The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, wW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1927 Page Five World Imperialism Intent On Crushing Revolution \Comintern Calls on Workers of the World to| Rally to Defense of Nationalist Upsurge | MOSCOW, Feb. 21.—The Com- munist International sent the follow- ing manifesto on the Chinese situa- tion to its affiliated sections in all countries: | To the Workers of all Countries! The imperialist sword is hanging over China. The bourgeoisie is send- | ing naval and land forces to Shang- hai, which is to serve as the basis for the open military intervention in China, The English government, at | the head of the international robbers, | provokes the proletariat with the and the preachers of compliance! The workers of China, headed by the or- ganized proletariat, are conducting| the fight against their powerful ene- | victory. The English government is | taking advantage of the victory over the miners in.order to settle accounts | with the Chinese revolution, The vic- tory of military intervention in China |would mean the victory of interna- ‘tional fascism and of fresh attacks lof capital against the proletariat of all countries. The attack on China is} | c shamless declaration that they intend | Oe GS socen etn. ‘Che Chinass| in the next few weeks to throw the} people are fighting with complete de-| whole occupation army into Shang-| ction and steadfastness against im- | hai. Japanese imperialism declares its | verialism, and is at the same time| love of peace only in order to de-| Gorending the liberty and honor of | liver a more. certain blow against the | rhaiw | dette e workers and the suppressed of Chinese revolution. America is en-| PP | all countries. | my with all the moans necéssary for | couraging the bloody policy of Eng-| Workers, do not lose a moment! WHY AMERICAN MILITARISTS WANT CRUISERS AND AEROP {TONNAGE---188 om REISIRO WAKATSUKI MODERN PREMIER Poi land in return for her benevolent tol- eration of the American robber cam- paign in Nicaragua and Panama. The ganize the defense and aid for the| | Chinese revolution! Unweariedly, and | jin spite of all hindrances and sacri-| Italian and French forces are support- ing the English acts of violence just as they ticles redid her corey | the fracticidal war into which they revolutionary Se siey ut one | 2re being’ sent by the bourgeoisie! | and Lithuania and the polcy_ | Mobilize all organizations which can circling the ago pane ; jhinder the sending of forces against | Workers, do not console yourselves | the Chinese people! Fight for the re-| with the agen arog the sotaponnn. | cognition o A pap eree gov. | among the robbers prevent a com-) ernment! Enforce the withdrawal 0’ mon attack upon China; the interna-| the armed forces from China! Close} tional robbers are coming to an agree- | the united front of the fight of ali mai means the, avin of, boa Nite orpanissl one hy. gor the | spoils. As a preparatory measure lor | great danger! Compel the’ re: ormist | the bloody settlement with the Chin-||eaders to cease their sabotage and | fices, explain to the sailors, soldiers | and working masses the meaning of | | ese people, the-bourgeois provocateurs | are endeavoring to stifle the feeling | of solidarity among the workers for the heroic struggle of China, The | bourgeois liars are spreading false- hoods that chaos prevails in revolu- | tionary China. The reformists cast | respo ility for intervention upon | the Chinese people and preach com-, plianey. | Workers, do not believe the liars | SUPREME COURT REFUSES “WRIT” AGAINST UNION Contractors Unfair Plea, Not Recognized WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The) supreme court of the United States | today denied the petition of the Bar- | ker Painting Company of New York for an injunction against painters’ | double dealing with regard to China! | Organize, strengthen and make ready for struggle all organizations which | are prepared to fi¢ht under the slo- | gan, “Hand Off China!” i Long live the Chinese revolution Long live the fighting solidarity o| ihe proletariat of all countries an of the oppressed peoples of the whol world! Long live Communism! Fifteen Multi-Millionaires Insure Precious Hides By Million Dollar Policies Fifteen.men in the United States today carry life insurance of $4,- 000,000 or more. According to a survey of the Na- tional Underwriter, there are be- tween 200 and 300 policies for $1,- | 000,000 now in force. Rodman Wanamaker leads the list with insurance of $7,500,000, all of it personal coverage. He was the first man to apply for a $1,000,000 policy more than 20 years ago. Other heavily insured sia TONNAGE -*°3.32 sii: hac “TONNAGE --—~ SAI Artist shows comparisons o COMMUNISM NEXT IN EUROPE SAYS “NATION'S’ WRITER | Louis Fisher, European corres- |pondent of “The Nation” and author lof the recent Book “Oil Imperialism” pspoke Sunday evening at the open forum held at the Community Church \Park Ave. and 43rd St. | Fischer, who has spent four and a jhalf of the last five years in Europe, stressed