The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1927, Page 1

| j —— | | | il | | {CURRENT EV The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized, For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. THE DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY Bntered ax second-class.matter at the Post Mffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION ———— Voi. TV No if ON RATES: In New York, b; ‘ New York, by mail, % mail, $8.00 per year. $6.00 per year. NEW V ™K TUES Y MARCH PUBLISHI 1, 1927 << Published Daily except Sunday by THB DAILY WORKER NG CO, 33 First Street, New York, Price 3 Cents N.Y. Cable from Mexico Shows Kellogg Lies WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Correspondence between Senator | William E. Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com-| mittee, and President Calles, of Mexico, revealing that only 22 oil| companies out of a total of 402 had refused to accept the new! Mexican oil law, was made public here this afternoon by Borah.) It revealed that Edward L. Doheny, Harry F. Sinclair, and) the Standard Oil of Indiana, were among those who refused io) Doheny has just been convicted of practising accept the law. fraud on the people of the Unit The information given in the Calles message is directly con-) tradictory to Secretary of State Kellogg’s report to the Senate} ed States. Foreign Relations Committee, that only a few oil companies had complied with the terms of the Mexican land law. The state department greeted its appearance with the observation that publication of this refutation of Kel- logg’s claims was “particularly un- fortunate” at this time when some prospect of the Mexican government’s yielding were visible. Calles States Facts. Calles’ reply, dated January 24, fol- lows: “These 880 companies have solicited on the whole 648 petroleum conces- | sions on lands with claims previous t« i (Continued on Page Three) ENTS ByT. J. OFLAHERTY NEW YORK TIMES editorial writer usually labors in front of his dictafhone with a cake of ice on his brow, judging by ‘the clammy fare that is served up to Mr. Ochs’ customers in the editorial columns of the young lady of Times Square. But there are times when Mr. Ochs’ hired men jazz themselves up with a dose of indignation and leap to the de- fense of some worthy cause or to the rescue of a hard-pressed reactionary. In the Times of February 28, Senator Borah is pounced upon for introduc- ing a resolution which would author- ize the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to visit Mexico and Nica- ragua during the Congressional re- cess, aa, Be Coolidge did not like the idea. Neither did Kellogg: Neither did the Times. What business has this com- mittee meddling with the manner in which the state department conducts Wall Street’s affairs? “But this is 4. @ republic’ the amazed citizen may observe, and “Coolidge is not a mon- arch; neither is Kellogg court jester.” it evidently Wall Street looks on senate as a nuisance only when the »cid senate parks, its collective brain in the chair and remains silent an ited. ling the stops on all the jingles ever chanted by comedians at the ex- pense of senatorial intellectual slug- gishness the Times sarcastically ob- serves: “The freedom of learning ought to be conceded to senators in the fullest degree. Whether they will take advantage of it is another question.” The capitalists have no objection to “dumb” senators as long ae they vote the right way and say nothing. But fury of a scorned woman has nothing on that of Wall Street when one. of its chosen chil- dren bites the hand that would have willingly fed him. * * * Lest .some reader looking for trouble might assume from the fore- going that the writer entertains any illusions about the political sincerity of Borah, another paragraph is nec- essary. Borah is one of those who voted against the proposed child la- bor law. On many occasions he has voted for the administration’s reac- tionary, measures. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreigr Relations he could arouse the masses against the rape of Nicaragua, the threat of war with® Mexico and the dispatching of armed forces to China. . * . He confines his activities to con- sressional speeches and to a proposed investigation that) could not be fin- ished until the flag of Wall Street floated over Nicaragua. The fact that the administration is going right ahead indicates that Borah’s opposi- tion is not taken seriously. If Borah wants to prove his sincerity he can do so. Let him arrange a nation- wide toury boldly attack the Coolidge administration and call on the mas- ses to prevent the conquest of Nica- ragua by Wall Street. 