The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 4, 1927, Page 3

Chang-Iso-Lin Army Cut Off From Base Nationalist Forces Outflank Militarists and Straddle Tiensen-Pukow Railroad | LONDON, March 3.—Shantung forces, going to the relief | of Sun Chuan Fang, have been cut off and isolated in the prov- ince of Anhui, according to the Daily News correspondent at Shanghai. This correspondent states that the Cantonese have succeeded in out-flanking the northerners and have cut the Tiensen-Pukow railroad at Wuvi, north of Nanking. “CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) The Daily Herald, right wing la- bor organ, commenting on the) sean- dal, offers the information that a few yeays ago a Labor Party. re- search bureau found 140 peers were concerned in finance, fifty-three in railways, thirty in mining, eighteen in shipping and fifteen in breweries | and hotels .. . . Recently it was dis- closed that a distiller, who is now dead, paid $250,000 for a peerage.” This is sweet but we would remind the Daily Herald of the strange case of Sir Alexander Grant, the biscuit manufacturer, who purchased a title from Ramsay MacDonald _ while “Mac” was premier, the latter re- ceiving $150,000 worth of stock in Grant’s biscuit factory and a Rolls Royce. Grant was a tory. Lloyd George make no defense against. the charge of selling titles. He has the money. The other capitalist partits have done it and furthermore George has the swag. cae SSUMING. that a travelogue ap- peal no longer appeals to the stomachs of unemployed American! citizens the United States recruiting | sergeants are now “saying it with beans” instead of with scenery. The army ration has been increased from 86 cent#¥a day to 50 cents. This is illuminating. The wealthiest nation in the world whose upper classes thraw away money on rare pleas- ures can only afford ‘to give their cannon fodder the miserable meal ticket of 50 cents a day. eee ee Those who follow the profession of tooting the capitalist government of the United States will hail the ac- tion of the United States supreme court in invalidating the leases granted to Edward L. Doheny on the, ground that corruption was involved in their acquisition, as proof that our legal system makes no distinc- tion between rich gnd poor. Is. this s0? Doheny corrupted A?> Boteh with a little black bag full of money. There is a law to punish such con- duct. But both Fall and Doheny are not in jail and the average worker whose head is not full of capi- talist gudgeon grease will smile cynically. ets, Bee LEXANDER Kerensky, the men- shevik leader without a follow- ing, who did his best to hold Russia for the capitalists after the Czarist regime was kicked out, landed here last night from the palatial liner Olympic. Kerensky lasted four months, but during thet time he sent thousands of Russian workers and peasants to sure death in a fu- tile offensive against the Austrian army, at the instigation of the Brit- ish government. Since then the rene- gade has been plotting against his native land in every capita] in, Eu- rope. His object in coming here is not for the good of the Soviet Union but the workers’ government can now laugh at his efforts. | SUN PUTS FORTH ALIBI | General Sun, defeated militarist, ip an official statement declared his svidiers here fatigued, due to the prolonged campaign against the Can- tonese, and Were being replaced tem- porarily. Thousands of his troops, however, are reported to be deserting to the Cantonese, while other thous- jands of them are roaming over the countryside. | The Soviet steamer Pamiout Leni-'| ena, which was seized by the Shan- ‘tungitesyon the Yangtse River has {besn converted into a military trans- j port and is being used‘ to transport} |soldiers and supplies from Nanking | and Pumkom to Shanghai. Several | |Chinese owned vessels have been} | commandeered. | U. S. Troops To Parade The American marines from the |. $8. S. Chaumont will parade | through the International Settlement or Saturday, it was reported today. This will be the first demonstration by the Americans, who have here- |tofore been maintained on the trans- | port Chaumont and have been landed |caly -occasionally on property of | American firms for drilling and ex- \ercise.. The British have resented this reluctance on the part of the | Americans to display, their strength, | maintaining that they were permit- | ting the British troops to do most of |the patrol duty and to gain the dis- | favor of the Chinese. | AGCUSE SENATOR SHALL OF USING BOOTLES MONEY ST. PAUL, Minn., March 3. (INS). | |The Minnesota State Senate, by a i vote of 54 to 8, today ordered an official investigation into charges that