The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1927, Page 1

/ | ] | | | —— — — nS —— en ——- » laws. wanteation of the Un ee For the 40 Hour Week, Vol. Ill. No. 299. Subscription Rates: Entered me Bocenu-clasa macte In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per yoar, sfpren TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1927 W ORKE 21, 1928, at the Pom Osiice al Ciricagc, Mlinois, under the Act of Mareh 3, 187% 290 og PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. ——$—$—$—$—$—$——— NEW YORK ~ | EDITION Publisned Dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKDER Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ll. Price 3 Cents G" c 0. § RG Opi a Se ap o£ ; iS ee Oe r PE IR Pee | OE te CALLES FIRM AS OIL LAWS ARE ENFORCED Urges Mexicaw Unity; U. S. Silent (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 2.—Mexico’s elt and land laws, which are so re- pugnant to the United States State Department, have gone into effect. Foreign oll companies, principally American and British, who failed ’to apply for concession permits to oil | and land holdings in Mexico, as pro vided in the constitution and laws of 1917, must now expect early action fey the Mexican government. President Calles is firm on his stand that the olf and land laws will be enforced despite the protests and attempts at intimidation of the Unit- ed States. People Support Callies. Calles has the support of practical- fy the entire Mexican people in his stand. The chamber of deputies at ifs session on New Year's Eve, when the oil laws became active, was unanimous in its declarations of sup- port for Calles. After a last minute rush on the department of petroleum office by olf producers for filing of concession ap- plications, it was announced that 80 per cent of the oil producing land in Mexico is conforming with the new Some 300 applications have been filed with the petroleum depart- ment. However, large American owned companies, who, it is estimat- 4, control oil property valued at $800,000,000 did not file permits. Will Be No Yielding. No announcement of what immed!- ‘ate action will be taken by the Mex- fcan government on these companies, has yet been made. But, it is certain, there will be no yielding on the part of the Calles government. Calles made this plain in his reply to tha oil prodacers who asked for a “delay” in the enforcement of the laws. The new oil laws provide that land for which no concession application hes been fild by Jan. 1, automatically reverts to the Mexican govermnent, which will then decide on its owner- ship and exploitation. Calles Asks for Unity. In a New Year’s message to the Mexican people, President Calles, eatied upon them to rally behind the administration in face of possible danger, occasioned by threats of the U. 8. State Department should the oil laws be enforced. Calles declared that capital would be welcome to Mexico always, pro- vided it complies with the laws of the republic and does not undertake to absorb Mexico's national interests. Mentions Attacks. “The adoption of methods and sys- tems to develop our natural resources and the defense of our undeniable rights of nationalism,” he said, (Continued on page 3) TEXTILE STRIKERS IN JAIL GET CHEER FROM LABOR ORGANIZATIONS PASSAIC, N. J., Jan. 2.—The fam- ilies of the 11 textile strikers who are heldin jail here and at Hack- ensack received Christmas cheer to the extent of $60 each. The funds _ were contributed by the Interna- tional Workers’ Aid, the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the local ~ Ukrainian branch of the |. L. D., and the local union of the United Tex- - tile Workers. “a ans and Costa Ricans Inflamed Jver Invasion of Nicaragua by U. S.; El Universal Warns American People Denunciations of the United States Invasion of Ntearagua are con- tinuing to be made in Latin American countries. “No one takes the disembarking of the marines at Nicaragua as anything but the culmination of the old policy of attempts against the integrity of the Latin Amerioan republics and the marines which landed are nothing more than the consequences of that aggressive im- perialism which, at times, has tried to disembark under the mask of } the Monroe Doctrine, and other times under or with the names of the vasion are contemplated.” “We hope that these facts will future of peace in America, In the chamber of deputies of make and booed by his colleagues and forced to take his seat. vasion that a public demonstration was arranged. ding the demonstration. Soviet Census Shows Big Increase in Population, Due to Prosperity and Government’s Work in Attacking Disease (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW.—As the census figures of population will be nearer to 160 millions than the 145 previously estimated. A great increase in population of cities is evidence of returning prosperity. Moscow's population, which fell to 800,000 in 1919, is now about 2,000,000. Leningrad has Jumped from 400,000 creases of 72 per cent since 1923. Returns from country districts show that the growth by natural increase is greater than by emigration from the cities, This is attributed largely to the government’s work in checking diseases, such as cholera in summer and the typhus in the wintre months. A strong fight has also been waged against malaria. (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — The supreme court was asked today to define a permissible strike, in a case brought for review by the Barker Painting company of New York, The opinion will have a far reaching effect on the unrestricted right of labor unions to strike. The New York company, basing its case on the recent opinion of the court in the Dorchy case, in which it was held that all strikes were not per- missible, charged that the Brother- hood of Painters, Decorators and Pa- delphia local used the strike to force the company to pay the New York union scale in Philadelphia when the latter scale was lower. It was done, the company sald, to confine business to Philadelphia contractors, Lower courts refused to enjoin the strike, Condemns Portable Schools, Portable schools are, according to the season, “smokehouses,” “roast houses,” or “refrigerators,” according to Alderman John Toman of the 23rd ward, when he and a committee of parents from his ward appeared be- fore the school administration com- mittee of the board of education. Portuguese Anarchists, Deported, ; Are in Lisbon Jail, Awaiting Tria (Special to The Daily Worker) * WAIRHAVEN, Mass., Jan. 2.-—The yeader of newspapers will perhaps re- ‘member faintly that some time ago Portuguese anarchists were ar- tested at Fall River, Mass., on the ‘Amstigation of a priest and the Portu- “guose consul, They were deported by rament as be- a Portu- paper published here, has re- d information from Lisbon that three men are now in jail there, an investigation by the police c views and activiti Their will undoubtedly be that they will sent to some African possession, to rot until they are forgotten, by those whom they tried in YANKEE SAILORS TAKE HOLIDAY; CAPTAIN SEES NO HUMOR IN SITUATION BALBOA, Jan, 2.—Twenty-eight American seamen on the steamer Columbia took an unauthorized holi- day, on board the while on the high seas. other unconventional things, they forced the American officers to wait upon them at table, after carefully locking the captain in his cabin, On the arrival of the boat here the 28 were arre: for mutiny and are held for trial. The boat signed Up @ Row orem. ree ye ' Wilson or Hughes doctrine,” declared El Universal, influential newe- paper of Mexico City, in an editorial on the Nicaraguan situation, “MIGHT VS. RIGHT” “The theory of force imposed upon right has again been shown on this continent,” the editorial declared. are not less when the hypocritical, can people the magnitude of the problem which is now opened for the It conoludes. CHILEANS BOO U. 8. CHAMPION. New York Company Asks That Supreme Court Define Permissible Strikes perhangers of America and the Phila-| “The motives for indignation lying efforts used to cover the In- serve to unmask before the Ameri Chile, when a deputy attempted to ech defending the action of the United States, he was jeered from the galleries, until he was COSTA RICANS AROUSED. At San Jose, Costa Rica, the citizens are so aroused over the in- of protest against the United States President Jiminize issued an executive order forbid- are assembled It appears that the total to 1,611,000. “Smatier cities show Im FUR WORKERS LEARN COST OF RECENT STRIKE Will Join Cloakmakers Against A. F. of L. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 2. — Seventeen weeks of strike to secure the 40-hour week and wage increases cost the New York joint board furriers’ union $840,342.48. Samuel Lebovitz, assist- ant manager of the board, gave the figures to a meeting of severa] thou- sand fur workers. Relief was the larg- est single item of the bill: $556,000 in benefits and $45,000 for food eards. Loans from other unions amount ed to $443,329, of which $78,231 has been paid back, leaving am indebted- ness of $355,098. Local 22, dressmak- ers, Intl. Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, loaned $107,000; the Amalga- mated Bank, $50,000; International: Union Bank, $45,000; $25,000 from the law firm of Davidson, Moses and} Sicher; $10,000 from Joseph Brodsky, union counsel; $19,000 from local un- fons composing the joint board fur- riers; $98,000 from special funds, The 40-hour “Victory Bonds” sold by the board brot $21,000. Hall rent took $40,486; the hall committee, $25,630; the picket com- mittee, $31,691. Legei expenser amounted to $118,208, which covers lawyers’ fees, court costs, fines and, bail bonds, assistance to prisoners, and the law committee's work. Ben Gold, joint board furriers’ un- fon manager, sounded a militant note in his speech to the meeting, declar- ing that the organization would fight American Federation of Labor efforts to reorganize the union. Gold assert- ed that his group would join the cloakmakers who are attacked /by their international union officers back- od by the A. F. of L. bodies, Three resolutions were adopted by the meet- ing: one for the joint board of cloak and dress makers union's support; one endorsing a “shop chairmen’s coune!l” as a permanent part of the union’s governing machinery; and one for’ the, amalgamation of all needle trades uniona SCAB GANGSTER IS SHIELDED BY ¢ | SIGMAN, CHARGE Attacket| of Unionists Aided by President NEW YORK, Jan, 2.—Charging that Morris Sigman, president of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, was protecting a gangster who had been used to protect scab shops, Louls Hyman, manager of the joint board, Issued ‘the following statement in regard to the case of Abraham who brought charges of felo- ault ‘against two furriers, Morris Lederfind of 91 Sheriff street and Joseph Weiss of 814 Kelly street, in the Jefferson Market court on Tues- day. Fy “Abraham Cohen's record as an un- derworld strong-arm man is well known, and im Offering Him the ald of the international Sigman reveals plainly the methods and the elements he is employing in his fight against the joint board. i Proof, “I have conclusive proof in thc statements of Witnesses that on Nov 17 Cohen protected scabs and attacked the girl pickets of G. & BE. Dress Shop 345 West 36th Street, then on strike six days. Thepe two ‘urriers, who happened to be on the scene, inter- fered, and stopped the brutal attack upon the girls. They were later way- laid by thig guefilila and his gang, who intended, no doubt, to deal out pun- ishment for their help to the girls. Out.of these*inoidents the charges against Cohen for assault has been made, with the assistance of Sigman. Ig Sigman Tactic. of terror and vio- to. gain control of the joint beard,from which he was driven last year by the honest ele- ments in the union.” A meeting of all shop chairmen in | the cloak industry for the purpose of | registering the chairman under the joint board has. been called by the | executive committee of 50 chairmen which was elected at a mass mecting in Webster hall last Monday. | Chairmen’s ‘Meeting Monday. | The meeting;for registration will! be held at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East | Fourth street, ‘Monday evening after | work, and will be under the direct | supervision ofthe executive commit: | tee, who will register the chairmen present and see to it that only chair- men participate in the meeting, ac- cording to the official statement of the executive committee, issued today. Cail for Election. In official resolutions the executive committee at its meeting on Tuesday evening called for an election “to de- cide on the problems at issue and the leader as the only method by which the present dispute between the inter- national and the joint board in the garment industry can be ended. The resolutions also protested against “all methods of force against minorities in the shops, who refuse to recognize one side or the other.” The registration of shop chairmen is an expediency resorted to until a general referendum can be held, as one method of regis- tering the opinion of the mass of the workers, who, according to the chair- men, have had no adequate way of voicing thetr opinions in the struggle. College Professors Hit Fundamentalism and Support Evolution PHILADELPHIA — A challenge to fundamentalists has come from the American Association of University Professors when they decided to op- pose proposed legislation in several states which’ will prevent the teach- ing of evolution. the workers, GOVERNOR LETS HOONEY The resolution passed by them on the subject ceiends “the separation of chu . War Secretary Backs Up Meddling Officers WASHINGTON — Secretary of War Davis has replied to John Nevin Sayre, who protested that meetings to oppose military training in schools and colleges had been interfered with and sometimes prevented by army of- ficers, The secretary takes the position that there is freedom of speech for army officersy so long as they do not attempt to speak on behalf of the de- partment of/ war. He maintains the right of ar: Moers, in their capacity ag citizens, tp take their own attitudes ROT IM PRISON, WHILE | |\oxcex. | | NOT DENYING APPLICATION that he has not time before his term of office expires to examine thoroly a 343-page document, Gov. Richard- son has turned down labor's latest plea for a pardon for Thomas J. Mooney. The governor will neither grant nor refuse the plea, on a charge of bombing during the Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco in 1916, ter,” said the governor, not deny the: either, Mooney will stay in prison. Stand With the Workers of China, Mexico, Nicaragua HE American Federation of Labor is silent on the im- portant developments in China, Mexico and Nicaragua, which vitally concern the working class of the United States. Silence can only mean approval of the imperialist policies carried out against all of these countries by the Morgan- Coolidge-Mellon government at Washington. If this is the meaning of the silence of the A. F. of L. officialdom, then unorganized as: well as organized, should know it. The demand of labor must force President William Green and the members of the executive council to speak, and speak clearly, when they meet this month at St. Petersburg, Florida. . . ° * Salomen de la Selva, secretary of the Nicaraguan Fed- eration of Labor, with which the A. F. of L. is affiliated, is in Washington. He pleads for support in the struggle of Nicaraguan labor against Wall Street's armed intervention. He is able to present all the facts to the A. F. of L. officials quartered in Washington. He probably nas done so already. But the voice that tells these A. F. of L. officials to fight recognition of the Union of Soviet Republics is no doubt also influential in withholding such aid as organized labor in this country is able, or should be able, to give Nicaraguan organized labor. * * ° . The Detroit Convention of the A. F. of L. voted to send a mission to Mexico, not to find out what support it would be possible to give Mexican labor in its struggle with the great capitalists of this country, but rather to put Mexican | labor on the grill on the question of its attitude toward the | Catholic Church. Such a mission has not yet been sent. | Recently there gathered at Mexico City representatives of | the organized workers of numerous Central and South American as well as European countries. No spokesman of the American Federation of Labor was there. John W. Brown, secretary of the International Federation of Trade Unions, told the Mexican workers that: “European workers will stand firmly back of their Mex- ican comrades as well in their hours of need as in times of triumph.” All. that. the. Mexican workers know of the official atti- tude of the American Federation of Labor comes to them in the stream of vile abuse that had Its source in the vicious attacks of Catholic speakers at the Detroit convention, at- tacks that have, not been refuted by the A. F. of L. official- dom. With Mexican labor fighting for the preservation of its natural resources against Wall Street's oil, land and rubber thieves, no aid comes from the A. F. of L. 7 7. * * * In China, as in Mexico, the organized labor movement gives its whole support to the struggle against the foreign plunderbund. The Chinese trade unions support the national revolutionary movement with all their strength. When American imperialism is the aggressor against the Canton government, it also attacks the Chinese trade unions. The government at Washington clearly showed its atti- tude on the Chinese situation when, on New Year's Day, the American representative joined with other foreign ministers at Peking in a reception in honor of the Manchurian war lord, Chang Tso Lin, the catspaw of foreign greed and the only remaining military leader of any consequence opposing the aspirations of the Chinese people. American recogni- tion of Chang Tso Lin is aid given the enemy of the Chinese revolution and the Chinese working class. But it is the recognition of American imperialism, with which American labor must not associate itself. American labor must take its stand with Chinese labor. * ° . * The executive council of the A. F. of L. must be forced to speak, either immediately, or at the latest when it gathers in regular session at St. Petersburg, Fla., on January 13. + NEW DEFEATS TO CRUSH TOOL OF WALL STREET Liberal Armies Move Against Key City MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 2-— Continued victories of the Liberal forces over the armies of the Wail Street-backed Diaz government point to the overthrow of the reactionary regime here within a short time. Diaz suppo: es are mse ad mitting that heir gC nment is ix immediate danger of being short-ltv ed. The liberal