The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1927, Page 1

\ } | “The Daily Worker Fights: | Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the * organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40- PE haste nc Me RR Week. .Vol. IV. No. 12. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, “NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1927 <a THE DAILY WORKER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY Be a PUBLISHING [ FINALCITY | CITY er gf COo., 33 First Street, Price 3 Cents New York, N, BROPHY SPEAKS FOR FIGHTING PROGRAM British Urging New Terms on Cantonese May Be Result of Isolation or New Dodge to Court Popular Opinion for War LONDON, Jan. 26.—The British gevernment through Charge de Affaires L. S. T. O'Malley, stationed in Peking, has made definite proposals to the Cantonese government, which are said to be of a nature to warrant a belief that they will form! the basis of negotiations between the Cantonese government and Great Britain according to an official announcement made here today. No inkling of the character of the proposals was given out but it was stated that O’Malley was in touch with Cantonese of- | CURRENT EVENTS | | By T. J. O'7FLAHERTY | T is not safe to, commit murder in this country unless you are @ clergyman or a millionaire and a clergyman has a better chance of dedging the noose in the southern states than even a millionaire. The Rev. Norris, who shot a wealthy lumberman dead, because he insisted on having an argument with the clergyman was acquitted by a hun- dred-per-cent American Texas jury of the same mental type that found the young teacher Scopes guilty be- cause he believed in evolution. This column has the scalps of several pre- dictions in its wigwam but of none is it prouder than of the prediction that Norris would walk out of court a free man, free to go on a nationwide tour for Jesus and his bank account. 1 ee bee ITH the Rev. Norris coming frora the south and Aimee McPherson coming from the west the devil had better look out. The last we heard of Aimee was from a reader in Denver, Colorado, who sent us a picture of Aimee “laying hands” on the sick. Our correspondent who is a skeptical person was of the opinion that Aimee’s hands were too close to her patients’ pockets for financial safety. HE Robinson resolution express- ing the sense of the senate in favor of the arbitration of the differ- ences between the United States and Mexico was passed too unanimously. Every senator voted for it. But it does not amount to much, since it is not binding cn the president who can do just as he pleases in the situation. The G. O. P. strategy towards the resolution was to speak against Mexi- co and the land and mineral laws, stress the need for protecting Ameri- can lives and then votes for the reso- lution. They are for arbitration in principle but—United States marines and soldiers continue to travel to- wards the Mexican border. * * * ENATOR Heflin of Alabama con tinues to do the right thing by his anti-catholic constituency by stepping on the pope’s coattail. Heflin states the truth when he says that the Knights of Columbus are financing the guerilla revolts against the Mexi- ean government. Yet senators of both parties, catholic as well as pro-| testant, pounce upon the hardy southerner and scorch him with fiery’ scorn. Heflin feigns astonishment. Is the catholic church so sacred in America that it cannot be taken to! task for its actions in the United States senate? he asks. * ” . E, is. There is nothing sacred un- less it has power. The catholic church was no more sacred in this country, before it developed its poli- tical machine to its present stage than a tent-full of Holy Rollers. The daily press was not closed to attacks on it. But today, while editors take sarcastic flings at the antics of the, Ku Klux Klan, there is ficials at Hankow. Either the government gave out this state- ment to jdraw public attention from the\ war preparations and to allay public alarm or else the refusal of ‘the other powers to accede to Britain’s request for joint action’ compelled the gov- ernment to|make concessions. Jockeying For Position. it is also | »-essible that Britain is seeking to jo ey itself into a more avorable position with public opin- ion and create the impression that it is resorting td every expedient to avert war in the hope that it can throw the onuy of hostilities on the Cantonese and go to the country for populer’ sanction with the story that it is waging a defensive war, an ex- cuse that proved gerviceable in 1914. The conduct of the Japanese in re- fusing the Britigh request for co- oreration has baad aroused as much anger in government circles as the action of the United States. Japan has been known\to be hostile to Britain since the Anglo-Japanese Al- lance was ditched -at-the--Washing- ton Arms