The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1928, Page 2

#1 ste Page Two THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15, 1928 Stop _Ex-Dragon on Stand from Testifying Against Governor He Elested e TRIAL IN N INDIANA Governor Ed. Jackson of Indiana Again Faces Bribery Charges| FURTHER EXPOSES. KU KLUX POLITICS McCray Got Parole to Keep Still INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 14, — Halt- ing of the testimony of ex-dragon Stephenson of the Indiana Klan after he was already in the witness stand, ready to substantiate c' s ins his former friend, Gov. Ed Jackson who he helped to ‘elect to ae ice, was accomplished today by the defense in the bribery trial of the Indiana gov- ernor. Further sensational in this trial invo! Tie office, Ku Klux Klan politi the silencing of a f were promised in the announcement that former Governor McGray is ex- pected to testify age Indiana ‘Dictator Takes Stand. D. C. Stephenson, former Grand Dragon of the Klan, w ie is now con-} fined to life impris murder of an Indiz the stand today to testify against Gov. Jackson, who Stephenson has charged | used his money and car in 1 ina successful race for governorship. The former Klan leader and czar of Indiana politics was only allowed | to make a few short answers to ques- | tions by the prosecution when the de- fense stopped further testimony by charging that he was not competent to testify against alleged conspiracy to bring about the appointment, thru ribery, of James E, McDonald, Klan | favorite, as Marion County prosecu- tor. This vacated office is the basis of | the state’s charges, the allegation be- ing that Gov. Jackson atiempted to buy the office from former Gov. Mc- Cray, for $10,000 in 1923, and the} stopping of the testimony by Stephen- s0n expected to substantiate this charge is considered a serious blow to the prosecution. Expose More Corruption. Great interest is centering around the expected appearance of former Gov. McGray on the scand, since one of the charges by the state is that fear kept McGray silent about the al- leged bribery in” 1923. The. Stat eharges he feared the power of the Klan. The testifying of this former gov- ernor against his successor, will be \ especially revealing as to corrupt Ku Klux politics, since it is claimed that MeGray was kept silent for years un- der threats by Gov. Jackson that he would not grant his parole from the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta where he was serving a term for corruption at the time. essor. ddodnents| t g a vacated pub- | and} rmer governor, | | changes, figures Show a large number = Judge Charles M. McCabe, of Crawfordsville, Ind., presiding at Gov. Jackson’s trial, f to right: J. L. for the prosecution in the trial of Gov. Jackson above are, from left black, deputy prosecutor; W. H. Remy, prosecutor; J. W. Holtzman, special prosecutor, J. L. Stark, deputy prosecutor, and E. W. Johnson, special prosecutor. Gov. Ed Jackson, court where he is on trial for attempted bribery. either side are his attorneys. center, of Indiana, on his way to On 4, 500, 000 Estimate of is. (Continued from Page One) states, “havesfound it impossible to obtain employment.” | From the west coast come reports | equally alarming. General vice-presi- |dent of the International Association }of Machinists, J. T. Thorpe, has an- nounced that on a trip which he has st completed on the west coast fully 0 per cent of skilled workers were |found to be idle. Among unskilled workers, the conditions are even worse, he states. That his picture is not exaggerated is indicated from the |fact that in addition to those men- tioned thousands are working only one or two days per week. The central labor union at Boston recently reported over a hundred thou- sand out of work among iis affiliated membership. Baltimore reports an unemployed army of over 100,000. In the railroad industry, which is usually slow to respond to unemployment of idle especially among shop work- ers and maintenance of way men. New York Suffers. One of the most severe sections to suffer is New York City. Over five thousand sought help from the mis- sions on the Bowery within a few blocks yesterday. One line a block long before the Bowery Mission, 227 Bowery, contained more than a thou- sand men, At ten o’clock over two | hundred were already in line waiting for lunch although the doors do not |. open uniil 12:30 p.m. An equal num- ber Minton “sad tbat before the Hadley the Holy Name Missi near a ers “St. dn thd the Bowery phe jday at 2:30 p. m. at 113 E. 14th St. Unemployed; Crisis Sharpened former supplies only one meal in the evening, yet more than double the us- ual number of hungry men waited all day. The waterfront sections have been parcicularly hit by the crisis. At the Munson Line at the foot of Wall St. and East River fully eight hundred workers waited for part time jobs. The usual number is about fifty or one hundred. At the United Fruit Lines, pier 15, East River more than a thousand men crowded the docks for a chance at some employment. New Jersey Workers. Even worse is the condition at the Jersey side of the Hudson River. At the docks of the Dollar Line in Jersey