The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1927, Page 1

eee THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 69. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Now York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 pi * ¥ NEW YORK’S LABOR DAILY THE DAILY WORKER Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act ef March 3, 1879. er year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1927 << PUBISHING Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents U.S. LABOR INVITED TO PAN-PACIFIC CONGRESS Six More Killed in Non-union Coal Mine { Extends; More West Virginians Strike | WASHINGTON, Pa., April 3—Six coal miners were killed | | and a number of others badly burned in a coaldust explosion in Two Hundred Thousand Involved as Lock-out, | | the Cokeburg mine of the non-union Ellsworth Collieries Co., yes-| the drive against the union and Current Events By T. J, O’Fianerry. HE new police commissioner is a Tammany man. We have this on the authority of Mayor Walker, so there should be no doubt as to the gentleman’s qualification for the post. Further assurance is given us _ by grand shiek Olvany’s statement | that Tammany has no intention of interfering with the police depart- ment, tho Mr. Olvany admits that the | new commissioner is an organization man and the mayor tells us that his dues are paid up to date. Which makes us suspicious that there is confirm them. * . * TRANGE how people continue to | believe the statements of capitalist | politicians no matter how often they tinues to insist that his government is playing a lone hand in China and that the only object of the presence of American warships and marines in Chinese ports is the protection of American nationals. Yet American commanders join with England in bom- barding a Chinese city and the naval officers do not receive even a sla) in the wrist from the administration. Less American shrapnel from the Coolidge administration and less ly- ing is what the Chinese want. * * * HE soft coal miners in the cen- tral competitive fields have laid down their tools or rather hauled up their tools. The life has ebbed out of the Jacksonville agreement and the operators have refused to renew it or discuss its renewal with the union. John L. Lewis is suspiciously silent. The voice that thundered so consistently and eloquently against the progressives is now reduced to something less than a whisper. The charges made by the Communists that Lewis intended to betray the miners and wreck the union are now being borne out by events. * * HE capitalist papers and the or- gans of the coal associations are now chortling with glee over the (Continued on Page Three) out in the central competitive fields. Miners here take it as an ominous sign of the things to be| expected thruout the entire American coal fields if the employers | are successful in breaking the resistance of the union. dust explosions are preventable, according to published statements | of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, but there igs a slight cost to the company involved, and only union organization has éver been able | to force an employer to take the ‘ |, something wrong since people usually | ) explain to hide facts, rather than to ~;Non-union strikes, the number strik- are bamboozled. Calvin Coolidge con- | terday. This is the third fatal accident almost coinciding with) the declaration of the great lock- | All coal necessary precautions. The Cokeburg mine was considered a@ very dangerous one. The Ells- worth company would have been guilty of the death of about four hundred men if it had not in other parts of the mine used some rock- dust, the approved method of com- batting disasters of this sort. The dead miners are Frank Smith, Eastman White and Joseph Jordan. married, and Henry Kelley, William Gibson and Tony Habotts, single. The company has published, in an effort to excuse itself, the ridiculous story that the explosion was started by a miner trying to break a stick of dynamite by hammering it over a rock, | West Virginia Strike | About ninety per cent of the non- union miners in the Clarksburg, West | | Virginia, region are out on strike. | | Because of the Sunday holiday, | | and because the strike is spreading from-mine to mine, in the way of | ing in other parts of the key West Virginia district is not known yet. 200,000 Involved The number of men m the shut- | down as a whole is now estimated j at 200,000 or over. About fifty- thousand union miners of Kansas, Oklahoma and small southwestern fields were involved when the| |negotiations started before the strike {by International President John| | Lewis failed. The contract proposed | there was for a temporary agree- |ment, similar to those in Wyoming |and other outlying districts. | | Would Cut to $5 | | About thirty mine companies in | Ohio have signed such agreements. |The conference to which the Ohio | Operators Association and President | Lee Hall of District 6 of the U.M.