The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises | the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government intered at Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at anh THE DAILY WORKEI Fost Office at Chicago, Ulinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. This Issue Consists of Two Sections. SECTION ONE. Vol, Ill. No. 89. Subscription Rates: Bashing eh $800 per vear. SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1926 ae Enhiished Dally secret un veaningtar Biedy Chico, Ti Price 5 Cents ft 13% 8 se ae WA. UNITED FRONT DEFENSE FOR PASSAIC STRIKE All Groups Join Hands Against Terror By ART SHIELDS. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 23.—“it means a better settlement for the: strikers,” | said Forrest Bailey, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, hail- ing the formation of a joint committee Of all organizations that have been supporting th saic, Garfield and Clifton, New Jersey. The joint committee unites the ‘In- ternational Labor Defense, the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union, the League for Industrial Democracy, the Emer- gency Committee for Strikers’ Relief, the Federated Press, with the United Front Committee of Textile Workers and the Passaic strike relief commit- tee in a common movement for the de- fense of all strikers who are arrested | or who are beaten up or denied the | Be yy lant struggle in Pas- | - LABOR OF NEW WAR oo! So That’s What's in the Prohibition Barrel! } i | } I mperialists Aim Blow | (International Press Correspondence.) BRITAIN AIDS . CHANG TSO-LIN | TAKE PEKING at Soviet Union The following belated dispatch | which has arrived from Moscow | thru the International Press Corre- spondence agency gives the readers of The DAILY WORKER an insight into the political factors that prompted Chang Tso-Lin, Manchur- ian war lord, to make a temporary agreement with Wu Pei-Fu, Chihli military governor, for the capture of Peking and a drive on the Kuomin- chun (nationalist) army: oe 8 MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., March 4— (By Mail)—England and Japan are working to hand over Peking to Chang| Tso Lin while the United States is op-| posed to this as it fears a strength- ening of Japanese influence in China.} | Chicage Workmen’s Circle Branch Greets he Daily Worker A meeting of Chicago branch 87 of} the Workmen's Circle, one of the two large local branches, voted unanimous- ly last night to send gree DAILY WORKER in the form 0’ as an expression of working solidarity joining other workers | the celebration of May. Day. Various units of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and the Young Work- ers (Communist) League have also entered the huge parade in the spe- in | cial May issue of The DAILY WORK- ER. Shop nuclei from Detroit, Canton and other cities, street units from all over the country and hundreds of in- dividual workers have already re- sponded. In Los Angeles the local unit of The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club sends in 52 names with a hope that Builders thruout the country join with them on this day Workers in shops, trade unions and fraternal organizations are express- ing their class solidarity in the pages of The DAILY WORKER thru greet- ings on May Day. Join the Big Par- ade! PAINTERS AND ‘WORKERS MUST UNITE TO WAR : ON IMPERIALISM. Comintern Shows Plutes Prepare New Carnage (International Press Correspondence.) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., April 7.—(By Mail.)—The executive committee of the Communist International has Is- sued an appeal to the workers of the world, pointing out the failure of the league of nations and warning the workers of the impending war. In the following appeal the Communist International points out the betrayal of the working class by the social- democrat leaders of Europe and the need for the workers to unite in a struggle against the league of nations and the need of a united front to frustrate the designs of the imperial- ist powers that are planning another world war: , Workers Unite! | right to walk the streets and hold Authentic information corroborated | pee Ao aa meetings. from various sources. shows that] : The pac ifist Hlusion that the league Rejoice Over United Front. Chane ‘Tso:Tth hind walked ont & pina | # né pro could and would secure James P, Cannon, Norman Thomas, jof action in close collaboration with | | Deace has been destroyed. On March Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Robert W. | |English diplomatic representatives | h17 the league of nations euffered its | greatest collapse. Germa ’ jie nelencotin poapiesa ke should Peking fall. The chief aims of | received aks the tenkus’ eo UHOus rete me sage this ia we ja 4 |this plan would be the suppression of | upon the basis of the Locarno treaty: se he | the Chinese nationalist movement and After days of fruitless negotiations “There is real solidarity,” satd.Can- jthe alteration of the policy of China | towards the Soviet Union. |the Geneva sessions came to an end non, “a sweeping national campaign, | and the representatives of the bour- with all these organizations teaming Britain’s Sole Aim. | Agree to ‘Kava at geois powers went home without hav- together for the New. Jersey workers.”, 7 ; England in particular insists on the} Old Scale ji chieved their ends. The entry United Means Strength, jlatter course and its tool Chang has} jof Germany was postponed until Sep- Added Bailey: “We rb areeee When the lid flies off the barrel is burst, and the golden graft of politicians ie police spills out.