corruption, including collection of campaign funds froin’ convicted boot-' |leggers on the promise that they would |be givén immunity, figured in the jelection of United States Senator | Thomas D. Schall (R.) of Minnesota |in the 1924 general election. | In adopting the resolution providing | for the inquiry, the state senate raised | the question of whether Senator | Schall has a legal right to hold his | sent in the United States Senate. Flood In Boston. BOSTON, March 8,—The. several wharves at high tide today were inundated, cellars on the water front were flooded and sewers were backed up. The tide, driven by a gale, was the highest in years. Merchandise in the cellars was ruined by water. | Streets on the waterfront at Hull _were flooded and great waves beat ‘over the sea wall at Winthrop. | The three-masted Philadelphia schooner Nancy ashore at Nantasket Beach way driven high on the beach. {Read The Daily Worker Every Day Ruthenberg’sWork Must Go On! Become Better Soldiers In the Social Revolu- tion by Reading His Writings. Read! A COMMUNIST TRIAL, Extracts from the testimony of C. E. Ruth. | enberg at his trial for violation of the Syndicalist Law in 1919. This book contains the speech de- livered by C. E, Ruthenberg and is considered the most revolutionary challenge made in a court in the United States. The facts in the case ind the record of the speech. Price 25 cents. THE FOURTH NATIONAL CON. VENTION. _ Resolutions—Theses Declaration—Constitution of the Workers (Communist) Party, Adopted at the 4th National Con- penton, held in Chicago, Tl., August $50 21 to 80, 1925. i> SECOND YEAR OF THE ‘ORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY. . _A report of the Central Commit- tee to the third National Convention held in Chicago, January 1, 1924, Theses—resol lutions—program, — In- troduetion by C, B, Ruthenberg. $ .50 Daily Worker Publishing Company, 33 First St, New York. SP GES ee tek BAe ae oe & ee FROM THE 3RD THROUGH THE eATH CONVENTION. C. E. Ruth- _ enberg. f A review of the developments of the Workers (Communist) Party, the different stages it went through, a brief history of the controversies within the party on the Labor Party olicy; Trotskyism, Loreism, cable m the Comintern to the National Convention, ete, etc. _ $ 10 THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) ‘PARTY. What it stands for. Why workers should join. ; A brief but complete and. attrac- tive explanation of the Larges) of the American section of the world bie ds an a eh ta ar im program reason why worker e should join. Iustrated with choice work of the best Ameri- | I can artists. 5 Cents. Orders ‘on these books will be THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1927 Eddy Repeats Story of Russia That Drove His Basses Into Frenzies CHICAGO (FP.).—Before a crowded forum audience Sherwood Eddy practically repeated the fa- mous address on Soviet Russia that he delivered from the plat- form of the American Federation of Labor convention in Detroit last October. Again he made his three major criticisms of Soviet rule and again he launched the eulogy that had enraged the conservative labor chieftains in Detroit. Eddy, who is an international secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, has been speaking lately under ‘difficulties as the Y. M. C. A. has found it harder to approach the wealthy for donations with such an out- spoken and influential firebrand as Eddy on their roster. Among his utterances at the forum were: “In Russia the man who goes into profiteering for himself is scorned as a moral leper as in no other country in the world and if he is a member of the Communist Party, after a fair trial, he is exe- cuted or expelled. “Russia with all her stands as a. challenge wherever imperialism or capitalism’ are ruthless.” Eddy’s audience listened with eager attention and then held him for another hour to answer ques- | tions. He recommended some of the Soviet agricultural policies to save the American farmer from ruin and he strongly urged the sending of an American labor mis- sion to Russia. faults | Coolidge Signs Bill for More Cruisers — Strategy Involved in Call for Arms Conference WASHINGTON, March 3.