The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1927, Page 1

+ ( \ w- Every Worker Get Behind the Coal THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 71. Current Events By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. R. JOHN H. WALKER, alias “Hon- est John” Walker, alias “Weeping Johnny” did not pay a single cent in income tax on the graft he is alleged to have received in return for his po- litical activities in behalf of the elec- tion of Frank L. Smith, Samuel In- sull’s successful candidate for the United States senate from the state of Illinois. Mr. Walker, as president of the Illinois Federation of Labor threw the weight of his influence on the side of Mr. Smith, and senator Caraway of Arkansas, a democrat, be- ing a practical politician and discount- ing the virture of honesty, made haste to state on the senate floor that good- ly sums of money were disbursed by Smith’s treasurer to help Mr. Walker bring his followers to the polls to vole for Mr. Smith. * * i XDIGNATION swelled within Mr. Walker's altruistic breast and, this feeling was communicated to other labor officiais whose motives in sup- porting capitalist politicians might be * SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, SCAB TANGLES UP YARN, BUT JUDGE |Walsh Argues Against Garment Injunction roborating witness appeared and that the complainagt herself was | sure” that Guasie Kimberg and Clara Kimberg hadi “struck” her, the two | girl pickets {were found guilty, by | Judge Kelly Voorheis in Special Ses- | sions in Brooklyn, of attacking Mrs. | Anna Bloom during the second month | of the recent tloak strike. Although: Jer story was inconsistent |in many details, and no witnesses’ ap- | peared who ould corroborate her tes- |timony, thé judge found the girls | guilty. They will be sentenced on April 14th.j Persecuted by Sigman. | The intex¢st which the International | officials cqytinue to take in the con- | CONVICTS GIRLS In spite of the fact that no cor-| “not | Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Moncada, Liberal, Leads Troops in Great Battle Against U. S. Hirelings | | | MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 5.—A great battle is reported un- der way in the Chantales area, cen- tering about Cerro de Caballo. |] General Moncada, liberal leader, is || reported to be personally at the front directing the troops, Many Striking | Painters Win New Wage Scale |. With more than 100 of the 175 | boss painters having agreed to their | demand for $14 a day, instead of $12, | | a complete victory for the-4,000 paint- ers of Brooklyn who went out on the target for popular suspicion un-! viction of Strikers who picketed dur-|S*tike Monday morning is in sight. less the cahimny cast upon Mr. Walk- | ing the strike was again attested when | C - was buried beneath a mountain of| several agents of the International |C@llaghan yesterday adjourned until tvade union resentment. Mr. Walker | from Mew York were seen in the | Friday the argument on a motion to busied himself forthwith but only suc- ceeded in strengthening the impres- | sian that “Honest John” was explain- ing too much. re a IME is a great healer and month’ after Mr. Walker had recubersted from the strain of serving the working class for the paltry sum of $5,500 a/ year in addition to suffering Severe roul-wounds from an unscrupulous en- cemy, he summed up enough moral strength to again write Senater Cara- way after “Honest John” in proof of his honesty—as if such proof were needed—filled out his income tax blanks as a good citizen and paid shekels to the internal revenue de- partment on just $5,500 a year. This is where “Honest John” had Senator Caraway by the most tender part of his public consetence and Mr. Walker was no slow to seize tht opportunity to humillate @ ffe and yey ws"o name in the papers again, this time minus a hint of .seandal. . * * R. WALKER dictated a letter to the senator in which he reminded him of his original accusation and contri- buted to the senator’s sum total of general knowledge the information al- ready alluded to. “Now” queried John in effect, “if I had received money for political activities besides my reg- ular salary as president of the Illi- nois Federation of Labor would I not as an honest citizen tot up those sums and pay taxes on them to my govern- ment.” This appears to be unanswer- able and so it is. Senator Caraway