The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1927 FIVE ZEIGLER COAL MINERS MUST 60 10 PRISON, SAYS HIGH COURT e One) while men and vaccine Sean klux klan reactionaries in the service of the latter. “Under these cireum the sort of a fight w given up mere preme court aff verdict of capitalist ¢ The defens: with its attorne .|view to carrying the c f|United States supreme cc {| possibilities permit that course. the United Mine Worker: n| International Labor Defense will _ Illinois, against corruption all events continue to carry tion in the union allied with the open-|to the working class of this country, Shop employers and a horde of gun-|he declared. Morgan Chooses Head| of United States Steel] Intestate Comm, Will Make ‘tina (Continued from Pa year. from a coal corp acting as president of the on. Bos: Man Prosecuted. “One of the chief prosecuting agen- cies,” said Canno s the official machine of the lirected by Frank Carringt< dastardly prosecution of ly financed out the union This fight i rt of the honest and nt trade uni ances it is annot be the international tion of establishing there, the important one. Directors of the United States Steel W. ASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Con- Corporation dec! quarterly divi ess is expected to enact new legis-| the common si g in |lation authorizing the railroads of the |. New York Tues: country to work out a voluntary con- | corpor: i ed |solidation plan, tho the plans of the September 30 w Chicago Mayor Now | Van Sweringen Brothers, of Cleve- |land, to link up the Chesapeake &| |Ohio with the Erie and Pere Mar-| quette through stock ownership and | L. F. Loree’s various merger plans |probably will not be decided by the] |Interstate Commerce Commission a | Several months, This was indicated today when al : lhigh authority in the commission de-| 00 urning a |clared there was no foundation for S |persistent rumors in Wall Street that} }the commission was preparing to is-| sue a series of decisions that would} vitally affect the stock market. | Oral arguments on the Van Swer-| ingen plan will be heard by the com-| mission early in November. Loree’s | , —cCourt action to halt the destruction of any boo! found in the Chicago Public rary said to contain pro-British propaganda was continued here for one week when Judge r refused CHICAGO, Oc Tax Gut, Not Flood Relief, Is Demand of Consressmen C., Ww ASHINGTON, D. Oct. 2 f poverished ippi valley passed be- s are fur- among here, | not going to be tre: aye with | » SO Baney say. iddle senators the “pre are id to p out a but are worried the attitude of their consti- be The W empt Small Corporations? Republican and Democratic | carefully eliminated | 1e personal income tax r programs, but it is 1 that once the the Progressives will de- raised to Both | en ned up, that the exemption be S rcles and promptly banned Representative Green (R) of peseabes rman of the House Ways |b; nd M s Committee, is to inaugur- the exemption system for the corporation income tax. This plan | would exempt corporations having less than $25,000 annual income and | would defeat any for substantial tax cut “big business.’ Another proposal made by Rep- ntative Tr way (R), of Mas- age as member of the vented to be rejected by both stration leaders and progres- suggested a compromise, reduction of the surtax rates on illion dollar incomes, providing the sury surplus allows a big tax cut, An effort will be made, it is un- derstood, to bring about an agree- jment between senate and house re- publican leaders before the tax re- duetion program is actually launched. tax bill is| and Means Committee, | plans for linking up the Kansas City Representative Green has refused Southern with the Cotton Belt and|thus far to endorse the statement to hear injunction procee November 1, and Mayor Thom: Katy and the Delaware & Hudson} of Senator Smoot (R), of Utah, timated that he wouldn’t after all|with the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts- chairman of the Senate Finance burn the books. burgh through trackage rights paicaltel ommittee, for a $350,000,000 tax Attorneys for Edward J. Bohac,|the Pennsylvania between Button-| yeductio: n. Green has indicated a acting as a taxpayer, sted upon ar | wood and Dubois, Pa., are still under] elief that the total will be nearer immediate hearing. This was denied by the judge, who then read the fol- lowing communication which he re- ceived from Mayor William Hale Thompson, instigator of Chicago’s war upon England, and which sai consideration by the commission. Sewartzbard Swears “There was no suggestion made H | about burning anything. I do not