The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1927, Page 1

eee The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized. For a Labor Party. For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 64, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY Hntered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 38, 1879. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1927 <a THE DAILY WORKER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents KELLOGG LETTERS ORDER UPRISING IN MEXICO Appeal to the Members of the Workers |Communist] Party STATEMENT BY THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OMRADES! Our Party has, in the course of its ex-|Party is strong and is well able to meet the situation. istence, lived thru many trying ments, rious dangers. All along the whole front, the boi agents have launched a brutal offensive to crush us. With increasing frequency we find p our most active field workers. * * * SUFFER GREAT LOSS. But just now the heaviest attack launched against us in the vicious campaign of the labor lieutenants of Amer- ican imperialism to drive out of the unions scores of thousands of the Communists, militants and progres- sives. It is at this critical moment of our Party’s life that we have suffered our foremost and the death of our leader, Comrade How grave a loss the passing of Comrade Ruthenberg to our Party is told by the Executive Communist International when it declared: “At no time since Comrade Ruthenberg raised the Red Flag against the imperialist war and led the way to the formation of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, has his leadership been more needed than today.” * * * THE PARTY IS STRONG.. Heavy tho the attack of our enemies may ‘ous tho the loss we sustained may be, yet, our ¢ -wrades! be, But at no time before in our life has our Party faced so complex a combination of severe tests and se- and difficult mo-|Our revolutionary urgeoisie and their olice persecution of | Ruthenberg. irreparable loss in Cc. E. Ruthenberg. is it necessary for Committee of the tional. Today, above all, would be a most u working class: | Current Events By T. J. O’Fiaverty. HE “massacre” of Americans in Nanking has dwindled down to one preacher and it appears that he was killed by one of a band of north- ern troops. In fact the Nationalist comunander Chang Kai-Shek states officially that the “massacre” which was seized upon as an excuse for bombarding the city was precipitated | by fleeing soldiers of Chang-Tso-Lin, the underground ally of British and | American imperialism. None of the capitalist papers that featured the reported massacre with glaring head- lines have since admitted that the story on which the headlines were based was a fake dispatch manufac- tured out of the whole cloth with the object of inflaming the minds of the | people in Great Britain and the United States against the Chinese revolution. Page * LREADY this damnable propa- ganda is having its effect. The newspapers and the moving picture houses are on a war footing. “Heroes” are springing up like mushrooms in the newspapers and the morons at the..movies applaud pictures of im- peric ist troops landing in China. The orchestras put more pep than usual into the American marching tunes. and one can feel that every potential member of the K.K.K., the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion in the theatre is ready to cut a throat in the name of God and coun- try. * * * HE number of Chinese slaugh- tered in Nanking by the uncalled for bombardment of the city by American and British warships is not known but the loss of life must be appalling. Imagine warships sta- tioned in the Hudson River dropping explosive shells on Broadway between seven and eight o’clock in the even- ing and you will have some idea of the dreadful havoc wrought by the ships‘that shelled the narrow, teem- ing streets of Nanking. This act of unparalleled barbarism and wanton savagery is certain to drive the hun- x of millions of Chinese to a giagnzy of hatred against the British and merican imperialists. * HE /®ritish press hail the slaugh- which their “cousins” par- evidence that “the two ‘dish-speaking peoples” to 8 ee the; Chinese as they did in 17 against\ the Germans. There is » ‘9 doubt that} Wall Street and Thread- seedle Street} are ready to deluge the ‘Orient in thle blood of defenseless ‘peoples rather \than surrender the « right to sell them opium and extract big profits owt of their bodies. And while the Wing of the British trade union movement is protesting against the murder policy in China ‘there is not a peep of protest from the officialdom of the American Fed- _ eration of Labor. On the contrary the Baptist “Gantry,” William Green is « \pusy