The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1927, Page 2

INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 90,000 Engineers North THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1927 Of Dixon Line to Get |Expert Cook Sterves For Five Days While STORY OF GREAT or Chinese Women He Views Fancy Food | Political Schools F (Continued from- Page One) \the women of China and teach them world situation, and on this basis to|the fundamentals of home sanitation, SENDS TRIBUTE TO RUTHENBERG CHICAGO, March 7.—The Nation- al Committee of the International Labor Defense, James P. Cannon, ex- “Champion” of the Unorganized,” T.U.E.L. ecutive secretary, has published the - — following tribute to Comrade Ruth-| (Continued from Page One) enberg: }and later, of the Workers (Commun- “We are profoundly grieved at the/ist) Party. For his participation in untime sath of our comrade and|the foundation of the Communist co- Cc. E. Ruthenberg, which | movement, he was sentenced to from is a loss not only to the Communist / five to ten years in Sing Sing prison. movement which he led, and. to the| At the end of two years he was par- labor movement in which he spent|doned by Governor Smith. In 1922 yee f his active life, but to the|Comrade Ruthenberg was arrested International Labor. Defense, upon |for attending the Michigan conven- cutive committee of |tion of the Communist Party and the national ex which he served actively since its | inception, “Comrade Ruthenberg was one ot | the leading defendants in the Michi- gan Communist trials, arising out of the arrests in 1922. During his trial, Comrade Ruthenberg conducted him- self with an honorable firmness which did credit to the movement| | with which he was associated. no fear or reg: long term of Michigan ard for the thre: prisonment unde law, | erin ned uneve tions of revolutionary fighters who are seized and tried by the class enemy, “The trial in Michi first trial of Co long years of an was not the Ruthenberg. ctivity in the la- Hi convicted and sentenced to an inde-| terminate sentence of from five to} ten years. At the time of his death/ his case was pending before the} . S. Supreme Court, Comrade Ruthenberg has been secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party contin-| uously since his release from Sing) Sing. He has been editor of several | He haa| left wing papers, and has written | Benjamin at of a |many pamphlets and articles to help| schitz, Sam Don, J. J. Ballam, J.} r the | guide the workers in their strugg’e| Louis Engdahl, A. Wagenknecht, J.| against capitalism. Comrade Ruthenberg has taken an 15 Per Cent Wage Raise CLEVELAND, March 7.—Manage- ments of all railroads in North Amer- ica, north of the Mason-Dixon Line |today received requests for a 15 per jcent increase for railroad engineers. A. Johnson, chief of the Brother- |hood of Locomotive Engineers, an- nounced that General Gommittees of the Brotherhood had mailed the re- quests and that they would be in the |hands of the railroads today. | About 90,000 engineers are affected. The larger roads are expected to indicate their attitude regarding the | requested increase by the latter’ part of next week. Huge Crowds Mourn at Ruthenberg’s Funeral (Continued from Page One) Max Bedacht, William F. Dunne, William W. Weinstone, M. J, Olgin, Gitlow, Benjamin Lif- Stachel, Alexander Trachtenberg | and B. D. Wolfe. es | “GENERAL STRIKE IN SHANGHAI 300,000 Workers Laid Down Their Tools SHANGHAI, March 7,—The fol- lowing are details concerning the declaration of the recent general strike in Shanghai: On the evening of the 18th of Feb- ruary a delegates’ meeting of 500 LONG BEACH, Cal., March. 7. — Starving for five days, Raymond Wan- |thier, French cook fainted here after |he had been refused a job in several jlarge restaurants, Wanthier told of his fight against starvation after he was revived and brought to police headquarters, For |five days he sought a job as a cook. | Chefs at the large hotels here and at | Los Angeles where he asked for em- ployment let him go away with no suspicion that the food at their hand was what Wanthier desired most in life. He walked and job hunted without | representatives of workers’ organi- suecess. Not a bite to eat did he have develop them as practical revolution- ary workers and prepare them for ac- tive participation in government and party labors.” The teachers in this new school will tical experience in their field and can really be looked upon as “specialists,” Mme. Sun went on to explain. “There will be nothing impressive about our equipment. In fact,” she says smil- ingly, “our quarters are in a building formerly used as a cabaret. The premises are, finally, to be put to really good use. Will Have First Class Teachers. “Our furniture is of the simplest. all be individuals who have had prac- | active