The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1927, Page 1

ere The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 55, THE DAILY WORKER. 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 Bntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1927 Published Dat PUBISHING ¢ 30., — med FINAL CITY EDITION ly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents ‘By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. b Soaswrgady is not yet free from the grip of imperial Britain, but what a calamity it would be for the Irish- | American capitalist politicians if a St. Patrick’s day came around with- | out there being some legitimate ex- | euse for pulling the lion’s tail. The president of the Irish Free State in a message to The World expresses the hope that every son and daughter of rin in the United States will be true to their ancient patrimony. What their patrimony is beyond slaving for a living, we are at a loss to know. As long as they keep thumping their chests and imploring Jehovah via the Pope for consolation they may forget their misery in life and look forward to a nice little pair of wings when the grim reaper wields his scythe. * . *. HETHER the St. Patrick of the annual Fifth Avenue parade ever existed in the flesh is a moot question, Bruce Barton might do worse than write a book on: “The St. Patrick Nobody Knows.” In the early days of “scientific socialism” in Ire- land anti-papal adherents of what went for socialism—as a matter of fact its proponents were left wing theosophists—oscillated between the theory that St. Patrick never existed or that he was a magician like the rest of the priests of that period. Some radicals attributed all the woes of Ireland to the saint who, if reports be true, was a rather decent fellow and no blue nose reformer. ‘ ae HAT he was a good politician is beyond question, granting that he not a mythical character, It ap-| years that he did not waste much| time explaining the program and| platform of christianity to the hea-| then Irish, | He stepped right up to} the oldedruids and beat them at their | They were getting away for generations. They s buffaloed with their | miracl They could bring on storms at will, walk upon the wa- th mu had the Three More For Arrest | Gold Holds Green Guilty For Stool Pigeon Work Three more fur workers, marked by the reactionary International officials | for persecution, were arrested yester- | |day, on John Doe warrants, upon | “identification” of Bernard Basso, the |right wing tool who has so far caused the arrest of 5 other workers in con- nection with the well-known Mineola |strike case. | Victims of Right Wing. Oscar Mileaf, Joseph Katz and Mar- | tin Rosenberg were those taken into! {eustody today, and with Ben Gold,| |manager of the Joint Board, I Shapiro, S. Mencher, Jack Schneider, | jand Otto Lenhard, they will be called | |for a hearing at Mineola today. | | That this wholesale arrest of in- |nocent workers is being instigated by | the International officers is evident | from the fact that those whom Basoff is “identifying” have absolutely no connection with the Mineola case, |which was pressed originally by a |Rockville Center contractor who de- jclared his shop jduring the strike by members of the union. | The workers now being arrested on| Basoff’s charge are among the most active union members and are those | whom the International is anxious to| larly weak in connection with the} put behind prison bars in order to carry on its union-smashing campaign. Basoff, with two detectives, is seen | statesmen made upon Soviet soil con- | constantly in the fur market now- adays, waiting to take into custody | the next worker whom the Interna- | tional wants to make its victim. Gold Protests. CURRENT EVENTS Basso Picks Qut) Woraity Minor Issue Says: Anderson As He ttacks Bad Grammar -“It’s impossible to be immoral anymore”, said Sherwood Ander- son, noted novelist, on his return here from a sojourn in Europe. “The only salvation for sound im- morality is to restore long skirts,” said Anderson. “Unimaginative people need something to work | their imaginations on and -the long skirts would turn the trick.” Asked his views regarding cen- sorship of novels, Anderson said ownership should be applied only to bad grammar and poor style. British Failed To Prove Case, Says Pravda Seems to, Think China Part Of British Empire MOSCOW, Feb. 28. (By Mail)—| had been damaged|Today’s “Pravda” declares that the) reply of the Soviet government has completely refuted the apparent proofs offered in the note of the Bri- tish government. The British note declares the “Pravda” was particu- Chinese question although Chamber- lain quoted from speeches of Soviet cerning the perspectives of the