The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1927 SACCO-VANZETTI T } Amit Time, of Appeals Council to Number STON, ef the Council the annual them, they recomm Council “broaden e Su- preme Jud that it may ss upon the whole case, and have power to order a new trial! upon any und th te: s of justice appear to requir Appeal Period Limited. The council dep! “the extra- ordinary le: ch elapsed between the conviction of Sacco\ and Vanzetti and their cution, as well as certain proceedings in t..e ca: illustrated in a striking way some serious defects in our methods of administering justice in murder cases.” But their only recommendation is to lessen the opportunity for appeal | by limiting the period during which | appeals may be made to one year, and also ask that there be only one appeal in a capital case, “and there need be no more.” The council which was created in 1924 to ascertain weaknesses in the judicial system and make recommen- dations in annua’ reports to be sub- mitted to the governor, lauds the gov- ernor as a court of last appeals. They maintain that he “furnishes all rea- sonable protection against a miscar- riage of justice.” The council finds it necessary to make provisions for more convincing methods to conduct judicial murders, “for,” they say, “it is vital that the people know that they (the courts and the governor) do justice.” Conference to Unite Garment Workers (Continued from Page One) out. He concluded his report by say- ing that if Sigman, whose expulsion y had caused the chaos in the ndustry, refused to listen to the plans adopted at the conference. The con- ference would devote all its energy to organizing a mass movement behind the New York Joint Board. Seven Major Resolutions Adopted. Report of the resolutions commit- tee contained seven major resolutions, chief of which was one calling upon |Painters Union in Drive on Corruption) oe } from Page One) | 00 to keep the guilty e of having y terests of the mem- ec apparently fi : fice progressiv: ene sitting to- ¢ platform at tl vote were geth | jc For Wright. Thomas Wright, secretary of Local | 905, was received with great enthus- | iasm, Wright, who until recencly had | | been day secretary of District Council | 9, and who was removed by the ruling | machine when he refused to do its| bidding, has been largely instrumen- | |tal in the house-cleaning which has | taken place in the painters’ unions. | “Soon after I became day secre- | tary,” Wright said, “I discovered that instead of the one agreement which | we had ell supposed was in operation there were in fact three agreements, | two of them secret but actually in force.” Seerct Agreements. These - two secret agreements, Wrigh: stated, he discovered quite by accident in the office safe. One of these, with the Metropolitan Life In- surance Company, went so far as to permit work Saturdays in violation of the painters’ 6-day week victory, which had cost the unions over $100,- 900 to win. Because he dared to expose these betrayals Wright was expelled by the machine from the district council. The meeting held by the machine faction was opened by temporary chairman, Beletzky of Local 442. Bel- etzky’s first act was to call the ma- chine candidates for office to a row of reserved sets at the front of the hall. Closed Session. A strong arm squad of at least for- ty or fifty persons circulated about the hall. Doors were ordered locked at the opening of the meeting. No one was permitted to leave. The candidates named by the pro- gressive Inter-local Committee, of which Thomas Wright is secretary, are Pete Rothman, president of Local 499, for day secretary of the council, , and John Hilfers, of Local 848, Amiel | Just, of Local 499, Harry Bloom, of | Local 101i, and Lewis Kosloff, of Lo- | cal 905, for business agents, FEDERAL COURT MAKES DRASTI See Move for Further Mergers of Roads Ow. ffects One Railroad. The ¢ stare the St. Louis & short line ru souri metrop of O'Fallon in lin pose of recapture by ninent | of one-half oi tt ea S| above 6 per cent. Ceciared | that the vai mn in the St. Louis and O’Failon road was $1,350,000, | while the commerce commission held the valuation as varying from $864 000 to $78,000 during the three y in which it sought to recapture exce: earnings totaling $225,00uU. Two Theories Advanced. The case involved two separate the- ories: First, the reproduction cost theory that the railroads are entitied to have their property valued on the} sums required to rebuild them today | regardless of the original cost; and,} second, the vestment cost theoxy, advanced by the I. C. C. that the rail- roads shall be entitled to earn only; on sums of money prudently and act- | ually invested for public service. The second theory was upheld by the court, in a decision written by | Federal Judge Kimbrough Stone and upheld by two other judges, the three | of them constituting the court of ap- | peals. May Affect Small Roads Only. The case is variously interpreted) here. One contention being that it affects all railroads, in which case the | difference between the estimated valuation based upon the cost of re- production of the roads, and that of | the actual money invested, involves| the sum of eleven billion dollars. The| other contention is that it will only affect the small roads, and will force them into bankruptcy so that they | can easily be swaliowed up by the big roads and thereby carry out the Cool-| idge program of consolidation of ail | roads into a powerful system directed by the houses of Wall Street. Big Roads Different. It is pointed out that the big roads | banking interlocking |" Wall Street Agreement Seen in Deportations Of Radica's by Calles MEXICO CITY, Dee. 11.