The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 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. 15. THE ONLY ENGLISH LABOR DAILY IN NEW YORK THE DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1927 Published Daily exceps PUBLISHING CO, x ed First Street, New York, Sunday by THE DAILY lage as N. FINAL CITY ——— Price 3 Cents THREATEN NEW WORLD WAR CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O’)FLAHERTY | NE who: should be a reader of The DAILY WORKER sent in a spicy bit of information yesterday. Undoubtedly he thought we would scoop our competitors with the juicy morsel. We were informed that somebody or other discovered that there was a secret deal between Eng- land and’ the United States on the Chinese question, the essence of the agreement being that the United States would co-operate with Great Britain in China in return for the benevolent neutrality of Great Brit- ain in Nicaragua and Mexico. ee ane S a matter of fact The DAILY ‘WORKER carried this story two weeks ago and harped on the obvious deal between Coolidge and the Brit- ish foreign office so much that we decided to give the story a rest. It is as plain as a prominent nasal ap- pendage that the state department is completely ignoring congress and mass opinion and following a hard- boiled imperialist policy in China. carefully for their daily information and save themselves a lot of un- necessary Sreubles * wo eis are the first to face Benito Mussolini’s tribunal for the enforcement of the new penal laws. Anybody heard whispering the slightest criticism against the bri- gand dictator is a candidate for this dread tribunal. The two workers are, alleged to have regretted that the latest attempt against Mussolini’s life was a failure. A stoolpigeon turned them in. The bricklayers hail from Mussolini’s native province. If everybody in Italy who would like to see Benito wrapped up in a winding sheet was sent to jail ninety-five per cent of the population would be in carcerated. eee ‘HE “fetter “from © -wnttnats mm Feeney of the United Mine Workers of America to William Z. Foster, which is published today on the front page, will make interesting reading at the miners’ convention in Indianapolis. Feeney is now a “machine man” but) when this letter was written he was a militant organizer who was dis- gusted with the conduct of the Lewis machine and says so in bold words. The letter bears out all the charges made against Lewis for letting down the coke region miners in the 1922) settlement. * * HERE is an old saying that only women and fools write letters, William Feeney would rather than a good many dollars that his right arm was paralyzed on the fateful day he penned this incriminating letter to Foster. The fakers at the Indianap- olis convention will not be able to say that it is a forgery. They might try to bar The DAILY WORKER from the mails on the ground that! this letter is “obscene matter,” but’ the truth will pe dust like murder, * AST ee ee: Magazine carried ‘a remarkable article by Robert W. Dunn on the influence that was re- (Continued on page 4). We would ask our friends to read The DAILY WORKER a little more phere: which Sigman Blamed For Rosalsky Savagery Garment Workers’ President Crippled Defense Because the International officers of the I. L. G. W. U. withdrew their lawyers from the defense of the re- cently sentenced cloakmakers at the time of their trial, and because they followed this action with a vicious campaign of denunciation of the Joint Board leaders for their conduct of the strike, the “right wing” officials un- doubtedly brought about the convic- tion of these strikers who were given such outrageous prison terms by Judge Rosalsky. Louis Hyman, general manager of the Joint Board, lays the blame di- rectly on President Sigman. Tragedy Follows Sigman. “The irresponsible actions of Mor- ris Sigman which have produced so much tragedy im our union,” says Hyman, “have now been the cause of a direct calamity in the savage sen- tences meted out to the cloakmakers. “When the cases of these’men came up for trial, he caused his lawyers to withdraw from the defense of ‘these men, stating that they no longer wished to have anything to do with them, a circumstance which in itself was a great hindrance to a fair con- sideration of the cases by the jury, This was a direct betrayal of these old-time members. Lies Influence Rosaisky. “The bitter prejudice of Judge Rosalsky against workers is plain to all, yet it is doubtful if he would have dared to exercise his spite to this extent. had it not been for the atmos- Sigman, with ‘his ‘with- drawal of counsel, and with his hys- terical charges in the capitalist press, has been able to throw around the cloakmakers’ strike. Sigman and his henchmen, with their falsehoods about “Communists” have tried to make the general public believe that every hon- est cloakmaker who went on a picket line to defend the strike against the seabbing which Sigman blandly ig- nored, was a potential