The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1927, Page 1

} | | | ph t The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized, For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 34. CURRENT EVENTS | By T. J. O'FLAHERTY Geach nee bie is no longer considered bad form to speak in Hyde Park, London. Not so long ago, the hardy subject who. betook himself to the soap box was looked upon as one who had *more bunk than brains in his system. Tall lean men used to talk about the coming evolutionary era when collar buttons would grow automatically on sérawny necks and nothing would be left to human effort except eating, drinking and a few other pleasant diversions. This sounded good but those who carry society on their backs paid little attention to the fancy pre- dictions. They went to the nearest pub, had their ’arf and "arf, went home and to work the following morning, as Englishmen have been doing for more than two centuries. s* * The New York Times of February 20 kindly informs us that a knighted Briton took his little stand and ex- pounded the virtues of toryism to the seasoned veterans of Hyde Park. This particular tory evidently believes that people believe what they hear. They don’t. The important thing to con- sider is that the tories feel they must go to the masses with argument. A few hundred years ago they would go to them with shot guns. Perhaps in a few hundred more years they will say it with powder puffs. Coe, ee Kipling society has been formed in London. Very likely by the publishers of Kipling’s books. It is quite possible that enough crazy peo- ple exist in London to form a quorom without being subsidized by a finan- cially interested party. I dropped into a restaurant a few evenings ago and listened to a poet recite his rav- ings. He made a hit. Everybody in the place laughed except the poet. The fact that such poets are tolerated is a tribute to civilization, though it must be admitted that murders are a nuisance and it is possible that a jury could be secured that would send a fellow to the chair for disposing of a man like Kipling. i. Kipling wrote at least one good poem. Most poets should be em- balmed after the first effort. They are not; ‘hence their unpopularity. Kipling turns out jingles and he gets paid for them. A poet is not made unless he is paid. I have little use for poets who are content to stay hunery. They shwil@ stick to. prose. Kipling is an imperialist, therefore he is a bum poet. If a poet is worth anything more than a woolen blanket he must be a rebel. yoy ae) Twenty labor leaders were beheaded in Shanghai by the reactionaries be- cause they called the workers out on strike. The heads of the beheaded were exhibited to the populace with the object of striking terror into the hearts of the opposition. I hate like the devil to think of workers getting executed but we must console our- selves. with the thought that in a few weeks two reactionary heads will decorate the Shanghai lamp-posts for every workers’ head that fell in the recent slaughter-fest. * * * Bee and Sweden will never go to war with each other. Not even over national honor. Why? Simply THE DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. Break in Sight at Coal Wage Conference Companies Ask Union Men to Work for Scab Wage MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 22.—To all in- tents and purposes the joint wage con- ference of soft coal miners and oper- ators broke down today. After a week of negotiations failed to yield a material concession from either side, the subcommittee ap- pointed to draft a new wage scale) announced today that it was unable/| to break the deadlock and will report | to this effect tomorrow to the full} conference. The conference is expected prompt- ly to accept the verdict of its com- mittee. The conference probably will be heading home by tomorrow night. Instructed Against Cut. The committee representing the United Mine Workers of America, was under instructions from the In- ternational Convention held in Indian- apolis last month not to sign a con- tract that provides for a reduction of wages. The mine owners’ representatives demanded a competitive scale of wages, or in other words, wages to be based on those in non-union fields, thus practically negating the effect) of collective bargaining on wage tates. Although International President John L. Lewis of the miners’ union, | has rejected the offer of strike aid} made by the International Miners’| Committee for Propaganda and Ac- tion, he has made little preparation for the strike which ‘must follow on April 1, if no agreement is made in the meantime. He states he is rely- ing on the result of negotiations he will open within a week or ten days, with the individual mining companies, to make agreements with any oper- ators who will sign up at the old wage, nominally $7.50 a day. He then expects to re-open negotiations with the miners’ committee and get some kind of an agreement with all. Diplomats at Play; Swiss Lady Jealously Throws Them All Out BERLIN, Feb. 21.