The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1927, Page 1

| | yReacon Dress Shop, of 327 West 33d The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized, For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. THE ONLY ENGLISH LABOR DAILY IN NEW YORK THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL [FINAL CITY | a ee Vol. IV. No. 23. BUBRCRIETION RATES: In New York, by matl, $8.00 per year, utside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1927 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAIL’ PUBLISHING yon at CO., 33 First Street, New York, N, R ¥. Price 3 Cents BRITISH BREAK WITH SOVIET UNION LOOMS Joint Board To EXPECT THOUSANDS TO PARTICIPATE|Trace Bonds In Enforce Old Agreement | Dress Workers Will Not Let Sigman Sell Them Out The struggle in the garment unions | for control has shifted from the cloak | industry to the dress industry with the declaration of the Joint Board that it would take steps to contpel recognition of Joint Board business agents by the individual employers | in defiance of the agreement con-| cluded by the International with the Dress Contractor’s Association. C. S. Zimmerman, manager of the dress division of the Joint Board made the following announcement of the new policy. Recognize Board. “In the past two days the business agents of the Joint Board have visited 125 dress shops, unaccompanied by a clerk of the association as demanded in Sigman’s agreement with the as- sociation. In all but 5 of these shops the employers recognized the business agents of the Joint Board, admitted them without an accompanying clerk, and promised to adjust complaints of workers through the Joint Board. “In the five shops where the busi- ness agents were not ‘admitted, the workers immediately stopped work, in order to compel the employers to re- cognize their legally elected officers. Agreement Void. “In most cases the employers ad- mit that the agreement made between the International and the association does not amount to anything since the workers disapprove it and will not abide by it, and in order to con- tinue to produce dresses they realize thet. they..must..deal with and..vazog~| nize the Joint Board. The shops that stopped working yesterday include the Qualifine Dress Shop of 182 West 22nd street, of which Sol Rossman, one of the em- ployers, is chairman of the labor board of the Dress Contractors’ As- sociation. All of the workers struck in this shop. ‘ Other Shops Struck. Other shops where workers struck were the Gilt Dress Shop, 159 West 25th stret, the Supreme Dress Shop, 118 West 22nd street, S. & S. Dress Shop, 132 West 22nd street, and the street. “Two shops were called on strike because of discharge of workers who refused to: register with the Inter- national. ‘They are the Sobelman and Siegal shop of 148 West 23d street and Langer and Whitman of 22 West 27th street. b Old Contract Holds. “The Joint Board will continue its policy of adjusting the complaints of the workers and enforcing the stand- IN DRIVE TO SAVE JAILED PICKETS| New Daugherty | Meetings in Webster Hall, Ma H all, Manhattan Lyceum, Cooper Union, Today, for Rosalsky’s Victims Not by tens and hundreds, but by! thousands the workers are planning | , to respond to the call of the cloak-| | makers today, and in Webster Hall 119 East 11th St., Manhattan Ly-| ceum, 66 East 4th 8t., Cooper Union | 8th St..and 8rd Ave., they will raise the cry for freedom of the 18 cloak-| makers now sitting in prison. * Immediately after work the meet- ings will begin, and every industry| in the city has been urged to join in| this campaign for the release of these) victims of Judge Rosalsky’s ven- geance. These 18 cloakmakers, been members of their union for 8, 10 and 14 years, were arrested while! picketing their shops during the long strike which began July 1. They! were attacked on the picket line and) defended themselves; yet they are ac-| cused of being criminals and by a no- toriously hostile judge were given the heaviest sentences ever imposed on workers in this city for their strike} activities. Two workers were given terms of| from two and a half to five years; two workers were given one and aj} half years; the others received inde-| terminate sentences in the peniten- tiary. The judge mercilessly separ- ated them from their wives and chil- dren, he refused to consider the fact} that they had never been guilty of who had! j any crime—during the strike, or at “ny previous time. He denounced *these workers as tho they were crim- }imals, and sent them behind