The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1927, Page 1

The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 48, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY DAILY WORKER. Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH Pp ed Da PUBISHING 10, 1927 <eiae> FINAL CITY EDITION ily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO., 33 First Street, New. York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents REVOLUTIONARY FUNERAL HYMN RESOUNDS THRU CROWDED HALLS AS RUTHENBERG'S ASHES ENTER Speakers Tell Story of Unceasing Devotion at Great Meetings When Mourning Workers Honor Leader and Promise to “Fight On” To the solemn strains of the revolutionary funera’ hymn, “You Fell as a Victim,” the bronze urn containing {> Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg was carried on a re: down the aisle of Carnegie Hall last night, and placed i: es of bier ck of fiowers on the platform where only a few months ago he iad been a speaker at the memorial meeting for Eugene V. Debs. After the exercises there it was taken to other halls where workers gathered to commemorate their dead comrade and leader. The platform at the first meeting last night was draped in red and black, and across the back ::Tell the comrades to close thei were our comrade’s last words, r ranks, to build the party. The American workers under the leadership of our party and the Kuointang will win. Let’s fight on.” And below this, under a picture of Ruthenberg, was the slogan, “Fight on, we will win.” When the meeting opened, the Pioneers were seated in the front of the hall which was crowded to ca- pacity and long before the scheduled hour had overflowed to Central Opera House and New Star Casino. Sing International. On the platform was the Freiheit| secretary of the party, was then in- | whelming. Singing Society which began the | troduced by the chairman, and at the | memorial meeting ‘with the Interna- tional. ued standing, they began the funeral hymn and down the aisle came the procession headed by William W. Weinstone. Following him were th pall bearers, Ben Gitlow, Bert Miller, Alfred Wagenknecht, J. J. Ballam, Max Bedacht, Lovett Fort Whiteman Then as the audience contin- | {enrich their revolutionary soil. Ruth- | enberg is not dead.” |. The guard of honor was replaced at | this point by 3 of the Young Pioneers, |and new members of the group took their places at intervals. Jay Lovestone, the acting general close of his speech the ashes wer en by the guard of honor to Cen tral Opera House and New Star Ca sino which were also crowded to over- flowing. Lovestone began by saying: “I cannot believe that nature has | permitted such a crime as to rob the | American working class of its most Farmer -Labor Senator Quake Refugees {fem ibe In West Japan {0 sia cartien Starving Damaged Railroads Fail to | Transport Food Enough TOKIO, March 9.—Hundreds of | refugees in the earthquake districts were facing starvation today, accord- ing to advices received here. Handicapped by a partly demoral- ized railroad system, the task of get- ting supplies and food to the affect- ed areas is extremely difficult, Mo-/| tor transportation to the stricken) areas is impossible. | A gale, accompanied by a drench- ing rain, was sweeping over the| Sanin district today, bringing added suffering. Many of the makeshift shelters have been blown down. Conditions are said to be indescrib- | able in the affected provinces. Res- cue parties are digging into the smashed houses to get the bodies of | the dead. The bodies are then piled in the streets and burned. Not Doctors Enough, AS FASCIST HELP Osaka and other centers, but they) U.S. Imperialistic Says Senator Henrik Shipstead tion. | Relief and supplies are being sent | |from all parts of Japan, but trans- |portation is wholly inadequate. \Coolies are being used to pack in| food over the devastated highways. | They are packing supplies as far as/ Senator Avers British Plot U.S. Ruin ‘Cruiser to oti Helss| Spoil American Trade By CHARLES P. STEWART. (Exclusive Central Press Dispatch | | to The DAILY WORKER.) | WASHINGTON, March |9.