The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1927, Page 3

FIND BODIES OF TWO SAILORS IN __TANKER'S. HOL Two Others Missing in| Burning Vessel The charred bodies of two sailors were found yesterday aboard the Rri- tish tanker Black Sea off Bayonne as rescuers fought to board the still smouldering vessel which blew up in the harbor Wednesday. The two bodies were discovered | amidships on the port side of the tan- | ker. So terrific was the heat thrown off by the burning oil vessel, that the rescuers were unable to board her to make a thorough investigation of the | extent of fatalities. The belief was | expressed by rescuers that several others of the crew also may have lost their lives in the terrific blast and the fire which followed. Police Crew Finds Bodies. ‘The bodies were found by thé crew | of the police launch Gypsy, which) pushed to the smouldering tanker's | side when the captain of the rescue | ship Resolute wirelessed that “several | bodies” had been seen aboard the gutted ship. : It was admitted at the offices of Simson, Spence and Young, owners of the tanker Black Sea, that four members of the crew are missing. Seek, More Bodies. The bodies of the two which have been recovered were taken to the Bat- tery by New York harbor police. They were burned beyond recogni- tion. A hazardous fight was continued by rescuers to recover additional bodies for fear the ship would sink.) Their efforts were almost fruitless} because of the raging heat from the! still burning ship. ie . The vessel which at last reports , was lying off Sixty-ninth Street Bay Ridge, was leaking oil and still burn- ing as police launches and other vessels stood by. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Anti - Labor President Of Cuba Can’t Come to Dinner Coolidge Offers, WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — The contemplated visit of: the President | Manclifido of Cuba, for which elabor- ate plans had been made in Washing-| ton, has been “indefinitely post-! poned,” it was announced by the Cub-/ an ambassador today after a long distance telephone talk with. the pre-! sidential palace in Havana. } The president, it has said, is suf- fering from a severe attack of grippe. A White House dinner was to have been given President Machado, and he was to have been’ widely enter- tained in the capitol, after which he was to have made a tour of many} states. Machado is a member of a pro- American group in Cuba, and secured | aid from the United States depart-| ment of state in his efforts to break the general strike against sugar and railroad companies about a year ago. He instituted a reign of terror against labor organizations. : Pf Here is the artiat’s concevtion - Bethlen As Premier | Dictator of Hungary Going to “Canossa BUDAPEST, Feb. 24. — Count Bethlen, premier dictator of Hun- gary, is planning, for reasons best ” known to himself, to visit Musso- | lini at Rome. In view of the prem- fers aspiration to establish a Hun- garian monarchy, much speculation is rampant as to whether Bethlen’s trip is not made to assure the sup- port of Mussolini for the establish- ment of the monarchial throne. If he undertakes to perfect his plans to crown Archduke Albrecht as Hungarian king he would also need the sanction of the Vatican as both Bethlem and Albrecht are catholics. It is also thought that Bethlen is engineering an Italian-Hungarian alliance to counteract the alleged move for a Pan-German union he- tween Austria and Germany, which plan would, it.is asserted, have the hacking of the Soviet Union. Rudner Jury May Disagree. CANTON, 0., Feb, 24.—Possibility of a jury disagreement loomed this afternoon, in the case of Ben Rudner, on trial for the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher, when the | jury gave no indication of a verdict | after deliberating more than three) hours. Trish Suffer Influenza. DUBLIN, Feb. 24.—The influenza epidemic is so,severe in Ireland that the health ministry has issued orders that there be no wakes throughout the Free State. ‘An appeal has been issued to the public to ¢heck goughing and not te shout in pubiie. Pass Veterans Loan Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — The senate this afternoon passed e Neely bill, authorizing the director of the Veterans’ Bureau to issue loans upon the bonus certificates of world war veterans. The Battle is on for Shanghai This is the latest phase of the heroie struggle resulting from the i How did happen? Read the book and find it out for yourself. * “THE AWAKENING OF CHINA” By JAMES H. DOLSEN. zi One of the reasons for the success of this little book is its straightforward presentation of important incidents in the age language. Get it today for the very special reduced ($1.00 A DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY — 33 First Street, New York, N. Ys The state department issued a statement recently declaring that Nica of the stuation. | VURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) nd money. The interests of over (00,000,000 Chinese against the inter- | sts of the militarist hangmen and heir foreign backers! The Soviet nion takes the side of the oppressed | | millions, Britain takes the side of| | their executioners. | | * * * | This is exactly what is behind the | British note. The influence of