The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1927, Page 2

enna oe! Race Prejudice 1 Flayed at Chicago 1.L.D. Mass Meeting’ CHICAGO, April 6. — Protesting | against the imprisonment of colored workers on grounds no more substan- tial than race prejudice, a mass meet- ing was held here last Sunday under the auspices of the International La- bor Defense. The National Associa- tion for the Adyancement of Colored} People, the American Negro Labor} Congress, the International Workers | Aid and a number of Mexican frater-| nal organizations, | Stressing the unity of interest of | workers of all rac and colors, Wil-| liam Simons, speaker for the I, L. D.,} declared that race discrimination was the work of industrial demagogues| whose purpose is to divide the work- | evs and rule, The purpose of the} I, L, D., he said, is to unite the work- | ers of all races. | Segregation laws came in for a se-| vere drubbing at the hands of Dr. | Charles Thompson, who outlined the} jrole of the N. A. A. C. P., in the working class struggle. James Ford ‘of the A. N. L, C, and Maximo E, \ lira, editor of “Mexico,” who has |been intimately connected with the | workers’ movement in that country, wwere among the speakers, Reed Assails Lowden | In Ford-Sapiro Trial, (Continued from Page One) } “hes capitalist who makes his living | as a son-in-law of the Pullmans?” The Pullmans are the family of | multi-millionaires, whose sleeping ears run on a!l American railroads. | Sapiro’s eyes fiashed at the sneer | fn Reed’s voice. | “No,” the cooperative king shouted, | “Governor Lowden does not make his | living as a son-in-law of the Pullmans. | He is a very fine gentleman and he | makes his living as a lawyer and by | his work as a farmer.” { Ford Profit Great Meanwhile it has come to light that Henry Ford, baron of the vast Ford | | | | | |MUSSOLINI’S GANG STRETCHING BARBED WIRE IN SHANGHAI SETTLEMENT THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1927 PDIGHINESE WOMEN | FORGING AHEAD, SAYS MME, SUN Daughters Will Be Fifty Years in Advance of Us HANKOW, March—(By Mail).— “Our grandmothers were five hun-| dred years behind the women of l Amesiza, but our daughters will be | fifty years ahead,” says Madame New Commissioner (Continued from Page One) for a huge national conference were being considered by the International Labor Defense at which a program of action could be nottled. upon. * * | By EUGENE LYONS « | (Eugene Lyons conducted “the publicity work of the Sacco-Van- zetti defense during 1921-22, the year immediately following their | conviction.—-Ed. | Massachusetts has celebrated the| tenth anniversary of America’s entry in the world war by announcing that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- are eramencre ren CHALE ANE Mara I KERRIES SOMERS ERIS AB SPRASNESL EME ‘LD. GALLS FOR PROTEST MEETINGS. Baal Nhe conteattin ths eas eeeey tht | his testimony had been deliberately misinterpreted by the District At- torney, etc. Above all they must make clear the ‘\part of Judge Thayer in the whole affair, Thayer's behavior thruout the trial and some of the things he said to the jury went far towards bringing about the conviction. He was attacked throughout the world. He was angry, nervous, almost hys- terical as a result of this—issued statements to the press, called re- porters and others into his chambers to bawl them out. The appeal to violence which is going out from all militarist and im- | perialist camps now, has affected the blackshirt regime. Italy has nothing | much to “protect” in China, but Premier Mussolini has sent a warship, and | | Some of her bluejackets are here seen building a barbed wire entanglement. | Twelve Killed by Big Explosion in Wyoming Shaking Entire Town PARCO, Wyo., April 6.—Loss of live in the terrifie explosion of two huge refining stills of the Pro- ducers and Refiners Company here may reach ten or twelve, The blast shook every building in the town, Fire resulting from the explo- sion spread to two large oil tanks and other stills but was believed to be under control this morning. Several bodies have been re- covered, and three men, badly burned, have been taken to the lo- cal hospital. Huge Profits for Yellow Taxi Co. Nationalists Spike Mud Guns Of Anperialists | SHANGHAI, April 6.