The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1927, Page 1

BS Sap | I THE DAIL The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party, For the 40-Hour Week. Y WORKER SENDS CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CHINESE WORKERS AND PEASANTS ON THE FALL OF SHANGHAI (By Cable) Trades and Labor Council, Shanghai, China, Comrades: Fraternal Greetings and Congratulations to all Chinese Labor on the Occasion of Taking of Shanghai by People’s Armies. This is Victory for Workers of the Whole World. Convey Greetings to People’s Government at Hankow.—The DAILY WORKER 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 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, Vol."IV. No. 58. , $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1927 <i Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Price 3 Cents Nationalists Take Shan Green and McGrady Begging for Money Boast of Aid Given Them By New York Police; Demand More Cash To Fight Left Wing Boasting of their relationship to the police force in New York, howling for money, money; more money, to “carry on.a fight that may last for months yet,” a fight “for the government of the United States against Communists,” William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and his local organizer, Ed- ward McGrady, last night turned the special meeting of Central Trades and Labor Council of New York and Vicinity into a beg- ging campaign. The enemies of the militant needle trades workers admit they are broke, in fact, they howl to high heaven about it. They want money—the police are their friends, they say, and they fear no left wing pickets—but if they don’t get money, no one knows what will happen. It was inferred that without money even the | police might leave them. McGrady Praises Police. Edward McGrady, special organizer for the A. F. of L., and secretary of CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. OFLAHERTY. \Cappelini’s Chief Aid [Ruled Out of Job; Not i Able to Get Nominations WILKES BARRE, Pa., March 21.—Geo. Isaacs, candidate in the 1925 miners’ District 1 vice president, has been declared electe” by the arbitor ap- pointed by the Lackawanna county court, C. Fenton, Tinkahn, assign- ed to investigate the election by Judge Albert L. Watson, found that The Cappelini man, Michael Kosik, was illegally placed on the ballot in the first place, for he had not even secured the necessary five nominations by local unions. Sapiro Attacked During Ford’s Raid on Jews union election for | re is rather tough on the league of nations. On the eve of the meet- ing of its disarmament conference Italy hurls a monkey wrench into the political machinery by what amounts te an ultimatum to Jugoslavia to cease interference in Albania. With armies mobilizing on the continent of Europe and the fear of another world war creeping up and down the spines of capitalist governments, it will be difficult forthe fake neace mongers ‘to even ‘prevéndg that permanent peace can be attained under capitalism. ae HE real battle in the Balkans is between Italy and France. When Mussolini dispatches a note to Bel- grade he is actually sniping at Paris. According to a letter from an Italian refugee living in Nice recently pub- lished in The DAILY WORKER, French and Italian armies are get- ting ready for hostilities and the naval forces of. both countries are maneuvering for action. England is backing up Italy against her histori- cal enemy France, and Germany is watching a chance to get back some ,of what she lost in the late war. It looks as if a nice little slaughter is being cooked up. * * HE Nationalist forces have en- tered Shanghai and the prize city of the Orient is lost to the militar- ists. The fall of this city is a de- cisive defeat for the imperialists and it can now be considered a certainty that all China will soon be under Nationalist control. The strategy of the imperialists will now be directed towards ‘splitting the ranks of the Koumintang Party and catering to the Right Wing, which would willingly come to terms with the robber powers but for the opposition of the Left Wing. * mere ‘HE effect of the latest National- ist victory in China should have a detrimental effect on the fortunes of the imperialists thruout Asia. Al- ready our own imperialists are afraid that China shall become the leader the oppressed peoples of the Phil- iypines. The teeming millions of India will be encouraged to break the British connection. Imperialism is ‘not sitting pretty just now tho it will take some time for its victims to de- \velop enough muscle to deal it the final blow. } have referred more than once to \ the poisoned propaganda cabled f: China