The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1927, Page 3

Will Investigate Tortures Used by Prohibition Spies NEW YORK, June States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle this afternoon notified major Chester P. Mills, former prohibition admini trator, and Congressmen F. H, La-| Guardia, of the Bronx, that he would institute a federal grand jury investi- gation of charges that members of the prohibition enforcement staff had used brutal methods to enforce sub- ordinates to give desired information. Allegations to this effect were made last week in testimony given at the trial of Jesse Harvey, of New Rochelle, and three other prohibition agents who were charged with the acceptance of bribes. Shoe Repairers For Sacco. CHICAGO, June 28.—The Shoe Re- pairmans Association of Illinois, with a membership of over 5,000 has joined the list of labor organizations appeal- fng to Gov. 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Inclosed find ..,........ dollars Name ...., ee ere errr) ee 28.—United | | shown. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1927 Workers, Who Made |PRISONERS EXHAUSTED AT END ‘Lindy's Motor, Get | | Gents an Hour | ants (By Worker Correspondent.) The fellows from the Wright Shop \in Paterson, who made Lindy's motor, jlooked pretty happy watching their hero’s parade Monday in New York, but they aren’t as happy as they look. | Most of them are skilled machinists, jand they make as low as 50 cents an hour, and only a few of them getting las high as 90 cents an hour. | Added to that is the lack of steady employment, They never know when | they will be laid off for a few days, |few weeks, or even permanently. They aren’t sure of being able to earn |enough to live on, and the married fel- lows are doubly hard against it. | And now on top of it all comes a speed-up system designed to increase |the productive capacity of each man, |and which automatically puts some of the men out of work because a slack season is on just now. The men are unorganized and are helpless in the face of the boss’s of- fensive against them, Efforts are being made by the Ma- | chinists’ Local 188 here to show the men how necessary it is for them to organize, and the “Wright Propeller,” issued by ‘the Communist Party nucleus in the shop every month, is also steadily urging the men to band themselves together and do something to resist these steady blows by the bosses. Wright Motor Boss | Uses Bonus as Bait To Speed Up Worker cells above ground after their bray: (From the Wright Propeller.) | In our last issue we wrote about) the bonus our bosses are trying to put | over on us, They’ve promised to give | us 50% of the wage rate for all we! produce aboye the standard set by) the time study. | (Continued from Page One) At first glace this looks good, |trj-partite naval conference—and the doesn’t it? In reality, however, the | fact that Japan is supporting her in whole bonus idea is simply a clever|that attitude—has led Washington we erg nage tee oe Pugs ot officialdom to strongly suspect that workers by holding up a fishy ait |‘? pipiens Cle rte alli- that looks like the promise of more aux SEE LOREAL SORES dough. Anglo-Japan Alliance Being Revived This alliance, a prickly thorm in But instead of getting extra money, | British-American relations for many what we really get is a reduction in| Years, was supposedly killed and bur- pay. Beeause the bonus is handed out ied at the Washington conference in as a “reward” for speeding up. And 1921. It was to secure the abroga- speeding up means that wage rates tion of this anti-American partner- are decreased since we get the same | ship that the American government rate even tho we produce more in the entered into a.treaty with England, same period of time. |Japan and France for the mutual lookout for new ways to exploit the|and interests in the Pacific. workers, to get more and more out of h Age ree them for the company’s profit. We, The Dead Is wing must be always on the watch for these |” n | indirect schemes to reduce wages and | alliance has apparently remained increase the speed-up. The bonus is | dead. But the sequence of events at one of these schemes. We must show|Geneva for the past ten days has the boss clearly. that such bait will about eonvinced officials here that it not tempt us. jis emerging from its grave to again confound American statesmanship. Why Was Voikoff Shot , "0% ous! Briain ies wot Will Be Topic of July : | United States, which she so eagerly 8 Lecture at Chicago “<<<! at Washington. She insists x | CHICAGO June 28.