The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1927, Page 1

FIRST SECTION This issue consists of two sections. Be sure to get them both. Vol. IV. No. 74. Current Events By T. J, O’Fuanerry. | ij said EVERAL years after the big flight from the socialist party desert, the wise men of what was left of the organization racked their brains for devices that would bring some of the wandering sheep back into the fold. Professions of loyalty to American- ‘ism in contrast to the unpatriotic atti- ‘tude of the Communists failed to make an impression on the deserters. They simply would not return no matter how many fatted calves were killed in their honor. The fact was that they found something more to their liking, an organization that was imbued with the missionary spirit they once thot permeated the politi- cal soul of the socialist party. It was the K. K. K. * * * OTING the successful methods em- ployed by the K. K. K. organizers, methods that brought in shekels as well as souls, a socialist lawyer of Dayton, Ohio, conceived the idea that. it would not be ethically wrong to follow the methods of the K. K. K. since the end justifies the means. He proposed that socialist organizers be turned loose on the population, work | up a snappy sales talk and bring in| the applicants sub: quent to extract- ing from each ind vidual who passed the pearly gates a fee not less than | ten dollars. * * * A good percentage of this fee would go to the hustling organizer. The lawyer did not say where a subsidiary organization to manufacture. robes, pillow cases, tar and feathers should be established to cater to the needs of the revitalized party. , However, the recruits did not come, They paid their tens to the K. K. K. kleagles. ‘The socialist lawyer lost heart and the paper he was editing drew a long breath, rolled its eyes, turned up its toes and started on the long journey. * * * 'T is said that the coming of spring is responsible for many budding fancies in youthful breasts but it is} only a season of melancholy reflec- tion for the aged, But there are ex- ceptions. One would think that the socialists might be excused if they sloughed the responsibility of freeing | the working class from their should- ers and passed their declining years smoking thé pipe 6f péace by the Yire- side and entertaining their great- grand-children with stories of heroic deeds performed in the dim and dis- tant past. But the socialist party would rather die than admit its im- potence. * * * r is no longer fashionable to appeal to workers to join what is left of | the socialist party with the induce- | ment that organization in a class par- ty would strengthen the worker’s arm and help him better his conditions in addition to furnishing him with an organization that would fight to em- ancipate him and his class from the capitalist yoke. This would be offen- sive to the A. F. of L. bureaucracy and to the employing classes that would be disappointed if they dis- covered that the socialists had not completely reformed, that they were like a drunkard who only remained sober as long as liquor was unayail- able. Then Oscar Wilde and Will Durant came to the rescue, * * 6 = it be distinctly understood that Oscar Wilde’s “Ballad of Reading dail” is one of the world’s literary masterpieces, and Wilde’s plays are extremely entertaining. Will Durant’s “Story of Philosophy” is popular summer reading but the sex angle connected with Wilde, is what gets the lovers of rare literature. So the socialists of New York now offer a set of Oscar Wilde’s complete works and Will Duran*’s crime against phil- osophy as an inducement to voters— not necessarily workers—to come and hear the message. We suppose Bac- caceio’s “Decameron” is passe but _ Frank Harris’s “My Life and Loves” is reported to be saucy reading. With the aid of the bookleggers and Frank Harris’s autobiography the socialists Should be able to capture Tammany Hall, 4 New (York Times editorial writer succeeded in being exceedingly funny in @ recent editorial on “Irish Unity.”. He rummaged the editorial \ morgue for hoary burlesque wise- ‘eracks on the alleged predeliction of the Irish for a desire to commit mu- tual annihilation. Mr. Och’s bovine seribbler may be forgiven for filling space with this kind of nonsense but |, (Continued on Page Two) TELL YOUR AGENT If your insurance agent is one of those glib-tongued fellows who leaves you ex- hausted but unconvinced, ask him to read The DAILY WORKER Insurance Expose. Begins Monday, April 11th, and daily thereafter, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. UNION OF ROBBER NATIONS MENACE TO SOVIET UNION Pravda, Isvestia Point to Guilt of England |See Raid on Embassy as Effort to Stampede SHANGHAI, April 8.—The Brit- ish Supreme Court here has sentén- ced three Indians to eighteen months of hard labor and deporta- tion on charges of dissemingting | propaganda among the British | troops. | * * eu | . PARIS, April 8—The United States Great Britain, France, Japan’ and Italy will send a joint note to the | Nationalist government) protesting | against the Nanking “outrages”, ac- | cording to the French foreign office. Because the imperialist powers have recognized only the Peking “govern- ment”, a copy will! also ‘be sent to | Peking. P | Those in touch with the situation | | believe that Great \Britain has defi- | |nitely aligned the United States in |making war on the Chinese National- | ist movement and the Soviet*Union. * pe Wa Soviet Union Cautious, | MOSCOW, April 8—The Soviet | | Union government jis proceeding with | | due caution and does not intend to be | provoked into predipitate action by| |the raids on the Soviet legation in| | Peking, according to statements to- | |day by the official press. } Charges are openly made by} Pravda, official newspaper, that the raids in Peking were instigated by the British, and similar charges are made by Izvestia, another official newspaper. Try To Provoke Russia. “This is a crime that borders on \madness, said Izvestia, “a conspiracy | that is nothing more than a desperate |effort to provoke Russia to take a step that would untie the hands of the| foreign powers for open intervention in China, but the Soviet Union has given several examples of having | stronger nerves than those who try | to provoke panic. It is useless to pro- | test to Chang Tso Lin. This repre- sentative of reaction is unable or un- ready to be held responsible for his own acts. However we announce our protest