The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1928, Page 3

* ” a THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1928 Monarchist Who Urged Horthy Police _ to Take Bela Kun by Force, Released | SHOWN AS TREND | re “HIGH TREASON” d : IN. INDUSTRIES JUDED TOO ILL Most Amazing Invention of the Twentieth Century | | Giant Monopolies Are . ye oe if Capitalist Ideal Cae pmo PS 4 ey * By LELND OLDS (Federated Press) . NA, July 19.—Gustav Wolff, The age of competitive industry of the Austrian monarchist is drawing to a close. It will be fol- here to- Saat tatniees Samy - a ———————E7~ oot ‘ > VIE leader party, was tried by a jw lowed by an era of giant monopolies |day and found guilty of high trea- operating under government fran- son. chise and supervision, This is the Tie. teohavekiat semace. | Wensele i view of Prof. Schalenbach of the University of Cologne, termed by the New York Times “one of. the). greatest authorities on industriai economics.” He forecasts an entirely different industrial world from that in which the present labor move- ment developed its tactics. AVast Trustification Most observers are concerned with the spread of industrial and financial mergers in the United States and of international cartels in Carope. | But Schmalenbach sees mergers and | cartels as a transition to state trustification, while profits will still very conspicuous during the trial of the Communist leader, eBla Kun. By means of speaking, writing curd- |ling letters and fiery state called vpon the Hungarian fascists aK) TS ee invade Austria in armed bands forcibly take Bela Kun from ELECTION LAWS ~ ferciy take Bela Kun from EN UNITED STATES |x iac caer wth The fineral procession of Capt. Emilio Carranza, Mexican flyer, marked the last stage of his imperialist “good wil ght which ended tragically when his plane crashed in New Jersey, killing the flyer. Photo shows the funeral procession at 42nd St. and Broad- way, with American soldiers heading the line of march. af [aed eager to carry out the suggestion, and did all in their power to induce the Vienna government to turn Bela (Continued.) writer that one of these honest bal By JULIUS CODKIND. lot watchers has interceded to safe- : inch The ad é , i uard the vote of minority parties. |Kun over to them. The demonstra- go to the owning class. air bar aeons tae aad tae PAO adHEOH va the: ottitiain of aie | ones of rackers| however wars tod In competitive industry wages °¢ is bureau dealing with the for-| 1, hia Now: York ne y | - 3 end raw material costs are im-|¢ign-born whites of voting age in ppoard, t B ew York law provides menacing, and eBla Kun remained portant, compared with overhead |48 leading cities throughout the| eid esiocegs from each “ ‘legal’|in an Austrian jail. and administration expenses which | Country in 1920 shows in every in-|P? ae party” and one from each) The jury found Wolff guilty and | Go not fluctuate with the ups and| stance that much more than half of | 17 sia group or Party. The | sentenced him to one year in prison downs of plant operation. The ma-|the foreign-born population are not| Vouk pat enerne Seah a Hew Soon after the verdict was delivered chine has signed the death warrant naturalized and therefore ineligible | P the monarchist was set free to en- of this era, according to Schmalen- ter a hospital. He will be allowed to vote, althought they are quite °" Aue aha bach. welcome in the country as produc-| Police “Protection. Recently the U. S. department of |to serve his term whenever he gets PROFESSOR THEREMIN of Soviet Russia Produces Music from the Air ee ers of huge totals of surplus values. || The state also provides a uni-| commerce issued a survey showing | The total thus disfranchised amounts | formed policeman for each board | Letter, il was announced. the increasing role played by inter- workers to become citizens of the thieves and ga gsters whose duty’ cartels, called trusts in America, play |C°Untry, five years continuous resi-|it is to see thatix slots of opponent: a leading part in this development. | dence being required for obtaining are spoiled, voe*, marked, defaced In the United States the year so| Citizenship, in addition to many|and finally not counted. coal, food, drugs, amusements, pub-| In the South, the Negro popula-| : 4 ‘i lic utilities, banking, in all these tion, which is about equal to that | #004 watcher. On several occasions) Court-Martial fields financiers have been working | of the whites, is almost wholly dis-|2°10Pe the lett wing split, when the) | |socialist party was electing minor| Uoxiteumialton Booe: Ons [officials in New York, these offi-| ... witness stand in his own behalf. | court-martial. There was a short to 3,400,000 in these 48 cities alone.