The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 27, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, TORY oo 32S WOreMaESeewyee Tee 1, galie Bs TESTIFIES, BLAST FOLLOWS ‘FILIPINO LEADER WELCOMES AID OF so serseait og } Cabinet Ste | GOVERNORS WANT) 9 FLOOD AND FARM 3rd. Grand Jury for Indiana Corruption Norwegian Editor Fined 200 Kronen for Printing Strikebreakers’ Names } : mote, Ti. oe cgenee| Found in Black Box RELIEF MEASURES: OTHER OPPRESSED | workers’ paper, “Arbeidet,” was Sere } Peotone ps enn fined 200 kronen for publishing the names of some blacklegs in his newspaper, tho making no com- ment. In Oslo, a worker was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment m.-ely threatening to a scab, tho he did not carry out his threat. See Rockefeller Hand Fight for USSR Oil ; (Continued from Page One) recent statement of Lee, because the Rockefellers can foree the other units behind such a policy, The trip of Walter C. Teagle, of the New Jersey branch of Standard Oil to London to confer with Sir Henri De- tending, head of the British Royal INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 26. — With Marion County prosetutors in- dieating that “pay dirt” has at last | been struck in the D. C. Stephenson | political scandal of Indiana, a third | Marion County grand jury today was | to hit the trail of the political probe. | Two local grand juries of the past have left a shady track in their in- vestigations. . The first jury failed to return indictments by a reported vote of three for and two against, but ad- mitted that peculiar conditions existed in the jury itself and recommended that a second body continue the in- quiry. | Will Meet With League ! Against Colonialism MANILA, July 26.—Filipinos ch Coolidge’s ‘Do Nothing’ Policy Criticized MACKINAO ISLAND, Mich., July 26.—President Coolidge should call an extra session of congress this fall to deal with the problems of flood re~ lief and control, farm relief and tax reduction, in the opinion of a major ity of the governors of states here attending the nineteenth annual con- | ference of state executives. | Some of the governprs are pro- nounced in their views that existing conditions demand an extra session. Others, without having strong con- victions one way or the other “be- lieve it would be a good thing,” and still others are willing to “leave It to the president.” None of the execu- | seek the assistance of other oppressed colonial peoples in order tm get inde- | | pendence for the Philippines, Domin- go Ponce, supreme head of the Le- | gionarios Del Trabajo, hinted today. ] Ponce announced he will ask his or- | ganization for authority to represent | BARL OF BALFOUR it at the conference in Hankow, China, | of “the League Against Colonial Op- | | pression in the Far East.” i |, Headquarters of the league are in Berlin. Invitations to the September conference were sent from Berlin to | all Filipino labor leaders and to Manuel Quezon, political head of the Jurors “Lined Up.” This second jury was absorbing the volume of “Stephensonia” at a high rate of speed when it was discovered an Indianapolis politician had attempt- | Dutch Shell, is interpreted as indi- cating that even the New Jemey branch will no longer féllow the policy of waiting for the overthrow of the Soviet government in order ‘to gain access to Russian oil. The workers’ and peasants’ government is so strong | that.Standard Oil knows it must deal with them. The change of front of the Rockefeller concern, a fact known for more than a year, is a} purely business proposition with them but it certainly is evidence of the fact that the Soviet Union is now powerful enough to force the biggest capitalist concerns to eome to time, THINK OF THE SUSTAINING FUND AT EVERY MEETING! ————SSSSS See RATIONAL LIVING THE RADICAL HHALTH MONTHLY Read the current issue! Extremely interesting ang original. If yor/re a worker you must know semething about health from your B. Liber, M. D., Dr. P. H, Bditor | head. ed to bribe Claude A. Achey, a jury- | an, saying he had previously “lined | up” another member to refuse to re- | turn indictments. Criminal Court | Judge James A. Collins dismissed im- | | mediately the second jury. The mass of recorded testimony of | the two juries plus the contents of | the famous two black boxes and the five bundles of papers recently -ex- humed by the prosecutors, will give the third jury plenty of summer read- | ing for some time. Prosecutors today continued to pore over the vast mass of private papers of Stephenson, the man who fell from the political throne af Indiana to a |convict’s cell for the murder of an | Indianapolis girl. | They expressed particular interest in two cancelled checks, one for $21,- 000 and the other for $24,000, but de- clined to say in whose favor the cheeks were drawn bythe former klan | AUSTEN. yf | CHAMBERLAIN. ‘ A document having the appearance of a contract aroused the most en- thusiasm among the prosecutors who {met at the home of prosecuting at- torney William H. Remy, who is ill. A Graft Bible. “That will-line up the whole busi- |ness,” Remy exclaimed, Photographs of the _ politically “WINSTON CHURCHILL | A delicate situation has arisen| in England, due to the depar-, ture of Prime Minister Baldwin| to accompany the Prince. of | tives, however, expressed any opposi- tion to an extra session if the presi- dent sees fit to call one. | | duces some farm relief formula this Sacrifice Farmers. Gov. John Hammill, of Iowa, and | Gov. Adam MeMullen, of Nebraska, the corn belt representatives, who served notice on their colleagues yes- | terday of an impending political storm unless the administration pro- plosion which wrecked one house, was a witness before the Jackson winter, both declared that farm re- lief could await the more pressing need of relieving the sufferers in the leggers. flood district. 