The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1927, Page 2

NOLI MAKES PLEA FOR WAR AGAINST ALBANIAN TERROR Ex-Premier Raps Brit- ish Oil Imperialism Making a plea for . Nationa) volution in Albania and the o of the large feudal landowne: handed over their coun at Britain and England, Bishop 1 S. Noli, former premier of the little Balkan state and a graduate of Harvard, has signed the manifest sued by the Albanian Committec The for National Libe manifeste says in part “Albanians: for some time past have proc 1 that the suppression of the caste of feudal beys—lords of medieva! lands —is the first step toward the eman- eipation of our people right. The last two years of the re- gime of feudal be with Ahmed Zogu at their head, have proved this in an irrefutable manner. In the course of these two years, Albanian independence, created after so mueh struggle and sacrifice, has again fal- Yen into a servitude, both political and economic, still more terrible than any known hitherto in her history, “Below we ennumerate the calami- ties which our people have been made to suffer at the hands of the feudal beys, the usual instruments of for- eign domination. British Oil Grab. “As to Italy and England, the gov- ernment of the feudal beys has ceded them the national wealth by impos- ing on our people the economic yoke of foreigners. England has obtained | tion. hose hose } e absolutely At Welfare Island Vicious Conditions Exposed by W. Dunne Py form has hardly penetra- ted W re Island, the New York City n, says William I’. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORKER, who has been released on $1,000 bail certificate of reasonable doubt. ing a 30-day sentence cation of .the poem he DAILY WORKER. st editor describes where 120 diseased re herded together. ot sterilized and there tary precautions. Pro- and dope fiends 1 men arrested for the dormitories, and well Blankets fow are ached to the work- men are put to jobs, for the most work at outdoor part. But in the penitentiary ad- joining, where the longer-term men and we are kept, the diversion of work is ided for only the favored The Council refused toact in that capacity. few Ir he penitentiary the un- fortunate sone: sit 20 to 22) hours a day in their le cella, with | a minimum period for exercise, and| seemingly no provision for educa- tional classes. No Jury Trial. “The most surprising thing,” said Dunne, “was to find so many prison- ers who had been sent up for terms as high as three years without ajury trial. The Court of Special Sessions, cs eee consisting of three judges, without a jury, has the power to imprison men 3,000 Have Already Won and women for that period. I don’t! : think that such a condition exists in* Increase in Wages any othey state in America.” ae David Gordon, who wrote the poem Between 2,500 and 3,000 Brooklyn for which Dunne was sentenced, has| painters, members of Local 29, will BKLYN PAINTERS | ON THIS MORNING STRIKE OF 2,500 Needle Trade Defense Lower Bronx Workers Club Pledge | Workers Club sent in $30.70 which was collected at their banquet. The question of the struggle in the Needle Trades was also taken up and a resolution passed. They pledge themselves to help the furriers and cloakmakers continue their struggle for a clean union. - * * Sends $5.00 for Defense. JERSEY GOSSACKS The members of the Lower “= Vige President Matthew Woll of the A. F. L. strongly urged the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York and Vicinity to force the police to greater activity in imprisoning fur workers on strike. FOUND GUILTY OF | Manslaughter » Verdict ‘Returned by Jury | FLEMINGTON, N, J., June 19.— MURDER OF GIRL eil concessions on scandalous condi- tions. Italy has obtained, among other things, the concession of the Na- also been released on a certificate of strike this morning to enforce their Max Goldberg of Boston sent in) Two members of the New Jersey state $5 for the Cloakmakers and Furriers | constabulary, Lieut. Daniel I’. Rogers | reasonable doubt. Gordon was serv-| demand for a $2 a day wage increase.! Relief with excuses for not being| and A. K. Larsen, were yesterday | ing three years in the New York Re-|It is likely that painters in Man-|able to send more and wishes for | convicted of manslaughter in connec- U. $. Ambassador to Mexico Is Thru; Now Back in ‘Washington By HARVEY O'CONNOR, WASHINGTON, (FP) June. 19.