The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1927, Page 1

ZS - FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections, Be sure to get them both. Vol. IV. No. 44, SUBSCRIPTION RATHS: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mall, $6,00 per year, NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY THE DAILY WORKER. Wntered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1927 <a Published Da PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. eee em FINAL CITY EDITION ily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 5 Cents Nationalists Pocket Chang Mercenaries Northern Militarists Caught in Trap as General _ Chen Joins Revolutionists SHANGHAI, March 4.—The Chihli-Shangtung armies of Gen- eral Chang Tsung-Chang suddenly found themselves in a pocket today, cut off from both their bases as General Chen Ting-Yueh, military governor of Anhui province, declared his province inde- pendent of the Peking government and joined the Nationalist armies. Anhui, which lies between Chekiang province on the south- east, recently conquered by the Nationalists, Honan and Hupeh on the west, stronghold of Marshal Wu Pei-Fu, who now is appar- ently hostile to the Shangtung forces, and Kiangsu, in which Shanghai is located, on the east-north-east, occupies a strategical ition. - Chen Ting Yueh is reported to have cut the Tientsin-Pukow railway, thus isolating the Chihli-Shangtung armies and prevent- ing any further reinforcing of Shanghai by railway. Simultaneous with the Anhui governor’s announcement, the Nationalists attacked Chang Tsung-Chang’s forces in a westward drive in an attempt to join up the Chekiang and Anhui forces. It was rumored that Foochow has been occupied by the Na- CURRENT EVENTS | By T. J. OFLAHERTY. LEXANDER Kerensky went and Aaa it after we had come to the conclusion that the Czarists had col- lected their last dime thru prophesy- ing the fall of the Soviet Government. Kerensky, who wobbled like a string of adulterated spaghetti during the March revolt against the Czar and who was bounced out of his room in | the winter palace by the Bolsheviki | is now here biting granite a~* “~*~ ing as a “strong man” for th cation of those Americans w. more dollars than brains. Kereusiy | predicts the fall of the Soviet regime | put does not set a date. For this! much caution he doneryas our thanks. * * Kerensky says he is opposed to wutside hate: ion Wr the mnzpose of overthrowing ihe Soviet govern- ment, conveniently forgetting his part in fomenting the Kronstadt re- volt in 1921 in which thousands of itussian workers lost their lives. But if, as Kerensky says, 99 per cent of the Russian people are against the| Soviet regime why does not the short-lived ex-premier advise the dis- contented to exhale a few whiffs of garlic and blow the Communists out ut the Kremlin? visitor NOTHER | distinguished As the United States who landed yesterday is Mr, DeValera, president of a faction of Irish republicans that broke with the official body over questions of tactics. De Valera would participate in the Dublin par- liament provided he was not forced to swallow the oath of allegiance to Great Britain. The opposing faction -eonsiders the parliament unclean. Both factions are busily engaged straining at a gnat, while their stom- achs bulge with political camel. A re- volutionist would swallow a dozen oaths without the slightest compunc- tion and break them before they had a chance to pass Adam’s apple. * * * * * The fact is that the DeValera wing and the opposition faction of the for- mer republican party of Iteland are not revolutionists. They are con- jthisers and strike’ fining. their activities to mouthings (Continued on Page Three) tionalists, Rebellion Reported. LONDON, March 4.—A rebellion behind the lines of the northern allies is rumored in Shanghai, ac- cording to the Central News corres- | pondent. | Leaflet Circulated. | Handbills calling on the youth to join the Young Communist League of China were circulated despite the vigilance of the police. The leaflets urged the masses to rally to the cause of a united China and the free-| dom of the people from the oppression | of the foreign imperialists and their native militarist allies. Thousands of Chinese with unscru- table faces which they have learned) to wear thru ages of persecution | watched the British royal marines! march thru the city. | Li Pao-Chang, the butcher who} was responsible for the beheading 0* hundreds of — Nitionalist * PB) has” fied *) tut) north from the vengeance of the) masses. Militarists Demoralized. The British end the imperialists in general are hoping they can over- awe the masses with a show of force. Reports received here hourly from the theatre of war indicates that the Nationalist forces are victorious and that the northern militarists are de- moralized. While the commander of the Amer- iean naval squadron denied the re- port that American troops would be landed to break strikes it was ad- mitted that under certain circum- stances a landing might be effected. Nothing is easier to find than an ex- cuse. There are now thirteen American warships in Shanghai with a total complement of 89 officers, 2,275 blue-jackets and 1,434 marines. | Austrian Parliament | Disselved; Elections | VIENNA, March 4.