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

FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections. Be sure to get them both. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mat Vol. IV. No. 68, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office-at New York, N. Y., under the act ef March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY - EDITION 1, $8.00 per year, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1927 WEST VIRGINIA NON-UNION MINERS TALK STRI Ld Published Da PUBISHING CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 5 U. S. and Britain Split Over China Report Coolidge Orders Admirals Not to Follow England Into War—NOW—to Save India (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) WASHINGTON, April 1.—Great Britain’s efforts to drag the United States into a war to protect British investments in| China appear at present to be doomed to failure. | President Coolidge, it was learned today, has instructed American officials in China that “it is as much their duty to resist involving the United States in a war with the Chinese peo- ple as it is to safeguard the lives and the property of American citizens.” Tricked By British. Hoping to find in a united China a lucrative field for in- vestment, finance capitalists have no intention of pulling British | They | have been bringing pressure to| }}|chestnuts out of the fire. Current Events By T. J. O’Franerry. |bear upon the administration to jtake an independent attitude |toward China. ORNELIUS VANDERBILT Jr., the |4nd newspaper correspondents have three-million-dollar failure who|been tricked by the British foreign | started at the top in the newspaper | ffice into yelping for a war to pro- business and soon found himself at| tect Hongkong and India, the admin- | the bottom, is on Hearst’s payroll in| istration has ordered its Chinese of- | the capacity of editorial writer for | ficials to stop the propaganda which the piffle-magnate’s tabloid at a juicy |has been flooding the Nationalist | salary. In the Daily Mirror of | Press. | March 29, Vanderbilt got excited over | Moore Bounced? | the “yellow peril’, yellow Hearst’s| Those in close touch with the situ- favorite theme. The ex-millionaire | ation regard as significant the ab- pictures “hordes” of “cruel Orientals” | sence of any dispatch from Frederic: | sweeping down on the rest of the | Moore in this morning’s New York | world and transforming peaceful val- | Times. Moore, who is rabidly anti- | leys into lakes of gore. | Cantonese, has been sending wild pro- | * * * | war propaganda te the Times and the | absence of his atrocity story ‘coming on the Coolidge’s ac- tion is regarded reme'y siguifi- fant, eat HERE is no originality in Vander- bilt’s dream. The Kaiser claimed | to be one of its patentees. Teddy Roosevelt often ground his teeth with’ satisfaction over the carcass. Vander- | bilt was a bit of a liberal while run-| * England Moves Toward War. LONDON, April 1. — Great Bri- | | | | Realizing that American officials | | | | | Long live The Freiheit. Hail American Delegate To || Geneva Quarrels With | France Over Aviation |: ae: Netto deoberkiney sides ment conference today turned its attention to aviation, having adopted convention on land disarmament. Hugh Gibson, American delegate, announced that the United States would oppose any attempt to link civil and military aviation in a dis- armament scheme. He said the United States favored only the lim- * itation of military air supplies, avi- | ators and reserves. “Military and civil aviation are closely connected,” said M. Boncour, the first-readihg of a formula for a | The Daily Worker Greets The Freiheit on Its Sth Birtday | Han TO The Freiheit! The DAILY WORKER, the official organ of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, greets its brother organ in the Jewish language on its Fifth Birthday. The Freiheit has become a powerful weapon in the class struggle of the worker. It is an able and strong foe of the bureaucratic traitors in the Needle Trades Unions. Its anniversary cele- ||| bration tonight at Madison Sqaure Garden is a geat event in the history of the labor press. Hail Communism! the victory of the workers!: Sigman Refuted By Liberal Committee ‘His Charges “Groundless” | Says Secretary In announcing yesterday the form- ation of the “Committee of One Hun- dred for the Defense of the Imprison- |ed Needle Trades Workers”, which | |has opened headquarters at 22 East | | 17th street, New York, the secretary | | | Frame-up Against The DAILY WORKER Editors Put Off to Thursday The case against the editors and business manager of The Daily Worker, who were summoned to ap- pear in the Third District City Magistrate’s Court, Second Ave. and Second St., yesterday morning to answer to a charge of violating section 1141 of the penal code against the publication of “lewd, lecherous, lascivious, and disgust- ing matter,” has been postponed until next Thursday. A poem entitled “America” by David Gordan, which appeared in Mellon To Cut Miners’ Pay Kansas Contract Not Signed; Ohio Operate Ask Conference; First Frame-up Occurs INDIANAPOLIS, April 1—Outstanding developments first day of the lockout of the miners of the central co: coal field were: The reported decision of large numbers of West Virginia miners to quit work, and try once more chance to organize themselves; the anti-union drive at Pit in which the already non-union Pittsburgh Coal Co., owned by Secretary. of the Treasury Mellon, takes the lead, the formerly union Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., of which | ace F, Baker is president, swinging in behind it, and locking” its union miners; the decision of Lee Hall, president of No. 6, Ohio, to meet with the Ohio Operators’ Associati conference in Columbus, April 7, and the failure to put temporary agreement between the union and the south ester operators. ae eet West Virginia Will Strike. He FAIRMONT, W. Va., April 1.