The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1927, Page 1

THE ONLY ENGLISH LABOR DAILY IN NEW YORK THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1927 <a Price 3 Cents WALL STREET RUSHES TROOPS TO CHINA CORRENT VENTS |GENTRAL TRADES | USE RAIC SHARES|LJ_ S. Combines With Se] ATTACK THE USE TO DEFEND UNION|p» ° «.. : OF INJUNCTIONS AGAINST SIGMAN British at Shanghai State and City Labor Jailed Workers Helped Hostile Naval Movements The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un+ organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. ns, FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. Vol. IV. No. 19. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 83 First Street, New York, N. ¥, Cannon Fodder Is Needed For the Imperialist War ERE is some food for thot. I ran across the morsel in a capitalist paper but nevertheless it is all right since it serves a useful purpose. On ® crowded sidewalk in front of a Paris railway station two persons col- lided and as usual in such cases both expressed themselves in language more vigorous than seemly. One sud- denly became an—“awkward lump” while the party of the second part was transformed into an imbecile. The “awkward lump” adjusted his mono- cle, drew himself up to his extra height and declared: “Sir, I am an Englishman.” “And I sir, I am a Ger- man,” replied the’ “imbecile” “and if the French had not defended you, we would have wiped our feet on you. . * i Rather delightful for those who suf- fered from the patriotism of the capi- talists, their lieutenants and their mis- guided mass followers during the war! The best of the story is yet to come. Parisians gathered around the pair and sided with the German, the once terrible “hun.” . The Briton .-was -ush- ered into a taxi.by a policeman.to the accompaniment of. a chorus. of jeers from the assembled French. In all probability both of the star actors in the farce kept far away from the trenches during the war. They may have been engaged selling pictures of their respective kings or working for the national equivalent of the Y. M. Cc. A. Leaders Ask New Law by Growing Loan Fund i Workers holding shares in the Rus- Injunctions took precedence over sian-American Industrial corporation expulsions at the Central Trades and (RAIC) have found a way to turn Labor Council meeting last niht, and these to good use in behalf of the pro- the question of seating the right wing gressive cloakniakers, so the bond delegates from the International Lad- committee announced "yesterday. ‘ " fs ies Garment Workers’ Union was The response to the drive for a postponed for two weeks until the $250,000 loan fund to carry on the next regular meeting on February 17, fight against the traitors in the I. L. The matter will be taken up at the G. W. U., has been splendid so far; Executive's Council's meeting on the but it does not satisfy the workers 14th, and that body’s finding will be who are determined to beat Sigman handed to the delegates on the 17th. and his gang who have put 19 cloak- Joint Labor Meeting. makers behind prison bars. Last night’s meeting was a Joint Shares Worth Money. Meeting of the New York Central Workmen’s Circle, Branch 619, dis- Trades and Labor Council, and the covered that shares in RAIC could be New York State Federation | of La- assigned to the bond committee and ‘bor fe r the discussion of. the Problem so be of real service at this crucial metions; John Milholland, vice- moment in the affairs of the cloak- president ofthe Central Trades ard makers. They turned over 5 shares, Labor Council, was in the chair; and totaling $50. Other workers are the speakers on the subject of the planning to follow their example, and evening included John Sullivan, state many organizations too will find this president of the A..F. of L., Assem- a new way of helping the progressive blyman Frederick Hackenberg; John forces in the I. L. G. W. U. at this O’Hanlon, secretary of the state fed- ar] timé when the fate of 60,000 cloak eration; and William Collins a fed- and dressmakers is hanging in the eration organizer. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The United States today rushed reinforce- ments direct to Shanghai as news reached Washington that the Cantonese armies were closing in on Shanghai. The oil tender Pecos left Cavite, the Philippine base, with 250 marines bound for Shanghai, where there is already a large force of ships but not enough men available for landing parties. The Chaumont, with 1,200 marines, sailed from San Diego today. The cruisers Richmond, Cincinnati and Marblehead were announced as leaving the Canal Zone for Honolulu. The Chaumont and three cruisers are understood to be under sealed orders to proceed to Shanghai. It was pointed out that the Chaumont was first announced as sailing for Honolulu, then Guam, a long stage nearer China, and is now to proceed to Manila . ‘ saeeinsaomsaaceiipipihienisid