in the guise of news, by ick Moore, New York imes ¢ jpondent. Moore seemed to think tht he could defeat the rev- lution by cabling lies to New York. . E, Millard, a rather fair and reli- le correspondent was pulled off the b by the Times and this unscrup- Jvulous hack put in his place. Yet those liars ve the audacity to preach against “Soviet propaganda” ‘in China. ‘ * e\ * WO of the most vociferous offi- cial red-baiters at the 1923 con- vention of the United Mine Workers of America resigned from office in 1925 under fire. They were charged ith grafting on the legal depart- ment of the union. Fpth shouted loudly and long against the radicals (Continued on Page Two) the committee appointed by the exe- cutive board of the A. F. of L. to “investigate the fur strike” told of expelling the fur unionists and open- ing new headquarters where the rank and file were invited to register. In describing the fighting which the Schachtman guerrillas had started in the fur market he called these crim- inals with long records, “old time members of the union.” McGrady shamelessly boasted of ‘his relations with the police. Police to Cooperate. “The police department has agreed to cooperate with us in every re- spect,” said McGrady. “Police Com- | missioner McLaughlin has given us | assurances that the picket lines will be broken up. He says that where |there is no strike there will be no | picket line. He has also promised j}me to have sufficient police on hand |to see that it ‘is put into effect. “The notorious Ben Gold is stick- ing his thumb up to his nose and says that you mean nothing! He says that in spite of the police department! | Need the Money. | “Today it rained and there were not many of them roving around, However, tomorrow morning I will obtain a report on what took place today. Tomorrow I once again go in to see Police Commissioner Mc- Laughlin. “Its a fight of Communism against the United States government! “It is bitter warfare and we need |funds, need them badly. At the pres- }ent ‘we have enough for only a few |more weeks. That is why we are | here tonight. , The Daily Is Here! “Make no mistake, those Commun- ists are very well financed. The ter- yorism will stop, the police depart- ment will see to that. But our work- ers are frightened. “They have moved their English daily newspaper here from Chicago. ‘You must have your organization vontribute as soon as possible. Send the money to the Central Trades and Labor Council! “We have to issue propaganda and publish leaflets to give to the work- ers. “The struggle will not end soon, it will last many weeks, if not months.” Green Grows Modest. Green’s speech, following that of his local henchmen, sounded rather (Continued on Page Five) GERMAN BOSSES’ ‘SOCIAL BUDGET HITS. WORKERS BERLIN.—The German press is publishing fragamentary statistics from the German budget for 1927. These statistics, although incomplete, | | | “Don’t Satcher,” Saye Editor, | Starting ( Campaign piro, drew blood today in his million- dollar libel suit against Henry Ford. The wheat king scored impressive- ly when he placed in evidence docu- mentary evidence showing that the Ford crusade against the Sapiro “co- DETROIT, March 21.—Aaron Sa-| Italy Secretly - Lands Troops | Tn Albania © Balkan State ltaly's Price For Opposing USSR. | ROME, March 21—An even-more| | disturbing element ha‘; crept into the | | Balkan tenseness cr by the Ital- | |ian ultimatum to Jugo-Slavia, and the | | following circular note to the powers. | A veil of silence is thrown over events, | |The chancellories of Europe have | “shut up.” | Intribues move forward. It is re-| |ported that 100 Ttalian staff officers | have landed in Albanian civilian) clothes and that within the last week | four large ship loads of munitions |have been disembarked at Albanian |ports from Italy. The Albanian army, led by Italians, | |is also mobilized, and everything is | ready for declaration of war and al | lightening thrust thru Albania at the | heart of Jugo-Slavia, * . * Plot Against U. S. S. R. | BERLIN, March 21.—German of-| ficial and unofficial opinion is united | jon this interpretation of {taly’s sud-| | den challenge te the Kingdom of the | | Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. They see | it as part of English intrigue, directed in the first place against the Union| | of Socialist Soviet Republies. Without 70 Percent Russian Deputies, Communist; Huge Vote in Moscow MOSCOW, March 21.