2 oe Here again we come to the ques- tion of a Labor Party. Reactionary tho the leadership of the British La- bor Party is it is forced by the Com- munists and genuine radicals inside of it to protest against the action of the government in sending troops to China, It is true that those leaders do their stunt in the house of com- mons and then adjourn to some fash- ionable restaurant or dine at some duke’s home and forget all about the (Continued on Page Four) Only Publicity Stunt Charge of City Judge Trial of the author and seven members of the cast of “The Vir- gin Man”, one of the three plays recently raided as immoral, postponed yesterday until March 18 when one of the justices in special sessions had questioned the proceeding as a publicity stunt. “I don’t propose to permit my- self to he used in a_ publicity ns Man Trial Is | |. publicity stunt.” Furriers Await ~ Expulsion by Black Gang | Workers Go to Jail All is still peaceful along the bat- tle front in the New York Furriers’ Joint Board. Although it was announced that the sub-committee of the General Execu- tite Board of the International Fur Workers’ Union would hold a meet- ing last Saturday morning, at which it was understood the next step in the “task of reorganizatitn” would be voted upon, the meeting was post- poned. There was no official announce- ment as to why it was not held, but the rumor is that those who will lead lay of a few days in order to pre- pare for the job more fully. 60 Day Terms for Workers. Two of the fur strikers whose cases were suddenly called last week—al- most a year after the strike—were sentenced yesterday morning, in Gen- eral Sersionto- 60 days cach. The two workers are brother, Nathan and Julius Mailman, who are active trade unionists and they are being sent to jail because they helped the fur work- ers win their victory of last spring. Other strike cases which were (Continued on Page Five) Real Estate Boards Report Rent Increase CHICAGO, (FP). — Out of 304 boards reporting to the National As- sociation of Real Estate Boards, 11 per cent report residential rents in- cxyeasing, compared with 9 per cent a year ago. Only 23 per cent reported decreases, compared with 27 per cent a year ago. Rents remained station- | ary among 66 per cent, compared with 64 per cent the previous year. In short, more districts report rising rents and fewer falling rents than 2 year ago. Col. A. B. Miller. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Gen. Smedley D. Butler was ordered to Shanghai today to command the U. S. marines corps expeditionary forces in China. Today’s order follows notification to Gen. Butler several days ago to “hold himself in readiness” for the assign- ment. 4 Accompanying the General on the first available transport leaving San stunt”, said Justice Caldwell. “The | question in my mind is whether | fi the prosecution is a real one or a |0f the International Longshoremen’s | a great city. International Spars for Time; | the expulsion work asked for the de-| T. V.0'Connor Is Charged Here With Graft was | | Living Off Standard Oil Money, Suit Asserts V. O'Connor, former president T. Association, was charged with par- ticipation in $1,600,000 Standard Oil | graft yesterday in United States Dis- | trict Court. As chairman of the United States | Shipping Board, a soft berth given |him by President Hardirg in return |for political favors in the 1920 elec- | tion, O'Connor is accused of bene, fitting personally from a shipping | |board deal with the Tidewater Oi!) Ce., a Standard Oil subsidiary. Since | |the consummation of the deal, O'Con- | |nor “has been living i a fashion | wholly unsuited to his: presumptive | ‘means,” asserts the suit filed by aj | taxpayer here. * | | “Mutual and reciprocal interest” | |exists between members of the ship-| |; ping board, headed by O/Connor and} the Tidewater Oil Co., the complaint | continues. : | Big A. F. of L. Deal. O’Connor, whose unsayory record, as head of the Longshoremen’s Union | earned him such enmity from the rank | and file that he sighed with relief when Harding gave him his present | $35,000 year job, was known as one} of the most reactionary and’ influ- ential international officials in the entire American Federation of La- bor. He broke at least two big strikes of New York waterfront workers and participated in a shady German deal at the beginning of the war. John C. Hackett, a former deputy police commissioner, filed the tax- payer’s suit in federal court yester-| day in an effort to break up the O’Connor-Tidewater Oil deal, Through a subsidiary, the Tidewater Terminal | Co., the’ $il outfit leases to the ship- | ping board’s four arnsi-baes svhich it | owns. The bases are located at Phila-| delphia, Boston, Brooklyn and Nor- folk. Hackett wants the leases de-} clared void by the court. | Sons Also Benefit. William and Stephen O’Cohnor, sons of T. V., both are being “cared for” by the Tidewater Company, Hackett asserts. William is on the payroll while Stephen acts as go-be- tween for his father. The action asks for a ruling from the court declaring the leases void, and an order demanding the appear- ance of the - defendants, including O’Connor, in court for questioning. The suit charges that the shipping | board has received $1,600,000 in reve- nue from the Tidewater Company, and has paid out $1,575,000 for re- pairs and upkeep. It further charges that the board has extended “undue favoritism” to Carl B. Miller, named as the owner of the controlling inter- lest in the Tidewater Company. Smedley Butler Will Command American | Marines in Shanghai, Francisco will be Col. A. B. Miller,| Col. Perey Archer and»Lieut. Charles | H. Whittaker. Butler is “Trouble Maker.” The choice of General Smedley But- ler to head the United States marine forees dispatched to China indicates that the United States government is prepared to give the Chinese the same treatment