—The Austrian parliament was dissolved today and a general election called for April 24. Roman Air Pilot Falls, ROME, March 4.—Air pilot Bissi was killed today when his airplane fell from a height of 650 feet into the Lake of Bracciano, SIGMAN AND GANG PUT INJUNCTION ON GARMENT WORKERS JOINT BOARD A meeting of the New York Joint Garme: C wocken’' pe nli : nt Wor ion was enliv- ened last night by the arrival of copies an injunction which has been taken against all members of the Joint Romantic Document, books, or accepting dues or fines from any member of Local 89. : The copies of the injunction are em- bellished by copies of uni says injunction, watched with growing horror the ac- tivities of the handful of revolution- ists “with a capacity for noise and trouble-making far out of proportion to their. numbers.” / For further amusing extracts from this unusual literary document we refer you to our Monday edition which will contain further particulars worth Joint Board members were still en- joying themselves over the receipt of this document ‘at a late hour last night. Their only comment was. y “Well if you can’t get union mem- bers to recognize you and pay dués any other way, you try to get a judge to do it for you, with an injunction,” Arrest Men for Attacking Girl. HOBOKEN, N. J., March 4. — men suspected by the police of connection with the mysterious and brutal attack upon eleven-year-old Lena Behnen of 64 Park Avenue, were today brought to the St. Mary’s Hos- pital where the girl was operated upon ‘weak the strike by armed force. |charges, and eleyen have been ar- ing the attack and later re- police when the girl failed any of them, German Public Opinion Aroused. Over American British Plot on U. S. S. R. BERLIN, March 4.—Germany is | aroused over the alleged efforts of England and France to force her into'a common front against Russia in order to pave the way for a pos- sible armed crusade against Moscow to “crush the red menace of Bol- shevism.” The plan, it is asserted, is backed | by America. The price offered Ger- many is reported to be an earlier evacuation of the Rhineland. Furriers Rush Finances To Save Union |Already Paying ho In Spite of Expulsion An example of the loyalty of the} to the senate today and went back | Lame Ducks Quack Their Last; Coolidge’s Flock Appears Somewhat Shot WASHINGTON, March 4.—Ten republican “lame ducks” bade adieu .to private life. With them went Senator Oscar Underwood (D), of Alabama, who retired voluntarily after 32 years of congressional membership. Perhaps the best known of the republican casualties: was Senator Wadsworth, of New York, a yet- fur workers to ‘the New York Joint! The foreign office denies knowl- edge of such efforts, but the Ger- man Press of All Shares has started a campaign to offset the move. 25,000Railroad Men Striking In India Authorities Fire on Workers; | Movement Spreading Twenty-thousand railroad workers are striking in British India, says a message to the Federated Press from the International Transport Workers’ Federation. British auth- orities are attempting to break the strike by rifle fire and bayonet charges. The message reads: Appeal for Aid. “The International Transport Work- ers’ Federation has received a tele- gram from the All-India Railway- men’s Federation to the effect that} the strike which broke out on the| llth of February on the Bengal Nagpur Railway is rapidly spread- ing, seven important railway centers | being already affected. The number of men out at present is 20,000. “Tae authorities are trying to! Many of the ‘strikers’ havé been | wounded by rifle-fire and bayonet! rested. Others have been forcibly taken from their houses and com- pelled to work. Notwithstanding these incidents the men are reported as standing firm. Discontent. “The origin of the strike must be sought in the general discontent among the staff which has been pro- voked by the non-recognition of the union, acts of arbitrariness of su- periors, dismissals and had housing. “In response to a request for fi- nancial help, the I. T. F. has already sent a preliminary remittance, and/| is appealing to affiliated organiza-| tions for further assistance. The I.