The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1927, Page 4

Page Four - HE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOV. 19, Y9z7? ~ Federal Reserve Report Tries to Maintain il'usion of Farm Prosperity By H. M. WICKS. How all departments of the United States governme their tistical reports distort facts to perpetuate the fiction df ‘ idge prosperity” is again exemplified by the Federal Re ve Bulletin for October. The de artment of commerce, under Hoover, initiated the figures for t of the republi Andrew W. Mellon’s trez Jepartment has long practiced such deception and the department of la- por, under Meflon’s man, Davis, has been exposed time and again by The DAILY WORKER for its purposeful juggling of figures in order to maintain illusions regarding the prosperity of the American work- ing class. Falsifying Bank Lo: Now comes tl the Federal Re contribution to bo lusions. There decline in countr of with its terprets it as “This dec ly to the have liqui contracted me of their loans 1 in part to were somewhat year before.” Further on it the Southeastern tion of agricultural lc due-to a smaller cotton grow years’ large c the desirability of a relatively small erop this year, were not inclined to make large expenditures in the pro- duction of cotto The stateme have liqu ported by correct interp: in bank loans in the agricultural areas t that many farmers r debts is not sup- ver. The of both the Middle West and the] South is to be found in #he fact that the farmers have austed their eredit, their proper plastered to the limit with mortgages, and hence { the country bankers dare not place further loans at their disposal. This condition is reflected in smaller bor- rowings of the small country banks from the Federal Reserve Banks. Deposits Also Fall. When the farmers are prosperous the country banks record the fact in a two-fold manner. 1.—There is an inerease of loans for spring planting and also in the fall because of the seasonal requirements for credit and currency ing in connection with the harvesting of marketing of crops. %.—There is also an increase in de- posits after the marketing of the crops on the part of the more favor- ably situated elements of the agricul- tural population. But the report of the Federal Reserve also shows that “this decline in loans has been ac- companied by a reduction in their) deposits.” The volume of the decline is sum- ‘med-up as follows: “Discounts for member banks outside of the leading cities in eight districts, largely agricultural in character, at the mid-year peak on July 27 were $44,000,000 lower than in 1926 and lower than in any other recent year.” It should be borne in mind that it is the function of the government compilers of statistics to present po- litical arguments for the administra- tion, rather than analyze economic conditions, hence the eight districts ‘Were probably those that would show the most favorable returns, while those that would show the real pic- ture were ignored. Corn Production Lower. That the corn crisis still continues and is equally as severe, if not more so, than the cotton crisis, is revealed in the same document: “The indicated production of corn James J.! tion of the decline | ¢ 190,000,000 bushels lower than crop harvested a year ago and 0,000,000 bushels below the average production.” is the is five-y ar | Here, in one paragraph, is revealed | the awful tragedy that has befallen the farmers of the great corn producing territory of the Middle West, the re- pureusSions of which have shaken the tration at Washington and se to such panaceas as Mc- a sh- for government aid to the impove ed farmers. t year was one of the corn states, and It means that thou: tain credit for seed corn at planting jtime and that many acres were not cultivated at all for the simple reason | that former inhabitants hav from the land through ures of mortgages and now lie uncultivated because the mortgage holders are unable to un- the land upon other farmers. Be- e of this lition the have on a large number of bank failures their among the smaller fry, the big bank- |» Jers taking up the paper at their own prices. The sections of middle-west where employment abound, called the “slave mark are haunted by the gaunt forms of men—-many with their families—who Whave spent theiy lives upon farms and who, driven from the land, now eek a livelihood as members of the ver-growing army of unskilled un- ployed. Slight Increase in Wheat. Wheat, of all grain products, show- ed a slight increase of 28,900,000 |bushels for both crops. There was a |decline of 75,000,000 bushels of win- lter wheat, but it was offset by an es- |timated increase of 103,000,000 bush- |els of the spring crop. The increase, | however, is not general but is con- |fined to the three markets of Min- |neapolis, New York and San Fran- co. Hence the farmers of Iowa and djacent states, the center of the corn crisis, who also raise wheat, were unable to realize any improvement in that crop. Oats showed a reduction of five per cent from last year and the in- dicated production is not less than 161,000,000 bushels ‘below the five- agencies | 2r year average. Livestoc k Falls Off. Every item farm produce re- futes the claim of the Federal Re- serve System that the condition of he smaller banks indicates prosper- ity for the farmers. Income from the warketing of livestock for the first ;cight months of 1927 was $68,000,000 below that of the same period last year. It will require something more than the unprincipled manipulation of fig- ures by the hangers-on of the Cool- idge administration to convince. the impoverished farmers, steadily sink- ing lower in the economic scale, of the reality of the prosperity tales with which we are regaled from every conceivable source. Must Fight Politically. | The farm crisis that affects the entire agricultural area west of the Mississippi River and south ,of the Mason-Dixon line furnishes the eco- nomic base for a political revolt in | those sections. 