The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURS VEMBER 3, 1927 Ta erie Teal GLEVELAND GITY® Death Penalty Except = WORKERS PARTY == 7""""__ SAN FRANCISCO Indiana Governor 4 = i | In Most Extreme Cases -" pinsiedn he uss CAMPAIGNS FOR JOBLESS HEARING x2:,.%=.2-m.%3 OLD AGEPENSION } | | hereafter be abolished in cases in-| | || volving graft, abuse of power or| | Destitute Woman’s Six) | waste of Government, a Soviet de- Milwaukee Corporations : . m™. | } cree issued today stated. dep.| Childven Taken Away || cma oe ae (Continued from Page One) | | the lease of Teapot Dome, now de- kL i| clared fraudulent by the Supr | Court, was particu Every attitude of hi figure indicated sorr had to be dismi: LABOR CANDIDATE Attempis to Evade HITS OPEN SHOP Trial for Felony | j ens Cora Read Endorsed by , NDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2. — Mo- “\tions to quash indictments against Workers Party Governor Ed. Jackson, Republican, | |George V. Coffin, Marion County Re- | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 2.) publican chairman, and Robert 1. 2 : | a Unit Against It The decree was issued to clarify {the recent manifesto abolishing | I grea pointed by what —The | MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 2. curred.” SLAND, Ohio, Nov. 2. —-The| | capital punishment except in the | Wisconsin sub-district of the Workers | | —Cora J. Read is endorsed by the | Marsh, Jackson’s law partner and for- Kidwel! S in a desperate | [eravest cas |(Communist) Party is actively en- | Workers (Communist) Party for! mer legal counsel for the klan, were ; Another p: a definite stand | @ ---——— ~~ ———— | paged in the campaign for the old-age member of the Board of Supervisors | filed in Marion County criminal court 2 en counte aes thou. | {pension law here, despite the resist-| | QNCE the happy home of a .. here. She is running on a platform |today by Louis B. Ewbank, attorney : able remorse 4 a i b here, | |ance of the socialist party which does | family, bi oe: which demands independent working | foy the defense. Edward J. r from the Cleveland } |not give them publicity and the objec- | story house above at Sou rr class political action through the es- ed Council to the Welfare and refused the floor to d committee. In iview elections are only a ers of the Council over the prospect of commit themselves. The motion asks nullification of the |charges of attempted bribery and con- spiracy to commit a felony returned in an indictment brought by the Marion County grand jury on Sep- tember 9, charging that the three men | tions to “politics” vowed by timid of- | poet 4 ee eater fici izati 2 | sha: a See Byer aaa created to | 4S-year-old | chemist “wn led 17% " » shot is sl od Open hearings by the County Board | as Treica Jack, 10, ‘and then | of Supervisors have to listen to the | committed suicide by putting @ |arguments of representatives of the | bullet in his brain. His mind was | Workers and ten thousand tongue while loungi what is termed in th a “softed drink place” for the gener: of his about as this block” ov tablishment of a labor party based upon the trade unions, and her entire program is a challenge to the control of the city by the Industrial Associa- tion, the open shop group. Against City and For Scabs. FIGHT FOR LOWER the ears of report the Unem-| Kidwell is bei grand jury. | and others and made him he said anythi Other memt termined there 1 id that re without delay. | President of the| lenied that a letter Unemployed Council had of ;been received went to the Public are where a meeting was held and of the City Council to act unced. A mass meeting on i¢ Square was called. In the meantime pitiful stories of | want and suffering continue to pour into the headquarters of the Unem- at is |Ployed Council. One mother reported that the Associated Charities had tak- "7 fen her six children away from her tampering. ‘ ar to-| When she was no longer able to sup- fay. wes subpoenaed to appear to-| port them and have refused to let her green Morning. |see them or even reveal where they Another Juror. have been placed. One of them was a A subpoena was also child of three months, still nursing at Donald Woodward, local de; its mother’s breast. store owner, in whose home I nother woman, the mother of eight been staying. On th iren, appealed to the Community employee of Woodw: id when both she and her husband | the government has 1 lost their jobs, The Community Fund, plaint against that ju unemployment in Cleve- f must be forth- subpoenaed to testify jury. Day Refuses to Testify. between S tectives trailed the Fall-Sin fied the district attc y afternoon that he would constitutional ri testify before thi now investigating jury sued for rtment CORPORATION TAX Railroad Magnates Ask Cut at House Hearing By WILLIAM S. NEAL. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. — Spokes- | man for the nation’s railroads today joined in the fight of organized big business to force a $400,000,000 tax cut in the coming congress. | C. S. Dunean, representing the as- sociation of Railway Executives, asked a flat cut in the corporation in- come tax rate from 13 and one half to 10 per cent in the hearing before the | House Ways and Means Committee, Representatives of the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, National Coal Association and the Illi- nois Chamber of Commerce, joined in the big business chorus for a cut in the orporation tax. “Secretary Mellon has told you that in 1924 all corporations reporting net income had such a burden of taxes that ‘for every dollar paid in dividends 54 ents were paid in taxes,” said Dun- can. (Secretary Mellon is not only heavily interested in Pittsburgh bank- ing, but heads the Aluminum Trust Co.) |thru a charitable organization sup- The formal charge in j ported by it, gave the women a few pounds of flour, potatoes, etc. They refused, however, to grant her request for milk for her babies. When she begged them for work she was finally give job scrubbing the floor at the ation headquarters. After sev- eral hours work when she asked for ury tamper- ing is “conspiracy to obstruct j tice,” with a penalty of six yea $5,000 fine for each person conv Andy Mellon Sheds }her pay she was told that she had Tears for Bankers: | | WASHINGTON, Nov. (FP).— , Pity the poor stockholders, and reduce | the federal income tax on corpora- tions, urged Secretary Andy Mellon “at the opening session of the House committee on ways and means, Oct, 31, Mellon made a long statement of | program. He asked that corporation | taxes be reduced from 13 and one-half per cent to 12 per cent, thereby hand- ing over to business corporations some | $135,000,000 in the next fiscal year. He argued that there “estimated to be” 3,000,000 individual stockholders in the United States, and that the sroup of persons whose individual tax as high as 13 and one half per cent is only 9,000. About one-third of the $5,189,000 paid out in cash dividends in 1925, Mellon said, went to “s ‘sources ather than individuals making income ta, returns.” He admitted that a large part of it went to other corpora- tions, but he insinuated that widows and orphans were getting a large part of these dividends. Hence, all stock- holders, including corporations at own the stock of other corporations, must be given a reduction in their tax on corporation earnings. Help the Poor Bankers. Mellon pleaded also for abc the federal estates tax past years. The and leave a large par to the/national treasur to the mind of the Se Treasury. The treasury i on of in the ow col- Yecting only $7,000,000 a year from this source, but he feels that that is too much, and the precedent is danger- ous. BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! 0! arned $1.50, but as she had been given food the $1.50 would be applied on the bill she owed the charity. Textile Workers in Lowell Get Ten Per Cent Cut in Wages LOWELL, Mass., (FP) Nov. 2.— Removal of over a third of its spindles and looms to the south is the plan of Appleton Co., cotton textile factory. Stockholders voted authority for the directors’ spending $780,000 to move 30,000 spindles and 900 looms to An- derson, S. C. The Lowell plant will have 75,000 spindles and 1500 looms left, which may be scrapped, if local tax authorities do not reduce the machinery rate. 10 per cent Wage Slash. Coincident with, Appleton’s action comes the announcement of 10 per cent wage cuts for workers at the Lowell branch of Pepperell Mfg. Co.|tion committee before beginning its| “We point out that the clause which | 1e 1400 employes of Massachu- Cotton Mills, owned by Pepperell of Maine, are affected. Pepperell broke the union at its Biddeford, Me., plant which specializes in sheetings. The Lowell branch states that it will try to increase hours of work “so as to bring the amount of weekly pay on the new time schedule about to the present figure.” Pepperell is protesting the tax rate, with Ipswich Mills, Velvidere Woolen Ayer Co., Sterling Mills, and others. Nashua Mfg. Co. paid under protest, but Merrimack Mfg. Co., Lowell’s most prosperous mill at pres- ent, paid its $146,773 with no kick. Co., THE FOLLOWING NEW READERS SEND THEIR GREET- INGS TO THE SOVIET UNION ON THE OCCASION OF THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Peter Malfant: Dr. H. Scholtz A. Bomstein Albert Preuhs Jesse Reed M. Weisberg Max Davidson H. J. Meyer Palind Geo. Daskas W. G. Haa I. Bergstrom Sadie Gaster a A. Suskinen John Vilarino Otto Yeager G. Kraska H. Tsipan W. Blumberg Dave Jones John Keyser L. Marshall E. Nelson C. Geller Paul Burton . Sandler Julius Ochokoff Geo. Applebaur {. Long Benny Siegal John Mokosh Fritz Lundoal Nellie Urbas R. Sacharow M. Maslankn S. Goldin Frank Kopersky L. J. Peonteck Harry Greenwood Jenne Rubinsky Ellis Peterson G. Baboian Ch. Ozal C. Nicoll Weissman M. Brown 3am Vodopia &. Vaniker Joe Travinsky V. Zemakozia John Patrick J, Muikin O. H. Treter Alfonso Malacarne P. Chechel James Peterson Roy Villalvazo E. L. Cowan V. Petroff H. W. Knospe L. Johnson George S. Grant Emil Salo Mollie Klarstein 8. Garborg John Telawski L. Siminov E. Hagedorn Dave Shuman A. Buchler Carl Vangeloff L. Friedman J. C. Morton