City, fully 5000 men yesterday morn- ing besieged the offices for work which would enable them and in the majority of cases, no doubt, their children and families to obtain food. The New York Council for the Un- employed announced yesterday that plans are being perfected to force at- tention to the crisis which is becoming nationwide. An unemployment mass meeting under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party will be Starving Baby Found 2. This 4 month old girl baby was found starving in the hall of a tenement in the Bronx. The baby was taken to the foundling ward of Bellevue Hospital. Foundlings brought there, despite the fact that it is a public institution, have re- held today at 101 West 27th Si. H. M. Wicks, of the DAILY WORKER will be the principal speaker. The meeting is called for 2 p. m. Announcement was made by the Hotel and Restaurant Workers branch lof the Amalgamated Food Workers hat it was calling a large, unem- | ployment and organization meeting to Good speakers in English and in Ger- (Continued from Page One) } deficit that the democratic party faced ; at the end of the 1920 campaign. This debt was suddenly reduced by ap- proximately $430,000 in 1924 with- out any record as to where the money came from, much in the same way that the republicans wiped out. some- BANK BUSINESS SINKS RAPIDLY The condition of member banks of the Fed System for the ary 8 shows decreases r 6f $61,000,000 in loans and ¢ of $22,000,000 in investments $200,000.000 in net demand de and of $43,000,000 in demand deposits, indicating a general kening of business from the previous week. At the same time, however, bor- | rowings from the Federal Reserve | increased by $42,000.000 =< ve that of the week ending Fe 1, the principal increases b ,000,000 Rr 000,000 porting ‘al Reserve | ebru- > week | counts, ot week go and ndicates each in the New York Philadelphia distr ice runs sla thing like $500,000 from a $2,000,000 deficit without saying how. Seen sa Counter-Move. While this move by Sen. Nye does much to expose the corruption of the two-party system, it is also seen as a counter-effort to prevent the democrats from pushing the investi- gation into the 1920 campaign funds of the republicans to embarrassing extremes, The fact that Harry F. | Sinclair stated in 1923 in the Teapot | Dome inquiry that he had contributed year previous to the campaign |funds of both parties is believed to |show that bonds from the Continen- | tal Trading Co., already traced to Hays and the republican campaign debts, also found their way into the |democratic party coffers. Senator |Nye admitted that investigators in New York already had information which was expected to involve the democrats in the Continental bonds. ; disclosure on which the ds Committee is working, | be evaded by the shift- | uiry to the democrats, | e mid-west oil group which red the money for the republi- paign out of the secret Con- 1 proceeds underwrote the re- blican debt at the famous “hotel COOLIDGE GOT OIL CASH IN 1924; BOTH OLD PARTIES NOW INVOLVED IN SCANDAL room sessions” in Chicago on the eve of the Harding-Coolidge nomination. This fact if publicly proven would show that Hardnig and Coolidge were bound to the Teapot Dome steal even before their election to office on the money furnished by the oil men and others. TEACHERS FIND DISCRIMINATION (By a Worker Correspondent). DENVER, Colo. Feb. 14.—Out of 1,500 teachers employed in the public schools here, only 50 could be rallied to join the local union 6f the Amer- ican Federation of Teachers which was organized recently. Opposition on the part of school of- ficials, and fear of diserimination as well as the almost complete absence of class-consciousness among the teachers were found to be the great handicap that stood in the way of or- ganization. A national’ organizer, sent from ligion foisted on them, one baby being made a Catholic, the next a Protestant. MINEOLA APPEAL Defense Counsel Claim Prejudice An appeal for a new trial for the nine leading members of the Joint Board, Furriers’ Union, ‘who were sentenced at Mineola, L. I, last spring, to serve from two and a half to five years in prison was heard yesterday in the Appelate Division Court, Part 2, Borough Hall Build- ing, Brooklyn. The decision is to be handed down in the near future by | the five judges of the court. The attorneys for the union, Frank P. Walsh and Henry Uterhart, in asking the court to reverse the deci- sion of the Mineola courts, based their arguments on the prejudiced atmosphere under which the original trial was held. They pointed out the manner in which the jury was charged, the methods employed by the judge in preventing Walsh from conducting ‘certain .cross-examination made by the defending counsel. False Testimony Admitted. The district attorney admitted that Barney Bassof who turned Sstate’s witness, repeatedly gave false testi- mony at the trial. This case grew out of the general strike conducted by the Joint Board, Chicago, found it difficult to induce teachers to attend her meetings. SPARTACUS TEAM WINS. The Spartacus A. ©. defeated the B. B. 8. Cc. by 2 to 1 in @ regular! game of the Metropolitan Workers; Soccer