The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1927, Page 1

The =Chan rgani« | For ty | For ti\ — fol. TN Woll’s gent Acts THE DAILY WORKER. matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. ‘RIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 pe: As Police Informer “icGrady Sw ears Picketing Mlegal; Fur Workers Joint Board Expelled | | | Three important developments indicating the trend of the) truggle of the left wing to save the needle trades unions from | jestruction by the bosses and re: yesterday. They are: (1) The New York Joint Board of the Furri yeen given a pledge of support the world. actionary officialdom took place! ers’ Union has| by a shop meeting of workers | bmployed by Wexstein, said to be the largest shop of its kind in The right wing gangsters led by Edward McGrady, special | representative of the A. F. of L., had tried to intimidate these workers with the aid of the police. made, the workers were charged with unlawful picketing, and [McGrady appeared as a state witness against them. A number of arrests were) (2) The Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union received official notification of its expulsion toge' | CURRENT EVENTS | i] By T. J. O'FLAHERTY “THAT the recent political scuffle between the vatican and Musso- ) | | | lini was only a dust-raising affair can be gathered from the eulogy of the pope and the fascist leader pub- lished in the Osservatore Romano, o al organ of the vatican, The} noble pair of hop merchants are} labelled the greatest spiritual leaders | in the worid. This ‘skeptical writer | took little stock in tales of enmity | between the intellectual jailer of | millions of catholics and the tem-/ ; poral jailer of millions of Italian! workers and peasants. | [} ORTUNATELY for the world all| thieves cannot refrain from car-| rying their differences to extremes. The bandit “defenders” of Shanghai are bickering- as the nationalist armies approach. One set of mili- tarists will not allow another set to/ occupy their trenches. Th® imper-| ialist powers look on, grinding their! ~ ee Le “akees Pbeing deliver the final kick to the robbers who have been sucking their life blood for generations. oe HE high cost of revivaling has hit Almee McPherson a blow, but it is reported that she will recover with the aid of publicity. The: saint- ly siren of the sawdust trail seems to be enjoying the wickedness of New York but mourning the fact that the denizens of this American Sodom are too happy in their wicked- ness to wish for the monotony of salvation or are too far gone tocare for anything. Aimee cast longing eyes on Tex Rickard’s emporium that is mainly devoted to the cauliflower industry, but sad to say two shuf- fling pugs will attract more lost souls to the arena than the voice of the scintillating evangelist.. Rei B Tc NEASY rests the heads of many British peers whose coronets were purchased from political parties that had as little money in their treasuries as they had honor in their systems. Lord Roseberry, a peer whose peerdom is above suspicion— which means that whatever crooked- ness that was connected with its ac- quisition dates back to the middle ages—is out on the war path swing- ing his lariat at coronets that were purchased in recent yeats by money earned in the whisky business. Lloyd George made five million dol- lars out of the sale of titles. This is the swag the lord is swiping at. (Continued on Page Three) * In Suburbs; Jersey and Long Island, comple By WILL DE KALB. The communities in the suburbs of Westchester, New Jersey and Long Island are old, but it seems a com- munity is never too old to learn new tricks. To a limited extent, the hous- ing problem has extended to those teeth while the mighty power of the t LISA ion Housing Problem Acute Suburbanites, Who Filed From Noise, Dangers, Hustle, Slums and Rents of City, Now Caught In Landlords’ Net. This article on the suburban communities of Westchester, Kalb, DAILY WORKER investigator, of housing conditions. To- morrow he will begin to summarize the results of this survey. ther with the local unions sup- porting it, representing 85 per cent of the membership of the} International Fur Workers Union. : (3), The official charges contain not one single word relative to the bribery of the police force which President Matthew Woll and President Green) have featured in the publicity ma- terial given to the capitalist press in connection with