The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1927, Page 1

NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, > 5°" NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927 <a> | | Wall Street Plans to)Misery, Disease, Squalor | |'tintt 2 hem e ° On International Bank Smother Nicaragua Part of Housing Problem; | ',° mim! >! | ———— 8 Workers Tell Own Storiés | show cause why they should not be restrained from damaging the Joint Sending Enough Marines to Police Whole State; Only Way to Save Puppet President Diaz aca pr : > " | z The DAILY WORKER today gives two different views of New York's housing problem, which Assemblyman Jenks toard’s heavy interests in the n- ternational Union Bank, attorneys for the reactionaries in the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ | Union suffered a serious rebuff. Su- | WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The American government has de- / | preme Court Justice Bijur cut short | cided to smother the Nicaraguan civil war, hoping thereby to pre- s¢ys doesn’t exist. Jenks, whose comfortable quarters in a a long argument by Morris Hiliquit, vent a general conflagration in Central America, where the people) /wxurious Albany hotel convinces him that “there is no chief ‘right wing counsel by ruling in general are writhing under the financial tyranny of the United) emergency” might take a stroll along New York's east side, States. through the Brooklyn workers’ areas and out in Harlem and This was the only explanation advanced today for the sudden| the Bronx. There he will find pale children, shuffling men dispatch of 1,400 additional marines to the little republic. With} whose environment has crushed dll hope, disease-breeding these reinforcements, the United States will have in Nicaragua, a| tenements and nauseating, filthy quarters where it is crim- inal even to house rats. ns FINAL CITY EDITION FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections. | Be sure to get them both. SUBSCRIPTION RATBS: In New York, by mail, $8.00 Published Dail xcept Sund: by THE 0 2 Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. C6. Es ‘First’ str Fg fet et PUBLISHING CO,, 23 First’ Street, New York, N. ¥. Vol. IV. No. 32. Price 5 Cents Kuomintang Army Now Sweeping On Toward Shanghai Reactionary Forces Fleeing in Disorder as People’s Armies Capture Treaty Port SHANGHAI, Feb. 18.—The drive of the nationalist revolu- | tionary armies on Shanghai continues, and the Chekiang forces appear unable to offer resistance. The Canton forces today captured Ningpo, a treaty port, and the capital of Chekiang. wing locals has nothing to do with the Joint Board’s action in seeking to protect its interests in the bank. Justice Bijur continued the hear- ing, taking brie and affidavits | under consideration. A decision on the Joint Board’s application for that the alleged expulsion of left mobile force of rifles equal in size to the Sacasa revolutionary I | 5 army, and, of course, enormously superior in equipment. | CURRENT EVENTS|) | By T. J. O'FLAHERTY | | BRS Oi Sekt RAMEE LEELA SETA, HE sum of $25,000 was awarded by-a jury to a resident of Spring-| good roads and transportation. | Rosalsky Victim’s Home field, Massachusetts, who slipped on a banana peel in the New York, New| Haven and Hartford railroad station, | suffering serious injury. When the! accident happened is not stated but by the time he who slipped gets the award he will in all probability have | slipped into a grave. The railroad intends to appeal to the United States supreme court. | | * ISTANCE may make the heart} grow fonder provided local com- petition is not too keen,’ but charity begins at home. Hence I am calling | the attention of the multitudes to the | 1. L. D. bazaar, which will be held] in New York on March 10, 11, 12 and| 18., tho Chicago is also howling for | publicity. The International Labor | Defense is worthy of the support of | all class conscious workers. There | are only three weeks left to push the | sale of tickets and help make the af- fair a success. Money is needed to defend victims of capitalist courts and conduct campaigns to halt the) bloody hands of the fascist oppress- ors in Poland, Lithuania, Italy and other countries, ¥ * *, ee ewe Four days for New York; three for Chicago. That’s about fair since we have a subway and other convenien- ces here that do not exist in the windy city, tho