League. Furriers’ Union in 1926, thru which Ithe furriers succeeded in winning \the 40-hour week. { -In the oviginal trial there were j eleven defendants. Ben Gold, man- ager of the Joint Board, and Isadore Shapiro, chairman of the Joint Board j were acquitted. ‘Wilbur Fights for Four Billion + alar Navy Plan (Continued from Page One) E is characteristic of how closely th proposed program is following fie British building. “The 5-5-3 ratio already ae to us the striking power. - estimatec to be the exact equivalent. .,.of the striking power of Great Britain’s bat- tle fleet. It is superior to the strik- ing power of the battleships, or capi- tal ships of the Japanese fleet in the ratio of 5-5-3. . .on this side of the Atlantic or on this side of the Pa- cific, the battleship power or the capital ship power of America would be superior to Great Britain or Ja- pan.” “It is not in striking power that. we are deficient, but in vision,” Wil- bur went on to say, referring to the building of scouting cruisers, airplane carriers and submarines, which is the field in which the secretary stated we are weaker than Great Britain. Geneva Conference Snag. As further evidence that the entire program is a competitive one with Great Britain, Wilbur stated that it was the extension of the building in these auxiliary crafts “the eyes of the navy” which had been the basis for the Geneva conference, and evidently also the snag which broke it up: “The Geneva conference was called by the president of the United States | for the express purpose of extending | the treaty ratio to auxiliary craft, ARD.IN COURT : cruisers, destroyers and submarines,” cae Dak after the Gen- ference we wer called upon and Durie course of his speech, Secretary ur fell back on the old-débating gag of comparing “pre- paredness costs’ with expenditures for chewing gum, etc., going the high school debators one better by com- SANDING BROTHER GUEST AT ANTI IMPERIAL MEET U..8. Latin . American, Asian Labor Unite Sun: Disclosure of the next step to be taken in the “Sandino stamp” cam~ paign of the All-America Anti-Im- perialist League, is promised as part of the program at the New York delegate conference of the league, which meets next Sunday, 1:30 p. m.) at the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th Street. consider ways and means of meeting the Nicaraguan situation and to set up a permanent New York branch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League (United States Section). Sandino’s Brother Guest. Socrates Sandino, brother of Gen- eral Augusto C. Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary leader, will be the guest of honor. The conference is unique in that invitations to send delegates are ex- tended not only to all American la- ber, liberal and anti-militarist or- ganizations in New York but also to organizations of Latin-Americans, Filipinos and Chinese. This is in keeping with the program of the paring the new navy program with the sum of $750,000,000 spent during 1925 for candy in the United States, and the $1,825,000,000 spent for cos- ymetics and other beautiffeation dur- ing the same year, adding that there are times when gun powder is more valuable than face-powder. The secretary failed however to quote the comparative figures as to the proportion of the national income spent for war preparation, as against the small sum spent for edneation. The secretary of the navy ended his speech with allusions to the great wealth of the United States which must be protected, with a boost for Hoover as the next president, and a final argument for competitive naval building with Great Britain in the statement: “The British rubber monopoly would have taken $1,000,000,000 from us in the last two years if it had not been for our secretary of commerce.” LONDON, Feb. 14.—Publie rescnt-| without aviators sowing pestilence, ment to the huge U. S. naval program | is growing here, with many newspa- pers and politicians describing Amer- ica in much the same terms as used to describe Germany's military pre- paration just prior to the outbreak of the World War. At the same time some politicians are trying to guide this resentment into channels which will boost a similar British naval |program, taking full advantage of the growing “fear and hatred” of U. S. imperialism. * * * General Echoes Litvinoff. OXFORD, Feb, 14.—Echoing the statement by Maxim Litvinoff at the Geneva disarmament conference, Gen- eral E. D. Swinton, inventor of the tank, stated in an address here yes- terday that despite the many treaties poisonous gases will be used in the next great war. Continuing to deseribe the horror of the coming war, the general stated that the war would affect entire peo- ples, not just the combatting armies, and that the fightifig men would ac- tually be safer than the civilians. He said that while there would be no merey to women and children this ‘sould shorten the period of con* flict,” and that he considered the pro- tests during the last war against the sinking of the Lusitania and the hombing of London were unwarran- ted. The general went on to. say that the next war would mean the employ- ment of disease germs, airplanes and chemicals to destroy crops. Field warfare would be cafried on in ma- chines impervious to gas and machine gun bullets. He added that: “When the next great struggle begins the belligerent nations will not have any scruples re- garding treaties. They will consider them scraps of paper and enter the war without even a formal declara- tion of hostilities. In so far as the last war was to.end war, it was a fail- ure, and the attitude of the world today is not in favor of world peace.” The general who invented the new horror of the last war, spoke in op- position to sp iai Ss disarmament. PARIS, Feb. 14.