The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1927, Page 2

THE DATCY WORKER; NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1927 TRY JUDGE FOR USING PROVOCATEURS « The House Judiciary committee has begun an inquiry into charges by Mepresentatives La- Guardia (Rep., N. Y.) and Celler (Dem., N, Y.) that Federal Judge Frank Cooper of northern New York had disqualified himself by participating in a scheme to trap bootleggers, In the photograph, Judge Cooper is at the right, in the foreground, with his counsel, Elisha Hanson of Washington, Com- mittee members on the bench are, left to right, Representatives Richard Yates, Illinois; L. C, Dyer, Missouri; George C. Graham, New York, committee chairman; and William D. Boise, Idaho, Inset is of Rep. LaGuardia.. OUSE Judiciary Committee in) session, trying Judge Frank} Cooper (right foréground) for con- vieting rum runners on the basis of stool pigeon’s testimony that he en- ticed the defendants into crime for the purpose of betraying them, The in-/ set is Congressman Fiorello La Guardia, Cooper. Bootleggers are privileged characters, and must be justly dealt with, There is no investigation of the stool pigeons placed alongside Sacco and Vanzetti in prison, to en- trap them into saying something that could be used against them in theiz pushing the case against} trial, nor 6f department of justice officials who, admitting they were convinced of the innocence of these two workers, still gave every aid to the prosecution trying to send them to the electric chair, Sacco and Van- zetti were radicals, and the D. of J. wanted to get rid of them. BOLSHEVIKS WIN, SAYS KEYSERLING IN SAD LECTURE cy East Going Communist | Menacing West BERLIN, Feb, 13.—The world is facing a new dark age, a struggle between culture and unculture, be- tween Eastern civilization and West- ern civilization, declared Count Her- mann Keyserling, famous German philosopher and scholar in a lecture { at Vienna. Prof. Keyserling is author of num-| erous works in scientific magazines sinee the war, in which he takes a pessimistic view of the ability of | Furope to stabilize permanently and continue the capitalist system, wh he regards as synonymous with civili- zation. Dreads Awakened Asia. Keyserling said in his lecture: That he has fears regarding the colored race; that the white man reached his heights during the world war since which the colored tide has been rapid- ly rising. He said that the East is becoming more and more Bolshevized, that a tremendous epoch is dawning similar to one in the past and that there will be great migrations. “OQ Holy Profits” “To maintain and safeguard the sacred fire of the spirit and the in- tellect through the long black night that confronts humanity is the real ", he said. of culture plays a vaster. greater role in history than racial blood relationships, he said. “Every people”, he said, “will even- tually go back more and more to the original traits of character peculiar to it. The East will become more Eastern and the West will become more Western.” ‘si Americans Primitive. The so-called American type of man and women, he de ed, will be- come even more primitive and more youthful making the contrast to Europe still greater. Reports of the profgs do not explain how he coor ates his theory of the growing differences between peoples with the weil known facts of the adoption of industrialism by India, Japan and China. All Workers Irish workers will want to read lecture but particularly “Jim Connolly and the Irish Rising of 1926,” by G, Schuller with an intro- duction by T. J. O’Flaher- ty. “Connolly,” name of | consisting of | figure. German Press Exposes | Uncle Shylock’s 20 |. Percent Loan Profits BERLIN, Feb. 13, — Americans made a profit of $250,000,000 from German loans so far if figures com- plied by the nationalist Tag are ac- curate, The paper figures the net profit, | interest, stock ex- change gains and bank commissions on forty-four German loans to- talling $552,000,000, was more than $133,000,000 or about twenty per- cent a year. ‘The total American capital in- vested in Germany is close to one billion dollars, which would mean | a total profit of nearly double this | The paper says: “Americans’ big hearted aid for impoverjshed economic Germany | has proved very good business”. ich Arbitration Big Issue at Miners’ Parley (Continued from Page One) upon thé question of wages. What the industry needs is to think moré) of production costs in the broader sense. Although wages have been the largest single item in these costs, it is unsound to treat wages and pro- duction costs as synonymous and in- terchangeable terms, Efficiency, both in labor and in management, must be given greater weight than too many) preducers have been willing to accord it in the past.” No Strike Preparation. Though the wage negotiators rep- resenting the union go to the ,con- ference pledged to resist wage cuts, lewis has made no attempt whatever prep: for the strike, which is the unions’ only effective argument! against a determined stand for lower wages, such as the operators’ meeting last month in Toledo decided upon, During the last three years the union