The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1927, Page 1

\ \ | \ “The Daily Worker Fights) Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of thé, Un- organized, For a Labor Party, For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No, 65. BUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New. York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, See ee ” NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY THE DAILY WorRKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1927 <a> PUBISHING CO., Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents KILL, MAIM 7,000 CHINESE AT NANKING Antonofsky Put In Jail Thro Frame Up Sigman, Rosalsky, Toegther Imprison Militant Louis Antonofsky, of local 2 is in the Tombs today, another victim of a right wing frame-up. His three small children are wondering why their father doesn’t come home from work. Antonofsky was an active picket during the recent cloakmakers’ strike, Lut even Judge Otto Rosalsky did not hold him for a jail term when an em- ployer charged him with malicious mischief, In January, Antonofsky was put on probation for three years. He went to work in the Meyer Hauser shop at 55 West 17 street, and report- ed regularly to Judge Rosalsky. Some weeks later, on February 23, Antonofsky was the victim of a framed up attempt by right wing sympathizers to put him back in jail. He was acused of beating up Morris Katz, a worker from Reisman Roth- man and Bieber. who at first stated that he could not recognize his as- sailants, but later “identified” three men known to be sympathetic to the Joint Board, including Antonofsky and Aaron Wortuns, who had been at- tacked the previous day by gangsters. Wouldn’t Hear Evidence. That the charges against him were a frame-up is proved by the fact that he was at work in the Meyer Hanser shop at the time of the alleged as- sault upon Katz, as is shown by his time card. In spite of this irrefutable evidence, Judge Otto Rosalsky before whom he appeared for his regular,re- port on Monday, refused to hear dlefence,and. committed. hime to. i: with the statement “A man who is on. (Continued on Page Five) ; \ Current Events By T. J, O’Fianerry. i ons French and Japanese govern- ments are ,observing caution in the Chinese situation. The Paris papers are reflecting on the accuracy of the news appearing in the London press. The British are telling the world in one breath that the French concession in Shanghai. is in danger of attack from the Nationalists and in another breath that the French of- ficials in China have agreed to place their armed forces under command of the British General Duncan. To all this the French say that it simply is not so. * * * HE British are angry with Gen- eral Pai in command of the Na- tionalist armies in Shanghai. Pai visit- ed the foreign consulates in the inter- national settlement and delivered a short impromptu speech after the or- deal was over. He was seen smiling on leaving the Soviet consulate and stated that he had friendly conve: tions in the Japanese and French consulates, but that in the British consulate he noted that the chilly at- mosphere of imperialism still pre- vails. The French and the Japanese prefer to trade with the Chinese na- tion than to see Anglo-American im- perialism, thru a puppet government on the Nicaraguan model, establish hegemony over that vast country. * * * HIS seems to be the attitude of the Kyench and Japanese govern- It is not wise ments at this time. make long-distance predictions vd ( \ capitalist powers are con- The French love the Chinese h aS they love the Moroccans Syrians whom they destroyed by the thousand. The Japanese have shown bly their treatment of the Kor- their motives in adopting ly ne-tral attitude towards } i than by getting in front ofa piiieg whe buzz-saw that has over 400,000, 1000 People, behind it, HE ets to fad the ex- bandit and murderer Chang-Tso- "Jin are rather amusing to the initi- ated. This savage has a corps of ex- ecutioners continually at work chopp- ing off the heads of all those who dare to disagree with him. A logical man to raise the banner of civiliza- tion against Bolshevism! The crim- \\ inal dictator of Manchuria boasts ; in the ter- \ (Continned ‘on Powe Three) \ } y r , MINE UNION POLICY COMMITTEE PROPOSES SEPARATE AGREEMENTS Piceos During Lewis’ Policy Committee Propos Proposes to End Central | Competitive Basic Wage Agreement INDIANAPOLIS, March 29.