The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1926, Page 2

; 7 They are interested i Page Two eeereecntanie ment SEY na Erman TH E DAILY WORKER TAKU STRUGGLE PRECIPITATES GRAVE CRISIS moe Japanese Cabinet Meets ° . . in Special Session (Special to The Qiaily Worker) TIENTSIN, Margh 15.—In spite of the ultimatum to thé local Kuomin- chun commander in chiarge of the de- fense of the city, it is reported the powers have decided mot to press further the matter of removal of the obstructions placed at thie entrance to the harbor. Shipping fs proceeding normally but all vessels are carefully searched. The Kuominchun comfander ex- plains that the reason for, the strin- gent measures taken to centro] all shipping here is to preven\ hostile transports entering the river in the wake of merchant vessels as ‘well as to prevent the entrance of ati-na- tionalist forces disguised as ordnary passengers, Wounded Paymaster Dies. Captain Tsuji, paymaster, died yes- terday from wounds received in the firing upon Japanese destroyers which were trying to enter the Pei river at Taku after having been warned to stay away. The local Japanese consul has issued a statement declaring that nine others were wounded in the af- fair. Two more Japanese destroyers have arrived at Taku. e 2 8 Japanese Cabinet Meets. TOKIO, March 15.—The cabinet will meet today to decide. what action Japan shall take in the growing Chinese crisis and in particular what reparations shall be demanded for the death and wounding of the Japanese Friday at Taku. It is understood that Baron Shidehara, foreign minister, and Admiral Takarabe, minister of the navy, who have conferred on the mat- ter, will urge that this country act independently in the situation. The usual apologies, pledges and demands for reparation will be made. see Soviet Union Backs China. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., March 15.— That the Soviet Union will stand be- hind China in her growing struggle against foreign exploitation, even at the. risk of war, was the feeling ex- pressed by Leon Trotzky, in an ad- dress to a mass meeting here. Many Russians believe that the group head- ed by Senator Borah in the United States senate will be opposed to an interventionist policy in China be- cause of its sure destruction of Amer- ican influence in that country at this time. oe; #8 Rush U. S. Destroyers, MANILA, P, L, March 15.—The de- stroyers McCormick and Bulwer have been ordered to China, to sail im- mediately. Exclusive of these two ships, the United States now has in Chinese waters 2 cruiser-gunboats, 7 gunboats, 9 destroyers, 2 mine sweep- ers, 1 air-tender, and 1 oiler for car- tying fuel. Admiral C. H. Williams, commander of the American Asiatic fieet, has his headquarters here. cise Obstinacy Is Costly. CANTON, March 15.—All supplies ‘of every description, including water and light, have been cut off from the American presbyterian hospital here because of the obstinate refusal of its Officials to obey the local regulations governing their institutions, Big Business Seeks to Scrap Merchant Marine WASHINGTON, March 15,—Advo- cating the Bacon bill for taking the government's merchant fleet out of the hands of the shipping board, as pro- posed by Secretary Hoover and Presi- dent Coolidge, the officials of the Uni- ted States chamber of commerce told ‘the house committee on merchant marine and fisheries that they spoke for the shipowners and bnsiness in- terests of the nation, SOVIET GROUPS T0 STUDY HERE BELLAIRE FORMS COUNCIL FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE FOREIGN-BORN BELLAIRE, 0., March 15-—A Council for the Protection of Foreign- at a conference attended by 20 delegate ans were laid for arranging a-number of mass meetings | test against the bills that are . | print, rotor nd crn foreign-born aay , Russian Engineers Will Come to Observe Technical Skill MOSCOW, U. 8. 8, R., March 15.— ‘The Soviet government, eager to profit by American technical skill, is send- ing two commissions of engineers to the United States, * One left for New York yesterday. It consists of Professor Ivan Alexan- droff, Trotsky’s assistant in the state electro-technical department; B. Vit- eroff of the Ukrainian state planning commission, and Ivan Tohicsevski, representative of the state electrical trust. These engineers, after spending a brief period in Germany and France, will go to Amorica, where they will Temain four months to study Ameri- can hydro-electric plants and other “American engineer'n” « a view to introducing their methods GZAR’S FALL CELEBRATED ational Holiday Declared on Ninth Anniversary MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., March 15.