The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1927, Page 2

| i | l | Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1927 Trade Union Delegation Demands Recognition of Soviet Russia by U.S. (Continued from Page One) gy. In the new states which were but the prices charged were so high | c ted by the world war there has that a hands e profit was made by | been a virtual confiscation of a large the German’ An ironical fea-| part of the properties formerly owned ture of this transaction is that Amer-| by the landed nobility of the central ican credits to Germany made possible | empires and of the Baltic states. All this loan to Russia and the conse-| these confiscatory acts are now sanc- quent profits to ¢ n rather than |t d by usage. Nor, lest we should to American bus . It also} become self-righteous, should we for- sé@rved to employ German rather than | get that a number of our own states American labor. |repudiated their debts during the Loans Interfered With. | years following the panic of 1837, and “Constructive loans to Rus |that after the Civil War reconstruc- be difficult and perhaps i | tion period, many southern states also make under the pr pudiated the bonds which had been government. In the ued during the regime of the car- ; baggers. Governments, indeed, ign, have the legal right ion.” avor A Conference. “We believe that our government | Should be willing to enter a confer- jence with Russia where these claims |could be adjusted in a general set- profits of | tlement that would fully protect the ae |interests of all American creditors m some- | *P : ‘i 3 ‘ : fa without involving Russia’s diplomatic , | relations with other nations under the most favored nation clause. “The loan of $187,000,000 to the | so-called Bakhmetievy government ands somewhat different F | bei of confi say that it would in probability discourage such investments were they submitted to it for roval, as they | necessarily would b Referring to the question of recog- nition Z srospective investor: American capital: what incongruous able to take care of t ee ete openly favor the rece oti Most of this money was used nition of Russia ct benefit to | 7° Aes habe mee aa on hs N their own economic int Yet |®y Bakhmetiev after the fall in No- vember, 1917, of the Kerensky gov- ;.;ermment, which he represented in the United States. Mr. Bakhmetiev sub- juently remained in Washington for several years, being recognized during this time by the state department as | the official representative of the Rus- |sian government, although his gov- | ernment was non-existent. The major | portion of these funds was used, with | the knowledge of our government, to American labor has even a interest in this question than the ca talists, involving not profits f but employment for thousand: intelligent worker can see that a lcan to Russia to finance the purchase of American machinery would directly result in giving a bigger pay envelope to American labor and would stimu- late the prosperity of the primary in- dustries of the nation. “Finally, we believe that nearly all Americans want to live in friendship with the people of Russia.” Continuing, the delegation reports: “The Russian government has been in existence for ten years, and has re- pelled many attacks upon it, while! life is more secure there than in some parts of our own country. If our tra- ditional policy of recognizing de facto gevernments be correct, then surely | the present government of Russia; merits recognition. . . | MOSCOW, Oct. 7. (By The Issue of “Compensations.” |The Society for Promoting the De- “Turning to the question of com-|fence, Aviation and Chemical Indus- pensation for American property, it ke is a matter of history that many re-|of its activities up to the 10th anni- spectable nations have fracticed the|versary of the October Revolution. eonfication of property without com- 4 pensation and have even repudiated |and chemical museums, 38 clubs, their debts. Thus England under | 1,178 aviation and chemical circles, Henry VIII confiscated church prop- | 1,942 libraries 1,283 airfleet circles, Defense Clubs in Soviet Union Are erty, while the French Revolution |202 chemical laboratories, 27 perma- | |nent exhibitions, 3,063 circles for mili- |tary studies, 4,207 rifle shooting circles, 617 medical circles, 836 stands for shooting, 300 aviation and chemi- cal detachment and 7,466 experi- mental agricultural plots for probing mineral manuring. | 3 Shot Dead in Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 17—Two young women were shot to death and their bodies thrown from a speeding auto- | mobile here early today. One hundred yards from the spot where the bodies lay, the automobile crashed into a telegraph pole and was demolished. In the wreckage of the machine