The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1927, Page 2

SOCIALISTS DISREGARD (Continued from Page One) tioned how “foreign to the policies of the A. F, of L.” were various acts of the Furriers’ Joint Board—their con- duct of the s' e, their ignoring of A. F, of L. of: Is like himself. He refused to say that he thot money had been 1 to the police by the) fur workers, but said there was a large sum of mor unaccounted for and they would p e it had gone to the police unless it was proved otherwise. Mr, Frayne was interrupted by the magistrate just as he was launehing forth in an impassioned dissertation on the terrible ,tactics of the left wing. The speech was declared ir- relevant, and was ended abruptly. Ryan Seldom There The testimony of president of the Joseph P, New York Centr y Council, was very . He stated that he nt from a large number d had FCI | | One Dead, Four Others Narrowly Escape Death In Bronx Excavation One man was killed and four others narrowly escaped death yes- terday when ten tons of earth fell into an apartment house excava- tion in which they were working in enue, near One Hundred <ty-fifth Street, the Bronx. The dead man is James Canero, was buried beneath the deluge of earth, His lifeless body was dug out his fellow workers, tano Pantina was standing le Canero when the earth be- gan to fall. He shouted a warn- ing and then fled. He was buried to the waist in the earth, but was only slightly injured. The three other men who were in the exca- yation fled when Pantina shouted } By ROBERT MITCHELL The delegates of the motormens and switchmens’ local refused to vote | “as is” for another year. Lavin, the} leader of the fighting train drivers, | could not be bought or bulldozed into | any betrayal of his men.- In addi-) tion to the delegates of the motor-| men on the subway, two delegates of | the “L” likewise refused to vote “as is” on the ground that their men had instructed them to demand an in-| crease and that the new agreement had first to be submitted back to the workers, At this point the Connolly steam roller began its attack. The ever ready henchmen, Mangan-LaSz ;Fox combination got into mo There was launched the most vile tirade against the motornmen. any state-| re made cor 1ing bribing of the police nor any hearing where members of the Joint Board appeared. he had joined this relief committee says he does not know Morris! whose personnel and motives have Cohen, Sam Resnick, or the former|been so viciously assailed by Morris delegates to the C€ al Trades— | Sigman, president of the International Samuel Liebowitz, xapiro, Sam/ Ladies Garment Workers Union as Mencher and Ben Ge part of his attack upon the left wing According to yne’s secre-| progressive group in the union. tary Miss Henr: Holden who| Referring to the correspondence appeared next on the witness stand,, which passed between Mr. Sigman members of the committee were fre-|and Forrest Bailey, director of the quently absent from the hearings; but | American Civil Liberties Union rel: Matthew Woll, was al $s present, | tive to the presence of Civil Liberties a warning. They were unhurt. and Hugh Prayne and Edward F.| members on the Committee of McGrady were usually on hand. One Hundred, Mr. Holmes said: Miss Holden also acknowledged; “{ read the letter Mr. Sigman that there were times when she was} wrote to the American Civil Liberties asked to leave the room during the| Union and I did not believe a word hearings, and also times when she/he safd. You cannot believe any- remained in the room but was asked | thing Mr. Sigman says. He says not to take notes. The proceedings|eyery one who disagrees with him is during those periods were entered,!, Communist. ‘He and his union presumably by Mr. Woll, from/have been brutal and cruel in their memory. | treatment of their opponents who The hearing adjourned at 3:30 yes-|disagreed with their policy.” terday to be resumed this morning at} Committee Starts Appeal 10:30. It was announced that Magis-| The Committee of One Hundred is trate Corrigan had granted the re- | beginning a nationwide appeal for quest of Ben Gold to question both |funds to relief the families of needle Matthew Wol] and Edward F. Me- | trades workers imprisoned for their Grady for ten minutes each on mat-|strike activities. The Secretary of ‘ters pertinent to the investigation.|the committee is Ann Washington This questioning will be conducted by|Craton; and Robert W. Dunn is attorney for the union, Frank P.| Treasurer. The offices of the Com- Walsh, at the opening of this morn-| mittee are at Room 715, 22 East ing’s session. 17th Street, New York. “You cannot believe anything Mr. Sigman says. He says everyone who Killed Saving Dog. disagrees with him is a Communist.”