leben tasiuinsedblapciite These stops are on the direct route high authority that the United States to Chinese theatre of war and were Sent Z designed to move the reinforcements ier wae Geen or - neg liga Ah a A gg the Chinese, | nite pursuing an independent course Pe ee tee _ {in diplomatic negotiations. This is porerataent het clled ab the ese” Soe eae oe , is was sai account t departmnet today to register his sec-| dispatch of more marines ask eek ond protest within the week against! ships to the Orient. It is estimated the United States sending warships|that the battle of Shanghai will be to Chinese water. He also asked for|fought about three weeks hence. It the recall of ships already there and | is said that it will take the Cantonese promised full protection for Ameri- that long to batter down such re- cans. sistance as the northern Chinese foes cat Seance pee balance. His plea fell on deaf ears, it was|troops are offering and make their 2 4 airman Milholland opened the Sigman The Traitor. learned. way down the Yangtse valley to NCLE SAM is sending — discussion by stating that he had at “Due tp the facist tacties of Sig- To Join British. Shanghai. There is no doubt that of troops to China and if Morgan] one time had confidence in courts, thinks it advisable to start shooting our tabloid sheets will drop “Peaches” like a hot potato and devote their pages to the “Yellow’Peril.” “Pa- triots” who now cannot find a job in their “own” country will vent their indignation of Chinese laundrymen and on the section of the working class that . will . seriously\,..protest, against the invasion of China, The moving pictures will dig up pictures from the time of Boxer rebellion, and put new captions an them. They will use whitewash on Négroes behind lynched down south and declare they are missionaries being hanged by the Cantonese. There is nothing our pa- triots cannot do in case of emergency. But when the shouting and the tu- mult dies down, the war mongers eat, drink and smoke together and send wreaths to the graves of the respec- tive unknown soldiers. J * 7 ILLIAM E, GLADSTONE, .the “Grand Old” hypocrite of the Victorian era was not a proiscuous fellow even tho he patronized the dark alleys of London and the benches in Hyde Park. If he conversed with ladies of elastic virtue his motives were of the purest. He was actually out to save them. Perhaps he did de- ceive them on occasion. But, it was only to plumb the depths of their sul- man”, says the bond committee, “And due to his betrayal of the strike and |the strikers; due to the insinuations jand despicable accusations made by | Sigman and his organ against the | pickets, nineteen devoted members of the cloakmakers union have been put wehind bars for the longest terms strikers were ever sentenced Sp, this! sity. § To Care For Families. “Tite yellow traitors may now triumph since this is what they want- :ed. But those who were sentenced, their wives and their children must be given every possible assistance, The same must also be given to those ' still waiting to hear their fate. Sig- man must be beaten; the union must. be saved—and for this the full amount of the $250,000 loan must be raised.” Shares in the Russian-American In- dustrial corporation are as good as cash and individuals and organi- zations can assign them to the loan committee by signing as follows: Individuals sign “I hereby assign this share to Mr. Julius Portnoy, 16 West 2ist Street, New York.” Or- ganizations should take the matter up at a meeting and pass a resolution voting to assign their shares to the These should be in- At the same time it was learned on the Cantonese will take the city. but now he has his doubts about some judges. It was largely their use of injunctions in labor cases which has caused him these misgivings. President Sullivan of the state fed- eration spoke briefly on the evils of injunctions, and was followed by J. O’Hamlin, who announced that this ilar ones being held throughout the state, and marked the opening of 2 campaign to ‘restrict the power of ju to use the injunction against workers merely trying to prot the standards of living for their families. “You cannot prevent judges from granting injunctions,’ said the speak- er, “but you can prescribe on what occasions they are not to be used.” Assemblyman Hackenberg spoke in explanation of his bill, and told of attempts to give it a non-partisan character. “It. may be,” said Hacken- berg, “that the republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee will introduce it in the senate.” Hack- enberg is a democrat. (Continued on page 3) Retired Workers Will Not; Get Pensions on Time; Short in Money Report United States Now Has More Marines In China Than Great Britain LONDON, Feb. 3. — The Churehill-Birkenhead-Joynson-Hicks faction of the British cabinet is agitating for a break with the Soviet Union under the pretext that Soviet influence was respon- sible for