The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1927, Page 1

| shoved into his mitt. | Mr. Henderson, the big Wall Street | glossing over little defects. | “Spread Eagle” with American im- THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THD UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY | Vol. IV. No. 72. | Current Events By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. oo is a play at the Martin Beck Theatre that every young boy and girl should know as Margaret Sanger might say. Even the professional crities vowed it was good, tho those gentlemen detect various flaws in its | historionic anatomy. As for myself, ) if I like something I have a habit of And perialism in Mexico as the theme is | as hot a potato as a patriot ever had! * * ‘WO ex-warriors who occupied the| same sector of a battle area in| France are chatting in the office of | broker. One of the two is a news- paper man; the other is the big brok- er’s amanuensis. The latter had his lesson and was sharing it with the reporter, who lived up to the com- mon conception ef the typical news- hound. He wanted an interview with Henderson which he was willing to write, provided the great man per- mitted the use of his name. That would be plentz. | * * § loapi big man worked for a dollar | a year during the war and made a fortune out of it. Every time a shell shrieked from the sector in which those lads suffered it rang up 87 cents on Mr. Henderson’s cash reg- * ister. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter INDIANA STRIP MINING BOSSES TO MEET UNION Lewis Did Not Attend Conference INDIANAPOLIS, April 6.—With the bituminous coal lock-out still keep- ing about 200,000 men idle, and the Pennsylvania constabulary still re- ported breaking up picket lines there, the miners settled down to what looks | like a long fight. The Indiana strip mine owners may settle, temporartly, on the basis of the Jacksonville scale, and let their men go back to work until the rest of the field settles the wage rate. Conference On. A meeting takes place at Terre Haute, tomorrow, between operators of strip mines and union officials. Any decision made there will affect but a small part of the men out, even in Indiana, and none of the strip miners outside of the state are involved. Strip The man who now supplied Henderson with his business brains also worked for him on the western front. The dialogue between the re- porter and the broker’s clerk is ear- tickling. WR. HENDERSON has extensive holdings in Mexico, He might be Doheny or John D. Rockefeller. He is an interventionist and does not want a stable government in Mexico. * * || Hearst failed to bring about inter- Sa vention but his spade work planted the idea in the minds of the people. Mr. Henderson has a daughter. A , little hokum is enjoyed by the most! serious of mortals. Somebody had to get married to cater to that kind of a> audience. She played her part capably. * INTO the broker’s office bursts an O. Henry; Latin American general, who bored Henderson with speeches so 8 on liberty until he was assured of) revolution | $650,000 to pull off a against the Mexican government. No sooner had he{left than the son of | trades and wives of workers jammed | an ex-American president came in on the track of a job which he got, start- ing in at the bottom on a salary of $5,000 a year. Of course he took the job to prove to Miss Henderson that he would and could make good, etc. He did, and almost got murdered by -her father’s general. And strange to say that is just what Mr. Hender- son wanted to happen tho of course he was not aware his daughter loved the victim. Why? Because the Amer- ican people would never stand for the murder of the son of an ex-president. And did not the Washington people admit that the people were not yet keyed up to the intervention pitch. * * * HENDERSoN’s general did the job he got paid for and the ex-pre- sident’s son got shot. War was de- clared. Now, there is where the au- thors of “S,.ead Eagle” spring somie- thing new. They introduce a news- paper editor on the radio who does his one minute speech in four-minute fashion and pictures of soldiers marching to the front and kissing wives and babies are flashed on the screen. Mr. Henderson becomes chair- man of the national defense commit- tee and goes to the border in his pri- vate car. Generals fawn on him. He America, i eee ex:president’s son is found and sound but talking like a man of his wits. In fact he knows it Henderson sent him to get killed and he is going to spill the beans. The big patriot is shocked and is about to collapse when his amanuensis comes to his rescue, frightens the wits out of the vic- im who goes off and marries the mn. Then the big man’s flunkey ins the army after giving the brok- r a tongue thrashing. The curtain falls with the star-spangled banner playing, and the broker’s flunkey or- dering his boss: “Stand up you son of a b- - -.” Perhaps this is ‘a conces- sion to the patriots. Perhaps it is satire. hi " E play is the best piece of anti- imperialist propaganda that I have yet seen on the stage. It reveals the imperialist in all his horrible nakedness. Of course there is a ' strong touch of cynicism there and the acts of the main anti-imperialist character are at variance with his words. But the. amount of hokum and the cynicism and the Star Span- (Continued on Page Two) \ mining is a special sort of work, more like excavating or quarrying than tun- nel and shaft mining, and is not ap- plicable to all American coal fields. Lewis