68! Debris in Kansas City, Mo., following an early morning ex- damaged nine others and injured three persons, Angelo Loscalzo, grocer, owner of the wrecked home, County grand jury the day prior to the explosion. His testimony is said to have had considerable to do with the jury”s action in indicting five members. of the Kansas City police department on charges of accepting bribes from boot- Government Should Pay. The problem of flood relief and | control was put squarely up to the | Federal government today by Gov. John F. Martineau (Dem.), Governor | of Arkansas. H “This is not a local problem,” he} declared, in an impassioned address to his colleagues from the north and | east. | | U.S. Treasury Man In Italy to Rescue Mussolini Finances “The Mississippi floods can be and) should be controlled and this is a na-| ROME, July 26—Speculation is | tional responsibility, the expense of} rife in Italian financial circles re-| which should be borne entirely by the | garding the sudden appearance of as- | Federal government. sistant-Secretary of the ‘Treasury | “If a foreign foe should enter our Charles S. Dewey. Dewey, who is| country and kill a single American | yicationing at Juan Lés Pins, on the the whole nation would be aroused.| French Riviera, arrived in Rome this No:way Intervenes Against 3d Degrees Poor Worker Dies The “Tihrd Degree” is such a com- monplace way of getting what is | called evidence from prisoners who | have little money and few friends that it seldom’brings a ripple. But just now the-poliee of Jersey City and Brooklyn are on the defensive in | independence movement. ; | Warn of Slavery. ] | “Yankee imperialism is bidet |the Philippines with complete slay- jery,” the invitations wann. | The’ September conference is said! | to be a part of a great program in-| |tended to sweep the Far East into | ;Sympathy with the movement against | capitalist imperialism. | The Legionarios Del | Philippine organization | thousands of members, It has excited the ire recently ot |Admiral Kittelle by organizing a |strike at Cavite Navy Yard. Kittelle! \said it wanted to blow up the yard/ but could give no proof. Trabajo is al with many! Machine Wins In Sing Sing. { OSSINING, N. Y., July 2 —The! so-called Tammany Party of Sing! Sirg prison won a victory in the an jnual prison election when delegates {were appointed to the parliament! which will appoint: the cabinet of thes Musuti Welfare League were elected.! | The insergent forces, known as the! | “Cheese Party,” were swamped. | The Tammany Party, it is said, ine |tends to reappoint sergeant-at-arms! Fred Horan, Secretary Gerald Hobby} and the present deputy sergeants. PUY THE DAILY WORKER 7 ; " oS Yet three quarters 6f a million citi-| morning. He will be formally re-| the cases of two workingmen, one an | jee Pa as Canadian ae ee |zens have actually been driven front] ceived later by Il Duce and have aj old cemetery caretaker, and the other | obey ret spnownced at © |their homes, and their savings of a} conference with Covs.t Volpi, minister| a former Norwegian ship’s carpenter. | atl of Balfour, lord president |:¢etime taken from them by this com-| of Finance. 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Y., July 26—| Since Churchill and Chambers lve persons were seriously injured| Jain both are desirous of suc-| here this afternoon when a large mo- seeding him, Baldwin, eager to torbus, bound from Monticello to New | avoid eonhie chose Sir Austen, | York City, crashed into the sedan | leadas of the moderate wing ot in which they were riding. the conservatives while Churchill The injured are Philip Raskin, | A ; : ‘ driver of the sedan, Benjamin Cher. | becomes idol of the die-hards. » we mon enemy, the Mississippi flood. Will Congress and the president, after | |such appalling calamity, delay longer the discharge of their duty to these people?” | The flood situation occupied the at-| tention of the governors at the morn-| ing session to’ the exclusion of all} other business. No definite action} was taken, however, as the conference | \of governors has refrained from pass- | ing resolutions ever since the prohi- bition question almost wrecked the| annual conference several years ago. | Purity of Ballot. In the afternoon session, Gov. Sam} A. Baker, of Missouri, spoke upon} “the purity of the ballot,” and advo- kins his mother, Mrs. Mollie Cherkins, | and Dorothy and Beatrice Lieber- mann, all of New York. They were taken to the Nyack Hospital. At Daily Worker Affair The grounds at Pleasant Bay Park, |N. Y., were completely transformed last Sunday for the Midsummer Car- |nival and Fair for the benefit of The |DATLY WORKER. Six thousand workers