—In a joint manifesto issued today by the Com- munist Party of China ‘and by the | Koumintang, signed by Chen Tu-shou | | for the former and by Wang Ching- | wei for the latter, the people were j warned not to believe the lying pro- |paganda of the imperialist press which | represented the Communists as seek- jing to immediately set up a prole- | tarian dictatorship on the lines of the } government of the U. S. | The manifesto strikes < blow |at the policy of the imperialists to | Sun Yat-sen, the lovely woman of ex- | quisite poise who is the widow of |the man who founded the Kuomin- tang, the Chinese Nationalist Party, | |and who led China’s revolution. i | Madame Sun is a slender, delicate | lereature, but she’ has force and a) |clear, wise mind. She is given the homage due the first lady of the land. China at the moment has no presi- | | dent, but Madame Sun, its first lady, | | is a member of the Central Executive | Council of the Kuomintang, the con- | trolling body which defines the pol-| icy and directs the government of | | Nationalist. China. office | Training School For Women. eae in'Jange _ Madame Sun was speaking to the| far end and in the twentieth century | interviewer about the women’s move-| it jg not necessary to travel slow. |ment in China, in general, and, in| «uch will be saved us, of transit- particular, of the political training \jonal suffering. Women in China, school for women, which she has | for instance, will never have to wage founded in Hankow. In this school, |the battle for the right to vote. Suf- women leaders will be trained. A |frage will be given them as a mat- small group of one hundred, very |ter of course by the Kuomintang na- carefully selected young women will | tional constitution which was drafted be trained intensively in the prob-/hy Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Neither will |lems of China and the role of China’s} women have to fight for property |women, They will be given more | rights in China, nor for the right of | than a knowledge of problems. They | guardianship of their children, nor | will be given a technique with which | for fair and decent marital laws. to solve them, the technique of the|}Marriage and divorce will not work ; Copyright H. & & Col. William B. Ladue of the United States engineers’ offi New York, has been appoint engineer commissioner of the Dis- trict of Columbia, assuming the Kuomintang, of nationalist revolu-| greater hardship for women than for | tion. ‘ |men in the new China. Citizenship, “These women leaders will make| suffrage, property rights, social real the vision of a free Chinese| rights, for men and for women, are | Womanhood which was part of the|as much a part of the fundamental great emancipation program of Dr.| revolutionary program in China as Sun Yat-sen,” said Madame Sun. “Al-|is the unhampered sovereignity of ways in his writings and his speeches,!China in its relations with the Dr. Sun stressed the point that not | world.” only China’s men, but her women, al-| In speaking of the specific plans so, must be freed. My husband was/for the new women’s institute Mad- not only a political and economic rev- | ame Sun explained that its purpose olutionary. He was a feminist rev- would be intensive training for a se- zetti—two working class victims of the hysteria created by that war— must die in the electric chair. It is jlikely that in a few days Judge Thayer will wind up a seven years’ job by pronouncing the sentence of death and setting a date for the | execution, Save Sacco and Vanzetti. Yet it was he who was called upon to rule upon the fairness of his own acts, And the highest courts, work- ing on the pleasant theory that a judge is calm and impartial (things | of which Thayer is not capable), up- | held his rulings, | Verdict No Surprise | Sacco and Vanzetti must not die! | The action of the Massachusetts |The xesponsibility rests. with the Supreme Court does not come as a) workers of the avorid! surprise to those familiar with the | history of the case. In sustaining an/| Earl Carroll Visits Calvin Coolidge and | outrageous decision by Judge Thayer | jon the latest motion for a new trial, | the august tribunal was merely say-| jing “ditto.” ‘It sustained the irate} x and vindictive old judge on a long! Asks Him for Pardon series of decisions equally outrageous ‘i in the past. | . " e One lesson at least the latest epi-| Pride ato hep ened Pa a ee sode in the legal farce should leave || come to Washington today pordopd with us, and that is the futility and) ing presidential clemency to es- foolishness of optimism. cape serving his sentence in At- |_ There was every outward reason || Janta federal prison for perjury. for believing that the courts would do|| He js due to start on his sentence something to save their reputation. on April 12. A perfectly respectable and conserva- |} Carroll surrounded his Washing- tive lawyer was in ‘charge of the || ton visit with the greatest secrecy. |legal defense. The New York World, || He obtained a suite in a prominent the Boston Herald, the Baltimore || hotel, but did not register and |Sun—all of the influential and re-|} hotel officials denied he was there. | spectable sheets—came out for a new | Despite the secrecy, it was | trial. Men like Prof. Felix Frank- | learned this afternoon that Carroll |furter said. publicly—although some || had an appointment to see Presi- six years too late—what they knew|| dent Coolidge at moon. White privately, that the conviction of the|| House officials declined to say | two Italian radicals was a ghastly || whether Carroll had actually seen farce, that the refusal of a new trial || Coolidge, but the appointment was thereafter was based on the violent || made on the private list. prejudices of a judge who helped con- | fgg 14 Dead, Many Injured Courts Always the Same | - 3 What could be lovelier? The courts,|In Oil Tank Explosion domains, who tries to regulate the|, CHICAGO, April 6.