Won't Attend. | John L. Lewis, International presi- | dent of the United Mine Workers, chiefly responsible for the present tac- tics of the union, and especially for the making of temporary agreements with any of the owners who will do so, stated in his office here today that |he would not attend the Terre Haute | conference. ~ In Needle Trades Defense Meeting | 2,500 women workers of the needle | Cooper Union last night in a demon- | stration . protesting against the im- prisonment and persecution of active tivity in recent strikes under left wing leadership. Resolutions Adopted. Resolutions giving their whole- hearted support to the defense of these workers were adopted, and a call was made to all working class women to join in fighting for the release of the victims of the reaction- Declaring that “working class wo- men can no longer remain indifferent to the struggles that are going on in the needle trades, and will not be passive to the continued suffering and misery brought about by the official- dom of the International unions of the A. F. of L.”, the resolution calls upon the women “who know what it means to have the father of your children taken away and placed be- hind prison bars for the crime of fighting for a better living,” to “raise their voices in protest.” The meeting, which was called by the Unity Committee of the furriers and cloak and dressmakers, was ad- dressed by Kate Gitlow, Fannie War- shafsky, Rose Wortis, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Lena Chernenko, Ben Gold, manager of the Joint Board of the furriers’. union, and Louis Hy- man, head of the Joint Board of the cloakmakers. . Committee to Begin Work. A committee of 25 women was ap- pointed at the meeting to begin at once a campaign of agitation for the release of those workers now in jail and for, the legal defense of those facing trial. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS YOUR NEIGHBOR WILL THANK YOU Your neighbor will thank you for tipping him off about the forthcoming DAILY WORKER _Insur- ance Expose. An amazing exposure of Wall Street fraud, corruption and graft. Pass the word along! Mon- day, April 11th and daily thereafter. needle trades workers for their ac- | ary officialdom of the needle trades. | , |evation of Labor at the anti-imperial- Ruthenberg’s Ashes On Way to Moscow; Carried by Engdahl The ashes of Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg are on the way to Moscow to be plaeed in the Krem- lin walls near the grave of John Reed, pioneer American Com- munist, and not far from the Lenin Mausoleum. J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The Daily Worker, selected by the Cen- tral Committee of The Workers (Communist) Party, left with the ashes on the Berengeria last Mon- || day. WOLL DENIES TO JUDGE THAT HE TOLD GRAFT TALE Won’t Explain Strange Story From A. F. of L. To Matthew Woll, acting president of the National Civic Federation, | vice-president of the American Fed- eration of Labor and head of the| special committee appointed to in- vestigate the Furriers’ Union, it is | still.a mystery how the newspapers | got the story that he and his fellow) |committee members charged that the| |New York police had “been bribed’ during the fur strike last year. Couldn’t Name Cops. At the hearing on the fur bribe} |charges which began yesterday af-| |ternoon in the Criminal Courts build- jing before Magistrate Joseph E. Cor- | jrigan. Woll was asked by Assistant | | District Attorney Brothers to give, |the names of policemen in those pre- | \cinets, which according to press re-| |ports, had received money regularly | \during the strike. | “We more than anyone else were | amazed to see those statements in the |press,” said Woll, referring to the \first stories which came from St. | Petersburg, Florida, when the special | jcommittee of investigation made its |report to the Executive Board of the} American Federation of Labor. \ “We really do not know where the! |press got its information.” } | This is the first time Matthew Woll has denied that he made these widely published statements about the al-| \leged bribery of the police. In view} lof the fact that the stories came by/| |wire from, Florida direct from the| | various special labor reporters of the! |New York dailies, his explanation is) | (Continued on Page Five) Hands Off China, — Demand at Mass Meetings Friday Richard B. Moore, of the American Negro Labor Congress, who has just returned from the Brussels Confér- ence Against Imperialism, will be one of the speakers at the Hands Off China mass meetings to: be held to- morrow night at the Central Opera House, 67th St., and Third Ave., and at the Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn. The achievements of the confer- ence, at which more than 200 delegates from the principle capitalist powers and colonial. countries were represen- ted, will be related by Moore. He will also tell of the significant speech- es made by representatives of the Kuomintang and the All-China Fed- ist meeting at Brussels. Vigorous protests against the bru- tal murder of thousands of Chinese civilians. at Nanking by British and American gun-fire will be made at this mass meeting. Samuel Sha, member of the Kuo- mintang; S, N. Ghose of the Indian Freedom Foundation; William F. Dunne, editor of The DAILY WORK- ER, and Carl Weissberg, Liberal Club of the College of the City of New York, will be among the other speak- ers. Robert W. Dunn, of the American Civil Liberties Union, will preside at the meeting which