prison bars for years to come. | Dangerous Precedent. Such a precedent must not be al- lowed.'to stand. If these strikers can be so persecuted in New York City, how much worse will be the fate of | strikérs in every other city in the {country! The workers must refuse to let their brothers suffer for their loyalty to the Union and their ac- tivity in its struggles. Every trade unionist makes sacrifices for his or- | ganization, but no group of workers | should be allowed to be penalized as these 18 cloakmakers have been. | Just the Start, Today’s mass meetings will be only the beginning of the protest that must be raised in behalf of these prisoners. It will take constant agi- tation, and persistent effort on the part of every worker in every trade | and every labor organization to, bring about the freedom of these cloak- | makers. The cry for justice that is raised in Webster Hall, Cooper Union and the other halls today will carry thruout the country and it will not only rally the labor forces of all sec- | tions, but it will cheer the jailed cloak strikers, who are relying on their}+ | fellow- workers: to set them free. | CURRENT EVENTS | By T. J. O'FLAHERTY OR unashamed lying, an article in last Monday’s issue of the New York Evening Post is worthy of the attention of the provided the deceased dynamite ex- pert left any part of his fortune to encourage the fine art of prevarica- tion as he did for excellence in literg- ture and commendable .effort for the preservation of peace among capi- talist nations. The writer of the ar- ticle, Herbert E. Casson by name, strings so many falsehoods together in the course of a short article that I can only deal with the top notchers. Casson tries to bring a warm glow of satisfaction to the patriotic breasts of the Wall Street readers of the Post by insisting that prosperity is raging furiously in England, that the “red agents” found the soil so barren for their revolutionary seed that they withdrew their gold from the Bank of England and returned it to Mos- cow, and that A. J. Cook, the mine leader is an “outlaw,” the government having refused him a seat on a min- ing commissjon, though the prize liar did not say that Cook was the un- animous choice of the miners’ execu- tive for the committee. Casson proves that Cook is outlawed by the government but followed by the min- ards of the old agreement in all the | ers. shops. Neither the workers them- selves nor the Joint Board will re- cognize that any other agreement ex- ists, since that made by Sigman was illegally executed and was not sub- mitted to the membership for ratifi- cation. The workers will not permit the employers to compel them to re- cognize the International, since they are the only ones that have authority to elect or defeat leaders, and there- fore they will demand that the em- (Continued on Page Three) Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. Mr. “Liar” Casson finds a definite swing against radicalism in England since the beginning of the year, and a tendency to a higher appreciation of the capitalist system, The gen tleman forgot to note that in practt cally every election held since the general strike, labor candidates have been returned and the tories defeated Does this look’ as if the masses were going backwards to capitalism or for- ward to a Workers’ government? About this Russian gold! Here are the facts. This gold was deposited in the Bank of England at a time when the Soviet Union’s credits (Continued on Page Three) INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE BAZAAR MUST HAVE MORE GOODS; LAST ONE SOLD OUT The question of a plentiful supply of articles was discussed at an informal meeting of Bazaar Committee yesterday. articles prevented last year’s bazaar Only a shortage of from being an even greater success than it was. The demand was much greater than the supply. Plenty This Time. It was decided to make a special year. A special drive is heing made sympathetic organizations for all who effort to avoid such a shortage this through the newspapers and various believe in support class war prisoners to paged to the question of collecting articles. Storekeepers, doctors, bankers, ete., ete, must be urged to contribute. Canvass A sympathetic canvas must be made in every district. Districts. Articles must ‘| be taken to the I. L. D. office, 799 Broadway, Room 422 as soon as col- lected so that workers can keep on doing something without inconveniencing themselves. It was further resolved that the The a is: 50,000 ATTE: weeks, next five weeks