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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Co-operators Join
Condemnation of
Fascist Terrorism

SOINTULA, B. c., March 23.-The
regular membership meeting Of the
cooperative store of Sointula passed
the following resolution unanimously:
Whereas, the present fascist gov
eminent Of Italy has destroyed the
cooperative societies of Italy and
forcibly occupied the offices Of the
Lega Nazionale;
eve, the members of the Sointula
Coop, store of Sointula, B. c., as
sembled in our annual membership
meeting, join in the protest of the
International Cooperative Alliance,
and extend our sympathies to the
prosecuted Italian co-operators.
Further, we heartily endorse the
proposal made by the Red Interna-
tional Of labor unions that the Inter-
national Cooperative Alliance take
the initiative to call a conference of
the Amsterdam International of Trade
Union, the Red International of Labor
Unions and International Cooperative
Alliance, to formulate measures to
fight fascism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Strikebreaking Comes
High, Rail Barons Find

TRENTON, N. J.-FP)-March %
Trenton labor is learning something
about the high cost of railroad strike
breaking from the federal govern
ments suit against William c. Genne-
rich of the Ascher Detective Agency
and captain Reginald Fay, super
intendent of the marine department,
New York Central railroad. The de-
tective and rail head are charged with
conspiring to defraud the United
States government by padding the
railroads payroll in wartime when the
line was under federal control.
Letters from Fay to Gennerich, in
troduced into the proceedings, tell Of
the number Of men hired to break a
strike in the marine department Of
the railroad. The government seems
TO be using the letters to prove that
the defendants drew wages for men
who were not on the company pay
roll-dummy strike-breakers. The
Ascher firm of detectives was paid
1927, 900 at the conclusion Of the
strike and the government reimbursed
the railroad for the amount, which it
now claims was excessive. The gov
eminent is not protesting its payment
Of money for ike-breaking, but for
what 1t declares an excessive charge
for the Job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
SENATOR SEEKS
PROBE OF KUHN,
LOEB & co. FEES
Bankers Demand 40 Pct.
for Underwriting Loan

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS %
Senator Couzens has put up so hard
a fight before the senate committee
on interstate commerce as to swing
its decision away from immediate gen
erosity to the st. Paul and other rail
roads that owe large sums to the gov
eminent, and to force investigation Of
S6,O0O,000 fee which two Wall Street
banks propose to take for reorganiz-
ing the st. Paul road.
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the National
City bank of New York have been
summoned by the committee to send
representatives to Washington To in
form the committee as to why this
fee should be paid for underwriting
the reorganization of the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul. That road
went into the hands of a receiver
while it owed the federal treasury
$55,OOO,OO0, borrowed during the war.
These two banks have evolved a plan
which calls for raising $4,000, 900
with which to settle up debts and start
again. They demand S6,OOO,OO for
their services. This would come from
the stock and bond holders.
However. Senator Gooding. has a
bill before the committee, proposine
that the government postpone for
about 80 years the collection of ali
war debts due from railroads, and that
the interest rate be reduced from six
to four and one-half percent. Former
Senator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey
representing bondholders including
big insurance companies, urged the
committee to report it fayorably at
once. So did Alfred Thorn, counsel
for the railroad companies. Gooding
for western stockholders in the St
Paul, was eager for action.
Couzens pointed out that if this
bill became law, the bankers would
be obliged to raise only $4,000. OOC
In cash for the st. Paul, since its debt
OF S55,OOO,000 would no longer be due
He argued that the Wall Street bank
ers ought to be satisfied with less than
S6,OOO,OO0 out Of that $4,000, 900. since
40 per cent as an underwriting fee
was unusual.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Blacklist Union Journals.