3ut. such a revolt, to be successful, not sink into the slough of fu- as exemplified. by the half- urges of the farm bloc in con- , but must be used to aid in the drive for a Labor Party. ja class party to combat the old par- | is again arising from the indus- fields where the crisis in that indus- try, combined with the treachery of bestial assaults by the police, the constabulary, the courts, the private armies of mine guards, again reveal the state power of capitalism in all its savagery. As industry in general slows up and countless tens of thousands of unemployed are added to those al- ready on the streets, as the bread lines double and treble in the cities of the country, the base is being pre- pared for political discontent in the cities. It is the historical destiny of the exploited workers and farmers to unite politically against their common enemy and the coming winter and the next year ought to see a nation- wide revival of the movement for a class labor party. | By 3:T: | PITTSBURGH, Nev. 18. — Safely beypnd hearing of the dying groans of the one hundred victims and the wails of the widows and orphans of the thirty dead workers killed in the |gas explosion in this city, Sarah Cor- {delia Mellon, daughter of Richard B. Mellon and niece of Andrew Mellon, 1U. S. secretary of the treasury and one of the world’s richest men, was married to Alan Magee Scaife, scion of another wealthy Pittsburgh family mid a splendor equal to the most gor- geous scene portrayed in the Arabian nights tales. The wedding took place in a setting excelling anything ever conjured by the most barbaric poten- tate of Oriental or Occidental coun- tries of ancient or modern times. | While 60,000 Perfnsylvania coal | miners are starving, freezing and suf- fering the terrors of an Irish famine and the torture of a Valley Forge in the bleak hills and cold valleys and in the grimy somber shacks of houses, the Mellon clan and a small army of Mellon’s plutoeratic friends assembled jin a specially constructed pavilion es- | pecially built at a cost of over $150,- |000 for the occasion. Amidst decora- | tions that cost another $150,000 the junion of Pennsylvania’s two great |plutocratic houses in the persons of | Miss Mellon and Mr. Scaife, was cele- brated. Reporters who were permitted to Lenin Said — “Politics is a science and an defeat the bourgeoisie, it must own proletarian class politicians who should not be inferior to the bourgeois politicians.” And he proceeded to organize the Bolshevik Party of Russia | lll art that did not come down from Heaven and is not acquired gratis. If the proletariat wishes to train from among its ranks its without which the Russian Revolution would have been impossible. We must organize a strong party in this country that will be able to organize and lead the masses, The Workers (Communist) on the fight for: Party asks you to join and help A Labor Party and a United Labor Ticket in the 1928 elections. The defense of the Soviet Union and against capitalist wars. The organization of the unorganized. Making existing unions organize a militant struggle. ' The protection of the foreign born. Beeecreee Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St., N. Y. City) st. Occupation ......... pie tpi eeaben ieee * $i (Enclosed find one dollar for initiation fee and one month’s dues. City State Mellon Wedding Is Orgy of : Wealth ’mid Death and Hunger view the marriage ceremony and the wedding fetes that followed it in the temporary palace say “it beggared description.” In other words their pens and their undoubted talent for fawning before the affairs of the rich were not equal to the occasion. The reporters were awed by the splendor of the scene and the richness of the decorations and the barbaric artistry of the lighting and the tapestry. At the very moment the beautifully gowned women with their well-fed partners were sipping their wine and drinking their cocktails in an atmos- phere of music and song under the rays of an artificial moon furnished by the best talent New York could produce and buy, the minerg and their wives and children were eating crusts and partaking of food that the Mellon dogs would turn away from in dis- gust. The moon that lighted their bar- ren hills was a cold and cheerless orb bright enough to enable the women to see the wan-pinched faces of their children and the hungry eyes and drawn faces of their men. Suffering and sorrow are their own dynamos, in order that the Mellon-Scaife pluto- eracy could have a_ million dollar wedding 60,000 miners must suffer and starve; a hundred thousand steel workers must roast and sweat in the furnaces and mills of Pittsburgh and Bethlehem. ithe tears and sobs of the children, the heart throbs of the fathers and | mothers, the blood and bones of the | Workers are coined into gold, into silk trappings and tapestries, into wine, 'music and song for the Andrew Mel- ‘lon clan and their retainers and rela- tives. The demand for the formation of trial centers, particularly in the coal | the union leaders and the open and/ Our social system has decreed that | The dried breasts of the mothers, | | SAVE