as far as gas is con- cerned we have our share of it. This is another way of saying that the | Chicago bazaar (it’s called carnival out there) will last three days. But| the men and women from the mid-| west live fast and furiously and stay | up late. So they expect to accom-| plish as much in three days as we of | the effete east will in four. From | what we have learned about the pre- | parations for the Chicago bazaar | from personal correspondence we can | sincerely urge all those who read | these lines to patronize the afiair,| which will be held in the Ashland} Auditorium on Feb. 25, 26 and 27. | reer aes | Rakovsky, Soviet envoy to! France, has been tried in effigy | in Jassy, Roumania, before a mili-| tary tribunal. He is charged with (Continued on Page Two) | give him enough men to patrol both | the northern and southern borders ot | Nicaragu. «ter a fashion. The smothering process ap-| parently is to involve policing the entire country, from Hon-| duras on the north to Guatemala on the south—no light undertak- | ing in view of the searcity of How long it will be necessary can only be guessed, but the concensus to- | day was that the marines are in Nica- | ragua to stay for a long time. For Conquest. fell There was not much pretense in| Washington today that the marines, | bluejackets and airplanes have been) concentrated in Nicaragua merely | to “protect American lives and prop-| erty.” A handful of marines could | that—as they have done it on} | | di he force being concentrated in} Nicaragua today is different. It is enormously larger, better equipped. Other Countries Angry. Guatemala; to.the north, and Costa } Rica, to the south, are out of sym-| pathy with the state department’s | aiding President Diaz. both coun- | tries resisted pressure from Wash- | ington, and refused to recognize | Diaz. . | Pro-Diaz “Neutrality.” ‘The reinforcements being sent Ad- miral Latimer, commander of the) American occupational forces, will Both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts have al- ready been pretty well taken out of the war zone through Latimer’s de- elaring tie “neutral zones.” Like- wise he will have enough men to po-| lice the railroad that links up the | principal cities of the country. This railroad is owned by the Nicaraguan government; hence it cannot be said | that in protecting this road the ma- rines are “protecting American prop-| erty.” Airplane Police. The airplanes being sent to Nica- ragua are understood to be for the purpose of patrolling the borders to prevent the liberals from receiving new supplies of arms. This is to be the “smothering” process—to ,choke the war to death through stoppage of supyfties. Despite the large force of marines now on Nicaraguan soil, there is at close hand most of the scouting fleet, (Continued on Page Two) REVEAL ORGANIZED CONSPIRACY TO INVADE UNION OF SOVIET REPUBLICS MOSCOW, Feb. 18.—Charges that the German General, Hoffman, maker of the Brest-Litovsk treaty, has of- fered to lead an army against the Soviet Union were made today in the newspaper. Izvestia. The Izvestia reveals that General Hoffman made the offer to Locker- Lampson, British, M. P., on condition that the M. P. raise a fund of £200,- 000,000. The Izvestia publishes correspon- dence betwen the former czarist am- bassador Giers, now. in Paris, and M. Sablin, former Kerensky charge in London, This correspondence states that Locker-Thompson couldn’t raisc the funds for the expedition due to the impoverished conditions in Great Britain. Sablin a Jew Killer. Eugene Sablin was an organizer of Black Hundreds under the Czar, and transferred his allegiance readily to Kerensky aftter the fall of Nicholas Il. The Menshevik minister sent him abroad to raise money, and Sablin remained to organize invasions of Bolshevik Russia after Kerensky fell. Dine The first letter published over Sablin’s signature is from London and is dated shortly after the calling off of the British general strike and thanks Minister of the Interior Sir William Joynson-Hieks for the en- fistment of White Russians as emer- gency police and strike breakers. But the Pravada declares it will later pub- lish other facsimilies up to the end of last year. Planning Discord. M. Sablin claims he is already “re- cognized” by the British as the repre- sentative of the Russian emigres and expresses the hope that this recogni- (Continued on Page