| MAPLEWOOD, N. J., April 7. — This comment came from the Rev. | When he leaned over the platform in John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the) an attempt to save a dog from death Community Chureh in this city, and | in the path of an express train, a member of the Committee of One| Stuart I. Weill, 37, general sales en- Hundred for the Defense of the Im-| gineer for the Western Electric Co., prisoned Needle Trades Workers. | today was struck and killed by a Statement was made to te-| Lackawanna Railroad train at the ioned him as to why ‘Maplewood station. AMAZING! STARTLING ! REVEALING ! Daily Worker Insurance Expose Facts and Documents Proving: That the 1905 New York State Insurance inves- tigators were all “taken care of” by the “Big Four.” After the 1905 insurance investigation Charles Evans Hughes was made counsel of the Equitable Life. That 40,000,000 workers are defrauded by the “Big Four.” You get 22 cents in benefits for every dollar you pay to the insurance trust. That the whole industrial (weekly payment) life insurance business is rotten with graft and cor- ruption. BE SURE TO READ IT! Beginning Monday, April 11th in the DAILY WORKER On All Newsstands in New York and Vicinity. ASK FOR’ TT! Subscription Rates Outside of New York In New York 2 Ye. ++ $6.00 $8.00 6 Mo. $3.50 $4.50 3 Mo. $2.00 $2.50 The DAILY WORKER 33 FIRST ST. Orchard 1680 NEW YORK Here, realizing for the first time what was happening, Walsh the dele- gate of the motive ‘power, electrical operating division, arose to defend | the attacked delegates. He first called attention to' the fact that the meet- jing in Hedley's office was illegal. This point was conceded by Con- nolly himself. But the meeting con- tinued none the less, ' The vote was finally taken and as might be expected the fake com- |pany union again sold out its men. | Lavin immediately called a meet- ing of his men to whom the situation | was reported. That night at Moose! | Hall, Lenox Ave. and 127th St. the| motormen- voted unanimously to break with the reptile company union | and form a real union of their own. | |The name they chose was the\con- | solidated Railway Workers of Great- jer New York. Demands of increases | |in pay were drawn up. A vote was ‘taken to strike July 5th, unless the} |company conceded to their demands, Denounce Brotherhood. | A group of men from a company | union meeting of the “L” motormen | joined the subway motormens’ meet- | ing. Each group denounced the fake | brotherhood for what it was. A com- | | mittee was appointed to call on Frank | Hedley to present the demands of th | workers. | In the meantime the Interborough SACCO AND VANZETTI TO BE SENTENCED SATURDAY (Continued from Page One) j |we register our unqualified protest |against the decision in this case. It furthermore resoly2s to carry vn an} incessant agitation for the release of {the two courageous working men, | whose only crime is loyalty to their fellow workers. World-wide Agitation. “A world-wide agitation has been} | able to keep Sacco and Vanzetti from | the electrie chair until now. With,the |redoubling of that agitation, the | Massachusetts state government will be compelled to see the danger of per-| sisting in its vindictive efforts to mur- | der two men who are really the per-| sonification of the oppressed working class. Saceo and Vanzetti are innoceut! They must not be allowed to die. The working class must rise in its might and demand their release. Rally to the straggle! Get your union to pre- }test! Do not »est until you have vir- \dicated yourselves by saving Sacco and Vanzetti f om the jaws of Aeatht | The Internati Labor Defense will put all its energy into this fight, and |hopes to get the assistance of the | working class.” | | United Protest. | Deep resentment at the decision of |the Massachusetts supreme court in refusing a new trial for Sacco and | Vanzetti was expressed yesterday by a large number of individuals, of | varying political opinions, who are convinced of the innocence of the two Italian radical workers. - Some of the cominents follow: Contrast Harry Thaw Verdict. LEWIS GANNETT, associate edi- tor, “The Nation;”’—‘Does anyone believe that if Sacco and Vanzetti had the wealth and the social rela- |tions of Harry K. Thaw that the verdict would have been the same?” | JOSEPH BRODSKY, labor at- jtorney:—The supreme court of! | Massachusetts in refusing to give a new trial to these two workers, despite the fact that a large num- ber of disinterested lawyers of dis- \tinguished reputation have repeatedly declared that Sacco and Vanzetti were unjustly convicted, have merely jshown that they are acting true to their traditions. Murder Two Innocents, “It is impossible to believe, how- lever, that the working people of the United States will permit these two innocent men