|In practice, this policeman inter- a national cartels in Europe’s eco- The laws are particularly stringent |venes only on behalf of the election nomic and political life. It points PORTER GETS TWO far has seen an unprecedented suc-| technical requirements that must be ‘Yhese officials assume czaristic ONE HALF YEARS cession of industrial mergers. Oil, met. |powers. It is common practice for toward control of competition. |franchised. Such Negroes who have Kien atorpe here | qualified to vote by payment of full’ ois who, as candidates for re-elec- against the rights of foreign-born | board officials, i.e., generally sneak- out that carefully organized national ile, build terial, | N in South: |them to resort to bodily violence) ‘ eis ; Sao anne ee eee | iia eta] | where they are being thwarted by a \Defies Authorities At The great Standard Oil units are| taxes required in several of the revamping their structure in order | states, and who have registered and to control petroleum from the well| otherwise complied with stringent until it is delivered to the consumer. | provisions of the law find them- The Texas Corporation and the Cali-| selves arbitrarily challenged and| fornia Petroleum Corporation com-| subject to arrest if they dare to bined to form a unit with assets of appear at the polls. | about $380,000,000. Republic Iron| In South Carolina, where each) and Steel merged with Trumbull tion, had every legal right to enter | the polling places, received bad | beatings when they attempted to | protest against fraud and vote steal- ing. In no instance was the police- man on duty known to interfere and never was a judge to be found who would consent to act against the grossest violation of the law. party prints its own ballots, Ne-| Steel. The Chrysler-Dodge merger is still in the air when the Stude - baker- Pierce-Arrow combination is announced. Certain-teed Products groes who call for the democratic ballot are permitted to register their “opinion.” Other Negroes are gen- erally arrested if they dare to go takes over the Beaver Board com-| through with an attempt to vote panies. Continental Can and U. S.|Many of the Southern states cir- Can combine. The smokeless coal |cumvented the 14th Amendment to producers of West Virginia work |the Federal Constitutfon by special out the details of the first large con-|laws containing property require- solidation in the bituminous in-| ments, etc. In order that these laws) dustry. | might apply to the Negroes only, a] United Drug merges with Sterling | “grandfather clause” was usually Products. The Keith companies | added which excepted from these | join the Orpheum Circuit. The Pos-| laws all whose grandfathers had tal Telegraph-Commercial Cables | voted before the Civil War. No companies combine with Interna- Southern Negro, of course, had the tional Telephone and Telegraph. Privilege of voting before the Civil) American Power and Light and| War. | Montana Power form a new giant) A comparison of the vote in power combine and other great| Georgia, one of the most backward power holding companies continue to | of the Southern states, and the state absorb utilities. The Washburn-|of Indiana, whose population is Crosby Company, the Red Star Mill- | about equal to that of Georgia, re- ing Company and other flour mills, at) veals this condition more tlearly| the direction of National City Bank | than words can picture. The census interests, join te form the General of 1920 gives the population of In- Mills, Inc., becoming the largest diana as 2,942,210 and that of unit in the field. These are but a Georgia as 2,910,598. "The vote for few of the mergers since January. president’ in 1920 was 1,108,000 in Bankers and industrialists predict | Indiana, and 151,000 in Georgia. that the mafger movement will con-| The census of 1920 shows only tinue with increasing velocity. 51%% million eligible to vote in the Trade Associations. whole country, of which only 26% Trade associations are becoming million actually voted in that year an important factor in consolidating | which was a presidential year and industries and limiting competition. | therefore attracts the highest total | Oil, cotton, wool, steel, jute, all these of votes. | and others have developed alliances, All this, of course, militates di-| to protect profiteers against the in-| rectly against the chances of work- dustrial chaos threatened by the |ing class parties, because the masses growth of productive power in every of the disfranchised are almost field beyond all possible sales. | wholly workers among whom are Throughout the capitalist world large sections of highly class-con- this change in the industrial brat iced and militant workers. is proceeding rapidly. In England) When the votes have been finally as in America echoes the refrain registered, the counting is done by that “free competition is evervwhere the election boards in each election tending to end in forms of mon- precinct. These boards consist of of- opoly.” Everywhere there is in-| ficials appointed by the dominant creasing pressure for changes in @/ politival parties and usually com- | legal system which was developed to protect the individuahst business against contracts, conspiracies or| what not in restraint of trade. The financiers want to remove legal re- straints on price, production and market control. If labor merely acquiesces in the legal changes advocated by organ- ized capital, its fate in the new era of state-franchised monopolies will not differ materially from that of servile or slave populations in the past. Discover Body of Man Whose Home Burned CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis., July 19—Further investigation of the mysterious fire which destroyed the home of John Budah last week was being conducted here today follow- ing the discovery of the farmer’s pody hanging from a tree on an ad- joining farm last night. Sheriff Van Connell and Coroner Henry Larsen, who examined the body, to- day expressed the belief that Budah may ‘have set fire to his own home and then committed suicide, | pensated by the state. There are no \non-partisan officials, although in New York, the Honest Ballot Asso- ciation, which is a semi-private in- stitution, is permitted to send watch- ers to the various