— James R. Sheffield, Ambassador to Mexico, has quit, Although he has |not yet formally handed in his resig- |nation, he returned from Mexico in the midst of 27 crates of household | furniture and immediately hurried to | Washington to confer June 17 with Secretary of State Kellogg. Ever since his appointment in the fall of 1924, Sheffield hassfoflowed a “strong” policy in insisting that Mr. « Mellon,» secretary of the treasury and {other heavy American investors in | Mexican oil lands be protected from |Mexican laws looking toward na- | tionalization of natural resources. Was “Indiscreet.” | Rumors of Sheffield’s impending resignation have been rife'in Wash- ington since last spring when docu- ments revealing that he had actively }encouraged enemies of the Calles | government to start revolutions fell into the hands of the Mexicans. An international incident of the first | water resulted with claims that in- |struetions from Secretary Kellogg | advising Sheffield how to apply the | “strong” policy to Calles had been \forged and diplomatic pouches en- | tered. | Ambassador Tellez was recalled hastily to Mexico City and cable wires fairly sizzled with diploniatic assur- ances from the State Department that the contents of the instructions |to Sheffield and his replies had been - |“tampered with” and were not true | reflections of the American attitude. | Calles graciously accepted the pro-| SEDITION TRIAL “OPENS TODAY IN ~ WOODLAWN,’ PA, | Workers “Avvested by | Bosses’ Private Police | PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 19.—The | trial of Pete Muselin of Woodlawn, | Pa,, charged with violation of the | Pennsylvania Flynn anti-sedition act |begins Monday at Beaver County Court, Beaver, Pa. Muselin, together with seven other \gvorkers were arrested Armistice Day, last year, after the local, state and | the Jones and Laughlin police raided | three peaceful houses and seized some | $1,000 bail each and charged with se- | dition. The indictment was quashed jat a later date. The men were, how- | ever, rearrested the same day and | charged with exactly the same Squashed Second Time. The attorneyfor International La- bor Defense and American Civil Lib- erties Union succeeded to have the case quashed for second time. Several days elapsed“when five of the eight time and again charged with violation of the sedition act and held under $2,000 bail each. The trial in Beaver begins at a |time when a similar case, that of M. Saldokas, who was arrested | March 15th in Wilmerding, Pa., while | preparing to address a mass meeting of Lithuanian Literary Society, was quashed by Judge.Gray of Pitts- burgh. Charged with Sedition. Saldokas was charged with sedition |literature, The men were released on * men were rearrested for the third ~ testations, but with the tacit under-| and released under $5,000 bail after | standing that Mr. Sheffield’s sphere| spending several days in jail. His of usefulness had been quite ended | case was quashed on the grounds that and that he would be retired as soon) the indictment “does not contain any tional Bank, the flotation of a loan} of 50,000,000 gold francs and the | tight to colonize Albania. By means} of the National Bank, Italy has gained | entire possession of the economic life of our country. By means of the loan of 50,000,000 gold francs, which the Albanian State has never deposited and never will deposit, Italy will re- alize in the shape of interest and amortization an annual tribute of more than 7,000,000 gold francs for forty years. All Balkan Peoples. Stressing the need of political or- and alliance with the of the Balk- ans, the manifes “To succeed in this struggle (agai: the feudal «e@ys-sapported by British and Italian imperialism) we must labor method- ically and fundamentally again for nization and enlightenment among the Albanian masses. We must coordinate our movement with the movements for freedom of all op- pressed Balkanic peoples, and we should also invite the support of all progressive international factors in the entire wowd.” ganization other oppre Montana Federation to Meet. HELENA, Mont., (FP) June 19.