to die, The organized strength of the American workers, through huge mass protests, meet- ings, and continued public agitation must be marshalled to thwart the desires of the master class of this country.” Regrettable Decision. FORREST BAILEY, of the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union, speaking personally, said: “I consider the de- cision in the case of Sacco and Van- zetti very regrettable.” ENEA SORMENTI, editor of “Tl Lavoratore,” and now facing de- portation to Italy at the behest of Mussolini:—“I am not surprised in the least at the decision of the court. | , began its old game of double dealing, ‘borough at the pregent which has mis- las we go on, 'seabs and strike breakers. | order to acquaint themselves |plan was worked out to break the \arch hy! | breaking the |ber of the Brotherhood advising the ;men e|in part: “Our agreement with the h|of the brotherhood—requires us to) jof the thousands who agitated for will be lost. lof employers. | destroy the leaders of the working- was expected of these ju x I am only surprised that i, Me ” 7 “seab” importing, lying and falsifi- cation in order to beat the impending strike. The same old gang is in control of the policies of the Inter- | ruled this public utility from the be- ginning. That its methods have not improved with age will become clear | Seabs Imported. | Immediately Hedley and his ad- | visors began the usual importation of Long be- fore the strike Was a certainty the | Interborough had again resolved to teach the men another lesson. | Several hundred strike breakers came in from Chicago. Other hun- dreds were imported from Pittsburg, | Philadelphia, ete. These finks began | to ride the trains as passengers in| with the | conditions on the road, Scab Pen Built. At the Lenox and 148th St. yard, | provisions as for a famine were be- ing stocked up. A field kitchen was installed. Hundreds of cots were set| up for the coming siege. “The management has done all that) it did in previous strikes and more,” | testified Quackenbush. That is go-| ing some, as we may well believe from our knowledge of past strikes. , “Diplomacy.” But the Interborough officials did not neglect the field of “diplomacy.” | As always, the Interborough attempt | was to divide the men. First of all} a conference was held with the gen-| eral committee delegates at which the | strike. Quackenbush was “among } those present.” “I do not wish to} dictate to your free body”, said this pocrite, “but I would suggest .” Thereupon the plan of) strike was unfolded. A letter was sent out to every mem- that the general committee had agreed té support the company. | The letter, signed by Hedley, stated | brotherhood—-made at the insistence have never been known to go out of their way in serving the ruling class of this country. The workers of | American must now realize that} nothing will save these two brilliant martyrs in the cause of working- class emancipation but direct action in the form of!a general stoppage of work. Sacco and Vanzetti must not die! JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, pas- tor of the Community Chureh— “I consider it a great tragedy. It is hard to believe that the noble work the release of Sacco and Vanzetti I am confident that Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts will realize that justice has not been done in this case. If this fails, the mighty force of enlightened public opinion will bring about a re-consideration of the essential facts involved.” LOUIS HYMAN, manager of Joint Board of cloakmakers:—“It is} a disgrace that the supreme court of Massachusetts did not recognize the} weakness of the case against Sacco and Vanzetti, which is nothing more than a frame-up against these workers ‘by the most reactionary type This decision can only be considered a miscarriage of jus- tice. “Nevertheless, the present situa- tion of these victims of class-justice is due to the weakness of the Ameri- can labor movement. If we had a strong labor movement in this coun- try, the judges of Massachusetts would certainly not dare to render such a decision. There is still time, however, for the workers to raise and save the lives of these two champions of labor,” CARLO TRESCA, Editor of “Il Martello”;—“I am not surprised at the decision of the Massachusetts court. It is their business to use the weapons in their possession to class. That verdict is a class verdict. The only occasion for surprise is the fact that the workers of the United States have not yet realized that unless they use direct action of the general strike they will lose these two brilliant martyrs of labor.” Search For Chicago Bandits. e Traction Workers THE 1926 STRIKE—THE SAME OLD GANG | CHICAGO, April 7.