The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1927 es STEEL KINGS BRIBE WITNESSES IN Voodoo and Spirit “GIVE HOT SHOT,” Over Two Thousand COSGRAVE,KING'S Prohibition Agents FAKE PENNSYLVANIA SEDITION CASE Rites in Straton’s KANSASWARPEN'S Southern Gentlemen IRISH HENCHMAN Charged With Graft cture as Evi Church Are Exposed ORDER TO DEPUTY Hunt Negro Victim I$ DAIL HEAD And Brutal Tactics Offer Lenin’s Picture as Evidence of Plot to Overthrow Government by “Dynamite” \ | ————_—___ Disgusted with the tactics of Rev. | ™ * Jj | RALEIGH, N. C., June 28.—Blood i Charges of third degree methods PITTSBURGH, June 23. — That) Judge McConnel, from which the jury Dr. John Roach Str rear ak epare Machine Gun to 1,6 is running high here, the south-| OPPosed by Labor, Free |, prohibition enforcement. officials sia ed Seal barons a eae to! and He pate were SiGe a cort ie pastor of a ( ma ptist Kill Food Mutineers © |ern want is Ne ie i lor break-| State Party in Minority ice Tans reslerene 5 baad oct vibe workers to testify against d that Radanovich should be per- | Chure : ive deacons have Pousti ing the monotony of the newly indus- —- 4 ‘ Woodlawn Communists who are being ted to testify, but should confine | submitted their nations, | LANSING, Kansas, June 28,—-|trialized south with one of his period-/ DUBLIN, Jane 23. — William. T. | 8" accused of bribery. tried on trumped up charges of “‘sedi-| himself to recent events and not go _ in making public their action the | Prison authorities here have stationed |ical man hunts, | Cosgrave wz re-elected president of Albert Briggs, alleged to have col- tion” is the startling revelation that into the long campaign of espionage | deacons declared that “a gag rule”! » machine gun at the mouth of the| A white girl has been killed, by| the Irish Free State by the Dail to- | lected hush money from saloon keep- was made in the Beaver County Court conducted by the steel corporation. responsible for their inability to prison mine to kill any of the 380|person or persons unknown, but al night, despite the fact that his party | ¢TS> for the agents testified that he yesterday Trumped-up Charges. | present their reasons for resigning to! strikers who ate barricailed below |rumor has been circulated that a par-| lacks a majority and the labor party | W988 clubbed, beaten and’ kicked in The court was thrown into 2» moil when Steve Radanovich, ner employee of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, testified that he fered a bribe by Chief of é, to testify against the Wood- lawn defendants now trial in Beaver. on Prosecuting attorney Craig object- ed vigorously vich to testify. After an hour’s con- ference between the two attorneys and Order N OW Your bundle of the Special } k of the Jones and Laugh- °° e witness then told the startling | the entire membership of the church. ‘y of the attempt to bribe him, last The energetic pastor, apparently ; Woodlawn e | dissatisfied with just honest-to-good- shed for the second time,| ness fundamtentalism, has lately been} im into his office, he | conducting in his church a return to 1 him to appear be- | semi-insane, primitive, religious rites. Jury to testify that Religious ignorance and supersti- : the dants were planning to kill| tion is declared to have reached its Mauk and other officers. In return|apex with the weird ceremonials Radanovich was offered a good job, which Straton has established in his citizenship papers and money to bring | church. his The a complet fered by Radanovich. ily from Europe. Called “Pentecostalism”. torneys for the state failed| “Pentecostalism” the official y to upset the testimony of-|name for the voodooism which has culminated in the resignation of the Upset Fake Evidence. Earlier in the da of the same notor tion testified, parr everal hirelings steel corpora- ‘oting the accusa- tion that the defendants were teaching | the overthrow of the government by “force, bloodshed, guns and dynamite.” One even testified that they were plotting to blow up the Jones and Laughlin steel mills. The’ defendants were charged by the same hirelings with using a Croa- tian gymnastic society in Woodlawn for military training and were teach- ing violence there. This “evidence” was completely five church deacons, who