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Page TH * The Left Wing in the Garment Unions PEONAGE PROBE IN DIXIELAND IS HOPE OF NEGROES Fugitive Threatens By MARGARET LARKIN The role played by President Sigman in the 1926 strike is not widely understood. His repeated denunciation of the conduct AFTER the strike are completely belied not only by his activity in the strike but by his published statements during the st The story of Sigman's role is fully portrayed in today’s install- ment of the official record of the left wing struggle. to * PRESIDENT SIGMAN’S PART IN THE STRIKE. The active participation of Presi- dent Sigman and other International officials in the strike, is attested by the reports of their frequent speeches in the newspapers, their attendance at meetings of the General Strike Com- mitteé, and in sworn statements made by them in answer to the attempts of the employers to obtain an injunction against picketing. In an affidavit sworn to by Pr dent Sigman on September 20, 19: he made the following depositions as to the calling of the strike, its legal- y, and its proper conduct: | “J hereby deny all allegations to the | effect that the general strike now} pending in the cloak and suit industry | in the City of New York is an unlaw- ful strike, or that the defendants are} /~ engaged in a conspirary to injure or! ruin the plaintiff corporation or any of the members of the same, or that} they are actuated by malice or any | illegitimate motives in the conduct of | said strike. “On the contrary I aver that the said strike was forced upon the work- ers in the industry; that it is being | conducted by them for the protection of their vital economic interests, and) that their struggle is not only legit-| imate but highly meritorious, and one that should commend itself to the sympathies of all right thinking men.” Discussing the findings of the Gov- ernor’s Commission, President Sig- man declared in his affidavit, that “The recommendations, which un- {the struggle, that the strike was “il- jlegal,” was called for political pur- |poses by “Communists,” and was “mismanaged,” obviously were not made in good faith. Settlements. After about six weeks of the strike, the workers in some independent shops that were ready to settle on union jterms, were returned to work by the Settlement Committee, which was headed by Salvatore nfo, Chairman, and David Dubinsky, Secretary, both of the Right Wing. With the ap- proval of the General Strike Commit- tee, of which President Sigman was a {member, such shops were gradually returned to work, till at the end of twelve weeks of strike, there were be- tween 4,000 and 5,000 workers in the shops who regularly contributed fif- teen percent and later twenty percent jof their wages to the strike fund, The nion took special precautions to pre-| vent the settled shops from making work for jobbers that were struck, so as to safeguard the strike. Every shop that was settled signed a supple- mentary agreement that permitted a representative of the Union to check! jover all work made in the shop, in order that none of it might be ‘made for houses against whom there was a strike, At the end of twenty weeks of struggle, a settlement was effected with the Industrial Council, or “inside manufacturers,” in conferences at |which President Sigman, Salvatore Ninfo, David Dubinsky, Morris Hill- |quit, Louis Hyman, and others acted as spokesmen for the Union. The new Expose Slavery By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press.) The escape of James Felton, fugi- tive peon, from a cotton plantation near Lexington, Georgia, may lead to a general probe of peonage in the, south. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is stepping into the case and intends to bring Felton to } York to give his story the widest possible hearing, Five other Negro peons who at- tempted to escape were knocked on the head with axes and then shot, says Felton. He was more lucky. | After three days in a swamp without food he came to firm land and finally | reached Danville, Va. “They had 45 men and 25 women when I left,” he said. “Some of them| worked on the farm and others in| the sawmill. We got the same food| three times a day, peas and corn! bread. We could not sing, write let-| ters or talk, and when we did not work fast enough we were whipped with a strap.” The Negro’s hands are badly searred. Hot Babbitt metal was |poured over them