The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1928, Page 2

Bake two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, ee Standard Oil and Secretary Mellon Get Fat Refunds OTHER BIG TRUSTS ALSO SHARE NEW YEAR'S GRAB BAG Magy Small Fry Award- ed Government Funds WASHINGTON, Jan. feller interests were the fieiaries of the n to individuals and corpo The Standard Oil benefited to the extent of $5,062,893 while the second st refund was nearly a half a m to the United Cigar Stores, a r 1 corporation con- trolled by Rocke: power trust, the r: trust, iron and ste and big banks r from the United the extent of Among individ fessional men, | fessors and other hang: administration, con: ting the small er fry of beneficiaries of the Mellon departnient. Mellon, as usual, did not forget him- if. Many: of his corporations re- ed refunds, in addition to the miil- 2.—Rocke- hief bene- ions of dollars in corporation taxes he evades by his tem of tax ex- cept stock dividend . U), §. Faces Serious Crisis in 1928 (Continued from Page One) sional committce, released a prepared statement that is p ly the offi- cial democratic of the publican administration. Recognizing Mellon as the real head of the admin- istration the attack was launched against him. Employment Decreasing. § Mr. Mellon’s conclusions that thru- out 1927 employment was steady and busine: nd industry were stable are not ained by the facts,” says the Oldfield statement. “The ‘steady employment’ to which “he Secretary refers undoubtedly has been the case in some lines, but in many,others it has not been. Proof of this is in the latest employment fig- ures of the Department of Labor owing employment “lower during pevprai months of 1927 than_in the jast four years, reaching a le\el last November 11 per cent below the em- ployment level of the same relative period of 1923. Pay-roll totals were also reduced in about the same pro-| portion. Bankruptcies Increased. m x “There has just come to my atten- | tion the report of the-Department of Justice on bankruptcies for the last fiscal year. During the year there were 48,758 bankruptcies, with liabil- ities of $885,557,006, or $80,000,000 more liabilities than during 1926 and a half billion more than ten years ago in 1917. Of the nearly 50,000 per- sons who entered bankruptcy last year 6,000 were farmers, 18,000 were wage earners, 12,000 were merchants, 1,500 were manufacturers and 1,200 professional men. Points to Call Recession. “Another evidence that conditions are not as healthful as. Mr. Mellon would have the country believe is in the freight car loadings of the rail- roads. I am advised that the car loading report for 1927, to be issued in the next day or so, will show that more than 1,000,000 fewer carloads of freight were handled by the rail- roads during 1927 than 1926. This recession and a heavy falling in pas- senger traffic has shar the railroad earnings for the After listing other depression the democratic became confused in thought yielded to the illusion that the situa Hon ig not serious. In the concluding statement Oldficld said: I recognize the fact that in some lines pusiness has been and still is good. But I submit that the so-called r ity is by no means general, d 1 also submit that the record %t to silence those republican who try to persuade the peo- ‘t theirs is the ‘business party’ business is prosperous only republican policies.” i ton Sun Bombe , Pa., Jan. 2—A bomb ag in the rear of the Scranton while New Year crowds brad outside, wrecked its vear broke windows, and totally de- «vo small dwellings behind : by Negro families. anic ensued among the holiday ‘’, whieh police could hardly con- ve ad but two people in the rear were hurt, Mrs. Lucy Brad- Jey and her five year old daughter. Police are seeking Pittston gangsters oat the Sun has been attacking re- cently, a: ROEBUCK HEAD DIES. CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—Charles M. Kit- ‘tip, president of Sears, Roebuck & « Go., and former vice president gf the Mllinois Central Railroad, died here to- day of gallstones. ons of dollars tax} of Indiana The electric | n building was unoccupied at | TAX REFUNDS FOR MORGAN AND THE ROCKEFELLERS Above, left to right, Kt ter of Finance Count Volpi, U. retary of the Treasury Mellon, Mussolini, and the Duce’s private sec- retary. Mellon stands in geod with capitalist governments. He just had a lot of taxes refunded by the U. S. John D. Rockefeller is shown to the right. He founded the Rockefeller fortunes, established the oil trust, on the ruin of his rivals and the exploita- tion of workers. To the left is John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at present in active charge of further exploitation, thru the use of the Rockefeller