membership, instead of being) ruited, : as been allowed to dwindle! ry, as figures given officially in a the seevetary-treasurer’s. report to the convention show, so that the union has only about two-thirds the man powcr it controlled when the Jacksonville agreement was signed. Lewis 3 ses Mone | The diminution, progressives at the convention pointed out, was due prin- s’ betrayal of the West Virginian and Connelsyille miners in their last strike, and to his policy of spending all the organization finan- ces for maintaining his international organizers political ward bosses in unionized territory, instead of for organization work in the non-union territorie: Unorganized Must Strike. Since sixty-five per cent of the ecal preducec in the United States comes from non-union mines, the miuers’ chance te win a real strike depends upon these unorganized ‘miners walking out with the union miners. If a strike does come the progressives plan to act on their own initiative to bring*them out, in spite of the lack of preliminary, propa- ganda in these fields by the official family of the U. M. W. A,, and prob- ably against the resistance of Czar) | Lewis. | against the entire police department POLICE BREAK UP BOXMAKER STRIKE ALWAYS AID BOSS Scabs Not Allowed to Listen to Pickets (FP)—The paper box makers’ | strike has been called off after a 19- | weeks’ struggle. Two thousand union members are back on the job without a wage agreement, Three hundred others are in shops that settled with the union earlier in the strike. Police brutality broke the strike | said Manager Fred Caiola, in a state ment to the Federated Press. “We could win against the manu- facturers,” said Caiola, but not of New York City. us in three ways: Seab Couldn't Quit. “First, by putting a uniformed of ficer on every scab wagon, before! there was any thought. of violence. The cop prevented the strikebreaker driver from listening to the pickets. If the driver stopped to listen the cop bawled: ‘Hey, what are you doing; drive on!’ Whenever the driv- ers had the chance to listen to the pickets they almost always quite the job and. often joined the union. “Wholesale arrests were another method of breaking the strike. They arrested some-50 strikers in all. Bait- ing these men out bankrupted our treasury. In nearly every case the strikers were eventually discharged but the bondsman got their 3% com- mission—and 8% of $5,000, the usual bail, kept draining our resources. Rode Through Pickets, “Brutality was the third strike- breaking method. Mounted police rode into pickets, Patrolmen merci- lessly clubbed them. It was impos- sible to maintain a picket line. Mayor Walker promised to investigate the matter but beyond the removal of a couple of policemen virtually nothing was done.” Advance Police Protection. Caiola tells how the manufacturers’ arranged for police “cooperation” in advance. They gave the game away in their trade organ “The Shears,” The October 4 issue of “The Shears”) tells of the splendid “cooperation” the police were giving the employers. The joke consisted in this: that the strike did not start till the following day, October 5. The strike had originally been set for several days earlier, and the “Shears” going to press at that time assumed that the strike would be in existence before its appearance,.so spoke in the past: tense of a “cooperation” which had not yet started. The paper box makers’ strike had the official support of the New Yors Trades and Labor Assembly and of the officers of the A. F. of L. paper- makers’ international officers. ‘The unjon seeks to hold its ranks together’ The police fough WILBUR DEMANDS LARGER NAVY TO. Favors Intervention in Latin America, China Making extensive use of the “red bogy,” Secretary of Navy, Curtis D. Wilbur, made a plea for a larger army and navy: at the forty-first annual Lincoln dinner of the Republican Club, held at the Waldorf Saturday night. American interests in Latin- America, and China were offered ds another justification for a strong army and navy. Hates Nationalists. Secretary Wilbur referred to the nationalist uprisings-in China, and the attempt on the part of the Sacasa government in Nicaragua, as well as the Mexican attempt to levy a tax| on American oil companies draining away the national wealth of that country, as “Bolshevism.” Dreads Communism. He feared, he said, that the supres- sion of the Knights of Columbus re- volt ‘in Mexico meant that “the hand of the third international was already clutching at the heart of our sister republic in the South,” and fervently committed himself to the policy of | “being strong” in order to maintain reactionary (Wilbur called . them “free”) governments against the pos-} sibility of a world revolution. He quoted a Nicaraguan official, one of the puppets set up by the United States in 1925, as saying that the peace and order of Nicaragua de- pends upon the American flag. It Will, Wilbur, It Will. Citing this as an illustration, Sec-| retary Wilbur said, “That’s what the | American flag means in Nicaragua| and I believe that peace will come there just as it did in 1918. That’s what the American flag means in Haiti, peace and an opportunity for | the people to work. That’s what it means throughout the territory of the United States.” Communism Even Here. Reverting to Communism, Secre- tary Wilbur warned the Republican | Club not to take Communism too} lightly. “We felt,” he said, “that by | putting in every man’s hand a ballot and giving him a free chance to ex- ercise his right of suffrage we\ were as far removed as possible from any imperialism at home or abroad.” Communism, however, is still a men- ace to “the foundations of this gov- ernment,” he said. | Proponent Says Old Age Pensions Would Save State Finance BOSTON (FP.).