Eugene Chen breaking off negotiations with the British representative in Hankow. Chen insisted that he could not sign an agreement with Britain while British troops were being landed on Chinese soil. Tory newspapers are demanding that the Soviet diplomatic and trade representatives in London be handed their passports. The conspiracy to incite the \- 2 fascist states on the western| frontier of the Seviet Union to attack is showing signs of re- newed vigor. There was never any possi- U. S. ARMY CALLING FOR RECRUITS TO INVADE CHINA; POSTERS UP IN CITY OF WALL STREET Ever since the Nicaraguan, Mexican and Chinese situations began to grow critical, the U. S. Army and Marine Corps re- cruiting officers in New York City have been displaying increased activity. A short time ago a giant demonstration of airplane ‘|tactics took place over Union Square, culminating in the appear- ance of a.number of recruiting sergeants who solicited among the crowds attracted by the sham “attack on New York.” Mayor Helps. The “acting mayor of the city, seph V. McKee, hurried to end an important conference, called by a Suffolks to Hongkong HONGKONG, Feb. 3.—A battalion of the Suffolk regiment is expected to arrive here tomorrow and will not proceed to Shanghai. ‘It is believed that Britain will continue to rush oyse .. -_| soldiers to Hongkong where they will bility, as reported, of the ex be within easy striking distance of peditions on the way to Shang-| shanghai. hai being recalled. It is possible | Bp ee that detachments may be or- Faseisti Support Britain dered disembarked at Honk-| ROME, Feb. 3.—Italian support of : > 2 Pi ~itich | the British position in China is fore- kong in order to give British} jaaowed by the Gionrnale D'ttalia. Jo-| was caused by the presence of a de- jtachment of marines drawn Po be- loan omamittee: fore: the: city hall, ‘waiting fo |seribed, on the reverse side of the cf 4 i | b “€}agents an excuse for reopening} an increase i ‘i A ‘ iani A 2 committee of citizens, for mediation ™@¥or to review them, and again the) 4.1. °7 wat a meeting held on: GM vadotietinas with Chen, but re Alcon apy oan. ~~ lied souls and Freudianize the truth) Owing to lack of money in thelof the paper box strike. His rush (Continued on page 2) in date) it was decided to assign this] “©5™'* Alp dicliny , . Et PR sine caccieat bso of er apa aN eee Bie ares jeephares pension | share to Mr. Julius Portnoy, 16 West! British prestige is at stake and enforcement department und, it was explained yesterday by No Sign of Change WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. — The state department showed no signs of altering its stand on China. This was taken to mean that the » Somers’ resolution now before the house, which calls upon the president to name commissioners to deal with the Chinese, will be completely ig- nored by the president. More Marines Dispatched A detachment of more than 250 marines today was ordered to Shang- hai. Rear Admiral C. S. Williams, com- mander of the Asiatic fleet, advised the navy department that 160 mar- ines on U. S. S. Goldstar from Guam, and three officers and 84 enlisted | 21st Street. (signed) bootlegging business to find out who’s |the howls from the jingoistic imperialists are becoming more insistent. Right Wingers Imperialist Allies While Sir Austen Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin are said to favor diverting the troops on their way to | Shanghai it is noticeable that they are not exerting themselves in this direction. The government’s policy is to in- cite the people against the Soviet Union, which Britain recognizes as the chief foe of world imperialism. The Communist Party and the left wing of the trade union movement are conducting an energetic propa- ganda against a war on China. The tf Health Commissioner Harris, issuance who? In_ bootleggery, or poison|of further checks to pensioners has hooch the better to detect the scoff-| heen stopped temporarily, and proba- laws. A dead man can’t get away|ply will not be resumed until the lat- (Continued on page 2) ter part of next month. BRITISH COMMUNIST CALLS ON WORKERS TO REPUDIATH McDONALD’S CHINA STAND Special Cable to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Feb. 3.