—The policy committee of the! United Mine Workers of America, International President John | L. Lewis presiding, today announced that it proposes to the coal operators to make separate agreements in the four districts of | the union covering the central competitive field. The basic national contract idea is definitely abandoned, at| least temporarily, just as the progressives in the miners’ union! repeatedly, warned during the last union elections the Lewis ma- chine contemplated doing. The proposition now is that district union presidents and executive boards have authority to negotiate separate agreements with the coal company associations in their fields, the impli- cation in President Lewis’ statement being that they may cut the wages below the present Jacksonville scale if they wish. Danger of Bad Conditions Progressives have repeatedly warned that even where contracts for a specified wage exist, the compan- ies lower the wage by requiring more unpaid work of the men, or save money at the miners’ expense by worsening their conditions in some other way. The union policy com- mittee has not yet considered any action when this problem arises on a large scale during attempts to work without agreements for independent companies, after the contract expires, April 1. * Outlying Contracts Many miners will remain at work, also, even if there is a widespread lock-out in the central competitive field, these men being in other dis- tricts, in Wyoming, Iowa, Kansas,’ and parts of Pennsylvania. Contracts of indefinite terms, which expire at the will of the eperators, have been drawn upswith.some of the operators in these. Row on ‘Purity’; New Job For McLaughlin Attacks is Vales the Most Brutal Yet Police Commissioner George V. McLaughlin is through. He an- nounced his resignation yesterday, to take effect at once. The official rea- son given by the chief of the city’s police force, which ineludes the strikebreaking corps known as the industrial squad, for leaving the “service” is that he has received a better paying job in the form of the vice-presidency of the Postal Tele- graph Company., The real. basis for the present stir, however, is found in the fact that Tammany Hall is somewhat divided on the question as to whether or not it shall continue its policy of intimi- dating some of its own friends, like Alderman McGuiness of Brooklyn, who have been making some side money by running gambling dens in the Tammany clubs throughout the city. The faction which McLaughlin represented, in an effort to eradicate the traditional unsavory reputation which is associated with the name “Tammany Hall,” embarked on a “purity” campaign which explains to a large extent also the present at- tacks on Broadway plays. Saving “Al.” The local clinchings of the Tam- many politicians has its national as- pect in the program to put “Al” (Continued. on Page Five) WOLL'S DENIAL OF PEACE RUMORS — SHOWS REACTIONARIES SQUABBLING The first indication of the dissen-|dent of the American Federation of sion now raging within the ranks of the reactionary forces of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and the In- ternational Fur Workers’ Union who are engaged in attempting to destroy » o'clock. Operators’ President Says Bosses Will Lock CHICAGO, March 29.—Rice Mil- ler, president of the Illinois Mine Operators Association, in touch with presidents of similar organizations elsewhere, stated today that in spite of the United Mine Workers Policy | Committee offer to continue at work during negotiations, the operators would close down their mines on April 1. His organization is de- manding a wage cut. more distant districts. In them the | miners will produce coal during any | strike or lock-out in the more impor- tant fields, and will take whatever wage is finally agreed upon in the} central competitive field. Probable Lock-Out Latest indications were that the majority of the Illinois and Ohio op- | erators favor a lock-out, at least un- til their common surplus stocks of | coal are consumed. The coal bureau of the U.,8. Chamber of Commerce Continued ‘age Three), Four Local Furriers’ Meetings Thursday To Discuss Latest Attack Recent developments in the at- tack being made by reactionary of- ficials of the International Fur Workers Union and the American Federation of Labor upon the New York Furriers Joint Board will be discussed by the fur workers at four local meetings to be held Thursday night, March 31, at 8 Local 1 will meet in Manhattan Lyceum (downstairs); Local 5, in Stuyvesant Casino (downstairs); and Local 15 in Astoria Annex. Suspend College Girls. | NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March | 29.—Secrecy veiled the suspension of at least eight young women from the New Jersey college for women here today for infractions of college rules. , Violations for which girl students may be suspended include “excessive social engagements, unauthorized auto rides, smoking and leaving the campus without permission.” Nancy Watches Hubby. LONDON, March 29.—Lady Nancy Astor is not a lady of leisure. “I have a husband and that is a full time job,” Lady Astor told an educational meeting at Bristol, explaining that between her family and her parlia- mentary duties she had about ten minutes a day for relaxation. De Pinedo Reaches New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, La., March 29.