to make him work faster, he says. Hoover Covers Up. Reports of Negro peonage in the Mississippi delta are scoffed at by | Herbert Hoover, secretary of the De- partment of Commerce. “Without foundation,” he calls them. The re- | ports were made by Walter White, | assistant secretary of the National | agreement was signed by Morris Sig- a ans th s |man end Morris Hillquit for the In- and painstaking ‘investigation and of| + tional and Louis Hyman on be- a conscientious effort to remedy some , of the evils of the industry, fell con-| half of the Joint Board. iderably short of satisfying the most|, The settlement was then conceded ti pieetataagerd by all to have obtained far better substantial demands of the workers. | Our Union, after very careful consid- oar getter proposed by the | ood zone, he will get abundant evi- eration of the Commission’s TeCOM | our week saci aie - The forty- | dence of Negro slavery. Green talk- mendations, reluctantly reached the aden at & uy" won; increases in/oq freely to White. conclusion that they were entirely in-| i wr yom four to eight dollars! Negro refugees—who make up 80 Saamtechyn ety cratt. Where the! ner cent of the flood sufferers—will adequate to remedy the most crying | Commi n h ‘ ade art, suf-| ission had recommended in- , i 5 évils under which ‘the workers sw lexéases of from two to three dollars: be returned only to their former land. fered. We accordingly invited the ‘ti ak ; *}lords, on identification by the land- principal organizations of employers | (yr enition tac whichgthe |jords, the general said. in the industry . . . to confer with us| —° 7° Tot at enied was won. Most) «We don’t want our labor supply on terms of a new agreement. The/ ees t bg thon the right of the em- deranged,” the general explained. jobbers’ association (The Industrial P pe bag peereenne their shops up Pabor agents who solicit Negroes for Council) responded to our invitation The pe r cent was greatly restricted. other jobs are kept out of camp. and met in conference with our Union. | re had restricted such Negro labor is at a premium now, be- The Industrial Council, however, re-|TC°T@anization to firms employing cause of the wholesale migration to : | thirty-five workers, but th tile- | A ‘ int y : e settle-| fused to consider our requests point) - 3+ further restricted it by the ad- Sere p Parebanyn to pnia’ . | nk and stated that it would not/). . t i as much as discuss any proposi- | ‘ition of clauses stipulating that em- “Te there f sw he Pal tion outside of the recommendations |Povers must also guarantee thirty-, “If there is such a thing as retri-| OF tins: Gaveriiv’s. Adviaevy Commis.|t¥0 weeks of work a year and that bution some of the southern planta- sion. Our Union thus found itself)they must pay a recompense of an tion owners are getting it,” said forced to declare a strike in order to| #4ditional week’s wages to workers) White. He told of one plantation in . ve. | discharged under its provisions. Thus Mississippi where the Negro “hands” bring about the necessary improve-| . have not seen a penny in five years. : my vork-| #2 employer could not take on extra " schon i S6 CONGUE, SA RET Scares id not need for the last| The owners’ properties were covered | ‘ een "1 |few weeks in the season so as to| With raging waters, flowing at many onary reer grees Charges. | traudulently claim the privilege of re-/ Miles an hour when White passed him it” stated te pores af the| Ot@anization, but must employ at through. bee eae she wists one led by| least thirty-five workers for at least| And the waters were also over “Communists,” He said: thirty-two weeks before it could be Philips County, Arkansas, where a doubtedly are the result of careful | Association for the Advancement of Colored People, after an extended tour of the flooded area. If Hoover will talk to General Cur- s T. Green, commander of the Mis- sissippi National Guard troops, in the er i: granted him. hundred Negro cotton farmers were Ricaa, Sea Alpdlastariy ares Negotiations with the» American| Killed oy 1919 when they formed a present strike as something different | SUb-Manufacturers Association for a|*enant farmers’ union. from the ordinary labor struggle; as| settlement were begun, and the em-| ~ RT Te ene a sort of sinister movement against | Ployers, with the example of the “in-| | law and order led by communists for} side manufacturers” before them, | eB e fa e efense