billions. He is responsible for the policy of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., which he owns, and he probably owns the Col- umbine mine. His gunmen slaughter miners wholesale in the bitter strikes caused by his low wage policies. Rockefeller got a tax cut. } | | | | | | Companies Break Law (Continued from Page One) ing that prisoners taken under the insurrection order could only be re- leased by the governor. Jails Crowded. In Southern Colorado the jails are crowded as a result of the wholesale arrests and beatings taking place here daily, while in Northern Colorado the coal operators in an attempt to get the miners back to work have no- tified the Industrial Commission that hey are ready to grant a raise of fifty-seven cents a day. The Colorado Fuel and Iren Company has also of- fered to raise the wages by 32 cents a da: ing solid for the recognition for the pit committees and other demands. If any proof were lacking that the operators who were witnesses in the investigation being conducted by the Industrial Commission, had lied about The men however are stand-} conditions in the mines, it was fur-} nished on Saturday when Merle D. Vincent, general counsel for the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, completed the break between his company and other Northern operators by confirm- ing the statements of the strikers about the inhuman working condi- tions in the mines, and about the gross violations of the state laws by the mining companies. Disregard Law. In a statement submitted to the commission, Vincent declares that it is common knowledge that the mine laws regarding safety provisions, checkweighmen and inspection com- mittees are not enforced. He also charges that the necessity for the present strikes was due to the opera- tors refusal to recognizé the human rights of the workers. This statement was in answer to one made by a group of Nerthern operators who claimed that no strike existed. In spite of the reign of terror which continues in the territory controlled by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com- pany’s state police the ranks of the workers are keeping solid. New Terrorism. The terrorist tactics of the bosses has taken on new forms when the} state police in an attempt to demor- | alize the workers by cutting off re-| lief, arrested James Dobreff, chair-| man and other members of the Telief | committee. were made Saturday by 2 that the company took twelve per cer of seven as had been agreed to pre- She said that the company had threatened her with eviction if she complained about the robbery or about the unbelievably filthy condi- tions the men were forced to endure. GALE KEEPS PLANES DOWN. CURTISS FIELD, L. I, Jan. 2.— Due to the severe gale only two planes took the air yesterday at the flying fields here. One succeeded in staying up an hour, and after a few minutes in the air the other returned when its motor quit functioning. MORE AIR LINES PLANNED. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 2. — Steps are in progress to establish regular commerciai air lines, which} are to link the United States with Canada and Mexico and many coun- tries in South America. The post of- fice has already provided for mail to Cuba, CHRISTMAS WAS FATAL, BUFFALO, N, Y., Jan, 2.—One dead and four injured is part of the aftermath of holiday cheer here. Michael George, proprietor of the Peacock Inn was shot and killed. The other victims were his patrons. | ' masked gunmen. admittance to the place. Read the Daily Worker Every Day a oarding house keeper of the} of her profits instead | The shooting was done by three | fiye story apartment at 15 Crary Ave., 1. Robbery was not! Mount Vernon, Saturday, caused twen- the motive, it is said, the shooting |ty-four families to flee into the icy occurring when the men were refused | weather. Neighbors took pity on the ‘Bad Conditions for Women in Industry BOSTON, Jan, 2.—Attention to the deplorable conditions under which women work in most states of the Union, and especially in Mississippi, | Tennessee, and Delaware, is called in ‘an announéement by Miss Mary An- derson, director of the Women’s Bu- reau of the Department of Labor in Massachusetts. In Mississippi, the report states, only 3 per cent of the women have a 48-hour week; in Tennessee, only 6 per cent; in Delaware only 15 per cent. The data on wages reveal equally vicious conditions with rates ranging as low as $5.55 a week in some in- dustries, Labor Insurance Hopes For “Fresh Laurels” _ WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—The Uni- ion Labor Life Insurance Company, one of labor’s trade union capitalism ventures, announces that it may have a million dollars of individual insur- ance and nearly $20,000,000 of