charge that | this ritual is similar in all respects to the rites still practiced by country] | Negroes and whites in certain sec-| tions of the south and west. These elaborate ceremonials con- sist of a condition of hysteria, scream- ling, cataleptic trances, with men and | women lying flat on the floor, and all| the other manifestations of temporary jinsanity induced by such xeligious | frenzy. | Many of these “revivals” are said \° have lasted until 2 in the morning. ground as an aftermath to a demand for either better food, or siime cigar- ettes with their meals. The deputy warden, Hudspeth, proudly shows a telegram received from Warden W. H. Mackey, travel- ng in Texas, in which he is told, “They may require some hot shot. Aceomodate them.” Cut Off Light. Hudspeth has already cut off all light, prohibited any food at all from going below, and threatened to shut off the water supply. This is the fourth mutiny of pris-| eners within the last few years in| Kansas, all brought about by the in- tolerable food conditions at the prison. The usual procedure of the prisoners, driven desperate by the monotony and disease resulting from their unsani- tary and unbalanced rations, is to ize some of the guards as hostages, d barricade -themselves below ground in a mine as a protest, and in the hope of causing a public investi- gation. This “mutiny” follows the usual course, except that the prison offi- cials seem rather more brutal in sup- 'Voikoff Murder Blessed | ticular negro, Broadus Miller, was|came out in opposition to his re-elec- seen near the scene of the crime, and | tion. 2,500 persons, armed with all sorts! The vote for Cosgrave was 68 to of weapons, are coursing the country-| 22, the opposition vote being that of |side with the intention of mutilating | the labor deputies. /and lynching him. Eamon De Valera and his republican Miller has thus far escaped. The followers made an attempt to rush governor is calling out the militia in|" the chamber without taking the order to give a semblance of order | 2th, but were unsuccessful and after to. the man. Khnt,.aad see, that the|® two hour demonstration in the Dail Negro is hanged in a jail yard instead j Saeridars eats declaring, “we will lot to a tree. The Morgantown com-|°°™° beck.” De Valera ennounced: he pany of militia will arrive tonight. would hold a public protest meeting. y The Dail was guarded by police eit Tee reserves. Professor Hayes was re-elected | president of the Dail. | Should De Valera and the small} } By Court, Says Envoy (Continued from Page One) oath and line up with the labor party, meeting with hospitality in Polish | the combination would have 71 votes territory: }against the combined opposition of |68, The majority could then vote to abolish the oath of allegiance. ‘Angeles Comrades Preparing Special * * . Capture 30 Bandits. KIEV, June 23.—Using Poland as a base of operations Ukrainian White Guard bandits, headed by the notori- ous Kubulinski, have been murdering Communist workers and plundering he countryside. The bandit raids are said to have been carried on with the knowledge and consent of the Pilsud- Sinn Fein group decide to take the | | shattered when Burngass, a law stu- | pressing it than before. They are ‘emphasizing the request for cigar- ski Government. prohibition headquarters at 1 Park Ave. on the night of December 13 j last in an effort to make him impli- cate the agents. Major Augustus Teise, prohibition administrator, the club, Briggs charged. Beaten Unconscious, “Heise asked me about collecting {money for the agents and when [ said I was only hired as a driver he ordered me strapped in a chair,” the witness said. “I was-strapped there from 8 p. m, until midnight. Heise hit me with a club and the others hit me with their fists and kicked me in the stomach.” Briggs said that while he was at headquarters a Negro named Ben- jamin Richmond was brought in. When Richmond refused to implicate the agents he was thrown against a wall and knocked unconscious, Briggs testified. Although not an agent, Briggs is jon trial before Judge Knox and a | jury with the others who are Jesse | Harvey, of New Rochelle, Edward McCann, Richard Warner and Josiah Dixon. assistant wielded 150 WeaversEarning an Ath Of July Number dent at the University of Wisconsin, and a member of the gymnastic so- ciety while residing in Woodlawn tes- |tified that nothing but gymnastics were taken up at the society meetings. Several witnesses for the defense LATIN AMERICAN MASONS APPEAL ettes, which the prisoners made, as though it were their only grievance. Fayoritism In Navy Promotions. WASHINGTON, June 23.