— The Montana State Federation of La- ber, convenes in Helena, the state capital, June 28. of a Revolutionist By Vera Figner Moscow Revolutio Movement fifty-five years ago, and has lived to gee the overthrow of the autocracy and the establishment .of workers’ rule in Russia. Vera Figner is one of the - Jast Revolutionary Mohicans tenee was committed to life imprisonment in the Schlilesel- burg F ss, She spent twenty rs in solitary con- finement in that famous cit- adel where some of the great est revolutionary spirits were imprisoned, In her book translated for the first time into Wnglivh, she tells the story r youth and how she revolutionist. She the early Revolutionary 4 ment in Russia and gives « graphic picture of her life i the Fortress during = the twenty years she fined there. was cor Every re lutionary home should hav. scopy of this book, In it is given the story of 9 @ revo! uttonist and idealist flygeitt Illustrated, octave, 220 pp : 1.00 ' THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 83 First St., New York formatory. hattan and other boroughs will be-| success in this most impertant work. | come involved as a result of the walk- ro a a a) t. | Fake Disarm Confab | "3,000 workers had already won the Fizzles Before Start increase as a result of a strike de- GENEVA, June 19.—No one ex- |elared April 4, and which was tem- |porarily halted by an _ injunction pects anything to come out of the! &tanted to a group of painter, bosses! “disarmament” meeting which opens | by Judge Callahan of the supreme here Monday—least of all the various/court. These workers are now re- delegations. ceiving $14 daily. The American delegation will pro-| The court order expired yesterday. pose nothing “startling,” said Hugh Corporations Drop Gibson, head of the delegation and expects nothing startling from rep- resentatives of other countries. Ame- rica will flatly rejeet any proposal for the internationalization of the Panama Canal, delegates intimated. * * * Branch 625 For the Furriers Relief. Members of Lenin Branch 625 Workmen's Circle of New York sent in $25 for the Furriers Relief. The Branch informs that this money was donated out of its treasury. They promise to call a special meeting where they hope to raise more money to aid the Furrier Strikers. * * . Conductor of Roxy Theatre Orchestra Will Appear. Mr. Erno Rappe of the Roxy The- atre will conduct the New York Symphony Orchestra of 100, at the Coney Island Stadium Concert. Mr. Rappe is one of the most celebrated |tion with the death of Beatrice Meaney on December. 31, who was shot when.a contingent of 14 troop- | ers poured a flood of bullets into her |farmhouse following an attempt to | Serve a warrant against her brother. | The young man was accused of un- derfeeding his cattle. Twelve other troopers and two agents of the “Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals” who |inspired the original charges were | aequitted by the jury. Brother Shot, Another Beaten. | During the course of the pogrom jon the farm, James Meaney, a broth- er of the slain girl was shot and | wounded by the cossacks, and Timothy | Meaney, another brother, was beaten into insensibility. as a convenient excuse offered itself. Immediately théteafter both Presi- dent Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg moderated their blustering tone to- ward Mexico and sweet assurances jcould be worked out amicably were passed to the press, This contrasted sharply with previous statements of Assistant Secretary of State Olds, a |that Mexico was behind the Nicara- | guan trouble, was seeking to create |a “bolshevist hegemony from the Rio Grande to Panama” and was in gen- American continent. | Enemy Of Labor. that the Mexican oil controversy | law partner of Kellogg, to press as-! sociations in a non-quotable interview | eral the enfant terrible of the North) Admiral Saito, Japanese delegate, Schemes for Group conductors in Amica. Sheffield is. reported by American 'sufficient allegation to sustain a | conviction.” | The opinion of Judge Gray which | was concurred in by Judges Ford, | Cohen and Moore, was based on pre- vious decision rendered by Judge | Reeder of Beaver County in case of Mezzey of New York, who was ar- rested in Woodlawn and charged with | sedition. Same Crime. It will be remembered that Ed. Horacek and ten other workers were arrested in Pittsburgh in May, 1923, and charged with same crime of sedi- tion. They were held under abnor- mal high bail ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 each. Horacek’s case was tried in November, 1925, and he was found guilty. The indictments against all refused to make any public state-" ment. Sugar Strike Ends. Worker Insurance CUM, Atgentina, June 19.