the Soviet Union on the workers and sub- ject peoples of imperialism is feared in no place more than in England. Over 300,000 Hindoos are watching the course of the battle in China. They see the Chinese, hitherto treated with contempt, now chasing the sol- diers of imperialism all over the lot. They see them challenge the power of the mighty empire and they see Chinese revolutionary diplomats talk cold turkey to the cleverest Great Britain can pit against them. Subject peoples are beginning to understand that guns speak louder than words and the cleverest diplomat is he who | ean command the greatest number of | lethal weapons, against an opponent} or a combination of opponents, all) other things being equal. | * * * —" The assistance rendered to the; British miners during their strike by | the workers of the Soviet Union is! an important factor in promoting the | note. Over $5,000,000 from Russia, | where a new society is being built, |in the midst of a hostile world. Only | a paltry $50,000 from the conservative | trade unionists of the United States, | where the standard of living of labor | is unquestionably the highest in the/| world, where unions have millions of dollars in banks, where because of those very reasons the revolutionary spirit is confined to a few. Eee eee 2 The generosity of the Russian ; workers had a powerful effect on the | British laboring class. While they} were being jailed and clubbed by agents of their own government they | knew that the Workers’ Government | of the Soviet Union was friendly and helpful to them within the limits im- posed by diplomatic necessity. Inter- national solidarity took a great step forward. The right wing leaders of British labor were exposed in their true colors as enemies of the work- ers and as agents of the capitalists. The urge to struggle for emancipa- tion from capitalism took on fresh vigor. In this dark night thru which Jabor is groping the beams from the Communist International directs it on its way and British imperialism and for that matter world imperial- ism, does not draw any fine distinc- tion between the Soviet Union and the social revo! They are syn- onymous, for wi we bless the stars. * * NE o} drastic laws ever placed on the statute books of any state in the union is the Baumes Law passed by the New York assembly, which automatically imposes a life} sentence in a penitentiary on any person previously convicted four times, Several judges have branded the law as savage and barbarous, but the Court of Appeals in a decision qe- clared it constitutional. For the time being it will be used against people convicted of burglary and other crimes against property. But the time will strely come when the capi- talist government will take advan- tage of its provisions to incarcerate for life workers who are convicted in connection with strikes, Those Investigated in Indiana Scandal Rave (Continued from Page One) vancerent of the presidential candi- | decy of any member of this body? | This resolution has all the annearares | of being used to push forward into: the limelight somebody's presidui.« campaign.” Reed Asks Extension, Senator Watson, of Indiana, one of those investigated hy the Reed com- mittee at the time of the Indiana seandal, took part against Reed in the argument, and Reed made a hot rejoinder to both of them, and denice: all charges. Reed has asked that the ¥" -* 1» jiean Federation of Labor cannot help | but acknowledge it. jfrom the clutches of the imperialist | situation which the imperialist policies DEMAND A, F, OF L 1a appealed to the United States for protection. . STATE STAND ON THE QUESTION OF IMPERIALISH (Continued from Page One) { nets? Or should the Nicaraguan peo- ple have the right to self-determina- | jtion and a government which they) approve? Coolidge’s Pretenses. The hypocritical pretenses of Presi- | dent Coolidge in his message to con- | gress are so clearly given the lie by| the course of the American govern-| ment in Nicaragua that every work- er can see that what the American government is doing is setting up a dictatorship of the American govern- ment through its marines and by force suppressing the wishes of the people of Nicaragua. This American dicta- torship in Nicaragua may be camov- | flaged by the servile Nicaraguan pup- | vets of Wall Street, but the imperi- alist aggression of the Am an gov- ernment in support of the exploita- tion of Nicaragua by the American banking houses js so clear that even the Executive Council of the Amer- aragua is to become another Haiti, ruled by the representatives of Wail Street backed by American bayonets and exploited by American finance capital. Other Mobhilization. | At the same time that this imperi- alist aggression goes on in Nicaragua the American government is mobili ing naval forces ‘at Shaughat as a threat against the Chinese nationalist forces, which are wresting China capitalist powers, which have looted that country during the last half cen- tury and inflicted the indignity of extra-territoriality and foreign tariff control upon its people. While the United States pretends to be in sym- pathy with the demands of the Chin- ese nationalists for the ending of the unequal treaties, it follows the lead} of Great Britain in massing navai forces at Shanghai, The object of sending