Conference in return for a promise of Anglo-British co-operation in world politics. Britain now feels that her diplomats purchased a cat in the bag. Chang On The Market. There are reports current here that the attempt of the British to pur- chase Chang-Tso-Lin, who is said to have been bounced off the Japanese payroll, has failed, Chang’s son, hav- ing made a declaration that the northern forces were willing to make a united front with the Cantonese to drive out the imperialists. It is be- lieved that Chang was talking thru his sun and that Japan was turning the erank of the graphaphone. The British cabinet met today to hear a lengthy report on the Chin- ese situation by Austen Chamberlain. It is understood that the refusal of the United States to take joint ac- tion in China was given serious con- sideration. Hindoos Oppose Sending Troops. The radicals in the Indian Assem- Lly introduced a motion over the pro- test of the government protesting against the government’s assent to Britain’s dispatch of Indian troops to China. The governor general then disallowed the motion on the ground that it was “detrimental to the public interest.” Thus the British represen- tative in India gave further proof of the futility of the Indian parliament. The Indian newspaper Forward protests against sending troops to make war on the Chinese “thus mak- ing India the unwilling instrument for perpetuating the slavery of China” branding the troops “assas- sins hired to perpetuate greed.” British Official Replies. The British Empire Broadcasting Company, a government monopoly, tonight put on the air a speech by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lester, president of the Board of Trade, in which Sir Philip attacked. Eugene Chen, the Cantonese Foreign Minister, for his attack on British imperialism. ‘The speaker repeated the protesta- tions made by the British government in the early days of the late world war that “the British empire does not seek to extend its borders by one sin- capitalist daily in the United wy sige ‘gle inch in any quarter of the world.” particularly in the industrial sections of the states that dares express even a slight rebuke to this mighty poli- tical power. Senator Heflin should Imow that is the reason why the| catholic church has so many defend- ers in the senate. Sir Philip declared there was nothing imperialistic or aggressive in the tory government’s policy. Britain had no other aim in China than to help the Chinese and protect British subjects, Unfortunately for . Sir Philip and his empire the Chinese can point to the graves of their dead, killed by British bullets for proof to Roll in the Subs For The DAILY | the contrary. WORKER. (More Chinese News On Page 2.) TREED! | WHEELER FLAYS CAL’S POLICY IN NICARAGUA Charges President Is Misinforming Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. — De- manding the withdrawal of American marines from Nicaragua, Senator Wheeler (D) of Montana, this after- noon charged President Coolidge with sending a “positively misleading” message to congress on the Latin- American situation, and the state de- partment with fostering such a rule in Central America as to cause the American people to “hang their heads in shame.” Should Reverse Policy. The duty of the senate,» Wheeler declared, is “to reverse the adminis- tration’s policy in Latin America, re- store the United States to a post of honor in the western hemisphere and save her foreign trade from ruin.” The state department, he charged, has robbed Nicaragua of all its sov- ereignty, enslaved its people and prac- ticed such a rule of “brazen tyranny, as to shame even George, the Third, of revolution memory.” Wheeler declared Sacasa, the liberal! leader, was the constitutional Presi- dent of Nicaragua and should be up- held. by the United States. He pro- (Continued on page 3) American Oil Companies Try Economic Pressure On Calles Government MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Jan. 26. British Workers Urge Trade Unions Act on Threatened War on China LONDON, Jan. 26—The Na- tional Council of the Independent Labor party declared against a war with China. The council urged the British Trade Union Congress to urge its membership to take “indus- trial action if necessary” to pre- vent war with China: x The Independent Labor party is usually long on manifestoes, but short on action. The British Com- munist Party has carried on a per- sistent agitation for the organiza- tion of “Hands Off China” com- mittees for months back. Urge Millinery Workers To Vote for Left Wing Candidates in Election Elections began vertetday: in the Millinery Workers’ union for all of- ficers of the up-town branch, and in connection with the campaign of the progressives a leaflet was issued by the millinery section of the T. U. E. L., urging all class-conscious workers to vote for