The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1927, Page 1

The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Nol. IV. No. 17. THE ONLY ENGLISH LABOR DAILY IN NEW YORK SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WO Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2, 1927 ER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WOR PUBLISHING CO,, 33 New York, } First Street, FINAL CITY EDITION Y Price 3 Cents U.S. PREPARES FOR “EMERGENCY” IN CHINA 12,000 Marines Are Ordered to Orient Coolidge Declares Government Now Has Fifty Warships In Front of Shanghai | CURRENT EVENTS be TT HE non-partisan anti-war meet- ing held in the Lyric Theatre last Sunday would be non-partisan provided its socialist organizers did not wish to exclude all those who would give the audience the “low down” on’ war and not merely in- dulge in a lot of platitudes about the “honor of America” as well as if the United States was more’ honorable when it stole Texas from Mexico, sliced the little republic of Panama and gobbled up the Philippines than it has today. The respectable liberals who held forth at the anti-war meet- ing will keep on talking but will do nothing to prevent war. Tae tat By T. J. O'"FLAHERTY N England the right wing social- ists are now cheek by jowl with Ready to Argue Miners’ Wage Scale Convention Marks Time As Lewis Repairs Machine Special To Daily Worker.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 1.—The Thirtieth Constitutional Convention of the United Mine Workers of America is doing very little work, officially, these days. Today, again, the ma- chine leaders supporting President John L. Lewis, tinkered around, mak- the tory government in the threatenedJing an effort to get the thing back war on China. Only the Communists]into shape, after it ran wild yester- are doing things. The Communists|day and crushed Lewis’ proposition to are appealing to the working class to} hold local union elections ‘only once stop the war by refusing to trans-jevery two years. port troops. J. H. Thomas is in favor} The convention adjourned early un- ef sending a large army to China.|til nine o’clock tomorrow, and Lewis MacDonald is not so frank. Snowden]announced that at that time the re- hurls abuse at Russia for sympathiz-|port of the wage scale committee ing with the Chinese revolution and in-] “Will be the sole order of business.” juring British interests in the Orient.|. The report of the committee, which The right wing socialists, and re-|is drawing up the terms to be asked actionary labor leaders are part and|Y the union at the conference with parcel of the capitalist machine. operators of the central competitive They are the bulwarks of capitalism field, at Miami, Feb. 14, may be the against the militant labor movement. That is their role all over th: world, including the United States. ee * last matter to be taken up by the con- vention. Reactionaries To Europe. Delegates Rinadlo Cappellini, of Scranton, Pa., and Van A. Bittner of Fairmont, West Virginia, two pure and simple machine supporters, were OHN L. LEWIS will now have a little foreign colony of his own tu rule over, since no member of the] selected at this morning’s session to United Mine Workers Union who is|represent the union at the April meet- not a citizen of the United States can{ing of the International Mining Con- Jersey Federation of Labor in Another Plea | For Passaic Strikers | PASSAIC, N. J., (FP).—Another | appeal for relief funds has been sent }out by the New Jersey state federa- | tion of labor in behalf of the Passaic textile strikers. eration secretary, told a mass meet- ing of the workers organized in lo- cal 1603, United Textile Workers, that the state labor body’s executive council had endofsed the fight ana would urge full support from affili- ated locals. WILL THE SENATE JAIL SAM INSULL AND BOB CROWE? Can Imprison Them for Not Answering Reed WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The sen- ate has the power to impose jail sentences upon persons held to be in contempt, the Reed campaign fund committee was told today by senators Goff (R) of West Virginia, and King (D) of Utah, after a lengthy investigation of precedents. The views of Goff and King were discussed by the committee as a pre- liminary to the citing of Samuel In- sull, Chicago multi-millionaire, Rob- ert E. Crowe, state’s attorney of Cook County (Chicago), and Thomas W. Cunningham, of Philadelphia, to the senate for alleged contempt in refusing to answer questions at the Hugh Reilly, fed-| Furriers’ Local in Refusal to Oust Langer Hoot Out Fakers When Their Injunction Comes In NEWARK, N., J., Feb. 1.