The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1927, Page 1

\ | | THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 70. Current Events By T. J, O’Fianerry. 'HE hypocrisy of the Coolidge ad-/| ministration in dealing with foreign affairs was never better exemplified than in the wide difference between the president’s words and his actions in the Chinese situation. On last Fri-| day the Evening World carried a special Washington dispatch on the front page, which represented Cool-} idge as stating that the government | would not make war on China but would confine its military action in the situation to the protection of} American nationals. Yet, no sooner | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 p er year, ee PUBISHING ) PENNSYLVANIA CONSTABULAR TO THREATEN UNION PICKET LINES Million Farm Graft Y BEGIN Monongahela Field Badly Crippled Altho Owners Make Pretense PITTSBURGH, April 4.—With the strike so new yet that) million dollars in fees is the sum| of Operating ‘Sapiro Admits Half Before Detroit Jury DETROIT, April 4.—Nearly half a neither union officials nor the operators can tell its exact extent, | already revealed to have been paid attacks by Pennsylvania state constabulary and coal company po-| Aaron Sapiro, on his own admissions | lice on the union pickets have already started. Threaten Pickets. The Pittsburgh Coal Company’s Gallatin mine, operated open shop, train plunged down the plane and crashed at the junction with the main entry. The crash raised a cloud of was the scene of the assault, State dust and it also snapped an electric | }in federal court here where he is ; suing Henry Ford for libel because of a series of articles published in Ford’s paper, the Dearborn Inde- | pendent. Continuing his testimony before the i Fur Workers Held Upon $5,000 Bail | On Framed Charge || Oscar Meiliff, an active member of the Furriers’ Union was held in $5,000 bail yesterday by Magistrate Silverman in Jefferson Market Court charged with “felonious as- sault.” The case is declared by members of the union to be the most notori- ous and obvious frame-up since the reactionary right wing officials of the International, the fur manu- facturers and the police joined hands to smash the Joint Board. KER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. THE DAILY Wor Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1927 FINAL CITY EDITION | | Price 3 Cents IMPERIALISTS THREATEN TO BOMBARD HANKOW ‘NATIONALIST COMMANDER CHIANG BLASTS HOPES OF IMPERIALISTS General Chiang Issues Circular, Asserts Loyalty to Left Wing Koumintang Leadership BULLETIN. 5 SHANGHAI, April 4.—Naval commanders have threatened the Na- tionalist Government with the bombardment of Hankow. It is believed here that the imperialist powers are now on the threshold of large-scale intervention. Great Britain has made it clear that she is ready to 0 ahead with or without the co-operation of the United States and Japan. Labor Daily was his statement headlined in the |Police met a force of 350 men form- press than new instructions were is-| ing picket lines in the vicinity of the sued by the war department which; ™ine and ordered them to disperse. | sent more warships and marines scur-| Corporal G. F. Pierce, in command rying to the Orient. jof constabulary stationed at the he a | North Belle Vernon barracks, said his! trolley wire. There was an electric plosion. The shock was felt all over | of the towns were broken. Only Luck. At first the news spread that the| | jury in the case, Sapiro admitted, un- jare flash and a tremendous dust ex-| der cross examination of Senator A. Reed, chief of Ford’s counsel, that he jthe villages of Ehrenfeld and South | received $64,000 from the American | | Fork, far overhead,-and the windows| Cotton Growers’ Exchange, and | further admitted that his present! salary from the Exchange is at the} rate of $21,000 a year. These fees| | trade union movement today declared an extensive war against China. The paper based its statement on {and sea forces in China. } It is expected that when the Ch Meiliff was arrested and brought before Judge Silverman on the flimsiest sort of “evidence,” the charge against him being the re- sult of an international stool-pigeon || named Weiner pointing him out to a member of the industrial squad in the fur market yesterday, and saying, “that man threatened to the Soviet Government. | the house of commons the tories will demand a rupture of relatic : : ; Sees Big War. LONDON, April 4.—The London Daily Herald, official org that Great Britain was pre the continued massing of British land inese question comes up for debate in 3 with SHANGHAI, April 4.