M. Zeibel, as secretary or- ganizer; and J. GBldstock, H. Zhu- cowsky and I, Musin as organizers. In order to prepare the union to gain better conditions in the trade, and to establish the 40-hour week which the workers are demanding, the union must have an aggressive j leadership, says the leaflet, and it ‘points out in detail the jobber prob- lems which face the organized mil- linery workers. The right wing betrayal of the trade | unions of this city is denounced in no uncertain terms, and the workers are asked to show by their votes that they repudiate such actions and are —The great oil companies affected | determined to fight for amalgamaticn by the application of the land laws | of the needle trades unions. in regard to registration of leasing | and payment of taxes have engaged | in a conspiracy to curtail operations and thus interfere with the sovern- ment finances at Alneleaa when cleri- cal rebellion is tially under way. Approximately one sixth of the: government’s annual income of $300,-. itened and par-' The elections for the millinery workers’ organizers will: continue every day until Saturday. Fix Marriage Dates. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan..26 (INS.).— A bill prohibiting. the marriage of ‘boys under 16 or girls under 14 was introduced in the legislature today by/ 000,000 is received.directly from pe-, Assemblyman Hayes, Albany Demo- troleum taxes. Get Your Union to Telegraph Congress Today! erat DARE SIGMAN T0 LET MEMBERSHIP DECIDE QUARREL Hyman Justifies Board Before Ingersol Another challenge to Morris Sig- man, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, to hold a general election and let the members themselves determine who were the authorized leaders of the union, was given by Louis Hyman, general manager of the joint board when he met with International of- ficials before the impartial chairman, Raymond V. Ingersoll, yesterday af- ternoon. “Taken Over.” In answer to some of Mr. Hyman’s statements about the critical union situation which Sigman and his fol- lowers have created, the International president claimed that the joint board been taken over by the International “|which had a perfect right to do this in a case of emergency. Illegal Anyway. “Well, whatever you call it—ex- pulsion or not,” said Hyman, “it is illegal. You have no authority to do it. If you have such autocratic powers as you claim, why didn’t you talking about it 25 weeks later?” Louis Hyman, representing’ the {joint board, and Morris Sigman, |David Dubinsky, Morris Hillquit, and 8. Nagel, representing the Interna- tional, met before the impartial chairman to discuss a settlement of a complaint in which the chairman had dealt with the regularly elected joint board instead of the Interna- {tional’s pet joint board. Hyman accused Sigman of attempt- ing to force the impartial chairman into a position where he would seem to approve the International’s policy, and therefore strengthen its attack |upon. the workers. At the close of | the discussion, Hyman asked permis- ‘sion, which was granted, to file a formal reply to a lengthy legal state- ment which had been presented by Mr. Hillquit. was not expelled, but its affairs had| Stevbieon Gagged By “Czar” Lewis Gavels Down Progressive Who Denounces Him For Packing Convention BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26.—Sensation followed sensation this afternoan at the miners’ convention. President Lee Hall of Ohio demanded the im- mediate expulsion of all Communist delegates. International Secretary! Kennedy in a long tirade against the Soviet union and Communism backed up Hall. Emperor Lewis threatened that the constitution wil! be amended immediately to bar all members of the Workers Party from the United Mine Workers. William Stevenson, candidate for vico-president on the Brophy ticket in the recent election, was ruled off the platform when he charged Lewis with packing the convention. The labor party was voted down four to one, Soviet union was defe: Recognition of the 28. Bright spots were the adoption unanimously of a demand for a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti and for nationalization of mines and ralflronds, Stevenson took the platform to denounce Emperor Lewis fot referring to “Brophy and his slimy friends.” He was in the midst of a sensational speech defending the “Save The Union” ticket and the progressives when Lewis gayelled him down, Despite cries from the floor to let him continue, Stevenson was surrounded by machine officials on the platform and pre- vented from continuing by Lewis, He appealed from the decision of the chair, but Emperor Lewis just grinned and pounded on his gavel when Stevenson started in again, forcing him to discontinue, Half tho afternoon was devoted to vicious attacks on the. Soviet union and left wing forces in America, one official charging that William Z., Fester was becoming 2 millionaire, Powers Hapgood has been unable to get his ease before the Creden- tials Committee as Lewis has ruled that he is not a member of the union, By C. 0. DAUGHERTY INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Ian. 26.