The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1927, Page 1

FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections. Be sure to get them both. Vol. IV. No, 62. THE DAILY WORKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, j : NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1927 <<a PUBISHING Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER FINAL CITY EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Price 5 Cents cO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. REPORT NO AMERICANS KILLED AT NANKING | Current Events By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. | Laban dollars for a three minute exhortation to the capitalist deity ig the compensation allowed by the| New York assembly for that kind) of labor. Mrs. Edith Craig, pastor | of the First Baptist Church of Hoo-; sick, N. Y. has the doubtful honor! to be the first woman to have ever} opened the New York assembly with | prayer. ‘After reading Elmer Gan- try by Sinclair Lewis, one would not be surprised if the spiritual Edith, Jail Two More _ AsCoal Strike Threatens | State Police Mobilize Around Pittsburg; I. L. D. Active PITTSBURG, Penna. March 25.— | adjourned to the cloak room after) Police in this district have showed in- | her effort, to shoot a little game of|creased activity, at the same time| craps with the speaker. * * * |that all mining companies are sur-| | rounding their tipples with barbed | | wire and many are mounting machine | HE sum of $92,000,000. will be | ‘ |guns and searchlights. | split among the stockholders of | Uledar Mezzy, a Hungarian work-| the Lackawanna railroad by order of the directors. The par value of the | road’s stock was originally $50 but) is now $173 on the market. A Su- preme Court decision ordered the| Lackawanna to separate itself from} its coal properties twelve years ago.| The road was busy with other mat-| ters and the Supreme Court is al-| ways patient with rail magnates and | coal barons. Now the Lackawanna) er arrested in Woodlawn while hav-| ing lunch in a restaurant is charged with sedition, under the Flynn act,| and is held on $5,000 bonds. Arrested Bringing Food. Another Hungarian worker named Shelista was arrested last night while | trying to bring some food to Mezzey | in jail. | John Maki, a Finnish worker, was jarrested in M i ‘will ovganigh Ac. me e! onessen Tuesday night which will hold the securities that are not allowed to repose legally in the railroad’s safes. And everything will go on just as before. This is surely a convenient social system. * HE United States government now admits that it “sold” 3,000 rifles, 200 machine guns and 3,000,- 000 rounds of ammunition to Diaz of* Nicaragua with which to “sup- press revolutionary activities in that country.” Of course the supplies were not sold. Diaz hasn’t the price of a meal and there is not a corpor- al's guard in Nicaragua that would * . give him a drink of water if they | found him dying of thirst in a des- ert. The United States government * not only supplied Diaz with military supplies but supplied him with the soldiers ta use them. *-_ 8 * HE bombardment of Shanghai by the British and United States warships is a piece of effrontery that neither bullying imperialism would dare try on a country like Germany or France or on the Soviet Union. This is the kind of treatment they meted out to the Soviet Union when it was torn to pieces by civil war and struggling to get on its feet., That was before the Red Army was whipped into shape. It is safe to predict that the cock British and American naval commanders in Chin- ese waters will use different methods in China in a few years from now when the Chinese Red army will not haye a civil war on its hands and a gang of reactionary brigands to get vid of. Sed» should be noted that no news agency or special correspondent in » China so far gave even the approxi- (Continued on Page Two) The Hungarian Terror Opposed By Painters In Sharp Resolution Thomas Wright, secretary of the New York council of the Painters union representing 14,000 workers has sent a telegram to Count Beth- len, premier of Hungary, protest- ing against the attempt of that white guard government to railroad to the firing squad 50 Hungarian workers who are now before a court martial. They were recently arrest- ed because they were actively par- ticipating in the workers’ struggles. * Read The Daily Worker Every Day OPHY AN Preserit conditions in the coal in- dustry ad the struggle against bur- eaucracy | within the United Mine Workers’ |Union, were discussed by two of thd leaders of the progressive union fotces, Powers Hapgood and John Brophy, former president District 2, at a dinner held last night in the Cafe Boulevard, 4ist street ti and Broadway, under the auspices of the “Democracy in Trade Unions Dinner Committee”. Brophy, who was a candidate for president of the union running