—J. T. Murphy, the well-known British Communist, made the following statement in regard to the special interview given by J. Ramsay McDonald on the events in China: / “When McDonald says that we have to maintain our pres- tige in China, both for industrial and political reasons, he does || sentenced by Judge Otto Rosalsky at not express the attitude of the whole labor movement, but syne F rma wee “erg, cules merely that of the right wing leaders. When he says ‘we’ he || 57. voa, ; Secretary-Treasurer.” The seal or stamp of the organization must be attached. | So will the workers save the cloak- makers union; so will they save the victims of Sigman’s treachery. Rosalsky Gets Chance Today ‘to Punish Man Who Preferred Death Three striking cloakmakers will be FORD'S DOLLARS PILED UP FAST AS LABOR SWEATED MAKING FLIVVERS WASHINGTON, Feb. 3,—Henry Ford’s dollars piled up in the banks so fast that by 1916 his working capi- tal matched that of twenty of the country’s giant industrial and rail- General Electric, United States Rub- ber, Bethlehem Steel, American Tele- phone and Telegraph, Intrnational Harvester and the Pennsylvania, Atchison, Southern Pacific, and New year-old striker, who attempted |right wing socialists and labor lead-|men from the Phili have been road corporations combined. York Central Railroads. means the British capitalists, By declaring that the issue || suicide to escape the savage jail sen-jers are either coming out openly for| ordered transfe! to the U. Ss. This statement, and many others all} Jn 1919, a year emphasized in the|| rests in the hands of Canton, he deliberately incites the British ||tences meted out to left wing cloak-|the government or maintaining si-| Tanker, which will sail tomorrow but incredible, were placed in evidence} testimony, Ford’s working capital— makers. He was unsuccessful, and | lence. _ Couzens, before three members of the Board of Tax Appeals today by Paul Clay, of Butley, N. J, vice president and economist of Stoody’s investment service. Clay testified as an expert valua- tion witness for Senator James of Michigan, and other‘ former stockholders of the Ford Mo- tor Company fighting a government demand for $30,000,000 more income taxes on the sale of their stock, Illustrating the high value of Ford stock when it was soaring comet-like across the financial horizon, Clay said that soon after 1916 Ford’s working capital outstripped that of the other industrial and railway goliaths, taken together. The twenty giant enterprises he named included United States steel, the excess of his current assets over his current liabilities, as Clay put it —was $150,000,000, as shown in an exhibit put into the record. Clay at- tributed this vast accumulation of bank funds to his “rapid turnover,” in turn making it possible to “plough back” immense earnings into the business, Clay spoke by his charts, his tables, and his curves. All of these, as he took them up one by one, went into the record to raise higher the moun- tain of exhibits already introduced in. the case, The currents assets of the Ford’ Motor Co. had inoreased 8,400 per cent, according to one table. On Sept. 30, 1909, cash, municipal and United Continued on Page 4 government to continue forcing its imperialist aims on the Chinese people. McDonald also states that Cheng shot id wel- come British warships and tanks as precautionary means which will prevent his hands to be forced by people who want to fight. This statement of the leader of the British Labor Party should be repudiated by the whole movement. Otherwise the British Labor Party will identify itself with the Tory govern- ment and will participate in the greatest piece of political hypo- crisy of modern times. The British working class must re- pudiate McDonald because he does not represent their inter- ests and never has represented them. The interests of the British working class are identical with those of the Chinese revolution. The British workers must compel the British gov- ernment to withdraw all armed forces from China, to recog- nize the Canton government and to liberate completely the Chinese people from imperialist brigandage and exploitation.” | Your Newsdealer For DAILY WORKER! Get Your Fellow Workers To Buy It! from the Philippines. now he must face the jail sentence. The other strikers to be sentenced are Max Gorenstein and Oscar New- man. Willing to Pay Little More to War Torn Vets WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. -- Repeal of provisions in the World War Vete- ran’s Act to cut the compensation of disabled veterans in hospitals, with- out dependents, to $40 a month after July 1, was asked in a bill introduced today by Senator Jones (D) of New Mexico. FUR WORKERS JOINT BOARD TELLS ALL CHAIRMEN TO ATTEND CONFERENCE TO FREE CLOAKMAKERS The Shop Chairmen’s Council of the New York Joint Board, Furriers’ union, calls upon all shop chairmen and workers in the fur industry to par- ticipate in the conference of Needle Trades Shop Chairmen to make pos- sible the freeing of the fifteen arrested cloak strikers. The conference will be held this Saturday, February 5th, 1927, at 1 o'clock at Webster Hall, 11th street and 3rd avenue. All shop chairmen and workers of the fur industry should be at the conference to aid in the struggle against jailing of workers who have sacrificed themselves for the union during the time of strike and fought against gangsters employed by the bosses. Do not fail to come to this important meeting. (Signed) ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE FURRIERS’ SHOP CHAIRMEN’S COUNCIL, Roll in the Subs For The DAILY | WORKER. \ Pi , :