armies under leadership of Dr. Sacasa, president the liberal govern , and Genera! Moncado, his milita commander, have administered c i 3 to the Diaz ast march and are now on their forward to Managua The fall of Managua, minent, will mean the vi the illegal government and the raising of which is im ual end of Nic ard thruout the republic Key City As Objective. Capture of the city of Leon, the largest city in the country, is the |present objective of the lMberals Leon is the key city of railroad and river communication with Managua Its capture means that Managua will be isolated from the rest of the coun try, thus simplifying its seizure by ithe liberals Some 800 liberal soldiers are sta- tioned at Telica, a short distance from Leon, where they are awaiting reinforcements of munition and arms, before making r attack. Diaz Supporters Fall Off. Diaz supporters are rapidly dwin- dling, with the greater part of tha in favor of Dr. Sacasa. Intervention of the United States has served to rally heretofore indifferent Nicara- guans around the Sacasa banner. In practically every battle, Diaz troops are reported to have deserted the reactionary ranks and joined witi: the liberals. Wants More U. S. “Action.” President Diaz is making appeals for more activity on the part of the United States soldiers and ships sta- tioned in Nicaragua. So far, the U. S. soldiers have been aiding the Diaz government indirectly, attempting to maintain the government recognized by Washington by trying to block the 3 Is thru “zones of hips and troops in the country, ted to frighten ne liberals The failure of these tactics to im- pede the liberals is evident, and Diaz is appealing to Admiral Latimer and the U. S. State Department to order Yankee troops into the fighting zones. ba Will Abandon Neutrality Sham. Local unions, city central bodies and state federations should immediately insist, thru telegrams and letters to the American Federation of Labor headquarters at Washington, D. C., that the organized workers of the United States take their stand immediately with the organized workers of Mex- ico, China and Nicaragua. ie China and Nica eg ie, e FIGHT WAR WHEN WAR RAGES, IS PLEA OF COMMUNIST TO STUDENTS MEETING IN NATIONAL CONFERENCE (Special to The Dally Worker) MILWAUKEBR, Wise., Jan, 2. — J. mijg Ingdahl, editor of The DAILY addressing the national students’ conference here, demanded that students not only consider and favor anti-war resolutions in time of peace, but that they carry their oppo- sition into the actual waging of hostil- ities, refusing to be caught in the maelstrom of rabid jingoism and hys- terical patriotism, “Wars, such as the last world war, grow inevitably out of imperialism,” said Engdahl, “There will be another war, It is already in preparation, It can only be prevented by the triumph of labor in the class war that is now raging thruout the whole capitalist social order.” Fngdahl pointed out the role that the students had played in the Rus- sian revolutionary movement, He ex: plained the part that students were (Continued on page 2) (Special! to The Daily Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Pleading Mooney is serving a life sentence “1 desire to be fair in this mat- “and will pplication.” | But since he» does not grant it CM ROK. * ‘ Abandonment of the e of neu- trality on the part of the United States, resulting in active participa- tion in the fight against the liberals is now seen as the only hope of prop* ping the Diaz regime. This participa- tion will soon be forthcoming, it is indicated. The Washington govern- ment is now seen as busy preparing American public opinion to condone an actual attack on the, liberals, and when this “job” ts believed complet- ed, United States soldiers and United (Continued on page 2.) WOMEN ‘SIMPLY GRAZY' ABOUT DOGS GIVE TURKEY DINNER TO POOR CANINES | (Special to The Daily Worker) DENVER—’Twas the day before Christmas, when the city dog catch- er, Sam Hansen, got the shock of his life, when two expensive motor cars rolled up in front of the dog pound and the chauffeurs began un- loading baskets, which they explain- ed their mistresses had sent full of Christmas dinners for the dogs. But Sam wasn’t the only one to get a jar, A few days earlier, two fashionably dressed women called on E, M. McNeill, head of the muni- cipal inspection department, and in- formed him that, if he would supply the dogs, they stood ready to send in 100 pounds of roast turkey with dressing and ali the “fixing.” “We are simply crazy about one of them said thru her make-up. 8 “Yes,” said MoNeill thru his teeth, “simply crazy.” And then a sort of afterthought he added: “About dogs,” > SH # fropulation showing’ strong sentTaseitt——*