criminal full of criminal desire to destroy property and inflict bodily injury. He has in- flamed the bourgeois mind with propaganda against the “reds” in the garment unions, until he has created just such an atmosphere as to em- bolden Rosalsky. “It is Sigman that the workers have to thank for sentences that send honest workers to jail for from two and a half to five years, while the gangsters of the employers and of the International are free to roam the streets and prey further upon work- ers who wish to defend their union from destruction. Sigman Sneers At Workers. “Most of the left wing seems to be out on bail most of the time,’ Sig- man declared recently in the capitalist press, sneering at the plight of work- ers who have been courageous enough to carry on a militant fight. Let the _ (Continued on te era Os ls | ARonimedion/ page Bye 3). LEWIS EXPULSION POLICY RUSHED — THRU AGAINST ALL OPPOSITION By JACK KENNEDY. INDIANAPOLIS.—Black reaction reached the climax of its drive on the left wing of the Miners’ Union when Emperor Lewis jammed through an amendment to the constitution Saturday bar- ring all members of the Workers Party from membership in the United Mine Workers. Progressives fought stubbornly in the name of union democracy against the vicous provision aimed to elim-' inate all opposition to the treacherous | alliance union bureaucracy and employers, but the convention, thoroughly drilled by administration whips, followed Lewis’ lead blindly. Although opposition to the amend- ment meant expulsion from the union and from the coal industry, nearly 40 delegates voted “No” Also in the Unions. Van Bittner, leader of the hand- other constitutional amendment, rais- ing his salary to twelve thousand dol- ‘lars. Even administration supporters warned him that he faces a revolt of jthe rank and file for his greed at a time when the miners’ union confronts the most critical situation in its his- tory. Nevertheless the machine, well oiled, rode on to its dangerous vic- tory. From Fake Locals. Ninety-one resolutions had been framed by the machine in favor of raising Lewis’ salary to $15,000, icked delegation of non-union West|Forty-three of them came from Dis- 0. . Owens, an Ohio ma-|trict 81, the dummy northern West chine leader, and Lewis, spoke for the | Virginia district where every mine but amendment. Lewis complained bit-'one is non-union. There the Van Bitt- terly that the Workers Party is not ;ner machine had pushed through iden- merely a political organization but|tical resolutions from dead locals in fights also on the industrial field|an effort to backfire. The progres end employers and their agents in | sives claim that international salaries, unions. Loot, Loot, Loot! already princely, should be reduced rather than raised during this cad ror Lewis laid up no end of|period in union history. trou! when his crowd pushed through an- for himself earlier in the day|were clamoring for the teow hater (Continued on page 2) IMPORTANT NOTICE Address all mail for, The DAILY WORKER to 33 Rue Street, New York, Gets Another Start. PANAMA, Jan. 30—The army plane St. Louis, which was yesterday forced to turn back on the flight of the five Pan-American planes to Colombia, took off from France field} today at 12:30. Fog Ties up Shipping. NEW YORK, Jan. 30—Shipping along the Atlantic seaboard was tied up today by a dense fog, said by port authorities to be the “worst of the season, causing a collision between the White Star liner, Celtic, and the American Diamond freighter, Ana- conda. HILLQUIT ADMITS SIGMAN CAN NOT DISSOLVE BOARD Hyman Gives Facts to Impartial Chairman The International Ladies Garment Workers union, internatiorial officials admit that expulsion of four locals and the Joint Board of the cloak and dressmakers was illegal! They even go further and, declare that they have made no expulsions at all! This fact was pointed out by Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board, in his formal answer to the argu- ments of Morris Hillquit, counsel for the international, to Impartial Chair | man Raymond'V. “Trigersoll; in “which Hillquit attempted to show that the Industrial Council should be forced to adjust complaints with Sigman’s fake Joint Board instead of with the regu- lar body. Not Dissolved. Declaring that the frequent asser- tions of the international that the Joint Board has been suspended is only propaganda intended to befog the public mind, Hyman pointed out in his answer, the admission of Hill- quit at the hearing, that “The Gen- eral Executive Board is without pow- er to expel members or suspend locals without proper procedure. There is no doubt about that at all. Up to this time there has been no expulsion or attempted expulsion, nor removal from office, no suspension or ex, sion of local or subordinate bodies. Since it appears that the Joint Board is not dissolved, even according to the International, Hyman proceeds to show that the Joint Board has al- ways been the regular machinery