—Diplomatic and social circles in Warsaw are all agog today as a result of the reception at the Swiss Ministry when the hostess suddenly rushed in at midnight, and in a loud voice asked the guests to leave her house immediately. After the general commotion sub- sided Mrs. Stetson, wife of the Amer- ican minister, invited all the guests to her home, where the party was continued. It is whispered that jealousy was the cause for the sudden outbreak of the Swiss hostess. | | | | because a Stredish prince married a (Continued on Page Three) Facts and Fables About George Washington and Other “Fathers” Truth is stronger and stranger than fiction. Oliver Carlson in the article published below turns the historical searchlight on the founding fathers and exposes them as a collection of political confidence men and as pol- ished a set of grafters as ever used the language of ,exalted purpose to cover up an ulterior motive. Today | the virtues of George Washington | will be heralded near and far. . The “father of his country” will be heid| up as a shining example for the youth of the nation to follow. Carl- son’s article shows, however, that Washington is not the apostle of rev- olution, the angelic altruist and the stainless leader that our Pollyanna historians represent him to be but a calculating business man more con- cerned with his own personal fortunes than with the freedom of the colonies from British rule-—Editor. By OLIVER CARLSON “Who dare phy, that the framing of the Uni 9s Constitution was not the od himself! Did not our Annigaty Father guide the thoughts and hands of that small im- mortal band which assembled in Phil- adelphia during those trying days! Is it not true that only after the as- had turned to Him d inspiration that Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. they were able to complete this mir- aculous document in a surprisingly short period of time!” I quote the paragraph above as a typical example of the speeches which are delivered in thousands of public high schools all over the country. The opening of the great Sesqui- centennial Exposition ir Philadelphia in celebration of the 150th anniver- sary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was made the occa- sion for foisting more than the aver- age amount of fairy tales upon young and old alike about the American Revolutionary War, the U. S, Con- stitution, snd the “inspired fathers” who iramed that decument. Certain- ly there’ is no occasion better than the present for us to’ review in brief certain matters which are the com- mon knowledge of historians, but which are completely passed over by the Powers that Be—and for a very good reason, to be sure. For were the truth made known regarding those “inspired fathers” and our “god-given Constitution” it would be a far more difficult mutter to rouse the spirit of patriotism and Ameri- canism which is so essential to cap- italist class rule. Slavery, Smuggling, Rum, We have been led to believe that (Continued on Page Three) NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Where the Revolutionary Army Fights in China Nationalist government has approximately 1,009,000 troops under its command, distributed as above. =. How Landlordism Has Gripped New York Workers By Throat Told in Daily Worker Series The DAILY WORKER begins publication today of a series of articles surveying New York’s housing problem. Will de Kalb, who as reporter and research worker knows intimately every district of the city, will conduct the survey. Lower east side, upper east side, west side, Yorkville, Harlem, Brownsville, the Bronz and Brooklyn will be reviewed district by district. | Today's story presents a general summary of the problem. Tomorrow The DAILY WORKER continues its pen pictures of wretched, insanitary and disease-breeding housing for New York's workers, contributed by readers of the paper. Send in your letter, telling your own personal experientes. Name not used, if requested. : ‘ bid By WILL DE KALB. > ~Set | Food, shelter and clothing—the three essentials to existence. | According to what I learned and read between the lines when I studied the theory of economics in my college days, they at least were guaranteed to the workers under the capitalist system of exploitation. And yet, upon completing an intensive survey of wages, rentals, prices and living standards in the various nooks and corners of greater New York, | * I have come to the conclusion that even that guarantee is considered by the ruling class like all other of their agreements—they are so many words. In the series of articles that will! apt begin tomorrow, I will give a detailed | ee otic. eee ae: phe t of an investigation that has ex-| ee taen piv many. iy Bvery aor period could no longer be maintained. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1927 ‘Entire Country to be Taken | munity, every residential section in Gradually, but with many a heartache, the war-profiteers were forced to ac- | knowledge this. But rents began to soar in 1918, the five boroughs will be analyzed along the lines of average wages re- ceived by workers, the amount of rent) . Ae: _| The huge armies of the A. E. F. Loctite the standards of living pre-| Jor being demobilized in New York Rents Go Up. jand the vicinity. Many ex-soldiers During the war, America’s hundred|e™#ined here. Immigration, break- sisaniers were educated into exact-|i& all past records, was resumed. ling high prices for food, clothing and | ee ot families’ had to find | shelter through unendless flag-waving | rigs ter. A e result—the creation of and trumpet-tooting by the “men be-|* sig cr il i hind the men behind the guns”—the | The Housing Shortage. war grafters. Millions were turned| The landlord, long willing to accept over by the manufacturers; shortage | 12 and 15 per cent interest and a good after shortage was artificially created | living from his investment, rubbed to keep prices up. his hands in glee. The demand ex- After the armistice, the price of ceeded the supply. He controlled a food and clothing dropped a little. | Ronopely: due to high building costs. Since there were no armies to be sup-| Rent began to climb higher than plied, and European nations were | Halley’s comet. But the landlord wa: rapidly beginning*to resume their old; ™¢rely obeying the laws of capitalist places in the industrial world, a sur. | economics, when you have an advan- plus of food and clothing was mani- (Continued on Page Five) ORGANIZER OF BL ACK HUNDREDS TELLS OF INFLUENCE ON BALDWIN Anti-Comintern League (Special to The Daily Worker). MOSCOW, Feb. 21.—The newspaper Pravda publishes eight new documents of correspondence between Eugene Sablin, in London, former organizer. of Black Hundreds in Tsarist Russia, with the former czarist ambassador Giers, now living in Paris, and styled by emigrees, “Senior Russian Diplo- matic Representative Abroad.” These letters and reports explain plots to foment an armed invasion of the | Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Another White Hope. In a report dated September 23, | Sablin informs the “Senior Diplomat” that in July, General Hoffman, the kaiser’s general who drove through the Brest Litovsk peace, had arrived in London accompanied by two Georg- ian politicians, and that they met in Constant Touch With Highest British Officials Loeker-Lampson’s group (Locker- Lampson is a member of parliament). They visited certain prominent fi- nanciers with a view of sounding the ground regarding possibility of ob- taining finance for an intervention ‘in the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics. The amount they thought would be needed was 200 million pounds sterling. (About a billion dollars). Didn't “Die-Hard” Enough. In his communication of November Sablin expresses dissatisfaction with Baldwin and Chamberlain, who were hesitating to carry out the pol- icy of the die-hards. He Knew He Lied Sablin points out that he is everything in his power to inspire conservatives with ihe joy: (Continued on Page Two) 7 4%) Nicaragua Made Protectorate of U.S. Over by Marines WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. — Presi- dent Diaz, of Nicaragua, has invited President Coolidge to establish a pro- tectorate over that republic and he has agreed to do so. This was learned at the state de- partment tonight as American ma- rines took up permanent posts at strategic points in Nicaragua and an unusually large number of reinforce- ments got under way. The state department announced that a long note from President Diaz is being transmitted and admitted that it was an invitation to the United States to establish a protectorate and thus safeguard American investments. Actual occupation of interior Nica- ragua by American forces is under way by the state department today. | Still More Marines. | | The arrival of the 1,400 additional | |marines the last of this week will give Admiral J. K. Latimer, com- mander of the American military forces, the equipnient and man-power which he feels necessary to put the} final lid on the claims for “self-de-| | termination” which the Liberals in| |the little republic insist on. | Adolfo Diaz, so-called leader of the conservatives, and who was a $1,000- year clerk in an American corpora- tion