The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1927, Page 2

j 4 3.000 WORKER DEMAND T UNION SQUARE. $ACCO, VANZETTI whole labor (Continued tive Trading As nd demon- al Labor D : 3 o the per- for the Prot n of Foreign: Bor f our brothers the solidar r whieh b: organized class munist cers of the pport of the vic- n justice. tha co and Van- | own the electric chair, 2 two brave work- , their families r movement, ist continue until Sac- zetti not only are saved many others. Issue State Wats otate electric chair, but until they Bacco- zet y ‘ tee ur¢ t 3 erefore call upon all labor from eve ms and fraternal bodies to part in Ww prog es to the Sacco-Vanzetti The stateme ‘ Committee and to work “The S fe Pee t h us for the complete freedom of ate ‘ens °cO 2 Janzetti.” ian titce bhichc co and V anzetti, a4 purpose o sa eel * a ile Union Demands Freedom. | ON, July 6., (FP).—At the onvention of the Ameri- the American Federation of Labor, it | a unanimously voted to instruct | es | Secretary William Batty to appeal to | nature of | <4 |Gov. Fuller for freedom or a new “Ss |trial for Saeco and Vanzetti. A bitter attack on the prisoners, however, was made at the Lawrence Kiwanis Club by Frank A. Goodwin, to unit nd sympath ers of the in a ¢o ‘ 2 : mon endeav the freedom | 'eeistrar of motor vehicles for the Gf.our two | the | Commonwealth — of Massachusetts. attempt | Goodwin loudly asserted the “two rad- aa ichls are guilty.” He assailed the : Ameri Civil Liberties Union and the prof ‘s of Hafvard University, Wellesley College and other schoo who have been demanding the prison- | ers’ rights to justice. | Conservatives’ rejoiced that a state | cfficial placed himself on record in} OF THE such an emphatic way. Red Army (Budenny’s March) Birger Gangster t Die for Slaughter Of Fellow Gunman Words and Musie MARION, ILL, July 1%.—Rado| Millich, 36, former Birger gangster, | was sentenced to death. today for the ynurder of Ward Jones, a fellow Bir- adherent, who was, slain in the g leader’s notorious roadhouse, Shady Rest,” last fall. Ural Gowan, 19-year-old eo-defend- ant in the trial, received a sentence of years in the Chester penitenti- 7 4 ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 1 ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' t ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ‘ : ' ' ' ' ' || The Birger bootlegging gang, with | political power pretty largely in their }| hands, dominated the public life of || Southern Illinois for somie time, until t began to fight among them- i ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' § t ¢ ‘ ‘ ' ' ‘ ' ' ' i i) ' ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' Asks For Release. Chung P. Lum, secretary of the Chinese Seaman’s Institute at 211 Park Row, will attempt to get a writ of habeas corpus today to release fifty-four Chinese seamen now being detained at Ellis Island. The police apprehended the seamen at the instance of the Holland- American Line. The sailors, tired of y diet of beans and rice, quit p on which they were working. | Lum said that he has tried to get in touch with the sailors on Ellis Is- land, but Inspector Brought refused him permission to do ‘so. Brough is in charge of Chinese at Ellis Island. CORRECTION. | A typographical error in Marie Letro’s article on the recent confer- ence of the League For Industrial) THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. New Democracy gave the date of the con- ference July 23 instead of June 23. Street, York. ' 33 First BUY THE DAILY RA ER In the June issue: PERSPECTIVES FOR OUR PART y Lovestone PRESENT TREND IN LABOR MOV ENT Max Bedacht THE CRUSADE THE REDS Ben Gitlow LITERATURE AND ECONOMICS V. F. Calverton MILITARY STRATEGY OF THE CIVIL WAR Frederick Engels CHINA: A Factual Study. NEWS OF THE MONTH, EDITORIALS, REVIEWS. The COMMUNIST 1113 W. Washington Blvd. CHICAGO, ILL. THE | AGAINST cal! Muipsiok.. 10 Truth about Soviet |j | Russia | Subscribe! | 25 Cents a Copy $2.00 a Year | Chieago, and Foreign countries, $2.50 a year. Sample copies on request. free. Canada, Demonstration of Striking Furriers Before New York Last Wednesday 5,000 Fur Workers paraded to the City Hall to protest City Hall ay - ey against police brutalities. Some Fur Worker Strikers and On ‘Terrific Speed-Up and | cumulated is not the product of down- | Woman's Party On — Warpath Again to Assist Employers | CHICAGO, July 7, (FP).—Stopping | \off in Chicago on their way to the| National Worman’s Party convention {in Colorado Springs, delegates took | | the occasion to repeat their custom- ary denunciation of protective legis-| ing the finding of the U. S. depart. ment of labor that the legal liniita- | tion of women’s hours has in practise | shortened the hours of men working } in the same industries, the delegates claim that such Jaws are a device to keep women out of occupations that men want to monopolize. | ‘They have almost given up their | |former. policy of wooing organized labor to their program of equal treat- ment of women and men in legisla- tion, as labor has asked them to raise the legal standard of protection for men rather than tear down that al-| | ready won for women. Unemployment in Ford | Factories Described (By Worker Correspondent.) | DETROIT, Mich,—Conditions in, the | Ford Motor Company were never worse than they are today, On June 20th we were informed by our foreman that there would