—Presi-| dent Coolidge has signed the naval) supply bill carrying an appropriation | of $450,000 to start construction of three new cruisers. | ‘As predicted by independent ob-| servers, the administration gave up its) gesture of “economy” and “disarma-| ment” when» the actual test came. Opponents of President Coolidge and his “Big Navy Group” in congress de- clare his strategy was as follows: He ' pretended to oppose the bill for more cruisers, and at the same time through the hypocritical plea for an arms conference, forced France and Italy into a bellicose position, thus assuring the passage of the American armaments bills. Then, with attention concentrated on the warlike flourishes of European nations, it was easy to switch sides, and sign the bills, thus making it a law. Millions Appropriated. More ‘than $15,000,000 was ap- propriated to naval armaments by congress when the senate approved a bill for increasing the firgg range of the big guns of the battléships Okla-| homa and Nevada. Senate action was taken without discussion. Sentence Another White Guard Fiend; Catch Man Who Ran Train Of Death SVERDLOVSK, ‘Russia, March 3.—Found guilty of wholesale atro- cities against supporters of the Red armies, Commander Theodore Volk- off, puppet of Admiral Kolchak, was sentenced today to be shot. Thousands of Red soldiers, Com- munists, and simple peasants, with no political affiliations, were tor- tured by Volkeff. Three hundred of his victims were discovered in a single mine shaft, according to evi- dence submitted at the trial. * * * KHABAROVSK, Siberia, March 3.—General *Pisskounoff, chief of | the Train of Death, which terror- ized Siberia in 1918-20, was arrest- ed here today. General Pisskounoff ordered. the torture and the execu- tion of thousands of Siberian peas- ants and soldiers who opposed the White Guards. NEWS IN BRIEF * Former U. S. Treasurer Dying. CHICAGO, March 3. —. Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury during the Taft administration was near death at a hospital here today as a result of being run down by an automobile. MacVeagh is 69 years old. Former B. & O. President Dies. BALTIMORE, March 3.—R. Brent Keyser, Baltimore financier, and for- mer president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died at his home here carly today after a heart attack. He was 67 years old. Butler To Leave. SAN D&EGO, Cal., March 3—Brig+ adier General Smedley Butler will leave here Friday for San Franci: {where he will board the Presiden Pierce to sail fer China to assum command of the marine forces ai Shanghai and Peking. Student Suicide Fails. Buffalo, N. Y. March 3.—Another girl student attempted suicide today. Hazel Lindsay, of a bottle of disinfectant, but was rushed to the hospital almost im- mediately, and is believed to be re- covering, No motive ascribed for her act. Lost Mihd—Preacher Says. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 3— Rev. Samuel H. Jobe, 62-year-old bachelor-rector of St. Peter’s Episco- pal Church, missing since Tuesday, returned home today and later it was explained that suffering from neu- rotie reaction he had yielded to an uncontrollable desire to “go some- where”, Workers Will Strike | Swansea, Wales, March 3.—Speak- ing here A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners Federation of Great Britain, declared that if the British imperial- ists started a war’on China the workers of England would raise the banner of revolution at home.. Cook declared that the struggle they fought thru last year brought the workers nearer the ultimate fight it was announced here today. which must come between Capital and abor. . ‘ — Street Cars on 1-Man Basis. a sixteen-year-old school girl, swallowed the contents | DROP CHARGES AGAINST BIMBA IN MASS, COURT State Drops Its Suit) Against Editor | BROCKTON, Mass., March 3.—The | ease against Anthony Bimba, Com- munist editor of the Lithuanian daily “Laisve,” printed in Brooklyn, who was convicted last year in the district court for seditious utterances, has | been dropped by the district attorney. This means that the prosecution did | not believe that a re-hearing of the | case in the supreme court would ren- dér @ second conviction. Also it is | believed thatthe expenses connected | with such a trial would to too heavy | a burden and would considerably | work up hostile sentiment against the | district attorney’s office. Anthony Bimba was arrested in 1925 after having made a speech de- nouncing the working conditions in the Brockton shoe factories. Many of the workers in that industry are Lithuanians. His speech drew the ire of the shoe | factory bosses; at whose behest he) ‘was arrested and charged with heresy | and sedition. This heresy law is a| relic from the days oftCoiton Mather of some two hundred years ago, and| was resurrected to fight Bimba. At | the trial Bimba reiterated his denial | of a god but was acquitted oh the heresy charge. However he was con-| vieted for having made seditious ut- | terances. } Bimba immediately appealed the case. | |Melnitchansky Is Now | Member of Presidium; |of the International | to intimidate and frighten the work- lers has proven an absolute