part in mobilizing the left Revolutionary funeral songs will} wing in the trade unions against the be rendered by the Freiheit Gesangs employers and the reactionary offi-| Ferein. | cialdom. He was an outstanding} The ashes of Comrade Ruthenberg}| champion of the organization of the| will lie in state at Manhattan Ly-| unorganized, amalgamation, and the|ceum, 86 East 4th street, from 8:00 formation of a labor party. His|p. m. Tuesday through the night and} work in support of a labor party was! during the following day until thej especially unceasing and of inesti-| memorial meeting in Carnegie Hall} during the five days, he declared, and zations decided to declare a general | 3 , fared, \strike with the following watch-| his condition supported his state- |words: “Continuation of the pane ae seek ta (ant eonere bbs Lae le against: imperialism; abolition of | i i sige ‘ | the militarist regime; the evacuation |7rench, Italian, Spanish and German lof Shanghai by all reactionary | “8° |troops; the formation of a govern-| ment representing the interests of | the people; free speech, free press, | the right to meet and the right to) strike; recognition of the trade, unions as the representatives of the} Murder Trial Opens, working class; and, further, a num-/| HENREDSON, Ky. March 7. — ber of economic demands including Tyo task of drawing 120 prospective the 8-hour day, wage increases and | jurors for-weitlow'th the nidéder etal Lad _ fight against the increase of | Or pyotty Francis Delmary Yates, 19, prices.” N ‘and Edward Powell, 50, who are On the 19th of February the gen-| charged with the slaying of Mrs. eral strike began according to the | yates husband, Eimer Yates, was arrangement of the Shanghai trades| yoy) under way today. council. The number of participants | gradually rose and by the evening it rose above 100,000. The textile and/| peter Sh aes NEWS IN BRIEF Uruguayans Held For Ransom. MADRID, March 7.—Major Lor- We are not out to impress with our rooms or our equipment. What we want to make first-class is our facul- ty. To that we shall devote most of our attention.” | The new school will limit itself, at |first, to one hundred students. Not everyone who wishes to come will be admitted. |sidered who has not got. a Middle {School certificate or its equivalent. | As a matter of fact several university | graduates will be in the first group of |students to enroll. Students will have to attend at | least twenty-four hours of work per | week, during a course of six months, land any student missing twenty-four }hours during the full course will not be allowed to take the final examina- tions, upon the basis of which the | graduation certificates will be award- ‘ed. There will be no fees, but text- ‘There will be entrance ex-| n Q laminations. No candidate will be con-|™ust get into step with the modern Nothing is more needed in the interior, as I have had occasion to find out re- cently in my overland trip with the Nationalist government officials across Kiangsi. “Some people wonder why I should have lectures on sanitation in a po- litical training school. Never mind, I tell them, there is need for this and I yropose preparing some women for the task of bringing such lessons to our people, too.” The school which opens here next month will be a mere nucleus for what, it is hoped, will be a very large in- stitution in coming years. The wo- men’s movement, Mme. Sun considers, is just beginning in China. If it is started off right, with a sound and scientifie background, it should do a great deal to emancipate the women of China from customs and modes of thinking which, to the people of the west, must seem thoroughly archaic, The women of China, she believes, march of the modern-minded men who are leading the Kuomintang. bor and revolutionary movements’ japle value. His influence was al-|and’Central Opera House. |metal workers, coy eet. | Te-Borges and his fellow Uruguayans | },oks will have to be purchased. had frequently brought him before ways used to mobilize the member-| Speakers at Baltimore. | the rps: "ag eal re ea are e&fesatid in’good Wealth, but are| ARS ‘ the capitalist courts. In the period ship of the Workers (Communist)| In other cities, meetings to com-|°** and t ceo, Lge RENAE se then | Pcine held for ransom by tribesmen | Th 7 ral Aaa vobes Winkel e ect 00 S of war hysteria and persecution, his Party and its following in every|memorate Ruthenberg are being ar-|* aoa ee a at eA bya the |3¢ Biar Tiguidit, near Puerto San-| 4), . cia] inject: Ake enumerated, countless opposition to the imperial-| strike and-struggle of the workers,|ranged, likewise. In Baltimore | $tiking- Ener Skee nied ris sado, according to dispatches Te-| but pr ur i cantee towaid ons ate ist slaughter } ought at him a organized and unorganized, {prominent speakers will address the foreign ‘quarters eee i resad 4 ¥ | ceived from Cape Jury tonight. enced Sg ts . + for. term at hard york in Ohio, In the " heen pate se 7.4 strike pickets armed with bamboo) tinct aim—thorough grounding in fe J % & ; Comrade Ruthenberg must be! workers today, at 7:30 p. m. at the|"). ks Puewiintei Kindbles and techie eee a ve the peace ine ape desir gee ak pond Riba ot | Comsenehpee. ae ae Balti- |S ” Movement Is Growing Immunity For Louis Maser, | with a full tackerenad not only of his w r 2 fo: ‘ } A s G a | if er | Digininiet Patty, he Nae tenia |e leaders “of the American Ue Bt. . An appeal of the Shanghai trades CANTON, March 7.