The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1927, Page 1

i The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 21. THE ONLY ENGLISH LABOR DAILY IN NEW YORK THE DAILY Wo SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered ay second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1927 i under the act of March 3, 1879, AER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY ¥ PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, WORKDR N. ¥, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents KELLOGG SENDS THREATENING NOTE TO CHINA Demands Neutral Zone in Shanghai ‘Addresses Communication to Military Leaders Ignoring Peking and Nationalist Governments SPECIAL CABLE DISPATCH. LONDON, Feb. 6.—British | labor in a mass demonstration at Albert. Memorial Hall tonight protested against the dispatching of British troops to China. * * WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Secretary of State Kellogg’s note to the Cantonese government’s military commander-in-chief and to the two militarists Chang-Ts: o-Lin and Sun Chuan-Fang de- manding that the international settlement in Shanghai be elimi- nated fro mthe theatre of. conflict was made publi¢ here tonght while dispatches continued to pour in from China with news of the rapid advance of the victoribus Cantonese armies on Shanghai. R. R. Mediation Gives Firemen | Small Raise Brotherhood President Says Slight Gain Satisfactory | As a result of theoperation of the} Watson-Parker act mediation machin-) ery, firemen and enginemen have just signed through their president for a settlement on the basis of less than half the wage incregses femandedubys them to bring their real income up to that they received before advances in’) the cost of living. They asked fif- teen to twenty per cent raise, and get seven and a half, at least on paper. Not only that, the railroad union officials waive all other demands of importance; mechanical ,stokers or extra crews on the big “hog” engines, time for meals, expenses for living away from home at the end of divi- sions, etc. Robertson Satisfied. Although making these sacrifices for the men, President D. B, Robert- son of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen says he is quite satisfied. “We are highly pleased with the ef- forts of Mr. Hanger, one of the most experienced of the government media- tors, his experience running back to} the time of the Erdman and Newlands | acts.” | Mr. Hanger said both sides had) been “reasonable and business like”| and that they had. discussed matters “without heat.” Much Talk, Little Money. The agreement just. adopted pro- vides for a “sliding scale” involving continual further negotiation as to just exactly how much wages the men receive at any time. It is retroactive to February J. It follows two weeks’ negotiations between the government’s mediator, Wallace W. Hanger, of the Federal Board of Mediation, with the employ- ers’ committee and the union officials. The discussions took place in the Wal- dorf hotel, New York. The case opened with demands made June 25, 1926, by the union for wage increases and other relief. s Meeting to Protest Coolidge Nicaraguan Invasion, Thursday A meeting to protest against the invasion of Nicaragua, the bullying of Mexico by the American state department, and the sending of troops and battleships to China, will be held at Cooper Union, on 8th street, between 3rd and 4th avenues, this Thursday night (Feb- ruary 10), under the,auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party, The speakers will be Scott Near- ing, author of “Dollar Diplomacy”, Jay Lovestone, William F. Dunne, a representative of the Kuomin- tang, Chinese Nationalist Party, Benjamin Gitlow, William W. Weinstone and Bertram D. Wolfe. Unless the United States gov- ernment can be given assurances that American lives will be safe- guarded in Shanghai more’ war- ships and marines will be im- mediately rushed to China, Kel- logg says. “ Kellogg’s action in addressing him- self to the leader of the Cantonese armies is looked upon a studied insult to the Nationalist government, the only responsible government in China. Though the Peking government has a minister in Washington, Kellogg’s note ignored his government and re- cognized instead the notorious brig- and Chang-Tso-Lin. Favors Reactionaries. Polticial observers see in Kellogg’s move an attempt to steal a diplomatic march on the Cantonese. They ex- pect Chang-Tso-Lin and Sun Chuan Fang to agree to the Kelloge deman:ts since they are tools of the imperial- ists and have no interest in. tearing China loose from foreign clutches. On the other hand a cardinal