—Chieago Yel-| divide the ranks of the revolutionary usually fair and just, had made a} jlow Cab Company for the year ended | forces into Communists and anti-Com- mistake. They would, of course, cor-| PARCO, Wyo., April 6.—-Fourteen paige hl a in ‘ Wherever he} lected group in the political and so- rug igeh ‘ ° went, he fought the battle for free-| cial background of present day China, lives of his slaves both in and out | 81, 1926, showed consolida- dom ‘of both sexes. Women have sat ys qe : : Sie of the slave pens he owns, realized | December 4 : sil last year a surplus of $597,637,788, | ted net profits of $2,241,722, r C any filed with | 100,000 common shares ee rye ce | ‘This compares ‘with $5.51 for 1926. During the year 1,277 new were purchased from the Truck and Coach Ford M apidly recovering from his a few days ago in ill be able to C ar libel ‘suit t against him by Sapiro when jdent C. W. Gray said. Lost! TWO BILLION DOLLARS Found! TWO BILLION DOLLARS in the after all shown by the annual report of | charges equal to $5.60 a share on the | to step in and fasten the shackles on | ; outstanding. | China’s limbs while her forces were cabs Yellow Manufacturing | the manifesto declares, therefore in Company at a cost of $3,304,917, “All| China “there is need of an alliance of | |} the cabs have been paid for,” Presi-| the non-pass ——_— struggle. Judging by the recent ten- | twenty years. DAILY WORKER INSURANG E EXPOSE |munists thus giving the enemies of | Chinese freedom another oppoytunity |@round conference tables with the men who forged the revolution in 1911. They tables today. Within the ranks of | revolutionary leaders, China’s wom- en have been given, without question and without a struggle, equal rights,” Great Changes Have Come. ssing classes with all| Madame Sun spoke of the great in the revolutionary |changes in China during the past “It is just an hour |dencies of the Chinese revolution the |ago, as history is measured, that | question of rule by the working class | China really awoke to the extent of will not arise at present or in the|her bondage and was stirred with |near future. What China needs now} the resolution to be free,” she said. fighting among themselves. Broad Alliance Needed. China being’ an oppressed nation, other classe: jis a democratic government by all | “But in that short hour great chang-| | the classes that have been suffering | es have come. China is transformed, at the hands of the counter-revolution- | its women as well as its men. Mo- aries and imperialists.” thers find their daughters a little Endorses Koumintang. The manifesto expressly states/on them as creatures of another that the Communist Party ‘endorses | world, But we younger women feel the Koumintayg statement and will/that there is just a touch of envy in not attempt to take the concessions |the hearts of the older women, and, by force. It says that the imperialist perhaps a timorous applause.” enemies of the revolution in Shang: | Attend American College. | hai are deliberately spreading rumors | It i ith ‘ |about the intentions of the labor) is not without experiences of | masses to lead an armed attack upon ther lands that Madame Sun speaks feelers = the concessions which are fabricated | °F China’s women. She has travelled \falsehoods. Any split between the | Widely, with her husband, building parties now, the manifesto says, would | Up from end to end of the world the be playing into the hands of the mili- | evolutionary force in China. Amer- | tarists and imperialists, which are de- | ica she knows especially well, for she liberately trying to create a schism, | attended college in Macon, Georgia. Fe i Settle tS SR | “I doubt if you women of America can grasp the extent of the change sit around conference | strange today; grandmothers look up- | Do You Know? 1. That 40,000,000 workers are being swindled by the “Big Four” insurance trust? That a prominent life insurance company presi- dent said, “Industrial (weekly payment) life in- surance is a swindle of such gigantic magnitude that its literature should be excluded from the mails,” That government colossal fraud? That the editor of New York's leading morning paper said that industrial insurance is “unfor- tunate and unfair?’? 5. That the “Big Four” hold over TWO BILLIONS of dollars belonging to the American insuring public? . officials aid and abet this BE SURE TO READ IT! Beginning Monday, April 11th in the DAILY WORKER On All Newsstands in New York and Vicinity. ASK FOR IT! Subscription Rates pa 6 6 Mo. 8 Mo. Outside of New York . $6.00 $3.50 $2.00 Tee OW TORR eee ss ay $8.00 $4.50 $2.50 The DAILY WORKER 33 FIRST ST. Orchard 1680 NEW YORK ane) “Peaches” In Chicago; ‘Will Dance at: Cabaret | CHICAGO, April 6.