The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1927, Page 1

\ \ The Daily Worker Fights: For the Organization of the Un- organized, For a Labor Party, For the 40-Hour Week. Vol. IV. No. 67. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mall, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY Entered as second-class matter NEW at the Post Office at New Yo. ORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1927 HE DAILY WORKER. inder the act of March 3, 1879. PUBISHING Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents LOCK OUT 150,000 BITUMINOUS COAL MINERS Powers Join In | Threat to China About France Negotiates “With Nati Nationalists Yielding Shanghai Settlement . WASHINGTON, D. C., March 31.—Formal demands on the Nationalist government for reparati for the loss of life and property at Nanking have been drawn by the American, British and Japanese ministers at Peking and submitted to Washington, London and Tokio for approval. * ‘ * LONDON, March 31.—Lord Birkenhead, addressing a political meeting at Coventry today, declared that the situation in China called for “united action and perfect co-operation between the anti-Bolshevist “nations of the world.” LONDON, March 31.—Lord Birkenhead, speaking at Coven- try, today, called for a union of “all anti-Bolshevik nations against China,’ SHANGHAI, March 31.—A prominent jocal Frenchman has stated confidentially to friends that negotiations are going on in Paris for the acceptance of Chinese control over the French con- cession here. The French government is confident that the Nationalists will maintain order, and. does not wish to fall in with the im- perialist schemes of England and the United States. French) merchants wish to get some of the commerce which England and | the United States, by their perpetration of massacres are alienat- | ing from themselves. SHANGHAI, March 31.—Following are the most important developments in the Chinese situation today: 1.—Great Britain, supported by Japan, is about to deliver | demands for reparations for the Nanking affair. An urgent in-| vitation has been given to the United States to join in such a} demand. A new crisis may follow such diplomatic moves. | 2.—Chinese supporters of the Nationalist movement are re- spe to be not disposed to make any deals with the powers. 3.—The British cabinet, apparently expecting rejection of such demands, is reported to be prepared to take other more drastic’ steps. 4.—In Shanghai the situation is comparatively quiet. 5.—Nationalist troops continue to advance along the Shang- hai-Tientsin railway. Positions recently won in the Yangtse val- ley are being consolidated, new recruits drilled, and the soldiers (i en rested for the march to Peking Current Events | Americans Want to Stay. E. D. Price, Consul at, Foochow, sent word the situation there was quiet. “Of the 112 Americans in the By T. J Ctcasmerd: HE truth of the maxim that true > words are often spoken in jest was again demonstrated when two lads in a delivery wagon who wit- nessed Henry Ford and his flivver going over an embankment informed the police that they feared the oc- cupant of the unfortunate gas wagon was a_ bandit. workers that are exploited by Ford will surely agree that the lads were not mistaken, HE tremendous power wielded by Ford is shown by the fact .that news of the accident did not seep out | until three days afterwards. There is rumor that the automobile mag-| nate was accompanied by a person of the opposite sex. This rumor died | an early, and we fear an unnatural} death. No sooner did the newspaper! get wind of the mishap than they be-|! gan to develop sensations. Hearst's hirelings were quick to discover that | an attempt was made on Ford's life, The New York World correspondent called attention to the fact that the employes of the Ford Motor Company | in Detroit are publishing a paper “at- | tacking Ford.” HE Ford Worker, the paper ref-! fered to, is a shop bulletin pub- lished by radical employes who want to organize the auto workers into a labor union. The paper tells the workers how they are being exploited by the billionaire boss. This propa-| ganda is extremely distasteful to Ford and his strategists may think this\is a good time to transform an accident into a “plot” and fasten it on ue xploited slaves, HEW WOLL, white-haired Fa ‘of the late Samuel Gompers, little “Matty” who expected to occupy Sam’s old shoes, only to be pushed aside by jthe baptist deacon William Green, is active in sports according to publicity put out by the Labor Sports Press Service of Chicago. Mat- thew is president of the Sportsman- ship Brotherhood and no doubt when The thousands of | consulate district, about 20 will not leave their stations in the interior,” he reported. | All Americans in the outlying