The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1928, Page 2

f i CLEVELAND COPS.” .* law in Cleveland, although thousands en have been sent to the work- fouse on that charge. The result | Was that Judson was discharged. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1928 PHOTOGRAPHED NO NEWS IN IT! Local Papers Suppress All Accounts | CLEVELAND, Jan. 20. (By Mail). =A few months ago, Joe Judson,! Ieader of the Unemployed Council of Cleveland, was arrested on a charge| of vagrancy. When Judson came to trial, his lawyer, Mrs. Yetta Land, pointed out that there is no vagrancy Finger-Printed as Criminal. When arrested, Judson was taken to the Bertillon department and duly photographed and fingerprinted. He became a duly accredited member of the rogues’ gallery. When he was discharged, Mrs. Land immediat: began proceedings io have the plate of his fingerprints destroyed, pecially as the law provides one charged with a felony may be} fingerprinted. Mrs. Land won her; point and the plates were to be destroyed. The plates were called in from the state capital, Columbus, and from Washington, and on the day that Jud- son faced the court on another count, the ceremony of destroying the plates of his fingerprints was io take place. This ceremony took place today. Chief George Koestle, superintendent of the Criminal Identification Depart- ment, Judson and Mrs. Land were to perform the act. The newspapers had sent their reporters and their photo- graphers. Superintendent Koestie| was astounded at the presence of the reporters and photographers. He took Mrs. Land aside and told her that this was not part of the game. “If it should be known that we haa to destroy these plates, hundreds oi men would be round here demanding the same thing. And that would b bad for the police department,” he said. But Everything Suppressed. The photographers saw that they were in for something fine, but they desisted—all but one. He telephoned his editor who told him to go right ahead. He snapped right and left. He took photos of the participants i: dividually. But when he left he was AT ST. LOUIS MEET a Police are Forced to Destroy the Fingerprint Plates of Unemployed Leaders Parasite Who Never Worked in Life Will Voyage in New Luxurious Yacht While millions of workers remain jobless and many thousani inherited the fortune which his piratical ancestors m ade by exploiting the workers, will be voyaging in some Warm and balmy climate in his new palatial y acht, shown above. seven baths are included, Lae Peay} at arve, Vincent Astor (inset), who Nine owners’ staterooms and 66,000 Workers Lost Jobs Here During 1926 Alone With New York factory employ- ment in December down 1% from November and 5% from December 1926 the state industrial commissioner estimatés that the factories in New York: State laid off 66,000 workers in the course of the year. Factory em- ployment in.New York thus reached che: lowest level- for December since 19t4.- Ig -was 1% ~lower than in De cember 1921, the year of industria) depression. Nitin The real seriousness of the situa on is indicated by the. fact that in er Ni ew York factory employ KNAPP. INQUIRY SHOWS GOP GRAFT $129,000 Looted in One Department (Continued from Page One) ‘fund. Of this amount $25,000 went to seven. of Mrs, Knapp’s close rela- tives, whom, he charges, did little or }no census work. Throughout his report, which ecn- The report shows that since Decem-|tains close to 70,000 words, LeBoeuf ber 1926 the clothing trades alone! stresses that he ig convinced that Mrs. have laid off 17,000 workers. With| Knapp “criminally intended” to “de- relatively few exceptions the decline| fraud” the state. in employment has been general. | The commissioner’s report points ment was 9% lower than in Decem- ber 1925, 13° below December 1923 and 24% below the December level in either 1916, 1917 or 1919. This means a reduction of about 188,000 | since 1923 and of nearly 400,000 since 1919 in the number of factory jobs available in the state. The hundreds of thousands laid off must have been absorbed in other lines of activity or they are out of work today. GITLOW TO SPEAK ST. LOUIS, Jan. —A chorus ¢ he Freiheit Singing Society will suy oly the vocal’ music for the Leniz femorial meeting to be held lay, January 27, at the St. Lou Turner Ball, 1508 Chouteau Avenuc 3 p.m. The Singing Club sang ove the.radio a few weeks ago and re ceived acclaim from thruout thc ountry. Ben Gitlow of N. Y. wil | be the main speaker at this meet Gitlow Addresses Large. Crowd at Los Angeles |srans U. .owaen Tender, | specifically to individuals, Gov. Smith being content to leave it to readers Lowden, Seeking Farm that they were largely republicans. It Vote, Urges Los S. Aid |should be borne in mind, however, that most of Mrs. Knapp’s appointees C., Jan. __|were originally sent to her by the re- would again| publican state central committee and the farm-|other republican party organizations, f the com-|largely for reward for precinct serv- omise bill goes|ices at election time. D. WASHINGT NEWARK RABBIT DRESSERS SPURN Stick to Organization Tho Boss Would Bribe NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 28.