e 4 | IC e ura. think there should be an injunction issued against anything I never in- tended to do.” Hermann stated publicly a few days ago he would burn on the lake front any books he discovered containing pro-British propaganda. Hermann an- nounced he was acting under orders from Mayor Thompson. Because of Pocroms cident marked today’s session of the | trial of Samuel Schwartzbard, Rus- |sian Jew, charged with assassinating | Gen. Simon Petlura, Ukrainian ban- | dit leader who murdered thousands jin his reign of terror, when he rose in the prisoner’s box and addressed the court, -admitting that he had killed Petlura. Schwartzbard had previously con- fessed the killing, saying he did it to avenge the thousands of Jews slain Work Daily for the Daily Worker! GetNo.14 was in power. CC. AMUNIST TERNATIO | Dr. Teherikovir, a specialist in| NAL | virsine history, who was the first | |witness, despite his White Guard] leanings admitted that Petlura failed to punish the persons who carried out the pogroms. It was at this point that the pris- |oner leaped to his feet and shouted: Cee ag wt ie Larne Coremonae ofthe Communes aeresiens NOW | J. T. MURPHY—writes on | “I swear that is why I killed him.” “« Ye: h | 5 Scher ie Site | Moses Safra, a merchant of Kiev, u. NEUM | whose son had been killed in a pogrom and the |told the court: OTHER ART | views and THE DAILY WORKER BOOK DEPT. 33 First Street New York. by associating myself with Schwartz-| ‘bard’s act, but I thought death too good for Petlura.” BUY THE ‘DAILY WORKER | AT THE NEWSSTANDS eae | SEPT-OCTOBER ISSUE Just off the press. Table of Contents: ‘The Murder of Sacco and Vanzetti By ROBERT MINOR. American Militarism By A. G. BOSSE. The Convention of the Pan- American Labor Federation By ARNOLD ROLLER Whither Wuhan By 8Z-TOH-LI. China and American Imperialist Policy By EARL BROWDER. | With Marx and Engels By AVROM LANDY, Address, after Oct. 25th: | | 43 E. 125th St., New York, N, Y.| | Now! 1113 Washington Bivd. Chieago, DL. FOR SALE on newsstands in New York, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Frisco, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, ete, SUBSCRIPTION: ., " GGOMETM s tiivc sa ccesane cea i" Single Copy .....25¢ ° 1.25 DOOR or vckeevvecasess «+. +$2.00 Foreign and Canada,....... 2.50 PARIS, Oct. 25.—A dramatic in-| in pogroms in Ukraine while Petlura | “T wanted to avenge my son’s death | $200,000,000. Inter-Racial Meet ‘a Philadelphia To Discuss Unions PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 25. — Delegates from many workers’ groups will gather at the Inter-Racial Con- gress to discuss a full program of important subjects bearing upon race relations in America, and their re- sults. The American Negro Labor Congress, Philadelphia Council, has arranged the conference. The first session, from one to five p. m. Friday, Oct. 28, at 1605 Catherine St., will | have on its list the following topics: of and Cure for Race Antag- onism and Lynching; New Fields for Interracial Cooperation; Colonial Peo- ples and World Peace. The second session, at the same place, from 8 to 11 p. m. will take up: \ Recent Developments Producing Race | Friction and Race Riots in the North; Organized Labor’s Attitude Toward the Negro, and will continue the dis- cussions in Colonial Peoples and World Peace. } | May Boom Fuller for Vice-Presidency for Sacco-Vanzetti Murder | WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (FP). — \ Hoover partisans in the capital pro- |fess much surprise that his name should be coupled, by a newspaper cor- | respondent who is close to Coolidge, with Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts in a proposed presidential ticket. The idea that Hoover wants Fuller he man who sent Sacco and Van- i to’ death—as his vice-presiden- | tial running mate in case Hoover ix nominated by the republican conven- jtion next June, was put out by a |Hearst man who comes from Boston, and who is in high favor at the White Mouse. In this boost for Fuller ay a vice-presidential nominee the idea is set forth that Fuller, by killing Sacco and Vanzetti, has become an apostle of “law and order.” The public is told |that this was what brought Coolidge vr vice-presidential nomination in 0-—the “law and order® cry ‘he Gal when the Boston police went on strike, Still Censoring Fight Films. BOSTON, Oct, 25.