The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1927, Page 1

The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized, , For q Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 22. are ings and that death sentences squad, appeal to us for help. tive to a protes{ movement h We must organize this The most practical imme Send telegrams to the Li Send cables to Anton Sm | CURRENT EVENTS \| OFL HE dreams of early socialists have been realized in the United States, declares the Daily News, New York tabloid sheet irl commenting ‘on the absence of general indignation oyer the diseovery that Henry Ford refused a three billion dollar offer to sell out. Had sucha sensational news story broke twenty years ago, says the News, Jack London and Up- ton Sinclair would fly to their type- writers and click out their wrath to the multitudes. Today the news is ac- cepted without a yelp. Evidently the News editorial writer does not read The DAILY WORKER. * ate By Tr. J, O}FLAHERTY | Workingmen: own stocks in the i companies that employ them, the em- ployers build recreation quarters, pay | Bona and old age pensions anda 4 talk over wage disputes rather than | quarrel over them. This is the bunk F jousands of readers. This 4 is lism that is sponsored to- | day by the socialists of the socialist | party, but it has no more in common with Marxian socialism or Commun- ism than limburger cheese has’ with attar of roses. e * * Had this editorial writer read his own paper he would find a story on the starvation wages paid to em-' ployes of the Interborough Rapid Trunsit company, who are alleged to be on the verge of revolt. Evidently | a man with a family trying to live on from $12 to $20 a week cannot be expected to chortle over the fact that Henry Ford is worth billions of dol- lars. There is little danger that the News exaggerated the story in the in- terests of Frank Hedley’s slaves. Dut ) we are informed that of the eight men interviewed. by the News none of them averaged more than $20 a week and several produced time books showing earnings of barely $12 to $18 a week. UR ok eo bitter factional fight in the church of England is feared when the archbishop of Canterbury presents the revised book of common prayer to a convocation at the church hyuse, Westminister. It took the diVines twenty years to make the re- vision. It is rumoured that the holy | “obey” should be de:eted from the marriage ceremony for one year. “A council of catholic bishops once spent a session discussing how many angels could dance on the point of a pin. It | seems we are progressing. HE Chinese seem to have had about as much of the. mission- aries as they can stomach. While some of those evangelists revolted at tle conditions under which the Chin- i eign imperialists, most of them re- mained loyal to their payrolls, which the financial mas- Virginia who is traveling WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Mew York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Halt the Lithuanian Murderers By JAMES P. CANNON, Secretary International Labor Defense. CHICAGO, ILL., Feb. 7.—Cables just received by International Labor Defense convey the astounding news that the Lithuanian fascist government has renewed court martial proceed- men discussed whether the word) ba Outside New York, by matl, $6.00 per year. have been imposed on the teacher Adamoski, the students Glo- wacki and Szwarzburg and the trade union leader Vitzai. This is in addition to the four work- ing class leaders already executed. Court martials are beginning to operate throughout Lithuania and sentences to death and life imprisonment are becoming the order of the day. The leaders of the Lithuanian working class, racked with torture and facing the firing The fascist murderers, seeking loans in America, are very sensi- ere. protest without delay. diate steps are the following: thuanian ambassador at Washington. edona, president, Kaunas, Lithuania. Help the victims of Lithuanian fascism! Communist Party of China Flays British Calls on Masses to Support Demands of the Revolutionary Nationalist Government SHANGHAI, Feb. 7.—The Communist Party of China has issued a manifesto on events in Hankow charging the British gov- ernment with having provoked a bloody conflict with the Chinese masses to have pretext for demanding that the nationalist govern- ment repress the people. It is quife clear that “reat Britain has plotted to prepare for intervention, The Brit’ © iruperialists are trying to create a united front at home and i. yos:”' ic to unite all imperialist powers against the Chinese revolution. ; ‘The ai-of Great Britain in conducting ‘negotihtions with the Cantonese government was to gain time while troops and naval forces were coricentrating. The manifesto calls on the Chinese workers and peasants to support the demands of the nationalist government for the aboli- tion of special privileges to foreigners, the return of concessions and the withdrawal of armed forces of the imperialists from China. * * * BRITISH COMMUNISTS URGE DIRECT ACTION TO BLOCK IMPERIALISTIC WAR AGAINST CHINA LONDON, Feb. 7.