prin- ciple in the Cantonese program is the wresting of control of those in- ternational settlements from the for- eign imperialists. The Cantonese can- not be expected to draw a chalk line around a certain section of China at the command of the imperialist pow- ers and declare that it shall be im- mune from the rigors of war. Withdrawal of Warships. General Chiang Kai-Shek, it was pointed out, may demand a withdrawal of the steadily increasing forces of warships and troops at Shanghai as the terms upon which a neutralization of the foreign settlement can be granted. Such a request, is was indicated, will be flatly turned down. Even though agreements was reached -to keep the foreign settlement removed from the fighting zone. Meanwhile the movement of marines and additional ships toward the Chinese area continued with all speed. The note expresses the “anxiety” of the’ American government over the civil war raging in China, but the anxiety may be due more to the vic. torious advance of the Cantonese armies than to the loss of Chinese lives and the disruption of the busi- ness of the county as a result of the strife, The Wise Mr. Kellogg. Kellogg makes the profound obser- vation that the international settle- ment suffers -during periods of strife and prospers in times of peace, but so did the people of Europe during the late war, a fact which did not pre- vent’ the American government tak- ing participation in it. ° The note ends with the declaration that: “The Ameri¢an government will be ready for its part to become a party to friendly and orderly nego- tiations properly instituted and con- ducted regarding the future status of thé settlement.” *. . * « Attacks Soviet Union. LONDON, Feb. 6.—Reports of a bitter fight over the Chinese question (Continued on page 5} American Army Planes Repair at Lima, Peru "LIMA, Peru, Feb. 6.—The American army “good will fliers,” who arrived here from Paita last night, are today engaged in repairs and changing the engine of the Detroit. They plan to leave here on Sunday. | GURRENT EVENTS | By T. J. O’FLAHERTY j | RECENT issue of Advance, offi- | cial organ of the Amalgamated) Clothing Workers, contained a lengthy editorial on the present situ- ation in the needle trades unions and} particularly on the move to exclude all| known Communists from those unions| and from the trade unions in general.| The editorial commented on the glee with which the ousting of the radi- cals is hailed by the socialists and) observed that if this policy is car- ried out, the, socialists will also come) in for a share of the medicine in-| tended solely for Communist discom- fiture. ee Oe This little bit of criticism of the expulsion policy championed by the socialists and the Tammany Hall labor leaders did not escape the eagle eye of the editor of The New Leader. Evidently amazed that such hereby | should see the light of day in the | official organ of Abraham Becker- | man’s slugging squad, Mr. Oneal has- tened to assure the ‘intellectual editor of Advance that socialists did not en-| tertain the idea that Communists as| such should be excluded from the] unions. Oh, no! Only Communists whose presence is injurious to the unions. * * . Such generosity on the part of Mr. Oneal is about as substantial as the I. 0. U. of a confidence man. Mr. Oneal has nothing to give and if he |had, he would not give it. The type of person who would believe the word of Frank B. Kellogg or give serious) consideration to an official announce” ment from the British foreign office might assume that editor Oneal was not talking thru Abe Cahan’s hat. But) we can see the Ethiopian’s toe stick- ing out from beneath the underbrush, If we can be introduced to a labor faker who thinks there is in existence) an animated Communist to which the’ term “good” can be applied we will stew you u labor faker-awho does not know enough to come in out of the rain, yea, a labor faker who holds his job, either because there is no money in his treasury or because Wil-) liam Green is not aware of his pres-| ence ih the labor movement. P eee oe The New Leader devotes approxi- mately 50 per cent of its weekly space to attacking the Communists. The capitalist system is almost forgotten. Perhaps the socialists will return to their old hat after the Communists are destroyed. The official organs of the open shop movement brazenly declare that they are supporting the anti-Communist leaders, but when the battle ends in a Communist defeat! (this is the hope, but the bible said that “hope deferred maketh the heart sick), the open shoppers will return to their war on trade unionism. In our opinion the socialists are thru fighting capitalism. 