The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 7, 1927, Page 6

| 1 A ; 4 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 7 TWELVE AIRPLANES in the Ford reliability tour arrived in New York from Boston, completing approximately 800 miles of their 4,200-mile tour. How the Frame-Up Works ‘on Henry Ford’s ‘Model’ Ships An Amazing Tale of the Methods Used By the Understrappers|‘° docile and abjectly submi and Legal Lackeys of the Stamp Out All Protest Great “Philanthropist” To Among Seamen—This Story Is A Document of the American Class Struggle of To Seamen But Interest Not Only To All Workers. 'HE following story concerns itself with the experiences of two sailors, George Loomis and James Fitzgerald, both employed by the Ford Motor Company on one of the to tow the vessels which the Ford Comp: process of creating its economical (Continued From Last Issue) IN THE 24th of December, 1925, they were taken from the hotel to the commissioner’s office and from the commissioner's office to the Canton jail, where they were kept : on for two days without receiving atten-| 2mounted to the stealing of several} fighting. tion.. On the 26th they were again{fitths of butter, throwing meat over-| y taken to the commissioner’s office. This time they were asked if they had anybody representing them. Their lawyer was not there somehow and could not be located at the ap- pointed time. Neither 4he commis- sioner, the marshal or the captain would allow the seamen to be re- leased so that they might go out and look for their lawyer. Instead, they held them prisioners in the office un- der guard and proceeded with the ex- amination. When the seamen demanded the right of examination and representa- tion hy counsel the commissioner told them that he had met their attorney in the street and that he had waived examination for his clients. No self- respecting lawyer would ever endan-| nesses was so crude that even the| {t/ judge had to agree that no evidence | a deliberate frame-| had been shown at any time to indi-| up than a trial, the commissioner] cate that the charges against the sea-| ger a client in such a manner. seems more lik taking it upon himself to waive ex- amination over the protest of the seamen. Immediately after this they were railroaded to jail. They were kept in the Canton jail without any legal process other than a simple commit- ment paper. Ford Can Do No Wrong. 'HE influence of Henry Ford seems to have a soothing effect upon t3e official conscie in order to gover such a heinous procedure. Fitzgeralq and Loomis w released on. the 20th of 1926, after hav imprisonment with real trial other t which has been dese Their only gleam hope this period was a curt note fr District of their s is a demonstra- tion of the power of a capitalist cor- poration over the so-called instru- ments of justice, law shipping industr: instructive to othe the value to themselv struments in a capital Fleeced of Wages. it should be workers to note of th in- ial order. E men were released without a cent of wages or any m to them at all; however, case of the w came up for t week in the ney paid when the City. Court, the Editor, The DAILY WORKER: When the owners of the Pechter and Messinger baking trusts set out to break the bakers’ union they reckoned without the women. The organization of the Women’s Councils was a step that the bosses did not anticipate. They ted all the neighborhood groceries in an z tempt to persuade the owners not iolp in the sale of the scab bread. When they were unable to make any piogress with a given grocery, the committee would picket it from morn- ing to night. They distributed leaf- lets, arranged open-air meetings, etc., until they were victorious. How were the wives of the workers able to accomplish all this? How did they manage with their housework and responsibilities? The answer is found in mutual aid, co-operation, and organization.. They took care of each other’s children, assisted each other in shopping, ete. Of course they were also on the picket line. The “Bakers’ Housewives’ ‘ 1 r| tured in the off und order in the| ir boats, the tug ‘ all Camp,” used y purchases and uses in the “lizzy”. Motor Company had miraculously procured evidence to the effect that | Loomis and Fitzgerald\were thieves, jthat they had wilfully destroyed | property and were deserters. The technical charges brought up | board and disposing cooking uten- s in the same way. They were also charged with cutting rope and fusing to do work upon the request | of the captain. | Manufactured Evidence. |THE Ford Company, in the course of the trial, introduced two wit- nesses, These witnesses, Andraddy and Dane by name, had been kept by the | Ford Motor Company for two years, |their transportation paid to New York, and their running expenses taken care of. This is the extent to | which ‘the Ford people were ready to | go to suppress the action of militant | Workers. | The evidence given by these wit- men were true. Ford went even one step further, taking the trouble of digging up the navy record of Loomis and finding some flimsy e of speaking back to a superior officer. This was swept