came back with the reply that he did not intend to reflect on Mr. Walk- er’s integrity but put a little gall in John’s cup of joy by stating that he never heard of Mr. Walker before the time he mentioned his name in con- nection with the slush fund scandal. Now that “Honest John” has cinched his honesty and is square with the internal revenue department the trade unionists of Illinois can go to sleep with an easy conscience since their leader is exonerated. * . * ING FERDINAND of Rumania does not like to make his exit in Winter evidently agreeing with the Irish poet who sang: “Sure the earth is hard as mortar; ‘tis a cold time to die.” The king is suffering from eancer tho why a monarch who has withstood queen Marie for. decades should sue- cumb to such a comparatively harm- Jess disease is not clear. In the mean- time rival groups of bourgeois graft- ers are ready to fly at each, other’s throats as soon as “Ferdy” draws his last breath. * \ * * peat even professors do not always Know what they are talking about is revealed by an article in the State Journak of Wisconsin by a Chinese university student who has taken" is- sue with’ Professor H. L. Russell of the University of Wisconsin on the Chinese question. The professor spent two months in China and considered himself thoroly equipped to tell an American audience all about the coun- try. One of the inaccuracies given xpression to by Mr. Russell who does ot know a word of the Chinese lan- guage was that there are several different languages in China. The Chinese student corrects the profes- sor stating that there is only one written language for all China tho there are several dialects. “Perhaps Dean Russell does not know the dif- erence between a language and a dia- lect” asks the polite student. * * * HAT the Chinese student does not do to the dean is not worth put- ting on paper. Had this man Russell been burdened with a sensitive soul he would havé jumped into one of the many lakes that abound around Madi- (Continued on Page Two) ev »7 professional thig and gunman heads of the bureau. He also asked “Brog_lyn court room. James Piasanti was found guilty | yestérday before Judge Rosalsky in Special Sessions, of the misdemeanor {of malicious mischeif during the strike. He will receive sentence on April 11. Goretzky Case Next. The case of Joseph Goretzky, man- ager of Local 35—Sigman’s own lo- | cal of pressers—will come up for trial before Judge Rosalsky on Friday m | Special Sessions. Goretzky was the | victim of framed up charges, which were apparently made against him in the hope of elimininating him from the loca’, Walsh Argues. |appeared for the Joint Board of |cloakmakers before Supreme “Court Justice Tierney, on Tuesday to pre- t.. arguments on the injungtion/se- cured by Luigi Antonini pe 89, which attempts to restrain the Joint Board from collecting dues from the Italian members. Justice Tierney asked both sides to submit briefs by April 12. Attorneys appearing for Antonini were unable to show any constitutional authority for their contention that the Joint Board did not have the right to collect dues, but confined their arguments to vitu- perative attacks upon “Communists.” * CHICAGO ARMED CAMP AS VOTERS FLOCK T0 POLLS Thompson Wins. CHICAGO, April 5. ~ George E. Brennan, democratic }hieftain in Illinois and backer of Mayor Dever, conceded defeat of his candidate Thompson’s lead mounted to 25,000. * * * CHICAGO, April 5.—This"is elec- tion day and in less than three hours after the opening of the polls more than half of the total registered vote of 1,146,400 had been cast, a record. This in spite of the fact that the supporters of thé two chief contend- ers represent two armed camps, with jaligned on one side or the other. The first salute of the battle oc- ‘curred early this morning before the lopening of the polls when two demo- eratig precinct headquarters in the 42nd ward on the north side were simultaneously bombed. No one was injured and no arrests were made. The police force, under the direc- tion of William E. Dever, the demo- cratic mayor who is fighting for his political life, is busy rounding up and jailing the more aggressive gangsters in the Thompson camp. Dever, the present mayor, backed by the George Brennan outfit that took graft from the traction magnate, Samuel Insull, in the last congression- al election, asserts: “I have won this fight. The people of Chicago are not going back to the scandalous days which preceded my administration. I will continue to be mayor of Chicago for four years.” Former Mayor Thompson, who is supported by Samuel Insull’s crea- ture, Frank Smith, who tried to steal with traction trust money a seat in the United States senate, prophesies thusly: “I tried to make a clean and decent fight, but Mayor Dever and his boss, George Brennan, would not permit it. I have tried my best to get the truth to the people. The people are the government. They know the facts, The future rests in their hands.” Frank P. Walsh and Louis Boudir | shortly after 6 o’clock when Mr.) Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice | continue the temporary injunction re- | straining the painters from striking |against 27 of the employers. | Court Order Futile! | Julius F. Newman, lawyer for the | workers, against whom the injunc- | tion is aimed declared that “It is ob- | vious that these men will be at lib- erty to remain away from jobs that | vay $12 a day when others doing the same work have succeeded in getting $14 a day.” | Under these circumstances there is }a serious possibility the injunction theoretical importance. | Agreements With Individual Bosses. The present victory of the painters, in addition to the pay increase, is important because of the fact that | the workers have refused to deal with | the bosses’. association. They deny | that the employers are actually inter- ested in “collective agreements,”- but | will use the association merely as a | weapon to establish the open shop and smash their union. More Sapiro Graft Exposed hy Reed in Detroit Libel Suit DETROIT, April 5.—The enormous | conditions of farmers piled up ever | higher today under cross examina- tion of Sapiro by, Senator James A. Reed in the million dollar Ford-Sa- | piro libel suit being tried here in fed- jeral district court. | Sapiro told of receiving $1,000 for | attending a three-day conference of the American Farm Bureau in Chi- eago in July, 1920. Leaving for the time being the ex- {amination of Sapiro’s activities in the cotton belt, Reed swung into the wheat belt today. It was further re- | vealed that Sapiro had “offered” -his | services to the American Farm Bur- |eau for $500 a month retainer and | $2,000 a year for expenses in addi- | tion to the bureau establishing and | maintaining an office in Chicago with |a stenographer to do the work, while | Sapiro’s name appeared on the letter | the sum of $10,000 a year for legal services from the “committee of seven- teen,” a part of the bureau. This lib- eral offer was not accepted, altho he did “work” for the bureau for some time. It was next disclosed that Sapiro received an additional $1,000 for at- | tending four meetings of sub-commit- tees of the committee of seventeen. | Just what services he rendered were not revealed Ford Is Recovering. Meanwhile the billionaire, Henry Ford, is recovering from his injuries sustained last week in an auto wreck, and the baron of the vast feudal do- main that has grown up around his slave pens will be able to testify in a short time regarding his part in the publicity that resulted in Sapiro bringing suit against him. Union Made Machinery To Bear Union Label CHICAGO, April 5.—Machinery turned out by union machinists will bear the label on the International Association of Machinists, the ma- chinists district council announces. The label is either riveted on as a metal plate 1% x 1% inches or paper’ and pasted on. It bears the union insignia and the words union made. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1927 <Gap> jagainst the strikers will have only} PUBISHING Professional Militarist Leads Regiment SHERIFF REFUSES TO ALLOW MINERS. 10 HAVE PICKETS ‘Braun Uses State Power | To Help Seabbing PITTSBURGH, April 5.