The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1927, Page 1

\ THE ONLY ENGLISH LABOR DAILY IN NEW YORK FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections. Be sure to get them both. Vol. IV. No. 26, CURRENT, EVENTS By T. 3; O'FLAHERTY X-GOVERNOR Nathan Miller of ‘New York is slated to be the next’ chairman of the United States Steel! Corporation at a salary of something} like $200,000 a year. Judge Gary is) going to retire, tho no doubt the} Shanghai Ready judge will spend eight hours a day| for Invasion To admit it now might send down! steel stock, provided the ee eee more on the Way from the on the inside do not feel the time ripe Phili ° ippines to make a kijling or shear a few) thousand sheep. | Si Ad og be 2 WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11. — iy prt nad Rca eetag beng ag -sPo b es “| were ready to lan in Shanghai to- sary financial sacrifice which accept-| day, as 1,200 more were apeeting on ance of the position. calls for, It seems) their way East from bases on the Be $200,000 a rear a9 pothine rae Pacific coast, Honolulu and the Philip- iller’s young life. i Te er) pines. may accept since he has a keen con-) ception of his duties as a citizen and No Fear of Chang’s Advance. the satisfaction of rendering service SHANGHAI,. Feb. 11.—The much to the nation may compensate him advertised southern advance of Chang- for the pittance he will receive @8/Ts0-Lin’s hordes so far has failed to head of the great slave-driving union-| cause consternation among the Can- hating steel trust. Here we have 8D) tonese armies that are battling with example of the New Democracy in| the forces of Sun Chuan-Fang around (ok ae 5 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. ChampagneOrgy Before Merton Paid Cash — Daugherty Graft Case Shows! King Hungry for Office | Tales of political ambition mingled | | with the description of a gorgeous | | booze party in the Daugherty-Miller | graft trial yesterday. Richard Mer- | |ton, German metal magnate, resumed | | the stand and descrifed a champagne | | dinner which preceded his payment of $391,000, the alleged bribe on which | | the prosecution is based. | | Merton stated that the dinner oc-| jeurred at a New York hotel on Sep- | | tember 30, 1921, and that on the next day he gave the $891,000 to the late John T. King, Corihecticut politician. | Just what Fred M. Dearing, United per" NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1927 300 Marines at Shoot at Wall St. Agent industry; a parasite receiving $200,- 000 a year while the individual steel worker is lucky if he makes one thou- sand in the same length of time, * * | Hankchow where the fate of Shanghai |is being determined. | The refusal of Wu-Pei-Fu to coop- jerate with Chang and the danger of | an attack by the disciplined and well- States Minister to Portugal, had to do with the events leading up to the recent mutiny and its violent repres- sion there, dispatches do not say. It is significant, however, that machine gun bullets ripped through the U. S. The money was paid in return for | the approval of a $7,000,000 German | claim for war-seized property ,and was alleged by the government to |have been split between Daugherty, | Miller, King and Jess Smith, friend “ OUR fortune is made fellah,| armed thousands of General Feng has you are pinched,” observed 4) taken the starch out of the Manchur- sagacious policeman as he tapped one} of the managers responsible for pro-| ducing allegedly salacious plays on| the shoulder. The play was about to} vanish to the nearest morgue when} the newspapers developed a bad at! tack’ of moral hydrophobia and de-; manded pictures. ‘They got them. | fhe salacious plays got the publicity; and the producers got the dough. So; you see we commercialize everything under capitalism, particularly the business of saying souls and purify- ing morals. | 3 . HE New York Evening Telegram is now added to the string of newspapers owned by the Scripps-| Howard newspaper chain, and we are! gratéful to Mr. Dewart, former own- er of the Telegram, for helping out) a harried columnist by saying some- ching that is worth recording herea It is the day’s most noteworthy bit) of hokum: “A: very substantial sum| inv excess, of the. very handsome. con-| sideration received from the Seripps-! Howard interests might have been had for this property, but I felt that the future of the paper, the welfare, of the present organization and the! interests of the community would be) best served and most surely safe-| guarded by a sale to the new own-| ers.” | HE good old mission doing busi-| néss at the old stand! Now, the) culy fly in our ointment is the agony} that Mr, Oswald Villard will suffer} at the thought of another