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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
BATTLE OPENS
IN SENATE ON
ITALIAN DEBT
administrator Leaders
Predict Approval
Especial to The Daily workerl

N~HNNANf ~ ~ NN'tS N'NhNNit
WASHINGTON, March II - The
long-deferred battle over ratfylng the
italian war debt settlement will be
opened in the senate this week, pro-
badly Thursday It was announced
today by Senator Smoot, (R), Of Utah,
member Of the American Debt Com
mission. On the eve of the fight ad-
mlnlstraton leaders were highly op-
tlmlstic as private poll Of the senate
has indicated the settlement will be
ratified by vote Of So to 40. The
declared opposition to the pact, ap-
parentIy sufficient month ago TO re-
ject the settlement. has slowly erun-
bIed.
A vigorous opposition to the settle
ment, however. will be conducted by
the progressive bloc, aided by some
western democrats. The bloc, under
the leadership of senate Norris. (R),
of Nebraska, will attack the pact as
gift" of hundreds Of millions Of
dollars to Italy. Their fight will be
supported by statistics showing the
pact allows Italy either to pay on her
original debt over a period Of 50 years.
without any interest, or to pay a nor
NAL interest rate for the same period
without ever refunding any Of the
principal debt, which amounted to
.$1,64S,0 34,050. With accrued interest,
recognized in the settlement, the
amount totals s2,O420OO.O0O.
Private Poll Made.
To the progressive war talk and
the democratic uncertainty, Senator
! Shoots only reply was: There is no
doubt but that the debt settlement
will be ratified. 1t will be approved
by the senate with weeks debate"
In support of his optimism, Smoot
called attention 10 private poll Of
the senate, which gave the debt a
favorable vote of So to 40 If all SEN
ators were voting. The poll listed Il
republicans and Is democrats favor
able to the pact with Is republicans,
"a democrats and one Farmer-Labor-
lte opposed.
We have gained more converts
since that poll was TAKEN" Smoot add
ed. "The opponents can't possibly
get Is republicans to vote against the
settlement, and before the debate
ends, there may not be twenty demo
Gratis against it,"
Smoot VIII Open Fight.
Smoot himself will open the fight
with a long speech, explaining in de-
tail why the settlement was made on
the existing terms. He will describe
Italy's economic situation, as outlin-
ed to the American Commission by
Americas own Investigators, and
close with an appeal to the senate
either to accept these terms or else
to cancel the debt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
MATTEOTTI trial
TURNING into A
FORMAL fraud
ASSGSSinS Have Nothing
to Fear from Court
Especial to The Daily Worker

cHlETl, Italy, March H. Little
progress was made today in the trial
Of Amerigo Dumini and his co-defend
ants who are charged with the muir
der of the socialist deputy Matteott
aItho the prosecution brought expert
medical testimony which proved that
the story given by Dumini yesterday
was false.
Dumini maintained that Matteotti
died in the back of the automobile al
legedly used to kidnap him, and that
the anti-fascist deputy had died from
a hemmorhage caused by tuberculaT
trouble recurring during the excite
ment Of the kidnapping. The prosecu'
ton, with its expert medical witness
es, showed that Matteotti had died as
a result of knife wounds.
The presence at the head of the
counsel for the defense of Farinacci
secretary of the fascist party, and
one Of Mussolini's closest advisers, is
an indication of what the findings OF
the court will be. Even If Dumini and
his confreres are found guilty, which
is not very likely, it is certain that
they will get very short term in
prison, or if the sentence is more
severe, Mussolini will see to it that
it is committed and that the actual
murderers Of Matteotti are soon walk
ing the streets ais free men.
Farinacci has been engaged in
spreading stories thruout Europe in
an attempt to discredit the state
ments now being made by Rossi, for
merly high in the councils of the
fascist, one Of the ruling quadrumvi
rate, who fled to France when Musso
nni attempted to make him the
scapegoat for the murder of the de
putty. Rossi, who is in constant dan
ger Of assassination by fascist agents
in Nice, France, where he is now liv
ing, has been writing a series oil
stories which prove conclusively that
Mussolini was one of the most active
and vicious plotters Of the assassina
ton of Matteotti Rossfs revelations
and his record as a fascist lead one
TO believe that he is as involved In
the murder as anyone else concern
ed. The fact that he was made the
main scapegoat instead of Mussolint
himself does not change this fact
very much.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
American Warships Are
Rushing to Intervene
Against the Chinese
Continued from page u