about the cour |by the Ford lawyer with majestic x and triumphant red ions about patrio ’s country in tempt of the j ffidavits Manufactured. ie WAS quite plainly pointed out |" and accepted that the affidavits of the Ford witnesse manufac- Ford law- the secret elementary of power ga | rights. Organization Only Hope. Seamen are entitled to good con- ditions aboard ship, decent living quarters intended for the proper| \housing of the crew instead of the econom ace for profit; four n every port of stop; bi pay which is now tive wage ashore. The Ford workers espec nd an increase in far below the rela- | Council” in the Bronx, especially, has been of great aid in the strike. Against the strikers the bosses use injunctions, gangsters, and other weapons but they are helpless against the agitation of the women. Let us hope that your women read- ers will profit by our example and or- ganize neighborhood working cle | counc ils so as to help in time of s | Member, United Coune' | Working Class Housewives. subject State Pays Debt. WASHINGTON, July 6.—For the first time in the hectic history of | American war debt ne jnagion came to the U Treasury today and te |for its eritire obligations, plus in-| terest. The republic of Liberia, with a ulation of but 4,000,000, m s entire obligations to the United States. oroximately $35,000 in settlement of Throngs View Ford Tour Planes on 4,200 Mile Race for Trophy DOPE AIDS DOMINION 3y GEORGE H. SHOAF. PORT SAID, (By Mail).—People of inquiring turn wonder why the Orientals, especially those who in- habit India and Malaysia, have been an |the presence of theiy white conquer- jor In common with disinterested a who seek the truth I The answer zious, and more immediately satisfying kind, opium and the betel-nut. Buddhism and Mohammedanism are } | the two principal religious that obsess |the minds and hearts of the inbabi- | |tants of Indian and Malaysia. Many | |Chinese endorse the philosophy of Confucius. Some few of them have embraced Buddhism and Mohairaed- anism, but as a rule the majority of | the Chinese have no religious faith. Indian Non-Resistants. The Indian and Malay Buddhists and Mohammedans have been usually n tant. They did not believe in Easily imposed upon, al-| a they turned the other cheek. Needless to say the British gover ment not only countenances these en slaving superstitions and vile prac- | | tices hut encourages them. On every hand as one travels through the Ori- ent, Buddhist temples and Mohamme. |dan mosques are beheld. Multiplied | millions of worshippers throng them | daily. The mouths of nearly every | native one meets are stained with the | red‘ of the betel-nut. This habit lulls to sleep the senses, stupefies the brain and completely breaks down the will, In Singapore, Penang, Colombo, |Caleutta and Bombay, opium joints | | flou | are quite overpowering. What a com- bination of lucky circumstances the British possess to aid them in keep- ing their subject peoples down! Masters Use Opium. | What wouldn’t the labor-hating masters of the American people giv if some almighty power could and would come to their assistance with a nation-wide sweep of religious re- vival that would convict and convert the working classes and bring them 1 to the feet of the non-resisting N rine. How the ruling classes would rejoice at the spectacle of the workers unitedly rendering unto Cz the things that are Caesar's, and resistingly turning the other | cheek! No! wonder the superstition- injecting Aimee Semple McPherson has been subsidized by the business interests of Los Angeles and given carte blanche to go out among the workers and corral them right and left. The preachments of a hundred McPhersons at strategic positions in _| services now connect Detroit with Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo and sh openly, and in some of the} * *. + streets the fumes from these dives | FORD NOT INTERESTED NOW IN “PEACE SHIPS”; FINDS GREAT AERIAL WAR NAVIES PROFITABLE In a press interview: yesterday Henry Ford showed consider- able pride in the operation of his own air lines. There are four flying from the Ford Airport here daily, and to date, the Ford lines have established a record of 6,517 flying hours and 580,933 flying miles with only one serious accident. The auto king’s air Grand Rapids, Mich. The Ford planes, he said, “maintain a sched- ule of 1,582 air miles a day, six days a week.” “What will the plane of the future be like?” he was asked. “The large multi-motored plane is the plane of the future,” said Ford. “They will be of great size, carry many motors and hold a hundred passengers easily. These large planes will come because they can be more easily operated. | “The present machine is four-fifths man-operated. The oper-| ator must be on the job every second. Too much depends on the| man. I think this ratio can be reversed by building larger ships, with more motors and less dependence on the human equation.” “What should America do to be prepared in the air for the next war?” he was asked. “Work on aviation,” he replied promptly. “I think aviation is coming as fast as it can in a commercial sense. I have a lot