The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1927, Page 1

\ The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organizeds For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. THE DAILY WoO Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879, ER. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 14. * SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927 =a» Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHID - NG CO., 38 First Street, New York, N.Y. Price 5 Cents Rosalsky Gives Strikers Long Terms Miners’ Convention In Uproar of Protest Bonafide Delegates Wild About Plan for Salary Grab; Dilution of Constitution; Barring of Howat (Special to The Daily Worker) By WM. F. DUNNE INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 28.—President William Green of the American Federation of Labor was brought into the Miners Con- vention here this afternoon to stave off threatened defeat of the gang’s proposal to raise John L. Lewis’ salary to twelve thousand dollars a year. n : Fought to a standst#e by indignant delegates yesterday on the proposal to give Lewis unlimited power to levy assessments on the members, the administration advanced today to push through the big salary’ grab. Greeri’s entry was staged for the salary fight. The machine postponed convening for an hour this morning and rushed ad- journment extra early, convening late in the afternoon to time the new constitutional amendment with Green’s arrival. John Hindmarsh was in the midst of a slashing attack on the propo- sition to raise the emperor’s salary while West Virginia miners were begging for enough to eat when Green entered. “The presi- dent’s salary is now four times as great as the average miners wage,” he resumed. “Why increase it now fifty per cent just when the officials are pleading the need for more money by un- limited assessments for strike relieve? This action means war in the ranks of the mine workers. The rank and file will not tolerate this concentra- tion.of autocratic authority and enor- mous wage increases.” Just as Van Bittner concluded an appeal for the $12,000 salary on ‘the ground of Lewis’ “wonderful record of achievement,” Green was given the floor. Sra “You will make no mistake if you follow your. leaders,” he declared. “Why do you believe they would be- tray you? Why do you distrust them? ‘Phey should not be abused, there’s been enough of that.” Green urged a wat on the left wing, in preparation for the big battle to- morrow to expel all members of the Workers’ Party from the union. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan, 28.— The convention here of the United Mine Workers of America, was again convulsed with a roar of protest from the bona fide delegates when Interna- tional President John L. Lewis’ hench- men brazenly began to foree through by use of the fake delegations from “blue sky” locals their motion to raise his salary from $9,000 a year and expenses, to $12,000 per year and expenses. Expenses include the regu- lar daily item of fare from Spring- : field, Il., where Lewis nominally lives, E id to Indianapolis, in which his offic >—_—_—_—_—_—eee_ are located. MAJ. GEN. SIR CH. HARINGTON Just as unpopular was the propo-| ‘This is the titled member of the sition to raise the annual salaries of ‘ vice-president and secretary treasurer British army caste on whom the war from $7,000 to $9,000. Both salary] office confers-the honor of making grabs were recommended by the con-/the Empire’s last stand in rising stitutional committee, appointed by] China, He will be a commander-in- Lewis when the convention opened. chief of all British forces at Shanghai eee ee teers eer and probably of those of her allies. struggle. no (Continued on page 3) He will have a job on his hands. Imperialist Leader | CURRENT EVENTS |. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY Ww. feared that the old’ reliable red-scare artist Mr, William J. Burns who added to the gaiety of this prosaic republic by periodical admissions that he had solyed the famous Wall Street bomb explosion had faded from human ken and that his host was now flitting in the eter: nal shadows or hovering over the special hell which an all-wise deity would surely reserve for stool pig- eons if a deity did exist. Our week- ly grin, our monthly giggle, ‘and our semi-annual guffaw, we feared, were in danger of being included .among lost luxuries. The world looked as dark to us, without our’ customary source of merriment as if we ‘heard that The New Leader and The Week- ly people were short of funds*or that Morris Sigman had turned catholic to please the president of the New York Central Trades Council. * * * lie! my youth I frequently was told that “God was good to the poor.” I was usually reminded of Jehovah’s generosity when those responsible for my existence were’able to pro- duce more words than food to satis- fy my urge for self-preservation. And when I noticed a news ‘item in a New York paper recording an ad- dress delivered by the inimitable Burns before a rotary club on the subject’ of “Crime and Radicalism,” I was a fit subject for a lecture on the theory that every individual has a little god of his own who looks out for his comfort. * * * T was a gloomy day, and after spending four happy years in the wide open spaces