The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1927, Page 3

% @ Sedition Cases Dismissed After Over Four Years July defendants PITTSBURGH, ments against eight Case, which was the result of whole sale “Red Ra’ on May Ist, 192¢ was finally qu several days ago. who for more "than four years were held under exorbitant high bail, of from five to are Max Jenk Morri Tom My John Pasternak, Urban, A. Rostrum, George Katziolis, A. Voy-! tuik and J. Koval The indict- ments were squashed on the same grounds as the cases of Sadolkas and Mezey were recently quashed in the courts in Pittsburgh and Beaver re- 3.—Indict- | in the well known Pittsburgh Sedition hed, it was announced The defendants, zen, thousand dollars scough, A Hot Argument. | Violating instructions, here we have jtwo excursionists, Oscar Rubicki and ; Andrew Mausseth, discussing the latest | developments in the machinists’ union. |“I can make the best bottle of beer in |Chicago,” chaHenged Mauseth. “Is jzat so,” was Steve’s annihilating come-back. | saga ND | The Snooping Sex. | Pak Russt : Suspecting that not all the excur-! Benito’s Boys Pick --Fight in Dalmatia; | Are Soundly Beaten Slavia, July 1 the Italian uniform thru ing “Giovanez A their provoe e marching song, and making derogatory remarks | about the non-Italian natives, off second best |they thus precip’ Despite the | were armed fist | demonstration and put in the hospi The polic rrived in time to prevent anybody from be- ing killed. The occasion of the m The Assault on Beacon Hill 3eacon Hill, Boston, is the home of the blue-blooded aristocracy of the Hub City, the haven of the New England bankers, stock brokers, shoe manufacturers, spectively, namely that “the indict-| . °° xr celebration by the It rt} 7 7 " ment does not contain any sufficient |Sionists heeded Hammersmark’s fread | or those who have sigrfi textile mill ow ners, allegations to sustain- a conviction | Junction against sie nccee me eats to be Ital machine under any of the courts.” suits, here are two members of the than Jugo Slavs. s betwe ¢ 30 rare Together with above defendants | Young Workers League exploring the Mussolini and Jugo Slavia are not manufactur ers and were also arrested Fred Merrick and|shady spots on Michigan City’s wa-| Ed. Horacek. Merrick’s case came up for t in November 1§ He pleaded Nolle Condere and was given ®@ suspended sentence of ten years Ed Hoyacek was tried immediately after Herrick, found guilty on two counts after a trial which lasted ® whole week. A motion for a new trfal was made by attorney Isaak Ferguson of Chicago, but up to date Judge Prather, who tried the case rendered no decision on this motion. The defense of all these cases wete | taken care of by the International Labor Defense thru attorneys Mere- dith Marshall, Isaac Ferguson and George Shaffer and it involved an ex- pense of more than fifteen thousand dollars, not counting the numerous | days lost by the defendants in jail and in courts. There are still’ out- standing bills which the defense com- mittee has to pay on account of this ease. Funds are also urgently needed to defend the Woodlawn Sedition Cases which resulted in a conviction in Beaver County Court. Friends are} urged to send checks to the Interna- | tional Labor Defense, 807 McGeagan| Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Bricklayers Will Get $1.6215 An Hour CLEVELAND, (FP) July 13.—In- crease of wages from $1.50 to $1.62% | an hour has been won by Cleveland union bricklayers. was reached after, 7 months negotiations covering 30 meetings. 200 members of the local elevator constructors union will receive wage boosts from $1,52% to $1.55 an hour, with a 1% cent increase to $1.07: for helpers, as.a result of the brick- layers raisé Their agreement calls for a wage rate equal to the average | paid the 5- highest paid building) trades. Cleveland Federation Reelects. CLEVELAND, (FP) July 13—All officers of the Cleveland Federation of Labor were reelected by acclama- tion. Harry McLaughlin is president and James F. Malley secretary and business agent. —— 'SONG OF THE Red Army (Budenny’s March) Words and Music Translation by E., C. Paul 5 Cents THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 First Street, New York, Nn TE RR EEE The agreement | of | re en ene nn nd | .}of the Long Island million dollar ‘Surprise Hinted On Big Chicago | Hoasier Joy Ride CHICAGO, - Ill, July 13.