his belief that European LANES; HAVE PLENTY OF SUBS | ES NCARE: CRUISERS ‘gy ITALY Premier MUssoLint (5. INCH TO 8-INCH GUNS; 3,00010,000 TONS; 27 KNOTS Pius) w12ZO NAVAL AIR STRENGTH i <r ae | FLEET SUBMARINES, FIRST LINE COVER 000 TOHS RACH; 2OKNOTS PLUS) 5.00 iatee SUBMARINES, First Ling. (TOOTONS PLUS, I KNOTS Pius) -500 --=706 > BAT “1 B98 f various types of naval ships of five great powers, the figures indicating lie ratio basis—the tonnage having been worked out on a ratio basis in order to simplify the chart, whicl, vas prepared from data contained in the proceedings of the United States Naval Institute. Photos above tre of the heads of the varions governments ‘Hight Girl Pickets Are Freed by Judge (Continued from Page One) 57th Street and Broadway as he was ; From European Miners To Assist in Strike | |leaving the picket line at Reisman, Rothman and Beaver, were bound over | | John L. Lewis, International Pre- |'° the grand jury at a hearing be- Lewis Rejects Offer sideat of the hile Mine Workars | fore Judge Simpson in 54th Street of: Ameciea haa Hally Yejecthd sna Court*on Saturday. They gave their heupéd .nbusb-inpon ‘the sina of |names as Harry Goldman, salesman; Europe who called upon their fel- Samuel Ober, chauffeur; Max Richtor, lows to stand ready. to sapport the loan broker and Samuel Friedman, strike in ek Achoalioe, oont-fielde garment worker, but they are w which will probably start April 1 of this year. He did not state in | | his denuneiation of the “Reds” | what the appeal consisted of. Here : is the substance of it, in a special | cable from Moscow. Fre rorizing the garment district for the | past eight week: | The gangsters were released on $8,- | 000 bail apiece, excepting in the case known to the pickets as members of | ’s gang, which has been ter-| eee strike because the company would not pay the New York wage scale in Philadelphia. The action of the la- bor unions, the compay contended, was designed to aid the Philadelphia contractors, who had a union wage agreement lower than the New York scale, | unions, which it alleged caused a The government won today in the supreme court an anti-trust suit against 23 pottery manufacturing} concerns and 20 individuals, alleged | to control 82 per cent of the business | in the country. Decision was rendered upon the| government’s appeal, after the cir-) cuit court of appeals in New York} had refused to declare that the Trenton Potteries Company, Thomas | Maddock’s Sons Company and other defendants had entered into an il- legal combination to unreasonably maintain prices. Dissolution of the sanitary pot- ters’ association, which the govern- | 4 ment alleged dictated a price fixing and sales agreement, was demanded | by the governments. | best | The federal government today won| the “fifteen billion dollar” railroad | valuation case on jurisdictional grounds, The supreme court, which did ‘not decide the case on its merits, held that the question of railroad valu- ation was’ still a matter of investi- gation by the’ interstate commerce commission, | + Justice Brandeis who read the _ opinion said the lower court should have dismissed the case of the Los ‘thas passed, individuals are William Fox, the | motion picture producer, with $6,- 000,000; S. S. Kresge, 5 and 10 cent king, $5,000,000; Frank P. Book, J. Burgess Book and Herbert V. Book, Detroit reaj estate operators, $5,000,000 each; J. L. Lasky, Adolph | Zukor and Marcus Loew, $5,000,- | 000; | John McE. Bowman, hotel owner, | $4,000,000; Pierre du Pont, $4,000,- | 000; Ralph Jonas, president-of the Brooklyn chamber of commerce, $4,000,000, ‘and J. F. Kettering, automobile manufacturer, $4,000,- 000. Workers Prepared To Flee Homes As East River Floods | 000 each; William. Ziegler, $4,500,- |j, ism.” Joseph Schenbk, $1,250,600; | commana capitalism is in the last throes of its | existence and that within the next | decade or two, a European war will | {demolish the last of the tottering im- | perialistic nations in Europe. When asked from the floor what form of | ‘government would take the places =| capitalism, he answered “undoubted- | MOSCOW, Feb. 21.—The Inter- national! Committee for Propa- ganda and Action has issued an ap- peal that on the First of April, the collective agreement of the mine- owners and miners of America will expire, and calling on all revolu- tionary miners of all countries to be prepared for the struggle and in good time consider all possible measures for the support of their American comrades. Fischer was careful to state that! he does not include Soviet Russia | whén he ‘speaks of Furope’s decline. | jof the chauffeur, who was released | or: $1,000 bail, all of which was fur- | | nished by the International. The men | were defended by attorney of the In- ternational, who withdrew from the cases of cloakmakers, members of the union for 15 years, and arrested for the first time, on the picket lines, on | the grounds that they “did not wish to defend gangsters.” Shop Chairmen to Meet. Shop chairmen of cloak and dress industry have been czlléd to a meet- \He réiterated