Fg ap John L, is at the e' last fall, devoted’ himself to describing the conditions of the workers and the union’s responsibil- corporation | while distributing “Hands Off China” D HAPGOOD TELL NEED OF SIMULTANEOUS MINE CONTRACTS of|and as a result the union has been leaflets. His case is scheduled for} | hearing tomorrow morning. | The case of eight workers arrested | |in the Woodlawn armistice day picnic | j}last year comes up in the Beaver) | county court’ Monday. A motion by the defense to quash the indictment against them is already pending and} }will be considered then. They are | |echarged with sedition. I. L. D. Defends. The International Labor Defense is | | defending all of these cases. | The expected coal strike is appar- ently responsible for the sudden flar- | (Continued on Page Two) | Read The Daily Worker Eyéry Day! NEW YORK BAKERS. | | | LAUNCHCAMPAIGN TO SPREAD UNION A strenuous campaign to organize the unorganized bakers in New York is being waged by Local 1, Amalga- mated Food Workers. Finding that the consolidation of the b&king trust threatens to lower the standard of living and to reduce the New York baker to the status of a mere helper, the union is determined | to bring the unorganized, who consti- | tute 85 per cent cf the bakers in the city, into the union. A mass meeting, which prominent speakers will address, will be held to discuss’ the question of organization at the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th street, Saturday April 2nd. All bak-| ers are urged to attend. Unity Idea Spreading; Pressers and Furriers Get Together In Forum An important meeting of all ac- tive members of Local 35, the Press- ers ‘of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, will be held today at 12:30 at local head- quarters, 10 East 22nd Street. Pressers and furriers yesterday joined in a spirited open forum ai Local 35 headquarters, at which there was discussion of the vari? ous phases of the fight between the progressive and reactionary forces in the needle trades. ity for such conditions. Should Have One Contract. “There have been times”, said Bro- phy, “when the agreements in the anthracite fields and the bituminous fields have“expired at the same time in a real strategic bargaining posi- ion, ¢ “This is one of the things we want to have established permanently, in- stead of the present situation where the anthracite men struck last year, Mussolin’s New Law Prohibits Mention Of Somber Fascist Crime ROME, March 25.—The Italian | chamber of deputies is hard at | work, under taskmaster Mussolini, to perfect the world’s most drastic censorship law. Penalties varying from light fines to imprisonment for three years and fines of 50,000 lire are | provided to wipe out pornography | and. sedition. Before theatrical, musical, dancing, pantomine or cinematographic productions may be presented, they must have the dou- ble approval of a special committee of the minister of the interior and the prefect of the province. The prefect would have virtually complete powers of rejection’ with- out appeal, also being able to with- draw approval or suspend produc- tion at any .time. One of the things expressly for- bidden is the publication of details of “grewsome crimes,” such as the fascist outrages: or the murder of Matteoti. Notorious Wol Report Handed On by Walker ‘Judge McAdoo “Familiarizes Himself With It”. The report of the special American | Federation of Labor committee ap-| pointed to investigate the furriers | strike. off lad cear, has now. been passed on’ to Chief Magistrate Mc- Adoo, so Mayor Walker has an- nounced, It wes turned over to Mayor Walk- er two weeks ago by the members of the committee and President William Green, and at that time the A. F. of L. officials: denied that they made any charges of graft against the New York police but claimed that the fur workers had made such charges and their statements were handed to the mayor for his consideration. Mayor Walker now announces that Magistrate McAdoo will “familiarize himself with the case” and report to the mayor on Monday about assign- ing some magistrate to take, testi- mony in the investigation the charges. HOTEL WORKERS IN ORGANIZATION CAMPAIGN IN N.Y, Series Of Big Meetings Being Arranged Several hundred were present at an enthusiastic meeting held at the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Hall, 133 W. 5ist St., called for the purpose of beginning an intensive organizational campaign. H. M. Wicks, J. Lesino, Michael Overmyer, and P. Pascal Cosgrove, secretary-organizer of the union, were among the speakers who em- phasized the vital importance of im- mediately bringing into the New York organization the thousands of under- paid, overworked employes in’ the city’s hotels, restaurants and clubs. Big Meetings Soon. Plans were definitely laid at this meeting for a series of mass meetings to reach all classes