— Russia today celebrated the ninth an- niversary of the overthrow of ezarism by ceasing all work, holding parades and giving lectures and motion picture performances. All governmental machinery was halted and huge crowds visited the tomb of Lenin in the Red Square in homage to the man who built the party that was chiefly responsible for the fall of the despotic czar and his sys- tem. Resolution Asks for Report Upon Pre-War Intervention Injury (Speciat to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 15—The state department was asked to report to the senate the progress made in se- curing indemnities from France and Great Britain for damage done to American interests thru violation of American neutrality before the United States entere@ the world war, under erms of a resolution introduced to- lay by Senator Borah, republican of Idaho, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. SIGHAN TOOLS ARE DEFEATED BY MILITANTS Progressives Elected as Business Agents In spite of all the vicious attacks of the reactionaries in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers in an alli- ance with the Jewish Daily Forward, which is now supporting the bosseg in the strike of the New York fur work- ers for better conditions and is aid- ing the bosses in the Chicago district by opposing the union’s attempt to or- ganize the unorganized, and the Fitz- patrick-Nockels clique in the Chicago Federation of Labor, the progressive candidates won in the Joint Board elections for business agents. Harry Seff, J. Levine and Roy Glassman were elected as business agents. These three at all times have fought the Sigman expulsion policy and have carried on a campaign with- in the union against the agents of the Daily Forward. Party Members Must Attend Sub-Section Meetings This Week «Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 15 — Every member of the Workers (Communist) Party must attend the sub-section meetings that are now being held at which speakers will take up the ques- tion of the members joining the trades unions and the building up of the Communist fractions within the un- ions. Not only will the question of the activity of the party members in trades unions be taken up, but if some comrades were unable to become con- nected with the party during the re- organization, they can come to any of the following meetings and be assign- ed to the nucleus in which they shall function: Thursday, March 18, Sub-Section 1-C—83 Forsythe St. 2-B—66 E. 4th St. 2-C—108 E. 14th 4A—301 W. 29 St, 4-D—407, 4th Ave, 5-F—133 W. Sist St. 6-B—350 E. 81st St. 6-C—64 E. 104th St. Friday, March Sub-Section 5-B—350 B. 81st St. ... 5-C—301 W. 29tb St, 6-A—64 E. 104th St. Sunday, Marc! Sub-Section 1L-A—T764 8. 40th St. ... 6 p.m. vecially in American grain elevators and transloading equipment. The other commission, headed by Boris Cohen, chairman of the state milling trust, left Tuesday for Ger- many, where they will buy machinery, using part of the credit of 300,000,000 gold marks recently arranged by Ger- man industrialists for Russian pur- chases in Germany. This group will so to the United States later to study engineering methods and machinery. SEND IN A SUB, Born Workers was formed h representing 10,000 worke U. NLA. MEET OPENS WITH BiG DEMONSTRATION 2,000 Attend the First Session in Detroit (Continued from page 1) asking that Marcus Garvey be released temporarily from prison so that he could attend the present convention of the association, Amy G. Garvey, wife of Marcus Garvey, brought the personal greet- ings of her husband to the conven- tion. The official opening of the con- vention came with the reading of the order issued by Marcus Garvey cail- ing the extraordinary convention into session. Appended to this order were orders relating to the general work of the association. The mass meeting closed with a sermon by Bishop George Alexander McGuire. It was announced that the business sessions of the convention will be held at the U. N. I. A, Hall and that the night sessions will be held at the Masonic Temple and the Turner Hall. Faction Convention. This convention is a convention of one faction of an organization, which is divided into two factions bitterly fighting each other. It is called an extraordinary convention. It is called by the heads of four local divisions. Joseph A. Graigen, secretary of the Detroit division, Fred A, Toote, presi- dent of the Philadelphia division, Wil- liam Ware, president of the Cincinnati division, and Samuel A. Haynes, presi- dent of the Pittsburgh division have called the convention, These heads claim the approval of Marcus Garvey for the calling of this convention to throw William L. Sherrill out of power as acting president-general of the or- ganization. Since Sherrill has refused to recognize this convention, it is prob- able that the end of the convention will find the organization divided be- tween twe “acting presidents.” Largest Negro Organization. In short, the organization, which is undoubtedly the largest organization of Negroes in the world, may be split into two factions by the present con- troversy.. This would be a calamity. The Universal Negro Improvement Association represents the biggest ex- perience of the Negro people in the field of organization. For it to go on the rocks would be a disaster, The most serious friends of the organiza- tion realize, that a quarrel between two sets of leaders for power is a poor excuse on which to break the organ- ization. There are many questions of prin- ciple now demanding the attention of the Universal Negro’ Improvement Association. Garvey has for the past four or five years been steadify lead- ing the organization away from all principle of struggle on behalf of the Negro people, until the organization today has been robbed and gutted of any program other than an illusory idea of African colonization, The convention, in August 1924, un- der Garvey’s guidance, completely deserted every semblance of principle and made what seemed to be a eom- plete surrender to the ku klux klan. Everything was thrown aside except the single idea of opening up the re- sources of