The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1927, Page 2

Pr he bomhardenansal, Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1927 Locking Out 150,000 PUssian Panty Miners to Cut Pay Operators Express Deter Determination to Drive Union Men Down to Non-Union Wage Scale respect for constituted author- (Continued from Page Some operators were negot temporary wage agreemen yent a shut down of thei pending final settlement of the w One) iating for!i to pre- operators here maintained si- as to their plans. The Pitts- s tion, through Ss a unit during the een dissolved, leay- union mine operators without official spokesman in the region. As the union’s first move in the scheduled suspension, Murray an-| nounced he had filed with the Pitt burgh Council of Churches, specific to|charges of alleged immoral condi- tions in mining camps of the Pitts- | | burgh Coal Company, which operates | eighteen mines on the open shop plan. no sus-|} ee | Southern Illinois Fields Quit. WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, March} of the United Mine Workers refu today-to discuss the crisis in tl bituminous coal industry which will come at midnight ton t expiration of the Ja agreement, Up To Operators “T have already said all there’s be said,” Lewis stated. He refer to his earlier statement in which pointed out that under the new pol of the union there need be | pension of coal mining while discus- sions regarding a new wage scale for | omville the central competitive field were}: Bituminous miners in the south- | under wa} jern Illinois coal fields went down into | “The union’s policy can be summed the pits today for what apparently | up in this phrase,” Lewis had said.) was the last day of work for an in- “While we’re talking this pay matter over let’s not fight.” | The union’s policy enables every definite period, In the counties of Franklin, Wil-| “PROTESTS WHITE HUNGARY TERROR |Rap Brutal Torture of | Imprisoned Workers BERLIN, March 15.—(By for debate: “The Hungarian Bethlen govern- an unceasing | | brutal and bloody struggle for the de- | struction of the Hungarian working The Bethlen gov-| | ernnment is using and has used mass | tortures and maltreatment of defenseless prisoners, years of hard | and drum-head executions in order to intimidate the Hungarian | test did the next best thing. ment is carrying on class movement. arrests, labor, class and to working prevent | provement of its economic situation or the acquisition of political rights. “In the last few days it has become |ly ignorant of the dominant parasitic known that the Hungarian govern- | purpose of the corrupt and corrupt- ment has once again made numerous | ing practices and of the degrading re- arrests amongst the workers simply {because the arrested belong to the) dustry.” | perfectly legal left-wing Mail) The following motion was laid before the Prussian Diet by the Communist | fraction and accepted by the Diet! it| sued a statement to the wage-earners | carrying on any struggle for the im- | of Chicago, in which the workers are | Socialist | innocents have reached the declining | [ Sinelair’s Appeal For A New Trial Denied By | | Capital Supreme Court MOSCOW, March 31—Bitterly scor- WASHINGTON, March 31. — ing the imperialist Harry F. Sinclair’s motion for a new trial, following his conviction for contempt of the senate, was denied today by Justice Hitz, in district supreme court. | The oil magnate’s attorneys are now expected to appeal to the court of appeals, and if they lose there, eventually to the United States su- preme court. | The maximum sentence possible for Sinclair is a year in jail for re- fusing to answer the questions pro- pounded by the senate oil investi- gating committee several years | ago. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) It is- |ing a boycott in retaliation, General | tionalist forces at Shanghai, outlined | Nationalist aims, policies and prob- | |lems in an interview with the Pravda correspondent, Blow to World Imperialism. camp of the anti-imperialists,” |said. “The eapture of Shanghai is a} | blow to imperialism and a step for- | ward on the road to world revolution. | We can only exercise active opposi- | tion to the united front of imperial- ism by the closest reliance upon co- treat us as equals, for support from the Soviet Union of our revolution, jinformed that candidates, Dever, | | Declaring that the support of the Nanking bombardment and threaten- | | Pai Chung-hsi, commanding the Na-| and are convinced of the development | } GENERAL PAI THREATENS BOYCOTT | TO AVENGE NANKING SLAUGHTER © powers for the|Sun Yat-Sen we do not expect to | work out a plan for the restoration | “The world today is divided into |of the conce: the camp of ‘the imperialists and the | he | our demands we shall compel them | | China, he pointed out that the “Chie | operation with the wide masses of | front by lies and slander. our countrymen and all peoples who|Sen instructed as to cooperate with | We firmly hope | the communists who form part of! | spr | vast masses of China had alone made | Thompson and Robertson are “gross- alist armies, General Pai said, know the imperialists hope for a rup- |sults of the capitalist system of in- It appears that thse three and the popular masses. But that is impossible. Our basic principle is ture between. the ‘Nationalist armies|China has not reached a sufficient | ialists. scor- {ialists, Following the instructions si capture the concessions and the set- | tlement of Shanghai by force. t Threatens Boycott Threatening the boycott as a means | of driving the imperialists cut of) China, General Pai said, “The Central | Committee of the Kuomintang w 1 ions throughout China. | If the imperialists refuse to satisfy | by means of economic boycott. Discussing the Soviet relations with | At the unusual price nese revolution forms a part of the} front of world revolution, The im-| of perialists are trying to break that | . the Kuomintang, and we shall not) break the alliance with them. “The English press in China ng all kinds of lies on this} stbject. It ough to be suppressed, but, | CENTS EACH possible the victories of the Nation-| unfortunately that at-present is im- | “We! possible. The Nationalist general thinks that | ——————————— NOTE Our stock of these books is stage of econorie development to war- | rani the estabiishment ef commun- | ars of their lives without an under- the union of the armed forces with |ism. a4 operator to continue mining at the old scale pending the final settlement of the waee dispute, aceording to Lewis. will Stop Work PITTSBURGH, March 31.—A ces- sation of work in the coa Ids here appears inevitable, Phillip Murray, liamson and Saline alone, more than | paises Rati so ule Ane ey ok 28,000 men will lay down their tools | Sea Gini tina ioe tonight. | Already many of the colleries in the field have shut down. Notices have been published at other mines of the suspension starting tonight. Chief have held educational courses. Get Confessions By Torture. | side by side with this legal party. The sum total of the accusations | em to live in luxury at the expense brought against them is that they} “The Budapest police authorities | among these in this immediate sec- have announced that of the 76 arres- the popular masses, Union of Peasants, Workers “Our problem,” he continued, “is to deprive the imperialists of internal militarist support and then throw off their economic yoke. Our policy con- sists in the reinforcement of and union of the peasants, workers, trades- standing of the system from which {they receive the graft that enables of the working class. Shame on the | negligent socialists that have allowed ‘three well-meaning but simple-mind- ed millionaires to reach this stage of life without being at least offered so- Denies Russian Control. “The imperialist press,” he con- | cluded, “is now relying on two slo- | gans—that the Kuomintang is con-| trolled by Communists and that the | Nationalist Army is controlled by Soviet advisers. This is not true. The | Peking Government has foreign ad- But | jnternational vice president of the tion is the Old Ben Coal Corporation United Mine Workers, declared today | which notified its men in seven mines on the eve of. the scheduled suspen- | opera ated in Franklin and Williamson sion. counties to remove their tools and ted left-wing socialist and Communist | workers, 53 will be placed before an extraordinary court which according to Hungarian law can only pass one a Sunday School. * * # HE Hearst correspondent cialist salvation thru the medium of | in| visers, we have Soviet advisers. | “As regards foreign policy we do |thiat does not mean that our Govern- | {not intend at