The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1927, Page 1

2 NEW YORK’S LABOR .DAILY THE DAILY Wor Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. a __ouisde Now ore by sai G0 ber year” NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1927 <e | Kerensky Reaches New Chen Hopes U.S. Will Not Land ort 6 St Soldiers | Reminds Washington of Great The Daily Worker Fights; For the Organization of the Un- | organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. t nen ; FINAL CITY EDITION Published Daily exept Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y Vol, IV. No. 41. Price 3 Cents Thousand Ready COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL EXPOSES Borah in Open "For Left Wing WALL STREET'S WAR ON NICARAGUA Rupture with Picketing Coolidge CURRENT EVENTS| By T. J. O7FLAHERTY ie RITAIN will not reply to the Soviet government’s note in an- swer to Chamberlain’s. The foreign office got itself into a bad mess but the wing of the cabinet that Cham- berlain belongs to strengthened it-/| self against the die-hards led by Winston Churchill that want a break Rumors current for several days that Alexander Kerensky, Menshe- viki leader, is coming to the United States upon the White Star liner Olympic, were confirmed yesterday The executive committee of the) under the mask of liberalism and of Communist International has issued! democracy, is encountering the re- the following appeal: | sistance of the doubly exploited Tha army of the United States; masses of the people. The workers PBpeson lee « occupies Nicaragua. North Ameri-| and peasants of Mexico have been “an . i with the Soviet Union. In quoting prea The Olympic will dock Joint Committee of Needle can imperialism, throwing aside its| the first to come forward against Flays Administration’s Latin || anti-imperialist speeches delivered te 089 Gena ” | wae ae ae Cavinin. democratic mask, cynically and! suppression by the United States. } by leaders of the Communist Party Britain’s ‘Mistake | Mathhiall of the oe i datinte i: Trades to Defy Gangs openly announces its intention to| The: national people’s government, Am . P li |), of the Soviet Union Chamberlain —— | ald thas K : Relig bi ts, ved | convert the countries of Latin Amer-| under the constant pressure of the erican onlcy || rightly guessed that the Soviet for-/ WASHINGTON, March 1. — Hope} ‘The. puri bie bes hie fe coy tinpcil | “Out of this F hi Z iea into colonies. North American| masses, proclaimed Mexico's free wilietaanes cign office would come back with a/that the United States will not land nh ie aah : en ae hind t must come capitalism has long obtained posses-| right of disposal over the petroleum WASHINGT D.C; Mahia choice collection of venomous anti- . amalgamation o: le needle trades, troops in China was expressed in a sion of the natural riches, the indus-| springs, on account of which the| Se: cablegram received from Eugene g nator Borah’s differences with the try and the means of transport of! Washington government threatened administration reached an open rup- Kerensky came into power in said Charles S. Zimmerman of the Russia in 1917, but his sway was Soviet attacks delivered by Churchill Dressmakers’ Union last i | f i | f } and his gang. Since Churchill does not care how he can ease Chamber- lain and Baldwin out of the tory leadership the wily Chamberlain was willing to allow the prestige of his office to suffer deflation in return for a strengthening of his position et homes oF) 0%) Even the British tory newspapers admit that the Litvinoff reply was clever, This does not necessarily | mean that Litvinoff has more brains than Chamberlain. First of all, he has a better case and secondly, the internal position of the Soviet Gov-| ernment is ‘stronger than that of Britain and Litvinoff was not} obliged to write the note with a view | to dropping a few peoples’ commis- | sars into. the soup. The conflicts/ within the various capitalist groups make it extremely difficult for them to act with unanimity. Chen, foreign minister of the Canton government, made public today. Expressing appreciation for the ac- tion of the house in urging abroga- tion of the concert of powers, Chen expressed “the hope that the Amer- ican government will not repeat the British government's mistake in pro- cedure.” hag Fire In Arsenal. SHANGHAI, March 1. — An out- break of fire near the Lungwha ar- senal on the outskirts of Shanghai caused panic conditions in part of the native city today, detracting from the general tension of the military situation. Fusing of an electric wire is be- lieved to-have been respons’ the fire which destroyed ten out. jings of the arsenal. Fears of explo- sions, due to the huge stores of muni- Soviet Union, represented by the} strial workers and the peasant- | are behind the government, | which