for the handling of complaints, but that the International had attempted “to set up a Joint Board in the back room of 3 West 16th street.” “The attempt failed, and the so-called rival Joint Board collapsed like a house of cards, so much so that Mr. Hillquit denies that there ever was such a thing, for clearly there couid not be a new Joint Board if the old Joint Board has never been suspended or expelled,” Hyman argues. He declared that “the vast majority of the members of the I. L. G. W. U. had considered the new Joint Board a nullity,” and that Sig- man’s actions as “temporary genera! manager” are all illegal under the constitution. Challenged to Invoke Law. Declaring that Sigman and Hill- quit are trying “to make the impar- tial chairman a pawn in their game,” and that this unprecedented case “would never have been brought be- fore the impartial chairman if it were not for the fact of having failed in everything else,” Hyman directly challenged the International to take the issues in the struggle to court of law. “Mr. Hillquit says that he has no doubt that any court would sustain (Continued on page 3). Some Questions For President Lewis to Answe (2) 273,307—119,854 in the anthracite, 153,453 in the penses of officers and organizers from June 1 to Dec. 1,| butiminous fields—is the total dues paying membership 1926, according to the report submitted by Secretary- (1) $309,764.57 were expended for Treasurer Kennedy to this Convention, His report also shows that from S uary of this year, the UMWA LOST when coal production was at its high British strike shortage. IN VIEW OF THESE FACTS, PRESIDENT LEWIS, PLEASE TELL THE MEMBERSHIP WHAT YOUR Britain Caves In } On Chinese Compromise on Concessions, Territoriality and Tariff. LONDON, Jan. 30.—Sir Austen Chamberlain, foreign secretary an- nounced Jast uight during the course of a speech delivered in Birmingham that the British. government had con-| ceded all the principal demands of the} Cantonese, but refused to recognize! the Nationalist. government as the! government as the whole of China. The foreign secretary declared that the demand for treaty revision had become so insistent that there was nothng left for the government to do but surrender to it. The “concessions” made British government are mpperentially) as follows: 1. Abolition of the extra-terri-| torial position thru which ‘foreigners could not be tried in Chinese courts for violations of Chinese laws. 2. The Chinese to be allowed raise! tariff on foreign goods. 3. Semi-independence in the con-| _ NATURALIZATION by the) New Figures Show Soviet Union Grain Crop Is Best Ever MOSCOW, Jan. 31. — Russia’s grain crop will be considerably greater than last year’s, acording to figures made public by the Cen- tral Statistical department today. The total sown area in the whole union is 2.5 per cent larger than last year. More favorable yet, is the great increase in the propor- tion of wheat sown—15 per cent in- crease in the Caucasus, and 22 in the Ukraine. These figures which are decidedly more optimistic than those publshed in Economic Life six weeks ago, are based on thorough and accurate surveys. BERLIN, Jan. 30.—Danger of a a general alarm to the working clas: maddened imperialists. Communists Warn International Labor Urges Workers Not to Ship Troops, Arms, Muni- tions; Sees Plan for War Against Soviet Union world war was declared imminent in is of the world sounded today by the Communist International in a manifesto calling on the workers to step in and prevent the threatened carnage by blocking the war plans of the greed- The manifesto declares that the sword of imperialism hangs over China and that open military intervention is being prepared and ‘that “America furthers the bloody policy of England as a reward for England’s friendly toleration of America’s robbery and raids in Nicaragua and Panama,” Ready To Attack Russia. The Communist International de- clares that the attack on China is a dress rehearsal for an attack on the Soviet Union. Transport, dock workers and sailors are urged to refuse to transport sol- diers, arms and munitions for the im- perialist war. “Do not transport a single soldier, not one cannpn, shell or airplane” is the demand. / Noted -Buiropean radicals and intel- lectuals have issued a statement de- claring that the world is trembling under new clamor and announces that evitable unless there is the quickest war between Britain and China is in- STATE TESTS FOR CALLED UNFAIR Claims Illiteracy No Bar To Citizenship The refusal of naturalization offi- cession areas. Not Equal To Demands. It will be’ seen from the foregoing | that the much-touted “generosity” of the British government falls far short) of the demands of the Cantonese.) at the Hotel Woodstock on Saturday. The Nationalist government insists that the foreign imperialists take their institutions, courts and marines out of China. This the British gov-| ernment has not agreed to by any means. Cantonese government on the ground | that it iso: ioe indicates the “dishonesty ¢ in’s policy.