The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 9, 1927, Page 1

“ agp . leaders will be a long time waiting “for a favorable answer. y 9 The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY THE DAILY WORKER. Bntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Vol. IV. No. 47. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1927 <a Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO,, 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents G. E. RUTHENBERG'S ASHES LIE ON RED’ CARNATIONS IN MANHATTAN LYCEUM Guard of Honor Watches All Night; Many Thousands March Through Hall With a guard of honor watching over them, the ashes of our) Communist leader, Charles E. Ruthenberg, are today lying in a| bed of red carnations, in the main auditorium of Marhattan | Lyceum, 66 East 4th Street. Silent lines of mourning comrades, numbering many thousands, | have been passing in and out of the hall ever since early last evening when the remains were conducted here from Grand Cen- tral Station by the special delegation which brought them from Chicago, and the committee of prominent trade unionists and party functionaries who headed the procession through the city. Manhattan Lyceum is draped in- side and outside with red and black, and around the bier of the beloved leader are banked the floral tributes of workers’ groups and organizations. With Mourning Colors. | When the ashes reached Grand Cen- | tral Station last night, a special guard of honor, wearing red and black arm bands, and over“a thousand com- rades with the mourning colors. on their coats, received the delegation} which had brought the ashes on this} first stage of their journey from Chi- cago to the final resting place be- neath the walls of the Kremlin. Banner From Chicago. The mourners formed in line, with William W. Weinstone and Benjamin Gitlow at the head bearing a banner rresented by the Chicago party, say- ing “To. the Memory of Our Com- rade Leader C. E. Ruthenberg.” Then followed Jay Lovestone, acting gen- eral secretary of the party, bearing the box containing the ashes; and fol- lowing him were Jack Stachel and Choaies, Krams ~ Past Union Offices. The line then formed by twos and slowly marched down. Park Avenue znd Fourth to 22nd street, where they turned west past the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union at Number 22 and past Local 35 of’ the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union at Number 10. Several hundred more workers joined the procession here and the line turned back to Fourth avenue and cown to Union Square where it paused before the Freiheit office at Number 30. It stopped again before the of- fice of the Workers (Communist) Party at 108 East 14th street, which like all the other buildings passed by the raourners was draped in red and black, with these colors framing a picture of our leader. Sing Funeral Hymn. As the Hne turned wown Second Avenue from 14th Street, the march- ers sang the Russian funeral hymn, and many passing on the sidewalk re- moved their hats and stood while the procession passed. Then the song changed to the International, and to these strains the marchers turned into Fourth Street, the guard of honor rents mounted the steps of Manhattan Ly- ceum and formed a line through which passed the ashes to their temporary resting place in the hall. Several hundred workers were waiting in the auditorium for the pro- cession to arrive, joined with the others as the crowds surged in and filled the hall and stair- ways and overflowed to the street. Workers File Past. When the revolutionary anthem was | ended, the hall was-cleared for an | hour and then Joseph R. Brodsky, who had served as ‘marshal, opened : the | doors for a single file. of workers to | pass by. the bier where the honor | quard stands on duty. | The guard of honor that is watch- | ing the ashes until after tonight’s! meeting, when they will be taken to} Moscow and deposited in the Kremlin wall next to the ashes of the heroes of the November, 1917, revolution in- clude: Ben Gold, Samuel Leibowitz and Aaron Gross of the. Furriers’ (Continued on Page Two) | Ruthenberg’s Guard of Prominent Unionists The ashes of Comrade C. E. Ruth- enberg are in the custody of the fol- lowing guard of honor: Ben Gold, Sam Liebowitz, Aaron Gross, Sascha Zimmerman, Joseph ‘ Boruchovitz, Rose Wortis, Sam Lip- ; Philip Aronberg, Leo Hoff- | zin, bauer, P. Pascal Cosgrove, H. M. Wicks, Ludwig Landy, Rose Baron, J. Cohen, H. Gerson, M. Salzman, L. E. Katterfeld, Joseph Brodsky, Alfred Wagenknecht, Alexander Trachtenberg, Kate Gitlow, Dr. A. Caspe, Morris Winchevsky, Anton Bimba, B. Lifschitz, Joseph Zack, J. Louis Engdahl, William F. Dunne, T. J. O'Flaherty, Meilech Epstein, Schachno Epstein, Enea Sormenti, Erich Saenger and others. ‘ 30 Girls Killed When | Building Collapses LONDON, March 8.