The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1928, Page 1

Kn app Quiz Shows $129,000 Republican Graft in One N. Y. Department THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. V. No. 19. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Is New York, by mail, 85.00 per year. Outaide New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class miuter ac the © NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879. ose Office at New York, N. Publi 4 daily except Sunday by The National Publishing Association, Inc., 33 Firs* Street, New York, N. FINAL CITY EDITION Daily W ace . Price 3 Cents. REPORT FOSTERED BY SMITH SHOWS WHOLESALE GRAFT Document Made ‘Public by G by Governor Charges | Mrs. Knapp’s Relatives Got $25,000 Republican Party Machine Named Appointees| to Share in Census Fund Thefts | ALBANY, Jan. 23.—It looks as if the workers of New York | | and the nation were going to get an unusually detailed view of | old party politicians up to their elbows in the public funds in the million dollar Florence E. S.* Knapp census fund graft case here. Charged _ specifically with | forgery, grand larceny, false audits and certifications and| illegal removal of state records, Mrs. Knapp, of Syracuse, republican former secretary of state, today faced an investigation by the March term of the Albany county grand jury of her administration of the $1,200,000 New York State census fund in 1925. A University Dean. These charges are made against | Mrs. Knapp by Randall J. LeBoeuf, Jr., Albany attorney, who as a More- land commissioner last fall investi- gated Mrs. Knapp’s administration. The report was made public today by Gov. Alfred E. Smith. Owing to the inflated prestige en- joyed by the holders of university de- grees it is significant that Mrs. University. The report comes as a result of | political expediency on the one hand and of unusual boldness on the part Smith, leading democratic candidate, are being pub- licly cited as a reason for the detailed nature of the report. ‘LeBoeuf charges in.his report. ae ‘Knapp illegally spent and wast- ed $197,000 of the $1,200,000 census (Continued on eae on ea Two) PROTEST LABOR BANK ACT TONIGHT Denounce Non-Union Conditions The action of the officials of the Bookkeeper’, Stenographers’ and Ac- countants’ Union in calling off the strike in the Amalgamated Bank after the strike vote had been passed at the union meeting will be protested at tonight’s meeting of the recently formed Committee to Protest Non- Union Conditions in Labor Banks to be held at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., at 6 o’clock. The strike was to have been called to demand the reinstatement of Harry Rubin, shop chairman of the Amalga- mated Bank, who was discharged for union activity. The speakers tonight will include Rubin, Arthur Stein, chairman of the committee that arranged the meet- ing; H. M. Wicks, of the editorial staff of The DAILY WORKER and Irving Potash, Joint Board, Furriers’ Union. BOSSES REFUSE DOCKERS’ TERMS, BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 23—Long- shoremen and ship owners here are in a struggle over working agree- ments for 1928. Negotiations were deadlocked when ship operators re- fused to accept the dock workers’ terms. The workers ask that they be paid Knapp is dean of women at Syractse | of former republican party raiders on | the other hand. The presidential as- | _ pirations of Gov. ‘Center 0 of Census Frauds | | In. the report Randall J. Le Boeuf, Jr., special in- | vestigator of the 1925 census, Mrs. | Florence E, Knapp (above) former just issued by republican secretary of state, is charged with theft and criminal negligence in handling state funds. TRIAL OF FURRIERS WILL BEGIN TODAY | | The cases of eight fur workers which came up yesterday in General Sessions were postponed. Nat Mileaf charged with assault for his strike activities, will come up for trial this morning. A jury was picked yester- day. ‘ Joe Weiss, Morris Lederfine, Isa- | dore Honigman, Frank Brownstein, Charles Solon and Charles Gibel, are under assault charges, and Henry Mettelier is charged with malicious | mischief. SINCLAIR 10 60 BEFORE SENATORS WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Justice F. L. Siddons today agreed to sus- pend tomorrow’s hearing of the crim- |inal contempt trial of Harry F, Sin- clair, William J. Burns and others, to permit the oil magnate to answer a senate subpoena. ‘AS DEFENDER OF ‘PUBLIC INTEREST’ Opposing Lawyers Friendly Bout By ROBERT MITCHELL. Taking up the unusual role of de- fender of the city’s interests, James L. Quackenbush, general counsel for the Interborough Rapid Transit Com- pany, yesterday argued before Jus- tice Isadore Wasservogel that unless an injunction is granted his company restraining the