—“Not one man has broken away from the ranks of the strikers, in spite of the offers of partnership given to many of them by the bosses.” This statement was made yesterday by Morris. Langer, manager of the Rabbit Dressers’ Local 25 of Newark. This union together with the Brook- lyn Local 58 recently decided to strike vather than go to an arbitration board over the question of a 25 per cent reduction in wages. A membership meeting in Newark last Thursday night again decided to refuse arbitration, when a report was made that the State Federation of Labor had rebuked the union for re- fusing arbitration. Strikers Arrested. Langer also stated that the union was bringing official charges to the Workmen’s Circle, a labor fraternal érganization, against Oscar Yeager, the manager of the bosses’ associa- tion. He owns the only scab shop not shut down by the strike and at the same time is a member of the Work- men’s Circle. David Sener and Julius Weil, two workers who were arrested while picketing the Newton Fur Dressing Co., the shop owned by Yeager, have been released on £25 bail each. Botanists to Explore Everglades for Rubber FORT MYERS, Fila., Jan. 23.—A ugh, Governor Democratic Graft. | « O. Lowden} In his ambition to show that the of Illinois, pro-|republican party organization is cor- nounced himself in|rupt, Gov. Smith is considerably han- "Y favor of federal dicapped by the current Queens Bor- aid to farm co-|ough sewer graft scandal in New operatives. | York. Maurice E. Cohnolly, Queens There can be no} borough president, is alleged to be compromise, for in| the central figure in a $29,500,000 his instance com-|sewer pipe purchase steal. He is an promise would/Al, Smith democrat. simply mean sur- At one point LeBoeuf charges Mrs. | Lowden Knapp with forging the name of Mrs. Seeks Farm Vote said. A possible re-|Fuclla V, Ninde to census salary group of botanists will leave about the first of Feb- ruary to explore the Everglades for plants to be used in the experimental laboratories of Thomas A. Edison who is attempting to extract rubber from locally grown shrubs. Great Britain has successfully com- batted United States Edison In Rubber War Wife of Workers’ Foe Workers who suffered in the brutal raids of A. Mitchell Palmer’s government cossacks during and after the late war, and whose own wives must wear flimsy clothing during freezing winter weather, will not go into raptures over the above photo of Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer, wife of the former Attorney Gen- eral shown in “intriguing beach pajamas,” as the society papers say at Miami Beach. Wage Cut for 1,500 CLINTON, Mass., Jan. 23.—The Lancester Mills, employing’ about 1,500 workers, announced yesterday that a wage cut of 10 per cent will be put into effect on the coming Monday. Farm Bill Nursed WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.— Pro- ponents of the McNary-Haugen farm ALIENISTS’ DUEL TAKES PLACE OF LYNCHING SPREE Hickman Trial Thrills Morbid in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 28. — The trial of William Edward Hick- man, the maniac who kidnapped and cut in pieces the young daughter of Perry M. Parker, is to be a spectacu- \lar battle of hired alienists. Seven | brain specialists work for the state and will swear that Hickman is per- fectly sane, and ought to be hanged. Four have signed up with the defense, ‘and will use their wits to convince | the jury that young Hickman was |not quite norma! when he did the | carving. . Los Angeles citizenry, who tried |to lynch man after man because they | thought they looked like Hickman, jand who did succeed in so_ badly | shocking one man that he hanged | himself, have given up hopes of burn- ‘ing the defendant at the stake in their interest in the gladiatorial combat among the hired witnesses. The trial begins in two days. Eva Hickman, mother of the defendant will testify, and so will the father of the murdered girl. BAN BLACKSHIRT | UNION MEETINGS ROME, (FP) Jan. 23.