The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1927, Page 1

The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY Entered as second-class mattef at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. THE DAILY WORKER FINAL CITY EDITION published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING. CO, NY Vol. IV. No. 37. Firat Street, New York, N.Y Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1927 Indian Troops Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Demand A. F. of L. State i: Sate an) es United Front Stand on Imperialism Open Letter From Workers Party Reminds Executive Council of China, Nicaragua CHICAGO, Feb, 24.—Over the signature of C. E. Ruthenberg, genera] secretary, the Central Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America has issued an open letter to the Execu- tive Council of the American Federation of Labor, demanding that it take a stand, for or against the Wali Street imperialist invasions of Nicaragua and of China, and to state also whether the Executive Council is for or against the American workers and farmers in their struggle against American imperialism and the threat of a new imperialist war. The Executive Council of the A. F. of L. is reminded in the letter that it has up until now not made any such public decision. The letter of the Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party follows, in full: Ci, he See Where Does the A. F. of L. Stand on Intervention In Nicaragua and China? * An Open Letter to the Executive Council’ of the A. F. of L. From the Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, To the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, SO Sep TUrE se jers in that country, WHO desire to set Big Nicaraguan Cities | “And Others,” For Diaz BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua, Feb. | 24,-Captain Woodward, chief of the American naval forces in the | Pacific notified the Sacasa govern- ment today that no fighting would be permitted within a radius o! 1,000 yards from Chinandega, Leon, Managua, Granada, Pasco Caballo, Cosmapa, Quezalgusgua, Chichigal- pa, Posoltega and other where marines are stationed. Two thousand marines are ex- pected to arrive here today. Most of them, it is said, will replace sailors, who are now ashore. British Note On Nicaragua Prearranged May Help Coolidge in Fight points | Service | British Try to Play Up Religions | Prejudice (Special to The Daily Worker). | HANGKOW, Feb. 24—Among the Indfan troops landed in Shanghai by England, great. dissatisfaction spreading becausé of the unwilling- ness of the Indians to be used against | a national revolutionary movement. The troops are particularly indignant about the propaganda of the British | officers who attempt to incite the In- dian soldiers by making them believe that the Chinese destroyed the Indian sanctuaries in Shanghai. After the soldiers convinced themselves on the spot that all this propaganda was | made up of lies théir mood was radi-| cally changed. | Profintern Greets Shanghai Workers. MOSCOW, Feb. 24.--The Executive | Bureau of the Profintern sent a cable | to the Trade Union/Council of Shang- hai greeting the heroic action of the Shanghai proletariat. The cable de-| clares that the inghai workers | Dislike China | it is a very heavy haul as winnings | go, even for Cannes which is now At Games While His American Workers Toil CANNES, France, Feb. 24.— Horace Dodge of Detroit was re- ported a heavy winner at the Cannes Casino today. Dodge stated that his winnings at the tables here now amount to $60,000. - This is not a record but and Cloaks Reaction, Horace Dodge Gambles | | surpassing Monte Carlo in the size of stakes won and lost. Shoufs, cheers, applause and Umionize Trade Huge Enthusiastic Meeting Unanimou: Resolution for Joint Action Adopts mene RESIS cae | Ud a mighty roar of approval from rl 1S a OY the thousands of furriers who crowded Cooper Union last night Protests Anti- Soviet | Note Britain ihvine to Provoke a World Offensive LONDON, Feb. 24.