANCISCO, May 20.— As a last resort in the battle to save the lives of 26 seamen on board the | steamer Indiana Harbor, breaking up | on the Northern California Coast, an army plane took off this afternoon | for the scene of the wreck. It will attempt to drop a line on the stricken ship which will enable coast guards- men to rig a breeches buoy and take off the endangered men. Meet Next Thursday Shop chairmen and active members of cloak and dresamakers locals af- filiated with the New York Joint Board will meet in Cooper Union next Thursday, May 26, right after work to discuss various union problems in- | cluding the transfer or the unem- ployment insurance fund to Sigman’s hands. Possible legal action on this matter will be considered by the workers. Seek Three For Crime. A rigid search was being continued yesterday for the three men, believed to be gunmen from New York, who escaped from a cordon of Greenwich, Conn., police. ily ee i cle | tion is now uppermost in the minds of You have a hard/ture during the present period of |inspiring the workers in capitalist derstand. The announcement that some one from from America would speakgwas greeted with enthusiasm. I Praesidium members. For the Communist International, I told of the situation developing in the imperialist attack against China, and | of the new offensive planned against | the Soviet Union. The Chinese situa- the workers of the Soviet Union. Urges Economic Development I pointed out that the big task of the workers locally, and thruout the Soyiet Union, was the rapid develop- ment of Soviet industry and agricul- “peace,” the best means of strength- ening the position of the Soviet Power at home, and thus encouraging and lands to follow their example by end- ing the reign of private profit. For our American Communist Party, I pledged our utmost to strug- gle against the American imperialism that takes leadership in the war against the Chinese revolution, to ex- ert every effort against a new war on the Soviet Union. When I pledged the American Party to struggle along |the pathway of Leninism, the erches- tra broke into the International and The story of Passaic strike and of the Sacco-Vanzetti case aroused a | deep interest. While.I spoke in the English lan- guage, @f excellent translation was given by Comrade Gerish, an Ameri- can deportee attached to the Comin- tern. Many Eager Questions While I was talking I noticed that dozen Russian words, could clearly un- | the Pravda writes: | world. “Our note written in the hour of danger to international peace will enter history as one of the most mod- erate and peace-seecking documents ever penned. Chamberlain’s note and the raids on the Arcos offices were earried thru against the will of the international. pfoletariat. | “Our policy was dictated directly | by the interests of the masses of the| Soviet Union and the toilers of the Our government’s words were preceded by a powerful mass protest. We want peace and trade, but the British Government must be careful not to try the patience of the | workers and peasants of the masses | of the U.S.S.R.” The Izvestia says that the British Government must have courage to loudly declare that it is initiating a rupture with a government occupy- | ing a huge part of the earth and rep- resenting one hundred and fifty mil- lion people. “While the people of the Soviet Union are ready to receive a sincere conciliatory reply, they face a rup- ture without astonishment or anx- iety, firmly believing not only in their right, but in their strength to achieve final victory.” Taffy Pulling Ends. LONDON, May 20.—The state visit of President Doumergue, of’ France, and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand came to an end today. The French statesmen spent three days in Eng- land. the morrow, or return for the demon- stration to be held in the Red Square, jhe was the well-gowned matron of 83, was the second woman accuser of “King” Benjamin Purnell in the state’s suit to dissolve “The House of David.” On the witness stand Mrs. Wheeler testified that Purnell assaulted her in 1910 when she was 16, explaining that “younger brother of Christ” and could give her eternal) life. | Details of the numerous group mar- riages, said to have been engineered by the religious leader to cover him | from investigation, were told by the witness. ee * | CHICAGO, May 20.— “Improper | conduct with a woman” was.the rea- son given today by Bishop Thomas Nicholson for the suspension of Bishop Anton Bast of the Copenhagen Methodist Episcopal Church. Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! | In. the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its fcremost leader and the American working class its staunchest fighter. This loss can only be overeome by many militant work. ers joining the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and mail it. Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and idge to give her a present for her} to the workers. | eral cry af the meeting. ! efforts since she is of no earthly use| Co. of this city. Taxi drivers will not be affected “Any one that is on the payroll of | materially as the Boston Corporation a capitalist government is ‘not paid to|is open shop. A fight for power be- be of service to labor,” was the gen-| tween the two large corporations is expected. earry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Name before the Kremlin, in Moscow. This was,the Tenth May Day since the overthrow of czarism and Moscow had slips of paper were being passed up to the chairman. It developed that planned to make much of the Inter- national Labor Holiday. Moscow won, Address ..... Occupation Union Affiliation... Mail this application to the Work- these were eager questions. After | America is far from the Soviet Union. | ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New orite question seemed to be, “How many members are there in the Amer- ican Communist Party?” and “How many members are there in the Amer- |ican Young Communist League?” An- other question sought information as to legislation favoring women in America, while another