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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Mexican Workers
Demonstrate on
the First of May
CONTINUED from page u


slogans as, Cursed be those who
claim the right to live while being
exploiters, or 1.-THE land for the peas
ants that work it and the factories for
the workers who toll in them; for this
we fight"
Protest Before U. S. Consulate.
The electricians union led the pa
rade on horseback and along the line
Of march the thousands banked up
around the most hated foreign coun-
tries consulates to demonstrate their
protest at imperial exploiters and fas-
cist relationships.
Before the consulate OF the United
States many speakers addressed the
crowds, protesting at the attacks by
the United States on Mexican SOW
ereignty and the rights of Mexican
workers exploited by American CAPT.
talists in Mexican industry. A fight
both energetic and decisive was urged
against the enslavement OF the Mexi-
can workers to the yoke of Wall
Street.
Send Greetings to Soviet Workers.
The proposal to send fraternal greet
ings to the workers and peasants OF
Soviet Russia by way of a telegram
to the Soviet ambassador to Mexico
was carried with shout, and the
throng moved on to the consulates of
Spain and Italy, where speeches were
made against fascism and the earnest
desire for the early overthrowal OF
Mussolini and Primo de Rivera were
made known to the agents of these
criminals.
In the evening the Princess Theater
was packed by a mass meeting, de-
spite the obstacles put in the way OF
the meeting by the socialists, who pre-
vented the gathering in another thea
ter, where 1t had been announced.
Here again the desire OF Tampico
workers for unity OF the whole work
ing class against the capitalist and
imperialist exploitersa was the burden
OF the speeches and material help In
the form of collection for the strik'
ers against a Yankee corporation OF
Cinco Minas was taken up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
FURRIER union
MACHINE GUSTS
3 LEFT WINGERS
Millstein Carries on by
Suspensions

The executive board of the Chicago
Furriers' Union prior to the last
meeting of the union had suspended
three left wing members of the local
and this constituted topic of lively
discussion when the local convened
for its regular meeting last Friday,
under the gavel of Manager Millstein,
leader of the right-wing, machine
forces in the local.
The suspensions were made on the
ground that Charles Grossman, Man
del Scheinberg and Max Mendelson,
all left-wingers, had participated in a
fight with Millstein supporters at a
local union meeting on April 9th. The
executive board is controlled by the
union machine and altho supporters
of Millstein had been implicated and
actually started the fight, none of
them were suspended.
Order Them Out.
When the minutes of the board were
read. Millstein ordered the three sus-
pended members to leave the hall.
Objection was raised by Finkelstein,
chairman of an impartial committee
to investigate the affair. He pointed
out that the impartial committee had
come to a different decision than the
executive board and that Millstein
was breaking an agreement previously
made. In spite OF the fact that the
impartial committee was composed of
largely right-wing supporters, 1t had
decided only to impose punishment by
fine on the three left-wingers and also
upon Max Lieberman, a machine man
who was involved in the fight.
Machine Moves.
Morris Leberman, brother of
Max, made a motion TO sustain the
suspension Of the three members and
TO ignore the findings OF the impartial
committee. This motion was finally
passed by a vote of 45 TO 32.
Offer "Armistlee."
After this achievement, Millstein
then offered a truce to the left-wing-
ers. He said that, in viewof the com
ing agreement TO be signed by the
bosses, that an armistice should be
declared between the two groups in
the union.
But spokesman for the left.wing
announced that II had had enuf of
Millsteins "truces'-the suspension OF
the three members at the meeting be-
Ing the outcome OF one OF them. \
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
U. 5. CAPITAL
FINANCES Big
GERMAN TRUST
Coal, Iron and Steel in
\ Giant Combine
tspeeIaI to rhs naIIy workerl


BERLIN, May 1s-An amaIgamatIon
OF German firms controlling so per
cent of coal iron and steel produc-
ton, forming possibly the largest pri-
vate Industrial concern In Europe with
capital and reserve valuation Of
more than $500, 600, 600, Is to be r.
naneed by the Wall Street firm Of Dill
Ion, Read and Company, which Is ar
ranging loan Of between 100000, 900
and $4,000, ooo-saId to be largest for
elgn loan ever made to any private
corporation Of Germany.
The combination is known as the
Vereinigate Stahlwerke, or the United
Steel Works, and comprises the Thys-
sen Company, the Rhinelbe Union, the
Phoenix and Rheinstahl, with Fritz
Thyssen, son Of the late August Thy
sen, who was leader Of German
heavy industry, as chairman of the
board of directors.
The Thyssen firm and the Rheinelbe
Union are previous debtors to Ameri-
can capital thru Dillon, Read and Com
pany, who last year marketed
$12,0o0,OO0 of Thyssen paper and
$25, 100000 Of the Rhinelbe Union.
With the loan now being negotiated
American imperialism gains great
step in the control of European heavy
industry. A commission has been in
stituted to draw up plans for reogran-
ization Of the component works 40 az
to eliminate costs and especially la
Dor. Coal operations will be directed
from Essen and iron and steel from
Dusseldorf, according to reports.
Representatives of the combination
are to sail soon for the United States
to complete the loan negotiations, at
least by midsummer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20

TUST as regularly as the passage
- of days on the calendar record
ing time, the Union of Soviet Re-
publics triumphantly persists in
overcoming every crisis that the
capitalist world halls as a welcome
omen of its doom.
1t was not long ago that the finan-
cial experts OF capitalism were
claiming that Soviet finances we're
going to the dogs, that the chervo-
metz was dropping in price on for
eign exchanges and that the rouble
would see another tremendous in
fiation. 1t was charged that dire
disaster leading to inevitable chaos
lay dead ahead for workers and
peasants rule.
ALI these claims were refuted in
this column at the time with infor-
nation that was available for all
editors anxious to make use of it.
One of the particular offenders in
Chicago was The Tribune. The facts
that gave the lie to the misleading
propaganda of this sheet were duly
sent to the editor of The Tribune.
Even the receipt of this information
was never acknowledged. Altho the
Tribune conducts beg Your Par
don" column to correct all it's errors,
no correction was ever made of any
of it's lies against Soviet rule. This
column is used to put right small
typographical errors and to correct
insinuations that might drift into
the news about the great rich on
"the gold coast" 1t is not in bust
ness to set right deliberate misre-
presentations of conditions under
Workers Rule, that governs for
150,000,000 workers and peasants
over one-sixth Of the worlds land
surface.
It has remained for the Chicago
Daily News, now owned and con-
trolled by a clique of Chicago bank
ers and "big business" men, to pub
hsh some of the truth, which it does
under the niggardly title of, "Slow
Improvement in Red Finances;
Soviets Force Successful State En-
terprises to Share Profits with Fail
ures."
This would infer that Soviet fin
ances have been at a low ebb, which
is not true. Last falls grain export
program did not materiahze to the
extent planned, with the result that
the funds for the development Of
industry were not forthcoming. This
was merely a temporary setback
that is now being completely over
come.
Junius B. Wood, in the Chicago
Daily News, shows how the income
OF the Soviet Union has steadily
mounted during the last four-year
period, the estimate for 1925-26
being nearly a billion roubles $780,
000,000) in advance of that for
1924-25.
1t is also shown that mining and
oil are in the lead of the most sue
cessful industries, while the heavy
metal industry does not lag very far
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Another Victim of
Chicago's Booze War

A prosperous looking gunman who
fired his deadly volley from the rear
seat Of an expensive automobile while
a pretty woman companion acted as
chauffeur, is being sought by police
following the murder of Themes Dire,
an official of the Motion Picture oper-
ators Union
Dire was standing in the shadows
Of an elevated station when the death
car, piloted by blond, rolled up to
the curb near him and stopped A
man then leaned forward and fred
four shots. AS Dire slumped to the
pavement the car sped away. He died
on the way to hospital.
When Dire's living quarters were
searched a book containing list Of
booze runners and gunner was found
II is believed that Dire was connected
with one OF the booze ringA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Illinois Democrats
Oppose Two-Thirds
and the Unit Rules

Both the Brennan and the Harrison
Dunne-O' Cornell factions in the demo-
crat party Of Illinois agree that the
two thirds rule now used in nominal
ing presidential candidates be abol.
ished. Many of the active leaders of
both factions are opposed to the unit
rule system under which state delega-
tions cast their votes for candidates.
1t is declared that the leaders OF
the dry forces may fight for the reten-
ton of the unit rule and the two
thirds law, fearing the nomination of
wet candidate for the presidency
Vincent Dallman, editor Of the Spring
field Register and a prominent dry
leader in the democrat party, declares
editorially that he seeks the abolition
Of both these rules.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20

During 1924-25 no industry OPP
Grated with loss in all its branches.
The only unfavorable balances were
those of separate "heavy industry"
trusts, especially branches OF these
which we're not sufficiently devel-
oped up to now, such as shipbuild-
ing, automobile, buildings, ETC., etc.
However, even these branches, I'M
der a general expansion Of revenues
in the industry, are gradually reduc-
ing their losses and even developing
into profitable undertakings.
The paper industry leads with the
highest profits. After it come min
ing, oil, textiles, sugar, electrical ap-
paratus and food. Less profitable
are the metal industry, forestry,
silicate and leather, whose profits,
however, are FIVE per cent of sale
prices.
Thus industry in tn Soviet Union
steadily climbs the difficult upgrade
toward complete reconstruction.
Another falsehood of the enemy cap
italist world has been shattered.
The workers and peasants, driving
toward Communism confidently,
await the next poison pen effort OF
the hired scribblers of their foreign
foes. They will shatter that, too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
$4,000 PASSA|C
CITIZENS join
WITH STRIKERS
Great Mass Meeting
Supports Strikers
Especial to Tho Daily wOrkerl

PAssAIc, N. j., May 1s.- Thirty
thousand citizens Of Passale and lite
vicinity placed themselves officially
on record as supporting the striking
textile workers to the limit on Sun
day at a huge mass meeting In Pas
sale.
The Associated Societies and Par
ishes of Passadc, Garfield and Clifton,
and vicinity, comprising more than
forty societies, benevolent, social, re-
ligious, political, and churches, met
to endorse the strike, and to pass
resolutions urging the senate investi-
cation of the strike now pending.
Support Strikers.
A real citizens meeting, called by
the Association itself, it represented
the actual feeling of the mass Of the
people in the strike area as to the
justice Of the strike. This great body,
with ramifications extending turnout
the entire nation, created the Citi-
zens' Cancellation committee which
worked for more than a month to
bring the mills and the strikers to-
gether, and finally encountered the
iron refusal of the mill owners to
meet the union for settlement Of the
strike. The Association then declar-
ed that it must abandon its position
of neutrality and support the strik-
ers with its full strength
Send Washington Committee.
The first move Of the Association
will be to send committee OF thirty
citizens, including many clergymen, to
Washington to demand senatorial in
vestigation, it was announced at the
meeting. The committee will leave
on Monday night. Plans also include
the collection of relief funds for the
strike relief organizations.
The meeting on Sunday, in Belmont
Park Hall, was presided over by Will
lam R. Vanecek, prominent attorney
Of Passaic, and was addressed by
thirteen priests, and three laymen, in
Guiding Councilman Quinlavan of Gar
field, who asked to be allowed to speak
in support of the strike.
Big Parade.
The Association is making plans for
a huge parade in Passaic on next
Sunday as a part of the campaign
for additional Passaic support. All
the societies Of the Association win
be represented and strikers will march
in the parade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Judge Wilkerson VIII
Pass Sentence on Lake
and Druggan on June 2

Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson
announced he will pass sentence June
2 on Terry DruggaA and frankie Lake
bootleggers, and five assistant jail
superintendent for allowing the two
booze runners to visit cabarets while
they were supposed to be in their cells
in the Cook county jail.
Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman and Yves
ley Westbrook, former warden, al
ready have been sentenced on this
charge.
On the same date Judge Wilkerson
will set day for the trial Of Druggan
Lake, Hoffman, Westbrook and the
minor Jail attaches on charges OF con
spiracy to obstruct justice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20

'%-Estimate of the Council Of COM
n1issars. All figures are in rubies Zap
proximately so cents equals ruble).
The fiscal year starts Oct. !.
t-Three ciphers omitted.
Brukhanov makes the terse dec
laration that this table shows the
gradual steps in the rapid recovery
of our state budget.
Probably even more significant is
the statement that the economic bet
tering of the general population has
increased the demands for articles
of domestic and imported manufac-
ture. This in turn accounts for the
considerable increase which the in
direct taxes will show this year.
In reply to the second question,
Brukhanov showed that the great
majority of the large industrial
(state) trusts started to show
profits as early as 1929-24. Group
ing profitable and Improbable trusts
separately, the growth Of the former
in recent years has been as fol-
lows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Mussolini to Announce
Completion of Fascist
Program During Week

ROME, May is. - Benito Mussolini,
fascist dictator, will issue a manifesto
before the end of the week, declares
the "Tribuna," announcing the end of
liberalism and completion Of the
fascist program.
The manifesto will point out that
Italy is now to be ruled by three great
combinations: the big industrialists
the fascist trades unions and the
fascist grand council. with courts of
labor to enforce arbitration and to
prosecute those who dare strike.
The fascist minister of corporations
in the Mussolini cabinet will control
all three organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
An American observer"

GENEVA, May 1S-Will Rogers
American lariat artist and Zeigfeld
Follies clown, bobbed up in the league
Of nations disarmament commission
session this afternoon and attracted
more attention than many of the dele.
gates.
Gust throw out the Japs and the
Chinese and you would think you
were in congress" drawled Rogers in
his seat in the press gallery.
"This man, Paul Boncour, he seems
to be the Babe Ruth Of the league
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
MANY PARDONS
WERE SOLD BY
POLITICIANS
Joliet Warden Shows Up
Crooked Parole Board

Warden John L. Whitman, in his tes-
timony before the Cook county grand
jury investigation OF the Major En-
cheering Corporation headed by Major
M. A. Messlein, which has been ex-
posed as pardon mill, brought out
that pardons and paroles are sold in
discriminatory by Illinois politicians.
He declared that the feeling among
the inmates of the penitentiaries that
they must have money with which to
bride officials in order to get out be-
fore their time was up had broken
down the discipline in the prisons and
caused the murder of Deputy Warden
Peter Klein.
Tho he was supposed to be the war
den of the Joliet prison, he declared
that Klein did as he pleased and
bossed the Jail, thus destroying all
discipline. Whitman said that he
complained of this state of affairs to
Chauncey Jenkins, director Of the
state department of public welfare
and overseer Of all prisons, but no
attention was paid to his complaints.
Jenkins had appointed Klein.
Will Colvin, head Of the parole and
pardon board, was also an appointee
Of Jenkins and followed Jenkins in
structions in the issuance of paroles
and pardons was another point
brought out by the grand jury.
1T was common ta1A among the
prisoners that 1t didn't profit them to
obey the rules and gain credits under
the merit system.
1T was an accepted fact among
them, just as you might accept the
facts of your daily life, that they had
to have money or powerful political
friends to get them out of the peni-
Tertiary.
5rIbes Sought.
"If you had money or influence, It
didn't matter how bad lyou were, or
what your record was in prison.
'If you had them not, it didn't mat
ter how good your record, how trivial
your offense-you couldn't get out.
Klein Murder.
81 can illustrate this feeling best by
telling you Of the conversation of the
seven convicts who escaped, first
stabbing Deputy Warden Klein to
death. They said to Keely, captain
Of the guard, who was forced to lead
them from the penitentiary:
"'We'll probably hang for this If
they catch us. But what's the differ
ence? This only way we would ever
get out of here is this way. The guys
who can get dough or political pull
those they spring. We never could
get out, so we had to take our chance.
Messleln Aids Convict.
Zone of the convicts went over the
prison wall one night and escaped"
Mr.. Whitman went on. "In his cell
we found a note, addressed to me,
which still have, and which in sub
stance was as follows:s
Il paid Mai. Messlein $500 to get
me out of here, and I'm being double.
crossed. I'm not getting out. I want
to go down and see the governor and
find out why my case was not con
sidered. AS soon as / do that I'm
coming back
"The prisoner did come back, vol
unfairly, and repeated his story to
me. Strangely enough, he was mis-
taken, for his case had been favor
ably passed upon by the parole board
Parole Escaped Convict.
ut was necessary to hold the man
eight or nine months because OF his
escape attempt, but at the earliest
moment he was paroled."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
HEAVY VOTING IN
PENNSYLVANIA
PRIMARY FIGHT
Graft Charges Hit All
Candidates
Especial to The Daily worksrl


PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May Is. -
Pennsylvania registered republicans
and democrats are voting today in the
primary election, the outcome Of
which will determine the control of
the republican political machinery Of
the state. The main contest is over
the nomination for United States SEN
ator, and more than a million voters
are expected to participate in the re-
publican primary alone.
The Mellon-C Coolidge administration
forces are desperately striving to
bring out their full strength in sup
port of George Wharton Pepper, one
of the rock-ribbed reactionaries of
the Morgan coalition of republicans
and democrats.
BOSS Bill" Ware, OF this city, who
is head of the corrupt republican ma
chine here, has modified all his
forces and expects to carry Phila-
delphia by large plurality.
Governor Clifford Pinchot, who
dominates a considerable portion of
the state political machine and con-
trolls the state ofices-the pay roll
gang-is satisfied that his fences are
intact and is only awaiting the official
count.
Graft Charges Persist.
On every hand are heard accusa-
lions of graft and it is admitted by
all that more money has been spent
in this state campaign than is Gus
tomarily spent in a presidential cleo
ton. The Mellon forces, representing
great monopolistic combines, have
flooded the state with money because
they fear the nomination of Pinchot,
which will place the Pennsylvania
governor in line for contest for presi-
Dental nomination in 1928.
In Pittsburgh and Philadelphia the
lid is off as far as bootlegging, vice
and gambling are concerned and the
underworld is modified to its full
capacity-in Pittsburgh for Pepper
and In this city for Ware.
other Complications.
The situation is very further COM
pEcated by the ramifications Of other
candidacies--the contest for the
gubernatorial nomination between
John S. Fisher, E. E. Beidelman, John
Tener, and Congressman Thomas w.
Phillips, and on the democratic side
between Samuel E. Shull VIM. e.
Porter and E. C. Bonniwell. For the
democratic senatorial nomination
there is no contest, VIM. B. Wilson,
secretary of labor in the Wilson cab
met, being unopposed.
The chief hope of the democrats is
that there will be so much throat-cut-
ting by the republicans that a split
party will be the result and offer a
chance for the election of democratic
ticket in November for the first time
in modern memory.
In this hope, they are banking large
ly upon Governor Pinchot, for tho ex
pectation is general thruout the Penn
sylvania that the governor, If defeated
will make an independent race for the
senate backed by the more pronounced
dry element of the state. If Ware wins,
constituting a wet victory, Pinchot's
Independent candidacy is regarded as
assured. II Pepper wins, It is said to
be doubtful If Pinchot will make the
race, as Pepper has considerable fol
lowins among the drys and churches
himself.
The DAILY WORKER goes 10
press too early to obtain returns
from the primary elections In Penn
sylvania, but they will be pub
lIshed tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Coolidge Seeks French
Debt Ratification
Especial TO The Daily worker)

WASHINGTON, May 1S.-President
Coolidge hopes that the Franco-Ameri.
can debt pact will be ratified at this
session of congress and that congress
will take no action on the debt until
the French parliament disposes of the
agreement.