will be attended by thousands of radicals and liberals who will insist that there be no inter- ference in the Chinese liberation jovement, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1927 SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI FROM DEATH! at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879. a> BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI Ske tched in Mass. State Prison May 1, 1924, by Lydia Gibson.) SACCO AND VANZETTI SHALL NOT DIE! The supreme court of the state of Massachusetts has shocked the whole world. It was not only the most conscious section of the working class which knew Sacco and Vanzetti had been convicted by a frame-up of a crime of which they were innocent but every honest ,and intelligent person felt that. the .Massachusetts court, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, would not dare to find them guilty. Class justice, the justice that American capitalism meas- ures out to workers who have incurred its enmity, has triumphed—for the moment. It has triumphed at tremendous cost to the system which it protects against the poor who do the work of-the world. Who is so foolish as to say now that capitalist courts are impartial? Sen Our task, and to this task The DAILY WORKER and the Workers (Communist) Party for which it speaks pledges every ounce of its energy, is to open the jail doors and free Sacco and Vanzetti—our class brothers who have been made to suffer a living death for more than six years. The capi- talist class of America in general and aristocracy of the Bay State in particular have tortured these innocent workers long enough. All appeals to the so-called natural virtues—honesty, mercy, etc.—have failed. The supreme court of Massachusetts has spit in the face of all who protested. This time no half-way measures will do. There must be brought into being the most powerful machjnery for protest and action that the long list of persecutions of workers has produced in the United States. The whole country must be made to ring with the shame of Massachusetts. In every foreign land the masses must know the truth— that in the United States it is still possible to legally murder innocent workers who have suffered already the anguish and despair of a thousand ordinary lives. Unite to save Sacco and Vanzetti. No new trial demand this time. These workers are innocent and they must be freed. “They belong to the labor movement and there they must take their place once more—and soon. Sacco and Vanzetti shall not die in the eleetric chair at the hands of the enemies of the American labor movement. U.S. Millionaires Protest Against Give Private Navy | White Terror In For War On China Hungary at Meet WASHINGTON, April 6, — The The . ‘ protest against the reign of United States tonight appealed to terror practiced against the is He private ship owners to transport more troops to China if necessary and to evacuate Americans, it was learned, This was made necessary by the fact that the government lacks quick means of transporting marines now being mobilized in San Diego. The appeal was virtually a call to active service for such ships as are selected. from the merchant marine, which is a naval reserve, The Admiral Oriental and the Pa- cific mail steamship lines which operate from Pacific coast ports to the Orient and so have ships avail- able in the Far East were the first appealed to. Stanley Dollar, presi- dent of the two lines, immediately of- fered to place 10 of the modern “president” class of ships at the dis- posal of the government. ernment of Horthy, Betheln and Co., a mass meeting will be held this Saturday evening, April 9, at eight o'clock, at the Labor Temple, 243 E. Eighty-fourth street, under the aus- pices of the Hungarian Propoganda Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. Among the speakers that will ad- dress this very important meeting will be Robert W. Dunn, of the Ame- rican Civil Liberties Union; Enea Sormenti, editor of the Italian news- paper, The Il Lavoratore; John Kiss; Louis Serly and Vaszily. The Anti-Fascist League of North America, the International Labor De- fense, the Socialist Labor Party and the Indusyrial Workers of the World have been invited to the meeting. ( Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ww Every Worker Get Behind the Coal Miners~Help Save the Miners’ Union! os THE DAILY WORKER FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE CALLS ON ALL LABOR TO PROTEST Planning Huge National Conference to Decide Action for Two Workers’ Freedom CHICAGO, Ill., April 6.—The International Labor Defense, thru James P. Cannon, secretary, issued the following statement today calling for renewed effort to save Nicola Sacco and Barto- {lomeo Vanzetti from the electric chair: | “The decision of the Massachusetts leourt, disregarding even the estab- lished rule of capitalist legal proce- CHINA STRIKES |dure, lays bare the’ class nature of} the prosecution and the forces behind jthe conspiracy to legally murder Soviet Union Embassy | would relent and spare the lives of Raided by Chang | these workers by crawling thru some) siHANGHAI, April 6. — China’s | workers whose loyalty to their class | brought down on them the relentless |hatred of the enemies of the Ameri- can working class. Only Labor Can Save. “Sacco and Vanzetti must not die. | Those who still retained some hope |that the Massachusetts hangmen |Saceo and Vanzetti, two militant} ee lpatole aye nara 2] most effective weapon against for- mistaken agents of the industrial and| financial