dis- |tricts around Swatow are being con- | centrated except six catholic priests in the Kaying district, according to a dispatch from Consul C. B. Cham- berlain. The priests have been urged |to withdraw, he said. | Nationalists Advance. The advance of the People’s army toward Shantung province has caused great anxiety among the American residents at Tsinan, far in the inter- ior, and directly in the path of the | retreating Shantung troops who were “defending” Shanghai a short time ago, but now are fleeing in a de- |moralized condition into their home district. Consul Swaney has appealed to the northern war lords for special trains, but has been notified that all avail- jable rolling stock is being used for an troop movements, Such Americans as do not care to face the hostility of |the Shantung troops, angry at being defeated and feeling that the foreign | powers have duped them into attack- \ing the Nationalist armies, will have \ to get out bi! they oat: * | | Not Sure of Ground. | WASHINGTON, March 31.—On re- ceipt of news thru Admiral Williams jthat he has been acting in concert with the British and French military and naval officers there, President Coolidge immediately decided to take up the matter with the cabinet the first thing tomorrow morning. This is considered by observers to indicate dissatisfaction with the way in which British imperialism has been able to make use of American armed forces in China to serve its own ends, meanwhile turning aside upon the United States some of the onus of the Nanking massacre and others, which were ruining British trade in the Ori- ent. * * * Attacks U. 8. Chinese Policy | Turkmeinstan Workers In Big Popular Fiesta On Second Anniversary SHABAD, Tatkmeinstan, Mar. 31—The toilers of Turkmeinstan haye just celebrated the second an- niversary of the founding of their republic and the inaugeration of the second congress of Sovi The celebration acquired the dim: of a hig popular festiy: foundation of the first te: ilk mills in Turkmeinstan wa: ficially laid at this celebration. Cockel Expeses : Bribe Offer In Frame-Up ‘Sigman’s Men Tried To Hire Him to Implicate Hyman The despicable methods employed by the agents of the International | Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to intimidate prisoners and coerce them into signing false affidavits, is re- vealed by a statement made public yesterday by William Clockel, a \ |member of Pressers’ Local 35 of the) I. L. G. W. U., who was arrested during last summer’s cloak strike and is now on probation. This statement explains the frame-| up tactics being tried in the effort of reactionary officials to put the lead- ers of the New York Joint Board of cloak and dressmakers in jail; and it} indicates how Morris Sigman, presi-| dent. of the International, obtains from helpless prisoners ‘such alleged “letters” as the one published early this week which denounced the De- fense Fund for imprisoned cloal makers and furriers. This letter was supposed to have been written by four of the striking cloakmakers now in jail. The following account of Clockel’s experience shows how the signatures to such a letter were probably obtained. Halpern Director. Clockel, whose home is in Padaate:t N. J., was a member of the out-of- town picketing committee during the cloakmakers’ general strike, and took} part in the picketing of a scab shop, Sigman and Buchner in Guttenberg, New Jersey. All out of town picket- ing was under the direction of Jacob Halpern, its chairman, a vice presi- dnet of the International and a sup- porter of Sigman. Clockel was ar- rested and charged with felonious as- sault on October 21, 1926, and held in $1,000 bail, which was furnished by the International through the out- of-town committee. Offered Bribe. Several days before the bail ex- pired, Clockel was approached by an agent of the International, who promised him a “good job” if he would make a statement implicating Hyman, Zimmerman and Boruchow- itz in the alleged assault. “You'll have a good job and be no more a presser” he told Clockel according to Clockel’s statement made today. He was also told, he declared, that “you will go free and they'll be in jail.” Clockel refused to make such a state- ment telling the agent that “it was not true so I cannot say it.” Betrayed At Trial. The day before he pled “not guil- ty” to the assault charges in the Hudson County Court, Clockel was again approached and told to go to Jacob Halpern at the offices of the International. There Mr. Halpern told him, “You know you have gotten into trouble eo you will have to go to jail.” Although this was after the expulsion of the Joint Board and the locals by the International, Clockel did not realize that he would be de- serted by the International, and that Halpern’s statement was a threat to that effect until he appeared in court on January 20, and found that bail was not renewed by the Internation- al, “I understood that my bail was to be continued as I heard the bonds- JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 31.