—A wave of indig- nation questioning the reasons for the $4,000,000,000 navy planned by the United States, and further charging “imperialism” against America, is the result of the announcement as to the new building program here. * Stephen Lauzanne, writing in the conservative newspaper “Matin” ques- tions the justification of such an ex- penditure, asking: “If an adequate defensive fleet costs so much, one shudders to think how many billions would be needed for an offensive navy.” PAINTER HURT ON JOB. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 14, — Samuel Ehrich, of Passaic, a house painter, fell 20 feet from a scaffold yesterday and received internal in- juries from which he may die. All-America Anti-Imperialist League, which is an international or- ganization with national sections in a number of foreign countries “where American imperialism penetrates,” as well as in the United States. According to. a statement issued yesterday by the U. S. Secretary Manuel Gomez, at the U. S. head- quarters, 89 Union Square, the con- ference on Sunday will not debate the rights and wrongs of the invasion of Nicaragua, but will proceed from the assumption that it must be fought and will take up practical measures for fighting it effectively. Announce New Stamps. As previously announced, signers of the call for the conference include: Dr. Edmund Chaffee, director of the Labor Temple; Darcy Milliken of Typographical Union No. 6; Morris Green, president of the Woodcarvers’s Union; Sam Friedman, president of Carpenters Union No. 2090; Dr. W. E. B. Dubois of the National Associa-, tion for the Advancement of Colored 5 | People; Freda Kirchwey, managing itor of The Nation, Aztin Ce Garfield ‘8, counsel American Civil Lib- erties’ Union; AM C. Calhoun, Brookwood Labor. College; Scott. Nearing, and Capt. Paxton Hibben. The conference will be open to the general public without charge. It is announced that the Nicaragua pro- test stamps, whose circulation Yor use on mail the U. S. Postmaster General has declared render “the of- fending party” Aiable to $5,000 fine or five ye imprisonment, will be on sale in th hall. The new edition of these stamps is now ready, the pricé of the new stamps being one dollar for a sheet of 20. WESTERN RR’S 10 FIGHT AWARDS CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (FP).—Con- trary to expectation the western rail- roads are continuing the legal fight against the arbitration award last De- cember which gave their locomotive firemen and allied workers substan- tial increases in pay. Hearing has been set for Feb, 24 in the U. 8. cin cuit court of appeals in Chicago against the decision of Judge Car- penter that the arbitration award of Dec. 17 was binding. The railroads contend that the board lost jurisdiction over the wage case by publishing its inability to agree before the final decision was reached. The circuit court of appeals will not pass upon this contention. Workers Party. Achievements and Weaknesses Reported by Jay Lovestone SEVENTH “INST. ALLMENT. (Continued from Yest “Finally, in speaking of sification we have in ‘geoi ideol ogical expression. gical bou geoisification great in the United Stat only the labor aristocracy, t rwhelmin; majority of the Ame wo! class is ideologically 01 by the effects of imperial Notice the big mass following of a working class character that the republican | and demucratic parties have. Notice the weakness of the labor party | Movement. our own Party. “But the outlook for the effects ‘of imperialism, continuing the way y have in recent years, is not as $ ight as it previously was. America i y is not alone in the world mar- ket as England was. There are also ‘ \ inereasing revolutionary movements | amongst the colonial masses. And we \pever can overlook the basic effect of the existence of the Soviet Union. “| Notice the weakness of | a background what. one? What are the s of the Party? I do not desire norate at length. You comrades | o el \here being the most active forces in |the Party know very well of the re- ent activities of our Party. I want to enumerate them. of all the strengthening of organization. The Central ommittee considers it a task of major importance to build and strengthen the Party apparatus. If we do not utilize this present oppor- tunity we certainly will not be able to do it when the attacks against \our Party will be of a much more |fundamental character. In this res- |pect the strengthening of the Party apparatus is indicated in the follow- ing ways: “Despite severe unemployment and the lockout of the miners we have today close to 12,000 