—‘Why was P. at Geneva that “Britain’s control of the seas is vital to Britain’s continued Voikoff, Soviet Ambassador to Po- ‘and, killed?” will be the subject of | existence,” while the first Lord of the Admiralty, W. C. Bridgeman, bluntly informed the American dele- | e 3 A paged eg hope amvorkers Fates that “naval equality for Am day Daly bth ak 8 P.M Following | ‘2 is simply a luxury and a pol | the lecture, stereopticon slides on the cal by-play, ae \present situation in China will be} War Clouds In Pacific. Admission free. Everyone} War between the United States an: interested in the progress of the Chi-| nese Revolution and in the defense of | Great Britain, recognized as inevi- f table, though not formerly considered Soviet Russia against the Imperialist plots now being laid against it will imminent, has been brought immeas- bly nearer by the action of Japan find this lecture extremely 4nterest- pinion P ing. | } | lin going over to the British side of |the controversy at Geneva, It is plain a oo EL RNa ot SECRETARIES: pede to mention invoice number when mak- payment, 10M0r 010010 Convention, July 10th |} BUY YOUR 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. Money must be sent in today-——50c to the National Office WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W, Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Ll. now that the struggle for control of the Pacific will see the United States jand whatever allies it can muster on ‘one side and Britain, Japan and their allies on the other side in the next great world upheaval. Official Washington, or that part of it remaining at Washington, is ‘aware of the fact that a great arma- ‘ment race will take place and they \are desperately striving to build their | political fences in an effort to corral | congress behind the military program | that will feature the next session, i Qo |: Capmakers Will i rs) On First of Next Month CHICAGO, June 28.--The cap- makers of Chicago will on July 1st begin the forty hour week. The ‘agreement with the bosses stipulates that they will work forty hours per | week, providing the New York cap- ‘makers who fought the issue, actually ‘commence the short week. There are le few rumors to the effect that the | bosses, who are organized in an as- sociation, will take advantage of the slackness in the trade at the present time, and will refuse to carry out the agreement. But among the workers there is a determination to fight it oo if iy hou ek higal for \ ' , tite in an in al ih od 50¢ to the District Office The bosses are constantly on the | protection of each other's possessions | For six years the Anglo-Japanese | ‘Start Forty Hour Week| OF MINE STRIKE Finally starved out, the convicts of Lansing, Kansas, state penitentiary are here shown returning to their e 77-hour demonstration against rotten food and unbearable conditions. In | the lower picture, some of the men who suffered most. { | : | Steps to Guard Health The gigantic open air arena of the In Deadly Negro Slums | Coney Island Stadium, 5th Street and | Pichi Surf avenue, will be the scene of the y ICTON , dual operatic and concert offering pra iF acta Weta vues bi (FP).— the Joint Defense Committee, Cloak- | gil icant Sinan Pinas td a cebu, {makers and Furriers, Saturday night, Led. Abiaes bhrectamgy aetad fe mn | uly 16, Borodine’s world famous bag ee sail nton- WB Hines “Tgor'”pPMeerted - by: Alexis capital, but not one penny to eradicate Kosloft, premier dantepse of the Met-| Neste slunis, if present District pol- Congress last ropolitan Opera House assisted by his |'1°S te carried out, ballet corps of 50 and 100 musicians of the New York Symphony Orches- |. Bag sated : " tra conducted by Erno Rupee, inter- Pind of alley snemeaty, occupied. for nationally-acclaimed musical virtuo- | ‘he most part by Negro workers, The so will be the principal attraction. District sous of appeals found bei Palie Th Baas nls dancer oF the | @¥ uneonstitutional and the District Metropolitan. Opera Company, Vie-| Commissioners announce they will not toria Youngman, and Alice “Delang | aPPea! the decision to the Supreme | Weekes, formerly of the Capitol} vourt, | Theatre Ballet, will be presented in| Slimy