be definite bazaar NDANCE—$25,000 FOR DEFENSE. Nobel “Committee | SENATE STIRRED BY BUTLER’S RAP AT CAL'S CHANCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Nicolas Murray Butler’s prediction that Pres- ident Coolidge would not be a candi- date for another term, but that a “wet” would be sponsored by the Re- rublicans drew the Senate’s atten- tion this afternoon. Diseussing presidential breakfasts. Senator Neely (D) of West Vinginia declared that syrup and buckwheat cakes, the President’s favorite break- fast combination, would go beside the boards and “tempting beverages’ be substituted if a ‘wet” occupied the White House. Dr. Butler’s assertion that no can- didate can be elected president next year who does not take a stand against prohibition drew him a chal- lenge from Senator William E. Borah «R) of Idaho. In an open letter to Dr. Butler, Senator Borah declared this afternoon that he was willing to take the pro- hibition issue into every state in the union between now and the time of the next republican convention and ‘battle it out in the election of dele- gates. For his own part, Borah said, he intended doing everything in his power to “force this issue to a final conclusion in the next convention.” Emergency Rent Laws Subjects of Hearings Conducted at Albany ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 8.—Repre- sentatives of tenant organizations and real estate operators appeared today at a hearing on two bills af- fecting the emergency rent laws. Qie of the measures, introduced by Assemblyman Cuvillier, New York democrat, extends the rent laws for another year in New York, Albany and Buffalo. The second bill, sponsored by As- semblyman Grenthal, New York’ re- publican, provides for stays in ac- tions to dispossess tenants for non- payment of rent, where landlords have failed to live up to all require- ments of the rent laws. A plea for passage of a bill under which landlords could not collect rent unless they made needed repairs, was made by the tenants. “In some apartments there are ‘rate holes in the floor large enough for a baby to fall through,” said one ten- ant. The emergency rent laws will ex- pire May 1, unless extended by the legislature. Bribe Trial Evidence Slbws Nearly Half Million Dollars Graft WASHINGTON, States Attorney Emory R. Buckner | delivered his opening address to the jury and government witnesses began to testify immediately afterwards, trac- ing the course of bonds used in the | bribery. Harry Daugherty, former ences | Feb. 8. — United | in the second Daugherty trial | eeneral, and famous “anti-red” driv- | is on trial with Thomas*W. Miller, | former alien property custodian. They | are accused of accepting a bribe of | $441,000 in cash and Liberty bonds for turning back to its German own- ers $7,000,000 worth of property of the “American Metal Co.,” held by the alien property custodian after the | war was over. Buckner pointed out to the jury | that the government’s case did not} require showing the government suf- | fering any monetary loss through the | action of the defendants. He said/| that it was metely necessary to show | the defendants had deprived the gov- | ernment of their “honest and unpre- judicial services” through the afiazen| conspiracy and that the validity of | the claim had nothing to do with Bh matter. How They Split. Thomas W. Miller, former alien | | property custodian received $50,000 | and the late John T. King, Connecti- | cut politician, received $112,000 as their part from the $391,000 alleged | ibe for putting through the return f $7,000,000 in seized war time as- sets, U. S, Attertike Emory R. Buck- ner charged in his opening jury ad-| dress. Buckner declared that he would show this “divvy” through the trac- ing of Liberty bond coupons to the | brokerage houses of Miller in Wil-| mington, Del., and in New York and through deposits in Daugherty’s bank | at Washington Court House, Ohio. The*$391,000 in bonds, Buckner as- serted, was paid by Richard Merton, German financier, to King for’ put-| ting the deal through. Jess Smith the Go-Between. Buckner told the jury he could} not show any conversations between Daugherty and Miller concerning the claim but would show that Jess Smith, Daugherty’s aide, brought Merton to Miller. The introduction of bond tracing testimony as the first move by the government reversed the tactics of the prosecution at the first trial, which resulted in a disagreement of the jury. In the original action the status of the $7,000,000 claims and the testimony of Merton occupied