courting the bloody-handed Ker- “‘onsky and making war on the pro- \; {ressive elements in the trade unions. | \qit any wonder that Soelides and ogg can go right ahead mur- (Continued on Page Two) And Picket In Dress Strike Guerilla Cats Gils Bye Court Releases Strikers The injunction secured by the As- sociation of Dress Manufacturers, Inc., last week did not prevent a large picket demonstration early Monday morning before shops called on strike by the New York Joint | Board of the cloak and dressmakers. At the Arline Dress Shop, 355 Sev- enth avenue, which was one of the firms for whom the injunction was |secured, police arrested Fannie Golos, a business agent and four other pickets, after clerks of the Dress As- sociation and the shop had handed out| leaflets containing the restraining order. The girls refused to desist from picketing even after the arrest of the five, who were later dis- charged in Jefferson Market court. Renewed attacks by guerillas oc-| curred at the Ganz and Branzilber dress shop, at 118 West 27th street. Ida Schneider, a picket, was struck in the eye and badly injured by one of them, who arrived in an automo- bile with Max Schecter, executive board member of Sigman’s scab Local 35 and a worker in this shop: Attack Girls. When Schecter appeared under the protection of the gangsters the pick- ets shouted “scab,” whereupon the guerillas who were “protecting” Schecter attacked the girls. Several furriers on their way to work at- tempted to interfere, and George Weiss, a furrier, demanded that the police arrest Ida Schneider’s assail- ants. Weiss himself was finally taken into cutody, but even after his arrest insisted that the gangster be arrested, so that the police placed him under arrest as well as the girls on the picket line. While they were waiting for the patrol wagon, a po- liceman came up and led the gang- ster away, and set him free. Wounded Picket In Court. The police were censured by Magistrate McKantry in Jefferson Market court for failing to bring to court the assailant of Ida Schneider, who appeared before him bleeding from cuts about the eye. He dis- missed all of the pickets: Attorneys for the Joint Board have been fur- nished with the number of the police- man Who freed the gangster, and will conduct an investigation into the matter. Our revolutionary unity must make up our loss; our re- volutionary propaganda and activities will recruit new fighters for our ranks. ist work are great and we have pledged ourselves to fight on in the spirit and determination of Comrade First of all, the entire membership, as one, must close our ranks—build the Party. foremost efforts to forget, to throw overhoard, all prej- udices, all remnants of factionalism, all excuses for friction and hostility which may have been lingering in our ranks as hangovers, as dying remnants from our previous faction fights and inner Party struggles. Petty differences and time-worn suspicions must be cast aside and banished from our midst. give unlimited support to the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Party working in closest harmony with and under the leadership of the Communist Interna- DISUNITY IS COSTLY CRIME. , disunity in our ranks or failure to give fullest support to the Central Executive Committee Party, against the interests of the whole American The Central Executive Committee expects and feels (Continued on Page Four) Defy lojunction | butcher does not wear his blood- “EXILE OF HOMELESS CHILDREN”: Judge Says Ford Trial Must Go To Finish Sapiro Tells Of Close Link | Between Himself and State DETROIT, March 28,—Denying a motion for a mistrial by counsel for | Henry Ford, Federal Judge Fred M. Raymond this afternoon allowed | Aaron Sapiro to eliminate one-third | of his allegations of libel and ordered the million-dollar libel suit to pro- ceed. Aaaron Sapiro, who rose from an | orphanage to a throne over American | agriculture, took the ‘witness stand | this afternoon to explain how Henry | Ford’s attacks damaged him to the tune of a million dollars. Stewart Hanley, of Ford’s counsel, first filed an objection to the amended complaint and then asked that a mis- |trial be declared and the jury dis- | missed if the court accepted Sapiro’s {amended complaint. Judge Raymond | tentatively accepted the amended de- claration last. week. Prefer Original Attack. Hanley declared the Sapiro move, eliminating 54 of his allegations of libel, had changed the whole cause of action. The changes, if allowed, said Hanley, will seriously jeopardize the rights of Henry Ford. The court first sustained an objec- determination will repel the attacks. The opportunities for Commun- We must now bend our More than ever before all members to unify their ranks and * * * ntimely