The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1927, Page 1

| der the auspices of the New Leader, | the | The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized, For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 27. CURRENT EVENTS Ry T. J. O'FLAHERTY THE ONLY.NATIONAL ENGLISH LABOR DAILY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Wu Army Locks HOMAS’ A. Edison is alleged 7 Antle rs With have answered 150 questions and discussed the hereafter on the eigh-| tieth anniversary of his birth. He) has’ been following this routine on every birthday*as far as I can re-) member, The great inventor should try his hand at inventing a new way| of spending his birthdays. Of course) it is quite possible that Mr. Edison! says “umph, ugch” and leaves" it to) the ingenuity of the reporters to fill) ir the rest. And since reporters are) not famous for ingenuity they simply look up the files of the papers on Edison birthdays for the past twenty years and send the result to the com~ posing room. a ee oe ‘Whether Edison believes that there is a life after death (what a noble bull?) is not near as important to the working class as that Edison’s inventive genius should be com- mercialized in the interests of prof- its rather than used to dighten labor’s burden and help the producing class- es secure more of the good things in the bosom of nature that await the touch of some mechanical Midas to be turngd into commodities more precious than gold for the use of hu- man society. Edison’s speculations on the hereafter may be more inter- esting than those of Harry K. Thaw, the moron, but they are equally fu- tile. | Cee. anes. | HE worker who votes the demo-| cratic or republican ticket because his father and grandfather suffered from the same kind of political myopia should take a lesson from his superiors, using “superiors” in the sense that those who are able to amass the most money are the cream of humanity. Henry Ford once ran on the democratic party ticket against Truman H. Newberry for the coveted office of senator from Mich- igan. Ford lost because he did not spend enough money. Newberry lost because he spent too much. Ford is! now for Calvin Coolidge, who has as much individuality as one of Henry’s automatic machines. William Ran- dolph Hearst, a democrat, favors ‘Cal’s’ election. The fetish of party regularity is dropped into the dis- card whep it suits the purposes of the capitalists; is it not avout time the workers should consult their own in- terests and burn the capitalist politi- cal bridges behind them. * * * Coolidge’s proposed partial disarm- ament ¢onference will be held, in the opinion of a New York Evening World correspondent. But he cynic- ally observes that the peace-makers | will meet, talk and depart without getting any nearer peace but consid- erably nearer the next war to end war. So many leaks have developed in the White House diplomatic boiler that Coolidge kept his lips tighter than usual about his plan for a re- duction of naval armament confer- ence. Had the news leaked out Wall Street bears might make a killing in steel and other stocks that perk up when the drums beat and the bugles call for carnage but drop when a decoy pigeon is sent out from one of the capitalist dove-cotes. ene s T. Walton Newbold, star performer eat a recent banquet given here un- socialist party organ, in a letter in current issue of the Nation, rushed to the defense of the British and American oil companies, who are represented by the renegade as little Red Riding Hoods clasping hands for mutual protection while travelling thru the commercial jungles infested by the wild beasts turned loose by the Soviet oil monopoly. Mr, New- bold, with the parting “goodbye” of the foreign office fresh in his mem- ory is availing himself of the oppor- tunity to spew his veném against the Soviet Union before American audi- ences, (Continued on Page Two) JE AS SIX CHILDREN STARY Chang-Tso-Lin Peking Ministers Said to) Favor Cantonese SHANGHAI, Feb. 13.