—In return for| the Chinese history out of which the tried and imprisoned in.a New York penitentiary. But this continuous persecution only steeled his deter-| mination to fight in the class strug-| gle. “Our tribute to the work of Com- rade Ruthenberg, who was one of the pioneers in the creation of a broad non-partisan movement for labor de-j{ fense, is our determination to pre-| vent the imprisonment of those} comrades who are still under charges in the Michigan cases and the many others who are on trial or in prison. | All honor to this revolutionary ter who has died in the struggle | for working class freedom! 2 deep sympathy to the com- s and co-workers, and to the of the departed leader!” Settle for Coupons Immediately Thousands of Children of the Passaic Textile Strikers Are HUNGRY AND DESTITUTE HELP US FEED THEM Help Build a Strong Union! Take Some More To Sell | Office open from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. daily General Relief Committee 79) BROADWAY ROOM 225 NEW YORK CITY Stuyvesant 2343 tariat. His loss can ill be borne by| the workers in these days when the} leadership of the trade unions and} other workers’ organizations, forget- ting the real purpose of the labor| |movement, is trying to degenerate | them into a means, not for the eman-| cipation of the workers, but for their! Cleveland the meeting today will hear Max Bedacht, Herbert Zam, | John Bratin and John Clifford. The} speakers have worked with Comrade} Ruthenberg in his long period of service to the cause of labor in Cleve- | land. -Women Send Flowers. couneil declares: “The national re-|the information which he has given volutionary movement is steadily|the state, Louis Mazer, of Canton, growing and its influence is increas- | third man indicted for the Don Mel- of the militarist’ Sun Tchuan Fang | Henry Harter, Jr., announced here is waning. The people must take | today. | Kuomintang has arisen, but of world | history and polities, in which the Kuo- |mintang and its development have ling. The troops which are advane- | lett murder of July 18, last, will be/ many analogies. These subjects in- ling north are winning. The power|Siven immunity, County Prosecutor clude the Three People’s Theory, a {course in the. life and work of Sun Yat-Sen, a history of the party, an further enslavement to the capital-| The memorial meeting in Boston ists. All his life Comrade Ruthen-|is arranged for. Thursday, March 10, berg was an inveterate and feared|at 8 p. m. at Scenic Auditorium. enemy of this clique of misleaders | Speakers will include Ben Gitlow, M. oflabor, His best years were spent|J, Olgin and Herbert Zam. There in combatting them and in teaching | will be music and flowers from wo- the workers the right road to follow| men’s organizations, and others, for freedom. | Many More Meetings. The Trade Union Educational! There will be a memorial meeting League adds its voice to the general/at Springfield, Mass. Wednesday, mourning-over the death of Comrade | March 16, at which G, S. Shklar will Ruthenberg. It hails him as a true | speak. leader who made a good fight for) On Friday, March 11, at 8 p. m. in the working class. It pledges itself|the Labor Institute, the workers of to honor his memory by striving | Philadelphia will assemble. Among harder than ever for the accomplish-;the speakesty, will be Bertram B. ment of the great goal for which| Wolfe, J. O. Bentall, and Irvin Green. Comrade Ruthenberg spent his life,!The Freiheit Gesangs Verein will |the abolition of capitalism and the | sing. |emancipation of the workers. | In Youngstown, Ohio the Workers TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL | (Communist) Party will hold a mem- |part in the struggle against the mili-| : |tarists. Therefore the trades coun- | Loses Libel Suit. cil has decided to call a general | WASHINGTON, March 7,—Char- strike. Order must be preserved, | les B. Brewer, a former investigator |nevertheless, the strike must be for the department of justice, who | maintained until the order to resume | Startled the country several years work is given, By striking you are | 88° by charging that millions of dol- | supporting the troops which are ad-| lars worth of government bonds and vancing against the north. You will other securities had been duplicated \be supporting the struggle for the i? the government printing office, |destruction of the militarist Sun /|!0st his $500,000 libel suit against/ Tchuan Fang. Long live the nation- | Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to- | al power! . Long live the freedom | 4@Y- — of the people! Long live the power} ff the workers!” Revolutjonary Slogans. | | | \0! Gold in Nevada. TONOPAH, Nev., March 7.