The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 9, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1927 In Ireland as Men | Congress of Great Resist Wage Slash DUBLIN, Nov. 8.—The danger of a silway strike still looms in Ireland he Associated Irish Railway Com- s have indicated their determina- on of cutting the already low wages. At a huge mass meeting held here Sunday the companies’ plan was call- 1 “malicious” and a. resolution was nanimously adopted authorizing un- Jers to make “arrangements to et any emergency to defeat the ar-| ary claims of the Associated Rail- Companies.” vith Magruder Debates for War While~Technically Undergoing ‘Discipline’ D. C., Nov. 8—| The loudly heralded “demotion” and “disciplining” of Admiral Thos. P. Magruder, who published certain magazine articles recen to create more efficiency in the navy, yesterday | rather collapsed. The punishment of Magruder seems to be that he will continue to draw his $8,000 salary and $1,700 living and entertainment allow- ances, but without having any work} to do. orders.” Actually he is encouraged to earry on debates with Bertrand | Russell, with pacifists, and to write| more articles. DAWES PLAN IN EFFECT. BERLIN, Nov. 7.—Showing the | first actual consequences of Parker Gilbert’s warning that the German| government is mismanaging its fin-| apces, the leading stocks on the Ber- lin exchange today dropped sharply, recording a new low level for 1927 with losses averaging twenty points. The favorite .stock, “United Glanz+ stoff,” fell off 38 points. WICKING |ABOR BANIG The collapse of the Labor Banks and investment Com- panies of the Brotherhood of Locomotiva, Engineers. By Wm. Z. Foster OWHERE in the rec- ords of American labor history can such sensational treachery of labor be found as presented in this remark- able new book. Looting the treasury of a great union; rifling the insurance funds and pension money; corrup- tion of leaders; speculation with the savings of workers — all the tragic abuse of leadership and policies that nearly wrecked the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engi- neers are presented in this book. The facts are brought to light by the author from the official records of the con- vention just held which lasted for seven weeks at a cost of hundreds of thou- sands of dollars, “Wrecking the Labor Banks” stands out as the most dramatic exposure of the dangers of class colla- boration that has yet been written. It is a book that should be in the hands of every worker. 25 Cents _ Five copies for One Dollar An attractive edition of 64 pages with a cover design by the noted artist, Fred Ellis. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS | | Injuries Done Them WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—Sand- wiched in between bursts of oratory from Wm. Hale Thompson and other mayors and governors, politicians and ward bosses of the Mississir valley cities the descriptions of v: tims of the great flood disaster came before the flood control committee of the house of representatives today. Whenever the strident voice of Chi- Ss mayor, panting in pursuit of y that will make him either |president or vice-president next year, |could be silenced for a few moments, flood victims told of a flood wall 60 |to 80 miles wide sweeping down the |valley, carrying before it houses and jlivestock, and engulfing more t y people in the valley, cau damage estimated at from 000,000 to $400,000,000. Thompson accompanied the com- mittee from the west, and the farmers from flooded_regions. Martyr’s Widow To Be Guest at Conference (Continued from Page One) ] six “g $ cutioners on November 11, 1887. The eight-hour day movement had been given organized national expres- |sion at a convention of American and | Canadian workers held in Chicago in| 1885, and it was taken up by the Central Labor Union of Chicago | which endorsed it and appealed to the }editor of “Alarm,” Albert Parsons and August Spi editor of the Chi jcago “Arbeiterzeitung” to support it. | Huge Sweep of Movement. | Through their energetic agitation and |so popular in Chicago that on May 1, |1886, thousands of workers had left |the factories and shops in a concerted demand for the institution of the | eight-hour day. |ter a number of incidents of police |brutalities, the workers of the Mc- | Cormick Reaper Works, who had met |during noon-hour to discuss the strike, were suddenly attacked by Dies loads of police who fired into their unprotected ranks without |warning. Five of the workers were |killed and many were badly injured. The Haymarket Meeting. | A protest meeting at the Hay- | market was immediately arranged for the next evening. The thousands of workers who came to the meeting were surrounded by police when some | unknown individual threw a bomb in their midst which killed and wounded }a number of the bluecoats. The po- |lice replied by firing indiscriminately into the crowd. | The Frame-up. | The leaders of the eight-hour day |movement were immediately arrested {and tried for having conspired to |throw the fatal bomb. It was proved {conclusively during the tria! that the | defendants were completely innocent |of any connection with the bomb, the author of which remains unknown to | this day. Among them was Albert Parsons, j who had not been arrested originally, but had voluntarily surrendered him- self to the court in order to defend himself and his views. The noose was cheated out of the life of one of the