—The imperialist hope that General Chiang Kai- T appears that the United States)men were carrying out an order to minister to Peking and the consular | Permit the assembly of no more than | officers thruout China have entered | three persons in connection with the} 300 men underground had all been! brought Sapiro’s income from cotton | into an agreement with the British |S¥SPension. government for joint action against} Corporal Pierce admitted that the * ; Shek would break with the Kuomintang because of his differe: ith the killed. Let Pat Stapleton, for 37| growers alone up to $149,505 and his | id e of his differences with the the Chinese Nationalist government. crowd dispersed promptly, but said | dominant left wing of the organization was shattered today when Chiang {issued a public statement which was telegraphed thruout the length and breadth of China stating that in the future he would confine himself to attack me.” > escape. He attributes it to sheer| revealed at the trial to nearly $500,- It is hoticeable that the Northern mil-| that his men were hissed and “booed” itarists who had previously come in| by the union sympathizers, and that for considerable criticism at the hands | this justified him in menacing them. “luck.” He says: “My gang was working in rooms three miles back in the mine off the} {years an Ehrenfeld miner, tell of his| total income from all sources so far | 000 in the last ten years. Half of Operations Thus far but a trifle more than! of American correspondents are now | represented as champions of law and order. Chang-Tso-Lin, is at the mo- ment the white-haired boy of the im- | perialists tho it is doubtful if Chang has been successful in negotiating the | loans he expected as the price or his| willingness to serve foreign imperial- ism, Apparently no miners have been seri- ously injured yet. Condemn Company. The union pickets took up their posts at strategetic points near the Gallatifi mine an hour before the non-union miners started to work, state police said. Policies of the Pittsburgh Coal jmain drift. When the explosion oc-/ naif of Sapiro’s cooperative activities jeurred we thought it was an earth-| have been examined before the jury. | jquake, We were shaken up, but after | 1¢ his other activities prove as profit- a few minutes we realized that we! able as those already examined he has had been spared. When we came out | -eglized close to a million through his | of the rooms we figured the scene | pillaging of the farmers and produce- | jof the Blast was about a mile and a| d marketers throughout pebees from the drift mouth. Know-| pseynes ag sf \ing our way out that drift was im-| Ford to Be Called MeGRADY RAGES AT COMMITTEE OF A HUNDRED Appears At Its Meeting, | wing chief, in political matters, the military arm of the government be- ing entirely subordinate to the poli- tical government. The general had a lengthy confer- ence with Wang. Chiang stated that jhe would be fully engaged from now jon with the campaign against the |northern militarists. The Usual Lying. The imperialist correspondents with his military duties and recognize the le: adership of Wang Ching-Wei, left every country in the world The fall of Peking before t tionalist army is certain. doubtful factor is how soon they will be able to reach their goal. Chang’s Rear Endangered. It is reported that Chang Tso-Lin has been obliged to return to Mukden because of murmurings in Man- | churia. Reports circulated here and cabled Company, which is trying to break |possible, we turned to the rear and) Ford, the nation’s first billionaire, 'OREIGN Minister Eugene Chen of | the Nationalist government states in his official report on the Nanking | affair that for every foreigner killed | in that city at least one hundred Chi- | nese lost ‘their lives Ti the ‘bombard-) ment by British and American war-| ships. This statement has set the} imperialists gnashing their teeth with | rage. Consul John K. Davis, U. S. stationed in Nanking reports that only three Chinese were killed. Of course Mr. Davis is lying like a bour- geois gentlemen who holds Chinese life as cheaply as the Chinese labor the imperialists have been exploiting for generations. * ic would appear that war on the Na-| tionalist government by the United} States would not be to the advantage | of American manufacturers. China| provides an enormous market for the | goods of those manufacturing coun- | tries that have maintained friendly) relations with the Nationalist govern- ment. Great Britain might as well| .kiss “goodbye” to her Chinese trade. Her crimes against the Cninese people will be avenged in blood and tears, ee the union’s hold on the western Pennsylvania bituminous field, were condemned by the pickets both ver- bally and on huge banners. < ~ . Cripple West Virginia Mines. MORGANTOWN, W. Va., April 4. —The mines of the Monongahela coal | field are crippled by the strike.of non-union miners here, but the opera- tors are making a pretense of keep- ing them running, so as to avoid en- couraging the miners locked out in the rest of the industry. Only about a quarter of the work- ers are actually on the job, according to unofficial surveys. The owners claim more, but even the most brazen statements by company officials do not assert that more than fifty-five per cent of the crews are at work. * * * Operators Meet. SPRINGFIELD, IIL, April 4.