fam Davidson tsadore Shore BE. Rosenquist Louis Levy Mrs. E. Jassinoff A. Stewart Harriet G. Eddy ) Karl Pultur ‘ ws The annual tax bill of class 1 rail- roads, local, state and federal, is $1,888,000,000 a year, he said. The railroads would gain $28,500,000 a year if the corporation tax rate were cut to 10 per cent, he said. Harry L. Gandy, secretary of the National Coal Association, ignored the proposed abolition of the automobile and “nuisance” taxes in pleading for a lower corporation rate. Employers United in Drive Against «Child Labor Laws (By Federated Press.) Organized labor is called upon to fight the “subtle if not brutal attack on existing protective child labor reg- ulation laws and the public school sys- tem” which the National Association of Manufacturers has launched. New York City’s central trade and labor council, through its education com- mittee, appeals to the American Fed- eration of Labor to combat “this re- actionary program which menaces the gains labor and socially-minded per- sons have won for children.” The N. A. M. issued its challenge in the form of a report by its educa- Chattanooga convention. Youngest Can’t Compete. Under pretenses of standardizing the regulations for child labor, the manufacturers’ organization aggres- sively proposes to lower the age and schooling limits at which children may go to work. It wants a longer work day, beginning 7 a. m. and lasting any time till 9 p. m. will fight against further protective laws and seek to annul or make inop- erative present laws conflicting with its aims. Contrary to the rest of the country, where the great proportion of child workers are in agriculture, Massa- chusetts’ youthful workers are chiefly in manufacturing. Two-fifths of the ay state’s child workers are in tex~- tile mills as doffers, sweepers, oilers, wire boys and girls, weavers and bobbin boys, the Massachusetts Child Labor Committee reports. Another large group of 10-15 year olds is em- |ployed in the shoe factories as help-| ers on nailing machines and stitchers of simple seams. “The younger children do not stand up well in the competition of the mar- | ket place with older children,” states | Hexter’s report. The investigator says this is caus- ‘ing employers to hire fower of the | | youngest workers, who go from job| ;to job more readily than the older | ones. | WOMEN IN THE RANKS OF THE CP; ° At the time of the Party census in 1922 there were 30,484 women mem- bers and 9,500 women candidates. At the beginning of this year there were in Party ranks 81,612 women mem- bers and 65,921 women candidates, ie. over 13 per cent of the total com- position of the Party. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? It asserts it | Party handbills have been distributed to workers. 5 Workers Want Pension Law. Fraternal orders composed over- whelmingly of working people, are the drive for social legislation as ex- pressed in the old age pension law. The trade-unions of Milwaukee Coun- ty follow suit. The Federated Trades and Labor Council, the Typographical Union, the Building Trades Council, | the Auto Truck Drivers, the Full) Fashion Hosiery Workers, the City and County Employees Union, the United Commercial Travellers and other labor bodies have gone official- ly on record in favor of the old age pensions. The Bay View Women’s Civic Club and one or two other wom- en’s organizations are also represented at the council hearings as well as the South Slavic Benevolent Ass’n, the Workers (Communist) Party did the political organization of the workers | of this county which were heard at the | hearings. The socialist party is rep- resented. Bosses Against It. The powerful Allis Chalmers Mfg. Co., the Rundle Mfg. Co., the Bucyros Co., the Seaman. Body Corporation, | the Nash Motor Co., the Rundle Mfg. | Co., the F. Mayer Shoe Co., the Mil- | waukee Real Estate Board, the Fuel Dealers Ass’n, the North Side Busi- ness Men’s Ass’n, the Third St. Com- mercial Ass’n and other organizations of employers are energetically oppos- ing the adoption of the old-age pen- sion law in Milwaukee County. Corporations for “Charity.” The big corporations are fighting the old age pensions on the, ground that the existing charitable institu- tions, the poor houses, the homes for the aged, ete., are taking adequate jcare of the old people. They contend that the old age pensions would en- courage pauperism, tend to destroy habits of thriftiness, and so on. The Eagles, the 'trade-unions, the socialist party are making a senti- mental appeal picturing the destitute condition of the aged workmen, point- ing the harsh and inadequate care which the poor receive in the poor houses and other charitable institu- tions and finally citing figures to prove that the old age pensions as operated according to the state law are less expensive than charity. Position of Workers’ Party. B. Sklar, sub-district organizer for the Workers (Communist) Party out- lines the position of the party as fol- lows: “First of all we criticize the law because of the high age limit the low pension allowance and other restric- | tions which