convicted, Louis Lingg, who was either murdered or committed suicide in his cell. The other four were hung. The Work of Lucy Parsons. Lucy Parsons was herself one of the most indefatigable agitators and organizers of the movement. She spoke at scores of meetings and was particularly active during the strike. A women’s organization committee had been organized for work among the women, and Lucy Parsons was made its chairman. She has not ceased her activities in the labor movement, despite her many years of work for it. On Fortieth Anniversary. Her presence at the Third Annual Conference of the International La- bor Defense gives added significance to the fact that it is being held on the fortieth anniversary of the exe- eution of the Haymarket martyrs. Coming as it does on the heels of the legal assassination of Sacco and Van- zetti, it will bring out with greater sharpness the necessity of building a movement like the I. L. D. for the defense of all class war prisoners and workers who are persecuted for their opinions and activities in the labor movement. * . ° Finnish Workers Greet J. L. D. Conference. | WARREN, Ohie—Delegates rep- | resenting thovcands of Finnish work- ers organized in the Finnish Workers’ Clubs of the district that runs from Michigan to New York have just con- cluded their convention with the adop- tion of a telegram of greetings to the third annual conference of In- ternational Labor Defense which opens in New York City on November 12. The telegram, which is signed for the convention by Theodore Gillberg, the chairman, is as follows: “We, the delegates of the Finnish Clubs in meeting assembled at War- ren, Ohio, send our fraternal greet- ings to the delegates of the I. L. D. conference and hereby pledge our support to build the I. L. D. in this 39 East 125 St. — New York I a or CaN Race 5 5 sumemetl ci ny A ihe district of New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio.” pport, the movement became | Two days later, af- | Workers of Beckett, } to salvage a few k 3. Who Marconi, Fascist - Inventor, Charged Technically he is “awaiting |George Engel were hung by the exe- | With Grave Fraud LONDON, Nov. 8.—Exciting scenes, | punctuated by shouted charges against |Senator Guglielmi Marconi, marked |the hearing in the chancery court to- \day on the application of the Mar- leoni Telegraph Company for a re- duction of the company’s capital from £4,000,000 to £2,3' 4, Wilfred Greene, attorney for the | company, addressed the court and said that some objecting shareholders had |brought charges of “fraud of the |gravest possible description.” x Accuse Marconi. A shareholder, who gave his name Jas Pennell, jumped to his feet and |shouted out, “I charge that Marconi jhas been sweculating in the shares of | the company for years to a very great jextent, I want him to attend this |hearing for cross-examination.” Greene produced a specialist’s cer- tificate regarding Senator Marconi’s | “health.” | The case probably will be suspended for a time. 8 Child Labor Encourages Crime, Declares Expert BOSTON, Nov. 8 (FP).—Judge | Frank Leveroni, who deals with youthful offenders, as well as being |a vice president of the Massachusetts child labor committee, declares that six times as many working boys, in sxenortion, as school boys, come be- fore the juvenile court in Boston. “It is vastly important to Massa- jchusetts that the adolescent child re- |main in school just as long as pos- | sible,” said the judge, tracing the con- nection between child labor and crime. MONUMENT TO A FAKE DETROIT, Nov. 8.—Plans for ask- ing congress to erect a memorial to the 30,500 American soldiers killed in the world war between November 7, when a false armistice was an- nounced, and November 11, when fighting actually ceased, were being formulated today by a committee of four appointed by members of the vember Seventh Memorial Associa- jon at a dinner last night. The “false armistice” was due to the fak- ing of a story by several allied press services. | FLOOD STRIKES HARDEST ON THE POOR Rail Strike Looms (Flood Victims Tell | 5 lost everything in the flood, trying from their shattered houses. Thousands Face Hunger in New England Flood (Continued from Page One) fated Winooski Valley, where eighty- six persons are known to have died. Some inkling of the indescribadle misery and the staggering loss suf- fered by farmers was seen in the fact that a rendering plant had been of- fered more than 3,000 dead cows from the little area embracing the towns af Richmond and Williston and their en- virons. " Snow was adding to the difficui- ties of relief by making the roads more treacherous for relief trains. persons were believed to have lost At Bolton, Vt., where twenty-eight ir lives, including twenty-four orkers in a road camp, the first re- lief party to break though carried a large supply of embalming fluid, but found that only seven bodies had been discovered. Meanwhile no official efforts to- ward relief has been made by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, whose governor, Alvan T. Fuller, left Boston on Friday and has not been heard from since. h Rumors persist re that the governor has left for curope. Workers Jobless. Thousands of workers, it is now realized, will remain jobless indefi- nitely as a result of the damage done to mills and factories in the flooded districts. A number of paper mills in this state and in New Hampshire have been affected. At the office of G. L. Ehrstrom & Co., who are interested in the Peo- ples Hydro-Electric Vermont Corpo- ration, it was said that no definite word as to the conditions of the com- pany’s plants had as yet been re- ceived, It was said at the offices of the American Brass Company yesterday that all three mills of the company located in Connecticut have been af- fected by the severe floods. The mills at Torrington, Waterbury and Ansonia have been shut down, but at the last two cities, where the waters have subsided somewhat, shipping of stocks on hand is now under way. The brass and copper mill at Torrington was the severest sufferer, and the situation there has been aggravated by a two-inch fall of snow, Three plants of the United States Rubker Company have been put out of commission temporarily by the floods, but they are all expected to resume operations during the present week, as the water is receding at each, Help FILL IN TODAY AND. 80 East 11th St. New York City. Room 402, cial help to them for Christmas, NAME . ADDRES CITY IN TERNATIONAL 4 | INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFEN: Enclosed find $3 for which please send me u book of 30 Christmas coupons at l0e each’ ‘tg gistripute among my friends, shop mate: id neighbors to help continue your monthly assistance to the cla r prisoners and their dependents and to give spe- FOR CHRISTMAS Remember the iass-war isoners 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, MAIL IMMEDIATELY LABOR DEFENSE Big Babbits Back Plan to Stop Tax On Inheritances WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—Admis- sion that the activities of the Na-| tional Council of State Legislatures, which brought a delegation of more than 200 persons to Washington to- day to demand repeal of the federal inheritance tax, were financed by the American Taxpayers’ League, a pri- vate organization, was made before the House Ways and Means Com- mittee this afternoon. William H. Blodgett, State Tax Commissioner of Connecticut, called as a witness at the hearing, made the admission. The Taxpayers’ League, Blodgett said, sent out letters soliciting $10 contributions from numerous _indi- viduals to support its activities. Blodgett’s admission came after Governor A. G. Sorlie, of North Da- kota, had asked the members of the Ways and Means Committee to ad- vise him as to whether he should ac- cept money for his expenses incurred in malig the trip to Washington, from the National Council of State Legislatures. aC * WASHINGTON, Nov, 8.—Who is paying the expenses of the governors, lieutenant governors, state senators and other state officials who are now descending in droves upon the na- tional capital to demand the repeal of the federal inheritance tax? That question was asked of Gov. Fred W. Green of Michigan, when Green @ppeared before the ways and means committee of the House and asked that the federal government get out of the inheritance tax field. Green’s lobby is conducting a three-day rally known as the Natl. Council of State legislatures, but which includes spokesmen for cham- |bers of commerce, bankers’ associa- tions, and various other business groups, in addition to officeholders in the various states, Gov. Small On It. Lee Satterwhite, former speaker of the Texas legislature, is chairman of this so-called Council of State “Legis- latures, which was formed, he claims, in response to a call by the legisla- ture of Texas. Thos. A. Hill of ‘Ar- kansas is secretary-treasurer, Phil. A. Bennett of Missouri is vice-chair- man, and Wm. H. Blodgett of Con- necticut and Gilbert Morgan of Ohio are the other members of its execu- tive committee. It issued advance press material, emphasizing its prize exhibits as Governor Small of Iili- nois, Green of Michigan, Erickson of Montana, Trumbull of Connecticut, Sorlie of North Dakota, Richards of South Carolina and Robinson of Dela- ware. ‘ Members of the ways and means committee of the House, called atten- tion to the probability that if federal taxation of inheritances were repeal- ed, the states would begin to compete with each other in showing favors to the very rich. Florida, Rainey said, has 1,200 millionaires residing within her borders, as a consequence of her guaranty that she will not tax inher- itances, Mellon and Cal for It. Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge favor the repeal of the fed- eral tax on inheritances, but do not expect to accomplish the repeal in the coming session. The lobby has been over-zealous in its campaign, and suspicion will rest upon all ef- forts of Republican or Democratic members of the House or Senate who become active in favor of the repeal scheme. Gov. Green testified mainly in favor jof repeal of the automobile sales tax, which Mellon declared last week was a tax that should be retained. The Automobile Chamber of Commerce, which represents the mnaufacturers, insists that the automobile is a ne- cessity, not a semi-luxury as claimed by Mellon. It denounces the tax as “an unfair and discriminatory” one. Its lobby is issuing statements to the press, from an office established in the capital. Jail Hundred Thousand Migratory Workers for Being Broke, Is Report MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 8.