— Aside from probable developments later in the week ‘when Ohio opera- | tors go into conference there were few indications today that either the United Mine Workers or the opera-| poe tye dim Moa y iy shaft | Who Saleen cerge te xan gs cake | It didn’t take us long to scamper up| will be ane t Bad soir hale this hole to daylight. I'm an exper-| Sometime this week, acconiing to the ienced miner, but have never felt such | @"nouncement o! ra ‘ag Nas ak # \ ion. It was just sheer luck| William H. Gallager. 0 ‘3 ap- jthat every man in the mine was not|Pearance may be delayed, however, | kill led outright.” because of the injuries suffered by The dead are Dan McConeghy, John jthe open’ shop auto magnate in an i |their customary disregard for facts | Wants Jail For Labor | construed Chiang’s submission to the|to foreign countries that the Japan- jauthority of the Kuomintang as a|ese bombarded Hankow this morning The Committee of One Hundred |maneuver designed to bring Wang for the Defense of the Imprisoned over to his side. The fact is that Needle Trades Workers, which met Chiang, if he ever had any intention late yesterday afternoon at the Civic }qf breaking with the _ party now Club, 108 East 10th St., for the pur- realizes that his position would be as pose of electing an executive com-| precarious as that of any northern mittee and planning its campaign | general if he betrayed the confidence for the raising of funds, was heatedly |reposed in him by the 1,500,000 mem- Fesko, William Connelly, and John Shedlock, all members of the United | his flivvers was shoved into a ditch {after being in collision with a larger | Mine Workers of America. | auto smashup a week ago when one of | ear. | | | FUR UNION RIGHT Fitzpatrick and presenting the American Federation | See" CSP.2 KUOMINTANG ENDS INNER CONFLICT; UNIONS, PEASANTS GONTROL PARTY manager of the Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, who were given the courtesy of the floor to voice their opposition to the relief work which the commit- tee has planned. An attack on the personnel of the WING GIVES BOSS. Nelson Break On ALL HE CAN WANT Chicago Elections Trades Away Workers’) cuicaco, April agin’ stale) i | warts of reaction in the Chicago a| Rights F or Support ‘eration of Labor, John Fitzpatrick Charges that the reactionary of-| 204 Oscar Nelson, have split because | ficials of. the International Fur|%, the frensied: stengele being: waxed committee and its object was also made by Morris Sigman,. president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, in a letter which was read by Julius Hochman, one of the International’s vice-presidents. Only For Relief. Altho the Committee of One Hun- dred in its official announcement, and thru the statements of several indi- vidual members, had made it clear organization which has branches in |are unfounded. The British official | mews agency has a tremendous staff | working night and day turning out | lies for British and_ American ¢on- | sumption. All efforts to seducewthe French admiral in command of the French fleet here to co-operate with the | assailed by Edward F. McGrady, re- | bers of this powerful and remarkable| British and Americans have been | fruitless. ‘New Program Against All Oppression; Calls On Workers and Colonials For Support | HANKOW, April 4.—The Plenary session of the Kuomintang |Central Executive Committee which has just concluded its ses- sions here has thoroughly clarified the issue of party versus per- sonal authority, according to an authoritative statement made to than| Workers’ Union in agreements just and the loss of billions worth of tors were any closer togethe: trade and investments. It is not sur-| when the Miami conference broke up. prising that Great Britain should seek! The Coal Operators’ Association of | to drag the United States into the| Illinois which employs some 72,000 | Chinese quagmire. But why the Unit-| union workers, will meet in St. Louis | ed States should embark on this ven-| next Friday but then officials said} ture is not so clear. That imperialists | they had no hopes of settling the of the world have common interests | strike. against the revolutionary subject peo- | ae dea made with the fur bosses had for- feited the rights of workers that, it had taken years to achieve in return for co-operation in smashing the Furrriers’ Union, were made yester- day by Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board. For aid to be given the entrenched ples is quite simple but it does not} always work out that way. If the brigands could only get together the path of human progress would be even tougher than it is. * * * we does not Japan, England and the United States, the three im- perialist powers having the most ex- (Continued on Page Five) ARRIVAL OF OUR THE EMPROS, NOTHER fighting organ of the left wing of labor, Empros, Greek Communist weekly, es- itself this week in New k City. This will no doubt additional squirming not only needle trades, but among perialist agents wherever are to be found in the ranks working class. Empros to New York from! Chicago. The DAILY WORKER mov- ed to the metropolis of the nation, it William Green and Vice President Matthew Wolf declared Death: of Bhrenfela officialdom of the International in THE DAILY WORKER HAILS THE JOHNSTOWN, P., April 4.