—This ‘outline of its present organization, \ineluding many of its more important general pronouncements. There will be courses, too, in wes- tern revolutionary movements, inten- sive courses in the fundamentals of sociology and economics, with an out- line of world economics. Out of this will naturally grow 2 course in the details of the unequal treaties and the abnormal. economic and political relations of China with the rest of the world resulting from them. The \ exploitation of China during the past |eighty years under the terms of these treaties will be the subject of another Dollar As Industrial Revival of Soviet Russia, by A. A. Heller. Beautiful cloth bound vol- ume, 241 pps, regularly sold for $1.00, now given away at 25 cents a copy. If you do not own a copy of this valuable book, The committee of Shanghai citi- | |zens has issued an appeal to the} | population with the following watch- | |words: “Greetings to the expedition | | against the North. Support the na-| tional government! Convening of a: city was bristling with excitement) course. today following the location of the! Study Various Movements. — gold strike at Weepah, about 38| There will be a survey of modern miles from here, made by two constitutions, generally, and a course youths, Frank Horton and Leonard/on the “Five Powers” constitution. Traynor, who appeared here several! The students will be told something LEAGUE, William Z. Foster, secre- tary. i Ruthenberg’s Death Brings Grief to Many. (Continued from Page One) | trict 13, Workers Party, San Fran- cisco; the Youngstown, Ohio, Freiheit Gesangs Verein; the Baltimore, Md., Workers Party organizations; the po- litieal committee of District 12, Seat- rers Hall. cago will be the principal speaker. | orial mheeting for Comrade Ruthén- berg on Sunday, March 13th at 8 p. m. at 369 East Federal St., Work- Comrade H, Zam of Chi- The Local Executive Committee is arranging a fitting program to honor the memory of the beloved comrade and leader, Pittsburg Arranging. The meeting in Pittsburg will be ,on Mareh 12 at Labor Lyceum, at 8 o’clock.. In Los Angeles the mem- |orial meeting will be on March 13. days ago with chunks of gold that {national assembly! Establishment | assayed $78,000 to the ton. }of a revolutionary democratic pow- er!” | On the 20th of February the Price of Oil Reduced. PITTSBURG, March 7. — De- 7 creases of ten to fifteen cents per barrel in the price of’ crude oil on the Pittsburg market were announc- ed here today by the Joseph Seep Agency; purchasers for the Stand- ard oil interests, corning and ragland grades remained unchanged, |strike spread with great rapidity un- | til in the evening over 300,000 work- lers were striking. Commercial and \industrial life is at a complete stand- still. A number of incidents have |oceurred. On the 19th of February ithree workers were arrested by the lofficials of Sun Tchuan Fang for | distributing leaflets. They were im- \of the judicial reforms now going for- ward in China and there will be ‘courses in the women’s movemert, the | peasants, workers, merchants and |youth movements. There will be ‘special emphasis on the course in the women’s movement because it is | hoped, in the new school, to develop leaders for that movement throughout | China. | _A final item on the list is “special j lectures.” Under this heading consid- \erable latitude is left, in which Mme. |Sun expects to find opportunity to tle; the International Branch of the | yj lis’ . ‘ ‘ Workenk Party 4p Niagara Falls; theless ee oe ee tte i ) Hungarian Young Workers Club, and! Paul's in reinthor gio dbo i — es ae of ie day. In Buffalo the date is also the eee ope as = He eal Ohio; | thirteenth, at 8 p. m,, at Elmwood ti nt pas ger ao Ps Si: ©W Music Hall. In Duluth there will be es sri 4 A pba Savile a memorial meeting on March 14, *racti Sau na Pasty cad and in Superior on March 15. In addition to the above resolutions ; A « and. special messages sent to the ‘ hanator ae a aot eh es Workers (Communist) Party head-| WASHINGTON, March 7, — Con- quarters, many continue to arrive at trasted with the United States where the offices of The DAILY WORKER. | ©Y¢ry ounce of gold is annually turned The Ukrainian Labor Home, at Chi-| °V€? ™any times, India is becoming cago, through its president, states: |the world’s greatest “gold sink” the “With the death of Charles E. Ruth- |Co™mmerce department announced to- enberg the workers sustain one of | 4Y- their greatest losses. His long years | : of service in the working class move-| , Inventor Gets It in The Neck, ment will serve as a lasting inspira-)_. WASHINGTON, March 7.