of faith in the United States and I think the commercial development of aviation helps the national defense by showing the way. The government should come along.” z “Can airplanes ever displace battleships as Colonel Billy Mitchell says?” i “There is no question about it,” Ford replied, very seriously. “Airplanes can destroy anything pertaining to war. Aviation, I believe, has started another cycle. Mitchell is right.” CURRENT EVENTS between London and Tokio is consid- ered quite possible. (Continued from Page One) anese alliance current in Geneva are not without foundation is indicated in . st ‘ Say 3 of Peking he issued his warning on ie ee eet is soe PY) instructions from the Nationalist en | It would* not be a sur- ‘ «| movement. penn te, ner Toles leagen Oe to us to hear within a compara- rei tively short time that Washington has ier warned se a eevee decided to recognize the Nationalists Wa uamee diet Gramiee ae tiok Be. leaving the British and the Japanese 4 5 hes ia “|holding the bag. with the northern Beare Getneee ea mea peo |militarists. It is .also probable that ae Cr ee the money bags of the American im- ate a Oe een awakened | perialists were used effectively in | United States an agreement hostile omneine about the switch of Chiang | zh i Kai-shek and Feng Yu-Hsiang from jto both China and the United States|+,. Nationalist revolutionary cause | 5 ; = and their adherence to the bourgeois |the United States—with the criminal anti-labor,. pro-imperialist policy of | syndicalism laws operating against | way Street. While British imperial- | radical agitation—would quickly steep |ism led the imperialist attack on the | the workers in the right superstition | Chinese revolution, it is now becoming pend make them more obedient and | clear that the underground methods of | law-abiding than they are at the pres-|the United States were more effec- ent time. tive in corrupting the right wing and bourgeois leaders than the more onen Pe the Chinese league representa- tive is in Geneva as a representative Truly religion is the opium of the people. In the Far East the British | methods employed by the British Em- use both! pire. Coolidge Fishes—But the Western Farmers Are Not All Suckers WITH The American Revolution was a war for independence and self-deter- mination; it was a war fought to free the American colonies from the rule of a foreign country that was oppressing them—Great Britain. We hail with pride the revolutionary tra- ditions of this great struggle for, colonial liberation, ‘ Today, in 1927, there are millions of people groaning under the oppres- sive tyranny of American imperial- ist rule. There are millions of work- ers and farmers in the American Em- pire—the Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and so on—whose strivings for national self-determination are ruth- lessly crushed by the bayonets of the Wall Street government. There are many millions of people whom the American government is trying to re- duce to slavery and to keep in that condition. Nicaragua has now become practically an American colony. In their fight for freedom and indepen- dence the Chinese workers and farm- ers meet with no more bitter enemy than the U. S. Just as in 1776 the British govern- ment sent troops to crush the Ameri- can colonists who were striving for independence, so today the United States, the great imperialist tyrant YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE COURSES After anxiously waiting for the eventful day of June 19th, students from many places assembled at Main Hall for the third annual * Young Workers League Courses of 1927. Forty seven students in all came from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Dakota. Thirty-eight dif- ferent localities are represented at these courses, The courses started off very well this year in spite of heavy rains dur- ing the first few days, but it ‘soon cleared up and we started our work in earnest. One student had to leave because of threatened illness, but there has not been any other serious cases of illness, Only a few have been bothered by the rainy weather toothaches. ‘ The students are all well acquainted with each, other by now. Sunday evening’s program and dance, which was held by the Superior Young Workers League, helped to chase the blues away and to get acquainted with the rest of the students. We certainly did appreciate their thoughtfulness in giving us that re- ception or welcome. Tuesday morning the lessons really started; and the work proved far more interesting than any one expec- ted. Comrades Hayes and William- son, the instructors, have put” across Economies and History in such a way that the periods just seem to have wings. Sociology, Class Struggle Theory, Current Events, American History, and Marxian economics are regular daily subjects. Saturday morning’s work prdved to be the most interesting of all for “Model Nuclei” meetings are held. Friday evening the student body held a meeting, and the various com- mittees for carrying on the work of the school, were elected. The fol- lowing Committees were chosen: en- tertainment, sports, discipline, press, wall, newspaper, and