—Suspension of work if northern West Virginia coal fields, by supposedly miners marked an important development in the walkout of the magazine section of The Daily Worker of March 12, is responsible bituminous mine workers of the nation today. The international representative of the United Mine Wi Right Wing Fur the French delegate.” The situation of the country having no civil avia- tion must be taken into considera- tion.” lof the committee, Ann Washington | Craton, characterized as “groundless” the charges made on Thursday by Morris Sigman, president of the In- - | ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ | Union, when he accused members of | the executive committee of the Amer- \ican Civil Liberties Union of joining |a plot to raise funds for Communist | propaganda purposes by associating \themselves with this Defense Com- | mittee. | In two long letters addressed to \the American Civil Liberties Union, }and made public by him on Thursday, Sigman violently protijed against ratabers of the Civil Liberties Union | joining with other liberals in an ef- |fort to raise funds for the relief and Officials In With Bosses ning his own tabloids. But you don’t} have to scratch a liberal very deeply until you find a reactionary. What | is worrying the imperialists and their | literary hirelings today is not a yel- cain is rapidly moving towards open war on the Chinese Nationalist gov- ernment. Whether she will succeed in dragging the United States and Japan into an openly hostile attituie ‘Bosses Can't Make Workers | Register, Say Progressives All previous attempts to smash the |release of the imprisoned cloakmak- |ers and furriers. | Committee Hadn't Even Met. | At the time of Sigman’s attack, the | committee had as yet made no public ‘looks doubtful, The government’s draft note to} China, which was approved by the cabinet this afternoon, is undersivod to contain demands for “the punish- ment of those responsible for tne} Nanking outrages”, “indémnity for} low peril but a red peril. * * * 4 Wwe do not like to speak ill of the sick but we cannot resist observ- ing that Henry Ford has found a new ally in the person of General Eric Ludendorf’s most recent spouse. The fair frau prophesied that the next'the victims” and apologies to the world catastrophe will come in 1982,|/“government whose consulates were because in that year the Jews will | |ooted and. attacked.” (Continued on Page Two) | (Continued on Page Three) CELEBRATE FREIHEIT'S STH YEAR AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN TONIGHT By MOISSAYE J. OLGIN. HIS evening the workers of New York and vicinity. gather to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Jewish Daily Communist Freiheit, the first copy of which appeared on April 2, 1922. The very fact that a labor news- paper is marking its birthday by a meeting in the greatest hall in New York City speaks of the mass character and influence of the paper. During those five years the Freiheit has become one of the most influ- ential labor papers in this country. GREW OUT OF WORKERS’ NEEDS. The Freiheit grew out of the economic needs of the great masses of the Jewish workers, mainly concentrated in the needle trades. The Jewish work- | ers, trained both in the places of their birth and in this country in the spirit of socialism gradually awoke to the realization that they were saddled by a union bureaucracy no better then the bureaucracy of other unions. Tho professing adherance to the socialist party, the’ chiefs of the “Jewish” needle unions gradually abandoned their contact with the masses, adopted the class collaboration psychology, used their offices to perpetuate their own domina- tion, and stifled every attempt at protest on the part of the rank and file workers. From leaders they became traitors of the working masses. This betrayal was fostered, defended and led by the “socialist” Jewish Daily For- ward, which became the ideological and organizational center of all that is rotten, bourgeois and anti-proletarian in the labor movement. The rift be- tween the prosperous, well-fed, well-clothed and secure “aristocracy” of the Jewish workers on the one hand and the mass of the exploited, underpaid and hounded rank and filers on the other hand, became wider and wider. \. The Jewish workers, alert, sensi- |) tive, educated to the understanding of their cl interests, began to iunder the weight of self-satis- hes. Conditions where the cials were placing all their rbitration machinery head- ed by representatives of the bourge- oisie, whi the workers were shown one kind of a union agreement, whereas, secretly, the employers were granted much more freedom to looked upon with disfavor and the boss was considered the best aid of the union officials in maintaining the union