newspaper) with an individuality going over to! the newspaper trust. But Mr. Vil-| jard will assuage his sorrow with the! consoling thought that the Scripps-; Howard journalist factory is the most} progressive cannery in the business, * ae * * HE Holburn Labor Party, London,, has decided to. put forward as) their candidate in the next elections) a Chinese by the name of Fung Saw,) a name supposed to mean good luck} and long life. a member of parliament from Bat- tersea, the constituency that first sent John Brown to parliament. Sak- latvala, the Hindoo, is the most popu- lar man in Battersea among the working class and the right wingers in the British Labor Party have not been able to depose him. The ex- ploited slaves of the empire have their defenders right at the empire’s heart. * * The good old days of free speech, free press and free assemblage are gone in Great Britain. As long as England could afford to allow free speech she did so and won a glorious reputation for democracy all over the world. Even while she was murder- * | ing the Hindoos, the Egyptians and the Irish! Now the empire is in danger and free speech is a thing of the past. British jails are being filled with protestants against the capitalist system and all the officia] ergans of the British (Communist) Party have been put out of business by means of libel suits. But we no- | tice that the British (Communist) Party has a new weekly called Workers Life. Those of our readers who have been in the habit of buying The Workers Weekly will be glad to know that the British Communists lost no time in providing the work- ing class with a substitute which is ' just as good, outside of the name. Buy Your DAILY WORKER at the Newsstand A Hindoo is already! B ian bandit general. Wu and Chang at Outs. General Feng is leading his troops into the fray on the side of the Can- tonese. Wu Pei-Fu has warned Chang Tso-Lin not to permit any of his troops to enter Wu's territory. Chang boastfully threatened to go ahead Wu or no Wu, though even a man as brave as Chang may think twice before get- ting entangled between Wu and Feng. Should Chang be held up by Wu and knocked down by Feng, the Can- tonese are not expected to have much trouble in blotting Sun’s troops off the political landscape. Then the march to Shanghai. COMPANY ACTION BRINGS MEXICAN STRIKE NEARER MEXICO CITY, Feb, 11,—The management, of the Mexican national railways today officially withdrew recognition of those labor unions’ whieh have threatened to strike on February 17. The railway manage- ment sent a communication to every) labor union, asking if the threat, as endorsed by several anions, had the approval of the other unions. A general strike on all Mexican national railroad lines will become ef- fective Feb. 17, unless directors of the lines agree to an arbitration plan, according to a manifesto issued in Mexico by the general confederation, of railroad workers. Subscribe for The DAILY WORKER. MORALISTS WANT MORE RAIDING OF BROADWAY PLAYS Although injunctions were obtaine? | to permit the production of the plays, | “The Captive,” “Sex” and the “Virgin | Man,” forty-four actors, authors and producers will be hailed into court | Monday on the charge of “being pub- lie nuisances” and “tending to cor- | rupt the morals of youths and others.” | Thriving on this free publicity, the three plays have been doing a rush- ing business. “The Virgin Man,” which scheduled to perish, unwept and un- sung, last Saturday, is playing to | packed houses, and “Sex” and “The Captive” report large advance sales. Second and Last Time IN NEW YORK “Breaking Chains” A Film of Russia Reborn Sunday, February 20 WALDORF THEATRE || | | Dance and Ball of Daugherty’s. At the time of Which Merton spoke, Harry Daugherty was attorney gen- jeral of the United States, and a very vicious crusader against the “Reds” | under which term he included all Com- | ministry buildings, and that Dearing took to hiding. | political groups. THREE HUNDRED | Miller Had Strangle Hold. Thos. W. Miller was alien property | custodian, and had in his control for ARM N H {one thing, the $7,000,000 properties | of the American Metals Co., of which | Merton was an official and prominent | | stockholder. Jess Smith was known | as a powerful figure around the at-| torney general’s office, with some Sigman’s Agents Are Not Recognized | mysterious power to order and com- | mand subordinates in the department | The attempt of Isidore Agree, gen-| of justice, and proprietor with Daugh- | oral manager of the Association of/ erty of “the little green house,” a Dress Manufacturers, Inc., to mini-) meeting place in Washington for po- mize strikes called in the dress shops jiticians, rich petitioners, and