political purposes. I absolutely deny | Seemed to be in a frame to make 3 | the said statements. The defendants | C°M¢essions. Only one minor point re- te ave not, as alleged, “communists re- eacaterati bayer when suddenly the ‘The Soviets Invade Coney Inland. cently from Russia.” They are work-|"¢8¢tiations collapsed. Subsequent ‘ 3 ers of many original races and na- developments indicated that the right A Cablegram from Riga, states tionalities, residents and citizens of “ims had interfered to further: its that the Soviets are preparing to in- the United ‘States who are not con-/°W" Purposes within the union, and) vade Coney Island, drive out the cerned in this struggle about anything | bad promised the association better bourgeoisie and establish Soviets but an opportunity to earn an honest | terms if it would wait longer. The| there with an army of 25,000. Do not and modest living .for themselves and association declared a lockout, which, | ask for the source of the news. Per- their families. .. . Whatever the in-| however, was never effective, and haps it was London. In spite of the dividual political persuasions of any|¥P0" this largely imaginary excuse, | fact that England found various docu- Union official may be, they do not Sigman Seized control of the strike,; ments about the “plans of the Soviet and cannot enter into the present con-|®2"0uncing at the same time that it) Government,” it could not find the troversy or influence the conduct of W#% lost, that it had been “illegal” | plan for the invasion of Coney Island. the workers in any way. The pending | £7™ the beginning, and was the re-| The cablegram even states the de- strike of the cloakmakers of the City | Sult of the destructive work of the| finite date when the invasion will of New York is solely and exclusively | “Communists. sii Loi Rapier tags: be Ab ii i “4 ee Ey gS oe | and wi \e% y the Joint Defense _ agenda eased na Ohio | and Relief Committee. The army |1. L. D. Branch at Dilles Bottom, The charges of President Sigman | and other International officers, after DILLES BOTTOM, Ohio, June 5,! will consist of shoemakers, cloak- |—A meeting of protest for Sacco }and Vanzetti was held here tonight | which resulted in the organization of twenty-two weeks of co-operating in makers, furriers, dressmakers and all other workers who WILL CONGRE- |GATE AT THE CONEY ISLAND — a branch of the I. L. D., composed of | STADIUM. | both colored and white workers. Carl Hacker, organizer for Inter- national Labor Defense explained the Sacco Vanzetti case in detail to the !group of more than seventy miners assembled and made the plea for them to join the International Labor De- fense, A resolution asking Governor Ful- ler to grant Sacco and Vanzetti an \ unconditional pardon was unanimous- ly adopted by the gathering. * * * $200 From St. Paul, Minn. The following letter was received: Dear Sirs and Brothers:—‘En- closed please find a check of $200 donated by the Workmens’ Circle | Loan Association of our city. Yours |for victory—Louis Levi, St. Paul, | Minn. GOOD STORIES By UPTON SINCLAIR THE JUNGLE Cloth Bound $8.50 MANASSAS—A Story of the Civil War. Paper, $1.00 Cloth, $1.50 \ THEY CALL ME | CARPENTER Cloth, $1.50 THE METROPOLIS—A sto- ry of New York. Paper, $1.00 Cloth, $1.50 THE JOURNAL OF ARTHUR STERLING Paper, $1.00 Cloth, $1.50 * pease | Here’s One From Brockton, Mass. PRA Adsl Mak es | Florence R. Gage, ap pig Se, the Amateur Flyer Down Mothers’ League of New gland, LOS ANGELES sgt 30.—Fears | Brockton Branch, sends the following " 4 1 | letter: for the safety of Nicholas Putnam, 20, | “Dear Brothers:—Encloned pléase v , es eee Ping York, rn find check for $15.00 as a contribution jallayed today when it was learned he | toward the defense of he parwecates jlanded in Yuma, Ariz, Putnam, a de-| needle trade workers. taternally | seondant of Gen. Israel Putnam, revo- | Yours—Florence R. Gage, Brockton, lutionary war hero, has had. only a| Mass. week's training in aviation, ° * | Chieago Also Represented. Here is another letter. Dear Friends:—Enclosed you will find a check for $6.00 for the Defense, Wishing you success in your work, I am fraternally yours—Sara Gordon. By IVAN CANKAR YERNEY’S JUSTICE Cloth, $.50 [mee The Daily Worker Every Day | A cheerful, energetic, middle- aged trained nurse will take full care of convalescent or mildly ill comrade, Country. Will help with FLYING OSSIP—Stories of Join the National Guard and Fight the Bolsheviki Recruits Told in Boston BOSTON, June 5.