guards their interests against | the howling wolves of imperialism. | We are informed -by a Moscow dis-} patch that Leon Trotsky, former Commissar of War, was cheered for fifteen minutes when he appeared to speak in Trades Union Hall, former- Situation Unchanged. While the military situation is un- changed the Fengtien troops continue to stream down from the north and Nanking, by way of Changchow, to Sunkiang, apparently planning an at- tack on the left flank of the Canton- ese. . There are reports here that the brief. When the Communists gained control and Kerensky’s counter re- volution failed, he fled and has lived since then in Berlin, London and Paris, taking part 1a various activi- ties against the workers and peas- ants of his native land. Kill 68 British Miners by Poor Inspection Fire and Gas in Wales; Fall EBBW VALE, Wales, March 1.— At least fifty-two men are entombed | in the gum mines, with all hope of | their rescue abandoned. Nearly a hundred other miners have been brought to the surface suffering from gas. The tragedy was caused by the ex- plosion of gas in one of the chambers |night to the fumi {and dressmakers/ who gathered in| Webster Hall to valunteer as members of a “left wing” picket committee. “The Joint Boards of the furriers, and the cloak andjdressmakers, have int administration |committee to catty on the fight against the reactipnary bureaucrats already formed a of their unions, More Joint |C “Now we must « front by having ¢ mittee, a joint de’ omtinue dressmakers, and floakma “Out of the Joii proportional Joint Board. must gain not jonly clothing workers, fapmakers and all other progressive Workers. Jommittees. joint pi nse commi free our prisoners, joint legal mact ery and one uniomjpaper for furriers, speaking cloakmakers | thi. cet kers. Action fight two years ago, we gaired one step toward reprtsentation Oui of this fight we proportional representation forpoth unions, but we in Thousanf Pickets. Over a thousand workers responded i) for pickets. mager of the Fur-! i, who was one of so) farmed the workers! last night to the Gold, general riers’ Joint Boa; the speakers, hat only those houl united com- ttee to hin- the Central and South America and brought its governments into eco- nomic and financial dependence. Encounters Resistance. America by North Americar capital !them with military intervention. Mexico an Example. ; ture today when the chairman of the senats committee on foreign relations The example of the Mexican peo-/ denounced in no uncertain terms the | ple is drawing the people of Central | Latin-American policy of the Coolidge (Continued on Page Three) Garment Union Sells Bonds lh Miami Working for Millionaires Although it is known as the win- {ter playground of the bourgeois, Miami, Flerida, is the latest city to take first place among the buyers of Ben | bonds to save the Cloakmakers’ Union. With a contribution of $964, this uthern resort shows that even in the midst of the idle rich there are some} | New and Secret Note | }Sent Into Mexico by | Kellogg and Coolidge WASHINGTON, March 1. — A rew note has been transmitted to the Mexican government, it was | learned at the state department to- day. The department declined to state what the contents were. It is re- ported not to have dealt with the channels that the note scolds the Calles government for giving facts about oil companies’ compliance with the law to Senator Borah. These facts placed the state depart- ment in a humiliating position, as they exposed falsity of reports given by Kellogg to the senate. The capturing of Republican Latin| America into the fight against ex- | administration. Stung by the senator’s letter of in- quiry to President Calles of Mexico relative to the number of foreign oil companies that had complied with the Mexican decrees, the administration jretaliated by deciding to defeat Borah’s proposal for an inquiry into the situation existing in Mexico and Nicaragua and to conduct an examina- j tion into the policy of the state de- partment with relation to both coun- tries, This proposal was really at the base of the administration’s indignation, though the state department wants to j give out the impression that Borah’s |action was irregular and an attempt to discredit the state department, ee eer tions in the arsenal, caused a panic must get amalgdmation of all the Makes Lefts of Workers | and and versy z Jprisges~a ° ° nalgema a F: i 8 ja petroleum law controversy. | Oily Trouble Mak | On the other hand the people of sid ie aie native residents near the Ih Nottinghamshire needle trades injluding the mens’ Srey ce, There are reports in diplomatic 4 pare a Senator Borah charged openly that the Sinclair, Mellon, Doheny oil in- terests were back of the trouble with Mexico and cited the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Doheny