be no more work for two weeks. Since the first of June wages have been slashed as low as $2.20 a week. After the writer had worked in the factory eight days, for a total of sixteen hours, he discovered on going to the timekeeper for pay release, that his envelope was five dollars short. This he was told was “security” for the badge and store check. The writer received $9.40 for two weeks. In the great and glorious U. S. A.! in the factory the “golden hearted man | Henry Ford” (as the Detroit Times | describes him) men and women work-| ers are worse off than they have ever been. Terrific Speed-up. | “The money that he (Ford) has ac-| blood-sweat la-| trodden, underpaid, bor,” a newspaper says. That is a lie. Ford is enjoying the millions stolen from workers. { In Department 927, Job F-73383 one man used to turn out 25 % pieces in; eight hours; Ford charged $1.65 for! one piece, a total of $42.48; the work- er got $7.20; Ford made $35.28. Bascom Slemp, Cal’s ; Slush Fund Expert, to Start Va. “Institute” WASHINGTON, July 7 (FP).— Bascom Slemp, expert salesman of southern post offices for republican slush funds, has been allowed to ally himself with Thomas Jefferson’s Uni- versity of Virginia. He is to promote an “institute of politics” there this |summer at which leading reactionary politicians of both parties will discuss domestic political ues. Slemp, as secretary to President Coolidge, océupied a highly strategie position for y s and was given his walking papers only after his corrupt efforts to build up a Coolidge machine in the southern states for use in Re-|° publican conventions, had been ex- posed, Tea Growing In Georgia. TIPLIS, June —(By Mail—As conforming to the five years’ plan of ‘development of tea cultivation, the area of tea plantations in Georgia will be brought to 18,000 hectares, by 1982, as against the actual area of 1,900 h. The total production at the end of the five years’ period will be 25 million pounds of tea leaves. 10 mills are to be erected for the manufacturing of tea out of the | leaves, Montreal Called Unsafe. WASHINGTON, July 7—Refusal jon the part of the Montreal depart- ment to make public the seriousness of the typhoid epidemic which is pre-} g velant in that city caused Surgeon H. S. Cummings of the Health Service to issue a statement yesterday . warning Ameri 3 to steer clear of the Canadian city. Officially reported cases since March {ist totalled 4,755 with over | 500 deaths. July 7.-—-Gov- signed the bill ernor Small. today sponsored by senator’ Charles Thompson of Harrisburg, which pro- vides that electric current instead of strangulation shall be the legal form of execution in the state of Illinois. The law takes effect at once and electric chairs will be installed at the Statesville penitentiary at Joliet, .at the Southern Illinois prison at Men- ard and at the Cook County jail Chicago. Publie |} Montana State Fed, | | | | Convention Yields Before Big Bosses HELENA, Mont., July 7—C. 0. Young of Washington represented | Wm Green, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor at the thir- tieth convention of the Montana State | ederation of Labor just held here. The reactionary Young carried out} the orders of the equally reactionary Green and spent most of his time} g¢ the progressives in the , denouncing them for all pos- crimes, but especially for dis-; ruption. Reactionaries Disrupt. These remarks came back upon the | yveactionaries like a boomerang, how- lever, when further proceedings | showed that the boycott of the Butte |Clerk’s Union on the Struck Boze- |man Cannery was called off by one hof the chief reactionaries in the lo- |éal movement, E, H, Manson, Secre- \tary of the State Federation of La-| |bor, acting thru Sam Mitchell, the lclerk’s business agent, This distruc- | tive and disruptive act at least, Young ‘had to admit his own group commit- | ted. : | | Resolutions were | adopted against | jeonvict labor, against the appoint-) |ment of federal judges for life,| | Grozny resources are put at 100 to Recover Body of One of 3 Boys DrownedMonday Near Sing Sing Prison OSSINING, N. Y., July 6.—The body of ane of the three boys who were drowned when the canoe over- turned on the Hudson River yester- day in sight of a thousand convicts in Sing Sing prison, was recovered today by a member of the Ossining Police Force at the old lime kiln be- low the prison. The body has not been identified, however. The chief of Ossining Po- | lice received word today that persons in Yonkers who believe they know who the three boys were, are on their way here to attempt to identify the|The International Stereotypers and body. Soviet Oi] Output For April. Soviet oil output for April was | 833,057 metric. tons, divided’ among | the three state oil trusts as follows (in metric tons). Azneft Grozneft Embaneft 562,816 245,482, 21,789 Total 833,057 Average monthly production for the preceding six months was 521,000 metric tons. According to latest estimates, the Baku (Azneft) region contains close to one billion tons of oil, while 150 million tons. ainst the world court, and to. ap- | point committees: to investigate the’ 1 g off of investigators in mines, | ir contractors, etc. Cautious Convention. | But a motion ta ask all workers to| help repeal laws which make condi- | tions worse underground for the miners, led to the appearance of an ‘organizer of the United Mine Work- ers who talked like an agent of the lemployers, and insisted that Presi- ident Lewis of the U. M. W. had ruled ! that the miners could do nothing, and must work under the present condi- tions. A resolution condemning the Ana- conda Copper Mining Co. and the Montana Power Co., for robbing the state of Montana of its natural re- sources was referred, to committee un 10 Dead In Argentine Wreck. BUENOS AIRES, July 7.