the Negro republic of Li- beria on the West Coast of Africa, with the assistance of American and other Negroes thruout the world, Then the United States government acted swift- ly and surely, putting Garvey into the penitentiary and grabbing the Liber- ian republic which is turned over prac- tically to be governed by the Firestone Tire and Rubber company as a colony of the United States. Undoubtedly Garvey’s imprison- ment, which following a ridiculously unfair trial in which Garvey was given no chance at all, was a blow aimed at the destruction of the Negro organi- zation, The stealing of the republic ot] Liberia by the Firestone Tire and Rubber company knocked the last leg from under Garvey’s utopia of African zionism, The result is that the or- ganization, having under Garvey's pressure disclaimed every possible principle of struggle for the rights of the Negro in America, and concen- trating on Liberian concessions, now has no program whatever upon which to hold the organization together, There is a restlessness in the or- ganization with many members begin- ning to demand that the organization take up the fight of the American Negro for his political and economic rights in the United States, The sup- porters of Garvey appear not to desire to let the slightest breath of principle enter into the discussion, They ex- pect to hold this convention for two weeks of personal laudation of Garvey and for the formal act of deposing Sherrill without permitting one word of discussion about what the organiza- now in congress to finger- JOURNAL OF COMMERCE RAPS POLIGE BRUTALITY IN PASSAIC, NOT CHICAGO , While police in Passaic are club- bing textile strikers, running down women and children with motor. cycles and showering gas and tear bombs on the workers, the Chicago Journal of Commerce waxes Indig- nant. It editorializes in one of its issues as follows: “We do not know whether the managers of the textile milis approve of such tactics. If they do they are hopeless. Idiotic brutality such as this Passaic- Clifton performance is the best possible inducemeht: for rad calism.” ssi When police in Chicago were clubbing garment sttikers, smash- ing girls in the face with their fists and dragging them to the filthy po- lice stations, delibefately housing them with the female scum of the crime districts, the Chicago Journal of Commerce had nothing to say in its columns as to the “little” Ia- bor trouble ir advertisers and financial rs were having. BOSTON UNION FOR REPEAL OF BLASPHEMY LAW Protests Against Old Repressive Laws (Special to The Daily Worker) Boston, Mass., March 15—The Ci- garmakers’ Union No.» 97 adopted a resolution at their meeting protesting against the ancient and archaic legis- lation of a repressive nature on the statute books of Massachusetts and showing that these laws at all times are used against organized workers and cites the use of the blasphemy law of 1697 against Anthony Bimba. editor of the Lithuanian Communist daily, Laisue, In the resolution the union demands the immedjate removal from the statute books of all repres- sive ‘es that in any way hinders the expression of one’s opinion. SWEDEN TO ACT ON BILLS AIMED AT FOREIGN-BORN : : Communist Fraction Is 7 . Urging Protest The Swedish government in its reply to the protests of the American Scandinavian workers sent to Sweden against the anti-foreign-born legisla- tion that is now in congress, declares | that it has turned over the protests! to the foreign relations department, to investigate these bills to photo- graph, fingerprint and deport Swedish workers, for immediate action. The Swedish minister in Washing- ton has made known to the Scandi- navian workers that he has sent copies of the bills aimed against them to the Swedish government for action. The Communist fractions in the Swedish and Norwegian parliaments will soon present interpellations call- ing on their governments to protest against the attempts on the part of the open shop Coolidge administration to jam thru antiforeign-born legisla- tion. Bakers’ Union. Aids Textile Strikers (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Mar¢h 15.—Bakers’ Local Union No. 164, Amalgamated Food Workers, has decided to tax each of its memberg $1 and its un- employed members 25 cents for the benefit of the Passaic textile strikers, A sub a day wilt help to drive capital away. ‘ ‘ === tion is going to do about the Negro’s rights and his real complaints in Amer- ica, However, the Shergill faction does not show, as far as been evidenced up to this time, any more principle than is shown by Garvey, Sherrill himself has always accepted every- thing Garvey did. Never yet has he fought against Garvey’s subservient policies, It seems to be a general case of bankrupt leadership on all sides, 4 Will Militants Save U. N. I. A.? However there ig a good, strong, healthy element of men and women who have never heretofore been re- cognized, The fate of the organiza- tion, the question of whether it will live or whether it be destroyed by the selfish squabbling of ambitious in- dividuals, now se to depend upon whether or not some live and honest elements in the anization can ‘swing the organ! into the adop-}the Far Hast, tion of a program @f struggle for the Negroe’s rights in America and inter-|_ Watch the Sa Sommemoration on rationally. 