cases proof of his contention that leases gained under circumstan- ces indicative of fraud were null and void. The supreme court of Mexico | should have the same right to pass ; f . fi % the legality of foreign concessions \ 1 the home of dissolute Russian | C@ntonese are planning a counter. of the mine, and the presence of in the work of pro-|tain their union in New York. CAPMAKERS WILL rz Mexi A nobles, Trotsky declared that the Me a ne ee “after damp” made it necessary to| ‘¢cting the worfers of the fur, cloak Next on the list of recent bond pur-| iD Mexico ‘ss. the ‘United ‘ States’ sa x 5 ov t Government had good reason » protest against anti-Soviet propa- ganda and said that Chamberlain not «nly applauded the hanging of Lith- vanian Communists but that he helped to grease the ropes. The op- cutting off the southern flank from its base of supplies, The transport Radjala arrived from | Bombay bringing 510 officers and men of the Royal Artillery, with mules and horses and portion of a heavy stop rescue work at 1:30 this after- noon. The explosion occurred in one of the main galleries of the mine and brought down much ‘of the roof, this blocking the exits. The whole town and dress trade; Gold annourped that charge of the pbket committee wou! ichneider and ers’ Union; I, @\cloakmakers; and| be S. Mencher. Resnick of th Moskowitz of H Koret¢e at. those _ ‘chasers is San Francisco which sends in) $700; and the nearby city of Peta- Id/juma, which is famous for its eggs J.| and chickens, sends $300. of Women Also Give. An additional contribution of $45/ MEET TO PROTEST LOOTING OF FUND |preme court has on leases in the | United States. The senator claims that there is ample precedent for his action in com- |municating with the executive of a foreign government. He cited the Her) Se 45 8 ais * a f Charles Sumner who occtt- Hmistic capitalist hacks. that | pre- T cede Lat 4 -FYSa Gor rescue work but tiouas| Ko ASE age. |has been sent in by the branches of| “ + . Natotadl “Procen ys” AIRE OCRuEN rate psig were the “Yai of poisonous gases arising from the Wit these wor tere y its i uip| Women’s “Alliance; an addition $100 ped, War he. position. ape Me greed with the majority of the Tsepoo district. The border battalion wrecked shaft seriously. impeded the| Picket committee,” sai Gold, “will! enry Cabot Communist Party on pélicy would Government will receive little con- colation from this news item. * * * HE British ‘government has organize revolts against the Soviet |’ has been disembarked from iy oe tic and is encamped in the Yang ae district while the Bedfords and the Hertfordshires are encamped on the race course. Commandeer U. S. Vessel. workers. * There were many harrowing scenes at the pithead as mote than 200 wo- men gathered to wait for news of their men-folk who were trapped in drive the gangsters fom the Picket! lines while the otier jint committees | Bekerman Schachtman fror the unions for all| drive Sigman, ” Joseph Goretzl, manager of Local! and| from Branch 155 of the Work Circle of Toledo, Ohio. From a group of left wing sym-| pathizers at the Ferrer Colony of} | Stelton, N. J., a contribution of $65 | has been received as part payment on a pledge of $100. men’s | “Why Should the Right Wing Get That $1,000?” Just why sho uld th ? union, which ,is 5 See already heavily in Lodge's correspondence with Viscount Gray during the fight over the Lodge reservations to the Treaty of Ver- sailles, Only A Smoke Screen. Borah makes it quite clear that he f° the mine. ; 35 of the I. L. CW. U., pointed 00. Camp Nitgedaige | debt, contribute $1,0 reas. | thinks th i hai'a’ kh \ Teo to accept the fake naval/ rerican bluejackets of the U. S. Deathe. thet the Forgraris sift Pointed out has also sent in an additidnal con- ury to help ¢ N st reba sy — to his eaten: sheectioe “ke More TW: till carrying on rib a ip the reactionary needle correspondence with Calles isarmament conference proposed by S. Pigeon today seized a Standard ‘Aa the vestne crows finally -aban- tribution from collections made/ trades officials m is vin Coolidge. But while Coolidge ves the olive leaf of peace, con- ;rvess hammers on the anvil of war. Coolidge proposes that the naval | owers reduce naval armament. The louse turns around and votes to ele- ‘ate the guns on United States bat- tleships, something that Great Brit- sin does not at all like. It is a Oil steamer which was commandeered by Hankow soldiers. No shots were exchanged. \ The refusal of the British shipping companies operating on the Yangste to meet the demands of the Ichang labor unions is keeping river traffic in a state of chaos. American gun- doned their efforts at Cwn, news reached here of another fatal acci- dent at the Bills-Thorpe mines in Nottinghamshire. Sixteen miners were killed when a staging on which they were standing while working in a new shaft, collapsed, and hurled (Continued on Page Three) them to the bottom. 