The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1927, Page 1

The Dally Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- For the 40-Hour Week. THE ONLY ENGLISH LABOR DAILY IN NEW YORK THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 30. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ber Yr NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1927 <a> PUBLISHING CO,, $3 First Street, PuWlished Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY Sie nap N. New York, Price 3 Cents N. Y. Rents To Soar June Ist Cantones Thru Sun’s Lines Communist Party of China in New Appeal Says Revolutionary Spirit Unbreakable SHANGHAI, Feb. 16.—The outflanking movement have inflicted a disastrous defeat on the mercenary forces of Sun Chung-Fang and are now within 35 miles | of Hangchow. As previously cabled to The DAILY WORKER the recent Cantonese retreat was a tactical enemy into a trap. Sun walked i out again as best he can. Imperialist elements here are plainly worried over the turn events are taking. They hugged were winning. Now the horrible truth is being told. Sun’s troops are demoralized, Chang Tso-Lin’ stationary, Wu-Pei-Fu is still in the questionable column and Gen- eral Feng is reported to be giving his army the final “once-over” | before setting it on Chang’s tracks.Sun Chuan-Fang is reported | CURRENT EVENTS |) | By T. J. “O'}FLAHERTY | NLESS all signs fail, Coolidge’s | attempt to embed his reputation in history by staging a fake reduc- | tion or arms conference is liable to be as successful as Woodrow W: son’s effort to jam the United Stat into the league of nations. Coolid; | may emerge from the wreckage with his faculties intact, since one cannot take nothing from nothing. Wilson was one of those “do or die” fellows. “Cal” is content with making recom=J e Smash | Cantonese armies by a clever movement designed to draw the nto it and is now trying to walk the delusion that Sun’s troops s boasted “advance” is almost ) Tushing his troops southwards | jin a frantic effort to halt the| | victorious Cantonese. | Both Sun and the Cantonese) have spurned the proposals em-| bodied in Kellogg’s note. | Communists Denounce Imperialists | PEKING, Feb. 16.—The Commun-| ist Party of China in a new appeal to | the masses declares that nothing can| break the revolutionary spirit of the workers, ‘peasants and artisans, It was the nationalist revolution- | ary movement that crossed swords with the forces of imperialism in Hankow, the manifesto states. Senator Defies Coolidge |. And Moves for Union Of Latin Americans WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. — In | the face of express presidential di: approval, Senator Shipstead, (F.L.), of Minnesota, today further pressed his proposal for a Federation of Central American Republics by of- fering in the senate a resolution calling upon President Coolidge to invite the five southern countries to send plenipotentiaries to Wash- | ington to arrange such a union. President Coolidge, through his official spokesman, recently let it | be known that he felt such a pro- posal should go through the proper diplomatic channels without pub- | licity rather than be aired and ex- ploited through the press and from the senate floor. German Gold Found Way to Jesse Smith Deaghelty “Pal Handled Corruption Money The Harry-Mal Daugherty mess was due to simmer some more in federal court today as District Attorney Buckner stirred deeper into the fi- nancial relations between the former department of justice head and the German industrial magnate, Richard Merton. | rapidly crystallizing on the report of | | provided, the bosses may lengthen the Jokers in Fake 48-Hour Bill Exposed Here Nine-Hour Day Allowed In Proposed Law With a meeting of women’s repre- sentatives scheduled at the Women’s | National Trade Union League’s head- | quarters this morning, sentiment was | | the industrial survey commission. The central theme of the commis- | sion’s report, a denatured 8-hour law with liberal loopholes for the 9-hour | day, is to be discussed and the league’s attitude framed. A general meeting) Monday will consider the report of | today’s meeting. Criticism against the evasive rec- ommendation of the survey commis- sion, controlled by reactionary repub- licians, were rife. Emanuel Kovaleskie, vice-president of the New York Fed- eration of Labor, and labor’s member on the commision, tore holes in the proposal to prevent any change in empensation rates for five years. An analysis of the so-called 48-hour week provision for women workers reveals loopholes sure to destroy the law, in the opinion of labor attor- neys. When a Saturday half-day is week-day to nine hours. In addition the bosses may: work ‘their employes 78 hours a year overtime, these hours to be determined without consulting ( the workers. Thus women toilers may easily be found working 9 hours a| day, it is claimed, at any and all times | of the year while employer claims | that they are doing their “extra” 78 California Edison Co. Construction Workers Buried in Avalanche LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.