—The sen- A series of brutal murders and rob-| beries have been directly traced to| | the bandits and thru the activities of | the secret police, thirty of the bandits | | have been captured. Average of $18 Weekly ‘Strike When Pay Is Cut WALTHAM, Mass: June | Nearly 150 weavers, employed in the Issue of The Daily LOS ANGELES, June 23.—The of the also proved that a birthday party was jiority rule governing promotions in| Execute 11. Press Conference, composed of rep- sear DAILY WORKER ° | going on in Zima’s home when it was | raided last Armistice Day. Court Protects Steel Barons. The court refused to permit as evi- | dence a copy of the New York Times containing Lenin’s picture (offered by the prosecution as evidence of the “seditious character” of the defend- |ants) and refused to permit questions | about the seven-day week and the 12- | hour day in the steel mills. This Speeial Number of The DAILY WORKER will be devoted chiefly to Great Brit- ain and its role in the pres- ent world situation. This issue will contain special ar- ticles on the relations of Great Britain and America, England as the Mad Dog of Europe, a study of conditions of the British Working Class. This number will be of great historical importance and will contain a number of very | yaluable articles of the most | timely significance. It will | also contain material to coun- teract the jingoistic propa- ganda which usually accom- panies the July 4th Celebra- tion. Your unit cannot afford | to miss this opportunity to arrange a special distribution of The DAILY WORKER and increase its circle of readers, BUNDLE RATES FOR THIS ISSUE $1.50 per Hundred $9.00 per Thousand ORDER NOW DAILY WORKER 83 First St., New York, N. Y. Inclosed find dollars Name . Address . City .. | ‘will convene court every Sunday and | holiday | ° rms | there i try offenders During the day several demands were made by the defense to dismiss the jury and continue the case on the grounds of unfair.methods used by the attorney for the commonwealth to prejudice the jury. Hyman Speaks at Mass Meeting in Pittsburgh Labor Lyceum Tonight PITTSBURGH, June 23.—Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board of the cloak and dressmakers’ union of New York will be the principal speaker. at a mass meeting to be held tonight at Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. The meeting has been arranged by the Committee for the ‘Defense of Cloakmakers and Furriers of New } York. Scalise, Anselmi, Not Guilty. CHICAGO, June 2 A jury day returned a verdict of not guilty in the re-trial of John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, alleged Genna gang- sters, for the murder of policeman Harold Olson in a pitched battle with a squad of detettives here two years ago. Court in Palisade Park. Officials of the Palisades Interstate park system have revealed that, in an effort to stop vandalism in Bear Mountain Park and vicinity, a judge at the park headquarters o=0 10-10-1010 Convention, July 10th BUY YOUR ASSESSMENT STAMP TODAY! Ik Money must be sent in today—50c to the National Office WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W. Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Ill, SECRETARIES: Be sure to mention invoice number when mak- ing payment. your unit organizer has none— your unit organizer has not sold them— your unit organizer has not sent in the money for them— your unit organizer is not pushing the sale energetically— NOTIFY THE NATIONAL OFFICE! Tt is the only way to finance the Convention and prevent you from losing your right to vote. 50c to the District Office Ohm G EO OED in| Judge William J. Lindsay’s court to-| _AGAINSTKELLOGG | MEXICO CITY, June 23—An ap- {peal to all Masons issued by Mas- onic Lodge “Accion” No. 31, of the obedience of the Grand Lodge “Valle de Mexico” of AA. and AA. S. R., at Mexico City, states: | Before the unprecedented attack from President Coolidge, who