Amalgamated union from organizing the traction workers a strike is inevitable in New Yort City. Basing his case almost entirely o1 the legality of the individual “yellov dog” contract, Quackenbush took up the offensive in the long-heralded battle against the officers and the 3,000,000 members of the American } Federation of Labor. The chief sup- | port offered by the “dictator of the| I. R. T.” for his position was the famous Hitchman decision by which a coal company of West Virginia secured a decision against the United Mine Workers of America. The Hitchman Precedent. This decision by the United States Supreme Court establishes the val- idity in Jaw, of the “yellow dog” con- tract. “There is only one main ques- tion for the court to decide,” Quack- jenbush contended, “whether we are to be prote: _inour, right under 'the constitution to maintain our prop- erty relations without molestation by (Continued on oeee an Rese Five) PROTEST STUDENT EXPULSIONS HERE 4 Negroes at NYU Jim- Crow Victims An organized protest against the exclusion of four Negro students at New York University from their dor- mitories and physical training classes was formulated at last night’s con- ference held at the Utopia Club, 170 W. 130th St. The four Negroes, Mattie M. Neely, Reba McLain, William S. Dougherty and Albert Smith have been excluded from full participation in college life at the demand of several southern students. The conference last night was called by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; The Young Workers (Communist) League; Liberal Club, New York University; Social Problems Club, City College, New York; Internation- al Students, Hunter College; Amer- ican Negro Labor Congress and the Spanish Workers Center. HOOVER EXPECTS SUPPORT. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 23.— Friends of Herbert Hoover declare that 323 votes out of the 545 which will nominate the republican presi- dential candidate are known to sup- port him. Governor Frank 0. Low- den of Illinois and Alvin T. Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts who help- ed send Sacco and Vanzetti to their The senate public lands committee tomorrow is launching a further in- vestigation into the disposition of several million dollars worth of Lib- erty Bonds owned by the now defunct Continental Trading Company, This concern was organized by Sinclair and others to put over a big oil deal, for a minimum: of four hours every | $230,500 of the profits of which were time they are called out Saturdays found in the possession of former Pad Jott pear tie, bosees hat that Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall. i at's thie) HAS Ones joremen | Martin W. Littleton, attorney for rapes Wore Ble Sore week -ends : Sinclair, asked for the postponement. antl de aa ipa peace a |He indicated that Sinclair would ap- While the longshoremen demand| pear before the senate committee, but that 1,120 pounds be the maximum) would divulge no information. weight of slingloads, the crate say that the weight be left to the/| discretion of the stevedore firms. The} workers also ask that 17 men be the least number in each gang, that each Revive Blue Law JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan, 23.—An foreman attend to only one ship at al time and that 11 a. m, be the time for employing men. The on one. are expected to agree to the shoremen’s demands. old “blue law” was brought to life by police of this city, under pressure of | local ministers. As a result several were arrested for orivings a taek on Sunday. death, are considered Hoover’s most dangerous rivals, the ‘boring from within’ tactics of fi second big fire in one week. lumber yard at 1026 Rockaway fire was set by someone in the e of the warring factions, it is charged. Damag of $100,000 was done. As a resul of cutthroat business activity, 30 rowly, escaped injury neighboring buildings. ATTACK PLUNKETT NAVAL PROJECTS Militarists Predict Brit- WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—A sharp ight against the administration’s eae 000,000 navy building program was started in con- gress as the result of the attack on the plan by Borah (R) of Idaho, eign relations com-| mittee. The debate started | over a speech of Ad- miral Plunkett, head of the Brooklyn navy vard, who said war |} was inevitable. He} named Great Britain as America’s cpponent. A British admiral recent-} ly had made a similar statement. “All this is a part of the well or- ganized plan to prepare the public } mind for a naval race,” Borah said. “A limited number of cruises to help police our commerce can be justified. Rut this program, together with the | wild and excited statements about | war, is sheer madness.” The house naval affairs commit- tee is holding hearings on the build- ing program. —S——— Postpone