The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1927, Page 2

Page Two CLOAK CONTRACTORS RUN SWEATSHOPS; ENCOURAGED BY ANTI-UNION BOSSES (By SAMUEL CAMIEL, Worker Correspondent.) situ tion is coming to a head. Too many shops and too little pay and un- | equal distribution of work is fore-| meviat Dy your comespolidagt: tp ing of the contractors out of} women’s cloak contracting shop busin A lesser number of these} proved a sad suvprise, This sort of! shops will undoubtedly be of utmost! shop is usually operated by three or! benefit to the worke at this criti- | four former shop workers and is fre-| Cl time in the Strict limi-| } tation of the number of contract} quently nothing more or less than an shops is one of the left.wing’s strong | old time sweat-shop. demands. It was eight o’clock in the evening nd the four rs’ who operated shop wer ll hard at work. aid that they had been work- | ing since seven o’clock that morn and were only too glad to do so as long as they could get work to do. The jobbing bosses encouraged the workers to open contracting shops and then, in the capitalistic fashion, force the contractors to bid against each other. This gives the bosses the opportunity to have their work done at such a small cost to them that they are able, usually, to dispense with much of their own union fac- tory help. Unorganized Labor. The workers employed by the con- tractors are usual non-union men and women who are unable to obtain IN CHINA FLAYED AT BIG MEETINGS Dunne, Moore, Sha Will Speak on Friday Workers of many races and politi- | cal affiliations will gather at two | mass demonstration meetings Friday | the Shanghai race track, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1927 Britain’s Imperialist Troops in Shanghai f Top view shows the Gloucestershire regiment of the British army marching through Shanghai. Shanghai Volunteer corps with armored cars, at their training field, Below, photo of the British to protest against the American pol of sending troops and warships t China under the cover of pretty words of peace, The United States can only be kept out of a war to crush the Chinese liberation movement by the united action of the workers, prominent members of the Hands Off China! Comittee said yesterday. The meet- employment at the regular cloak fac- tories. These receive a minimum wage and work from 10 to 13 hours a day if their employers are fortun- ate enough to have contracted for a sufficient amount of work. Party Hails the This condition is not particular to the one shop. Other small shops that were inspected were found to be simi-| larly affected. All complain that | they are being used by the big bosses as a tool to combat the union shop | worker, They resent this now be- cause they also are underpaid and over-worked. Revolt in China PRAGUE, March -—-The IVth congress of the Communist Party of ing will protest as the murder of two thousand peaceful Chinese at Nank- ing as well as demand the withdrawal of American marines and warships from China. 25 Tcheckoslovakia was opened today in Czech Communist | CURRENT EVENTS | (Continued from Page One) son. In fact one with a supernatural | tendency might be justified in coming )to the conelusion that those lakes were created by a wise deity to accomodate stupid professors who lack the com- mon horse sense to only speak on sub- jects With which they are acquainted. | But the best of gods are stumped by | stupidity. |THE Shanghai correspondents ar | having a lot of fun reciting the KELLOGG FAVORS Unemployment Biz INTERVENTION IN Passaic Problem; CHL CIVIL WAR Hold Conferences . ; | By HOLLACE RANSDELI. Mexico Sends Gunboats| pagsiic N35, Aol s (FS) | To Protect Nationals | With thousands of workers in the| | textile district of Passaic still out of | jobs the unemployment problem has WASHINGTON, D. C., April a The United States government is on | become a very serious matter for the jthe verge of. intervention in Chicaxo | local unions of the United Textile according to information from usually | Workers of America, One unemploy~ well informed quarters today. |iment conference