—A Central News dispatch from Tokio tonight states that thirty girls were killed at Sakai, when a spinning mill col- lapsed. |CURRENT EVENTS ws or:aunn| HEN the German workers de- mand that the employers ratify’ the eight hour day convention adopt- ed by the international labor organi- zation of the league of nations at its Washington conference in 1919, the employers explain their refusal with the argument that it would be impos- sible for them to compete in the world market with their rivals unless all the other industrial nations adopt a similar course, As all the other as up the same the trade union Of course, it is ridiculous to ex- pect that the German capitalists or the capitalists of any other country will veduce the working hours or in- crease wages without being forced to do so by the workers. This is quite well known by the reactionary trade union leaders. They are tired of the Ruthenberg struggle and want to substitute less painful methods for the direct at- tack. The labor annex to the league of nations is intended to pull the guts bir free = union move- ment. t labor are playing the role of butchers. ° ° According to a summary of cur- rent political developments in Ger- many the small farmers of the re- public are organizing a political par- ty of their own to defend their in- terests agaist the big landowners and the “industrial workers”. This is the bunk. The interests of the small farmers’ are. not in conflict with those of the industrial workers. They run side by side, © liance between the peasan' workers lies the correct line for the German working class movement, Evidently the German capitalist prop- agandists are peddling the same dope to the farmers that our own money (Continued on Page Four) Memorial SPEAKERS AT THESE MEETINGS INCLUDE and their voices | in Japanese Earthquake Towns Destroyed; Streets | Strewn With Dead TOKIO, March §.—The death toll of the ‘earthquake which rocked | western Japan yesterday continued to mount today. The Kyoto prefectural police head-| quarters announced late tonight that | 1,699 persons had been killed in that prefecture alone. | The number of injurdl had not jbeen checked, the announcement | said. |< A total of 4,548 houses collapsed! or burned in this prefecture, the re-| port stated. } The Kyoto prefecture was hardest hit by the temblor. Homeless Population Freezes. Suffering is rampant in the/ "| stricken areas. Their homes destroyed, thousands of. survivors are freezing in th frigid blasts of winter winds, Property damage is enormons. En- tire villages and towns have heen de- stroyed. Virtually every population} center in the Province of Tango has | been wrecked. Americans in Panic, | One American woman was kilied | when she was pushed into the bay) at Kobe and drowned, This occurred | when white tonrists of the steamer California. become panic-stricken while attempting to get on the boat | at Ko) Rive were also injured. to be the greatest sufferer. killed when the quake struck. Sev- eral thousand were injured, also. Streets of the town are reported i Strewn with the dead, while terrified ‘ Tefugees fled the city for Miyazu. Tramp in Snow. In the Sanin district, where the temblor was particularly severe, the refugees, honieless, were compelled to take advantage of makeshift shel- ters. Suffering was acute, as the district is snowbound. Many of the refugees were forced to tramp in the}! snow without® any shoes. Hardly| any of them had sufficient clothes | to protect them from the wintry) blasts. | In many of the villages, reports said, the dead and injured lay in the} (Continued on Page Four) Thousands Die}, there of the Cnlifounied® ARELGOO. Iyeiiontag tho: aelanee of The town of Mineyama appeared | There, | ‘isd was reported, 1,000 persons were irst Hand Accounts Of Brussels Congress e ao Against Imperialism The DAILY WORKER, beginning tomorrow, will publish first hood reports of the great Brussels Con- gress Against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism by Manuel Gomez, delegate of the All-American Antt- Imperialist Leagne to the Congress. | These reports have been held up | | in the mail but faye lost none of their value by the delay. They will be accompanied by pictures of the | congress. The Brussels Congress is the first nf ite lind in the history of the world and the fact xf its organiza- Lon, iis deliberations and its deci ms are of tremendous importance in this period when the Far East, led by China, is revolting against imperialist domination. We publish on Page 3, the list | of delegates attending this first Court Fight for Gunman ‘Sigman’s Lawyer Tries To Stop Fine On Guerilla Max Richter, alias Max Rich, mem- ber of “Frenchy’s” gang, who is out on bail on two separate charges of assaulting workers, ineluding the )Shooting of Samuel Cohen, appeared in Jefferson Market Court on 'Tues- day to answer to the charges of at- tacking Max Shamez and cutting him | |with a knife as he was picketing on | February 25. At the request of attorneys for the | iternational, this notorious gangster, world congress ag@inst imperialism. dwho is said to have two previous con- MILLER TO SERV EIGHTEEN MONTHS 1N’ PENITENTIARY | Judge Allows Time Till Appeal Is Taken Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian in the Harding adminis- tration, who, together with former Attorney General Harry, A. Deugh- erty, was tried for having accepted $7,000, of German prop- erty, was sentenced yesterday by Judge Knox to serve 18 months in the federal penitentiary and pay a $5000 fine. Miller, who was convicted last Friday by a jury for having con- spired to defraud the government of his honest service, has been free on a $5000 bail bond and has been permitted by the judge to remain so until his appeal is ready. Millionaires Working To Make Prohibition Main Campaign Issue WASHINGTON, March 8.