group insurance written as its total by the end of 1927. Further announcement is made that it expects to start out for a banner year in 1928. It is going after “fresh laurels” according to Matthew Woll, its president. “Labor” Capitalism on Decline. Matthew Woll, president of this so- called “labor” insurance company, is jalso the acting president of the Na- tional Civie Federation, a union smashing, anti-labor body. Labor in- surance, labor banking and other forms of trade union capitalism which received an almost mortal blow in the exposures of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers’ ventures, was crit- icized even by the A. F. of L. bureauc- | racy at its last convention. Old Age Pension Bill Rumors Deceive Again (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) ALBANY, Jan, 2.—Rumors and re- ports usually current at this time dur- ing the months of cold weather that ‘the state legislature is planning to enact legislation for old age pensions, are again being circulated in this city. Fraternal organizations such as the Eagles, and religious bodies, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Presbyterian and Lutheran are said to be behind the move. It is also reported that Al ; Smith is favorable to the plan, | New York state does practically nothing for the protection of depend- ent workers, cast off by industry as no longer “fit” for the excessive speed- up system of capitalisny, Bill Seeks More Taxes WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Jan. 2.— An attempt will be made to cut down the number of institutions exempted from taxes through the introduction of a bill in the legislature. It is | charged that hospitals are relieved junder the charity provision, because they have one or two free rooms. STRICT AIR ENFORCEMENTS. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 2.—A meas- ure calling for the strict enforcement of federal air regulations before state aviator’s licenses are granted will be | introduced in the next legislature, 24 FAMILIES FLEE FIRE. A fire starting in the cellar of the freezing tenants, and housed them during the hour and a half required Bombard Nicaraguan Town from Planes (Continued from Page One) tain country and suffered several casualties, But the American airplanes which swooped over the battle dropping bombs forced the Liberals to fall back | on their base at El Chipote, an al-| most impregnable mountain which | General Sandino has fortified and | declares he can hold for almost any length of time even tho outnumbered by the American forces, Nicaraguans Fought Hard. Guided by airplanes, the invading army of marines have been winding their way over the mountains for days in order to strike a blow at the Liberal stronghold in an effort to break the power which Sandino has been steadily consolidating thruout northern Nicaragua in the last three months. Fighting with admitted courage and using their antiquated anti-aircraft guns the Liberals were able to stand off the invaders for two days. before they were compelled to retire to their aprneates in the hills. They were aple to carry off their. the battle, 4 i eo aja Near Other Massacre. Quilali is near Ocotal, the scene of a massacre of Nicaraguan Liberal forces last July by an army of Unit- ed States marines assisted by air- planes, which dropped bombs among the defenseless Liberals and the in- habitants of the town. General Sandino, who is a former mine worker, gained the opposition of the American authorities by re- fusing to sign the disarmament agree- ment which Col. Henry L. Stimson forced upon the majority of the Lib- eral leaders. Sandino took refuge in the northern districts of Nicaragua near the Honduran border where he has been gradually equipping and training his troops while the growth of Liberal influence over all the northern sections of Nicaragua has been alarming the Americans and their. reactionary Nicaraguan tools. The battle of Quilali is believed to prelude a determined effort on the part of the American State Depart- ment to eliminate the growing power of the Liberal army. * * * Send More Marines. One hundred and fifty more ma- rines and officers will sail in a few days for Nicaragua on the army transport, Chateau Thierry, accord- ing to a statement issued by Major General Lejeune of the Marine Corps. | The detachment will reinforce a troop of two hundred marines who were landed in Nicaragua in December, bringing up the total American forc- es in Nicaragua at present to at least 1,500. MAN KILLED BY TRAIN. A man about forty was instantly killed by a Long Island Railroad train | at Great Neck station Saturday af- ternoon as he tried to cross the tracks from one platform to another. So badly was he mangled that identifica- tion was impossible. The driver of the locomotive was not held. STOP PATENT SALE. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 2— An injunction was sought to restrain C. J. Weeks, local railroad engineer, from making public his discovery of a motor fuel which is reported to en-! able an automobile to travel 49.2 miles on a pint of the mixture. N. P. Pratt and G. L. Pratt, applicants, said they had lent the inventor money to| develop the fuel. Weeks tried to sell the formula to a motor company. POWER INQUIRY LIKELY WASHINGTON, (FP) Jan. 2.—Re- publican Old Guard Senators, after counting the political cost of smother- ing resolution for investigation of the power trust, are reported to be weak- ening. A majority of the interstate commerce committee is said to be cer- jand Villa Ave., Bronx, and to pos- FASCIST ENEMY MADE A TARGET OF MACHINE GUN Suspect Blackshirts Shot Up Building Resentment against the acquittal of Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo of a fascist murder frame-up is un- derstood to be the motive behind an attempt to wreck the Bedford Park Italian Presbyterian Church, 204th St. sibily to kill those within the building early Sunday morning. A window in the west side of the church was shattered by fire either from a machine gun or automatic rifle. No one was present in the building at the time. That the attempt to destroy the church and kill any who might be within was the work of local fascists is supported by the fact that an of- ficial is in charge of Dr. Charles ma, prominent anti-fascist, who on number of occasions was marked or attack by the blackshirts. Northpert Union Fights Higher-Ups NORTHPORT, L. I., Jan. 2.—Local 259 of the United Builders and Com- mon Laborers Union of America is engaged in a struggle against the na- tional officers of the union who re- cently revoked the locals charter on trumped-up charges, The details of the cause for the revocation of the charter are not fully disclosed, but it is known that the national officers sought to interfere in the affairs of the local union. The local union is planning to take steps to test the authority of the na- tional body in removing its charter. Blast Injures Three SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 2.—Just as the new year was ushered in with the aid of shrieking sirens, automobile ! horns and the ringing of church bell, a huge explosion of the Scranton Sun building threw thousands of revelers into panic, Three persons, one of whom was a block from the blast, were seriously injured. | Flying’ glass showered upon the | crowds in the streets. 2 Die in Auto Crashes WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Jan. 2.— As an aftermath to New Year party- ing, two were killed and three seri- ously injured just before daylight yes- terday, as a result of automobile ac- cidents. George Sevo, a Hastings taxi driver was held on a charge of Fascists’. Victim on Government Taxes Francesco Trimarco, 51, of Cleve- land, O., may be another victim to Mussolini’s bleedy regime if his agents turning Trimarco, an anti-fascist, to Italy. Dubious evidence charging Trimar- co with murder in an Italian village 16 years ago is the method used by the blackshirts to achieve their end. NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 2. — The state executive board of the New Jer- sey Federation of Labor thru its sec- retary, Hugh V. Reilley and Presi- dent Arthur A. Quinn have issued a call for a legislative conference to take place Jan. 8 at the Newark La- bor Lyceum at 1 p. m. Every local union, central labor body and railroad resented with three delegates. Bills to be introduced to the next session of vac N. J. state legislature at Tren- ton will come up for discussion and action. * * * NEWARK, N. J. Jan. 2,—-At a re- cent meeting of the Musicians’ Lo- cal, the following officers were elect- ed for the coming year: President, L. Cluesman, vice president, M. Celles, recording secretary, R. Fries; finan- cial secretary, L. Schwankert; busi- ness representative, Frank Higgins. Defegates to the A. F. of L. conven- tion and trustees were also elected. * * JERSEY CITY, Jan. 2--The cor- nerstone of the new Union Labor Bank Building was laid today at 26- Journal Square. Theodore Brandle, the president of the Labor National Bank and the Union Labor Invest- ment Corporation placed the stone made of white marble in its place. Union labor officials and city officials were present besides many business men. DARKEN PARIS STREETS. PARIS, Dec, 29.—All night adver- tising signs are to be banished from the Paris boulevards according to a police decree. Many of the signs have already been darkened. manslaughter, when a fender said to belong to the car he drove was found at the side of the body of John O’Gara, Genevieve Martin, 17, was instantly killed when a car driven by Russell Yetman hit a tree. He, too, is held on | a manslaughter charge. | Back Home and Broke HASTINGS, N. Y., Jan. 2.