The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1927, Page 1

The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized, For a Labor Party, For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 8 Ceccrhory | one z|| By T. J. 0! +” feo "ep ~) On pl UGENE CHEN, tha ws eign minister, talks 2, something after the fashion of. of Mexico, Kemal Pasha of Turke, and last but not least Georges Tchit- cherin of the Soviet Union. It is no mere accidental coincidence that those statesmen speak frankly in contra- distinction to the devious phrasing of the imperialist liars, Marx said that diplomacy is not a serviceable weapon in the hands of the working class, Meaning of course the diplomacy that ig synonymous with lying. The work- ing class movement and the movement for the emancipation of subject peo- ples have everything to gain by telling the truth, The robber powers have everything to lose. Lying is one of their most effective weapons. “* * E seé-the installation of an in- ter-oceanic telephone service be- tween London and New York, Officials of both countries exchange felicities. It was the same way when a German crown ‘prince visited this country. Railroad companies placed special vars at his disposal. Hotel rooms cost him nothing. He was osculated by the (Continued on page 3) the Peking “People’s Tribune.” has stopped all modern studies. Only And even the recent attempts to unify the various dialects -are con- Subscription Rates: sidered treason and the modernize the Chinese language and | pooks In Chi CANTONESE GET » FADY FOR LAST ANGHAT DRIVE More F oreign Ships Arrive (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Jan. 20.—As the Can- tonese forces are ‘reported concentrat. ing their armies for a concerted drive on Shanghai to begin immediately un der General Tan Yen-Kai, one of the ablest soldiers on the staff of Chang Kai Shek, the workers of Shanghai are supporting the Kuomintang at tackers by declaring strikes on public utilities, Street car service has been stopped. Power house employes are preparing to walk out. While the immediate demands of the strikers are wage in- creases, the workers and the Chinese population of. Shanghai generally make no secret of their opposition t« Marshal Sun Chuang Fang and_ his northern supporters and their entire (Continwed on page 3) “THE BIG STICK” ‘REACTION AND TERROR IN SHANTUNG; STUDENT MOVEMENT IS GROWING FAST (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING.---The regime of terror instituted by the reactionary tupan of Shangtung, Chang Tsung Chang, is very well described, in so far as it affects the students, in an anonymous letter thas has succeeded in reaching The “educational commissioner,” an ignorant worshipper of the past, the Chinese “classics” are permitted. “modern in the punctuated national (Continued on page 3) Lenin Memorial Meeting and ily Worker Welcome ‘- ago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, Wntered at Second-class matter September 21, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1927 by mail, $6.00 per year, ILLINOIS FARMER GETS $355 FOR YEAR'S LABOR, COLLEGE SURVEY SHOWS URBANA, IIL, Jan, 20, — The average farmer of the state does not receive more than $355 for his year’s labor, according to R. R. Hudelson, farm management spe- clalist, at the “farmers week” held by the agricultural college of the University of Illinois. Hudelson based his figures on accounts kept by 1,000 farmers in 1925, “This sum receiyed by the farm- ers is about half they paid their hired men,” he said. “In some sec- tions of western Illinois the average labor and management per farm operator was $928, while accounts from east and central Illinois in the corn and oat section showed nothing left to pay operators’ wages.” Elgin Road Shop Men Demand Wage Increase By a Worker Correspondent. GARY, Ind., Jan. 2 Shopmen on the Elgin, Joliet and orn Railway 1re demanding wage increases, A nass meeting of all six of t shop crafts members has been called to. decide on action by the workers. PARIS CITY GOVT, IS BANKRUPT; ASK FOR VOLUNTARY HELP PARIS, Il1., Jan. 20.— Paris was bankrupt today, unable to pay the expenses of running the municipal government and a committee of business men was preparing to se- lect non-partisan candidates for mayor and the commission to serve without pay until the finances were straightened out. \ INSULL'S MAN SMITH BARRED FROM SENATE Record Vote Shuts Out Utilities Tool BULLETIN Smith Barred. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20,—The senate today | barred Col. Frank L. Smith (R) Of Illinois from taking the oath of offige as a United States senator. By @ record vote, the sen- ate denied Smith his oath and closed the d@ors in his face. The vote was 48 tp 33. The vote against Smith by pasties, was: 15, republi- cans; 32, — 1, armer-La- borites. jee (Special t@ The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—With backers of Frank L. Smith, Samuel Insull’s senator designate from Hli- nois, citing @éedent and getting ac- rimonius in ir forensic displays and his opponents quite as acrimonious and hauling ou even more precedents against him, the debate over Illinois election “slush” drew to a close with a vote nearing that, so far, is against the applicant. -~ The debate fanged back and forth between issuég of law and morals, with Senator Watson contending that the senate was bound constitutionally to admit any, qualified senator-elect “even if he a leper.” “Does the =. (Watson) con- tend that thé%senate must admit 2 leper if he comes here with unques tionable credentials?” asked Robin son. < “T do,” Wai replied, “if the ma in any sovereign state je senate must recog: nize him.” “Or if a man is an idiot?” “Yes, if am i@fot can teke an oath.” Damn |Fools Get In. “Well, of course we all know that fools, damn » sometimes get into legislative bodfes,” replied Robinsor Watson was Subjected to consider- jocratic senators w hot when Robin- 's*“inanifes intention was an effort to line up the forces in this chamber according to politics.” This Watson hotly denied. Question of, Politics. “This is now a question of politics, Watson declared. “If Smith is r jected, Illinois has a republican gov- ernor who will appoint another repub- lican. I was opposed to Smith’s com- ing here and did all I could to prevent “Why?” shouted Robinson. “That’s my private business and none of the senator’s from Arkansas. nor of the United States,” retorted Watson. ‘That's a remarkable commented Robinson. “But perfectly proper,” Watson an- swered, This followed a statement by Sena or Curtis, of Kansas, republican floor leader, that “for years election. con tests in the house were decided with purely political consideration.” statement,” 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879, ot a JAPAN HOTIFIES POWERS WILL NOT TAKE PART IN ARMED ATTACK ON CHINA WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20.— The text of an address by Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara to the Japanese diet has been published here by the Japanese embassy. The speech was a polite warning to the rest of the powers that Japan could not be relied upon to aid in inva- sion of China, tho she would prob- ably try to keep her concessions of small pieces of Chinese territory. Shidehara summarized Japan’s policy in China as: (1) No interven- tion in, or further partition of, the country; (2) economic approach- ment; (3) assistance to China in her “just aspirations”; (4) patience and tolerance in China's internal dif- ficulties, but protection of Japan’s interests. Baron Shidehara also commented on the friendship developing be- tween Russia and Japan, and denied that their interests would clash in Manchuria. He regretted that rela- tions with the United States were not Jeers YAQUI INDIANS QUIT; REACTION LOSES ALLIES Say Gen. de la Huerta| Deceived Them (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan, 20—The bpt- tom has fallen out of the revolution ary aspirations of the reactionary ex- iled Gen, de la Huerta, who hoped, with the support of the Yaqui Indians, to launch a drive of dangerous pro portions against the Calles govern ment—the Yaquis have surrendered! They have been carrying on a fight of five months from their embattled native hills in Sonora. Egged on by de la Huerta and also by the oppo- sition against the government display- ed_ by. catholics, and. 0} x tes Ha catholic Indians, - = ages always been rebellious and the easy victims of counter-revolutionary in trigue, have carried on a staff war fare against federal troops. Draw Iron Ring Tight. But in the past several weeks a strong concentration of federal forces in the Yaqui country and the drawi of an armed ring around their district, supplemented by the bombardment of rplanes, has caused the Yaquis to give up the fight. The surrender was actuated by news that leaked thru to the Indians that the government was planning a drag-net operation that would scour every nook and cran- ny of their hills. The minister of war, General Ama- ro, received the petition of the Yaquis and conferred immediately with Pres- ident Calles, The decision was reach- ed ‘to accept the surrender of the In- dians and appointed General Obregon to carry on the final negotiations for peace. N and After Monday, January 24th, The DAILY WORKER will be published in New York and will ap- pear each morning on the news stands in New York City and vicinity and also in the principal citi¢és of New York state, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Penn- sylvania. Readers and supporters of The DAILY WORKER are urged to bring this to the attention of their newsdealer and convince him of the necessity and value of handling The DAILY WORKER every day. The new edition to be published in New York will be improved in many ways. First of all, New York City as a whole has vastly improved news fa. cities, being practically the news cen ter of the world. Secondly, we will be better able to get first hand informa- tion of the struggles in and near New York, not only in the needle trades, but also in the mining, textile and manufacturing industries which are located in the immediate vicinity. Notice to Daily Worker Readers We have also secured the assurance of the co-operation of a number of well-known writers who will contrib- ute to The DAILY WORKER as soon as it reaches New