—The In- ternational officers of the Fur Work- ers’ union were utterly flouted by the members of Local 25 last night, at a stormy meeting at Montgomery Hall, when the subject of the Internation- al’s injunction against the local came up for discussion by the members. Workers Unanimous. As far as the 600 fur workers pres- ent were concerned there was no dif- mous in rejecting, by a hundred per cent vote and some vigorous lan- guage, the order of the International officers to suspend their regularly elected business agent, Morris Langer, and turn over the affairs of the local to a committee appointed by the In- ternational’s Sub-committee. The members were also unanimous in condemning the action of the In- ternational officers in applying for an injunction against the local offi- cers, who insisted in obeying the wishes of the local members instead of the International officers. Their Majesties Arrive. The meeting had gotten under way at 7 o’clock with M. Greenberg in the chair, when the royal family of the union appeared —- President Ozier Schachtman, and P. Lucchi, an or- ference of opinion. They were unani- | ~ run for union office. John may ap- ply to the League of Nations for a MUSSOLINI SHOUTS FOR WAR TO GET COLONIES ROME, Feb. 1.—Italy “must ex- mand or explode,” declared Premier Mussolini today in an interview on th subject of imperialism. “We must struggle to extract from our soil every ounce of nutritive ener- ey.” said Premier Mussolini. ‘Despite the effcrts cf science Italy is unable to nourish her peo- ple. “We must expand or explode. “I do not feel authorized to believe in pacificst idealism, though recog- nizing that it contains the most poetical and the most choice theories imagined by the human brain. “Thre exists a reality in the inter- national situation which is not poeti- cal.” “AGAIN: gress at Prague. Cappellini was given the appoint- ment after a hot battle with John Brophy of Clearfield, Pa., leader of the ot ag dnempgents: a recently candidate for 01 president or the whine workers. ‘ | Indianapolis was selected as the (Continued on page two) RIGHT TO PICKET AT INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE DECLARES COURT; MANY RESOLUTIONS TO REMOVE HIM Chicago hearings. »|ganizer, Vice-presidents Sorkin and/ A decision as to whether the com-| Winnik, Moe Harris, Secretary-treas- mittee will recommend that the sen-|urer Wohlf and Henry Hilfers, New ate impose jail sentences on the al-|Jersey state organizer of the A. F. leged offenders, or cite them to thejof L. federal Courts’ Of the Distriet for} ~~~ Lucchi Ousted. contempt prosecutions will be reached! ‘The members immediately objected at another session next Monday. to admitting Lucchi, and again by an unanimous vote, he was barred from the hall. The others were allowed to proceed to the platform, and Morris Langer then took the floor to explain to the members the difficulties be- tween the local officers and the tote national’s. sub-committee, and to de- nounce the sub-committee’s action in STAKE IN ROSALSKY’S Acts for British Admiral. E. above, naval contingent sent to China. His business is to defend ex- ploitation and empire S. A. Sinclair, commands the British MAYOR'S MEETING FAILS 10 SETTLE BOXMAKER STRIKE Bosses Absent » Again Another Call Sent The meeting yesterday between act- ing Mayor Joseph V. McKee, substi- tuting for Mayor Walker, now on a vacation, and the striking paper box workers’ delegation was indecisive. The employers again failed to ap- pear, other than to send a letter say- WASHINGTTON, Feb. 1.—The American government is pre- paring for “an emergency” in China. This announcement was made today at the White House after a cabinet meeting and after orders had been issued for the dispatch of 1,200 U. S. marines to Asiatic stations. This is taken to mean that Coolidge is determined on inter- vention against the Cantonese government in co-operation with the British government. Fifty warships are before Shanghai. Coolidge admitted today that there were held a hundred United States warships in Chinese waters. The total available forces of the Wall Street government, now stationed in strategic positions for a descent on China is in the vicinity of 7,500. * * * Geneva Reports Britain Building Steel Wall Around the Soviet Union SHANGHAI, China, Feb. 1.—The Cantonese government to- day broke off negotiations with the British government and re- fused to consider the British peace proposals as long as British troops remained on Chinese soil. The Internationa! Labor Defense, New York section, has issued the fol-} lowing statement on the sentencing of nineteen garment workers by Judge} Rosalsky of New York: Foor eee: RASS Sa Por The brutal sentences upon the nine- Demand New Trial. Many of the resolutions demand teen garment workers by the “Cos- feo sities Rosalsky has left many| the withdrawal of Rosalsky and a new, workers thunderstruck. Nothing more | trial for the victims of his brutality. |brutal has ever been known in the| This is a fight around which every history of New York. section of the working class can rally. Condemnations of Rosalsky, the| THe International Labor Defense calls open and unashamed representative|upon all workers who previously of wage-cutting employers are com-/ thought the employing class was rea- ing into the local I. L. D. office every Sonable and just to rally to the strug-| day. Undoubtedly this persecution of| gle and strengthen the defense arm ordinary workers is going to react|of the labor movement. ‘ with overwhelming force against the; What is at stake? Nothing more enemies of the workers. (Continued on page 2) - Searles Sobs For Gompers, and Raps Mexico By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. LLIS SEARLES, editor of