precincts. It has rarely been the experience of the Although generally the law pain- stakingly makes careful provision for the safeguarding of the vote, the rule is invariably to disregard the law and to violate its every pro- vision, so long as the parties of Wal! | Street are served and no official, no policeman, no district attorney, and no judge will ever consent to en- force its provisions or prosecute any violation made on behalf of these parties. Democracy in America resolves it- self into the proposition that new or minor parties seriously making a bid to elect any of their candidates find themselves from the first en- gaged in a series of bitter strug- gles. Fraud and violence rule su- preme. The brutal dictatorship of the bourgeoisie throwing aside all pretense of decency and legality. comes to the fore naked and un- ashamed. Workers participating in the parliamentary campaigns in America learn very quickly that the bourgeoisie will never surrender po- litical power without a desperate re- sort to arms. Perth Amboy Strikers Plan Workers’ Social A social for Perth Amboy shirt workers, who are now on strike, will be held today in the Workers’ Home, 308 Elm St., Perth Amboy, All workers have been invited to attend the affair. Strikers will be ad- mitted free of charge. INDICTED HALTS HEARING. WASHINGTON, July 19 (FP).— |The senate investigating committee jon patronage corruption was get- ting ready to summon as a witness Perry Howard, special assistant at- torney general of the United States | when Mabel Walker Willebrandt, as- sistant attorney; general, went to Mississippi and caused Howard to be indicted for selling federal patron- age. This indictment shuts off tes- timony until after the November election. LAND IN Princeton, and 22 naval ensigns, who comprise the last contingent, are to be added to General Frank Mc- Coy’s general staff at once. Besides the 66 officers of the American army, navy and marine corps who will see that the elec- tions are brought off in a satisfac- tory way, all the American mar- ines not actively engaged in the campaign against General Sandino will be drafted to stand guard at the polls. “OFFICIAL OBSERVERS” NICARAGUA MANAGUA, July 19.—The latest contingent of “official observers” who will follow the course of the American marine-superintended elec. tions here in the fall has arrived in Nicaragua. Professor Harold W. Dodds, of@- The 666 marines who arrived here yesterday have already been dlis- posed advantageously for poll duty. In view of the recent elimination of two conservative candidates, the rumor is already gaining ground here that General Moncada’s serv- ices in betraying the cause of the liberal army to Col. Henry L. Stim- son, at Tipitapa, will be rewarded with the presidency by the Ameri- cans in the autumn, |The idea was not pleasant to the |adjaurnment s othat Porter could be warne dof the consequences and wha th emight expect if he took the stand. He replied that he insisted on giving his testimony. The first questions were made by | the defense attorney, Shorr: “Where and when’ were born?” | “Exiter, New Hampshire, May 14, 1909.” | “How old were you when you en- listed in the army?” | “Sixteen.” “When did you leave the army?” “July, 1927.” | “What was your reason for leav- ing the army?” | Porter replied: | “I wish to ‘repudiate the state- ments of the ‘investigation.’ The reason I deserted the army was be- cause I found out that the army is a tool of the capitalists and is used against the workers I learned that the army and the national guard is used to break strikes and defend the investments of the capitalists. I objected to being used for these purposes.” “Did you object to the purposes of the army when you enlisted?” Porter was asked. Learned While in Army. “At that time, I was only six- teen and did not realize the pur- poses of the army. I learned from other soldiers of many cases in which the military forces have been used against the workers. Many of them realize the purpose of the army.” Fear ran thru the court-martial. The officers had been startled when Porter stated his reasons for leav- ing the army. But the knowledge that he was not the only one to realize the anti-labor role of the army was 4, serious problem. Efforts for Long Sentence. The cross-examination began. The “prosecution” had no questions of importance and apparently thought that the less Porter had to say the better for them. Then, questions were open from the offi- cers of the court-martial. One, Cap- tain Young, asked a series of ques- tions about the identity of the other | soldiers who shared Porter’s knowl- edge about the army, but could get no information for future courts- martial trials. Captain Young tried to get Porter to make statements with the apparent purpose of mak- ing charges of “conspiracy’ to give a 20 year sentence, but was com- pletely unsuccessful, Porter being! equal to the most subtle questions | and coming out victor. | Practically no arguments were made by the surprised prosecution, which could not think of any reply to Porter which would not make matters worse for the authorities, | and decided that actions were bet-| ter than words, 4 | Shorr made the argument for the. defense, Then, the court was closed for secret discussion ‘and the ver- dict. you| SWORDFISH KILLS TWO. | SANTIAGO, Chile, July 19 (UP). —A swordfish today, attacked broke and sank a rowboat off Anto- fogasta. Two of the fishermen oc+ cupants were drowned. 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