York. Among them in addition to our present staff will be Scott Nearing, Bertram D. Wolfe, Ben- amine Gitlow, Albert Weisbord, Rob- ert W. Dunn, V. F. Calverton, Michael Gold, Simon Felshin, Joseph Freeman and many others. Plans are under way for publishing daily the cartoons of the following well-known = radical cartoonists: Robert Minor, Fred El- lis, H. Gropper, Hugo Gellert, K. A. Suvanto, This is but a brief list of the interesting features which the new edition of The DAILY WORKER will include. In spite of the addition of new features, the price of the pa- per will remain the same, 3c on week- days. 5c on Sundays. ORDER YOUR COPY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER NOW! The DAILY WORKER, MADISON-SQUARE GARDEN 50th STREET AND EIGHTH AVENUE SATURDAY EVE, JAN, 22, AT 8 P.M. ADMISSION: 50c, 75c, $1.00 Tickets in advance at Workers Party headquarters, 108 Mast 14th Street; Jimmie Higgins Book ees 127 University Place, and Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAIL’ PUBL: 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Cl ISHING CO., EDITION WORKER icago, Ill, Price 3 Cents Furriers Shatter Attack By Woll; Seek Retraction leagues. The joint board is of American workers, their verdict our actions.” Letter to Green Exposes Disruptive Machinations of Right Wing (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—‘The joint board will not permit any individual or group to involve its members in frame-ups such as those attempted by Brother Woll and his ool- intrigues and the opinion that the methods employed by Brother Woll and his associates play into the hands of the enemies of the organized labor movement. fident that when we place our case before the tribunal of the We are con- will be support and approval of In these words the New York joint board of the Furriers’ Union has issued a defiant chal exgineered against it by N Federation of Labor “investigating joint board with bribing the during New York police force its recent strike. Altho these charges have fallen to de the ground thru the ertion of J> seph Ryan from part ation in the Woll deal because the bribery charg- es implicated his Tammany friends, the Joint Board is demanding a ecom- plete retraction of the charges and censure of Woll and his assistants. One of the participants in the framie- up, a& the letter that follows will show, was Hugh Frayne, New York \A. F. of L. érganizer who has been |for months past engaged in a united larive with the discredited right wing lements in the needle trades unions to wreck the New York joint board. The statement was in the form of a letter to William Green, president of the A. F. of L. It follows in full: Mr, William Green, President. American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir and Brother: The New York Joint Board of the International Fur Workers’ Union at atthew its last meeting discussed at length the findings of the so-called investi- tive Council, headed. by. Broth- er Matthew Woll. The Joint Board directed me to convey to you the following: The Joint Board has become aware of the charges made against the Gen eral Strike Committee of our recent gation committee of the A. F. of L.j fur strike that the strike leaders were unable to account for $100,000, (Continued on page. 3) Inspection for enge to the attempted frame-up Woll, head of the American ” committee that cha sed | the SACASA REFUSES SPURIOUS DIAZ PEACE’ OFFER Will Continue the Fight Against Wall St. (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 20— Refusing to be the victim of further spurious arbitration plans offered by President Diaz at the suggestion ef Laurence Dennis, U. S, charge in NI caragua, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, leader of the liberals in rebellion against the Diaz-Wall! Street combination, hae de clared that he prefers to fight to the end rather than desert his followems. Diaz offered a “peace” arrangement whereby certain liberals, to be chesenm by Diaz, of course, would be given po sitions in. the government with fhe. pr derstanding that Diaz should remetd .*’ president until 1928. At that time elections should be held, the effer continues, to be supervised by the United States.. This’means that me- rines will watch the polls. Bare Fraud. fraudulence of the (Continued on page 3) The offer is Foreign Duty Centrs short notice. Speakers: C. E. RUTHENBERG WM. z. FOSTER SCOTT NEARING MOISSAYE J. OLGIN J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM WEINSTONE SAM DON Auspices: Workers Party of America, District Na 2 Brigadier Gen. Smediey Butler, commander of marines stationed im Lee ngeles, has standing orders to be ready to ship a battalion of troops om Their destination may be Nicaragua, may be China—or Mex ico, nearby. Butler is shown inspecting the troops at the top. is Major Vandergriff inspecting sea-duty outfits, Below is an officers’ een 33 First St., New York City. | ference. In the middle Musical Program: MISCHA MISHAKOFF Concertmaster, N. Y. Sympheay IVAN VELIKANOFF Tenor, Musical Studio Moscow Art Theater, , RUSSIAN MASTER SINGERS Vocal Quartette, FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY, Chorus of 300 Voices.