—Ten per- | sons were killed and 30 were injured today when a special train bringing a group of military cadets from Chile to Buenos Aires to attend the unveil- ing of a monument to Bartolome Mitre, noted South American patriot, collided with another train at Alpata- cal, in the province of Mendoza. The unveiling was scheduled to take place on July 9th, which is Ar- gentine’s Independence Day. New Victim In Chi Feud. CHICAGO, July 6.—Another victim of the outbreak of a new gang war was found today beaten into uncon- sciousness and lying in a deserted roadway on the west side of Chicago. Three men were murdered here last and mutilated out of recognition, week in alcohol feuds. | work, a terrific speed-up system was | put into effect, each man being forced | |to turn out 78 pieces in eight hours, | | which meant $128.70 for Ford; eight | ‘ica meets in convention in Pittsburgh, \July 18. qo -=————=0=10—10=1 Later, when we were told that we would get six days’ pay for five weeks’! dollars of which went to the worker. ee | Cheer Cal With Claim | Third Term Not Issue | e of the Banners Before City Hall’ | WASHINGTON, July 7.—The third | term is far from being an issue throughout the middle west, Senator Curtis of Karisas, Republican leader: in the senate, said today upon his re- turn to the capital after three months in his home state and adjacent terri- tory. Fy “In our section,” Senator Curtis said, “I find no such thing as a third term issue. The people are too busy to talk politics, They are more in- terested in taking care of their crops and the resources of the state and nation.” © Fl6od control legislation likely will be foremost among the major tasks confronting the ~seventieth congress when it assembles in December, Sen- ator Curtis predicted. PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 7 (FP).— |Electrotypers’ Union of North Amer- YOUR STAMP uy aime! 9 .It is the only way to finance SECRETARIES: Be sure to men’ 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 * gale energetically— NOTIFY THE NATIONAL OFFICE! 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, Il. Robed: Mob Kidnays Orphan Boy; Clubs ~ Him Most Brutally ONEONTA, Ala., July 7.—Indigna- tion is rising and a tide of popular sentiment turning against the Ku Klux Klan because of several cases of mob violence here by masked, hooded and robed thugs who claim to lation for women jn industry. Ignor-| be guardians of community morals. | the latest is the case of Jeff Callo- ay, an orphan, 19 years old, and a self-supporting member of the com- munity. He was snatched into a car by an armed and robed mob a few days ago while standing on the streets of Oneonta, taken to the foot of Mount Pinson and beaten with sticks so that his body shows the stripes from head to foot. Grand Jury Investigates Torture of Prisoners in 3d Degree PoliceMethod Torture of prisoners by police offi- |cers and detectives by the “third de- gree” method of extorting informa- tion and confessions is now under investigation by the Federal Grand Jury insofar as it affects the methods used in Prohibition Headquarters. Major Augustus Heise, Assistant Prohibition Administrator for this dis- triet, admitted on the stand that he had caused his men to rope Albert Briggs, an East Indian, to a chair, and had tied a towel about his head, which he threatened to twist accord- ing to the “old Chinese” custom of tor- ture, if he did not “come through” with certain testimony. Major Heise has been suspended as prohibition administrator, but the system of third degree torture is well intrenched as a police method, and has been winked at by the authorities for so long that it has almost ac- quired the dignity of legitimacy. Nor is it confined to prohibition prison- ers. It is well known that workers on strike, arrested on the picket lines or suspected of radical activities, are subjected to similar brutalities. ‘Chase NationalNowHas Billion in Resources ~The Chase National Bank has joined the class of the National City Bank. It was announced yesterday that the resources of the former in- stitution has now reached over a bil- lion dollars,—$1,042,513,999 to be * precise, The National City has already reached the one and a half billion dol- lar mark, thus becoming the largest banking firm in the world from the point of view of capital funds. Through the National City Com- pany, a subsidiary which has made huge investments in countries thru- out the world, it molds war and peace policie: As a Doctor Sees It By B. LIBER With 64 Pencil Sketches by the author. This _ interesting new volume is the kind of a book that can be recommend- ed to every worker. A critic says: “It certainly sums up the total of human misery that a physician iy able to observe in a great city as dramnti- cally as anything I have read,” $1.50 Postpaid. The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO, 33 First St, New York. fl 9 the Convention and prevent i 50c to the District Office | - i F tion invoice number when m&k-