—Three million} dollars a year would be saved to the} state of Massachusetts by adopting} his plan for nonecontributory old-age pensions, said Wendell Phillips .Thore pension advocate, appearing before the legislative committee on pensions, Thorg said the state now paid out) annually the sum of $9,000,000 for| poor relief which would be made un-! necessary by a pension system, that) would cost only $6,000,000 a year, Mrs. | Elizabeth Glendower Evans also tes-| tified for the measure, which has the support of organized labor. Empty House Greets A. Beckerman When Local Union Installs Officers Abraham Beckerman and Harry Cohen spoke before a small crowd at the installation meeting of the Knee Pants Makers Union. The scheme to keep up the stop- page in the smaller shops is a trick of Beckerman to take away their trade and deliver the work to the big manufacturers with whom he made a deal at the price of the workers. The reaction to Beckerman was shown by the reception that Becker- man and Harry Cohen ree at the installation meeting of © the Knee Pants Makers Local 19 last Wednesday night.. After the big play-up of their machine to fool the members to the installation meeting, not more than several hundred came, and Ift the en the job in preparation for another day. hall as sogn as Cohen and Becker- man appeared, STATISTICAL BOARD SHOWS INCREASE OF NUMBER EMPLOYED IN SOVIET UNION: BETTER TRADE | Spring of Imperialists SAVE CAPITALISM) Against Chinese Labor | RELIEF MEASURE By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, HE Transport Chaumont, with 1,200 marines aboard, contin- ues on its way westward across the Pacific from Honolulu to the Orient, with Shanghai, China, as its destination, Half-page pictures of the war- ship, as it sailed from San Diego, California, “passenger list” of cannon fodder, appear in the Sunday papers, They are accompanied with the latest war zone pictures from China and Nicaragua, including reproductions of French and British battleships at anchor in the Harbor of Shang- hai. These are ominous events, When recently with a full | the killing starts on a large scale’ in China the American warlords are planning to be on the job in full force. @They will not delay as in the last world war. The whole war program of the imperialist powers consists of a rapid concentration of their war machines in the Far East. In this the United States emulates, if it does not keep pace, with Great Britain, ere is no doubt that a definite program has been care- fully mapped and is being studi- ously carried out. The Sunday Worker, of Great Britain, points out that England’s plan is for the British army, sup- ported by naval forces, to advance up the Yangtse River to Chekiang, Nanking, Wuchu, Kiukang and the new capital, Wuchang, of the Can- tonese government, But this ad- vance, according ta reports from Fekin, center of the imperialist kept tyranny of Chang Tso Lin, will not take place until the spring. Qwing to climatic conditions the Yangtse River is too shallow in winter to permit large warships porare: its length up to Han- ow. The next stage of the plans of British imperialism, in which American “dollar diplomacy” shares energetically, is to provoke an “incident” in Shanghai. This can be done very easily, according to the best methods of the Amer- ican “frame-up.” It will not be very difficult to get some one to take a shot at a missionary, man or woman, preferably the latter. If the intended victim is killed, so much the better. The headlines will be all the bigger in the press back home, making it easier to fan the war fury into flames. American jingoes, headed by Curtis D, Wilbur, secretary of the navy, seized upon the birthday an- niversary of Abraham Lincoln, to make propaganda for the impend- ing_war. Broken Home Finally Restored Wilbur followed carefully in the footsteps of lresident Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg, and raised the threat of Communism as an exeuse for developing a “strong army and strong navy, so that if ‘World revolt materialized we could see to it that free government was maintained.” That ought to make the workers of Nicaragua, as well as those China, laugh outright. Every semblance of political tr dom has been suppressed in Nica- ragua, while only the valiant strug- gle of the Cantonese government safeguards the freedom of the peo- ples of that section of China that nas been liberated from the grip of the foreign invader. * * Secretary Wilbur defends the sending of marines to China and Nicaragua. That is part of his job. The press of the Soviet