—An or-| |der for the immediate di terior, it| order, it is| The 2 istence | the deportation order de- 1 government is resolved to] horo clean-up of. radicals | certain gely, if United and believed in en lar; Y by rrOWw F jentation of the government toward Ameri- sts. Return Confiscated Property Adyocated; $60,000,000 to Pay The Alien Property Bill, under which more than $690,000,000 would be paid to “enemy” aliens for prop- erty seized during war-time hysteria, was advocated by Ogden: L. Mills of the treasury department before the Budgalo Club. He admitted that the measure was far from ideal, but “given all the circumstances, political and otherwise, I believe it to be the best that can be obtained”. “If this bill becomes law,” the un- der secretary added, “the German property owners will receive almost ;. 0,000 at an early date. ‘The German ship, patent and radio own- ers will receive in cash, as soon as the awards are determined, 50 per | cent of the amount due them. “The American claimants should receive, within the courst of the next year or two, no less than $113,000,000, while the 891 death and personal in- jury claims and the claims under $100,000 will be paid almost immedi- ately, stated Mills. Farce Mental Test Keeps Aliens Out Of United States “How many feathers has a duck more than a goose?” “What is the difference between a man and a || School Train Ship Offi- _| | Following 1 | | boosting message, a bill was intro-7 | - | MERCHANT-OWNED U.S. SUPPORTED. | cers as Navy Reserve | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 11.—] upon Coolidge’s navy! ntativ uced in the House of Repr | Saturday, calling for an i se in ithe naval reserve by subsidizing the {building of more ships and the estab- | lishment of a “merchant marine train- | ing school,” to train future officers | | for the merchant marine who would, jaccording to Representative Wood | who introduced the bill, also serve as serve officers of the United States vy, “in the emergency of a war.” i | | | | The bill provides for loans on mer- would chant owned vessels which cov er as much as three qu’ | | enti | ' A | require two per cent interest, payment |to extend over a period of twenty! | years. * More Navy*Aviation Demanded. The need for a large program for | building warship$ and aeroplanes to/| conform with the needs of modern} warfare was demanded by secretary | of the navy Wilbur in his annual re- ized that the services \required of the navy in subduing Nicaragua and China for American} imperialism during the last year, “and the prospects in the immediate future, strikingly illustrate the need for ves- sels . .. for the protection of our in- terests even during peace.” Illegal Warfare to Increase. “In fact,” he continues, “the need} of them (airships and vessels). for special duty,” such as Nicaragua and China; “can be expected to increase.” | A definite declaration of war isn’t the only thing that would put the} fleet into action, he hinted, for there ‘special duty” in protect- | ing the interests of American capi- | talists. * | * | | | port. He emphasi: * * * A Rolls-Royce Navy. A. bill was presented in. court} | Saturday to provide Rolis-Royce auto- | | mobiles for each officer of the navy. | Everybody in the House suddenly dis- | claimed responsibility for the graft. | Representative McClintic, who was} thought to be the member who intro-| duced the bill, became very vociferous in his condemnation of the proposed | bill, stating that “naval officers| |should devote their navigation to ships, not automobiles.” If Nomination Is Immediate, Smith May Run in 1928 NAVY SUGGESTED : Ask Constitution Be Translated, Inspire Aliens Coming Here W. Ad SHINGTON, D. C., D 11. ed upon Cool- rged him to ated into 1 count f al step into to impress ther th th Y eges to which the costitution them and inspire them to bet h Sinclair tried during ke to read -th same constitution to a group of wor ers on a. private lot in San Ped which he had hired for the meeting. riot cars, machine guns and the r of the paraphernalia police bring out | on fn ‘peaceful’ i wer: rushed to the scene. As soon as Sinclair r few words of the constitution government officials want translate for foreigners to read, the police « rested him and three others who too! the ‘privileges’ of the constitutii ) seriously. Norman Thomas also attempted té exercise this ‘privilege’ in Mount Vernon in 1922, but he, too, soon learned that the constitutional gu antee of free speech was: senators would have th think it is, when the police arrested him. The Price of Votes fiust Take Flop Is Washington Belief WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 11.