NEW Observation-Disclosures.
ing to wipe out labor and other papers
printed in union shops, the advertising
committee Of the New Orleans asso.
citation Of commerce has put the ban
on all but five publications. outside
the dailies which are openshop. The
Labor Record, official publication Of
the central trades and labor body, and
The Federalist, organ Of the Louisiana
state federation of labor, were among
those blacklisted. Merchants who ad.
yertise in these publications are sub
ject to fine by the advertising com
nlttee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Devoe and Reynolds
Try Stock Plan for
Class Collaboration

NEW YORK, March 2S-The Devoe
and Reynolds Co., Inc, has sold 5000
shares of its Glass A common stock
at $35 a share to nearly 500 employees.
The, shares were issued in two allot-
ments, the first on Nov. and the Sec
ond on Jan. Is, and are to be delivered
to the purchasers in November, 1927.
OF the total number of shares offered,
1902 were purchased outright and the
balance of 1928 on installments of SIS
down and minimum of So per share
per month, according to De Lancey
Kountze, treasurer.
Widely Distributed.
The sales of the stock to employees
were widely distributed, including
more than twenty branches, the four
factories Of the company, the New
York general offices and In Wads-
worth, Rowland and company, Inc.
the Boston subsidiary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Gold Door Knobs Are
Easier Than SIS Fine

Lawrence J. ("Butch") Crowley,
whose sensational rise from the rail.
road switchyards at Joliet, H., to a
gorgeous home equipped with gold
door knobs followed the advent OF
prohibition, didn't have IS with which
to bail himself out when he was ar
rested here on a charge OF assault.
Mrs. Mildred Geise, wife Of for
mer announcer at a radio station
which Crowley built out OF his new
found wealth, appeared in court to
tell the story of an argument over
wages which she says Crowley owes
her husband She charges Crowley
beat her up to convince her he was
right. 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
STRESEMANN FOR
CONTINUANCE OF
LEAGUE POLICY
Did Not Wait Hat in
Hand, He Asserts
Especial to The Daily workers


BERLIN, March % - I'VE must
continue the political battle for Ger
mans position of equality as a big
power in the league of nations" de-
clared German foreign minister,
Stresemann, when he appeared be-
fore the reichstag today to explain
the events that led up to the failure
of the league to admit Germany. He
indicated that Germany would con-
tinue to seek admission to the league,
but only as a power on an equal
footing with Great Britain and
France.
Germany did not wait, hat in
hand, at Geneva" Stresemann said,
denying charges Of the opposition
that the German delegation at Ge-
neva had adopted a weak position.
"Cheap Laurels" Refused.
1--WE were advised to depart from
Geneva in protest against the strug-
gle that went on between members
of the league. If we had done this
we would have earned cheap laurels
for few days, but the world would
have blamed us in the long run for
the smashup.
1--WE could not antagoniEe the
whole league just because we did
not regard the procedure of certain
members as correct. 1t would be
folly to abandon a policy of peace
and understanding just because the
mechanism of the league broke down
this time at Geneva"
Addressing His Socialist Friends.
Stresemann plainly showed the
strain under which he has been work
ing. His explanations were particu-
larly directed to appease critics in
the ranks Of the government coali-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
French CONSIDER
KRIM'S PROPOSAL
FOR STOPPING WAR
Communists Force Ac-
ton by Agitation
lspeeIaI . The DaIIy w0rkerl


PARIS, March 23-Paul Painleve,
minister OF war, in reply to question
regarding the operations in the Riff,
told the members of the army COM
mittee of the chamber of deputies that
"the government is neglecting no
serious opportunity to restore peace
in the Riff" In connection with the
known fact that emissaries of Abd-el-
Krim are in the city, it is believed
that the Rfffian leaders proposals are
being given serious consideration.
Despite all the buster the high
French command isl making over the
preparations for the united French
Spanish drive in Morocco, it is evil
dent to all observers that the govern
ment is in no position to carry on
such a campaign.
The financial situation is shaker
than ever with the prospects that par
lament will adjourn for the Easter
recess, having done nothing to solve
the budget deadlock. Meanwhile the
franc has declined TO new low re-
cord on the local exchange market,
being quoted at 1888 10 the dollar and
1875 to the Britishfaound.
A spring offe1siyl against the Riff
fans would involve Tens of thousands
Of men, as the operations are carried
on the scale of first class war. The
cost in supplies and wages would be
enormous.
Moreover there is the fact that the
war itself is extremely unpopular. The
cabinet has but shaky foothold at
best and to prolong the struggle in
Africa will tremendously increase the
influence of the Communists who
have bitterly fought the whole affair
as an imperialistic effort to extend
French control in northwest Africa.
Radio ExposesfIneffieieney.
All Paris is excited over the publica-
ton of radio messages relayed from
Gibraltar, detailing mistakes of the
French and Spanish in the Riftian
campaign. Among the charges made
is that Spanish army officers at the
front trade munitions with the Riff
fans in return for food and other such
supplies. The reason for this state
of affairs is claimed to be the absolute
failure Of the Spanish commissary. 1t
is also claimed that the patrol of the
Moroccan coast is altogether ineffec-
tive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
DETROIT FORMS
COUNCIL FOR
FOREIGN-DORN
Delegates Meet to Fight
Legislation
Especial to The Daily wOrker)