snapshot. A large part of the work and respon- sibility rests on the students and‘they are all trying to make the school a success. Sunday we all went to the swim- ming place for our supper and a marshmellow roast. This ended our first week and the future weeks look very bright and promising to all—Helmi Juntilain. X Marks the spot where the sub blank will be found. Just put your name on it, clip it out, add a dollar (it doesn’t matter how old it is!) and wend it to get a year’s sub- scription to the Young Work- er. Here’s the address—Tho Young Worker Ed. Committee, 83 First St. New York, N. ¥. ‘ HERE'S THE SPOT——, Enclosed $1 for a year’s sub to the Young Worker. Name Street . New York Offic $ . : 1113 West Washin, THe WHAT JULY FOURTH MEANS TO US of the twentieth century, is sending battleships and marines and soldiers to every part of the world, to Nica- ragua, and to China, to crush the co- lonial revolutionaries of 1927. The American soldiers. and marines in the Philippines, Nicaragua and China to- day are doing the same dirty work as the Hessians did for the British in 1776—they are helping imperialism fasten the yoke of slavery on the necks of the people of other countries. To cherish and to pay honor to the great revolutionary traditions of ’76 can not be done thru mere empty lip service while at the same time viola- ting them in everyday deed. This is what the Fourth of July orators do the business men, the politicians, the teachers and the preachers—who grow very enthusiastic over the colo- nial revolutionaries of 1776 and very indignant over the colonial revolu- tionaries of 1927. For us the lesson of ’76 is: Down with the imperialist rule of the U. S.! Help the peoples of the American colonies overthrow the yoke of Wall Street. Support the struggle of the Chinese workers and farmers for freedom and indepen- dence! Help them fight’ their Revo- lutionary War! YOUTHFUL PATRIOTS DETROIT, Mich. July 6—As part of the whole campaign against the Party and Communisi: movernent in this country, the plans for the or- ganization of a new youth movement for the perpetuation of the American creeds of patriotism, and for a new struggle against the reds have been laid. This is being initiated in the state of Michigan under the direction of the Detroit National Defense Com- mittee an adjunct for the Detroit board of Commerce. Former repre- sentative Sosnowski of Detroit is in charge of the organization sub com- mittee, which has plans under way to spread out thru the country by special organizers. It is very significant that the one sponsoring this organization is the Board of Commerce. They have al- ready invited Wm. T. Page, clerk of tHe house of representatives, a notori- ous patriot, to begin this campaign to clean out the reds. Page is expected to arrive in the first’ part of July and begin the campaign at Camp Custer, Michigan, and then be- gin to spread out with Detroit as its main center. Quoting the Detroit Free Press of June 22nd it states. the following: “The organization is to undertake an extensive anti-red cam- paign in every sense of the word. It is plapned to establish a head- quarters which will supply America with first education for the youth of the entire country.” The professional patriots are be- ginning to realize the importance of the youth and the launching of this campaign is in line with their gen- eral policy for militarizing and doping the minds of the youth, These organizations when on footing becoming nothing. but fascisti and are the factor used by the bosses in their struggles against the whole working- class. At this period when affairs are becoming more and more acute it becomes the policy in this country of preparing and molding the youth into struggle against the working- class. Our tasks are to counter these campaigns on the part of the bosses by the league actively partici- pating thru education, propaganda and organization against these of- fenses. Young Workers School At Conneaut, Ohio. CLEVELAND, July 6.—For seferal months preparations have been made in Districts 6, 7, 4 and 5 for the estab- lishment of a school for young: work- ers. Through the magnificent efforts of the Finnish comrades in the four districts, who collected more than $1,500, the school was ensured., A campaign in the party and Y. W, L. was started, even though some of the comrades were skeptical .as to the pos- sibility of forming the schocl. 7 On July 5, the school will be opened at Conneaut, Ohio, a beautiful coun- try-like town on Lake Erie, with 45 to 60 students from the four districts, Comrades Will Herberg, Max Schacht- man and D. E. Earley will be the. in- structors. The Finnish Workers Club will be used for the classes, while the curriculum calls not only for theoreti- cal but practical work. i ¥ The students comprise miners, steel workers, metal workers and others in’ light industry and a few students.’ The school will last for 5 weeks, and promises to be one of the best that have been organized in the country. ———$——_——. JOIN OUR RANKS YOUNG WORKERS ve be epost ‘ton Boulevard, hicago, Il. 108 East 14th Street, New York City, N. ¥.