— Francesco De Pinedo, commander of | the airplane Santa Maria, arrived here shortly after 1 o’clock this after- noon from Havana, Labor in charge of the “reorganiz- ing” of the Furriers’ Union, is parti- | Out Miners On April 1 | - tioned, by, «espbasisiai “porbte. wh ‘Admits $480,000 Income, |torney Reed demanded he show his Victims: 1 Torn to Aid the Chinese Revoluien Horrible Crime - Bombardment ( 'Gassed and Burned to Death In Their: Homes Editor’s Note—Some reports seeping into New ‘York City place those slain and wounded by the British-American bajhbardment of Nanking as high a8 20,000. This | figure is contained jn cabled dis- patches reaching New York direct from China. L’Humanite, the French Com- munist daily pul ed at Paris, places the figure at 7,000. The figures received up to yesterday | had been put at 2,000. The report | from Paris is as follows: | * * * | PARIS, March 29.—The murderous | bombardment of the unfortified city | Nanking by the combined war fleets lof the United States and Great Bri-| |tain last Thursday. killed and wound-| jed 7,000 unarmed Ghinese inhabi-| | tants, according to reports published | |in the Communist daily, L’Humanite, official organ of the French Com-| munist - Party. | Only three or four foreighers were | |‘killed there, it stated, but in revenge| butchery was deliberately carried on by English and American authorities. | In- opening fire with shells from| the warships under the pretense of| protecting their nationals on Socony| Hill of the Standard Oil Company, the Communist paper said, the open and densely populated part of the | city was attacked. Thousands of vic-| \tims were torn to pieces in their | homes and thousands of others poi-| ile in resultant fires,| jit was stated. | “This assasination of men, women jand children has made a deep impres-| |sion upon the Chinese,” Humanite de- | clared. “Until now the English alone were considered by the Chinese as responsible for such wholesale mur- ders, but they have evidently con-| verted the Kings of Dollars to their) bloody policy.” SAPIRO SWEARS JIM REED AIDED BOOST IN PRICES Cross Examined DETROIT, March 29.—Cross ex- amination of Aaron Sapiro, suing | Henry Ford for a million dollars dam- | age for alleged libel, began this after-| noon. Just before the defense lawyer got hold of him, Sapiro had testified to net earnings from his law practice amounting to $480,000 since 1916. At- books, and a subpoena was issued for them. Sapiro told how he studied coopera- | tive marketing, learned why some succeeded but many failed and finally | drafted a new system of ‘organization. In the end 600,000 farmers. grouped | themselves in cooperatives based on his plan. He took the stand to de- fend himself against the charges of | Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent that he had expoited the farmers. | Touching on the problems of Cali- fornia tomato growers during the war, Sapiro told of efforts to increase the basic price of $16 per ton fixed by the food administration. Reed Raised Price Sapiro revealed senator Reed as a protector at that time after all government agencies refused to help. Sapiro said: “We appealed finally to (Continued on Page Three) U. S. Marines to Defend The French Concession cularly significant. Fears Peace. Woll states that it has come to his the New York Joint Board of the| attention that “rumors are in circu- a was given vaieentay lation to the effect that overtures Furriers’ Union, by Matthew Woll when he issued a have beeh begun looking to a peace tement “denying the rumors of | between the left wing and the right peace” between the right and left ‘factions. Since there had been no published rumors of peace, such a public an- nouncement by Mr, Woll, vice presi- wing factions in the Fur haa Union.” There is absolutely no foundation for such rumors, Mr. Woll says, Yet (Continued on Pace Five) For World Imperialism PEKING, March 29—American marines and British troops will fight Prairie in the defense of the French concession, if this emergency arises, it was admitted today by the French consulate here. This arrangement was reached at a conference of the French and the commanders of various Inter- national forces. |With All Means, Appeal of The Communist International (Special Cable To The DAILY WORKER.) ISCOW, U. S. S. R., March 29.