has already been held Tho Coolidge favors a policy ,of | 27d ® second will be ealed later in watchful waiting, Kellogg is reported | APT by the Trades and Labor Coun- to be in favor recalling 2,000 marines | “il of Passaic’s: nes | ¢ el; from Nicaragua to defend the i ter. | of. the ‘Te: e Workers “Most of the mills are » ing only and have cut out the ests of the G. 0. P. in Cicero. eh Mayor Dever has warned Wash-|>@*t time, day < ington that Chicago will not tolerate | Might shift altowether,” said interference by any outside power, | Deak, president of the local | The mayor issued the following | T#@nizetion. “Many of the mill v stetement: “The threat of Secretary | "8 are getting only two or three ¢ of State Kellogg to dispatch an ex-|® week. Every week the Botany |peditionary force of 2,000 marines to| ff more workers, Last week ¢ this city is an insult to every law-| 400 were paid off and it is even rur abiding gunman in Cook County. Fur- ored that these mills, the largest in |thermore such a diminutive force ithe district, may shut dpwn altogether. dl soit drink parlor proprietors who are | vnemployed.” 2 already naar the end of their patience. | At the last The armed forces. of the city and| chamber of commerce ecretary and Diversey Parkway are capable of | the poor master made) a bid for the |taking care of the interests of for-|Te¢lection of Foe illin ape eigners. If the republicans keep out | ®% si ergs ars sce a or Cae Wa of the path of the civil war they are | employed, if only he jw reasonably safe. I warn secretary | *#ain. Kellogg that Chicago is not Cuba, Nicaragua or Hayti. Our forces shoot eed 1 the District Coun- | would only serve to exasperate our | At leas tfive thousan§ workers are | b j conference the local their allies from the “Valley” and the poor master of Passaic spoke, and | vere elected | | to. kill,”” | When this message reached Kellogg he trembled violently and rushed to |the white hous to consult with the | president. Coolidge was taking his \daily ride on his electric hobby horse | DRIVEN TO LEFT JAPAN WORKERS Union Restaurant Is Labor Meeting Place No matter what hour of the day you may drop in at Comrade Sollins’ Dining Room, 222 Kast 14th street, near Second avenue, you will always find your bunch, regardless of what bunch you belong to, furriers, cloak- makers, or other makers . . The first pleasant music you will hear is not Bethoven, Chopin or Mendelson, but the greén buttoned union waiters’ symphony to the tune of one hundred and one appetizing \dishes of kishka, borsht, gefilte fish, }up to tea with lemon, while the mis- |¢hevous kitchen sends forth irresis- |table aromas of real chicken zoop, with mandel, with kasha, ahd many, many more withs. . . Before and afte meetings, after | the long, long day in the shop, every- body in at Sollins’ to shmoos admist | the bits and zits. No need to make ve appointments with your friends, you ; are sure to meet them at Sollins’, | Sollin’s is not an Elite Aristecratic Rendezvous, or an intellectual cornér, YS but just a darn good place to eat for eats sake, and fine sensible surround- {ings where people speak comnion sense. The name is just Sollins’ Din- \ing Room, That ought to tell the story. Representative Speakers Richard B. Moore of the American labor Congress recently returned from Lives of Many in the Brussels Anti-Imperialist Con- ference, S. Sha of the Kuomintang, S. Danger as Result M. Ghose of the Friends of Freedom | Of Big Explosion | for Idia, William F. Dunne, editor of The Daily Worker, Carl Weisberg; {Robert W. Dunn, authgr of “Ameri- ean Foreign Investments” will be One gathers, however, that the Peoples House, Prague, by con-| adventures of Chiang Kai-Shek, gen-| nq aid not want to be distarbed rade Haken. The following comrades | eralissimo of the Nationalist armie: | It fs reported that the state depart. were unanimously elected to the pre-|who is reported in daily struggles | Hey | ‘ r * A is hopi for joint acti | sidium: Sture, Touzil, Haken, Smeral, | with sections of the Koumintang Par- | Hesin” i oe BA a paleat| Kreibich, Mondok, Kolarikova, Major, | t; i Clteute. al ani Sven iB the party from which he derives | countefes with heavy interests in the| Ld mandate, Sometimes they have}... | . ° | | ons, - | Windy © A | In the name of the Central Com-| Chiang beheading scores of revolu-| Sir ¥ me Howard was xe to reave Strikes of Long Dure- tion Waged ‘by Unions mittee, comrade Smeral proposed that | ee workers and Lege ge Ad |the state department today with a} the'congress adopt the following reso- | Chiang admitting that the workers) cine jonk on his conntenance. He | the CLEVELAND, April 5.