—How | death is ever near to the coal miner |is illustrated in the story of the ex- | plosion that killed four miners at the |Ehrenfeld mine of the Pennsylvania | Coal & Coke Corporation. It happened because a coupling broke and a train of 40 coal cars ran wild on a-10 percent grade. The GREEK WEEKLY, IN NEW YORK CITY made against the Empros which is a powerful weapon, especially in waging the fight of the Greek workers in the fur industry, and also in the hotel industry where the Greek workers predominate. But Empros also wages the strug- gle of the Greek workers in the steel, coal and other great indus- tries. The drive develops, not only to establish the Empros as a suc- cessful Greek Weekly in New York City, but to build it into a Daily, by May ist if possible. The DAILY WORKER greets the arrival of its brother organ, the Empros, in New York City. It hails the growth of the Weekly Empros into a DAILY EMPROS in the very near future. ’ i} their efforts to force registration of workers the bosses are to have the right of “piece work” and “standards of production.” Wage schedules will also be determined by the manu- facturers, it is charged, with the re- |sult that the influence of the workers on the job will finally disappear. Leaflet Explains. Precise details of the deal made by ‘| the officials of the International and the bosses are contained in a leaflet which will be distributed in the fur market today by the Joint Board. Gold Offers Test. Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board of the furriers’ union, in an- swer to the assertions of Edward F. McGrady, of the “Special reorgan- ization committee” of the A. F. of L. that the Defense Committee of one hundred “is being used to shield gangsters and not to defend indicted and imprisoned strikers,” challenged him, Matthew Woll and President William Green to produce evidence to prove that the Joint Board officers ever employed gangsters since they entered office. Should they establish the truth of these assertions, the officers of the Joint Board will resign at once, ac- cording to Gold. Ready To Prove ‘Case. “We are prepared to prove to any impartial committee,” he said, “that all of its prisoners are honest work- ers, working in fur shops for years. These workers have all been active in the strike, and were arrested as a result of the direct incitement and +i Seng vof McGrady and his asso- tes.’ ° ‘ |between Mayor Dever, democrat, and | William Hale Thompson, republican |former mayor. Fitzpatrick supports Dever, who is also supported by Thomas E. Donnelly, proprietor of the notorious scab printing firm of Donnelly & Sons, and also head of the open-shoppers in this city. It was Donnelly and his “Citizens’ Com- mittee” who organized against the building trades workers and put over the infamous “Landis Award.” Nelson supports Thompson, under whose administration the open shop drive against labor was launched in Chicago, Divide Like “Open Shoppers.” The agents of the employers at the head of the Chicago Federation of Labor are thus divided along the same lines as the employers them- selves, Some of the scabby “Citi- zens’ Committee” support Thompson while on Dever’s campaign committee there are the names of 27, seven of these organized labor haters. At yesterday’s meeting of the Fed- eration there was an exceptionally large crowd on hand, expecting the fight between Fitzpatrick and Nelson to break out in open hostilities, After a few parries, Nelson made a motion to adjourn the meeting, there- by avoiding bringing the issue before the delegates of the various unions represented. Vincent “Schemer” Drucci, leader of the powerful northside beer gang, was shot and killed by a policeman late today in the first of a series of election roundups. .Drucei was arrested in front of the Commonwealth Hotel by a squad of policemen. He made an attempt to get his gun and Detective Dan Healy shot him dead. Drucci, who was said to be a sup- porter of William Hale Thompson, republican, was believed to have lined up his henchmen to create havoc at the poll tomorrow. The police sup- port Dever. Read The Daily Worker Every Day | that it has been organized to raise the Ntionalist government. |funds for the relief of the families |of those furriers and cloakmakers who are in jail for their strike activi- ties, Sigman, in