—)| Failures of the American Woolen After striking for several weeks the|Co, and its companies to continue] sugar workers have gone back to} the group life insurance which was! After the brutal or, } acne ~ hues Volunteers Wanted! a murder charge against the He * | ers, but the grand jury later brought If you h leisure time to de- | °"* diges broug! haan s eotee oe pecaagit © pase the jin a blanket indictment, charging the Joint Defense and Relief Committee | meaner nt gre “ ry " state and inguire ss Lena Chernenko. prosecutor bitterly denounced the * * brutality of the troopers. of the troop- attack-/| ataw Than who b&Ve beer in Mexito|°f these Pittsburgh defendants are during his tenure, to have found the! exactly the, same as the indictments workers and peasants movementgthere | against Mezzey and Zadolkas which extremely distasteful,’ He hated the | Were quashed, one in Beaver and one idea ‘of. the underlying population! im Pittsburgh. conducting a revolution and. getting | away with it. He suspected Calles work... President de Alvear has agreed to arbitrate the differences between the workers and the bosses. | Ford Plant Closes. SOMERVILLE, Mass., June 19.—| The assembly plant of the Ford Mo- tor Company here has shut down for| six to eight weeks. One thousand men are effected. 18,000 MINERS |according to a statement issued by) strikers was received. The rdason T provided for their employes in 1918) Borrows $5 and Sends $1 for Strikers points to the need of legislation to, Ralph Grayden of Hoboken, N. J. give stability as well as general ap-| writes: “Dear Comrades:-—The letter | plication to workmen's life insurance,|in which you ack for help for the the American Association for Labor: have not answered until now is be- | Legislation. eause I did not have a cent/to my | “Announcement of the discontin-! name. Today 1 borrowed $3\to live j uance of group insurance by the con-| through the week. I am sendng you cerns’ centering in the American} +hat and hope that th® dollar Woolen Co.,” says the Association, | ereve but » drop in a great sum “emphasize anew the distressing ele-| for the strikers } ment of uncertainty in such private, . * * | schemes of industrial insurance. This $120 More From Nitgeniget a ously in the plight of the former em-| Nitgedaiget. The following eontrib- IN PENNSYLVANIA MAY STRIKE SOON uneertainly was also shown conspicu-! Fox Brought in $120 re from |ployes of the Morris Packing Co. uted: Herman Jessin $25;) Werner | who worked for years under a com-| and Cooper $25; I. W. Wieks $10; jpary pension plan, ouly at the end| Cjara Silverstein $10; Bernard Bed- to be deprived of the benefits. ler $10; Davy Roth $10; Mike Jonsky Should Protect Workers. |$10; Last week Fox collegted $400 | “Lack of stability of voluntary| it one day at the Camp. | | plans in industry for unemployment | insurance was recently derfionstrated | by the suspension of the unemplpoy-| (Continued from Page One) the Tocal that they should not work | Workers Party in Pittsburgh Sends $50 The following letter was reecived on outside construction jobs for thé ment fund in the cloak industry of company which maintains its lockout ‘of the miners, and underpays for out- side labor. H Daisytown local (No. 9 of the U.M.W.A.) is known as progressive, | and the president, besides being a} justice of the peace on a progressive ticket, was one of the candidates last y for teller of the union, It has) been realized for some time that the | lite policies which provides for the employers—Vesta Coal is a sub-) continuance of the’ contract independ sidiary of Jones & Laughlin, a viet | ont of the, company, usually after ous union-hating concern—haye Wan-) years of partial premium payment ted to break down organization here. | the worker finds himself at an in- An Excuse. creased age with larger premiums to They took the first excuse of how-| pay. As all grotp policies do not ever flimsy a nature, and when they) accumulate a cash value, as is the found President Harry Wadsworth] case with ordinary insurance polic- and the mine committee talking to| ies, the worker finds himself “hold- sdme of the ten men working on an|ing the bag.” | addition to their power house, they es ‘ arrested them all, and charged them Collapse of Textile with trespassing. | Factory tnt Columbia Results in 100 Hurt The men were taken to a justice of | the peace ten miles away, tho there BOGOTA, Columbia, June 19, One hundred textile workers were is another justice close to Daisy- town. Tho the justice given charge | of the case is naturally suspected of | being more friendly to the comaate buried in the collapse of a textile piant at Ros¢ellon, near Medellin Relief trains are bringing the | juved to Medellin. |New York City. “Public action through legislation ig the effective, permanent, and cer- tain method of protecting the indus- trial workers against the hazards cf accidents, disability, old age and un- employment.” Tt was pointed out that while it is true that an option exists in all group than the nearer one, he released the unionists on their own recognizance. Only a few members of the local were working on the power job. They were so far from being inti- midated by the arrests that they held a meeting and agreed uur toons ‘to quit. Wages were a dollar lower v, than the aioe seale for outside ¢on-|tor, is considéred critical by Dr. struction labor. ; Lawrence H. Hoffman, his physician, Two sons of Joe Edwardsy formerly| Drew took a turn for the worse | general manager of the Vesta, now yesterday and today his condition re- vice-president, and a son of a mine| mains uhchanged. {foreman were working on the con- ‘struction job * in- John Drew's Condition Critical. SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.—The condition of John Drew, veteran ac-! Sacco oy Vanzetti Ghall Not Die! from Street Nucleus No, 2, Workers (Communist) Party of Pittsburgh: |“Dear Comrades; Enelosed you will |find a $50 loan for the strikers. Our | Nucleus has no money but we could not jook on disnassionately when the ‘arviers are carrying on such a bril- nt fight, so we taxed durselves as |an example to o.hers.” Max Jenkins, Secretary. - Schoo! Without Scholars % WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥., June 19.— | Efforts of the City of Yonkers to ob- |tain a permanent injunetion prohibit- | ing further operation’ of the Moeller boarding schools in the exclusive Park | Hill section of Yonkers, reopened in | the supreme court today Application was made by John W. Bryan, assist- jant corporation counsel of Yonkers, for the in/hnetion and also an order of preference for trial. Bryan sald the pupils of the school received no instruction in the build- jing, but were taken to New York each day by bus, . ‘| Newark Joint | \ very important be held tonight at 8 Prince St. Newark, plans to raise funds fur workers win thei Ludwig Lendy, 2 Joint Defense and mittee will be prese! ing. i | NEW $4,000,000 BM. T, SWINDLE TS MADE PUBLIC (Continued from Page One) with the full original figure for the | equipment, it automatically falls vic- {iim to the full cost. of this “bonus” which the company is stealing. Untermyer declared in his letter jthat he is planning to inStitute con- tempt proceedings at once against Gerhard M. Dahl and Thomas L, | Chadbourne, the two largest stock- |bolders in the B.-M. T. for their re- fusal to answer embarrassing ques- tions during the transit hearings. Chadbourne simply took the boat and went off to Europe when the examina- tion got too personal. Dahl, likewise, was ‘hesitant about getting commun- icative about the family interest in the B.-M. T., including its reasons for purchasing I. R. T. stock. Al Smith at Bottom. | The present hearings are brot about by the temporary break between Gov. Smith and the traction gang to which he had previously sold out due to their failure to support his presiden- tial aspirations, Untermyer, who is "quite generally known to be the under-cover man of Smith, is utilizing this opportunity to further the governor’s ambitions by taking a sideswipe at the traction interests. Expect “Peace” Soon, Sooner or later, it is expected, these “differences” will be adjusted, a “new unification plan” adopted, an increased fare will be put over and the workers of New York, as hitherto, will foot the bill. Five Workers Killed in Amsterdam, LONDON, Jane 19.