—|man say that he would be willing to he is not busy acting as an employers’| A bitter attack upon the policy of | furnish it,” Clockel said, “but after stoolpigeon against the progressives in the trade unions he is busy “spreading the ideas of real sports- manship within the ranks of amateur athletics.” A reader sent us this news with the comment: “tell it to the furriers!” * HE socialist. Tllinois having sD y of Cook county ‘ailed.to get on ballot in the mayoral election con- (Continued on Pane Two) ! sweeping that country was voiced this afternoon by Dr. James Ks ‘Yard, ex- ecutive sec of Western Sinai Union, in a speech a hepine the annual Newark Methodist Episcopal Church rane here: Wau, Strike. =~ AdSTE ty March agrme (Continued on Paaée Five) the foreign powers in China and ajcourt was over I was put back in defense of the Nationalist movement, jail, and informed by the keeper that the bondsmen had gone away after speaking to members of the out of town committee who hed previously arranged my bail. Bail was finally furnished for me by the Joint Board.” Clockel is one of the cloak strikers now on probation, BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE DAILY Won Newark Furriers Call Meeting For Peace Don't Trust Schachtman But Ask Hisn io Meet Left Wing Dentieng the internal threat Fur Loca strife ‘wi tings. of for Satur ‘April 2nd, in New Montgomery Hall (Prince #od Montgomery Streets) at 1 p, m, @nd in the interest of peace has inWibed speakers both Ben sold, general manager the New York Jgipt Board Furriers’ Union and Oizbe Schachtman, president of the International Fur Workers’ Union. “While we do not trust Schachtman or any of his associates” says Mor- ris Langér, business manager of Lo- cal 25, “Wwe are prepaved to forget their former treachery against the Newark Wcal in our desire to save the union {gm the destruction which faces it if Schachtman and the reac- tionary officials of the American | Federation of Labor continue thei union-smashing campaign uncheck-| ed.” Tried Injunction. | The taéties of Schachtman ‘and the other right wing leaders of the In- ternational Fur Workers’ terests of the workers are well known | \to Local 25. It was against this lo- cal that the International tried to take out to throw ont the regularly elected re-| | Presentatives and replace them with | sppointadagtho would serve the bur-| eaucratic’ machine “or the “rezction- aries. Wants Peace. The International officials were forced to withdraw this application | (Continued on jnimenoniaaed oad aces { | PLUMBERS AND HELPERS BEGIN STRIKE TODAY 3,000 Workers Demand | More Pay, Less Hours | More than 3,000 Brooklyn plumbers | and helpers will go on strike ‘this | morning. The plumbers will fight for a $14) a day wage and a forty hour week! while the helpers are fighting for re- | cognition of the union as well as a $9 a day wage and a forty hour week. The plumbers are members of Lo- cal 1, Plumbers’ Union of Brooklyn, while the helpers belong to the Amer- ican Association of Plumbers Helpers that has been organizing the helpers throughout New York city for the last few months. When interviewed yesterday by a representative of The DAILY WORKER, an official of the plumb- jers union said that “the plumbers and the helpers are going to walk | out together and carry on a joint) struggle. | Thomas F. Oates is president of the plumbers’ union while C. E. Miller is president of the helpers association. DAILY WORKER Is Called to Court For Poem on U. S. The editors and business man- ager of The DAILY WORKER have | been summoned to appear in the 3rd Dist. City Magistrate’s Court, Second Ave. and Second St., this morning at 10 to answer to a charge of violating section 1141 of the penal code which is directed against the publication of “lewd, lecherous, lascivious, and disgust- ing matter.” The objectionable “matter” is a poem entitled “America” by David Gordan, which appeared in the magazine section of The DAILY WORKER of March 12, The legal provision which is be- ing used to close so-called immoral plays on Broadway is in the pr sent instance aimed at a r. labor newspaper. jeal | Four Striking Workers | cits Union | , against those who are serving the in- | injunction, in its effort | Police, Gangsters am! | Scabs Unite To Jail members of the Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union are the victims of a frame-up plotted by the Royal Brass Co., 8th street, together ga rs and de strikers, Four striking with ves. Jacob Chalit, man Isman, Sam Frank and 1. scabs, The Hy- Al- on 10 bail each, “disorderly conduct.” they were seated in a block away from the were urrested. houn, are out ged with ‘Star Big Chase For “Plotters Who Hit Ford” Sapiro Admits Wished World | Wide Farm Organization DETROIT, March 31.