—Hun- | dreds of tickets have been sold for |the excursion from here to Michigan | City which is scheduled to take place on July ‘17th, leaving from the Goodrich docks on Municipal Pier at 9:30 A. M. and due to return at vie eee. 2 Several innovations are going to be tried on the boat by Way of adding to the gaiety. If the weather is ex- cessively warm discussions on all topics except The DAILY WORKER will be squelehed mercilessly. No matter how the weather behaves, ae: | cording to Sam Hammersmark, lea- der of the expedition. he will see to it that The DAILY WORKER Build- ers are organized in Chicago. That is the main purpose of the excursion. ; “The DAILY WORKER is under. fire from all sides,” Sam declared and évery militant worth his salt | must rally to its defense. There i: no better way of spending July 17t! than in devising ways and means to |guard The DAI WORKER from | the capitalist jackals that are how}l- | ing for its life.” “» | Tickets for the return trip on the boat can be had for the small sum of $2.00, but they must be bought and paid for in advance, else tardy ex- cursionists may suffer inconvenience | and disappointment while the DAILY | WORKER will suffer both in addition | to finaneial loss. Seen by Washington (Continued from Page One) |abolition, or severe curtailment of 10,- |000-ton cruisers, while not desiring to |be limited as to the total tonnage of smaller cruisers, is considered both by state and navy department repre- sentatives here as a yital blow aimed at the efficiency of the American navy. American naval experts strongly in }sist that the’ need for 10,000-ton |cruisers is imperative from the stand-| point of national defense because of) the tyemendous distances between| American naval bases. Britain, with | j her naval bases cireling the globe, can | get comfortably along with cruisers of considerably lesser tonnage. | i Again Reject Proposals. | There was another conference .of | naval experts and state department | representatives here this morning to} examine the latest reports of the Bri-| tish proposal emanating from Geneva, | the navy experts registered unyielding | | opposition to the division of the eruis-| vers into tonnage classes. | | The American position was re-| ‘stated again as in favor of a total! ‘tonnage of cruisers anywhere up to| | 350,000 or 400,000 tons at the outside, with each nation to build within those \limits according to individual needs. | \In the case of the United States this | would mean a number of 10,000-ton| | ] |the British, and the’ construction of /as many smaller cruisers as would be | | possible within the limits defined. In| the case of Britain, she could build as | | many smaller cruisers to fit her needs | ‘as the tonnage limit would allow. Upon this general thesis, it was) strongly indicated today, there will be no yielding at Geneva, and the col-| |lpnse of the conference is admitted on all sides, | Wife Implicates “Boston Billy.” | MINEOLA, N. Y., July 13.—Secrets | jewel thieves ring, revealed by a woman claiming to be “Boston Billy” Williams’ wife, spurred Nassau County detectives today in their search for a prominent political boss said to be the leader of the “Gem Syndicate.” She was questioned at length about the gang’s activities and is said to have asserted willingly that Williams participated in the Jesse L, Livermore robbery at Kingspoint, L. I, She probably will appear before the Grand Jury in Mincola Friday. ‘Geneva Confab Failure. cruisers certainly up to parity ith | | Map of Jerusalem, where the churches of three religions coin money out of pilgrims to the “holy places” | within the walls. The diety failed to protect the “Katholicon.” the great temple of the Crusaders over the | reputed birthplace of Jesus Christ from having its dome cracked by an earthquake. More important is the fact that many poor persons were killed and injured in the crowded quarters of the city. | The Foundries of the North Caucasian | Metallurgical Trust. | The foundries of the North Cau- |casian Metallurgical Trust have con- siderably reduced their cost of pro- | duction during the last six months: | the factory “Dvigatel” (motor works) reduced it by 25 per cent; the others |from 5 to 6 per cent. At the same {time the quality of the products has | considerably improved, especially that |of motors. The output as compared