—Mussolini ‘has ordered that the fascist trade unions shall hold no more meetings until he shall give permission. A cir- ‘eular issued by his Ministry of Cor- | porations assures the fascist workers that this is not intended to “restrict their trade union activities,” and that certain meetings, strictly limited in membership attendance, may still be held in fascist labor halls. But these meetings must not discuss anything except the founding of new unions, and like matters. Reports off these deliberations must not be pubi shed except in the form of notices posted {by specially qualified committees. This means that Mussolini dare not let fascist workers talk over, in meet- ing, their hours, wages and conditions. heard to say: “I’ll do my best to publican presi-/checks and expense vouchers made relief bill, with the equalization fee ‘The circular says the order is de- rubber competition rears ane aM REI TSE choke this.” And it was choked, Not a single paper carried any report of the per- formance—and not a single photo. if the workers still believe that there is a “free” capitalist press—a Press than will stick up for the rights of the workers—and even of alleged “vagrants”—well let their eyes be opened by this little incident, which is typical of hundreds of thousands of others, where men have _ served time under a law that does not exist! Rail Consolidation - Would Hit Workers) WASHINGTON, (FP) Jan. 23.— Daniel Willard, president of the Balti- more & Ohio railroad, testifying be- fore the Senate committee on inter- State commerce in favor of a four system railroad consolidation scheme for the Eastern traffic territory, de- nied that his company had conspired to injure the United Mine Workers of America. The union had repeatedly charged that eastern trunk railroads had boycotted union-mined coal in an effort to destroy the organization. | Willard admitted that many work- ers will have to move from their pres- | €nt homes in certain division-point | towns, when rail consolidations are made. He said his any has had to meet that problem already, due tod the longer hau! of modern jocomo-} tives, and he has tried to provide new/-by--M. Zaleski, a representative of| Colorado mine strike several polish. societies in Chicago.| Portrait Artists Union of Chicago. Presidential Campaign Opens imdustries and adequate employment im the towns left behind. Since his: Yoad saved $17 on every train that failed to change traction at the for- mer division point at Garrett, Ind. that point was abandoned. Under general rail consolidation, many shops would be closed, and the remainder would do more work. Convention Criticises ‘Bakers for Using the Injunction in Fight Severe criticism is anticipated against the officials of Local 3 of the Amalgamated Food Workers Union, at the convention of that union which opened last Saturday in the Labor Lyceum, 147 Willoughby Ave., Brook- lyn. Local 3 had taken out an in- metion against the Bakers local 87 the A. I, of L., to prevent the lat- union/from calling strikes) in under its control. tterday was devoted to a dis- m of the report of Secretary hart, which revealed the fact ‘that the union has 5,000 dues-paying I b in good standing, the or- ition of several new locals in York and Jersey City, and the mt of two organizers special work in the large d baking factories. The d that the activities| the senate investigating committee rs have alreudy | how LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 23—A large crowd heard Ben Gitlow, Gom- munist leader on a national speaking tour, speak at the Music-Arts Hall on “Politics and the American Workers.” The following night, Monday, Com- rade Gitlow delivered a report of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party to the Los Angeles sub-district conference of the Party, consisting of 32 dele- gates and a large number of Party members. A motion was unanimously, adopted to accept the report of the Central Executive Committee. The conference elected a sub-district com- mittee of 18 members. St. Louis Women Plan Mine Relief ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23.—The Women’s Auxiliary of the Workmens Circle has sent out a‘call for a Relief Con- ference to be organized for the bene- fit of the striking Colorado, Ohio and Pennsylvania miners. The Confer- ence will bé held.in-a few weeks and an attémpt is being made to draw in the lo¢altrade unions of St. Louis. WARSAW-CHICAGO FLIGHT WARSAW, .Jan.. 23. — Announce- ment: “that Polish-A Ss were| Feady- with $20,000 to finance a flight dential nominee, Lowden is especially interested in winning the agricultural out to the latter. FightOpenShop Gypsum trem “Warsaw to Chicago was made She Got the Cash. “The only conclusion which your commissioner can draw from the evi- dence,” LeBoeuf writes, “is that Mrs. Knapp’s procedure in forging Mrs, Ninde’s name to expense vouchers and to the checks issued thereon, was