—While the cross examination of Aaron Sapiro, suing Henry Ford for a million dol- |lars for libel, went on in the federal court here, the police department and private detectives agencies made every \effort to give the impression that Ford was nearly assassinated. An army of Ford’s secret service, | private detectives and police of a half dozen Michigan cities are searching for two men and a Studebaker tour- ing car. Occupants of the Studebaker are said to have deliberately attempt- jed to drive Ford into the River Rouge | but failing in that, rammed his Ford coupe, in Which the “autumbile- king rode alone, off a boulevard near his j estate and sped away as the car tum- | bled down an embankment. Ford Not Struck? The Studebaker story contradicts an earlier account given by two boys, | Ernest Wilhelmi and Carl Machivitz, | who said they saw Ford, with some lone else in the car, drive off the ein- | bankment by accident, no pursuing automobile being in evidence. Under Ford’s express orders, all |news of the incident was suppressed | for several days. Can't Testify. Ford, who was expected to testify this week, is saved ly this affair from any such humiliating experience as he had when himsclf suing a news- paper for libel, some time ago. On that occasion, on the witness stand he showed abysmal ignorance of ordinary historical events and other matters suitable to the know- |ledge of a sixth grade grammar school pupil. It is not expected now that he will take the stand. His physicians, who first stated his injuries to be very slight, now issue graver bulletins. The Jatest is that the auto king is spitting blood, may have internal injuries, and is threatened with pneumonia. Red Cross Examines. Meanwhile, in the court room, Sa- piro endures a cross examination him- | self, conducted by Ford’s noted coun- | sel, This has already brought out the fact that the ultimate goal of Aaron Sapiro, so-called cooperative king, (Continued on Page Two) Want to Be Hangman. PRAGUE, March 31.—The Hang- man’s job is a coveted one in Czecho- Slovakia. The government advertised for a hangman and there were 66 appli- cants. Franz Nechyba, 31, a former police- | man, won the job. Passing of The Penny Paper® MONTGOMERY,, Ala., March 31. —The Montgomery Times, only sur- viving penny newspaper, was sold to- day to Frederick I, Thompson, who will merge it with his Montgomery Journal. The Times was started here in 1908 by J. B. Stern. Army ‘Aviatow Killed. WASHINGTON, March 31.—Com- mander Robert W. Cabaniss, com- mander of the aircraft tender Aris- took was instantly killed today in a crash of an airplane in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a dispatch to the navy department. Mystery In Kansas. HAYS, Kan., March 31,—The find- ing of William J. Bedard, 20-year old high school athlete, unconscious from three bullet wounds in a car near Plainville, presented a baffling my-| stery authorities here today. i perators Demand Men Take Less Pay | Work Stops In Central Competitive Field; Out- lying Districts Stay At Work CHICAGO, March 31.—All was in readiness today for sus- |pension of soft coal mining at midnight tonight in the central |competitive field, embracing western Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana. | Jacksonville wage scale. | The union wants a new cont | The coal operators demand a $2 a day reduction of the miners’ already |low wages. This would really be a | much greater cut than appears at first sight, for the miners do not | really get regular work at $7.50 a) day. They work piece work at rates | intended to approximate in earning | power the $7.50 wage, but which sel- | dom does so, because active and intelli- gent superintendents and mine man- agers know how to trick the min into doing a lot of work for nothing | —“dead work” it is called, and only | equal vigilance on the part of the union officials, and equal readiness to defend the men’s rights as is shown by the employers’ bosses in defense of profits, will maintain the nominal wage schedule. Reduces Income Lately, during the administration of Frank Farrington in District 12 (Iinois) of the union, and under his | successors, this vigilance in the de- | fense of miners’ wages is not shown. There is also the prevalence of uh- employment, caused by the long | working day, to cut down the miners’ average income, and the fact that) frequently smaller companies go out | of business and leave their men un-| paid, afterwards to start operations | again under another contract, means | loss to the miners. | May Last All Summer