Two) Latest Student Suicide Howard Fisher, 23, of Morning- side College, is the last of a num- ber om recent student suicides. He left no message before taking gas, but several of his predecessors in the act ascribed it to the increased ten- sion of living, and to poverty. occasions in the last SWEOy | a) Every New York worker knows a thousand times more than Assemblyman Jenks whether an emergncy still exists Send in your own story of your personal ex- Don’t mind the punctuation or grammar, just give us the unadorned facts. in housing. periences or those of your fellow workers. Names will not be used, if requested. Shows Real Emergency | ‘4, the By HARRY FREEMAN The housing “emergency” is over, they tell us, and everything is jake. It is for the landlord. Two weeks ago I went to see Jos- eph Goldstein, who attempted sui- cide rather than face the savage jail sentences meted “out to striking cloakmakers by Judge Rosalsky. | to. jchen through a —and it is kept Goldstein wasn’t home. He was in| +, tet me look at then. e Harlem hospital, hovering be-! tween life and death. But that’s in- |p; . . . | Emily Post. cidental. t's of the Goldstein ing her visitors in the kitchen. apartment” that I’m going for to sing. & The Goldsteins—there are four of | them—live in a dark little three-room flat on 110th St., three doors from | the ist. Ave. L. The Goldsteins can’t hear the First Ave. L. because | they live in the rear of the house, on | a first floor that is suspiciously like a basement. The rooms are small and damp, and It looked darker Joseph Goldstein when it’s cold (and it was the day I Goldsteins) stein sits near the coal stove in her} tiny kitchen to keep warm. She has If the Goldstein flat is heated in any other way I did not notice it. A little light filters into the kit- above the sink. The window is small opened, the cold would pour in, What the other rooms are like I }do not know. Mrs. Goldstein refused every rule of etiquette laid down by) She insists on receiv- I did succeed in catching a glimse of the bedroom adjoining the kitcnen. smaller than the kitchen. Yet the Goldsteins are singularly fortunate—for a cloakmaker’s famil | forty-five dollars a week—occasional- ly—and he is blessed with only one (Continued on Page Three) tional will be given next week. NAME LAGUARDIA IN VOTING PROBE OF 17TH DISTRICT Fiorella La Guardia, erstwhile “so cialist” and now a republican con- |gressman, led gangs of “gorillas” from one polling booth to another in the November elections, a Tammany leader testified yesterday. A general Mrs. Gold- window perched shut. If it were the Tammany-republican machines in New York City, under way in the 17th Assembly District, brought forth the charges. Three carloads of gangsters swept through the 17th District on election ‘ht, the disgruntled Tammany, poli- ans declared. Charles Firestone, one of them, testified that the 17th was “formrely a socialist district, but the socialists became democrats, and as they made money, moved out an¢ | became republicans.” |Read The Daily Worker Every Day She violates and damper and gets as much a Woll Shows. True Character of Right Wing in Labor Movement F any remnants of working class principle hung in tatters about the shoulders of the leaders of the right wing drive in New York on trade unionism free from capitalist control they were thrown to the winds by Matthew Woll, vice-pres- ident of the American Federation of Labor, | Thursday night, in his speech from the throne when the unseating of delegates of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and Fur- riers’ Unions came before the Central Trades and Labor Council. Woll’s speech—and on this reports from all) sources are in agreement—was a combination of anti-Semitism, Civic Federation reaction and denunciation of foreign-born workers. It was the speech of a fascist. He tried to incite Americans against Jews, Jews and Americans against Greeks and Chris- tians against Jews. He stated that the issue was “Americanism” and urged the council delegates to stand behind the A. F. of L. committee for this reason. In the face of the conviction of strikers and pickets by the capitalist courts working in co- operation with the right wing and the sentencing of these workers to prison for long terms, Woll accused the Communists and left wing of “ter- rorizing” members of the needle trades unions. Right wing gangsters