the sarly days of the trial. In Mal’s Bank. Employes of Mal Daugherty and of brokerage firms took the stand. Solomon Raschkind told of giving Merton a receipt for the bonds, which the government charges that Harry M. Daugherty, former United States attorngy geéneral, and Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custo- dian, shared. Miss Vera Veail, assistant cashier of Mal Daugherty’s bank in Wash- ington Courthouse, Ohio, was the next witness. Miss Veail testified regarding the bonds deposited in the bank headed by Mal, who is a brother of Harry Daugherty, and which later were sold. Miss Veail testified that Mal Daugherty signed his brother Harry’s name to checks “many times.” She said she did not remember ever see- ing Harry sign a check himself. Harold Corbin, attorney for Daugh- erty, offered to stipulate the accuracy of the bank records introduced by United States Attorney Emory R. Buckner. Trading Bonds. A check for $49,165 made out in December, 1923 to Harry M. Daugh- erty was identified by Miss Veail and was emphasized by Buckner. The United States attorney then brought out that the $49,165 was traded in for five $10,000 Liberty bonds, al- leged to be part of the $391,000 worth of bonds in the Merton-King deal. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. | the present struggle in the garment) | | Judge Rosalsky, with the aid of Working Women to Hold | Protest Mass Meetings | | On Rosalsky, Saturday | | Working women will unite to help in the defense of the 16 im- prisoned cloak makers. A mass meeting will be held on Saturday, February 12, at 1 P. M. in Webster Hall, 119 East 11th St., New York City, to protest against the unjust sentence of pickets by agents provocateurs and gangsters of the Sigman machine. Working women of Greater New York shops, factories and homes -—your duty is to attend and par- ticipate in protest at this mass protest meeting. Let the voice of the working women be heard! Sisters, the 16 innocent cloak- makers must be free and return to their wives and children. AUSPICES OF: Cloak Makers Wives Councils, United Council of Working- Class Housewives, Joint Board | Cloak and Dresses Womens Committee. TELL LEFT WING ~ ‘SIDE OF GARMENT FIGHT. AT DINNER Hyman and d Progressives Address Liberals More than three known liberals, writers, artists, and) | poets gathered at the Cafe Boulevard, | (3rd St. hear BroadWay, last wigit’to ear the left wing point of view of trades. Under the chairmanship of Robert W. Dunn, well known labor journalist Louis Hyman; manager of the Joint | Board, International Ladies Garment | Workers’ Union; Julius Portnoy, sec- | retary of Local 22; Charles Zimmer-| ment of the Joint Board, and Carlos} | Tresca, editor of the Italian news- paper Il Martelo, addressed these as-| |sembled on “Democracy Unions.” | Fascists in Cabinet In Favor of Rupture \Fear Victory for Cantonese Will Light Fires of Revolution in India (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) BERLIN, Feb. 8.—The Soviet government, I anderstarid through diplomatic channels from Moscow, is expecting and pre- pared for England to use the Chinese situation to break with Russia. Moscow is convinced that influences in the British cabinet | headed by Churchill and Birkenhead will win out. The Russians think that the British believe that in order to |save British rule in India and prevent similar events there, it is imperative for Britain to crush the Cantonese government. “What am I to do with the revolutionists in China,” Birken- | head, secretary of state for India, is credited in diplomatic circles | with having demanded of Chamberlain last week in a conference. Then he is alleged to have declared: “India is lost to us un- less you’stiffen up on China.” oacy vege I learn, is exerting ween the two countries. all its influence to avert a break HELP FIGHT | | | | be held this Thursday night (Feb. 10) IMPERIALISM! WOLFE, NEARING, LOVESTONE, DUNNE, GITLOW, WEINSTONE AND OTHERS SPEAK THURSDAY Among the speakers scheduled for the anti-imperialist mass meeting te in Cooper Union, 8th street, between 8rd and 4th avenues, under the auspices of the Workers Party, is Bertram D. Wolfe, who was active for several years in the Mexican labor movement and was finally deported from Mexico by the administration of President hundred well Called for taking a leading part in a general railway strike. | ber of the Anti-Imperialist Committee He is a mem- of the Workers Party. Other speakers include Scott Nearing, Jay Lovestone, Willam F. Dunne, a_representative.of the Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, Benjamin Gitlow and William W. Weinstone. Admission is 25c. No tickets sold in advance. Will Piety Right of Imperialist Power to Determine Internal Policy WUCHANG, Feb. 8.