— Upton Sinclair may have to revise his “Money Writes” in the opinion of William Vare, senator-elect from Pennsylvania who was refused his seat because his supporters paid too much mo for the votes that elect- ed him. Economy is the watchword of big business nowadays. Vare issued a loud and doleful Jeremiad and wept like a sinner in a synagogue over the sorry pass to which democracy has come when the sovereign electors of a state are de- prived of the right of representtation tho saddled with taxation of no mean proportions, The unseated senator-elect did not say if there would be a dress rehears- al of the Boston tea party produced in the vicinity of the Monongahela River, but he looked as if a consider- able hole might be made in Andrew Mellon’s,.cellar before the sorrow of the Pennsylvania G. 0, P. was prop- erly quenched. “Taxation without representation brought on one revo- lution”, Vare was heard to -mutter, “Pray God it may not be the cause of another.” | | | | | | | | Prosperity Is “Joy In Work” Not Food, Says Wealthy Man Industry’s old slogan of prosperity, > full dinner pail” has become ob- a said Gano Dunn, president of i ing corporation yes- oy in work” spells the , thus at last explain- “prosperity.” as becn so far re- moved from the workman of today”, aid the wealthy corporation presi- garding the hundreds of of unemployed in and York today, “that he about where his next from, but rather about <4 radio or motor car.” ence, he insisted, is so powerful, that “tl i job in industry that designed so that it’s day’s 1 be like a vacation canoe.” Dunn, who is a trustee of Barnard College, praised the action of capital- ists who gave scientific research bur- large subsidies to work this el of prosperity. unn recalled how Charles W. iot, president of Harvard Univer- , spoke of the “joy of work” and was jeered by the meeting of laborers he was addressing. However, when Dunn made similar assertions before big business men, he was enthusias- tically applauded. au. tv) MARRIAGE, Judge Ben. B. Lindsey of Denvar, Friday issued an open challenge to Bishop Manning, John Roach Strat- on, er “any other foe of companion- ate marriage” to meet him in a de- bate on the subject at Carnegie Hall Jan. 28. Lindsey declared himself in favor of Governor Smith for the Presi- dency, “provided the Governor does not let his religion dictate his atti- tude toward marriage and birth con- trol.” WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS? When your reporter accosted T. J. O’Fiaherty, who has promised to at- tend the Daily Worker-Freiheit Ball on December 17, he was reading the Freiheit from bow to stern instead of vice’versa. “To what do you at- DEBATE NIONATE tribute your present standing?” I asked. “Where?” he retorted. “I'll be damned if I know,” I replied. “So will I” he acquiesced and then broke down and confessed. “Punctuality,” he said, “more than any other thing made me what I am today. I never look at the clock when I get into the office in the morning. 'I am in favor of good food, warm f | : . 3 bee s a | 5 le - flats. I am the officials of the I. L. G. W. U. “ ” can claim that there has been con-|woman?” “How many legs have It was not for himself the senator clothes and steam, heated and of the New York Joint Board to | Senate “Insurgents stant additions to their physical valu-|three people and two chickens?”| If the nomination for the 1928 pres- |grieved. The big-hearted beer and|0PP0S¢d to capital punishment except ation in the form of new road beds, {for capitalists. I am also against rails, cars and locomotives, that re-| stop the inner warfare. It further) Back Down; Will Aid | These are questions asked by Amer-|jdency is handed to Al Smith on a/ pretzels man from Philadelphia provided that if this is not carried | out, the conference is instructed to | organize a mass street demonstration to show the desire of the workers ‘to | end the struggle in the garment in- | dustry. Six other resolutions were unan- imously carried which called for an | addition of 25 delegates to the Com- | mittee of 50 to remain in existence | until peace has been established. One of these further calls upon the | cloak and dress manufacturers to stop | Republican Machine WASHINGTON, (FP) Dec. 11.