—A series of explosions at the east end plant of the Ohio Bronze Powder Company early today imperiled many lives, déove several persons from adjacent apartments into the streets | among the speakers at the meetings. The New York mass meeting will *ibe held at the Central Opera House, t | 6th street and 3rd avenue, while the and | Brooklyn meeting will be held at the | proletariat. lutions in favor of the Chinese revolu- tion: “The party congress sends its revo- lutionary greetings to the Chinese The Chinese revolution can only be successful through a deci- have a right to arm themselves. They | fi *, Saw have Chiang welcoming the return of | Teipeed to be ame wed. a Koumintang leader on the ground; mbes ‘ Ps e eavy Casualties Reporied that he is a moderate and a few CHICAGO, April ithe aoe ct hours later another dispatch comes | Genaehle Thompson and Dever swung TOKIO, April 5.—The economic ,erisis in Japan during the last few! ‘months of 1926 fostered the swing. of the masses to the left. This left- ward movement of the masses had | smashed scores of windows and sky- lights in the immediate neighborhood. Several persons were cut by broken glass. Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan avenue. | sive fight to the end against imper- jialism. For this reason the Chinese Boston Protests Too revolution is a part of the world revo- BOSTON, April 5.—Scoring Ameri- feb Rigen Be ee lution. The idea of Leninism for a can imperialist intervention in China, The blasts were caused by streams of water f ire! striki ; close alliance of the working class f water from firehose striking | Mexico and Nicaragua, a committee | “5° ta ge + power, according to assistant fire d abba tin, with the peasantry will assist the hief Nimmo. has arranged a mass protest meeting | Chinese revolution to victory.” for Friday, April 8, at the Tremont Temple. Fred T. Douglas is chairman of the Boston meeting. y Stolen! $2,000,000,000 The following resolution was direc- ted to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: .| “The unity and consolidation of the {C. P. of the U. S. S. R. is the key- |stone of the power of he Comntern. The present’ industrialisation of a so- ‘cialist type which has been carried BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS | Sacrifices of the masses exercises a | European working masses. The So- viet elections have shown a close con- nection between the urban and rural | Proletariat in the Soviet Union. De- | spite all provocations the C, P. of the out with the assistance of the heroic | | very great influence upon the western | | gal son is an extremist, so that is how it goes, baw latest report from the Shanghai saloons where the American cor- | respondents are said to hang out is {that Chiang is on his way north to |capture Peking. Tomorrow he may {be in Hankow on executions bent or | {in Canton chasing Borodin, the Rus-| | sian adviser. Time, distance and facts | mean nothing to those hired scrib-| blers. Hundreds of thousands of dol- lars are spent by the imperialists on | cable tolls from Shanghai. But trans- ported lies do not win battles. | | Tono Bungay Dies Rich. | | The estate of Elden C, DeWitt, the late “patent medicine king”, today) |was estimated by friends to be at least $7,000,000 De Witt, born in| Jones County, Iowa, in 1885, worked | up from an obscure druggist to a} | along which tells us that the prodi-| inte action at daybreak today and|been greatly helped by the increasing | | tesidents of Maywood and Evanston could hear the booming of artillery