The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1927, Page 1

ee 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. cee Outade Row Tork. by maiseto per sean,” NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1927 <a> | The Daily Worker Fights: | For the Organization of the Un- \ ——— FINAL CITY EDITION —$———— organized, For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORK PUBLISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Vol. IV. No. 33. ( ER ¥. Price 3 Cents e ° | e s | CURRENT EVENTS Lewis Making FEENEY LETTER REFUTES STATEMENTS MADE IN LATEST LEWIS CANARD rl S nd C i i conmoet i orlies a Zaris | By T. J. OFLAHERTY : Read the story to the left to get the connection. i is sometimes cheaper to spend a New Bid to Gharlero, Pu.» September 21, 1922 e : little money than lose a lot. (It FI always is). This sagacious observa- ussians 4) ar Py tion is prompted by reading about a s person who felt he was too poor to a axons Mr. W. 2) Foster ¢ buy a ticket for the Delaney-Maloney . PRU ea RR 4 i ted from $1,500 z ° - ei 4 : eit po grates fies + aha igesed Cas Chioggo Tiiinole Catholics, Anglican Clerics, Government Officials 4 hae a pergiar! Raps Communists While Dear ‘friend Bilis Unite to Rupture Anglo-Soviet Relations bucks to some worthy charity. It’s . © olonset Lo near from you, and lourn that you are still in RE EEE ai te id sie! burglars harigut ; Sessions Halt the qand of the living. T surely appreciate pata ans ee LEE Special To The DAILY WORKER ‘4 : \ azed in for industrial freedom ta the Connelsvill “i ie ; ais 3 ei APAN scvepte Ccolidge’s: proposal SEpecial: to, the Daily Worker): Seaton Be eee tetne slavery has been in extstense for ‘so long. MOSCOW, Feb. 20.—The press of the Union of Socialist for an arms parley. There ioc MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 20. — John L. & 4 aN Soviet Republics publishes correspondence of the former Czarist fe: that: can a ber a agg es Lewis, president of the United Mine Bill 1f looks an tough you have the risnt dope on Mea Bett epg diplomat, Eugene Sablin, living in London, with Teirs “senior = sty pian pe io ae pati bg Japan | Workers, has informed press repre- a6 1 am the only a hp lay tce aa gt dade fins ytnsay ati taal oethe Russian diplomatic representative abroad,” living in Paris. ‘a mows quite well that this arms par- | sentatives here that any offers of aid| Member 0 fp ek eg sata ge Be ‘up the crew thut are fighting this ‘These documents show the existence of very influential or- ¥ ee tae tebe ta on eee oe maint International to the eaters acon’ the sant poworful coal companies in the country. Our ganizations in England, consisting of members of the British goy- 2 fae that 16 Sorthy ot is steel, While | Un in the event of a strike on April ice! are holding out remarkable. We are fichting with cur backs “ the ernment, conservative members of parliament, bankers, ofl in- > the “peace” conference is in session | + Will be refused. ; wall» ‘litaout suffleient funds a) eaapet 1 time ; terests, and other business men buying up shares of expropriated the chemists can be busy on the poi-| The statement is undoubtedly made | again for azsittance, Dut to no aval A) Bo cna Pi eteun: thousand others Russian owners, newspaper editors, such as those of the Daily E | son and the pacifists will not bother | by Lewis at this time as part of the | famlfes have pean ae oon tate Ten colonies arc erected all Mail, and other papers, representatives of various churches in 7 [Bon pes are watching. the} general campaign of the U. M. W. A. have bien acre _ "enema Sania hired thus 1 gurmen England, mainly Anglician and catholic, the Association of a Be nae ace: aeevaaren officials to give the union: leadership ne-bei aupueieed ty the Sheriff of Fayette County. Two-hundred State | British Owners, and with them all, lastly, Russian, Ukrainian, and ; } HANGHAI is tied up by a big} Clearly “100 per cent’ American? Police are scattered over the field. The Jabls are filled with strixe Georgian white guardist organizations. i strike. The nationalist revolu-| character, avoid any charges of radi- ing miners. Six striking miners have been br This organization is arranging] $$$, 2 tionary armies are chasing Sun’s de-|calism and convince the coal operators twenty-five others nave been wounded. Hundreds : campaigns in the press and in parlia- * feated troops over the landscape.| that the U. M. W. A. officials are in many of them erlppled for life. VWaolesalo evictior ment and meetings under the slogan ¥ There are ten thousand foreign|wholehearted accord with them in aatty. “(We need funds, and necd tacn bad, Appeals of strangling the Soviet Union, and e $ 4 troops in Shanghai and on board the | waging war on all militant tendencies over tie country for sista by us, and upoa thi depencs ane very “Immediately Out With the Reds.” ; warships in the harbor. In our opin-|in the union. existence of the struggling men and women of the Connclsville Coke In England instigators of attempts e 4 ion they are almost as useless as ten Assessment Needed. Reeion: . re to rupture Anglo-Soviet relations | IS e . thousand lice. There has been no de-| The U. M. W. A. has about $600,- = ‘ were patronized by Ministers Churchill 9 4 velopment during our time that is|000 in its treasury and if a strike The retent settlement, by the district Officials of District #5 Birkenhead, and particularly Home| ; more conducive to mental satisfac-| occurs when the present contract ex- ae ing blow to the miners of the Coke R qien they Secretary Johnson Hicks, with whom ; Be eat Reena one Ot naaepe, | pevon: tf, will: be. yecnasmey, to: levy. a, Bigned fa the Tarve Hillman interests, in the ol istrict Czarist Adventurers Sablin is main- 10 r | trodden under the tyrant’s heel for|sessments on the membership with . 4 vis ited onnany that taining connection. | centuries, feeding the foe on cold|which to provide relief and finance and left out the Lye a Ag’ eg the cunr 2 In parliament, Locker Lampson and ° | steel and making him like it. organization work in the important solidly pty pele sa fronts fought agataot thic settlement, but the General Knox, Kolchak’s closest arr seen ais Foye | non-union fields now producing about hg Tae aaa thes Yi e demandin; a special convention, and it panions in arms, are principal figures A F. k Bo Th The part played by the working | 65 per cent of the total tonnage. ore aii gritty le Pa ot will be Hel to pay. I find both in the camperee nan ed o Ee sses to under class in the present Chinese revolu-| - The dues-paying membership would wi} v4 § i +4 om . nis very In the report of August 26, 1926, tt goe | tion is worthy of note. In the. past| probably wilnciee financial aid from Eobai gelesen he Dhatetah sree sees Perse wiiiisecrecn is the Ke Sablin polnted out .he ihad achieved Excommunication the workers have been used by other | the all-Russian trade unions who con- important. situetlon- - alas ae ope ckheehueandine thet considerable success, in his anti-Soviet "classes to fight their battles. But| tributed over $5,000,000 to the relief only Nattonai Official that has paid us : eta iba se ” Met War work, owing to the participation of By HELEN BLACK. when the battles were over the work-;fund of the British miners. Vice-President Murray, who lives Det eid i peneet ta he a candidute Russian white guards in the elections, | Open | waebith. on: tie’ Maw ue ers were told to stick their necks into ~ * # éannot find time to visit the ficld. li, r DG y aaa supporting the conservatives, confi- | ; + a eee the yoke and return to the job of} It is admitted in a story carried by for district President, and’ believe me, there wilt be sone un. ot dential co-opegation with Home Secre- Joint Board of the Furtiers’ Union is | producing profits for the bosses. But| the New York World, signed by John have recieved the galtry sun of three thousand dollars fron sirpeaate tary Hicks, and lastly, participation | scheduled to begin this week, accord- | we doubt very much if the Chinese/ J. Leary in its Sunday edition, that 5-to aeln-carry on the strire, witn forty--five tnousund-men involvedy in 5 srostls. gic sl a aa ing to the announcement made by | workers are going to do anything of | the Lewis machine instigated the un- I must now draw to a close, for G "4 Pg ree . | strike, when the whiteguards were 5. ..ident Willi G t x 4 ! : yoni a 7 oe, Gods sake if you can help us, sem % teer strikebreaking |: *¢siden illiam Green of the Amer- j) the