| T. F. has also sent a telegram to the Viceroy of India, protesting against the use of coercive measures, and has asked its representatives in Eng-| jland to call the attention of the| British Government to the matter.” On Central Lines. Strike relief funds may be sent through the International Transport Workers’ Federation headquarters, 61 Vondelstraat, Amsterdam, Hol- land. Further information on the Indian rail strike comes from Sailendra Ghose, secretary, the Friends of Freedom for India, 799 Broadway, New York. The walkout affects the great control lines connecting Cal- cutta, Bombay and Madras. Movement Spreads. Ghose sees a spreading of strike movements throughout India this coming year. The revolutionary Chi- nese situation has stirred, the Indian people tremendously, he says, and Indian leaders who have been com- paratively passive for some time are advocating aggressive tactics. Ma- hatma Ghandi has offered to lead a strike in the great Assam tea plan- tations if such a move is ‘necessary to raise wages and end the virtual state of peonage that exists. Papers are giving pages to the speeches of Shapurja Saklatvala, radical mem- ber of the British parliament, who is making an agitational tour of his native land. Bronx Workers Hold a Chinese Protest Meet A protest against the attempt to subject China by America, England and other imperialist nations took place last night when several hun- dred workers gathered at Workmens Circle Hall, 5442 East 145th St., at a meeting arranged by the Bronx section of the Workers (Communist) Party. The speakers were: Anthony Bimba, Workers Party; Herman Ehrlich, Young Workers League and 8. D. Wu, rapreenting The Kouman- ting (The Chinese Nationalist Par- ty). Louis A. Baum, active trade it, was Board of the union, and their utter} jcontempt for the dissolution-suspen- | | sion-expulsion erders of the reaction- | ary International officials, was) | shown by the fact that two workers came to the Jéint Board office yes-| |terday uiorning and paid the special | tax of $25 which had been voted by | |the loeal men+ership meeting only | the night before.. | All locals affiliated with the Joint! | Board unanimously agreed to pay |this tax and at the same time ex- |pressed their determination to disre- gard all orders of the International }union, and te continue their finan- cial and moral support of thier chosen leaders, Reject Compulsion. “The unprecedented attempt to im- pose leadership upon the fur work- ers by force,” was denounced not only “in resélutions but by all the workers as they discussed Thursday’s notice of expulsion which carried with it the slanderous charges against the Joint Board officers. These “charges” will be formally answered after the Joint Board meets today—even tho these charges have been so illegally announced, and have never been presented to those whom they accuse. . Woll Makes /3cab Union. While Matthew Woll, acting-presi- dent of thé National Civic Feder- ation and chairman of the Special Reorganization Committee of the American Federation of Labor, is boldly announcing that “The Com- munists are out to stay” he is en- deavoring to begin building himself a new fur workers union by handing a charty* >to. the company union, known as the ‘Greek Brotherhood. Organizes Fine Dodgers. On the day the New York Joint Board was declared . “dissolved”, Oizer Schachtman, president of the International Fur Workers Union, obeyed instructions from the special committee and issued a charter which establishes “Greek Fur Work- ers’ Union, Local 70”. This is com- posed of a large number of those who scabbed during last years’ strike, and who in order to avoid the payment of fines. willingly formed a company union under the direction of the Greek bosses who had refused to sign an agreement with the union and maintain union conditions in their shops. Workers Will Fight. The reactionary officials of the In- ternational Fur Workers Union and the A. F. of L. do not care what methods they use in their efforts to break the union. They welcome the aid of scab unions if this helps them to gain power. But the fur workers defy them, and they will fight fear- lessly to keep the union which they have built up at such cost. The Joint Board has utterly ignor- ed the International’s communication about dissolution and expulsion, and the work of the union is proceeding as usual. ‘ Read The Daily Worker Every Day AMBASSADOR WHO BALKED KELLOGE FACING RECALL Don Manuel