The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1927, Page 1

The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized, For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. THE Vol. IV. No, 49, * WORKERS OF MEXICO, CANADA AND -GERMANY, WITH YOUTH OF SOVIET UNION, MOURN LOSS OF RUTHENBERG eg militant workers and peasants of Mexico, organized in wunist Party of that country, have joined with the work- vada, Germany and the youth of the Soviet Union, in nessage to the Workers (Communist) Party of Amer- ng their sorrow at the death of Comrade C, E. Ruthen- vas a leader of the oppressed peoples of all countries. present time, when Wall street is looking with greedy : other side of the Rio Grande, waiting for an oppor- art another war of aggression against that country, it itting that a message of comradeship should be sent orkers of one country to those of the other. * Comrade Ruthenberg’s main tasks was combatting 1 which includes a struggle against the tendency in rar between America and Mexico, in which workers of tries will be mutually murdered to enhance the profits treet. “TRUE AND BRAVE FIGHTER.” e message from Mexico, signed by Rafael Carrilo, General Secretary, ollows: “The Mexican Communist Party moruns with brother party the loss vf Comrade Ruthenberg, a ttue and brave fighter of the proletarian vanguard. “Central Committee, Communist Party of Mexico.” WORKERS MUST CLOSE RANKS. Another message was received from the Communist Party of Canada as follows: “The Communist Party of Canada in behalf of the revolutionary workers of this country sends its sincere condolences to our sister party of the American workers in their great loss of our courageous and lead- ing comrade, Chas. E. Ruthenberg. The workers of the American con- tinent can ill afferd such a loss. We are confident, however, that despite this great loss to the labor movement the revolutionary workers of Amer- ica will close their ranks and in the last words of our dead comrade ‘fight on’ to final victory. “Central Executive Committee, J. McDonald, secretary.” DEATH WAS UNTIMELY. The Young Communist League of the Soviet Union has cabled as follows: “Central Committee, Lenin Young Communist League Soviet Union monrns together with you untimely death of Comrade Ruthenberg. Close the Communist ranks, make closer connection with working masses. “Central Committee Lenin Young Communist League.” “LOSS IS SERIOUS,” SAY GERMANS. The Communist Party of Germany cables: “The eleventh convention of the Communist Party of Germany ex- presses its heartfelt sorrow in the face of the most serious loss which your party si ed by the death of your great leader, Ruthenberg, the pioneer of American Communism, On the grave of Ruthenberg mourns be proletariatof the whole. worth jirward.in his spirit-en the readof * the proletarian revolution.—Bleventh Convention of Communist Party of Germany.” CURRENT EVENTS : Police Brutality. By T. J. O’WLAHERTY. Police brutality was one of the fea- ‘ures of the Ruthenberg, memorial meetings held Wednesday night. Es- HE United States government | pecially at Carnegie Hall was it no- will take steps to block gun run-| ticeable, ning into Nicaragua. Which is equal| Police Officer 11600 was the chief to saying that the United States in- | offender with police officer 15127 the sists on having the gun running mo-| second best. Stationed at the 56th nopoly with the reactionary puppet | St. stage entrance they prevented Diaz ab,the receiving end. This raid|the speakers, committee members on Nicayagua by the United States|and the singers of the Freiheit government is one of the most bvs-|Gesang Frien from entering for a zen acts ‘of imperialism in modern| period of over one hour. All those times. Thé state department has not | who attempted to gain admittance or even gone th the extent of clothing | ask either of the policemen why they the attack in the mantle of high| were barred,-were without any cere- moral purpose, outside of some cur-|mony made to move, sory lying and an attempt to people Wolfe Handled Roughly. | the political juni*es of Latin Amer- ‘ | icon with Bolsheviks for the edifica-|_,When Bertram D. Wolfe, director tion and horrification of the native |°f the New York Workers School sons and the grand spinsters of the and one of the speakers, was denied Migivan: saveldtton admittance, and tried to explain that i * he was one of the speakers, he was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and shoved into the gutter. Frank Miller, a member of the literature committee who was bring- ing copies of The DAILY WORKER to'the meeting, fared even worse at the hands of officer 11600.