GRECO AND CARRILLO! | \ By Burek. W.P.LEADERS T0 ADDRESS LABOR PARTY MEETINGS Rallies (Arranged Many Cities As part of the nation-wide cam- paign for the Labor Party, the Workers, (Communist) Party is plan- ning a number of significant meet- ings addressed by leaders of the or- ganization to be held during the next ten days. Designated as the “Labor Party Campaign and Build the Party Drive,” the first meeting will be held at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. next Tuesday night, with Jay Lovestone, Executive Secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party as the speaker. in Many Meetings. Other national meetings campaign are as follows: Friday, Nov. 18. Duluth-Superior, at Workers’ Hall, 6th & Tower Sts., Superior, Wis. Max Bedacht, speak- jer. in the Saturday, Nov. 19. Twin Cities at Party headquarters, 215 So. 3d Street, Minneapolis, Minn. Max Bedacht, speaker. Saturday, Nov. 19,. at 8 o’clock. Party headquarters, 38 Howe St., New +Maven, Conn. Jay Lovestone, speak- er. Saturday, Nov. 19. Detroit, Mich. Workers’ Home, 1343 East Ferry St. Alex Bittelman, speaker. Sunday, Nov. 20. Noon at Party headquarters, 8-20 Eagte St., Buffalo, Alex Bittelman, speaker. Monday, Nov. 21, at 8 o’clock. Slov- jak Hall, 5th & Fairmount Ave., Phila- {delphia. W. W. Weinstone, speaker. Tuesday, Nov. 29, 8 o’clock. Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., Chicago. Max Bedacht, speaker. | BROACH THE PORK BARREL. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. — Con- | gress will make a Christmas present | to 737 cities throughout the country ‘of a $20,000,000 appropriation bill for new public buildings, additions or sites, under plans being formulated by |republican leaders of the house. The appropriation, which passed the jhouse and was lost in the senate at ‘the last session, will be included in \the first deficiency bill, to be taken ‘up soon after the house cortvenes on ‘December 5, Rep. Martin B. Madden, | (R) of Iinois, chairman of the house appropriations committee, announced ‘ today. | | | of strike-breaking Pennsylvania Coal Companies. The Mellon Millions Marry Sarah Cordelia, niece of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, owner She married an in- dividual named Allen Magee Scaife, of the early Pennsylvania aristocracy. By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. Il. The killing of Carisi and Amorroso served the fascist propagandists in Italy and abroad with excellent ma- terial for recruiting. Fascism thrives best on a steady diet of appeals to violence and the pandering to the lowest instincts of mankind. Following Mussolini’s threat to the New York anti-fascisti, L’Assalto (the Assault), the official fascist newspaper in Bologna wrote: “If jus- tice is not given to us (in this case) we will take it.” The New York police worked on the case, they followed clue after clue and there were no arrests. Indiserim- inate charges were made here and there but these were discounted by the police and the matter was drop- ped. The police admitted that they had no evidence and it appeared that New York would have another un- solved mystery on its hands. The detective who played an im- portant role in the Greco and -Car- rillo case was a fascist himself. De- tective Casso is an aspiring man, he has the best of contacts and he is very friendly with Count Ignacio Thaon Di Revel. It is said by some that the count’s title is spurious, but that is neither here nor there. The important fact is that Di Revel is the head of the Fascist League of North America and he has repeatedly admitted that he is the personal rep- vesentative of Mussolini in America. York police, working in co-operation with agents of the fascist govern- ment, raided several Italian radical newspaper offices and homes and ar- rested 14 anti-fascist workers. This Casso, the intimate friend of Di Revel’s, supplied the information that the killing of Carisi and Amor- roso must have’ been inspired from anti-fascist headquarters. The raiding party, heavily armed, visited the offices of Il Nuovo Mon- do, an Italian socialist daily, and ar- rested Mario D'Amico and Frank Cancelliere. The offices of Il Mar- tello were also raided and Marly Tresca, Luigi Quintilliano and Mario Buzzi were taken into custody. Fur- niture was smashed, files broken open and tHe floor littered with im- portant papers and documents. Pal- mer in the palmy “red” raids of 1919 could not have done better. Earlier in the day the American and Italian fascisti raided two work- ing class homes in Brooklyn and ar- rested Calogero Greco and Donato} Carrillo. Greco and Carrillo are members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Before they were shackled together by handcuffs they did not know each other. Being work- ‘Jers, and militant workers at that, they were “suspicious. characters” to the raiding party and promptly arrested. The idea of the raids was to round up enough anti-fascisti, submit them to the third degree and then hope that someone might “confess.” Instead of being taken to police headquarters for examination the “suspects” were taken to an isolated police station in the Bronx anc there subjected to police “questioning.” For hours after their arrest the famili of the anti-fascisti could not trace their whereabouts. This was so un- usual that the New York Times com- mented on it and said that all in- quiries to the police were unavailing; | the place of examination was not dis- closed. i It is customary in dealing with criminal suspects to place the pris- oner in a “line-up” along