The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1928, Page 2

JUNE 2, 1928 Worker Candidates to Run on the Farmer-Labor Ticket in North Dakota KNUTSON, LOESCH AND BARRETT ARE CHOSEN 10 LEAD Farmers to Industrial sake: seeks Join W orkers D ) Tey CRD) ests-of the wo ers have jus eld June senator, Alfred United Farn of Mc cong Loesch, r; for farm farmer- gn as possible t A camp: nched as soon the farm- ers. of the stat program ag a fiv m mortgage deb g debts on) chattels; protectic prices; law a s lition of tax ; land for the workers in th zation of fa This. pr which is con farmers’ cz trast to t paign didates A featur will be the members in the tational League, ent. units of tl catry on regul cational It is pr congres chosen by me: paign, the pla plete a ticket as po: election. ‘ REVEAL HOOVER SLUSH MACHINE car t other state and dates 260 Sencha Boosting Senator Heflin, democrat of Ala- | ba: Nomination ‘A huge propaganda machine, in- | volving 360 trade and business pub ligations, has been wor! nomination of Herbert president, it w revealed y afternoon by Thomas H. Ormsbee, testifying before the senate comm: teb, that is conductin so-called in- vestigation into presidential campaign ‘The propaganda machine includes a| lage number of well-known publish- | img-companies locate Chicago, Cleveland Ormsbee, d other cities. who described himself as “Washington contact man” for the Business Papers’ blishers Hoover- far-President Committee, testified | $4,794. 68 had been 1 by this com- mittee to fu ¢ Hoover: cam- paign and $1,376.16 had been ex- pended. Htalian Metal Workers Toil 12 Hours GENEVA, a a im the Ita twelve hou delegate Cal | ie Cool Little Shanty © n the Woods E realization of a childhood am- bition has been attained by Pres- lent Coolidge; it was announced sterday, with the acquisition by ‘im of a little shack up in the north woods of Wisconsin. | Quiet meditation, rest, and study if the manifest destiny of the nited States will be interrupted mly by leisurely trout fishing out- jide the little hut. ' § Latest descriptions of the shanty which the frugal Vermonter has elected include these details: + It took 45 years to build and cost more than $1,000,000. The shack is set down in the midst of 5,000 ee of virgin forest land—six imes the area of Central Park. * Appropriately enough, it was uilt by the late lamented Henry lay Pierce, oil man and former of John D, Rockefeller. \ * of the in New Yor | with on le jum on frm Sen Heflin is On Klan inst monopoly | | } 90°" | WASHINGTON, June 1. — A total | th the 'so far by the candidates for president | -| Senator Heflin | vill lay. g for the |t Hoover for Heflin received payment from the | terday | klan for speeches directed against Al | | international preliminaries at Pitts- gh was struck by lightning. The |\¢ 3 BANKERS HELD Killed Publicity TAMMANY HIGHER P17 Strings to Lieutenant Paul Evert, shown i j the picture, was killed when the bal- loon in whch he was traveling in the on regatta is sponsored by a num- rae large mewenaners who are seek- 68, 196 8 SPENT BY OLD PARTIES, | Payroll | —— } of $653,756 has been admittedly spent | in both the Demo-| cratic and Republi-| can parties, accord- ing to a tabulation! yesterday by the Senate Campaign| Funds Committee. | Herbert Hoover, re- actionary ballyhooer | of the party, still leads the | list with more than| -| Klansman half the total out- | The tabulation follows: | Republicans Secretary of Com. Hoover. $348,342.61 | Late Sen. Wills of Ohio. 66,769.52 | Sen. Watson of Indiana. . «+ 80,990.16 | <-Gov. Lowden, Illinois... 58,552.90 | Sen. Goff of West Virginia 1,323. 35 | Senator Curtis of Kansas.. 6,560.00} 6.00 | |Sen. Norris of Nebraska .. was $512,544.53 | Total Democrats Gow ‘Smith of New York. .$100,308.52 |Senator Reed of Missouri.. 37,211.79 | Senator Walsh of Montana (withdrawn) .. ‘a 1,001.52 |Rep. Hull of Tennessee i 845.00 ,|Ex-Senator Pomerene, Ohio 100.00 |Ex.-Sen Hitchcock, Nebraska 1,744,86 ma, also accounted for the expendi- |ture of several thousand shekels. Ac- | cording to William Zumbrunn, gener- al counsel for the Ku Klux Klan, who testified before the senate presiden-} ial campaign committee yesterday, Smith, in Otay Nev eure New York, and Iowa. ON THEFT CHARGE Stole $10,000. Contract Plaintiff Says a Day me to | the ed that in | 000. king day was | Clarence S. Dame, 50, president of ithe investment banking concern that |bears his name, at 100 Broadway; | Thomas W. Dynan, 44, and Lorrin L. cei 7, partners in the firm, were neld yesterday for the grand jury on f grand larceny by Magis- | Simpson in Tombs Court. Bail} fixed pending comparison of | s’ fingerprints with police The men were accused by Samuel R. Corbitt, a business manager, with heft of a contract valued at $10,- Corbitt charges that the theft took/ place June 13, in the company office. According to the complaint the three | men called a policeman and had Cor- ejected from the office. They then | broke open his desk and stole the con- tract and a valuable index file con- ene 2,500 cards bearing important FLYERS LAND HONOLULU, June 1—The mono- plane Southern Cross landed here safely at 4:19 p. m. today after a 2,400 mile journey from Oakland, Cal. The four Australian imperialist \fliers who piloted the plane and who were for a time thought lost were all reported to be in good condition, A RICH MAN’S PARTY. A dumbwaiter shaft door that looked like a washroom portal after a rich man’s party early today cost pretty Irene Cross, 26-year-old show girl, a broken leg and other injuries. The girl plunged three stories down the shaft. Her home is in Rochester, 19: vem Republican | 2: IN HONGLULU NO MORE CHICKEN FOR COAL DIGGERS Company - -Unionizing Scheme of of Coal Firm Is Aban Abandoned Us INGRAFT CASE’ HEARING REVEAL ILo nghee ee Explodes $260,000,000 Steal (Convenien 7 fee page one) in the ment, Lugheed charged. That ‘aylor, the present commi a _one of the prin pal grafters icated by Loug- d when he te made frequent demands for ad- dey “higher up.” tioned Jame ally he men- borough sup- accused of re- 200 a year. Loug- e on ss exam- ination t! or was not involved. Several weeks ago, The DAILY WORKER charged Taylor with being | the principal grafter in the depart- ment. At the time Mayor Jimmie Walker who has been trying desper- ately to prevent the disclosure of the facts rose to the defense of Taylor. “T am not a thief myself,” Walker declared, “and I believe that Taylor is just as honest as I am!” Taylor yesterday issued a state- ment denying that anyone had ever given him any graft. Only once during the past three years have the gular graft and payroll padding activities been inter- rupted, Lougheed testified. This was in 1926 when a “little trouble” in Basak made the ring cautious. sort of tentative list of the main stoi was drawn up by Lougheed, as follow Os ee, $84,000 in three years: Mc- ‘0,100 in three years; Minchin, 200 a year; Benjamin P. Stoeber, istant foreman, who has _ also pleaded guilty. and turned state’s ev- idence, $13,000 a year; J. P. Leo, checker for the commissioner, $1,500 a year; Lougheed himself, from $12,. | 000 to $15,000 a year; Max Schmal: | lowitz, a foreman, $80 to $150 a week; Charles Zankel, $30 to 90 a week. MCMAHON APING LEWIS REACTION Wants Surplus Men Put Out of Industry PROVIDENCE, R. I., June 1. While the 28,000 textile workers in New Bedford are engaged in a.bitter struggle to force the return of a ten per cent wage slash, President Thomas McMahon, of the United Textile Workers, in a statement issued here | |declares that he heartily endorses the |Rockefeller plan to close “inefficient” coal mines, and thereby rid the in- dustry of “excess” coal miners, and calls on the mill barons to do likewise. Instead of offering as a remedy to the crisis in the textile industry the organization of the hundreds of thou- sands of unorganized, and a subse- quent campaign to shorten hours, thus providing work for all, McMahon, aping Lewis of the mine union, de- clares that the bosses should drive out of the industry 20 per cent of its workers. SIX MORE BREAK WITH OPPOSITION (Special Cable to the Daily Worker). MOSCOW, June 1—Six more for- jmer members of the Opposition have handed statements to the Central Con- trol Commission of the All Union (Communist Party announcing their jcomplete break with the Opposition. The six are Safarov, Varbin, Vouyo- |vitch, Tarchanov, Naumov and Busd- jinskaya, ‘To Probe Death of Man In Warehouse MILWAUKEE, June 1. — John Nowek, 33, collapsed today in a ware- house at 225 Erie St. He was dead in a few minutes. There will be an investigation soon to determine the cause of his death. | CRANTON, Pa., (FP) June 1.— No more free chicken dinners for Hudson Coal Co. employes! The new Hudson president, Mr. Leamy, has decided to save the $1,000,000 spent annually to provide his 22,000 em- ployes with chicken, turkey and squab dinners monthly. These din- ners were an important part of the company’s “educational” program in its efforts to teach the men how to adopt efficiency methods and use electric labor-saving devices in the mines. ed that Oswald{ Buy Off Radium Poison Victims Efforts continue | to buy off the five| |victims of radium poisoning who are suing the United States Radium Cor-| poration of Orange, N. J., for $250,000 ach, | Katherine Schaub, Albina Larice Physicians have given the women \less than a year to live as a result of the poisoning from the radio-active | Substance introduced into their system by wetting brushes with their lips while painting luminous dials on | watches, Federal Judge William Clark has stepped into the