present to engage in}ment or army is under Soviet con-| open armed warfare with the Imper- !trol.” | } men and soldiers. Murray’s statement was the first acknowledgment by an official that | _yirtually all hope of any action to ~Yorestall a suspension had been aban- | dioned. Heretofore, the Lewi istration had maintain silence. d tactful Will Keep Order “Union leaders have called upon their people to maintain the best of order,” Murray added. “We urge the miners to be peaceable ay ad to have / | personal effects. The New Orient, largest mine in the world, already has jceased. sentence—the sentence of death, arrested workers have been horribly es ete | maltrated, thei yond recognition, beard | dragged out by the roots and their bodies beaten bloody in order to ex- vract confessions from them. These facts are not in any way denied by the Hungarian police, “These terrible acts of the Hun- lowa Conference. | DES MOINES, Iowa, March 31.— i A last minute effort to avert a shut- down of Iowa mines, employing about |, 000 men, was to be made today by ;Governor John Hammill, who has ealled a conference of miners’ repre- sentatives _and mine operators. A erudesence of the worst times of The} features beaten be- | and hair} garian government represent a re- Shanghai has outdone his bri others | | of ‘the Associated Press in lying|* about the Nationalist revolution. This| liar cables that the Nationalists at-| For the tempted an advance on the French} concession under cover of little child- ren, which prevented the gallant and} chivalrous imperialists from firing at} them. They fire over them however. The truth of the matter is that the Nationalist soldiers are freely per- mitted to enter the French concession NE EPE AT Start Big Chase “Plotters Who Hit t Henry Ford” | (Continued f from Page One) | was the organization of all the farm- | ers of the world into single selling groups to control the prices of each basic farm product. Cotton alone was excepted from the 50,000 MOSCOW WORKERS PROTEST — NANKING BLOOD BATH BY AMERICA Cable To The DAILY the. society which investigated the WORKER.) | white terror in Poland., The com- MOSCOW, March “31—The s»iews of mitted” consisted of labor party. mem- layking proy/ \bers: Beckett, Shepard and Horra- nong the\/ban, who made an unbiased investi- Moscow proletariat. gation of the terror and class justice In the square before the Commun-jof Pilsudsky’s government. On a ist. International headquarters large suggestion of the Polish delegation svéwds assembled all day and held to the conference a special resolution meetings of protest. The demonstra-|was passed protesting against the tions were participated in by overjacts of violence practiced by Polish 50,000 workers, traffic in all neigh- | fascism. ooring streets being interrupted. Relief Conference. At a conference of the Internation- al Society to Relieve Revolutionary Workers meeting in Moscow heard a pointed out that during the two and pointde out that during the two and a half years of the societies’ activi- ties mass organizations of the society have been created in 42 countries. The society consists of over 6,000,000 (Special roked utmost indignation 2 Bessarabia Protests. Numerous meetings organized by} the Society of Bessarabians held here | |protested against the ratification of the Bessarabian protocol by Italy. Kolaroff, Marty, Eatayama and others spoke. Resolutions were un- animously adopted condemning new| acts hostile to the Soviet Union, andj} Be ‘abia. Also voted message of members and supports 60,000 politi-| greeting to the national revolution- zal prisoners and 100,000 members of ary army of China and the third con- their families. ference- of the Soviets of the Solda- | The conference passed a resolution |vian Soviet Republi¢, which opened thanking the British delegation of today. { GOOLIDGE PUTS | Reichstax Includes the HAYNES IN JOB mediaeval barbarism. These acts are the results of a fanatical persecuting passion against the organized _Hun- garian working class whose economic situation is the worst of any country in Europe. All connection with this | government leads to a co-responsi- | bility for these acts of terror. Urge Protest “Therefore the Prussian Diet de- cides to instruct the Prussian cabinet: 1. To abclish the agreement made | between the Prussian State and the Bethlen government