—“Peaches” | Heenan Browning, who lost a sen- |sational separation suit against Ed- |ward W. Browning, millionaire real estate dealer, arrived in Chicago to- | day to prepare for the opening of her {cabaret dancing act April 12. “No, I wouldn’t consider a recon- jciliation,” said Peaches, “I want to |forget the whole business and earn my own living. *I’m not even going |to bother about a divorce.” ‘Lash For Prisoners In Michigan Passed By the Legislature | LANSING, Mich. April 6.—The | whipping post for bank robbers and {other felons was approved by an al- | most unanimous vote of the house of representatives today. The bill provides that bank robbers jbe given “from ten to twenty strokes lof the lash, well laid on,” every six months up to 300 strokes, The bill now goes to the senate. |It seems probable the upper body will | coneur, | | No Women in Taxi Union. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 6.— “Nothing doing” was the emphatic re- ply of Dan Tobin, head of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs and Stablemens Union, to the recent plea of Miss Mary Hensen, of San Antonio, Texas, a taxi | driver. Miss Hensen operates a Shaw (Yel- low) cab in this city and since she has been refused admission to the |teamsters’ union she is unable to make \up her mind to sell the cab or go scabbing (involuntarily) in San An- tonio. jin China,” she said. “In my four | years in college, and later in the larg- jer cities, | came in contact with many women and with the political and so- cial aims of American women, I saw a little of the desperate fight for {for eat and of the present agitation for equality before the law. I was always impressed by the determina- |tion of America’s women, but, in my |college days, I was impressed even | more by the thought that the chains |against which they were rebelling {were not half so strong as those that |bound the women of China. In those |days, when 1 looked ahead and thought of the long decades that 1 |thought. inevitable before Chinese |women could reach even the degree of freedom of the American women, |I become sad. Complete freedom for American women seemed just around the corner; for Chinese women, it {seemed a distant, almost a foolish | dream, Chains Have Been Broken, | “But I was wrong. As strong as | were the chains that bound the wom- jen of China just a few years ago, | they have been broken. Our grand- |mothers may have been five hundred years behind the women of America, | but our daughters will be fifty years jahead. Chinese women, under the | Kuomintang, are wiping out cen turies. “Yes, it is the Kuomintang that is doing it,” said Madame Sun in re- sponse to a question, “The great, in- clusive principle of freedom that is | driving Chinese nationalism is sweep- ing along with it. Every one is in the current, from the highest to the lowest, men and women, scholars and laborers, old and young. Under the Kuomintang, we are being spared the painful path, step by step, out of feudalism. We see the goals at the Read The Daily Worker Every Day and in the principles and technique | of the Kuomintang. China must have women leaders in great numbers, | The school begins on a small scale, only one hundred students. But, ex- |plained Madame Sun, there will be |another hundred, and another, and another hundred. It is in this way that freedom for Chinese women | must be gained. In China, it will not }be a battle against outworn man- made laws. Kuomintang laws know no sex, The task of China’s new women is to reach their sisters and make them open their eyes upon a new world. ‘Chinese Nationalists Boycott U. S. Goods (Continued from Page One) howled down when he arose to speak jon the Chinese situation. Ramsay MacDonald, labor leader, pleaded with the government not to dismiss the proposals for bringing in the league of nations “to smooth out the Chin- ese troubles.” MacDonald, Dove Of Peace. MacDonald complained that “the British action in dispatching troops to China has undoubtedly spread a sus- picion through all China as to the real intentions of Great Britain.” Four British submarines have ar- rived in Chinese waters, according to a dispatch from the Shanghai corre- spondent of the Daily Express. * * * Nails British Lies. The Nationalist News Agency made public a dispatch from Shanghai, vig- orously denying reports that two American women are in a Shanghai hospital asthe result of attacks made upon them by Chinese soldiers at Nan- king. The reports were branded as pro- paganda circulated for the purpose of creating opinion favorable to inter- vention. British news agencies and pro-British correspondents have been flooding the United States with pro- paganda and distorted accounts of the events in China, the news agency said. One of the women who is reported to have been “attacked” is a tuber- culosis patient transferred from Nan- king, and the other is a woman who was wounded during the Nanking evacuation, according to an investiga- tion made by the Nationalist News Agency. » * * Briand Properly Cautious. PARIS, April 6.