of workers in hotel and restaurant work. The first meeting will be held for Greek work- ers on next Tuesday evening, the 29th. On Monday, April 4, a meet- ing will be called for Italian, French, and Spanish workers, and the third meeting, to be held at Bryant Hall, 41st St. and 6th Ave., hotel and res- taurant workers of all nationalities will be invited. Results Expected. Lesino, a former organizer of the hotel workers in New York, reminded the men of the struggles of 1912 and 1918, and‘urged them to make a con- certed effort to form a strong, vital union in this city. é P. Pascal Cosgrove, in discussing Ford Hires Man to Write His Articles 'Say He Threatedl To “Upset Sapiro’s Apple Cart” | DETROIT, March 252-Henry Ford's | literary offerings, whieh hppeared on | his own page in the arborn Inde- Legislature Adjourns; Most of Baumes Crime Amendments Beaten ALBANY, March 25.—The state legislature adjourned yesterday with many bills dying with the session. Undoubtedly many of them will be reintroduced in the next legislature. Among the defeated bills are the following: All measures to permit municipal- | ities to own, operate or control pub- | lic utilities. The governor’s proposal to reor- ganize and consolidate county gov- ernments. The governor’s proposals to re- pendent, were all written by William | store direct primaries for state and J. Cameron, editor of the publication, | judicial offices, abolish motion pic- the latter testified today at the mil-| ture censorship and provide for bi- lion-dollar Ford-Sapiré libel suit. | Cameron told the jury in Federal | Court here that he wrote the Ford articles, giving the billionaite’s “‘phil- osophical thoughts.” | Federal Judge Fred M. Raymond) meanwhile again riled out all ques-| tions relating to the Jewish race as a whole. The court added, however, that he would allow questions touch- ing upon individual Jews or a small gfoup of Jews. bs | Attorneys for Henry Ford were on | ennial sessions of legislature, a score of anti-crime measures were passed though the majority of the Baumes bills were defeated. eee Sines “Censors Noisy Again” ALBANY, -N. Y., March 25.— Without a dissenting vote, the as- sembly this afternoon passed the so-called theatre padlock bill, de- | signed to “Clean Up” the stage. Three Youths Drowned. the defensive today in the million dol-| NeW ROCHELLE, N. Y., March lar Ford-Sapiro libel suit following 95 Three youths, Guy Mariner, Jr., two rulings by Federal Judge Fred M. | of Pelham Manor, Hy Martin of New Raymond. Aaron Sapiro, so-called) Rochelle and Stewart Clark of wheat king, gained ground when the /Tarchmont, were drowned late this ‘court first permitted him to elimin-|,fternoon when a sailboat in which ate 54 of nis 141 alleged libels and |they and two other companions were then indicated that the auto king’s| sailing was capsized near Yacht Club |attacks on individual Jews might be | Island, 500 yards off the shore from admitted to evidence to show Ford’s) | malice toward Sapiro. | | Ford Threatened Sapiro | | The first sensation of the Ford-| Sapiro million-dollar libel suit came | | this afternoon when James Martin | Miller, a New York writer testified | Henry Ford had threatened in. 1923 | to “expose’ Aaron Sapiro, the so-| called wheat king. . | The: threat was vowed LY the auto} king, said Miller, during a visit to his | office at Dearborn, Michigan. | Miller quoted Ford as saying: “I} think we will upset his (Sapiro’s) | apple-cart.” “Ford said ‘Sapiro is organizing the | farmers with the Jews, The Indepen- dent has a large circulation among | the farmers and we are going to ex- | pose him and I think will upset his apple-cart.” Judge Raymond excluded from Aaron Sapiro’s libel declaration an) attempted definition of the word) “Jew”, as used by Ford, Ford uses the word, Sapiro declared, as a term of “reproach, hatred, contumely and) scorn.” ‘On the other hand, some of the | matter excluded ,in the revision, by| Gallagher, Sapiro’s attorney, was ac- |eeptable to Ford’s lawyers. They | protested against having to change their case. | In commenting on Mr. Gallagher's {amendment to strike out the nine- teenth count of the indictment, which was based on an editorial appearing | |in the Independent, Mr. Hanley con-| tinued: “We plead the truth of the matter) set forth in that count and stand pre- pared. to prove that Mr. Sapiro is a) grafter, a fakir, a fraud and a cheat.| Dunne Speaks On Irish Revolution At Workers ‘School Forum, Sunday “The Future of the Irish Republic” is the subject of the Open Forum lec- ture at the Workers School, 108 E. 14th St., and William F, Dunne, Edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER, will be the lecturer. The subject is of special impor- tance, according to Bertram D. Wolfe, director of the school, because Easter Week and the anniversary of the Dub- lin Revolution of 1916 are drawing near. Connolly’s Heroism ainda on Durin’s talk, Wolfe said: “The speaker will take up the story of Jim Connolly’s heroic leadership of the Irish Revolution and the fiasco of the Free States as well as the fu- {ure prospects of the Irish Workers’ Republic. This lecture should be of special interest to Irishmen on ac- count of the 11th anniversary of the Dublin revolt, and should prove of great interest to all workers who do vot know that the first uprising that attempted to turn the'imperialist war into Civil War, preceding even that of the Russian. Revolution, was the uprising in Dublin under Connolly's leadership.” i if On the following Sunday night, April and the bituminous men were virtual- the campaign for building up an ef-|%, Richard B, Moore, who has just ly scabbing on them; and this year fective organization in New York, said|returned from the Brussels World we have the bituminous agreement that the néxt few months will see a|Congress against Imperialism, will running out on March hy bers (Continued on Page Three) ‘the | program of agitation and: na- tion which will show real results. tell of the achievements of that sig- Fort Slocum army post. MOSCOW SOVIET IN AS CHINESE NATIONALISTS TAKE NANKING MOSCOW, March 25.—Prolon: announcement today at a meeting ‘tionalist foress in Ching haf eanturge Naukings + ¥ “The more such blows are dealt to imperialism, the more alli proletariat will have,” declared M. Communist Party. “We must conti jority of the world’s populations to our side, and when that has been accomplished, world socialism will Fire of Warships Hinders Evacuation Coolidge Cabinet Gives Admiral Williams | Power To Make War On Chinese People BULLETIN. LONDON, March 25.—Phe spectre of another general strike fell athwart Shanghai tonight, when the General Labor Council sent an ultimatum to the municipal council of the foreign settlement, threaten- ing a new general walk-out unless the electrical workers, who went on strike when the recent general strike was ordered, are reinstated, according to a dispatch to The Daily Express tonight from Shanghai. The workers’ places have been taken by Russian white guard mer- cenaries. The ultimatum declared that the strike will be called for 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon unless the demands are met. NANKING, China, March 25.—Despite the extremely provo- \eative attitude of the American Admiral Williams, and the fact that sending out of the American, British and Japanese nationals has been greatly hindered by the continued bombardment from the imperialist warships lying opposite the city, most of the for- | eigners are now embarked on ships and out of the way. They | were marched without baggage to the Nanking Bund. In the opinion of Chinese Nationalist authorities here, either a deliberate attempt was made to precipitate a war by the English, French and American naval officers, or they yieldéd to extreme hysteria. When the Nationalist army broke into the defenses of Nanking at five. o’clock on the morning of Thursday, |March 24th, the 400 American residents here who had been liv- ing on the backs of the Chinese as missionaries, or bosses of the Standard Oil, American tobacco, or other foreign firms, took | fright and fled to Socony hill and to the Nanking university, Numbers of Chang Tsung PROLONGED APPLAUSE | Chang’s soldiers, breaking their |formations, fled along with them. The pursuing National- ists were fired upon alike by ‘ | the northerners and by the pe sleemr Dy shy ‘ant r Beg | English, French, Japanese and ; 3 American. ane lying jn the es Cie {|| Rabbor. aaa Aas | Fire On Yrotectors When a patrol of Nationalists start- jed up Socony Hill to escort the for- | eigners out of the scene of battle, the |warships laid down a complete barrage | of shell fire around the hill, killing Uglanoff, secretary of the Moscow npe the struggle to win over a ma- have been assured.” | thousands of non-combatant Chinese. |men, women and children, and endang- \ering the patrol, which withdrew. | When protest against the cold- | blooded slaughter was made by the | Nationalist commander, Admiral Wil- MOSCOW, March 25.—Shao Li-tsi who was the Koumintang’s repre- sentative at the recent Brussels anti- imperialist congress, has. arrived here and given the Moscow press an inter- view on his impressions of the con- gress and his views of the situation in China. He said: “The Kuomintang looks upon the league of nations as a tool in the hands of imperialism, for the op- pression of the weak nations and the encirclement of the Soviet Union. Fears Chinese Unions, — “I attach great importance to the Brussels congress whieh will play an| immense role in the creation. of a true international unity. “The fact that the British gov-| ernment did not allow representatives of the Koumintang and the All-China | Trade Union Federation to ente England after they were invited