4 1 Section for 4 ih saaamdatins U. S. Tool Corporation The Stanley Works, manufacturers of mechanics’ tools, announced that it has purchased the machinery and fix- tures of the T. M. T. company, of Brussels, Belgium, and also a factory at Velbert, Germany, ploys 500 people. similar to those of the local plant. The German concern’s output was dis- posed of mostly in Cuba, Mexico and When Australia Decides, STRIKERS’ HEADS It Will Be Against Wall] SHOW NEED OF St. and for Communism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. THE United States is anxiously urging “real leaders” for other lands, It is quite satisfied with the dictator, Mus- solini, in Italy. Morgan sealed Wall Street’s approval with a $100,000,000 loan, Chang-Tso-Lin, the Manchurian war lord, who wouldn’t last long without Japanese aid, is heralded . as “the strong man” of China. This means that he is looked upon as “a capitalist hope” against the Chinese national rev- olutionary movement that is wrecking imperialist ambitions in the Orient. j There is also no question that the United States has an eager eye on Australia. There is much significance in the fact that the recognized political interpreter of America’s” foreign appetite, Samuel G. Blythe, ends an article on Austra- lia in the Saturday Evening Post, with this paragraph: “IF THERE EVER WAS A COUNTRY CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS FOR A REAL LEADER, AUSTRALIA IS THAT LAND.” Be Blythe is as clever as a trained diplomat. Yet he writes so that his hidden meanings stand out big as mountains. There is no disputing that the United States dollar seeks dominance in the far-flung dominions of the British Empire. Canada is being brought ever closer thru huge investments within its borders of American capital. Blythe narrates how the visit of the American fleet, with its 14,000 sailors, brought Australia considerably closer to the United States. He urges that Australia is much nearer to the United States, the shores of both countries being washed by the,\same ocean, while the British Isles are far away. But Australia still clings too close to the apron strings of the London government, Blythe complains. He glories in the declaration that the Australians “are much more concerned with what the people of the United States think of them than they are over what the British think.” Australia had also received a $100,000,000 loan from Wall Street, when Lombard Street, London's finan- cial center, had tightened its purse strings. at * * * * Wherein, therefore, arises the need for “A. REAL LEADER"? Blythe fretfully breathes this need thru his entire article. It is the same need that Wall Street believes has been satisfied in Italy, Hungary, Spain, Greece and a host of other fascist-ruled countries of Europe; that Wall Street prays that Chang-Tso-Lih will satisfy in China—the need for a dictator- ship to suppress labor. Blythe's expresses his horror that: “Five out of six of the states comprising the Australian common- wealth are now ruled by labor governments of various degrees of radi- calism, The government of Queensland is furthest under the control of the professional labor agitators, When I was there this government sur- rendered unconditionally to the demands made in a railway strike—the railways are ite-owned in Australia—and gave the extremists every- thing they asked. he fear in Australia Is not of a Federal Labor Gov- ernment, per se, but of a Federal Labor Government dominated by the labor agitators who are, in turn, supported by the labor unions in which the Reds are working ceaselessly and efficiently.” Wall Street does not like to sink its dollars in a country where labor rules, and where the drift is toward the entire elimination of capitalism. Labor rule, after the fashion of Ramsay MacDonald's “labor government” in England is not objectionable. But it is extremely disconcerting that the workers of Australia should fight exclusively for their own interests. Blythe bitterly denounces, in real fascist style, all Aus- tralian pussyfooters who “decry the alarm over the signs of affiliation of Moscow with some of the dominant forces in their country.” Then Blythe serves Wall Street’s ultimatum that, “Australia, to be healthy, must be cleansed of many political sores.” This means that it must become 100 per cent subservient to the American dollar rule. * * * * American imperialism says the Australians need “a real leader.” The workers reply by energetically struggling to strengthen their labor unions and giving their support to Communist principles—the beginnings of an Australian Mass Communist Party. When Australia finally decides, it will be against the interests of imperialism and for Communism. NEW YORK CELEBRATES THE PARIS COMMUNE ON FRIDAY EVENING NEW YORK, March 15—The rev- olutionary workers of New York City will celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary-of the Paris Commune Friday, March 19, at the Central Opera House, 67th street and Third avenue. Ben Gitlow, M. J. Olgin, Joseph Zack and H. Fox, Young Workers (Communist) League representa- tive, will speak. William W. Wein- stone, general secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, Dis- trict 2, will act as chairman, The program will include Jegud- kin, French horn soloist of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Anna Royek, dramatic soprano; a chil- dren’s symphony orchestra of sixty and Russian folk dances, > 1ENT COMMODITY—AN AUTO auto, come needed. anyway! Least $20, (Special to The Dally Worker) leader. to become effective Jan, 1,\ 1928, ecutive, Buys European Rivals (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW BRITAIN, Conn., March 15— killed all the labor bills, slogan, / ‘The latter am- Its. products are IF YOU HAVE THAT CONVEN.