—De- claring that the Anti-Saloon League grip on congress has been broken, organized wets of the country today announced plans for a show-down fight on prohibition in 1927-28. \victions for fel change his plea to guilty of disorderly conduct, although he had been charged with felonious assault. He was re- | leased upon payment of a fine of ten | Jollars, although his victim is still | uffering from the affects of his at- | MAZER MANAGED MURDER tack.’ Richter is under bail of $3,000 for the shooting of Cohen, who was | ottacked as he was coming away from the picket line of Reisman, Rothman and Bieber, and shot in one foot. | Lawyer Eloquent. In spite of the record of this no- torious gangster, his lawyer, Mr. Hy- man Bushell who represented the In- | ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ {in court, grew very eloquent in behalf jof his client, and very wrathy when | Richter was fined $10. | He protested to the judge that the | gangster should not be penalized for bottacking a left wing worker, |said Bushell. They have no respect |for this country or its laws. Foreign- {ers are all indecent. They lie, and | they only call strikes in order to over- |throw the government. This bunch of jforeigners do not deserve considera- tion. They are enemies of “our” in- \stitutions and our government. | *So speaks the legal representative jof the right wing officials. | Picket demonstrations were quiet on Tuesday since few gangsers ap- peared at the shops. More than two hundred workers picketed at the Mil- }lare and Mandell and Brill shops, and llarge groups went to other shops called on strike by the Joint Board because of discharge of workers for refusal to register with the Interna- tional or failure of employers to re- | cognize the Joint Board. | | BUY THE DAILY WORKER |. AT THE NEWSSTANDS Organize the Traction Workers! ARTICLE I. WORKING CONDITIONS OF THE MEN The DAILY WORKER publishes herewith the first study ever made of the traction situation | Right Wing In s, was allowed to | |Heavy Vote In Moscow | Elections; Workers In Great Demonstrations MOSCOW, Merch 8.—Elections to the Moscow Seviet are proceeding most actively with over ninety per cent of the voters participating. After the close of work at the various institutions, numerous dem- onstrations by the workers are be- ing held. The workers march daily before the building of the Moscow Soviet, where they are greeted by representatives of the Presidium of the Moscow Soviet. The influx of workers’ demon- strating columns is so big that at evening time all traffic in the ing stops entirely, | Resolutions approving the reply of the Soviet government to Great | Britain, pledge full support to the Soviet power and the construction of socialist economy, and for the de- fense of the acquisitions of the Oc- tober revolution. Minsk reports that the response to Chamberlain’s note throughout The | [lefts are just a bunch of foreigners, | eetings, TONIGHT, at Carn in New York City from the working class standpoint. The articles, written by a worker with long) experience as a traction employe and trade union organizer, deal chiefly with the conditions of the traction workers, the causes of these conditions,and the measures which will remedy the manifold | evils if energetically applied with the co-operation of the labor movement of New York. One ar-| ticle will appear each day in the organized labor section of The DAILY WORKER. A powerful union of all traction workers would be the backbone of the New York labor move- ment and greatly strengthen the labor movement nationally. No better service can be rendered to, the labor movement than to distribute to the traction workers a full set of The DAILY WORKER | containing these articles, ~ A stoppage on the railroads, how-; whole of the steam railroads put to- | ever, would in a few weeks result; gether; when it is recalled er | in general paralysis. In a much|what terrific pressure this task is more immediate and definite way is| performed by the workers; under) this true of what may be called the| what fearful responsibilities for life) nervous system of New York life, its ‘and safety these men are continu- traction lines. | ously burdened; when it is realized | Huge Task. jthat these workers labor for the By ROBERT MITCHELL. Traction is one of the most “basic” industries in New York. In it are employed approximately 35,000 men. @ new subways now under con- struction will provide employment for perhaps 15,000 more. These | 50,000 men will form a body of work- ers second in importance only per- haps to the miners and the railway employes, A strike among the textile work- of transporting. the New York popu- artificial light, half the time during | lation daily to and from work, to| night hours, in summer in the most} shopping centers, to places of amuse- | stifling atmosphere, always under | ment, is seldom appreciated. |the pressure of maintaining the| ers or among a dozen other indus-| When it is remembered that the | schedule, practically always under| tries. may be weathered without com-|traction lines of the city convey |the strain of the most fearful kind! pletely disrupting the nation’s life.