dues paying members in the Party, or a larger number than those in our Party when we first went to the job of reorgan- izing it on the basis of shop and street nuclel. “It is my opinion that on the aver- age not more than 65 to 70 per cent of the active Party membership is paid up in its dues. I say we would not exaggerate, considering the un- employment situation. For instance take the Cleveland district with the heavy cut in our ranks there; in so far as dues payment is concerned, the Cleveland district shows only 21 exempt stamps. There are sevéral hundred Party members in the Ck 7e- land district who are not registe.ed as exempt stamp buyers—yet are just as good active members as the others but whom we can not and will not, and never will drop as membérs merely because they are not takin dues stamps. They are unemployed. “This strengthening of the ch apparatus is shown also in the provement in the center thru its in- creasing direction of Party activides and attention to details—yes, the smallest details of the Party work. “Secondly, the labor party and elec- tion campaigns. Here we may say that in certain districts the Patty has shown increasing vitality. Take the situation in the New York e! tions, Also, the fact that for : first time the Party here ran in the industrial section of ‘the New York district, the most industrial section, New Jersey. The situation in San Francisco where our Party received a vote bigger than the socialist par- ty must ulso be cited. Take the situ- ation in Minnesota where our Party is the driving force in the labor party movement. “Thirdly, substantial headway has been made in the trade union work. With the help of the Party there was held a national conference of the left wing for the first time in five years nited States. The resistance, successful resistance, and fighting power of the left wing in the needle trades is due primarily to the direc- tion and activities of the Party. The improvement of the Party work in the trade unions is further indicated in the improvement of the trade union press. “A few words about the mining campaign. This is the basic trade union campaign of the Party. The Central Committee considers that no resources are too great, no sacrifices are too great for us, in mobilizing and the popularization of the Soviet the Party to the fullest extent in the|Union a basic, living force ‘in the mining campaign. Already we have a new period in the mining struggle. Comrade Foster will analyse this at length in his report, but let me state | jn that our Party is showing increas- ing results in the miners’ union, “In .Colorado we have not only checked certain dangerous policies on the part of the dominant I. W. W. leadership but we have also laid the basis for the first time of building Party units there. ‘ “A few words about Russian recog- nition and defense. The trade union delegations which have sailed from this country do not compare with the German or British delegations but certainly the objective conditions in the American labor.movement. are not comparable to the conditions and the degree of class consciousness in Germany or Great Britain. Our Par- ty has been an instrumental force in driving the progressives and the left wingers to make a success out has in this fashion served to make the question of Russian recognition of the moves for delegations and trade union movement. “Unemployment: In certain local- ities we have done well. For instance, the Cleveland district: “Fighting the war danger; in the case of Nicaragua and in the case of the protests against the massacres in Canton our Party has achieved some results. “The Young Workers League, with the help of our Party, is today, positively on the road of constructive and effective mass work. I cite its anti-militarist activities and partic- ularly its activities in the mining campaigns. “The foreign born, the women’s work, the Negro work—here we have certain small achievements. “In the fight against injunctions the Party has responded well, as has been indicated by resolutions adopted in many local unions and in the dis- tribution of a half million leaflets. “The ideological strengthening ‘of against the Trotsky Opposition, but also in the setting up of workers’ schools, the national training school and the growth of the number of pen forums thruout the districts, I think that our Party can be very proud of the fact of not only the overwhelming majority but almost unanimously the Party has been on the side of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, has followed the Comintern line against the anti-Leninist, Men- shevist, Trotskyist line. “In agricultural work we have made slight headway in improving our organization and propaganda— helping to change the monthly into a weekly organ. “Party unification: Great headway has been made by the Party in con- solidating its forces and unifying its ranks on the basis of the resolution of the last convention. In the center the tendency of disappearance of old group lines has been nee es process is not complete. cess has to be pushed with Pei oo the Party must @e emphasized not | vigor. only in the effective campaign The conference is called “to © )