The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1927, Page 2

es cary + state will be urged by this 2age Two & THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1927 : Vidovich, Picket, Dies From Trooper’s Shot (Continued from Page One} several families. The men are get- ing good meals of bread and pota- oes and brown bread. The back room of the soup kitchen n Walsenburg is filled with vege- ables in by friendly farmers. One farmer brought a cow. The operators announced today that they would abide by the decision of the industrial commission on the lispute. Since all three commission- ars have been attacking the strikers itterly, this d offer will doubtless be politely refused by the strikers. Chairr Industr an Annear of the Commission watched murder and stated that lers should be given a gold bravery. |The emplo; Taylor, has deen talking meetings and threabenin with jail, trying to work. He was nounced Saturday that the over. The supposedly ber,” Young, has thus al ne ers: ers to « ack th trike was Mem- ‘ar not said a abor word in protest against the Colum- not consulting them | People, Says. Economist} Mi mnesota itroduce in beatae ey land many other labor organizations |ary Fellowship, who announced r bine murders. regulating railroad and public] : jon Dee. 2 Solctaate bill i have pgotested this action of the Im-| cently that. $2,400,000 had been do- agement. The National | F e ia about American Federation of | migration department, and the latter |nated by a mysterious “John W. Eng- Orr British Citizen, Compli of Owners of Railroad} Despite of propaganda about embodies the principle that | iM te ye question under advise- | lish” toward the $15,000,000 fund re- DENVER, Nov. an Utility Securities which|American prosperity, the mass Ress: mney -AbpUBD Che elebor Wit ey may, Modify the, severe ex-| quired to establish a home for tired Orr, a E ¢ it the Bowery Savings| people in the United ae : ction evil by limiting the JUTIEO econ law. This ruling to bar all who |fundamentalist missionaries and a beaten up by s *, has extended its activities to| prosperous, according to ro of equity courts— courts la te LORELEI RE ViLED Enea | training school for more fundamental- eb me ae » holders of gas, light, traction|Irving Fisher of Yale University. rrant injunctions for sa-called | 40 not p: eS . | ists, disappeared suddenly and nothing held 17 days in = peveseprng BES DOME See eoer neta? nova : F : : oh hail entering the United States to work, | ts: @lsapp Q Fe ternational complication ower companies as well as those |of the leading American college ec of property whem the} © led tor ans cise ad ist | has been heard about-him, the $2,400,- Another prisoner, who W : 0! omists. He-estimates that more than | owners have no remedy at law. : (iF ape fen dunt ree pe | 000 or John W. English. In fact, no- with Orr, has come forward. He According to Milton W. Harrison, | 90,000,000. Americans, or 80 percent) Hearings on this and other biils \" RSC ca Sane tate | body ever saw either English or the also a picket, was also taken from the lent of the sociation, “Con-/ of the population, make only a little} aimed i inections in| P : i money. county jail with Orr, and the various commissions | more than here aS Hee vent el by ‘he | Partially Built Brick Do Not Want Money. car in which Orr was ake to represent the investors | majority o mericans, Prof. F ee ea) in PRE bodied OF @inwetor: fh hoe : | 4 directors of this proj- from which he was sh the help of the investors|declares, cannot put any noon ~ ¢ ; r- Wall Falls; 9 Workers act held a wiketing cae Aeon Sn lease. the Ives. It therefore becomes an|aside. On the basis of the highest es- | man Nor In view of the approach A . | . e : ane 4 a is ae * ea hats Sern ih a Bas te a ret Rane has Yr s Some Will Die | mysterious disappearance was discov- Beaten Prisoner Carrobornt Orr. | obligation that uh estors pat em eas of Chi cies - bs isos ¢ vopsten, neompests Inju ed; ‘ titan decided thar thay GAWE Gast This second prisoner, H Pol- Pra eet ee Uno 052 ae ae obec’ | HEM aia. x re, ‘ = Traleag ida 5 ; |to raise the 15 million dollars after litis, was taken to the cit and|and stabilize the securities they own.| bourgeois agencies, Prof. Fisher es-| meas mending the Sherman CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 29.—A bolt of | t© raise the a Loire een xe 3 hg 2 A ; 4 93/4 yee Bm lightning struck the steel girders ofall. They issued the following state- | beaten in jail by te polie “Unwise legislation and regulation|timated that in 1926 more than 93 | ant cooked upon as} lightning og pack (iapts Then he was thre into the jail United States, | most favo a building under construction at 24th * toilet and locked there all night, with nothing to sleep on but a newspaper. Pollitis can ident Orr: give corroborative testimony. Statetrooper Maiden \denies the | charges of Orr and Pollitis, d in-| sists that Orr was placed in the| hands of his friends: However, he! does not explain the holding of Orr for 17 days without a ¢ ‘ge “Treated Like American: -One newspaper in a sarcastic edit- | orial demands that if there are any | other Wobblies who are British citi- zens, they should make themselves known as British, lest they be treated like Americans. The state police are furious over the Orr case and declare that Orr said he was an American. 