failure. Edward F. McGrady, who are author- |The Joint Board will mobilize the| ized by the General Executive Com- workers for the purpose of defeating | mittee and Sub-Committee of the In-| | organized labor everywhere. | will epnclude his series of talks on) Page Three Woll’s Agent Acts as Police Informer {pointed by President Green are as (Continued from Page One) | follows: ig : to be misled by flimsy innuendos and{Joint Board Furriers Union, dishonest insinuations which consti-| Locals 1, 5, 10 & 15, tute the so-called charges; they are Mr. B. Gold, Manager, fully conscious that it was the present | 22 E. 22nd St., Joint Beard that led them to victory |New York City in the' recent strike of the furriers| Dear Sirs & Brothers: which resulted in the establishment) , Enclosed herewith you will of the forty hour week, to which prin- | CM@rses and findings of the sa mittee’ of the General | ciple the American Federation of Labor is supposedly committed and of which victory President Green of the A. F, of “L. spoke with such pride at the last convention of the A. F. of L. The dastardly attempts on the part! Board pertaining to the New York Joint Board Furriers Union, Locals 1, 6, 10 and 15, as awell as.the in- ceive individual copies shortly. 1. The immediate expulsion membership of all individuals speci- Fur’ Workers | hele : ; fic mentioned ir e foregoing Union to destroy: the’ Fur Workers| tharos net tetas ne (oreRoine Union will fail; y will not succeed | 2, The in destroyng the m le or the de-| termination of the membership to maintain the organization which they | have built up at such sacrifice. McGrady Aids Police Already an attempt was made by the Int-rnational Union with the aid findings. nme ate dissolution Board of Furriers ew York Joint Unions. funds and properties held by the | Joint Board of Furriers. Unions, ‘to the Special Committee of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, consisting and assistance of Edward F. Me-|0f Matthew Woll, Hugh Frayne, Ed- Grady, member of the special com-| Ward F. McGrady, who are author; mittee of the American Federation of | ized by the General Executive Com- terrorize with the aid of! mittee and the Sub-Committee of the Labor, to gangster: ers in the shop. Under the cloak of | hold all such funds and properties charging union workers with unlaw-| im trust as is provided in the consti- fully picketing in front of the Wex-| tution of the International Fur stein shop, McGrady caused the: ar-| Workers Union. rest of several workers, and for the| 1—The immediate suspension of first time in the history of the Amer- | Local Furriers’ Unions, Nos. 4.5, 10 ican Labor Movement, the spectacle | and 15. was presented of a professed Labor| 2.—The immediate delivery of all leader appearing in court as a wit- | funds and properties held by local ness for the prosecution against a | Furriers’ Unions Nos. 1, 5, 10 and 15 worker charged by his boss with un- | to the special committee of the Amer- lawful picketing. This latest attempt ican Federation of Labor, consisting |of Matthew Woll, Hugh Frayne and this attempt to demoralize them and/| ternational Fur Workers’ Union to will exert every effort to maintain in| hold all such funds and properties in the shop the conditions of work that| trust, as is provided in the constitu- they have won by the workers through | tion of the International Fur Work-| their sacrifices and their strikes. In|¢?8’ Union. this struggle, the Joint Board will], %--The members of Local Fur mobilize the sentiment of not only the Workers’ Unions Nos. 1, 5, 10 and 15 farriers in other sections of the|*t¢ directed not to pay dues or as- United States and Canada, but the | S¢ssments or to make any financial but the sentiment of all sections of | ©oMtributions or render any support ‘or assistance of any kind whatsoever ty ree to any other group, association Expulsion Notice d | other form of organization other than : ae ra B Ae py peige a pr many be instituted or be designa- oO a — ~ sie terms of surrender as laid down by, the sub-committee of the general ex- | ecutive board working under instruc- tions of the special committee ap- Foster Speaks Sunday | Night In Chicago, IL. | On “Strike Strategy” | CHICAGO,—This Sunday evening, March 6th at 8 p. m., William Z. Fos- ter, leader of the steel strike of 1919, Strike Strategy.” He delivered his first talk a month ago, which was well received by the workers present. The Workers School announces for the Sunday following, March 13th, “Who Owns America?” a lecture by Leland Olds, industrial writer for the Federated Press. It is expected that several hundred workers will appear to hear the final talk of Foster