| gofnitely proposed the dismissal of | |tember.. The bourgeois ‘press of the together because the strike has - TERE ~ | the Soviet ambassador Karachan andj Ignoring the lead given them by the | W#0le world speaks with the greatest reached a crisis: Unity meang strength, HE mses Sette, Sete me Lae POWER S FEAR : |tions. with the ‘Soviet Union. Eng- | firm it Its demand for a five day week |! Mations. 2} and serious political Py strikers.” | liand has promised Chang a large loan|and wage-raises, the painters and|"Pheavals are before us. a Elizabéth Gurley Plymn,-who~ hag |" "== . oO a J Sagi Pie eae yon sfavorablé conditions -should- this }Jathers have announced” theit readi-| Cover-Up Defeat. > heen. sxgaking. to the : ; s plan succeed. ness to sign two and three year agree: oi!" order to cover up the hat in every day despite threats of arrest, declared: ee ‘PASSAIC. | the breaking off of diplomatic rela-| Peking circles are firmly convinced | that English imperialism is attempt- plasterers’ union which is standing ments respectively, abandon the fight for the forty hour week and continue | anxiety about the det of the league have been the efeated, and to dis awakening unity of the “This means more protection to the 2 . at their former wage-scale. hy wking ¢ from the machinations sworkerk in, tikir fight.” It WOXph thigan The New Magazine eee gece tevay | of.the Jeague, the diplomats of Geneva to win.” i Ge and {Heir helpers in all conntries are Nofman Thomas, who defied. the Supplement L STRIKERS *: of isolating and suppressing the{ The builder’s associations are hail- tempting to falsify the real causes “riot act sheriff” and is under $10,000 bail, announced the purpose of form- ing the committee as follows: “It is just plain horse sense for the organizations which in one way or Will Put the Finishing Touches on Locarno HENRY BARBUSSE MICHAEL GOLD HUGO GELLERT WILLIAM GROPPER Hyogikai Union Cables movement for the emancipation of | China. The seriousness of the situation is | great. The hope is expressed that | European and in particular the Brit-| jand will use them ing these new agreements as victories to coer othe building trades unions into accepting similar provisions. In the case of the | painters, a referendum vote of the | lof. their bankrupte The bourgeois Ss tries to awaken the belief that s.only the veto of Brazil and the arrel about the allotment of a non- | permanent seat on the council of the pr Ww another have become interested in | Sympathy and Support jish workers will realize the signific-| 17,000 members resulted in th accept: | league-to Poland which was respons legal cases which have developed in and many others—writers | ance of their power to prevent the —_ prin new iwrecsras tated |ible for the fact that Germany was the Passaic. strike to get together.| BERLIN, April 23.—The imperialist |||.and artists—making The ||! (Special to The Daily Worker} destruction of the friendship between | #b0ve that runs for two year not admitted to the league council, ‘These various committees and organi-| powers of Europe are bringing all pos- DAILY WORKER the best ||} NEW YoRK, April 23.—A lengthy | ‘e Soviet Union and China and to sarenpathesic Srike: These statements are conscious lies. zations have differences ‘in function and philosophy, but they are one in seeing to it that the strongest possible legal fight shall be made to prevent sible pressure to keep Germany from signing a commercial treaty with the Soviet Union. The powers fear that this move will | working class newspaper printed in America. SUBSCRIBE! message sent to the Japanese Labor Union of New York for translation and transmissionito the Passaic textile strikers, comes from Ritsuta Noda, strangle the movement for the emanci-| pation of the Chinese people. | Seek War on Kuominchun. | The Peking and Tientsin Times de-'* The painters’ contract with the bosses, however, provides for closed shop jobs and contains a sympatheti rike clause. It is reported that imperialists Wreck League. “Those responsible for the breaking- up of the negotiations in Geneva and the stirring up of new conflicts and any man from paying