“ The po- liceman grabbed his head with one hand and used his other hand as a ram to drive him to the gutter where he threw him into the mud. Many other workers whose names were not obtained received the same treat- of the presence of reactionary troops, |ment. The DAILY WORKER re- Diaz by now would be selling pencils | porter was also barred for over an at 42nd Street and 6th Avenue or|hour and only with the greatest dif- running errands for the president of |ficulty did he obtain admittance. the a eiranl: City Lnaare Bomb Squad Present. The “bomb squad” was also pre- sent in full force inside the hall but no excitement took place, all of its being reserved for the street. * HIS man Diaz niust not have enough forces at his back to give him an osteopathic treatment. De- spite the presence of a large section of the American navy in Nicaraguan waters -and quite a, considerable force of marines on Nicaraguan soil the liberals seem to have no trouble in chasing Diaz’s tin’ soldiers over the landscape and if the American admiral, Latimer, did not declare neutral zones just as soon as the Viberals relieved chunks of territory * HEREVER you see a head, hit it,” seems to be the motto of the New York police force as well as of old Donnybrook Fair, where 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. Bntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. U. S. Destroyed Liberal Arms In Nicaragua Kellogg Lied Again According To Senate Committee Witness WASHINGTON, D.C., March 10.— Stakely W. Morgan, one of Kellogg’s aides informed the senate committee on foreign relations that American destruction of a, quantity of arms and ammunition belonging to the Sa- casa Liberals--which the state de- partment has persistently denied | hitherto. | several occasions that the Liberals themselves lost the munitions in transporting it across the Rio Grande River, but Morgan admitted Admiral Latimer’s forces were responsible, as charged by’ the Liberals. ch, @ Marines Occupy Matagalpa. MANAGUA NICARAGUA, March 10.—American marines have now oc cupied Matagalpa and 500 Nicara- uated the town. The Nicaraguan forces marched into the interior where a naval forces were responsible for the | Secretory Kellogg said on| FINAL CITY EDITION NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1927 | Karavaikova Fire Burns | |_| Sixty-seven; Whole Town | | | Celebrating Women’s Day MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Mar. 10.— | Sixty#seyen persons were dead | today in the village of Karavai- kovo, in the northern part of Dvina province, as a result of a fire which broke out in a theatre last night at a time when the hose was crowded with spectators. © | The entire population of the vil- | lage had packed itself into’a wood- | en sthool building, whieh had been turned into a improyised theatre, for amateur theatricals celebrating | international women’s day | Shoe Makers On Recognition ‘Provocative Boss Relative of | Strike to Get |. | Chang 3 Cd PUBISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. § i Ci I oviet Litizens Held by Chang; Fate in Doubt Dupont Powder Flare At ‘Continuous Dryer’ | Mortally Injures Man WILMINGTON, Del., March 10. —Two men were seriously injured, one probably fatally, in a flare-up of 3,000 pounds of powder today in the Dupont powder factory at Car- ney’s Point, N. J., according to re- ports. The men were unloading the powder from a “continuous dryer,” on the second floor of the “dry house” when the explosives became ignited. The injured were: Howard White- sell, 51, of Pennsville, N. J., his cou- sin, Gilbert Whitesell, 41, also of Pennsville. Howard was badly burned about the head. He is reported dying in the plant hospital. Gilbert.is in the same hospital seriously burned about the body. He is expected to recover. Rumors of Their Execution Are Discounted PEKING, March 10. — Both the} Soviet embassy here and the Peking foreign office today were ignorant of | the fates of Madame Borodin, wife of the’ Russian adviser of the Nation-| alist government, and the three Rus-| sian diplomatic couriers recently cap-| tured uboard the Soviet steamer Pa- i Lenina on the Yangtse River Northern soldiers. } Unconfirmed reports from Chinese Peanjexecuted, bot these reports “Furriers Meet; Shout Loyalty - General Yang Yu-Ting, Marshal Tso-Lin’s chief of staff de- clared emphati y that the execu- tion of the Soviet officials was not ordered. The imperialists are sending out Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents More Airplanes - Show Fraud in Peace Talk England and U. S. Agree to Meet; Both In Air Race | WASHINGTON, March 10.—Al- though Japan has again unofficially announced that she will participate in the three power arms conference if such an event takes place, and admin- istration leaders here believe that | France and Italy will send “observers” who may at times take the status of delegates, pessimism over any real results in the way of disarmament continues. x | The conference, if it now takes | place, they say, will be more for the |sake of bulldozing the enemies of England on the continent, and saving the reputation of Coolidge, than for any other purpose. More Planes. All the countries originally invited to send delegates are increasing their guan soldiers have consequently evac- | have | | hundreds of thousands of words about Cruel Judge Rosalsky | alleged riots in territory recently con- | quered by the Nationalists. This is the prelude to a more aggressive in- The | terventionist policy on the part of Shoe Workers — Protective armament. It is konwn that the Bri- tish air minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, announced in the house of commons this afternoon that Great Britain is building two airships, each capable of generally discounted. concentration of Diaz troops is in|Union, at a mass meeting held last progress in preparation for an attack against General Moncada’s Liberal troops. General Feland: and other high marine officers and 1,000 U. S. Marines have arrived in Managua, having disembarked at Corinto on Monday. ‘hree hundred other Mar- ines who disembarked at the same time have been posted on guard duty along the railroad running between Managua and the coast. President Diaz and United States Minister Eberhardt have conferred relative to the terms for a $700,000 emergency loan submitted by a New York firm, but no decision as to the flotation of the loan has been made. President Diaz stated that Nicar- agua will seek a larger loan of from $12,000,000 to $20,000,000 once peace is established, pointing out that the national debt ig, put $6,500,000. Po eit gs rs Forging Chains on Nicaragua. WASHINGTON, March 10. — Des-} pite Secretary Kellogg’s reported op- position to a United States-Nicaragua 100-year protectorate agreement, it) was learned today that negotiations (Continued on Page Three) Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting in Brooklyn This Coming Sunday | A: Ruthenberg memorial meeting will be held Sunday, March 13, two} |p. m., at The Workers Center, 63 | Liberty Ave., Brooklyn. The speakers will include: Ben Lifshitz} secretary Jewish Section, manager of The DAILY WORKER; Anton Bimba, editor of the Laisve, Lithuanian Communist Daily; and| Ray Ragozin. Admission free. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. By ROBERT MITCHELL. No exploitation is secure without a-company union! The realization of this truth is now rapidly spread- ing over the whole field of labor ex- ploitation. The deplorable condi- tions ‘under. which the traction work- ers of New York labor, a picture of which has’ been presented in the last two articles, obviously called for some “advanced” method of dealing with them. Accordingly, one of the night in the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, ‘launched an intensive ‘organization leampaign to enroll in the union‘ the |35,000 unorganized shoe workers of |greater New York. | Three organizers are already on the | job, and it is they who have been con- ducting the strike called during the past week in shops which have re- fused to sign an Agreement with the union. Kin of Rosalsky’s. | | At the B. & W. Shoe Gomipany, 441 Blake avenue, Brooklyn, where 80 workers have been on strike since last Tuesday, the boss is using all sorts of |the foreign powers. British Fear Consequences. Reports: that Owen O’Malley, Brit-|’ ish representative intervened with Chang Tso-Lin in behalf of Mme. Borodin were not confirmed. It is be- lieved that the British are convinced that the execution of Soviet officials by the northern militarists would be ing the militarists and would be held responsible for the execution. | | The Soviet government has sent two notes to the Peking government demanding the immediate release of |carrying more than 200 fully armed ‘Gold In Eloquent Defiance Of Union Wreckers A warning to employers, and to the union-smashing “Special Committee” of the International Fur Workers and the A. F. of L., was given by Ben jinjurious to British interests since it) Gold, manager of the New York Joint |is well known that England is financ-| Board last night when, with the thun- derous approval of thousands of fur workers in Cooper Union and Webster | Hall, he announced that the workers would refuse to tolerate any attempt to break down their powerful union, or to weaken the union conditions in | men, and a complete squadron of |smaller airplanes. Planes would prob- \ ably not be limited, even if some jagreement was, reached on naval | strength. Big Contracts. The U. S. army is continuing its five year building program, and has just allotted a million and a half dol- ‘lars worth of contracts for three dif- :ferent types of planes. American airplanes, training at the France field, in the canal zone, par- ticipated in maneuvers by squadrons of the navy, ostensibly designated a i“practice defense against an Asiatic |power, in league with a European provocative tactics to create trouble | thé arrested Russians and the surren- the shops. |Monday. A scab agency has opened Workers Party; Bert Miller, business| | radical workers are concerned. One of the most disgraceful exhibitions of ity seen in this city in many Among the other speakers Wo ad- dressed The Carnegie Hall meeting and whose names were omitted from yesterday’s paper due to the lateness was witnessed last Wednesday ning at Carnegie Hall on the oc- of the hour are: H. Linson, editor of the Chinese Nationalist Daily, local organ Koumintang, who brot a mes- sage from the Communist and revo- lutionary nationalists of China; Lovett Fort Whiteman of the Amer- iean Negro Labor Congress and Her- aS ea bert Zam, editor of the Young Work- T is true that thousands of mourn-|¢F Linson was ‘accompanied on the ing workers could’not gain admit-| Platform by a committee of five from (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Two) to pi a last tribute to comrade Rutheaberg was entirely in harmony ie solemnity of the moment. first groups to grasp at the princi- |ple of the company union was the Interborough Rapid Transit Com- | pany. 1916. Since that time the company. \a full grown black sheep of the la- bor movement—an illegitimate son, |in the true sense of the term, result- ing from the ugly alliance between the bosses and their enslaved and de- luded workers. That this vicious parasite goes practically unchal- lenged by the organized labor move- ment, and, in its more disguised kers: WM. M. WEINSTONE, WILLIAM F. DUNNE, B. D. WOLFE, JOHN This was as early as the rr union everywhere has developed into| near the shop so that he will have| | grounds for taking out an injunction.| |One striker was badly beaten by de-| jtectives yesterday and is now in a} hospital. The employer is reported to) Sumner Shop Struck; | At the Sumner & Broyd Shoe Com- pany at 75 Front street, Brooklyn, 140 workers came out on strike last headquarters at the Broadway Central Hotel in this city, and advertisements for workers are being inserted in all the papers from this address. Workers are urged to beware of this fake employment office, and save themselves a trip to Brooklyn only to discover they are being sent to a shop on strike—as several other workers have done, | | 48-Hour Bill to Get Final Reading | ALBANY, N. Y., March 10.—The| Shonk bill, providing for a modified | 48-hour working week for women and | in the assembly. The measure carries out the recommendations of the In- dustrial Survey Commission, Organize the Traction Workers! <* ARTICLE Ill. THE COMPANY UNION—WHAT IT IS forms, is often blessed by the Amer-, ican Federation of Labor, makes the company union all the more danger- ous to the workers, I. R. T. Foresees Company Union’s Value. Ask Bob Dunn for a word about the great menace of this offspring whose activities threaten to usurp not only the large field of the unor- ganized but is now encroaching on the fields of the organized workers as well. ve General Strike Over High Taxes In Athens; People Demand a Cut LONDON, March 10.—A general strike was begyn in Athens today, according to a dispatch from there. The purpose of the strike is to com- pel the government to accede to the demands of the populace for reduced taxes. { | by.the Kuomintang Party of New York be a brother-in-law oi% ye ruthless | Judge Rosalsky. | der of the ship. There is a lull in hostilities for the moment, © * So Spain Has a Warship! MADRID,. March 10.—An official communique issued by the war de- partment today states that the Span- ish cruiser Don Blaz Leso has landed 156 men, one heavy field piece and} one machine-gun at Shanghai. Read The Dajly Worker Every Day Trail of Evidence In Editor’s Murder Implicates the Police CANTON, Ohio, March 10.—Detec- tive Ora Slater of Cincinnati today was continuing his efforts to sub- stantiate the story told by Louis Mazer, alleged conspirator in the Don} Mellett murder, of July 16, last. Mazer’s story was given to the made public for the first time. Several police officers, who were on the Canton force at the time of| higher ups” who knew that an “edi-| tor was to be mauled,” on the night 5 Gold warned the fur workers that the “Special Ccmmittee” would doubt- less do everything in its power to |form an alliance with the employers, |} attempt to call a strike in order to force the workers to register with the International, | Warn of Strike “While we have no desire for a strike,” said Gold; “we are willing to face the bosses at any time to pre- serve our rights. “If they think they are going to slip in by the back door now. the! agreement which they had secretly | made with Hugh Frayne and the In-| ternational last year, before we de-| feated their plan to break the strike, they might as well be warned once for all they had better not dream of the 42 hour week instead of the 40 hour; or the return of contracting or any of the other points they lost. What we gained by our bitter strug- gle last spring, we will fight to main- | Stark county grand jury Tuesday and tain—and we won't have to hire gangsters to fight for us either.” Short Work of Gangs The great enthusiasm with which minors in industry, today was ad-|the Mellett slaying, were mentioned| the workers greeted these remarks vanced to the order of final passage |in Mazer’s statement as being “the| was even increased when Gold added: “Every time the A. F. of L. poli- | ticians take a hand in a strike they and that possibly there would be an| of July 15, 1926. | either break the strike or sell out the | workers. The fur workers are going to make short work of these gang- Ovefflow Meeting Only one meeting of fur workers had been called by the Joint Board (Continued on Page Five) | But in 1916 only a few far seeing employers were able to perceive the faint shadow which the coming of | the company union was casting be- fore it. As has been said, one of these far seeing souls was the Inter-| borough Rapid Transit Company, A word of correction. Corporations are proverbially without souls! Accord-| after a successful opening yester- ingly, we inay be perplexed at this | q, ; is : lay the International Labor Defense evidence of extended insight into the | pazaar continues tonight at 8 p. m. in future. The explanation, A however, is | the Star Casino, 107th street and Park very simple. |power.” The implications resulting from the official descriptions of the maneuvers have not healed any mis- trust. Labor Party Fights Increase. Perhaps the only hopeful sign came |from sourees the present administra- tion in Washington does not care to be in alliance with. Laborite mem- bers of the English parliament de- nounced the cabinet’s plafi to create a navy for India, as merely an un- derhanded attempt to increase arma- ments under the fraudulent guise of greater autonomy to a colony. New Engines Too. Sir Samuel Hoare, in his report, said the Royal Air Force is being equipped with up-to-date machines and its strength is being increased ten per cent. Illustrating the development of the civil air routes, parliament was told there were already straphangers upon the route between Bagdad and Bahra. The importance attached to the de- velopment of air craft is emphasized by the fact that this is the most dif-+ ficult fianancial year the chancellor of the exchequer has had to face. “If the two airships we are now building come up to expectations,” said Sir Samuel, “it will be possible to transport a fully equipped squadron from one end of the empire to the other in a fraction of the time it now takes for reinforcements to arrive at any threatened point.” The entire air force is being equipped with new planes and engines. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS « KRUMBEIN TO TELL OF RELATIONS OF |. L.D. TO THE TRADE UNIONS |to those who like a good Friday eve jning’s dancing. Children’s Day Tomorrow. Children’s Day will be celebrated |tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. Leone “Poison Ivy” Lee. | On the pay roll of ‘the Interbor-| ough at that time»was a certain gen- | avenue with its success already as- sured. jard Zaslow, Bernard Kundle, Anna Charles Krumbein in his opening |Segmund, Misha Stilman, Lora Zipin address will briefly survey the rela-/ Lida Anshutina and Sidney Solow will tleman by the name of Ivy Lee. Who tionship of the I. L. D. to the trade is this Mr. Ivy Lee? A complete) unions, at the same time scoring the wer to this question would make |jabor baiter, Judge Rosalsky. an eloquent chapter in the history of) This will be followed by an enter- the ee i ise ssoap 3 the American | tainmient which will be participated people. He is the capitalist propa-|in by the Checho Slovak Gymnastic gandist and publicity faker par ex-| Federation, Slovak Working Men’s cellence, At present he is doing! Singing Soctety, Hungarian Workers igs peony city Oil ion aie Orchestra and the Hungarian Singing e has already played a sort of left) Society. handed part in agitating for recogni-| Prof. { (Continued on Page Five) George Koukly’s orchestra | will supply the necessary enlivenment | perform. Among this group of young \artists are pupils of Drozdova, Fokine and Fishburg. *Th will also be a Pioneer pro- gram with Pioneer ‘speaker, @ tableau and a slave dance. Admission to the children’s celebra- tion will be 25 cents or free on the bazaar combination ticket that sells for one dollars. In the evening there will be a great international costume ball. Yat Sen Memorial Meeting Sunday, March 13, at the Chinese Theatre, 165 Bowery DBWEY, HARRY F. WARD, DAVID S. OGINS, KUOMINTANG MEMBERS Come in Masses!