ith the first half of last year has increased by 43 per cent. The pro- | ductivity of labor has increased in all factories on an average of 33 per cent. The overhead expenses have been con- siderably reduced. * * * the South Metallurgical Foundries, The machine construction commit- | | Extension of panding the Nikoliav Shipyard and others. It has also been decided to put the former “Russud” Mill into op- | eration. it has been decided to give the fol- | lowing orders to the Nikloaievsk shipyard: the eommissariat for com- munications will order 600 large freight cisterns instead of the 150 | originally contemplated. An order | will also be given to the same enter- | prise for 600 20-tons freight ears. Apart from that the Glavmetal is ex- pected to place bigger orders for | boilers. Next year the shipyard will | have to produce twice as many boil- ers as this year. Beginning with this year it will also increase its produc- | tion of Diesel engines. All these measures will efable the } NEWS FROM NEW JERSEY Barhers Elect Delegates. NEWARK, N. J., July 13.—At a meeting of the journeymen barbers af- filiated with Local 877 of Newark held last ‘night, two delegates were | elected. They are Frank Loria, for- merly of the Robert Treat Barber Shop. located downtown and Joe Ca-/ narelli. President Shultz détlined in favor of Frank Loria. This young lo- cal. which emerged victorious in its strike of a few weeks ago has sue- ceeded in making 80 to 90 per cent of the barber shops of Newark and viein- ity as union. In due time’ it expects to make a 100 per cent union tewn | for the barbers. Meanwhile all fellow workers ‘are urged not to patronize barber shops that do not display a union sign. *. * + Teamsters Fight For Union. NEWARK, N. J., July 13. — The teamsters affiliated with Local 478 have been conducting a militant fight against the bosses’ association who are out to break their union and their | strike has suffered another blow from the court and Judge Backus. The latest attempt on the part of the courts is to-hold Fred Carlin the business agent of Local 478 of the Teamsters’ Union Local 641 of the same International and Local 825 of the hoisting engineers in contempt of court for violating the modification of the injunction issued against the above defendants. The specific charge is that the union attempted to get two scabs to quit their jobs and go out on strike. the Ruthenherg Sustaining Fund? i tom ia |tee recognized the necessity of ex- | News from the U.S.S.R. Nikloaievsk shipyard to increase its | joutput 65 per cent over the program | for this year. The machine construction commit- tee asked the government to ratify as {soon as possible the five year pro- gram for naval transport. This pro- | gram, according to the orders given by the oil syndicate to the machine trust, includes the construction of eight large oil tanks, seven medium and five small ones, a total of twenty. The program of the Sotvorgflot (So- viet Commercia! Fleet) includes the construction of four coasting freight vessels of 2,500 tons capacity; eight coasting frieght vessels of the same capacfty; and six coal freighters with the capacity of 4,000 tons, a total of |eighteen vessels. Thus the program jof ship construction includes 38 dif- ferent vessels, * * * | A Town On A Marsh. Not so very long ago there were in the place of the present huge build- ings in Siastroi, small wretched peas- ant huts surrounded by marshes. Here was the small ‘village “Naok.” Later a railway branch was con- structed connected with the Mur- mansk main line. This railway branch brought building materials and work stated in full force. The marshy locality which was to become the future combine was drain- ed, the water was directed to a brook. A whole industrial town grew up in its place. A workers’ residential dis- trict of 62 two-floor houses is ready. Half of them have already been occu- pied by the workers. The others are nearly finished. This year another 22 houses are being built. Every one {will be boiled at a temperature of {120 degrees Celsius. trict and it will then be unnecessary } improved | at all by today’s happer | Ings. 