—By a vote of 385 to 145 the French chamber of deputies upheld today the request of Foreign Minister Briand to postpone debate, when a socialist member demanded that France recognize the Cantonese government and evacuate its troops from China. Boys Must Dance With Boys. There will be no “mixed dancing” at the eastern district high school in Brooklyn at class day this year. The acting principal of the institu- tion said yesterday she would take no steps to repeal the 28-year-old regulation forbidding boys and girls to dance together. The seniors had tendered 2 formal request asking that the ban be lifted to permit boys to dance with fair partners at their graduation. dance in June. 5 rect it. Why all the mass meetings | mén are known to be dead, several | and parades and trade union resolu-| are seriously burned and at least six |tions? The process is a little long,|are missing, following a terrific ex- which is too bad, but be patient and|plosion at the oil plant of the Pro- everything will turn out right. The | ducers and Refiners Company here j|ease is now in safe and sane hands, | today. | said Leary of the World. It has taken) The explosion, of unknown origin, jon a “new complexion,” Frankfurter | occurred in two Dubbs pressure stills | announced. located in the heart of the $5,000,000 This attitude unfortunately was re- oj] plant, which employed 350 men. | flected in the radical and labor move-| Fire spread quickly to other stills | ment, which should know better. Even | and two large oil tanks, but was un- | the defense committee itself published | Ger control after two hours of heroic | such stuff. | work on the part of volunteer fire~ But the latest decision has demon-| men, oil company workers and fire | strated the absurdity of the attitude. | apparatus from Rawlins, eight miles |It demonstrated that there must be | away, | no let-up in working class protests, | | here and throughout the world. The | [=~ jassistance of conservative lawyers} jand college professors and editors is | | welcome. But it must not be relied} | upon to save Sacco and Vanzetti from | the chair. It will be ugeful only if | (Continued from Page One) it is backed up by a powerful un- gled Banner do not inflict serious |mistakable working class agitation. (injury on the play. It is a radical’s | Weakness of Liberalism ;meat. The patriots are welcome to The influence and authority of whatever consolation they can get out | meaning liberals and near liberals is | of it. real only on matters that are of no} rrent Events | (Tees Seve importance. Just so soon as they try | to assert themselves on a clear cut | class-war issue, they learn their own | weakness. It took nearly seven years | |for some of them to wake up to a | fact which was perfectly clear in May | of 1920—that Sacco and Vanzetti HE masses are not in favor of in- tervention in China, Mexico or Nicaragua. Yet the government goes ahead bombing, vos Be and threat- ening the peoples of those countries. Democracy! What a farce? The na- tive sons of this land are supposed to have a say in how the country is governed, It is true they cast votes for presidential candidates selected for them every four years. But that is the last thing they have to do about it. The president they may have helped to elect may be the one to,send their sons to death in a war for the berefit of the “Spread Eagle” were betng railroaded to death be- cause of their working class activities. It was the world-wide labor agitation | which kept these persecuted workers alive while the Boston Herald ete. were asleep. And only a continuation of that agitation, louder and stronger than ever, will prevent their murder now. 4 S Hendersoris and the Dohenys, Sin- STS! MORE caruhicnton Bary oak IN BE-|‘l@irs, Morgans and Rockefellers. HALF OF SACCO AND VANZETTI! MORE STOPPAGES OF WORK TO SHOW HOW LABOR FEELS ABOUT THE EXECUTION! Workers Must Free Them The courts, and the governor will act to save Sacco and Vanzetti only under pressure from the workers. William G. Thompson, for all his standing as a conservative leader of the bar, received exactly the same treatment at the hands of the court as did Fred H. Moore, his predecessor. Thayer attacked and insulted both of them with the same violence—and the Supreme Court o.k.’d both attacks quite as ly. The appeals of the Boston Herald and the Bakimore Sun were disregarded precisely as the ap- peals of The DAILY WORKER and a thousand other labor papers were dis- regarded Situation Very Serious Those who speak and agitate in behalf of the Sacco and Vanzetti must realize the seriousness of the situation. They must recall the whole history of the class persecution, not merely its latest phase. They must revive in the workers’ memory the facts about those “identification” wit- nesses who confessed to perjury; the other witness who was exposed as a criminal testifying under a false name; the witnesses of whom the government knew but did not bring|' into court because testimony was favorable to Sac d Vanzetts; Read The Daily Worker Every Day BOOKS FOR WORKERS THE DAILY WORKER Vane