The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1927, Page 1

Shop Cnairmen The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. Ne Ms ce ae) n Vote How s Pay for Loan | 1500 Dress and Cloakmakers Denounce Sigman’s Terrorism and Gangster Tactics. One hour’s pay a week for bonds was pledged by each of the 1,500 shop chairmen of cloak and dress shops who gathered in | Manhattan Lyceum 1 last night at the call of the shop chairmen’s | | ~{ council. Fate The motion for this action came | CURRENT © EVENTS to the floor, after Louis Hyman, Joseph Boruchowitz, Elias Marx, I. Brauner, chairman of the shop chair- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HEN reading the capitalist press for news of happenings in China and Mexico be careful to read be- vween the lines. Capitalist paners | uve never trustworthy where labor or other victims of imperialism are cbn-| cerned but in times of comparative peace, capitalist editors are allowed the privilege of getting an occasional thrill out of their work by printing | ; the truth occasionally. But when a] crisis has been reached as is now the} case in. Mexico and China, all the: cpitalist papers without hardly an! exception begin to lie their worst and capitalist correspondents compete’ for the boss’ favors by racking their brains for the most plausible false- hood. | * 8 HE propaganda mills in the Orient appear to be grinding out the kind of stuff that Great Britain wants to feed the public with. Still the machinery is not running smooth- ly yet. One New York newspaper had a front page story that Japan had agreed to co-operate with England against China. Another newspaper had a three line item buried away in an obscure corner of the paper to the effect that the Jap- anese government. had officially de-.| clared that it turned down England’s request for “co-operation.” Unless one is in close touch with the inter- national situation it is hard to pick the truth from the lies, * ESTERDAY’S DAILY WORKER carried the story of the brutal | (Continued on page 2) Having Lost Union Sigman Now Fights For Official Title Morris Sigman has resorted to a new plan to have his “joint board” recognized as the bona fide organiza- tion in spite of the fact that the mass | of the needle workers are continuing ,; to support the left wing joint board headed by Louis Hyman. He has ap- pealed to the “impartial” chairman, Raymond V. Ingersol, who is sup- posed to settle all differences between the union and the industrial council, on a minor question, his purpose be- ing to put, Ingersol on record in favor of the right wing as the official ex- pression of the workers. This is one of several methods that the Sigman group are now adopting in their last attempts to become the official union organization. What Ingersol will decide is not known at present. He has invited Louis Hyman to be present when he acts on the | question. The industrial council has issued a! statement to the press that since the differences in the union has resulted in two groups claiming to be the un-, ion, it has dealt with both the right and left wings, according to which | group brought the particular ques- | tion before it, and in the dispute which Sigman is now using as! grounds for his appeal to the impar- tial chairman, it has already taken up that question with the left wing joint board. The DAILY WORKER has been informed that members of Abraham Beckerman’s slugging gang were in the vicinity of Cooper and Schioss- men’s. committee, and a number of shop chairmen had discussed various aspevis of the fight being waged against the progressives by officers of the international ladies garment workers union. Provide For Families. Marks, who was recently released from jail, made a plea that the shop chairmen assume responsibility for the families of the 22 men who are in prison facing long sentences for convictions during the strike. A idegrani was sent by the shop chairmen to their 22 fellow-workers in jail, assuring them that everything would be done to have them released very soon, and that their families would be fully cared for in their ab- sence, Several speakers told instances of the terrorist tactics being used by the International in their effort to force workers to register, and to prevent picketing of shops where workers ‘have been discharged. The fact that Sigman now announces that his reg- istration campaign will close on Feb- bruary 1st was cited a s indication of what a complete failure it has been. Important Resolution. The meeting closed with the unan- imous passage of’a résdlution éallit, upon the cloak and dressmakers ignore all orders of the International and refuse to pay them dues or taxes instead to pay their dues and taxes to the Joint Board and so support the fight for the workers interests; and to form at once a defense com- mittee to meet the onslaughts of the International’s paid gangsters. It was also’ voted that the shop chair- men’s council should proceed to hold elections in the Joint Board Locals in view of the fact that the Inter- national had refused proposals for a general election under the supervis- ion of an impartial body. The shop chairmen’s council