The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1927, Page 4

deaeere “oN aie tien Page Four PARI ETRODRRE: AlD WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN FUND Less than three weeks are now left until Election Day. | Greater efforts will be made to increase the number of in- door and outdoor meetin to distribute thousands of pamphlets | dealing with issu vital to the workers. Plans must now be com- pleted for getting out special editions of The DAILY WORKER | and The Freiheit. What have you done to help the Workers (Communist) Party | campaign? What do you plan to do in the comparatively short time that is left? Is your organization raising money among your shopmates | to pay the cost of the campaign we are waging? | The Party needs your help at once! Don’t wait—do it at once. | Fill out the blank below with your contribution and forward | to the Workers Party District Office, 198 E. 14th St., William W: Weinstone, 108 East 14th Street, City. City. Enclosed p e find my contribution of ae eemberTis WEG TURING, Sos: scans o.a aro sicisiciei od seems cree sists SES Address . union affiliation ......... Lee | Make all checks pay: able to Wm. ¥ We ‘hae | FALL'S OFFICE MAN SAYS FALL HANDLED LEASE Cripples Defense That Fault Was _Underling’s Harry Sinclair WASHING TON, D. D.C., Oct. 19. — The first witness on aS stand in the trial of Harding’ y of the in- terior, Albert B. Sinclair, head of the ace Oil Co. for conspiring to defraud the govern- ment out of several million dollars worth of oil land was retary of the Inte the man handl ed ior E. C. Finney, who would normally have 1 leases, and he hooked Fall | directly together in the! lionaire Oil Baron, who, the Su- preme Court had to decree, obtained | Teapot Dome oil lease by fraud. He! jis now on trial for conspiring with) | Albert B. Fall, Harding’s Secretary jof the Interior, to commit the fraud, He is charged with having bribed| | Fall. d that Fall told him apot Dome him- that he sent Finney off on other | ness, and that the first Finney | knew of the transaction by which Sinclair got the rich concession which the Supreme Court now says was completel fraudulent, was four days Martin Lithetan - earn STE TEN : ink Best.” addition there was in evidence a letter from Fall to E. L. Doheny, | another oil man charged with graft, and whose lease has also been revoked | for nproper practices connected | with it, and in this letter Fall pro- posed to handle the naval oil re- serves, “exactly as I think best.” The defense has outlined its tac- tics, which are to claim that Sinclair was not connected with the “Conti- nental Oil Co.” thru which the lease was negotiated, and that Fall was not to blame for what his underlings in the department did. Defense attor- ney Martin W. Littléton stated in his opening speech that H. M. Blackmer, former chairman of the board of di- rectors of the Midwest Refining C was the sole guilty person, who m led the assistants in Fall’s department d g e deal thru without Fall’s nowledg: The testimony offered today is a terrific blow to this line of argument. In It. Fall is accused of taking a bribe of 230,000. Prosecutor Roberts in his nigh; 2d lawyer. He | opening statement declared that $200,- argu es that the Teapot Dome lease, 000 of these bonds were turned ov r which the Supreme Court says was to Fall by his son-in-law, Mr. Ever- | ‘shot thru with fraud from beginning hart, in Pueblo, Colo., being part of |to end,” was a “ patriotic neces: ¢ $3,000,000 worth of the same bonds, distributed in devious ways thru a |more of bonds put in his bank in complicated transaction of many|El Paso, Te: immediately after agents and s al hitherto unheard | resigning from his office. The bonds of oil companies, but part of them {were ostensibly payment for profits always traceable as a donation from jon an, oil deal which looks like a oil men to Fall. Fall got $25,000 |“wash sale.” In Money WHAT THE DAILY WORKER MEANS T0 THE WORKERS More Encouraging Contributions To Our Emergency Fund. Joe Tolach, Flint, Mich. Paul'Csinat, (collected) Rankin, 1.00 | Lith, Wor. Wom. All Br. No. 6, Los ances er 15.00 | Pa. 5.70 i BE Ghapovclov, ‘de, Calif, 10.00 pent po (collected) Chicago, Joseph Olive (collected) Hom- | Geo, Lue ; cs we t mn “ c a . Bei antas Wor, Won. Gre? Bos | Nick Primoroc, Cupertino, . ‘alif, 1.00 | G. Nicholas, Mt. View, Calif. 1.00 ton, Mass ; 4 George Bogunovich, Cupertino, J, Eserneek, Boston, Mass. | FE. P. Hutchins, Boston, Mass.. | Califo ..2.. 0. eae . 1.00 Local Hartford, W. P., Hartford, CAG: 3 Dickson, Mt. View, . 