meted out to the Latin) Americas. Here is Butler’s record in| part: 4 He participated in the imperialist war on China when the Boxer upris- ing gave the powers an excuse to march on Pekin, He has participated in many buccaneering excursions in Latin America, including the raid in Vera Cruz under the mountebank Wil- son’s instructions. Three thousand Mexicans were slaughtered by Butler nd his army. * Butler won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his work in looting Haiti for the National City Bank of New York. General Butler is referred to in army circles as the “star trouble maker of the marines.” Where Butler Fell Down. Butler first broke into national prominence when he accepted the po- sition of public safety commissioner Staten Island Workers |Reply of USSR. Prey of Landlords, Too) To Britain Is Richmond Borough Rents Nearly as High as In Manhattan; Insufficient Fire Protection Is Added Hazard There. By WILL DE KALB. Richmond is a part of New York} City that makes no boast of that fact. | It is strictly a workers’ colony; it is more like a small town than a part of It takes exactly one hour to get from Times Square to St. George Plaza, and sometimes longer. One firgt must take a subway to the Battery. Then a ferry, which runs every ten and fifteen minutes, and takes about twenty to twenty-five minutes to reach Staten Island. There one has to take the surface car, ¥ h runs after long intervals, but takes its time about waiting and running. The borough is a conglomeration of deep. Cellars are always wet or damp. Little Fire Protection. One fire battalion answers all} alarms on the island. Due to the lack of men, the firemen consider it an achievement if the fire is prevented from spreading. Houses are chiefly two and three story affairs outside the limits of the ten good-sized villages that were es- tablished long ago. In the villages, the five and six story tenement, and its resulting evils, appear. Just as in Manhattan, few of the house, large and small, have heat. The small houses have all the faults of quickly built houses; the large all the evils of crowding, bad planning, steep hills and deep valleys. When a storm breaks, heavy fogs make the usually damp night air unbearable. When the rain pours down, little rivers form in the streets two and three feet" lack of privacy, etc. $38 Average Rent: | Isn’t it a crime, then, that land- lords should be permitted to charge (Continued on Page Five) 77 MILITANT OFFICE WORKERS ARE | EXPELLED IN DRIVE ON LEFT WING After the reading of a lengthy re- port from the trial committee telling how it had wrestled and prayed over the problem of driving out Commun- ists, the Bookkeepers, Stenographers | and Accountants "Union at a meeting held in the Rand’ School Auditorium last night—with the portrait of Eugene V. Debs gazing down at the performance—expelled 27 union mem- bers because, so the trial committee said, they were Communists and therefore opposed to the principles of trade unionism. | Six of the members had been ac-| cused of “entering the union on false pretenses,” and their initiation fees were returned to them several days ago. One member, Al Schaap, who had never been brought up on charges at all, was excluded from the hall ' (Continued on Page Five) ‘SUPREME COURT HITS DOHENY ELK HILLS OIL STEAL WASHINGTON, Feb. Supreme Court of the United States today canceled the oil leases of Ed- ward L. Doheny on the Elk Hills California, on the ground that they were illegal, and were obtained by fraudulent acts of Albert B. Fall, at that time seeretary of the. interior, in collusion with Admiral Robison, also acting fraudulently, and with Secretary of the Navy Denby. The prosecution had tried to shield Denby, on the grounds that he acted inno- cently. The decision v regarded by many legal experts as foreshadowing eventual victory for the government in the Teapot Dome lease case. The equity phases of the two contracts (Continued on Page Four) Philadelphia Snooper Heads China Expedition Gen. Smedley D. Butler. in Philadelphia with the object of cleaning up the vicious Quaker city. If the general has as little success in China as he had in Philaedlphia, Wall Street is wasting a lot of petroleum on him. Butler again broke into the lime- light when he attended a booze party in California as guest of a prohibition director. After the guests rose from under the table Butler reported the affair and had his host arrested for violation of the prohibition act. Thus it is quite evident that Mr. Butler is thoroly qualified for any dirty. job that Wall Street has for him, 28.—The | ‘lemergency and the small gunboats ‘CHINESE ARMIES GIRD FOR BATTLE | BEFORE SHANGHAI SHANGHAT, Feb. 28.