govern- by the Joint Board during the past ment officials. King was a Conecti- week, as intended to “confuse the is-| cyt political boss. sue and fool his own membership”, Miller Actually There. according to 2 statement issued late he. \proseeuthins then, introduced Friday by C.'S. ‘ of the dress division of the Joint! signed by Miller showing that he made Board. a trip from Washington to New York Get Most of Shops. |on the day the now famous dinner He explained that 300 shops have! took place. veen visited by business agents of the) Several employes of the hotel Joint Board during the past week, where the champagne dinner was held and that only 10 have refused to re-|then testified to records of the af- cognize them as the proper represen-| fair, Edith Walker, floor clerk of an- | satives of the workers, Of the 10) other hotel, testified that Miller used strikes called in these shops, four|the rooms of General Coleman Du nave settled with the Joint Board, he! pont, as a guest, on the night of the said. He declared that the business} dinner. agents would enforce the terms of the} Another hotel employe said Jess oid agreement, which are much more! Smith stayed in New York on the iavorable to the union than the new) same night. Merton, according to fur- agreement, signed by Sigman, which ther testimony, stayed at a Wash- was never authorized by the mem- ington hotel from September 19 to vership or submitted for ratification.”| 94, 1991. | Fake Agents. Durkin Hostile Witness. | Mr. Zimmerman’s statement is as) John ’T. Durkin, King’s private sec- Tollowg: | retary next testified that he took care “The manager of the Association of of his employer’s bank books and Dress Manuatacturers, Mr. Agree, is) private papers. e arying to confuse the issue and fool; The late John T. King expected to ais membership when he states that| get the job of alien property custodian the business agents of the Joint|in the Harding administration which immermah, manager’ into evidence an expense voucher | woard have been entering shops un-| went to Thomas W. Miller, Durkin uer the false pretences of being re- presentatives from the International. Our ‘officers have specifically stated that they were the represen- tatives of the Joint Board and not vi the International, and that is why they have been admitted and have been received by the workers with open arms. The business agents of .ne International have been driven irom the shops in many cases. May- ve they are the ones who.are enter- ing. the shops under the false pre-| vences of representing the Joint Board, To Enforce Terms, “The strikes we are calling are by no means political strikes. ‘hey are purely economic strikes to enforce the cerms of the old agreement, since the agreement signed by the Internation-| al is illegal. The international never was authorized to sign it, and it was never submitted for raulicaion by the membership. Only Ten Refuse, ““Out of the 30U shops visited by the business agents this week, only) 10 have refused to admit them and) recognize the old agreement. These 10 shops were declared on strike, and four of them have settled, agreeing to recognize the Joint Board and admit the business agents of the Joint Board to the shops. “We are determined to enforce the standards and conditions of the old agreement in the shops. The workers are supporting us in this, and will not agree to accept the sell out of Sigman”. revealed on the witness stand. King Rich. Durkin, among other things, also testified that Merton and King had/ been interested in a steel product | which later turned out to be worth- less. Durkin outlined the career of King, describing him as “a man of con- siderable means, active in the affairs of the republican party.” The witness said King was some- times called “the political boss of Con- | necticut” and was a republican na- tional committeeman. King made an effort to retire from politics in 1924, | Durkin said. Durkin was described by the govern- ment as a “hostile witness.” He evaded all attempts to get from him the con-| tents of letters the carbon copies of |which had been destroyed, and said King did not often phone Daugherty. | King Paid Jess Smith. Durkin was questioned at length by Prosecutor Buckner as to various entries in King’s bank book. By stipulation between opposing counsel, the government introduced evidence to show that on October 15, 1921, King deposited $4,143.75 in coupons repre- senting six months interest on $195,- 000.in bonds, part of the Merton-King | “fee,” in his New York bank. It was also shown that King made out two checks, one to Jess Smith on the same date for $3,643.75, the other for $500 made out to cash. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. HARLEM CASINO, 116TH STREET AND LENOX AVENUE Her Price Too High Mrs. G. 8S, Smith. Surely a good wife, able to cook, sew, care for the home and rear babies is worth $2,000, says Mrs. G. S. Smith, of Sioux City, Ia. Because her mother is ill and needs money, she offers to sell herself in marriage to the first eligible man who will pay that much. There are no offers yet, as under the present system of society, much younger and more favored women do} eight, ten, or twelve-hour day in a cotton mill besides, in order to help} support their families. | “FARM RELIEF” BILL GOES THRU SENATE, 41-3) Party Lines Break As| |Dawes Is against “Cal” | WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — The senate passed the MecNary-Haugen “Farm Relief” bill late this afternon, |by a definite majority. The vote was 47 to 39. Voting with the “farm” senators were banking, coal, low tax} and other groups, the “farm bloc” having grown to unwieldy and com- plex proportions during the negotia- tions leading up to the final vote. Party lines were broken through; vot- | ing for the bill were 1 farmer-laborite, 24 republicans and 22 democrats; vot- | ing against the bill were 25 repub- licans and 14 democrats. Passage of the bill was foreshad- owed earlier in the day, when the first clear test of strength came, and by a vote of 53 to 33, the farm bloe passed the amendment to the bill au- thorizing the farm board to grant in- | surance policies to producers of the basic crops mentioned in the bill. An amendment also passed is that requiring the board to hold conven-| tions in states where the majority of! the farmers do not belong to co-! operatives to determine whether they favor the application of the bill. An- other amendment gives state agri- cultural departments an equal voice with co-op2ratives in selecting the membership of the advisory council. The general effect of the amendments is to weaken the power of the co-oper- atives. Dawes ys. Coolidge. Vice President Charles Dawes threw himself into direct conflict with Pres- ident Coolidge’s last year’s policy (and Coolidge has not announced any change) by helping to hold the MeNary-Haugen bloc together. So many discordant elements have been| taken in lately to get votes for it that internal friction was certain to result. | Confer in Dawes’ Office. } The vice president served as Peace- | maker when southern senators threat-| ened to desert the bloc unless a pro-| vision were placed in the bill defer- ring collection of the equalization fee| on cotton for the next two years.| Dawes succeeded in getting a com- promise agreement, by which the) farm bloc leaders support the defer- ment provision and the southerners stand by the bill. The peace confer- ences were held in Dawes’ private of-| fice. Argue With Cal. Farm bloc supporters are already campaigning for effect on Coolidge. They tell him that he will ruin the party’s chances in the middle west if} he turns down the bill. Just as good republicans are assuring him, how- (Continued on Page Two) Tickets in advance 50 cents, at the door 75 cents. Arranged by the YOUNG WORKERS’ LEAGUE, 108 East 14th Street. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAIL’ ORKE: PUBLISHING CO., 7 ser Y¥ WORKER FINAL CITY EDITION 3 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 5 Cents Labor Reaction Ally ~ of Bosses’ Union A. F. of L. and Right Wing Furriers’ Officials Conspire Against Bona Fide Union | | Following upon the revelations of attempted bribery in con- nection with the American Federation of Labor’s report of in- | Vestigation of the fur strike of 1926, comes further evidence yes- | terday of the continued efforts of the bureaucracies of the A. F. |of L. and the International Fur Workers’ union to sabotage every tep in the New York Joint Board’s work of building a powerful, | Progressive union; and to smash the union if necessary in its fight | against the left wing leaders. | International Fur Workers’ union and local A. F. of L. of- | ficials met yesterday, in spite of protests from the New York |Joint Board, with representatives of the Greek Brotherhood of | Fur Workers to discuss plans for having this “company union” taken into the union as a separate local of the International, out- side the jurisdiction of the New York Joint Board. Brotherhood About Ended. This is a deliberate defiance of the constitution of the union; it is a de- liberate attempt to frustrate the Joint Board’s plans which had been nearly completed for the dissolution of this “Brotherhood,” and the induction of its members into the existing locals of New York. Consideration would then have been given to the question of a | munists, of course, and various other | this work for nothing, and put in an|Greek