make it possible for the advocates of this law to point out that | it will be very economical because it |will not apply to large numbers of workers. }makes optional for the individual counties to adopt or reject the law gives the big corporations a splendid chance to make a fight on the law in each of the seventy counties of the state. Yet pointing out all of these shortcomings we call upon the work- ers to fight even for this law poor as it is, . “The defeat of the law would be a | victory for the exploiters, who are in- terested in defeating the principle of social legislation and who want to pre- serve the system of old age pensions as operated now in many of the in- dustrial plants, the old age pension by the grace of the boss. This system is beneficial for the employers but is certainly obnoxious to the workers: it ties them hands and feet to the job, makes them scared to demand higher wages and better working conditions and whether they are direct contribu- tors to the scheme or not they ulti- mately pay the cost,” U.S. Radio Trust Begins Invasion Of Foreign Field WASHINGTON, No. 2.---Interna- tional broadcasting on a systematic and permanent basis was announced today as a policy of the Radio cor- poration of America. After Herbert Hoover, representing the permanent commission for alloca- ting radio wave lengths in America had bulldozed the international radio conference held in Washington suf- ficiently they agreed to a general ex- tension of the American radio mono- poly’s powers, internationally. Application is now made to the Federal Radio Commission for al- location of two wave lengths deranged by brooding over a re~ cent salary reduction. “Corn and Cotton” Meeting Assails Coolidge Polley ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 2.—‘Presi- dent Coolidge’s veto of the farm re- lief bill was the crowning act of dis- regard of party pledges,” said Gov. Adam MeMullen of Nebraska here to- day at the climax of a bitter session | of representatives of farm organiza- tions in several states, business men of rural districts and middle western politicians. Resolutions in more moderate lan- guage were adopted, criticizing Cool- idge for his veto of the McNary-| Haugen “farm relief” bill. Down on Borah. United States Senator Borah was termed an obstructionist in these resolutions and the present national administration was charged with re- sponsibility for failure to secure sat- isfactory agricultural legislation. The so-called “Conference of the Corn and Cotton Belt” has taken on the aspect of a caucus by mutineers against the administration. There was overwhelming enthusi- |asm when it came to exposing the anti-farm attitude of Coolidge. Sen- ator Capper of Kansas, a republican, deprecated the inconsistency of a government which subsidizes manu- facturing interests with a tariff and regulates prices on railroads and money, but which claims it cannot legally fix farm products prices. Lowden Boring In. Former Gov. Geo. W. Donaghey of Arkansas added his word. The real battle in the “farm con- ference” is not over the question of whether Coolidge should be damned, but whether Lowden, the IHinois banker, involved in the campaign ex- penditure scandal of 1920, should be endorsed. Lowden has managed to avoid actively endorsing Coolidge’s veto, has in fact mildly criticized it, and is keeping his eastern banking connections quiet. Donaghey and Mc- Mullen are for Lowden. Senator Norbeck of South Dakota has recently endorsed Lowden. But Senators Nye and Frazier of North Dakota are vigorously opposed, and are sure to drag up the corpse of 1920. The “insurgents” are united against Coolidge, but split on every ether point. +. 8 Tax Revision, Not Cut. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Chester H. Gray, Washington representative of the conservative American Farm Bureau Federation, presented the fiscal program of his organization to | the House Ways and Means Commit- |tee on Nov. 1. He asked that a re- duction of $1,000,000 be made in the national debt before any tax-cutting should be undertaken. Interest on the public debt, in 1925, he reminded the lawmakers, amount- ed to $882,000,000. Reduction of this burden on the treasury would, in his view, be the best sort of foundation for later reduction of direct taxes. On the other hand, the proposed tax reduction amounting to $225,000,000 or $250,000,000 would be of little con- sequence, since it would be only j about $2 per capita. Anyhow, Gray argued, American business is ‘not being overburdened by taxes. He reported that the Farm Bureau Federation favors collection of at least 75 per cent ‘of federal income | from “sources having ability to pay, as measured by net income made.” | Only 25 per cent, he said, should be |taken in taxes “from those who are | under necessity to consume.” He did | not explain why this 25 per cent | should be so taken, rather than that |all taxes should be collected from | those having net income available. Gray testified that the farmers are strongly opposed to any. repeal or further weakening of the federal es- tates tax. Secretary Mellon had urged the repeal of death duties, but the committee had not shown any especial interest in his statement on that point. It was. not considered good politics, at this time, for either a republican or a democrat from a doubtful district to show any ten- dency to vote for repeal of the in- heritance tax. CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 2.