—Disil- | lusioned and penniless, Lineoln Jewell, | 16-year-old inventor is home again | after a coast to coast hike in search | of fame and fortune. He left Oct. 8, | with a plan for a two-cycle motor | which would allow an explosion on | every piston stroke instead of every | other one. Jewell found it rather hard | to convince the world of the value of his invention. Attempts to reach and | interest Henry Ford and other motor magnates failed. | GOVERNOR IN SENATE RACE. | PORTLAND, Me., Jan. 2—Ralph E. } Brewster of Maine will oppose Fred- erick E, Hale, present incumbent, for the Main Senatorial nomination at Maine Republican primaries next June, he announced last Wednesday. Both are die-hard reactionaries. REPUBLICAN VOTERS LEAD ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 2.—Accord- ing to 1927 election figures, the re- publicans led other parties by 33,000. ‘Their candidates received 1,277,610. SHOOTING JUST A WARNING RIVERSIDE, N. J., Jan. 2.—Justice of the Peace of Marone of Fairview was released on a: $1,000 bond Satur- day, for discharging his shotgun upon Herbert Kernan and Frank Murray, former policeman. He claimed that the two men were drunk and _ his shooting was meant to “warn them away.” INDIANS NOW SEEK CHIEF. LIVINGSTON, Tex., Jan, 2,—Liv- ing in an isolated village called “The Big Thicket” a, tribe of Alabama In- dians prepared to elect a chief after i leaderless since thei chief died, 15 years ago. ‘It is believed they are do this in order to get a land grant from Congress. ’ MAN KILLED BY AUTO. BALTIMORE, Jan. 2.—William Ro- tan, 26, of Philadelphia, died of a fractured skull when pinned under his overturned auto here yesterday. tain to vote a favorable report on the by firemen to extinguish the blaze. { measure by Jan. 20. His wife and two other passengers received minor injuries, in the United States succeed in re-| brotherhood local is entitled to be rep-| GREEN DECREES NO STRUGGLE IN PRESENT CRISIS New Year’s Statement a Cry of Surrender (Continued from Page One) to buy but they must be financed to the point where they can buy freely. “How will the owners of industrial enterprises meet this challenge? Will they accept organized labor’s offer of cooperation? Will they assist in the giving of new force and meaning to | collective bargaining so that all con- leerned may think in terms of indus- |trial peace and of the peaceful solu- tion of industrial problems which af- fect the relationship of eraployers and ! employes? Admits Employers Reject Peace. “Team work on the part of em- ployers and employes is a very. de- sirable thing, but before it can be a practical reality there must be a will to work together and a frank recog- ‘nition of and respect for each other’s | rights. | “Opposition to the A. F. of L. and lits constituent parts through the or- | ganization of company unions, the use {of court injunctions and foreed de- nials of the exercise of the right of employes to join the labor union of their own choice tends to fan the flame of industrial hate and tends to widen the breach between employers land employes. Will those employers | who have been pursuing such an op- position policy during the past con- tinue to do so in the future? “The experience of the past can be repeated or a new era of industrial good-will can be ushered in. Cor- porations can experiment with com- pany unions and various brands of welfare plans and in this way can op- pose ‘the standard, independent trade unions, as represented by the A. F. of L. Or they can accept our offer of cooperation and service. “Which shall it be? The answer must come from the employers of la- bor.” Rank and File Rebels. Rank and file rebellion against the class collaboration policy of the labor officialdom has been steadily increas- ing since last “April when the em- ployers launched the nation-wide at- tack against the labor movement with the drive against the United Mine Workers: The employers rejection of labor’s “peace” offers has ex- pressed itself in the war on the work- ers’ movement in Colorado, ipy Pennsylvania, in Ohio; in the bitidt ing trades and elsewhere. In addition, the crop of injunctions issued against practically every form of union activity has brought sections ° of the Federation into open opposition against what some leaders of the movement consider an actual sur- vender of the workers’ interests. Hail the Fourth Anniversary of the Daily Worker! GREETINGS FULL NAM T enclose $......... for. Street oie dos vin vive cue ve pales! 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