—The Central Committee of the Commun- ist Party of Great Britain has issued a manifesto calling for direct action on the part of the working class of the country to prevent the'transport of soldiers and the shipment of arms and munitions for war on China. fe 1 The Communists want to force the reformist leaders to break | the alliance with the Baldwin government. The workers are urged |to demand the resignation of the imperialistic government which |is preparing to embark on another bloody war. | (Additional News of ChineseDevelopments on Page Five.) - BY PORTUGUESE The lives.of two hundred girl work- when a fire broke out in a ten-story ployed. ~ REVOLUTIONISTS |Most of Army and Civil | Population Rebels LONDON, Feb. 7.—The Portuguese revolt has spread from Oporto to Lisbon, the capital, according to ad- vices received here this evening. The outbreak of open rebellion in the capital was reported to have met with the greatest success. The re- volutionary forces, together with the marine guard, the republican police, and infantry, rapidly occupied several they save themselves, The fire was extinguished soon, and nobody was hurt, howeyer the damages to the home. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. at New York, N. Y., EW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1927 <> SIGMAN’S SECRET COMPACT SELLS OUT UNION Admiral Latimer! [Balivin Anti-Strike Is Neutralizing All Nicaragua Liberals Winning Despite United States Forces BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua, Feb. 7. —Admiral Latimer is expected to de- clare Chinandega, now captured by the liberals, to be a neutral zone, if the liberals are able to hold the city against the conservative counter at- tack, according to reports received here. Liberals Are Winning. The liberal forces having completed their occupation and domination of eastern Nicaragua are nev preparing for offensives in the western area. General Arguello, commandirfg the Diaz forces at Guadeloupe on the Rama river, has withdrawn to Man- agua, thus clearing the last eastern stronghold of conservative forces. A handful of conservatives were left at the Diaz garrison at Guadeloupe but were soon captured, Standing Off Conservatives. Reports of contintied liberal suc- weesses in the west have been received here, and there is great interest in the issue of the battle of Chinandega, to the north of Managua, where the liberals are standing off conservative troops. Could Block Communications. If the liberals can occupy and hold Chinandega it may bring about a serious problem for the American marines in occupation in. Nicaragua, for from this city it would be pos- sible fpr the liberals to interrupt com- munications between Managua and Corinto, where the naval vessels on the west coast have made their head- quarters. a Throughout the eastern zone all is reported quiet and the liberals have consolidated their position. Liberal headquarters have empha- sized the importance of their forces entering Chinandega and state that the strength of the liberals at Chinan- dega is evident refutation of earlier Managua reports that the liberals had suffered a heavy defeat at Ramos. Reports have been received here that the liberal forces are in posses- sion of Nagaroto and that notice has been given that they will not permit arms and munitions for Diaz to pass through Leon. * American Army Fliers Serving in Nicaragua With the Diaz Forces WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. — The state department today disclaimed any “official” knowledge of American aviators fighting with the Diaz con- servatives in Nicaragua, although press dispatches telling of the battle of Chinandega carried the names of Americans who have joined the Diaz forces against the liberals. The Diaz government is supported and @ecognized by the United States oe ers were seriously endangered today) government. Press dispatches named Maj. Lee loft building in which they were em-| Mason, Maj. William Brooks, and 3 Only by runring down the Maj. E. J. Clay as being identified staircase and ‘out on the street, did| with the conservatives. Kellogg Was Informed. Newspaper correspondents in ‘the building prevented the resuming of] capital believe that Kellogg had ad- work and the girls had to leave for! vance information that those aviators wert taking service with the reac- {tionary Diaz and there is not the slightest probability that the govern- ment will take steps to recall them. TERRIFIC PROFITS FOR BIGGEST BANK OF U. S: “ROCKEFELLER BANK GETS BIGGEST LUMP SUM strategic positions. ig Their triumph is considered as a foregone conclusion, according to the report received here, and the whole civil population has joined in the re- volutionary movement with the great- est enthusiasm. *. * * Rail Strike Continues. LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 7.—The railway strike still paralyzes the country, and makes news that does in the Subs For The DAILY/escape the government censorship! $100 invested; the U. §. Trust o.