DETROIT, Mich, March % - At a
conference Of delegates representing
trade unions, workers. fraternal and
benefit organizations and foreign Ian
guaee organizations, held Sunday In
Fraternity Hall, Detroit Council for
the Protection Of Forelgn-born Work
ers was formed.
VIM. Reynolds, a delegate from
Carpenters Union No. 2140, called the
conference to order. The credential
committee reported SO delegates pres
emit. They came from the Auto Work
ers Union, patternmakers, machinists,
carpenters, metal polishers, glass
workers, cooks and pastry cooks, and
painters; Lithuanian delegates re-
presenting IA Lithuanian organiza-
lions, Hungarian Lodges representing
1920 members, Ulrainian Alliance of
nine organizations, the South Slavic
Council for the Protection of the
Foreign-born, Russian National Con-
ference representing practically every
Russian Workers organization in De-
troit, Jewish conference of 10 or
ganizations, Slovac Workers Society,
German, Bulgarian, Roumanian, and
Finnish organizations, and the Work
ers' Party of Detroit. All delegates
were seated.
Owens Speaks.
An analysis of the various bills
aiming at the restriction of the move
ments of foreign-born workers, and the
effect Of such legislation upon the trade
union movement and the entire work
ing class in this country was made
by Edgar Owens.
A resolution pointing out the iniqui
ties of the proposed bills and demand
ing of Michigan's Representatives in
Washington that they work against
and vote against these bills was
adopted.
Plan Demonstration.
An executive committee Of II was
elected. A motion carried unanimous
ly instructing the executive commit
tee to take steps for the formation
of legal aid department which would
be of service to foreign-born workers
in the event that these bills be en-
acted. The executive committee was
also instructed to arrange for a mon
ster mass meeting and demonstration
on Sunday afternoon. May End. II
the meantime, neighborhood mass
meetings are to be held which shall
serve as feeders to the main demon
stration on May End.
The next meeting of the council
will be held on Sunday April 4th al
Fraternity Hall and a greatly in
creased representation is expected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Radio Exposes Inefficiency.
Both Sides Prepare.

TANGIER, Morocco, March 2S-At
conference of the French and Span
ish high commands the past week
final plans were made for the COM
bined drive against the Rifians. The
French general Petain is expected to
head the united forces Of over 2OO,-
900 men.
Meanwhile Abd-els Krim has been
strengthening his defenses, not only
at the actual fighting front but by pol
itical maneuvers as well. 1t is re-
liably reported that he has married
the daughter of Raisuli the famous
Moroccan bandit chief and formerly
an enemy of Krim, This step will
secure for him the allegiance Of the
powerful tribe Of which Raisuli was
formerly head.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Fascist Committee
Plans Punishment
of Italians Abroad
Especial to The Daily worker)

ROME, March 23-The fascist gov
eminent has committee working on
the problem of applying to Italian cit
liens abroad the provisions Of the re-
cently-passed law forbidding criti-
cisms of Mussolini. Among those who
will be thus expatriated are Carlo
Tresca, anarchist leader in New York
and editor of II Martello ("The Ham
mer'o; Vincenzo Vacirca, a fsrmer
socialist deputy, now in the United
States; DR.. Giuseppe Donati, former
editor Of II Popolo, an opposition
Roman daily closed up by the police;
Carlo Bazzi, now in Nice, and Grim
adj Campolonghi, residing in Paris.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Negotiations Begin
for Lease of Muscle
Shoals Power Supply
Especial to The Daily worker)