sort. They know that but for) seating of William F. Dunne at the a6 80, we need shelter food und elotaing, children are wituout shoes [ Sabie “aa we ceomanteey Sees ‘orl ican Federation of Labor followin | their efforts foreign imperialism and} Portland convention of the American and unable to.go to schools Wishing you every succcus, I remal | crgenteation; ‘wherefore. Hicks <x ‘ : ; . { now co-editor af The DAILY WORK. | aa ces nai at 5 7m) Central Trades and Labor Council on ATTHEW Woll, vice-president | 73, was xt time editor of the | Yours rospectfully, Sablin's opinion, the most favorable) Thursday night. | Labor and aeting-president 01 the Montana State Federation of La- | z ‘i » : } n E business [rid of Communists, Green says; and ||. | National Civic Federation, deiive Hes and the Butte Trades and Labor | * BA Ce 4) withy Detterding at their head, s¢~ tho arStigsayeaill Wepaf metiiad’ of “"" * t j a speech last Friday night before the | Council. | vanced money. ast Thursdays’ expulsions, mado ine | Central Trades and Labor Council! Leary makes a number of: errors a : si Sys ce onic Decem-/ upon the command of the federation { that would damn a labor leader in| jn hj ~-placil ion p hb. f f , er, Sablin repo! sé Ba “| president, indicates } any Seuntsy. Cotiniantite are rei " ont oe 5 Pa Two) ce p38, ni oa — ' gee ane ao hay ants Z VA : al Fen tion of independent Georgia” was the fee i Sy orange yg Sa tomed to bei the ti tf wn y favorite idea of English and American will be * stituti aba of ibe Cantslle ced Goats | F Chore ty Labor Loaclor0 all Pia (ovaee behind Tan oil and ee ee a will | * hen Pdi po sepiisnl “pre- ts. Ch italist - Fy heli 73 LE J a é Z assign very big sums for e sepa- |, ines be ‘ 4s ( dists ation tae Sinan to. the | ROCHESTER SC A Hi | Baro A rs of ‘ “we ane ey lel ration of Georgia from the Soviet | ig phase ve peptic -abipom j Communists regardless of race, creed at Wt seer, eee Setuareawe4 7 Leer Ze ft Zi On 222d, Pee: supplies information in ye-| Green and the International union of- | oh Se = sod er Migs | wher ave yet it wtbiuiliyh to~ cine Covtiwr® poi uw OW pueueZerr “| gard to the Soviet Union to the leader senha Ghee eee = Coe of his-wrath loose on the Jews and | i the ee oan’ ria successful fur ‘strike of last apriite, attri i vi | | ampson an , 5 y 2 * > leged fact that all the militants in| 1se an 0 S | the English Press. ‘Besides this, the |" Billed tor Wedusatags fe . | the needle trades are Jews. 5 | } white ear -sulaieae literature Wien al manus peeing A iuinak | | 7 against the Soviet Union, among ¢ Matthew Woll is a catholic, th | TREBLES FORCES ‘SEPT |: BOOST TM" is the leaflet “‘Destruc-| 100" otter the petrictic leaders of ts \ | ] w catholic, tho not | | British Empire,” by aay @! the patri of the | eg It aay be “news” for many | But One Loses Weapon; | ; 0. OW a e rae Waluetinett Lange. : if ieabes phic ape of Labor have | that not all the craw-thumpers come | Lands in Hospital : ; | How strong the white guardist in-|cclebrate : ie birth of the first Amer- | Lao Boag ch an ay Woll belongs Seacagoud | IN N | C ARAGU A P| E PR IT fluence on the British government rig pegs sis yg Sah Washing- \ | to that section of the A. F. of L.| ROCHESTER, Feb. 20.—Once again orm really is may be judged from Sablin’s| On Not to caught napping, the | that produced the infamous Militia} io Yellow Cab drivers have been report that the Czarist Diplomatic members of the Furriers Joint Board | id Christ, as 4 Sse Bie cavally forced out on strike for the recogni- 3 Embassy has been gradually regain- i vid today to bent 9 as- sonic Ww! : rai’ : * * —-— . : ri #0 | 5 s | fa to acclgene tans Well te taking the se) eet chia oe eee: gia Administration Aims to By HARRY FREEMAN. Harris Says Shortage _|ing the bys gy ese wution from parece fy dha plies eting if i Pecipe ar vie ie | yellow-dog company union with its | * i; ‘ A 4 meeting de facto reco nig 0 x . | lead in fighting Communism. It is) concomitant—low wages. The strike | Overawe Liberals . Bate, saat eee nigcel vere ce Coming This Fall part of the British authorities. {or what not. It is understood that the |) no accident that he is acti ie | streets of New York last night. Snow- opening of the battle wi \ a