in Nicaragua at the time when he contributed $600,000 to foment the | present “revolution,” is admittedly | very friendly to the proposed treaty with the United States. In conversa- tions with the American minister,| that he would “welcome” such an ar-| rangement. | BIG SPEAKERS AT WORKER BANQUET Prophesying that The DAILY WORKER will prove one of the most effective weapons against William Green and Matthew Woll and their re- ionary companions of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor in their at- vempts to crush the progressive move- ment in the trade unions, a list of| distinguished speakers addressed sev-| eral hundred workers at The DAILY WORKER Banquet and Ball in York- ville Casino last night and discussed with them the problems of New York’s only English labor daily. The toastmaster was William F.) Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORK-} WR; and Louis J. Engdahl, another tor, was one of the speakers who/| talked on the paper’s part in the fight | n the garment unions, linking this} up with the left wing struggle in all} the unions. Jay Lovestone, organization secre-| tary of the Workers’ (Communist) Party, also spoke of Green’s attack | n the New York unions, and this| rucial fight was mentioned by others vho talked on The DAILY WORK- SR’S plans for serving the labor sovement. Bertram D. Wolfe, Wil- iam W. Weinstone, Vern Smith, Bert ‘Tiller, Charles Krumbein, Alexander }* vachtenberg, Louis Lozowick, Eugene it yons and Scott Nearing were the | oa speakers. Sketches by Artists. An amusing diversion was furnished by Wiliam Gropper and Hugo Gellert who drew sketches of the assembled company and other notable. charac- ters,. The Pioneers provided a variety of songs, revolutionary and topical, and music. was also given by the Gipsy band which played for the danc- ing. This is the first celebration dinner held since The DAILY WORKER moved to New York and its unques- tioned success promises well for the prosperity of the paper in its new home. Plumbers Helpers Will Dance Tonight The recently organized American Association of Plumbers’ Helpers will hold their first dace and ball to- night at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St. Warner Escapes Trust Decree. New York, Feb, 21—Purchase of the Warner Sugar Refining company by the, National Sugar Refining com- pany, is not in violation of the court decree of 1922 dissolving the so-called “Sugar Trusts,” the United States circuit court of appeals ruled today. PUBLISHING Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER New York, N. ¥. CO., 33 First Street, cae EE iene | Girl Gangsters Used to | | Beat Up Four Pickets At L. Brill Dress Shop Four girl pickets, attacked by “female gangsters” as they were picketing the Louis Brill Dress Shop, 335 West 38th Street, were recovering today at their homes. These girl thugs have accompanied ganSsters to the picket lines for the past two days. When the pickets tried to defend themselves against their assailants they were arrested and received two day sentences in Jefferson Market Court. The use of “girl gangsters” to provoke trouble on the picket lines is a new tactic, adopted this week in the attempt to break the lines before shops called on strike by the Joint Board. After the pickets have refused to be drawn into a quarrel they are bodily attacked by the girls, and arrested when they at- tempt to defend themselves. The girls who received sentences were Mollis Cooperstein, Rose Me- dow and Pearl Goldstein. Ida Shore was allowed to pay a $10 fine in lieu of a jail sentence. 8 Girl Pickets Released by Judge Cases Agia Thin Are Thrown Out « of Court Eight girl pickets were arrested on Eberhardt, Diaz has repeatedly said) Monday morning as they were picket- | ing the shop of B. Gershel, 498 7th Avenue, but were released in Jeffer- son Market Court when the officers failed to present sufficient evidence te the judge that they had been “dis- orderly.” The shop was called on strike Mon- day by the Joint Board after seven workers were discharged for refusing to register with the International. The chairman of this shop, J. Kush- ner, was an “executive board mem- ber” appointed by Sigman to take| the place of the regularly elected board member of Local 22, after he had expelled the officers of Local 22 and “taken over” its business. The girls who were arrested for picketing the shop were Anna Lieb- owitz, Dorothy Goechberg, Sarah Be- gun, Paulin Farber, Ida Lifsky, Re- becca Gerst and two other wrokers. ——— FINAL CITY EDITION ————S$$ Price 3 Cents Chinese Labor To Avenge Murders For Executions SHANGHAI, Feb. 21.