2 8 In his “Timely Topics”. column, Doctor Norman Thomas preaches oc- casionally against the foes of the horny-handed sons of toil, with as much or as little fervor as he for- merly preached against the devil and bis bad angels. Thomas is one of the few living specimens in the so- cialist party who is willing to iden- tify himself with any struggle where a wicked Communist is suspected of being engaged in the nefarious busi- ness of agitating the minds of the workers against the employing class, Even Doc. Thomas is not what he used to be in this respect. It is hard to know which side he is on at,times. He sometimes slaps his reactionary bed-mates on the wrist, then turns around and plants a well-directed kick on the Communist midriff. A use- ful come-on for the socialists! The League for Industrial Democracy is one of the socialist decoys used: to entice the non-socialist flies into the socialist party web. The New Leader occasionally publishes a list of or- ganizations influenced by the Work- ers (Communist) Party. It charges the party with deception because of this policy of building auxiliary or- ganizations that provide a recruiting ground for the party and help to bring more workers into radical ac- (Contirued on page 2) Pupil Stops Fire While 1,000 boys and girls marched quietly out of the building,* Joseph Colatceuno, 17, a pupil in the East Side continuation school, extinguished a blaze which he discovered in an air shaft. Subscribe for The DAILY WORKER.: x For The DAILY WORKER British Torie Plan to Outlaw Strike Weapon ee Be o8 King’s” Hypocritical Speech . * . On Chinese Situation LONDON, Feb. 6.—King George will declare a new session of Parlia- ment open on Tuesday, the ceremony being characterized by the usual pomp and splendor. His speech, which the cabinet fin- ished last Friday will be most im- portant from an international view- point in its references to China. The speech insists that British ag- gression in China is of a “defensive” character, and that the government is in sympathy with the national aspira- tions of the Chinese as long as they are not “inconsistent with legitimate British interests.” Silent On Latin-America. It is not believed that the King will refer to the disturbances in Mexico and Nicaragua, this silence being a result of the deal which assures Britain of United States support in China. In the domestic field the govern- ment has placed at the forefront of its program for the coming session a bill which strikes at the heart of trade unionism by declaring the strike region illegal. The speech will make a distinction between “economic” strikes and “political” strikes, but this is only a distinction without a difference since every strike of any consequence takes on a_ political character. Extremists of the conservative party are seeking to deprive the un- ions of the right to use their funds for political jurposed®Sut the cabinet take the risks of alienating all the support of the workers by any such drastic measure. Thousands of trade unionists still support Tory candidates and a party caucus has resolved not. to invite de- feat at the next general election by driving these voters into the Labor Party. : Slams U. S. Movies. Another domestic measure which ie “King's” speech will mention is a ill compelling film exhibitors to show a small percentage of British made films, thus forbidding all-American programs in theaters. It is predicted the treasury will in- sist on an extension of the income tax to the huge profits made from American films exhibited in Britain. “ Killed While Cleaning Sidewalk. Mrs. Catherine Hirschliffe, 56 years old, slipped on the ice today when she was clearing off the sidewalk in front of her home. She sustained a fracture of the skull and was dead when a neighboring physician arrived. Imperialist Tool General Felix Diaz, reactionary Mexican, who is one of the “white hopes” expected to lead a revolution against the Calles government. Diaz has been testifying in the trial of General Enrique Estrada, who was charged with violating the neutrality laws of the United States in his at- tempt to march a bunch of hirelings across the border into Mexico. g MEETING OF DRESSMAKERS AFTER WORK TONIGHT TO DISCUSS DISASTROUS CONTRACT BY SIGMAN | Indignation of the dressmakers over the agreement which was si |by President Sigman on Saturday, will be voiced tonight at a meeti | be held in Webster Hall right after work. Two other meetings, of shop chairmen and active union members, have Pure Treachery. | | “An act of the blackest treachery” | places our industry on an open shop | this agreement is.called by