The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1927, Page 1

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 Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. THE DAILY WORKER. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 29. | CURRENT EVENTS | By T. J. O}FLAHERTY OOLIDGE’S press agents had Great Britain and Japan throw fits of delirious joy over the proposal to hold a conference for the reduction | of naval armament. Both powers would accept. France only, was the emery dust in the machinery. But now, after a few days we don’t find a single power willing to scrap a sin- gle hulk. Japan makes it clear that the British base in Singapore and the Japanese exclusion law in the United States render it incumbent on the Mikado’s government to maintain the navy at its present strength. * * Great Britain is “pondering” over a reply, but oie need not wait for the publication of the British communica- tion to form an opinion as to what that reply will be. Britain will not reduce her navy voluntarily. She needs her warships to prevent other powers from grabbing her loot. She needs them to carry on hostile ex- peditions against people like the Chinese, the Egyptians and the Hin- doos. She needs them to preserve the empire. * * 8 Why does Coolidge want to call a) halt on the naval building? Is it be- cause ge loves peace for, the sake of peace? Is it because he is opposed to the settlement of international questions by the use of force? The answer to this question can be found in his attitude towards Nicaragua and China. Coolidge is] making tax reduction the keystone of the arch on which he hope¢s to sup- port his candidacy for re- election. | Warships are costly. The capitalists don’t like to pay taxes even for bat- tleships. To them weapons of de-| fense are a necessary evil. The “big| navy” politicians are singing the song of the lobbyists for the munition manufacturers, the shipbuilders and | the steel magnates. * * The sea power of one nation can} only be measured in relation to.the sea power of another nation or a pos- sible combination of potentially hos- | tile powers. If the United States had * only ten battleships while England,; France and Japan had eight, = street would be as potent on the as if the United States had 4 ag: 32 for England, France and Japan. What Coolidge is gunning for is a reduction of naval costs while still maintaining American naval strength at the point considered effective for the defense of the imperialist inter- ests of our ruling classes. * This is} not a peace move. It is a move to reduce the tax burden that irks the capitalists. Every penny saved for those lads is a penny that can be spent on the Paris boulevards. “Cal” knows what he is about but we doubt if he will ever be able to dig up enough impudenee to campaign for yve-election under the slogan: “I kept you out of war.” pe Punyna of Poland, ‘a member of the chamber of depu- ties, wants against the “persecution of catholics in Mexico.” Most of the deputies re- fused to have anything to do with the princess’s protest, being quite taken up with their own struggle to save their necks from the Pilsudski hang- men who are in danger of getting muscle-bound if they are not kept in training. The Polish chamber of deputies rejected a report made by one of Pilsudski’s ministers but “Pil” paid no attention to them. One of those days, a cavalry brigade will ae Dee ride into the chamber and ride the|” deputies out. Under such conditions it is not surprising that the deputies should be rather cold to “the per- secution of catholics in Mexico.” (Continued on Page Four) BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS Five Killed and Many Wounded When Police Fire on Hindu Crowds BOMBAY, India, Feb. 15.—Five persons were killed and 19 were wounded today at Indore. Shots were fired into a crowd which demonstrated before an Indian nobleman’s mansion. Further dis- turbances are feared. CALCUTTA, ton 15.—Serious rioting occurred today at Kharg- pur, where’ a thousand native rail- way employes stormed and occu- pied the railway station platform, They were dispersed by the police, who fired two volleys, Sixteen natives were injured. Mexico, | ¢, | the chamber to protest) SUBSCRIPTION RATES:.In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 p Powers Decline Invitation to Limit Arms France, itdle. Jaana: Shy From Anglo-American Trap WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—As was generally expected in diplomatic cir- cles, the powers which have some- thing to lose by the American- British program for naval’ reduc- tions are refusing to play the game at all, and Coolidge now has his ex- | cuse to advocate a bigger navy. | Great Britain assumes a non-com-| mital attitude to the state depart-| ment’s invitation to a conference on disarmament. She