with police protection have slugged and stabbed rank and file members of | the needle trades unions but there have been no prison sentences handed out to these underworld elements. Woll had nothing to say on this mat- ter. Communist workers, of course, came in for Woll’s most unrestrained abuse. The reason for this is clear. : The Communist press has exposed Woll and it will continue to expose him. He is an agent of the bosses in the labor movement. He is acting president of the Civic Federation, the organiza- tion with which the capitalist class penetrates the labor movement. Communist workers ex- pose Woll in their unions. Woll is also the agent of an international or- Read The Daily Worker Every Day Listen ganization—the Roman Catholic Church. Inthe labor movement he carries out the policy of both the Civic Federation and the instructions of the political wing of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. It was Woll, who at the Detroit convention of the A. F. of L. in spite of the drive of the open shoppers, tried to prevent the trade unions com- |ing to the assistance of the Passaic strike al- though the workers were members of the United Textile Workers affiliated to the American Fed- eration of Labor. It is Woll who fought the hardest against any assistance being given to the Mexican labor movement in its struggle against feudal catholi- |cism and American imperialism. | We say that the right wing is welcome to the | \leadership of Matthew Woll and that this leader- |ship whose policy, under the guidance of labor’s most powerful enemies, is becoming more reac- tionary day by day, will produce, as the rank and file of the labor movement comes to understand its full implications, a revolt that will send Woll and his ilk whimpering back to their capitalist masters. The right wing is wrecking the labor move- ment by open destruction of unions as in New York, by a deliberate conspiracy against the rank and file as in the United Mine Workérs and by open co-operation with the bosses as in the ma- chinists and railway shop unions. In the United Mine Workers of America the denunciation of Communists and the Communist Party was followed by destruction of allrank and file democracy. This same policy will be carried out in every union where Woll and other agents of the bosses gain the upper hand. The unseating of Communist -and left wing delegates in the Central Trades and Labor Coun- cil will be a signal for a further extension of the powers of the Tammany Hall bureaucracy at the expense of the rank and file and a still closer alliance of officialdom with the enemies of the labor movement.- This is the real meaning of Woll’s speech and the action against the left wing delegates of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ and Furriers’ Unions. an order restraining the Interna- | | probe of election methods used by} In Complete Control. ; Authoritative reports to the China Press, English language daily of Shanghai, said the nationalist forces were completely in control of Hangchow although the southern troops had not oc- cupied the city. A Kuomintang government has already sup- planted that of the fleeing Chekiang officials. | After defeating the Sun Chuan-Fang troops on three fronts | yesterday, the Cantonese continued their drive toward Kashing, | where Sun is reported entrench- |ing himself in a desperate en- deavor to halt the southerners’ drive toward Shanghai. Fall of City Near. The atmosphere in Shanghai today was extremely tense as it was evi- |dent that the deciding struggle for |the possession of Shanghai is devel- oping swiftly. Foreign officials here declared the capture of the interna- | tional city will come with lightning- | like suddenness, Twenty thousand of Sun Chuan- Fang’s troops who evacuated Hang- chow. yesterday were entraining to- day for Kashing, where the main line of defense is being established, with a second line at Sungkiang. Four thousand Sun troops arrived from Ningpo, and were dispatched to Sung- WOLL EMBRACES 'B.