has sent Henry Stimson as special com- missioner at aragua, ‘instructed to submit the constitutional government of that republic, by means of strength or subornation and thus imposing the | betrayer Adolfo Diaz as a president, all Latin-American governments whose neutrality is the cause of the! perpetration of such an horrid crime, must unite themselves in order to im- pede the triumph of force over right and thereby erect a barrier to Wal! Street imperialism, whose insatiable covetousness is sacrificing a whole people. The blood, sprinkling the land of Niearagua by order of Coolidge, dis- | honors not only the name of the| worst enemy of our race, but also the | state chiefs of Latin-American coun- |tries who, conteracting the popular | will, clearly exposed by means of the press and the very many meetings against American policy in our in- ternal affairs, have abandoned to their own risk our weak sister pressed The lodge “Accion” No. 31, accom- | plishing the original purpose of our | order, ie, the Defense of Liberty, | unites its protest to that of Nicara- | guan people lawfully represented by | Dr. J. B, Sacasa, Constitutional presi- |dent, against the misuse of force exe- teuted by the mest powerful nation, misuse that brings his dishonor, and appeals to the fraternity as well as |to the world for the support of the | handful of braves preferring death to | dishonor. Coolidge, knowing the triumphal |eareer of the liberal ranks winning |against the betrayer Diaz, a servant \of the American oilmen, decided to __ |intervene openly, using firstly the |subordmation by offering derisive ;amounts of money for the weapons |conquered and sustained with the | blood of the Liberals, or, when he has | failed in such a criminal intrigue, by |extermination of the Liberal troops. These old policies of American im- |perialism, incited the Philippines, by the herculean arms of the monster. | | Portor Rico, Santo Domingo, etc., are vet being employed to abolish the liberty and independence of all Latin- | American nations—and they are try- |ing too in China—and they will suc- \ceed if the interested peoples don’t | warn themselves and end their policy |of isolation. The Mexican govern- |ment, born from the Mexican revolu- \tion, has sustained the right of peo- ples to elect their own governments without the interference of any for- eign influence, . This attitude must be an example | for ail American rulers if they wish to save their historical responsibility and maintain immutable the sover- eignity and dignity of the nations for whose guidance they have been trust- ed. We make a new and vigorous ap- peal to all peoples, to all Latin-Amer- iean governments and by special call to all brothers and to all workers of the world, for the help of that suffer- ing and brave people of Nicaragua, impeding by all means the consumma- tion of the assassination of Indo- American race liberty. Mexico, May 15th, 1927, N. B.—This manifesto has been translated from Spanish to English, the navy sustained a severe shock to- day when it was announced that Pres- ident* Coolidge had approved the ac- tion of a navy selecting board in designating eleven captains for pro- motion to rear admirals as fast as vacancies occur. The selections were made without particular reference to seniority, and no less than nineteen captains were passed over by the board. ‘Among the senior captains passed over was Franklin D. Karns, com- manding the U. 8. 8. Colorado, which recently went aground at New York. Stresseman Attacks France But Wavers On the Soviet Policy BERLIN, June 23.—That Germany | continues to waver between a com- | plete alliance with the western im- | perialist powers led by Great Brit- |ain and a policy friendly to the Sov- iet Union was clearly indicated in | a speech delivered before the Reichs- |tag today by Foreign Minister Stresseman. While following the British tory | lead in an attack. on Soviet “propa- | ganda,” Stresseman launched a vicious |attack on Poincare’s Luneville speech, declaring “what does he real- ly want~—-the Ruhr or Locarno? It is impossible to handle both.” The difference between Germany and France over the Ruhr and Ger- many’s desire to regain some of the colonies that she lost during the war are the factors keeping Germany from joining Britain and France in an anti-USSR offensive. Lindbergh Falls For Hoover; To Be Dupe of Patrioteers and Plutes WASHINGTON, June 23.