state to his support. Grecht Will Speak On Labor Party Need | YUKON, Pa., Jan. —Rebecca intended to defraud the state. The Grecht, national organizer of the|S¢heme is too complete in all its de- Workers (Communist) Party, will tails, there are too many expense warrants and checks for trips that were never taken, for any other con- clusion to be reached.” Mrs. Knapp got some if not most of the money from the $25,000 checks which were made payable to her rela- tives, LeBoeuf charges. Other Officials Named. LeBoeuf charges that one check for $2,875, which had been made pay- jable to C. B. Knapp, a step-daughter of Mrs. Knapp, had been endorsed by Mrs. Knapp and used by her to pay a bill at a Svracuse department store. Three officials, Mark Stern, Anna A. Little and Julia M. Ryan, were necessary to the execution of Mrs. Knapp’s “schemes,” LeBoeuf’ de- clares. Stern is still serving as deputy secretary of state. Miss Little is em- ployed in the secretary of state’s of- fice. Stern served as first deputy junder Mrs. Knapp. | |__In addition, Dr, Walter Laidlaw, of New York, executive secretary of the cities census committee, the man who e the original charges against Mrs. Knapp, will have to face a grand speak in Yukon Thursday at 7:30 p. m., at the Cooperative Hall. The sub- ject will be the miners’ situation and the need for a Labor Party. Rebecca Grecht has been holding successful meetings in many mining towns in Western Pennsylvania. 99 SALT LAKE, Utah, (FP) Jan. 23. --The 7-year struggle of the union against the openshop U. S. Gypsum Co. at Ft. Dodge Ia. is still proceed- ing, says Pres. James B, Rankin, In- ternational Union of Mine Mill & Smelter Workers. “We ask your cooperation,” he asks of union bodies, “jn advertising the U. S. Gypsum Co. as unfair to or- i It manufactures CHICAGO, (FP) Jan tribution of $10 was vot by Commercial Old Adminis WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23—Dragging out skeletons and blaming + them upon political enemies, preparatory to the presidential campaign, will keep congressmen busy this week. United States aid to Wall Stree in Nicaragua, more Teapot Dome dis- closures, the neglect which led to the 8-4 sinking, disfranchisement of the Negroes in the south, the Smith-Vare slush fund and Al Smith and religion will be some of the sores of the ad- ministration to be shown up in com-} mittee and senate chambers. Mean- while the house will be considering how much money to spend on war ap- propriations. Religion on Tap. Thomas F. Heflin promises to en- tertain the senate today by “taking the hide off” the mayor of Montgom- ery, Ala., whose invitation to Sen. Robinson, deniocratic senate leader, to speak on “Religious Toleration” he construes as a personal attack. M. T. Everhart, the Pueblo, Colo banker and son-in-law of Harry F. Sinclair, will be asked to explain to he got $230,000 worth of Liberty £7 said, for Albert B. Fall, former sec- jury investigation if LeBoeuf’s report is carried out. Payroll Padded. LeBoeuf says Stern was paid $2,000 |for a little extra census work; that his daughter, Anita Stern, got nearly $3,000 for “little or no work,” and |that Miss Ryan’s sister, Rose Ryan, |got $862 for “census work she never | performed.” Miss Ryan, as head of the civil service payroll division, ap- proved the payment of money to 149 persons who were on the census pay- roll but who did little or no work, Le- Boeuf charges. tration Wounds retary of the interior. Fall and Sin- clair will appear at the hearing as witnesses, Stirbey Favors Carol PARIS, Jan. 28.—Prince Stirbey, representing Roumanian aristocracy. rectly responsible for the abdication of Prince Carol, now favors Carol’s return, it was learned today. The Prince now in Paris incognito and on a secret mission, has visited the former Crown Prince at the lat- |ter’s chateau in Normandy. HIT COOLIDGE TOOL, WASHINGTON, (FP) Jan. 23.— Approval has been refused to Senator Copeland’s scheme for ship-subsidy F and the giving away to private syndi- ig eates of tl government’s merchant Albert B, Fall will testify at |fieet, The Tammany senator was Bonds which were given to him, it is' hearing. J condemned as a tool of Coolidge. Mes mg | folkd and often charged with being indi- | in Africa and South America thus far. If Edison’s experiment proves suc- cessful, it will mean-a great triumph for Firestone interests, Congress Drifts WASHINGTON, Jan, 23. — The seventieth congress entered its sixth week today with its major legislative program still untouched. Apparently unmindful of its “do- nothing” record, both house and sen- ate leisurely settled down to work in committee rooms. 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