—Sherift | Robert H. Brawn, of Allegheny | County, where 18,000 union miners | | are idle as a result of the bituminous | | suspension, served notice on miners | | today he would permit no picketing. | | The Allegheny County sheriff made | | this announcemejit in explanation of {his order forbidding the assemblage jof three or more persons in the/ | vicinity of mines operated with non- | union miners. | Admits Objections | “While the rule may be objected) to be some,” said the sheriff, “I con. sider it absolutely nécessary.” | Commenting upon the protests of | |union officials, Sheriff Braun said he | | would not consider rescinding the | order, | Union officials objected to the rule | | because it interfered with picketing. | {No more than two pickets may be | stationed at any one mine at a time! | under the sheriff’s order. | | Constabulary men first enforced | | the order at the Gallatin mine of the | | Pittsburgh Coal Company, near | Monongahela, dispersing 350 union miners and their sympathizers who | Sought to enlist the support of non- | | union miners, | At the very moment when Edward Murray With Him F. McGrady, head of the Special Re- Sherriff Braun, who became the |°T&anization Committee in the Fur- | central figure in the controversy over- | Tiers’ Union, was telling members of \night in this region with his anti-|the Committee of One Hundred for | picket ruling, made @ tour of Alle- | Defense of Needle Trades Prisoners, |gheny county mines early today, ac- |” Monday afternoon, that “The | Colonel Harold C. Snyder com- mands the newly reorganized sixth regiment of. marines sent from Philadelphia to China. Col- onel Snyder has served with the marines for twenty-seven years in various parts of the globe. Thugs of A. F. L, Make Attack On Two Fur Workers | - | | Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. Miner --Help Save the Miners’ Union! ow THE DAILY WORKER. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents DENY SACCO, VANZETTI NEW TRIAL MUST DIE, SAYS HIGHEST COURT {Italian Radicals, Victims of Frame-up, Face Vanzetti. | Must Die, Court Decides. . | Judge Thayer will now pronounce |sentence—death in the electric chair |—upon Sacco and Vanzetti. He will jat the same time set a date for their | execution. , Next Move Uncertain. The next legal step to prevent this jhas not yet been announced. There lis a possibility that Attorney William |G. Thompson, now in charge of the |legal phase of the defense, may car- |ry the case to the United States Su- | preme Court on the basis of technical questions in connection with the he- |havior of the jury. This would serve |to postpone. the imposition of sen- | tence. Another possibility is action seek- jing the impeachment of Judge Thayer on the basis of having shown extreme prejudice at the original trial and in subsequent rulings in the case. The Massachusetts’ courts are merely repeating themselves. Six motions, all based on new evidence impeaching prosecution witnesses and A decision handed down by | Thayer last October in refusing a ne Execution as Defense Loses Appeal | BOSTON, April 5.—The highest court in Massachusetts to- day again denied a new trial to Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo the full bench of the Supreme | Court of Massachusetts sustained the action of Judge Webster ow trial. nnocence of Italian te brushed aside by Judge n previous years. He each case sus- ained by the tribunal in the state. Clear Frame-up. This is the h motion to go through the routine. It was ased upon ( of new evidence: First, a by Celestine Madeir lever, that rhe ayroll rob- ber; e the two radicals ve rai ; and that neither § o nor Vanzetti took part in that crime. Second, affidavits by two depart- ment of justice officials employed in 3oston at the time of’the arrest and conviction of the two workers to the effect that the federal authorities were working hand in hand with the district attorney’s office to (Continued on Page Five) U.S. JOINS IN BLACKMAIL NOTES — DEMANDING INDEMNITY OF CHINA companied by International vice- president Murray. The trip was made at the sugges-| jAmerican Federation of Labor has {always fought clean and will con-| jtinue to fight clean,” his assistants | Nationalists Continue sums of easy money obtained by! Aaron Sapiro from working the fake | cooperative gag on-all classes and/ | were attacking two fur workers with tion of union officials who objected knives, injuring one of ‘them so badly strenuously to the ruling. They de-| he is still in the hospital. | Sired that the sheriff observe the) Samuel Kurland ee severely cut conduct of the pickets in attempting} on the shoulder and .arm; Joseph to persuade “non-union” Ininers to quit| Lapresti was stabbed in the’ breast. | work. a |The attack on these workers was | _ Union officials sought to have the | made just after work by a group of sheriff modify his order to permit | members of McGrady’s reorganization |and increased number of pickets aticommittee. Among