— After being twice refused by Leader Curtis of the Republican Old Guard in the Senate a definite pledge as to program in this session, the group of five western insurgents has backed down and announced that it will help organize the Senate. It claims that it has been satisfied by Curtis’ as- surance that a majority of the G. O. P. conference “took the position that sults in the reproduction of the com-| plete structure at certain interv. hence the original cost no longer fices as a basis on which to estimate their physical valuation, while the small roads will have a difficult time furnishing such arguments. Injunction Fight in N. Y. Street Railway Strike Goes to Wash. ican Consuls of would be American | silver platter, he will accept it, friends | immigrants, admitted Hugh S. Cum-| of the governor stated. But if the | mings, surgeon general of the United | “indignity” of the farce of the 1924 \ States. | Madison Square Garden convention is A Polish woman who wished to join | repeated, he will refuse. her son in America, was asked to} Smith is known to be aware that carve something out of a piece of! a long-drawn-out nomination fight wood and draw something on paper, | would ridicule and caricature the sit- | to test her value as a future Amer- | uation: and the resulting nomination ican citizen, her son complained to| would be worth little. Emanuel Celler, representative from | ——— Brooklyn, who investigated the mat- | ter. She was not granted a visa. Injunction Against mourned for his people and for. the waning fortunes of democracy and self-determination, “If the injustice were only to me personally,” he sobbed “I might ac- cept it, but I cannot permit the rights | of my ‘State to be thus trampelled upon without vigorous protest which| so far as I am concerned will be waged to a definite conclusion. I can- not believe that such a_ grievous wrong against ten million Americans can obtain for long.” chicken chow mein minus chicken and no-fade shirts. I am strongly in fav- or of the Daily Worker-Freiheit Ball }on December 17 and other needy cases. ‘eich Troubles ‘Vasil Many thousands of people after long cring found permanent relief from their digestive troubles through the tise of the famous, pleasant “System Cleanser” Herbal Compound If you suffer with chronic indigestion, dizziness, sleeple headaches, ic s: supporting the International in its) a Whi 2 Agent * * * . . ae , 4. | there should be no unnecessary delay 7 a cee | While the surgeon general admitted | Butchers Refused % aR ee FURTHER Sie Bee go nal re in securing a vote on the measures| WASHINGTON, (FP) Dec. 11.—| that the questions were ridiculous, he | pe | AE Ea cine Boone: {2 em BS atl ‘unt Sa edges | oe Ss r Wagner Naw ‘Wor A : : d AO Ee Pe . 11.] more seri Yo matter wha ia the “New Post,” ae adicnt Fine |named by the insurgents, These] Senator Wagner of New York, chicf/ stated that it was the method usu-| DETROIT, Mich. Dec. 11—At- “Burglars ‘who’ broké dnto’ th bape ise you hav you owe it to your- ish ae idea ‘measures are the McNary-Haugen | Counsel for the American Federation’ ally used by U. S. officials, to make| tempts to secure an injunction| mer Hine ot saunterletos e SumM-| self to try rvelous Digestive published by the committee. jfarm relief bill, an anti-injunction of Labor in fighting the injunction} mental tests. against the striking butchers of} Pennsylvania hee Nook ah vane sof Herp: |bill, and a resolution for thorough| filed against it in the street railway Hamtramck an industrial suburb, a vene here Jast Monday con- |" n HOME AREAS NEAR INDUSTRY. | investigation of the policy of the Arthur C. Holden, an architect | United States in Central and South whose firm is consultant to the Legis- | America. jative Commission on Revision of the! Shipstead, LaFollette, Blaine, Tenement House Laws, has submitted | Frazier and Nye signed the demands. a memorandum to the commission | Shipstead is a member of the foreign calling for a policy of locating perma- | relations committee, and is interested nently restricted residential districts |in the Nicaraguan and Haitian mili- next to industrial districts. His pur-|tary occupation issue. pose is to relieve the constantly in-| a ee eee creasing burden of traffic and trans-| PAY INCREASE ON | but bosses object to this limitation. . % 7 s fut x i iy fe ry portation. | UNION PACIFIC Sette Hcaree tiie piri ott at ributed in a short time. One woman sympathizer, who ‘ e The memorandum points out that} OMAHA, Dee, i1-—3,400 clerks. | servative laber leaders in the eastern| The news of the distribution spread | Warned customers that a strike was Hel [ Js Hel the Miners! high rents in slum are and the|messengers, office boys, telephone | section of the country. very rapidly, in fact early in the |in progress, has been arrested. The p i e maintenance of old tenements were! operators, ete, in the employ of the due to hope of ultimate sale to in-| Union Pacifie R. R. from Omahe to dustry at a high figure. The result | Ogden, including Kansas City andj is that workers move to o .| Denver, have received an increase in| triets with consequent lowering of| pay amounting to from $3 to $7 al vitality. | month, i |Politicians Squabble Biggest Event of the Year | January 13th =| | employes’ organizing campaign in New York City, was given a lunch- eon at the capitol, Det. 9, by Peter! Brady, head of the Federatién Bank | in New York. The affair was ar-| ranged so that Wagner might meet | the legislative agents, at the national capital, for all the labor organizations that have business before Congres: and the executive departments. Tammany’s new senator is looked | Over Who is to Spend | People’s Tax Money WASHINGTON, (FP) Dec. 11.