asked con- cerning the number of political pris- oners in America, Another favorite is, “What do the workers in America think of the Soviet Union?” Ask About Youth Outside the theater is a park con- | taining a refreshment pavilion, a band | stand and an open air movie theater seating 2,200. Before the, meeting opened, I took a walk thru the park | with Comrade Gerish, only to be asked | by a group of workers to answer some | questions concerning “America.” Tho first one, on this occasion, was, “What are the conditions of the American, workers?” I tried to give an exact survey as briefly as J could but it must have taken at least ten minutes, interspersed with additional questions on the same subject. Then the ques- tion, “How do American workers spend their spare time?” also took some time to answer. We also dis- cussed the Youth movement and the Young Pioneer Movement in America, and were taking up the question of “What will the workers of America had slipped by as a few moments, arisen, whether to stay in, Kolomno for the May Day Demonstration on}y' a The capitol won, therefore, over the provinces. So we left Alexsei V, Nikolaev, Chief of the Financial Department of the Moscow, speaking, reporting on the latest achievements of the Soviet Government. A group, of earnest, questioning children followed me out of the building, wanting information about the children in America. I gave what I could in the time allotted me, j then waved “Good Bye!” “Das vie | danial” . Pioneers in America should write to these children of the textile city of Ozery, of Kolomno, and of. other cit- ies of the Soviet Union. They would get interesting letters in reply. New Rulers of Russia. Just a word about Comrade Niko- laev, the type of worker who is tak- ing command in the Soviet Union. Nikolaev was formerly a baker. His father was a peasant. He was in the Red Army in Yaroslav Province in the North in 1918. His father still lives here. The chairmanship of the village soviet was but the stepping stone to more responsible work. For the past six years he has struggled with Sov- one of the local representatives of the |The trip is not made often and 10th| York City; or if -in other city to workers had responded to my re-| Anniversaries do not happen so fre-| Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington marks, I answered as many of these | quently perhaps as one would desire. | Blv.,; Chicago, Ill. Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basic pam- phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. Every Party Nucleus. must collect 50 cents from every member and will receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei in the New York District will get their pamphlets from the Dis- trict office—108 Kast 14th St. Nuclei outside of the New York Distyiet write to The DAILY WORK- ER ypoblishing Co. 38 Bast First Street, New York City, or to the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago; Il. , Gives: Blood; Faces ‘Trial WILLIMANTIC, Conn., May 20.— Leonard Cline, playwright under de- tention here because of the death on Sunday of Wilfred P. Irwin, of Lex- ington, Va., probably, will ) be given a preliminary hearing for several days. Surgeons at St. Joseph Hos- ital where Cline is under treatment following a blood transfusion opera- iet financies. Now he is not only the chief of the Financial Department of the Moscow Province, but also a mem- ber of the provincial executive com- mittee of the Moscow Soviet. The do if the Soviet Union is attacked?” | population of the Moscow Province is before an ever-increasing audience | now 4,200,000. Moscow itself has a | when the call came that the meeting | population of 2,100,000. Comrade | tempts of the Paris courts to effect was about to start. Thus half an hour | Nikolaev bubbled figures but he was | @ reconciliation between Mr. and Mrs. tion Sunday night when Cline attempt- ed to save Irwin’s life, this afternoon declared Cline too weak to leave the hospital, Vanderbilt Family Breaks Up. PARIS, May 20.—The final at- most proud of the fact that the Mos-| W, K. Vanderbilt, IT, failed today and During the day the question had|cow Province spends five times as|it is expected that a divorce decree uch on education now as it did five | will be granted Mrs, Vanderbilt with- ago. Russia is coming up. in a fortnight. They Have Tried It Before and Failed. “PRAVDA,” the oldest Bolshevist news- paper, and the central organ of the Russian Communist Party celebrates its fifteenth ‘birthday triumphantly, after many years of the same kind of attack which our DAILY WORKER is undergoing. They tell us “It was suppressed, persecuted, confiscated; its editors and collaborators were arrested and banished, but it always rose again. . always with the same determination and the same will to victory.” And finally. “When the first Bolshevist Labor newspaper had only existed for a little more than five years, the one hun- dred thousand workers, who: had stood by . “Pravda” in the years 1912-1914, had ine creased in such a way that in Novetnber the Party and “Pravda” were backed by the ma- / jority of the population of the country which . had carried off victory in the revolution.” J Today we are under the fire of the same’ black forces which attacked:the “Pravda”yin Czarist Russia. The example of our Rusdi comrades has inspired us with the same in- domitable spirit of resistance to the forces of reaction: With the firm support of. thou- sands of workers throughout the country, The DAILY WORKER will not only oyercome successfully the present attack, but it will suc- ceed in carving out for itself the same _ influ- ence and power among the American masses which the “Pravda” won for itself in Russia, To work, comrades, for the defense of our DAILY WORKER! : DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York, N. Y, Inclosed is my contribution of ve. dollars .... cents to the Ruthenbérg © Sustaini Fand for a ir pie better D. LY WORKER and for the defi of our paper. I will pay the same amount regularly avery .. Name .... Addiess Sity State thet ee eee ee ee Attach check or money ordi