their attack on the New York Joint Board. Some charges are constitutional in their character while others are of a general nature such as “taking in- structions from outside sources” “holding secret conferences.” The Joint Board holds the expulsior. illegal and pending the issuance of a detailed reply by the Joint Board, Gold, manager, issued the following statement: Gold’s Statement. The Union under the direct supervision of th. A. F. of L. executive council seeks the expulsion and dissolution of the Joint Board and locals by illegal methods. Under date of March 3, 1927, the International Fur Workers’ Union to the Joint Board. Furriers’ , notice directing dissoiution of the New York Joint Board Fur- riers’ Union, Locals 1, 5, 10 and 15, decreed the suspensions of the locals mentioned above, as well as the ex- pulsion from the union of 34 individ- ual members, including the officers of the Joint Board, as well as many other active workers of the union. The notice of expulsion and suspen- sion is the first intimation that the Joint Board, the locals composing it, or any of the individuals involved, have received that charges were pend- ing against them. The constitution of the Internation- dl Fur Workers’ Union, as well as the American Federation of Labor, has been flagrantly violated by those’ who professed ‘o speak in their name. It is elementary that persons and organizations against whom charges are proposed are, entitled to a copy of the charges, to the names of the persons making the charges’ against them, as well as an opportunity to produce witnesses and to be heard in a fair and impartial trial after reas- onable opportunity to prepare for same, it is the natural right of all persons and is guaranteed specifically by the constitution of the Inter- national Fur Workers Union. This right has been denied. The Labor Movement will condemn such high-handed outrageous methods of procedure. The membership stands solidly be- hind the Joint Board and will refuse (Continued on Page Three) Read The Daily Worker Every Day Rents $42 tes the survey made by Will de out-of-the-way places, and scores of commuters are crying for relief. “If there were as many decent, liv- able rooms for rent in New York City proper as Assemblyman Jenks would have us believe, the railroad compan- ies would lost quite a few customers. (Continued on Page Five) Many Militants Seccesatel Week Cleaning have followed the Joint Board’s drive for picketing scab shops,” according to Louis Hyman, general manager of and | the New York Joint Board of the! International Fur Workers’| NEW YORK’S LABOR D Entered as second-cla: NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, Tory Leaders In Anti-Soviet | "Conspiracy | White Guardists In Alliance With Cabinet Officers LONDON, Feb. 17.—(By Mail) $8.00 per year. rT year, Stalin Says No War Yet Because Workers Won't Attack USSR. MOSCOW, March 3.—“There will be no war either this spring or this autumn, because our enemies are not ready,” declared Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader, today when answer- ing questions of workmen regard- ing the possibility of a break with Great Britain with war as a result. Stalin as speaking in a local elec- tion campaign when he was ques- anes Tegerding war possibilities: | “Our enemies fear the results of a | One of the most amazing exposures Nlng acce ha ah gt As Fg uz of duplicity and infeigue against Rovist Chien” axid Stalin, “We |the government of a friendly nation are pursuing a policy of peace. “I believe a break with England is hardly possible, because it would accomplish nothing.” { | | } | 1 | | The Herald published 2 remark- | abble series of documents showing | the existence of a conspiracy be- tween Russian White Guardist emigres and members of the tory | government to bring about a rupture of relations between the British and Soviet governments to drive So-| ‘viet’ representatives out of Great | Britain. i | Relations With “Jix”. | In one of these docinents M. Sab- |lin, the White Russian “diplomatic | representative” in london reports that he has established “very friend- \ly and trustworthy co-operation with {Sir William Joynsou-Hicks.” | The documents, being a series of {communications between the White | Guardist Sablin and his colleagues in jother countries, claim credit for | helping to put over the fake Zinoviev j letter and for black-leg activities | | during the general strike. The docu- ments