|yearly more passengers than the (Continued on Page Four) } AT 8.00 P. M. SHARP White Russia was the beginning of the collection of funds to construct aigplanes. SAYS COP OF EDITOR CRITIC “Could Kiss That Kid” | For Killing Mellett CANTON, Ohio, March 8. — The first complete story describing the fighting Canton Daily News editor, on July 16, last, was given by Louis Mayer to the Stark country grand jury here today, and made public for the first time. First Plan Beating. Mazer’s story of the murder, is as follows: Several weeks before the killing, Floyd Streitenberger, detective ser- geant on the Canton police force at the time, came to Mazer and told him lof plans to “beat up” Mellett. The |publishers had been running a series of editorials, charging an “unholy al- liance” existed between the police de- partment and Canton ,bootleggers. His Gunman Friend. , Two weeks before the murder, Ben Rudner, Massillon hardware merchant, convicted of complicity in the crime penitentiary, told Mazer: “I have some friends coming here | who will do that Mellett job for us.” After the arrival of Patrick Eugene McDermott, of Nanty Glo, Pa., con- victed gunman in the slaying, Rudner |need a gun. Mazer gave him a .38 calibre pistol. “Police All Right.” July 15, the night preceding the murder, Streitenberger came to Mazer and suggested that “Louie” go with | him to the Mellett home. Mazer was hesitant but the detective finally per- suaded him to go, assuring him: “The us.” (Continued on Page Two) CHAMBERLAIN INSINUATES assassination of Don R. Mellett, vice- | and now serving a life sefttence in the | suggested to Mazer that Pat might | Wuhu Captured By Peoples’ Armies Chinese Nelisualts - Gils Province; ; Cat Railroad LONDON, March 8.—Nationalist troops have captured Wuhu with valn- able supplies that were stored there, according to a Central News dispatch from Shanghai this afternoon. It square in front of the Soviet build- | added that the southern forces now control all of Anhwei Province and the Peking-Shanghai Railroad. * * . SHANGHAI, March 8—Continued preparations for a general strike frighten the foreign imperialist popu- lation hete. Rumors every few hours that the Cantonese are at the gates of Shanghai alternate with inspired stories from the consuls that the Peo- ples’ Arnfy will not attack the city Jat all, or that the Nationalists are \splitting into factions. | The situation seems to be that while jactual fighting has declined, due to |heavy rains and the Kuomintang’s de- | sire to conduct propaganda back of the lines, reinforcements are hurry- ing to both the northern military arm- ies and the People’s army. The battle line recently established before the city of Sunkiang, has been rapidly extended to the northwest- |ward to Soochow, on the Shanghai, |Nanking and northern railway, and now is strengthening still farther to the northwestward to the city of Wu- | hu. Wuhu is the point on which forces \of-General Chen,.governor of Anhwei province, have been concentrating. {Chen transferred his allegiance a few days ago from the northern military triumvirate, Chang Tsung-Chang, Wu Pei-Fu and Chang Tso-Lin to the Na- tionalist government, and is partici- pating in the march on Shanghai. The fall of Wuhu cuts off com- munication along the single railroad running between Peking, controlled by Chang Tso-Lin, and Shanghai de- fended by his ally, Chang Tsung- Chang. It also places in great jeo- pardy the communications between {Shanghai and Nanking, formerly mili- tary headquarters of Sun Chuan-Fang, and now held by a large force of Shan- tung troops owing allegiand) to the inorthern triumvirate. Nanking is \erowded with military stores of great alue. It may be cut off either through an advance southward by General /Chen, or by a northward thrust through Soochow by the Nationalist jarmy there ‘Negro Soldiers Of Houston “Riot” Can Now Ask For Parole WASHINGTON, March 8. — The | sentences of 20 Negro soldiers, for- merly of the 24th U. S. Infantry, who were convicted in the so-called Hous- jton Riot of 1917, were today reduced |18 months, All these prisoners will now become eligible for release on home parole within the next twelve months. The Negro soldiers were infuriated | police are all right. They won't bother |by discrimination against them prac- ticed by the Texans, and actively re- pelled with rifles attacks on them. BREAK WITH SOVIET UNION COMES SOON March 8.—Intimation Britain contemplates GENEVA, that Great ten Chamberlain, foreign minister of Great Britain, in an interview with correspondents here for the league of nations council meeting. Questioned about the present sta- tus of Anglo-Russian relations, Sir egie Hall and Central Opera House Austen replied, “Very bad, very bad.” “We don’t want to disturb other The colossal nature of the business | most patt underground, always by breaking diplomatic relations with | nations, that is why we haven't up Russia was given today by Sir Aus-| to now broken diplomatic relations with Russia.” “We have no objections to discus- |sing the Chinese question here”, said |Sir Austen, “but I see no possibility |of useful league intervention at’ the {present time.” WILLIAM Z. FOSTER JAY LOVESTONE, MAX BEDACHT, WILLIAM F, DUNNE, WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE M. J. q OLGIN, BEN GITLOW, B, LIFSHITZ, SAM DON, J. J. BALLAM, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, A. WAGENKNECHT, J. STACHEL. A. TRACHTENBERG AND B. D. WOLFE,