Tellez, Mexican ambas- sador to the United States, is now on his way to Mexico City, but he has not been recalled from his post, ac- cording to a stategnent made today to the International News Service, by Arturo M. Elias, Mexican consul gen- eral in New York. e536 * i Tellez Sacrificed. WASHINGTON, March 4, — The tumor persists that Tellez, Mexican ambassador is being sacrificed to ap- pease the anger of Kellogg. During the controversy over the refusal of Doheny, Sinclair and Mellon to obey the Mexican land laws, Kellogg fre- quently issued statements to the pub- lic and to the senate foreign rela- tions committee which were provert to be false by statistics available in the Mexican embassy. A bitter antagonism thus developed in the department of state against Don Manuel, and rumor has it, his head is demanded by some of Kel- logg’s aides, while Kellogg himself is vacationing on a southern plantation, to keep personally out of the squabble, eran of 14 years senate service, and a power in administration councils .for years. Wadsworth would like to “come back.” Another was Senator Lenroot, “stormy petrel” of Winsconsin po- lities for a generation, who is ex- | pected to be rewarded with a fine | political plum by the administra- | tion for his constant “regularity”. The other lame ducks were Sena- tors Weller of Maryland, Ernst of Kentucky, Cameron of Arizona, | Herreld of Oklahoma, Means of | Colorado, Pepper of Pennsylvania, | Stewart of Iowa, and Stanfield of | Oregon. | Prepare Ruthenberg Memorial Meetings Workers In Many Cities Arrange Elaborate Programs In Memory of Party’s Leader Many cities will see memorial meetings for C. E. Ruthen- berg. \ Preparations are being made as hastily as possible, and a general schedule is already being worked out for the more im- portant speakers who will appear at these demonstrations of re- gard which ali Communists and many workers who are not.Com- munists, feel for the man who was, they agree, a real leader and founder of the Communist movement in America. The central feature at the Ruthenberg memorial meetings will be, so far as is possible, the ashes of the dead comrade. His body will be on view, according to present plans, in Chicago, Ash- land Auditorium, East Room, from ten to ten on Saturday, March 5, and on Sunday, in the main hall, before the memorial service starts at one o'clock. The funeral is to take place Mon- ; ———— hea PRIOR eNO: si day, at ten o’clock, and the body will | socialist party, and carried ot an be cremated. ‘The ashes will be taken |¢7ergetic anti-militarist campaign to eastern cities on their way to their | CUMS the war hysteria, will have a final resting place, in the Red Square | ™eeting. The date and place are be- at Moscow, beneath the walls of the |ing arranged. | Kremlin, alongside of those of John FORWARD RAGES AS TOILERS BUY | DEFENSE BONDS | Reactionary Sheet Not Able to Fool Workers While the Forward raves, the money pours in for the cloakmakers’ bonds. | Every day this “right wing” organ | very seriously announces that there | is no money coming in on the bond| issue; and every day the checks and cash pile in to the Bond Committee Headquarters at 16 West 21st Street. | Pulling Hair. Secretly the Forward must be gnashing its teeth and pulling its } own, or somebody’s hair; and there is more sorrow in store for the poor | old sheet. Next week the bond com- mittee will publish lists of the or- ganizations and individuals who have participated so far in the purchase | of bonds, and it will be a staggering | blow to all enemies of the union. This week two thousand dollars worth of RAIC shares were cashed, and the response of these bond hold- ers has been a splendid expression of workers’ solidarity. Shops Pledge. From Elizabeth, N. J., $217.50 came in yesterday. The Hungarian Work- ers’ Benevolent Society sent in $200 this week, and additional contributions came from Philadelphia, Brockton and Denver. Several shops have pledge them- selves to bring in good-sized contri- butions today, and so step by step! the goal is being reached and the union traitors are being forced to} realize that a devoted army is sup- porting the progressive leaders, and is determined to drive the reactionary officials out of the union forever. WOODEN STAIRS — TRAP SCORES OF WORKERS; 5 DIE ‘By WILI. DE KALB. | Three tenement fires in Manhattan | and Brooklyn, fanned by a furious wind, claimed a toll of five lives yes- | terday, and endangered the lives and limbs of eighty men, women and chil- dren. Rickety firetraps, the three tene- ments had been condemned by the Bureau of Fire Prevention as unsafe; yesterday they took their toll