—Transportation to this state of the Dempsey-Tunney prize fight motion picture films be- ing shown in theatres all over Mas- sachusétts was under investigation by a federal grand jury today. The investigation was launched by United States Attorney Frederick H. Tarr, acting on instructions from Washington. Thirteen theatrical men testified before the jury. There is a federal law against shipment of fight films over state lines. BUY THE DAILY WORKER BUILDING TRADES WORKERS SCORN UNION BETRAYAL | Progressive Group for) | Militant Unionism | The Progressive Building Trades | Workers group are distributing thou- ands of leaflets throughout the city | telling building trades workers they | were betrayed in a recent agreement |signed with the Building Trades Em- ployers Association. The leaflet quotes extracts from |the agreement prohibiting strikes or! | stoppages and discrimination against |scab-made material. On: the other | hand, according to the agreement, the {cmployer is at liberty, to employ or | discharge whomsoever he chooses. “Under this agreement,” the leaflet continues, “members of the Building Trades Unions are compelled to han- dle non-union material and in most cases. in violation of their union con-|} stitution or trade rules, Such as the} use of non-union electrical appliances | by the electricians or non-union trim| by the carpenters. Discharge Union Men. “The employers have the right to rush us as much as they please and the privilege to discharge the best union men or even the shop or job steward who enforces union condi- tions. Speed up is more and more be- coming the order of the day. “There are tens of thousands of unorganized building trades workers such as plumbers’ helpers, laborers, parquet floor layers and those en- gaged in alteration and maintenance work. In times of strike, they are utilized to defeat us. Nothing is done} to organize them. “The only effective weapon we have for defense, the right to strike, is prohibited. In case one trade calls a strike, other trades would be com- pelled to work with non-union men and scabs. If all the trades cannot| give protection to one or more trades | in the maintenance of or better of their conditions, then we will find our- selves in the position of being defeat- ed one at a time by the United Build- ing Trades bosses, as for instance, the plumbers of Brooklyn. “The overwhelming demand for the five day week and the $14 day was entirely ignored. ~ “Nothing is done against the | wholesale violation of the agreement | with our unions by the employers. Our membership is heavily fined for the least violation of our rules but the ‘bosses are not forced to abide by the agreement. “In the light of the above, John | Halkett, successor to Brindel as head of the Building Trades Council, con- siders the renewal of this agreement a victory for the building trades workers, But let us look at more facts. “Brother building trades men: Con- demn this agreement, In place of this shameful surrender we must de- mand: “1. The five day week and the fourteen dollar day. | “2. The unconditional right to strike when the principles of organ- ized labor as well as union standards are involved. “3. One building trades ‘council to comprise all the building trades unions with agreements to be of a uniform character and to expire at the same time. For Job Control. “4, Job control to efiminate the| hire and fire system. This would abolish rushing and give us power to enforce union conditions. “5, Union made material to be used on all jobs. “6, The organization of the unor- ganized. “Our slogans are: “More unity! “On with the five day week and the $14 day! “On with better union conditions on the jobs! “Down with all who approved this treacherous agreement! “Down with Halkettism!” Predicted Tidal Wave Has Not Come in Yet HONOLULU, Oct. 25. — Residents of Honolulu were more peaceful in mind today following a semi-scare here yesterday when A. T. Jagar, vol- canologist, announced that a tidal wave, the result of seismic disturb- ances in the Pacific, was imminent. Crews of ships stood by in antici- pation of a disaster and many nervous residents along the beaches and water- front prepared to move their belong- ings on short notice, Reports received from Hilo indi- cated there were slight oceanic dis- turbances in the harbor, but nothing untoward happened. Jaggar announced today that his seismogtaph recorded the strongest earth disturbance in years. Severe earthquake shocks did dam- age to houses and severed cables be- tween the islands of south-eastern Alaska yesterday. Postpone Hanging Woman. Chicago, Oct. 25.