—Follow the ‘ead of Captain Charles Lindbergh, Toin the national guard and fight he “reds.” This was the advice given here last night by Lt-Col. Dana T. Gal- lup of the 110th Cavalry, during his talk as chief speaker at the recruiting dinner given by Bat- tery H, 211th Coast Artillery at the cadet armory. Gallup asked the recruits to fol- low the lead of Capt. Lindbergh, himself a national guardsinan and fight the efforts of “American bolsheviki to overthrow the institu- tions of the country.” Gallup did not mention that Sen- ator Lindbergh, the aviator’s father, was repeatedly denounced as a “Red” and almost mobbed for opposing U. S. entry into the World War. British Capitalism to (Continued from Page One) vised that existing contracts made in both countries will be scrupulously ful- filled as far as the Soviet Union trad- ing organjzations are concerned. The offices of the Soviet Union trade dele- gation in Canada have already been closed and the uncompleted commit- ments have been turned over to Am- torg for completion. English Trade Ending. “We are already receiving tentative orders from Moscow that would or- dinarily go to England. The next few months will give an indication of the extent of such diversions. In this con- nection it is interesting to note that during May Amtorg placed the great- est number of orders in the United States during any month since its or- ganization three years ago. These or- ders amounted to $8,500,000. This in- crease was not influenced by events in England. It is also interesting to note that purchases of American cot- ton valued at upwards of $35,000,000 by the All-Russian Textile Syndicate during the past seven months estab- lished a new record for that com- pany. No Change of Plan. “IT am in a position to state au- thoritatively that the break with Eng- land will have no effect on the eco- nomic plans for the current year in the Soviet Union. Orders to be placed abroad for industrial expansion will suffer no curtailment. The financial position of the Sovict Union in con- nection with commitments and trade is well taken care of. “In accordance with the plans for industrial expansion) in the Soviet Union for the coming year, we may expect a considerable increase in im- ports and orders abroad. There is every indication that these plans for enlarged foreign trade will be fuliy carried out. There is also every in- dieation that the break with England will facilitate the effort being made by Soviet Union industrialists to trade directly with American firms, through the authorized trading com- panies here, eliminating the European middle-man, and to enter into closer velations with the American technical world. “To sum up: The secure position in connection with Soviet trade plans for this year, the industrial program for the coming year? the recent increase in orders placed here and the cur-~ tailment of trade with Britain, all these show the direction to be taken by Soviet Union trade with the United States.” Let’s Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- ty has lost its foremost leader the American working class ij staunchest fighter. This loss can on! be overcome by many militant wor! ers joining the Party that he buil Fill out the application below and mail it. Become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. Address Occupation .... Peco reer rer erry Union Pia ida Mail this application to the Work- ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blv., Chicago, Ill, Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- let, “The Workers’ (Communist) ‘arty, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” This Ruthen- berg pamphlet will be the basie pam- phiet 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 East 14th St. Nuclei outside of the New York District write to The DAILY WORK- ER publishing Co., 33 East First farm work in small comradely “i debe family. Box G, Daily Worker. | | New Russia, Cloth, $2.50 | SHALL NOT DIB! SACCO and VANZETTI | Street, New York City, or to the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chieago, Tl. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1927 - TRIES TO STOP ATHEIST JIBES ‘Was Asked to Abandon New Testament There ‘are some things even judges of capitalist cotts cannot tolerate from the other apologists of capital- ism. One of them is the Rev. John | Roach Straton, notorious fundamen- talist pastor of the Calvary Baptist |Church and apostle of ignorance and | superstition. Having trimmed his long hair that |he wore for so long, probably in an | attempt to resemble as nearly as pos- sible the Sunday school pictures of Jesus Christ, the eminent bible- {thumper appeared before Magistrate | McKiniry in the West Side Court Sat- |urday and tried to press a complaint against Charles Smith, president of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Atheism. Resented “Sex” Magazine. The eminent divine declared that Mr. Smith had mailed him a maga- zine called “Sex” recommending it as a substitute for the New Testament. This shocked his sensibilities, Magistrate McKiniry refused to hear the Straton complaint because the Saturday routine is concerned only with police cases. When Straton learned that the magistrate would not hear his com- plaint he arose from his ob- viously uncomfortable seat among drunks and vagrants, and strode in- side the rail to a point between Leon- the amusing John 8. Sumnery chief of the Society for the Suppression of Vice who was there in behalf of Stra- ton. Fixing his ministerial, if some- ard Snitkin, counsel for Smith, and} STRATON AGAIN | Topics of the Tombs By B. D. Strange, indeed, are the things to | which men tangled in the meshes of the law cling, things which represent their idea of what is decent and proper. Charged with running a disorderly | house, the proprietor, held for inves- tigation in the Tombs for the last week, was: given an indeterminate sentence, He is a flashily dressed blonde individual, he boasts of the profitable business and of his fat per- centage by and from the 16 girls “working” in his place during the re- cent visit of the Atlantic fleet, He admits that he went out on the street and “hustled for the joint.” He took to himself a new wife a short while ago and promptly gave her the job of supervising the activ- ities of the other inmates. He did not say so in so many words but one can- not escape the impression that he forced his wife to attend to the wants of customers when the other inmates were engaged. But he was greatly hurt and down- cast by the fact, as he explained in detail as we were waiting in the bull- pen to be taken back to our cells, that the probation officer had read out in what he thot was an unnecessarily loud voice, the intimate details of his career, “He didn’t have to tell the whole world about it,” he said. “It’s enough when the Judge and D. A, hear it. I pleaded guilty last week just be- cause there was hardly anybody in the courtroom and I thot it was a good time to get it over with. Now look what I get this morning. Some of these probation officers are worse than judges.” * * * The little Chinaman in the next cell kept busy all day long. From some- | where he got a scrub-rag and every day he went over his cell until it shone, He washed the floor after it had been mopped by the trusty. He wash- what bleary eye upon the magistrate, Straton waited for recognition of his austere presence. But he was ignored as the court proceeded to examine a battered individual with a black eye and broken nose. So the Calvary Baptist pastor retreated again to his seat among the down-and-outs. Besides the irrepressible Mr. Sum- ner, Straton also had his assistant pastor with him as well as his son who is serving his apprenticeship to god in a Philadelphia spook shop. The magistrate informed Straton back to Magistrate Maurice Gottleib| who told him a short time ago, to “practice the charity of forgiveness I have heard you preach in your Would Enlighten Straton. Mr. Smith of the “Four A’s” stated from the ideas of sex as taught in the New Testament. The next hearing is set for June 21, when Straton will try, for the sixth time, to punish Smith for ask- ing him to read and think. That may quite probably be construed as an in- sult to any fundamentalist. Warns of Danger of Imperialist Attacks | (Continued from Page One) against the regime engendering war; a struggle against the capitalistic re- jgime as such. The struggle for peace in a capitalistic regime (unless it be- |come mass revolutionary struggle) is \for a bloody tomorrow. In face of the daily increasing danger, close your ranks for a fierce and ruthless struggle against war depredators who are preparing war. You are stronger |than all and you will win if you close united whole Yanks of all