by the London Trade Union Council and prominent leaders of the British trade union movement, once more proves that the British government fears approachment between the English working class and the nation- al revolutionary movement. “Rumors about the alleged split within the Koumintang including the Sh | liams characterized him as “insolent,” driving out of the Communist and the} and reported his demands for evac- alleged willingness of the Koumin-| uation of the foreigners. ‘The Nation- tang to compromise with imperialism | alist commander let them wait, as which are being circulated by the | American guns made it dangerous to bourgeois reformist press in Western | anproach ‘them. Europe are totally unfounded. “Tinally an agreement was reached “No Compromise”. | by which they could be sent out with- “The Koumintang will not agree to! out precipitating another bombard- any compromise with imperialism| ment by the war fleet. and will continue to bring the nation- al revolutionary struggle to a con- \clusion. The main line of the Kou- |mintang policy is directed towards preserving the alliance with the So- viet Union. “The Koumintang is growing stronger as is testified by the recent |conference of the executive commit- tee. That fact that Hsu Chao-chen, the leader of the Canton workers en- |tered the national government is the “Soviet Union In 1926” |Lecture at A. C. C. Club “The Soviet Union in 1926” will be the subject of a lecture by Dr. J. C. SECRET SAILING ORDERS FOR NAVY INDICATE EXPEDITION TO MEXICO WASHINGTON, (FP).—Relatives of naval officers have been telling their friends that secret sailing or- ders have been issued for service in the Caribbean, and the navy depart- ment is buzzing with gossip about probable service on the Mexican) coast. If these reports are true, the Coolidge-Mellon administration is sending a naval expedition to en- courage a revolt against the Mexican government by the extreme clerical and reactionary forces, who have the backing of the American oil interests for which Mellon, Sinclair and D-- heny are spokesmen, If such an expedition were sent, its first task would probably be to seize the Tampico oil fields, as was planned during the world war by the nificant meeting. general staff, At that time, only the Doerner ne ease vigorous protest of a liberal army officer prevented the plan from being |approved when its announcement within 24 hours was expected. After seizing the oil fields, the navy would presumably take or blockade Vera Cruz, in order to cut off Mexico City from getting shipments of munitions from abroad. ‘Amounting To Acts of War. Such steps would only be taken if the United States government admin- istration decided to defy the unan- jmous resolution of the senate that its quarrel with Mexito be settled by arbitration. Its termination of the treaty against smuggling arms into Mexico indicates that it does intend to ignore the advise of the senate. If secret orders have been issued for a naval expedition to Mexican ports, it means direct provocation. The inhabitants of the town greeted the People’s Army by displaying flags of the Kuomintang. It is expected | that General Chang-kai-shek will en- ter within a few days. | Part of the city is still burning. | Numerous northern troops, who broke ranks to loot, were drowned when they fled before the People’s Army and tried to cross the river to Pukow. Their officers had already fled from the city. ee Coolidge Backs Williams WASHINGTON, March 25,—"Jn- limited backing for Admirals Williara and Hough was the decision of the administration at today’s cabinet meeting., The two admirals have been given “the widest discretion possible’ and hey will be backed to the limit, eabi- Hoffer, at the A. C. C. Club, 49 E. [net members said after the meeting. 8th St., tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock.| This means that if Admiral Williams decides to involve the United States in a war with the Chinese nation over Standard Oil properties, he may do so, That the administration is willing to proceed to any extreme is indicated by the despatch of additional troops to China. Six more cruisers are now enroute to Chinese waters to rein- force the Asiatic fleet, and Admiral Williams can have as many more as he deems necessary, cabinet. members declared. Chinkiang was bombarded today by the American destroyer William B, Preston according to a dispatch to the Navy Department from Admiral ©, S. Williams, commander of the Asiatic fleet. The message did not state the num- ber of Chinese killed by American fire. Americans are preparing to leave Chinkiang, Admiral ‘Williams said. (Chinkiang is a strategically important city between Shanghai and Nanking, which the Nationalist’s troops took several days ago.) Es 6 he Nanking Reported In Flames - LONDON, March 25.—As a@ result of the bombardment of Nanking by (Continued on Page Three)