Ancient Suit Against “The Freiheit” The libel Admiral PLUNKETT Warmonger three-year- id against the Jewish Communist daily | “The Freiheit,” which was to have come up in the Supreme Court, Part | 12, yesterday morning, was postponed until Feb. 20. Lucy Robins, publicity agent, and | Harry Lang, former labor editor of the “Forward,” are demanding $400,- 000 damages from the Communist daily because it revealed their own- | ership of a real estate firm employed in the sale of 1a es of Workers’ Families Are Endangered Frenzied competition among warring lum ber dealers in Brooklyn has resulted ia th Picture show and possible death ix “PUnion: THE “right-wing “hi” Senator | chairman of the for- | suit | by Lamber pio Baile Ave., wher mploy of on it of this kin families nar Pay No Money to Sigmanites’ Warn Chicago Progressives CHICAGO, Jan. 23—The progressive group of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ Union issued a statement to the workers in the men’s clothing trade in which it warns them not to give any money to the appeal of the Sig- man controlled Chicago Gosia $e : the “clo makers’ union is appealing for aetey for a so-called organization drive, which in reality is a drive to oust the left wing leaders from office. | War On Membership. The statement in part reads as fol- lows: “While we should not oppose aid, | \financial or otherwise, to sister or-| ganizations, when engaged in an or- | ganization campaign, we should not |give‘our money to a group of offi- | \cials who will use it to further their | war against the membership. “The present so-called officials of | |the Chicago I. L. G. W. U. with the} laid of police and gangsters have by | force taken over the union headquar- ters. They have obtained a drastic |injunction against the Chicago mem- | bership and their legal officers. With \ the bosses’ aid they are removing SCAB COAL BOSS |principle of hiring and firing was Drunken = Bheticabragle. jabandoned in Sigman controlled shops | las a price for the bosses’ assistance }ers Shoot Near Children By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. in the war against Chicago member- ship. Not For Organization. KENLOCK, Pa., Jan. 22.—The Val- “Every penny that will come from ley Camp Coal Company owns this four local unions, from our member-|townshin from the houses where the ship, will not be used for organiza- | capitalist god, i. e., the mighty dollar, | Sets Lp liteeadet Seba it eee is worshipped, to house No. 7, which | the corrupt officialdom in furthering |. | their path ee against their anion is run by @ certain philanthropist members. named Tom Smith, who caters to the “The Amalgamated Progressive |thirsts and lusts of the scab coal dig- Group appeals to you to go to your |8°S employed at a starvation wage | |local meeting and reject this joke ap-|bY the christian owners of the scab money. coal company. Recruit Seabs. The Valley Camp Coal Company now employs 400 scabs and thirty-two; | deputies to protect them. There are nine hundred members in the Kenloch ‘local and only seven desertions took | Memorial Pageant Appears Tomorrow A special article describing the monster pageant in which 1000 workers were the actors on the stage of Madison Square Garden, | New York, last Saturday night in the Lenin Memorial demonstration —an unprecedented spectacle wit- nessed by an audience of 23,000— will appear in tomorrow’s Daily Worker, written by Moissaye J. ON ent Satie PNR eres | \ i for | Three Killed by Gas | Elmore and Frances Shipman, a} newly-married couple, and John John- ee bride’s grandfather, were | place since the strike started. When gas from a disconnected | (46 company was working on a union gas-heater tube in the young couple’s/},.:. it hoisted from four to five cele furnished home at 3234 99th! “ The ‘out. 'St., Corona, Q my Send ‘thousand tons of coal daily. se sis sete stad 3 tyahnidnn ie put has fallen to from 1,200 to 1,500 AGENCIES LIVE ON JOBLESSNESS tons. The scabs of the Valley Camp Coal Company have been saucy and provo- cative, And no wonder, because they were armed to the teeth. The coal al Article on t=: Hiring 12 Submissive Slaves fo jor Bosses Is Their Business “Mr. Employer, are you wasting | carididates to fill a bookkeeping va- your time interviewing a never end- |C@ny. ing line of job-seekers?” asks the | Classified Employment News of the | Consolidated Agencies, ~ swe send him a John Doe bookkeeper. We operate like your custom tailor—not by showing you leverything we have in stock, but on! y employment | the few that we know are your kind,” sharks in New York City, one of a|says the Consolidated further, and country-wide system of sgencies | which seek to capitalize the misery’ of the ever growing unemployed, by offering to keep them away from the employers