asks all cloak and dressmakers who are taken off their jobs for failing to 1egister with the International to re- port to them each night at 16 West 21st Street. BN aa Letter Starts Fight. A membership meeting of Local 62, I. L. G. W. U., held at Beethoven Hall last night, ended in a riot when Manager A. Snider read a letter from the International instructing members rot to buy any of the bonds issued by the Cloakmakers Joint Board. No notices of this meeting had been sent to members of shops known to be in sympathy with the progressives in the union, but in spite of this there was such strong left wing sentiment among the 350 members present that ‘the meeting had to be called off with- out formal adjournment. Paterson Strikers Warned of Absurdity Of Boss Propaganda PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 25.—A hundred of the girl strikers from Gar- finkel and Ritter’s here attended a meeting at which speakers from the International Ladies Garment Work- ‘ers and the United Textile Workers ‘spoke. The morale of the strikers is excellent, though they are unfamiliar with strike tactics and glad of ex- _perienced union aid, Arrangements berg’s shop 246 West 36th Street, ate being made to bring them all into where a strike is on, when Gabriel | Rabinbach was beaten last Monday | morning with a piece of lead pipe. Vice-president Dubinsky and or- ganizers Aurestsky and Dutti were in charge of the gangsters. Their slug- gers are now going from shop to shop in seeking to intimidate the striking workers, Roll in the Subs For The DAILY : WORKER. ‘the union. Company suckers are mixing among the strikers and trying to frighten them into submission by telling of Garfinkel’s enormous wealth, and his determination to move his mills where there is no union, Speakers are warning the girls of the absurdity of these stories, as it would cost mil- lions of dollars to abandon the leases f Paterson, and break Li tapi there. What Wall Street Is Defending in Mexico; Why It Needs Soldiers According ‘to information ob- tained from reliable sources, Amer- ican investments in Mexico aggre- gate more than a billion and a third dollars, The following table gives detailed figures of these investments: Rural property $166,047,000 Urban property 85,771,000 Oil lands ..... 818,638,000 Refineries . 50,070,000 Mines 317,427,000 Smelters 25,180,000 Timber .. 10,935,000 Railways... ie 248,158,000 Manufacturing enterprises ........ 27,716,000 Merchandising enterprises 26,140,000 Public Utilities . -30,799,000 Concealed interests ... 6,938,000 Miscellaneous investments not included above.. 125,242,000 . .$1,389,061,000 SIGMAN THUGS RIOT 10 HELP BOSS IN STRIKE Six Men Arrested When Gang Attacks Pickets Picketing of struck ladies’ garment shops near Thirty-sixth street and Eighth ayenue resulted in new geng- ster attacks on Tuesday, in which one picket was seriously beaten, many hurt, and six arrested. More gangsters appeared on Tues- day than-had been apparent on Mon- day, the day that group picketing was begun*at the shops which have been called on strike by the Joint Board because employers discharged workers who refused to register with the International. The determination of the workers to support the pickets of the struck shops has so infuriated the International thaf the underworld has been scoured to procure extra thugs to crush them, The thugs came armed with guns, billiard cues, knives, etc. Gangsters Released. Six workers were arrested, one of whom, Albert Julio, of 828 Forty- fourth street, Brooklyn, was given a thirty-day sentence, Two gangsters who were arrested were immediately released. Those under arrest, charged with disorderly conduct are Joseph Miller, Michael Morris, David Wein- traub, Anthony Bulo, and Nicholas Perdik. “Some Kind Of A Crowd” A meeting called by the Interna- tional in Cooper Union for Wednes- day evening for the ratificaton of an agreemamt wth the dress manufac- turers, was characterzed by Mr. Hy- man as “an attempt to get together some kind of crowd in order to com- plete the sell out of the workers”, ° “The dressmakers do not recognize that the International has a right to make any agreement and they will not attend the meeting”, he declared. “Proof of this statement is very easy to get. Everyone knows that the majority of the workers in the dress trade are women. Observers at Mr. Sigman’s meeting on Wednesday will be able to see for themselves that women dressmakers are conspicuous- ly absent, and that Cooper Union is filled, if at all, with what personal followers Mr. Sigman has”. At a meeting of the shop chairmen of Local 66, International Ladies Gar- ment Workers’ Union, held for the purpose of hearing a report by its conference committe on the question of renewing the agreement which ex-| | pires January 31, the meeting un- animously adopted a resolution in favor of keeping as the cardinal de- mand the question of the fortfy-hour five-day week, which the bosses have not yet acepted. Chaplins Fight Over Money. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.