'Benchley Avers Thayer Threatened Defendants i (Continued from page 1) committee were Miss Minnie E. Ken- nedy and Miss Louise Kelly of Brockton, employes of the Slater, Morrill Shoe Company at the time of the murder. In their statement they swear that they saw the murder car {and are positive that the man who {drove it away from the soene of the crime was not Vanzetti. | * ® x Cleveland to Protest. Cleveland workers, are called upon |to voice their protest against the jthreateried execution of Sacco and | Vanzetti which is now set for Au- }gust 10th. The International or of them consists of several flats.| Defense together with the Cleveland There is living accommodation for 2,-| ranch of the Boston Defense Com- 000 people. jmittee are arranging a joint protest The construction of the main build- | meeting which will be held on the ings of the combine is also rapidly | Pablie Square, Friday evening, July progressing. A celluloid factory is 15th at 8 pm, under construction which will start} The list of speakers includes Wm. operations next January. Paper mills | F. Barnard, lecturer and writer; Mrs. will be built next year. The largest | F™ @, liberal; I, Amter, Workers Par- building of the celluloid factory is| tv; Carl Hacker, secretary, I. L. D. the boiling department, where the|2d others, N. Fagin will preside. timber to make the celluloid will be |All Cleveland workers are urged to boiled. The construction of this build- | Attend this meeting and help to make ing is already almost completed. It | it 8 very large demonstration. is already under roof and only the La Aes: finishing touches have to be put to it. | St. Louis Mass Meeting. There will be 6 huge boilers in the, ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 18. — The building and these are now on the! United Committee for the Freedom way from Germany. Every one of the | of Sacco and Véanzetti here will stage boilers will be able to boil 280 cubic|a monster protest mass meeting and metres of wood at a time. The wood | parade on July 17. The Central Trades and Labor | Union has ermlorsed this move and a Apart from the boiling department | record turn out is expected, the or- a drying department is also being|ganizers say. Labor representatives built. The repair shop, a saw mill| and officials of various political or- | and other buildings have already been | ganizations will speak in Jewish, Ger- completed. The groundwork for the | man, Italian, Jugo-Slavic and Eng- construction of a power station with | lish. a capacity of 15,000 kilowatts has al- The parade will start at the cor- ready been finished. The equipment | ner of Tenth and Carr Sts. and march for the station has already been or-|toward Columbia Square where the dered. mass meeting will be held. The full productivity capacity of; More than 3,000 Italian workers are the celluloid factory will be about 50,-| pledged to attend in addition to the 000 tons. This amount will be able|labor and political groups according fully to meet the demands of the pa-|to H. L. Goldberg and John Braun of per industry of the northwestern dis- | the committee, to import celluloid from abroad. The} WASHINGTON (FP).—With the paper mills which will be built next | purpose of building a united front of year near the celluloid factory will|civie, reform and other forward- produce 25,000 tons of newspaper|looking organizations desirous of daily. | Realtors Mulct { — City in Property Deals, Says Berry The city pays from three to five | times the assessed valuation of prop- lerty on land that it buys for public purposes. That is the charge made by Comptroller Charles W. Berry, in a communication to the Board of Fsti- mate. Recommending that an investiga- | tion be made of the faney prices whic change in the methods of acquiring | leity land be instituted, Comptroller | | Berry declares that either the city | has been losing a great deal of money by assessing city land at ridicously low figures, or it has paid exorbitant | prices for land purchased. | Bakers Win Strike. {| NEW HAVEN, Conn, (FP) July} \1 .—After 10 weeks of struggle’ strike against New Havit shops for union recognition, the 8-kxyur day and an increase of $5 a week. A net gain of 1 large shop is announced by or-} ganizer Chris Kerker. All strikebreakers sneaked out of town on the signing of the union agreement. Dutch Plane Crash. \ PARIS, Fuly 13.