streams, it was reported to | the principal roles, jthe Federation of Civie Associations, This affair is being given for the Colored, run from sties containing | purpose of r ng funds for the de- | thousands of pigs into a creek which fense and relief of the imprisoned |T™UnS through the Negro district. In | furriers and cloakmakers, and also for | flood times, the filth spreads over their wives and children. A great |2cres of ground, endangering the success will be a tremendous blow | health of residents. “Shovel the muck | against bureaucracy. back into the ereek,” Dr. W. C. Fow- ler, District health official, told pro- testing Negroes when they com- plained. In another locality a refuse tion passed a law forbidding the rent- | Ludwig Landy, campaign manager | of the Joint Defense Committee ex- | | pects more than 30,000 people to at- |tend the concert this year. His esti- |mate is prompted by the enormous | suecess of last year’s concert at the| |same place given for the benefit of | the children of the textile strikers in | Passaic. | This is the second consecutive year do anything about it. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS | session in a moment of unwonted emo- | | The acquisitive Mr. Hoover has | captured Lindbergh, The or has }announced that his future. is in the hands of the Secretary of Commerce for the promotion of commercial | aviation, nd so Hoover, ever on |the qui vive for reinforcements in his wily fight for the Republican presidential nomination in 1928, adds the most popular Ameri of the moment to his private staff. Hoover is undoubtedly the most powerful man in Washington, now |that Secretary Mellon has accom- plished his great mission of lowering |taxes for the wealthy. Hoover, with | his own State Department in the far- flung bureau of foreign and domestic commerce; his control over the radio air lanes secured through the capture of the new federal radio commission, d on an entire floor of his | commerce building; his gradual ec air through his expand AUS ical bur his qu grabbing of the M ippi flood limelight from the war and interior | departments; his excellent standing with the church people through his Red Cross connections in the flood work and in European reconstructio’ | government itself. Hoover Has Machine. All this in addition to the exten- sive and fast-growing apr tus of the department of commerce, with representatives in every community nd close contacts jber of commerce and {club in the country. Washington awards the palm to Hoover as the STATE TROOPERS DRIVING (Continued from Page One) |drive them off the state highway in |front of the mine. The miners suc- ceeded in leaving a picket of eight |men on the road. Miners Surrounded. The miners of Vesta No. 6 were un- able to join in the picketing because }eoal and iron police armed with guns land clubs surrounded the miners’ houses and prohibited them from |leaving their houses. miners,’ Steve Aregedi and | Two |John Thomas were walking down a dark road about 9:30 in the evening} | a couple of days before this. They |were going home from a meeting in |Moose Hall. Two coal and iron po- |lice arrested them, took them to the |company jail, and being joined there \by a third, beat them up. The next day the company owned squire fined |them a dollar each “for disorderly conduct”. Their case is being ap- pealed and they are out on bail now. Arrest Pickets. recent arrests are those of {Joseph Gouosky, John Muha and Steve Blorik, all members of the miners’ union Daisytown local, They |had been picketing, and two were ar- |rested while talking quietly in a gas~ \oline station while the third was ar- Other rested while walking alone down the | road. All were held on bonds for \“disorderly conduct”. Stone Children, On June 20 a large touring car with one member of the Vesta Coal Com- pany’s coal and iron police in plain clothes and three seabs aboard rushed | down the road from Daisytown to Walkertown, The company policeman |drove and the scabs |car. Complaints by the women to the |state police resulted in no action by | the latter. | Still Trying to Get Water. ! CASTLE SHANNON, Pa. June —Hoover is practically the American | bombarded | dump has resulted in several cases of | miners’ wives and children with rocks, | to give the employers a case, are # smallpox, but the District refuses to|0f which they carried a store in the|left just where