—British labor is extremely indignant over the pro- yocative note sent by Chamberlain to |marked the passage of a resolution which brings the New York Joint Board of the furriers’ union and the New York Joint Board of the cloak and dressmakers’ in a solid battle line against the reactionary labor forces which are seeking to destroy these unions. The workers could not wait to hear the resolution read to its end. They clapped enthusiastically as soon as they heard the proposal that the fur- |riers should officially join hands with |their comrades in the cloak and dress jindustry to fight more effectively 5 |against Matthew Woll, Hugh Frayne,|8T0uP of his fellow-workers. Al) the | Morris Sigman, Ozier Schachtman and | Workers in the hall stood up and con- jtheir assistant union-smasher, Abra-| tinued cheering for this man who has ham Beckerman. | been a union member for thirty years. Last night’s meeting at Cooper | “Hurrah for Kessler”; “You told Union was called by the Joint Board|’¢™, Kessler,” were the cries from all to acquaint the workers with the sit-|Parts of the hall; and even after challenged the chairman and. other speakers to explain their tactics in trying to destroy the New York union. As soon as Kessler entered the hall he was greeted with cheers, and he was escorted to the platform by a | With Opponents up a puppet government which will have madé them: | the government of. the Soviet Union. Washington, D. C. You have thus far made no public} statement in regard to the policy of impetialist intervention in support of the investments and profits of the rreat international banking houses of Wall Street, which the American gov- pursuing in its interven- icaragua, its threats against and its massing of naval) n_ Chinese. waters. Wall Street Game. be subservient to their wishes and aid them in the exploitation of the people of Nicaragua. This has be- come even more plain since the vic-| tories of the liberal forees represent- WASHINGTON, D. C., Feh. 24.— The British note dispatched to Wash- ington relative to the alleged need ‘or protection of British nationals in Nicaragua was the result of a pre- ing the people of Nicaragua has been | arranged plan between the British answered by sending of new forces | of American marines and the virtual taking over the country by the naval forces of the American government. Do you believe that because the Amer- ican government has recognized the clear from the beginning of intervention in Nicaragua that Coolidge and Kellogg were playing the game of the Wall Street exploit- CURRENT EVENTS | By T..O°FLAHERTY j/ }} THe British note to the 4overn-| ment “of the Soviet Union isa masterpiece of hypocri: Chamber- lain charges the official | viet government with conducting hos- | tile propaganda against the empire. | Now, it is a well known fact that all capitalist governments are always at war with each other, using whatever means the times warrant. Only re- cently, the French government ar- rested, indicted and convicted Eng- lish subjects engaged in espionage work in France. The bankers of one country make occasional attacks on the currency of another country. Yet no sharp notes are dispatched because of such conduct. This kind of thing is quite proper. It is the way imperialist powers play the game. Why did the British send the provocative note? Simply because the victims of British oppression in the Orient regard the Soviet Union as their only friend in the world, be- cause the workers’ republic is a haven for the hunted victims of imperialism and becquse the headquarters of the Communist International is in the Soviet Union as the nucleus of the force this government upon the Nica- raguan people with American bayo- (Continued on Page Three). ALIEN REGISTRY BILL INTRODUCED INTO CONGRESS WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, — Very quietly, almost without notice by the newspapers, the Brand bill for com- pulsory registration of aliens was in- troduced into the house of representa- tives, and ordered printed. It will come up for debate at the next ses- sion of congress. It will have the support of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, whose “voluntary” finger- printing bills, and readiness to argue for other spy systems to control the lives of foreign born workers have made him notorious. Costly To Workers. The Brand bill embodies most of the vicious elements of its predeces- sors. It requires that after a date set by presidential proclamation, every alien entering the United States shall pay ten dollars to be re- gistered, and five dollars a year after that to be registered again. If he is between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one he pays only three dol- World Republic of Labor and also recognizes that between this strong- hold of the world labor government of the future and imperialism there is a fundamental conflict. Soviet Union has undoubtedly been giving moral support to the Chinese revolution. Any Russian workers or peasants who desire to risk their life in behalf of the nationalist revolu- tion has the permission of the So- viet government. On the other hand, Britain and the imperialist powers have been supporting the militarists secretly and openly, with arms, ind at two days after his arrival (Continued on Page Three) NEW WAR THREAT lars, if younger than sixteen he is registered for nothing. Residence Requirements. The country is divided into dis- tricts, the center of each district ‘to be a postoffice. Whenever any alien permanently removes from the district in which he is registered, Section 6 of the Brand bill requires that he report to the post office of such district and give such information in regard to his movements as may be required regulation. He shall, moreover, in (Continued on Page Two) ON SOVIET UNION Polish-Lithuanian Pact Is Baltic Bloc Scheme Hatched Great Britain BERLIN, Feb. 24.