—“Is | Great Britain’s dispatch of the| cruiser ‘Colombo’ to “Nicaraguan waters a threat against the Monroe Doctrine?” asks Senator Henrik | Shipstead of Minnesota, “Pooh!” he replies. “Great Brit- | ain disavows any such intention and sincerely. undoubtedly disavows it Nevertheless, the ‘Colombc fence off Nicaragua gives |department an excuse to plead that the United States must intervene in| jthe new world’s troubles or other} jpowers. will intervene to protect} |their own nationals, thus violating |the Monroe Doctrine. “The obvious effect is to strength- en the state department’s position |with the American people in such |situations as that in Nicaragua. | “Why this British policy of help-| fulness toward the state depart- |ment? Well, the British are playing |a very deep game. If this game fa- cilitates the state department's plans jin situations which do not concern | Great Britain, as in. Nicaragua, Great Britain may conceivably expect the} | workers out of jobs. Polish Workers Riot | UJ. §, Qil Men in When Unemployed Are i Lured by Fae “At”! Mexico Discuss Obeying Law WARSAW, March employment problem Tellez Blames Knights Of Columbus For Friction 9—The un- in Poland was given an ironic twist recently when a typographical error in an advertisement caused an American firm to be heseiged' by a host of Ulen & Co., who are doing sewer construction work in the city of |, rin if Butera hie aa MEXICO CITY, March 9.—Reliable | Czenstochau, advertised for forty workers. Through some error this appeared as 400. A riot broke out when only forty were employed, and the angry workers, who be- lieved themselves to have been cheated by a trick of the bosses, did considerable damage in the of- fice of the company. Police inter- fered, and the disturbance was quelled, but not before a number of the workers had been hurt, NAVIES INCREASE AS NATIONS TALK OF ARMS PARLEY Urge New Gas Method In Paris Speech LONDON, March 9.—The British government will not stop construction of any of its warships already being build, W. C. Bridgeman, first lord and Sara Burrough, supporting the/ Joyal, courageous leader; All the bier on which rested the urn contain- ing Ruthenberg’s ashes. Behind them came Jay Lovestone, with the rest of the guard of honor,! and the six comrades in red shirts who had been the escort from Man- hattan Lyceum. Sing “Our Leader.” The Freiheit chorus then sang “Our | Leader,” and the urn was placed on the left side of the platform with three of the pall bearers standing on each side. Weinstone, who was..the chairman at Carnegie Hall, gave a brief sum- mary of the facts of Comrade Ruth- enberg’s life, saying, that “in the death of C.’E, Ruthenberg, the Work- ers (Communist) Party has lost its general secretary, the party has lost its foremost leader, and the working class of the world has lost a stalwart fighter.” Knew Him Well. Alfred Wagenknecht, who was in- troduced as one who had known Com- rade Ruthenberg in the early days of his work in the socialist ‘party in Ohio, said: “Ruthenberg constantly fought for a better party for the socialist party | and for machinery for a workers’ government. He was ‘never satisfied with the socialist party program and tactics. He was responsible for the anti-war resolution which was adopted by the socialists in 1917; and when this became a dead letter after war | broke out, Ruthenberg took matters into his own hands, held a meeting in | flowers, all the messages of con- dolence, all the tears that are shed, all the pain that is suffered ¢annot make me believe that our leader, the | founder of our party is gone. “I remember in 1917, at the con- vention of the founding of our party |in Chicago, the revolutionary prac- ticality which he displayed. At the close of the meetings in all |three halls a Ruthenberg enrollment | in the Workers (Communist) Party vork em signed mambership blanks, Marked with the inscription “Our Leader, Comrade Ruthenberg, Cen- tral Executive Committee Workers (Communist Party, July 9, 1883- March 2, 1927,” the urn containing Ruthenberg’s ashes lay in a bronze case in the main auditorium of Man- hattan Lyceum all day yesterday, guarded continually by a corps of devoted workers who were on duty from the time the funeral proces- sion arrived on Monday night, until the special guard wearing red shirts, with black «arm bands, conducted the ashes to the halls for last night’s final ceremonies. | At certain times during the long | vigil, the guard of honor consisted of four members of the Kuomintang; and there was also a Negro worker who shared this watch with them. To many mourners this seemed truly symbolic of Comrade Ruthenberg’s \life struggle which had been in be- half of all workers of all nationali- ties. was called for and more than 300) Cleveland and went to jail for a year.” | “ Turning to the urn which was rest-| The guard during part of the day ing on the platform, he said, “Ruth- | yesterday, was formed of members of enberg, your ashes go to Moscow to| (Continued on Page Two) ten miles in this manner. Thousands Killed, Kyoto prefecture police today is- sued a statement of casualties in their district. The report said that 