7 Denver is now hit by a snew storm which is likely to mean a blizzard, and the coal shortage will be serious. + ate Ambassador Forced In. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29.—| Sir Esme Howard, the British Am-} bassador in Washington today wired to Governor Adams of Colorado, ask- | ing him “to investigate whether any action prejudic: rights of a British citizen residing in America has taken place in the mat-! ter of A. K. Orr,” with particular | reference to his having been held 17; days without trial and beaten on his/| release. | CHICAGO, (FP) No —The Il-| linois State Federation of Labor exec- | utive committee has organized sn as a special committee to urge work- | ers of the state to contribute to aid| the coal strikers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, Victor A. Olander, secretary, announces. © Thi action was taken by the state federa- tion on receipt of the American Fede- ration of Labor appeal for support of the strikers in the Pittsburgh region. “Every local and central body in the federation | to the relief fund of | Mine Worker union| members who menaced by injunc- | tions on the one hand and gunmen on the other,” Olander said. “This is one of the biggest fights in the his- | tory of American labor and we in Mlinois will do our bit for the miners,” Suggest Subsidy for Merchant Marine Aid Used in Next War) WASHINGTON, D. ¢ Preparations for legislation provid-| ing for permanent policy to build up the merchant mar being made | by Senator Wes nes, Chair- | man of the ( Committee, Directly following his visit to Cool idge today, Jones announced that he would reintroduce the two measures that were reported to the Senate on the last day of the last Senator Jones stresses the nece of establishing 2 merchant marin adequate for “the nati defense.” “Merchant ships are nec y to national defense,” he said, “That was demonstrated during the ar. This government has expended 190,000,- (00 for the merchant marine, repre- senting an interest of $125,000,000 an-| nually, and is not getting any great! henefits from this investment. To/| do so we must make the necessary | veplacement of obsolete ships.” | The first measure provides for| semi-permanent operation by the! government of ships that cannot be} sold to advantage, and the replacing |. and improving of those on hand in order to compete with foreign vessels. The second deals with pragposed| subsidy for American ships carrying | on foreign trade, based on speed and} tonnage ranging upward from $4 per} gross ton. Jones avers that American | ships cannot compete with foreign | vessels, because the latter are much | more rapid. ! to contribute those United sion {program w SUPREME COURT 0.K'S LEGALITY | OF DORDER PLAN |Canadian Worker Loses in Test Case Mine at Martins Ferry, Ohio, from which unionists are locked out in drive by employers to cut wages. Voice in Ask Coupon Clippers BARELY SURVIVE: Bill Before Senate n-clippers are can do much damage to the soundness} million people in the of s dustr’ under urity behind such government securities control.” security owne dustrial conditio get-a still larger will arrange e of profits. Report General Motors. and the various com-| complaining | walues because the in-|out of are|an annual income of about $500 each. If the nich this association plans / to lay before congress goes through, | that they can} to Absorb Mack Corp. Stock indicated another large maker Exchange reports yesterday of trucks would soon slip into the fold of the giant of the motor industry, | the General Motors Corporation, 2 result of the present industrial |img to these figures, gets an annual | );) slump. When Mack Truck as stock forged | jahead to leadership on the exchange, | a reports were circulated that General | ¥°* one ft ti 1 | jor nothi r vacations, uni y~ Motors was a large stockholder and | OF tes ered amed: Denk ee that Mack Truck would soon be num- | bered among the General Motors sub- sidiaries. The Stock Exchange showed also that an exaggerated hope is felt si of orders for 1928 models. or = | prosperous ever |in banking circles of a broad expan- |. family at * fede v |sion of imotor production as a result |'n¢come per family above the minimum | right), Marx a priest and Lenin an On Strikes [In Colorado— “THE miners are at grips with the bosses. This is only another of many great fights American Labor. There is inspiring reading in ail these books that will show you the glorious fighting tradition of American workers: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MOTHER JONES—(Who has witnessed the t struggles of the past 50 s and has been in the past Colorado miners.) Cloth $2.00 hts of the THE GREAT STEEL STRIKE By Wm. Z. Foster Cloth $.60 PASSAIC By Albert Weisbord Bid SAIC TEXTILE Mary Heaton Vorse 35 STRIKE- Lovestone Cloth 60 In England CHE BRITISH STRIKE By Wm. #. Dunne 10 THE GENERAL STRIKE AND NERAL BETRAYAL John Pepper OF THE GE RIKE 2. Palme Dutt 10 Ds AND THE GENERAL RIKE—By C, B. 05 Read Also The WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 E. 125 St. New York. i re | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Regulating IRVING FISHER Shipstead to Bring RR. and Utilities ADMITSWORKERS Up Anti-Injunetion | $500 a Year for Most of a total of 117 million, receive The Unprosperous. “These 93 million people,” Prof. isher says, “comprise the combined ‘poorest’ and ‘lower middle’ classes. |They are 65 per cent and 15 per cent respectively of the whole population. |The ‘poorest’ class alone, comprising 76 million people (65 per cent.of the | total) receive about 38.6 per cent of the national income or $34,740,000,000 less than $460 annually per person. This class includes not only manual jand office workers, but the small |business men, many managers and | most engineers as well.” The average family of five, accord- {income of $2,300, or little more than is required to buy the minimum of necessities among industrial or office s in New York, It leaves little ment, sickness or savings. The aver~ Jamong the 93,000,000 people consid- rered is $117. “With only an estimated $117 of }of comforts and necessities during a year that is often called the most nown, this majority lof the American people cannot yet be said to be in danger of haying too {much income. Those in the lower | groups must surely be hard put to it |to make ends meet.” Will Boost Religion at ‘Forum of Forums’ Fight Atheist Clubs |Rev. John R. Hart, Jr. will initiate | the “Forum of Forums” at the Uni- | versity of Pennsylvania tonight, to counteract the influence of atheist | societies in the various colleges. ‘Branded Criminal Under the laws of Missourt these two small boys, Edward and Ernest. Shetron, 7 and.9 res; tively, are crimina™.. Di by their parents, the little fellows were caught robbing a grocery store, because they were hungry, and sent)to the state reformatory. age surplus left for a family of five | — | direction of the First International, in DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 29.—A de- cision upholding the legality of ths; ~|immigration order. which will bar | | thousands of workers living in Canada | . from earning their living in the United | M sierious Donor States, was handed down ‘today by | j Judge Charles C. Simons of the Fed- | ; eral Court of this district. Mone Treasurer Suddenly Vanish Walter Cammon of Windsor, Can- | | | ada, and his wife Ellen, both of whom John H. Hilton, Vice President and Treasurer of the Longwood Mission- GEO. REMUS |work in Detroit, obtained the order | which forced John L. Zurbick, acting | district director cf immigration, and | Alexander M. Deig, chief inspector before the supreme court, to make a test case. The American Federation of Labor | WASHINGTON, (FP) Nov. 29. ner-Labor, of and Prairie Ave. yesterday and nine| “The Longwood Missionary Fellow- Wolfe Exgoses Lies | | Of Eastman in Dec, | lesueof Communist’ } a home for retired and furloughed missionaries at Longwood, Fla., de- | sires to announce that John H. Hilton, director and treasurer, has disappear- | ed under suspicious circumstances, and by vote of the Board of Directors has several are not expected to live. | connection with the organization. ‘Lively International Labor Defense Meet ~ That Max Eastman’s intellectual { evolution,” is lectual snobbery and de- | sification of Marxism- the charge of Bertram c an article*featuring te e of “The Communist.” Eastman Mistates. | ( “Maky according to. Eastman, | writes Wolfe, “is a fatalist and Len- in a doer, Marx a prophet and Lenin an ‘organizer, Marx a theoretician and | Lenin a man of action (whose theories | were wrong, but whose practice was | gymnastics as revealed his recent | i ‘ | article in the New Masses and in his In Brownsville, Pa. n “Marx, Lenin and the} ee PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 29.—On last Sunday afternoon there was a | successful conference of the In- ‘ternational Labor Defense, in the Sub District of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. |The conference was held in the Mon- ongahela Hall in South Brownsville. |The delegate listened to a report on \the national conference of the Inte ‘national Labor Defense held in New | York and to a report on the Cheswick give us your helping hand i | imply ar- | Lei D. Wo new status of these cases at the present time. The delegates present decided to hold another conference in Browns- ville, in the near future, and elected engineer, arx a metaphysician and Lenin a scientist.” _ A passing acquaintance with Marx’ | life, or the most superficial study of Marx’ works would have convinced man the contrary and thus prevented him from making his “orig- inal contribution” to M Len- inism and the New Mass Marx Active Revolutionist. In support of his argument Wolfe | Points out the record of Marx as a | revolutionary organizer in every |country to which he was exiled; his activit: in the League of the Just, |the British Labor Movement, his the conference and an executive com- mittee of three to assist in the ar-| ‘rangement of the conference, The present condition of the strike in the coal fields and the need of a more representative body of the | numerous workers within the district was discussed and ways and means | of bringing the International Labor Defense to the attention of the