The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 1

M The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard tor a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government — DA In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Enicage, by mail, $6.00 per year. Vol. Hl. No. 47. Subscription Rates: WORKING CLASS WOMEN! ORGANIZE ALONG WITH THE WORKINGMEN IN STRUGGLE AGAINST EXPLOITERS! ARCH EIGHTH is International Woman's Day! On this day the-class conscious portion of the working class women demonstrate their determination to organize the work- ing women of the world into the ranks of the labor movement to aid in the struggle of their. class for freedom from capitalist wage slavery. International Woman’s Gay was started under the auspices of the Communist International in 1921. The Communist Inter- national is the only international labor organization which has taken up the task of organizing the working class women to take part in the class struggle of labor against capital. All other in- WORKING CLASS MEN AND WOMEN OF CHICAGO! Celebrate Together! Come to the WOMAN’S DAY MEETING Saturday, March 6, 8 P. M. at NORTH-WEST HALL, Cor. Western and North Aves. Court Decides Vera (specia1 to The Daily Worker) NEW. YORK, March 5 — May Stay in the U. S. Vera, LY WO) Entered as Second-class matter Septemver 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, lilinols, under the ‘Act of Murch 3, 187% . SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1926 LUTIONARY A (CAPTURE RUSS ‘WHITES IN WAR ‘FORTIENTSIN Foes Prisoner (Special to ‘The Daily Worker) PEKING, Ma 5.—- The national revolutionary y has taken hun- dreds of prison Among them are many White ( ist) Russians. The army is devel g its thrust south of Tientsin following up its victory of yesterday. It has succeeded in cen- eolidating its position in the face of furious opposition, The main battle front is forming along the line of the canal which runs from Taku to Machang and then west along the Puto-Ho to the sea coast at a port fifty miles south of Paoting- fu. Five divisions of nationalist troops under Maj. Genefal Chang Chi-Chiang guard the Peking-Hangkow railroad at the border of Honan province. Wu Pel-fu is e: to attack along this line, On the M ng front Lu Chung Lin is stationed with over 100,000 men facing the © i-Shantung armies commanded by the deposed governor of Shantung, Li Ohing-Lin, who is try- ing to recapture Tientsin, The third front is the Jehof line. uU. Ss. Ready to Intervene. The powers, including the United States, are rushiag warships to Tient- sin, American, British, French and Italian gunboats are already anchored in the channel, ready for action. Ad- ditional Am destroyers have been ordered te and the Gulf of Chihli. Strikesi have broken out in Tientsin and threaten to develop into a general strike. .Feeling against the toreigners as agents of the imperialist nations is running high. A great con- trast is the attitnde towards citizens of the Soviet Union who receive the most cordial reeeption at all native mass meetings, The “White” Rus- sians, on the other hand, together with the native sympathizers of Chang Tso-lin are bitterly hated. “* * Chang Tsolin—vap Negotiations On. TOKIO, Mareh:5 — The Japanese government has'taken over the pay- nent of the infamous Nishihara loans uade to China during the latter part if the world war when the corrupt and pro-Japanese Anfu group were in con- trol of the Peking government. Chang Tso-lin has recently assured Japan that he is ready to take measures im- mediately for the military occupation of all Manchurian territory south of Mukden. These two events, combine. with the admitted aid given the Man- churian dictator during the recent re- volt against hig rule, prove that Japan is willing to go the limit to defeat the nati ‘ist movement in China. “eo © Feng Gets Pacification Job. CANTON, March § — General Feng Yu-Hsiang has been appointed defense commissioner for the provinces of Chihli, Honan, and Shensi, with the duty of destroying the anti-nationalist revolt in. those districts. He was chosen for this task by the new cabin- et at Peking, headed by Chi Teh Yac as premier, Nationalists Take Soviet <a” PUBLI Published Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 3 4 4 Us fi & This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. Price 5 Cents SHING CO., 1113 W. Wasnington Blvd., Chicago, IL | CHINESE BUILD U. S. WARSHIPS TO SHOOT DOWN OWN PEOPLE (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Mareh 5—The Kiang- man Dock and Engineering Works, a Chinese government plant, is build- ing six new river gunboats for the | United States government. These were authorized by the American congress last year. The ships are to be used for patrolling the Yang- tse river. The contract was awarded to the Chinese concern on their price of $154,000 gold per vessel, altho the Shanghai Dock and Engineering company, and the New Engineering and Shipbuilding Works, both of “this city, tendered bids of $107,500 and $134,000 respectively, for the vessels. It is believed by the Brit- ish bidders that the contracts were awarded to the Chinese plant in or- der to curry favor with the natives. The American Machinists’ Union bitterly protested the building of these ships outside of the