—Announcement of an agreement between the fascist governments of Poland and Lithuania, hostile to the Soviet Union, coming on the heels of the dispatch of British note to Moscow brings the pos- ability of an imperialist war against Russia led by Great Britain into the near future, ‘ The pact fits in with the long-cherished British scheme to organize a Baltic bloc from which Great Britain News of the conspiracy created a shock in Berlin governmental circles though it has been known for a long time that negotiations had been going on. The development completely jus- tifies the statement delivered to the press in Berlin by Georges Tchitcher- could wage war against Russia. in, Soviet foreign minister, against the Soviet Union. This state- ment was given as one of the reasons for the provocative British note, Positive reports that Smetona and (Continued on Page Five) that Britain was organizing a hostile bloc foreign office and the state depart- ment, it was unofficially reported here today. I It is said to be a part of the ar- rangement between the two govern- Diaz government it has the right to | at Tee oe agreed to look benevolently on the British action in China while Britain would aid the state department in its policy in Central America in what- ever way it could. Coolidge ang Kellogg can now go | to congress with the British note jand declare that its policy of landing jan army of marines in the little country is proven justified. The United States demanded that | Britain wouldiot land any ‘troops and Great Britain is prepared to re- | spect | here. it, according to information Relieved State Department. Instead of viewing the presence of the British’ warship in Nicaraguan waters with alarm, stafe department officials apparently welcomed it to- day. It relieves this government of the necessity of providing a “place of refuge” for British subjects, should conditions become serious, and at the same time it strengthens the state department’s contention that} the Nicaraguan, situation is serious. MUSSOLINI AND FRANCE COMPETE IN NAVAL POWER WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Italy’s real reason for rejecting President Coolidge’s disarmament proposal was due to the Italian gov- ernment’s unwillingness to engage in any conference without assurance that she would be accorded naval equality with France, it developed here today. Reports that the Italian government has made this plain in a “secret note” which accompanied the formal pub- lished communication were denied at the state department today. The de- partment admitted, however, that the Italian ambassador in presenting his government’s reply, made “certain verbal explanations.” Diplomatic Move. The state department said nothing about the reports, also current, that it knew all about the conflict between Italy and France, and the hesitancy (Continued on Page Two) Unemployment Rife in San Francisco Region; Discharge Women First ! San Francisco—(FP)—Over 12,- 000 men and women are out of work in the San Francisco Bay re- gion according to the U. S. depart- ment of labor, Women are the chief sufferers, both in factories and offices. Many railroad men are being quietly dropped. conference | s the vanguard of the Chinese revolution against the | joint onslaught of the foreign imperi- alists and the Chinese militarists. | Blames _ British: Government. LONDON, Feb, 24,—The political | ireau_of the British Communist} Party ‘issued a manifesto declaring that the responsibility for the mass | executions in Shanghai rest entirely | with the British government. | SENATOR GALLS RED'S PROBE ONLY POLITICS WASHINGTON, Pb. 24. na} dramatic and heated cross fire of charges and counter charges, Senator | James A. Reed, chairman of the com- |} mittee investigating graft in the elec- tions last year, requested additional powers today. Specifically he wanted to open the ballot boxes of the Penn- sylvania senatorial election in which there is evidence of corruption. The Reed committee has the boxes. Senator Arthur R. Robinson of In- diana, one of those a trifle implicated by the revelations of klan super-poli- tics in Indiana at about the time of the Reed investigation, took the oc- casion to charge Reed with hunting publicity. “He would need no campaign fund. | This would furnish him with plenty ef publicity. But why should the United States be foreed to pay the contribution necessary for the ad- (Continued on Page Three) foreign office has had assurances from Left wing labor leaders fear that the | fiance of the attempts of the inten! meeting to order, applause broke out national and A. F. of L. officials to|#sain and Kessler had to rise and ac- reorganize the Joint Board, and to|‘nowledge their appreciation. |rouse the workers to the defense of| !nthusiasm marked every step in |those fur strikers. who were suddenly | the meeting. Every speaker was wel- called for trial this week. jeomed nois' Applause was fre- sive laborites declare the “Hands Off | Money Showered On Platform. Be cele te eg? 4 The China” committees that are now or-| These fur workers, who aero ar | spi 't of the whole mass of fur work- anized will be asked to add to their | Tested for their strike activities, shall was such as to strike t i ts k th evention of hostile action | % he railroadef'to prison as Sigman | eri h os i far ts dane a pone sige sch 0 \had done to the cloakmakers,” said | ‘0S? Who Have planned to depose or other imperialist powers that the time was ripe to risk a rupture of rela- tions with Moscow. If the British imperialists declare war on the Soviet Union, the progres- | juation in the union, to express de-| Chairman Isadore Shapiro called the t oe |Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board, | ‘ expel or reorganize them. While the public in general is some- what cold to the note as a result of | the numerous “red scares” fed to| |them in recent years, there is real | | danger that the extremists in the cab-| inet will foree the government to President Isidor Shapiro, of the during his speech; and the furriers | ,, swat Sele Baaed ‘i a not only shouted their approval, but)" U7T'ers, ~olnt Board presiding, de- when Gold said money was needed|‘l@ted: “We are going to deal with for the defense of these workers, | the court capes, and also tell) the coins and bills came flying at him till’ ‘uth about the right wing meeting latf 1 lik j-| held in here yesterday. icra neo looked. Hike «bank tl4] “The so-called Furriers’ Trade | Not only was every seat in the hall| Union Committee said that all fur- |taken, and hundreds kept standing in| Tie"s would be welcome to their meet- |the aisles at the rear, but there were| ing and all who wanted to make a liv- | dozens of seats filled on the platform,| ing should be present. Yet, when the and” in’ the front “row was’ Mérris /farriers came they were uot admit- Kessler, the 75-year-old fur worker | ted.” % der with a view to aiding a revolt;}who at the “right wing” meeting in He referred to H. Shlis against Chang Tgo-Lin, which is said | Cooper Union, on Wednesday night, | to be brewing. Chang’s police are Te-} ported to be raiding Communist resi- dences and seizing revolutionary lit- H 9 e° e e — l Babies Li The Morning Post, die-bird organ ar em S$ 1eS ve In expressed the opinion that the Soviet ° Union would not cease to promote the i ; interests of the Communist movement | Dingy ellars But Rents Climb Higher and High more insulting language. m 1g. er 1g. er The Daily Herald, labor organ mildly criticized the government, stating | that the words of politicians and journalists, referring to Buhkarin and ethers, should not be taken too seri- ously. follow up the pote with more drastic measures, boing to provoke a world war againSt the Workers’ Republic, Circulating False Reports, Foreign office agercies are circu- lating reports of heavy” massing “of Soviet troops on the Manchurian bor- 1, a speak- regardless of notes. The Daily Mail, tory organ be- rated the governmént for nct using Harlem, gay quarter of the metropolis, hides suffering and | priyation beneath its carefree exterior. Will de Kalb, DAILY | WORKER housing expert, in a carcful survey of every section of | Harlem, finds high rents and low housing conditions prevalent in rae ORE the colored section. Tomorrow de Kalb will write about housing Read The Daily Worker Every Day | conditions in the Bronz. CRU CIAL BATTLE IS NEAR IN THE = By WILL DE KALB. |lecting it, and it gathers in the rooms. One community in the city well| There it collects in the bathtubs. |known to social workers in Harlem. The buildings in Harlem are among | Of all the “respectable” communities, the oldest in the city. No new ones its standard of living is the highest;;*¥° been built. Of a total of forty- ee cee acre |and yet its living conditions are the FIGHTING FOR SHANGHAI, CHINA SHANGHAI, Feb. 24.