C. S. Zim-|basis with a union label.” |merman, manager of the dress de- |partment of Joint Board, and its | terms will be~diseussed and denounced |in detail by the members who attend tonight’s meeting. In a call issued to the dressmakers, it is stated that Louis Schwartz, president of.the Association of Dress Manufacturers, Inc., remarked at a meeting of the contractors that never in the history of the association have the contractors been able to achieve such a sweeping victory over the un- ion. Still Worse Coming. Zimmerman not only accuses Presi- dent Sigman of betraying the union by this “scab agreement,” but de- clares that as usual. the international officials have arranged a secondary “secret” agreement which will even- tually become known to the dress- makers and which “completely does | been arranged at the headquarters of Local 22, at 11 a. m. and 4 p. m. today. away with the union standards and Sigman’s Excuse. In a press statement yesterday, President Sigman announces that with the signing of the dress agreement “70,000 cloak and dress makers can rest secure in their livelihood for two years to come.” He says the “union will now devote itself to rehabilitate its strength and morals which have been admittedly undermined by the disastrous conduct of the cloak strike in which $3,500,000 was expended by the Communist leaders.” Such wild charges have many times been re- futed by Joint Board officials, but it is not unexpected to find them of- fered as excuses for treason. What the dressmakers think of such explanations and the prospect of “resting secure” in the sort of agree- ment that Sigman has handed the manufacturers, will be fully expressed at Webster Hall tonight. “A. P.” Defends Helping Olds’ Mexican Lie Other Press Bureaus Would Not Enter Conspiracy WASHINGTON, | Feb. 6—L. C, Probert, superintendent of the Wash- ington bureau of the Associated Press, publicly defends his organiza- tion for its ready compliance with the wishes of Assistant Secretary of State Olds in disseminating anti-Mex- ican propaganda, especially the “Red Seare” stories, at a critical time in the relations between that country and this. In‘a speech before the Twentieth Century Club, he described the A. P. as influencing the course of history, combating Bolshevism, and enlarging the influence of the United States in foreign countries to the south of it through these stories, without regard as to whether there was any proof of the sensational “revelations” them- selves. “Created Sensation.” Probert claimed credit for his as-' sociation for having created a news| sensation, brought out charges and a showdown of facts, and thereby led the way to a better understanding as to what had happened in Mexico and Nicaragua. Instead of apologizing for starting a false report, be bland-| ly posed as the promoter of investi-| gation and possible changes in gov- ernmental policy., “What does it all mean?” he asked, “It means that a great deal has hap- pened that never would have hap- pened if the Associated Press had failed to report what was going on. Presume for a moment that the As- sociated Press had fallen in its duty. The American people wouldn’t have learned of the situation otherwise. Other disseminators of news admit they didn’t tell the public about it because they were declining to be used.” Rivals More Honest. In this argument, the A. P. offi- cial hits out at the Scripps and the Hearst telegraphic news _ services, whose correspondents at the state de- partment refused to say that Mexico was a bolshevist agent unless Olds could produce evidence or make the claim on his own responsibility, No other press correspondent was per- mitted to be present at the secret conference where Olds tried to “frame” the press on this occasion. The three men invited in were sworn to secrecy. Other correspondents, learning the facts afterward through a leak in the secrecy dike, denounced the Olds scheme of press-framing. Two Brothers Conservative. At the head of the A. P. is Frank Noyes of the Washington Star, a pa- per that has grown very. wealthy by always approving the conservatism 19 Airplanes Prepare For Flight to China; | Expect Orders Shortly _SAN DIEGO, Feb. 6.