Chi- nese revolution. The Soviet answer declared that |the Soviet government according to |the agreement of 1923 had refrained To Offer Proof Sapiro Cheats Farmers | ‘Reed Says Ford’s Opponent _ Drained “Cooperatives” DETROIT, Mich. March 17—Sena- |tor Jim Reed, presidential possibility for the democratic party, today de- fended Henry Ford, the richest man in America, with a great outpouring of eloquence against Aaron Sapiro who is suing Ford for a million dol- lars for libel. “Ford’s defense will be that the Dearborn Independent printed the truth about Sapiro,” said Reed. He relegated to the background the charges of “Jewish control,” said | nothing about the “radical” accusa-} tions made against Sapiro by Ford, and declared that every charge that Sapiro muleted the farmers by a se- ries of fake cooperatives would be proven to the hilt, Sapiro Dislikes New Trend. An effort by Sapiro’s attorneys to | stop this line of argument resulted | did not care who he injured in the} | judge’s chambers between opposing | counsel, at the end of which Judge | Fred S. Raymond’ ruled that Reed could continue whilé the judge looked | |up precedents. | | Reed pictured Sapiro as a clever |schemer, who wanted to corner the} agricultural markets of the world, and | |did not care who it injured in the | | process, nor by what untruthful ad- vertising he accomplished his ends. He. charged that Sapiro and his friends | looted the “cooperatives” thru ex- \orbitant salaries, even when they | |knew the pools were about to fail. | Big Loot From Cotton. Reed told the jury a story of how U. S. MARINES INVADE SHANGHAI ae < A detachment of United States soldiers of “Dollar Diplomacy” photo- graphed marching up the Bund, principal street of Shanghai, China, on their arri eport Nanking! Has Fallen to | Nationalists | ence for Mussolini that is ineul- | cated into Fascist militiamen are Coal Operators - May Lock Out Illinois Lewis Continues Temporary, Separate Agreements | | HILLSBORO, IL, March 17.—Signs |of a union mine shut-down for three months are strengthened by announce- | ment that the Perry mine at Hillsboro | will remain closed 90 days. Perry, | he owner, was chairman of the abor- | tive national conference between op- erators and the United Mine Work- }ers at Miami, Fla. A recent tour of | the Illinois mine fields revealed un- precedented stores of coal above ground, The progressive forces in the United Mine Workers of America, who backed John Brophy for president in the last international election, have steadily warned that the coal industry is pro- ducing more than it can find a mar- ket for, and that the only way to prevent unemployment is a smash- ing campaign of organization thruout ment of union power to shorten the day’s work, and distribute the labor requirements over the whole group of miners. The unprecedented profits made in non-union fields by the operators there jcan just as well be utilized, in part at least, towards lessening of the | danger of a shut-down, say the pro- gressives, Companies Prepare. < j The present situation is aggravated | by the fact that under the leadership jof John L. Lewis, no organization | campaign was made in preparation for | the expiration of the present contract | (March 31) and the employers, feel- jing sure of winning a strike if they “Mussolini Is Always Right,” Declares Rule For Fascist Puppets ROME, March 17.—The puppet- like obedience and the blind rever- brought out by the “ten rules of conduct for perfect militiamen” the non-union fields, with the develop- . | | ; ‘ 4 | si | ters and return to land with dry feet. Protest against this outrageous and | from supporting persons and organ-| ‘Capture of City Would Open which have been posted in the |only had enough coal above ground, ¢ a .. papers They could turn the rebellious into any kind of an animal that appealed to their ‘conception of appropriate punishment. They were on the top of the heap and the populace had a mighty gould delegate so much. power. to their servants. * * * HEN St. Patrick landed in Ire- land the old druids smelled a rival, The easiest way to dispose of rivals in those days was to lop off their heads. But when the heads- men came along bent on saving Ire- land from a bitter factional struggle, the alien saint, would drop to his knees and ask for divine assistance. Then things would happen to his foes. denly converted to a new faith or they would grow wings and become sparrows or pigeons. Then Jehovah would send a flight of hawks along and the druidie headsmen would soon be reposing in the innards of the car- nivorous birds. Saint Patrick would then thank his god and the audience would swear allegiance to the envoy of the new deity. * * «€ HERE was no waste of time here preaching the philosophy of chris- tianity. Patrick delivered the goods. Having conquered everything in his path he finally ran into the big guns of the old priesteraft. “Now,” they said, “we will fix this upstart, who is out to rob us of our leadership.” They challenged the saint to play at miracles with them. He accepted. He thot he was taking a chance but he had confidence in his leader. The druids rolled up their sleeves, spat in their fists and went to work. Rods were turned into snakes, but no sooner would the serpents begin to make a bee line for Patrick than he would thumb his nose at one of them (Continued on Page Three) respect for the gods that) Either the latter would be sud-| illegal procedure was made yesterday | in a letter sent to President Green of | \the American Federation of Labor by {Ben Gold, general manager of, the |Furriers Joint Board. | Holds Green Guilty. | This communication holds Green | directly responsible for this’ ¢ampaign jof persecution and provocation and |for the resultant criminal brutalities | of the police who beat Jack Schneider |after his arrest on Tuesday; and also | beat Philip Klapberg, an operator who |was arrested on Wednesday after he {had been attacked by the right wing thugs. Klapberg was left uncon- scious, lying in a pool of blood in the | police station for several hours. Green Doesn’t Care. | “Brother Green, honorable president of the American Federation of La- | bor,” says Gold’s letter, “the blood of \the fur workers whose only crime is that they have dared to choose a Com- munist leadership, may be worthless to you. These fur workers, because they have the courage to support loy- ally their leaders, who happen to dis- | agree with your methods and your| policies, apparently may, according to) you, be hounded by the police and| slaughtered by thugs and gangsters. | Don’t Expect Green’s Help. | “Please don’t misunderstand me. I) }am not writing to you about the cruel- | ties suffered by the fur workers be- | cause I expect you to use your office | and authority to stop these outrages. | After all is said and done, what does it matter to you and Brother Matthew Woll and your other appointees if sev- eral fur workers become crippled for life, as. long as this helps you to achieve your, purpose? Remember Green’s Treachery. | “But the Joint Board, and I, as its manager—we do concern ourselves with the lives and welfare’ of the fur workers. Permit us to assure you that this whole procedure, initiated (Continued on Page Five) ‘FASCISTI MAKE VAIN THREATS Announcement that a huge mass eeting to protest the deportation of Sormenti, active in the Italian movement, would be held at cist groups that they would ithe meeting. past few days the Yonkers been trying to terrify the local popitlace with the “record” of Sormenti and Carlo Tresca, announced as the principal speakers at the meet- ous fi g. Tresca, ical journalist, and edi- tor of “Il Martello,” served one year in Atlanta in 1928 on the charge of publishing a birth control advertise- ment in his paper. It was well-known at the time, however, that the per- secution of Tresca was inspired by fascist agents in this country who had become exasperated with Tresca’s 4 peas against the rule of Musso- ini. Threaten To Stop Meeting. Fascist henchmen in Yonkers de- clare that the meeting will “positive- ly not be held on Sunday,” in’ spite of assurances from Public Safety Commissioner Cameron that there will be no official interference. izations “pursuing the aim of stir- {any part of the British empire”. | Even if the legendary “Soviet agents” \referred to by the British note had {been proved not to be legendary, Chamberlain would only then be. jus- tified in his complaints on the as- |sumption that| China was a part of | the British empire. It, was a fact that |the British government was sending | British troops and British warships |to China although it spoke continual- ly of non-interference in Chinese af- fairs. The Soviet note declared thatthe (Continued on Page Two) 130 BRONX SHOE SALESMEN STRIKE OVER CONDITIONS Fighting Open Shop and Extra Long Hours By STELLA UNGER. (Worker Correspondent). More than 150 shoe salesmen, mem- bers of the Bronx Retail Shoe Sales- men’s Union, affiliated with the United Hebrew Trades, went out on strike Monday night. Samuel Schwartz, chairman of the union, said that a previous attempt had been made by the union to ar- bitrate at a conference held on Thurs- day, Feb. 10th, but the bosses re- fused to discuss the matter with the union; they subsequently declared an open shop policy, firing all the sales- men who belonged to the union. All Come Out. Due to the complete and thoro or- ganization of the salesmen, not a single one out of the 150 remained on the job when the strike call was made, All salesmen employed at the present time, therefore, are scabs. The strike is effective throughout the Bronx. Want Better Conditions. The demands of the strikers are simply better conditions. They now work from 9 in the morning until anytime at night, often as late as midnight. They have no holidays ex- cept Sunday, and legal holidays are rarely observed. Time-off during the week is an unheard of privilege to these men, The strikers are, of course, also fighting for complete and unreserved recognition of the union, CROWD! All Next Read The Daily Worker Every Day to win the strike. Sapiro operated the southern cotton 000 in fees from the association, said Reed, a receivership was asked be- cause it was in bad ‘financial straits. Reed next followed Sapiro’s activi- ties into Kentuckysvhere the plain- tiff organized co growers. Says Sapiro Lobbied. “The evidence will show that Sa- piro went through the states lobby- ing to get state legislatures to enact bills validating the contracts of his cooperatives,” said Reed. Reed declared Sapiro had told the farmers that the average earnings of each cotton worker’s family was $340 a year. “Sapiro told them their low returns were due to the middle man's pro- fits,” Reed shouted, “and yet he took these same middle men into his as- sociations and let them fatten and fatten upon the farmers.” Promises to Child Slaves. “He told them that if his coopera- tive plan went through 320,000 wo- men and children who had worked in the cotton fields could return to their homes. He said the whole trouble in the south was the rotten marketing system, he said the cooperative sys- tem would establish a new system of prosperity throughout the south.” War Finance: Board Aids. Reed definitely linked Eugene Meyer, Jr., former head of the War Finance Corporation, to Sapiro’s co- operative program. The Missourian charged Sapiro had boasted he was the only man who could get loans of government money from Meyer. “The boast,” said Reed, “was made to North Carolina tobacco growers.” Then Reed charged Sapiro with breaking his promises to farmers. “We will show you that these prom- ises were never fulfilled,” Reed as- serted. “We will show that Sapiro then made threats against the in- dividuals who would not come into his associations and threats against the towns in which they lived.” (Continued on Page Two) Read The Daily Worker Every Day Amalgamated Calls Out St. Paul Garment Shop Workers; Shuts It Down ST. PAUL, Minn, March 17.— The Twin Cities Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers has declared a strike on the St. Paul Garment Manufacturing Co. ,All the workers left the struck st shutting it down ggmplete- \y. The Amalgamated will have the ring up discontent or insurrection in | Cooperative. After Sapiro got $142,- | Road to Shanghai PEKING, March 17.—Nanking, the ancient capital of China and key po- sition in the drive of the Nationalist armies,. is repented .te -have fallen. | into the hands of the Nationalists. | The General Labor Union of Shang- | ‘hai has accepted the report of the | | fall of Nanking and has ordered a} jgeneral strike. Thirteen thousand | | workers have already walked out and} it is expected that thousands of other | workers will join them. That 250,000 | Shanghai workers will eventually be involved in the strike-celebration of the Nationalist victories, is confident- ly predicted here. If reports of the fall of Nanking are correct, the fall of Shanghai is imminent. Strenuous efforts are being made | by foreign troops to prevent general | strikes and demonstrations, as well | as to forestall mutinies of the Sikh | troops, of whose loyalty the British | are doubtful. British guards, with naked bayonets, are posted on the} outskirts of the International settle-| ment in an effort to prevent the en- | trance of Chinese demonstrators. | The British authorities arrested two | Mohammedans and one Sikh who will | face charges of attempting to incite | sedition in the camps of the Indian} regiments. Sikh troops wavered in| their loyalty to the British imperial- | ists in Hankow and it is quite pos- | sible that they may go over to the} Nationalists in event of a direct at- tack on Shanghai. * Preparing To Quit LONDON, March 17.— General Chang Tsung Chang’s Shantung| forces, which have been counted upon as the main defense of Shanghai, are making preparations for evacuation in the face of the continued and per- sistent drive forward of the Canton- ese armies, according to a dispatch to the Daily News. Launches and pontoons have been commandeered by the Shantung forces, it was reported, and this is | accepted as meaning an early evacu- | ation, Wants Big Money Earlier dispatches had stated that General Chang Tsung Chang had de- manded that he be paid $5,000,000 | before Friday, threatening otherwise to leave Shanghai to its fate at the hands of the Nationalists. The Hankow correspondent of the Daily News cables that the old re- gime in the British concession there has ended and that the new Anglo- Chinese council, which gives a large measure of control to the Chinese, has taken over administration of the city. help of all unionists in this vicinity We Read The Daily Worker Every Day ek! SHAW’S PYGMALION | wing press was filled for a week with |lost their jobs since October, the high point of \clerks, | mined extensively during the last few |months. Now Lewis announces that {there is going to be no strike, and the coal operators counter by declar- ing what is in effect, a lockout. Continue Separate Contracts. Lewis reported to iahor department officials today that he was making | substantial progress in signing pro- | visional wage and working contracts with soft coal operators outside the central competitive field of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Western Pennsyl- vania. The effect of this series of pro- visional agreements, contracts which are not really contracts but can be terminated by the employers as soon Read The Daily Worker Every Day as the strike is over in the Central competitive field, will be to reduce § Te the effect of any strike there, if one | should, in spite of Lewis’ preliminary PRISON GORETZKY ===: break out. * Hog-tie Union. Progressives accuse the adminis- T0 § b IZ E LOCAL | with not only surrendering their arm- Fascist barracks. * Some of the rules are as follows: Mussolini is always right. One thing must be precious above all—the Duce’s life. Jf you are punished you proba- bly deserved it, | Remember the Fascist, especially | the militiamen, must not believe in perpetual pace. (How true.) One’s country must be served | even by standing guard over two- gallon can of gasoline. tration of the United Mine Workers jament and placing the union at the aig mercy of the operators, as far as of- The determination of Morris Sig-| ficial action is concerned, but of plan- man, president of the International|ning to make it impossible for any Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, to spontaneous or district strikes to take recapture Local 35, the pressers, no piace. matter what else he may lose, is evi- No Joint Conference. denced by his provocative campaign Union officials have practically des- against Joseph Goretzky, manager of | paired of getting another joint wage this local, who is to be brought to| conference for the central field. The court on an assortment of charges | first conference collapsed at Miami for which he was arrested weeks ago | when the operators declined to renew and released on $25,000 bail. |the present contract, and the miners Called For Goretzky’s Arrest. | rejected the operators’ proposal for Before Goretzky’s arrest, the right | 2 continuous “competitive” pay scale. If there is not a second conference, queries as to why he who had been | Lewis will cal! the miners’ policy com- one of the heads of the picket com- mittee to meet in Indianapolis dur- mittee should be free, while pickets |ing the last week of this month to were going to jail. Finally Sigman | determine whether individual opera- himself came to court on the day/|tors in the central field will be al- some of the strikers’-cases came up | (Continued on Page Two) and approached each worker urging | -_—— (Continued on Page Five) |Read The Daily Worker Every Day ALL RAILROADS CUT DOWN THEIR STAFFS; AVERAGE WAGE FOR 1926 UNDER $1600 By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press). Railroad employment, as usual, closed the year on the down-grade with 54,090 workers laid off between November and December, according to the interstate commerce commission. Altogether 92,251 railroad workers have 1926. The lay-offs reveal the seasonal | nature of maintenance of way em-) ployment. About 46,000 of the men laid off belonged in that department. Others losing their jobs include 1,505! 2,856 shopmen, 38,118 trans- portation men other than train and| Who was qu ng him in connec- enginemen and 677 train and engine| on with the $1,492 robbery of the service employes. | Peninsular State Bank last Tuesday. Less Shop Workers. In all branches except the shops | (Continued on Page Two) F Youth Killed In Detroit. DETROIT, March 17, — Harry | Smith, 28, of Fairmont, W. Va., was and killed today when he ate to escape ed from an officer BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS For the Benefit of The DAILY WORKER. BUY YOUR TICKETS THROUGH THE DAILY WORKER. Local Office, 108 East 14th Street, Telephone Stuyvesant 6584 seeea en? a