—A pe tition seeking nullification of the court order granting Lita Grey Chap- lin $4,000 a month temporary main- tenance during the pendency of her divorce suit against Charles Chaplin |Feng-Yu-Hsiang, Who Is Lead- was filed here today by attorneys representing the film comedian, Cet Your Union to Telegraph Congress Today! THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26,1927 << Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Published PUBLISHI + Black Shirt Envoy in Chicago. CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—Premier Mussolini has rendered incalculable service to the rest of the world by placing Italy on a firm economic and poltical basis, Baron Giacomo De Martino, !talian ambassador to the Unted States, declared here NICE, Jan. 25.—Newton Canovis, a y | provacateur, has been ordered ex- Gunman Implicates ‘Lewis In| Under the leadership of John Brophy, | Miners Union France Expels Agent ‘ Of Fascist; Envoy in Progressives U. S. Praises His Boss Are Strong formerly with the Popolo D'Italia of Milan, who is alleged to have % | confessed to being a fascist agent pelled from France. Murderous Assault . GSpecial to the Daily Worker.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind... Jan. 25. president of District No. 2 of the | United Mine Workers of America and} candidate for interna! I president | FINAL | pNaLciTy | | SON Daily except Sunday by THD DAILY WORKE ar NG CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Price 3 Cents DGE SHAKES MAILED FIST AT CHINA Scorns Resolution Calling for Peace Ready to Act Independently of Other Powers But Will Defend Dollars. WASHINGTON, D. Cy fae 25.—Phesident Coolidge is in favor of a hardboiled, overbearing, brutal imperialistic policy in China as in Mexico and, Nicaragua it was shown by his announce- ment, today that he was ready to use the armed forces of the United States for the protection of Wall Street’s interests in China. The President seems determined to brook no interference from congress in his Chingse policy any more than in his Latin- on the “Save The Ui ” ticket in| the miners’ union elections last month, | the progressives entered the conven-| tion today in strength. | A bitter fight is momentarily ex-| pected over attempts of the creden-| tials committee, part of the official) machine, to keep out the left wing} delegates and ‘seat a large number of | administration supporters who repre-| sent locals created of; paper, over night, in order to maintain a ma-| jority for Lewis. Hapgood Won't Quit. Powers Hapgood, refusing to be in-! timidated by the attempt to kill him a couple of days ago, is actively as- sisting Brophy in rallying the large numbers of uninformed delegates who have come in without instructions from ytheir unions. These delegates are the key to control of the con- vention. In the past, the - progressives, though courageous and sometimes numerically strong, were still a min- ority. The machine is always a min- ority, and represents principally pay- roll followers of Lewis. Hitherto, in each cotierete issue, as it arose on the floor of the convention, the machine, by its superior organ- ization and planned iptimidation of undecided delegates, ‘had its way. Progressives Ready. This time, the progressives have a clear program of throwing out the reactionary officers, securing justice for expelled or disfranchised militant miners, labor party, preventing of wage cuts, and especially of organ- izing the unorganized. These are exactly the things that the Lewis ad- today, following his arrival for a three day visit. Mussolini sup- ported all labor organizations ,in Italy. AEACTIONARIES JOIN FORCES AS “WINERS CONVENE Lewis and Fishwick Fear to Go It Alone INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 25, The further amalgamation of the two strongest machines in the Mine Workers of America was made evident shortly after the Thirtieth International Convention of the union went into session today, when Inter- national President Lewis appointed President Harry Fishwick of district 12 to be chairman of the gle com- mittee. Fishwick inherits the Frank Far- rington machine in Illinois, and con- trols a district which includes some- thing near a third of the member- ship of the entire union, Farrington. before he acknowledged himself last summer an employee of the Peabody Coal Co., used to fight Lewis when ministration, with its policy of con- ciliation with the employers, of yield- ing to all company. pressure, cannot permit if it is to continue in power. There will be a bitter contest. In the struggle beginning today, (Continued on page 2) he felt secure, and ally himself with Lewis when either was menaced by progressive forces. Fishwick has never had the independence of action that Farrington boasted, because he had an election agreement with board (Continued on page 2) United, UNITED MINE WORKERS CONVENTION MUST OUST LEWIS TO FIGHT BOSS By JACK KENNEDY. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 25.