of Chicago, within easy smelling distance of the stock- yards the odors of the ghetto did not sit easy on my nostrils. As I read what “Bill” Burns had to say, a satisfied grin began to settle on my countenance and by the time I got to the last period I was disturbing cur staffless staff with shouts of hilarity. as is reported that Mr. Burns was lying on his couch in his office hatching “Red Plots” when he heard the noise. “Now I have it!” he mut- tered, leaping to his feet, putting on his hat and making for the seat of trouble. fn a few minutes he had a whole theory of the explosion ready for the press and the an- nouncement that he would have the conspirators in his hands within the customary twenty-four hours. By the time the public press outlawed his ravings on the subject, Burns had arrested over one hundred con- spirators and made three hundred and sixty -predictions. Finally the capitalist press decided that either Burns was: hoaxing them or they were becoming afflicted with soften- ing of. the brain. So they advised their cub reporters to turn thumbs down on Burns’ publicity or turn him over to a policeman if he in- (Continued on Page 4) Teli your friends to buy The DAILY WORKER at the news-|cow.” Instead of adopting the phil-| ors have been practi stands. yi Ramsay Mac! BRITISH SPEED TROOPS TO CHINA OVER LABOR PROTEST EW of Hankow, China, with insert of Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister. To the right is James Id, former Labor Party premier. MacDonald is now | preparations being made by Sir Austen, the tory, against the victorious Chinese revolutionary government. But 2 feebly over the military Only American Barons Dety Mexico European Qil Companies Obey Land Law WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Mexico’s land and petroleum laws, which the state department consider so confis- catory that a break in relations has been threatened, have proved accept- able to 95 per cent of the foreign oii producers in Mexico, according to figures issued today from the Mexican embassy here. The embassy statement “did not specify the identity of the five per cent minority, but it is understood to include some of the companies con- trolled by the Doheny, Sinclair and Standard Oil of Indiana interests. Only U. 8. Plutes Held Out. Up to the Dec. 31, the statement set forth, 643 applications were filed for permits to operate under the new laws, these obligations covering some 26,833,330 acres of land. Of this total, 323 applications concerned oil rights derived from contracts prior to May 1, 1917 (when the new con- stitution was adopted) and 326 con- cerned rights derived from contracts subsequent to the adoption of the con- stitution, British Government Offers to Surrender Its Chinese Concessions LONDON, Jan. 28. — Charge d’Affaires O'Malley is reported to have made new proposals to the Cantonese government involving. the surrender of the British concessions throughout China, in- cluding extra-territoriality and plans for new treaties supplanting the present unequal ones. Those who are justifiably suspicious of British diplomacy see in this move either a surrender to the inevitable or a trick to throw the Cantonese off their guard while the British forces were rushing to Shanghai. Reports state that the Cantonese will be in Shanghai before the British forces get there. LEFT WING SEES SIGMAN SELLING OUT TO JOBBERS Demands He Make Known Real Agreement Information that a sell-out to the dress jobbers as disastrous to the in- terests of the workers as the sell-out Labor Hating Jurist Attacks Victims | Joint Board Officials Denounce Injustice of Trial | Garment Workers Jailed; Gangsters Free Judge Otto A. Rosalsky yesterday vented his spite in full measure on nineteen striking garment workers brought before him for sentence. He abused and scolded them, and meted out terms ranging from “two and a half to five years,” down to pro- bationary terms. His attitude and merciless behavior has aroused general re- sentment, officials of the Joint Board of the International Ladies Garment Workers have issued statements severely condemning the sentencing of garment worker strikers who merely defended themselves against gangsters, while the gangsters are unpunished, No Consideration. ae LAWYER EXPOSES FAULTS OF TRIAL strikers were given. Altho never ar- Powerful Argument in rested before, they were shown no Ee consideration than the ordinary | Full Bench Court BULLETIN. boss’ gangsters and the local police force. Old Unionists. Sam Cohen, a member of Local 2 for ten years, and Nathan Lenz, a member of the same local for four- teen years, were sentenced to state’s prison for from two and a half years The applications filed covered 26,-|¢o the sub-manufacturers which Mor- 833,330 acres, and embraced 94.17 per] ris Sigman is now busily attempting cent of the lands affected, according! to camouflage, has been accomplished to the embassy’s figures, while the]hy the Internation, was received by applications withheld covered 1,860,- 908 acres, and embraced 5.83 per cent. The Embassy made public the fig- ures without explanatory comment, preferring apparently to let them speak for themselves. No comment was forthcoming from declined to discuss the Mexican sit- uation. The attitude of the department ap- parently