exploited lagainst exploiters. Awaken, arise; |@way with cowardice. Close front | against those who, within our own or- | ganizations gpread pessimism and dis- integrate our forces, War is pend- “Only by mass action, protest meet- ings, powerful demonstrations and opposition strikes; by developing res- olute mass struggle, will you succeed in defeating the onslaught of capi- that he would have to take his case! church more than once.” | that he hoped to win Straton away) peace is tantamount to a struggle! a lie, an illusion, preparing the way! ed the walls as high as he could reach. He washed the water and drain pipes. He washed the little bench that is in every cell and the bars. of the cell oor. He took great interest in the Chi-| nese pictures in the June number of Current History, cheerfully pro-| nounced the Chinese words on its cover for us again and again an@ gravely announced that “Kuomintang good people.” What he was here for I do not know and he could not or would nok tell me except that he was to be sen@ back to China. *” He could hardly wait till we met the doctor, When the doctor produced the bottle full of little white morphing pellets, he broke down completely. “Four is all you get,” said the doc. tor, “and you must swallow them now.” There was a verbal battle, Cokey in- sisting that he would simply vomit them up again, the doctor demanding that he take them all, Suddenly Cokey surrendered. He put the four pellets in his mouth, gulped three or four times and beamed on the doctor. We resumed our jnterrupted jour- ney to the bull-pen, where Cokey res- cued three pellets from some recess of his mouth and did them up care- fully in a bit of newspaper. He, is to take the “cure” on the Is- land where, he says cheerfully, it is much easier to get dope then in the Tombs. ” * * * * In New York on an excursion from Pittsburgh, he was arrested for some minor offense after hé had spent all but a few dollars of his money. His first time in jail and worried to death lest his friends find out about his “disgrace.” He bore up well . until yesterday. Then he found a head louse in his hair and almost went to pieces. He was released today with his ten days in the Tombs as sufficient pun- ishment, Otherwise he would probably have gone crazy. ¥ & Jails, hospitals, forecastles, bar- racks, tombs—all smell alike, Some say it is bad air or dirt that is never reached by broom or soap and water that gives them this odor. Others say that places where men and women are confined against their will soak up the protests that may not even be voiced and utter them in the only way that steel, brick and mortar may speak, Whatever it is one never forgets the odor. Democracy Pretense In C.C.N.Y. Debate “Where’s your democracy in India, China, Nicaragua, Cuba, the Philip- pines?” asked Scott Nearing in his de- bate against Arthur Garfield Hays Friday night at the Great Hall of the College of the City of New York. On the topic “Is Democracy Suited for Modern Life?” Hays said “yes,” and Nearing said “no.” Hays ac- | knowledged we did not have perfect \ democracy in America, but he urged a return to the ideals of Thomas Jef- ferson, the father of democrats. | “Jeffersonian Democracy cannot stand up against the machine guns, battleships, armies and navies of 1927,” Nearing declared. “This coun- try, and the whole world is ruled by | plutocracy and not democracy—which is out of date.” | | While Hays devoted himself to con- |demning both the Soviet Government |of Russia and the Fascisti govern- ment of Italy as undemocratic, and; criticising the U. S. government for its imperfections as a democratic ideal, Nearing gave a concise analy- sis of the ruthless economic imperial- ism which rules the world today, and declared that a complete economic change, to a Communist society, is the only solution for the situation. | Dr, Frederick B, Robinson, ptesi- dent of the College of the City of New York acted as chairman of the debate which was jheld under the auspices of the Social Problems Club ‘and the Douglass Society. Nearing Punctures Courts Cling to tal, and repel the imperialistic jack- als. Defend the Chinese revolution. munitions. Close millions of muscu- Jar hands to form an unassailable European Seamen Seek 48-Hour Week AMSTERDAM, (FP) June 2—A Prevent the transport of troops and barrier of defense to the threatened Russian revolution. Imperialists are preparing war to crush the revolution. Your reply must be preparation for revolution to crush war and destroy capitalist regime which makes war inevitable. Unite and rally thousands, millions in your Communist revolu- tionary organizations and Communist Party. Expel from your midst social patriotic leaders preaching sacred unity with exploiters. Gag those whi are lulling you with pacifistic bish. Prepare for the great struggle: do everything necessary for victory. Millionaire Boasts “It”; Loses Wife. DETROIT, June 5.