—Albert tion for those who are left behind in| V- T. Day, inventor of the amplifier the struggle for the emancipation of |train control invention now widely the working class from exploitation | Used, today lost his appeal to the of the present capitalist system.” Supreme court for a review of a ai ‘lower court decision denying him se ees —— | ownership of the patent. . Arrest Mrs. Duggan, Tk ue osteard | TUCSON, Ariz, March 7Mrs, |Eva Duggan, wanted’ in connection In memory of Comrade | with the investigation into the |mysterious disappearance of A, J. | Mathis, recluse rancher, was back in | this city today after a trip from | White Plains, N. Y., in custody of | Sheriff James McDonald. C.E, Ruthenberg Printed on good buff stock; contains a fine photograph of ©. E, Ruthenberg set off with wide border. The for gAdress gives rief out~ Iine*of the history of his life, 10 CENTS EACH. Order in lots sufficient to cov- er your meetings-—-to send to your friends, (We suggeet you do this at ouce as only a limited num were printed for special mo- morial ocvasions,) Arrest Four Gunmen. CHICAGO, March 7.—Four men (captured after a gun duel at the | biggest bonded liquor warehouse in | Chicago, were held in $50,000 bonds | each today by Federal Commissioner | Beitler, | The men were: William O'Donnell, |James Sammons, James Driscoll and John Barry. | a, WOMAN or COUPLE to share || four-room apartment and receive DAILY WORKER PUB- || small wage for care of child; days. LISHING COMPANY Inquire B, Frantz, 6484 Kimbark 33 First St. New York. Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Phone, Hyde ‘ Park 3089, | } } | | ORDERS FILLED ON RECEIVED, DAY | {mediately execttted. On the 20th of |February mass meetings in the open took place in all parts of the town. incidents are reported from Chapen |and Putung (working class quarters of Shanghai). The authorities in the foreign quarters are preparing themselves |for the coming events and are con- ;centrating armored cars. The police jhave been supplied with machine |guns, Voluntary patrols are being} organized. Agitators are being merci- lessly pursued and exeeuted imme- diately after arrest. The heads oi the beheaded are exposed in publiv places as a warning to the populace. In national revolutionary circles it} is said that 90 people have been be- headed. The newspapers no longei appear as ‘the workers demanded th: | publication of details concerning th course of the strike. The glitor were not prepared to do this out o fear of Sun Tchuan Fang. The foi eigners are erecting barbed wire tanglements several miles away froi. the foreign settlements. The stri leaders declare that the foreigne: have penetrated into Chinese teri: tory and threaten reprisals. Demands Inquiry Int: | Church Council Wor) WASHINGTON, (FP).—Attacki: the Federal Council of Churches ~ Christ, which represents 20,000,0 | evangelical protestant church me: bers, for its pro-laboy and pro-per | activities, Rep. A. M, Free of Calif: |nia has introduced a resolution of 5 ouiry. Free is known as one of t /most intemperate labor-baiters in t house. | His resolution recites twelve chor: made by a reactionary magaz iogainst the federal council, and | sends en answer, It asserts that “{ (ontire program of the federal coun: | © contrary to the teachings of Chris Arrest Hollywood Foreign Run; jwork out some special ideas about HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 7.—)the things which she believes should Because Hollywood motion picture |e brought home to the women of studios are alleged to be filled with | China. : hundreds of aliens who have come to To March With Men. Southern California with short-term) “I expect to hear much criticism permits and over stayed their leave,|about this,” she said, but her smile Los Angeles immigration authorities | indicated that the expected criticism oday were conducting a thorough in-| does not worry her mucl® “I want to vestigation. \ dev p some women who can go to Me sede decd ete ee de ode fe feeds ode che feeb chee fe eho oe ol oe 6 2 The Dressmakers’ Union LOCAL 22 Greets Women’s Day, March 8th, This is the day when the women of the world assert their solidarity with, their class broth- ers in the fight to free the workers from the yoke of capitalism. Local 22, which is composed of eighty percent working: women, has always been in the front ranks not only in all labor struggles against the bosses but also against the reactionary bureaucracy in the Labor Movement. 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