them was A non-union mines, they said. | Walter, L. Dyer, and Samuel Mintz, Pittsburgh Center ° } Pittsburgh is somewhat of a center | present being held for the grand jury (Continued on Page Two) ‘on an assault, charge. | Walter and Dyer were arrested and | charged with the assault. Their bail | was set at $1,000 by Judge Goodman ‘15 Bronx Workers |of the night court, but in view of | | their previous records, and the seri- . . jousness of their offense, their bail Jailed Followin |was raised to $3,000 yesterday by Judge Silverman in Jefferson Market | Court. Attack by Polic lat the door of the court yesterday 15 workers, members of House-| morning. Gold was released by Judge wreckers’ Union, Local 91, of the} Silverman, on $3,000 bail; but Kur- Bronx, were arrested yesterday after |land, altho suffering from wounds, they together with a number of other | was held without bail. jmembers of the organization were | Technique of Frame-Up. |brutally beat up by the police fol-| ‘The arrest of Gordon Steinberg | In an attempt to prejudice the ef- fectiveness of their testimony, Sam lowing a battle between them and) .ocpongoy or “ 4 scabs at Third Ave. and 172nd St.,|%°sterday, on the charge of “threat | Kurland and Sam Gold were arrested */ ening to assault” a right wing in- Bronx. | : 4 |former who pointed him out to cen paper uot Pe Dimitel member of the Industrial Squad, Diagalitz, 32 : e charged wi hows that this method of frame-up “felonious assault,” the former | '* contemplated: on a wide scale by charged with hurling a brick at a| the reactionary forces in the furriers’ policeman, which did not strike him, "!0"- . however. | It was on this same charge that Glenn was viciously attacked by! Oscar Mileaff, a fur worker, was ar- Frederick Sass of the Bathgate Ave, | Tested in the market on Monday. station. | When Steinberg was brought to Scabs Start Trouble. | Jefferson Market Court on the charge The trouble resulted from the hir-| of “threatening assault”, Judge Sil- ing of non-union men by the bosses| verman refused to hold him after who are tearing down a number of| Isadore Shapiro and other officials buildings at the scene of the fight.|of the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Yesterday morning when a number| Union testified to the attempts of of union members attempted to talk | the right wing officials to affect such organization to the men on the job, | frame-ups. following threats they were attacked | by a number of sluggers presumably “When the police, 25 im number, ax- | Italy Completes Anti- rived, a fierce attack on the union CANS, | Russian Block; Offers Hungary Big Seaport men was staged, and the arrest of | ROME, April 5. — A pact of the 15 workers followed. None of the scabs were arrested, friendship between Italy and Hun- pary-was signed today by Premier Mussolini and Count Bethlen, Hun- garian premier. The signature of the pact marks the successful attempt of Musso- lini and the die-hard British. cab- inet to form a reactionary bloc in the Balkans. Italy by offering Hun. gary Fiume, a badly needed s port, and recognizing Roumania’s spurious claim to the Bessarabian treaty has forced every Balkan state but Jugo-Slavia into an anti- Soviet reactionary bloc. Opposition to the Italian-Hun- garian pact may be expected from Jugo-Slavia, which stands between Fiume and Hungary. Women Convicts Strike | In Moundsville Prison; | Warden Will Not Talk| (By ROMA, Worker Correspondent.) MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., April 5. —65 women convicts in the West Virginia penitentiary at Moundsville went on a hunger strike March 28 as a protest over the kind of food served them. Up to Saturday, April 2, the women were still in rebellion. Warden Smith refuses to discuss this phase of the prison problem, stating to all newspapers that he has “nothing to say,” and refuses to di- yulge the methods he is using to break the strike, Read The Daily Worker Every Day Advanee North Along Nanking-Tientsin Railroad BULLETIN. NEW-YORK, April. 5.-,-Nationalisi troops are pushing northwardin Shantung and a battle is imminent in the vicinity of Hsuchowfu ac- cording to a Hankow dispatch received today by the Nationalist News Agency here. lu | WASHINGTON, April 5.