—Appealing to workers and peasants thruout the world to prevent further in- tervention of imperialist powers in China, the Executive Committee of the Communist International has issued the following manifesto: * * MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL. An atrocious crime has been committed against the Chinese peo- ple. “Civilized” barbarians, headed by the British and American im- perialists, have destroyed Nanking, a former capital of China; they have razed the labor quarters of the city and heaped its streets with the corpses of thousands of peaceful inhabitants slaughtered by heavy artillery fire; they have set fire to one of the oldest cities—all because the victories of the Chinese revolution threatened the rule of the im- perialists in China. z * * SEEK TO JUSTIFY GHASTLY CRIME. This ghastly crime, this organized slaughter by foreign marauders under Anglo-American command, has been “justified” by brazen and insolent lies. Henchman of the so-called civilized powers have circulated provocatory legends about the attack of Chinese revolutionists on the foreigners, the sacking of consulates, etc. These henchmen know that they are guilty of lying and forgery; they know that the revolutionary armies made no attempt to attack foreigners in spite of the fact that the military com- mand and the civil authorities of the foreign imperialists had exposed themselves as relentless enemies of the Chinese people; they know per- fectly well that those who fired were Shantung, troops, the allies of foreign counter-revolution. This base legend has been circulated to cover their own crimes and the crimes which they have yet to commit. The British have killed hundreds by artillery fire, hundreds of Chinese at Wanhsien, now the imperialists, united under the leadership of the United States and Great Britain have destroyed Nanking, altho official Reuter reports describing the capture of the city emphasized the bloodless victory of the Nationalists! And now these “civilized” beasts may destroy the Chinese settlement at Shang- hai from their “international” settlement, which they robbed from the Chinese peopleg, * SCHEME TO PERPETRATE NEW CRIMES. Unprecedented ultimatums, the bombardment of Nanking, the further concentration of military and nayal forees at Shanghai, military prepara- tions: ity the “international” settlement. ‘the “arrival of Russian white guards—all these indicate schemes for the perpetration of further crimes. The semi-official English Daily Telegraph has already dared to write that, “south of the Yangtze River exists no power, wherewith we could negotiate by methods of civilized diplomacy.” British diplomacy could behave most politely to the militarists of Shanghal, who before its fall executed thousands of workers. But it cannot negotiate by methods of civilized diplomacy with those who control Shanghai today; it cannot negotiate with the people who began to shake off the yoke of feudalism, of bandit generals, usurers, foreign exploiters and slave owners. British diplomacy fraternizes with the Russian white guards who were driven out of their own country after a bloody struggle. British diplomacy speaks with death-dealing guns when it deals with the mass of the Chinese people who are passionately struggling for their emancipation from the yoke of slavery. Especilaly fierce is British diplomacy against workers—those fearless Shanghai and Nanking workers who had with great pains collected money to support the striking British miners, whe anxiously followed the heroic struggle of the British working class. Against them was directed the fire of the Anglo-American guns. * * *. BRITISH IMPERIALISM THROWS OFF MASK. This fire is fire directed against the whole national-revolutionary front. British conservatives, who carried on their negotiations with cannon, quickly threw off their masks of bigotry and hypocrisy and appeared in their true light before the workers of the world, particularly the Chinese peoples—workers, peasants, village artisans, students—as ferocious op-- pressers and destroyers. The United States which courted the National movement and flirted with the Chinese revolution immediately stripped its rosy veil and showed its leadership in mass murders, destruction, looting. Britain and the United States have launched a war against the Chinese people. None but traitors can sing pacifism now, none but political char- latans can laud the League of Nations which, controlled by British con- servatives, murdered Chinese women and children at Wanshein and Nanking. The hypocritical lying bourgeoisie and social democrats, pretending that imperialist troops have been despatched to China for the “protection of women and children” have actually exposed themselves in their full nakedness to the workers of the world. eer * * MILITARISM PROTECTS PROFITS. Imperialist forces are being despatched to China to protect the profits of the imperialists, to strangle the revolution, to oppress the Chinese workers and Peasants, to help the war lords, and with the rabble and remnants of the czar’s henchmen and the reactionary remnants of im- perial China to sfrangle the struggle of the Chinese workers and peasants for liberation. The executive committee of the Communist