} Outside of ‘the bandit hang ‘Tso-Lin and the weakened Sun-Chuan-Fang, all impartial observers admit that 90 per cent of the Chinese masses are behind the Nationalist government. While Chamberlain talked glibly of Britain’s pacific intentions in China, warships continued to speed towards Chnese waters and’ the Coldstream Guards marched thru the streets of London with “drums beating and colors flying” on the first lap of the} journey to Shanghai, Foreign office attaches explained this contradiction with the statement that the move- ment of troops was the best guaran- tee of the pacific intentions of the government since their presence in Shanghai would only be precaution- ary. British Policy Failed. Some political observors profess to see in Britain’s gesture towards China a diplomatic triumph for Wash- ington. foreign office tried to organize an imperialist united front against China and failed. It is also believed to be a fact that Coolidge and Kellogg en- tered into a secret deal with the Brit- ish foreign office {as already publish- ed in The DAILY’ WORKER) thru which Washington agreed to co-oper- ate with England in China in return for the benevolent neutrality of Great Britain in Latin America, It appears however that the “Co- (Continued on page 3). Sell “Daily Worker” At Miners’ Convention INDIANAPOLIS, _ Ind.—Natalie Gomez is The DAILY WORKER “newsboy” at the Indianapolis Con- vention of the United Mine Work- ers of America. Delegates coming in or going out of the hall will find her near the door. She will also take subscriptions for The DAILY WORKER and other publi- cations of the DAILY WORKER Publishing Co. : The DAILY WORKER is sold | Refusal to recognize the! It is true that the British) cials in New York State to naturalize | illiterates, was branded as “extra- \legal and unfair” by Miss Cecilia | Razolsky, chairman of a conference on immigration policy which was held action by workers thruout the world. Hatred of Cantonese. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Bitter hostility to the Cantonese revolution- aries is breathed thru every line of state department and by the “presi- the official statements issued by the Just because this state has a liter- |acy test for voters, it applies this tc applicants for citizenship. Yet|dent’s spokesman” alias Calvin Cool- naturalization is a federal function,|idge. — P 5 says Miss Razovsky, and since there| Coolidge will not recognize the are many states which have no liter-| Cantonese government in the near fu- acy tests for voters, New York has|ture. That is made clear. Coolidge no. sight. to, impose. its ..particular will ignore mass opinion and the wish qualifications for electors on those : both ae of congress expressed applying for citizenship within its thru resolutions. borders, Insists on “Open Door” The hitherto silent Coolidge is }rather vocal nowadays. He insists on the continuance of the “open door” policy in China as one condition of revamping the old “unequal treaties.” He insists on protection for American lives in China, something that the Courts Crowded. Professor Arthur K. Kuhn, who spoke at length on the problems of| the aliens, said he questioned the wis- dom of placing the function of natur- alizing foreigners in the hands of the judiciary, which so often is over- worked and has little time for this| United States government cannot important duty. He also mentioned] guarantee to American citizens in the the fact that there is at present no| United States. way for an immigrant whose claim to} The United States will not with- citizenship has been questioned by| draw its armed forces from China or the state department or the immi-| draft new treaties until the Chinese gration officials to have the question) Can agree among themselves. This decided judicially. policy, it is pointed out, is quite dif- Nvnigic Heaklis of Laws ferent to that adopted by Coolidge in } “ae pide: “ . (Nicaragua where he recognized Diaz Many other discriminations against who did not have twenty per cent of aliens were denounced by the speak- the population on his side. ers at this conference, and congress eat was blamed for much of the diffi- Mobilizing For War. culty. The various proposed regis-| The OPO 35. Eevee here that tration and deportation measurcs oth Britain and the United States Were nok mentioned; Tuk ‘a/nomiber uf| 87° mobilizing their naval flotillas in ‘ 4 ‘ Me | Chinese waters for a war against the immigration and naturalization 1aWS/ Cantonese. It is said that Japan con- were described as having developed| |: ce “heart-breaking” problems, and pro-| Bviish fest as a threat te ity oma vided enough material for a “blood-| safety. It is becoming clearer every curdling tragedy”. $ |day that the imperialist powers be- Referring to some of our immi-|ljeye they are striking at the Soviet gration measures, Professor Kuhn) Union in fighting the Cantonese. It said: is not outside the bounds of