6.00 ears... Hele Mt. View, Calif. ..1.00 H. L. Brookl on, Chicago, Ill. ...1.00] J. G. Fox, B nen, Grand Rapi R. Petrini, } s. Lyyli pids, 3 Otto Price, John W illiams, Alma, , Los Angeles, Cali Mich. Johanna Cozier, Vallejo, Calif. 10.00 | T+ Lehtir N. Chichota, Cleveland, Ohio ...2.00 | Henry H. C. Palmer, Saskatoon, Canada 1.00 / Mich. weet reees Street Nucle: . 1., Chicago, E. Kellman, nsing, Mich, J ‘1 WT OPS ee ea et ka 3.50 | M. Iman, Lansing, Mich 1.00 Arthur E. Patterson, Napa, 90 | Oscar Salmi, Grand Rapids, 1.00 Lena Kaskela, New York City 06 | Denael Munro, Peapack, 2.00 Jack Ukich, Hartford, Conn. ...2.0u| Arbeiter Bund, i 00 R. Skr Hartford, Conn,..,.1.00! Anton Keart. 1.00 M. Paskov, Hartf¢ Conn. ....1.00| A. Seier, 2 G. Podrebarov, Hartford, Conn, 1.00| Simon Beacon ids Fred Lagelbauer, St, Paul, Minn. 3.00 John Le Pamre. Zanesville, Ohio 5.00 | T. Aspe, San Pedro, Calif. 1.00 J. D. Reedy, Bickmore, W. Va. ..1.00 Hf. A. Muse, San Pedro, 1.00 Justin S ‘tz, Dorchester, Mass. 2.00 1.00 P. V. Zalpis, Chicago, Ill, ......5,00 Calif. id Peterson, Seattle, W: | zetti,” | process of “Americanization.” | two Italians, he argues, “combined in; jtheir obscure persons all the things |from the inception of the VIEWS OF THE A, F. OF L. CONVENTION AS SEEN—By Hay Bales THE. He's HERE EVERY Year { SOvIETGOLD! | sovercoun Worker’s Family Burned | To Death in Apartment Situated Qver Garage CLEVELAND, Oct. 19. — Trap- ped while they slept, Rufus Will- iams, laborer, his wife, and four children perished in a fire which destroyed their home here early to- day. The family made its home in four rooms on the second floor of a brick building. A garage occu- pied the ground floor. The fire was reported at about 2 o'clock this morning. Its origin has not yet been definitely deter- mined. The bodies of the parents were on the floor beside their bed, and the bodies of the three older child- ren were huddled close together near the door of their room evi- dence of their futile attempt to es- cape. The body of the fourth child, an infant, was in its ¢ =o Biography of Sacco And Vanzetti Now On Book Market Less than two months after their |execution in Boston, a complete biog- | raphy of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo | | Vanzetti has been published in New York by the International Publishers 381 Fourth Ave., under the title “The | Life and Death of Sacco and Van- by Eugene Lyons, “Many facts about the world-fa- mous case not known except to those very close to it,” the publishers state, | “are revealed for the first time in Mr.} Lyons’ book. The early life of Sacco and Vanzetti, both in Italy and in| America, is recounted fully, as well; as the inside story of many of the incidents which marked the sensa tional seven years’ battle in the courts.” | The author is unsparing in his de- scriptions of Judge Webster Thayer,! |Governor Alvan T. Fuller and others connected with the prosecution and execution of the two men. New Eng- land itself is characterized as Espoused Radical Cause. Mr. Lyons draws full-length por-! traits of Sacco and Vanzetti, treating; them as types of immigrants in the} United States. Their search for! work, their espousal of the radical cause are used to reveal the whole These |that most offended and frightened |a smug New Englander.” Brandeis in Role of Pilate. In the same fashion other charac-} | ters who appear in the story of Sacco and Vanzetti are delineated in biting phrases. Justice Louis D. Brahdeis is referred to as a “liberal Daniel” who “refused to save two human lives from an unjust death because for- sooth he was too sympathetic with) | them; because he feared that he might | | tip the scales of Justice too far on the! side of mercy. Mr. Lyons, according to Interna- jtional Publishers, was connected with the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti e. He is written con- a newspaperman and has siderably on the case the seven | years of its development. The s ent book is not merely a aanhees of | the legal case and the demonstrations | but a biography of the two men from| against the birth to death, with full treatment of | the Italian and American background, | AW. DRY UP? | &th district; Juliet Stuart Poyntz, can- | | granted me by Governor Smith,” Git- \is quite to the contrary. “a sort} of backyard of America.” i | which make it possible to send a work- THE WORKERS EVER LET 'EM THING ABOUT RUS (f THEY DO— \ We’ iG SUNK | THAT Aln'T wo WoLF ! . Citlow, Barred ‘From Ballot, (Continued from Page One) quired number of citizens signed a} petition to have my name placed on the ballot,” Gitlow’s statement said. | “This is the fourth time that the Board of Elections has shown that! the democracy that the mass of the} people are pposed to enjoy is @ qualified democracy. | “The action of: the Board of Elec- tions is proof ‘that conviction for a offense against the capitalist | ticularly if such offense con- of defending the interests of the | orking class, is sufficient grounds for outlawing a citizen ana depriving | Lim of his political rights.” j A Class War | Gitlow served nearly three years at | Sing Sing Prison for his part in the nization of the left wing of the | socialist party in 1920. He was con-! vieted under the criminal anarchy law. | Gitlow will speak at a needle trades | y of the Workers (Communist) y at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and | t., next Wednesday, 8 p. m.| Other speakers wili be William W.! Weinstone, candidate for | fakes Reply' Prisoner, alderman, | didate for assembly, 17th district,| Manhattan; Ben Gold, manager of the Furriers’ Union Joint Board, and Charles S. Zimmerman, of the Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union. | Gitlow will also address several large | vpen air meetings throughout the city | Friday night. i Pardon Is Conditional. “Particularly important at this time is the interpretation given by the state attorney general to the pardon ow’s statement continues. “I was al- ways under the impression that when Governor Smith yielded to the demand of the organized workers’ together with sympathizers and friends of the labor movement for my release that he granted an unconditional pardon and therefore restored my citizenship. The information given to the Board of Elections by the attorney general Smith Not A Liberal. “Tf the opinion of the attorney gen- eral is t interpretation, then the action of Governor Smith is fully in line with the repeated actions of the Board of Elections. It is only further proof that Governor Smith is not the liberal he professes to be, but the rep- resentative of the reactionary capi- talist forces in the United States to whom democracy is only a democracy that gives their class the fullest po- litical privileges and the right to amass fortunes at the expense of the workers. Challenge to Labor. “The action of the Board cf Elec- tions and the conditional pardon of Governor Smith is a. challenge to the organized labor movement to fight to establish the right for workers’ ‘can- didates to run for public office, re- gordless of their victimization by the capitalist courts. The action of the Board of Elections also, opens up the whole question of political prisoners and the vicious, tyrannical, criminal unarchy law and other such laws er to prison for 10 years for the ex- pression of an opinion. Will Continue the Fight. “The action of the Board of Elec- tions and the conditional pardon granted by Governor .Smith will not | keep me out of the political field, The | action makes possible the waging of 2 mined and energetic campaign | ag: a rotten reactionary system, | typified by my disbarment. Such ac- tion is part of the whole brutal class role of so-called American democracy working class. Witness the police brutality in strikes against |iHenry Ford Extends His 'which are { LooKs LiKE AN EARLY FROST AGAIN THIS YEAR AforL Proaram “Speed-up” System Over Textile Factory in Mass. SUDBURY, -Mass., Oct. 19, (#. P.) — Announcement that the Ford Motor Co. will open a big carding mill at Sudbury, Ma: brings to the attention of textile unionists the fact that the automo- bile manufacturer a tex-| tile manufacturer ortance. | Today’s issue of the Daily News| Record, textile daily, carries a sum- mary of the section of the Ford booklet, The Ford Industries, tell- ing ef the cloth-making depart- ments at his plant n Detroi 3500 yards of cotton cloth, to 60 inches wide are woven a day and 1000 yards of wool; also 72,000 yards of artificial leather. As more big industrial corpora- tions manufacture their own textile | fabries for use in automobiles, ma- chines of various kinds, building | materials, ete., it becomes more necessary for the textile workers to get the backing of the men and women in other related industries. Coolidge Unveiling Meade Statue Brags Of Veterans’ Bureau WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.— Amer- ica’s treatment of its war veterans “has ever been the most generous,” President Coolidge declared here to- day in accepting a monument of Major General George Gordon Meade, hero of Gettysburg. The monument was erected by the state of Pennsyl- vania and given to the nation. Without a reference to the Veter- ans’ Bureau scandals and convictions for graft, without a word for the re- cent epidemic of suicides by U. S. war veterans, discouraged, disabled, and starving, without an inkling of any offer to investigate the reported eruelties and mistreatment in several} government hospftals for the gassed and hopelessly wounded ex-soldiers, the president continued: “We have not only been lavish in the public honors which have been! conferred on our veterans,” the Pres- ident said, “but we have also bestowed upon them pensions and gratuities reaching down to every man in the ranks, with which no other country can make comparison,” Congressman Finds U. Indian Bureau Grafted; Wants States to Do Job WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (FP).— Rep. Clyde Kelly of Pittsburgh, active in the House committee on Indian af- fairs, announces that he will offer a bill in Congress in December, to abol- ish the federal Indian Bureau. This is the plan urged for years past by John Collier, spokesman for the Indi- ans, before cominittees of the House and Senate. It would turn over to the several states the administering of the properties of the Indian tribes, estimated to be worth nearly a billion dollars. Crookedness in the Indian Bureau and inefficiency which results in the absorption of 85 percent of all Indian revenues in administrative charges, is the basis for the movement to let the several states take charge. Aimee Gets Burned LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19-—Aimer> Semple McPherson, notorious female including the war and the “red peril”; junctions, the jailing of pickets, and | evangelist who concocted the kidnap era after the war. Translations into Italian, Russian and other languages are al-' ready under way. The publishers ex-? pect that the book will be translated into every major language in the a German, } world, the whole scope of the ‘American| Plan’ against labor. ¥ inst the Board of Elections, | nov Smith, and all champions of | the ‘American Pian’, I will continue to fight uncompromisingly and with all my energy.” ro ing story to explain her absence wit her radio operator, burned by an electric device using to treat a cold at Angelus Tem ple. Evidently her god wasn’t wateh- ing over her at the tyme, probably be fg bue> ecanting sparrows that fall. wn The Story of a Kept Man! AEE Un tee | “The Springboard,” Alice Duer Mil- | ler’s play now on exhibition at the Mansfield Theatre derives its name | from the fact that a male “butterfly” Victor Hazen, played by Sidney | B mer, relies upon his wife, Mary ' McVittey, played by Madge Kennedy, | to place him in such a social environ- | ment that he can carry on a series of philanderings with wealthy widows | and members of the former Russian nobility now in exile from the fury of the In other words hi social position is used as a springboard from which Hazen leaps ae masses. \into the intimacies of her lady! ““ friends. Finally the lady, although aware of the triflings of her husband, grows of him and gives him the rush. The miserable cad ac-} phoid fever and bribes a doc- n his wife that unless she him back he will die. So she{ {resumes life with him. a =ee : | Madge Kennedy handles her part, ition of en new company phiont the |well, Blackmer makes a thoroughly | Successful venture which brought the isguting job of the kept man of his|Grand Street Follies to The Little |wife and the balance of the cast is| Theatre on a co-operative basis. ~ It ntable. jis planned to work the idea whereby for the play itself, it i merely | the members of both the acting com- section of the every-day life | pany and executive staff will have a thy, stupid, voluptuous bour-/| Voice in the ation. This idea , and is a reflex of the gen-|is similar to that obtained ‘at the dence of the so-called better | Moseow Art Theatre. One of the bright of “Good News” now in its second month at Chanin’s 46th Street Theatre. |tor to | clawsses. | The fi production to be made by Ronse abu d Snes jthe Actor-Managers and Mr. Ross “Te {will be “If,” by Lord Dunsany, and ||“1E,” by Dunsany, OPENS | opens at the Little Theatre on Tues- day evening, October 25. Tuesday at the Little The Grand Street Follies Company| The Artward_ | which moved uptown from the Neigh-; gaged Anne Milburn, |borhood Playhouse, will henceforth | |Howard Benton, Productions have en- Irving Fisher, Green and Al- |be known as the Actor-Managers. Its!fred Shirley for their forthcoming | productions will be made in associa-| musical comedy “The Girl From jtion with Sidney R The forma- Childs.” » CIVIC REPERTORY THE. 14 St. & 6 Ave. Prices 50e to $ EVA LE GALLIENNE H ; Tonight— HamwPbeN( in Ibsen's comedy “AN EB 1k PEOPL Friday nigh | Hampden’ s 7 Grae mientre Guna Efesents | Matinees Wednesda: 0 ‘The Desert Song P he R G Y with Robt. 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