—One man is known to have been killed and many others are believed to have met the same fate when a tre- mendous snow-slide wiped out an outlying construction camp on the Deep Creek tunnel project of the Southern California Edison Com- pany, last night according to be- lated advices received at company headquarters here late today. William Lukes met death in the | slide. There were 250 other work- ers in the camp, which is approxi- mately 75 miles northeast of Fresno and 7,000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Relief parties have been sent to the scene from the main bay camer a8 at ee Creek, Boost in Milk Prices Due in New York Coolidge Sees Law Barring Canadian Product Milk is due to follow rents to a new sky high record. With President Coolidge’s okeh on the Lenroot-Taber act today, milk dealers were prepar- ing to add another cent to the-quart | bottle, priced now at 13—16 cents. The Taber-Lenroot bill, backed by | Martin J. Taber, master of the reac- tionary national grange, an organiza- Landlords Epidemic Scoff at Warning; Fight to Finish Due | New York workers will pay 2 | June ¢ 5 to 100 per cent more rent after This was the threat today in dispatches from Albany where |reactionary republican state legislators are threatening to allow | the rent laws to die when they terminate this summer. Assemblyman Edmund B. Jenks, in charge of the rent laws, |declared “the emergency is over’ ’ although Health Commissioner | Harris.drew an appalling picture of the danger of epidemics in the |slum areas of New York. The city was drawn into two opposing camps today on what lta probably the most vital immediate issue before the metropoli- tan public. On one side were: Working class population of 4,000,- 000. Social workers. Workers’ Health Bureau. Public health authorities headed by Commissioner Harris. | Fair Play Rent Association and | scores of tenants’ associations. | Consumers’ League. Trade unions and workers’ clubs. On the other side were: Real estate agents. Property owners. Professional patriots. Reactionaries generally who regard |the rent law as “socialism.” | In hearings just, concluded before |the state board of housing, meeting jat the city hall this week, scores of workers and renters’ representatives told just how one half of New York lives. “Dozens of families in north Har- him by public nurses. They visited 3,384 apartments in the section comprising Elizabeth street, Cleveland Park, Center Court, Canal street, Grand street, Mulberry and Hester streets, Of these apart- ments 3,313 were occupied. In 144 apartments the families both lived and carried on business on the prem- ises. Thirty-four of these families lived in basements, “not at all in ae- cordance with what ge consider our health ideals,” said Dr. Harris. “We made a study of occupancy ot bedrooms, which is very important, because if bedrooms are overcrowded, communicable diseases are bound to spread in normal times, and should an epidemic occur, we would have a sit- uation that might mean disaster. “We found there were 1,059 bed- rooms in which two children slept, ex- clusive of the adults that used the same bedroom—I am thinking only in | lem are living in coal bins and cel- Ps FA BROOKLYN WORKERS WILL HEAR CHINESE SPEAKER, Buckner yesterday traced $50,000} hours plus the Saturday half-day ad- | tion of wealthy farmers, bars Canad-|lars and paying $25 and $30 a month| terms of children, who are the in- of Merton’s bonds to the account of | justment. j}ian milk from the United States and|for such quarters,” declared James 5 nie material, susceptible to | Jesse Smith, Daugherty’s right hand ha for Corruption. | thus limits sharply the quantity of | Middleton of the North Harlem Com-| @8¢ase ; . it DUNNE, WEINSTONE, WICKS AGAINST WAR ON CHINA corruption man, who met his death ‘ ee iaaeatons Siibe teel- | milk arriving on the New York uilar- | munity Council. “Thay were Sixty-seven bedrooms mysteriously in Daugherty’s apart- mers of P ket. Canada furnishes 200,000 quarts| Walter Ife, of the Fair Play Ren | in whieh, e from «dult occupancy, Workers of Brooklyn will Friday, February 18, at 8 Brooklyn. There will also be a Chines: demonstrate against war with China, p. m. at the Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan Ave., Get off at the Flushing Ave. station, B, M. T. 2 Among the speaker will be W. W. Weinstone, H. M. Wicks, and Wm. F. Dunne. e speaker. Admission is free. mendations and watching them being kicked about the lawn by the jolly old senators. The French government does not hesitate to inform the president that it does not intend to be caught with- out a girdle when the next war breaks out. England grins and intends to advise Washington that its heart throbs with peaceful desires but what can be done when France bars the way? Britain then sets about lay- ing the keels of a few more cruisers and dispatches another ship-load of soliders to China. Peace under capi- talism is an illusion. All governments are working their chemical departments overtime. Poi- sonous gases of rare deadliness are| being invented. Tho several govern- ments have officially frowned on the use of poison gas and vowed not to use it in the next war, they are pro- ducing it in large quantities. Yet, they raise their eyebrows in feigned horror when they read that the war department of the Soviet Union is preparing for the inevitable attack of its enemies. This may be dis- pleasing to the pacifists who profess a great love for the Soviet Union but don’t like to see good boys using their knuckles on bad boys, ICARDO Trevino, general secre- tary of the Mexican Confedera- tion of Labor, is reported to have urged the Mexican workers to pro- duce more native products and to boycott foreign products, “especially those of the United States.” This is a good way of striking a blow at im- perialism. The Chinese used the boy- cott weapon with considerable effect on the Japanese and British imperial- ists. But the Mexican workers should realize that whatever sacri- fices they make will be unavailing to them in the long run if they leave government power in the hands of the rising Mexitan bourgeoisie that Calles represents. The workers and peasants of Mexico are facing the bullets of American imperialism. It is well they should have no illusions about the aims of the native capi- talists. (Continued on Page Five) Dine eoeceeenesses “The imperialists realize this, and under the direction of Great Britain they are using armed forces for the | third time against China while order- ing the Northern militarists to at- tack the National Army., LONDON, Feb. 16.