— unable to find a pretext for further! refusal to admit Sen. Couzens of} Michigan to the committee on Finance which deals with all taxation and treasury matters, the Republican leaders increased the number of that| committce from 19 members to 20. They feared that Couzens, who is the| foremost enemy o eretary Mellon outside the wes nsurgent ranks, | would throw the balance in the com-| mittee against the administration. As it is, he can tie the vote in the committee.—-and he probably will do} it if the Democrats do not join the| Old Guard Republicans on every roll- call, MAURER TO SPEAK. READING, Pa., Dec. 11.--James H. Maurer, Secy. Penna. Federation of Labor, J. Hewry Stump, Mayor- elect and others who won office at the No¥ember elections here, are be- ing entertained in New York today. Mayor-elect Stump and- Councilman- elect James H. Maurer are to speak over the radio on “Labor Political Action,” after which they will be guests at a banquet, | [1 “Overcoats for Pickets” Is Cry of Arnold Local Of Miners’ ReliefComm. Arnold local of the Miners’ Relief Committee opened its door to the triking miners on the eighth, and a complete stock of clothing and a rge quantity of shoes were dis- morning the door of our headauar- ters was jammed with needy miners, some of whom had walked several mines on a bitter cold morning to be sure they went home with shoes to go to schoo! and clothing to shelter them in the hastily built barracks. Miners from locals 1230, 4248, 3745 and 9090 and others, described abuses suffered at the hands of the coal and iron police and state cossacks who openly disregard all laws in order to destroy the most militant section in the A. F. of L, A general strike now is what would turn the tide, is the ery of the miners, | Many argue also that the railroad men would strike now and co-oper- ate in all the future struggles. The relief committee appeals to all to pack a bundle and be sure to in- clude an overcoat for the picket line, ond a few dollars that will shelter the riiners from grim cold in the bare Pennsylvania hills and also give courage to face riot clubs and tear gas bombs. FILM COMBINE. LONDON, Dee. 11.—An agreement has been signed by the UFA Film Company of Germany and the British ilm Corporation to fight against the American cinema interests, according lo reports here. 6 BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! were frustrated, when a local judge refused to issue one to the employers, Wednesday afternoon. The Polish butchers of Hamtramck Local No. 589 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters of America have been on strike since Nov. 18, in a fight to force their bosses to renew their agreement. The contract limits the working period to 70 hours a week, stores involved in the strike are, Smolinski’s Butcher Store at 9227 Jos. Campau Ave., B. Lukashewicz, 8815 Jos. Campau Ave., S.-Frycz, 9126 Jos. Campau Ave., Winogrocki & Pszybysz, corner Jos. Campau and Yemans. Aves., Rifkin, 9444 Jos. Campau Ave. and Lipinski, 9141 Jos. Campau Ave. Correction “I wish to have you print in your columns a correction to an article in | your issue of November 22, which was ealied to my attention’ by a member |of our union. The impression in the article is created that International President Wm. Kohn called off the strike against Hill Bros. The facts are, that Brother Kohn asked us to put the men to work in other shops, as he had suggested previously to us before the Hill Bros. strike occurred. “Our International does not pay strike benefits unless a strike is called with the previous approval of the General Executive Board, and in this case we did not expect them to pay benefits until the G. E. B. shall pass on the strike. I ask you to print this correction, as your article may create a wrong impression and misunder- standing among your readers on this point, Fraternally yours,—H. Chait, Busi- ness Agent, Upholsterers Union, Lo- cal No. 15, | fined their thievery to his private stock, it was learned today when rela- tives of the Philadelphian inspected the property. Valuable silver and paintings were left untouched, they said. Nothing was stolen except certain bottles of choice vintage. BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! digestion, ‘Che lining of the digestive will be freed from mucus, restor- normal action of the etory glands. Relief begins AT ONC Y Lb—2-400 portions—for $1.50 sent free of any other charge on receipt of amount.—No © O D's, Bath additions for every trouble, BESSEMER CHEM. CO. NATURAL REMEDIES Dept. B, 101 Beekman Street NEW YORK, N. Y, MINERS’ 799 BROADWAY Of Pennsylvania—Ohio—Colorado Money! Blankets! 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