local for all workers in the locals affiliated with the Joint Board. This Greek Brotherhood is a com- jpany union formed by the Greek| manufacturers at the close of the fur! It is composed largely of} strike. workers who scabbed during the strike and who feared to return to| the union because of the heavy fines they would receive. It was organized by the contractors because they had refused to sign the agreement with the union and wanted to evade main- taining union conditions in their shops. Small Concern. The Brotherhood numbers only 300 members, while there are 1300 Greek fur workers in locals of Joint Board, and now working in other than Greek shops because these shops are still on strike, The Greek manufacturers have refused to settle with the union because they want to be granted a separate Impartial Chairman for their association, and this the union will not agree to. Secret Obstacle. The New York Joint Board, after weeks of discussion, had succeeded in getting the Brotherhood to promise to disband and have its members in- dividually join the union. On the eve of the settlement of this problem, there came a hit for some unknown reason; and then it was learned that| the International officials had secret- ly offered to give these members of | the company uri-n a separate Greek local, with a charter direct from the International, if they broke off their conversations with the Joint Board. Catch Frayne Lying. Yesterday’s conference between In- ternational, A. F. of L. and Brother- hood representatives was still discuss- jng this matter at a late hour. That this whole thing was far from an| honorable proceeding is evident from the fact that when a representative of Women’s Wear, a daily newspaper, asked Mr. Frayne about this confer- ence he said he knew nothing about such a conference and that whoever told the reporter it was to take place had lied. Mr. Frayne’s own lie was discov- lered when the reporter found him at the conference not fifteen minutes later. The New York Joint Board has al- ready on several occasions protested the International’s attempt to deal with this Greek company over the heads of the Joint Board, and this protest is again stated in the follow- (Continued on Page Three) Cloakmakers In Collins’ Court Acquitted Gluck and Ditenibeeg Freed In First Fair Trial The first cloakmakers’ strike cases to be tried under another judge than Otto Rosalsky, resulted yesterday in the acquittal of Jacob Gluck and Philip Dannenberg. Their cases were tried before Judge Cornelius Collins, and although the grand jury had indicted them under both first and second degree assault, the judge ordered that they be tried for second degree assault only, as the heavier charge was unwarranted Jury Acquits. The jury who tried Gluck and Dan- nenberg yesterday found them not guilty. This forms a marked contrast to the cases tried before Judge Rosal- sky, where one set of men was tried before the jury had returned a verdict on the previous cases, and where some of the same people served on two juries which convicted striking cloak- makers. Women Will Meet. Further protest against Judge Ro- salsky’s methods and his brutal sen- tencing of 16 cloakmakers is to be voiced today at a women’s meeting to be held in Webster Hall this after- noon. The speakers will include Fannie | Warshawsky of the Fur Workers’ }union, Kate Gitlow of the United | Council of Working Class Housewives, and Rose. Wortis of the New York | Joint Board of the Cloak and Dress- | makers. Lishon Situation Is Normal, Minister to Portugal Telegraphs | WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — The situation in Lisbon has returned to normal today, the American Minis- ter, Fred Morris Dearing, cabled the state department. His message said “inquiries at the American consulate and among civilians reveal no injuries to Amer- ican property or citizens.” Second Secretary J. Webb Ben- ton was shot at and only narrowly escaped with his life during the height of the fighting, Dearing re- ported. | | | WORKING WOMEN OF GREATER NEW YORK MEET THIS AFTERNOON TO PROTEST SENTENCES Working women of Greater New York, women from shops, factories and homes, are called to a mass meeting at 1 p. m. Il, 119 East 11 St., to protest this afternoon in Webster Ha against the cruel sentences being given the cloakmaker pickets by Judge Otto Rosalsky, and to Sigman and his reactionary gang with this case. hear exposed the connection of The slogan for the meeting is: “The innocent cloakmakers must be freed, and allowed to return to their wives and children.” The meeting is under the auspices of Cloakmakers’ Wives Councils, United Council of Workingclass Housewives, Joint Board Cloak and Dresses Womens’ Committee. Sat., Feb.