Union, however, speaking for labor in the First Workers’ Republics, shows that it has no illusions about what is going on in the Orient. It points out that the increased British naval forces being sent to Shanghai is merely a completion of the provo- cation on a grand scale that is be- ing directed against Hankow and the other Yangtse towns, with the deliberate and cold-blooded aim of obtaining an excuse for a naval at- tack upon the Cantonese, * Washington and London have been trying to feed the Cantonese with a multitude of diplomatic maneuvers, trying to hold the ad- vancing Cantonese armies in check until sufficient ships of war and soliders were mobilized in the neighborhood of Shanghai to open up the attack, . * & _ British labor is on the alert. Masses demanding: “Hands Off China!” gather in historic Trafal- Bar Square in London. Appeals are distributed to the soldiers sent aboatd ship for the long journey to the East, In the United States the workers still refnain quiescent. Altho the mass meetings already held in pro- test by the Workers (Communist) Party have been well attended, no great sections of the working class have as yet been drawn into ac- tion, The issue must be raised in thousands of local labor unions and farmers’ organizations, * The working class must be aroused against the pending war this spring by imperialism in its effort to crush the Chinese revolu- tion. This is the important and pressing task of the militants of labor in this hour of the gathering storm. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) Mr. Newbold blames the Soviet government for “subsidizing trouble in the coal-fields while their trading agencies were pouring petrol into the fuel markets of Great Britain and the United States.” Mr. Newbold does not blame the British mine own ers for the great strike. That the miners were fighting to protect their standard of living means nothing to! _ What he is concerned with are! the interests of the mine owners | him. Newbold boasts of the splendid offi ces of the British ofl trust in St. Louis, * * * The closing.paragraph of Mr. News bold’s letter proves that Newbold has plumbed the depths of treachery to the revolutionary movement: “With tne entire machinery of the Commu- nists—trade corporations, diplomatic service, trade unions and political agi+ tation—in an elaborate if elusive chain, fomenting trouble in the Brit- ish and American coal-fields, in the oil-fields of Persia and from Canton and from certain innocent-looking quarters in Holland, in the Dutch | | | ) { Defeat Offensive This | .Y-DEMOGRATS MAY FAVOR FARM Nelson Says Veto Would Defeat Coolidge WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—In an attempt to place President Coolidge in an embarrassing position by pin- ning him down on a highly contro- yersial issue, ‘Tammany Hall is exert- ing pressure upon the New York dem- ocratic members of the house to force the MeNary-Haugen bill thru) con- gress in its present form. This move was inspired by a west- ern democratic leader, who deelared that the Smith presidential boom wouldn't’ stand a ghost of a chance in the west if Tammany Hall comes out: solidly against the bill, according to one prominent member of the Tam- many group. Of the twenty-two democrats in the house not one voted in the bill’s favor last May. Chances Improv The new position of the New York democrats and the surprising major- ity which the bill received in the sen- ate, Friday, have strengthened wav- ering mempers of the house. Hope that the bill will be defeated there has been abandoned by administra- j tion leaders, The determined stand of members of the farm bloc was indicated by Representative Nelson’s speech to- day, in which he declared that if Cool- idge vetocs the MeNary-Haugen bill, republicans would make Frank 0. Lowden, former Governor of Illinois, their standard-bearer in 1928, Coolidge—D, D. “We are toid that it will not be worth whiie to pass the Haugen-Mc- Nary bill, as the president will fail to approve,’ Kepresentative Nelson said. “As to this I do not know, but I do not hesitate to say that if there is a yeto the initials of the White House spokesman will not be C. ©. but D. Db, All the ‘dead ducks’ will not be in the house, but as I think of the shadow of Lowden lengthening in the land, ‘a giant staff in a giant s hand,’ I imagine I can hear the pres- ident say feebly, ‘Pass the pen, piease,’” Farmers Failing. Prédicting the victory of the Mec- Nary-Haugen bill in view of the Lowden boom, Representative Nelson pointed out the need for a farm-re- lief measure. “With more than 3,000 bank failures during the Harding and Coolidge administrations, 192 of these in Missouri, and with farm bankruptcies increased more than 600 per cent, eyen the purveyors of po- litical propaganda are learning that it is impossible to fool all the people all the time. : “All through the agricultural sec- tions of the United States today newspapers are carrying legal notices having to do with farm foreclosures, sheriff sales and taxes overdue. The farmers are ‘thoroughly discouraged,” Probably Will Veto. That President Coolidge will veto the bill if it passes the house, demo- cratic