was seized the lands of the nobility and READY In time for the November 7th meetings in all parts of the country. WW A NEw Book who had been shot through the head. One of the girls was identified as Frances Martin, a student. Efforts are being made to identify the second bor There have been many such TH }murders in Chicago. Junker -Plane Waits w=mens | HORTA, Azores, Oct. 20. — The German Junkers seaplane “D-1230” in which the Viennese actress Lilli | Dillenz is attempting a Germany-to- The Rise and Achievements of Soviet Russia | | | New York flight will not attempt the last leg of its flight from the Azores to New York tonight. Continued adverse weather condi- tions over the Atlantic were respons- ible for the further postponement of the flight. | Killed at Station Crossing |. TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Oct. 20.— Struck by an express train today as she was crossing the New Central tracks at the station here, a woman believed to have been Mrs. Jane F. Williams, 57, of 3308 Kings Highway, | Brooklyn, was instantly killed. There }were no guards provided at this | crossing. By J. Louis Encpauy The first of a series of new publications to be issued by The Workers Library Pub- lishers. With GREETINGs to Ameri- Growing Rapidly Mail).— | ,purchase military supplies for the | ‘armies of Admiral Kolchak and other counter-revolutionists, who invaded Russia and attempted to overthrow the iet government. It is obviously the height of unfairness for our gov- ernment to insist upon collecting from {the Russian government the cost of the munitions which were used in an attempt to crush it. Yet the commis- sar for foreign affairs of the Russian government expressed to us his will- ingness to admit even this claim, pro- vided that he can in return file claims for the damages done to Russian prop- erty by American armies and by the |munitions furnished by the United States. We should not forget that, | without any declaration of war on our | part, an American army invaded Rus- | sia in 1918 and helped to kill Russian | | citizens and to destroy Russian prop- | erty in the Archangel district. Anj| American detachment also accompan-} ied Kolchak’s Army and, although it | abstained from actual combat, it lent | the moral support of America to the | counter-revolutionary forces and oper- |ated railroads for their benefit. The munitions bought with money furnish- | }ed by the United States were also | used to damage Russian property, as | those of us who have seen the depre-} | dations wrought by Kolchak’s Army \in the Ural districts and in Siberia can testify. Russia’s claim for com-| pensation on these counts seems per- | |fectly valid.” | * * * The report as a whole in the | \ { i | | Lives of Poor Endangered by Flimsy Fire Traps oe In Which They Must Dwell Z ae SCORES FLEE TENEMENT FIRE!—Two-alarm fire that started in rear of tenement at 3d Avenue Street last night drove many shows damage caused by blaze. from and 108th occupants to street. Photo Firemen had narrow escape injury in collapse of wooden flooring | exact words of the delegation will | be published in The DAILY WORKER, the first. installment ap- | péaring on another page in this [Industry in Ukraine | Shows Twenty-four Per | Cent Increase in Year | | MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The in-j | dustry of Ukraine shows an in- | crease approximately of 24 per | cent in the last year. In the coming year, the pre-war | ENGINEER FIRMS | CONSIDER ENDING , ALL ARBITRATION ? | Technical Congress Has| Motion to War on Labor| YORK, Pa. Oc of Engineering soc he congress | Roosevelt Brothers Are opened here | | try of the U. S. S. R. has taken stock | | today with the introduction of a reso-| | lution which recognizes a state of war) jon organized labor in the building | | level will be exceeded in the Ukraine. The coal industry will | | exceed the pre-war level 16 per The society actually has 38 aviation | found the body of Wilfred Winters, 21, | cent; margarine 115 per cent; } machinery 140 per cent; the leather and shoe industries 50 per cent jand the paper industry 85 per cent. Governor Smith Pardons Grafter; Petty Larceny May Mean a Life Term ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 20.--Gov- | jernor Smith today commuted the |two-year prison sentence of T. For- rest Brown, of Amsterdam, former County Treasurer of Montgomery county. Brown was convicted of misappro- priating several thousand dollars of county funds. He was sentenced in| November, 1926, to a minimum term expiring Sept. 21, 1928. i The governor said he had received | a letter from County Judge George | C. Butler, who imposed sentence on Brown, urging executive clemency. This is in the same estate where men are sentenced to life imprison- ment for petty larceny if it is the fourth offense. | Rich Woman Loses Husband GREENFIELD, Mass., Oct. 20.