with other prisoners of the same race or na- tionality. For example, if the sus- pect is a Negro, other Negroes are placed in the line-up, if he is a Chi- nese, other Chinese are lined up. This is done so that any outstanding racial characteristic does not operate against the suspect. In the case of Greco and Carrillo this was not.done. District Attorney McGeehan simply took some members of the Fascist League into a room where the “suspects” were sitting and asked, “Are these the men?” Under these circumstances it is not sur- prising that Greco and Carrillo were “identified.” Who were the persons who iden- tified Greco and Carrillo? In each case they were members of the “squadristi” of the Fascist League of North America. The “squadrista” are those fascisti who volunteer to use violence against the enemies of fascism. They are the guerrillas of The Case of Greco and Carrillo’ fascism. When they join they take an oath “to defend fascism at home and abroad at all costs.” In Italy they have murdered labor leaders, burned co-operatives, sacked trade union headquarters. Here in America it is not fantastic to imagine that they would perjure themselves. Among those who were arrested ad the offices of Il Martello was Mario: Buzzi, an anti-fascist worker. When Buzzi was brought before the Fascist League members for “identification”? two of them shouted, “Yes, yes, he is one of the murderers.” But a fase cist detective stepped forward and said, “No, no, don’t say that. We! want this man for something else.” It is on “evidence” and “identifica~ tions” such as these that the case is being prepared against Greco and Carrillo, and on the basis of testi« mony offered by professional fascists that District Attorney McGeehan re« cently said, “I hope to have Greco and Carrillo in the death house at Sing Sing before Christmas.” (To Be Continued). Waiting for the Ashes of Two Martyrs By EDWIN ROLFE. At five o'clock, daylight saving time, there are almost 5000 people gath- ered in the great hall of the Grand Central Terminal. There is no shout- Only July 11th, this year, the New4ing. A sort of dogged sullenness is all one can see on the faces of the crowd. No pushing, only once in a while a craning of necks. Then back to the outward calmness as before. Hundreds are leaning over the banis- ters on the elevated part of the hall, watching in silence. A young woman in a red slicker passes and remarks, “Gee! I'll bet some celebrity is arriving!” ‘ An old Italian looks at her in scorn- ful silent pity. Through the ranks of the silent waiters a stream® of multi-colored slickers and dresses, straw hats and valises is pouring. It is the week- end holidy crowd, back to the city. Insipid as the pale greens and yellows of their slickers. Someone shouts, “Viva Sacco and Vanzetti!” The crowd echoes, “Viva .. .!” Then silence again as before. The crowd is growing tenser and tenser. No one knows that the group from Boston has missed its train. They are beginning to press forward eager- ly. Looking down from the balcony on which’I am standing, the mob is a mass of color and straw hatg. It occurs to me that I have never seen 80 enormous a group a people at the terminal before. Two crippled children on a wheel- chair for the moment half-distract the attention of the waiting mourners. A fat lady with bulbous hips and ermine fur murmurs, “Isn’t that piti- ful.” But the crowd hag already for- gotten them. Someone greets my companion. “Hello Mike, where d’ya work now?” My friend says he will answer some other time. He has a government post.and his participation in an event such as this would mean the loss of his job. And every other man in the throng may be a detective. __ The porters hurry to and fro, their little caps darting like hundreds of red flags through the hall. Now the crowd is growing in size, slowly and steadily. Soon the hall will be packed to overflowing. But the cops will see to it that they die perse. Trust those club-wielding baby-trampling gentlemen for that. Here they come now. Shoving into the crowd like a squadron of blua tractor-tanks. The people hold their mass formation for a minute, then break into moving streams. Only a few scattered men and women dot the floor. The rest have been driven away. Five minutes later I see them all together again on the other side of the hall, waiting, patient and mourn- ful, yet joyous in the knowledge of their kindredship with the two worke ers whose words had been: “Our words——our lives—our pains ——nothing! The taking of our lives ——lives of a good shoemaker anda poor fish-peddler- all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony ia our triumph!” The Men of Lackan (Every breadwinner of Lackan, Couns “ ty Mayo, Ireland, was drowned whety fishing boats were lost in a stormy —News Item.) ~ Men still go down to the sea in ships To win their daily bread. And fisherfolk have tight-drawn lips A’mourning for their dead, The men of Lackan one thick night Prepared to put to sea, For fisherfolk know naught of fright And families fed must’ be. The cupboards in the town were bare And who a night could miss What though the lightning brightly glare, What though the ocean hiss. aa The warning came. The men said: “Nay, We starve unless we go!” And they were, oh, so poor that day Who feared no winds that blow. And boldly then the boats put out Against the blasting gale, They went with many a merry shout And gaily flapping sail. And so the men of Lackan went And came not back again, And now their women’s heads are bent, , And cupboards bare remain! HENRY REICH, JR,