several times that jwith every slip of the rest of Europe, Russia’s power is increasing and that when the trade of the |United States in Europe has been will turn to Russia, China, India and South America for her trade. His speech threw a horrible scare tellegentsia church-goers that made Workers’ homes along the East | up the bulk of the audience. River were directly menaced by the fierce week-end storm, subsiding to- lay. Hundreds of cellers were flooded. The losses run into thousands of dol- | lars, Homes of many workers who live near the river were in danger, for if the tide would have gone over the sea wall they would haye been the first places hit. Entire families, ter- rified, packed up their few wordly belonging ready to flee at the first aan that their homes would be flood- e for while dribbles of water were no- ticeable, it did not get out of con- trol. So tonight hundreds of workers can sleep more easily for the érisis And their sleep will be However, they worried unncessarilye! Lewis’ “Sound Basis” For Agreement Seems 'To Be Less Employment CLEVELAND. John 1. Lewis stated att he conference of the coal miners and operators that the for- mer would be willing to agree to a continuation “of the Jacksonville agreement with the provision that the miners and operators then work out a “sound basis” for the industry. Samuel S. Wyer, consulting en- gineer and chairman of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce Coal Com- tuittee, in the current issue of the |“Clevelander,” predicts that the demolished, the America government | into the minds of the Park Ave. in-| | ing on Thursday evening in Manhat- tan Lyceum by the Council of Shop Chairmen, for the discussion of the defense of the prisoners. (Cleveland Building ' Trades Councils May The Women’s Defense Committee H Confer On Merging | ¥i!! meet on Wednesday evening at “ Marhattan Lyceum to perfect plans * ie |for a general campaign for the re- CLEVELAND. It has been an-/jease of the prisoners and the relief nounced that the two building trades | o¢ their wives and children. Women pb Tay oo jp Bids about to] of many organizations have been in- ptosis ea cial bodlias about | vited to attend and a general call sent | The “old” council contains trieiea |” RU SPREE TE affiliated bodies of different deattag| | while the “new” council has but four. | | In addition, the bricklayers are atf-| filiated to no council. This means| chaos in the building trades unions. | Needed Action. | Exploiters Exploited Of Cars. Official figures show a net loss of $5,223,000 value in motor cars lost or stolen throughout greater New York during 1926, it became known today. | The situation demanded action, | particularly since many of the crafts | are negotiating new agreements with | the contractors. The plasterers and| lathers will get $1.62%4 an hour from} Apr. 1, on, the other crafts expect a ruise, while the carpenters are de- | manding an increase of 25¢ an hour. | The painters and glaziers, who were | out on strike last year and returned | without an agreement, have put up | no new demands. j | SAVE THIS VALUABLE Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad which appealed from the téntative valuation made by the interstate commerce commission, of the weary, for after their all night vigil followed by a day’s toil in the factories they will sleep as only those truly exhausted are able to. PRIZE COUPON _A Copy of Red Cartoons of 1927, Worth $1.00 for 50 Cents With 50 Vose and others, Each picture and mounted. 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The machine automatically feeds twelve records to the revolving disk from a magazine, wiht stops between records of less than half a minute. The machine makes it possible to put into the magazines an entire sym- phony or an assorted program of dance records, The machine stops after the last record. ( tion of power plants, development of | Papers Reflection of | Decadence — Holmes) This is the “dirty decade’. That | was the term used today by John | |Haynes Holmes of the Community | | Church. | | “As I walk the streets of the city,” | |said Holmes, “I find them filled with | \ dirt. I ride in the subways and find | | them filthy. I stroll through the) ‘public parks and find them littered and neglected and unclean, But the dirt of the streets is no worse than the dirt in certain of our magazines and newspapers; the filth | of our subways is no worse than the filth in our theatres, and the ugli- ness and disorder of our public parks is no worse than the chaos of our so- cial life. “We find ourselves in an environ- ment of decadence and social degen- eracy.” ! Daily Worker Begins Series on Rent Problem (Continued from Page One) tage, make the most of it, the public be damned. It and how? I.remember, seven years ago when loeal com- the I was the editor of se munity newspapers, ting on platform before a meeting of the ¢ parliament of community counci the aldermanic chamber of the City Hall, when a resolution of protest was drafted to be sent to the United Real te Owners’ Association of Great New