The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1927, Page 1

FIRST SECTION Chis issue consists of two sections, Be sure to get them both, Tol. IV. No. 56. eS CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O}FLAHERTY. Nis age he is out to clean up the city. So far, Tammany has not ecided to move to Hoboken. Grand achem Olvany, of the 14th Street ienagerie applauded the campaign of ‘lice Commissioner McLaughlin to iake the city safe for professional | etting. It appears that democratic nd republican aldermen and other) eads of republican and democratic | lubs thruout the metropolis were vhiling away the lagging hours by ‘lanting excess dollars on fleet-footed teeds. The police commissioner, hav- ng no strikebreaking work on his iands, decided to break up the gam- iling clubs. This caused considerable | lissatisfaction among the horse-lov- | ng politicians, * * * T seems to us that sheik or Sachem Olvany is right. Give a democrat an inch and he will take an Irish mile. | There are enough obstacles in the way of legitimate gambling without the | competition of politicians who draw| more than one salary. And Olvany) was rather moderate in his language. In substance he said: I like a quiet | game of stud poker or Kelly pool but T am opposed to the use of knock-out | drops or the skinning of up-state democrats. Furthermore we cannot | very well go ahead closing theatres | for putting on intelligent plays and/| keep our gambling joints running openly at the same time. Here is where open diplomacy does not work. * * * ‘HE Rev. John A. Ryan of the Na- tional Catholic Welfare Council gets himself boxed on the front page of the New Leader for having come to the conclusion that there existed no SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY THE Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, Schachtman Gets Gold Put In Jail Ten Leaders of Fur Workers Denied Bail On Mineola Frame-up; Woll Gloats The exposure of the frame-up plot against leaders of the New York Furriers Joint Board was complete yesterday when Ben Gold, general manager of the Joint Board, Isadore Shapiro, its; McGUINESS HAUL chairman, Sam Mencher, Jack Schneider and six others were de- | nied bail when they appeared at the Nassau County Court House, | in Mineola, L. L, to answer “not guilty’ connection with the Rockville Center strike case of last year. FOR ONE YEAR IS SIXTY THOUSAND “Virtuous” Alderman Is Cought With Goods Alderman Peter J. McGuiness, who was arrested in a Brooklyn gambling | raid last week, and who virtuously declared his innocence in the akler- manic chamber last week, has been caught with the goods. Race-track gambling conducted in McGuiness’s aldermanié district un- good reason for the United States|der his supervision totalled $600,000 having entered the war. It’s never too|in a single year, according to evi-| late to mend father, but what about|dence made public by Police Com-} a little speech to the same effect on} missioner McLaughlin yesterday. Mc-| American intervention in Nicaragua | and the threats of war against Mexico | and China? Po ee | N irate.reader did not like the tone | of a paragraph on the Ford-| Sapiro suit that appeared in this col-| umn recently. He thot our observa-| tions smacked of anti-semitism. There | is very little new under the sun. A frank scrivener' is sure to be misun- devstood: We can understand how a/ kluxer-eonld see. the hand of. catholic: priest at our typewriter or how a/ catholic could see a hood on our head | but how we could be charged with/ anti-semitism is a littke beyond us. * * HILE on the subject there is not | much to choose between the twa parties to the trial. Sapiro the wealthy lawyer and Ford the billionaire ex- ploiter. Sapiro has the slant on our sympathies, not because his motives in tilting legally with Ford are of the purest but because we are opposed to| race prejudice whether it is directed | against the Jews, the Negroes, the English or the Irish. Otherwise Ford and Sapiro leave us as cold as did the} Peaches-Browning case. We are much | more interested in the cause of the| Jewish cloakmakers who were sen- tenced to jail by the Jewish judge Rosalsky than we are in the injured feelings of a millionaire lawyer. * * * ARRY SINCLAIR was not as lucky or as generous as Harry Daugherty in the matter of picking a jury. Harry Daugherty’s man stood like the rock of Gibraltar against the arguments of the wilful eleven that favored the defendant’s conviction. But Sinclair’s twelfth juror weakened and caved in with the result that the oil magnate was held in contempt of the United States senate. Still things could be worse. Sinclair might not (Continued on Page Two) On Saturday, March 19, today, the ball of the Home Association of Bakers’ Local No. 1, A. F. W., will be held at the Lyceum 86th St. cor- fer of 3rd Ave. RUTHENBERG RECRUITING DRIVE IS LAUNCHED BY TH \ CHICAGO, IIL, March 18.—The ‘Workers (Communist) Party of America is planning the biggest drive in the history of its existence to win new members. This is to he known as the Ruthenberg Recruit- ing 5 Every district thruout the country is mobilizing all its resources to se- cure the largest possible number of jin a single year, according to evi- Guiness did a profitable as well as a rushing business. He made $60,000 dence found in his safe. McGuiness was caught in a raid on} | that men have been selected because three democratic clubs last week. It has long been an open secret that re- publican and democratic clubs of the} city serye as a hangout for criminals and professional gamblers, many of who en to be ward politicians, tg Aap Y | the left 8A peel who fought so in | valiantly-te: pees Quiz Into Tax Dodge Of Others Urged by Realtor Association ALBANY, N. Y., March 18—A legislative investigation of tax exempt real estate was urged today by the State Association of Real Estate Boards in a letter to Speaker Joseph A. McGinnies of the assembly. The Cuvillier bill designed to provide such an investigation. The association declared there is $4,600,000,000 of real estate in the state now exempt from taxation. Brooklyn Worker Hurt On Job by Falling Beam HOBOKEN, N. J., Louis Perillo, 48, a carpenter of Brooklyn, received an injury to the spine today when he was struck by a falling beam while working in the hold of the steamship Pipestone County of the America-France Line, moored at Pier 2, Hoboken. Perillo was taken to St. Mary’s hospital, Ho- boken. Recruiting Officer Jailed. PATERSON, March 18—Harold E. Greene, who said he formerly was an army recruiting officer in Hazel- tor, Pa., was sentenced to servé three months in the county jail here today by common pleas Judge Joseph De- laney. i association urged the passage, of the, i 1 | | These men are now in jail, vicitms of the right wing officials of the In- ternational Fur Workers’ Union and the Special Committee of the A. F. of L., which has evidently decided to use this old case in order to carry out their vicious plans for putting the left wing leaders behind prison bars. Woll In Glee. “Gold is jin prison tonight, and we hope to keep him there forever,” said the red-baiter, Matthew Woll, address- ing a meeting of Greek fur workers in Bryant Hall last night. With him on the platform were Schachtman, Frayne and McGrady. 3 So the leader of the reactionary forces reveals the plot to frame up the Joint Board leader, and the other workers who spent last night in the Mineola jail. Woll was one of the speakers at a meeting of the new Greele local of the International Fur Workers’ Unions, recently formed from the scab Greek Brotherhood. Get Active Men. Workers who had absolutely rio con- nection with this strike case, who could not conceivably have had any connection with it, have been arrested on “John Doe” warrants, upon the tool, Bernard Basoff. It is obvious they are the active and valuable union men whom the International wants to “get.” Doubtless the International mental in pressing this case against the’ strike. elped International. Basoff, the betrayer, together with Leo Franklin and Morris Malkan, were arrested in Rockville Center dur- ing the strike on the complaint of a boss, and they were convicted of as- sault in a trial at Mineola. After the men were released on bail, Bas- off, evidently hoping to gain his free- dom, gave the International sworn statements that Ben Gold, I. Shapiro and S. Mencher were implicated in this case, and on his affidavits these leaders were arrested several months ago and released on bail. In the mean- time a new trial was granted to Franklin and Malkan. Since then Basoff has willingly stated anything the International wanted, “identified” anyone they wanted, and they have made every possible use of his lies. Within the March 1g,—| Past. few days, his “identifying” ac- tivities began anew, and he was ‘seen levery day in the fur market and at Joint Board headquarters with two detectives looking for those whom the International had marked as too use- ful to the left wing cause. * Hunting For Lefts. On Tuesday of this week, Jack Schneider and Otto Lenhard were ar- tested; on Wednesday Oscar Meiliff, Joseph Katz and Martin Rosenberg with Franklin, Malkan, Gold, Shapiro and Mencher, were called to appear in Mineola this morning, on super- ceding indictments, ‘to plead on the charge of assault which has been lodged against each one of them. Schachtman Frame. Altho all ten of them pleaded not guilty, the court refused to fix bail for them and they are still being held with no date set for their release. This is not due to Basoff’s testimony E WORKERS PARTY — ——$$ time. The objective of the campaign lis to appropriate for the Party, the traditions of Comrade Ruthenberg as the leader of the Party and as the outstanding revolutionary fighter in America today. The Organization Department and the Agitprop Department of the Workers (Communist) Party are now elaborating details for the alorie; it is not even because of the complaint of a boss. This is clearly a frame-up planned by Oizer Schacht- man, president of’ the International Fur Workers’ Union, A. F. of L. vice- Threatened with deportation from the United States by Jim Cullen, Tam- many Hall politician, and head of the Cullen Fuel Co., more than 30 barge men who were preparing to strike to | raise their miserably low wages, have | been subjected to intimidation, fo pre- vent them from ceasing work. | The workers, mostly Italians and | Portuguese, the lowest paid in the in- dustry, receiving $80 a month, de- manded that their wages be raised to $100 monthly, the union scale. When Cullen heard of the demands of the use his influence with the City Hall, |police department and immigration | authorities to have them deported. Raises Red Scare. | workers, |death or long terms of imprisonment |for any workers deported on such a | charges Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927 <a> CULLEN THREATENS TO DEPORT ALL r ‘HIS WORKERS WHO DARE TO rate. COP le : Assembly Published Da: This red herring of Cullen’s is only subterfuge, there being no direct poli- tical basis to the proposed strike, but only a fight for the most elementary demands of the workers. Would Join Union. The Independent Tidewater Boat- men’s Union, Local 1, 16 West 120th St., is the organization that the work- ers were prepared to join when Cul- len, displaying his political powet, pe- gan to browbeat them back to work. Cullen has the contract with the city }of New York for furnishing coal to ’ to charges of assault in|workers he told them that he would |the municipal baths, the police sta-| |tions and many of the public hospi- | tals. He was recently in line for the job of police commissioner. | When he heard that the workers in- He raised the issue of Bolshevism, |tended to go on’ strike, he notified his | which, in the case of the Italian |political friends who sent a score of | would undoubtedly mean |plain clothes men and policemen who | | will not allow anyone near the com- jpany’s pier at East River and 30th \St. Davis Says Big Coal Strike Impossible | | Lewis Shackle Union Million Dollars Sapiro’s Loot, Says Reed Shows Partial Aqretasiits by | Charge He Ruined Farmers| | By Flimsy “Cooperatives” PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. —_— FINAL CITY EDITION ily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 5 Cents Meets in Shanghai Unions, Factories, Parties Elect Delegates as Fall of Nanking Is Imminent | SHANGHAI, March 18.—A People’s Delegate Assembly. is |being organized to take over the government of Shanghai after the fall of the militarist regime. | Anticipating the capture of t mill workers’, students’, teachers’ meeting held Saturday, which jelected attended, a committee jwas appointed to draft a new constitution. ; Unions, factories, public organiza- tions and political part will serve as the basis for representation, ac- cording to the proposed constitution, it_is stated. “Back of this revolutionary move- |iment are the trade unions, the left |wing of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. Several | members of the’ executive committee have been directly nominated by the Communist Party. ae * | Militarist Troops Desert. | SHANGHAI, March 18.—The deser- | |tions of large numbers of troops to- | days has considerably weakened the | | position of the northern war lords. | Although the reports of the capture of Nanking by the nationalists which were circulated yesterday are prema- ture, the fall of China’s ancient capi- | tal is imminent. | actually electing delegates to the assembly. he city by the Nationalist troops, and merchants’ associations are At a preliminary two hundred delegates already OF TWO UNIONS AMALGAMATING Joint Meeting As First Step; Plan Defense A Joint Shop Chairmen’s meeting of dressmakers, cloakmakers and furriers, called by the Unity Commit- tee of both Joint Boards as the open- ing of the joint campaign for de- fense of the needle trades will be held Wednesday evening in Cooper Union it was announced yesterday. The meeting was originally scheduled to be held on Tuesday. Victims Will Be There. WASHINGTON (FP) — Secre-| DETROIT, March 18.—American Fighting broke out in the streets | was, from the very beginning, instru- | tary of Labor Davis has given out information of regional settlements | between the United Mine Workers Pennsylvania, and ‘of » negotiations for settlement in other fields outside the central competi field of west- ern Pennsylvania and Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to prove his belief that there will be no extensive coal strike this year. Coal operators’ representatj-es in } Washington. aye—i fem. with Davis that a strike will be Miners Divided. As seen by these operators, the Illinois field is likely to sign up with the union, due to the large propor- tion of Illinois tonnage consumed by the railroads in that area and hence not subject to southern competition. This narrows the real struggle to Ohio and western Pennsylvania, whose product is in competition with the southern bituminous output. Yet some of the big companies in west- ern Pennsylvania are also operating in West Virginia, and vice versa. The Consolidation Coal Co., for instance, reports record-breaking production and profits for 1926. It made $10.37 a share on its $10,000,000 preferred stock as compared with $2.25 the pre- vious year. Its output in 1926 was 15,058,000 tons. Several of its prop- erties are in western Pennsylvania, where the claim is made that wages must be reduced to meet West Vir- ginia competitive costs. To Wreck Union. J. E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufactur- ers, in a circular letter has predicted that the Illinois and Indiana opera- tors will sign up with the union either on the Jacksonville scale basis avoided. were taken. These workers, together | 5, on a $6 a/day basis with p t rates for tonnage miners. He as- sumes that there will be a strike in western Pennsylvania and Ohio, and says: “Apparently some of the pres- ent union production in western Pennsylvania—60 per cent in this field is already independently mined —and in eastern Ohio will become isa of the union after April Confidential assurances have been given the press by a cabinet member “close to Coolidge” that the strike will come off as scheduled, but that the administration believes it will not “affect coal prices to any extent.” In other words, the administration president Woll and by Edward Mc- Grady the A. F. of L. organizer who announced two weeks ago that the Joint Board leaders would soon be in jail, and by all the reactionary union- expects to beat the miners in west- ern Pennsylvania and in Ohio. . . . May Strike at Glace Bay. GLACA BAY, N. S., March 18.— smashing forces which are trying to| New labor troubles loomed in the destroy the fur workers’ union and | Cape Breton coal mining region today. the cloak and dressmakers’ union. Members of the United Mine Work- farmers have lost millions of dollars | through the Sapiro plan of coopera- | tive marketing, while Aaron Sapiro “identification” of the International's | and bituminous operators in Central collected $1,000,000 in fees, Senator | | James A. Reed of Missouri, charged |in federal court here this afternoon lin closing a défense plea for Henry | Ford in the Ford-Sapiro million-dol- | lar libel suit. | The losses to the farmers, the Mis- |sourian said, would be laid directly upon Sapiro. For this reasen, Reed padded, Ford asked the jury to find that Sapiro actially had exploited the Ameridan farmer. When Reed finished, William J. Cameron, editor of the Dearborn In- dependent was called as the first wit- ness, Shields Ford : Cameron insisted that Ford did not always direct policy on the Indepen- dent, which was more jingoistic than Ford, and took a stronger attitude in opposition to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. During his summing up of the al- leged Sapiro extortions, Ford’s at- torney stated that a “Jewish ring,” composed of Sapiro, former Governor Frank 0. Lowden, a presidential pos- sibility, Eugene Meyer, Jr., former | head of the War Finance Corpora- | tion, and Robert H. Bingham, had at- |tended a secret meeting in Chicago, lin October, 1925, to arrange a pro- gram for a world farm group, to |dominate agriculture. “We will show that Bernard Rar- uch advanced $5,000 to this plan. Jul- ius Rosenwald ‘loaned them $15,000; Bingham gave $20,000; Sapiro himself gave $5,000,” said Reed. When Wm. Gallagher, Sapiro’s at- torney, objected that Lowden-was not a Jew, Reed admitted it, and hur- ried on to more devastating charges. In rapid order, he picture Sapiro’s activities among the tobacco growers in Kentucky, potato growers in Min- nesota and Idaho, wool growers in the northwest, tomato, prune and cit- rus growers of California. “In Minnesota,” said Reed, “the co- operative failed in less than a year, but Sapiro got a fee of $7,500. He had asked for $17,000,” Reed added. Short Lived Coop. In Idaho, when the association failed. Reed said, Sapiro assigned his claim for fees to his law partner, who “duped the farmers and collected in the court.” In California, the toma- to association “lived less than one year.” Reed declared Sapiro sought to or- (Continued on Page Two) Dismissed Policeman Given a New Hearing John P. Clancy, dismissed as a po- liceman of the City of Yonkers by of Nanking when seventeen hundred | of General Chang Chung-Chang’s men revolted and attempted to take the| | munitions depot. The rebellion was quelled with great brutality by the itroops still loyal to the war lords. (Chang Chung-Chang is the Shan- tungese’ dictator who has been mak- | ing an ineffectual attempt to stop the Nationalist drive against Shang- hai), Chang’s Troops Retreat. Another Severe reverse was suffered of Sun G@hun-Fangs, so-called “defen- der of Shanghai” deserted and joined the Nationalist armieS. Sensing the | desertion of Sun’s generals, Chang’s | Shantung troops retreated toward Nanking, leaving forces at Wukiang and Sunkiang. These remnants of | Chang’s army face complete isolation and capture by Nationalist troops. . . . General Strike Call. SHANGHAI, March 18.—Anticipat- | ing the fall of Shanghai, the general labor union today issued a com- munique calling a general strike to begin tomorrow afternoon and con- | tinue until the Nationalists occupy | Shanghai. : The communique calls on workers | to refrain from mob action and vio- | lence, and notifies the public that the strike is purely political in charac- | ter, being an effort to show labor's | sympathy with the Nationalist cause. | More than 13,000 workers are al-| ready on strike, and it is expected that | another 250,000 will join them to- inorrow. Demand Release of Mme. Borodin. PEKIN, March 18.—Charging that the three Soviet couriers seized by the Chinese war lords have been ‘subjec- sian embassy has delivered another | ted to barbarous indignities, the Rus-| We exxpect to have Ben Gold, Mensher, Shapiro, and all the other furriers whom the reactionary offi- cialdom is trying to frame up, pre- sent at the meeting. The power of the workers will not let them remain long in jail under such obviously false charges.” Louis Hyman, man- ager of the Joint Board of Cloak and Dressmakers Unions said today. The meeting will be in charge of the executive committee of thé Unity Committee, which includes Louis Hy- by the wer lords, when three. goneralsLman..:(, S,.Zimmerman.. and Ben Gold. A mass meeting to protest the use of injunctions against ‘the member- ship, such as were recently secured by the right wing henchmen of’ Sig- manism in Local 89, will be held on Monday evening at Manhattan Ly- ceum. Pickets Fined. A number of picket line cases were disposed of yesterday morning, Sam Mintz and Harry Rider, furriers, who were arrested on March 18 charged with disorderly conduct were fined three dollars, as were Mary Shore and Alice Jones, arrested on the picket line at Slkara and Kauff- |man Dress Shop, 327 West 36 street on Friday morning. In the case of Aaron Wortuns against Sam Greenberg, Max Blum and Harry Cohen, whom he charged assaulted him in front of his shop on February 23, the three were dis- missed. Lily Silowitz was found guilty of the crime of distributing leaflets and was fined two dollars. Little Girl On Bail. Esther Kranzel, a slight young girl worker from the Halpern Richmond shop, who was accused of felonious | assault upon the person of Max Ber- ger, a scab in the shop, was held for the grand jury on $1,000 bail by Judge Vitalling of the Sixth District note of protest to the Peking £0V- | Court. ernment. | Demanding the immediate release| The case of Joseph Goretzky, man- of the Pamiat Lenina, Mme. Borodin | @&er of Local 35, and of six other and the three couriers, the Russian | Called to general sessions on charges note asserts that the vessel sailed| towing out of the cloakmakers under false pretences. White Rus-| Strike, have been postponed until sians in the employ of the war lords | Wednesday. Ps placed suspicious looking documents | BUY THE DAILY WORKER aboard the boat to afford a pretext | for its seizure, the note declares. | AT THE NEWSSTANDS BRITISH ENGINEERS’ UNION FIRES BROMLEY FROM GENERAL COUNCIL LONDON, March 18 (FP).—-John! Bromley, bitterly opposed by the miners for his attitude in the gen- eral strike, was forced by the execu- blamed the council for the sudden end of the strike without guarantees against victimization from which railroad men have suffered ever s' tive of his union to resign from the Bromley remains the secretary o' new members in a special Ruthen-|carrying on of the campaign. A Hope to Jail Leaders. ers of America announced their re-| William D. Cameron, Commissioner | general council of the Britis! is uni i berg enrollment. special Ruthenberg Enrollment card,| ‘They hope to put the left wing lead- | fusal to work under a new wage scale jof Public Safety there, was granted Se il Congress. sigh aa cheema pd go adi re Brin ac de- ive Is Important, that is, a new membership applica-|\ers out of the way for a®while, think-|and members of the one big union }a new hearing by the appellate divis-| . The executive of the Locomotive |sent the rank and file opinion. The The Ruthenberg Recruiting Drive tion card is being gotten out. A pol-|ing that they can then easily grab| demanded a closed shop. The new |ion of the supreme court in Brooklyn | Engineers whom “romley represented | incident is claimed as a at ae is by the Workers (Com-| {tical letter is being sent to, all Party|{he union and force their leadership | wage scale goes into effect tomorrow | yesterday. The court held that the|on the council, fused to accept the |the left wing. Bromley was a Brit- : munist) as the most important| Units on the history, significance,|/ pn the members. They do not care evidence adduced at the first hearing |report of the council given at the |ish fraternal delegate to the Detroit drive it undertaken in a long (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Three) Read The Daily Worker Every Day (before the commissioner was weak. recent general strike inquest. They |convention of the A. F. of L. in 1926. 4 THE For the Benefit of The DAILY WORKER. BUY CROWD! » ALY Next Week! SHAW’S PYGMALION YOUR TICKETS THROUGH THE DAILY WORKER. Local Office, 108 East 14th Street, Telephone Stuyvesant 6584 ) .