and costly crime against the Militarist in Disguise tion by Ford’s counsel to the intro- duction of a copy of the original de- mand for retraction sent the Dearborn Independent by Sapiro. Then the court made final the tentative ruling, hand- ed down last week, which allowed Sapiro to amend his, ition of cifications of libel. “The motion of the defense for a mistrial is denied,” the court added. Ford Knew Stories Denied Parts of the letter from Walton Petect to Henry Ford, protesting in the name of a cooperative organized in the Northwest against the Dear- born Independent articles and notify- ing Ford they were false, were ad- mitted to the record, however. Sapiro then took the stand, and plunged into his life history. He told of his father dying, of life in the orphan asylum, of being edu- cated in the Hebrew Union college of Cincinnati, and of teaching there for two years. He studied law at Has- tings law school in San Francisco. Hooked Up to State After a brief venture in law, Sapiro said he became secretary of the state industrial accident commission of Cal- (Continued on Page Four) lohr A. ejucre General Lejuene is commander of the U. S. marines, always ready to do the bidding of Wall Street when an- other little colony is needed. He is seen here in plain clothes. Even a stained apron all the time. Read The Daily Worker Every Day MALICIOUS SLANDER ON THE U.S.S.R, At the present time, when every sort of propaganda is being used in the attempt to create mass antagonism in Western Eu- rope and America against the Workers’ and Peasants’ govern- ment of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the old standby of the “homeless children” is being overworked again. This fact has induced The DAILY WORKER to secure in a series of spe- cial articles from Wm. H. Kruse, its Moscow correspondent, a complete review of the situation of the homeless children, how relatively few there really are, and what is being done to relieve Shanghai Chinese Denounce Killings Wanton Bombardment Of Nanking Slaughtered | 2,000, Burned Part Of City (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) SHANGHAI, March 28.—The bombardment of Nanking and the murder of more than 2,000 peaceful Chinese citizens has stirred people here more than any single event since the Shang- hai massacre of May, 1925. Despite the indignation of workers and students here, who have been holding huge protest meetings, revolutionary discipline |is strong enough to insure the s: the neutrality laws, according to mander-in-chief of the Nationalist troops. afety of foreigners who observe Chiang Kai-Shek, youthful com- Whatever violence has occurred has been due to\Shantungese and not Nationalist elements, he said. Huge masses of workers crowd the streets of the city to protest the Nanking massacre. More than 150,- 000 attended the monster mass meet- ing which welcomed Chiang-Kai-Shek, to voice their indignation at the bom- bardment of Nanking. Red banners, in Chinese, Russian and English, read: “We appeal to all the labor unions of the world to help the downfall of imperialism.” In the meantime the question of the new provincial government re- mains unsettled, pending the ratifica- tion of the new constitution by the National Government at Hankow. Restore Order The well-disciplined Nationalist troops and the labor unions have suc- | ceeded in restoring complete order in (Continued on Page Three) Chinese Union Leader Predicts Pekin’s Fall And Workers’ Republic CHICAGO, March 28, (FP)— Ma. Cheu Jung, head of a union of | 300,000 mechanical workers in China and an ardent partisan of the Cantonese nationalist movement, predicts that Pekin will fall to the Nationalists in 3 months. In a recent interview to The Federated Press in Chicago this Chinese trade unionist declared that after the foreign exploiters have been disposed of the Chinese exploiters will come next. Andrew Mellon's Coal Company Fights Union — British Miners Preparing For Next Fight Cabinet Official Spending Mil- lions to Ruin U. M. W. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 28.