The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 24, 1927, Page 1

~— The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week, Vol. IV. No. 36. Britain Seeks War | With Soviet Union Sends Provocative Note Threatening to Break Off Relations LONDON, Feb. 23.—One of the most provocative notes ever sent by one government to another was dispatched today by Sir Austen Chamber- lnin, British foreign secretary to ihe government of the Soviet Union. The government of the Workers’ Republic is charged with conducting hostile propaganda against the British empire and in particular with en- couraging the peoples of countries under the British yoke to free them- gelves from British rule. Particular mention is made of the, 5 TRI i " Chinese revolution and its probable | cent fascist revolution in Lithuania. effect on the. Hindoo masses. The Both adventures were decidedly hos- British government blames the Soviet! tile to the Soviet Union. government for speeches delivéred by The importance attached to thi prominent citizens of the country on, Chinese revolutiom and the danger t the subject of British oppression in| the empire involved in its succe: India, Egypt and China. | were emphasized in the note by qu May Break Relations. | tations from a speech delivered by Chamberlain’s note threatened al Buhkarin in Moscow last fall, quote rupture of commercial and diplomatic | by Chamberlain as follows: ‘ relations between the two govern-| “In the event of the further vic- ments. | torious advance of the people and of | So flimsy an excuse for a threaten-|the Communist Party into a war SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. ed break has never been given before in the opinion of progressive labor leaders. The speeches of Bukharin | against Cantonese armies, foreign im- perialism it is no utopia to assert that the victorious Chinese “revolution will | find an immediate echo in the neigh-| NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY THE DAILY WO Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office &t New York, N. Y., un Porto Ricans in| Appeal for \ Nicaragua Qust U. S$. Midshipman Over Petty Graft In |) Academy at Annapolis | ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 23.—Ac- cording to an official statement is- sued at the navai academy today, a number of midshipmen, members of | the third class, purchased advance | information as to the semi-annual . examination in mathematics, held in ‘Call Qn U. S$. Marines to December from a member of the r second, the next higher ¢lass. | R it is believed that the upper class- | Demand seturn Home man, who has been recommended cee for dismissal, obtained the exami- nation questions from an instruc- tor. sividence is circumstantial only and ihe investigation of the whole matter is proceeding. (Special to The DAILY WORKER) SAN JUAN, Porto Rico., Feb. 23. —The people of Porto Rico, altho themselves brokgn under the heel of |'Wall Street imperialism, are aroused ———- by the brazen military invasion and conquest of Nicaragua. They are in- sulted by the decision of the Navy | Department to send part of the fleet | now crushing ralism in Nicara- fi gua, on a visit t@ Porto Rico. uj | The Porto Rian section of the All- | Anti-imperialist \mefican League has issued a spécial manifest to the | | enlisteq men of the fleetg’and the 5 | | nationalist party representative, Al- }fonso Lastra Q@harriez, has intro- rene duced a resolution into the Insular . hamber of Kepresentatives callin, Warns of War ents Feri to the fact that the United Hatched Abroad States has invaded Nicaragua against ff NEW _ YORK, THURSDAY, FEB, 24, and other leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union have been | boring colonial countries—india, * In- given governmental status in Cham-|donesia and Dutch India. berlain’s notes though members of the | China Centre of Struggle. British cabinet deliver week end), “All this makes it clear that Chi speeches against the Soviet govern- | is the mighty center of attraction fo: ment without irritating Soviet nerves. |@ colonial periphery. British Conspiracies. The note declares that the Soviet |t n government suffers from a delusion | it seems to me, the chief spots where that Britain is continually plotting | the Communist parties must apply the natignal revolution in China are, | against the Union and is inciting | their efforts. And I think as regards Poland and other border states into | these lines of policy we have no Be! off. “This would be depressing if it hostile action. It is a well-known | son whatsoever to be pessimistic. fact that Great Britain was behind jis now clear that we must now con- Pilsudski’s coup and back of the #-! (Continued on Page Three) REVOLUTIONARY CHINESE ARMY IS PUSHING ON TOWARD SHANGHAI : SHANGHAA Feb. 23—The rout of Sun Chuan. Fang, e«! fender of Shanghai, continues. With the Cantonese driving forward with repeated thrusts and parries, General Sun Chuan Fang was today forced to evacu- ate Kashing, falling back on Sunkiang, approximately thirty miles from Shanghai. Meanwhile severe fighting between the northern allies is r ported from Honan. General Chang Sun Chuan, son of Marshal Chang Tso Lin, is reported to have led a force of some 6,000 white Rus-| dentate timation | sians into Honan and to have | CURRENT EVENTS |; attacked Wu Pei Fu. | By T. J. O'FLAHERTY | Where Is General Wu? | Many reports are in circulation to- aS . day as to Wu Pei Fu. One is to the 'VEN capitalist correspondents in| effect that he has fled to the moun- China were forced to denounce the | tains while another declares he has reign of terror turned loose in Shang-| gone over to the Cantonese, hai by the minions of Sun Chuan-| In Shanghai the situation is still re- Fang on the workers who went on| garded as serious. It now develops strike to celebrate the victory of. the | that the shells dropped on the city yes- revolutionary nationalist government | terday came from two gunboats which over the militarists. Headsmen with | went over to the Cantonese and their heavy swords marched through the | firing was only ended when two streets and picked their victims in-| French gunboats drew alongside them diseriminately. Heads were chopped} and threatened to sink them unless off without even the semblance of a they held their fire. MOSCOW, Feb. 23.—Those differ- ences among the powers which caused disarmament proposals of President Coolidge to fail will make it difficult to form an anti-Soviet bloc, declared | Commissar of War Voroshiloff in a the will of “every civilized human being.” Porto Ricans Writhe It also declares that Porto Rico writhes under the same unwelcome force, and that"€he people do not con- ysent to the rule of the United States. “The English miners’ strike and | speech today, celebrating the ae i resolationsaaeludes: anniversary of the Red Army. | “THEREFORE, Be it resolved by “The Red Army enters its tenth| the Chamber of Representatives of year with an highly electrified inter-| Porto Rico: national atmosphere,” said Voroshil- were not for the fact that we have improved the efficiency of the staff and line and strengthened the air | fleet, added a division of reserve cav- }alry and brought military industry “To condemm& energetically the policy of force utilized by the Execu- utive of the United States of Amer- ica in the Republie of Nicaragua im- pairing the demeeratic principles un- derlying the ¥epublican doctrines which are basi¢ to the free nations der the act of March 8, 1879. 1927 bid Military Clique Ruling Chile Jails Opposition; Will Deport Communists VALPARAISO, Chile, Feb. 23.— General Ibanez,.leader of the mili- tarist clique which has seized power here is arresting leaders of prac- tically all opposition parties. The official organ of the Com- munist Party has been suppressed and the government is trying to ar- rest all Communist members of the chamber of deputies and deport them to Easter Island. A number of opposition senators have been imprisoned. ENEA SORMENTI ANTI-FASCIST TO BE DEPORTED The I. L. D. Will Hold Protest Meeting The machinery of the United States department of labor under Mr. John J. Davis is being used to deport workers who have been active in the struggle against fascism in Italy and its agents in the United States. Enea Sormenti, one of the leading anti- fascists in America, has been arrested at the instigation of the Italian am- bassador and is being held for de-| portation to Italy. To send Sormenti back to Italy means sending him to his death. This is a continuation of the fascist brutalities that have burned down co-operatives and work- ing men’s clubs; made trade unions illegal and broken up the homes of the workers wherever anti-fascist sympathies were suspected. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING FINAL CITY EDITION CO., 38 °First Street, New York, N. ¥, Right Wing Gangsters And Police Bar Lefts From Furrier ‘ieeting Bona Fide Fur Workers Hold Monster Demon- stration for Joint Board Despite Mounted Cops While thousands of furriers loudly cheering for the New York Joint. Board and Ben Gold, its manager, held an impromptu dem- onstration outside of Cooper Union late yesterday afternoon, various reactionary leaders of the needle trades unions inside addressed a hall less than half filled with members of various trades. Among them were but ; ; . the “right wing” were being admitted- |a handful of furriers. The whole| pitty furriors who were wim affair was a frost. with paid up dues books were later This was supposed to be a meeting |thrown out of the hall by the strong of fur workers, called by a so-called|@rm assistants of Abraham Becker- Furriers’ Trade Union Committee. As|man, of the Amalgamated Clothing early as 3 o’clock there were 700 fur-| Workers’ Union, who has been called riers waiting in an orderly line for|in to help the American Federation admission to the hall. But at 3.45, ajof Labor—of which he is not a mem- band of twenty police, many of them mounted, arrived on the. scene and ordered the workers to disperse and | go home. ber—to try to reorganize the Fur- riers’ Joint Board. The demonstration of fur workers Cops Break Up Line. “There is ne meeting,” yelled the cops. “Go on home, all of you.” At 4 o’clock another line of fur- riers had formed, and at 4.15, this was also brokeh up by the police. Those orkef® who did reach the door and | outside of Cooper Union lasted for jseveral hours. During the afternoon, the “right wing” gangsters confis- |cated a quantity of the Joint Board’s | leaflets which announced a bona fide ; meeting of fur workers to be held to- | night, February 24th, at Cooper Union | at the same hour. |tried to enter, after showing their) Last night’s meeting was heralded union cards, were roughly pushed on/as the opening gun in the attack of by a reception committee of gangsters,| the right wingers upon the progres- | trial Squad. | Throw Out Furriers. | Meanwhile, at the Fourth Avenue entrance to Cooper Union, friends of reinforced by. members of the Indus- | sives in the Furriers’ Union. But evi- | dently the powder in the gun got damp, for it did not go off hard j enough to fill the hall or to round (Continued on Page Three) The American labor movement has| —.—____. personnel is 49 per cent and the gen-| RINE COMMIT | EE éral efficiency is 150 per cent. | representatives, as well as by th trial. The horror of the thing defies description. And the blame for the barbarities rests on the shoulders of the foreign imperialists. The greatest menace appears to he from a thousand or more disorganized troops of Sun Chuan Fang who are roaming about the outskirts of the international settlement. sian whiteguards abroad, in agreement ees ite The militarists will pay through the nose for the Shanghai slaughter. The wave of resentment that went up all over China will sweep the gang of Agitation Intensified. Agitation in the native city is in- native militarist murderers off the earth and their imperialist pay- masters out of China. If the revolu- tionary government had beheaded half tensified today, although beheadings have ceased. a Some 30,000 mill workers returned to their work today, but it is estimated that there are still some 80,000 idle. near the pre-war level. We have de- veloped “excellent artillery and extra- rdinarily good machine-guns. We have invented a marvelous small calibre rifle and have achieved success in building our own defenses and our own anti-gas weapons.” ow Small Navy Byt. Good, | Admiral Malkevitch reports that) and in violation of the sovereignty of Nicaragua amd a menace to world peace,” # Popular Risclution. 4 The resolution was submitted to a special committee Yo be studied and passed on and Seported on to the next session, . It aptatstd. consternation (Continued on Page Three) the Red navy tonnage is now 82 per) cent of the 1914 figures, while the| The - celebrations all over Russia} were well attended by internationa LETS LEWIS 60 | ON BARGAINING MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 23.—The United ; Mine Workers’ policy committee to- “In the coming days of the great struggle of workmen, peasants and all) day gave carte blanche to John L. oppressed classes against their im-| Lewis, president, to institute negotia- perialistic oppressors, the American tons with soft coal operators to ar- bourgeoisie will be among our most|'"ge for a new conference to pre- dangerous enemies,” says a statement | vent a tie-up in the industry after) A % -. | April 1. . | published over the name of an Amer-)| Bt ae ae Z ican, Duncan, representing the work- | Tt was indicated that Lewis shortly + ill attempt to get a conference in| ee ee nee Shicago pick up the negotiations| Surrounded by Plots. which broke down here over a dis- The newspapers are full of facts| sereement on a new wage contract. | showing the continued progress of! Conference Over. | anti-Soviet plots engineered by Rus-| Lewis reported to members of the | rainers’ policy committee, meeting in executive session today, that steps al- j ready have been taken to swing into} | line operators in the districts lying outside the central competitive field Small Expenditure. | of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western Despite its high state of efficiency, | Pénnsylvania. The conference of cen- the Red Army takes up an inconceiv-| tral field representatives adjourned ably small percentage of the total in-| sine die yesterday. come of the state, as measured by the| Lewis did not say how much he standards of militaristic nations like| would give up in the way of condi- England, France, or the United States| tions underground, in order to get a of America. formal agreement on the basis of the workers and peasants of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Warn Again America. | The speeches of those from outside the borders of the Soviet Union show- | ed that they regard the Red Army} as their army. with oil and other business men. At the same time, the peaceful inten- tions of the Soviet Union are em- phasized, a dozen tuchuns who have been per- secuting the people for centuries what a yelp would go up from the capi- talist press. beheadings attacked the Chapei Po- lice Station, killing one constable and injuring another. Two of the work- ers were arrested and will probably be executed tomorrow. Three student open air lecturers and five nationalist recruiting agents were arrested and held today. There is a total disregard for mili- tary restrictions in the native city and the military have been forced to move the heads from exhibition, as the re- sult of violent agitation against exe- cutions. Mail was available today to those who called at the post-office and full resumption of the postal service is promised for tomorrow. Support For Cantonese. Sun Chuan Fang is reported flee- ing to Japan with control of Shang- hai passing to Chang Tso Lin. Kashing, considered the last stronghold of Sun Chuan Fang, has fallen and the advance of the Can- tonese on Shanghai can hardly be stopped now, except by a miracle it is believed here, OUNG ‘Ed” Wilson, son of one of Chicago’s packing magnates, is learning his father’s business from the ground up. We are not told how much he finds in his pay check on Saturday, but we are advised that his working conditions are the same as those of the less noted slaves that toil in Packingtown during the day- time. When he leaves his working clothes behind him at the end of the day’s work, he steps into a limousine and burns up the gas. Every once in a while a scion of our financial aristocracy is presented to the working class in the role of aj’ toiler. It makes a good story and since people have short memories the millionaire wage slave can be in Palm Beach or in Paris in a few weeks later and his career as a laborer in his father’s factory will be forgotten until he is appointed head of the firm when the editorial hacks of the capi- . (Continued on Page Two) ) Laborers who were incensed over The budget this year calls for only Jacksonville wage scale, nor whether $846,000,000 for national defense, which is an increase of only $44,- 000,000 more than in 1925, and is al- together only fourteen per cent of he would consent to compulsory arbi- tration and revision of the wage scale, once nominally established. During the Miami negotiations he proposed made clear its position towards fascism and the rule of Mussolini. Conventions of the A. F. of L. at Portland and Atlantic City passed resolutions denouncing the rule of the Black Shirts. The recent A. F. of L. convention at Detroit reiterated this position. In spite of all this Sormenti is stil? in- danger. r The International Labor Defense is defending the case of Sormenti and maintains the right of asylum for political refugees. The New York section of the International Labor De- fense is holding a protest meeting on Sunday, February 27th, at 2 p. m. in Webster Hall, 11th street and 3rd avenue, Prominent speakers will be present including: Forrest Bailey, secretary Civil Liberties Union; Ben Gitlow, W. P. of America; Joseph Brodsky, Interna- tional Labor Defense; Dr. Fama; Carlo Tresca, editor Il Mar- telo; Pietro Allegra, secretary Anti- Fascist Alliance of America; Arturo di Pietro, editor Il Nuovo Mondo; Enea Sormenti, editor Il Lavaratore; Arturo Giovannitti, Italian Chamber of Labor of New York. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Wants Lid Torn Off Local Milk Scandal Tammany Boss Olvany, Health Commissioner Harris, Mayor Walker and others will be haled before the grand jury to tell what they know about New York’s milk graft, if W: liam J. Schieffelin, head of the Citi- zens’ Union, wins his point. He made the demand yesterday before the grand jury, continuing his effort to tear the lid off the dirty metropolitan milk can, Schieffelin is insistent that the probe be carried on independently of District Attorney Banton, whom he charges has thwarted previous inves- tigations. Carlo! Brownsville Tenements Averaging $45 a Month Take 30 Per Cent of Pay Brownsville, happy little Brooklyn trans-bridge village of a generation ago, today rivals the east side in high rents, con- gestéon and unkempt streets. Violation of building and fire codes is rife, Will de Kalb, DAILY WORKER investigator found after a careful survey. De Kalb will cover every important work- ing class district in New York in this series, and promises a few additional on housing for the leisure class. | I By WILL DE KALB, The emigration from the lower east side to Brownsville was one of the great heroic acts of a past generation of New Yorkers. Unable to bear the intolerable living conditions in the Ghetto, groups of poor workers moved to the Brownsville section in Brooklyn, in the hope that in the island across the bridge, a homeland paradise could be found. | And the story of their disappointment is further evidence of the terrible condition in which New York finds its housing situation. Brownsville, contrary to general belief, is essentially a native, not a foreign community. The foreign-born residents of the Ghetto brought with them from Europe a certain animal-like patience and submission that for- | tunately was lacking in their American offspring. On attaining maturity, | the youths rebelled. They moved to Brooklyn. Brownsville prospered, and {a thriving community was born. | . — ' That was some thirty years ago.