acting presi- | rojiowed repeated efforts towards set- basa shovelli tenet tf, To ensure better contact, repre- cpening o ttle will be similar dent of the Civic Federation. He is| tiement by a committee of 26 repre- By LAURENCE TODD. lo Ret aioe dtbekee spn New York’s workers can chalk | sentatives of both the Anglician and(to that in the Internatoinal Ladies’ es sae ‘of Sy s me ve serving imperialism and the church in both capacities. It is a powerful combination, but not as powerful as the organized power of the millions of American wage earners organized and unorganized, * * 2 At a recent banquet given by the Civie Federation, Daniel Williard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, delivered a lecture on the benefits derived from the B. O. plan formulated by William M. Johnston, former president of the International Association of Machinists, or rather by an industrial expert by the name of Beyer, The railroad magnate de- clared. that the plan proved its worth. One shop that was considered a dead ioss by the road began to show a profit after the B. & O. plan went into operation. Who benefitted by the increased efficiency was not made clear by Williard, but he did not show that the workers gained any- thing. Neither aid they. * BN McPherson is here to prove that all the suckers do not live in Los Angeles. The evangelist is having a gay time, collecting lots of money and seeing the sights. She took in the night clubs and exhorted the habitues of the gyp joints to be good. The noted Texas Guinan, who runs one of those hold-up places, in- (Continued on Page Three) BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS t TONIGHT senting organized labor of Rochester. Each time the committee called at the office of the company they were | duly informed that the president was out and could not be reached. This finally exasperated the A. F. of L. committee, who were promised that/| they would receive a call from Mr. Fred Zorn at eight o'clock, Feb. 16, ‘The committee waited till 8.45. It| then became clear that the Yellow Cab company did not desire peace. The| | strike order was issued and is in full effect. State Power Appears. More than twenty policemen were placed at the New York Central sta- tion for strike breaking duty. They chased the hundred pickets who were on duty the first day of the strike, and interfered with their work. A gangster driver in the employ of the company shot Leon Brockett, a striker, in the right leg, just about a block from the New York Central station. The scab, Russel! Sciolino, was. arrested. Seah Losses Bar. Joseph Gazett, who, according to police report, made an attack on strik- ers with an iron bar, lost the bar and is in the hospital suffering severe con- tusions. s Yellow Cab drivers make little monev, The pay envelopes of a doz- en men for a 77-hour week averaged around $15 each. All organized labor in Rochester is lined up with. the striking cab drivers. IS E WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (FP).— Mexico, as well as Nicaragua, is threatened by the sudden trebling of the American armed force in the lat- ter republic. When the Navy Department an- nounced, on Feb. 17, that it was send- ing 1,600 additional marines, as well as six more aftplanes, to reinforce Admiral Latimer in Nichragua, the ominous meaning of the Coolidge- Mellon move was clear. Mexico-was to be reminded of the ease with which any administration at Washington could make undeclared war on’ a Latin American republic, regardless of the wishes of congress or the ten- dency of public opinion. It was suggested in the State De- partment that the number of ma- rines and American bluejackets now available in Nicaragua would be suf- ficient to. meet any force which th« Sacasa Liberal government might muster. In view of the fact that the liberals have carefully safeguarded all Americans and their property dur- ing the revolution, and in view of the fact that Adolfo Diaz was originally placed in power, in 1910, by the ac- tive participation of American forces in battle against the liberals, the new move is interpreted by friends of Sa- casa’s cause as an attempt to over- awe the liberals. Two further suggestions have been made—that the coercion of Nicara- gua is to be