The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1927, Page 1

FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections. Be sure to get them both, Vol. IV. No. 50. l CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O"FLAHERTY. | | } A Paris Commune, the first Pro- | letarian State in the history of | the human race was established by the workingmen and women of Paris fifty-six years ago, next March 18. | Jn 1871 the German invader was at the gates of Paris and the French | bourgeoisie, true to their traitorous history had secretly contracted to be- | tray the city into the hands of the | enemy, in order to slaughter their own wor <ing class whom they feared more t! \n the legions of Prussia. Le aaa UT the workers of Paris rose in their wrath, established the Com- mune and defended the city for two months against the invaders and their treacherous allies, the French bourg- eoisie. The Commune was crushed. Over 13,000 workers were slaugh- tered, men and women. But the heroic deeds of the Communards-were not in vain. They will be remem- bered by the workers forever. ‘The anniversary of the establishment of the Commune will be used in all lands to fire the exploited with new ardor. The International Labor Defense of SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Cuban Terror Rages A. F. of L. Head Takes.Sugar Trust Agent’s Word Killings Will Stop; But They Don’t WASHINGTON (FP),—President Machado of Cuba, now} seeking re-election, will not stop the persecution and systematic| murder of labor union organizers in that island, carried on by his | police during the past year and a half. | This is the opinion of observers of the Pan-American Fed-| eration of Labor, after a secret visit to Cuba. It appears that when the Cuban workers sent a delegation to the executive coun- cil of the American Federation of Labor, at St. Petersburg, Fla., in January, and the council was disposed to direct President Green to appeal to Coolidge and to congress, agents of Machado offered | vague promises that if the appeal were withheld Machado would! call off his killers. The Cuban ambassador in Washington is re-| ported to have denied, on the one hand, that his government had | had any part in the murder of 100 union leaders and the disap- | pearance of over 200 rail strikers, and on the other hand he was) NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1927 <a Green Silent While Police Kill Strikers | In Athens; Crowds in Demand for Lower Tax ATHENS, Greece, March 11.— Two persons have been murdered and fifteen injured here in an at- tack by the police on a crowd of strikers demonstrating, against the high taxes and increased rentals. | The strike started day before yes- | terday, and is participated in by the | working class, and by small shop- | keepers. Three Members of Crew Three members of the crew of the | schooner Jessie E, Noyes, Brunswick, Ga., for Boston, were drowned shortly | before the ship was abandoned. on| March 8, according to wireless advices | received here today. The White Star liner Pegina, which is bringing eight | survivors to Ha&lifax,.said the men were rescued by the Swedish motor ship Topeka, the crew 6f which risked | “threat Drowned from Schooner | Hyman Showsup Sigman’s Scab | Supporters | Reactionary Tries to Fire Workers But Cannot | Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint | Board declared yesterday that the| of the International to} throw workers out of the shops be-| cause of their refusal to register or for their activities on the picket) lines, will frighten nobody, and the} Joint Board will continue to defend} every worker, if necessary by calling | strikes”, ’ He pointed out that “Sigman has mentioned a few shops where out of 50 workers, only a few have’ refused to register but he has forgotten to mention the many large shops where | their own lives by piloting a life boat only a few have gone to the Interna-| New York has a Commune commem- (Continued on Page Four) American Labor Will Rescue The Cuban Workers From Wall Street Murderers The highest body of the American Federation of Labor, ‘its executive council headed by William Green, has allowed an agent of the National City Bank to gag it and prevent a pr®test to con- gress against the campaign, of wholesale assassination and ex- termination that President Machado of Cuba has been carrying | on against labor officials and the whole labor movement. American workers cannot read the story of the intimidation of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor by a} proven murderer of hundreds of labor unionists, acting as the} open agent of American imperialism, without bowing their heads in shame, cihebnieirsiaitae Sothicnaios ' Since the rail strike of 1925 in Cuba, which was followed by mass deportations of strikers, the sugar trust and the National City Bank, with Major-General Crowder of the United States army giving American dictatorship the proper military character, have been backing Machado and the Pearl of the Antilles has been redeemed with the blood of the working class. Why did the A. F. of L. executive council remain silent? The excuse that they were afraid that Machado would answer confident that the persecution would cease. Green and-his associates, not wish-| jing to have on their hands the blood | Boston. of any more labor men who might meet death if the appeal were publicly | made to Coolidge and Borah, sat| silnt. Congress has now adjourned. | Coolidge has his own hard-boiled am- | bassador, Gen. Crowder, in. Havana.) Crowder’s word, when he cares to give| it to Machado, is law. American sugar | companies and railroad companies | dominate Cuba, and can overturn the | government at any time that Crowder | winks. Crowder is. satisfiéd with! Machado’s regime. .And it is noted that the anti-labor terror began after | American corporations had com-| plained to Machado at the rail strike | of 1925. | If Machado calls off his killers, it will be because the American cor-| porations are satisfied that the labor movement has been crushed or be- cause public opinion in other Latin-| American countries has begun to shame him and to undermine his. poli- tical position. PRIMO DE RIVERA WITH US. AGAINST CENTRAL AMERICA Stop Spanish People to to the stricken vessel, through heavy | |tional to register in Sigman’s fake a protest with more secret murders by night will not hdld water. The murders have continued and Machado has lost what little tear of the American labor movement he ever had. The conclusion is inescapable that the National City Bank and the sugar trust has more power to prevent action' by Jabor officialdom than the death-cries of Cuban workers ‘have to arouse it. ’ The question arises: Is the Pan-American Federation of Labor, dominated by tha A. F. of L., an instrument for the defense and protection of the workers of Latin-America or is it an organ for the furtherance of the interests of American imperialism? Unless the executive council of the American Federation of Labor now takes the lead in organizing mass protest against the murder of the Cuban working class by Wall Street’s butcher every worker in the world will be justified in saying yes to the above question. y Action is needed. At this very hour some Cuban worker is being murdered for his loyalty to his countrymen and his class, Congress has adjourned but Cuba is not so far away that the angry voice of the American labor movement cannot be heard if it makes its protest strong enough and its determination to fight for the Cuban labor movement unmistak2")!y apparent. The Machado murder regime can be smashed. It must be smashed and American labor will do the job either with or without the leadership of the executive council of the American Federa- tion of Labor. American workers, in the beginning of the American im- perialist epoch, wrested Cuba from Spain believing that they were freeing her people. The thousands of workers who died from fever and the other thousands poisoned by “embalmed” beef in the filthy camps of the south, died that the National City Bank and the sugar trust might grow and fatten on their corpses and the corpses of the Cuban workers murdered to make Cuba safe tor American capitalists. The labor movement, once it knows the truth, will rebuke the officials who remain silent in the face of these atrocities, will et to end Machado’s rule and help the Cuban labor movement in ‘ery way necessary to make it the ruling power in the island. Specifically in Cuba, but in all of Latin-America as well, this e mighty role that American labor must pla: it too is not day to be confronted with exactly the same murderous attack that the Cuban movement suffers under today. is Speakers: Wm. M. Weinstone, William F. At 1:30 P. M. Sharn. i 14 : " es i } Speak for Nicaragua | By JAR (Special to The Daily Worker). MADRID, (By Mail).—Since 1923, Primo de Rivera has been the repre-| sentative of Spanish ultra-national- | istie aims. Spain being economically | smashed since the 1898 war with the United States, it was impossible to develop the imperialist aims which | characterize the Spanish monarchy | under King Alfonso XIII. Spanish in- | ternational policy was constrained to | confine itself to defense of its inter-| ests in Morocco although this has al- ways been affected by the interests of more powerful nations like Englana, France and Germany. Spanish nationalists made good use of the world war in order to obtain a better position in Morocco.’ From the very beginning, the Spanish na- tionalists were enthusiastically in fa-| vor of Germany. They hoped that in case of a German victory, this country would give Spain all the northern part of Morocco, including Tangier. All those dreams ended when they realized the end of the had come. Since then, Spain, in order to obtain a bet- ter position in Morocco, has followed a policy of alliance towards France or England, depending on the moment’s possibilities. Spanish-Latin-Ameria Union. King Alfonso XIII does not aim to extend his monarchy’s power only on Spanish territory. His desire is to emulate the “past heroic deeds of his ancestors” by extending his influence (Continued on Page Two) Uruguayan Flies Again. 'ADRID, March 11.—Major Larre- Borges, commander of the Uruguayan Trans-Atlantic flight, and his com- panions, are today flying in Spanish planes from Cape Juby, Africa, to Casablanca, on the Moroccan coast, according to dispatches received from Cape Juby. Larre-Borges and his comrades crashed in the sea off the African coast recently, and were held for a time by a wandering tribe of Moors. seas. The victims wel$.Fred Brown, titon? Carl Peters and Daly Bouffet, all of “"°™ Sigman Tried and Failed. Answering Sigman’s declaration {that no steps had been taken against} workers who refused to registered up to this time he said: “That more worker: were not discharged for this reason was not due to the generosity of Sigman who has hired gangsters to assault and beat up and knife the workers loyal to the Joint Board. At} the present time there are under ar- rest for assault of our pickets gang-| sters who have criminal records for | offenses ranging from hold ups. to! Forget Charge f * | white slavery and who have served prison sentences for those crimes. “ 2? | Joint Board Protects. | Matty Woll Also Suffers “These are the henchmen of Sig-| man, and his lawyers defend them Loss of Memory in tne courts and the International | uses the money it gets from workers } Denying that they ever had made to furnish bail for them | any charges of graft against mem-| “Ihe sea3on that more workers! bers of the New York police depart-' have not been deprived of their bread ment in connection with the fur strike, and butter at Sigman’s instigation of last year, William Green, presi-) was that the employers have refused dent of the American Federation of| to take jis orders, since there are | Labor, and Matthew Woll, a vice-pre-| sq mary thousands of workers who| sident and acting président of the|refised to register that their dis National” Civie Pedoratist; emerged | cliarge woul have mee: the wreck from a visit te Mayor Walker late ing of the industry. If Sigman and} yesterday afternoon with the an- the employers begin te send down nouncement that they had only called yo, now the Joirt Board will de- on His Honor to present information| feng them, and even val! strikes which had. been given to them by) svainst shops that discharge for that members of the Furriers’ Joint Board poason,” | during their investigation. Green Tries To Scabs Support Sigman. | Green Forgets Charges. Mr. Hyman also commented upon According to President Green’s|the statement of Sigman that the written statement, the representa-| L, Greenberg shop had voted to give tives of the American Federation of|a day’s pay to the International and Labor make no charges against the| had paid dues twenty weeks! in ad-| police. | vance. “This shop is one of the worst When questioned by a DAILY|scab shops in the industry,” he said. WORKER reporter concerning the|“In the last strike it was scabbing inconsistency of this stand after the! the entire time. Half of its workers charges which Matthew Woll made| would pretend to picket while the to members of the Federation’s Ex-| other half worked,- and then they ecutive Committee, and to the press, | would change places. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. “Y, Jugoslavia Refuses to Recognize Bessarabian Treaty Before U. §. 5. R. BELGRADE, March complications in European politics are seen as a result of Italy’s rati- fication of the Bessarabian treaty that gives that country to Rou- mania. According to statements issued by Yugoslav leaders they will not recognize the treaty. One of them | went further and said that “Yugo- slavia will not recognize Rou- mania’s annexation of Bessarabia until Russia does.” As it is a known fact that the Soviet Union has no | intentions of recognizing the treaty the position taken by Yugoslavia is of great importance. Yugoslavia is convinced that Italy, as a necessary preliminary to occupying Alabania, is trying to isolate her and thinks that Rome has won over Roumania by ratify- ing the Bessarabian annexation. All point to a break of the Roumanian-Yugoslav alliance and with it the breakdown of the little entente. Nationa ‘ists In New Battle For Shanghai Soviet ti Warns Chang- Tso-Lin Citizens Be Freed SHANGHAI, March 11.—The Na- tionalists have opened a _ drive against Sunkiang. The long expected battle in the Yishing sector of Sunkiang and also in the Taiping Chen region of Anhwei now appears to be in full progress. Heavy .fighting continues in the Chusan Yishing sector, where the nationalists are receiving reinforce- ments, including many Russian vol- unteer detachinents. ~“A nia jor “en gagement looms on this front. Tomorrow is the second anniver- sary of the death of Sun Yat Sen and it promises to be an eventful day. Chinese workers have laid |plans for a one day general strike. * * * Another Soviet Protest. PEKING, March 11.—The Peking government today received a second 11—More | Price 5 Cents Acquit Striker Who Claimed innocence ‘The Third Degree On Regan | Failed: So. Did the ‘Trail By ESTHER LOWELL, (Federated Press). HACKENSACK, New Jersey, — |Tom Regan, young picket marshal of | the Jong Passaic textile strike, is free. | After five months in jail, Regan won j acquittal on police charges that he | was involved in “bombings.” Policeman after policeman testified before Judge Seufert that Regan was }a leader of Forstmann-Huffmann mill strikers. He was a delegate to the union, But not a policeman nor dé- tective could prove that Regan“ had {ever had explosives “with intent to |injure persons” or “with intent to | damage property.” Five men and seven women consti- | tuting the jury refused to believe that |the young strike leader had had any- |thing more dangerous than “giant | salutes.” The jurors seemed to know that these big noisy fire-crackers couldn’t do anything more than scare |a scab, as Regan’s third degree state- ment told. Harmless “Bombs.” That statement, beaten out of the 24-year old striker, was the only di- rect evidence against him. Assistant Prosecutor John Breslin didn’t pro- duce any of the “bombs” for the jury’s view. The police didn’t say that they had found any “bombs” on | Regan. Burly Garfield and Clifton town- ship police solemnly disclaimed on oath, but with crooked faces, that they; had beaten and tortured Regan into signing a statement. They admitted that they had trotted him from sta- tion to station, trying to pin some sort of indictment on him. Detective William Hindenburg got all bawled up under cross-examination by defense attorney Arthur Garfield Hays. { Regan Maltreated. Attorney John.A, McKenna of. New- ark and other defense witnesses tes- | tified how badly beaten Regan looked |a day or two after his arrest, and even a week later. Regan said he had not been able to eat on one side of his mouth for months. But the pale | ;parchment-skinned prison doctpr |couldn’t recognize Regan as one of |the prisoners he had treated. Nor | would he admit that the union doc- |tor had been barred from the jail. |note from the Soviet government de-| 4 “Riot law” Nimmo—sheriff ‘of Ber- elaring that any violations of the) pen county—and devoted defender of safety of Madame Borodin or the | Porstmann-Huffmamn, poked his gim- three couriers arrested by Chang-| let jaw into the court proceedings re- Tso-Lin’s mercenaries might bring} peatedly. He tried to bar Hollace about serious consequences. The So-| Ranscell, secretary, Passaic Joint De- viet charge d'affaires held a lengthy fense Committee, from the courtroom, discussion with the Peking minister} and eyed her like a hawk when de- last January in Florida, President (Continued on Page Three) Read The Daily Worker Every Day PARIS COMMUNE CLIMAX OF LABOR DEFENSE BAZAAR The Labor Defense Bazaar in Star Casino, 107th street and Park avenue entérs its last day with the celebra- tion of the Paris Commune. So far it has been a most magnificent dem- onstration of solidarity: Tomorrow it ends with a grand climax. The Paris Commune celebra- tion takes place at 1 p.m. A word picture of the courage, energy and working class honesty of purpose of the Communards will be given by the various speakers inclifing Joseph Brodsky, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Wm. F. Dunne and Carlo Tresea, Tableau of Workers Paris. An interpretive tableau portraying | the bloody walls of Paris will be given. Miss Tilda Schocket and pupils will dance, accompanied on the piano by Miss Susan Hotkine. After an interval during which sup- per will be served in the restaurant the grand “Finale” ball will com- mence. It will be a real fraternal gathering of all who have the inter- est of the class war prisoners at heart. Members of leading working class fighters will mingle with the crowd. Come and meet them. Trade unions’ and I, L. D. branches are planning to have a grand parade culminating in a big membership drive for the IL. D. The real success of the bazaar de- pends upon its ability te help build CELEBRATION AS © ja strong, active I. L. D. membership organization throughout the various branches for the big summer cam- paign now being planned. The following telegram has been received from the National Office: “A powerful International Labor De- fense is the only thing that counts. The bazaar must bring in 1,000 new members.” Today is the time to carry out this order, Admission for both sfternoon and evening fifty cents. Never in previous history has such a large attendance and spontaneous enthusiasm been shown at the Inter- national Labor Defense Bazaar. Over 1,500 people crowded into the hall| on the opening night, filling the place to its utmost “capacity. And well they are rewarded. Splen- dor and glory in abundance. The gayety of color and crowd almost gives the bazaar the atmosphere of a venetian carnival, Music and sing- ing, of a well arranged program, send cheers into the hearts of thou- | sands, whose ordinary life is only too drap. Smile and laughter all around. One might almost think that some joyous folk-fest is being staged. \ Funds To Aid Pioneers. And yet it is a benefit bazaar, the purpose of which is to raise funds; (Continued on Page Three) f ites of foreign affairs today. The for- eign minister assured the Soviet charge that all the prisoners are alive, at Tsiman. Wounded Femgtien soliders began arriving in Peking today from the Homan border, where General Chin Yi-Poo’s forces attempted to prevent the entry of the Fentienites into Honan Province en route to attempt the recapture of Hankow from the Cantonese. Marshal Wu Pei-Fu, who nominal- ly governs Honan, appears to be helpless at the hands of Chin, who, a former subordipate of Wu's, re- cently seized command of all Wu Pei-Fu troops in Honan. Although Chin is definitely opposing the ad- vance of the Feingtien forces, he is not openly an ally of the Cantonese. Settled Out of Court. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 11. —A fifty thousand dollar damage suit brought against the New York Cen- tral Railroad by Mrs. Bridget Ryan, | for the death of her husband, a track walker on the road, was settled out of court today for $16,250, after the plaintiff had presented her side of the | case before Supreme Court Justice Frank L. Young and a jury. fense witnesses were on the stand. Fellow Workers Testify. Fat under-sheriff Donaldson, spec- tacles perched above bulging cheeks |and pursed mouth, presided when | Nimmo sat back on the benches. And | the courtroom was filled with former | strikers and other friends of Regan, many of whom testified to the young | strike leader’s excellent character and reputation, as they knew him during his seven years’ mill work, mostly at | Forstmann-Huffmann. | Regan is the first of the strike | victims held in the so-called “bomb” leases to be acquitted. One other young striker, Joseph Toth, remains to be tried. Of the others, the four tried in Paterson are now in state’s prison, (the fifth received * suspended sen- tence); and the four others tried at | Hackensack are awaiting sentence. Regan’s acquittal should help shorten | their possible terms, since they had | the same sort of fire-crackers and not | “bombs” as police declared. | The union intends to appeal the | cases of those who have been con- (Continued on Page Three) BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS COMMUNIST PARTY The Communist Party of Great of Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg: “Communist Party of Great Bri “We deeply regret the loss t@ REGRETS FOR DEATH OF RUTHENBERG gram to The DAILY WORKER as a message of sympathy for the death ran comrades at the death of Secretary C, E. Ruthenberg. OF ENGLAND SENDS Britain has sent the following cable- tain sends condolences to the Ameri- the American and the International movement of a courageous, proletarian fighter. “ALBERT INKPIN, For the Secretariat.” _ Sun Yat Sen Memorial Meeting Sunday, March 13, at the Chinese Theatre, 165 Bowery Dunne, B. D. Wolfe, John Dewey, Harry F. Ward,Senator Black, Davis 3. Ogino, Kuomintang Members, by the Kuomintang Party of New York Come in Masses! A | } ‘ | !