2 campaign of pvocation, as it did just before his rest several weeks ago, and this shd serve as a warn- ing to the progrsive workers to be on their guard. United'e Stand. “It is all the ire important now|The Workers’ for us to join fos,” said Goretzky,| brought in $2 “and the cloak adressmakers, with| with their among the vacationists there. Phila- delphia sent in another $150 on Mon- | R. A. I. C. Shares Help. %s R. A. I. C. shares are steadily com- jing in from all parts of the country, Co-operative of Harlem 00 worth this week, and previous payments for smash the unions? makers want to know, are coming to: discus: to be held tonight in ceum, 66 East 4th Street, work. in their efforts to This is what the Progressive cap- , and what they s at a meeting Manhattan Ly- The speakers who will tall on this | right after | only a smoke Screen designed to cover the up unsavory Latin-American mess, The present congress dies by man- late at noon on Friday and Borah’s resolution is expected to die with it, “What earthly objection,” Borah an explosive manner, ving this committee ir aid today in ‘is there to ha’ ‘ i i the safest in|the furriers, wibe more than a| bonds this brings their total ibu-| portant problem are Louis H; | Session here during th great game of deceit and hypo- The British mines, t i : Sahel otal contribu- vouls: ¢tyman, | aring the summer uns : i iali world to work in while the} match for their gsters, |tions up to $600. general manager of the Cl less the administrati TO} racy. The two greatest imperialist the world to -“We niust pickhe shops, we must e Cloak and| ‘on proposes dos owers in the world, England and the United States, pretend to be on mood terms, and are ostentatiously friendly, yet they are preparing to leap at each other’s throats. They will eventually. 2 ee shorter day prevailed and the union was strong enough to enforce its conditions, are now becoming nearly as dangerous as the American coal mines, | Bitter comment is heard among | miners today over the recent deaths. RAILWAY CLERKS ENATOR BORAH appears to have definitely broken with Cool- i The senator is chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Re- lations, a committee that is clothed with considerable power. But Wall Street looks on it as a nuisance since Borah became chairman. The Idaho- an, tho a supporter of the capitalist stem, is somewhat of a bull in the ministration’s China shop. He does (Continued on Page Two) : t want to see United States sol- and gloomy forebodings are made of more to be killed in the near future. WAGE INCREASE As is well known, gas explosions and | falling. staging do not occur when The United States Board of Arbi- proper inspections are made. The tration today took up cross-examina- | Pritish coal industry, Which’ now-pro- tion of data presented by representa-| juces up to normal with at least a tives of 20,000 railway clerks, freight] ;undred thousand fewer miners, is handlers and station employes of the becoming a slaughter house for its New York’ Central who are asking | overworked, underpaid and bullied 12 per cent increase in wages, which | niners. would amount to about $3,000,000 an- nually, May Force Action. Constant recurrence of fatal acci- protect the work who are support- ing the Joint Boz; and together we (Continued Page Five) By Wil] KALB, One thousand dollars invested in “Save the Union” bonds is to be the contribution of the workers of the | U; it ru Row Ready for of Old Style A Buildings. Dressmakers’ general manager of the Furriers Joint Board and A. Sazar. o: (Continued on Page Five) | ers’ union. | the Capmake: | Evidntly Need Lawyer| To Fnt Heights’ Room Brooklyn‘etraps Lie Row on Fatalize; Great Variety Apaents in Wooden Says: the membership ing to keep itse’ They stop at n leaders the workers have full confidence. Joint Board; Ben Gold, | f the capmak- | Calied By T. U. E. L. The meeting has been arranged by rs Section of the me | tional League, which in| © all progressive capmakers t nion Educa: Ss call t “We are living in a very critical | period in the labor movement. A cor- pt bureaucracy, which is hated by of the unions, is try-! lf in power by foree, | t nothing, not even acts vocation against the devoted of the working class in whom pro’ ‘Legally elected officers in various ing something Scrutiny? aon Ease AES. Pravda Calls British Cabinet Well Answered: ' But Sees Some Dangers MOSCOW, March 1. — Pravda, commenting on the note of the So. viet government to the British gov- ernment, in answer to the recent note of the Baldwin government to the Soviets, points out that the So. viet government’s note defeats com- pletely every argument brought for- ward by the