case as “unofficial mediator” in an effort to save tha! radium company more than a million |dollars. A two-hour conference was held at his offices in Newark between officers of the radium company and | counsel for both sides, at which terms |of a “deal” were discussed, It is un- derstood that the radium company proposes to give each of the victims $25,000 and a $3,000 a year pension for life. Since the five women, who !are in constant great pain, have less than a year to live, their former em- Quinta MacDonald, Edna Hussman ployers would not have to spend much in pension money. The fact that Raymond H. Berry, counsel for the five women, is a for- mer law associate of Judge Clark gives the proceedings a rather un- savory tone. In defense of his al- truistic efforts in behalf of the radi- \um corporation Judge Clark has is- sued a statement to the effect that if the cases go to trial, it might take two or three years before a decision is made. The five radium-poisoning victims, whose slow living death is due to con- ditions which are typical of many fac- tories in this coun- try, are Mrs, Edna Hussman, Mrs. Quinta MacDonald, Miss Grace Fryer, Miss Katherine < Schaub and Mrs. Grace Fryer Albina Larice. Their damage suits are scheduled to come up in Circuit Court June 11. * A five year old boy, born of a mother who died from radium poisoning, will be the subject of scientific. experi- ments to determine whether such a child is doomed to the same death, it was learned today. “Sonny” Scott, playing today on a farm in Connecticut, is the child who will be examined by scientists and physicians to determine whether his mother, Mrs, Eleaner Scott, gave him death at the same time she gave him life by transmitting the radium poi- soning that was in her bones. Mrs. Scott died on Dee. 21, 1927, from radium poisoning contracted during her work in the plant of the United States Radium Corporation, Orange, N. J. * * Negro in Jury Formed to Try Robt. W. Stewart WASHINGTON, June 1—A jury of four women and eight men—one of the latter a Negro—was formed to- day by Justice Frederick L. Siddons to try Colonel Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the Standard Oil Com- pany (Indiana), charged with con- tempt of the senate in connection with the Teapot Dome graft and slush fund inquiry. The oil millionaire declined to an- swer two questions asked by the Sen- ate Public Lands Committee last February. Nowhere in the anthracite has the effort to company-unionize the men been so deliberate as here. Each month the men gathered at a hotel to dine at the company’s ex- pense, while efficiency experts told them how to apply brains to their work. The miners, glad to get a good feed occasionally, usually at- tended these dinners and listened to the engineers. * * * ME: Leamy evidently believes it is not necessary to spend the $1,- MINE, TEXTILE ARTICLES IN NEW LABOR UNITY | Watt, Weisbord Write For June Number With Weisbord writing on the New | Bedford textile strike, and with John Watt, the chairman of the Pittsburgh | National “Save the Miners’ Union” Conference describing the latest de- velopments in the great fight to drive the reactionaries out of control of the United Mine Workers and win the coal strike, with William Z. Foster explaining and denouncing the Mit- ten-Mahon agreement in traction, the June issue of Lal i ppears. “The miners go on to their district conventions,” says Watt, and _ illus- trates by examples, the strategy of the left wing forces, and its growing success. Already the larger districts have unseated the machine officials in meetings representing the locals and sub-districts. “A most significant strike in the heart of the cotton goods industry, which is the bigger, basic side of the textile industry seldom affected by large scale struggles, though most exploited,” is the gist of Weisbord’s analysis, and he calls on all labor to rally to the aid of New Bedford strik- ers. There are articles on the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ convention and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ convention, on the coming carpenters’ convention, on the internal feuds in Chiang Kai-shek’s militarist government, and the rising tide of worker-peasant revolution in China, on the textile situation in Eng- land, where the employers contem- plate a lock-out of 80,000 workers this month, and 200,000 may strike, on the Red International of Labor Unions Congress, on the place of William D. Haywood in American labor history, on the rising militancy of women in the mine fields, on the betrayal of the taxi strike in Newark, and the present situation in the Cleaners’ and Dyers’ Unions, as well as other features, APPEAL JAILING OF STRIKE HEADS Repeated “Arrests Fail to Halt Picketing (Continued from page one) 14. The strike meetings of the Tex- tile Mill Committee are held several times a week and each meeting shows an increase of several hundreds of strikers. The Textile Council meet- ings, on the other hand, are becoming less and less attended. While the picketing was going on this morning, before the Hathaway and Page Mills, W. E. G. Batty, secre- tary of U. T. W. Council stood with a few followers on the other side of the street, watching the strikers, their wives and children march up and down the gates. Weil-founded rumors are rife that the majority of the mill owners will finally make a concerted effort to re- open the mills Monday morning with strikebreakers. The answer of the Textile Mill Committee leadership to this is the rapid mobilization of the largest picket lines yet thrown around the plants. The workers in the Beacon Mills, one of the few plants not attempting the cut in wages which led to the present strike of 28,000 workers, are threatening to join the walkout. Dur- ing the last few weeks the owners of the Beacon Mills have installed a new system of production that forces a great increase in the amount of work turned out by the individual | workér for the same pay. The work- ers at meetings declare that the speed-up is so viciously intense, it is unbearable. - An immediate walkout is the demand of the men, but the of- ficials of the skilled workers’ union are seeking negotiations with the boss in an attempt to avert it. ROB 40 MEN OF $15,000. Forty men and women, guests at a confirmation party for a twelve year old girl in a cafe at 836 Kenmare St., were lined up and robbed of $15,000 in jewels and cash early today by four masked bandits armed with shining new automatics, 000,000 annually to convert work- ers to the efficiency scheme. It is reported that efficiency experts will invade the operations and study con- ditions with a view to curtailing the number of men employed and speed- ing up production. New bookkeeping methods have worked havoe among the clerical staffs with wholesale dismissals. Recess periods of 10 minutes en- joyed by certain employed groups have also been eliminated in the interests of more output. She Plays the Game Magistrate Jean Norris is shown in the pictures returning from Afri- ca. A close student of the carger of another notorious woman politician, Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp, under conviction for graft, she brought back with her a tiger pelt as a pres- ent for George W. Olvany, Tam- many leader. CLOAK DELEGATES OPEN MEET TODAY gar Conference ve First Step to Real Union (Continued from page one) ference tomorrow will be to give a fit- ting answer to the newest swindle the Sigman-Schlesinger gang is trying to perpetrate, This is the proclemation issued yesterday over the signature of Schlesinger which he printed in the Forward and had distributed in leaf- let form. With a once powerful organization, completely shattered by himself, Sig- man and their followers, staring him in the face, Schlesinger hypocritically calls for “Peace” and “Unity” on the terms of the fake manifesto issued by the convention of union wreckers held recently in Boston which rules exponents of progressive policies, | Communists, who can never hold of- fice. In this leaflet Schlesinger also calls the workers to attend the meet- ing to celebrate Sigman’s “victory” in obtaining on paper what the workers won in the bitter strike of 1926, 5 oe ly the 40-hour week. The meeting as well as the new Schlesinger proclamation meets with the ridicule of the cloak and dress- makers. They clearly see that the reason for both is to propagandize for the payment of the 3 day tax, which was the outcome of the fake conven- tion. The conference today effectively answers not only this latest fake manoeuver of the right wing, but will also decide its attitude toward the meeting to “celebrate” Sigman‘s paper 40-hour week. The representatives of the tens of thousands of exploited workers in the industry will also erect a permanent functioning machine of shop chair- men, whose task it will be to carry into practice all the decisions passed at the conference. The conference will also produce real plans for the effective enforcement of the 40-hour week and all other union conditions in the trade. MICHIGAN READY FOR BIG CAMPAIGN Large Communist Vote is Expected (Conttnued from Page Oney for governor at the May 19 state con- vention held at Flint, Michigan. Run- ning with him for lieutenant-goyernor is Wilfred Newman, a Negro worker of Detroit who has likewise played an important part in the struggles of the workers of:Michigan and in other parts of the country. Flint is an auto town, the home of the General Motors Company. “We chose that city,” Reynolds declared “for our convention in order to show the workers, that we, the Commun- ists, come where they are, to the scene of action, for our political as well as our industrial campaigns.” The convention at Flint was at- tended by about 75 delegates. Before the meeting was held officials of the General Motors Company influenced the owners of the Knights of Pythias Hall to cancel the agreement for the hall on the ground that the Workers Party was an iNegal Party. Only af- ter considerable agitation and after the police department was forced to admit that the Party: is not illegal was the meeting room opened. “ Reynolds worked in the auto indus- try until 1913 when he was black- listed by all the companies because of his organizational activities. He has: been active in many struggles of the workers since that time. There is a growing pressure among the auto workers for organization he declared, due to the wage cuts and speed-up. Sporadic strikes and wide- spread resentment show that the workers are becoming more militant, he said. BORAH TO KEEP TALKING. | WASHINGTON, June 1. — Senator Borah (R)) of Idaho, chairman of the foreign relations committee today was urged to visit Europe in an official capacity this summer, A formal in- vitation was extended to him to join the American group to the inter- parliamentary union in Berlin in Au- gust. f POWER MAGNATES BUY UP COLORADO SCHOOL TEACHERS Purchased Profs to Help Spread Propaganda WASHINGTON, June 1. — Fur- thpr evidence of the power interests propaganda work in Colorado schools and colleges was adduced at the Fed- eral Trade Commission’s ‘power trust investigation today. George V. Lewis, executive man- ager of the Rocky Mountain Public Utility Information Committee, who previously testified 24 Colorado pro- | fessors were on the payroll, resumed the stand. He produced a number of > checks which were paid to professors in various Colorado educational in- stitutions. He said they were mostly for “expenses of the professors. in at- ‘ tending utilities conferences.” Under questioning by Robert E. Healy, commission counsel, Lewis de- clared there was no connection be-. tween the Denver utilities speaking course and the extension division of Colorado University. He volunteered, however, that a Prof. Copeland of Col- orado College conducted the utilities course at Pueblo. Dr. Charles A. Lory of Colorado Agricultural College was revealed as being a recipient of expense money to a meeting of the utilities education | committee. ‘ Several checks for $25 to E. Hofer and son aroused Healy’s curiosity. Lewis explained that they paid for regular monthly subscriptions to Hof- er’s news service which, he claimed, was sent to 1,400 country daily and weekly newspapers over the nation. TWO DIEIN BLAST AT DUPONT PLANT Williamsburgh Firetrap Injures 3 Others’ Fire in a tenement house near the Brooklyn end of the Williamsburg Bridge took a toll of two lives and resulted in the injury of three per- sons here yesterday. Breaking out in the ground floor of a four-story structure the flames quickly enveloped the building trap- ping Phillip Salant, 27, and his wife, Rose, 28. Other occupants escaped by jump- ing from windows or scrambling down the fire escape. Firemen aided in the rescue of many. Urge Impeachment of Sacco Prosecutor BOSTON, June 1.—Impeachment of Attorney General Arthur K. Reading on the ground of maladministration and misconduct in office was recom- mended by a special legislative in- vestigation committee this afternoon. The committee, which _ heard chargés ‘that Reading accepted a fee for legal services of $25,000 from Decimo Club, Inc., and was retained by the L. A. W. Finance Corpora- tion, presented its unanimous report to the house clerk, The report will go before the house probably on Mon- day for debate. Reading was one of the staff of prosecutors who helped murder Sac-’ co and Vanzetti. JAILED FOR SHOOTING. WASHINGTON, Pa., June 1.—Fred Nearguard, 64, of Sturgeon, is now in jail here awaiting trial, charged with having shot at John Yoursh, a farmer. Star Athletes From Harvard Now Scholars ( Gretta aki, Mass., June 1—The rich men’s sons attending Har- — vard University have vindicated their claim to “scholarship.” Goaded into a sense of inferiority because of repeated accusations that the in- - stitution was becoming a fashion- able country club with incidental facilities for study, a “culture con- test” was held recently betweem Harvard and Yale. ‘The results of the contest, which consisted of a three-hour quiz in- English literature, were made pul ‘ today, Harvard being declared the winner. The score was 117-93. It ‘was not revealed whether the fig-. ures represent brain cells or goals. — The fatuous performance was ar- ranged thru the philanthropy of Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, wife of a long line of New 2° he dated tinguished exploiters. She $125,000. | ae