—While the victorious Cantonese sweep on to- ward Shanghai, the richest city in al] the Orient, reports were received today of a definite break between the northern allies who have been unsuc- cessfully operating against the Can- tonese. One report says that Wu Pei Fu has decided not to permit Chang Tso Lin’s forces to enter Honan in their march against the southerners. A large detachment of Chang Tso Lin’s troops have been disarmed when they attempted to cross the frontier into Honan. Wu Pei Fu also seized am- munition trains belonging to Chang Tso Lin. The reign of terror began Satur- day by the Chinese military authori- ties showed no signs ‘of abating to- day. More than sixty Chinese strik- ers have been put to death by the police with executioners’ knives. The police prowl the streets armed with these swords and kill their victims as they arrest them. Eugene Chen, nationalist foreign minister, plans to visit Shanghai as soon as the troops of General Chiang Kai Shek have entered it. Instead of halting the strike, the | brutal action of the Shanghai authori- ties incensed the workers with the result that the struggle has taken on | revolutionary proportions. The wharf coolies quit today, hold- ing up the loading and unloading of cargo. As a consequence, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Asia halted at Hoosung at the mouth of the Yangtze, sixteen miles down the river, prior to proceeding on to Hong | Kong. |_ The second battalion of the Suffolk Regiment, and a Japanese gunboat jand submarine arrived at the Whang- | poo docks today. . * * wt Torjes Surrender Concessions In Hankow to Nationalists LONDON, Feb. 21.—The complete surrender of the Hankow concessions by the British government to the tri- umphant Cantonese forces was an- nounced in the house of commons to- day by Sir Austen Chamberlain. *+* * HANKOW, Feb. 21.—Intense in- dignation swept through the city to- day as news of the barbarities in- Rosalsky at it Again. Sentence was pronounced upon Max} Bernstein and Oscar Newman by| Judge Rosalsky on Monday, after they had been held in jail for over two{ weeks, awaiting sentence, which was postponed four times. Max Bernstein, who was charged with malicious mis- chief by Irving Vlock, an employer} who was said to be doing scab work during the strike, was sentenced to} the penitentiary for an indeterminate | seritence. Oscar Newman, twenty-year old striker, charged with assault in the} third degree was placed on parole for | two years. The judge has not decided whether the two weeks and three days Bernstein has spent in the Tombs/ awaiting sentence will be counted on} his sentence. (Continued on Page Five) | Frenchy’s Gangsters Up. Four gangsters who were identified by several witnesses as the man who shot and wounded Samuel Cohen at | duties. flicted on the workers of Shanghai by agents of Sun Chang Fang reached here. Trade union leaders declared that the murder of more than sixty la- bor organizers would be avenged as soon as the revolutionary forces o¢- cupy Shanghai. It is reported here that the executions of the labor lead- ers were incited by the foreign im- perialists. aes Pass Porter, Resolution. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. — By a vote of 259 to 44, the house this afternoon passed the Porter reso- lution calling on the president arid the state department to negotiate treaties with China respecting C ;ese nationalists and abolishing extra- territoriality and the “unfair customs The resolution further urges that this move be made, irrespective of what other nations are doing in the Grient. BULLETINS Calles Forbids Anti-Imperialist Meeting MEXICO CITY, Feb. 21.—The Mexican government has forbidden a mass meeting of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League, called to protest the encroachments of Yankee imperialism in Mexico and Central America. The government’s action is taken as an evidence of the Calles’ determination to suppress anti-American demonstrations. Uncle Shylock to Get French Millions PARIS, Feb. 21.—The United States government has accepted the French offer to pay $30,000,000 due the first year on the war debt due America. Jews Denounce Queen Marie’s Government WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—The American Jewish Congress in session here today called on the government of the United States “to aid persecuted Jews in Roumania.” Resolutions denounced the murderous activities of the Roumanian oligarchy and called on “all enlightened peoples” to express their horror of the bloody regime of Queen Marie. Storm Death Toll Placed at 22 Twenty-two are dead in the toll of the storm which swept the Atlantic from Maine to the Delaware capes. The list of injured may reach into the hundreds and property e to $10,000,000. A “ Ask Your Newsdealer For The DAILY WORKER! Get Your Fellow Workers To Buy It! ? SBETT:cir"s Sopsit ERO RRR tetera acceeoe sini a | ee \ 4 ;