—Henry (Tom) Stevens, millionaire globe trotter, au- thor and banker, was divorced by his wife, Margaret, who got $250,- 000. periences in Argentina, Paraguay and Chile,” was not referred to in today’s tetstimony but recently the wealthy sportsman was a witness in a will case, from the book on the beauty of American girls were read. Stephen’s referred to one South American girl as a “marvelous work of god” and declared that he discov- ered that he “appealed to Paraguayan womanhood.” Stephen's book, “Journeys and Ex-|. united drive for the 8-hour day and 48-hour week was authorized at a meeting in Antwerp of the Advisory Committee of the Seamen’s Section of the Transport Workers’ Federation. There were representatives present from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Holland, Norway and Swe- den, in addition to Edo Fimmen, gen- eral secretary of the Transport Workers Federation. Solidarity was pledged by the French Seamen’s Federation, which is not in the I, T. F. and by the Inter- national Mercantile Marine Officers’ Association. As a preliminary move 150,000 copies of an international manifesto for the 8-hour day will be printed and distributed, J. P. Morgan Swallows Johns-Manville Co, Another industrial concern came under bankers’ control here yester- day when J. P. Morgan & Co. ob- tained a controlling interest in the Johns-Manville Co., a big asbestos and magnesia firm, Abraham Fabian, son of a New Jer- theatre chain owner, committed aulnide yesterday ltalian Worker As U.S, Tries Frame-up + After serving two-thi of-his sen- tence before he was. sev,,,),ced, Mario Benci, Italian radical sy “ ct, was set at liberty yesterday, ha._ig complet- ed his 60. day term in prison on a charge of technical violation of the Sullivan Act, Behind Benci’s detention lies a dra- matic story of the use of every pos- sible legal weapon on the part of the courts to keep him in custody while the United States Department of La- bor could take steps for his deporta- tion, Benci was arrested on the night of April 10 while putting some Sacco- Vanzetti “stickers” on a store win- dow,‘and charged with disorderly con- duct. It was brought out that when he was searched at the police sta- tion, a book purporting to deal with the construction of bombs, and some pamphlets alleged to be seditious were found. The magistrate held him in $2000 bonds until the following Thursday. Then he was fined $3 and costs and immediately .rearrested without warrant on a charge of vio- lating the Sullivan Act. The. police had searched his apartment and found a pistol in a bed which had been slept in while Benci was still in the Tombs. Trial was postponed until April 29, the court meantime urging the case upon the Department of La- bor for consideration. The American Civil Liberties Union was appealed to and represented Ben- ci in the entanglements that followed. Denies Possession of Gun. Though Benci denied all knowledge of the pistol, he was found guilty of violating the Sullivan Act. Again sentence was postponed, this time un- til April 29, when sentence was sus- pended and the court issued instruc: tions to arrange for Benci’s deporte. tion. - f At a hearing on May 13 in- spector from the Department, La- bor assured the court that tl was no case for deportation; had lived his probationary three years as a peaceful citizen; thatthe bundle. of so-called seditious li ire was really a miscellaneous ection of pamphlets; and that the government found no reason to take action. The judges, agreed to sentence Ben- ci to 60 days imprisonment for poses- sing the pistol and then to allow credit on this sentence for the time alread; served. LONDON, June 5—Jerome K. Jerome, famous British novelist and humorist, who was stricken with a cerebrae hemmorhage yesterday, was in serious condition in Northampton hospital today. All information and Ww Boston. ‘Tel. Hay Go to Franklin, ae

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