of New York responded to the announcement which was widely ad- |vertised. The affair marks a unique stage in the development of The DAILY WORKER, in view of the tre- | mendous turnout, the number of or- |ganizations participating, the origin- ality of the attractions and the splen- did spirit shown throughout. Pleasant Bay Park was one mass jof color during the carnival, The |various booths were highly decorated. |Colored baloons and paper caps in |the most artistic fashion dotted the {grounds everywhere. Here was the |department store booth donated by j the United Council of Working Class | Housewives, with unusual bargains in household wares,'so attractive that even the undomesticated radicals had to sit up and take notice. The cooper- jative comrades ran an ice cream and andy booth, which the picnickers Next Number Out | July 25th. It will be a combination of ‘July-August issues, Retail price the same—25 cents, | THE BEST EVER. Watch for the announcement of contents, | REAL TIMELY ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS. The COMMUNIST 1113 W. Washington Blvd. CHICAGO, ILL, ign countries, $2.50 a year., ame RSE DCI, imply could not withstand. The Fin- Convention Elections Soon! Have You Ore of These in Your Dues Book? SUF = ) If not, YOU CANNOT VOTE! See your Nucleus Secretary today. Tomor- row it may For Assessment Stamps, Inquiries, Remittances, On Sale of Stamps, etc., write to: NATIONAL OFFICE 1118 WEST WASHINGTON ’ ie 3192794) | a } A NES nish comrades of Section 7 rigged up |a shooting gallery, and the workers |vied with each other in trying to hit |the target. The accuracy of some of the shooting leaves great promise for our future American Red Guard. Art Booth. Sub-section 1D FD2 furnished an fart booth consisting of original draw- |ings by Fred Ellis and other artis! jconnected with The DAILY WORK- /ER. Bakers Local 164 (AFW) and Local 1 constructed an open air bake |shop, from which they assailed the jnostrils of the comrades with the fra- grant smell of fresh made crullers and the finest of cake. Section 6 almost swamped the | grounds with a cargo of huge water |melons, from which Comrade Koppel {cut gigantic slices with the accuracy jof an expert. Needless to say there were very few of the melons left when these hustlers were through, , ' ’ ’ ' 1 ' be too late. ear splitting insistence rent the air from a group of wild Armenians who managed to break almost everybody BLVD. CHICAGO, ILL, Armenian dainty, Many Unions and Party _|Branches Have Booths) The strident ery of “Shashlik” with | {cated legislation which would punish \the vote sellers as well as the vote | buyer. This subject was expected to bring possible fireworks in the conference. | |Gifford Pinchot, of Pennsylvariia, de- jfeated by William S. -Vare in the now [famous Pennsylvania primary, is here, and is said to be thirsting for Jan opportunity to tell his gubernat- | orial colleagues of what he considers jthe iniquities of Keystone politics. | | The managers of the conference, |however, have no intention of letting lit get out of hand. Engineer Incompetency. Blame for most of the havoc wrought by the Mississippi flood was laid squarely upon the United States army engineering corps by ex-Gov- ernor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, | who followed Gov. Martineau in dis- |cussion of the problem. “For years,’ said Pinchot, “the army engineers have followed a pol- \iey of levees only in dealing with the |control of the Mississippi River. | Levees are indispensable but they are {not enough, and in my opinion the levees—only policy of the engineers— | constitutes the most colossal engi- neering blunder in the history of this country. “An effort will be made in the next congress to keep this Mississippi ‘problem off the hands of the army |engineers It should not be allowed. |They have no program and don't know what to do. “The president should appoint a commission composed of the best en- |gineering, economic and _ financial | brains in the country to draft a con- structive and permanent policy in | dealing with this matter.” | Banker Bumps Off. | MAYESVILLE, N. C., July 26.— | Jones County authorities today were piecing together circumstances sur- rounding the mysterious death of Os- | |car W. Lane, 41, prominent banker, | }in an effort to determine whether he was murdered or committed suicide, | The banker's body was. found sit- | ting beneath the steering wheel of his | automobile, stuck in the mud about four miles from here. A bullet had pierced his head, and a discharged re- volver was held in his right hand. A hammer and sickle pin was lost |American _ overtures regarding | credits. | Loans totalling 650,000,000 lire | the lire at 90 to the pound, or ap- ‘Sacco and Vanzetti to vice, Dewey said: “My visit is yurely for personal observation and has no official sig- ni.icance.” Want Money. Nevertheless, Dewey’s appearance has revived reports of an important) American loan which: have. crooped | up and keen denied with monptonous | regularity. Count Volpi spiked all rumors when he asserted that there will be no more foreign loans even discussed before October. Néver- theless, Itclian bankers have let it be known that they are receptive to! have been in the air; 200,000,000 for “Populare;” 300,000,000 for the es- tablishment of the institute credito, and 15,000,000 for irrigation. Dewey’s visit also is expected to} have an important bearing on Count Volpi’s policy of temporarily pegging proximately 18.50 to the dollar. Enter Death House (Continued from Page One) workers all over the country in or- der to save these two doomed men. Time Short. “Even the Boston Defense Com- mittee which has always been loath to hold public demonstrations for Sacco and Vanzetti has now called on all groups of workers to raise a new and insistent demand for the free- dom of these two victims,” says Miss | Baron. | “The time is short, and the danger | is very grave. Not one protest but} many are needed and they will be) held during this week-end in every city thruout th United States.” The New York City meetirfzs will be ,held at: Bronx—153rd St. and Prospect Ave. Harlem—110th St. and 5th Ave. Downtown—10th St. and 2nd Ave. Williamsburg—Grand St. Extension. Brownsville—Stone and Pitkin Aves. The speakers will include: Leon- ard Abbott, John J. Ballam, Pascal Cosgrove, Pat Dewiite, Rebecca Grecht, Louis Hyman, Charles Krum- bein, Richard B. Moore, Moissaye J. Olgin, Luis Quintiliano, Rose Baron, Jack Stachel, Morris E. Taft, Carlo Tresca, W. W. Weinstone, Ben Gold, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, William F;/ Dunne, J. Louis Engdahl, Ludwig Lore, Samuel Liebowitz and James Walsh. Cost Henry Ford About $140,000 to Buy Sapiro DETROIT, July 26.—Of course if a man sues for a million, it may be good business to pay him $140,000 to | end the trouble, but such things aren’t usually done unless there is some dan- ger of losing the court fight. Aaron Sapiro got $140,000 and dropped the million dollar libel suit, at the picnic. If found please return to The Daily Worker office. into the mysteries of that strange| THINK OF THE SUSTAINING pendent, weird and malicious lies in which he contended that Henry Ford was in the habit of printing in his house organ, The Dearborn Inde- The cemetery worker, Charles Walls, is worrying the police because he died—it appears under their black- jacks. And now his relatives are ap- plying for a court order to have the body exhumed, and the coroner will hold an inquest. It is a pitiful story. Walls was employed in the Holy Name cemetery | by several families to water and cul-| R U S S I A\ tivate the flowers over their loved ones’ graves. But the regular care- taker objected to this competition and several times asked him to quit. Walls refused, till Patrolman Bren- nan arrested him on the charge of stealing flowers from other graves. Body Lacerated. The truth or falsity of the theft charge was never determined, for | Walls died after his examination in| the backroom of the Seventh Precinct | When they took him | back, said his friend Patrick Murtha | who accompanied him to the station, | Police Station. Walls’ face was unmarked. When) sia, many of the beeen nee hi are offered at espectally low the cops led’ him out the blood was | piisca We abe cea Cale ae running from a mass of bruises. His | vantage of this not only to son Charles Walls says the father’s body, as it lay in the coffin after- wards, was seamed with welts and bruises. Lied About Death. Beaten to death to get a confes- sion of stealing flowers in a church cemetery, it seems. “I signed some- thing; I don’t know what it was,” he told Attorney Meeres a few hours after the beating. His friends did not see him alive again. He died the next day, but whether in the Hudson County jail, whither he had been taken, or in the Jersey City hospital, his family cannot learn. The police attempted to conceal the cause of death with a report of “alcoholism,” but Deputy County Physician A. P. Hasking refused to approve of this finding. As unconscious irony, the caretaker- was buried in the very cemetery where he had been arrested. Norway Intervenes. At the request of the Norwegian Legation at Washington the State De- | partment is acting in the case of the other “Third Degree” wictim, Lud- | wig H Lee., the former ship’s car- penter A communication from Sec- cretary Kellog’s offices asks Gov. Smith to sift the brutality charges. Lee is a poor workingman whose job ashore was as a panitor in a room- ing house. When the dismembered bodies of 2 women were found in the basement Lee was arrested as a handy suspect. Ghastly Fraud. Innocent or guilty Lee had the con- stitutional right to be silent till his’ attorney was present. But no such. protection was permitted as he was rushed into the star chamber with grim plainclothesmen armed with blackjacks. From the examination room emanated police-inspired stories of a ferocious axe-murderer, stories which papers like the Daily News— ewned by the Chicago Tribune— lapped up eagerly. But the husky “Chips,” as ship’s carpenters ¢re called, would not con- fess ,though he told his lawyer later i FUND AT EVERY MEETING!’ about said Sapiro, tN it tn he, , that the police plucked out strands | of hair, beat him and twisted his limbs excruciatingly. / The FACTS About SOVIET | N these books and pamphlets you witl find the facts in answer to the lying cam- answer to the lying cam~- paign against the world's first workers’ government. 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