WASHINGTON, March % - With
three "nibbles" on their line, the con-
gressional Muscle Shoals committee
will begin negotiations next week for
lease of the governments $780,
100000 project.
The committee has received inqui-
ries from Henry Ford, the American
Cyanide company of New York and
F. T. Hepburn Of New York, all of
whom had previously made bids for
the Muscle Shoals property. w. B.
Bell, representing the American Cyan
ide company, will be given a hearing
Monday afternoon, while Hepburn
will be invited to appear before the
committee Tuesday afternoon to talk
things over"
The "nibble" from Henry Ford gave
the committee much satisfaction. A
majority Of the committee would
rather negotiate with Ford than with
any other prospective bidder, because
Of his standing with the farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Test Constitutionality
of Anti-Evolution Law

NEW YORK, March 2S-That a sec.
ond evolution case may be fought out
IN the courts in Mississippi became
apparent today when the American
Civil Liberties Union announced It
was looking for a Mississippi tax.
payer" to enjoin the enforcement of
the new state anti-evolution law
Just signed by Governor Harry L.
WHITEHEAD. II a willing taxpayer is
found, the suit will be filed in the
federal court, thus raising at once
the issue of the constitutionalty of
the law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
CROWN EVIDENCE
SHOWS MATTEOTTI
Died OF WOUNDS
Especial to The Daily worker)

ASPSSiai " ne lazy WoTkcTJ
cHlETI, Italy, March 20 = The
coat Of the murdered deputy, Matte
oti, when examined by police and
surgeons showed blood-stains and
cuts and indicated that the deputy
died from an armed attack and not
from a hemorrhage as the defense
claims. A blood-stained knife and
bomb were found in the hotel in
which the chief defendant, Duminl,
resided. This testimony came dur
ing the closing hours Of the crowns
case against the five fascist gang
sters accused Of Matteotl's death.
Slgnor Farinacci, secretary Of the
fascist party and counsel for de-
Tense will attempt to dlscredit the
evidence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Riffs Break Feast to
Attack Spanish Troops
Especial to The Daily worker)

TANGIER, Morocco, March 20. -
The Riffs attacked the Spanish out
posts near Tetuan just at the opening
Of the feast Of Ramadan, which began
yesterdNe morning at 3:45 a. m. The
assault was entirely unexpected mas
much as Mohammedans are not sup
posed, according to their religion to
eat or drink or fight during this cele-
bration.
The casualties OF the Spanish are
not known, the censor claiming, as
usual, that none were sustained. The
heavy movement OF troops, which
went on all morning, gave the lie to
his statement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Merger Represents
$4,000, 900 Combine

DETROIT, March % Announce
ment of the merger of several of the
largest bus, motor and street car
manufacturing plants of the country
into the American Car and Foundry
Motor Co., a $24,000,000 corporation,
was made here today. It will be a
subsidiary Of the American Car and
Foundry Co.
Among the concerns included In
the consolidation are the Pageol Mo-
tors company OF Ken. Ohio, manufac-
turers Of buses; Hall Scott Motor
company Of Berkeley, Calf: Brill
Company OF Philadelphia, street car
manufacturers, and Kuhlman Car
company OF Cleveland, o. @. S. Sales
is president of the new corporation;
q. ]. Hall, president Of the Hall Scott
company and one OF the designers OF
the Liberty motors, is vice-president
In charge OF engineering and produc-
ton and Frank w. Pageol is sales
manager.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
New York Men Attacked.

NEW YORK, March IS. - Carlo
Tresca, editor of II Martello, who will
be deprived OF his Italian citizenship
by the Fascist government, was re-
leased from the Atlanta penitentlary
last May after term for circulating
radical literature. The ostensible
charge was that Of sending obscene
matter thru the mails.
Vincenzo Vacirca, who will meet a
similar fate, has been notified that
the action against him comes from
articles published in Switzerland and
public addresses in the United States
and articles contributed to the local
Italian paper, II Nuovo Monde.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
subsIdlze Union vlsltors

NEW YORK, March 2S-Eight Brit
ish trade unionists are making four
weeks tour of eastern states to see in.
dustrial conditions as the guests Of
the conservative London Daily Mail
The British party is visiting such
openshop plants as General Electric at
Schenectady, Ford and General Mot,
ors at Detroit, steel mills of Gary, Ind
and Pittsburgh, hydro-electric and
other Niagara industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Anderson Heads wobbIIes.