—The most important battle in the his-| tory of the Chinese Republic seemed impending today as both the| through the Harlem Black Belt by Nationalist troops under General Chiang Kai-Sheik, from the |J#™mes Middleton and William Battle, south, and the Fengtien troops of Marshal Chang Tso-Lin, Man- churian war lord from the north, speeded up their race for military | chairman of the North Harlem Com- 0 control of Shanghai, China’s chief seaport. The vanguard of the northern horde today had reached Wusih,| 80 miles from Shanghai, while the Nationalist Cantonese occu Kashing, 60 miles to the south-west. Suhkiang appeared to be the]; probable scene of the impending battle, as the converging lines will meet there. The labor unions at 1 o'clock this afternoon called off the strike which has partially paralyzed Shanghai since last Saturday. The cotton mills and other factories immediately re- sumed full operation, and at the post cffice partial resumption was ef- fected. The agitation in Shanghai native city was more rife today because of the wholesale arrests by the military authorities. Approximately 200 per- sons, ineluding 21 labor leaders, have Leen imprisoned. The labor leaders were abducted from the French con- cession where they had taken refuge. General Strike Called. The labor unions have announced that a general strike of one hour’: duration, called,for Monday from 10 to 11 o’elock throughout China, will pied | The Shanghai Times, an English- language daily, today reported. th arrest, trial and execution of a strike picket at Chapei, The United States transport Chau- mont arrived today, bringing 1300} marines for China duty. | . o * Cantonese Seize City. LONDON, Feb. 24.—The Canton- ese forces captured Fengchuy, 40 nuiles from Shanghai today, eaccord- most subject to criticism. Several days ago, along with other newspapermen, I was both colored, president of the North Harlem Improvement Association and munity Council, respectively. t 2 new houses erected in the past ars in the entire section, only e are renting at less than $15 per fiv conducted | 20m. The majority are renting for $20 and over. Is Harlem the Worst? Mellow with age, the buildings are in sad state of disrepair. Why I do know, but for some strang rea- son the Harlem landlord seems to be Babies wailing in dark, stuffy|®ble to get away with a good deal rooms. ellars where humans are her- with dogs and cats on a level of insanitary living conditions. Hallway: black and airless as a cave. Un- washed milk bottles. This is the picture that filled m eyes in Harlem’s Black Belt. Thi is Battle untiring civie workers, and The DAILY WORKER want changed in every detail. And still a majority of mants we visited refused to express dissatisfaction when we could see the results of the landlords’ negligences, so obvious were they. Tron Hand of Landlordism, Rickety steps leading to|™ the victure that Middleton and} into trouble | ‘ ore than the average rent-gouger. In the basement apartment of 1698 nue, Mrs. Eluf Banson, 64, ad been eighteen years sinee landlort! had had the walls ed down! She paid $22 a month four rooms, two of them inner ventilated. are firetraps. The escape, long since con- ire under-writers, is im use in the majority of houses. Whet® Park for bedrooms, bad! there are four families these are worthless. The hallways are wooden, And the houses were so haphazard! cted, a good fire wind could wipe entire, block! “Don’t want to get ing to a Central News Dispatch from “hanghai. The loss of -this town is| considered as an almost irreparable blow at the left flank of General} Sun Chuan-Fang’s army. An Evening News, dispatch from hankow said that labor leaders have ‘alled a general strike of one day for today as a protest ayainst the Shanghai executions by General Sun’s agents, and against the landing of British troops at Shanghai. with the landlord,” was the invariable response. A concrete example of the jiron hand the landlords holds over the| >y Ttal of the housing | tenant as a result shortrac! The entire city should be ashsmed| ” of the living conditions in the Black | learned, the! ' Belt. In the winter, I streets are never cleaned. It times a week before ashes ar bage are removed. cellars with garbage, janitors ston col- some- d gar- After filling the |"? t Harlem Bad Too. st Harlem. populated chiefly ns,, conditions are the same s they are in le Italy, downtown. Only rents are five dollars or more In Harlem proper, rents are me as in Brownsville, Brook- conditions are worse. Belt, words to describe f employed, would only ! The colored man is our (Continued on Page Five) In FE rer. _Ask Your Newsdealer For The DAILY WORKER! Get Your Fellow Workers To Buy It!