appeal for’ assistance money and energy to assist the tory extremists in the “Clear Out The cloak and dressmakers. ‘ Red Campaign.” “We called for workers to picket the! The Herald story, headed: “The shops called on strike for the dis-|1924 Election” reads as follows: charge of members who refused to/ Tories and Czarists. register with the International; and! The Soviet Government has just shops where employers have refused) : + ow to recognize the authority of the Joint! oeanzsaiy 5 ares See SORES Fe (Continued on Page Four) Board,” said Hyman. “The result has! Picket Shops For Lefts Out Needle Trade Gangs “Large and militant picket lines been a big demonstration every day} this week in front of the 20 shops on strike.” Some Arrests. Bertha Gerst and William Zweibon were arrested at the picket line at the Al Dress Shop, 361 West 36th St., on Pereoainy, leat seors later, reloaied: by Magistrate Smith in Jefferson Market court when he found there was no evidence of any disturbance. This shop was called on strike be- cause of the discharge of Zweibon, a presser. Gangsters On Run. There were also large demonstra- tions before the Millare and Mandel shop and the Ben-Gershel shop. Dem- onstrations have been arranged for Friday morning, which will close a week of “successful and enthusiastic picketing,” according to Mr. Hyman. “Firm, strong picket lines have put the gangsters on the run,” he said. “On Wednesday morning gangsters TO BREAK WITH ~— SOVIET—YET LONDON, March 8,—Sir Austen Chamberlain announced in the house of commons this evening that the British government does not intend to hastily sever relations with the Soviet Union. The debate was initiated on the re- cent exchange of notes between Lon- don and Moscow regarding the British charges of alleged Soviet violation of the trade agreement by conducting @ propaganda campaign against the interests of the British empire. The government’s policy toward Russia was endorsed by a vote of 271 to 146, after a lengthy debate on the subject. “The British government feels that a breach between us and Russia must have a reaction on other countries,” said Chamberlain. Sir Robert Horne, who originally negotiated the British trade agree- ment with Russia, advocated the sev- erance of relations. Later in the debate Lloyd George | said that a considerable proportion of | the goods sent from America to Rus- | sia for two or three years consisted of famine goods, while American | bankers conceded credit to Russia in a way that British banks did not. Lloyd George and Ramsay Mac-| Donald both complained of the) speeches of the British ministers de- nouncing the Russian government as a junta of assassin’ and thieves. Mac- Donald declared that such speeches did the direct harm to the develop- ment of Anglo-Russian trade. NEW EXPULSION DOESN'T HINDER LEFT WING MEET A splendid membership of dress- | makers last night showed that the principal effect of the right wing ex- pulsion proceedings is to increase in- terest in union affairs and make the members more eager to take part in union activities. In Webster Hall, more than 1500 dressmakers, members of Local 22, | were present to hear the report on conditions in the International fled upon seeing the large lines and on Thursday morning they scarcely dared to appear at all.” REPORT JURORS HAVE CONVICTED THOMAS MILLER The jury in the Daugherty-Miller case decided the fate of one of the defendants. After fifty-two hours of deliberation the twelve veniremen announced this fact to Judge Knox at six o’clock tonight. No intimation was given as to which defendant’s fate had been decided, or in what way. The court room and the corridors of the federal building were buzzing with all sorts of rumors tonight. Thomas W. Miller, the former alien property custodian seems to have been convicted, according to the gen-| eral consensus and all debating) among the jurymen, it is insisted, is oyer the guilt or innocence of the| ex-Attorney General Harry Daugh- | erty. Both are charged by the gov-| ernment with conspiracy in the re-| turn of a $7,000,000 alien-owned | property seized during the war to a) Swiss corporation. Fascists Won't Allow Ferrero To Leave Italy PARIS, March 3.—Guglielmo Fer- rero, the famous Italian historian, has been refused permission to leave Italy to go to America, according to the Rome correspondent of Lesoir, a i 1 AILY 1927 <a> (Ruthenberg’s Body to Be on View Saturday And Sunday in Chicago | CHICAGO, March 3.