his letter which was read by. Hochman says “we will re- serve the right to expose the com- mittee, at every opportunity, for its | supine willingness to be used as a) tool, in the name of humanity, by a group of cowardly rascals.” the Nationalist News Agency today by a responsible minister of Crisis Past. 1 *) The tremendous tensile strength ot | Daily Worker Shows Up the party fabric, this minister as- | serted, has been unequivocally proven | the Insurance Graft by the fact that this great issue has | been cleared up in the midst of revo- lutionary activity of the most critical sort, while the actual military cam- paign is in progress. The govern- |ment has stood the test, the military . ’ Announcement: Page 2 Turn to Page 2 for the announce- ment and description of the most |campaign is going on with undimin- Right Wing Shows Up. The committee has been called to- gether by the secretary, Ann Wash- jished strength. The revolutionary |structure has held fast. Now that i i |the crisis is past the Nationalist ington Craton, for a discussion of | revolutionary movement is in a posi- routine organization details; but be- tion to move on unhampered by the fore the meeting opened a large group | slightest suggestion of inner con- of reporters from the leading capital- | ist papers were on hand, and Becker- man, Hochman, McGrady and several | other labor representatives arrived with the request that they be ad-| mitted to address the members of | the committee. Since it had been| announced that the meeting was to be | a closed one, this request was at first denied; but after the committee had disposed of preliminary business, it voted to admit reporters and listen to what the right wing representatives wanted to say. Henchman Raves. Following the admission of the) press and the guests, Arthur Garfield Hays, who was acting as chairman | of the committee meeting, read a letter to the committee from Frank | P. Walsh outlining the work to be | done in behalf of the prisoners, Julius Hochman was then voted | permission to read Sigman’s letter, | which was full of references to the lett wing “gangsters” whom the com- | mittee was in danger of helping, and | which quoted the recently published | | military flict. This minister of the Nationalist government said in the course of an interview that the majority section of the party had recently become convinced that the utterances and in some cases the acts of what might be termed the “Nanchang Group” {had seemed to tend toward the in- | troduction into Nationalist policy of | a personal element in much the same way as Peking has been dominated by personal elements for centuries. This basic struggle between the per- sonal elements has been definitely solved by the plenary session of the party’s executive committee just con- cluded. New Measures. The struggle has been solved by. the following measures: 1. The re-establishment of the council, which comprises various leading revolutionary gen- erals, including Chiang Kai Shek, Tang Sheng-chih, Feng Yu-hsiang, and others, as well as several civilian members. 2. The establishment of a military “statement” from the four cloakmak- | commissary department, which would ers who denounced the raising of|be responsible for supplies of food funds for themselves or their fellow|and other materials required by the prisoners, army. There was no comment upon Sig-| 3. The centralization of control of man's letter except a formal vote to| foreign policy in the hands of the (Continued on Page Five) }foreign ministry, under a resolution ‘ startling exposure ‘of the year so far: how millions and millions of |] dollars are swindled “away from |] workers thru the organized insure ance graft, | | which definitely prohibits the expres- sion of views on foreign policy by |any party member or official with- lout the authorization of the Central Executive Committee, on penaity of expulsion from the party, and which centralizes control of foreign affairs and appointments of all kinds every- where in the hands of the foreign | ministry. | 4. A similar centralization of fin- lance in the hands of the finance min- istry. This will directly prohibit any financial measures being instituted by military officials under pain of severe disciplinary sures up expulsion from the parcy. | 5. Abolition of all “chairmanships” |whether of the party, of the party’s Executive Committee or of its Poli- tical Council. These bodies hereafter are headed not by an individual chair- man but by a presidium of three or five, anyone of whom may sit as jchairman at any session of these bodies. 6. The elimination of a certain per- sonnel from the party organs. United Basis, In all these changes there is now complete concurrence. dividuals and groups which seemed directly aimed at in some changes have now signified concurrence in the new status quo. It may definitely be stated, the (Continued on Page Five) The very in-