—Search was continued today for the bandits who held up a Chicago and Alton train last. night and escaped with loot valued at $5,000. The hold-up oc- curred about twenty miles south of Chicago shortly after the train had left Joliét, the last stop before ar- | organ! riving here, Seize $75,000 Worth of Booze. Brandy, champagne, cordials, gin and whisky, to the value of $75,000 was seized in a raid on a tenement house on Mulberry Street here late yesterday afternoon. ‘rank Russo, 29, was arrested charged with owning the contraband. Federal authorities conducted the rh BUY THE DAILY AT THE NEWS employ only members of the brother- hood.” In the letter he says that very few people would belieye him capable of lying to any one in his representations—this completely un- prineipled scoundrel! He speaks of the “solemn promises made to the brotherhood”, etc. He pleads with the men on the basis of jobs good enough to keep for years, that they now continue with the com- pany as loyal Americans. This man who is not himself a citizen of the United States and whose British prejudices are still so pronounced that he sends his wife to Canada in order that his children ay be born on English soil! Can you beat it! | Plot For Split. | Hedley and Quackenbush’s second move was to seek to divide the “L”| workers from the subway workers. | A circular letter was sent to the} workers on the Elevated lines. | Previous to this the “L” delegates | had been made to agree that they| would work to break up the strike, Some of these delegates rode the lines instructing their men not to go out, spreading false rumors that the strike was a “fake” strike in order to increase fares for the company and generally bewildering and deceiy- ing the men. Lock Their Men Up. One of the honest “L” delegates and one or two others who were sus- pected of being sympathetic to the men were locked up by the company and not permitted even to communi- cate with their homes in the fear that some move would be made on their part to call a meeting and join the strike. All meetings of the company union already scheduled wete suspended! The purpose of giving these events in detail is that the workers may learn from the actual facts what a company union may be counted on to do in the time of a strike. The methods of the Interborough Brother- hood are the methods of all company | unions. They must be understood and | exposed before the workers can attain | their freedom from them. (To Be Continued) Four Communists Have Their Lives Saved by The Workers” Protests KOVNO, Lithuania, April 7.— The International working class records another success of its in- ternational active solidarity. The Lithuanian. government has abol- ished the death sentences against the four Communists, Glowacki, Wizas, Schwarzberg, and Adam- owski. The first three were sen- tenced to imprisonment fci life, the latter to 15 years hard labor. The abolition of the death sen- tences is only the first step which was brought about by the interna- tional protest of the working class. These protests must be continued to free the many political prisoners in Lithuania, * | | | | | | Vajtauer, Communist, Will Be Deported in A Couple of Weeks, Emanuel Vajtauer, former editor of the Czecho-Slovak paper, Obrana, who was recently ordered deported to Czecho-Slovakia for illegal entry to America, has but a couple of weeks yet to remain before sailing. His deportation was fought by the Inter- national Labor Defense as a violation of the right of asylum to political refugees, Vajtauer was a Commun- ist, compelled to flee from the Czecho- Slovakian persecution. Read The Daily Worker Every Day Workers Party Puts Up Ticket In Passaic (Continued from Page One) other infamies practiced on the citi- zens of Passaic. “These facts attracted the atten- tion of the whole country to the bar- barity of the mill-owners and their tools, the city officials. It is time we rid Passaic of its administration of the mill-owners, by the mill-owners and for the mill-owners, What we need in Passaic is a government of the workers who make up the over- whelming majority of its inhabitants. Need Labor Party. “We have had too much of ‘busi- ness mens’ administrations in Pas+ saic, yet most of rival candidates are also business men. Cabbell is a manufacturer whose workers are un- ized, Turner is the captain of the Detective Bureau and we know the work of that bureau in the last strike. Vanacek is a lawyer and Ru- backy is a doctor. It is time that the workers of Passaic were represented by workets who understand and will fight for the workers’ interests. What we need in Passaic as we do all thru the country is the unity of all labors’ forces into one powerful party of all the producers, a Labor Party cap- able of fighting for the interests of the producers and giving us not a onsen’ it or a business rrimnent