—The revolu- tionary armies of the Nationalist government are assembling before Sunkiang, 28 miles south of Shang-| hai, to attack the 35,000 troops of Sun | Chuan-fang and Chang Tsung-chang, which are entrenching at that point. A vietory for the southerners will | Probably secure Shanghai for them. spite of pre ations for a “war ” like the battles of the vestern Europe. Gen- ng and Chang a ng precautions own safety. General Sun has his residence at the Lunhwa Ya- men and at all times has a special train, automobiles and a motor boat standing by for an emergency exit. A thousand more marines arrived | here this morning on the Minnesota, The general labor union called a strike for one hour today as a protest against the landing of foreign troops. | More U. 8. Destroyers. | News has also arrived that Wash- ington has ordered five more destroy- ers to this port; the William B, Pres- ton and Sicard were ordered from Manila the MacLeish from Chinkiang, the Simpson from Nanking and the Bulmer from Wyhu. This movement concentrates prac- tically all of the American Asiatic fleet at Shanghai with the exception of a few ships left at Manila for an | patroliing the upper Yangtze river. aie. med Ridiculous Charge. | | VIENNA, Feb. 28.—Leading mem-| jbers of the Hungarian Communist! |Party, numbering, it is said, close to| a hundred, are in jail. | The assertion that Moscow has any- | |thing to do with agitating a revolu- tion in Hungary is ridiculed at the embassy of the U.S.'S. R. here where it is declared the affair is evidently a “plant” sprung at this time for the purpose of strengthening Britain’s at- titude against Russia. Democratic Politician Given Fat State Job SYRACUSE, N, Y., Feb, 28.—Neal brewster, lawyer, a professional democratic politician in central New York, will be appointed by Governor Smith as a member of the Public Servite Commission. The job pays $15,000 a year for ten yoars. Defiant \Quotes Provocative Speeches Of Tory Leaders MOSCOW, Feb. 28.—The Soviet government’s reply to the provocative British note threatening to break off diplomatic relations is couched iw polite and restrained language, but between the lines one can read a note of defiance which gives the impres- sion that the Soviet Union feels it- self capable of defending the inter- ests of the workers and peasants against imperial Britain. The note was prepared by M. Lit- vinoff, acting foreign minister and was not given to the press until it was possible for the British attache to cable it to Downing Street. Soviet Union For Peace. ‘ note declared that the Soviet would continue its work for since peace is nearest the The Union peace, +} hearts of the masses of Great Britain and of the Soviet Union and will wel- come any step towards peace on the part of Great Britain. M. Litvinoff quoted liberally from speeches delivered by Messrs. Birk- enhead, Churchill, L.C. M. Amery and other British ministers which viciously attacked the Soviet Union, attacks for which Austen Chamberlain, for- eign secretary, accepted complete re- sponsibility. Quoted Rabid Speeches. The Soviet note quoted just as lib- erally from the anti-Soviet speeches of the British tory reactionaries as Chamberlain did from the anti-im- perialist speeches delivered by Buk- harin, and other leaders of the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union. Referring to the British threat tu sever diplomatic and commercial re- lations the note concludes: “If the British government thinks that such abrogation is demanded by the interests of the British people and general peace, the British gov- ernment must assume full responsi bility. fam the eniuing -consequenes, Comes Cte Britain to Remain Mute. " LONDON, Feb. 28.—Great Britain will make no rejoinder to the Rus- sian reply to its protest against ale leged Soviet propaganda in Great Britain, Sir Austen Chamberlain an- nounced in the house of commons this afternoon. The Russian reply, which was a@ sharp allegation that B h states- men have been anti-Soviet in their terances and a denial of any viola- tion of the agreement not to distribute propaganda in Great Britain, has aroused considerable interest here. The anti-Soviet faction in the cab- inet is reported to be pressing for abrogation of the Anglo-Russian trade ugreement. Tories are Incgnsed. ‘ Press comment on the Soviet Union note is varied. The tory papers are incensed. They claim that British dig- nity has been taken liberties with. They accuse Chamberlain of being too moderate in his language. They call’ for a rupture in relations, but there is an undertone of pessimism and a note of resignation to the in- evitable. The prospect of a war with the powerful Soviet Union has @ de- pressing effect on the most vitriolic ef the aristocratic swashbucklers. Flay Diplomatic Boorishness. The liberal press condemns the manner in which the foreign office conducts diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, stresses the value of the Union’s markets to Britain and calls for less provocative methods. The Daily Herald, labor organ, con- demns the government’s sniping at Russia and justifies its original con- demnation of the British note by the peaceful tone of the Soviet reply. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Girl Run Over May Die. Marion Savino, 9, of 140 Skillman Avenue, Brooklyn, who was struck by an antomobile at Metropolitan and Manhattan Avenues, Brooklyn, Satur+ day night and dragged for some dis- tance beneath the car, was still in a critical condition at Greenpoint Hos- pital today Buck Gas Tax. Officials of the New York State Automobile Association today launched an intensive campaign in an effort to block the passage of a bill by the legislature providing for a tax of two cents a gallon on gasoline. Three Die of Bootleg. Bootleg liquor took a toll of three more lives earty today within one hour in the Harlem district.