was the only country actually consulted by Kel- logg before the invitation went forth. As long as Britain is willing to play second fiddle to American financial imperialism, a role to which her| statesmen have apparently resigned themselves. at least for the time, England has little to lose by any disarmament that does not upset the | 5-5-3 ratio—provided France, Japan and Italy follow suit. Baldwin Discreet. | Baldwin, therefore, on being in- terpélated in Commons, merely states at the cabinet is interested, and) ill work for peace, and wait for the | replies of other nations. On one| thing only is he positive: England will not give up the use of poison |gas. The great chemical warfare | service built on Britain’s new dye in- | dustry shall not be wasted. No for- mal answer has been made to the United States. The Italian reply came first, in |the shape of articles in the semi-of- | ficial newspapers, and amounts to a | rejection of any proposals that do |not leave Mussolini with a fleet) strong enough to attack the Balkans | lor Asia Minor at any time he chooses. Italy will sit in a confer- ence which shall also bind the Bal- kans, Turkey, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—and not ft otherwise. m Keeps Her Empire. Italy’s formal reply to the dis- armament proposals of President Coolidge will not be prepared for several days, it was announced to- day.. The reply may be handed to Ambassador Fletcher on Thursday | or Friday. ll Tevere, an organ of the govern- ment, today again reiterates Italy’s need for warships to guarantee her colonial possessions as well as to | search for new outlets for an exces- sive population. France Refuses. France will publish a formal re- rly soon. The note is written and has been discussed in the chamber of deputies. It amounts to a defin- ite refusal to agree on any plan which shall limit the French right to build enough submarines to blow \the British fleet out of the water, er which shall take the power to aecide the relative strength of na- tions out of the League of Nations, whose disarmament conference France can obstruct through the er “Mad Butcher” Boasts Of Crime; Business Rivalry Is Blamed ROCHESTER, N. Y., Feb. 15— “Y’m glad I did it! I’d do it again!” Such was the declaration of Harry Gordon, “mad _ butcher” slayer of two business rivals, in boasting of his crime in his cell at Monroe County jail today. “Now I’m ready for the electric chair, anything,—the worst can happen to me,” Gordon continued. “My wife and kids should be proud of me for what I have done— killed such men as Harry Katz and Sam Toltz. I gave Katz a chance to shoot it out with me—offered him one of my own guns—but he wouldn't.” Police attribute the double slay- ing to the business failure of Gor- NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16, 1927 Deadlock Still Lasts at Coal Wage Meeting Miners’ Pay Too Low Now to Stand Any Cutting MIAMI, Feb. 15. — The operators continued their propaganda for a wage reduction and for arbitration machin- and the representatives of the ployers. em- don, who is a butcher. Katz and Toltz were shot to death last Fri- day night and two others wounded. FARM BLOC 10 RUSH VOTE ON “RELIEF” BILL. Mellon Criticisms Get | Congress Excited WASHINGTON, Feb, 15. — The farm bloc triumphed today in the first big test vote on farm relief in| the house when a rule substituting the senate McNary-Haugen bill for the house measure was adopted, The vote was 281 to 62 and followe a two hour fight, in which opponents | of farm relief mustered their} strength to defeat the rule, hoping} thereby to cause delay and probable | death to farm relief legislation at| this session. A revival of the feud between a} goodly portion of President Cool-| idge’s cabinet and farm relief advo- | cates was threatened today as farm | bloc leaders flared back at secretary of they ury..Mellon’s slap at the pending McNary-Haugen farm bill. Mellon’s statement broke the wall of silence that has enveloped the White House since the present farm relief fight got under way. Cabinet members, it is reported, have been | under orders from Mr. Coolidge to| keep “hands off,” in direct contrast to the last session when at least three | cabinet officers openly fought the | McNary-Haugen plan. Quiet Opposition. They have not actually carried out their orders, if such were given, for Secretary of Agriculture Jardine has toured the country and addressed the farmers at county fairs, grange meets, ete., quietly ripping the farm bloc bill up the back. Secretary Mellon outlined his views on the farm bill in a memorandum prepared in the office of the Com- missioner of internal revenue and addressed to Representative Chind- blom of Illinois, a republican member | of the comnrittee on ways and means. The memorandum set forth these points: | a} votes