will be the commander of the joint
fleet, as ranking naval commander.
Powers Threaten to Open Fire.
The powers declare that unless
their ultimatum is yielded to by
Thursday noon, they will open fire
upon the Taku forts, dismantling them
and sweeping the mines themselves.
Chinese everywhere declare stoutly
that they feel that the Chinese officers
stationed at the mouth of the Pei-ho
river were justified in their suspicion
that the entrance OF the Japanese de-
stroyers-which occasioned the ex-
change of shots with the Taku forts
was intended to mask the movements
of Changes troops and naval forces, in
order that the latter might proceed to
encroach upon the hitherto staunchly
defended Picking government. The
Chinese also charge that the Mukden
(Manchurian) troops were permitted
to send messages from Dairen over
Japanese ship radios, proving again
the close connection between Japanese
Imperialism and its tool Chang.
Chang and his forces are preparing
for renewed attack upon Picking.
from the north, from the sea, and
from the southwest. The latter is be-
ing handled by the governor Of the
Shansi province throwing 10000
troops onto the railway in the north
Of his province to cut off troops ad-
vancing from Kansu and Chinese
Turkestan to aid the Kuominchun.
commanded by Yu-hsiang.
From the sea, the Shantung fotllla.
which tried to use Japanese destroy.
ers as mask for their own entry
into the city of Tientsin, by way OF
the Peiho, has captured Russian
ship from vladivostok, carrying mum.
tions, and diverted 1t to the Chang
armies in Manchuria.
Manchurian troops, reinforced bv
those from Shantung, are proceeding
70 cross the Ian river, In an attempt
to force the evacuation OF Tientsin.
And a strong feet OF battleshlns
'non TO he. reinforced by American
ships from Manila, is massing off Taku.
rla4y 20 intervene and establish tholr
dominance by Strengthening those who
support che national.revolutionary
government OF Picking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Big Labor Struggles
Loom on the Horizon
in the British Isles
Continued from Page y

council of the Trades Union Congress
and with the co-operatives, in prepara-
ton for the miners struggle in May.
Industrial conflict is likely to break
out in a number of other important
Industries. The Textile Workers
Union and the Union of the Agricul-
tural Workers are also involved The
union leaders and the rank and file
are, however, determined to stand by
their guns in the event of an open
fight and they have already given ad
vance notice that they intend to hold
fast.
March may see a number of trade
union grievances coming to head
It would be very good policy if these
could be formulated in such a way
as to make one common stand upon
the one common principle of a de
mand for living wage for all work
ers," said A. ]. Cook, secretary of the
miners federation.
Il should think the people in Nor
folk who grow our food have every
reason to be disconnected. Their con
ditions are inhuman. They only re
ceive % shillings per week. am just
going away to a most important con
ference Of our men which is BEING
held at Norwich. We expect abou
200 delegates, and they will thresh on
the details Of our future policy" was
the statement of r. B. Walker, nation
al secretary Of the Agricultural Work
ers Union.
"The policy Of forcing down wages
Of workers in all industries" com
mented Ben Turner, the president OF
the Textile Workers Union, "and the
consequent number of unemployed in
the country, is playing havoc with the
worsted, wooden, and allied trades"
And ]. T. Brownie, president Of the
Joint Trade Union Committee which
is negotiating for a raise in wages
for the engineers, when he was given
the ultimatum of the bosses that they
refused to grant the increase, de.
clared that the unions had nothing
further to add"
II signs mean anything, the master
class in Great Britain is going to have
sharp time Of 1t in the coming
months. The labor movement is in a
more militant state that it has beer
for many years, with the disintegra
ton of the British empire on the one
hand, the worsening of conditions Of
the British worker, and the growing
strength Of the left wing within the
unions. Just as one Of the latest in
dications of the growing spirit OF
solidarity is the announcement just
made that the Iron and Steel Trades
Confederation has decided by an over
whelming majority to affiliate witt
the industrial alliance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
u. N. /. A. Conference
at Detroit Seeks to
Gust Sheriff. Group
CONTINUED from Page u

CONTINUED from Page u
of the night sessions at which the
public is invited to attend and listen
to speeches being made by the pro-
Garvey speakers.
Firestone Proposal Causes Stir
The rejection of the Firestone pro-
posal by the Liberian legislature and
the censure placed on the Liberian
secretary Of state by the Legislature
and the stand taken by the presidents
cabinet against President King, who
favors the proposals Of the rubber in
terests, is causing much comment
among the rank and file members at
tending the night sessions of the con-
ventidn. The leaders Of the pro-Gar-
vey faction and the anti-Garvey fac
ton have had nothing to say so far
on this issue tho it is one of the most
important before the Liberian
Negroes.
1t is expected that before the con-
vention ends that the gathering will
take some stand on the action of the
Liberian Legislature throwing to one
side the proposals Of the rubber
magnates of America that threaten
the existence of the Liberia as a Negro
republic. The rubber interests are
bound to make Liberia one Of their
colonies and whatever form Of gov
eminent the republic now has will be
perverted into nothing more than an
oppressive medium Of the rubber In
terests if the Firestone interests once
get into Liberia with their proposals.
Has King Sold Negro Republic?
II is stated in number of African
papers that President King has been
bought out by. the rubber magnates
of America and that his secretary OF
state has also sold out. This may
explain the betrayal Of the Liberian
Negro republic into the hands OF the
Firestone interests that is now con
templated and which the Liberian le
gislature and the Presidents cabinet
refuse to agree to-
The present convention Of the Uni
versal Negro Improvement Associa
ton leave this important issue alone
Sheriff. has not as yet made a de
claration as TO where he stands on
the issues before the convention. lie
has not as yet made a declaration OF
his policy. over 100 delegates re
sponded to roll call--most OF them
staunch Garvey supporters.
Groom Peters for Presidency.
II is not expected that Garvey will
be allowed to stay in the country after
his release from prison. II is expected
that he will be deported and the pro
Garvey forces in the convention are
working on this superstition. Peters
is being groomed for the acting presi
dency. Peters IS considered stauncf
Garvey supporter and supports the
present utopian Back to Africa" pol
icy 81 Marcus Carney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Exempt SIX Goods.

MOSCOW, U. s. s. R.-(Tass)-
March Ito encourage the produc-
ton Of silk, the Soviet government, in
recent decree, removed home pro-
duced silk and semi-silk articles from
the luxuries list and these articles,
therefore, will be exempted from the
business tax
Home produced articles made Of ar.
tihcial silk or of mixtures of artificial
silk are also exempted from the tax.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
EAST PATERSON
Police ARREST
PICKET LEADER
PicketS Continue March
Despite TerrOrizatiOn
BY J. o. 5ENTALL
Especial 20 The Daily Workerl

PASSAlc, N. j., March II - Police
brutality grows more and more brazen
in the Passale textile strike. Police
bounced upon Jack Rubenstein, who
headed the picket line that marched
to East Paterson at the request of
the workers In the National Silk Dye
ing company, knocked him down and
dragged him into court and within
half on hour the judge, whose act was
so contemplate that even the capital
ist sheets were ashamed to mention
his maze, had sentenced him to go
days in Bergen county jail for the un-
heard of crime Of telling the police that
he was helping his fellow workers get
better wages and working conditions.
It was openly stated that Ruben
stein was not arrested for any breach
of the law. The bosses papers them
selves reported the case in this man
ner: "Rubenstein was considered a
valuable organizer and leader of the
picket line and the loss of his services
is believed to be a blow to the
strikers"
Two other pickets, Thomas Regain
and Frank Sarno, were also arrested
and given 80 days in jail. They were
charged with whistling. no other
crime being mentioned by the cops
who had arrested them. yet the Judge
sentenced them to 80 days in jail
Much disappointment came to the
police thugs when Nancy Sandowsky,
plucky mill girl of 10, leaped to the
front to take the place of Rubenstein
and shouted, who's afraid of riot
guns?"
Girl Leads Strike Plekets.
She took the lead of the column and
marched right between two burly
police thugs that were stationed at
the mill by the sheriff and led her
followers to the mill gates where the
girls were coming out. The bosses had
motor trucks at the gates to take the
workers away in. In spite of this pre-
caution, a large number Joined the
strikers.
VI BCn COuuly
had fourteen policemen and twenty
deputies, armed with riot guns, on the
lookout for the picket line as it was
drawing up to the dyeing plant in
East Paterson. He warned the pickets
that they must not walk two abreast
and that they must not whistle.
Fear Strikers Whistle.
The strikers have found that there
is a sort Of magic in a lusty whistle.
1t never fails to bring the whole crew
in a. mill to the windows, and once at
the window the slaves forget to go
back to their tasks and the bosses
stand there gazing in the air minus
their profit producers. That whistle
is a sort Of nightmare to the fat
barons Of the textile mills.
So the sheriffs and the cops and the
judges have been handed the COM
mand that whistling must cease, for
as long as the strikers whistle at the
gates the bosses have to whistle for
their profits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Perth Amboy Paris
Commune Meeting to
Have Big Program