York. It urged the reduc- tion of rentals, and included figu calculations and statisties proving that rents could be appreciably re- duced throughout the city while er lords would still reeei at least 50 per ce more than their pre- in come in spite of any future increase taxe ‘ossed Into Wastebasket. week later I was present at executive comr | @ |the meeti tee Hotel As The resolution was Then the secretary filed it in venient wastebasket. Immediate \afterward, with a precision that was unconsciously committee | ® was appointed to ¢o-operate with an| expert acco to determine to just what extent it would be safe to fur- ther increase rentals. | The ac chairman |structed the delegates {numerous locals of the or; advise the members they re to “jack up rents to the top-notch— so that the individual landlord will) t have made enough to be able to afford empty apartments, rather than lower the rents, when depression in veal estate comes.” The depressi was forecasted for th ar. been put off now for years. The Landlord's Role. Meanwhile the housing situation is becoming worse every, day. Who are} guilt First, there is the individual land- lord. Well organized into real estate associations, he has taken advantage jof every opportunity to raise rents without making any repairs or improvements. No sooner did the housing rtage arise, than “wait- ing list ame into vogue. Land- lords kept lists of people who desired rooms. From these lists he selected only those whom he knew would be willing to do without repairs, and who would accept raises without making any complaint. If a ten caused }any trouble, he could eas Spossess him, and the rooms. re-rented the same day by consulting the “waiting lists.” Tenants were blacklisted. Powerful | lobbies were maintained at the legis- lature to frustrate the passage of re- | lief measures. The courts felt the} \of the real estate owners. Mergers Jn Landlordism. Then, there are the corporations, owning strings of houses throughout the city. These have a separate or- ganization of their own, co-overating with the other, having as a sole pur- pose the scalping of the rent-payer. Finally, I would include the pro- fiteering building contractors; and the searcity of moderately priced new buildings. Only a negligible few of | the new buildings erected in Manhat- ‘tan have unfurnished rooms for less |than twenty dolla?s a month per room. Only in Queens and Richmond jare there any, and even these are | few, The New York worker is becoming desperate. He is caught in the center of the vicious circle, and he cannot jeven go around with it. And the | major cause is the housing situation. This series of articles witl analyze that situation. j oaks Read The Daily Worker very Day Attention Brownsville! Volunteers wanted (to collect ar- icles for the Labor Defense Ba- zaar. The committee meets every Sun- day from 10 to 12 a. m, at 63 Lib- | erty Ave. Brooklyn. aily Worker Every Day | } Read The DL. va | ¢ the i ; influence of the undercover operations ,° LEFT WING ALIEN TO BE DEPORTED BY U. S. ORDER “Burden of Proof” Used To Effect Deportation f deporting of their ause he Czecho wor is the most rece cheduled for to this passports, ete. deport came country re O. K. came active the workers struggle among the and rapidly gained a of his un- and ability to por- struggle. nous complaint he i924. The April ? ion laws bureau » Which of reads in proceeding len of proof how that legally,” nd he was he should n spite of the fact id, Vaj- » denorted in at to Ellis An appeal stay in the released fight by Defense the” higher confirmed the de- portation and after three years he has to leave America. iehting this and many other he I. L. D. has been playing part in the struggle of the work not be deported. ch proof 8 ordered to { and finally In order to ntinue the good work the annual aar in Star Cas ino, 107th Street and Park Avenue on March 10 to 13 must be made 2 success, Money is needed to prepare egal aid for our militant By the cooperation of all wo bazaar th r can be mac de nstration of protest and also. a means of ing the necessary money. Queen Marie Pays Her Respects to American People: “Flock of Swine” | CHICAGO, Feb. 21.—‘My son was right When he said Americans were a flock of swine.” ° This statement is attributed to Queen Marie of Roumania in a copyrighted article said to have been written by one of her at- tendants, appearing today in the Chicago Herald Examiner. The queen also complained that during her visit to America she was insulted di on the streets with such remarks as “hey, queen, how's the old man?” “What can you expect from a people who always refer to their president by his first name,” the queen is also credited in the article with saying. It is known that queen was shocked at the crowd which gath- ered to greet her here by shouting, “Cotzefanesti.” the name of a vil- lage in which during the war, the queen and her court engaged in a naked, drunken orgy. leaving sol- diers in their eare to bleed to death. Charge Politician Grafted. N. J. Feb. 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