—Four American | girls escaped injury when a Dutch} plane, flying from Paris to Amster-| dam, crashed near St,,Omer, a Dutch passenger was injured SUEANY, but all others were unhurt and have en- trained for Amsterdam. |the city has paid for land and that a) CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) those responsible deserve to be | abominated for all time. | ee Ce | HENRY FORD instigated the at- | tacks on the Jews in the Dear- born Thdependent according to an ar- ticle written for “The American Hebrew” by E. G. Pipp, of Detroit, Ford’s first editor. Of course this is not news. But in view of the {reams of rubbish that have been pub- lished about Ford’s innocence of the anti-Semite campaign it has the nerit of being convincingly authori- jtative. People are apt to wonder ‘why such a clever fellow as Ford should indulge in such a costly futil- ty but those who have witnessed | counteracting propaganda glorifying | jmilitarism, 16 Washington organiza-| |tions have formed an anti-militarist | | conference. | Let's Fight On! Join The Workers Party! In the loss of Comrade Ruthen-| berg the Workers (Communist) Par- | ty has lost its foremost leader and | the American working class its, staunchest fighter. This loss can only | be overcome by many militant work. ers joiniug the Party that he built. Fill out the application below and | mail j* Become a member of the. Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade | | Ruthenberg. I want to become a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. prosperous business men and stately|Name ..... Ceo sed eedecevecebes matrons, trying to climb bare walls on Sunday in a pentacostal orgy,| Address ........ cc cecaceeeeeeeeee would not be surprised at the mild} exhibition of lunacy given by Ford| Occupation ......... sesveversoncns for the past few years. Ce a WHEN Barnum hit on the bright idea that at least one sucker was ushered into this world with every sixty ticks of the clock his fortune was as good as made. Evidently Bakery Workers Local 171 won its Harry Pflum never heard of Barnum.| Else he has a rotten memory. Pflum is held in $25,000 bail for having abstracted the sum of $1.50 from the purse of Freda Qual. The. fake ‘baron’ who married fifty women and | got in the vicinity of one million dol- ‘lars from them for his pains gets a | front page and his bail may not be more prohibitive than that in which the cheap piker Pflum is held. It does not always pay to tarry too closely. to the fringe of honesty. Have Paid Your Contribution ta the Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund? )Union Affiliation. ... | Mail this application to the Work ers Party, 108 Hast 14th Street, New York City; or if in other city to Workers Party, 1118 W. Washington | Blv., Chicago, Ill. Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- | phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) | |Party, What it Stands For and Why | | Workers Should Join.” ‘This Ruthen- | | berg pamphlet will be the basic pam-| palet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. | | Hvery Party Nucleus must collect | 50 cents from every member and will | receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- | ber to sell or distribute. | Nuclei in the New York District will get their pamphlets from the Dis- | trict office—108 East 14th St. | Nuclei outside of the New York 4 District write to The DAILY WORK- ER poblahing. Co,, 33 Hast First Street, New York City, or to the National Office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. the “leading” families of the millionaires of that section of the country, On Beacon Hill stands also the Massachusetts State House, where Governor Fuller and his gang sit in smug satisfaction as the date for the execution of Saeco and Vanzetti approaches, Since January 24, the date of the removal of the Daily Worker. to the East, the sale of the paper on the Boston ae newsstands has increased from a paltry 40, to the present figure of 300. sien aie This fact istmost significant, It indicates that there is growing in the very heart of the black regime of Massachusetts reaction, a growing army of militants, a growing army of workers who refuse to be hoodwinked by the capitalist press, It indicates that there is mobilizing * against the reactfonary forces of the Pine Tree State, which today are among the most brutal and ruthless in the entire cduntry, a determined and courageous battalion of Daily Worker shoek troops, who will not cease the assaults on the regime of Beacon Hill, until the workers are finally in control of this fortress of reaction,