organization—such’ conditions could not fail to arouse the workers, A general revolt followed. Revolt Let By The Freiheit. The revolt was led by the Freiheit. This is its chief contribution to the labor movement, but it is not the only dh \! union 0: hopes in one, The Freiheit points the way for the | announcement of its formation; or of jits purposes. Sigman did not know its personnel, nor even its official name. New York Joint Board of the Furri- ers’ Union having met with defeat, the Sepcial Reorganization Committee of the American Federation of La-| i bor which was appointed to take full | First Meeting Monday. charge of driving the progressives), J1 her announcement yesterday, from the union, has openly joined Miss Craton states that the commit- hands with the employers it was re-| tee has not yet met and has taken vealed yesterday in a letter sent out | 2° official action of any kind. It will by the Associated Fur Manufactur- | hold its first meeting next Monday, ers, Inc. |when Frank P. Walsh, chief counsel The president of this association, | for the defense of the imprisoned fur- Samuel N. Samuels, advised his mem- | ‘iets and cloakmakers, and Joseph R. bers that the board of directors had | Brodsky, counsel for the furriers will decided to ignore the leaders of the | Speak. Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union Workers Must Be Freed. | for the charge. Two members of | the’ Bomb Squad who served the summons declared that the action was inspired by complaints coming from “a well-known patriotic so- ciety.” | Aid For Passaic Jobless Asked “to unionize this important territory } for the northern West Virginia field, issued a statement sk before noon, in which he declared that 50 meetings were” held throughout District 31, in which 100,000 persons, mi their families, were enthusiastically pledging their support’ stand of the United Mine Workers. The West Virginia district was SEEPSrer ’ once strongly unionized, and the min- | | ar ers there are thoroly sick of non- | T cs union low wages, and bad conditions, | especially of the cheating done by IN TEACHERS company weighmen, not controlled by | - BY 0. Kd Bit 1 : any union check-weighmen. Progressives Fought For Union. While little attempt has been made | By Unions Employment Relief Urged At | Joint Conference PASSAIC, April 1—Steps to re- lieve the grave situation caused by the continued unemployment of thou- sands of textile workers in this city and vicinity were urged at the con- ference held tonight at the textile union headquarters under the direc- tion of a joint committee of the Trades and Labor Council of Passaic and the District Council of the Tex- tile Workers. Due as directly to the present slump in the woolen industry, most of the time during the day and the night sifts have been abolished altogether, by the regular organizers of the Uni- | |union have repeatedly called atten- | tion to it as the key position, and ‘ted Mine Workers, the progressive | |and militant elements in the miners’ | Governor to Sign D Rice Bill Today | Gov. Smith is today exp |sign the Dick-Rice bill have never ceased to carry on such | Propriates yh 4 * the activity there as they could. schools 0: estate. 8 0 Much of the publicity of the Save Pea the bill called for § The Union bloc in the last miners’ | | , but $2,000,000 of that si international election” was directed | lopped ry in order to avoid towards the organizing of the non- | °Sity © Prion Shh: Boer ; * d West Virgini | Serious ye fields, an est Virginia most | from auto owners throat F | state. $10,000,000 of the appropi * Baker Attacks. | will be devoted to school PITTSBURG, April 1.—The first! and the salary increases of shot in the campaign to destroy the | in this city. Despite the fact th miners’ union in the bituminous coal | it will be of comparatively sli F fields of western Pennsylvania was | to the thousands of New fired today by Horace F. Baker, pre-| teachers, it will nevertheless be sident of the Pittsburg Terminal Coal |comed as a “concession” on the § Company, largest union operator in ce ati buil exploit them (so-called supplemen- tary agreements), where fights of the masses against the employers were labor press of this country in very many respects, . (Continued on Page Two) h and recognize only the International Fur Workers’ Union in matters that concern the union. Natural Partners. | . This announcement of a collabora- tion policy between the reactionary | vight wing forces and the bosses did | not come as a surprise to members| ‘of the Joint Board. They knew the manufacturers association was carry- {ing on negotiations with the rights, and they have prepared for some such development as this made public by | Mr, Samuels. S. Liebowitz, assistant manager of |the Joint Board points out however | that this decision was made not by the members of the manufacturers association but by the board of direc- tors which acted without consulting its constituents. Didn’t Ask Members. | Liebowitz also recalls the fact that ‘it was just a year ago this month, during the fur strike, that the manu- facturers’ association held secret ne- gotiations with these same officials of the International Fur Workers’ (Continued on Page Three) Russian Workers Give $50,000 To Sufferers Of Nanking Shelling MOSCOW, April 1—The Red Trade Unions have sent $50,000 to China for the relief of those who suffered in the bombardment of Nanking by British and American warships. “Tt is the committee’s belief”, says | | Miss Craton, on behalf of the Com- |mittee of One Hundred, “that the! |heavy. sentences of these men must| not be allowed to stand. Every ef- fort must be made to free these men| from prison cells, and to relieve their families. Defense and relief must| also be provided for other active | union workers, whose strike activities | {have placed them with the shadow. of prison bars.” | Liberal Committee. The committee of One Hundred in-| cludes leading writers, artists, play-| wrights, attorneys, editors, ministers | and men and women prominent in hu-| manitatian movements, Among them are Forrest Bailey, Em Jo Bashe, Su- san Brandeis, Bishop William M. Browne, Howard Brubaker, Arthur Calhoun, Dr. Allen Carpenter, Harry W. L. Dana, Anna N. Davis, Floyd Dell, John Dos Passos, W. E. B. Du Bois, Francis E. Faragoh, Sara Bard Field, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Lewis S. Gannett, Arthur Garfield Hays, John Haynes Holmes, Paxten Hibben, Henry T. Hunt, James Weldon John- son, Freda Kirchwey, John Howard Lawson, Upton Sinclair, Harry Ward, Rev. Charles C. Webber, Dr. Robert. Whitaker, Rev. Eliot White, Justine Wise, C. E. S. Wood, Charles W. Wood, and W. E. Woodward. Sigman Fights Defense. The following extracts from Sig- man’s letters to the American Civil according to Gustave Deak, president of the district council. He reported | that last week the Botany Worsted mills, one of the largest plants in the (Continued on Page Two) | of state politicians in the leg \city, layed off 400 workers, and it is now likely that they may even shut down altogether. Urges Action Declaring that “the gravity of the situation calls for immediate action,” | the conference called for immediate | assistance. It recommended that the! city start construction and repair work at once. | At the conclusion of the meeting, after it was decided to call a larger conference for some night next week, with representatives of all organiza-| tions interested in this problem, Deak, on behalf of the District Council, is-| sued the following statement: Start Real Relief “Last night’s meeting was the first step in the movement initiated by the Passaic Central Labor Union and the United Textile Workers of America to start real relief for the thousands of unemployed workers in this city. “The meeting was called in a hurry. In addition it was found necessary to change the place of meeting at the} last minute. However, the interest shown by those present emphasized the importance of the problem. Our organization is, of course, the most concerned. While the unemployment situation | here affects many other workers, it Liberties Union show to what lengths he will go in his efforts to prevent is the textile workers who are suffer- ing most because of the present slump the relief of those workers who are in industry. Thousands of textile CUBANS PROTEST 3410 PLUMBE AS MACHADO GETS AND HELPERS GRIP ON HIS JOB STRIKING HE Exceeding all expectations plumbers and plumbers helpers, me bers of Plumbers’ Union Local 1 the American Association of P ers Helpers respectively, came” on strike yesterday morning | pletely tieing up that part building trades in the borou Brooklyn. Enthuastic trie meeting held yesterday. At a crowded ing of the plumbers held yeste afternoon at Lenruth Hall 157 erly Ave., Brooklyn, the | workers listened to speechs by # | officials of the union. Last n |plumbers helpers held a | meeting at the Church of All Ni 9 Second Ave., where they dressed by C. E. Miller, pre: James F. Walsh, organizer. The demands of the plumbers: $14 a day and a forty hour wW while the helpers are fighting” $9 a day, forty hour week and ree nition of their union. Fi Bosses Help Each Other. One thousand plumbers in Q HAVANA, April 1,—Widespread | opposition has arisen throughout Cuba as the result of a report that @ government commission has de- cided to report against constitutional reforms and prorsue a law tending to continue the present administra- tion in power without elections. Students holding a protest meeting were attacked by the police, who charged they were disorderly. The students made a protest to President Machado agaimst the police attack, but the president informed them he would not “tolerate any violence against any law of the nation.” eee Washington Expected It. WASHINGTON, April 1 (FP).— State department officials showed neither surprise nor curiosity when they learned that President Machado of Cuba, whose supporters have killed or abducted hundreds of trade union officials in the past year, has caused his congress to postpone for four years the presidential election due in 1928. They professed to have y in jail for their strike activities. 'e beg of you to appreciate the (Continued on Page Three) workers are unemployed, although their strike was settled several (Continued on Page Two) THE FIFTH FREIHEIT JUBILEE AT THE NEW MADISON SQUARE GAR Freiheit Gesangs Ferein together with the New York Symphony Orchestra, In the Poem of the Russian Revol By Alexander Block. Music By Jacob Schafer — Rosa Raisa, and other leading artists will no reports from Ambassador Crow- der as to the reason for this violation of the constitution. | members of Local 418, jo Plumbers and Fitters’ Union, (Continued on Page T