—President John Brophy of District Two, leader of the “Save the Union” forces, met in head- ion with the Lewis uachine in the United Mine Workers’ convention this morning over the policies of Emperor Lewis in the past three years and his failure to organize the non-union miners of West Virginie. Vice President Philip Murray, President Percy Tetlow of Northern West Virginia, Van. Bittner, International, renresenta- tive in Southern West Virginia, and George Bassett of District Two, rushed to Lewis’ defense. The first open break in the convention came when Brophy took the platform to call upon delegates to adopt a fighting policy to save the union from impending disaster. He was defending a set of militant resolutions which had been denatured by President P. T. Fagan, of District 5, Western Pennsylvania and chairman of the resolutions committee.) .o—————________—_ Piaten ‘secotuinended safereing the | 200 members in the past six months j | despite the unusually favorable con- resolution to the same International di * 4 itions e ind y e . Executive Board which has _ lost ein te iatnene since Septem " ar Pr : ber. If we strike in the spring, we West Virginia and imperiled the | must have definite assurance that the union in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Brophy analyzed Lewis’ in deserting the 100,000 coke work- ers of Pennsylvania after the 1922 strike. This was the beginning of a policy which has caused non-union miners to lose faith in the earnest- ness or the ability of the mine work- ers’ officialdom in fighting the non- union operators, he said. Signing contracts with operators for some union mines, while allowing them to operat non-union miners in adja- cent districts was also denounced by the progressive leader. Life Or Death For Union. “This is a matter of life or death,” he asserted in a ringing speech/which brought tumultous applause from the delegates. “Unless we ean for- mulate a major policy which will draw the 200,000 non-union miners of Pennsylvania and West Virginia into the union, I look upon the future with the deepest concern. Secretary Kennedy’s report shows a loss of 19,- policies | non-union men who come out with us will not see a repetition of the dis- astrous experience of 1922 when 100,- 000 were not included in the settle- ment.” Murray Rushes In, | Vice-president Murray waved Fa- igan aside and took the platform, de- claring the union was never stronger in its history. He condemned Brophy for presenting a truthful picture of jthe union’s plight in a convention “where newspaper men are present.” Emperor Le pinch hitter drag- ged in Communism, violence and tTe- volution, charging that “New Yorkers and Chicagoans” were responsible for whatever troubles the union faced. Brushing aside Brophy’s contention that the International’s polity in the past three years had endangered Pennsylvania, causing losses of 100,- £00 members there. Murray placed the full burden of union losses in District two on Brophy’s shoulders. Continued on page 2 Farmer-Labor Unity Necessary Declares State Mill Agent CHICAGO, (FP).—“Anyone who tries to divide the farmer and the city worker is either consciously or unconsciously the enemy of both,” de. clares TV. D, Freeman, field represen- tative of the state-owned flour mill of North Dakota, Freeman is telling union audiences in Chicago of how the farmer legis- latures of North Dakota passed the best state labor legislation in Amer- ica, and how in turn the railway brotherhoods and other unions throughout the country supported the state’s bond issues to put in opera- WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! NO INTERVENT:ON IN MEXICO! flour mills. HANDS OFF CHINA! tion the state-owned elevators and, Don't Delay! “Reds Not Wanted in Indiana” prevent the strike in July instead of} -— By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, ¢¢]Q EDS Not Welcome In Indiana” is the title of a five-cohimn | boxed front page editorial in the spe- jcial United Mine Workers’ convention number of “The Union,” official or- gan of the Indianapolis Central Lab- or Union, Takirg as its text the refusal of local labor officialdom in South Bénd, Indiana, to allow Albert Weisbord to speak in its hall and appaal for re- lief of the striking Passaic textile workers, “The Union editorial says; -It was learned that five in- dictments had been brought against Weisbord for terms from 5 to 63 years charged with violations of the law in conrection with the New Jersey trou- ble, ....4. The Central Labor Union of South Bend took the matter® in (Continued on page 2)