—The armies of the two rival Northern militarists Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso-Lin are locked in battle according to reports seeping in through the military cor- | don that encircles this city. The clash between the reactionary generals sounds the death knell of whatever hopes the imperialists may have that the Northern generals would be able to present a united front against the Cantonese. British propagandists are busy ex- plaining that the fighting in Wu Pei Fu’s balliwick is due to “misunder- standing” despite the fact that Wu warned Chang a few days ago to keep his troops out of’ Honan province. The Cantonese are reported con- centrating their armies for a final drive against Shanghai. With Chang blocked by Wu and with General Feng hovering on his flanks like the spirit of vengeance the prospects of the Manchurian militarists eating easter eggs in Canton is considered an idle dream. In view of the’ brightened prospects of the Cantonese and the progressive demoralization of the Northerners, the imperialist powers are using. every influence to strengthen the right wing elements in the Koumintang party. The capitalists realize that the day of the militarists is drawing to a close. They are willing to spend money on a government that “would listen to reason” and permit the im- perialists to continue the exploitation of the Chinese masses and the vast mineral resources of the country, Whether they win their objectives with the bayonet, with diplomacy or with gold is all the same to the rob- ber powers. i: Said to Favor Canton. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 13. — Sao Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese minister at "Washington continues to give the impression that he favors the Can- tonese government rather than the paper mache institution that goes by the name in Peking. A Geneva dispatch stated that all the Peking ministers had gone over to the Cantonese. There is reason to believe as The DAILY WORKER pointed out several days ago that out- side of Chang Tso-Lin, Wu Pei Fu, Sun Chuan-Fang and their under- tuchuns, the entire population of China is on the side of the Cantonese. With their customary disregard for the feelings of the Chinese people, the capitalist correspondents attribute the switch of the Peking ministers to Can- ton, to failure on the part of their home office to put tea in their cups. There is no fun in working for an empty treasury particularly for ser- vants of the bourgeoisie, but the idea that the Chinese are more purchase- able than an American secretary of the interior, an attorney general or a federal judge is the bunk, eee LONDON, Feb. 13.—The “Hands Off China” committees organization by and through the influence of the Communists joined here yesterday in a parade to Trafalgar Square where in the shadow of Nelson’s Pillar, speakers demanded that the govern- rent withdraw the hostile expedition on the way to China, the recognition of the Nationalist governthent and the surrender of the imperialist conces- sions. British workyrs are strong in their disapproval of J. H. Thomas’s action in supporting the Baldwin government on the Chinese question. Y HUNDRED WORKERS ARE THROWN OUT OF WORK WHEN MILLS CLOSE and stockings. week. hope—pale and despondent. This was the picture today of thi: of the closing down 0: the town’s industrial plant. \ Superintendent of Schools Jerome ( and \ MAYNARD, Mass., Feb. 18.—Pallid little girls without warm underwear Boys in sneakers walking through the snow to school. Scores of families existing on a meager pay envelope containing $5 a ¢ Fathers and mothers, hungry and in threadbare clothing, hoping against s once thriving mill town—the result the Assabet mills of the American Woolen Company, O. Fogwell issued an appeal for food clothing for the boys and girls who come to his schoo “Conditions here are terrible,” said Folwell. “The Assabet mills, which make women’s coatings and blankets have been closed down.for days at a time. The six hundred or more mill and then.’ , workers get only a day’s work now “T should say that at least two hundred children are in dire need of food and clothing. Many families, ¢ onsisting of the father, mother and seven or eight children are existing on $5 a week.” —_— Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. bench, but the workers can damn quick Workers Can Put Him in Jobless Army Worker to Judge Otto H. Rosalsky: mind on those cloakmakers’ sentences. Politicians may have put you on that brought to the attention of the Joint| NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1927 <3 Listen Judge! Setter change your take you off. British Production of Iron is Lowest in 76 | Years; Hit by Strike LONDON, Feb. 13.—Britih pig iron production in 1926 reached its | lowest point in seventy-six years, | according to the annual financial | and commercial review of the Lon- don Times. Steel production was smaller than it has been for thirty- | one years. How hard the coal strike hit the | iron and steel magnates is evident from the following statement: “The ‘total produttion of pig iron for the seven months, May to November, amounted to 210,000 tons, or little more than one-third of the output for.the month of \April. The steel | output was maintained at a slightly | higher rate, the total for the seven months amounting to 450,000 tons, | or over two-thirds of the April pro- duction.” } RAKOSI PROCESS AGAIN IN COURT; TO DEFEND SELF Hungarian Comrades to) Demand Freedom BUDAPEST, Hungary, Jan. 13 (By Mail).