from tho time the polls opened unti | consolidation of industrial and finan- | |cial institutions. On the one hand’ |this helped the capitalists to fight | the Deverites as they plundered the the bootleggers went to an early'| more sugcessfully against the tork- luneh. ers. On the other hand the revolu-| The casualties are said to be heavy, | tionary feeling of the working masses General Thompson losing one of his continued to grow. It was expressed most intrepid lieutenants, the lead-|in many strikes of incredible duration er of his best brigade of shock troops, and obstinacy. Vincent Drueci. i During the first half of the_ Year | “Bullets not ballots” was the mot- there wére 490 disputes of WHicl 157 to of the Thompson-Crowe forces as turned into strikes. The strike move- they marched to the polls taking | ment invelved,86,117 workers, Com- whatever cover they could, and every- paring this with the same period of | thing else that was not nailed down.| the previous year,.the number of “Dead men tell no tales” retorted | strikes increased by 105. The tac-| ties adopted by the strikers consid-| erably changed. The strikes of the | past year were well organized. They | were led for the greater part by trade unions mainly of the left wing. Popular Sympathy. | | The strike committees carried sout| | wide agitation, drawing to aid of the| cemeteries for voters, As this dispatch is being written neither side was able to claim vic- tory, tho both predicted it. Cicero deeided to declare allegiance | to Thompson and called all bootleg-| gers between the ages of 18 to 60 to | | | | At the Unasual Price of centseach NOTE This offer is good only un- til May 1. All orders eash or C.0.D. On all orders under one dollar ADD FIVE CENTS FOR POSTAGE. |U. S. 8. R. is pursuing a policy of | fortune. De Witt began manufactur- | : a . Number junswerving peace. If this peace is|ing nostrums in Sioux Pity, Ta. and the colors. 54 é strikers, worke.s in other enterprises | ss oe of copies | dtetuvedy thon tha Tebecktih ieot ie | and even obtained the sympathy of || AMALGAMATION—Fox Read the leet will te aie aeie cot Pai a later moved to Chicago. | Mexico Sends Note. jthe wide masses of, the population.| | THE BRITISH STRIKE— : 3 ; Sa bare 3 MEXICO CITY, April 5. — The | Of the strikes that occurred during | Dunne sees A resolution was adopted against Allegheney Sheriff | Mexican foreign minister today hand- | the first half of 1926, we should note|[™¥ CARE OF HEALTH IN jclass “justice” in Hungary. | p y .__ |@d a note to Ambassador Sheffield|the long drawn out strikes in the SOVIET RUSSIA—Sem- | The party congress then adopted a| Prohibits Picketing deploring the civil war in Chicago | copper mines belonging to the Bessy | ashko eeee : Beane t Sob ayer a the a pe of jand expressing fear that a Mexican|/Company (108 days) at the Asiatic jf INFANTILE SICKNESS— a e miners and railwaymer and a Rechts hile con carne restaurant on Madison |Schoe Factory (99 days), i Lenin seee of the | message of greetings to the striking | (Continued from Page One) bs: i d |Schoe Factory (99 days), in the| 3 . saith se "O.. |glass workers of eaetiteen Roberti | in the fight the operators are waging | ®"d Canal Streets ‘would be in jeop- printing establishment of Kedo in IS THE RUSSIAN REVO. LUTION A BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION—Radek MENACE OF OPPORTUN ISM—Bedacht jardy if the federal troops were not | Tokio (67 days} in the factory of | able to restore order in that city. The | musical instruments in Khamamatzu government would demand repara- | (105 days) and also the many strikes | tions for death or destruction of | that oceurreg in textile and other in- The chairman comrade Touzil then| to smash the union. _ jread a letter of greetings from the| The Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., | |Communist nucleus of a distriet| Which is a large concern, has taken |this opportunity to follow Andrew | INSURANCE TRUST ruption? Subscription Rates Outside of New York In New York ..... 