International calls upon the toilers thruout the world, upon all enemies of imperialist violence, upon all the oppressed to raise a mighty protest against the new war started by the henchmen of capitalism. There can be no labor organization which at such a time as this refuses its voice in protest. Thrice traitor’s he who before the thousands of dead bodies of the victims of the Nanking massacre washes his hands and evades the struggle. The executive committee of the Communist International calls upon the colonial and oppressed peoples of the world to protest energetically against imperialist violence in China. Christian diplomacy, evidently fol- lowing the teachings of equality do not regard the Chinese as men; the peoples of Asia and Africa must realize this; Negroes, Indians, Malayans; Chinese—hundreds of millions of toilers groaning under the yoke of European and American plutocracy—must realize this. . *. MUST FIGHT IMPERIALIST OPPRESSION. The Communist International calls upon you to fight imperialist oppres- tion. Raisesthe banner of protest against the folly of imperialist diplo- (Continued on Page Two) Sons of China’s Generals Study Leninism MOSCOW, March 29.—The sons of Chiang Kai Shek, Can- tonese general, and Feng Yuh Siang, “Christian General,” mak- ing speeches here today stated they were in Moscow to “learn Leninism in order to fight English and American imperialists,” Stirs China From End to End British Claim U. S. Troops Under Their Command SHANGHAI, March 29.—China fs today afire with indignation over the | Nanking massacre news, of which has |now seeped into every part of the vast area which supports one fourth of the world’s population. | Thousands of meetings attended by millions are being held all over |China and the Nationalist govern- |ment, now recognized officially by | two-thirds of the country is urged by jthe infuriated massés to make the | British and American imperialists pay dearly for the murder of the Nan- | king citizens, men, women and child- ren. Dead Estimated at 10,000. The number of dead and wounded }as a result of the bombardment is now estimated at 7,000 with the toll mounting daily. The Japanese and French not hay- ing participated in the masacre are not under the fire of Chinese anger. | The brant of the hatred is borne by |the British and Americans. Proud of Slaughter. The British openly boast that they have scored a great diplomatic suc- cess in showing the Chinese that the American government is with them in their Chinese policy. The fact that this diplomatic gesture resulted in the slaughter of thousands of unarmed | people means nothing to those brutal agents of imper lism. Chang Kai-Shek, co: chief of the Nationalist arr visited Admiral Williams on his flag- ship, Pittsburgh. It was noticed that the admiral boorishly refused to pay | the general the courtesies usually ac- corded to officers of his rank. The Chinese general with the courtesy for which the Chinese are noted took no notice of the implied insult. Moore The Prince of Liars. ‘The flood of lying propaganda sent out by the capitalist press shows no abatement. One of the worst offend- ers is Frederick Moore of the New York Times, a notorious pro-British- er, who is constantly in the company of British officers and takes his in- (Continued on Page Two) KELLOGG TALKS - WITH GAL OVER REVOLT LETTERS ‘Story of Sia To Put | Calles Out Not Denied WASHINGTON, March 29-—While Secretary of State Kellogg still | speaks nothing about the letters said |to be from the state department to | the American ambassador in Mexico, jin which the latter was told to co- operate in plans to overthrow by arm- | ed foree the Calles government in or- | der to substitute some ruler amenable |to the influence of the U. S. oil and | mining interests, serious conferences | are taking place between Kellogg and | President Coolidge. Also Robert I’. Olds, assistant see- retary of state in charge of Mexicam affairs was late yesterday afternoon | | hurriedly summoned to appear before | Coolidge and take up the matter, It is intimated that there may be | some sort of public statement before | long of an official nature. Much Explaining. Meanwhile, unofficially, official Washington is dividing into campa, Some take the easiest and most plau- sible explanation—that the docu- ments are not forgeries at all, but regular letters written by Kellogg in the line of his service to American big business, intended to create an- other Haiti or Nicaragua of Mexico, “Publish Them,” In the group which at least out- wardly accepts the “explanation” of forgery, there are two factions. The one party, which has a mouth- Piece in certain metropolitan papers, such as the New York World, de- mands the publication of the “forger- ies” as part of an educational cam- (Continued on Page Two) paign for the American people. “The ° ae