—More than 70 per cent of the deputies elected by the Moscow Soviet to the All- next month are Communists. This and the huge percentage of the electorate voting (estimates vary from 90 to 95 per cent) fea- | tured the elections. Interest in the | elections is far greater than that evinced in capitalist countries. Beat Of Black Shirt Attack | On Sormenti Filty lajered; Many. Jailed After Port Chester Meeting (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PORTCHESTER, N. Y., March 21. —Fifty fascists, leaders of the New York organization of the fascist league of America are today nursing bruises and wounds that they received here yesterday when attempting to break up a mass meeting called by the Anti-Fascist League of North America. | Union Soviet Congress which opens | | | opexgtives” originated as a cam-| 2ngland’s certain stl, to keep France| The fascists came here in automo- | paign against the Jews. This’ was | ftom interveriing, "say all German dip-|biles and ‘by trains from Mw York the chief contention of Sapiro in his|lomats. there would never have been with the intention’ of beating up the libel suit. jany “strong stand” against Serbia |speakers, Ena Sormenti and Carlo Although Sapiro had announced |>y Mussolini. Tresea, and stopping the meeting. A that he would temporarily abandon! Buys England’s Support. jmonth ago when the fascists held a the Jewish issue, the argument was| Mussolini does not want a long |™mecting here and their speakers were carly in the day brot around to it|drawn out war. It would lead to his|2%*ed qustions, they answered that again, as the central driving force of | inevitable ruin, if Italian peasants and| 1 the anti-fascists held a meeting Ford’s campaign against the plain-| workers had arms in their hands, and they would break i Up eatery tiff. | faced even one winter of trench fight- they attempted to fulfill their prom- The: evidence consisted of a lettering. He hopes to accomplish his ends |*** but fatled miserably. written by H. W. Roland, an execu-|iy bluff, or by a sudden foray into Sormenti Spexks. | tive on Ford’s Dearborn Independ-! Albania, without serious fighting —| The meeting was called for 3:8 ent, to Harry H. Dunn, who investi-| France meanwhile being controlled by |™- at Aviglionse Hall. | gated the co-operative movement for | England. menti and Tresca arrived there they the auto king and later wrote most| England’s price was Italy’s partici-|Were met at the door by the local po-| of the articles attacking Sapiro. The| pation in the anti-Soviet bloc, her |lice and the New York fascisti. | letter showed that Dunn was origin-| ratification ef the Bessarabian treaty.| The meeting was opened by Niccla It showed that the activities of Bernard M. Baruch, New York cap- italist among the farmers had actu- ally brought about the investigation which led to the articles. Ford’s attorneys sought to block all testimony on the letter, which came into the trial while William J. Cameron, editor of the Dearborn In- dependent, was on the witness stand. Dunn Was Ford’s Writer. Cameron testified that Dunn gath- ered the data on which the Sapiro at- tacks were based. He also said Dunn had written the anti-Sapiro articles under the “pen name” of Robert Morgan. The letter follows: August 6, 1928. Street, Berkeley, Calif. “My dear Mr. Dunn: 6 “Don’t snicker when I tell you the Jewish boys are putting the works on the farmer. It began when Bar- ney Baruch first became interested in Kansas. After Wilson left the White House, Since then there has been a great deal of the Jewish inter- ested plight of the farmer, especially as to mortgaging their souls and bodies through government agencies, plus the various cooperative move- ments, Money In It. “We have been desirous of getting something tangible and here seems to be the opportunity to clean up the west coast situation. I don’t imagine that you will have much difficulty in rounding the facts up on this, al- though all of it will take considerable time. If you can get it, will protect you of course, and it will be as fully remunerative, if not more so than the Abrams material. “Let me know from time to time Mr. Harry H. Dunn, 27722 Prince | show very clearly the correlation of |how the work is progressing and if class power and the aggressive in-|there is any trip you must take to tentions of the German capitalists,| gather the facts, go ahead and send The so-called “social budget”, i. e.