—Sec- | retary of the Treasury Andrew Mel-| Jon is, thru his coal company, spend- | ing millions of dollars to break up the | United Mine Workers of America. | The Pittsburg Coal Co., which Mel-| lon controls, broke its agreement with the miners’ union in 1925. Since that) time it has been using its accumu- | lated surplus of $78,000,000 and its| . | unlimited borrowing power to break} down all resistance from its workers. | It has operated non-union, and of-| fers itself as a leader in a union | smashing drive to start April 1,| when the contracts in the union fields | expire. | No Gratitude To Union. Mellon, member of Coolidge’s cab- inet, takes this action although in the election of Coolidge and the placing of his®administration in power, John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, played an important part, Lewis has been consistently republi- can, and has swung many votes to the men who are now making a frontal attack on his union. In his support of the republicans, Lewis found himself in opposition on another point to John Brophy, his op- ponent in the last international elec- tion in the union. Brophy headed a An Entire Family Is— Overcome By Gas Five members of one family were overcome yesterday by gas leaking from an -open jet on the kitchen range of their home, 5017 108th St., Corona, Queens: It is believed that defective pipes were responsible for the accident. All were revived by policemen and an ambulance surgeoh. them. The third of these articles in printed below, and refutes | progressive campaign which demand- some of the falsehoods so diligently spread. : * * * The foregoing article in brief states the problem and its cause. In the following articles it is proposed to take up the remedies that are be- ing put into effect, and to expose the lies that are being spread on this question. In this connection special attention will be given to the phases dealing with legal and family rela- tions, since on both these fields the arrangements which prevail in the Soviet Union are far in advance of anything to be found anywhere in the bourgeois world, The question however arises, why should such a fake campaign be direc- ted against the Soviet Union at this time? The capitalist press will al- ways villify the Soviet Union for the very good and sufficient reason that it is what it is—-a capitalist press fighting for the preservation of an outworn social system of which it is the beneficiary. And of course it is not at all particular of the weapons it employs. ; ‘ The Evolution of The Lies. There has been a veritable evolu- ed along with more militancy on the part of the union, a labor party. tion of propaganda tales exploited Ordered To Fight. one after another in this way. The} Just two years ago Secretary of first howl that went up maintained} Treasury Mellon and his brother put that the Bolshevik “coup” could not} dummy president in charge of the last—time settled with that. Then} company with orders to fight the came the brightly embroidered tales} union. Mellon aimed to sidestep the of the red terror—but these soon] responsibility for war on organized paled in comparison with the recollec-| labor. On April 1, 1925 The Fed- tions of the slaughter of the im-| erated Press carried the story that perialist war and with the admitted| Pittsburg Coal had locked out its holocaust of white terror in Hungary,| miners. Within a month the com- Finland, Italy and the whole of the| pany started to operate on the 1917 Balkans, while hard-headed experi-| wage scale. But the first year ence in their own smaller-scale class| brought production to only one-sixth struggles told the working class that| of normal while in 1926 it amounted revolutions were never fought with|to but one-fourth of the former 20,- rose-water. 000,000 tons a year output, Nationalization of Women, The deficits for 1925 and 1926 But as soon as civil war and inter-| would have been considerably larger ‘vention were finally crushed, all basis | if the company had not treated as in- \for terror tales was dissipated, The}come the money received from the “nationalization of women” story had] sale of properties which it abandoned lits effect for some time with the} when it went non-union. Without ‘puritanical petty-bourgeois masses] these items the, losses would have before the facts counter-acted it, but} amounted to $1,917,993 in 1925 and the effort to blame the Bolshevik} $2,663,244 in 1926. The company ac-| government for the ravages of the|tually lost about 45 cents on each (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Two) i 3 . Bosses Discriminate Against oo oo Militant Diggers HIS is the first of a series of three articles specially written for The DAILY WORKER by Louis Zoobock, who recently finished a study of the situation in the British mining industry. While the miners have suffered a stunning defeat due to the treachery of the right wing leaders their militancy is still strong and they are preparing for another tussle with the mine owners and the capitalist government.