these forces is the same as that which is pursued in Nicaragua—the use of force in support of Wall Street investments aud exploitation of China and to keep China as a field of imperialist exploi- tation by the American capitalists. No Message to Workers? Have you no mesage to the Amer- ican workers and farmers in, regard to these events? Will you not raise your voice in protest against “he wholesale beheading of the Chinese trade unionists of Shanghai by the Chinese warlords who support capi- talist imperialism in China, because they called a strike to show their support of the Chinese nationalist cause? The open imperialist policy which the government at Washington is following in the intervention in Nica- ragua and the sending of American forces to China, and which is also ap- parent in the threats against Mexico over the oil leases, carries with it the threats of involving this country in a new imperialist war. The workers and farmers of the United States will pay the cost of such a war, in the sacrifice of lives upon the battlefields and the sacrifice of wealth which they produce’and a consequent lowering of their standard of life. Workers Protest. Hundreds of thousands of workers haye already expressed their protest against these imperialist policies of the government. Notably the Farmer- Lahor Conference of Minnesota, rep- resenting the view of the quarter million farmer-labor voters of that state, the Chicago Federation of La- bor, and scores of local unions of the American Federation of Labor. In spite af the seriousness of the of the government is creating and all it involves for ‘the workers and farm- ers, in spite of the open, brutal use of the American forces to subdue the | people of the countries which are fighting American imperialist exploi- tation, and in spite of the protest of the masses of American workers and farmers against these actions, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor has remained si- lent. Where Does Council Stand. Does this mean that the Executive ji dminrnaeanldohe Wall Street imperialists and their government at Washington and against the workers and farmers who are fighting these policies of imperi- alist aggression? The American workers and farmers want to know why the Executiv Couneil of the American Federation of WRITER SWEARS KELLOGG LYING: ABOUT MEXICO | Doheny Hired Bandit to |S logg when Walter N. I | gett, a writer who has been ma a special stpdy of Mexican-Ame: By testified before sena: ial committee that Kellogg’s latest ement as to the number of Amer- n oil companies refu cepted the Mellon, Har nelair and F control of the sere: the 20 companies defying the ican government. He wound up bj describing how Doheny got most of his oil lands through buying up prop- erties that his paid bandit, P, had promised to destroy, th forcing the owners to sell for a: nothing. Will Doheny Confess? Liggett dared Willis to bring Do- heny to ‘confess as to how he. got his Mexican lands, and why Standard Oil of Indiana refuses to continue payments on its purchase of his claims. Liggett started things going by saying Kellogg’s statement that the Calles regime is on trial before the | world was an insult to the sovereign- | ty of the Mexican people. Willis in- terrupted him to say that Kellogg and tha de |Federal Judge Faces_ e | Repr -| of Labor has taken no stand in regard! was not the issue in this hearing. t» this situation. The following state-| Liggett retorted that Kellogg, by his ment to the American labor move-| hostile statements and his “gas at- ment, published in the “Chinese Guide | tack” through his former law part- in America” expresses the attitude of | ner, Assistant Secretary Robert Olds, the Chinese people of this countrys! hag made himself the issue. Liggett and at the same time of the workers | reminded Willis that the committee i { | i] \ i ! ' and farmers who are in sympathy with the aspirations of the Chinese nationalists to free their country from the grip of the imperialists: “Many readers and Chinese in America have expressed surprise that no official utterance en the present crisis in China has been made by the American labor move- ment, especially in view of the fact that the Nationalist movenrent in China is the only group that is building up the organized labor movement of that country. Has the erganized labor movement of Amer- iea no opinion on intervention and the use of American naval and mili- tary forces in China?” The “Central Committee of the orkers (Communist) Party joins in this demand that the Executive Coun- cil of the American Federation of La- bor declare its position — with thé masses of workers and farmers in the | fight against American imperialism, or with the Wall Street imperialist looters of other countries and their government? The workers and farmers of this country who are opposed to the im- perialist policies of the government do not want a mere declaration from the Executive Council. They want ac- tion on the part of the Executive Couneil to mobilize all the forces of the workers and farmers against the policies of the government, and thus to stop the drift towards a new im- perialist war. They want the Execnu- tive Council to join in calling great | conferences of all labor and farmer organizations to throw the pressure | of the