—DAILY WORKER and literature agents’ meeting Friday night, Nov. 4, 8 p.m. sharp, at 19 So. Lincoln St. Every The Red campaign is also directed against the support of strike break- ers by the city administration, for the | protection of municipal ownership of | publie utilities with workers partici- |pation in management and all em- | ployees in trades unions, removal of | all anti-labor influences from the pub- | lie ‘schools, and for unemployment to | be considered a civic problem and not matter for “charity.” In a leaflet distributed to, the workers of the city, Cora Read states: | Big Bribe Scandal. |} “The present political campaign is lresolving itself into a struggle of personalities. Mud slinging and muck-raking, the public seandal in- volving a Ten Thousand Dollar bribe are characteristic features lcampaign. Behind the scenes, how- ever, special interests are pulling the political strings. Both factions of the | Republican party, the Finn-Graneey machine and the Rolph interests, and the Democratic Central Committee have endorsed candidates. The Cham- ber of Commerce, the Industrial As- sociation, the Builders’ Exchange, whose chief aim is to establish the “Open Shop,” the so-called ‘“Ameri- can Plan,” the powerful financial in- ja in the} offered former Governor Warren T. McCray $10,000 and legal immunity if he would name a favorite of the three as Marion County prosecutor. Part of the evidence against the ' three is similar to that on which’ Mayor John Duvall of Indianapolis was recently convicted. It consists of receipted checks and signed contracts made while Grand Dragon Stephenson of the K. K. K. was political boss of Indiana. WANTED — MORE READERS! ARE YOU GETTING THEM? {| A SHORT COURSE of ECONOMIC “SCIENCE By A. BOGDANOFF terests, the Bank of Italy, as well as the Fleishackers and the Crockers, are all playing an important part be- hind the scenes in order to elect a} city administration which will best serve their purposes. Organized La- bor, through its “Union Labor Party,” has adopted a platform which does | not go far enough in safe-guarding the interests of the wage-earners and in the name of a non-partisan polit- ical campaign, organized labor has en- dorsed the representatives of its economic enemies. Such is the tragedy of non-partisan politics. All Represent Interests. “Every candidate for office must be conscious of the fact that he repre- sents or expresses the political in- terests of a definite economic group. Without this consciousness, candidates lack the basic requirements for any office in the city administration. Every candidate must understand that he should represent a definite economic group. He should know the connections between the various econ- omic interests, the political adminis- tration of the city, and the political parties of the city, county and state. Candidates must be frank and tell the voters exactly where they stand in re- lation to these powerful industrial, financial and political interests. Read for Workers. “As a candidate for Board of Super- visors,-I must make it quite plain that I do not represent myself only, or that I consider my candidacy as that of one merely running for office. My candidacy represents those that be- lieve that the chief interest of the city administration must be that of the wage-earners, the workers. My chief endorsement comes from the Workers’ (Communist) Party of San Francisco. GET A NEW READER! | HI] 39 B, 126th St, | 1 Revised and supplemented by 8. M. Dvolaitsky in con} tion with the author. Trans- lated by J. Fineberg. 66. OMRADB BOGDANOFF'S book is a comprehen- sive and popular intro- nm to the study of the princfples of Marxian philos- ophy. It was, as the author says in his preface, v.ritten in the dark days of Tsarist reaction for the use of secret | workers’ study circles; and it | serves today as a textbook in | hundreds, if not thousands, of party schools and study cireles “now functioning in | Soviet Russia.” i The first edition of thig book was published in 1897 and the ninth in 1906. It was | first published in English in | 1928—this new edition, just — issued, is the second. | $1.00 ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL BDUCATION—By A. Berd- nikov and A. Svetlov. i} | | ducti | 1 | | | | | | Paper, $1.00 Cloth, $1.50 | LENIN ON ORGANIZATION | Cloth, $1.50 WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, Inc. New York. __________| FOR CHRISTMAS & Help Remember the Class-war Prisoners Their Wives and Children _ Send A Message of Class Solidarity Show them that those on the outside have not forgotten them, Buy Christmas coupons at 10¢ each. Chicago agent is expected to be on hand. 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