—Five persons are dead and considerable property damage resulted today from a heavy thunderstorm which swept over Am- sterdam and several Dutch towns of the vicinity, according to a Central News dispatch. at Many of the streets and houses in Amsterdam and Rotterdam were ‘in- undated, the reports said, and tele- graphic and telephonic communica- tions were disrupted in many places. The tive who lost their lives were laborers in Amsterdam. They were killed by lightning ‘ ? ¥, jand his associates darkly of undue | friendliness toward the Soviet Union in recognizing that country and ac-| cepting Mme. Alexandra Kollontai as envoy. | | Mexican officials themselves re-| | turned the compliment, declaring that | Sheffield’s blood and thunder policy| lacked support in Washington, tha |when Messrs. Coolidge and Kellogg | wanted Mexican advice they called in bassador, Charles Evans counsel for Standard Gil, and Dwight |F. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. rather than leaning on Sheffield’s say-so. When he returned to Mexico recently after consulting with the | State Department, Sheffield was | greeted by a petty chief of the divi- sion of protocols although usually high officials turn out on such occa- sions. Sheffield, held responsible for Kel- logg’s amazing assertion two years ago that “Mexico is on trial before the eyes of the world” for attempting | to nationalize her natural resources, will be succeeded by John W. Gar- rett, former ambassador to Argen- tina, according to State Department attaches, Garrett speaks Spanish, | which Sheffield disdained to learn. ‘German Firms Race to Build Oceanic Planes BERLIN, June 19>-A rade is now on between the Junkers and Dornier to bring out the first trans-Atlantic airplane liner. The Junkers are keeping their plans a guarded secret, though it is announced that “both German ma- chines and motors are available for such a flight.” The Dortier works, a sister organ- ization of the Zeppelins, is known to be putting the finishing touches to a mystery plane which the Dornier supervisors refused to show even to Chamberlin. and Levine, but which is supposed to be fitted with six mo- tors of 1,000 horse power each, and able to carty 100 passengers for or- dinary distances or cross the Atlan- tie wit henough freight and mail to pay for the trip. The plane would in addition be able to carry enough fuel to make the flight safe as a rail- road journey from New York to Chi- Cl “The mystéry plane is to have a crew of five men, a captain, two pilots, mechanic and radio operator. SACCO and VANZETTI | Charles Beecher Warren, former am-| Hughes, | AUL NOT DIE Big Textile Merger Proposed; Southern Competition Feared * (By Federated Press.) FALL RIVER, Mass., June 19.— |Loss of business to southern manu- | facturers brought a group of leading |eotton goods makers from south- ‘eastern Massachusetts to a conference to diseuss a possible merger. The merger would combine the operation of several million spindles under one unified direction. Costs would be lowered by alloting one style of goods to one plant or group of plants, and other styles to others, thus stopping duplication of effort. Fear Southern Competition. The Davol, Granite, Bourne, Troy, Arkwright, Barnard, Flint, Merchants and Richard Borden Corp. were among those assembled. Most of the manufacturers are said to have op- posed the merger proposal but the promoters of the plan are still hope- ful of putting it over. They point out that Fall River has steadily lost ground to the south where wages are lower, hydro-electric power is abun- dant and freight costs are a smaller. factor. Merger talk is being closely fol- lowed by the local labor unions. United Textile Workers and the ‘ pendent American Federation o tile Operatives are in the fic most of the Fall River worke unorganized. Portugese are th it single racial group, Ae santas Charley Not Yielding to Lita NEW YORK, June 19,— from Los Angeles that Charley q lin had entered negotiations with Lit: Gray Chaplin for the settlement of her suit for a separation were denfed today by Nathan Burkan, counsel for the comedian. Chaplin is still in this city stopping at Burkan’s home. “The story of a settlement between Chaplin and his wife is based on un- founded rumor,” said Burkan, “No negotiations have been opened and from present indications negotiations will not be opened.” , Held on Ellis Island. — Paul Zalowski, veteran of the American army and a citizen, and his wife and their two children are return from Poland where they were being held on Ellis Island on their _