through its edu- cational minister Count Kiebersberg for a German-Hungarian Educational Co-operation and to abolish the Hun- garian Chair established in the Berlin University as a consequence of this agreement, 2. To inform the Hungarian gov- ernment that these measures are an expression of the protest of the Prussian Diet and the Prussian Cab- inet at the acts of terror practised upon the Hungarian working class.” Kellogg Resignation Rumors Continue; He Denies Will Go West WASHINGTTON, March 3 ignation from the cabinet, was denied today by Kellogg. The secretary said he was not go- much to the chagrin of the British |and American war lords who are try- world plan, Sapiro said, because “it was not feasible.” He hoped however the ease. Reed had obtained a memo- | | randum which Sapiro used yesterday | to give his net income between 1916 | | and 1927. The total was nearly $400,- | 000. Gross Fees A Miilion. Reed discovered the memorandum | |also contained the gross fees received |by Sapiro and his associatés over the | same period. He tried to get the sum into the record to prove his earlier statement that Sapiro had taken $1,-| 000,000 from the farmers. Sapiro said he had obtained $5,000,- limited. Orders will be filled as received. In larger orders including many pamphlets we will substitute with other titles on hand. ee TITLES: Number of copter LIFE OF JOH N BROWN—- Michael Gold BLOOD AND stone. RELIGION OF Pdul Lafarque, . BRITISH RULE IN INDIA— Shapuri Saklatvala. noes TWO SPEECHES—Kar! Marx... WM: F. DUNNE'S SPEECH AT THE PORTLAND A. F, OF L. CONVENTION os SHOULD COMMUNISTS PAR TICIPATE IN RBACTION ARY UNIONS-—Lenin eee ON CO-OPERATIVES—Lenin .... STEEL—Love- CAPITAL— —A report published in a morning news- paper that Secretary of State Kellogg is planning to take a long vacation in California, to be followed by his res- In Its Budget Planning FOR DRY VOTES WASHINGTON, N, March 31.—Con- gressional politicians see in President | Goolidge’s appointment of Roy Haynes, anti-saloon leaguer, as pro- hibition commissioner, a desire to stand on the dry platform, as repub-| lican nominee for a third term in the presidency. It is pointed out that Coolidge de- fied Mellon, a thing he very seldom does, in this appointment. Mellon J. O. Pennington, as commissioner. Farmers Desert Vermontee. A.| BERLIN, March 31.—The Reich-) ing to California, but about the ever- German budget the financial obliga- ment from the cabinet “because of il) tions due under the Dawes plan. health” he was not so emphatic, al- Deputy Deffauer, a Centrist, in 2] though he has consistently denied pre+ | Foss to the Reichstag, declared Ger- vidus reports of this sort. | many need never repent placing confi- Despite the denials, however, dence in the Dawes commission, would not surprise Kelloge’s So Speakers of all parties in the Reich- | j, he ‘: 7 stag, debating the budget, pleaded for ssn cx ponte cts matok A el a downward revision of the Dawes |plan declaring that Germany was only Opposes Hoarding of able to pay last year because it re- ceived $600,000,000 from foreign | National Resources | loans. New South Wales Law Blocks Greedy Owners | Natural resources says the People’s hice today voted to include within the recurring report of his early retire- | it WASHINGTON, (FP) March 31. —| and not the lives of British subjects. | should’ not be|So they gave Guest the “bird.” hoarded by any nation, but should be | | fairly allocated among all nations, | Reconstruction | League, through its executive secre- Coolidge has also sent his man Hil-| SYDNEY, Australia, (By Mail).— les on a,scouting expedition thru the| During 1926, the Fair Rents’ Court | middle west, and is reported to have in New South Wales established by a been shocked at the report made of | labor government some years ago, serious cooling of the farmers to-, ‘dealt with 1831 applications for re- wards the present administration, and|ductions in rents, The reductions in the bare-faced attempts made by Se | rents made by the court ranged from ator Frank Lowden to capitalize his | 24 cents to $6.12 per week for dwell- support of the McNary-Haugen farm | ings and 24 cents to $13.32 for shops. hill, in opposition to Coolidge, who| The existence of the court had a re- vetoed it. Lowden is said to have an | straining influence on landlords gen- ‘tary, Benjamin C. Marsh, in a