United States. HUNDREDS GREET TRUMBULL AT UNION STATION Chicago Labor Demands Release of Crouch Hundreds of workers crowded the stone hallways of the mammoth new Union station to welcome Waiter Trumbull, United States soldier re- cently released from the Alcatraz mill- tary prison, who is on a coast-to-coast tour telling the facts of American im- perialist tyranny in Hawali, As Trumbull stepped from the train, he was greeted by the International Labor- Defense delegation, including representatives from Local 275, Broth- erhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers of America, Lodge No. 390, International Association of Ma- chinists, and delegates from over twenty other local affiliated bodies. Each group carried placards bearing slogans urging the release of all class war prisoners and calling for mass demonstrations to demand freedom for Paul Crouch, who still has two [more years of his reduced sentence to serve. ’ Fill Streets With Cheers, Entering the station with the dele- gation, Trumbull was surrounded by workers and carried out on their shoulders, while the streets were filled with cheers. It was the workers’ celebration of a first victory over im- perialism. The sentiment of the huge gathering that Trumbull’s release must be the signal for renewed de- mands for the freedom of all class war prisoners expressed itself in the following slogans: “Soldiers and workers! your right to your opinions!” “Crouch, Mooney, Billings, Barnett, Suhr, Sacco, Vanzetti, Cline and one Fight for own political PASSAIC STRIKERS WIN BATTLE AGAINST POLICE TERRORISM AND ~-RESUMEPICKETING OF WILL AREA (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, March 5.—The reign of terror launched by the drunken and depraved police of this city who, under the com- mand of a public safety commissioner who is a paid lackey of the mill owners and a half-imbecile chief of police, abated yes- terday and the masses of pickets paraded-thru the streets and around the mill district unmolested. Preceded by a hundred or m ore strikers wearing gas masks and steel helmets, the thousands of strikers, in military formation marched while singing, “Hold the Fort,” the song made famous in the transport workers’ strike in England years ago. oe Tanks in Streets. In addition to the men, women and children marching thru the streets, there were a couple of tanks with camera men from various newspapers inside tak- ing pictures of the threatening police lines. This was necessary because the half drunken and infuriated police cos- sacks and thugs had beaten them up early in the week and destroyed thousands of dollars worth of cam- eras. Population Aroused. The whole population of the city, aside from the mill owners and their paid flunkeys, are aroused over the frightfulness launched against de- fenseless men, women and children by the police. The publicity attend- ing the strike is more far-reaching than that of any strike in the textile district since the Paterson strike of 1913, when the workers of that city engaged in a six month’s struggle ith the mill owners. On every hand demands for the tm- peachment of the city administration are heard this probably had something to do with the police tem- porarily, at ‘least, ceasing their cos- sack tactics. Strike Statement. In a statement day before yester- day, the strike. committee placed the blame directly upon the police and re- affirmed their determination to estab- lsh their right to conduct peaceful picketing: 4 “The brutal and unprovoked ‘club- bing of Yeporters and smashing of (Continued on page 2.) Kentucky Legally Lynches Negro as Alternative to Mob LEXINGTON, KY., March 5.—Ed Harris, negro, whose seventeen minute trial on January 25 while a thousand national guardsmen protected him at- tracted nation-wide attention, was hung in the county jail yard here this morning. He was charged with a cri- minal ‘assault upon Mrs. Clarence Bryant, whose husband and two child- ran he killed on the night of January 19. Seventy guardsmen patrolled near- by streets as a precaution. There was no disorder. A hundred witness- es saw the hanging from inside the jail yard and as. many more from roofs of nearby buildings. Harris will he buried in the potter's field as his re- latives have refused to claim his body. HEAVILY ARMED BANDITS STEAL $90,000 PAYROLL 10 Terrorize 200 Clerks at Harvester Plant Ten heavily armed men*who In vaded the offices of the International Harvester company here shortly after noon, yesterday, terrorized two hun- dred employes with round after round of shots fired into walls, celling, floor and furniture in true wild west style and escaped with a payroll of between $80,000 and $90,000 in cash. Women employes fainted and men sought cover behind nearest bulky ob- jects as the bandits, aH apparently Americans, carried out a continuous bombardment while the robbery was in progress. No one was hit. The money had just. been brot to the offices from a bank in bags pre- paratory to making up pay envelopes. Two cars, one a sedan and the other a touring car with winter top, drew up to the curb and the bandits tumbled out, dashed, yelling and swearing, into the offices and, driving men and wo- men before them, crossed swiftly to the cashier's cage, seized the bags and backed out, keeping up a ceaseless