- Come to 23 South Lincoln, I. L. D. office, before 7 p. m. on Thurs- day and Friday, this week, to help carry on the distribution of plug gers for the Paris Commune com- memoration. And if you haven’t an You are “Pay N. Y. Governor at Bloch; Nothing for the Workers ALBANY, N. Y., March 15—A reso- lution to fix the salary of the gov- ernor of New York at not less than $20,000 instead of the $10,000 he now gets has been introduced into the as- sembly by Maurice Bloch,» minority The resolution is in the form of a constitutional amendment It would thus not affect the present ex- While the legislators are thus lb- eral with the public treasury in the way of increasing the salary of the big politicans who run the state, they “Millions for the grafters, but not one cent for the working class,” seems to be their COMRADES, BROTHERS, FELLOW WORKE \f you have Thursday and Friday afternoons off, or can get off come before 3 o'clock to the International Labor Defense office, 23 South Lincoln, And if you can't come then, come at 7 p.m. We need soldier Communards to enlist for service in preparation for the Paris Commune INVESTIGATION Passaic Workers Seek Congressional Probe (Continued from page 1). States government necessary to main- tain life and death in the family unit. 3, That sanitary conditions in the New Jersey textile industry are such as not only to menace the health of the employes in the industry, but also dangerous to the health of the persons of the various states into which their product is shipped inter-state. 4, That the men and women of the industry are denied the right of peaceful assemblage in seeking re- dress of their grievances. 5. That in parts of the state of New Jersey the government, in so far as the protection of the life, limb and homes of the great majority of its inhabitants are concerned, has completely broken down. 6. That spies and detectives are being transported interstate to act as agents provocateurs and initiate and foster intimidation and violence. 7. That the mill owners and their agents are threatening to initiate de- portation proceedings against hun- dreds of law-abiding workmen for no reason except that they insist upon a living wage and working conditions which are not menacing to life and limb. , 8. The denial of the constitutional right of public assemblage, free speech and of free press, as*evidenc- ed by scores of brutal assaults upon peaceable workers, and representa- tives of newspapers, and of the pub- lig by police and other officials. 9. The bribery of public officials by mill owners, and the arbitrary re- fusal of peace officers to enforce im- partially the statutes and ordinance of the state. 10. The committee will appeal to both the president and congress for enforcement of the guarantee of Ar- ticle 4, Section 4, of the constitution of the United States, which guaran- tees to each state of the union a re- publican form of government and pro- tection. 11, The committee will urge upon the president and congress the fact that the life, liberty and property of vast numbers of the citizens of New Jersey are being imperiled and de- stroyed by force and violence in vio lation of the federal constitution. Anderson Restored to Membership in Machinists’ Union WASHINGTON, March 15.—‘Jack” Anderson, former vice-president of the International Association of Machin- ists, has been restored to full mem- bership rights in the union, from which he was suspended by President Johnston. The suspension order was issued in consequence of statements made by Anderson in contesting the count of ballots in the last election, when Anderson was a close contender against Johnston for the presidency. Restoration came by a unanimous vote of the general executive council, after the membership had voted on Anderson’s appeal against the sus- pension order. Anderson’s friends claim that he was upheld by 12 or 15 to 1 in the vote, but the bailots were never counted and now are locked up in the vaults at headquar- ters. They will not be counted, be- cause Anderson and Chas, W. Fry of his committee have signed, with the council, a circular declaring that their differences are a thing of the past. At international headquarters Vice- President Conlon stated that the coun- cil discussed the internal dispute for three days with members of the com- mittee sent to Washington by lodges friendly to Anderson. He states that Anderson then acknowledged that he had spoken too harshly of the mem- bers of the Johnston majority in the council. Similar admissions were made by the other side, Both par- (ies recognized the need to “present a united front, with every man doing his full duty.” The next election of officers for the Machinists will take place in ten months. It is understood that Ander- soa will again be a candidate, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, NEW YORK, March 15.—Great Britain, pound sterling, demand 4.85 11-46, cable 1-16; France, franc, demand 3. » cable 3.368%; Belgium, franc, demand 4.53, cable 4.53%; Italy, lira, demand 4.01%, ca- Your neighbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DAILY WORKER, v