completed in order to prevent Sacasa from exposing any (Continued on Page Three) a little closer to open fireplaces—and the jobless ‘walked the streets of the’ Bowery in frayed overcoats looking for work. Long lines of men, their coat collars turned up against the whistling wind, waited outside of Bowery missions in the hope of getting a cup of coffee and a chunk of bread. They were even willing to listen to the religious slop handed out by the Salvation Army to escape the snow and the biting wind. Hundreds of other men—most of them old—crept out of the basements of missions where they are permitted to stay during the winter. The snow has its virtues: it provides contrac- tors with contracts and the jobless with jobs: so hundreds of old men ambled out of the missions to clear the city streets of snow. They have to work ten hours a day and the pay is only fifty cents an hour. But that’s better than staying in a mission base- au and living on coffee and the gos- pel. “This Ain't No Fun.” “Let me tell you, brother, this ain’t no fun,” one of the workers told me when I asked him how much he got an hour. He was an old man, and his xnarled hands, which gripped his shovel, were bare. “It’s a damned cold day.” He pulled his ragged mack- inaw closer and began shovelling vig- orously. The foreman was standing a few feet away. Read The Daily Worker Every Day down two big red-letter dates right now. June 1, that’s the day your rents are scheduled to soar. September 1, that’s the day your milk follows rents. Twenty cents a quart for ordinary pasteurized stuff, may be the figure yeached, in the opinion’ of Health Commissioner Louis I. Harris. He knows, according to the repub- lican politicians, who insinuate tha‘ Harris knows more than he’s willing te admit on milk graft. Right row Harris is posing as the protector of the “peepul.” And here’s his dope: “Due to the passage of the Taber- Lenroot bill barring Canadian milk from the United States and to thé normal increase of metropolitan popu- lation, New York’s going to face an acute milk shortage next fall.” Marris has been holding secret con- fabs with the milk dealers. What hap- pers is not divulged to the workers, the catholic churches and the Russian white guardists organized their own Christian young men and women. The British people, through fascists, conservatives, oil men and business men of England arc becoming the plaything in the hands of a miserable handful of Czarist flunkeys, with whom members of the British cabinet are maintaining direct connection. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Garment Workers’ Union, but it is possible ail formalities may be dis- pensed with. In spite of the detailed story re- cently published by the fur merchant, Motty Eitingon, showing that it had been the fur manufacturers who so stubbornly prolonged the fur strike and refused even to discuss terms of settlement, President Green has the audacity in his latest statement to say, (Continued on Page Five) SHANGHAI LABOR IN HUGE STRIKE TO HELP ADVANCING CANTONESE Labor Strikes at Foe’s Base As Koumintang Armies Sweep on in Victorious March BULLETIN. SHANGHAI, Feb. 20.—Reports have reached this city that Eugene whose only inteerst in milk after alt] Chen and British Charge Owen O'Malley today signed the agreement on is the nourishment of their children | which they have been working for weeks. Negotiations were recently Marris and the milk dealers agreed] broken off, but the smashing victory of the people’s army forced resump- though that prices are going up un- less added sources of supply can be added, conclusion that today’s 15-cent milk from now. tion of the parley. SHANGHAI, Feb. 20.—A general strike has been declared in this city Tnasmuch as it is impossible to grow] ostensibly to celebrate the victory won by the nationalist government a milk-giving cow between February] troops over the forces of Sun Chuan Fang, but actually to strike a vital 20 and September 1, it’s a foregone} blow at the heart of Sun’s base of operations. Approximately 100,000 workers downed tools in answer to the call for will look pretty cheap six months} a cessation of labor issued by the leaders of the Shanghai labor unions, (Continued on Page Two) ONE NIGHT IN THE YEAR WHEN é *