33 FIRST ST. cI That the whole weekly payment (industrial) life insurance business is alive with graft and cor- BE SURE TO READ IT! Beginning Monday, April 11th in the DAILY WORKER On All Newsstands in New York and Vicinity. ASE: FOR 231 The DAILY WORKER | The session was then closed. Helps Convict Escape |. NEW ORLEANS, April 5.—Judge | Henry Burns in Federal Court today | ordered the removal to Kansas City of Charles N. Thompson, former shoe | factory superintendent at Leaven- ‘worth prison, to face a charge of aid- ing John B. Carroll, convicted bandit, to escape in a box supposedly filled | with shoes, Thompson was arrested here while enroute to a town in Mississippi where he was to meet Carroll, who is still at large. Thompson declares he was 1 ¥r. 6 Mo. 3 Mo. offered a large sum of money by $6.00 $3.50 - $2.00 Carroll. - $8.00 $4.50 $2.50 SAN FRANCISCO, April 5,—With nearly twenty airplanes again taking up the search, dragging operations will be started today along the water- front near Crissy flying field for the missing mail plane of the Pacific Transport Co., which, with its two oc- cupants, was more than 40 hours late, NEW YORK ) { Leavenworth Manager Strike At Moundsville MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., April 5. ~—-When the bituminous coal strike went into effect April 1 about 1,000 non-union miners in this vicinity also walked out in sympathy, and as a protest against the 1917 seale which has been paid them sinee their strike in 1925 was lost. There are injunctions galore in this section against unionization, issued in 1925, As a result the miners are having a doubly hard battle to wage. They cannot meet together; they can do no picketing; and they can’t even dare to talk ef unionizing any of the mines here. * Mines Almost Stop. Already faint echoes may be heard of the capitalist offensive, mainly through their press. The coal opera- tors, in order to break the solidarity of the miners, greatly exaggerate the number of those scabbing. Accord- ing to them, the mines are working 50 per cent or 60 per cent, while as an actual fact the miners declare that a very, yery slight percentage go in- side of the mines, * * In reply to Eugene Chen’s protest against the alleged killing of a Chin- ese restaurant keeper in Chicago, | President Coolidge stated that his government was trying to observe neutrality between north sidg militar- ists led by Thompson and the wegt side tuchuns under Beaver, “The Washington administration is |in much the same positien in rela- tion to the war between the north and west sides of Chicago as Peking is in the differences between north | dent. | China is said to be negotiating with the U. 8. 83. R., Mongolia, Turkey and Afghanistan with a view to sending |a joint note to the United States. Wealthy Man Robs Post Office. Lee De LaHoussaye, 46, who told authorities here he is a member of a wealthy family in New Orleans, was held in $15,000 bail yesterday by United States Commissioner Racquin in Brooklyn for the action of the fed- eral grand jury on a charge of pur- loining postal money orders from the post office sub station in Woodside, Queens, April 2, 1916. |and south in China,” said the presi-| movement. These strikes during the | ‘past year were often ended in defeat} |for the workers. j | Numerical Strength Growing. | During the past year the number | of organized workers has consider- | |ably grown, The numerical strength. ‘of the lett trade union centres-—Hiog- | |ikay—has grown from 18,700 to 24, | 000, while Bodomay—the reformist organization—from 29,500 to 85,006, | Sodomay, in excluding its centris' who subsequently formed the Nikkon | | Ronoto decreased its memership by | 15,000,- “When one remembers that! all the underhand forces of Japan,! beginning with the police and fas-. cists and ending with the réformists | were linked up against the Hiogikay, | it becomes very clear that Miogikay has grown considerably more than Sodomay. The general, total of organized workers in Japan, nevertheless con- tinues to be Very insignificant. Al- together there are 270,000 industrial workers, organized in trade’ unions and this out of a general total of approximately 