| W. A. have agreed, the operators now say, will discuss a lower wage, if it meets at all. S. H. Robbins, presi- | day issued a statement that he would | propose ‘a basic wage of $5 per day, | but did not expect the miners to ac- | cept it at this time. | ° . ° | Pittsburg Terminal Scab | PITTSBURGH, April 3.—With the miners and operators in Western Pennsylvania, the heart of the na- tion’s bituminous coal producing area, farther apart than ever, the stage was being set today for a show; down in the wage controversy, At the offices of the Pittsburgh (Continued on Page Three) SIGMAN'S SABOTAGE OF WORKERS x _ INPRISON EXPOSED BY DEFENSE While \the Joint Defense and Relief Cor for Cloakmakers and Fur- riers has been busily engaged putt- ing into operation plans to raise mon- ey for its work, Morris Sigman pres- ident of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union seems to ve been just as busily engaged ith a campaign of slander, in a des- te attempt to destroy confidence committee and its work. ir. Sigman is quite astute,” said ‘Robbins, chairman of the Joint Defense and Relief Committee for Cloakmakers and Furriers, “posing as the champion of the workers, his statements frequently deceive those not acquainted with the Sigman brand of hypocrisy, Score In Jail. “There are now more than a score of cloakmakers and furriers in jail, Others are in the tombs awaiting trial and sentence, and the number is growing. The first few cloakmakers were betrayed into the clutches of capitalist justice by Hyman \ | ( a Sigman hireling active as their at-| torney. “In the midst of the trial, Mr. Bus- hell suddenly withdrew from the case, thereby making it appear that the men were guilty and for the first | time giving the affair a serious as- Serious Charges. “It is important to note that in all these cases the defendants had been charged with very serious charges such as assault in the first and sec- ond degree, malicious mischief and in many cases had been indicted on all these counts. “These defendants were charged with the commission of felonies which in the event of conviction mean possible long sentences. The defen- dants were lead to believe that if they were to accept pleas of guilty of sim- ple assault, which is merely a mis- demeanor, nominal punishment would be meted out, in small fines, etc. “Hoping to save their union the en- | to free Korea from Japan. Japan an-|made. Loss of hearing in one ear (Continued on Page Five) | ors, and Chiang Offers to Pay For Any Foreign Loss Nationalists Commit SHANGHAI, April 3.—General | Chiang Kai-shek today stated | to the press that the Nationalist | government would be willing to make complete recompense forall loss of foreign life and property in Nanking or elsewhere in China— if the Nationalist forces were proved in any way responsible for | the loss. | In as much as there is evidence that all losses up to date were caused either by the foreign im- perialist’s bombardment or by the northern Chinese troops which are practically allies of the invaders, this was little satisfaction to those demanding “indemnities.” 22,000Workers Mass to Cheer ‘Consul Sex U. S. JOINS INDEMNITY DRIVE AGAINST CHINA More Gunboats; More Marines Sent | East ds Report Con- tradicted by Chen WASHINGTON, April 3,—That the United States may attempt to smash the Chinese nationalist movement ap- peared likely last night when the state department made public “conclusions” of John K. Davis, consul at Nanking, attacking the Nationalists and declar- ing them responsible for the Nanking “outrages.” 1,500 Marines Sail. In addition to the 1,550 marines sail- ing from San Diego this week, another 1,500 are being mobilized for service in China and regular army troops in| Philippines and Hawaii are ready to sail for Shanghai at a moment’s no-/} tice. | Davis’s report comes on the heels | of a vigorous denial by Eugene Chen, | Nationalist Foreign Minister, that Na- tionalist troops had anything to do The Freiheit Unanimously Pass Resolution Against U. S. War on China Resolutions vigorously denouncing | the massacre of thousands of. Chi- nese at Nanking ana insisting that U: S. Government cease at once its unofficial war against the Chinese nationalists were unanimously adop- ted by the 22,000 workers who jammed Madison Square Garden Saturday night to celebrate the fifth jubilee of the establishment of “The Freiheit,” Jewish Communist daily. Meloch Epstein, Moissaye