lords, must see now that} jonly the united action of every work- | er and farmer, every lover of liberty | and foe of dishonesty and paced can save Sacco and Vanzetti. There | |must be organized and set in motion} |such a huge mass protest that the| executioners: of these two innocent | ;men will have to stay their hands, | | One Gigantic Movement. “The International Labor Defense eign aggression—the boycott—has been turned against the United States. A strike and a boycott of American goods went into effect Monday after- noon in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, in southern China, accord- ing to a wireless dispatch received here. The crews of all of the Stand- ard Oil Company launches have walked out, the reports said. General Strike. A.general strike of all employes of |calls upon all who want to save Sacco | foreigners has been called for today {and Vanzetti to join in one gigantic | 9+ Kiukiang, on the Yangtse River in jmovement which will not only save|Kiangsi Province..In the meantime | their lives but liberate from the tor-| foreign business in Hankow contin- |tures they have been forced to en-| yes at a standstill. dure for more than six years. e Secretary Cannon stated that plans (Continued on Page Pwo) | Organized labor at Hankow con- |trols the situation so well that coal | burning imperialist gunboats at Han- |kow are unable to get any fuel. Coal | of Hungary by the white guard gov- | REED ASSAILS -LOWDEN IN FORD LIBEL CONTEST | Sneers at Politicians | Farmer Pose Be | DETROIT, April 6.—National poli- | tics entered the Ford-Sapiro libel suit {today when United States Senator | James A. Reed, democrat, vitriolically assailed Frank ©. Lowden, former | governor of Illinois, and aspirant for j the 1928 republican presidential nom- \ination. Continuing his cross exam- | ination of Aaron Sapiro, so-called | “wheat king,” Reed charged Lowden, | who headed the National _ Wheat} | Growers Advisory Committee, made | his living as a capitalist. while Sapiro | declared Lowden was “one of the greatest farmers in the country.” | Sneers at Lowden Reed was sharply contemptuous of | ! Lowden as a friend of the farmer.) |The senator who is mentioned as a| | possibility for the Democratic presi- | | dential nomination, declared Lowden, who may be the republican nominee | in 1928, was “making his living as a | son-in-law of the Pullmans.” It angered Sapiro, who warmly defended the Tllinoisan to the huge enjoyment of the courtroom fans. . | Fake Farmers The clash came when Sapiro listed the ‘members of the advisory commit- tee. He named Low: Judge Rob- ert W. Bingham, of Louisville, Ber- | nard M. Baruch, New York capitalist, Senator Arthur Capper, of Kansas, Thomas Campbell, Montana wheat king, and a half dozen editors of farm | papers. “Why there isn't a, wheat grower in the lot,” Reed snorted. He then read each name Sapi asking: “Does he grow wheat? d the wit-| ness invariably replied “I don’t think so.” | “What about Lowden?” Reed quer- ied. | “He may grow some,” Sapiro said. “Why he’s a capitalist,” Reed de-/| clared. “No, he’s a splendid lawyer and a very fine farmer,” Sapiro said sharp- | ly. “He is one of the largest farmers in the country.” Pullman Parasite | Reed stared at Sapiro, | “Now isn’t he a capitalist?” the} senator insisted. Then with a wave | of scorn in his voice, he added: ail (Continued on Page Two) | were will probably have to be sent up the river from Shanghai. . * * Raid Soviet Embassy. PEKING, April 6—Troops of Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian war lord and puppet of the imperialist powers, raided the Soviet Embassy at Peking this morning. Eighteen Russians and sixty Chin- ese who were found in the embassy dragged away by Chang's troops. The raid started at seven o’clock in the morning and did not end until early in the evening. The- embassy was ransacked and ail docu- ments were confiscated by the north- ern troops. Part of Chang's Terror. The raid on the Soviet Embassy is only one feature of the campaign of terrorism that Chang Tso Lin, Man- churian war lord, has been waging in an effort to retain his hold on the north. Workers, students, merchants who have dared to protest against Chang’s corrupt and unofficial die- tatorship in the north have been executed. A number of labor leaders in Tientsin, port for Peking,. recently met their death at his hand. * « * Chamberlain Wisely Silent. LONDON, April 6.—Austen Cham- berlain refused to make any state- ment of the government’s Chinese policy in the house of commons to- day, despite the demands of laborites, The opposition to the cabinet’s ag- gressive Chinese policy was indicated when Sir Alfred Mond, die-hard, was «Continued on Page Two) Fascist Flyer’s Plane Burns Up at Prescott; Trip Seems To Be Over ROOSEVELT LAKE, April 6.— Marquis de Pinedo, fascist round the world flyer, has sunk his plane in the Roosevelt Lake here, and will have to at least temporarily abandon his trip, His policy of a little flying, by easy stages, and much speech making for Mussolini, came to grief when soon after he left it, the plane, Santa Maria, caught fire. No one was hurt. The flames were extinguished, but not until the. engine and heavy parts had gone to the bottom. Anti-fascisti in Eastern cities are prepared to answer any of de Pin- edo’s esguments when he gets there, whether he flies or walks. F. Trubee Davison, assistant secretary of war, no sooner heard of the blackshirt’s disaster than he offered hint a government plane to continue his flight with.