|in the expense account to us. I be- that section of the budget composed | lieve that you have an opportunity to to reflect the minimum social obli-|do considerable ‘chronicling of the gations, undertaken by the capitalist | neglected truth’ in this case. state in respect to the toiling masses| “I don’t remember much about the is worthy of special attention. We|convict story now. If you want to (Continued on Page Tiree) (Continued on Page Three) 4 were jeopardized in the latest coup jef British diplomacy. | “Playing With Fire.” | Georg Bernhard, one of the leading |German ‘publicists, in today’s “Vos- \sich Zeitung.” accused Downing Street }of “playing with fire,” and contrasts the British demand for a careful ex- |amination of Austria-Hungary’s ac- cusations ageinst Serbia in 1914 with the marked tendency of the British press to jump to the conclusion that Jugoslavia is guilty in the present ease of the charges preferred against her by Rome. The “Morgenpost” asserts that the people of Londor. appear “to have short memories, for otherwise they would remember the vain endeavors in 1914 to localize the war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and would not carry out this dangerous playing with fire.” Suspect Fascist Tools. Georg Bernhard recalls how the French government discovered last (Continued on Page Three) Sioux City Workers Hold C. E. Ruthenberg Memorial Gathering SIOUX CITY, Ia., March 21.—At a memorial meeting for C. E. Ru- thenberg held here, the following resolution was adopted: We express our deepest sorrow for the loss of one of the most sin- cere friends and leaders of the . workers of America, Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg. His con- tinuous service and self sacrifice for the workers’ cause, has estab- lished a tation that the class conscious “workers will never for- get. We adopt as our slogan his last words, “Fight on,” to serve us as an inspiration for more intensive activity in building the party to achieve the ultimate aim, the estab- lishment of a Workers and Far- mers Republic of th. U.S. A. ally ordered to investigate “the Jew-| For this the lives of millions of the Napoli, chairman, who introduced | ish boys who are putting the works| workers of France, England, Italy, Sormenti as the first speaker. Sor-} on the farmers.” Serbia and various Balkan nations|menti in his speech exposed the| fascists’ plots hoth in Italy and in the | United States. The fascists tried to interrupt Sor- menti when he was speaking, but} when they saw that their tactics an- gered the assembled workers, they| ceased. Search Workers. Police stopped Sormenti in the mid- dle of his speech and all the workers present were searched for weapons by order of the chief of police. One of | the anti-fascists was arrested at that period, at the demand of one of Mus-| a solini’s henchmen. The next move by the fascists was to try and throw a bomb into the hall, Again they were foiled, one of | the spectators discovering the weapon | in time. When the meeting ended fascists assembled outside of the hal and waited for Sormenti and Tresca, their plan being to assault” them, | Sormenti and Tresea got into an auto- mobile to go to Yonkers where an- other anti-fascist meeting was-in ses- sion. | Attacked With Clubs. Not being able to reach the auto-| mobile, the enraged fascists started to attack the Italian workers who were then leaving the hall. They struck the workers with blaclkjacks, | canes and clubs, also using knives. | Nine fascists and two anti-fascists were arrested. Two were stabbed, one anti-fascist being stabbed by the blackshirts and one policeman being stabbed by a fascist. This is not the first time that: the fascists have attempted to break up meetings. They used the same methods in the Bronx and elsewhere recently. if Very few fascists are found here, the local Mussolinites having to de- pend upon the New York organiza- tion. The local leader of the fascists is a Dr. Gaetano Ameronaco, who was arrested here a month ago on the charge of forgery. The local branch of the Anti-Fascist Alliance was organized two months ago by Ena Sormenti, the BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT NEWSSTANDS ighal People’s Army Now Occupies Seaport Victory Breaks. Backbone of Militarist Resist- ance; Intervention Threatened | LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINA 1. Shanghai, the prize city of China and one of the largest ports in the world, fell into the hands of the Nationalist troops without the exchange of a hostile shot, when Pi Shu-chen, com- mander of the northern forces that were supposed to defend the city from the revolutionists, folded his tent and walked quietly away. 2. Marines from the warships of all imperialist powers lying in the harbor have been landed. The United States con- tingent was rushed to the industrial district of Yangtsepoo be- cause of their excellence as strikebreakers. 3. The General Laoor Union of Shanghai called a general strike in honor of the Nationalist victory. Revolutionary flags have appeared all over the city. The strike is qne hundred per cent effective. 4. The fall of Shanghai to the Nationalists has broken the backbone of northern resistance and places the forces of Chang- Tso-Lin that-are marching southward against the Nationalists in a precarious position. SHANGHAI, March 21.—The native city of Shanghai is now in the possession of the Nationalist government with the militarist yenerals and troops fleeing in all directions. Order is being maintained by the labor unions and workmen wearing red armietS are patroliivg Vie city. “fhe pevple are quiet and there is a complete absence of hysteria or panic. There is considerable excitement in the international settle- ment where the sudden fall of the city was received with con- sternation. The British propagandists had the people fed on op; timistic predictions of militarist successes and conflict inside the ranks of the Kuomintang, Beate ati . Labor Demonstration | ITALIAN WORKERS DENOUNCE USE OF Streets in the native city are de- serted except for groups of fleeing orthern soldiers. In the Interna- onal Settlement there were numbers of demonstrations by Chinese stu- dents and laborers. | | The whereabouts of the leaders of | EW IN NCTI N the Sun Chuan Fang forces are un- | known but Sun was last reported | fleeing to Nanking. General Pi Shou Chen is reported | to have fled to Woosung where he | Left Wing Speakers Tell of Treachery will board a warship for Tsingtao, ac- | | companied by his staff. U. S. Troops Land United States marines were landed | today and given the extreme eastern ection of the International Settle- |ment to guard. The Shangtung troops are retreat- ing toward Woosung, twenty miles down the Yangtse River, from Shang- Lai, The most terrible scenes were en- ed at the railroad stations today as a result of the evacuation of the defeated troops. The Shangtungites are forcing their way at the point of pistols, and are impressing what help ix needed. One officer ruthlessly be- headed a Coolie with his sword when | she coolie was slow in moving the | officer’s baggage. Report Arsenal Captured Announcement was made today that the Kuh Sien arsenal has been cap- tured, While Chang Tso Lin’s prepara- tions for the drive against the Na- lists in Hankow proceeds it is Lelieved here that the Shensi troops and the forces of General Feng, the “Christian General,” may swoop down on the Fengtien troops and check their advance, General Chang Hsueh Liang has re- turned to Honan after conferences with his father, Chang Tso Lin, here. The tensity in Shanghai was in- creased tonight when there was a sudden strike of the workers in the | electric power plant. The city went into semi-darkness and immediately. the searchlights of naval vessels lying at anchor in the harbor began sweep- ing over the city. Build More Asylums ALBANY, March 21.—New York State will be prepared to provide more institutional care for its wards in the mental defective and feeble-mind- ed groups when construction work now under contract and other im- provements are carried out, the for- mer State Commission for Mental Defectives said in a report made pub- lic yesterday. The policy of collaboration between the right wing reactionary leaders and | the bosses, which has resulted in the officials of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union employing |the capitalists’ weapon, the injune- |tion, was repeatedly denounced by | speakers at a mass meeting held last | night under the auspices of the Italian {Progressive Center in Manhattan | Lyceum. | “What difference is there between |employers who yell ‘Communists’ and |run to the courts for help in waging | war on the workers, and traitors like |Sigman and Antonini,” asked An- thony Ramuglia, who served as chair- man. “The fight of the progressive work- lers in the New York needle trades is a fight between class-conscious work- ers and the tools of the bosses,” Speakers Cheered. Cheers and applause greeted Enea (Continued on Page Five) Dropping Gas Tax Liked _|By Rich Autoists Only, If Not Real Estate Men | ALBANY, March 21.—Republi- cans in the legislature who were responsible for dropping the pro- posed gasoline tax calling for as- sessment of 2 cents a gallon, are getting it in the neck from various forces at the present. In order to make possible the abandonment of the gas tax, it was decided to cut $2,000,000 from vari- ous educational bills which were up for passage, thus weakening con- siderably the chances of thousands of New York State school teachers for a decent increase in pay. At the same time representatives of the New York State Association of Real Estate Boards are growling and threatening because they fear that the decision to drop the gaso- line tax will result in additional direct taxes on real estate. %)