—Comrades and friends can view the body of Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg at Ashland Auditorium, in the East Room, Ashland entrance, Saturday from ten in the morning to ten in the evening, and in the main audf- torium, Sunday, at twelve noon. The memorial meeting starts at one p. m., Sunday. PUBISHING | | To Commemorate First WASHINGTON, March 3 dent Coolidge has signed a .—Presi- bill for first successful airplane flight by the Wright brothers in 1903. Furriers Raise Defense Fund; $29 Each Locals Meet and Vote Their Faith in Joint Board In order to wage more effectively the fight against those reactionary riers’ Joint Board, all members of Locals 1, 5, 10 and 15, at their meet-| ings last night voted to levy a tax of |twenty-five dollars on the member- ship. Have Confidence. This display of defiance to the| traitorous leaders of the International | union was supplemented by resolu- tions of renewed ‘confides. in the Joint Board, and of dete: ation to fight against the expulsions, against the splitting policies of the Interna- tional, and for the preservation of con- ditions in the shops. | Applause greeted the announcement; that yesterday, upon recommendation | lof the district attorney’s office, Judge \, \dismissed 13 of the cases pending from the fur strike of last year. Some In Prison. However, the Finance Committee reported that there were still other strike cases pending, and some work- ers already serving prison terms, and funds were needed immediately to care for these men and their families, and also for the defense of the Joint Board locals which the International had declared “dissolved and suspend- ed.” Chairmen at the four local meet- ings told the story of Edward Mc- Grady, A. F. of L. organizer, who yes- terday testified in behalf of a boss and had four workers convicted for “unlawful picketing.” The names of the workers arrested were Irving Potash, Oscar Milief, J. Fleiss, Morris Kreinick, Max Kelberg and A. Schnei- derman. They were fined $5 apiece by Magistrate Smith in Jefferson Market court. Like Mass Meetings. At Local 5 meeting in Stuyvesant Casino Morris Langer, manager of man, one of the active members, were present and spoke briefly on condi- tions in the union. All the local meetings had a very large attendance—‘just like mass meetings,” so many of the workers remarked, Building Trade Workers or “> 75 Dollar Bond ‘To The Daily Worker Seventy-five dollars worth bonds, issued by the cloakmakers’ union to finance their struggle against the reactionary Sigman ma- chine and to help pay the expenses of the strike, where purchased by building trade worker, employed tive buildings in tha Bronx. Upon receipt of the honds the boys promptly turned them over to Tho DAILY WORKER as a feeble at- gle against capitalism and the ex- posure of the imperialist activity of Wall Street. In making this do- nation to The DAILY WORKER, these comrades state that they are trying to further a double purpose, to help out the valiant clockmakers in their struggle, and alse to help put The DAILY WORKER on a sound and solvent bas Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, socialist evening newspaper in a dis- (Continued on Page Five) patch this afternoon. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAIL | Collins in Part 4 of General Sessions, | Local 25 in Newark, and Jack Schul-| of |} in the construction of the co-ppera- | pt tempt to help-us along in our strug- | «Read The Daily Worker Every Day!day, March 8, FINAL CITY EDITION WORK . CO,, 38 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents Ruthenberg’s Ashes Will Be Laid Neath Walls of Kremlin Chicago Holds First of Many Memorial Meetings Thruout the Nation The ashes of Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, General Secretary jever made publie was published to- ereciion of a monument at Kitty|of the Workers (Communist) Party, who died Thursday in Chi- day by the Daily Herald, labor organ.