—That Charles Lindbergh will affiliate him- self—that is give the weight of his reputation—to a commercial aviation concern was definitely learned after he had conferred with Secretary of Commerce Hoover. “Colonel Lindbergh came to Wash- ington to discuss commercial avia- tion,” said Secretary Hoover. “His whole interest will lie in that direc- tion.” Lindbergh will be made the dupe of militarism as well as big business since commercial planes are easily converted into military planes. Landslide On Panama Canal. BALBOA HEIGHTS, Panama Canal Zone., June 23—A landslide which promises to dump 560,000 tons of rock and dirt into the Panama Canal has started on the east bank of the Culebra cut, it was learned to- day. The slide is not interfering with navigation through the canal and canal zone, officials said it is not serious. SACCO and VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! German, Russian, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese and sent all around the world. WE BEG THE REPRODUCTION. Address: Sr, Jose Allen, Apartado 7930, Mexico City, Mexico. resentatives of the various language | fractions, the Y. W. L., Women’s Con- |sumers Edueational League, Daily Worker Builders Club, and the Frei- heit Yugend Club, at its last meet- ing reached the decision that all tick- jets sold by the party units (Nuclei) at the gate of the picnic and all pro- . fits realized at the picnic shall be divided in the following manner: 10% Score MeDonald Betrayal to the Sub-District and 90% to the LONDON, June 23.—The rank and; DAILY WORKER. That a | file of British workers and leaders of special Los Angeles Daily Worker edi- the minority movement are denounc-! tion shall be issued on Saturday, ing the resolutions passed by the right | August the 6th so it would reach here wing General Council of the British » day or two prior to the picnic. | Trade Union Congress defending the; The price of the tickets was made | twenty white guard bandits executed low in order to reach the poorest by the Soviet Union for murder, wage workers, for after all financial | arson and espionage for Great! <uccess is secondary to the success of Britain. \drawing thousands of wage earners The irgl of the General Council to our picnic. is regarded as further evidence of the | One of the greatest tasks for our of tae Eee ere the right wing | party concerning the picnic is to mob- iP e Trade Union Congress and the! itize all our forces to carry out the e-hard Government. Leaders of the | decision of the conference concernin; minority movement point out that! ine special edition. It should be the right wing labor leaders did not! our aim that this ‘gpecinl edition | issue as strong a protest when the | should reflect the activities of the| British Government murdered Jim) " : “ : |local labor movement and _ particu- Connolly, —_ Teena leader. larly the role of our party in that | ‘3 |movement, In order to accomplish | Labor Backs U. S. S. R. | this, the nuclei, language fractions, | The resolution was passed by the | trade union fractions and the fra-/} General Council at a meeting held|ternal fractions shall send in brief | in the House of Commons. The articles of their activities not later | | _ After trials, eleven of the band, in- |cluding Kubulinski, have been exe- cuted. Thirty of the bandits have been given prison sentences. It is stated that members of the band were subsidized by the British in their unofficial war against the Soviet Union. . twenty executed white guardists|than July 20th to the Secretary of were employed by the Tory Govern-|the Conference, Comrade Pres- ment to carry on a reign of terror |cott Chaplin at Headquarters, and espionage in the Soviet Union. | 822 W. Second St., Los Angeles. | Brook, N. cotton mills of the Boston Manufac- turing Co. and who earn an average | of $18 a week, struck yesterday when an announcement was made bf a cut from $2 to $1.60 in the rate of pay per roll of cloth and in the number of looms tended by each man, from |10 to 6. The workers have been unorgan- jized, but steps will now be taken to form a branch of the textile workers’ | union. Panic Follows Spanish Earthquake. MADRID, June 23.