a party's peice | out the bra et touches to the Lo- representing the Hyogikal Labor Un-|mands the complete annihilation ot |SY Pa th eho eettalens eck Pi che tuner ee pbs as a result of the struggle of the work-| carno pai ich suffered a terrible D, ; |ion of Japan. th ionalis y as sasure to | 2PPe! aptcerupeiesns ii siguiente nes Ss. Great Bri nan’ aad about Pasaain, blow at Geneva. Pass this copy on to | Pen. nano. message, the the nationalist army as « mes the painters and the lathers will con- | té nee and Italy. The American Joint Committee Eliminates Friction. British secret diplomacy is at work another worker and militant unionists of Japan organized in the Hyogikai, greet the Passaic crush the national revoluitonary move- ment and to remove China from the tinue to receive $1.50 per hour. intervened in the Geneva “Of the six or seven organizations |in an attempt to force Germany to get his subscription! | strikers in the name of their own tex-| ; J Dinsterers iat thelr, last: meeting, de- | negotiations thru: iufinencing Brasil 4 4 p the Soviet Union. The|”. a | Pade mace represented in the joint committee,| postpone the signing of the treaty. tile workers who have themselves just pyaar aig that any compro- cided to fight for $1.75 per hour. pordes to str en the contradictions only two, the Civil Liberties Union |The little entente and Poland are pre- come thru a long and hard strike with| | between the European states and to and the International Labor Defense, gether with the defendants concerned, will be solely responsible for the de- fense of cases assigned to it. The other organizations, like the League for Industrial Democracy, which I rep- resent, will help raise the funds and distribute the publicity. The Emer- gency Strikers’ Relief Committee will continue iteypftorts to raise a sufficient bail fund. | > “At allytimes, however, the joint committee will prevent friction and (Contizued on page 2.) ‘Ammunition Dump Explodes Killing Many Near Salonika ATHENS. April 23—Twenty per- sons are believed to have been killed in an explosion of an ammunition dum, near Salonika. A number of persons were injured and heavy pro- perty damage was suffered. paring a direct protest against the questionnaire to the Locarno powers asking Germany very pointedly as to the meaning of the commercial treaty. This action of the imperialist pow- ers and their lackeys has aroused in- dignation in Berlin. Articles. are ap- pearing in the German press-denounc- ing this “brazen interference” on the point of the European imperialists and calling on the government to vigor- ously protest against this interference. *. *. England Negotiates With Soviets. LONDON, April 23—The British cabinet is now discussing the resump- tion of full diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Four conservative members of parliament—Sir Frank Nelson, Captain R. C. Bourne, Colonel T. C. Moore and R. J. Boothby—are now en route to Moscow to investigate conditions. Tho this mission is un- official, Premier Baldwin expected to use their report as a basis for nego- tiation with the Soviet Union, WINTEROWD OF the ropean states to the exploita- are regularly equipped for handling | pact. “Fight Hard.” 1 th tian niet gta: \. cases Forei, 9 ard, ist army would prove the commencing tion of Burope on the part of the Unit- sett yarappartionsd to aves obdatio: ee keer touctiariaaten “We have been informed of the hor-| Point for a new struggle,—the present | THE IHTIMATE SECRETS ed Statgs, and’ in order to combines tions logically. Each organization, to-| at the direction of France, has sent a rible ¢onditions of the working peo-|struggle should therefore be carried its strifggleyagainst British imperial- ‘TOWN TOPICS’ FOUND GUILTY Frame U p Labor Editor in Montana GREAT FALLS, Mont. April 23.— William Winterrowd, editor of the local labor paper, Town Topics has been found guilty on a charge of libel! preferred against him by local poli- ticians and fired $200.00. The charge is based on an article that appeared in the paper last December charging Bert Christie, constable, with using his office as a capper for a collection agency. Old line politicians in Great Falls, for long smarting under the lash of the Japanese mill barons. ple of Passaic, It is beyond our tm- agination that sueh things can occur under the American flag,” the mess- age states.‘The atrocities gn the part of the police proves more than any- thing the justice of your cause. How- ever, keep on. Fight hard.” MAY DAY. MEETINGS CONNECTICUT AND NEW JERSEY The following is\a list of May Day) meeting to be heldtin New York City, | Connecticut and New Jersey: New York City—Indoor Meetings. | COOPER UNION, &h St. ana 4th Ave.