| (Continued on Page 2). By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press). The exorbitant price the country pays for leaving the administration of social credit in private hands is revealed in a Wall Street Journal compila- tion of New York profits in 1926. According to this survey 38 banks and trust companies took a toll of $11,959,000 off the business which they han- dled in 1926. This is a return of more than 33% on the aggregate eapital outstanding and of 13.2% on the capital plus $600,000,000 surplus profits of previous ace joe le Capital. ; ational bank with £1164 ' Three financial institutions show? $109 ppt swig profits of more then 100% invested capital. These are the Kings County | Bocca th ira ke ii Sad A eg 1 aay Trust and the First National, In the (Continued on page 3) with $120 on each $100 and the First under the act of March 3, 1879. PUBLISHIN! Law Goes to Commons At Third Day Session LONDON, Feb. 7.—An attempt to put the screws on the British La- bor movement will be made by Baldwin’s reactionary government when the third session of present parliament opens tomorrow. Prohibition of the general strike, restrictions on picketing, and the separation of the benevolent and political funds of unions are some of the provisions of the trade union bill which will be introduced by the Baldwin government. The Chinese situation and the budget are other vital issues which will arouse stormy controversy, and which must be introduced soon. ARREST HUNDRED AS EMPEROR OF JAPAN IS BURIED Ostentatious Funeral For State Purposes TOKIO, Feb. 7—A hundred ar- rests featured the burial today of Yoshihito, emperor of Japan. All; persons suspected of tampering with the funeral equipage of the forty- four days dead emperor were placed in custody, and an_ investigation started into what may become a first class scandal. The center of ceremony in the royal funeral is the cart, which car- ries the corpse through the streets, in a magnificent narade. This cart, at the last moment, was discovered to have a broken shaft, and the crowds of hundreds of thousands of} loyal, or curious, subjects who were waiting for the procession to start, continued to wait while hasty repairs} were made. Meanwhile, all persons who might have tampered with it were imprisoned. Yoshihiti was a feeble man, abso- lutely without effect on the social events of his time, other than that, by merely existing, he was able to preserve the fiction of a land ruled through divine authority, by a des- cendent of the Sun Goddess. Put in Holy Show. Since his usefulness to the capital- ist military oligarchy that rules Jap-! an with an iron hand lay in his cere-| monial capacities, his funeral was in-| tended to lack none of the ancient) and impressive rites that might be made use of. Consternation spread thruout offi- cial society, therefore, when it ,was found that the sacred funeral cart, used to transport the ashes of the man-god, was mysteriously unservice- able. This cart, especially built for the! funeral by a firm that for more than! 100 years has arriages and other conv the imperial] family, is chiefly of nese cypress.) with wheels of zelkowa and axles of ‘oak. It is lacquered bla trimmed with gold. Its length is feet andy it is 12 feet high and 12 feet wide} with wheels nearly six feet in dia-| meter. Three jet black oxen drew the cart and as the bulloeks trudged along, the wheels of the cart gave forth a peculiar wailing note denoting grief to the Japanese mind, This was in accordance with an ahcient Japanese custom whch requires that the wheels ot the catafalque of an emperor shall “mourn.” It requires much skill in building the cart to produce these’ strange wailing notes at regular in- tervals, but tradition calls for it. When an emperor dies it is felt that! the whole empire and everything in iv, animate and inanimate, should cry out in sorrow. Behind the cart walked the chief mourner. Almost every personage in Japan (Continued on Page 2). Seven Cars Leave Rails. CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—-More than 100 passengers on a ‘fast Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy passenger train from St. Paul were shaken up when seven cars left the rails at Downer’s Grove, 21 miles west of here today, No one ‘was seriously hurt as all of the cars ‘remained upright. ‘Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Nk THE ONLY ENGLISH LABOR DAILY IN NEW YORK THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office a FINAL CITY EDITION G CO, 38 First Street, New York, Price 3 Cents Expose Hidden Deal To Win Bosses’ Help Grants Employers Piece Work, Right to Fire, Power to Discriminate—All to Hurt Progressives The full extent of the betrayal of the New York dressmakers by Morris Sigman, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ union, was disclosed at a mass meeting in Webster Hall last night when C. S. Zimmerman, manager of the dress depart- ment of the New York Joint Board stated the terms of a supple- mentary agreement which it is learned, from reliable sources, has been signed in addition to the published contract between the International officials and the Association of Dress Manufac- turers, Inc. “Sigman has purposely signed the worst agreement ever made in the history of our union,” said Zimmerman, “in order to gain the support of the bosses in his register. Barters Workers. “The contractors never dream- | ed of getting what Sigman hand- | ed to