—Oswald Mose- ly, newly elected laborite member of the house of commons, caused an up- roar in commons today when he heckled Sir Austen Chamberlain, for- eign minister, on the British Govern- ment’s action in sending troops to China, “Under what treaty rights are British troops being landed on Chi- nese soil?” queried Mosely. “The right of a state to protect the lives of its nationals abroad,” an- swered Sir Austen. “This right does not depend on any treaty.” Eugene Chen, Chinese nationalist foreign minister, has raised new questions concerning British troop movements and the financing of the Hankow concession, according to re- ports reczived here today, and Owen (Continued on Page Five) ment in Washington several years ago. Smith was the go-between for Daugherty and the corruptionists. The $50,000 was-given to the late John King, republican national com- mitteeman from Connecticut, as part of the $441,000 paid to Daugherty, Miller, Daugherty’s co-defendant, King and Smith for the approval of a $7,000,000 claim of Merton’s, ac- cording to Buckner. Mal Daugherty, Harry’s brother, was on the stand yesterday. He ad- mitted he had transferred to Harry the Jess Smith “extra account.” Repeating his admission that Harry had destroyed certain records belong- ing to the Midland Bank, Mal unwill- ingly presented further evidence of his brother’s guilt. The records were destroyed after the Wheeler commit- tee had begun its investigation of the activities of the Ohio gang, according to Mal’s testimony. “IT couldn't make head or tail of them,” was the lame excuse offered by Daugherty for the destruction of the bank records, according to Mal. The accounts for the two Daugherty brothers as well as the ledger sheets of Smith’s mysterious account are missing. The trial will be resumed today. SENATOR GEORGE GIVES BANKER DAWES FARM RELIEF BILL CREDIT WASHNGTON, Feb. 16. — Vice- president Dawes was publicly credited today with having fathered the Mc- Nary-Haugen farm -relief bill to which President Coolidge is opposed, on its successful journey through the senate. Describing Dawes as the “directing genuis” behind the bill,. Senator George (D) of Georgia, protested against credit being given to a “cer- tain ex-governor of Illinois.” The president of this distinguished body should be accorded full credit for enactment of the McNary-Haugen bill by this chamber.” Caraway said the president should have consulted Jardine instead of Mel- lon to get an advisory opinion on how (Continued on Page Two) Shem ed to enforce the law, it was to be! utged at today’s Women’s Trad Union League meeting. Enforcemen of the law will be well nigh impos-| sible. But even this compromise proposal is objected to by the employers’ rep- resentative on the commission. Backed ! by the open shop Associated Indus-' tries and Utica textile manufacturers for whom he is counsel, Merwin K. Hart submits his dissenting opinion to that part of the commission’s re- | port to the legislature. Considering the importance of New | York state industrial ally and that it} is the most populous center, the com- mission’s report on a shorter work week for women and children is some- thing for labor nationally to heed. | lobbied for the bill in the expectation | Qpponents of the 48-hour law who} testified at the commission hearings were mainly from the Women’s Par- ty,—a textile trade paper editor who | painted a picture of havoc wrought, he said, by the Massachusetts 48-hour law,—and manufacturers. A brief against protective legislation “going too far,” prepared by the anti-union National Industrial Conference Board, | was presented by the Associated In- dustries. , Kovaleski protested against the section of the report advising no fur-| _ thier labor law change for five years after those based on the present sur- vey. He also disagreed with sections criticizing New York city building | trades unions for maintaining closed books. mendation that workmen’s compensa- (Continued on Page Three) ~~ Coal Barons Offer Taft as Their Agent ( MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 16.