is to wait until there is an actual “overt act” on the part of the Mexican government in seizing some of the lands whose owners refuse to abide by the new laws. What will happen then is a matter of conjec- ture, but on the part of certain oil representatives in Washington there is an expectation that Ambassador Sheffieid will be withdrawn from Mexico City. This expectation, how- ever, is not generally shared. The religious issue was injected into the Mexican controversy again last night when a mass meeting’ was held in Washington auditorium and addressed by Joseph Scott, a Los Angeles attorney, speaking under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus. Many members of Congress and rep- resentatives of the embassies and le- gations in Washington, attended. Scott bitterly attacked the Calles government as being “Bolshevistic” and “under the domination of Mos- Pr ee |aectin ‘Kellogg “days osophy of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, he said, President Calles has followed Karl, Marx in the premise that “religious is the opiate fo the people, Local 91, I. L. G. W.U. Signs for 5 Day Week left wing leaders today. Challenging Sigman to publish the agreement with both jobbers and sub- manufacturers in full, C. S. Zimmer- man, manager of the press division in the Joint Board, charged that Sig- man as given away to the jobbers two provisions of the old agreement that this agreement’ virtually sanc- [tions the open shop. Yielding To Boss. He declared that according to the agreement recently negotiated, job- bers who gave out work to non-union fore, and that non-union shops would be permitted to finish whatever work they had begun, whereas the union has had power to force its discontim ance at any process. me “These two changes in the.) was not telling the truth when he de- clared in his meeting on Wednesday that the agreement with the jobbers had not been changed,” Zimmerman said. Fooling Workers. “In the same wayyhe is attempting to fool the workers as to the pro- visions of the agreement he has made with the manufacturers. He does not announce what is. a fact, that he has given up to the employers the extra pay for legal holidays that fall on Saturday and that the guaranteed minimum wage scal for piece work- lly abolished. These facts he keeps rom the work- ers. He tries to make tl think he has won a victory in a provision that piece workers do not have to finish a garment until the price has been settled, while all piece workers know that this was a provision of th® agree- ment for many years. 7 By careful phrasing which he hopes the The five-day work is granted to|tries’ to hide the fact that the. trial the Members of Local 91, of the IL. G. W. U., in a new contract signed yesterday between the union and sixty-five manufacturers dresses, bathrobes and kimonas. This is a 42-hour instead of a 40-hour week, but it marks a gain of two hours as well as the gain of cording to union figures. The Manager of Local 91 states new agreement. Bonnanz Embroiderers The forty hour week is chief among the demands of the Bonanz Embroidery Workers’ Union , whose contract with the Manufacturers As- sociation expires January 31. During the informal conferences when MacDoriald was premier he allowed the war department to make a hostile demonstration against Canton, he| held yesterday between officials of sanctioned the bombing of Indian villages from the air and he sanctioned the laying of the keels of six new cruisers|the International the tory government does not take M that he is as much. concerned about the defense of the empire as the rankest tory British labor movement are conducting a real campaign gainst th tho he is 4 professed pacifist. Natur: knowin; Communists and the left wing of th TONIGHT! DAILY WORKER CONCERT AND DANGE bomangghen bi ri aria Ladies Garment Workers’ Union and representatives of the employers, the manufacturers offered a forty-two hour week but was emphatically rejecte Demand 40 Hour Week| __ PANAMA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY KILLS TH UNITED STATES period of one week has been extended’ to two weeks. The “mutual consqpt of the worker and the emptor extend the trial period” is necessary, but where is the worker out of a job who will not consent to lengthening his trial period if the employer de- mands it? ©The abolishing of, the a day, Only a small proportion of|jabor bureau .is another concession _|the kimona workers in this city are granted to the employers by Mr. organized; 2500 out of 12,000 ac-| man, Sig- Demands Full Text. “After all these evasions and at- that a vigorous organization cam-| tempts at concealment on the part of paign is to be carried on among the} Mr. Sigman of the agreements he has non-union workers soon after the|made, the workers are, unable to be- lieve that the real truth about the agreements has been found out yet. We challenge’ Mr: Sigman to publish the real agreements in full details.” SLAVE PACT WI COLON, Panama, Jan, 28,—The p: States and Panama was virtually a Panama National Assembly’s action in. voting to suspend further considera- tion of the treaty Harlem Casino, 116th Street and Lenox Avenue, N.Y. shops would not be fined, as hereto-| agreement make it plain that Sigman: workers will not understand, he } to five years charged