state- he asking that a world conference jis subject be called by the Uni- He quotes Roosevelt and Wilson in endorsement of this prin- ciple, and says the late war was fought to afford to all peoples their fair share of the use of raw mater- per tates, ials, “Mystery 8” Back to Britain alliance with Col. Theodore Roosevelt | erally, since landlords knew that if DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., March to get the producers of all other sta- ple crops into the world farm organ- | izations, ing hard to get the French to co- operate. with them against the Chi-| nese Nationalist government. eo ee HILE the French guards were} snoring peacefully, playful Na- tionalist soldiers greased the hinges | on the gates leading to the French concession, then unhinged the gates and carried them away. fe French soldiers continued to snore and the patriotic American males and virtu- ous American females spent a night during which their most priceless pos- | sessions, wealth and virtue, were in| constant danger. Still nothing of an untoward nature happened, which {shows how little danger confronts well-behaved foreigners in China. * * * IR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN threw a nifty fit of moral indig- nation in the house of commons over the alleged outrage committed by Na- tionalist troops in Nanking. Of ‘course, the outrage was committed by the British and American troops. | The Nationalist “outrage” was dis-| covered to cover up the mass murder perpetrated by the imperialists. If the labor members in the house of commons made any protest against Chamberlain’s announced intention to pursue a “firm policy” in China the newspapers failed to mention it. The | right wing leaders of the British la- bor party are imperialist tothe core and are as anxious to hold the rich Yangtze Valley as Austen Chamber-| ize a cooperative. He added that he lain and Winston Churchill. wrote the contract used by the Kan- erie sas wheat growers. R. HADEN GUEST, who quit Big Pay From Bureau. the British labor party because of| In Texas, Sapiro said he helped its official opposition to intervention | organize the Texas wheat growers, in China, was given a sound trimming | His retainer is $400 a year, he added, | by the working class when he ran for| his big earnings came from the Texas ‘his old seat as an independent consti-| farm bureau, it was shown, which \tutionalist. He had the support of | Paid him $10,406 from 1920 to 1924. the tories, Guest wanted to prove| Sapiro scored a point when the |that the people were in favor of “de-| court refused to allow Reed to in- \fending their nationalist in China.” | Ject the wheat king’s gross fees inte Lowden Implicated. At the afternoon session Reed | stressed the activities of the Ameri- ean wheat advisory committee, of which former governor Frank 0. Low- den was chairman. He drew from Sa- | piro statements that Sears, Roebuck and Company, of which Rosenwald {| is the head, Baruch and himself had contributed to a fund raised by this | | committee, Reed asserted these funds | were used to promote Sapiro cooper- | atives but the wheat king said most | of the money was spent on a Kansas | wheat cooperative. Objections by Sa- | piro’s counsel halted further ques- tioning about these funds, although | Reed lodged a strong protest with the court. Fee Chaser. | “This was a part of the promotion scheme employed by the gentleman to get work for himself and fees for himself,” said Reed. “We have a vight to learn how much time he put into his legal work for these associa- tions and whether his fees were ex- tortionate. We feel they were so ex- tortionate that he had no right to collect them in the first place and couldn’t be damaged if he lost them.” Reed touched lightly on the cooper- ative situation in Kansas. Sapiro said he got $1,100 for making speech- es in the sunflower state while the wheat farmers were trying to organ- |Gold Coast Apartments hy “MIND OF ORGANIZED ‘Ladies Must Open Cans 000 in loans for the cooperative wheat | growers in Idaho, Washington, Oregon | and Montana, | Reed then brought out that Sapiro | quarrelled with the Idaho wheat grow- i ers over the size of his fee for hav- | ing obtained a government loan for | \them. Sapiro asked $5,000 fee and | $570 expenses but finally accepted | $3,000 which the wheat growers were | willing to