of her Balkan and Central European allies. (Continued on Page Three) TWO OF SUN CHU A pair of international city of Shanghai, Chi rior on the left presents, as his wea tion—which is that of executioner. That the estimated annual cost of the administrative organization cre- (Continued on Page Three) AN FANG’S GANG , h sentries on duty in the native section of the ina, are pictured here. The war- mn, the knife of his official posi- " other has a machine gun. | reconcilable present $7.50 (theoretically) a day wage scale which the miners want to keep and the operators are try- ing to slash, the real underlying fight is over the principle. of wage arbitra- tion advanced by the operators. The | owners want to give “flexibility” to} wages, and at the same time, by set- | ting up a joint permanent arbitral | |board,'to be able to abrogate the agreement in fact, while maintaining | it in form, as they do now under the five year’s contract with which the anthracite miners are saddled. Apparent Deadlock. A breakdown in the negotiations | appeared inevitable today. Both sides declared the conference | would be heading homeward shortly without the semblance of a new wage | scale unless the present seemingly ir- differences ‘are swept away by some unexpected concessions or deals. The actual break, however, | may not come before the end of this week or the first of next. Talk Strike. The atmosphere here is tense. | Among the delegates there is con- siderable talk in’ favor of a strike or| But among leading of-| | fictats of both groups this is largcly | suspension. | discredited, They claim that even should the Miami negotiations brea!. | down, there is quite a distinct prob- | ability that the meeting would be reconvened later in some north city, and an agreement possibly signed be- fore the miners lay down their tools. Miners Low Paid. The miners are unanimously op- posed to any reduction of wages, which are already very low. The so- valled $7.50 per day wage granted | union miners by the Jacksonville | agreement, which the present wage to cut, is largely a fictitious thing. The miners get paid for the most part by tonnage rates, and the company can discriminate, and does discrim- inate, at times forcing whole sections Vente er on Page Two) U.S.INTERVENTION IN NICARAGUA IS WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. — The United States “must either withdraw its support from Diaz or send the marines to stop General Moncada (liberal commander) by force of arms,” Dr. C. S. Vaca, liberal Nica- raguan agent here declared in a state- ment today. The capture of Mantagalpa by Mon- eada’s army will bring the matter of American intervention in this coun- try to a head, Vaca said. He expects to hear of the fall of Mantagalpa at any hour. a Diaz Forces Cleaned Out. BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua, Feb. 15: —A request from Dr. Sacasa, leader of the liberals, that civil control over Bluefields and El Bluff and Ama be turned over to the liberals has been denied by Admiral Latimer. Dr. Sacasa and his officials pointed out that there are now no Diaz forces on the Atlantic Coast and therefore it is not proper that Diaz civil au- thorities should be maintained in con- trol through the intervention of Amer- ican marines. | Reports received here state that the liberals are now in control of Mata- galpa, having won considerable suc- cesses in the vicinity. Webster Jury Completed. MINEOLA, N. Y., Feb. 15.—The jury was completed today for the murder trial of Harold F, Webster, former Florida real estate salesman, who is charged with killing his mother-in-law Mrs, Catherine Galla- way . ery in the agreement now under ne-! gotiation hetween the committee fram | the United Mine Workers of America, | Although the argument is over the| negotiations committee is charged not | VERGING ON CRISIS <a Elements in Rampage Over Globe Take Heavy Toll in Life and Property Cyclones, earthouakes, blizzards and fogs, a seeming revoliition of the elements, have taken a heavy toll in life and property damage in a sweep across the face of the globe in the past forty-eight hours. Earthquakes in Jugo-Slavia are reported to have resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives and much damage to property. In Queensland a ‘cyclone has taken nearly fifty lives and done inestimable damage. A cyclone in the Gulf of Cattaro is reported to have caused a Jugo- Slavian steamer to sink with a great loss of life. Blizzards which have raged in northern Japan have taken a toll of well over 100 lives. London yesterday entered its fifth day of foggy gloominess, the fog already having cost nearly a score of lives in accidents and heavy economic losses. HEARING REVEALS OVERCROWDING OF NEW YORK HOMES | Two Shifts of of Boarders: Even in Cellars At hearings held the State Housing Board at the City Hall, on | the question whether the emergency | rent laws, that expire June 1, should | be continued, there were amazing re- |velations of conditions under which most of the workers in ‘New York city live. The testimony given before the | board will be reported back to the | state legislature, and is supposed to | be used as a basis on which to decide on continuation of the rent laws. Members Shocked. Social conditions, which they as- eribed to high rents, were described in some detail by witnesses whose stories shocked members of the hous- ling body. Testimony was given by the | deputy commissioner of health, the | chief justice of the Municipal Court, welfare workers, lawyers and rent payers, and it was brought out that doubling and tripling of families in | apartments was still going on, and that this condition obtained in rook- eries built fifty years ago and con- demned as insanitary and uninhabit- able before the rent laws were passed. Unfit for Pig. Even in cellars, it was said, two | ; tarntlion could be found living in| | rooms described as “unfit for a Pig | |to live in.” The | with growing children, which, prior | |to the advance in rents that began | in 1919, could afford a few limited | luxuries were now reduced to the bar- est necessities; that old couples barely able to pay rent hitherto have been compelled to go to almshouses because of the rise in rents; that landlords have been notifying tenants to “wait until the rent laws lapse in June and we will give you the trimming of your lives”; that landlord and tenant litigation in 1926 increased over the previous years, and that in 95 per cent of these cases the invariable re- ply of tenants to the courts was in- ability to afford the higher rents. Worst in Harlem. The worst conditions described were the Negro section of -Harlem, (Continued on Page Five) FATHERS OF THE ia WASHINGTON, (FP).--Suave po- liteness and mock deference which are the normal mask for mental laziness on the morning after the passage of the farm relief bill, when Senator; Pepper of Pennsylvania, in charge of Mellon’s bill re-chartering the Fed- eral Reserve banks, arose to demand action on that measure. LaFollette, Norris and Wheeler, watching for the move, jumped up. Wheeler interrupted Vice-President Dawes, who was hastily putting to a vote the Pepper motion that “the senate proceed to consideration” of the bank bill. Dawes rapped his desk loudly, Norris raised:a point of or- der. Dawgs overruled him. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING y. Sees Sigman CO., 33 First Street, New York, Price 3 Cents sing N. Injunction Weapon _Hyman Charges the R “The International is beginn use of injunctions against the ager of the Joint Board, said yes! He pointed out that the ec carried on in the Jewish Daily Joint Board is using injunctions, workers that this, weapon may be used against them by the International. Vague Accusations. “The International rever vtates when and where an injunction is/ so used by the. Joint Board, for the sim-| junctions have} ple reason that no i been obtained by the Joint Board, but it continues to make vague charges that the “Communists” are procuring some kind of injunctions to use against the workers. This is no more than a trick to de- ceive the workers and pave the way for such an action on the part of the International. This practice, which has been so much condemned by all people interested in labor, is to be- come a tool in the hands of the In- ternational in its fight against the oint Board, and against the interests of the workers. The purpose of the present propaganda is clear. The International means to threat- en us with an injunction with which it will attempt to restrain us from carrying out our duties to the mem- bers.” No Notice Yet. Mr. Hyman said that no formal no- tice of the new suspension, voted by the General Executive Board meet- ing in the Hotel Cadillac without its full membership being notified, has been received by the “suspended” Locals, 2, 9, 22 and 365, up to late yes- terday. “Perhaps they intend to sus- pend these locals through the capi- talist press,” he said. “That would be in line with the illegality of their whole procedure.” Two Pickets Beaten, A. Regan and R. Feranti were! severely beaten when six gangsters | attacked them this morning as they were picketing the shop of Haber and Seifert, 236 West 26th street. Al-! though members of the Industria! 1} Squad were standing by, the gang-| sters attacked these pickets with im- punity, chased them to the roof, and) there beat them up while they cried to the police for help. This shop was jealled on strike by the Joint Board | on Monday after the employer had| | locked out all his old workers,@n the | | plea of going out of business, signed | first time today since he was taken an agreement with the International, and at once employed new workers. The policy of expelling individuals (Continued on Page Five) Anti-Imperialist Demonstration Is Planned for Brooklyn An Anti-Imperialist Demonstration eaction Prepares Court Weapon Against Workers ing to prepare the ground for the workers,” Louis Hyman, man- terday. ontinuous propaganda now being Forward to the effect that the is an attempt to deceive the Stalin’ Denies That He | | Is In Geneva; He Even Denies That He’s Dying (By Speci: MOSCOW, Feb. dispatch which 1 Cable). 15.—A London stated that Josef Stalin, general secretary of the Communist Party of Russia was dying in Geneva, was called to Sta- lin’s attention in his offices in the Kremlin. Stalin, fondled his mustache as a sly grin overspread his counten- ance. “Please inform the anxious bour- geoisie,” he chuckled, “that in my opinion I am not in Geneva yet. In fact I have not the slightest in- tention of dying threfore I am keep- ing away from Geneva.” This was all the Soviet leader would say about the rumor. Never- theless foreign correspondents are scanning the news carefully as they suspect that another political as- sassination has been committeed in Swiss territory. Vaslaw Vorovsky, Soviet envoy was mureder by a fascist in Lausanne a few years ago and the murder went unpunished by the Swiss government. CLOAKMAKER IN HOSPITAL SCORES SIGMAN BETRAYAL | Attempted " Suicide In | Despair and Disgust | Jacob Goldstein, 55 years of age, was allowed to see visitors for the |to Beth David |from a relapse. | He had been thought to be recov- Hospital suffering | or groups opposing the bureaucratic | ering from the effects of drinking testimony showed that families | officials of the International Ladies’|shoe polish more than ten days ago in his home at 245°East 110th street, but grew worse on last Saturday and bell removed to the hospital. Worked Many Years. Goldstein is a cloakmaker, who has worked at his trade for many years, educated his children, and was trying to lay aside savings for old age from his wages as a cloakmaker. He was will be held this Friday evening, Feb.|@ good union man, for he had seen |18, at the Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan ‘what benefits the union could bring | Ave., Brooklyn, under the auspices of | the workers, in his own experience, the Brooklyh Section of the Workers | Party. Prof. Seott Nearing, Julia| Stuart Poyntz, Wm. Weinstone anda prominent Chinese will be the speak- ers. Anthony Bimba will be chair- man. This meeting will demonstrate against U. S. imperialistic ventures in China, Mexico and Nicaragua. Every-| body is welcome. Admission is free. | PEOPLE VOTED BRANCH BANK BILL FOR MORGAN “I submit,” shouted Wheeler, striding forward among the desks | from the back row, “that I am not ion. The senator from Pennsylvania agreed with me yesterday that if I would not take the floor against his measure at that time, he would not object to my speaking on it this morning. The senator from Virginia (Glass) heard that agreement, and so did the senator from Kansas (Curtis), Who was present.” Cries of “vote” came from a dozén directions. hubbub. Glass got the floor to deny that he had agreed that Wheeler should speak; he said he gave notice (Continued on Page Four) Dawes gavelled down the | During the cloakmakers’ strike, Goldstein went on the picket line. He was arrested, and a scab who was |nearby testified that he and Joseph Goretzky, manager of Local 35, had tried to beat him up. The day of his {appearance before Judge Rosalsky for’ sentence drew near. Feared Vicious Sentence. All the workers knew of the vicious sentences Judge Rosalsky had handed out to other cloakmakers. Rather |than face that cruel, strange court, ee ope drank the poison. day on his hospital cot he told lene. fat reason for his act. “It was not because I was afraid to go to’ jail,” he said. “I felt that we had | all been betrayed by. the International, {by our union, for the International took our attorneys away when it ex- ‘pelled the Joint Board——and refused in the senate were suddenly dropped, going to be railroaded in this fash-| to help us, Hurt By Betrayal. “T have always worked hard for the union, and picketed though I am an }old man. Why should the Interna- tional betray me and the other union members? “Besides I was grieving that they had framed up Goretzky, a leader, I thought that it was something I had done that had given them a chance to arrest him. The judge hates union members, and union | leaders even more. I was afraid that |he would give Goretzky a longer sen- tence even than me.” Dine, Listen and Dance at the Second Annual Banquet and Dance, Monday, February 21st “(ang Birthday Eve,), YORKVILLE CASINO, 86th STREET and 3rd AVE. Combination Tickef $1.50. Auspices DAILY WORKER BUILDERS, ae