they were and: jsmartest politician i |now that Cal is ou Young Lindbergh bh jout or he will mired in the political b: lows his annowueed pla |with Howard Coffin ar derson’s National Air \he will precipitate himse) of the capital’s nas’ jmesses. Coffin is the m planes were called “flaming cof by luckless American aviator to fly in them. Henderson is \ew of the chairman of the b ropriations committee sistant postmaster-gen of air mail and now m | National Air Transport ( |Coffin is president, | Mix in Graft | Lindbergh, if he goes ahea present plans, will find hims charge of 17 new government plane ocked down to Coffin and He on for half their original cost. § tors, representatives and atto e joined in denouncing the de illegal and an example of gross gov rnmental favoritism, The young man who is now the na tional hero, will also discover that jmuch of his most profitable bu: {that of carrying air mail, co |his company through business denounced in . Washington among the shadiest yet perp: by the Harding-Coolidge boys. i the Lindbergh reputation come through unblemished from such con, nections? yin) Paul ods PICKETS FROM HIGHWAYS {28.—The Pittsburgh Terminal Coa) Co. continues to shut off the wate: supply of the miners here and ai Mollenauer. The miners have pio- tested to the health authorities thi such action may result in an as they will have to carry their a considerable distance, and even | that, obtain it from a probably jpe luted source. a The president of the ¢6 y Horace F. Baker, has answered health officers that the company | determined not to provide water t¢ men who insisted on defying the com- pany’s order to work non-union and for a lower wage. “Let the miners boil their water,” said Baker to’ one of the officials, Dr, John Conovor. / * Cappelini At Work. ce PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 28% Summarily settling the strike of 80 coal miners employed at Seneca @ liery of the Lehigh Valley Goal ©o4 on terms rather more to the advan tage of the company than the and arbitrarily calling off the: ing intended for today in this & the Anthracite Conciliation vere the two latest acts of 1 Cappelini, president of Distriet No. United Mine Workers of A ii The conciliation board was, to up the question raised by the Mi ‘ | Coal Co., which refuses to |that contract enacted between the employers and the Cappelini adminis- tration, with the blessing of h Lewis, president of the internationa administration of the union, calls for a closed shop and the checkoff. These two questions, on which it is freely charged that Lewis and pelini sold out the miners, and pur posely made the contract so vague @ of jcompany disregards the union. | Cappelini yesterday very indi \ly denounced anybody who would |tempt to start a strike in his distric \ to enforce either of them, that Kosloff is appearing at the Sta» | dium for strikers’ benefit. Last sum- | |mer he presented Rimsky-Korsakoff |“Scheherezade.” This year the ever | popular “Prince Igor” will be one of | |the main features. Terpsichorean jand ballet divertisements by cele- brated artists will complete this un- Jusually large program at popular prices. | Elaborate orchestral selections by the greatest composers of all times will be produced by the New York Symphony Orchestra. Some of: them include: Wagner, Richard and Johann Strauss, Tschaikowsky, Rimsky-Kor- sakoff, Berlioz, Borodine, ete. Tiekets, which are sold at $2 and $1, can be purchased in the office of the Joint Defense Committee, 41 Union Square. * * Collections Last Friday. } The Progressive Bakers Club for-| | warded $126.00 to the office of the} | Furriers’ Defense Committee. $50.00 | was paid from their treasury and | $76.00 collected among the members | at their meeting held Friday evening, | June 24, where 8, Herbst made an) | appeal, | * * * Lena Chernenko made an appeal, for the Defense at the meeting of the | Harlem Progressive Youth Club on | Friday evening. $25.00 was donated ‘from the treasury and $75.00 collee- ; ‘ted among the membership, Brother Lipzin, back from Toronto, made an| | appeal at Doctor Liber's lecture where | $122.00 was collected. The lecture} |Was arranged by Branch No. 548 Workmen's Circle. The Bronx Work-| ers Club forwarded $52.00 collected at a meeting, Friday June 24, in| answer to an appeal of Brother Lip- | zin, §S. 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