—Mrs. Catherine Cassler, under sentence to die Friday, won ‘her second stay of execution here today when granted a rng png period to allow her attorney to peal the case to the State Subsite Court, |BUILD THE DAILY WORKER! Erie Foreign Born Council Opens Fall Drive With Meetings The Erie Council for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers has started its fall campaign with a number of protest meetings, the National Coun- cii for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers announced yesterday. The object of it js against the pend- ing anti-alien legislation. Meetings | have been arranged for the various neighborhoods. Finnish, Polish, Ital-| ian, Slovak, German, Russian and} English speakers will address each of these meetings, A mass meeting which will be ad- dressed by a number of speakers of prominence will be held at Seandia Hall, 7th and State Sts., Sunday, Oc- tober 30th at 3 p. m. The purpose of these meetings is to get the foreign language as well as |the English speaking population of Erie, Pennsylvania, acquainted with the pending legislation and also to carry on agitation in favor of na- turalization work. Do Naturalization Work. The Erie Council as well as the other councils affiliated with the Na- tional Council for Protection of For- eign Born Workers proposes to carry on an extensive naturalization pro- gram during the winter months, Plans are in progress for the es- tablishment of a naturalization aid bureau where legal assistance will be given to those desiring to become American citizens. Classes in English, American h‘s- tory and civics will also be conducted by the Erie Council. 6,900,000 Soviet Workers Receive Social Insurance MOSCOW, October (By Mail.) — 8,900,000 persons out of a total num- ber of 10,318,000 wage-earners are actually on the social insurance lists in all the USSR. The total expenditure on social in- surance in 1926-27 amounted to 854 million roubles, the expenditure per each insured averaging 100 roubles a year. The biggest item of expenditure is the rendering of medical assist- ance to those insured and their families, namely a total expenditure of 229,936,000 roubles, or 27 percent of the aggregate insurance expendi- ture during the year. Temporary disability, _ sickness, bodily injury, prolonged leaves of ab- sense during periods of pregnancy, ete., entails no loss to those insured, as they are paid full wages. During the year under review nearly 90 mil- lion roubles were distributed as sick- ness doles. Unemployment doles awarded dur- ing the year amounted to 66,918,000 roubles, GET A NEW READER! Indiana Officials Keep Their Accuser, Stephenson, Jailed INDIANAPOLIS Oct. 25.—D. C. Stephenson, former ruler of Indiana polities, will not be released from the life sentence for murder through a writ of habeas corpus, the state su- preme court ruled today. Stephenson was convicted at the height of his political career, by a sudden re-arrangement of forces within his own ranks. He had domi- nated Indiana thru the use of the Ku Klux Klan voting power which he controlled as its highest officer in the state, and swung to the repub- Jican side. Since his conviction he has threat- ened several times to expose the craft and ‘political corruption with which he was connectetd, and after postponing the revelations several times in expectation of a pardon, has finally given to the prosecution a number of papers which aided in the conviction of the mayor of Indiana- polis. Reputed Nungesser Note. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—A “Ye- puted appeal for assistance, signed “Nungesser and Coli,” has been picked up in a bottle washed ashore at the Bodie Island, N. C. The appeal was printed on a piece of white cloth about nine inches Square and read: “We are lost at sea off Halifax, N. F., please send aid immediately. Airplane destroyed. Finder please notify. Nungessor and Coli.” Experts here said today un- doubtedly the message is false, point- ing to the incorrect spelling of Nun- gesser, to the fact that it was writ- ten in English and in typically American printing. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS | | | Liberia, OVER WHOLE WO BANKERS’ CHIEF BOASTS OF RULE RLD BY U. S. LOANS (Continued from Page One) which has not borrowed money in America, among them being Argen- gentine, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Col- ombia, Costa Rica, Czecho-Slovakia, | Denmark, the Dominion | Ecuador, Finland, Greece, Honduras, | Hungary, Italy, Japan, Jugo-Slavia, Mexico, Norway, Panama, Pery, Poland and Salvador. “A Great Deal In Many Cases.” “Tn the same period,” he continued, “American investments abroad include | stocks in oil corporation in Cuba, | Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, Peru, British Guiana, Persia and Trinidad; Norwegian aluminum, Russian gold | mines, French perfume and silk, Fin- nish cooperatives, automobile factor- ies in a dozen countries and