—No convention in American labor history has ever faced such a serious combination of internal and external problems as the convention of the United Mine Workers which opened here this morning at Tomlinson hall. Fighting for life to rescue itself from the grip of a reactionary crew of officials who have gutted the international union since the last convention in 1924, the delegates also confront problems in the coal industry itself which seem almost insoluble. With the slate wiped clean of Em- peror Lewis and his gang of plun-| ™erce Herbert Hoover, direct repre- derers, the convention would still be| Sentative of the big commercial in- cbliged’ to deal with ‘Amerca’s most| erests in the Coolidge cabinet, has de-' chaotic industry. Secretary of Com- Continued on page 2 8,000 U. S. BLUEJACKETS ing An Army In Alliance With The Kuominchun 8,000 bluejackets and marines. NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! American policy. He is ready to agree in principle with almost any resolution congress may) pass, but continues to send bat-| tleships with political admirals | aboard wherever Wall Street’s| interests are jeopardized. Citizens In No Danger. While Coolidge talks about need for the protection of Americ: nationals in China it is an ungadaple facfthat well-behaved citizens of any foreign country are-in no danger in the part of China tinder the control st the | bea jof the Cantonese and itis agai, |Cantonese that Coolidge is making] threats. | Hardboiled though the President’s policy is he must give some consid- | ration to the storm of opinion that} blowing against intervention in na and Mexico. But he bends to this storm only out of regard for his| cai future: The week sister ho cowered in the White House when, the Teapot Dome explosion shook the nation now snarles like a] hyena at anybody who would with-| hold the bayonets of the United/ States from use against the slaves of American imperialism. Evading ‘Resolution, The President was said to be quite| willing to act independently of other / nations in announcing a new diplo-; matic policy, but considers the pro- tection of American investments more | The situation calls for concerted ac- tion by combined naval forces, he be- lieves, as the forces of no one coun- try are considered capable of meeting the emergency. At the same time the house foreign affairs committee adopted the Porter| resolution and reported it favorably to the house, urging that the United States pursue an independent course in China. This resolution has to do with the American policy on unequal treaties and extraterritoriality. urgent and paramount at this time.} * SENATE VOTES FOR ARBITRATION WITH MEXICO So Unanimous That It Looks Suspicious WASHINGTON, Jan. — The senate went on record unanimously te for tling the controversy be- tween the United States and Mexico by arbitration. The resolution, sponsored by Sena- 25. tor Joe T. -Robin of Arkansas, democratic leader, which provides for the protection of Am« an property rights in Mexico pending the final outcome of arbitration, was adopted 79 to 0. An amendment by Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, insurgent | leader, prohibiting the use of Amer- ican armed forces in Mexico without the. consent of congress, was. not pressed when its defeat became ap- parent. The debate hinged upon the Rob- inson resolution, which calls upon the president to arbitrate. Claims Congress Has Rights. No sooner was it called up than Senator Norris (R) of Nebraska, in- troduced an amendment setting forth that protection of Wall Street inter- ests should not go to the extent of using the armed forces of the United States without the consent of con- gress, Sengtor Lenroot (R) of Wisconsin, defended the inteersts of American oil interests in Mexico though he declared himself in favor of the reso- lution. This is construed by some to fore- The protection of American prop- Admiral C. §. Williams Commander-in- macy’s Asiatic Fleet, who has at his command 55 vessels and over WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! shadow recognition of the Cantonese erty rights in foreign countries does government by the United States. {not mean “projecting America into In any event, International news| war,” Senator Harrison (D) of Mis- service learned today that Dr. Alfred] ¢ told the senate in protest- Sze, Chinese minister to the United ing against the administration’s pres- States for many years, will close the} ent p bec policy. He urged im- legation here in a few days and re- | mediate arbitration of the Mexican tire. dispute as a means of averting war, Tension Has Lessened. Explains Silence of Democrats. Meanwhile indications have multi-| Harrison pointed out that the demo- plied both here and in China that =| crats had withheld criticism of the tension in so far as Americans them- Coolidge foreign policy even while selves are concerned has lessened. A disapproving it. He said the demo- well defined tendency has developed crats had not endorsed the “apparemt among the Cantonese leaders, who} favoritism” manifested by the state (Continued on page 2) department in Nicaragua, the “erea- —_——-—_-—-- | tion of neutral zones there, the land- Roll in the Subs For The DAILY |i ing of marines or prompt recognition WORKER, (Continued on page 2) AND MARINES IN CHINA Chief of “Dollar Diplo- The U.S. Marine Carries Terror To The Orient Don’t Delay! U. S. Minister to China. John Van A. McMurray, HANDS OFF CHINA!