on Strike Strategy. This Sunday, March 6th at 8 p. m., at Northwest Hall, North and Western Avenues, Comrades and Fellow Workers: After a year’s heroic struggle of he Passaic textile workers, the mill arons were “forced to submit to a inion in the textile industry of Pas- saic. They are however putting ob- THE MAN WHO WAS dividual members herein who will re- | ch from, * 8. The immediate delivery of all ! and the police, union work-{ International Fur Workers Union to’ ‘ or? THE HERO OF RED EASTER, 1916— THAT TERM WAS KNOWN— |stacles in the way of maintaining jsuch an organization. Although the | strike is almost over, they are taking Editors The DAILY WORKER: lthe workers back very. slowly, with Dear Comrades:—In your issues of the result that thousands of families n. 27 and 28 last, in the introduc- | are without means of existence. Their Heads Textile Union THE MAN WHO LED AFTER COWARDLY BOURGEOIS LEADERS HAD BACKED DOWN— tory remarks to my answers to the Chicago Daily News correspondent’s questions, you refer to me as presi- dent ofthe Moscow Central Trades Council. T no longer occupy that | Post, being at present a.member of | the presidium of the USSR Central Council of Trade Unions and chairs could. be} man of the executive committee of} the Textile Workers’ Union. Frater, children are hungry. There are many families whose sole supporters were sent to jail for long periods because of their activities in| the strike. You must come to their) rescue. Relief must go on with full) speed! Shei | The General, Relief Committee, who THE MAN WHO, SEATED IN A CHAIR, FACED THE BRITISH FIRING SQUAD— Read one of the most stirring chapters in revolutionary his- ally yours, G. eee Baumes Commission 40 | ow much you have collected. Send| |the money immediately ‘to the Gen- Get Another $50,000 | cral Relief Committee, 799 Broadway, ‘ | Room 225, also ask for more coupons ALBANY, Mar. 3—The senate to-|to sell. day passed a bill @xtending the life! The office is open from 9 a. m, to of Baumes Crime Comraission for an-|7 P» ™- daily. other year. GENERAL RELIEF COMMITTEE Will Plead Against Law Albany, N. Y., March 3.—Clarence Darrow is expected to come to the! capitol on March 15 to plead for pas-| Read The Daily Worker Every Day Jimmie HiGGins Book SHop sage of the Walsh-Hackenburg Bill | Did ee veto Ag abolishing capital punishment, 5 STUYVESANT 5015 Dr. George M. Kirchney, formerly ‘ Appears in Book Form warden of Sing Sing Prison, has been elected president of the League for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, March 7th Get Your Capmakers Get Raise in Denver. DENVER (FP).—Raises of 5 to 10% have been granted through is maintaining a few food stores in| assaic, appeals to all those who have | t aken milk coupons to send in their} ory. | money as soon as possible, no matter) Number 11 in the with an introduction Little ‘Jim’ Connoll and Irish Freedom By G. Schiiller PRICE 10ce. Order today from The Daily Worker Publishing Company and legal agency collect such dues, tributions and of Local Fur 1, 5, 10 and 15 ted as the proper or organization to anecee ers named in the charges are: I. Shapiro, W. Woliner, M. Polin- B. Frieman, M, Aintrator, H. n, J. He E. Polansky, Greenberg, Esther Gumberg, B. J olnick, F. oye defeated in the ladies’ garment t that the spe- American Fed- rge of the of- register the fur rs with the right wing and he fight against the rank and » into the shops with the aid of the bosses. The arbit ry action of the A. F, f L. officiz ensed the mem- bership and the repudiation of the gangster-informer leadershp by the workers of the W. ein shop is a good gauge of the temper of the rank and file and strength of the support they will give to the left wing Joint Board, . has i A fine picture post-card in mem- ory of Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, containing vone of his best photo- graphs and a briof outline of the history of his life has just been pre- pared by’ The DAILY WORKER Publishing Company, 83 First Street, New York, and is now onsale. It is urged that those wishing to secure these post cards to sell at memorial meetings and to send to friends had better order them at once as only a limited number were printed to be used for special memo- rial occasions. First orders will be given precedence over all others and promptly filled on day received. A LENINIST BEFORE Red Library series by T. J. O'Flaherty. filled on day received. ‘ PUEBLO, Colo. (FP.)—All ‘Pueblo | mediation to the girl capmakers of street cars are now on the 1-man|the Midwest Cap+Co., the largest basis. No members of Diy. 662 of the; shop in Denver. It is a union shop. 33 First Street, New York City. cay”