the United Mine Workers’ Journal, does not confine his glorification of reaction to the columns of that stu- pid official organ of “efficiency union- ism,” Searles carries his campaign into the columns of the capitalist press in a style originated by ex-Attorney- General Palmer and later adopted by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. It is a simple style, completely suited to the mentality of the individuals who use it. It consists of calling “red” everyone and everything of whom one disapproves. Mexico is the most recent object of Searles’ hatred. Writing to the Indianapolis News, Searles seeks to defend the late Gompers from any suspicion of sympathy with the pres- ent Mexican government. He says: . ++ if Gompers were alive today he would not, I am sure, support Callies in his present policies. The ' fact is, President Calles double- crossed the memory of Samuel Gom- pers, Calles is a pronouncéd Red. His government is a. Red govern- ment .... Gompers was not aware that Calles was as Red as he is. Calles is not giving Mexico the kind of government that Gompers believed he would give.... He never sup- ported a Red for anything if he knew Heese There is much more of this kind of stuff but the sample is sufficient for our readers to form a judgement of the whole and to demonstrate that not turned the Mexican natural re- sources—oil in particular—and the Mexican people over to American capitalists. Searles can write the word “red” into an article more frequently than any other living coryphee of Wall Street’s state department. He is of trying to impose its will by means of an injunction was any strike. Asked To Surrender. Inasmuch as Mayor McKee, as at When President Schachtman rose|least the nominal head of the police to speak he made an attempt to pour |department could not but have heard oil on the troubled waters and prove|of the great parade of paper box that all was going to be harmonious | strikers the day before, clubbed by a between the Long Island City office| cordon of police, and charged into by and the local. All that had to be done|a mounted policeman, this argument was for the local to turn oveg its af-| sounded rather flat. fairs as ordered. Hurried Hearing. Unfortunately for Mr. Schachtman,} The Mayor hurried the interview this suggestion instead of bringing| through, merely promising that he} peace brought such a howl of protest | would “do justice,” and setting Friday | from the meeting that he finally had} as the date of another conference, at} to sit down before finishing his|which the employers are to be more, speech. Then Hilfers tried to be the| urgently requested to attend. “A res- | peace-maker, begging the members to} olution prepared by Arthur Garfield| listen to Schachtman, saying he came|Hayes was carfied, instructing the} as an impartial observer. But that| manufacturers to respect the call of word impartial brought a cry from|the Mayor and appear, and the police the house, “Then why did you con-| tg be neutral. demn us at the Essex Trades and The Troops Present. (Continued on page 2) Immediately after the interview, Mayor McKee tripped down the steps Final News Bulletins ing that they did not believe there course correct when he infers that Gompers would have chosen to sup- port Wall Street and not Calles. Gompers, like Searles and Lewis, was an imperialist. What Searles would say if Calles actually was a Communist defies imagination. But the fact that he believes that “red” is the uttermost in abuse is proof that the resistance of the Mexican masses and the Calles government to Wall Street aggres- sion has driven this little hireling to frenzy. For whom does Searles speak? If he was speaking for himself he could not. get space for his drivel in the smallest paper in the smallest town in the United States. It is be- cause he is editor of the mine work- ers’ official organ, by grace of John L. Lewis and in spite of the oppo- sition of the membership, because he voices the opinion of the UMWA officialdom, that what he says is of importance. Every informed newspaperman in the United States knows now that the state departfient inspired the story about Calles being a “red” and encouraging a “bolshevist plot” against the Panama canal was a gi- gantic fraud for which even the duly vicious and credulous Kellogg dared not take responsibility. The most cynical newspaperman knows the Calles government is on the outs with Wall Street and its government because so far it has to inspect a detachment of marines, drawn up for that purpose. The mili- tary display was for the purpose of Searles, like his masters, wants| Would Abolish Capital Punishment. (Continued on page 3). nothing but unconditional surrender.]| ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 1—Under He is doing his best, as his letter |a bill introduced in the legislature by to the Indianapolis News shows, to| Assemblyman Hackenburg, New fan the prejudices of as many Amer-| York, Democrat, the voters of the icans as possible against Mexico in| state would decide at the next elec- order that Wall Street may have anjtion whether capital punishment easier task in plundering that na-| should be abolished. A similar meas- tion. \ ure, sponsored by Hackenburg at the The connection between the hatred | 1926 session, was killed in committee. of Mexico, its government and peo- ple, and the Lewis machine and its hangers-on, is this: The greater the plunder from Mexico and other Latin American countries, the greater the share of the agents of imperialism in the la- bor movement. The consuls and pro-consuls of an- cient Ronie hired freemen and ple- bians to cry out their praises and denounce their enemies when they walked thru the imperial city return- ing from subjugated regions. Amer- Urge Four-Year Terms. ALBANY, N, Y., Feb. 1.—The re- publican four-year term resolution, doubling the elective terms for gov- ernor, senators and assemblymen, started on its final trip thru the legis- lature today when it was reported fa- vorably by the senate judiciary com- mittee, La Guardia Knows of Brewery. WASHINGTON, Feb, 1 (INS).— ican imperialism is less crude and|A brewery manufacturing high pow- there ‘has been a great advance in|ered beer is running full force within publicity methods. The general meth- | fifteen miles of Times Square, Repre- od, however, remains unaltered and|Sentative La Guardia, republican of so we find editor Searles crying out in the market-place that the house of Calles should be put down and the house of Morgan made to rule in its place. ew York, declared in the House to- day. Patrolman Kills Boy. LOWELL, Mass., Feb, 1.—During) We have mixed classical and|® fierce struggle in the darkness of scriptural analogy in the above para-| tly morning in the Otis-Allen and graph but it would require the ad- Sons’ box factory here, Patrolman dition of pathological metaphor to Anthony D. Christs shot and killed accurately describe the role played twenty-year-old John Greenhalge, by Searles and his bosses. alleged burglar \ Here we see the so-called American volunteer defense corps in the Shanghai district, China, who desire to enter that part of their city which the imperialists have roped off and labelled settlement.” The Chinese are now settling up with the imperialists and soon the Chinese citizens tional The action of the Nationalist government was attributed to the conviction that the Cantonese felt themselves sufficiently strong to challenge the power of the British empire. Despite the pacifistic protes- tations of Coolidge and Kellogg United States warships continue to concentrate in Chinese wa- ters. The Chinese masses do not believe that the presence of im- perialist warships in Chinese waters bear out the Kellogg statement that Washington en- courages the Chinese nationalist, revolution. Trying To Isolate Soviet Union. GENEVA, Feb. 1.—That the Brit- ish government is striving to build a steel wall around the Soviet Union was admitted today by attaches of the League of Nations secretariat, which is dominated by Great Britain, Sir Eric Drummond being the secre- tary of the league. The suspicions that the Polish coup d’etat led by Pilsudski had British backing and that the recent Lithuanian coup was supported by the same government are now con- firmed. It was whispered around league headquarters that the arrival of ample British forces in China would be the signal for a Polish advance on Russia. War is in the air here and the League of Nations, the creature of imperialism is not even twiddling its thumbs. It is sitting still in obedi- ence to the commands of its masters. British Troops Continue To Sail. PORTSMOUTH, England, Feb. 1. —Despite the protest of the Peking government, the dispatch of British naval and military forces to China continue. The aircraft carrier Argus sailed for China today. Ramsay MacDonald and other labor leaders continue to support the tory govern- ment, The Communist Party and the left wing of the trade unicn move- (Continued on page 2) the foreign imperialists unless they conduct | SENATORS SCORN ECONOMIES; VOTE MORE WARSHIPS Appropriate Over a Million for Cruisers WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1— With cynical disregard for political requirements, and with a single eye towards assuring the right of the United States to foreign markets and spheres of influence, the Senate to- day overrode a plaintive objection from the White House, smashed the authorized appropriation of $1,200,000 presidential “economy policy,” and voted for the immediate constructior of three new cruisers for the navy. Big Majority For It. The vote was 49 to 27. 2 The House has already refused to pass a similar bill, but a conference will now take place, and influence will be brought to jam it through in some slightly modified form. It is not believed here that Coolidge will dare to veto thi bill, even if he wishes to do so, because it is a part of the appropriations act asking for $14,950,000 for the navy, and because the Coolidge policies of foreign eggrandisement demand a big navy, Those favoring the cruisers “in- cluded 24 republicans and 25 demo- crats, while the opposition found 18 republicans, 3 democrats and 1 farm- er-laborite standing by the president. The insurgents supported the presi- dent. The senate late today passed the naval appropriation bill carrying $320,000,000, . WALL STREET BULLIES IN SHANGHAI