| Hawk, N. C., to commemorate the cago, will be carried over thousands of miles of land and sea to be laid beneath the towering walls of the historic Kremlin in the Red Square of Moscow and in the shadow of the Lenin Mausol- eum, there to rest with the ashes of other outstanding heroes of the Nov. 7, 1917 Revolution. | The Central Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party yesterday received the following radiogram from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Re- publies | “Central Committee, Communist Party of Soviet Union deeply grieves with you at the loss of Comrade Ruthenberg, leader of your party and of international labor movement. His ashes will rest beneath Kremlin wall together with those of heroes of November Revolution.” Comrade Ruthenberg’s remains will rest in the vicinity of the ashes of Jack Reed, the only other American revolutionist— buried in this historic spot. Memorial meetings to Comrade Ruthenberg are rapidly being arranged in the principal ¢ities of the United States. The work- ‘ers who have come in contact with Ruthenberg’s outstanding in Officials who are attacking the fur-| personality through working with him in the Left Wing Socialist or Communist movements, or have heard of him from those more intimately acquainted want to meet and hear more of him. At the memorial meetings during the first part of next week speakers will tell of Ruthenberg’s life and work, of his place in the labor movement, and of the Communist cause to which he gave his whole strength. RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL MEETINGS IN CHICAGO AND MANY OTHER CITIES (Special To. The DAILY, WORKER.) CHICAGO, March 3.—The memorial meeting to be heid here for Comrade Ruthenberg will take place here Sunday, March 6. at Ashland Auditorium, at one o'clock. At the mass memorial | service Comrades W. Z. Foster, Jay Lovestone, Max Bedacht, Nat Kaplan, James P. Cannon and Arne Swabeck will speak. All of the speakers were day by day in direct comraunication with Ruthenberg, in his capacity as General Secretary of the Party. They knew him intimately. Comrades and friends can view the| ~~ S—é‘<isé!!!tC;”*;”™”™tC~CtStSt!”! body of Comrade Ruthenberg Satur-|Grand Rapids to Have a Ruthenberg Memorial day at the Ashland Auditorium in the East Room, from ten in the morning to ten in the evening and on Sunday at twelve noon. The body will be |taken to the cremiatory after the meet-|_-R. Baker will be the principal ing. |speaker at the Ruthenberg memorial The funeral will be held Monday | mass meeting arranged here for Sun- |tnorning at ten o’clock from the chapel|day afternoon at Workmen’s Circle }at $153 West Harrison Street. |Hall. In this industrial- city, Com- Chicago workers knew Ruthenberg | rade Ruthenberg’s message was es- |well. His activities had been neces-| pecially needed, and the workers will sarily largely concentrated in the city ; meet to hear of his life and what he in which the headquarters of the jhad to contribute to the solution of | Workers (Communist) Party were es- | workers’ problems. tablished and his presence was fre . * quently required at mass meetin i party membership meetings. The memorial meeting GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 3. * Detroit Memorial. DETROIT, March 3.—On Monday, ch 7, the worl of Detroit will at eight p. in the Majestic Woodward Avenue, near commemorate the life, ac- i death of Comrade Charles berg. rs so far announced are nt, Herbert Zam and Scott held under the auspices of District 8, Workers | | (Communist) Party of America. New York Workers Will, iRemember Ruthenberg | * i those of the needle trades workers }of New York are dri in honor of ii Workers Invited Vo Bronx Mass Meet On Chinese Situation sh Branch 1, Workers ranged a mass meeting situation. Come and for anti-imperialistic n, on Friday, March 4, 4 30 p.m. Editor of Chinese Labor paper In (Communist) Party at 1 are draped in r ed a call for « Ir ie Hall nex | Wed | memor |liam Z. | r y Love "i York, and other prominent | William W. Weinst crs will address the meeting. ‘on free. |members of the Cen | Committee of*the Wor | speak, Ruthenberg’s as | brought from Chi |to be cremated, to Ford Cans Golf Expert. are being DETROIT, March 3.—Because it where he is; as not a good investment Henry meeting in| Ford, the world’s wealthiest man, \Cornegie Halil and after that they|has dispensed with the services of | are aken to Moscow, where! Davey Robertson, golf pro, at the {they will rest under the Kremlin | Dearborn Country Club located on | wall, the automobile king's estate, it was ¥ learned today. Robertson was Cleveland Meeting Tuesday. | dropped as an economy measure, it CLEVELAND, 3.--Ruthen-| was reported. Another pro, one not berg memorial me cis being ar-| quite so expensive, will be engaged. ranged for here, to take place Tues-| ‘Read The Daily Worker Every Day