with assault in the second degree. Joseph Pearlman, who has been a member of Local 2 for fourteen years and Anton Romanchuck, also a mem- ber of this local for ten years, were given intermediate sentences of six months to one year, They were also charged with assault in the second de- gree, Indeterminate Sentences. Theodore Turetsky was sentenced to-an.indefinite: torm in the peniten- tiary. Intermediaté sentences of one month to a year and a half were given to the following: Anton Kutsuk, Local 35, Charles Walfish, Local 35, Joseph Kerensky, {Sam ‘Grossiian, Harry Freedman, i Morris: Polotisky, Joseph Fiegewitz, Antiona Anton Zinn, and Paul Kale “Louis Ani and Max Goren- in were release “years’ pro- ic hea ~ in and Jack arfe’ were placed. probation for three: years each, ® No'} > While, the “Complajnan§ against Walfish was ‘wi guithdraw the charge y ommended mercy, J ertheless gave him sentence of a years Many ds of the court room when "4m handed out the jsen @ One wo- men fainted Git bak be taken home in an ambulante many oth- ers screamed and showted their dis- approval of bossés’ tice aS-exem- plified by Judge. Rosalsky. “Although you men are mere pup- pets,” Judge Rosalsky said, “you are sereening those who, directed you to commit these acts of violence and destroy merchandise, and I am going to send you prison. ag “a warning to yousthat yor mustyndt be identified with a: al Ye ‘Hyman’! Amazed. Louis'fiymar,yfenéral manager of tHe Join! oard "Said when he heard of these sentenges: “Never in the history of the labor movement “such severe sentences been meted out to workers who have been engaged in the struggle for bet- ter conditions in their industry. “These men are ordinary workers. They have never been arrested before. Sam Cohen and N. Lenz, who were given the heaviest sentences, have been members of Local 2 for ten and fourteen years respectively. Every other man sentenced has been a union member for years. Strikers on Duty. “As for Judge Rosalsky’s state- ment that these men were incited by (Continued on page 3) roposed new treaty between the United dead letter today as a result of the criminal in spite of the fact that they were arrested when fighting for their The cqurt has taken the Sacco Van- zetti appeal for a new trial under ad- most elementary rights as workers, and defending themselves against the visement and promises to bring in a decision within a month. (Special To The Daily Worker.) BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 28—The fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the electric chair was resumed yes- terday, at the appeal before the full bench of the Massachusetts supreme court. This is considered by many as the finial “battle. ‘The appeal “is* chide against the decision of Judge Thayer issued last October on the plea for . a new trial based on the.sixty-three affidavits brought before him which contained the confession of Maderios, exonerating Sacco and Vanzetti from guilt. Also Thayer disregarded Affidavits. showing the part the department of jdustice played in the case. ¥ Renew Famous C;: Fred Thompsony-0f the defense, and his assistant, Erman, read before the court a brief, reviewing the history of the case-and the famous Palmer raids. Arguing before the full bench to- day, Thompson showed that Judge Thayer’s decision was full of mistakes and misstatements as to the facts. He proved that the decision of the judge showed that his feelings became so involved as to make him incapable of dealing logically or impartially’ with ¥ this motion. Refuted Point By Point. Thompson took. up the judge’s de- cision seriatum and showed his mis- statements in regards to the jury be- ing satisfactory to the defendants, to the manner in which the judge charged the Mederios confession was gotten, and his statement to the jury as to the defendant’s unpatriotism and disloyalty to the country. He told of the Maderio’s confession in detail and was corroborated by other evidence which the judge did not take into account, also. the evi- dence that the Morreli gang are the real guilty ones in the murder for which Sacco and Vanzetti are framed. Thompson told of the affidavits dealing with the activities of the de- partment of justice in the case, how they assigned twelve men to cover activities of the defense, how a spy named Caribono was placed into the cell next to Sacco, and another named Ruzamenti, was sent to become a lodger at Mrs. Sacco’s home. The affidavits showed further that the department of justice believed Sacco and Vanzetti to be innocent but supplied the district attorney with facts with the hope of getting rid of them. some way. The refusal of the department of Justice to give access to their docu- ments in this case was also told by the lawyer for the defense. Thompson in his motion for a new rial and rehearing on the motion which was denied) also demanded hat if a hearing be granted it should be before another judge as Thayer is incapable of being impartial in the, case. The hearing will continue tomorrow and after the district attorney’s argu- ment may conclude Saturday. Creating Atmosphere. BOSTON, Jan. —Several per- and return it to the president of Panama for further |®0ns today were barred from the su- preme court hi ta COME A GET ACQUAINTED Admission 50 Cents ——