&0, PLAN AFTER ATTACKING REDS Having led the manhunt against militants in the Central Trades and Labor Council, Matthew Woll has been given the glad hand by the em- pioyer-controlled National Civic Fed- eration. At a federation luncheon at the Lawyers Club, Woll took the B. & O. plan of “efficiency unionism” to his bosom and patting its head affec- tionately, gave it his warmest ap- proval. At the close of the after-dinner | speehes by labor leaders and railroad |employers the officers of the Civic | Federation were instructed to appoint | a special committee to study the plan. | Bulogies of the new method of car- rying on the trade union movement were given by M. Woll and Daniel | | | of the Civic Federation and vice-presi- | representative of the employers on |the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The B. & O. president described |the plan as a money saver as well as a harmonizer of labor-capital rela- | tions. With the same men, the same tols and the same wages the road was able to get “better results” in its Pittsburgh shops by the aid of the union-management cooperation plan. | Matthew Woll, as toastmaster, | lauded the new policy of the A. F. of L. of encouraging cooperation be- |tween men and management and in- creasing production and eliminating inefficiency. Among the “diners were Hugh Frayne, A. F. of L. representative; Peter J. Brady, president, the Federa- tion Bank; William L. Debost, presi- dent, New York Chamber of Com- merce; Haley Fiske, president, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. | Willard. The first, is acting president | | dent of the A. F. of L. Willard is a) kiang this morning. More troops are expected to arrive from Mingpo shortly. Attack Chang-Tso-Lin. Reports from Chengchow, Honan Province, indicate that Marshal Wu Pei-Fu’s generals Wei Yi-San, Tient | Wei-Chin and Chin Yu-Nao are co- | operating in a movement to resist the | advance of Chang Tso-Lin’s Fenctien | troops through Honan to Hupeh Pro- |vince. Wi Pei-Fu appears. powerless | to control his subordinates, who, it is expected, will engage the Fengtien |troops in an attempt to prevent their | crossing the Yellow river. | The Fengtien troops stationed to |the north of Kiangsu have been or- | dered to assist General Sun Chuan- | Fang in ‘his stand before Shanghai, |aceording to a report from Nanking. Left Denounces Expulsion of ~ FourLocals | | Charging the reactionary General Executive Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union with illegal action in its arbitrary expul- | sion proceedings of February 14th, | the four “left wing” local, 2, 9, 22 land 35 yesterday dispatched a letter | to the International officials refusing | to recognize their expulsion order. | Since the “erm of the General | Executive Board of the I. L. G. W. U. at which this expulsion was decided upon, was held without the knowledge | of the “left wing” members, and they {were not summoned to attend this | session, the four locals maintain that | they cannot be expelled by this group }on any charge whatsoever. Show Bad Faith. The locals also point out that in | stating that these locals are expelled }for not paying their per capita tax, the International officials show their |“utter bad faith,” since they them- | selves have been interfering with the collection of dues in the locals and | have without authorization collected from members of these locals an amount far in excess of the per capita tax they mention. | Read The Daily Worker Every Day Brands Preparedness as Torch of War MILWAUKEE, (FP).—“The last preparedness movement assisted in | plunging this country into the world war”, writes Dan Hoan, mayor of Milwaukee, in reply to the Natl. | Army & Navy Preparedness Commit- tee. The committee had asked the mayor to name 3 Milwaukee citizens | as members. He declined. AMALGAMATED MEETING AT COOPER UNION WILL EXPOSE BECKERMAN’S LATEST’ EXPULSION A mass meeting of the Amalgamated Clothing Worker's, under the aus- At the SECOND ANNUAL BANQUET AND DANCE pices of the Trades Union Educational League, will be held today at 1 p, m. sharp at Cooper Union, to protest against the Beckerman administra- tion in this union. New facts arising out of the expulsion of the delegates to the Central Trades & Labor Council will be discussed and tactics will be formulated to overcome the readjustment program of Beckerman. The following speakers will be there: Ben Gold, Louis Hyman, J. Boruchowitch, S. Lipzin, L. Nelson, Ben Gitlow, Lena Chernenko, P. Aronberg, A. Rumulgia, C. 8. Zimmerman. Admission is free. Everyone should come and bring his fellow workers along. of the Daily Worker Builders D Monday, Feb, 21 (Washington's Birthday Eve.) Yorkville Casino, 86 St. & 3 ance ¢ ; Combination Ticket,. $1.50. Ave. ~ al