power of the workers and farmers against the imperialist poli- cies of the government-—to build a united front of all workers, farmers and liberal forces against American i lism and to fight the develop- toward a new imperialist war, For Wall Street or for Workers. The Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party has ken the initiative to mobilize the power of the workers and farmers against American imperialism. It has thrown all its strength into the strug- gle. It calls upon the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor to declare its postion in this struggle without further delay. For the Wall Street imperialists and the government at Washington which is carrying out their policies in the rape and exploitation of weaker coun- tries, or For the workers and farmers of the United States in the fight against American imperialism and the threat of a new imperialist war? Where does the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor stand? Central Committee, Workers (Communist) Pai Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, General Secret; Youngster Wins QUEBEC, Feb. 24. — Youth tri- umphed over age today when Emile St. Goddard, 21, of Le Pas, Manitoba, won the 120 mile three-day eastern international dogsled derby—in a totai elapsed time, of eleven hours 37 min- utes 35 seconds. Leonhardt Seppala, 50-year-old veteran of the famous serum drive to Nome two winters ago, came in second. Twenty minutes and twenty seconds behind his ‘youthful opponent. Goddard’s victory marked be second winning of the Quebec clas- ic. 4 SOFTA, Feb. 24.—Severe earth shocks have been felt in northern Bulgaria. Many buildings have been damaged, but there have been no re- are raging along A ‘ of casualties, Severe storms | being Black |had not summoned newspaper men and Olds to testify on the “Bolshe- vist hegemony” propaganda incident | to “see who is lying.” Resolution Against Invasion, The investigation was’in the-Wil- lis-Shipstead sub-committee of the foreign relations commiittee of the jsenate. The debate turned on the | Frazier resolution instructing Presi- dent Coolidge not to make war on | Mexico while congress was not in ses- | sion. Willis finally declared the resolu- tion to ‘be an “insult” to the presi- dent. Frazier, who was present; re- plied that he sought merely to pro- tect the right of the American peo- ple to determine when they were to be put into war. Crusading for Justice. Rev. Hubert C. Herring, secretary of the social relations commission of the congregational churehes in the | United States, who recently led a good-will delegation of some 60 American clergy and church press representatives on a visit to Mexico City, declared the Mexican people are | solving their own problems. He said |the Kellogg policy of ill-will now |“threatens the best administration | | Mexico has ever had—the admini- | stration of President Calles.” He testified that he found the Mexican people in the mood of a cru- | sade for social justice, growing out of the injustices of 400 years of op- pression. in his opinion the United States should’ meet this situation “with care and sympathy, since no peaceful relations can exist be- {tween our two peoples unless we, | meet the Mexicans halfway.” | Mexicans Arming. | Miss Carnelia N. Woods, for the | Society of Friends, who was a mem- ber of the church mission to Mexico, | said the Mexican nation is alarmed! jand afraid of the United States be- |eause of the aggressive attitude of | Kellogg. The peons-of Mexico, she found, “are determined to assert. their rights as human beings—to | break through*the upper crust of so- ciety which has held them down in servitude, and to work out their own) salvation. Benjamin C. Marsh, executive s¢c- | retary of the People’s Reconstruction | League, which staged the hearing, | warned the senators that the armed | forces of the United States had al- | ready seized" Nicaragua, and that the ) next step would be Mexico, which is a far richer prize. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Plumbers Helpers of .| Brooklyn Wili Meet Brooklyn plumbers helpers are in- vited to attend a mass meeting Friday evening, at 8 p. m. in Brownsville | Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman_ St.,/ | Brooklyn. Organization of all Brook- | {lyn plumbers helpers is the goal of | the American Assn. of Plumbers | Helpers, which is sponsoring the) meeting. | Admission to the American Feder- ation of. Labor union, the United Brotherhood of Plumbers and Steam | Fitters, is the further object of the} American Association, | Officers chosen at the last meeting | of the American Association are: ©, Miller, president; vice presidents, If. Rosen (1st), Moe Patrick (2nd) and J. Jantzen (3rd); J. O'Farrell, reeording secretary; Alexander Speri- rigen, financial secretary; Mortimer Jacobs, treasurer, The treasurer is bonded, ‘ Eight trustees were elected besides the ¢ rs. Impeachment Trial _ WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, — Addi- tional charges may be filed against Federal Judge Frank Cooper of the northern New York district, Repre- sentative La Guardia (R) of New York, told the House Judiciary Com- mittee, as the committee opened its impeachment hearing today. 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