who deal with them. “When John Doe phones that he wants us to send him a couple of indicates that they have an abundance of applicants to choose among, the choice being always to get the em- ployer a good efficient contented slave, and keep the rest of the appli- cants “in our large files.” A glance at the sample offerings the Sonia ot shows that times are hard. Stenographer——full inne! bookkeeper No, 18-32825, with a high school education and four years ex- perience, goes for $20 a week. A mechanical draftsman (No. 9-49905) Pratt graduate and three years ex- assortment of junior clerks, typists, switch-board operators, voucher clerks: $15 to $18. : ee | tration was termed perience sells for $25 a week. A full| editorial in the teachers’ organ, “The And Consolidated Agencies makes it clear that the jobless will pay for all the trouble of “selecting”: among them: at any time!” “No charge to the employer and iron police and the state con- Roonaan: on Beds Four) |Teachers Attack School | Administration in N. Y. The machinery of school adminis- “archaic” in an Public and the Schools,” which ‘de- clared that a business firm organized in similar fashion would inevitably reach an. early bankruptcy. It is charged that superintendents are ex- pected to vote on matters with which |mission appointed to consider the 1000 MARINES MARCH ON SANDINO ERT Bases Injunction Plea on “Yellow low Dog”: Contract COUNSEL APPEARS &* TO. NATIONALIST ARMY IN NORTH Battle Looms as United States Troops Invade agua, Jan. 23-00 sumed in Nicarae e hundreds of peons from coast are streaming to swell, of the Nationalists under General Sandino one thousand Unie ted States marines marched ont of Leon today on their way to renew the war against the Nationalist army in the district of Nueva Segovia. Batteries of mountain guns, more tars, artillery and hundreds of lumb- ering ox-carts loaded with supplies and ammunition passed between the rows of nt Nicaraguans lining the streets of the town to watch the long files of United States marines march- ing to invade the northwestern dis- trict of their country. One hundred mules were taken with the troops to aid them in the difficult mountain fastnesses of Nueva Segovia. The long tramp of the marines will take them from western Nicaragua to the extreme north where those who survive the fevers and fatigues’ of the march thru the Nicaraguan jungle will be thrown into battle against the forces of General Aug- usto Sandino. Peasants Joining Nationalists. Bundreds.of-Nicaragnans from the ~ MANAGUA, N has War been r east coast country are reported to be passing the Acopaya head waters of the Rama River on their way to join the Nationalist armies of General Sandino in Nueva Segovia. Peons, peasants, ragged Indian plantation workers from the Mosquito Coast armed only with the machetes they have brought from their cane cutting, the Nicaraguans are treking thru the jungles and swimming the rivers that surround the difficult mountain coun- try where Sandino’s forces are in control. Feeling is intense thruout the country, and fear is expressed that the withdrawal of the marine detachments from interior planta. tions where they were keeping the workers in submission, may lead te open fighting when the battle begins around El Chipote, Kill 3 Nicaraguans, Three Nicaraguans were killed tow day in an engagement with several marines and a sailor. The Nicarae guans were armed only with mache etes. MEXICO AIMS TO CURB U. S. POWER Introduces ~~ Resolution at Havana Meet HAVANA, Jam 23.—There was little indication that the Pan-Amers ican conference, which is admittedly dominated by the United States, would seriously entertain Mexico’s resolution for the reorganization of the Pan-American Union. The Mex can proposal, which was filed today, would remove the chairmanship of |the union from the U. S. secretary of state and give it in rotation to the twenty-one member nations of the Pan-American Union. The Mexican delegation also pro- posed that the governments of the nations participating in the unions elect the governing board. At present the board of the Pan-American Union consists of Latin-American ambas- sadors to Washington, headed by the secretary of the United States. Another proposal of the Mexican delegation, believed to be aimed at Leo S. Rowe, director-general of the Union, would keep the director-gen- eral from occupying any political post. Dr. Rowe is a member of the United States delegation to the Havana conference, A number of members of the com- Mexican proposals attacked the prin- cipal features of the Mexican plan. - Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine am. bassador to Washington, delivered long address advocating the they cannot possibly be well ac-|of tariff barriers between the ited, jean nations, ‘