—Today began the hearing of the appeal of the defendants in the Rakosi process, Mathias Rakosi, Karl | Oeri, Katharina Haman, Ignaz Goe- goes, Zoltan Weinberger and 29 other Communists, before the Court of Ap- peal. Defendants Stand United. As at the process itself in June, 1926, the 81 members of the Hun- garian Socialist Labor party are standing before the court together with the members of the Communist Party. In the process itself the Com- munists were found guilty without exception and sentenced to heavy terms of hard labor, ete. The prose- cutor was, however, unable to bring sufficient proof against the Socialist Labor party and was only able to ob- tain a verdict against the members of this party for “stirring up class ha- tred.”. The prosecutor » obviously wishes to make a new attempt to “prove” that the leaders of the So- cialist Labor party are Communists in order to permit the government to take sterner action against this party upon the basis of a legal judgment. Narrow Escape From Gallows. Comrade Rakosi and the other com- rades are facing the court for the third time. The first time the Hun- garian government attempted imme- diately after the arrest, to send Ra- kosi and four of his comrades, to the gallows. They were placed before an exceptional court and the hangmen prepared to carry out the death sen- tence. However, the indignation of international public opinion, and the energetic protests of the workers of the world together with thousands of (Continued on Page Three) i WORKING CLASS HOUSEWIVES B00 JUDGE ROSALSKY Agree to Organize for Cloakmakers’ Victory At a protest meeting held in Web-| ternational ster Hall, arranged by the United in conjunction with, the Cloakmakers’ Housewives Council and the Cloak and Dressmakers Joint Board, hun- dreds of women cheered the resolu- tion adopted protesting against the injunctions, and the arrests and ab- {normal amounts of high bail set by) Judge Otto Rosalsky for the sixteen jailed cloakmakers. Learn From Passaic. Pearl Halpern, the chairman of the meeting, and a member of the join board of the Cloakmakers’ first speaker, C. Sara Sherman, a re lief worker for the Passaic téxtile strike, who spoke about the impor tant part the women play in the Pas saic of the Passaic women. (Continued on Page Three) Lets Teachers Marry William. John Cooper, new Super- intendent of Schools in California in- tends to permit married women to continue teaching. He advises an eighteen-month leave of absence when children come, and agrees to hold their jobs that long. Cooper follows to some extent the example of Soviet Russia, where not only teachers, but other working women expecting children, are given vaca- tions. The difference is that in the U. S. S. R. women retire with pay, while in California Cooper's teachers do not receive pay during such vaca- "| tions. Union told about the present conditions of| the cloakmakers and introduced the strike and urged the cloak- PUBLISHIN Guerillas Shoot Another Left Wing Picket Wound Kuvrenetzky in Foot; Registerees Swindled | The latest victim of the gangsters | |being employed by Morris Sigman, | | president of the International Ladies’ |Garment Workers’ union, in his ef- | forts to take the union away from the iworkers, is Elias Kuvrenetzky, chair- |man of the board of directors of the} | Joint Board, and an Executive Board | member of Local 35. | Shot In. Foot. | Kuvrenetsky was on his way to the {Gilt Dress House, at 25th street and | | Eighth avenue, to stop a scab who} |was working there. As he was walk-| ing along 25th street, a car full of |gangsters. passed and one of them | |shot at him, hitting him in the foot.| | The car escaped before Kuvrenet-| sky could see any of the occupants. He was then taken to a physician for treatment, | Forced To Do Overtime. A few other interesting examples | jof Mr. Sigman’s methods have been) Board by some of the workers within the past two days. | On the same day that the Jewish) Forwards, organ of the right wing} leaders, was loudly advertising that the International officials had hired ja hall from which committees would be sent out to prevent anyone from tutional president of Nicaragua, rec-| pe alognized as such by Mexico, and va-{ mittee, or bureau, which would prac- |working overtime on Saturday, |worker in one of the industrial shops | iG CO., 38 First Street, Sacasa and Diaz Juan Sacasa, above, is the consti- rious Latin American countries. In Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER New York, N. ¥. Price 3 Cents ‘Arbitration Big | Issue at Mine Negotiation Lewis Jams Weakened Union Into Dangerous Position MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 13.