Rice Miller, president of the Coal | Operators’ Association of Illinois, de- elared today there was slight hope for a last-minute agreement as the oper- conference with the understanding that lower wages would be accepted. Miller declared today the Illinois operators were not expecting to im- port strikebreakers. The early spring and presence of large stocks of coal above ground that the suspension might extend at least well into the summer. Could Produce More Illinois, one of the greatest bitum- inous ¢oal producing states in the Union, turned out 65,000,000 tons last year. “We could have produced double that amount,” said Miller, “but we can’t sell that much in competition with non-union West Virginia and Kentucky fields the wage scales of which are some $2 a day less than ours.” * * Lewis Silent INDIANAPOLIS, March 31.—Be- yond stating that he was “aware that (Continued on Page Two) * i} on ators expected the union to enter a} were factors in support of the belief | Some 150,000 members of the United Mine Workers’ Union and virtually all of the bituminous coal mines in the area will be | atfected by the suspension, which follows the expiration of the ract providing substantially the same basic pay as the Jacksonville agreement—$7.50 a day or a | proportionate amount to miners working on a tonnage basis. MEXICO, BRITAIN: AGREE TO SETTLE FOR REVOLT LOSS | Mixed Commission Will Pass On Claims LONDON, March 31.—The Mexican government has agreed to pay Brit- ish subjects for losses incurred during the revolutions between November {1910 and May, 1920, according to a statem/ nt issued by the British for- eign office yesterday. British claims, both direct and in- direct, w'll be submitted to a commis-__ pomposed Of “Gihe MEXICAN, ore ” “nglishman and one “neutral.” ‘Furriers Crowd Into Big Meetings to Show Joint Board Loyalty Crowded membership meetings of the four locals constituting the New York Joint Board Furriers’ Union last night heard reports on the work of combatting the union-smashing cam- paign of the reactionary officials of | the International Fur Workers’ Union jand the American Federation of La- bor, and by their enthusiasm and ex- pressions of loyalty to the Joint Board jleaders gave an illustration_of the solid ranks that are opposing these | right wing traitors. | No one seeing these meetings of workers could doubt their power to | successfully oppose the efforts to break their union. No one could ques- tion their ability to rout not only the hostile trade union forces, but the | employers.as well if they should make the mistake of attempting to combine against the rank and file of the work- ers as they did in collaboration plot with the A. F, of L. and the Interna- tional officials during the fur strike. The fur workers stand solidly with their chosen leaders of the New York Joint Board, so one speaker after another stated last night. The memi- bership expressed itself in no uncer- tain terms, and their determination to preserve their union and union con- ditions was inspiring. GOLD SHOWS UP CRIMINAL RECORD OF ALEX FRIED, WOLL ORGANIZER | | A sensation was caused in the fur | tion of a leaflet by Ben Gold, general manager of the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union which exposes the criminal record of Alex Fried, one of the “favorites” of Matthew Woll and President William Green of the A. F. of L. man who has been made general or- ganizer of the International Fur Workers’ special union which is sup- posed to replace the Joint Board, it is considered a smashing answer to the scurrilous attack upon the integrity of various leaders of the New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union contained in a letter sent Wednesday to each member of the union by the reactionary Furriers’ Reorganization Committee of the A. F. of L. The leaflet which is now in the hands of every New York fur worker says: Alex Fried—Big Alex—alias Reid market yesterday with the distribu- | Revealing as it does the type of | “An International Organizer with Three Names As general organizer of the Inter- national scab “union” of Shachtman, Winnick, Matthew Woll and McGrady, he calls himself “Brother” Alex Fried. In the underworld, where he is aii honorable member, he calls Mapa: “Big Alex.” In the police department and prison, this hero of ours is known the name of “Reid.” Here is a page from the career *) this International organizer of the seab “union”: ? Prison Record of Alex Fried, ALIAS REID ‘ The organizer of the International and of the A. F. of L, * Oct. 18, 1912, arrested by Offi- cer Concannon in Boston, Mass., for breaking into a house and robbing it of valuable jewelry. Dec. 16, 1912, Alex Fried, Reid, was convieted and i to from 4 to 6 years in a Mi | (Continued on Page Five) 4 } i remo: