The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1927, Page 2

TugeTwo THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1927 : . Report Balkan Lull; ‘HOUSE OF LORDS [Communist tenders to | POLICE DOCTORED SVEN TUCs CaucHT CUTTING PICKETS CONFESS Reservations Soon Albania to Release PASSES MEASURE | "stow Jl /DADERG IN TRIAL otsroenoes atime some, Osed fr 6-Week Yugoslav Official FOR MORE POWER OF 4 COMMUNISTS Soviet Union Tour | Had License Number. | |tion with reactionary elements in the! PARIS, June 24,—Despite the BERLIN, June 24.—Diplomatic re- A closing date for enrollment in | “The license number of the Packard | |International Fur Workers Union to|car in which. the men artested this| immunity supposed=to be guar- anteed him as a member of the lations between Jugo-Slavia and Al- the six weeks’ trip to Russia has bees bania have been resumed as the re-| beat back the progressive forces in | morning were riding was given to} | the organization who are fighting to|the police several days ago, and it| } arin jimprove the working conditions of|was known to the police that the | | < } tions |the union, y Unsuccessful in their| gangsters were cruising in this car. Read Par ty. Reso bh |moves to win the workers by any|We feel that this incident today ex- In “Sedition Trial {other methods the knife and black-| plains why the International officials Chamber of Deputies, Marcel Cachin, Communist leader will go to prison for six months for oppos- Liberals Bemoan Threat | sult of Jugo-Slavia accepting demands | put forth in a joint demarch by the LONDON, June 24.—Viscount Fitz —=- minist of England, France, Italy many, according to patches received here from Belgrade. Jugo-Slavia will retract “aggres- sive and offending passages” in its note to Albania and Albania will re- lease Jugo-Slavian dragomen, v it has held in custody. $100,000 Fire in Framingham. FRAMINGHAM, Mas Fire, which caused dam at $100,000, today destroyed the grain elevator of J. Cushing Company and three other buildings, and for a time threatened the entire Irving Square business section. Sacco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! 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Inclosed find dollars lan’s motion for the “reform” of the itish House of Lords was carried y by a vote o to after a ent four hours’ ussion of the s of the various contending fac- tions in British politics. effort to cut down hereditary bership to approximately one | h and introduce the election and appointment, for ted periods, of a portion of the members, is meeting a concentrated opposition -from the Labor Party and the Liberals, who | score the Government for attempting jto put through so serious a revision of the Constitution without first sub- | mitting the matter to the country for decision, Pe plan of the government to | strengthen the power of the Lords is }eompanioned by one to limit that of |the House of Commons through the appointment of members of the Peer- age to sit in the lower House. Liberals Forecast Revolution. That the liberals are thoroughly |aroused is evidenced by a Manifesto | issued today by a meeting of the Lib- }eral Party, presided over by Lloyd | | George, which says in part that the | |proposals of the Government “will | | undermine the supremacy of the rep- | resentative Chamber,” and “by taking | away the royal prerogative to create Peers in case of a,deadlock, they | might force the nation to choose be- | tween an uncontrolled _ hereditary | chamber and révolution.” | | The Manchester Guardian, spokes- | |man for the Liberal Party, is very | | much exercised over the matter. “It | jis asking for revolution,” said today’s | | editorial. “The lords would have what | they have never had before—the pow- | \er of forcing the general election.” | Labor Fears Curtailed Power. | The Labor Party, which hopes to | come into power in the next elections lon the wave of disgust and indigna- | tion among the rank and file against | the labor-baiting tory government, are fearful of the curtailment of their power, and regard this measure as an | effort to forestall their control of the government should they be swept in by the elections. John R. Clynes, acting leader for |the opposition, on being refused his | request for a day for the expression lof the opposition point of view by | Winston Churchill, chancellor of the | exchequer, announced that the Labor |Party would offer a motion of cen- | | sure, thereby forcing the government ing French imperialism in Mor- occo, The imprisonment of Cachin fol- lows that of M. Semard, Secreta of the French Communist Party and editor of L’Humanite, Other French Communist leaders ‘have been sentenced to terms of im- prisonment for opposing French imperialism, Cachin is charged with inciting “French troops to re- volt” in the imperialist campaign in Moroceo, Requesting that other sentenced Communists be given the ten days’ grace extended to him, Cachin d, “I am ready to go to prison. I have been there before and I may be again. But since ten days’ grace has been given me, I ask that the same be given to the others who are condemned with me.” Needle Trade Defense Ben Gold Will Be There. The mons er Coney Island Stadium Concert which will take place July| 16th will be one of the biggest) demonstrations for the striking| furriers and for the other workers in the needle trades and against the traitorous clique of Sigman-Woll- McGrady and the Forward. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint| Board Furriers Union and other lea- ders of the strike will speak at the! munist) By A. JAKIRA. PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 2: | Steve Bratich, Tom Zina, and Milan | Joint Board are conducting a strike | | Resiter, three of the four defendants | which the right wing is trying to] now on trial for sedition in Beaver, | were called to the stand today by} the defence. | Resitar, who oceupied the stand| half the day, and who will be cross- | examined to-morrow, testified that} he is a member of the Workers (Com-| Party and explained under} direct and cross examination the Reads Party Resolutions. | Attorney Wilson, after vigorous! objection on the part of the prosecu-| tion which were overruled by Judge} McConnell, read to the jury and the| packed court room, the full resolu-| tion adopted at the last convention| of the Workers Party and published| in pamphlet form. | That the prosecution fixed the! records of the Woodlawn street| nucleus which were seized during the raid of November 11th last year was charged by Resetar. | The names of three workers who} have never been members of the! Workers (Communist) Party were) added by the police to the member- ship lists. The additions were made by a typewriter other from Resetar’s. Other changes in the records were} also pointed out. | The prosecution from the begin-| ening of the trial referred quite fre-| quently to a pamphlet “Blood and} | |jack is now being used in a last futile | refused several months ago to ap- attempt to hold power. The progres-|pear before Magistrate Brodsky at} ; Hh by | Union and those American Fed | principles and policies of the Party.} |of Borodine’s Prince Igor and a fine| out that the pamphlet is a statement concert. The lawyers who defended | Steel” trying to create the im-| the furriers at the Mineola trial, will! pression that the pamphlet was con- also appear. | nected with the alleged attempts to} Erno Rapee, conducting the New)|blow up the Jones and Laughlin York Symphony Orchestra, Kosloff| steel mills. | with his famous ballet of 50, and| This maneuver was smashed when Rita de la Porte of the Metropolitan,|the defence introduced the pamphlet will collaborate in the presentation| as evidence and when Resetar pointed concert program. This will be the|of the brutal conditions in the steel | prove his charge. | mer, most outstanding event of the sum- Tickets sell at $1.00 for general aa-| mission and $2.00 for reserved seats. . * * | Jails and Money. | The press dwells daily on ‘the de-| votion and self sacrifice of the | striking furriers to their Union and} their cause. Numerous examples of \faithfulness are shown daily on the} picket line and in court. In order to} save the Union the expense, the ar- rested pickets go to jail rather than allow the payment of fines. We can-| \not go into detail, but one. incident unreported by the press is worthy of| that this society had several years | mention: Monday morning a group of | pickets was reported. They were| to listen to its objections. | two days in jail. As usual they pre- | ferred jail. Even this wasn’t enough. L, Berger, one of the arrested pic- kets made a collection in jail and realized $12.10 for the Furriers Young So. American Hanged. | CHICAGO, June 24.—Elin Lyons, Colombian soldier of fortune, was | hanged in the county jail today for \the murder of Julian Bonfield, police | ctrike, | officer, killed during a holdup. | Brother L. N. has been doing good | ‘The youthful South American went | york for the Defense for many to his death calmly. He maintained | months, So far he succeeded in keep- |his innocence to the last, claiming | ing out of print. Unfortunately for | Policeman Bonfield shot himself acei- | him, however, he happened to be ar- dentally. |}rested on the picket line Thursday enpmnieneraneinertr? ; motning and by the time he was rid Straton Denies Primitive Rites. of the 30th Street Police Station early Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of | in the afternoon, he carried with him Calvary Baptist Church, yesterday |a collection of $18.43. denied that he permitted “Penetocos- | . * * talism” at the church. | Loan and Donate. His denial came in the wake of the} E. P. Gaberman, secretary of the resignations of five deacons of the|Hartford Defense Committee has |church who declared that there had|found a new way of raising im- |been strange services there in which | mediate funds for the Defense of the | women writhed on the floor and tore | imprisoned cloakmakers and furriers |their clothing in religious frenzy. }and the relief of the strikers. Not jbeing able to raise large sums of Harvard Gets Millions. |money very readily, the Hartford CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June 24. — | Committee decided to borrow $500 President A. Lawrence Lowell of | {0m a loan association. This money Harvard today announced that the | ¥@S immediately donated for the de- university had received gifts totalling fense, the various members of the 6,003,372. Committee pledging themselves to pvt: make a 50 cent weekly payment each, a BUY eC —=0mS10=———I0E30 Money must be sent in tod: WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W. Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. SECRETARIES: Be sure to mention invoice number when mak- ing payment. 101010201010 nvention, July 10th ASSESSMENT STAMP TODAY! 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! It is the only way to finance the Convention and prevent you from losing your right to vote. | until the entire sum is paid off. This | is such a good way of raising money | in the present crisis that we earnestly recommend this method to all other | cities and towns. * * * | More Contributions. I. Simkin of Detroit, forwarded $25 for the striking furriers. He | writes he was formerly of local 35 when Breslow group was in power | thru a reign of terror. He hopes that \it will never again be back. ‘ . ec 6 YOUR | Shifre and Gedale Miller of Pater- | son send $2 to the office of the De- fense instead of buying flowers for | the new born son of Raisel and Berish | Engel. Jacob Manshowitz and David | Payus “forwarded $5 for the striking furriers. D. Hilzig of Local 22 va- |cationing in the mountains on ac- }count of ill health, sent $11 and re- \grets that she cannot participate | actively in the Union. Patient Shoots Doctor, INDIANA, Pa., June 24,—An un- |found guilty and fined $5 each or| public in Russia.” mills which are responsible for the preventable deaths of thousands of workers. Karl Marx’s “Communist Mani- festo” was continually referred to by the prosecution to show that Com- munist doctrines are “seditious.” At- tempts were also made by the prose- cution to show that the Croatian Benefit Union is a Communist organ- ization. Aided Russian Relief. Muselin, Resetar and Zima are ac- tive members and officers of the Woodlawn branch of the society. | Prosecuting attorney Craig charged ago contributed $11,000 to “aid in the establishment of a Soviet Re- The defence easily proved that United States Government agencies had sent millions of dollars to the Soviet Union for the purpose as the Croatian Benefit Society—namely, for famine relief. It was also brought out in today’s | | session that one of the witnesses who testified’ that the defendants had preached “bloodshed and dynamite” | was involved in a financial seandal in| the Woodlawn Croatian lodge. He} attempted to withdraw $1,500 of the| society’s money for his own purposes | without the knowledge of the mem- bership. | | Witnesses Biased. | Muselin and Zima, officers of the} society, prevented the embezzlement. He then made threats that “he would get them yét.” Another witness, the defence showed, had been driven out from his} house by Zima, which he had rented | from Zima, because, neighbors com- plained about his conduct. He also promised Zima that he “would get revenge.” During the day continual clashes took place between the attorney for the defence and the prosecuting at- torney, the defence demanding the dismissal of the jury and a new trial, The case will probably close to- morrow. ‘Geneva May End in Big Naval Competition | | (Continued from Page One) | United States on the high seas, be-| cause of its desire to dominate the) Pacifie Washington officials are be- side themselves with rage at today’s | declaration of Bridgeman, the head of the British delegation. | “Britain,” said Bridgeman, in a} speech that has been carefully marked | down here in Washington, “depends upon control of the seas for her ex- istence. For the United States, naval | equality is simply a luxury and po- litieal by-play.” | President Coolidge dissuaded con- gress last session from embarking | upon an ambitious cruiser-program only with considerable difficulty. Should Britain persist in her initial position at Geneva, and the confer- sives under the lead of the New York break. | Joint Board Statement. The Joint Board issued the follow-.| ing statement last night: “The arrest of the seven men who attacked our members this morning absolutely substantiates our charge | that the International Fur Workers | tion of Labor officials who are supe: vising its affairs are hiring gang- | sters to attack the fur strikers, | “Several of those arrested this morning have police records, and the Joint Board will in a few days make public other revelations concerning | their characters. The important point is that they admit that they were hired by the International and that they were caught with the iron bars used by them to assault our | workers, | To Evade Issue. | “They claim @ have been hired by | a man named ‘Sovel,’ but no such} ne n exists. This is simply an at-| tempt to hide the name of the res- ponsible official. | “Whoever this is, we intend to find} him out and place upon him the res- | ponsibility for the murderous attacks which have been occurring since the | beginning of our internal union dif- | ficulties. Edward F. McGrady, in| charge of the ‘reorganization com- | mittee’ has been constantly issuing statements charging the Joint Board with gangsterism, but he has never cited a single instance of violence to International’s Attorney. “On the other hand, when Meyer Friedman and,Sam Cohen, neither of them fur workers, and one with a record of serving two terms for fel- ony, were arrested for assaulting Aaron Gross, chief business agent of the Joint Board, on June 9, it was the firm of Samuel Markewitch, the | International’s lawyer, who immedi- | ately took charge of their case when } they reached the police station, and | it was the International which signed their bail bond. It was this same} lawyer who appeared for Samuel! Klein, who assaulted both Sam Wie- nick on June 20 and A. Kramer on June 22. It was with iron bars, sim- ilar to those found in the car this morning, that Wienick and another worker, Samuel Barr, were both knocked unconscious. This