—A defiant refusal to accept the Kellogg man, manager of ‘the dress depart-| proposals to neutralize the international settlement at Shanghai will be the answer of the Cantonese government to the American note, if speeches delivered by prominent Nationalist officials are Sun Fu, son of Sun-Yat-Sen, in Trade|a criterion of the government’s point of view. declared that the Cantonese did Hymans speech in part was as fol- not recognize the right of for eigners to interfere in the internal lows: | “The policy of expelling members opposed to the International officers) has been going on for twenty years) “The present action of Sigman and/@ny violence took place in Shanghai his collegues is in line with this ef- fort of officials to keep themselves in power by force when they cannot keep} themselves in power with the consent) of the membership.” “Let Them Vote.” “If Mr. Sigman would be willing to hold an election supervised by some impartial group we know that the re- (Continued on Page Three) REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL WINS WIDER SUPPORT LISBON, Feb. 8.—The Portuguese Constitutional Revolution against the tyranny of General Carmona has now spread to nation-wide dimensions. The opposition has been joined by sailors, policemen, the republican guard and detachments of infantry. The center of fighting has now been definitely transferred from Oporto to Lisbon, the capital of the country, where the revolutionists have cap- tured the ministers of foreign af- fairs and of the interior, and are hold- ing them prisoners. Mexican Railway Unions Threaten Strike MEXICO CITY, Feb. 8—A new ultimatum has been presented to the railroad managements by the rail- road unions, threatening a strike on February 17 if their demands are not | met. affairs of China. Eugene Chen, Cantonese foreign minister, in a bitter attack on the in our union. | British government declared that if | the British mobilization of armies and fleets would be responsible. The Cantonese intend taking the foreign concessions as soon as possi- |ble. The war lords Chang-Tso-Lin | and Sun Chuan-Fang are ready to| |dicker with the imperialists. This | |gives the key to the imperialist op- | position to the Nationalist govern- |ment. It is freely stated here that the Kellogg note was a hostile move against the Cantonese government since Washington knew beforehand through information supplied by Min- ister MacMurray in Peking, that Chang was willing to accept the neu- tralization proposals: The imperialist powers have no ob- jection to the presence of Sun Chuan- Fang’s mercenaries in Shanghai, but they express the utmost concern over the arrival of the Cantonese whose reputation for orderly conduct has penetrated throughout the whole of China. It is clear that the powers are not sending armed forces to Shanghai to protect the lives of their nation- alists but to safeguard their ill-; rentian | possessions. Child Labor Ainendment Passes Montana Senate; Already Passed House HELENA, Mont., Feb. 8.—Mon- tana goes on record for the Child Labor Amendment to the Federal Constitution. The resolution was introduced by Lucy A. Curran, the only women member of the assem- bly. It has passed the house and passed general orders in the sen- ate today. The third reading is usually a formality. Green Not Ready Yet To Submit “Evidence” Against Fur Workers William Green dropped into New York for a little visit yesterday— and stayed long enough to say that he was not ready to submit “eyi- dence” to prove that New York fur- riers had bribed police of the city in their recent strike. Though it has been suggested that Green wants to manufacture a little more “evidence,” the Grand Mogul of the A. F. of L. declared that he prefers to wait for Mayor Walker’s return from Cuba. Subscribe for The DAILY WORKER. DEPUTIES HARRY FRAIL OLD WOMAN SEEKING ESCAPE CAMILLUS, N. Edna Denning, 52, of New York City, frail, grey-haired little woman who escaped from Auburn prison late Saturday by picking two door locks and scaling the walls of the peniten- tiary and who eluded armed police and deputy sheriffs for three days, was captured near Martisco today but not until she had plunged down a twenty-foot embankment in an ef- fort to get away. The DAILY WORKER is now on all news stands around New | York, Y., Feb. 8.—Mrs.: