The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1927, Page 1

The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week, Vol. IV. No. 57. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW Y THE DAILY WORKER. ORK’S LABOR DAILY Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. $8.00 per year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1927 Br PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER EDITION Price 3 Cents Shanghai to Fall Today Green in Panic in War on Left Wing Rushes to New York for Special Meeting of | Central Labor Union Tonight as Gold is Freed | [WHAT'S BEHIND TONIGHT’S MEETING | 1. “Ben Gold is in jail tonight, and we hope to keep him there| forever.” —Matthew Woll at a meeting of the scab Greek local at} Bryant Hall last Friday night. 2. “We have the fullest co-operation of the New York police force in our work of cleaning up the Furriers’ Union.” —Edward| F. McGrady, head of the “special reorganization committee” of | the A. F. of L., at the same meeting. | 3. In denying bail to Ben Gold and nine other fur workers last Friday, Judge Smith at the Mineola Court House declared that his action was prompted by “certain information” in his pos- session that they were “dangerous characters.” 4. “Tonight's meeting is being called to clean out the Com- munists from the local labor movement.”—John Coughlin, secre- tary of the N. Y. Central Trades and Labor Council, in comment- ing on Pres. Green’s call for the meeting. Evidently enraged by the letter from Ben Gold of the fur-| riers’ Joint Board, charging that the arrest and beating of fur workers was directly due to his “criminal provocations and incite-| ment,” President Williani Green of the American Federation of) Labor has ordered a special meeting of the New York Central Trades and Labor Council tonight, at Beethoven Hall, to give} further consideration to the job of throwing the “comoonists” out | of the unions. | In the meantime, Ben Gold, who with the nine other fur workers, was released from the Mineola jail on Saturday after- noon, is beginning today an investigation to find out just who was responsible for the so-called..tinformation’”. which lead Judge | Smith to hold them over night, without bail, when they appeared | on Friday at the Nassau County Court House to plead “not guilty” | to charges of assault. |the ten furriers, Gold said upon his Afer these union men had been | release: | questioned Friday, and the district “The union smashing attemps of | attorney had informed the lawyers | Matthew Woll, Edward F. McGrady that they would be released on bail, | and the other A. F. of L. bureaucrats Judge Smith declared that because | have been clearly proved by the cir-/| of “certain information” he had re-| cumstances surrounding the action of | ceived he could not fix bail. The men | Judge Smith in holding us without were held prisoners for over 24 hours | bail in the Mineola c: and then following a second hearing | Woll Boasted. they were released on $10,000 bail) “While we were held in prison on| each—which for certain of the cases} obyjously framed up charges, Mat-| was a reduction from the $25,000/ thew Woll declared at a meeting of | amount fixed at the time of arrest. (Greek workers in Bryant Hall on| on); Woll Caused Jailing. r Friday evening that he ‘hoped we could be kept in jail forever’, and Edward F. McGrady, appointed by the president of the A. F. of L. t (Continued on Page Three) Declaring that officials of the American Federation were directly responsible ‘for the charges against | | CURRENT EVENT Se 23 ovtanmen ever of you who have something |dage. The limb was not injured shak- | to lose through a hole in the ing hands with visitors on St. pocket should purchase a package of | Patrick’s day since the president did fishhooks. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the not even wear one of the green-tinted first discoverer of the North Pole,|carnations sent to the White House will be out of Leavenworth in a few) from the greenhouse of the depart- days and as the Dr. is one of our ment of agriculture. The president foremost go-getters it is not likely|has a better chance of holding the that he will long permit others to|K, K. K. vote than he has of gaining gather the cash on which explorers as | the catholic vote despite the extreme well as exploiters feed. A lawyer consideration shown by Congressman who admires Cook is appointed pro- Gallivan of Massachusetts for the de- bation officer and unless the Doc. | fense of the president against radical | goes into competition with the Stand- attacks because of his Mexican and| ard Oil Company, Sinclair, Fall and Nicaraguan policy. Doheny, his days on earth outside the penitentiary may not be short-lived and he may yet be elected governor f Texas. rock in his lapel on March 17. No REDERICK MOORE, _ special doubt this news will be cabled to Ive- Times’ correspondent in Shanghai, land and the Free State officials will! Bhould know a good piece of propa- urge the Irish voters in America not ganda when he sees it. Mr. Moore |to forget the democrats on election declares it is hard to know what’s day. Eamonn DeValera, the fake ad- what in China because of the cloud) vocate of Irish independence. utters of propaganda that obstructs the nonsense on St. Patrick’s day about fournalistie vision, We are not sur-/| the loyalty of the Irish to Rome, while prised that Mr, Moore should look for the pope’s official organ praises the m-striped shirt and a green sham- a Sapegoat to excuse his lying. He murderer Mussolini, who has robbed has ‘nvented more fairy tales at the |the Italian masses of whatever liber- expenie of the Nationalists than all|ties they had gained through years of other ‘mperialist correspondents com-, struggle. Between those bogus friends \. bined. The smoke-scteen that clouds| of Irish freedom the Irish masses are * Moore's vision is not due to propa-|in a nice pickle. St. Patrick’s day ganda byt to the dust that is being|is utilized by the capitalist flunkeys raised by the revolutionary armies as|to bind the Irish workers still closer they swee) on to Shanghai. to the capitalist hitching post. It is OMING events sometimes cast| bout time the radical movement paid their ‘shadows before. Calvin; More attention to agitation among the Coolidge if not yet a lame duck but] foreign elements in this country who his right is in a woolen ban- (Continued on Page Four) JOIN THE CROWD! All This Week! SHAW’S PYGMALION DAILY WORKER. Locai Office, 108 East i4th Sireei, Telephone Siuyvesant 6584 For the Benefit of The DAILY WORKER. BUY YOUR TICKETS THROUGH THE Ruthenberg Memorial Meeting at Utica Is Credit to the Party Utica, N, Y., March 20.—The Ruthenberg memorial meeting was held here last night at 131 Wash- ington St. It was very well at- tended. Herbert Benjamin, Dis- trict organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party spoke on the work of Comrade Ruthenberg in the Workers (Communist) Party and for the workers of this coun- try. At the hall there was a ban- ner in red and black over Ruthen- | berg’s picture. Benjamin appealed for new members for the Workers (Com- munist Party, two new members joining. Find Mine Union Reactionaries Grafting ‘Ledvinka, Roy, Stole Legal Fund, Says Board Member BELLAIRE, Ohio, March 20.—Wil- liam Roy, vice president of the Ohio rict organization 6f the United Mine Workers of America. and Frank Ledvinka, president of the Bellaire sub-district, resigned in the fall of 1925, under fire, charged with, graft, jand unable to answer the charges, stated James Kunick, former execu- tive board member of Bellaire sub- district, in the sub-district convention here, Kuniche whsisc elated by marriage to Ledvinka, and was formerly quite friendly to him, told the delegates that while a board member for the sub-district, his suspicions were grad. ually aroused that Ledvinka and Roy were grafting on the legal depart- tment money. Graft Kept Men In Jail. He had at that time no tangible proof, but found his position uncom- | fortable, and wanted to resign. Vague promises that everything would be red up kept him in office until term expired, after which he was appointed organizer in the Panhandle field. “TI found conditions bad”, said Kun- ick, “Many of our men were in jail, and it was in that manner that I learned, . that ithin three months e, the officers in charge of that rict besides paying the regular fee to the legal department of this or- ganization had spent more than $12,- 000 for other lawyers. \ “When I learned that efforts were heing made to get rid of McCormick, another organizer, he and myself went to St, Clairsville to follow up (Continued on Page Two) Robs Union Punds. NEWARK, N. J., March 20.— Charged with embezzling union funds, the treasurer of Electrical Workers’ Union No. 52 was arrested Jast week. Although he had been as- soci: i i ers will include Carlo Tres- : - " ; ‘ rece tne Seon tay ‘4 pou ote. Bormeatl and ? huibeay that the furriers union won their strike and that President Green bling. | Ramuglia. (Continued on Page Two) IE districts of the Workers signs of energetic activity in the Ruthenberg Recruiting Drive. District One—the New England District, exclusive of Connecticut—has pledged itself to se- cure 500 new Party members by May first. this will only be a very small contri- bution on their part towards making up for the loss suffered by the work- ing class in the death of Comrade Ruthenberg. Boston pledges itself to pay “a proud tribute to our dead leader.” )a Make Special Efforts. All of the cities in this district are to make special efforts to win to party membership the subscribers of the various Communist papers in the country. Special committees are also Sapiro To Let Italy Prepared For Jewish Isste Declaration of War | Arrogant Ultimatum to Serbians, Memorial to Alone Now +. Powers; England and France Split ie erp concer som | Will Change Tactics; Admits . oie LONDON, March 20.—War looms close to Europe today, Getting Million Dollars ‘closer than for several years. ' The three outstanding events, a i rithi > last DETROUT, , Mey aeerene 80- | rey Feat are: ¥ ; grngreeondon saat te Pesce teak hat pod styled Jewish issue ins@he Ford-Sa-| | >. Pam a ht é Cdl haat y piro million dollar tibel suit will be | Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, ordering the latter to abandoned for the present, it was dis-'| cease all military preparations along the Albanian frontier. Sec closed here tonight. Robert S, Marx,| ond, the memorializing of all the powers by Italy, with a set of grievances against Jugo-Slavia. | | | | | associate counsel for Aaron Sapiro, RPL eS ae ia announced this change of tactics af- ; ; |on the case, and of a joint embassy to ‘ter a conference with William Henry Third, the sudden reaction of | determine “guilt,” but none of these Gallagher, chief of Sapiro’s legal staff.| France in favor of her ally, Ser-|things is expected to stop a general | Meanwhile, Sapiro has admitted|bia, and of England towards her|conflagration if Italy actually in- that the fees collected by him from new friend, Mussolini vades. farmers’ organizations, were, as 8 ri Ford’s attorney charged, about a mil- lion dollars in aggregate. This state- ment was made in an interview with newspapermen in his suite at. the Book-Cadillaé Hotel. Sapiro defended his price as,not exorbitant. Not Well Built. | That only thirty of the more than | sixty cooperatives built by Sapiro still survive, was also admitted by one of his associates who was present at the interview. The case will open this morning with the examination of William J. Cameron, editor of thé Dearborn In- dependent, by W. H. Gallagher, at- torney for Sapiro. Gallagher will at- tempt to trace the origin of the stor- ies about the “Jewish ring,” which appeared in the Independent in 1924 and 1925. Simultaneous with the announce- ment by Marx, Clifford B, Longley, general counsel for the Ford Motor Company, revealed Ford's probable testimony end defined. the position of the defense,as foitovis “ Ford Doesn’t Read Paper. “Mr. Ford, who is now in Sudbury, Mass., and who may not be on the vitness stand for several days, prob- ably will testify to the fact that he not only never read the articles in the Dearborn Independent that are al- és 9% | plete. | ice eth aati Banisos ba be) For open repudiation of the elementary code of the trade! suit was brought. | union movement nothing like this has been seen in the United | | “The defense will seek to prove that | States—not even during the war period. at orap ng pion pare dil sd pha | Some of the things that are being done in the New York labor | forth in the Independent's articles and movement are almost unbelievable. They prove that the right} we will show that Sapiro had asso-| wing officialdom will stop at nothing to disrupt and destroy sec-| ciated himself with a band, group, | tions of unions which have for years had a reputation for militancy or however you might term this body, | 544 to jail trade union leaders and organizers whose only crime| hut we will prove that the construc- ip “ h d tril tion placed by Sapiro on the state-| is that they have fought and won strikes. ie | ment that the articles set him forth Matthew Woll, vice president of the A. F. of L. and acting in a libelous light was ridiculous.” |) esident of the Civic Federation speaking at a meeting Friday night said: | Italian Workers Meet . | “Gold is in prison tonight and we hope to keep him there . forever.” Tonight, Webster Hall, Edward McGrady, organizer for the A. F. of L. at the same ight ‘ e meeting made the following statement: To Fi Injunctions “We have the full cooperation of the police department.” All liberty loving Itallans are Woll and McGrady therefore admit that they are working urged to attend « ng in Web- | with the police and manufacturers to jail trade unionists on/ = Iropireal nat a talteatinga thee charges made by manufacturers against whom the Furriers Union out againat leaders of the Joint Board of tho International Ladies’ was on strike. Garment Workers’ Union, Italy Arrogant. The Italian memorandum sent to England, France and Germany last (Continued on Page Five) The “powers” are talking of bring- ing pressure on the contestants, of | summoning the league council to sit | The Black Company: Labor Oficials, Bosses, Detectives and Judges “Gold is in prison tonight and we hope to keep him there forever.” | Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of | Labor and acting president of the Civic Federation. * * * The officials of the American Federation of Labor—Green, Woll and McGrady—the officials of the International Ladies Gar-| are now acting openly in the dual role of police stoolpigeons and prosecutors. | The statements of Woll and McGrady at the meeting in Bry- ant Hall Friday night, the arrest of Ben Gold and other leaders of \the.Eurriers Joint, Board on Friday, the campaign of violence and} | intimidation in the fur and garment districts conducted jointly by} detectives and gangsters, the meeting scheduled for Monday night | under instructions from President Green (a facsimile of the call for which we publish today) all indicate that the united front/| between the bosses, the police and right wing officialdom is com- | Woll and McGrady are working with the police and bosses to frame up Gold and other strike leaders. It will be remembered Glee et eee nates’ WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY MEMBERSHIP IN FULL © Second Tornado in Four | RESPONSE TO THE RUTHENBERG ENROLLMENT CALL Days Spreads Ruin Over Arkansas; Many Killed (Communist) Party thruout the country are showing’ countless} SPRINGFIELD, Mo. March 20. ment Workers’ and Furriers’ unions—Sigman and Schachtman— Rai People’s Army Is Ready to Enter Big Seaport Militarist Forces Smashed; Railroad Cat LONDON, March 20.—The entry of the Nationalist troops into Shang- hai is now expected by tomorrow, Tuesday at the latest and possibly before morning. The southern forces, according to the Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Express, are only eight miles from Shanghai, with an open road before them, The northerners, it is said, have fled in great disorder mak- ng no effort at all to oppose the Can- tonese troops. By piercing the lines of the war lords at Sungkiang, about thirty miles southeast of Shang! the National- ists cleared the path to Shanghai. Smash Northern Line. The collapse of the northern line defended by about 7,000 troops of General Chang Tsung-Chang, the Shantungese war lord, was brought nt by an outflanking movement y the Nationalist forces. Without aking any attempt to resistance, the troops of the war lords evacuated their position. While one section of the Nationalist troops were storming Sungkiang, oth- ers were hammering away at Nan- Soochow, a key anghai-Nanking s probably in the hands of malists, while the fortress the southern entrance to king is reported as having been id Soochow. on the captured. Enter the Marines. The troops of the foreign imperial- inte. o ed - hore with. municipal regarding “precautionary measures” in v of the imminent capture of the city. Orders were is- sued for the entire United States ine corps to parade Monday in kit, with naked bayonets. To facilitate the entrance of the Nationalist troops thousands of work- ers going out on strike. They have din tying up many key industries, 1 are even preparing to take over the government of the city as soon as it falls into Nationalist hands. Organizations of workers, stu- dents, teackers and merchants are continving to elect delegates to the People’s Assembly. The victories of the Nationalist troops have heen due in a large mea- sure to the defection of large num- ners of the troops of the war lords. Sun Loots Towns. General Sun Chun-Fang, so-called “defender of Shanghai,” who was routed by the Nationalists and re- placed by Chang Tsung-Chang, is re- ported to be looting towns in the Yishing-Changchow sector. FRANG STABILIZED AT EXPENSE OF FRENCH WORKERS Committee of PARIS.—When the experts appointed by Briand’s gov- ernment presented in June, 1926, a plan for the recovery of France’s finances and the stabilisation of the franc, the revolutionary Unitary Confederation of Labour definitely and clearly stated in its appeal to the —Thirty-five people were killed in the second tornado within 48 | hours to strike western Arkansas | The first tornado struck heaviest | The comrades of the Party in this district feel that working class that the whole plan is to be carried out at the expense of the working class. The coming into power of Poincare, in July, 1926, in- being organized to win back the old members. The workers in the shops are like- wise responding to provide the fin- ances with which to carry on. One worker writes: “Enclosed find money order for $10.00 with which to carry on the work which was left unfinished by Comrade Ruthenberg. This is meant to make his memory dear, as he really was for the working cl: Use as you see fit, making the place which he left less. Regretfully—” Finnish Comrades Active. The Finnish District Fraction Bureau has arranged at least 20 meetings in various parts of New England. Comrade Martilla, one of the leading Finnish comrades in this territory. reports that all arrange- ments have been made to furnish (Continued on Page Four) along the Missouri and Arkansas |Sured the realisation of this plan precisely in this way. border, killing 16 and injuring | more than 50 in that neighborhood. | Doctors and nurses from Eureka | Springs were dispatched to the | scene. Later all wires to Eureka Springs were blown down and no | telephone or telegraph service to that point was available today. | During the conversation with the | stricken community, the wires were blown down, a depot, school house and many homes were destroyed. As early as December, 1926, there was not a single branch of industry, except the coal industry, in which (Continued on Page Two) Dead Infants Found. The bodies of two infants, one four months old and the other but three days, were found by police yes» terday in small suitcases in separated parts of the city.