J. Olgin, Shachno Epstein, M. Saltzman, Ben Lifshity, general secretary of the Jewisk section of the Workers (Com- hunist) Party, and Louis Hyman, mans} ager of the New York Joint Board | of the cloak and dressmakers, joined | in declaring that “The Freiheit” was | engaged in fighting the battles, not jonly of the Jewish worker in Ameri- | ca, but of all workers throughout the | | world. | A Fighting Organ The speakers told of the origins of | dent of the operators’ association to- ! the fighting Jewish daily, and of the injuries done” in Nanking. need which it fills in the lives of the | thousands of workers in America,| and particularly in the industrial | cities of the east. The establishment of The DAILY! WORKER in New York was greeted at the celebration and hopes for its growth and usefulness to the workers in their daily struggles were ex- pressed. Greet Chinese Revolt. The resolution on the present situa-| tion in China is as follows: “Whereas the Chinese people un-| der the leadership of the Chinese | workers are engaged in a mighty struggle to throw off the chains of) imperialist oppression and native ty-| ranny, and “Whereas our gevernment has sent marines and battleships to China without being at war with that coun-| try, at the command of the bankers, and imperialist investors in China, and| our marines have participated in the shameful massacre of Nanking at the | instigation of the Standard Oil Co, of | New York (Soeony) and other invest- New War Threatened. “Whereas we are thereby threat-| ened with a new world war of the imperialist powers against China and the Soviet Union; “Therefore be it resolved by this meeting of 22,000 workers in Madison (Continued on Page Two) Bogus 8-Hour Measure Debated Inv Reichstag TOKIO, April 3.—-Charged with at- tempting to organize a Nationalist movement in Korea, ninety-nine Koreans arrested in the red raids of last summer will be prosecuted by the Japanese courts, More than 300 Koreans were ar- rested last June for alleged attempts nexed Korea in 1910. % with the attack on foreigners at Nan- king. The disorders were due to Shan-| ies, he said. Demand Huge Indemnity. | That huge indemnities will be de-| manded by the United States from the Nationalists for the “eutrdpes” com! mitted by the Shantungese and the| White Russians at Nanking, was clearly indicated in government cir-| cles. The administration is prepared to act upon the “conclusions” present- ed by Consul Davis. | ae Be | Send 5,000 More Troops. | LONDON, April 3.—Great Britain} moved closer than ever to open war) on the Nationalist Government when the war department announced that five thousand more troops would be dispatched to China. Whether or not the Foreign Office succeeds in dragging the United States and Japan into an openly hos- tile attitude, the Cabinet is determined to fight the Nationalists. In a speech | in which he bitterly attacked the Na-| tionalist government, Neville Cham- berlain, Minister of Health, urged Great Britain to demand that “such ‘eparations as possible” be paid “for Wang Ching Wei To Shanghai. Wang Ching Wei, the chairman of the Hankow executive, is reported to| |have arrived in Shanghai from Han- the kow for a conference with Chiang! Kai Shek. | Japanese bluejackets at Hankow are reported to have clashed with Chinese’ there, after which residents | of the Japanese concession in Han- | kow decided to leave. | It was stated at Aldershot tonight | that the Second Scots guards and| the first Northampton regiment, or- dered to China, would sail from Eng- | land on April eleventh. | In diplomatic circles, it was stated | that exchanges were continuing be-| tween the United States, Great Bri-) tain and Japan, regarding the de-| mands to be made for reparations arising out of the Nanking outrages and ‘it is probable that a joint com- munication will be sent to the Peo- | ple’s Government within a few days. | Clamor of War. The die-hard press is clamoring for a blockade of Chinese ports. The dispatch of the 5,000 troops to Shanghai will raise the British “de- (Continued on Page Two) Labor Has Part Of Its Disease Laws Passed . The labor movement did not suc- ceed in getting a‘ blanket occupation- al disease law through the New York legislature. The manufacturers’ lob- by proved too strong. Silicosis— “stone cutters’ consumption”—and chemical poisoning of many different kinds, are among the injuries against which the worker is not protected un- der the law. John M. O'Hanlon, secretary of the New York Federation of Labor, how- ever, reports that the amended law slightly inereases the list of acci- dents for which payments will be Issue Orders For Mobilization of Third Regiment of Marines WASHINGTON, April 3—Orders | for the quick mobilization of a third regiment of U. S. marines at San | Diego Calif. ment were issued today as the Chi- | nese situation became more acute. | The mobilization is to be com- | marines are expected to sail then. With one regiment in Shanghi, an- other now en route to San Diego to third regiment for far east duty. | Prepare Troops For Chicago's © Poll Riots Australian, Chinese Unions Set Meeting On May 1, in Canton, Discuss Imperialism, Delegates of Workers Make United Front CHICAGO, April 3 (FP).—The Federated Press has received the following cable from Canton, China, inviting the American labor organizations to send delegates to the Pan-Pacifie Labor Congress which opens under official by the Navy Depart- | jabor auspices in Canton, May 1. Australian and Chinese The cable reads: “The Trades Union Congress of the Commonwealth of Aus- tralia has authorized the All-China ‘Federation of Labor to call plete by the end of next week. The |g Pan-Pacific labor congress to meet at Canton May 1, 1927, under the joint official auspices of the two labor organizations. The trade union organizations of the United States are invited to embark Sunday, this will make the |Send as many delegates as their resources permit. “Invitations have also been sent to/ the labor bodies of Canada, Mexico, and the South American countries on the Pacific, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, India, Indonesia and to all European labor federations having connections with the Far East through colonial or other affiliations, including those of Great Britain, France, Holland and the Soviet Union. Canvass Whole Field. “The program arranged by the pre- paratory bureau, which has been working for a long time on the pre- Capitalist Politicians Incite | to Election Violence CHICAGO, April 3.—Troops are | | tungese and White Russian mercenar-| being held in readiness for the gang- | sterism and bloodshed which always | cific, attends an election in Chicago. Ten- sion in the mayoralty campaign in- creased tonight as the city was flood- ed with a fresh deluge of inflamria! speeches. | Rioting at the polls is foreshadowed | by the belligerent attitude of rival | \liminary details of the conference, in- cludes the bureau’s report, the re- ports of delegates from the countries represented, the Pacific countries and the international trade union move- ment, labor and imperialism, interna- tional regulations regarding wages and hours, threats of war in the Pa- labor and immigration prob- lems, and closer relations between the labor movements of the Pacific countries. Fastern Labor Movement. “This congress assumes great im- lowing the success of the Chinese Nationalist cause and its emphasis Rosalsky Plays With Case of Antonotsky Keeps Him In Jail By Setting New Date For Hearing That persecution has become a habit with Judge Otto Rosalsky of the State Supreme Court is shown unmistakably in his outrageous treat- ment of Louis Antonofsky, who was once again returned to the Tombs without a hearing on Friday and his case set to come up for the third time an April Sth. This means the innocent man will have been iw prison | tory campaign literature and vitrioli¢ | yoytance because of the growth of the| for nearly two weeks without being The election is Tuesday.|labor movement in the Far East fol-| allowed to speak one word in his own defense. Antonofsky is one of the cloak }upon trade union organization and strikers who was paroled by Judge capitalist party gunmen in half a/the rising national movements in the | Rosalsky three months ago and has dozen wards. Troops Ready. Plans went forward tonight throw troops into the city at the first indication of disorder. Possibility of a clash between the | militia and the police force was not | overlooked by observers. The police are loyal to Mayor William E. Dever, democrat, who is being bitterly op- | posed by William Haie Thompson, republican. Governor Len Small and the higher officers of the militia sup- | port Thompson. Distribute Machine Guns. Machine guns were distributed} among 105 squads of five police each. | They will cruise through the danger zones in flivvers and on motorcycles. I Try To Start Race War. hompson forces bitterly arraigned Dever forces for injecting the; race question into the campaign. La- borers were told by Dever lieutenants | that Thompson’s election would mean Chicago flooded with Negroes to take | their places in mills and factories. Thousands of circulars were being distributed tonight containing a car- toon showing a train loaded with Ne- (Continued on Page Five) Jury of 1.500 in Mock Trial Find Traitors Guilty It didn’t take the jury, compris- ing over 1,500 fur workers and their | wives, very long time to determine the guilt of Oizer Schachtman, I. Winnick, A. Sorkin, Isaac Wohl, and other officials of the reactionary International Fur Workers’ Union tried on charges of betraying the interests of the workers and con- spiring to destroy the fur workers’ union, Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union and Louis Hyman, of the Joint Board of the Cloakmakers’ Union acted as prosecutors in the “mock trial” held yesterday afternoon at the New Star Tasino, 107th St. and Lexing- ton Ave. The trial arranged without re- hearsal by the shop chairmen’s council was participated in by a large number of witnesses, who brought out the evidence against the officials of the International. Proceeds from the affair will be devoted to assisting in the defense of cloakmakers and fur workers | delegates. now becomes compensable. framed up on charges of assault in connection with the recent strike. and American imperialist influence. of labor interests everywhere, be- cause of the international character of production and investment, add to the crucial nature of the conference. “tn the name of the Trades Union Congress of the Commonwealth of Fraternal greetings.” The cablegram is signed by the cific Labor Congress. jeountries of the East under European ‘to report-to him at regular intervals. On February 23rd, Antonofsky was to! The gathering menace of a world war one of three workers framed-up by {in the Pacific and the interrelations a right wing sympathizers, Morris Katz, who declared he had been at- tacked by these men. Katz “Remembers.” Katz, when he first told his story, said he did not know who had at- tacked him. Later under the stimu- | Australia and of the All-China Fed- | lating effect of the reactionary right eration of Labor the labor organiza- | wing’s influence, he decided he re- \tions of America are invited to send | membered Antonofsky, and Aaron Wortuns, both workers who are loyal to the Joint Board of the cloak and |preparatory bureau of the Pan-Pa- | dressmakers. At the hour when Katz (Continued on Page Five) DENOUNCES IMPE WORKERS’ DELEGATION TO HANKOW RIALISTS’ ATTACK (Special Cable To The DAILY WORKER.) HANKOW, China, April 3.—The International Workers’ Danger Menaces Chinese People } To all labor and peasant organiza- | \tions of the world: A great danger | menaces the Chinese people. British | imperialism is again preparing mili- tary intervention. Several places | have been already bombarded by their | battleships. By shameless provoca- tions they are trying to drag the other imperialist powers to their side in order to achieve their aim of crush- | ing the Chinese revolution. Their claim that Europeans were killed at Nanking by Nationalist troops is made the pretext for military inter- vention and is an absolute lie. | The killings at Nanking were per- | petrated by agent’s provocateur sub-| sidized by imperialists and by defeat- ed northern militarists. The truth is that British and American warships have bombarded Nanking, killing over six hundred defenseless Chinese men, women and children. Criminal Policy of Imperialism. The Nanking affair is but a .fur- ther development of repeated prova- cations by British imperialists during the past few months in all parts of China for the purpose of justifying military intervention, After the odi- ous massacres of Shanghai, Shameen Wansien, and Hankow, the latest at Nanking is but a shamful repetition of the criminal policy of imperialism in China. Aximed imperialist inter-| | Delegation visiting here has just issued a proclamation to the | workers of the world, calling upon them to prevent the imperial- | ists from making war upon the Chinese people. It is as follows: Briand “Takes Action” Against Communist For Pro-Chinese Addresses PARIS, April 3.—Because Jac- ques Doriot, Communist member of the Chamber of Deputies, has made pro-Nationalist speeches in Shan- ghai and Hankow, the French gov- ernment has decided “to take action against him.” Foreign Minister Briand has al- ready presented the Ministerial Council with reports of Dorict's speeches and alleged attempts to foment revolt in the Far East. PR Nhat A vention in China is pregnant with immense dangers not only for the Chinese people but also for humanity as a whole, The armed intervention of British imperialism in China will be a signal for a new bloodbath, and a néw world war. In these tragic circumstances, the Chinese people count on immediate action of the international proletariat to prevent armed intervention and its consequences. During two months our delegation has visited hundreds of workers, peas- ants, merchants, students, and wo- men’s organizations as well as the (Continued on Page Five)