—| The May-December romance of Mrs. Estella M. Woodward 65, wealthy resident of South Deerfield, and her chauffeur, Herman Letourneau, 22, of Turners Falls, which was shat- tered a few weeks after their mar- riage at Kingston, N. Y., was official- ly dissolved in probate court here today. Lita, Now Rich, Praises Cal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—“He’s pretty nice,” so said Lita Gray Chap- lin, after a call upon President Cool- idge today. Lita married Charlie Chaplin some years ago and then sued for divorce and heavy alimony, threatening to blacken his reputation unless he yielded. can workers on the 10th | 5 * | Anniversary of Soviet Rus- | |! sia from Kaventn, presi- dent of the Soviet Union. | The Tenth Year—in a new attractive edition of the Wir NOT in the DA ADVERTISE Workers Library will be of | the press next week. | Ibs ORDER NOW They Bring Results. 38 FIRST STREET | | { | | | “Advertising Offices of From MAIN OF FICE— 83 East ist Street. ’ LOCAL OFFICE— z: DAILY WORKER Room 35, 108 Hast 14th Street. YORKVILLE OF FICE— Book Derr. 354 Bast 8lst Street, OUR ADVERTISEMENTS WIN CONFIDENCE |}\ APPLY TO THE DAILY WORKER ADVERTISING DEPT. Phone Orchard 1680 NEWYORK,N.Y. (|! ILY WORKER Rates Are Reasonable. The DAILY WORKER HARLEM OF FICE-~ 2119 3rd Avenue, at 116th Street, BRONX OFFICE— 2829 3rd Avenue, at 149th Street, | BROOKLYN OFFICE— 46 Ten Byck Street. EP 21 33 First St., “New York. | er ! | mates for building, Their adhesion to | the American Federation of Labor has | through the board be abandoned. | day of the adoption by the council of trades. This coincides with the re-| \cent. attacks by New York building | contractors on the union scale. Among | a list of subjects relating to better! highways, changes in the national | government so as to concentrate the | contracting power in the Department} of the Interior, of which Albert F. Fall was lately the head, and patent | office suggestions intended to make| less valuable the holding of a patent | by the inventor, comes a motion to! recommend liquidation of the national koard of jurisdictional awards in the| building industry. | With Boss. | The engineering and architectural | firms represented here are sometimes themselves contractors, and even| when not are the high-priced techni- cal men, who draw up plans and esti- Line the newly developed policy of aggres- iveness by building contractors in| New York and other cities against the building trades, and the present hardly concealed open shop drive, was expected. The presiding officer at the } congress is Dean Dexter S. Kimball, | of Cornell University. The building trades department of already withdrawn from the national board of jurisdictional awards joint) committee of arbitration, because of | the crudely unfair decisions it has | rendered. Until now, however, the | board has been kept running by the employers, apparently as a part of) their campaign for public sympathy in the impending period of Jock-outs and strikes. Don’t Want Settlement. The members of engineering firms gathered here, however, appear to be back of the resolution, sponsored by Rudolph P, Miller, of New York, rep- reséntative of the council on the board, of which he is also chairman, which will recommend to the Amer- ican Institute of Architects, the As- sociated General Contractors. of | America, and the National Associa- tion of Building Trades Employers® that the whole plan of settling labor | disputes within the building industry Want New U. 8. Department. Formal announcement was made to- a new plan of U. 8. government reor- | ganization, under which the entire rublie works functions of the govern- ment would be transferred to the De- partment of the Interior, in which a major division of publie works would be created. The plan has been em- bodied in a bill to be introduced at the ‘coming session of Congress by Rep. Adam M. Wyant, of Pennsylvania. Costes Over Montevideo MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct. 20, ~-Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Le Brix, French airmen who are making a flight from Le Bourget, France, to Buenos Ayres, passed over this city at 11:55 a. m. (local time). They had hopped off at Pelotas, Brazil. @ = rm | | | Sued for $215,000 By Agent in Guatemala Grab Archie Roosevelt, son of the late} president, faced a suit for $215,000) | filed against him, his brother, Ker-| }mit, and George L. “Tex” Richard} |and the Richard Exploration Com-| |pany by Humberto Blanco-Fom-! | bano. | Blanco-Fombano charges Roose- velt and others promised to pay | | him $215,000 for obtaining a_Gua-! temala oil contract. Machine InventedWhich Will Work Mathematics CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. | 20.