hut & worked! gov: |Proved by the jand Wilbur Burton, | Agency today. ling the heads of the Standard Oil} ;Company and the British-American | | banks prepared the petition. A mem- | membership, |the statement to be given to the cor- Soviet Union Protests Peking Embassy Raid (Continued from Page One) turn to their homes because they are still occupied by the Peking police. In addition to Li Hsu Chow, well- known northern Nationalist leader, a cousin of General Feng is reported to have been taken in the raid. Violated Immunity. The unprecedented violation of Russia’s diplomatic rights has stirred even the foreign legation. The Dutch minister has handed a note of protest to the Peking government, declaring that the raids on the Soviet embassy exceeded the rights of the northern government, t Marshal Chang Tso Lin, northern war lord and puppet of the foreign imperialists, has issued a statement attempting to justify the violation of Soviet diplomatic immunity. Fate Omihous. “Those arrested will be duly tried,” he states, “It must be pointed out that these rebellious elements respon- sible for the dissemination of Bol- shevism have wrought harm to the people and the nation that is unpar- donable.” Chang Tso Lin has been making every effort to forestall a revolution in the north. With the help of the imperialist powers, he has been wag-| ing a campaign of terror in an effort to retain his hold on the northern provinces. Workers, students, peas- ants, merchants who have dared to protest against Chang’s corrupt and unofficial dictatorship have been promptly executed. A number of la- bor leaders in Tientsin, port of Pek- ing, were recently murdered by him. * * a” Shanghai Consul Protests. SHANGHAI, April 7.—Declaring that they would hold the consular body responsible for a raid on the Soviet consulate in Shanghai, Wil- liam F. Linde, Soviet consul general, protested against the Peking raid when he called on the Norwegian con- sular general here. The Norwegian consul general is dean of the consular corps in Shanghai. ‘| Mr. Linde, who was former charge daffaires in Peking said that the So- viet Club was located in the embassy, which accounted tor the discovery of Nationalist flags. The elub is decorated with the flags of various nations, he said. Dangerous Precedent. . He announced the Peking raid as an act of yandalism which if ap- Peking difllomatic corps, as reported, set a precedent endangering the foundation of diplo- matic prerogatives. ae War Lord Holds Americans, Two Americans are reported in Peking dispatches to have been “de- tained by Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian war lord, because they published ar- ticles in magazines sympathetic to the Nationalist cause. They are Mrs. Mildred Mitchell of San Franciseo Mrs. Mitchell has been editor of the Chungwei News Agency, which was once a! Sino-American project and later sery- ed as an organ of General Feng. Nails Standard Oil Lie. The “statement of the American | Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai | demanding United States intervention | in China was not authorized by the! membership of that organization, it was learned by the Nationalist News| The executive committee compris- Tobacco Company and a number of ber of the chamber said that the statement was not submitted to the Fear of incurring the criticism of the membership caused respondent on a pledge from the lat- ter not to publish it locally. * * * Train Imperialist Guns On Hankow. WASHINGTON, April 7. — The guns of twenty-one foreign warships are coneentrated on Hankow, consul general Lockhart advised the state department today. The possibility of the Nanking massacre looms close with the concentration of imperialist gunboats at Hankow, where a half- day strike has been declared as pro- test against foreign intervention. Rysh Troops To Tientsin. Although the ultimate destination of the 1,560 marines sailing from San Diego will be decided by Admiral C. S. Williams, according to Secre- tary of Navy Wilbur, it is suspected that they will be directed to Tientsin in anticipation of the Nationalist drive against Peking. The marines left on board the transport Hender- son this morning. They will be ac- companed by two batteries of artil- lery, an aviation detachment and a draft of sailors for duty in Asiatic waters. * The American note on the Nanking “outrages” has not yet been present- ed to the Nationalist government. But tt is momentarily expected that it will e. * % o Koo Resigns Again, PEKING, April 7.—Dr. Wellington Koo, who was nominal premier and | « foreign minister of the so-called Peking government, but whose cies were dictated by Chag Tso Lin, Manchurian war lord, has resigned. Poli- | 176 New German Budget Is ° Largest In History BERLIN, April 7—The Reichstag passed the heaviest budget in Ger- many’s history yesterday afternoon in spite of the opposition of Com- munists and socialists, The new budget calls for an expen- diture of more than 8,000,000,000 marks, aboyt one-eighth of which will go for reparations under the Dawes plan, According to Finance Minister Kohler German taxpayers will have to pay 11,000,000,000 marks in: the form of federal, state and municipal taxes. ' CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) Dever succeeded in convincing John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and Victor Olander, that labor was nearer to his skin than his underwear. Thompson was equally successful with Oscar Nelson, alderman, lawyer and head of the Flat Janitors’ Union. Thomp- gon won, and Fitzpatrick is out in the cold. * * * O° course Thompson’s police will use their clubs on the heads of | strikers with as much vigor as did Dever’s coppers during the latter’s four years in the Chicago “white house.” State’s Attorney Crowe, one of the most bitter enemies of organized labor in this country, is Thompson’s “organizer of victory.” Crowe’s favorite pastime is putting militant workers in jail and turning gangsters loose. Between both thieves labor is crucified. But com- pared to the labor fakers who have sold the workers for pelf, Crowe, Thompson, Dever. and their ilk are like unto the lilies of the field. How about starting to agitate for a labor party comrades, fellow workers and ye toilers of the United States in general? * * * NEW YORK readers who wear bum overcoats should keep away from that part of Seventh avenue that shoots straight between 28rd and 14th streets. Yesterday morning an anonymous pedestrian was wending his way to the last-mentioned street, While in. front of a second-hand clothing store he attracted the ap- praising eye of a burly barker, known in the business as a sales- man. The appraiser licked his chops, and rubbed his hands as if jn anti- cipation of a hot and delectable meal r consuming which he would show the ‘proprietor a policeman’s kadge. Anyhow that is the kind of a look the’ enemy of the shabby pedes- trian wore. | ae a moment I thot the gentleman with the bum overcoat. would get by. It was not an aged coat, Per- haps it saw only the tail end of one winter and perhaps it cost $11.98. But at a distance it would pass for a cleaned and pressed horse blanket. The barker finally decided that this pedestrian was engaged in the busi- ness of deceiving the public, so as a good citizen he intervened by poune- ing on the walking clothes rack” and dragging him into his emporium. I followed rather diffidently, not know- ing when an eagle eye might light on me and take me to task for dar- ing to promenade Seventh avenue in garments unbecoming a gentleman obviously on his way to work at the unseemly hour of 11 a. m. (The DAILY. WORKER is a_ morning paper, if this explains anything.) ° * J OW let us go on with the story. The barker had his victim safely in hand, TheJatter was shown vari- ous overcoats of various degrees of virtue, many of them said to have once graced the ‘persons of men whose names would make a white collar slave bend a knee, Wild young ane who pawned garments for the thrill of it! Prices! This benefactor was giving them away. The victim sparred for time. How could he pry himself loose from the human octo- pus? He looked at every it presented by his captor and shou Bia head. Once he saw an opening and was on the point of making a dash for the door when the salesman froze him to the ground with a stare in which steel glittered in company with that soft look that a devoted sheep — bestows on her newborn, | could see quite plainly that the sit- being strongly opposed to pa abla * * / uation was reaching a crisis and tion unless where my class in are involved I was on the point, ‘of sneaking away when the drama sud- denly climaxed. The victim reached into his pocket as the sale: dan- gled a $17.50 overcoat—o: 1 cost $75—in front of him. mouth opened wide but no widey than his eyes. But the eyes of thq) barker did not open. They degenerated into two evil-omened slits, reminding you of / Bill Hart of the films when that worthy, playing the role of a preach, er, at the end of his patience prov duced his two guns and waded into \ a saloon-full of seasoned and soused ° sinners. \ ® * * * \ 'O you have no money!” muttered the salesman.” I thot so much, xt time you come in here wasting my time, I’ll call a cop and have you arrested for vagrancy, I have a good ‘eae fFang ae S88 P- ltuind to pitch you out on your ear, faithful follower, to take his place. (want 4a You think this Place if any. barker was agitating 1, the of ee and it hapy suc~ NEWSBOYS WANTED jon yp eget gens Fy To sell ion » DAILY WORKER a Sy ak pitas ¢ | | }