4% million industrial workers. NEW YORK—Jimmie Higgins Bookshop, 127 University Pi. is CHICAGO—Workers Bookshgip, 19 S. Lincoln St. , BOSTON — Workers Bookshop, * 36 Causeway St- LOS ANGELES—Workers Book- shop, 283 West 2nd St. DETROIT — Workers 1967 Grand River Ave, A Wise Worker Will CLIP THIS AD okehop, Enclose money and write piainly. The DAILY WORKER Publishing Co, 33 First St., New York. Enclosed $............08 for books marked above. NGM GU Hie ees Street pasos veciasien State viissersecercocccees prison. The letter expressed the un- ‘ sroperty suffered by its nationals and ‘i MOVEMENT FOR WORLD’ : | swerving loyalty of the political pris-| Mellon's Pittsburgh Coal and Coke | ee aticn the nansceiee st auna (rank: : . | TRADE UNION UNITY 10 Ou HOW Pas C to th ent ks, and all!‘ j y The chief reasons for these strikes oners to the party. A further letter| Co. into the non-union ranks, and ai an expediti fe to hell ~—Tom Bell eee p . han’ Hyer ean gy Saige q |i an expeditionary force to help! were demands to regulate wages and ms 7 rn ‘ jof greeting arrived from the village| this part of Pennsylvania is jammed | weston order. joerg 1 “it PROLETARIAN SONG 1. That 40,000,000 workers pay tribute to the “Big jnucleus Oseg which a week ago unan-| With state constabulary and private | + eae gen hs to improve labor conditions. ROOK oaae ; Four” insurance trust? imously left the social democratic | ee Bord coal pei Boa | China Gives Tit For Tat. | Right To Organize. ae WRONG IN THE | Se “ ie ‘ : . . | party and went over in a body to the| determined to resort to any amount of | HANKOW, April 5.—The National-| Together with thése economic de- CARPENTERS’ UNION .... 2. That “mutual” weekly payment (industrial) life L Toaaaeetratal acts | violence in order to stop effective| ist” government thru Eugene Chen | mands the workers fought for the ff) EMPIRE SOCIALISM —R. insurance companies fraudulently hold BILLIONS | Comrade Hais welcomed the con-| picketing. - |teday wirelessed Admiral Williams a Tight to organize themselves in trade P. Dutt h eae belonging to the public? gress in the name of the International| The lockout continues in other parts | protest against the alleged killing of unions, for the reinstatement of dis- JJ THE REDS AND GENER- 3, That the “Big Four” insurance trust consists of |Red Trade Union Federation (I, A.|of the fields. About 200,000 men are |, Chinese restaurant proprietor in| missed comrades who had been active | AL STRIKE—By ©. B. ¥ . is 7 a |V.) of Tcheckoslovakia which he de-| now out, without counting an un-/the Chicago civil war. Chen clai in the strike movement, for a change FROM THE FOURTH TO the Metropolitan, Prudential, John Hancock and - oe Seas | | 3 le by 4 oP “ an, ential, John Hancock an clared regarded the Communist Party | known number of non-union workers | that the chop suey served by Chinese in labor legislatiotis for collective | THE FIFTH WORLD (Cc. the Colonial? jas the only party representing the | striking in West Virginia. The con-| waiters in the United States was no bargaining ete. However, the crisis | I.) CONGRESS sobs 1. That Wall Street high financiers jockey with jinterests of the whole proletariat. He | ference recently arranged between the | worse than the spiritual pabulum |in Japanese industrial life, the divi- | money that is yours—and which you will never | expressed the hope that the congress | Ohio Operators’ Association and the | dished out by American missionaries sion in the Japanese labor movement | THESE BOOKS ‘i * would make decisions to assist the | officials of District 6 of the union has in China, coupled with the treacherous role o: Vv 7 : urs— ld make decisi ist the | officials of District 6 of th has) led with thi hi le of | oun Ne bought also at the follow- see. | 00d cooperative work between the} apparently broken down. | * * |the right leaders could not be con-| ing Workers’ Bookshops: 5. That high government officials are involved? | party and the I. A. V. Oy ie WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5.—/ductive to the success of the strike | v 7 im \ bes