—Members |of the committee appointed by Inter- |narional fresident John L, Lewis of | the United Mine Workers of Amer- lica to negotiate a two years’ agree- | ment with the mining companies of | the central competitive field are as- | sembling bere. But Lewis is not leaving the mat- | ter up entirely to the committee on | which the much discredited Pat | Fagan, of District 5, Pittsburg, serves. Lewis is here himself. He arrived yesterday with Phillip Mur- |ray, international vice-president, and Thomas A. Kennedy, international secretary-treasurer of the union, and |his influence will undoubtedly be | paramount over the miners commit- | tee. The meeting starts today, if the employers’ representatives arrive on | time. Very few cf them were pres- }ent this morning. The packed iaternational conven- tion of the U. M. W. A. adopted a report of the wage scale committee, also appointed by President Lewis from among his supporters, and headed by President Harry Fishwick, of District 12 (illinois). The report was opposed-to wage reductions, but mitted the appointment of a com- tically establish arbitration machin- |was threatened with discharge for|the war he wages with the usurper,|ery, under the guise of “interpre- refusing to do overtime work. | Sigman For Overtime. | | In the Straussman shop on 38th) |street, the chairman was asked to |have the workers report for work on| Saturday. Adolfo Diaz (below), he finds Amer- ican marines and American aeroplane officers defending Diaz. The U. S. recognizes Diaz as president because he belongs to the clique that has been When she declined to do|selling the public and private prop-| next | ting” the contract. Want Arbitration. Preliminary publicity by the oper- }ators indicates that they will insist jon just this sort of a provision in the contract, ‘The story going this, the foreman stated that the In-|erty of the country to American in-| around operators’ circles is to the et- had agreed that they | should work and if they refused they | Council of Working Class Housewives | would be fired. have—without knowing it—signed a} pledge to pay a special tax of $10) inside of 10 weeks. \hardly noticeable. Workers knew }a statement that they gave their |moral support to Sigman and his |gang; but they did not know until they had left the International office) makers’ wives to follow the example|#"d examined the books in the light “Woman is| of day that they were pledging f no more considered only a housewife| nancial support also. with 8,500,000 women employed in in-| Those who have destroyed their | sey. |that they were being forced to sign | yestors for next to nothing. “Drag” Takes Count Ten Dollar Swindle. a | Members of the I. L. G. W. U. who, \by force, have been compelled to register with the International, have just® discovered that when signing their names on the so-called union books which are issued to them, they | | While Three More Sex | Plays Rake in Mazuma “The Drag”, another play dealing with sex perversion, has perished |ignominously in Bayonne, New Jer- The play was barred by the | town’s kosher police force and expir- |ed when its producer, C. W. Morgan- A clause to this effect has been| stern, producer of “Sex,” failed to |found written in the books, very| get an injunction to prevent police \lightly in lead pencil, so that it was)rajds, “The Drag” has fallen victim to the hysierical condition which has {forced action against “Sex”, “The | Captive” and “The Virgin Man”, ac- |cording to Morgenstern. Unlike “The Drag”, however, the ther plays are doing a rushing busi- |ness. “The Virgin Man”, which was | scheduled to have closed last night | because of a lack of patronage, re- |fect that their representatives will demand that a »oard be created of four of the upper bureaucracy of the miners’ vazion, fc ur representatives of tne employers, and three mediators, selected by two parties, or, if they cannot agree on “neutral” members, appointed by the Chief Justice of the srpreme Ceurt of the United States. For Class Collaboration. Coal Age, a magazine controlled largeiy by the manufacturers of coal mining machinery, but with its ear close to the ground in operators’ councils, senses this determination to | get, not only lower wages, but some |form of cast iron arbitration clause in the contract. In a frank plea tor class collaboration, Coal Age says, |editorially: “Issues far greater than | the extension of the Jagksonville