The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1929, Page 3

i t U.S. and HOOVER SWIPES DISARM STAGE FROM MacDONALD | Talks Reduction While | Building Cruisers | WASHINGTON, June 3.—With Ramsay MacDonald as the next prime minister of English imperial- ism, President Hoover is already proceeding to set up a smoke screen for the continuation of the naval vace between the two imperialist governments. With the construction of fifteen 36,000-ton cruisers, provided for by Coolidge when he left office. now Leing prepared by Hoover, Charles Dawes, former vice-president, is be- i nt to England to the tune of spired press releases from Wash- ington that “Hoover and MacDon- ald ing on a disarmament | are sta: air, it is announced, is “being charged with the feling of an impending bold stroke,” Hoover | is preparing to beat MacDonald to it in playing the old disarmament fake song. It is reported that Dawes will have in his pocket a “yardstick of reductions,” that same hical yardstick without measure- ment and without beginning that hes been talked at the last Geneva confererice. when he arrives in Lon- ton, and that he will also have an- to open negotiations with h thority the new administrators for B: imnerialis: At the ne time especial pains were taken by the government to : that the 15 cruisers aft rier, provided in ill be continucd. FROM CITY TRUST Prove More Forgeries on Bank Grafters One of the easy methods whereby Francisco M, Ferrari, late president of the defunct Oity Trust Company, | slipped casual sums of thousands of dollars into the pockets of his close friend, Frank H. Warder, was to sanction the issue of checks marked “cash,” but notated “redraw” (4Warder” backwards) and “F. W.” Checks thus notated, totalling in all $11,62: , were introduced into the Moreiand Act hearings yester- day, where Commissioner Robert s completing evidence on the relations of Warder, in his capacity as state banking superintendent, with Ferrari before the death of the president of the City Trust and al- lied institutions led to the collapse of the bank and the hurried resigna- tion of Warder to escape from the gling scandal. Got Other Big Hauls. The cryptic “redraw”—Warder's name spelled backwards, has figured in the evidence before. A lump sum ,000 had been pocketed by the ate benking superintendent, the little red book which mysteriously disappeared after being seen for the t time in the drawer of Warder’s ce disclosed., The checks were signed with Fer- | 's name, although a handwriting | expert testified that others implica- ted in the gigantic swindle signed many of them. Blame All on Dead Grafter. | While it is common knowledge among those close to the inquiry that ‘hundred Great DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1929 Britain Cover Armament Race with Barrage ot Pacifist Ph Photo shows the Duncan Dancers, great proletarian artists from the U.S the Soviet U; m, after a tour of 800 WORKERS IN “CIGAR GD, STRIKE Demand Higher Pay, No Longer Hours NEW BR CK WICK, N. J., June 3. spontaneous revolt of a small section of the workers of the Gen- eral Cigar Company here on Friday spread today until every one of the 800 workers were out on strike. The revolt came in answer to an attempt on the part of the company to lengthen their already long hours and as a protest against the mis able doles that are the wages of the workers, . Most of the strikers are young predominate. Driving them and girl: from 7:15 in the morning until 5:6 in the evening, the company still wasn’t satisfied with the profits it was wringing from their toil. The effort to make the working hours from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m,, brought out the determination of the work- ers to fight against their slavery. Demand Wage Increas: The strikers. are also demanding a wage increase from 70 cents per thousand for machine workers to Ti cents, and from 661-2 cents per for hand workers to 70 cents, At present, the strikers de- clare, they are: unable to average more than from $2.50 to $3 a day, no matter how hard they work. The strikers are also protesting at being made to clean their machines dur- ing the three-quarter hour lunch period, which cuts their actual lunch time in half. ‘ The fighting spirit of the strike is running high. A successful meet- ing was held today at the Hungarian Workers’ Home, 11 Plum St. All the strike leaders spoke and they were enthusiastically applauded, the workers expressing their determin- ation to fight on until they win all their demands. T.U.E.L. Representative Speak: The meeting was also addre' by a representative of the Youth Section of the Trade Union Edu- cational League. He pointed out the necessity for organization, urged the immediate formation of shop and strike committees and called on the workers to spread the revolt to the other factories of the General Cigar Company in Perth Amboy, Duncan Dancers Return to Soviet Union 7 the United States. Miners of Norway Pledge Friendship for USSR Workers OSLO, Norway, (By Mail.—The Norwegian Miners Union has de- cided with an overwhelming majo- rity of the votes of its members to conclude an agreement of friendship with the miners of the Soviet Union, Previously these miners had made a xilar agreement with the Swedish miners. This new decision represents a victory for the supporters of tra- de union unity over the Amster- mmers, because the union offi- } had done everything in their power to sabotage the agreement with the Russian union. However, they were compelled to ve way ~ under the pressure of their mem- bers, BACKS MERGERS Insull and. Other Power Trust Heads Meeting News of the application for a ° vermit to merge the Buffalo, Ni- agara and Eastern Power Corpora. tions and the Associated Gas and Electrie Co, has revived rumors that the Mellon General Electric inter- ests which through subsidiary com- panies have been fighting the two above-mentioned for the control of New York state water power, have ;arranged a secret merger of their own with the two former enemies. The fact that Mellon, who owns the Aluminum Co. of America, and Ly arrangement hetween it and the General Electric Co. controls the \Frontier Corporation, which was formed for the purpose of monopol- izing the St. Lawrence River terri- tory, where the Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Eastern concern also op- crates, has apparently agreed to the merger going through, indicates that some secret deal between the |two groups has been made, and the merger of apparently only two com- panies really exposes the merger of several more, These companies have been ex- changing power for some time, without public notice of this fact, under guise of storm and emergency ‘id, ete. the graft was shared by a Tammany-|J., New York City and Philadelphia. |” ie fascist clique, there is a strong at- tempt on the part of those already implicated to saddle every check con- | veniently on the president whose startling death is considered by peal pert medical opinion to too sudden to be due entirely to! “natural causes.” | Other checks introduced added to) existing evidence showing Ferrari’s | lavish generosity to Warder’s wife— | who also died suddenly on the eve) of her appearance at the hearing al few weeks ago. } A $10,000 check to cash on the) City Trust on the account of Byerle | and Livingstone, notated “F. Red-! yaw,’”’ was a deliberate forgery, the | handwriting expert charged. Warder, in return for Ferrari’s many gifts, had connived at his sys- tem of bank entries—made in the name of real and fictitious organiza- tions—Wwith which he cleared thou- sands of dollars of loot in an alliance | with New York fascist organizations | and Tammany Hall politicians. These include Edward Glynn, nephew of | former Gov. Smith, Judge Francis | X. Mancuso and his father, Pas- quale Mancuso, and Warren C. Hub- bard, Harlem Tammany leader. G. Pope, millionaire contractor and | owner of the fascist newspaper, “II | Progresso,” is also implicated. Consumptives Aid Textile Strikers DURANTE, Cal.,:(By Mail).—Un- able to take an active part in the strike of the Southern textile work- ers, patients of the Sanatorium of the Jewish Consumption Relief As- sociation, here, showed their class solidarity by collecting a sum of $12.55 for strike relief. The sum was sent to the national offices of thé Workers International Relief, 1 won Su New York Cite : The T.U.E.L. representative also strongly emphasized the necessity for a united struggle of all the workers in the factory and warned against the efforts of the bosses machine and the hand workers. REICH DELEGATE IN BELGIUM DEBT Morgan Gets His Last Point Put Across PARIS, June 3.—News from Ber- | lin announced today that Dr. Ritter, of the foreigh office, is leaving for Paris to take up the question of re-| imbursement for the Belgium francs, the only point to be settled now be- tween the reparations delegates be- fore the plan of J. P. Morgan, Owen D. Young and other Wall Street leaders, is finally accepted . The Belgium delegate, strongly supported by the French delegation, has refused to sign the pact until this question is settled. He may be induced to wait on the promise of the Reich government that the mat- ter will be settled before September 1, when the agreement % supposed to. go into effect. With the reparations question set- tled according to the wishes of J. P. Morgan, the tie between the Ger- man and American capitalists is further strengthened in the rivalry against the British and French im- perialists, and at the same time the Yankee bankers have a basis for de- manding the payment of the war debts due them from the former al- lied imperialists, - = ~~ Power Convention. | ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 3. |—Twelve thousand delegates and employes meet here today to formu- ate. been | to break the strike by dividing the |late the plan of attack of the power companies. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the National Electric Light Association, which is the or- ganization of the power combines of the United States. | Big Power Men There | Among those to take part are Martin Insull, traction baron of Chicago, who bought an election for nilitarist Frank L. Smith, W. Rob- | inson of the Westinghouse Co., Brit- |ton Budd of the Public Service Co \of Northern Illinois, and M. S. Sloan, \who recently engineered the com- bining of the Brooklyn and the New York Edison Cos. Thuringia Tries to | Ban Red Front League BERLIN, (By Mail).—In accor- dance with the decision of the con- \ference of German Ministers of the |Interior under the chairmanship of the social democratic Reich Mini- ster of the Interior Severing, Thu- ringia has now also prohibited the Red Front Fighters League. Hamburg the coalition government has refused permission for open- \air meetings of the Communist |Party at Whitsun. These meetings of the Party were to have been held instead of the parade of the RFFL which was to have taken place in Hamburg.. Wurtemberg and the |Free State of Lubeck have also prohibited the R.F.F.L. in Stutt- gart all open-air meetings etc., of the Communist Party for Whitsun In| age Three R., as they sailed for MELLON GIVES MORE MILLIONS, | $18,000,000 from U. S.' Treasury to Trusts WASHINGTON, June’ 3—Con ssmen were still talking in tones of respect and admiration of the} “sublime nerve” of Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury, who ugreed sometime ago to put tion } of all gifts from the trea to} tusts in the form of tax refunds, | abatements, credits, gtc., amounting to over $20,000 an item. The published after the new policy wer showed a total of $18,345,534 handed | back to taxpayers, many of them Lig corporations owned or partially owned by Mellon and his immediate family, during a period of 41 days | ince April 20. Of this sum, $10,428,025 was a} clear gift in the shape of alleged | “tax refunds.” The average of the | st 41 days, if not exceeded, indi- cates that the treasury will report $100,000,000 or more by the end of | the year, given back to trusts, | This is a mere pittance conipared | with the $30,000,000 refunded the | steel trust by Mellon, during the last | lfew years, evidence of which wi: Gisclosed at the time of the agita- st. ement tion against him by his enemies in congress. Mellon appears, says congress- jmen who helped to show him up for several billions given back during previous eight years in office, to be playing with the record, by agreeing to a statement of how much he returns during a period im- mediately following the one in which he made the big killing. The largest single item in the present pe is $4,635,530 to the estate of Jo! cob A LABOR SPORTS GROW IN MICH, tor. Auto Workers Joining Lawyer Who Helped Joyful Unity Meeting | Sports Union By JOHN MARR. ¢ | The “Labor Sports Union” has) very great prospects in building and | developing its organization among | the young workers in this district. | The young workers here desire | very much an organization of their own. This is best expressed by the organization of a club of about| twenty young workers called the “In- | ternation Stars” of whom twelve are |young workers of the Ford Trade | School. The Ford Trade School has in the | past controlled such organizations within its school. It has however | disbanded all of them under the pre- tense of avoiding accidents, but in| reality, to draw them more into the production of autos. This club was (organized independently of the school, and intends to remain that | way. | The club has organized a baseball |team within its ranks, and has al- ready played and won eight games | straight. The “Auto Workers Union’’ also has a team which is already affilia- ted to the “L.S.U,” The building of | the union which is being done by the jissuance of the “Auto Workers} |News,” factory bulletins and the suc- cessful open-air meetings in front |of factories during lunch time, will inevitably result in the building and organizing of other and varied teams which will be affiliated to the “L. |S. U” omg There are many other clubs con- nected with this “movement and |preparations are being made to further and broaden it. Imperial! the most pi ate form of State power wh | nascent middle-class society commenced to elaborate as a means of its own emancipation from feud- } alism, and which full-grown bour- geois society had finally trans- formed into a means for the en- | . H i t of labor by capital, — __have also been prohibited, “ii | Mere” a t into effect | © - MORROW UNITES ull AND CHURCH IN FASCIST TIE Vatican Settlement Is Near, He Says MEXICO CITY, June 3.—Exil Mexican bishops are expected io x turn here in the next few days as a result of the lifting of the ban on the Ca Portes Gil. Bishop Francisco Uranga y Saenz has already crossed the bo der from the United States and on his way to the capital. Bishops Return, st church is expected to be o plete by July 1, when the agreement between the vatican and the Mex- ican government, brought about by Dwight Morrow, Yankee imperialist ied. lan Se Morrow Pulls Strings. WASHINGTON, June 3.—Dwight Morrow, former Morgan partner and Yankee imperialism’s ambassador to Mexico, is playing the major part in bringing about an agreement be- tween the romatt catholic church, now openly allied with fascism, and the Portes Gil government, now an open tool of Wall Street. With the interests of the Yankee tholie Church by President | The return of the bishops of the | mbassador, is expected to be rati- | Air Stunt for Fre ing army flyer Dentroyant after th | meters | forces. nch Imperialism President Dowmergue, French 7 actionary president, congratulat- he latter attained a height of 8000 in 20 minutes, as a stunt to boost the French militarist air . | Lewis Posed as in Battle for Progressive Illinois District | WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, June, |3.—In an attempt to stem the tide the U. M. W. A. Lewis further claims that he placed this case in exploiters uppermost, for which |of revolt and stop the rapid advance |the hands of Demcan, McCormack “peace” is needed in Mexico, Morrow | of the National Miners’ Union, John |and Hefferly for investigation. This on his return here is acting as the|/L. Lewis is playing a new role, that |committee reported official delegate between the Portes Gil government and the exiled Mexi- can bishops, a task which he has taken upon himself and which the state department characterizes as “entirely personal, not official.” Pope’s Man in Mexico City Soon. Leopoido Rui Flores, head of the catholic church in Mexico, has already been appointed apostolic delegate to Mexico by the vatican, d will shortly proceed to Mexico on the invitation of Portes Gil after “confidential exchanges,” to make a_ settlement between the fascist church and the reactionary government, which is now carrying on a campaign of terror against the | Mexican workers and peasants, the very ones who put down the clerical- feudal revolt. On his arrival here, Morrow had stated to archbishop Ruiz, in the presence of an official of the state department, that now the way was open for discussion between the church and the government. He did not rush to deny that he himself was the one who opened the way. Part of Anti-Labor Drive. Under the constitution won by the Mexican revolution and now a scrap of paper in the hands of the traitor ous government, church property had been expropriated by the state and restrictions has been placed upon the catholic church which was ting as a center of concentration for all the forces of reaction. If a new agreement is negotiated, it would mean the replacing of the church in its strategie position, to which both workers and peasants are opposed, and the returning of all or a part of the church property. Both Cailes and Gil have already admitted that they were only waiting an opportunity to do both. Now with the aid of Yankee imperialism they hope to suppress revolutionary labor enough to enable the comple- tion of this agreement. Ask Disbarment of in Murder of Sacco BOSTON, June 3.—Supreme Court Justice George A. Sanderson today began hearing on a petition calling in effect for the disbarment of Arthur K. Reading, former attorney- | general of Massachusetts, who was active in the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. Reading resigned as attorney- general last year in the face of im- peachment proceedings that followed the disclosure that he had been paid a $25,000 retainer by a New York | concern which had been under in- vestigation in this state. Frederick W. Mansfield, president of the Massachusetts Bar Associa- tion, presented the case today. He told of Reading’s alleged affiliation with the L, A. W. Acceptance cor- poration of Worcester. Reading’s powerful connections are expected to halt the disbarment. Release Haines, Who Killed for Fascists BERLIN, (By Mail).—The Penal Senate of the Stettin Court has re- leased ex-Lieutenant Heines on bail of 5,000 marks. Heines was sent- enced to 10 years hard labor in the first instance and to 5 years im- prisonment in the second instance in connection with the notorious Feme murders of the German nationalist fascists. Hundreds of proletarian ;| political prisoners who have not committed murder are still in prison and the idea of releasing them on bail. would be greeted by the na- tionalist judges with roars of laugh- ter, According to the reports of the bourgeois prless, during his impris- onment Heines enjoyed unheard of privileges which practically made his imprisonment a farce, | Long Live the Revolutionary | ae ts ee rultts por ele am cn | i motion ot. “si r” and “cleanser,” weeding out “crooks” and “eliminating cor- ruption.” The miners here have topped reading the comic strips they heard of this. John L. out grafters, chas- lers, removing “bull- 's joke enough to last sinec Lewis cleani: ing out vote-st dozers”! Th any miner a month. | Having failed by jailings, by elubbings, expulsions, black-lists, lete., to stop the rapid rise of the N. M. U., something new had to be done, and now we have it. A move has been started, with the aid of lo- cal fake progres miners into following the man who more than any other is responsible for the corruption, graft, wage re-| ductions and company union condi- tions which the miners suffer un- der, | Two Machines Collide. Down here in Sub-District No. 9, U. M. Wy. where Lon Fox, D. B. Cobb and I. len have ruled with the aid of police and gangsters for the past ten years, ruled with the aid and support of Lewis, Sneed and Fishw we have had more graft, more corruption, more bull-dozing of members, than anywhere else in Il- linois. Now we have a change. With the {union a wreck, due to his betrayals, |Lewis has thought of this new scheme to regain the support of the Illinois miners, Under their usual 1un of graft, the sub-district offi- \cials here, Fox, Cobb and Lowden, {so Lewis charges, fraudulently took | | possession of and sold for their per- ! {sonal gain certain parcels of land in Benton, Mlinojs, the property of NITGEDIGET AND CAMP UNITY OPEN | Gives “Daily” $153 | The two big workers’ rest homes, | Camps Unity and Nitgedaiget held} their opening celebrations during) |the week-end of June 1 and 2. | | Nestled among the thick woods) | which cover the hillsides at Wing-| dale, New York, are the grounds of Camp Unity, which include the love- | ly Lake Ellis. The opening gather- ing on Saturday evening rocked with cheers and songs, and the greetings of many organizations if sympathy with the camp. The key-| | note of the speeches at both Unity | and Nitgedaiget were that the camps |are organized “not for the purpose |of making possible escape from the class struggle but for fighting on the cultural front of the class strug- |gle.” Physical culture as well as_ | mental culture were stressed at both | places. | Many Speakers. At Unity Camp the new officers spoke briefly and well. They are Manager, Maurice Rifkin; General | | Secretary of the Co-operative, Isidor | Smotrich, Agitprop Director, Sam Liptzin; Physical Culture Director, | Joseph Raskowitz; Choir” weader, Nathan Samarov; Secretary of Camp | Committee, N. Bass. In addition) |Comrade Rosenthal spoke in the) | name of the board of directors. Com- | ‘rades Darcy and Abramoff spoke | | for the Daily Worker and Freiheit | respectively and Comrade Gerjoy | |for the Prolectos Co-operative. | | On Sunday afternoon, Comrade! | Darcy appealed to a packed dining | |room for help to the "Daily Worker. | |The guests and camp staff donated ja total of $153.00, Communists fight on behalf of the immediate nims and interests of the working. class, but present movement they are also de- fending the future of the move- ment.—Marx. in their s, to fool the |¥ the charges proven and asked that the case be placed in the hands of the states attorney for action.. The truth is Fox, Cobb and Lowden must go, not because they stole money and prop- erty, but because they are support- ers Fishwick. Lewis wants the check-off for himself, and, at the same time, he hopes to stop the N. M. U, Lewis will try to re- place the Fishwick gang with Lewis agents, Sneed, J. T. Jones, Bill Hogan of Zeigler and others of that kind. Will the trick vork? Of course not! Fishwick ll fight back and in the fight be- tween the fakirs the N. M. U. will take over the field. Corbishley Hits Both. Last week some of Lewis’ boys \gathered together and sent a tele- gram to Lewis pledging their sup- port to his campaign against Fox, Cobb and Lowden as the only means of stopping the M. U. Henry Corbishley, secretary of the Illinois section of the N. M. U., in- terviewed today, stated: “Lewis may tool a few miners with his latest dodge, but it won’t be for long. Sneed and Hogan have rec- t as rotten as Fishwick and znd no miner will support Let the fakers figh' e are Miners Cobb them. Lusy building the National Union, and, at the present rate of progress, we will have 100 per cent organization by fall. We will, how- ever, keep a close watch on Lewis and his crooks and will expose all their moves. The best answer to give is—organize, organize, organ- ize. Every available man to work. Every local union on the job. And e will soon be through with the fakers and have only their masters, the coal operators, to fight.” VASES 'NMU CONVENTION DEFIES THEPOLIGE AT ZEIGLER, ILL 1,000 Miners Meet in | Zeigler for New Union | | ZEIGLE (By Mail).—Dele- | gates streaming into the National | Miners Union District Convention in | Liberty Hall here were frisked by cops and deputies sent by the city administration at the insistence of |the sheriff. Billie Hogan, number of other gangsters a | pigeons were busy all morning and | afternoon taking down car numbers }—endeavoring to intimi delegates and trying in ways to scare away delege visitors. At 2 p. m. the miners of Zeigler gave their swer to the fakers. 1,000 men women passed thru the gangsters’ line and thru the police lines and crowded Liberty Hall to capacity to listen to short speeches by leading members of the National Miners Union. Watt, Thompson, Davy Jones, of Indiana, |Gerry Allard, Dan Slinger of In- | diana and others. A new note was struck by Fanny Rudd of the Workers International Relief as she told of the work of the W. I. R. throughout the country. Her speech was greeted with prolonged applause and at its conclusion steps were taken for the formation of |W. I. R. branch in Zeigler. Mrs. 'Mae Gwaltney of Eldorado, secre- y of the Elderado Women’s Aux- iliary of the M. U. spoke on the need for strong women’s auxiliaries. Nels Kjar of the Trade Union Educational League, Chicago Sec- tion, spoke on the work of the Trade Union Educational League and the organization of the Trades Union Unity Convention. A collection of $106 was taken up. For Mooney and Billings A resolution endorsing the work of the International Labor Defense and calling for the release of Mooney and Billings and all other class war prisoners were passed by the con- vention unanimously. The convention called for the for- mation of a labor party to take up the battle of the workers on a na- jtional scale. This resolution called for lengthy discussion and brought out the fact that sentiment for politi- cal action was unanimous. Resolu- tions endorsed the T. U. E. Lj; the Trades Union Unity Conference; the W. I. R. and its work in Pennsyl- vania and Ohio and elsewhere; the formation of youth sections, the or- ganization of Negro workers, and against the coming imperialist war. The closing session on Sunday elected the new officers. The fol- lowing were elected: President: George Voyzey; Secretary, Henry Corbishley; Vice-President, Luke Coffey, and as district member of the National Executive Board—Free- man Thompson. Short talks by the newly elected officers concluded the convention. Not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons—the modern working class—the proletarians.— SEND the Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). 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