leaders consider fairly tertain, Favoring as Coolidge and his friend Butler do the textile interests, he is especially opposed to the feature of the bill which would fix cotton prices. The recent drop in cotton prices, which impoverished the cotton far- mer, was a blessing to the textile in- terests. To avért the danger of the Me- Nary-Haugen bill failing in confer- ence, members of the farm bloc will make an attempt to jam it through in the form that it passed the senate, Just Strategy. Those “in the know” regard it as 4 merely political move, important because the farmers may conceivably expect some good for it, and be in favor of it. No one thinks that it will actually assist the farmers, but textile mill and flour mill groups fear it as a precedent that may lead to more effective statutes, Paris Police Rush to Defense of Mussolini PARIS, Felx 18.—Vian Kituria, a Communist deputy, and M. Balonchi, director of the Communist’ Daily, Fast Indies, no wonder that the Brit-| “Humanite,” were charged in a Paris ish and American petroleum compa-| Crt for the crime of calling Musso- nies have closed their ranks, Communists have asked for it and they are going to get it—War.” * * * Mr, Newbold greets the alleged al- liance of the American and British oil trusts against the oil monopoly of the Workers Republic, a monopoly he; ini_a murderer, | i | The arrested mén asserted that Premier Mussolini is the cause of the murder of the youth Italian, aged 15, who was lynched by the Fascisti in Bologna in a frame-up to kill Mus- solini. The charge against the Commun- owned and controlled by the workers! ists was made by Italian Fascists of the Soviet Union, the profits of Who live in Paris, Agents Unite To Force Wage Cut. CINCINNATI (RP).—A — wide- spread conspiracy among the big railroads, utility and manufacturing corporations of the country to force wage reductions on union miners is unwittingly revealed in the Jan, 31 bulletin of the Corporations Auxiliary Co, of Cincinnati. This concern is an undercover union amasher. It declares a mine strike inevitable this spring if the union demands any- ‘thing like the Jacksonville seale. It then reports that the “Natl. Assn. of | Purchasing Agents intends to lend its |support to bituminous operators this spring in forcing a reduction in min- ers’ wages.” This association in- cludes most of the big corporations which go to build a new society on! the ashes of capitalism. So low has. this dp set fallen that he does not. N. even disserible his hatred for the! ew Soviet Union... Winston Churehili ard! bcm Jere Joyneon Hicks could not be more bit-- WASHINGTON, Feb, 18—A sur- ver in their hatred, This js the crea-| vey, upon which will be based the es- ture who is invited to spéak from so- Umated population of cities over 30,- ian te Ieasoan It tog nee. Leader, 000 for July 1, has been started by sume another juet w | the cénsns bureau, it was lear - A. R. Gravy, a carpenter out of} may expect to see Bdward 1. johen ‘day, Figures naaely. wil be tenant work, had to place his children in aj adverti, . | : Loa ‘Atigelak lnntligtion isihen blot vertised as the main speaker, | Some time in May. - Announcement of estimates in 192° \ tes in 1925 hog pied Sere aes che Hel foea Gary Denies Resignation. brought considerable complaint from et i ‘au he rs, | Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of a number of cities, which claimed that al ater le al isalia, Cal. after|the board of directors of the Unite! | theiy populations had been underea- searching all that _ time for them.! States Stee! Corporation, today flay timated, with a consequent unfayor- One was married. Neither knew that| denied reports that he was planning | able .exction on business and real es- they hada living father. Such a re-| to téesign his position, “My resigna- | tate vaives, ‘ " , the military leader of the Easter Week Rebel- lion, is a magic name to every Irish worker who has within him a single spark of the divine fire of revolt. PRICE 10 CENTS. The Daily Worker 33 First Street Government statistics from the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics for December and November of 1926 show continuous industrial progress. Employment continued to increase, in November, for the fourth consecutive month, states the Central Statistical’ Board. The number employed in industry in November was 1,981,000, compared with 1,960,900 in October, and 1,844,799 in November of 1925, The chief gains were in coal mining and glass production, ‘ In foreign trade over the European frontier, the favorable balance is maintained, and increased. During October and November the favor- ‘able balance was raised to 34,6 million rubles, The report of the State Bank shows an increase in the deposits of foreign gold and securities, with.a dimunition of the amount of foreign currency deposited, showing that Soviet currency is taking its place in trade. Deposits and current accounts increased 77,800,000 rubles over those of November, and amounted to 907,600,000, compared with 698,- 800,000 million a year ago. Realtors Raise Howl; New York City | that use coal. 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