Il. II. Anderson, former secretary OF
the general defense committee. heads
the general executive board of the In.
dustrial Workers Of the World which
took Office March 1 at the headquar.
ters, 1888 w. Belmont Ave. Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Churches Oppose
Anti-Alien Bills
No Action on Iowa Contest.

WASHINGTON, March %. - Final
action on the Brookhart-Steck contest
was postponed indefinitely this after
noon by the senate elections commit
tee, owing to the absence Of Senator
Caraway. democrat, OF Arkansas, who
fled a report urging the seating Of
Daniel F. steck, democrat, in the place
OF Senator w. Brookhart, republican,
Of Iowa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Walsh ASSAILS
PERSECUTIONOF
COOLIDGE foes
Administration Brides
Many Witnesses

WASHINGTON, March % Sen.
Walsh Of Montana, in speech to the
senate, demanded that the Coolidge
administration make amends to the
senate for the attack on the liberties
of that body which was made In the
persecution of Sen. Wheeler. His
condemnation Of the methods en-
pIoyed and the motives that actuated
the department. of justice in trying to
punish Wheeler for exposing the de-
pravty Of the Harry Daugherty re-
eime in the department Of justice was
delivered in the tone of formal I'M
parchment. He introduced at the
same time a resolution calling on the
department to account to congress for
two items in its futile pursuit of Sen.
Wheeler.
MIsspent Public Funds.
First of all, Walsh demanded that
the department account for the public
funds it spent in sending detectives to
Montana, and in otherwise framing up
pretended case against his col
leagues. Next, he demanded that it
show why it has not, and whether it
will not, proceed against its star wit
ness, George B. Hayes, for perjury.
Much Of the speech was devoted to
showing that Hayes, the New York
lawyer who was brot into the trial at
the last moment as the only real wit
ness against Wheeler was a man
whose sworn statements were worth
less, and whose general repute was
bad.
Hayes testified that he met Wheeler
in the Waldorf Astoria hotel, New
York, by appointment, on the eve of
the senator's sailing for Europe in
March, 1923, and that Wheeler had
told him that he, Wheeler, was to get
very large fee for representing
Gordon Campbell, an oil prospector, in
securing oil drilling permits from the
general land office in Washington
Hayes claimed that Wheeler offered
to share the fee If Hayes would do the
work.
Sen Walsh read afidavits from
Mrs. Wheeler, showing that no such
meeting between her husband and any
lawyer took place when they were in
New York, and from former mem
Der Of Hayes law firm, showine
Hayes close connection with Presi
dent Harding, Atty. Gen. Daugherty
and Secretary Mellon. In this last af
fidavit the statement is quoted from
Hayes that-"Just wait and see what
happens to Wheeler; We'll fix him SO
that he won't remain in the senate
very long"
Bride Hayes to Testify.
Walsh showed that the courts in
New York City have entered four
Judgments against Hayes, for falsif.
cation Of his income tax returns.
These judgments, amounting to $780,.
644, remained unsettled when the de.
partment of justice secretly arranged
to bring Hayes to the trial in Mon
tana to testify against Sen. Wheeler
The collapse of the persecution OF
Wheeler was described by Walsh as
the "inglorious end Of the effort to
punish a member of this body for dar
ing to assail the department of justice
IN the discharge of his official duties
and in retribution for his exposure OF
such misdeeds and associations on the
part OF the attorney general as forced
his retirement from that position"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-20
SOCIAL WORKERS
HEAR DR.. DEV|NE
Speaker Declares Initiative
Is Essential.

Edward T. Devine, New York So
cial worker, addressed the Rotary
Club luncheon today. His subject
was Mexico"
He spoke to the Social Workers
Club at Christ Church Monday night.
THE social worker must be willing
to sacrifice himself for the love Of
the work" he declared.
Workers must use their initiative
in solving problems that daily pre-
sent themselves and cannot be
solved according to vote or rule" he
said.
DR.. Devine addressed a meeting Of
the STATS of the Family Welfare So
ciety. home section of the American
Red Cross, Young Women's Chris
tan Association and the department
of school attendance of the Indian
apolis public schools, at the Family
Welfare Society office.