— A much improved computing device which can solve intricate mathe- matical problems and will therefore replace a considerable number of em- ployees of engineering firms has been’ invented. ‘ “Into this mechanical mind can be fed the condition of a mathematical problem too complex for the human brain to master, and it will promptly grind out the answer and write it down, as efficiently as a machine takes in lumber and chemicals and produces finished boxes of matches,” read an astounding announcement from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today. The “thinking machine” was in- |vented by Dr. Vannevar Bush, Pro- fassor of Electric Power Transmis- sion, and a staff of research workers including F, G. Kear, H. L. Hazen, H. R. Stewart and F. D. Gage, it is called “The Product Inte- graph.” Work was begun on it sev- eral years ago to meet the need for a machine which would automatically solve problems of advanced electrical theory rapidly and accurately. Engine Crew Dies As Track Is Weakened HALLSTEAD, Pa., Oct. 20—The Lackawanna tracks were not either built heavy enough to withstand the fall rains nor inspected often enough to prevent a passenger train from running into a washout. So Newton L. Easterbrook, engineer on the Binghamton local and Luke P, Mon- roe, fireman, are dead. Their loco- motive went over the embankment. They threw the airbrakes and stopped the rest of the train in time to prevent any other cars than the mail car from leaving the tracks. Bootleg The Fight Films. BUFFALO, Oct. 17.—Attempts to censor the Dempsey-Tunney fight films continue. There is a federal statute against transporting them outside of the state in which the fight took place. But they are shown. The case of theatre owners will come before the grand jury tomorrow, and an agent of the New York Film Book- ing Co, is ordered to be there, Say Ford Gyped Partners DETROIT, Oct. 17. -- A suit of Henry M. and Wilfred C. Leland against Henry and Edsel Ford to force the Fords to carry out an alleged promise to reimburse original stock- holders of the Lincoln Motor Company is contemplated. In a letter sent to all old stock- holders of the Lincoln Motor last week, the Lelands ask for power of attorney and agreement to start. suit. It is estimated the suit, if started, will) involve about $4,000,000. 16 out justice to Franklin L. Dodge _ PRISON ON “ASS Were Active in three months at Deer Island by Court of Boston on trumped-up the same charge. Active in Strike, The workers are among the most | active in the Local, and aroused the) enmity of the bosses, especially dur- | ing the last general strike which won) for the Boston capmakers a 40-hour | week and an increase in wages. Evy-) ery means conceivable was utilized by | the bosses to break that strike, and the “assault” frame-up was but one| of their desperate moves to break the! ranks of the striking workers. | Evidence Weak. | The three capmakers must serve) prison terms despite the fact that) they furnished convincing alibis to| prove that they had nothing to do} with the assault. The conviction was not a complete surprise to the work-| ers who were aware of the Massachu- setts hysteria following upon the ex- -— —— jeeution of Sacco and Vanzetti, and FOUR BOSTON CAPMAKERS SENT T0 AULT” FRAME-UP Three Sentenced to 90 Days Each at Deer Island; General Strike | (Special to The DAILY WORKER) BOSTON, Oct. 20.—J. Korshun, chairman of Local 7, Cap- makers’ Union, William Futerman and Max Finer, active mem- bers of the same organization, were each sentenced today to serve Judge Hayden of the Superior assault charges. Max Walkin, also prominent in union activities, was sentenced to 30 days on the labor-hating reputation of the presiding judge. Enthusiastic Meeting. The answer to the prison sentence imposed upon the three loyal union- ists was an enthusiastic meeting of capmakers held last night. Speakers at the meeting challenged the bosses and warned them that they would fail in their efforts to weaken their organization. “We-avill continue to fight to maintain our working condi- tions and wage standards and every attack of the bosses will solidify our ranks.” The capmakers unanimously pledg- ed to support the families of the im- prisoned workers and carry on the work of the union with greater devo- tion than ever. Bootleg King Calls Cabinet Member in His Murder Trial CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 20.