—By drafting a note on the Nank- the notorious gangster who is at| ing “killings” in conjunction with Great Britain and Japan, the nited States has definitely embarked upon a more militant | Chinese policy, a policy of war threats. | The imperialist notes- which are being written by the American, Bri- tish and Japanese ministers in Pek- ing will protest against the killing of foreigners and demand huge in-| demnities despite the fact that Chin- ese investigations of the Nanking affair have placed the blame on White Russians and Shantungese eng a The notes are also under- |stood to demand guarantees of the |future safety of foreigners.” | Although the notes will not be drafted in such a way as to suggest an ultimatum, oral threats will very likely accompany the notes. ween be Prepare Third Regiment. In view of the increasingly grave |situation, the third regiment of mar ines, now mobilizing, will follow the ith regiment to China within a week, |it was learned today. Orders al- ready prepared will be issued-for the regiment to sail from San Diego either April 11 or 12, it was under- | stood, Its destination will probably be Tientsin, the port of Peking. Sixth Regiment Starting. The 6th regiment will sail on the transport Henderson from San Diego | Thursday, it was announced. Officials admitted that the situa- tion in north China is rapidly assum- jing the aspect of that in hte war- {torn Yangtse Valley, from which | Americans are fleeing for their lives | before Cantonese mobs. | Americans are now‘ being concen- trated in Tientsin, which is the port |for Peking, the capital. There has | been no untoward incident. A growing Cantonese sympathy is manifested on every side as the Can- |tonese armies continue their march toward the city. Move On Tientsin. SHANGHAI, April 5.—The tionalists have begun their big drive northwards, They are sweeping along the Shanghai-Tientsin railway and are rapidly closing in on Suchowfu, which is in the hands of Chang Tsung Chang, Shantungese war lord. Should the Nationalists smash Chang’s lines, which appears likely, Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian war lord, would be compelled to withdraw from Peking as the dhly line of communi- cation with Manchuria, his base, is through Tientsin. | Feng West of Peking. Peking in the meantime is threat- ened by the well-drilled army of Feng Yu-hsiang, who may swoop down on the northern capital from the west. T. V. Soong, finance minister, is now in Shanghai reorganizing the finances of Kiangsu and Chekiang Na-| RRR SRG SEE OEE eS Provinces. It is reported that For- eign Minister Eugene Chen and Min- ister of Communications Sun Fo plan to leave here shortly to supervise the reorganization of the departments of foreign affairs and of communica- tions. Marshal Chang Tso Lin has in the meantime issued another appeal for a foreign subsidy. ee 1,500 More Marines Mobilize. QUANTICO, Va., April 5—Four trains carrying a detachment of 500 marines are scheduled ‘to leave here today for San Diego where a second force of 1,500 is being mobilized for service in China. 2 Batteries Move. LONDON, April 5.—The 52nd and 98th batte of the Royal Field Artillery, were today ordered to China,’ and will move as sdon as transport facilities * * are available. * Hindus Arm To Aid China, PARIS, April 5.—The Hindu Na- tionalists are supporting the Chinese Nationalist revolution to the fullest extent going as far as forming a corps of 2,700 men to help the Can- tonese army in its struggle against western aggression, to quote the words used by the Hindus. The executive committee of the In- dian Nationalists recently passed a motion assuring “our Chinese brothe ers of our whole-hearted sympathy with their struggle for liberty and we hereby urge the government of India not to employ Indian troops jor any other means against China.” Further “not a single Hindu sold- ier, Hindu civilian, not a single rupee” would be used for military purposes in China. ‘Sinclair Conviction |Is Upheld; Will Be | Sentenced on Monday | WASHINGTON, April 5. — The jeconviction of Harry F. Sinclair, |multi-millionaire oi] magnate, on one jcount, of contempt of the United | States senate was confirmed today by Justice Hitz in disrtict supreme court, and date of sentence was set |for next Monday. With it is a fine | of $100 and a mandatory jail sens hype 9 |_,George P. Hoover, of counsel for | Sinclair, said he would have his client |in court next Monday for sentence. |Sinclair’s counsel, however, plans to appeal the case clear to the U, & supreme court, ' -