PERTH AMBOY, N. j., March IT.
Perth Amboy workers will honor the
fifty-ffth anniversary of the Paris
Commune with a mass meeting on
Sunday evening, March 21, at 1880
p. m. sharp at the Workers House,
3OS Elm st.
The program will include English
and Hungarian speakers. Music, reci-
tations, etc. Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Columbus Bookbinders
Get 81 Wage Increase

COLUMBUS. Ohio, March. II. -
Union bookbinders have secured a 81
week wage increase here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
which will be made under oath by a
large number of eye-witnesses:
Assault Strike Pickets.

WHICH Will pc maze unuer OdIn Dy q
large number of eye-witnesses:
Assault Strike Piokets.
1. The rights of public assemblage,
free speech, and free press are being
denied by the public officials of the
mill towns, as evidenced by scores of
brutal assaults on peaceable workers,
newspaper representatives, and the
public, by police and other officials.
2. Governmental protection of the
life, limb and homes of the great
majority of the inhabitants of those
mill towns has broken down, imperil-
ing and destroying the life, liberty and
property of vast numbers of the
citizens of New Jersey by force and
violence, in direct violation of the
federal constitution.
3. The textile industry OF New
Jersey, primarily engaged in produc-
tion for interstate and foreign com.
merce, compels workers to produce its
goods amid unsanitary conditions that
menace their own health and that OF
the persons of the various states into
which their product is shipped by in.
terstate commerce.
4. The New Jersey mill owners are
using interstate transportation Ia
bring into Passaic and vicinity spies
and detectives to act as agents provo.
cateurs and to initiate and foster
violence and intimidation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Foreign Exchange.

NEW YORK, March II Great
Britain pound sterling, demand 4.S5%,
cable 4.S6&; France franc, demand
3.5715, cable 3.5S; Belgium franc, de-
mand 4.O4%; cable 4.O5A; Italy Ira,
demand 4.O1A; cable 4.01%; Sweden
krone, demand 26.77, cable $3.50; Nor
way krone, demand 21,49, cable 21.51;
Denmark krone, demand 26.17, cable
1918; Shanghai, tael, demand 1880.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
President Confers
with Agents Of u. S.
Imperialism Abroad
IspseIaI 70 The DaIIy Nw0rkerl

WASHINGTON. March 17.-Ambas-
sador Alanson B. Houghton will arrive
in Washington late this afternoon and
will be President Coolidge's guest at
the white house.
With Houghton, Minister Gibson
and Secretary of State Kellogg, Pres
ident Coolidge will go over European
conditions, particularly with reference
to the proposed disarmament confer
ence of the league of nations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Senate TO GET
RESOLUTION ON
PASSAIC STRIKE
Committee in Washing
ton Is Getting Results
(continued from page u.

conditions in the industry from Frank
P. Walsh, also declared that it war
rants prompt attention and investiga-
ton and promised that if other means
of starting the investigation failed he
0imself would personally introduce
the resolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
sovIets Grant Mine coneessIon.

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., March II. -
Extensive silver, lead and iron ore
concessions in the region adjacent to
the Amur river in Asiatic Russia have
been granted to the Preamur Joint
Stock Mining company, an English
firm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

conditions in the industry from Frank
P. Walsh, also declared that it war
rants prompt attention and investiga-
ton and promised that if other means
of starting the investigation failed he
0imself would personally introduce
the resolution.
Bosses Tool Fears Probe.
Since Lawrence c. Phipps of Colo
RADIO is the chairman of the committee
on labor and education other senators
advised interviewing him, but he was
afraid to touch it and said it was not
proper matter for investigation but
should be handled thru the depart
ment of labor. Phipps was unquestion-
ably interviewed by the scabby mill
owner Colonel Johnson who came to
Washington on the same train with
the strikers, tho he kept out of sight
until the train arrived in this city.
The Colorado senator is also the serv-
lie turnkey of the notorious scab Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron company owned
by the Rockefeller interests, so he
could not be expected 70 lend his aid
to an expose of the slave pens of the
wooden mill owners.
Interview Wheeler.
Later Senator Wheeler Of Montana
was interviewed and agreed that
something ought to be done regarding
the industry and said that if someone
else introduced it and 1t was referred
to the committee on manufacturers of
which he is a member, he would fight
for it there, but that he hesitated to
introduced it himself.
AS yet none of the members of the
lower house have been seen, but eff
forts will be made by Walsh and
Albert Weisbord, organizer of the
Passaic strikers, to see some Of the
leading members of the minority in
congress in order to bring up the
question of the high tariff on woolens
and it's relation to the general condi-
'ons of labor in that industry.
Eight strikers accompanied Weis-
ord to Washington, all of them re-
'resenting mills on strike and all of
hem workers. They are Gustav Deak,
theresa Staudinger, Frank Giacomini,
frances Janicke, Anna Braznik, Steph-
n Res, Matyas Haydn, Carl Trocolo.
Mary Heaton Worse, the journalist,
md Mrs. Katherine G.. F. Wiley, of
the New Jersey Consumers League,
also came with the delegation. Frank
P. Walsh is to act as counsel for the
delegation in taking evidence when
the committee gets to work and will
have authority to call witnesses thru
out the whole industry
To Show Rotten Conditions.
His statement regarding the investi-
cation follows:
IL have come to Washington with
these textile mill workers to bring to
the attention of responsible members
of the senate a state OF affairs in the
New Jersey textile industry which
the evidence proves to be more dis
graceful and inhuman than have
ever found to exist in any other in
dustry Of this country. II is my hope
that the United States senate will
take prompt and vigorous action to
investigate the truth of these charges
and hold criminally responsible those
industrial interests, responsible for
violating the constitutional rights OF
their employees.
We base our request for congress
sional action on the following charges,
The Coconino sun., 1926-01-15
AJO MAN KILLED WHILE
DRIVING. TO COUSINS BURIAL

While on his way TO the funeral of
his cousin, N. f. Tibshraeney ia Mesa
Sunday, Joe Tibshraency, business
man Of Ajo, met death when his ear
overturned. The Ajo man was found
crushed beneath the wreckage of his
car in which he was travelling alone,
A passing tourist found Tibshracney.
The accident happened at a banked
turn on the road three miles west Of
Gillespie dam.
Tibshraeney left his home in Ajo
Saturday morning early and was not
again accounted for until late Sunday
afternoon when his body was identi-
fled at a mortuary by relatives who
were attending the funeral at Mesa
and local man who knew the Ajo
man through business connections.
The Coconino sun., 1926-01-15
GLOBE WOMAN SEES HANG
ING OF BILL LAWRENCE


The gamest man / have ever seen
go to the gallows," was the declara-
ton Of Supt. r. A. Sims as the clang
Of the steel traps announced the end
Of William A. (Bill) Lawrence, slayer
of Policeman Haze Burch of Phoenix,
February 5, 1926. Lawrence paid his
life for his deed last Friday morning
at the state prison.
Il think it's a fair proposition, !"
were Lawrence's last words as the
hangman slipped the black death cap
over his head. Lawrence presumably
referred to the method used at the
prison to enact capital punishment.
The trap was sprung at 5:19 o'clock
and nine minutes and so seconds later
he was pronounced dead by DR.. G. w.
Stephens, superintendent of the Ari-
zona state hospital, who was present
in his official capacity, for the state.
Lawrence's body was claimed by
the mother and was removed immed-
lately after the hanging to Martins S
mortuary for shipment to 0kmulgee,
Okla, Lawrence's old home town. A
number of relatives will be there be-
sides the mother, sister and two
brothers.
This was the first hanging in Ari-
zona witnessed by woman. Mrs.
Ethel Ekstrom Of Globe, walked to the
death pit and took long look at the
body after the trap was sprung.