—Prepara- tions for an immediate embarka- tion of the west coast marine corps aircraft squadron to China have been completed by Major Ross Ro- well, commander of the force, it was announced today. The squadron, which consists of ten commissioned officers and en- listed_ pilots, fifteen mechanics and nineteen fighting, bombing and ob- servation planes, may be ordered to China in the immediate future, said reports in circulation here today. Major Rowell declared that his squadron is fully equipped and ready for embarkation the minute the orders arrive. MOUNTED POLICE OFFICER TO FACE STRIKERS TODAY |Rode His Horse Against Pickets on Sidewalk A hearing on the charges made against mounted patrolman Mathew J. Wolf, of traffic A, shield No. 7714, is ordered for today at 11 A. M. at the office of the first district under Inspector Arthu® J. Dodd. The union was informed that an in- vestigation. will be made of its com- plaint which rises out of the fact that he rode on the sidewall without warn- ing into an orderly line of picketers, majority of awhich was girls, Worker Is Trampled On. One worker, Bonchi Friedman, was trampled on, and had to be treated for injuries to his back. One student, (Continued on page 2) Get Zeppelin For Polar Flight RIGA, Feb. 3.—Professor Eckener, director of the Zeppelin Company, has placed at the disposal of a com- pany, which is being formed in Len-; ingrad, a Zeppelin airship for a flight to the polar regions, the Soviet Of- ficial Agency announced today. A series of exploration flights are in- tended, it is said. Shop Chairmen’s Meeting Scores Rosalsky Starts het Free His Cloakmaker Victims A call is going out today to all la- bor organizations in this city te at- tend mass meetings, in Webster Hall, Cooper Union, Manhattan Lyceum and other halls, on Wednesday, Feb- ruary 9th, to initiate a nation-wide move to free the sixteen cloak strikers who were so heavily sentenced by Judge Otto Rosalsky: on January 28th. As the first, step in this campaign, more. than 00 shop chairmen and representatives of labor organizations ercwded Webster Hall or. Saturday afternoon to prepare for the fight in behalf of these workers who were sentence! for their union activities. Brauner Presides. The chairman of the Cloakmakers’ Shop Chairmen’s Council, I. Brauner. presided at the conferenc plained that the meeting ginning of a might carried throughout the co each speaker who follov out that the freeing of the had been so penalized w hhecessary to the whole ment, Hyman Points Danger. “Tf these work: can” bi and ex- s the be- st. to be 3 and pointed men who lutely move- ut he- from hind prison bar separated their wives and children, for their picketing activities dy a strike,” said Louis Hyman, genera’ of the Cloakmakers Joint Bo: worker will be safe in future struggles. “All the labor forces of the coun- try must be made ‘to Yedlize that an inj ice to these cloakmakers in New York is a blow at workers every- where. If a judge with the known prejudices of Judge Otto Rosalsky is allowed to impose such unprecedented prison terms, without a protest from the workers, judges in other parts of the country will quickly follow his example. Such a practice must be stopped now before it spreads.” Gold Scores Rosalsky. Ben Gold, in denouncing Judge Ro- salsky and his sentencing of the cloakmakers, pointed out that he per- secuted Jewish workers this way in court, while in his leisure hours he was an ardent Zionist. “President Sigman -joins with Ro- salsky, and Abe Cahan, another Zion- ist, in throwing workers into jail and trying by these methods to break the (Continued on page 5). er no abou Alien Property Graft Comes to Trial Again Today; Daugherty Case Harry M. Daugherty and Colonel Thomas W. Miller, the Ohio buc- caneers who are charged with ac- cepting $391,000 for granting a $7,- 000,000 claim to a Swiss company, will be tried for the second time when they appear before Federal Judge John C. Knox today. Since the first trial, which ended in the acquittal of Daugherty and Miller, United States Attorney Emory R. Buckner has been gath- ering more evidence against the pair. In an effort to locate some of the payments of the bribe, he is examining the ‘books of, banks having business relations with the Midland National Bank of Wash- ington Court House, Ohio, of which Mal. S. Daugherty, Harry Daugh- erty’s brother, is an officer, HINDU NATIONALIST PARTY IN AMERICA CALLS ON INDIANS NOT TO FIRE ON CANTONESE The Hindustan Gadar Party, No. 5, Wood Street, San Francisco, Cal., an organization working for freedom for India, writes The DAILY WORKER: “Through your valuable columns, we wish to send our message of deep sympathy towards the National Liberation movement of China, Our party wishes the people of China to know that India js with china heart and soul. the National forces of China, We urge upon all the Hindostanees in China to co-operate with We consider any Hindu a traitor to India and anti-unionism of the party in|if he fires upon the Chinese in behalf of British Imperialism.—(Signed) 'M. Singh,” Get Your Fellow Workers To Buy It!