morning it was Mr. Reis, a representative of Markewitch, who appeared in the Thirtieth street. station to take charge of the gangsters’ case. | ter | the gangsters said that a man named his request and endeavor to clarify | this issue of gangsterism, The Joint | Board, which has always been anxi- ous for an investigation of this mat- | appeared at that ‘time. Mr. | McGrady refused to appear and kept up his talk about the ‘Joint Board hiring gangsters’ Just why he made | such repeated accusations is now quite plain, To Clean Out Gangsters. “In view of the serious situation | which is revealed by today’s arrests, the Joint Board will request the city authorities to take immediate steps to apprehend those who are sending these men out to commit murder. We shall not rest until the gangsters are cleared out of the fur market and those‘ who employ them are cleared out of the unions so that our work- ers may be safe.” Have Prison Records. The gangsters arrested are Moses Schwartz who has spent four years in Sing Sing for holdup; James Eag- an who served one year in the peni-| tentiary at Trenton, N. J.; Joseph} Goldberg, Edward Goldman, Benja- | min Wagner, Henry woldstein, and| David Kolbremer, the driver of the automobile. When asked for the name of the| right wing official who hired them, | Sovel did so. According to people | well informed, this is looked upon as | a blind, no one by that name being} known in the needle trades. Appar- ently the thugs were sorry at admit- | ting that they were hired by the right | wing, and looking for a method of es- | cape, decided not to betray the real name of their employer. | announced by World Tourists, Inc, of 41 Union Square, which is ar ranging for the tour which is to leave New York for Leningrad on July 14th. There are now only 75 places open in this party, and all reservations must be made not later than July 1st, in order that arrangements may be completed in Russia by the USSR Society for Cultural Relations which will conduct the tourists throughout | their visit, Many Apply. The interest in this first general tour to Soviet. Russia is coming from many varied sections of the publia Applications have been made by doc tors, dentists, teachers, business men, housewives and workers of both na tive and foreign birth. The party will undoubtedly be an exceptionally interesting group, some of them want ing to see the industrial developments jof new Russia, some curious to look jat the rooms where the former czaz and his family lived or the art treas- ures which the aristocracy used to keep hidden in their palaces. A num ber of the tourists will go to visit friends and relatives after the sight seeing in Leningrad and Moscow is ended. The moderate price of the siz weeks’ tour planned by the World Tourists is made possible because o4 the cooperation of the Society for Cultural Relations in Russia. They want to show the sights of this first Workers’ Republic to both the pro- [fessional and industrial workers of America. It is going to be a revela- tion to many members of the gro to see the progress which is being made along every line of economic and social life. War Plans Continue; {Lindbergh will ‘lend his name to Lindbergh Puppet of : Plutes and Patriots New — to rng In. Aviation Project Itself” in the Fa 3 | WASHINGTON, June 24.—Charles | j ihition of light artillery and anti- \aireraft gun practice at Fort Tilden, Rockaway, Queens, early in Septem- | ber, it was learned yesterday. Troops are to be sent to Fort Tilden from group of big business men headed by William B. Mayo and William B. Roberston. Although Lindbergh will probably . Plans are being made for an ex ‘ be a nominal official of the com- mercial aviation corporation that is! being formed, it is stated that his job | will consist of lending his reputation | to the company. | Lindbergh will be made the dupe| of militarism as much as big business in the venture, since commercial planes are easily converted into mili- Fort Totten at Whitestone, to partici- pate in the exhibition. This will be the first such exhibition at Fort Til- den in two years. It is planned to have airplancs for targets during the day and night and these targets are to be fired at by troops at the fort. Offices of the regular army and of the reserve corps will observe the practice, under the leadership of spe- cial instructors. tary planes. Saeco and Vanzetti Shall Not Die! none] t RR BR GR I Sg LM SAN PO IOI IIO LE LLP LE LIN, Sailing for Leningrad Six We $575 for steamship July 14th for a eks’ Trip to Russia A party of Americans is setting out for a sight-seeing tour in the first Workers’ Republic, visiting Leningrad, Moscow and near-by points. COVERS ALL EXPENSES tickets, rail fares, rooms, meals, and excursions to such places as Tsarskoye Selo, Peterhof, the mammoth power center at Volkhov-Stroi. museums, art galleries—and the best theatres and concerts, too. WANT TO COME? The time is short. The party is limited. 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With a tremendous surplus in touring car. the treasury and the necessity for e man’s motive has not been es- | more aggressive expeditions in behalf of Wall Street investments a race for Poa ee of every description is on NIZE OUR ADVERTISERS | the order of the day. 41 Union Square, Room 803 New York, Stuy, 7251 WORLD TOURISTS, INC. ‘ N.Y. The above picture ix the motorship “Gripsholm” of the Swedish American line which will carry the party to Leningrad,