workers of all the industries, located | within the district. } te to HE DAILY WORK- ER is fighting day after day... . never stopping. The DAILY WORKER can continue its battles for the Labor Movement, but financiai difficulties prevent The DAILY WORKER from becoming agreater news- paper—of greater use- fulness to fighting La- | behalf of the Pz Commune, etc. | In answer to Eastman’s charges | that Lenin as a good “revolutionary engineer” was bad in theory, Wolfe in point after point exposes Eastman’s Expert Monopolist of Radio Waves Forced on ‘Commission OverSenate | charges not only as misinterpretation, bor. We do not want to cian : but as deliberate falsification and dis- conduct financial cam- | WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Strong honesty in the use of the statements : We d the ,| Pressure is being brought to bear to of both* Marx and: Lenin. In con- paigns. ye nee | obtain the appointment of O. H. Cald- | cluding his sharp answer to Eastman, space to fight the boss well, of New York, as chairman of Wolfe says: “The last words we will! _ ... to give our readers the Federal Radio Commission, it was |learned today, despite the fact that | he was not confirmed by the senate. In cooperation with the late Ad- miral Bullard, Caldwell has been mak- | leave to Lenin who seems to have an- ticipated Eastman’s. new ‘science’ and | had it in mind when he wrote: ‘People | bend every effort to elaborate some- | aews—information about the Labor movement— and other good features. | thing extraordinary and in their zeal | We ask only this much ieieRe abt ag Se ee Has Pe intellectual they become Hol ag from every reader: crates ‘to Stivate Far ea i Lovestone-Dunne Article | Pledge yourself to give | terests, which in January will appear aes % : c Q | befor: af issi vi ica- In the same issue of “The Com- only as much as you car before the Commission with applica. tions for licenses to use short-wave- ‘lengths. muni which now appears in a and won’t miss—every AND WIFE IMOGENE workers were so severely injured that | Ship, incorporated in Florida to build | | been removed from his offices and all | miners’ cases in Pittsburgh, and the} ni a secretary to send out the call for » Remus Case Judge — Allows Graft Tale, Ata Disadvantage CINCINNATI, 1 The |defense in the Remus t y ¢on- tinued to introduce testimony show- ing Remus to be insane at times. TI ruling of Judge Shook, which y jday prevented Remus fron | public his threatened rev lgraft in the prohibition serv Hater modified, without any flood of jevidence about the se the |attitude of those interes ems to Jindicate that there is a tacit under- | standing that relations between pro- \hibition agent Dodge and R | wife may be discussed in court, out emphasis on the graft aspects or involving anybody else. | Tough Federal Attorney. | The prosecution itself today mad a bitter attack on the reputation of Allan Curray, deféhse’ witne and jone time federal district attorney at | St. Louis. “Were you not forced to resign | from the government service beca jof malfeasance in office and becaus |you became involved in a white <1 jecase,” demanded. Carl Basler, assist- jant prosecutor. The witness denied it, but when defense attoryey Charles H. Elston demanded that Basler retract the ac- jeusation the latter refused point blank. Later, word was from Washington that the us prose- leution had gained the peration of the attorney gene | would be supplied w \of justice files. fice and partment Graft Angie. Remus charges that | Dodge. prohibitoin agent. with his wife, Imogene, |him out of $1,800,000 booti | He pleads temporary insa ;exeuse for killing h in a par: |shért time ago. Yestc the ju ruled that evidence eonnerting Dod and Mrs. Remus’ (which brings | the graft angle) was inadmissable rntil ae: of insanity was est lished by the dofense. Later the judge ruled that ¢ evidence to ¢ jsenity was | however, 2 tho weakens whateve $ to say about the prafi, it admittedly the ry of a man c sound mentali There are indications that the state is usine all its efforts to get Remus out of the way 2s socn as possible and to silence him until can be executed. $12 a Week Usual Wage For Move Than Third of Ohio’s Women Workers | WASHINGTON, (FP) Noy. Of a total of 1,052,960 men wage- | workers in Ohio in the year 1925, 71 | per cent were paid at the rate cf $25 j@ week or better; while of 281,112 wage-wor!ing women in Ohio that lyear the number whose rate of pay | vas thac mgn was oniy 16 per cen, | Excluding salaried persons, 70 per leent of the men and 19 per cent of |the women wage-earners were pa! {much as $25 a week. | More than one-third of a!) |women, including clerical worker who are the better paid group, and | about one-half of the-saleswomen, F ceived less than $15 a week. Clerk workers, among women, have moro [stable employment than womenyem- ployed in selling goods or in general lindustry, according to the * hio \ statisti 4 29- } more ¢ tractive new form, Jay Love- tveek. You won't miés it | Stone. and Wm, }.: Dunne write on and The DAILY WORK trade union problems and the last ‘ ER can live on it! Tren Vig Pledge Your Cupport Today! A. F. of L. convention. 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