|°Tsanize. They joined the local busi- |The hairs in the proud heads of those |"€S5S men’s organization. A special rebel youths have turned gray. Not | Committee on housing was appointed. only because of age, however. Long The interests of the landlord were to hours of toil, in an endeavor to live | be well looked after—at the expense in a section where living standards|°f the tenant. — {are higher than in the Ghetto, have More Fire Traps. aged these emigrants before their| Brownsville has grown unaccount- time. Landlords Organize. No sooner did the landlords of Brownsville sense a constant influx ably in those thirty years, and yet |not one-sixteenth’ of its houses are ;modern. Fire escapes, in many cases, \I found to be totally lacking in spite of the tenement house laws; and the halls and stairways were so built, if |a fire ever broke out, the windows would furnish the only means of es- of dependable, hard-working, peaceful | citizens, than they put their heads together. Here was their opportunity. They must control the situation. What did they do? What the work- ers have ever been laggard in doing, the entire budget. Even this increase a council of experts, half appointed by cording to, the last census was 165,- 600,000. route to the United States today, fol- lowing conferences cerning the enforcement of Mexico’s leaving, Sinclair expressed confidence present difficulties will be found. is used, not for making more arma- ment, nor recruiting more soldiers, but for improving the comfort and cultural possibilities of the private soldiers. i This moderate expenditure allowed for the Red Army and Navy is all the protection that can be spared at present for a population which ac- (Continued on Page Two) President Signs Dill White Radio Bill; New Ether Wave Trust Born WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Presi- dent Coolidge today signed the Dill- White radio bill, creating a mono- poly in the best wave lengths for the benefit of the larger corpora- tions having “pull” with the special board created to assign them. The bill also makes it possible to charge “listeners in” for that privilege, and by an amendment during passage, makes it easier for the bigger campaign funds to get most advertising on the air during clection campaigns. Sinclair Yielding. MEXICO CITY, Feb, 23,—Harry Sinclair, American oil baron, was en- with President Calles, the secretary of the interior, and the American ambassador, con- land and petroleum laws. Before that a satisfactory solution .of the Ask Your Newsdealer For The DAILY WORKER! Get FURRIERS TO HOLD DEMONSTRATION AFTER WORK TODAY AT COOPER UNION A monster rally of New York’s real furriers, members of unions affil- iated with the Joint Board, will be held today right after work in Cooper Union where the Long Island officials yesterday made such a dismal failure of their meeting. d Warning the workers against the expected frame-up to expel the mem- bership from the union, the Joint Board in an official statetment yesterday called the meeting as a protest against the reactionaries of the A. F. of L. and the International Fur Workers’ Union. ‘ The dastardly plan of the reactionaries to break up the union and send militants to prison will be revealed, Manager Ben Gold promises. “The Joint Board,” he declared in a statement, “is determined to use its entire strength not to permit the Long Island officials, the Forward and the bosses to railroad the fur workers to prison as Sigman did to the arrested cloakmakers. The self-disciplined and class conscious army of the fur workers know how to deal and dispose of treacherous attempts against their union, § “Let the Long Island officials dare to attempt to break up our union. They will meet with the same crushing defeat and disgrace as they did at cape. For there are as many fam- ilies on a floor there as in Browns- ville; some houses have thirty fam- ilies. Almost all of the two and three- story buildings have not only no fire escapes, but no other means of egress except a narrow wooden stairway in the center. And if officialdom gets its way, Brownsville’s streets will soon resem- ble those of the east side. On one street, two blocks from the main thoroughfare, a janitor told me that street cleaners ond dump-carts were seen only once in three days. This I verified, and found to be true. But Rents Are Higher. The homes, of course, are much better than those of the east side. Many have steam heat. Not so many people are crowded into one apart- ment. But the only difference be- tween Brownsville and the Ghetto was made by the untiring efforts of the workers. I got my greatest shock when I compiled a list of rentals to strike an average. The average rental is $45 the time of our strike.” Your Fellow Workers To Buy It! (Continued on Page Three) ‘ |