proba- No Regard for Aliens. bility, in the opinion of competent “A serious legislative fault to} political observers that the imperial- ist powers think the time is now ripe to attempt to spring the trap on the Soviet Union. Generous Uncle Sam! The United States has adopted the same attitude towards China that it has adopted towards the Fillipinos. As soon as China is able to exercise the rights held by the United States in that country Uncle Sam is willing (Continued on page 3). ELLIS § which our American lawmakers are prone more than those of any other country in the world, is to pass laws without the slightest regard for the} people of other nations or the intor-! national effect of the laws they make. Our lawmakers seem to want to {it everybody and everything into our mold and if the person doesn’t fit in our mold; off goes the person's feet or head”. CONDEMNS MOVIE CENSOR. Movie censorship was vigorously attacked by Prof. John Erskine yes- terday in an address at the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures at the Waldorf. The trouble with censorship of any kind, he said, is “that it tends to emphasize what is bad and lays absolutley no emphasis By JAY LOVESTONE at all union conventions, salaries and ex- eptember to Jan- 19,000 members, point due to the ican Federation of since 1924. From 1924 to 1927 the secretary’s report shows that an average of more than $800,000 per year has been spent on salaries of officials and organizers, publicity, “ORGANIZERS” WERE DOING THESE LAST SIX | ete, (Continued on pee 2) of the UMWA shown by the secretary’s convention re- port. “In 1924 the UMWA paid per capita tax to the Amer- These figures show a net loss of 129,393 members Ga what is good: The very bottom, the nadir, of fraud and terrorism to date employed by our reactionary labor leaders to dominate the trade unions is to be found in the sessions of the conven- America now being held in Indian- apolis, The outstanding features of this convention coming at the most criti- cal moment confronting the miners, are; (1). A reckless padding of the convention with hundreds of dele- gates from blue-sky, non-existent locals. In the case of district 31, West Virginia, the Lewis machine has Labor on 402,700 members. tion of the United Mine Workers of; LLOYD GEORGE IS. REPORTED READY FORMOSCOWTRIP To Seek New Deal With The Soviet Union BERLIN, Jan. 30.—Former Preme ier Lloyd George of Britain will star? for Moscow in a few weeks with the objective of removing from the po- litical stage of the world the Anglo- Russian antagonism that is daily in- creasing in intensity. This is the statement of Sir Fa Patterson Key, English industralist, in an interview in the Neue Wiener Journal. Lloyd George, according to Key, is going to Moscow with the in- tention of trying to bring an end \te the conflict between the By andthe raging from the Baltic to the Pacific. Friendship For Asia. Five years ago Gecrge Tchitcherin, declared: “Czaristic Russia was ever at war with Asia, and exploited it for the benefit of European Russia. Soviet Russia will reverse this policy and concentrate its energies upon awaken- ing Asia, and will cultivate its friend- ship intensively.” Key said: “Lloyd George is of the opinion that a European alliance with a sea- point against Russia, as the present British government apparently de- sires, is not attainable. It is unattain- able because it is impossible for France and still more so for Ger- many.” Wants Public Opinion To Favor Labor Laws Industry takes better care of its machines than of the children who toil at them, Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee declared yesterday at an ad- dress of the Women’s Civic Organiza- tion at the Commodore Hotel. “It is our duty to see that labow condtions among children are brought to the same degree of perfection that is given a machine. In order to pass legislation to protect the children, it is necessary to develop public opin- ion favoring such laws,” he said- HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT OPENS. BUDAPEST, Jan. 30.—Dressed tn gaudy medieval finery, produced by the toil of workers and peasants, the reactionary Hungarian Parliament wus opened by Admiral Horthy, the Hungarian strong man. EARLES JOHN L, LEWIS’ $25,000 BABY j tically every two tax-paying mem- bers. No wonder that there have come from this delegation more thar a score of resolutions proposing that Lewis’ official annual salary be doub- led. be raised to fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, (2). Wholesale fraud in the re- cent election campaign in the union, According to the official report made by Secretary-Treasurer Ken- nedy to the convention, there are now approximately 278,000 dues-paying members in the union, Lewis would . have us believe that nearly 235,00€ miners participated in the voting for international officers just closed. brought down one delegate from prac-' 5 Sm oP That so large a proportion of the (Continued on page 2) i \