railways everywhere, Italian shipping, Belgian and Spanish telephones, Brazilian cof- fee and African rubber plantations, Caribbean sugar fields, Central Amer- ica fruit, Caucasian manganese, Ural platinum—in fact, a little of every- thing everywhere and a great deal in many cases.” Then followed Traylor’s cry for a union of all the investors and those dependent upon them, to look the world over and be ready to fight any attempts of the debtor nations to es- cape from the terms of such debts to United States capitalists: “I wonder if these figures conjure | in your mind, as they do in mine, any answer to that master political phrase, ‘America First’, or any inter- pretation of that political fetish of ‘American isolation’, I have an idea there are hundreds of thousands of; American citizens whose instincts of self-preservation, and whose sense of property rights, may somewhat in- *\cline them to take heed of what is happening in the rest of the world. “Not often in the past have the |property rights of our private citi- Martial Law Declared In Rumania as Fight For Throne Sharpens BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 25.— With the struggle for the Rumanian throne having taken the form of an attempted coup d’etat for Prince Carol, himself a reactionary, Premier Bratiano has put the country under martial law. The plot, it was announced, was to bring about the return of Prince Carol, who had previously announced | his abdication of the throne, to which his six-year old son had succeeded. “Dawn” Probably Won’t Fly. OLD ORCHARD, Me., Oct. 25. — A new motor for “The Dawn,” the Sikorsky amphibian airplane in which Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson made three unsuccessful attempts to fly, overseas to Copenhagen, became “lost” son, N. J. and this beach. This has set back any new attempt at a take off for two days or more and the flight may be called off un- til spring. Chaplin Quizzed About Boy. CULVER CITY, Cal., Oct. 25.— Captain Orville I. Clampitt, former army chaplain who figured in sen- sational charges brought by a young woman, police today following the arrest in Glendale of Spencer Farley, 15-year- old burglar suspect. Captain Clampitt, who is 32, ere- ated a sensation in army circles when a Leavenworth, Kansas, beauty parlor operator brought charges against him. He was acquitted in a court martial, but quit the army. Clampitt denied all responsibility for young Farley but admitted the boy slept in his car. } Repnbiic, | Denmark, | today between Pater- was being questioned by | zens been put in jeop: tion of foreign we may judge by the reaction that has followed the attempt of our neighbor to the south in matters of this kind, we may well imagine that the day may come when no mere small frac- tion of our people will be not only in- terested in what is happening in other Jands but insistent upon our govern- ment likewise taking cognizance of such facts.” Wants No Change of Rule. “Ts it too much, therefore, to insist |that this policy be made and carried |out by those who have practical ex- perience as well as theoretical train- ing in matters of finance and bank- ing?” he asked. “Intelligent self-interest ought to impel every citizen of the country, whatever his occupation or employ- ment, to demand that the banking {system of the country be supervised only by those familiar, by practice and experience, with the problems of banking, not only in this country, but in the other countries of the world.” Traylor then argued that every citi- zen of the United States should de- mand that the banking systems of all ether countries be kept in the hands of those approved of by the bankers of America. The “protective committee” of the American Bankérs’ Association ren- tdered a report demanding fiercer prosecution and heavier sentences for bank robbers, and econdemned the practice of crime insurance compan- ies which compromise with robbers in order to get back the property taken. gov INFORMAL | DEBATE AND DISCUSSION THE GOAL OF FREEDOM AND THE ROAD TO IT Bertrand Russell The Noted British Philosopher and Educator will present the anarchist ideal: of a free human society vs. Max Eastman First appearance since his reture from Russia will present a revolutionary pian for achieving that freedom. Chairman DUDLEY FIELD MALONE COOPER UNION 4th Avenue at 8th Street Monday, Noy. 21 at Eight P. M. NEW MASSES Tickets $1.10, $1.65; 90 seats at $2.20 Auspices: For sale at NEW MASSHS, 389 Union JIMMIE HIGGINS BOOKSHO: 106 University Place Rinv SCHOOL, 7 E. Or by mail. Send money orders to NE iS 39 Union Sq. 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