them willingly, in order to| line them up as allies in his} treacherous work. Without al thought for the dressmakers, he | has given away what we fought} years to wrest from the bosses; and he hopes by such means to compel the members to enroll} with the International and thus by force get control of the un- ion.” Pay Cutters By Hour. | Chief among the points of the ob- | noxious supplementary agreement, so it is reported, is that cutters, who formerly worked on a_week-work basis, are now to be paid by the hour. Secondly, whereas. formerly any firm which went out of business and later reorganized—as dress shops are con- tinually doing—was compelled to take back its old workers, the new agree- | ment allows a boss who has been out of business for two months, to en- gage an entirely new set of workers as though he were a new firm. This means practically an unlimited right Continued on page 5 | paring to join efforts to force the workers to To Hold Mass Meetings Wednesday in Cause of | Sentenced Cloakmakers While two of the cloak strikers are sitting in the Tombs waiting to be sentenced by Ji Otto Rosal- sky and 16 others have already begun serving the heavy jail terms which he impesed upon them two weeks ago, thousands of workers from all trades in the city are pre- in a demand for | their freedom at a series of mass meetings to be held in Webster Hall, Manhattan Lyceum, Cooper Union and other halls tomorrow af- ternoon right after work. This is to be the beginning of a wide protest from workers all over the country, ard the agitation will be continued until these men, sen- tenced for their strike activities, are released. Prominent speakers from trade union. and other labor organizations will address these mass meetings, and from these halls a call will go out to the whole labor movement to join in this campaign against legal injustice. SAMUEL COHEN, L SHOT IN LEG BY REACTIONARY GANG ING PICKET, Closed Car With Gunmen Ran Around Breaking Traffic Rules But Was Samuel Cohen, Executive Board member of Local 35, International Ladies’ Garment Workers union, was wounded in the right leg when he was fired at by gangsters ffm an auto. mobile at 57th street and Broadway as he was leading the picket line at Reisman, Rothman, and Beayer, 521 Seventh Avenue at * o'clock yester- day morning. The gangsters es- caped. Tn Three Cars. Cohen, in an exclusive interview with The DAILY WORKER states that there were altogether between fifteen and eighteen gangsters, in threc The pickets had been bar- red by the police’ from marching |» down Fifty-seventh street, where the struck shop stands, and were on Tenth avenue. The three cars came down Fifty- seventh street, and when near a group of pickets, including Cohen, all stop- ped. From the center car three men alighted, and each standing with one foot on the ground and one on the running board, fired one shot—after which all three cars moved on away. The police came, but did not make any serious effort to follow the cars. Will Not Quit. Cohen is resting easily at 1427 Madison street, his home, and declares he will never stop his activities to build up the International Ladies Gar- ment Workers union, whatever the bosses or Sigman’s gangsters “may do to him, Policeman Albert Schweizer gays that. he was unable to stop the car as it speeded away for fear a shot from him would hit passers by. The gun- men had entered Sixth Ave. from the west and drew up at the south ‘curb of Fifty-seventh street, in violation of Not Stopped by Police traffic ordinances, but without inter- ference. This is the third time within a week that gangsters have attacked pickets of this shop, which was called on strike last Monday by the Joint Board after three workers were discharged for refusing to register with the In- ternational. Other Shootings. On last Wednesday gangsters fired from an automobile into the air, and n Friday, Theodore Tirins of Local °5 was attacked and beaten with lead vipe by gangsters. All but one of them eseaped in their automobile. He rave his name as Joseph Zeuruch, was found to have a long police rd, with three previous convic- tions for felonies, and was held with- out bail by the Fifty-fourth street ourt, charged with felonious assault. Right Wing Gang. Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint Board, pointed out that the gangsters were not hired by the employers, but are “right wing gangsters who have been recognized in other sections of the garment dispute.” He said, “This is the same bunch of gangsters that has been terrorizing the entire garment district and attacking work- ers known to be sympathetic to the Joint Board in the present dispute. The Joint Board has called a num- ber of strikes in shops where work- ers have been discharged for refusing to register with the International, and vicket lines have been established be- fore these shops. Although President Sigman has boasted that workers would not be forced to register with him, he continues to hire gangsters to shoot and beat them up when they try to protect their fellow workers against unjust discrimination by go- ing on the picket lines.” f Your Newsdealer For The DAILY WORKER! Get Your Fellow Workers To Buy It