—Ed. * * * Article 1. By LOUIS ZOOBOCK. AT is the position in the Bri- tish coal fields today? How do the miners live under the new district agreements imposed on them by the mine owners and government? What jare the miners’ plans for the imme- |diate future? All the questions are lat present of great interest to all |those that have been carefully watch- jing the development of the miners’ struggle in Britain. This article is merely an attempt to answer these questions, The District Settlements. First, of course, we must analyse the district agreements. Almost the In every case the aim of the mine owners has been to make the detailed terms as different as possible from those in any other coalfield—and to conelude the agreements for such periods of time as to make impossi- (Continued on Page Two) only feature which is common to all) of them—is an extension of hours.| Calles Has Mail to Ambassador Showing Plot “Forgery” Is Excuse Given By U.S. Officials WASHINGTON, March 28. — All | Washington is humming with the news that the so-called “mystery notes exchanged between Secretary Kellogg and the Mexican government related to correspondence in_ the hands of President Calles now, and which shows that the U. 8, state de- partment itself was actively foment- ing a clerical revolution in Mexico, financed with money from oil inter- ests, and was prepared to intervene with a huge armed force to support |any government friendly to foreign |exploitation that might result. Secretary Kellogg has refused to comment on this story. He does not deny it. Employes of the state department, and influential publicists, however, have “defended” the state depart- }ment by releasing a rumor scarcely less damaging to the repute of the capitalist government of the United States. : More Tampered Mail? In’ “explanation” it is charged that “Me authentic letters sent by Kellogg to Ambassador James Shef- field were mysteriously altered en route so as to be orders to the Amer- jican ambassador to Mexico to take part in reactionary revolt plots, simi- lar to those by which some years ago another American ambassador in Mexico City aided in the military coup d’etat of General Huerta against (Madero, op affaix. which resulced in the murder of President Madero. Use Excuse Second Time, | This, also, is the second case with- {in a few weeks, in which Kellogg re- presentatives have extricated them- selves from an unpleasant situation by pleading that the official U. S. diplomatic mail pouches were opened and forged documents placed there- in, The same plea was made when Lawrence Denni American charge Waffairs in Nicaragua, suddenly threatened to make public Kellogg’s instructions to place Diaz power at a time when the United States was still protesting “strict neutrality” in Nicaragua internal affairs. Newspapers Intervene. The present situation is complicated by the fact that i came to light thru the activities a New York newspaper man, Geo, Barr Baker, who went to Mexico City on business according to the New York Times and in search of news, and was shown photographs of the damaging documents by President Calles himself. Calles did not say how he got them, but they showed that the Coolidge administration stood ready to wage war on Mexico in secret, thru Mexican hirelings of the stamp of Diaz of Nicaragua, and also was willing to make an open in- vasion of Mexico at any time thought appropriate. The object was plainly | stated in the correspondence as being | the control of the country thru a pre- | sident pliable to American business interests. Many of the documents discussed at great length the oil and mining situation in Mexico. | * * * Embassy Silent. MEXICO. CITY, March 28.—Re- | ports from Washington that the state j}department has been informed of forged documents, which aimed to jereate a crisis between Mexico and | the United States, were received here with great interest. The United States embassy refused to comment. BRITISH CABINET IN EXTRAORDINARY SESSION ADMITS CHINESE NATIONALISTS HAVE WON WAR LONDON, March 28.—The British cabinet met today in extraordinary session to discuss the Chinese situa- tien. Information before the cabinet in- dicated that the Cantonese are mas- ters everywhere south of the Yangtse. Geographically they now control more than one-half of the country, and as regards trade and population it is more like two-thirds. On paper they are in a position to challenge the only remaining military force of any importance, that of Chang Tso-Lin, and on form, they ought to beat the northern force and be in Peking whenever they choose: i —<siy) Foreign governments, it is claimed, cannot fail to realize this situation. British Lay Plans. After reviewing the entire situa- jtion in China, the following decisions were reached by the cabinet: 1. To evacuate all the British sub- jects in the upper regions of the Yangtse River. 2. To denounce the agreement reached with foreign minister Chen of the Cantonese, tho not just yet. 3. Notice to be given the Chinese leaders that no new negotiations will be undertaken “as long as the pres- ent anarchy prevails.” 4. To demand a money indemnity