—Panie condi- | tions followed an earthquake of sev- eral seconds duration in Teruel today. Walls were cracked and minor damage was done but no casualties have been reported. na Jersey Plumbers Win. SOMERVILLE, N. J., (FP) Juno 23.—One dollar more a day, bringing seale to $11 was won in a strike of plumbers in Somerville. and Bound J. Their execution was regarded as a necessary and justifiable action by the bulk of the British labor move- ment. ee (Special Cable to DAILY WORKER). MOSCOW, June 23.—A number of the largest labor centers, provincial committees of the Communist Party and meetings of members of the Len- ingrad, Moscow, Ivacvovoznesensk, Kharkov and many other ‘local or- ganizations have demanded that lead- ers of the opposition be removed from the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The Pravda, reviewing the actions of the opposition during the last year states that after the fifteenth confer- ence, when the Party condemned the opposition’s line as being social dem- ocratic, the opposition had a choice of either returning to the idealology of Leninism or continuing to waver be- tween Bolshevism and Menshevism, rapidly moving away from Bolshe- vism. The opposition chose the sec- ond way. By numerous speeches at party and non-partisan meetings and in various documents the opposition demon- strated that it followed a line aggra- ions situation in which the Soviet Union finds itself and has po- hinged exploited difficult moments ny Bo rally | the ‘inist Central Committee, the opposition is backed by no single nuc- leus and all party organizations are di di ergetic measu! rage ing on ‘ m res against | The leading comredes as well as sym- |pathizers can also send in brief ar- ticles for this special edition. Every nucleus as we!l as’ every | | fraction must lead in sending in paid \greetings. They must also induce | sympathetic unions, fraternal organi- zations as well as individuals to do likewise. Every member of the party |should ask his barber, his druggist, | his grocer, his butcher or any other |merchant he.deals with to put in an | advertisement in this special Los An- jgeles Daily Worker Edition. ‘Point out to them that this edition will be |read by thousands of people in the jcity of Los Angeles. Indeed it would be worthless to have a special Los Angeles edition without having at: least two thousand copies distributed free of charee to the picnic as weil as at the factory gates. Remember that the Press Pienic will take place August 14th, at Plummer’s Park, 7405. Santa Monica Blvd. i Preacher’s Victim in Court Tells of Rape ST. JOSEPH, Mich. June 23.— Mrs, Bessie May Woodworth, 24. to- day related how she led state troop- ers in the sensational raid ‘on the House of David last November when Rev. Benjamin Purnell was nabbed after hiding there four years. Mrs. Woodworth, last important witness for the state, who testified Ben first assaulted her when she was 15-years-old, admitted she perjured herself in testifying at the 1923 probe here. She declared she per- jured herself on explicit instructions from Purnell and his two chief girl lieutenants, Ada Ross and Edith Mel- drim. Paar ale etter s Trackmen Killed, Another Injured. apd another injured in a railroad “accident”. to- day. The dead trackman is Harold Shover, 24, of Miller's Falis, the 46, = | | | On Co-operatives THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVE- MENT IN ITALY By B. A. Lloyd 1.75 WORKERS' NON-PROFIT CO- OPERATIV. if BS | | By James E. Wiggins -—100 ~ LENIN ON A | CO-OPERATIVES OS Women WOMAN WORKER AND THE TRADE UNIONS By Theresa Wolfson LTS WOMEN AND SOCIALISM By August Bebel ki WORK AMONG WOMEN —.35 ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE STATE Friedrich Bngels Religion | FOUNDATIONS OF CHRIS- TIANITY, By KarlKeuteky a | MY HERESY Bishop Wm. M. Brown —2. COMMUNISM vs. CHRISTIA? 18M Bishop Wm, M. Brown —.1 PROFITS OF RELIGION \ By Upton Sinclair Paper $1,.00—Cloth 1.50 + American Imperialism THE AMERICAN EMPIRE | By Scott Nearing tie IMPERIAL WASHINGTON \ R, F. Pettigrew | Paper .25—Cloth 1.25 DOLLAR DIPLOMACY By Scott Nearing & Jos. Freeman | DAILY 33 FIRST ST. NEW York injured worker is William Abbott,| J ‘Trenton. sii