| iturday, May 1, a2 p. m. Sp Ruthenberg, Wm. Cha boy Ma Da MEC CoA EMPL mise that would leave Kalgan and Nankow in the hands of the national- thru to the end. It writes further that the chief task of the united| forces of Chang Tso-Lin and Wu Pei- Fu is the destruction of Soviet influ- ence and the destruction ofthe moral | and material support of the revolu- tionary movement, FOR NEW YORK, 8 p. m., Workers’ Home, 308 Elim St.— Simon Felshin. PLAINFIELD—Sunday, May 2, at 2 p. m., Red Men's Hall, 108 Park Ave.— Blankenstein. UNION CIT ¥—Saturday, May 1, at 8) H Connecticut Meetings. NEW HAVEN—Saturday, May 1. 0. Bentall HARTFORD—Saturday, May 1. Re’ ca_ Grech’ ; STAMPORD—Saturday, May 1. D. Be jamin. ba ed pte) Serle afternoon, May 2, Pascal Coagrov WATERBURY-—Saturday, May 1. Jos. de | The personal diary of General Ben- GENERAL'S DIARY REVEALS OF CZAR NICHOLAS | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., April 23— kendorf, one of the leading officers at the military headquarters of Nich- | Olas |, was recently discovered ‘at Leningrad in the store of a second- hand_book-dealer, The diary con- tains a frank and intimate descrip- tion of the doings and intrigues of the Court of Nicholas |, as well as fresh material on the origin of the | Crimean War. The Coliseum ‘demonstration on May Day will give inspiration to the Pas-| saic strikers in their fight for better) living conditions, | approval when. the prevent any opposition on the part of m. “The French inyperialists prevented the eptance of Germany because e bound to Poland with a sentatives of the Italian the agents of the mass Mussolini, expressed their negotiations were standstil by the veto vernment, murderer brought to a of Brazil. “The British imperialists under the ership of Chamberlain supported ance and Poland on the one hand made promises to Germany on | the other. They left nothing unat- tempted ‘in ‘order to urge the peo- ples of Europe one against the other so that they might be able to con- (Continued on page 2) NEW YORK DAILY WORKER BUILDERS TO MEET FOR SUPPER THIS THURSDAY AILY WORKER Builders of New York will meet at supper at 6:30 p. m. this Thursday evening, April 29, in the Co-operative Cafeteria, 54 Irving Place (near 17th street), New York, in order to plan how to make the present DAILY WORKER subscription drive the greatest posible success. Town Topics, seized upon this as an opportunity to “Get” Winterrowd in revenge, for many exposures he has made of the local band of republican Brahdy. " SPRINGFIELD — Sunday afternoon, May 2. Rebecca Grecht. .| Open Air Meetings, New York City. All open air meetings will start about PASSAIC UNITED FRONT MASS MEETING IS PLANNED FOR NEW political tricksters. a 7:30 p. due to the fact that all the YORK CIT ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT —___ De Labor Conference May Day | indoor meetings are held i the afternoon. Every DAILY WORKER agent and literary agent of the party, the league . Selenration. ‘o26, 110th St. and Sth Ave.—Weinstone, | and the pioneers must be present on this occasion with the DAILY WORKER Threaten Mother with Celebration and Dance' Markoff, Codkind, Jampolsky, Landy and Builders’ Club. others. NEW YORK CITY, April 23 — The Passaic United Immediate Deportation| » 10th St. and and Aver Carl Brodsky: All those who have signified their intention to become candidates for ‘e Front mass meeting will be held Wednesday, April 28, at Nin MORK Ase /addane,. Cred others. square—Jewish speakers ot | {P® Moscow trip will be announced at this meeting, and they will be invited the New Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Ave, The oft, mother ‘of Leon ‘Oranof,, ieyean| NEWARK m..] prominence. to take the floor, Definite plans for The DAILY WORKER Encampment to 3 ers will be Albert Weisbord, Norman Thomas, Robert old lad who has come to be called the ands eee: i ove, Rosenberg, Ella Wolf, Mi¢nik and come July 3, 4 and 5 will also be announced there, The food sreved at this cafeteria is wholesome and well cooked and the cost is moderate. Each one is free to take as little or as much as is pleasing. After the regular closing hour The DAILY WORKER Builders will have the place to themselves. Every Builder is also permitted to bring a visitor with a view. toward enrolling in the Builders’ Club, “boy Trotsky” by his schoolmates, was dragged before Magistrate August] s Dreyer of the municipal court of New York. This minion of the “law” threat- ened her with imprisonment and de- portation “if she dared to criticize the | United States government, , } Dunn, James P. Cannon and others. The meeting is being held r the auspices of the International Uawor De- fense, American Civil Liberties Union, League for Indus- trial bvrpade 4 and other organizations. The purpose — of meeti protest puts on brutalities in the Passaic str Sag St. Extension, Nein. Primoff, Rosen, and others. 163rd_ St. and Pros Markoff, Glankenste: ek, Peer and others, SEND IN A SUBL Williamburg — Undjus, Potash ct’ Ave. Bronx— Belle Robins, Pol- wes