— The International Hobo Brotherhood started its convention here today, un- der the chairmanship of James Eads How. How ‘told the delegates the chief aim of the Mintieapolis meeting is to urge the need for demandi jury trial when arrested for vagrancy. “Judges have usually decided,” he said, “that 4 man has a right to be upon the street whether or not he has any money in his pocket and no jury in the world will convict a man for this, Last year, however, 100,000 of our crowd were arrested and sen- tenced without rhyme or reason.” Shelters for homeless workers was also urged. SesSions will last through- out the week. DANCE BALTIMORE SATURDAY BALTIMORE, Nov. 8.—The Young Workexs League will hold a dance Saturday at Conservatory Hall, 1029 E, Baltimore St. There will be a first class orchestra and refreshments, Ad- mission 35 cents, ‘Interrace Meeting Plans to Continue | Racial Co-operation By THOMAS L. DABNEY. | PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8.—“The} American Negro Labor Congress has| definitely resolved to use its organ- ized strength to foster good will and| amity between the races,” declared A.! Warreno, secretary of the Philadel-| phia Council, American Negro Labor | Congress, in welcoming delegates and | friends to the Inter-racial Conference | last Friday at the Southwest Y. W.| G@. A. of this city. Warreno gave a brief survey of recent developments | between the races in the north and| south as a result of Negro migra-| tion. Commenting on the effect of} Negro migration, Warreno said that “as a result of this new wave of Ne- gro migration race prejudice has been increasing thruout the north.” Discussed Lynching. The Interracial Conference, which} was arranged by the Philadelphia Council, American Negro Labor Con- | gress, consisted of two sessions. The) afternoon session was devoted to a} general discussion of race antagonism | and lynching and new fields for in- terracial cooperation, At the close of the afternoon ses- sion three resolutions were passed: | one condemning editors for their wil-| ful and gross misrepresentation of the} Negro with reference to crime and/ urging that newspapers be truthful) in reporting news pertaining to the| Negro; the second resolution com-) mended the Pennsylvania Federation! of Labor for its recent stand against race discrimination in trade unions} and urged that the Central Labor) Union of Philadelphia and the various | Internationals begin at once to organ- |} ize Negro workers; the third resolu- | tion condemned segregation of the races and urged that the state super- intendent of public instruction and the Philadelphia school authorities take measures to curb the spread of segregation in the public schools. Employers Cause Riot. The evening session was devoted to a general discussion of race friction and race riots in the north and organ- ized labor and the Negro. Comment- ing on the race riot at Carteret, New Jersey, in May, 1926, Richard B. Moore, national organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, stated that here “we had a clear ex- ample of the promotion of race preju-| dice as a result of employers pitting one race against another.” One of the practical accomplish- | ments of the conference was the selec- tion of a permanent Interracial Com- mittee to continue the essential work of interracial cooperation in matters of common interest to both races, This committee will select a sub-com- mittee on interracial labor relations so that the specific problems of the masses of the two races may receive adequate attention. Many Groups Represented. Among others the following per- sons attended the conference: Miss Helen Mallory of the Fellowship for Reconciliation, Miss Mary H. Ingham, Mrs. Emley C. P. Longstreth and Miss Margaret H. Shearman of the Wom- en’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Harold L} Pilgrim and John G. Temple of the Mutual Asso- ciation of Postal Employes, Robert A. Heckert, Archie Coleman and Miss Clara Gruenberg of the Ethical Cul- ture Society, Miss Margaret E. Jones of the American Friends Service Com- mittee, P. T. Lau of the Hands Off China Conference, Ernest Koshineg of the Hosiery Workers’ Union, Miss Edith L, Christenson of the Women’s Trade Union League, Richard B. Moore, national organizer of the A. N. L. C., 0. Huiswoud, district ovyan- izer of the A. N. L. C., V. F. Cal- verton, editor Modern Quarterly, A. J. and Mrs. Rose Carey, K. M. Whit- teh, Miss Rosa L. Wa'son, Mrs. Deshields, Mrs. Clara Thomas, Miss Arna Fennypacker, Miss Witen Cope, Tbr. fie'en Murphy, Miss Charleite J:ues, & Stanley of the Machinists’ Usion and T. K. Kauffman, European Powers Sign free Trade Document; U. S. Delegate Refuses GENEVA, Nov. 8.—Eighteen of the 34 nations participating in the International Conference on Removal of Trade Restrictions this afternoon signed a convention based upon the principle of \“liberty of commerce.” The conference had been called to abolish restrictions upon exports and imports that hindered free com- mercial intercourse. Hugh R. Wilson, American Minister to Switzerland and representative of the United States in the conference, refused to sign the convention. CHEESE RATES LOWERED WASHINGTON, Nov. 8,—Exam- iners of the Interstate Commerce Commission today recommended that the commission hold that freight rates and ratings on cheese, in carloads, from Wisconsin points to destinations throughout the United States, and from Chicago to the Southwest, as well as from. Pine Island, Minn., to Kansas City, are unreasonable, in that they exceed fourth-class rates, with a’ minimum of 24,000 pounds, Compliments of LABOR TEMPLE 14th St. & Second Ave. Edmund B. 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