base rates wait decision. The. future of the unionized bituminous districts is at stake. “Whether that future is to be one in which the sphere of union influ- books, or brought them to the Joint| ported at 1:30 P. M. that it had only/|@nce again expands, or whether it is |Board to be added to the collection | eight seats left for the ‘matinee and |to be one of continuing decline in there, say they would like to see President Sigman make an attempt} |to collect that $10 tax. |Jersey Bus Drivers } Report Solid Front; Traffic All Tied Up) The strike of the Auto Bus Drivers’ Union in New Jersey is still going strong. The men have been able to tie up all traffic on these bus lines, and any attempts to run seab busses have utterly failed. Abritration proceedings have been deadlocked due to the refusal of the company to meet the union, altho the traffic on these lines has come to} a complete standstill. | Edward Levy, business agent of | the Bus Drivers Local stated that the union has not altered its demands and will not call the strike off until the terms for an increase in wages and rate payments for overtime has been granted. The union demands an increase of $2.50 a week over the present scale of $42.50, and a propor- tionate payment for overtime. Percy Stickney Grant Dies After Operation; Was Liberal Churchman The Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant died yesterday at the Northern West- chester Hospital in Mt. Kisco. The former rector of the Church of the Ascension of New York City was stricken with appendicitis last Mon- day. He was operated on the follow- ing day. He was one of the mod- was selling four weeks in advance. | he Virgin Man” and “The Cap- | tive’ will be arraigned today on | charges of constituting a public nui- nce and “tending to corrupt the morals of youth” in Jefferson Mar- ket Court today. “Sex” will be heard Tuesday in the West Side Court. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 13,.—Po- lice started digging up the campus of St. Mary’s school for girls today in search of the head and arms of the torso of the slain woman found floating in the St. Joe river last week. union-mined ténnage, depends large- ly upon the attitude in which the con- terees approach the problem. If dis- cussions are confined to a renewal of |the Jacksonville scale, then the nego- tiations will be a failure. Regard- less of its outcome, a strike, in the present state of the public mind, would be a cal€mity to the industry. An agreement which went no tur- ther than a renewal of the 1924 con- | tract would be almost as tragic. | “The future success of the organ- ized fields is not to be decided solely (Continued on Page Two) Driving and riding labor, cutting achieve the highway contractor’s des: Contractors of America in convention Reports of the . contractors’ con- vention brought to the Federated Press tefl an interesting story. The assembled contractors official- ly agreed that wages paid to labor This conclusion was reached after a discussion of the cost charts and ef- ficiency records that had been drawn up on actual operations and which were, analyzed in detail. Labor Cost Slight. The costs of highway construction, it was emphasized, are dependent on the efficiency of the equipment and the manner in which even the best equipment is laid out and coordinated. Both of these factors are matters for which the management alone is re- ernist and liberal group in the Epis- copal Church, Ask Your Newsdealer For The DAILY WORKER! Get Your Fellow Workers To Buy it! ie Pcs Ve r ey we ad o* j sponsilile, it was pointed ont, Con-| forma very small proportionate part} of the costs of highway construction. tractors were urged to give more HIGHWAY CONTRACTORS DISCOVER BAD MANAGEMENT COSTS MORE THAN HIGH WAGES — ry wages, or lengthening hours, will not ire for low costs, was the lesson self taught to the contractors of the highway division of the Associated General at Ashville, N, C. thought to reducing waste, due to poor concrete mixing practice and to delays in material deliveries to the mixer} usually caused by ill edhceived material handling arrangements. Contractors were urged to be on the alert to detect and remedy the pres- ence of “bottle-neck” points in the equipment channels. through which the flow of paving materials must pass at an even maximum rate if the lowest costs are to be maintained. This admission by the employers themselves that poor management—- not wages—is the chief reason for high costs calls attention to the re- port of the Engineering Committee for the Elimination of Waste, five 8 ago, which found management twice as responsible as labor for in- dustrial wastes,