barrage from their revolvers. They fled in their cars at high speed and were last seen driving madly toward the southern end of the city. The robbery had earmarks of being the work of the same gang which on October 17, last, held up the West Pullman Plant of the company, terror- ized employes and escaped with $45,000. The money was brought to the plant in.an armored truck belonging to an express company. After it was de livered to the cashier's cage, the truck and its armed guards drove away. The guard stationed on the outside of the main door of the offices was rush- ed by the bandit crew following de- parture of the truck, He was disarm- ed and forced into a corner under the watchful eye of one of the robbers who mounted guard at the door te the counting room, countess of Cathcart, today won battle in court to escape immediate deportation by the immigration au- thorities. 4 Federal Judge William Bondy, after hearing arguments on a writ of habeas corpus which was to deter- mine whether she was to stay in this Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is asgodd issue to give to your fellow: worker. Center of Struggle hundred others must be released!” “Workers! Unite in the Interna- tional Labor Defense against imperial- ist persecutions of your class. United States courts are anti-labor, Workers need their own organized defense.” “I, L. D, carries working class de- ternational labor organizations have confined themselves to prat ing about the “Woman Question,” refusing to look upon the mat- ter as.a class question and lumping all women into one category. y In this way the leadership of the working class women has been handed over to the women of the capitalists and their hang- er-ons. The profession social workers, suffragists and feminists today as the leaders of the women irrespective of class, WORKERS OF GERMANY NOW VOTE ON CONFISCATION OF KAISER’S ESTATES BERLIN, March 5.—A national registration is being carried on today in Germany calling for the dispossession of the property of the former German Ane claim a monopol ly as spokeswomen for the entire female portion of the human race. : (Continued on page 4) WEST VIRGINIA.MINERS WILL FIGHT ANTI-FOREIGN-BORN LAWS: HOLD CONFERENCE ON MARCH 21 (Special to The Daily Workery \ PURSGLOVE, W. Va., March 5,.—A call for a conference of all labor organizations of this section, known as the Scotch Run Section, to protest against the anti-alien registration and deport the writ, WOMAN'S DAY MEETINGS PLANNED AROUSE WORN FOR THE GLASS STRUGGLE Woman's Day meetings have been arranged as follows: Chicago, Northwest Hall, North and Western Aves. Speakers: Ida tion bills was sent out by the provisional council for Rothstein and Ida Goodman, Arne tion of the foreign-born, Scotch Run, W: Va. branch. The con-| swabeck and Matilda icclevaak, ference will be held Sunday, March 21 at 5 p. m., at Union Ha New York City, Central Opera Pu ve, W. Va. ; a House, 67th St, and Third Ave. ‘ach local union, fraternal and benefit society is requested| Speakers: Ben Gitlow and Rose del rm ” Pastor Stokes. _send two or three delegates. plans for’ against ro Li Waukegan, Illy Finnish Workers Hall. Speaker, Rebecca Sacharow. country under the protection of the courts or be excluded under the immi- gration authorities’ ruling, sustained fense into the courts and exposes cap- italist ‘justice.’” “Trumbull! Welcome back into the fight against imperialist persecution of workers!” , Has Many Speaking Dates, Following the banquet in his honor at Imperial Hall, 2409 N, Halsted St., Sunday, Trumbull will fill the follow- ing speaking dates; Milwaukee, March 6; Pullman, Ill, March 10; South Bend, March 13; Kenosha, March 15; Racine, March 16; Canton, March 18; Pittsburgh, March 19, 29; Cleveland, | March 21; Jamestown, March 22; Buf- falo, March 23; Erie, March 24; Roch- ester, March 25; Boston, March 27, His dates in New York, where a few days will be spent in addressing vari- ka and the other royal rulers of the German states valued at about 3,000,- 000,000 marks. The registration that Is now taking place was initiated by the Com- munists. All of the other parties are calling upon the Germans not to register on the ground that confiscating property is a violation of the “law of god.” If 4,000,000 voters register in favor of confiscation within the next two weeks, the Reichstag must either accept a bill advising such a confiscation or submit the final matter for final decision to a referendum, DAILY WORKER TO REPORT OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF WORLD EXECUTIVE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL In Monday's issue of The DAILY WORKER will begin publication of the official proceedings of the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Communist ous meetings which are being prepar- ed for there, will be announced age pttabhit / gas international at Moscow. Much has been sald in the capitalist press about shortly. Other speaking dates can be| the proceedings and all kinds of misinformation has been published. See to arranged for thru! the’ International| !t that you get your copy of The DAILY WORKER Monday if you want to Labor Defense, 28 8. Lincoln St., Chi-] read what really took place before the Executive Committee of the Commum ist Internationals .