2,275 persons were killed in the tem- blor: which rocked western Japan, that 4,107 were injured and that 88 were missing. The official report said that 5,934 houses had been destroyed in the dis- trict. Moré than 7,000 houses were de- stroyed in the four provinces which suffertd *the! Wouviest-damage. About half of them were shaken to the earth by the force of the shock. The rest were destroyed by fire which raged subsequent to the quake. Thousand Die in One Town, The, Province of Yosha was partic- ularly hard hit. At least 1,643 per- sons were killed in this territory, in- cluding the town of Mineyama, where 1,000: were killed. Thirty-five persons were killed in the Province of Nake. (Continued on Page Two) Mothers’ League Urges Housing Improvement Urging the passage of legislation insuring more sanitary housing con- ; ditions and lower rents, one hundred of the League of Mothers’ Clubs called at City Hall Tuesday. The league recommends tax exemp- | tion for tenements built by limited ‘income corporations in a letter ad- dressed to Mayor Walker. A mass meeting to be held at the Hotel Penn- tylvania on March 15th will feature) re not able to cope with the situ- | Ex-Congressman |state department to favor British | °f the admiralty, announced in Com- A close check | |plans in other fields which do con-! ST. PAUL, Mim, March 9—Fas-|cern her—shall we say, for instance, eism and American imperialism came in China? in for a severe drubbing at the hands| “Another consideration, doubtless, of Ernest Lundeen, former congress-|is that such United States’ methods man from Minneapolis, at an anti- | as those used in Nicaragua antagon- Fascisti meeting here. |ize all Latin-America against this | Attacking the practice of deporting | country, with damage to our friend- anti-Fascisti to Italy and leaving them | ly relations, political prestige and to the tender mercies of Mussolini,| trade throughout the entire family of Mr. Lundeen said, “A tremendous | republics to the southward: What- | protest must be raised by the people|ever we lose in this respect is so of this country jf the right of a poli-|much gain to Europe, including teal asylum is to bé maintained. De-| Great Britain. | portation of Italian refugees is al-| “Is it not natural for the British ready under way, and it seems as if/to make it as easy as possible for| the department of justice is helping|the state department “to pursue a| Mussolini in the persecution and the} policy whereby they gain at our ex-| murder of his political enemies.” | pense? | Petite pat the cecupation of | “A Pretext,” He Says, | Nicaragua by American marines is @/ «4. for Great Britain’s claim that | | symptom that the United. States 1S her nationals in Nicaragua might) | going fascist, Mr. Lundeen declared |need a cruiser as a refuge, that evi-| that people should be allowed a refer- dently is the merest pretext. The} endum before war is declared. ltrouble in Nicaragua was an old| Committees were selected to draw | story long before the ‘Colombo’s’ dis- | up resolutions protesting against the patch to Corinto was suggested. | deportation of Italians and against) When the ‘Colombo’ finally was or- | American imperialism, dered thither, United States’ marines | _ already fully dominated the situa-| . | ti vere giving full protection Increased Prosperity (oa Torcign lives and. property as, For the Big Business | wel! 2s citizens of the United States’ | there. Man Shows in Income | “Thus, the only genuine occasion | |for the presence of British forces in| WASHINGTON, March 8.—Swelled | Nicaraguan waters would be the de- by the record prosperity of corpora- | liberate intention to defy the Monroe mons today. Construction on new ships, not yet begun, will be delayed | @ short time, he said, until the Gen- eva conference is out of the way. Only “Conversation”. The foreign office stated today that no official invitation for a tri- partite conference has been received | but that there have been informal exchanges of views during the past month. The British would like to make the proposed conference informal and would prefer to refer to it as “con- versations.” It was pointed out that Washington has been advised that any such “conversations” must be limited due to the absence of France | and Italy. Don’t Expect Peace. While the British government, for diplomatic reasons is, willing to en- ter a tri-partite naval disarmament with the United States and Japan, the British press is skeptical of such a conference meeting with great suc- cess. Washington dispatches telling of President Coolidge’s hopes for a con- formation. of tH® state department (Continued on Page Three) : sources are quoted here to the effect that new negotiations are going on between the law breaking American oil companies and the government, It is not known at what stage the conversations are at present, but hope is expressed that the Doheny, Sin- clair, Mellon interests which still lead a small group of oil men, nearly all Americans, to defy the Mexican con- stitution and refuse payment of taxes, will finally yield on essential points. Former President Obregon is sup- posed to be taking part in the dis- cussions, which are very secret. Obregon Snubs King. Obregon today declined to accept a decoration of the Royal Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus from King Victor Emanuel of Italy. He based his refusal on the ground that it would inconsistent for the head of the Mexican democratic revolution to accept an insignia from a fascist government which is inspired by ideals contrary to the principles of the Mexi- can revolution. Gencral Obregon said he believed it was because he had occupied the position of revolutionary president which moved Italy’s king to present the d n, and for that reason he must refuse to accept. His refusal was contained in a letter written to the foreign office. 3 Tellez Blames Knights. ambassador to the The United | States, Manuel C. Tellez, in a publie | statement declared he would probably return to the United States, and said that the recent mysterious note of the U. S. department of state to the Mexican government was not of as much importance as the publie | thought. He said, however, that th were | dittionities ‘made for the Mexican ‘ee bassy by the. Knights of Columbug | and-the Archbishop of Baltimere, and ) by certain senators in” Washington. Discussing these attacks, Tellez said: “T have been charged with many things. Baseless charges have been hurled about that we have been try- ing to influence Senator Borah with money. Is there anything more ab- surd? “Another absurd charge that we are trying to buy the influence of the New York World has been made. Uow much money would the govern- | ment have to have for such fantastic schemes?” BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSTANDS DELEGATES FROM tions last year, March income tax payments will total about $575,000,- 000, it was estimated today. Doctrine, which is too silly a theory |for serious consideration.” Department’s Answer. The article printed below is SUBJECT NATIONS AT BRUSSELS PLANNED FREEDOM part of a series written by the While no individual official of the | delegate of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League to the Brus- > \ ; | 5 { | } | its campaign for better housing, | The treasury conceded today that) state department ‘would make any EXPECT BIG THRONG AT OPENING OF I-L.D, BAZAAR TONIGHT, STAR CASINO CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. HE United States government is willing to help Nicaragua and no doubt the people of Nicaragua wil! feel as happy over the prospect of such assistance as a Chinese’ worker would over the promised aid of one of Chang Tso-J.in’s headsmen. Im- perialist powers have always shown striking consideration for subject ples. They are willing to proteet from other imperialisms and them—from themselves. They stop short at getting off their FREDERICK MOORE, special es correspondent in China, is out for the lying championship of the world. Not many weeks ago we predic’ that. the high priced liars would sodn be mobilized for the cru- (Continued on Page Two) Tonight at 8 P, M, will be the grand opening of the I.L.D. Bazaar in the Star Casino, 107th Street and Park Avenue. Pascal P. Cosgrove, organizer of the Amalgamated Food Workers will make his opening ad- dress to a capacity crowd, according to reports received at the office. Many well known artists will per- form including the 2 Norenats, Aili Laine, Newkoch, Helene and Havyos. The excellent B.S.S.C, Finnish Band will play appropriate selections, The Vesa Athletic Club of the Finnish Cooperative and the Kisatoverit Athletic Club of the B.S.S.C. will entertain. A feature event will be the Pan- tomine by the New York Finnish Progressive Society which has been played all over the State to the amusement of all privileged to see it. A first class trade union dance orchestra under direction of Professor George Rookley, will play the latest (Continued on Page Five) LL.D. BAZAAR DANCING EVERY NIGHT. | Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. By ROBERT MITCHELL, The tragic picture thus far pre- sented illustrating the exploitation of the traction workers is by no means exaggerated. Nor should it be supposed that the examples of the various occupations chosen are un- representative of the whole picture, In fact the conditions under which many of the other grades of work- ers are employed is even worse than that of the workers already men- tioned. Exploited Spaniards. The men, for instance, who are em- ployed in the power houses which generate the electricity for the Inter- borough’ Rapid Transit Company have even a more fearful Jot. They are almost entirely foreign-born, Jlow wages and long hours afford | on official estimates collections would |be in excess of $550,000,000, but de- | clined to fix a definite figure. comment on Senator Shipstead’s as- | sertions, the division of current in- (Continued on Page Two) them neither the opportunity nor the \ inclination to learn the language and , {ways of the country. In many cases they are employed jin broken shifts at irregular hours and at least half of them during the |night. Partly because of these facts |but mostly because of the pressure ps economic need, they herd them- selves together in one section of the city, usually in one block, often sev- eral score on one floor of an apart- ment house, overcrowded against all tion of the tenement laws. Floating’ Dead Bodies, unsanitary character. houses are built on the banks of the Hudson and East Rivers. the generating machinery and for usually Spaniards, Their miserably |other processes, the method is util- | of transit congestion. ized of letting the river waters into rules of health and in obvious viola-| Organize the Traction Workers! ARTICLE Il. EXPLOITATION — HOW IT WORKS the power houses. The men are of- ten compelled, by the peculiar na-| ture of their work, to wade waist-| deep in water loaded with refuse and the bodies of dead animals, The fear- ful heat and suffocation of their d sease laden quarters make the tasks of the men quite unbearable, espe- cially during the summer months. Another example may be chosen: the platform men. The task of these workers is to help open and shut train doors, usually during the rush hours. Herd Human Droves. They help to direct, hold off, or Their occupation is of the most | herd together, as the case may be,| majority of the delegates come from | Ameri from east to west, west to east, To cool|north to south, south to north—the|be present. here. | hopeless, mass-refrain Transit con- \ (Continued .on Page Three) monotonous PATRONIZE OUR RESTAURANT sells Congress Against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism. The |eongress was made up of delegates from anti-imperialist organ- izations, peace societies and labor unions in the European, Ameri+ jcan and other imperialist nations, from labor bodies and nation- \alist organizations in the colonial countries, and from subjugated |races even in countries with full sovereignty. | Important resolutions were passed, for the practical carrying en of the work of freeing conquered peoples from their slavery. A survey of the work of the congress and the personalities attend- ling, whjch have made it one of the great events of this era, wil be found in these articles. } * > * was crowded with spectators as §, By MANUEL GOMEZ, BRUSSELS, Feb. 11 (By mail, de- O. Davies, of the executive commit- tee of the Miners’ Federation. of Great Britain, rose to call the con- |layed).—The long-hoped-for and |long-dreaded coming together of op- pressed peoples with workers of the oppressing nations has become a | world-wide reality. ; Upwards of 180 delegates—white, |yellow, black and brown—from no \less than 40 different countries, |make up the first world congress }against imperialism, which opened|/many and France, Across the aisle | its sessions here last night in the were the representatives from India, Egmont Palace. The overwhelming | Egypt, Senegal, South Africa, Latin » Great Britain, France and gress to order. In the seats. reserved for delegates the yellow race ‘was especially in evidence, the impressive Chinese delegation of 30 being flanked on either side by the dele- gation from Korea and from French Indo-China. Behind them were the delegates from the Dutch Bast In- dies, Persia, the Riff, Holland, Gex- The power |the inevitable human masses surging | colonial and semi-colonial countries. the United States. Some, have left the field of battle to Barbusse Greets Fighters. After a brief welcome by Py. Mar- | Invited Crowds. |teax of the Belgium? Chamber of Altho admission was strictly by in-| Deputies, Henry Barbusse took the | vitation, the great hall of the palace (Continued on Page Three) PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATION SUNDAY ns OPENS TONIGHT at STAR CASINO