pay. “You had some controversy over | that?” Reed snarled. ~e TRADE UNIONS IN 192 RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONS ROL! OF TRADE UNIONS IN VIET RUSSIA—A. Loseov- SOVIET TITUTION OF RUSSIA FIFTH YEAR OF THE RU SIAN REVOLUTION--J, Can- non MARRIAC IET RU ies THE. THIRD INTERNATIO- NAL—Souvarine Vos LAWS OF A sov- “No, not at all,” Sapiro replied, | INTE RNATIONAL, on QEROE apparently angry. “There was Just | TRIAL UNIONS—A. Losov- a difference of opinion.” enero en OF THE R. Kirshenbaum ILLU- | LABOR—L. THE LA_ FOLLETTE SION—J. Lovestone Hit By Janitor Strike; FROM THIRD THRU THE J FOURTH CONVENTION OF CHICAGO—(FP) — Unless the) CME pik pak aia ae owner surrenders, the 2-day siege CONSTITUTION AND PRO- and boycott of the exclusive gold| coast apartment building will con- | tinue indefinitely. GRAM OF THE WORKERS PARTY, 1924 UNDERGROUND RADICAL- : +f * ISM— Pepper sens is all very annoying you know, | UxgmpLOYMENT—Browder .... but Mr. Martin who owns the build- | WHATS WHAT ABOUT ing thought he had hired a 100 per | COOLIDGE—J, Lovestone cent. non-union janitor, but the janitor | got converted and joined Local 1, the flat janitors branch of the Building Service Employes Intl. Union. He saved his soul but Jost his job—tem- porarily. The union rushed to the, rescue. It picketed the building. It enlisted the sympathy of the milk) WHITE TERRORISTS ASK FOR MERCY—M. Bedacht Get them ALL for « 7 CENTS Keep what you want—give away the rest to other workers you know! wagon drivers’ union and of the! grocery drivers’ union. Other unions are ready to be mobilized in this, practical demonstration of worker| solidarity. | The silk-stockinged tenants in the! building are bootlegging their own milk, rolling the peas home from the | grocery with their table knives and| stuffing No. 2 cans-of peaches into| the pockets of their spring overcosts. | | The people seemed to know that what | 4 the government is defending in China | \is the investmonts of the imperialists | Are You a BAKE ITH Senator Borah supporting | Calvin Coolidge for reelection and | defending the intellectual pigmy’s po- | licy in China and Latin America, the | nation is bound to give the rough) and ready windbag from Idaho-a slap on the senatorial wrist, Villard is easily satisfied but there is a limit to his fortitude, He has seen the) league of nations acting suspiciously | like a war department. He has heard Lord Robert Cecil, pacifist angel, | speak as belligerently as a barroom | bum. He hag seen statesman after | statesman talk peace and act war. But who would ever expect Senator Tel. Windsor 9052. Getting FINCO Co-operative If not, let us know and we'll instruct our RY PRODUCTS (Union Made) NOTE ALSO On ail orders under one dollar ADD FIVE CENTS FOR POSTAGE. All orders must be cash or c. O. D. THESE BOOKS can be bought also at the follow- ing Workers’ Bookshops: NEW YORK—Jimmie Higgins | Bookshop, 127 University Pl. i Finnish Co-operative Trading Association, Inc. driver to call at your home.: CHICAGO—Workers Bookshop, f | 19 S. Lincoln St, 5 | BOSTON — Workers Bookshop, 4301 — Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. | 36 Causeway St |@ LOS ANGELES—Worke Book- i | shop, 233 West 2nd St. / |B) DETROIT — Workers Byokshop, TIRES ON TIME. _ ter marketing of this product. they charged excessive rentals, the tenants would appeal to the court for | reductions. Where a reduction is |made, the landlord is not allowed to | dispossess a tenant for 12 months fol- lowing the court’s decision, nor can he seek‘increaséd vent from an in- coming tenant. of New York, to bring the easterners his way, and intends to run for presi- dent. Better Marketing SEATTLE (FP) March 31.—Apple growers and shippers of the north- west, under the lead of the local Chamber of Commerce, are launching an organization scheme for the bet-| It is| to sign up not less than 75 ‘cent. of the growers and an equal number of shippers upon an agreed | uniform selling system. De Pinedo Starts For Texas NEW ORLEANS, La,, Mareh 31.— Francesco E. Pinedo, Commander of the Santa Maria, will hop‘off for San Antonio, Texas, early Friday it was annotiticed Herve tdday. ] 81.—While congratulatory telegrams poured in on him following his feat of traveling more than 200 miles an hour on land, Major H. 0. 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