—Both the miners’ committee for negotiation of a wage scale in the central competi- tive coal mining field, and the oper- ators submitted plans today. ' The es- sential difference is that the oper- ators’ program provides for an open- ly recognized arbitration board, to prune wages to the point where coal mining requires no more of a payroll in the union fields than in the un- crmaniaeel cheap labor districts of the south. This board would have vast powers, and would be controlled by its neutral members, appointed by the chief jus- tice of the supreme court of’ the United States, if not agreed upon by the two parties. The union program, as presented by International President John L. Lewis, allows for the creation of a) board of technical advisers, counsel, rate experts, and so on, to be selected by the present conference, and to! meet on all questions of dispute over the application of the contract. Lewis attacked the Interstate Com- merce Commission, unfair freight rates, he said, are largely responsible for the demoralized conditions in union fields. He’ declared that the republican na- tional committeemen from West Vir- (Continued on Page Two) Dance He dissented from the recom- | a day for metropolitan breakfast | ables. “Pure bunk”, was the reply of |to the charge that Canadian milk is | impure. The .impurity charge | imerely a blind to cover the unfair | restrictions placed upon Canadian | farmers, he said. “The impure milk is not legislated against, as is seen by the fact that twice the bacteria | content is approved in the bill as is} permitted by the city health depart-| ment”, Dr. Harris declared. Determined to fight the sitet boosting measure, Dr. Harris threat- }ened to permit the sale of Maryland and West Virginia milk in New York | | City. “The New York farmers who} | that the price of milk will be forced | | higher are doomed to disappointment, | for as soon as a stringency results in| the supply I shall allow Maryland} land West Virginia milk to be sold in| the city,” he said. Milk dealers are confident, however, that prices will | go up. Pe Gan Large-scale Adulteration, | ALBANY, Feb. 16—The methods employed by the diary barons in the (Continued on Page Three) | Assn., declared the rent situation on | day is just as critical for 90 per cent of the workers as it was six years Dr. Harris told of reports made to, a single child was housed for sleep- ing purposes. “There were 458 bedroms where Health Commissioner Louis I. Harris |ago when the rent laws were enacted. | jthree children slept in addition to (Combines on Page ie ve) LABOR TO ANSWER BOSSES’ JUDGE, _ ROSALSKY, WITH U, S, CONFERENCE New York Workers Form 6 Peter Cloakwnskers Defense Committee to Voice Labor’s Protest The workers’ answer to Judge Rosalsky and his savage sen- tences against striking cloakmakcrs will be given by a national The Cloakmakers’ Defense Commit- \tee, which swung into action today in | behalf of the victimized union men following its organization by a dele- gate committee elected at the Webster Hall meeting on Feb. 5, declared that | lits first big job is to crystallize na- tional protest against Rosalsky. | Defense of the prisoners and the re- lief of their families, the formation of committees to ) visit various shops NO DISARMAMENT 16.—Italy’ ROME, Feb. |reply to President Coolidge’s dis- armament pronosals, which wil! be a} |refusal, will be handed to the Ameri- | lean amby dor shortly, according to| the Stefani semi-official agence Italy refuses to bind herself to any| reduction of lesser naval craft, and} | intimates that the submarine will be} |the great weapon with will oppose perior armament”— jot what country not stated but plainly | either England or France. WASHINGTON, “Feb. 16.—-France’s note of rejection was being studied {today. It seemed to afford but little near future toward further naval disarmament. Indeed, Secrétary of State Kellogg characterized it indi- which Italy| |hope of any concrete success in the) FOR LONG TIME, NOW THE SONG OF THE DIPLOMATS formal | tectly as “striking a serious blow at| the whole cause of disarmament. Future moves on the part of this go ernment, if any, will, however, a the receipt of replies from Great Britain, Italy and Japan, the other powers addressed last week. No Hope In League. | In no official qua in Wa ing- ton is there any hope of the Geneva conference accomplishing anything real in the way of disarmament, de- | spite the expression of lofty hopes in the French note that the Geneva gathering is working toward the same goal as President Coolidge proposed. | The British government at Wash- ington in 1921-22 refused to join with }the United States and Japan in ap- plying the 5-5-3 ratio to auxiliary (Continued on Page Two) *| conference to be held here in the near future. Sepa SRP ae |and unions to tell the truth about the | sentences, and the holding of mass protest meetings are listed as the committee’s first big jobs. “We believe that these cruel sen- | tences struck a blow at all American |labor, and that it is the duty of all | workers to help free the brother cloakmakers, lest similar sentences be meted out to other workers in other \strikes. The cloakmakers intend to do all in their power to free these }men, and we call upon all other work- ers to aid in their liberation,” said Henry Robbin, chairman of the De- |fense Committee. He explained that the found for the needy families of | the prisoners will be administered by the Defense Committee. Funds For Families. “Theso women and children need help badly,” he said. “The bread- ner of the family bas been’ taken. and in many cases there are g children so the mother cannot go out to work. They are our re- sponsibility while these cloakmakers din jail.” The Cloakmakers’ Defer se Commit- tee is composed of 55 members, elected at the mass meeting, from all trades. David Biro, of the Furriers’ Shop Chairmens’ Council, is secretary, and the pregs committee, which is- sued the statement, includes Biro, Robbin, Isadore Baruner and Joseph |Kleinman, chairman and secretary of |the Cloakmakers’ Shop Chairmens? 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