—The Remus trial is taking on a serious as- pect for some government officials, including one member of President Coolidge’s cabinet. The former “boot- leg_king” is desperate, with his back to a prison wall and his face to the gallows, and he is carrying out his threat to expose a lot of things about prohibition enforcement if he is put on trial, Want Evidence On Agent. : The cabinet member is Attorney General John H. Sargent, whose depo- sition is now sought, In addition, Mrs. Mable Walker Willebrandt, Assistant United States Attorney General in charge of crim- inal prosecution, Edgar T. Hoover, Chief of the Department of Justice, Dr. E. L. Doran, in charge of the na- tion’s liquor forces, former Prohibi- many other minor officials have been subpoenaed and are expected to give important testimony. According to Attorney Elston, the purpose of taking depositions from Sargent and others in Washington is to have advantage of the information gathered by Tom Wilcox, agent in charge of thé Detroit office of the Department of Justice during the government’s investigation of the ac-) tivities of Franklin L. Dodge, Jr., for- mer ace of the Department of Justice, and Imogene Remus, the murdered wife. Dodge Got Away. Already it has been charged by George L. Remus from his cell in the Hamilton County jail that those re- sponsible for the enforcement of law in Washington have been lax in met- and Mrs, Imogene Remus. Remus has charged that someone high in the office of the United States Attorney General is responsible for the apparent immunity of Dodge and Mrs. Remus. \ | City Rail Ownership Pays SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17, (FP) — During the past 14 years the city of | San Francisco has made a profit of | more than $5,500,000 on its Municipal Railway, says a report from Local Union 151, Intl. Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers, to the official Journal of that brotherhood. The city took over the Geary Street line in Decem- ber, 1912, and the figures quoted are for the period to January, 1927. In these 14 years, despite every pos- sible forny of opposition from the priv- ate companies, the city lines have} maintained the 5 cent fare and yet have taken in $34,382,090, while oper- ating costs have been $28,807,615. It is estimated that, by keeping fares at 5e, the city lines have saved San Fran- cisco $50,000,000—which is 10 times what the roads cost the people. | ‘Wages and conditions on the city | lines are union, and are better than’on | Fuller, Murderer of tion Commissioner David H. Blair, and } . Sacco and Vanzetti, Up | for Vice Presidency | BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 20.—Gov- ernor Fuller, whose cat and mouse game with the lives of Sacco and | Vanzetti added so much misery to their last days, and whose brutal anxiety to get them killed in an impressive manner has shocked the civilized world, today admitted that he had been offered the re- publican nomination for vice-pres- ident. ‘ The governor remarked that Governor Ralph O. Brewster, (R), of Maine informed him yesterday that he had talked with the gover- nor of Connecticut and other New England governors and that all were impressed with the idea -of going to the Republican National Convention with a united New Eng- land behind Fuller for vice-presi- dent. Fuller made the usual protesta- tions that he sought no such honors and would rather stay home and take care of his children. By > Electricians Pay Pensions WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, (FP). — Any member of _the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers for 20 years in continuous good standing, up to the time of applica- tion for this pension, is to receive $40 a month plus the amount of his union dues. These dues, for pensioners, will amount to $2 a month. The sum drawn will thus be $42 per month, of which $2 will go back to the interna- | tional union. Members so retired on union pen- sions will not be permitted to do any work at their trade, for anyone, either |for pay or without pay. Neckwear Strike Continues. The campaign to organize the opeBe shop neckwear factories in New Haven, Conn., is continuing accord- ing to the United Neckwear Makers’ Union office here. | A large picket line will be out next Monday morning. Several Yale stu- dents have said they would partici- pate. GET A NEW READER! ORDER NOW WW BOOKS’ and Pamphlets | for ALL MEETINGS, SALE the private competing system. | Mrs, Lilliendah! Hires Defender. MAYS LANDING, N, J., Oct, 19. Robert H. McCarter, who was chief of the Hall-Mills case defense coun-. | sel, confirmed reports yesterday th: he had been retained to defend Mrs, | Margaret Lilliendahl, who, with Wil- lis Beach, a neighbor, will go on trial here November 28th for the alleged murder of her aged husband, Dr.) William Lilliendahl, | Cadet Strike Beats General LEXINGTON, Va., Oct. 19,—The strike of 720 students of Virginia Military Institute was settled today. Alumni intervened and promised to investigate charges that Brig. Gen. W. H. 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