of five lives. Trapped In Sleep. When flames swept.the five-story tenement at 55 Spring Street shortly before dawn, many tenants surprised in their sleep, were trapped, Scream- ing, they ran to the windows for air and a chance to shriek for help. Edmund Michiowski, 8, and his brother Carl, 3 years old, only sons of their widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Michiowski, were burned to death early yesterday when the fire totally ruined the house in which the family resided in the rear of a frame tene- ment at 570 20th Street, Brooklyn. The lives of 26 men, women and children were endangered yesterday when a fire broke out in a six-story tenement located at 1079 First Ave- nue, near 59th Street. Last year the landlords’ lobby at Albany defeated a bill that would Reed, the only other member of the | Communist Party in America buried | there. Reed died fighting the white | guards and the cholera with the Red| Army, during the bitterest part of | the counter revolutionary civil war, | in which the capitalist class of Amer- ica and Western Europe tried to choke | with blood the rising young workers’ | republic. .. | Ruthenberg Fought Too. | At the time Reed was battling the | armies of capitalism in Soviet Rus- | sia, Ruthenberg was facing that same capitalism in its own home, and beard- ing it in its greatest metropolis, going to prison as a result. The speakers at the Chicago mem- | orial meeting are Comrades W. Z.} Foster, Jay Lovestone, Max Bedacht, | Nat Kaplan, James P. Cannon, Arne | Swabeck, W. Weinstone and Ben Git- | low. Max Bedacht will be chairman. | Grand Rapids Meeting. District Organizer R. Baker of the Workers. (Communist) Party will be! the main speaker at the Grand Rapids meeting, to be held also on Sunday, March 6, at Workmen’s Circle Hall, in the afternoon. Detroit, a great industrial center, | New York Prepared. New York will hold its meeting on Wednesday, March 9. Already the headquarters of the party are draped in red and black, in mourning for Comrade Ruthenberg, and a list of speakers is being prepared for the evening meeting in Carnegie Hall, which will include Comrades Wm. Z. Foster, James P. Cannon, Jay Love- stone, Benjamin Gitlow, Wm. W. Weinstone and others. Speakers In Boston. The Boston meeting will be addres- sed by Comrades Gitlow, Moissaye Olgin and Herbert Zam. It will take place Thursday, March 10. On the eleventh, Friday, there will be a meeting in Youngstown. The speakers and hour and place, will soon be announced. Several Language Speeches. In Pittsburg the comrades are mak- ing preparations to meet on Satur- day, March 12, at eight in the evening, at the Labor Lyceum, on Miller Street. An elaborate program is being pre- pared. There will be speakers in var- ious languages, and workers from all over the district will be present. The workers in a number of other will hold its meeting on Monday, | cities are preparing for the sad duty March 7, in the Majestic Theatre. The| of commemorating Comrade Ruthen- speakers so far secured are Max Be-| berg, but little more than the dates dacht, Herbert Zam and Scott Near-| are available for publication now. It ing. is known that there will be meetings .In Cleveland. in: ‘Los Angeles, March 13; in Minne- On Tuesday, March, 8, Cleveland, | apolis, March 13, in the afternoon; in the city in which Comrade Ruthen-| St. Paul, March 13; in the evening; in berg spent so much of his time in| Buffalo, March 13; in Duluth, March pre-war days as an organizer of the| 14; and in Superior, March 15. RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL MEETINGS CHICAGO, March 6, Ashland Auditorium, 1 P. M. GRAND RAPIDS, March 6, Workmen’s Circle Hall, after- noon. DETROIT, March 7, Majestic Theatre, 8 p. m. CLEVELAND, March 8. NEW YORK, March 9, Carnegie Hall, evening. BOSTON, March 10. YOUNGSTOWN, March 11. PITTSBURGH, March 12, Labor Lyceum, 8 P. M. LOS ANGELES, March 15. MINNEAPOLIS, March 13, afternoon. ST. PAUL, March 13, evening. BUFFALO, March 13, DULUTH, March 14, SUPERIOR, Marth 15. — COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOVIET UNION ASKS FOR RUTHENBERG’S ASHES Below is the facsimile of the radiogram sent by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, on receipt of the news of the death in Chicago of Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg. CORPORATION OF AMERICA “VaR MARCOM''S WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO, LIMITED. LONDON. Ozz@®@ Be WORLD WIDE WIRELESS Qzr®@ “MARCONI” RADIOGRAM. peceiveo at 64 BROAD. STREET, new vorn ar ~ pT Apano Tie T470MUUHD t MOSCOU 65 3 555? 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