British note, r which will not bear rad fate io being forcibly ex-| th pelled, and the bureaucrats are putting against the Soviet bye Seka eros is Ferg places,| connected with the siloged Sigoriee e fact that our union} letter. But this letter t srea °. pt of aoe, our ey have| present British pee eh gph igman $1,000 from] its election victor the treasury without even consulti; by 8 fard. Aad the cate y Scotland Yard. And th | the membership, in order to hel ie, Sea eae yoterbdsingls , ip Sig-| still waiting for the ton eed tad clique break the cloak] the perpetrators of Feugemny deg ressma ers’ ' tardly forgery. This forgery has contributed toward a possible break have, some miners say,| The writer wt dwell long on ie tereniee forcing action by the| Washington He or Inwood, for miners on a national scale sooner|they are not tially workers’ than could be otherwise expected. communities, me they typical The unions were badly injured by|localities of thag class. They their long strike, supported effec-/are merely “rable” places in tively only by the gifts of the coal|which to live; high class than miners of Russia, and betrayed by|the west side, »mfortable than the leaders of the General Council | the east. ; of the British Trade Union Congress.| Few tenemee found in th They have been gradually recuperat- | district above: street. Nice ‘ling, and it was not expected that |looking apartmuses, renting at FILIBUSTER BY OPPONENTS OF GRAFT PROBING STRIKE FOR MORE WAGES TIES UP ALL BUILDING IN PITTSBURG, PA. ters. They are making no demands, and their contracts do not expire at this time. It is predicted, however, (Special to The Daily Worker). PITTSBURG, March 1.—The build- ing trades unions here have struck WASH ty nt in the relations between the So \\ ond tied up hundred million dollars tat they will soon have el peasy 4 Chala gtrasele would take place for) an average si or $60, clean Hoth refers od — goes ict bp hie imaged are giving Fovernment and Great Britain, me worth of work. Four crafts are ou' , as they cannot some time. Bien roce, t gation in-| trovers Ii S-) nas directed against peace between or an increase in wages over the erga are the four crafts that} Boss cto Hl next tol tgeratt, im the elections of senators | {0% ke Sigman, Schachtman,| these two nations Frayne and other who the unions for the sake personal ambitions,” 1426 scale. About one thousand five hundyed workers are involved, be- longing to the Brotherhood of Struc- tural Iron Workers, the Hoisting En- stineers, Steam Fitters and Cement Vinishers. “The workers demand an increase of from fifty cents in some lines’to two dollars in others, a day, over the 1926 Espionage System For Hotels. ALBANY, N. Y., March 1—Pro- prietors of hotels, lodging and room- ing houses, would have to keep a daily list of all guests, their resi- dences, dates'of arrival and departure, and the license number of their auto- mobile, under a bill introduced in the legislature today by Senator Keck, today filibustered and reve: - tion by the senate on the Beat ae mittee’s request for contin cine uation of} AFTER OPERATION FOR APPENDICITIS meanwhile faced a Pigeon-hole deat}, CHICAGO, March 1.—C. E, the few} ers (Communist) Party, co) ‘for appendicitis, perform “ breaking See of their own| Roll in the Subs For The D. ATI WORKER. oe jeach other, soink spaces give the place an tere of airiness that even beepparent to the other senses. ie moment one enters the hou “gets a hunch” something is Most of the rooms are buie old plan, one room openinginother, so of According to reports to the union offices, all building operations are paralyzed, and the strikers are ab- solutely determined to win. No Scabs Yet. There is as yet no announcement from the employers as to whether they will import strikebreakers. Sec- acym by the board,| in the senate elections committes . retary S. O. Reed, of the Building list: Id be open | Course priv: committeo, wage scale, republican. . These lists wou Pen’ Since there aany as six and| Senator Ernest (R f ‘Structural iron workers are also de-|Trades Employers Association has) PPo Ooi ie authorities. ant guinea bor the feaal chafwoan, ) of Kentucky, stated that the, employers will not agree to anything except a continua- tion of the 1926 scale, and the present 44-hour week. said that no atte; | would be made to bring the case re | to the floor of the senate in (Continued on Page Thy i five-day week. manding a crn ste The other crafts are still working, 4 including the bricklayers and carpen- are smaller tles closets used |to be. And th20 more, (Continuge Five) BUY THE DAILY WORKER Ruthenberg, AT THE NEWSTANDS was today reported ed in a hospital here, Seneral secretary of the Work. doing well, after an operation | Ask Your Newsdealer For The DAILY WGER! Get Your Fellow Workers To Buy It! ne