against those who inspired | Chang to this crime. “Public opinion in the Soviet Union won't forgive this raid. We reserve to ourselves the right to repeat this protest again when we establish’ the real address to which the protest may | be sent. We won’t fall for this pro- vocation, When we get the complete (Continued on Page Three) Meiliff Sentenced On Frame-up Which Had No Witnesses What is branded by dealers lof the New York Joint Board of the Fur- riers’ Union as the most brazen frame-up that has yet occurred since the reactionary right wing forces first launched their union-smashing drive, is the arrest and conviction of Oscar Meiliff who yesterday was given a six months sentence in Jefferson Mar- ket Court, by Judge Jesse Silverman. “Threatened”. Meiliff is the fur worker who early this week was arrested by a member of the Industrial Squad on the word of A. Wiener. a right winger, who | said he had been “threatened with assault.” A technical charge of “at- tempted assault” was made, but this was changed yesterday to “disorderly conduct.” : On this charge, which usually brings a small fine, Meiliff was sen- tenced to six months altho he has no record of previous arrests. There were no witnesses against Meiliff. Wiener’s word was taken in the mat- ter, and this bare frame-up was ac- cepted by the court. : The union will appeal the case im- mediately and hopes to have Meiliff released very soon on bail. Strike For 12-Hour Day. The salesmen of Liebenstein’s shoe store, 877 Prospect Ave., the Bronx, are on strike for the 12-hour day, In the past they worked 15 hours, from nine o’clock in the morning un- til twelve o'clock at night, They de- mand their hours. to be from ten THE DAILY WORKER. Entered an second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. ee eee eae ean FINAL CITY _ EDITION NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927 crwll) §, JOINS BLOC TO MAKE WAR ON CHINA aE PUBISHING Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO,, 38 First Street, New York, N. Y. Fur Workers Charge SEALED IN BLOOD AMER IUA Fats LA AD Smash the War Plot Hatched by Wall Street Goverament! Wall Street government is driving this country to war. _ It is lying to the American masses. In Washington it denies joint action with other imperialist nations in China. In China its diplomats, admirals and generals are acting jointly with the enemies of the Chinese liberation movement and the Soviet Union. Wall Street government is following the classic method of imperialism—it is talking peace and making war. Its policy is a WAR POLICY. Its acts speak louder than its words. F The bombardment of Nanking in conjunction with Great Britain, now shown by such cables as that to the New York Nation to have been an act of murderous and unprovoked barbarism, the raids on the Soviet embassies in Peking and Tientsin, plotted and inspired at a joint meeting held in the American headquarters, the besieging of the Soviet consulate in Shanghai by the murder- ous offscourings of Kolchak’s and Semenoff’s counter-revolution- ary bandit bands’ acting under allied imperialist auspices, the! continual dispatch of American troops to China, the fact that the) navy is being placed on a war basis, the joint occupation of Shang- hai, Tientsin, Peking, joint action of American and British troops in the Hongkong area, the bloodthirsty tone of the American im- perialist press—all this spells but one word—WAR. Only fools can come to any other conclusion. It is because Wall Street and its government believes that the American masses are fools that it has as yet taken no drastic measures at home to suppress protest against its bloody plan in the Far East. Let us be clear as to the issues involved. American imperialism, jointly with other powers, is making war upon the Chinese workers and peasants who are fighting to free themselves from imperialist oppression, militarism and a semi-feudal system which grind them into the mud. It is ready to make peace with Chinese capitalists but it turns its guns upon the trade union and peasant organizations. ; Great Britain has organized the fascist governments of Italy, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, etc., against the Soviet Union. In the Far East another front of imperilism has been set up. Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin, Hongkong are other cities that are occupied by imperialist troops acting jointly. War fleets of the imperialist powers patrol the Chinese coast and the rivers far into the interior of China. Kellogg and Coolidge lie when they say there is no joint action with Great Britain and the other powers. American workers and farmers must either call a halt on the murderous conspiracy hatched in the interest of this band of world robbers or find themselves chained as in 1917 to the gory chariot of the god of war. Let Wall Street and its war mongers know that they cannot make murderers of the American masses. Rally to the defense of the workers and peasants of China and the Soviet Union. Smash the war plot of Wall Street and its government. Join with the rest of the world’s working class in a mighty protest which will make itself heard in the capital of every im- perialist nation. Hands Off China! Hands Off the Soviet Union! Withdraw all armed forces from China! o'clock in the morning until ten at Jnight. Build the United Front of the working masses against the war front of imperialism’s murder bands! STRIKER JAILED Rosalsky Sets $15,000 Antonofsky Bail A.F.L. Heads Lie { Price 5 Cents "AS ONE UNIONIST TO ANOTHER ” WOLL ACTED AS SPY, TRIAL SHOWS |A. F. of L. “Investigators” Tried to Bully Fur Leaders Into Police Bribe Admissions “We never gave any money to the police, and we never told Matthew Woll, or anyone else, that we gave money to the police. “Ever since the fifth week of our strike the reactionary ! Jeaders of the International Fur can Federation of Labor had bee: Board leaders whom the workers Frame-Up To Get Leadership. “They thot if they charged us with graft they could railroad us to jail. This report, with its statements about bribery of the police, was made by Woll, McGrady and the others to injure us and help them to steal the leadership of the union.” This was the testimony of Isadore | Shapiro, chairman of the New York Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union jand head of the Law Committee dur- ing last year’s strike, who appeared | yesterday before Magistrate Joseph |E. Corrigan in the Criminal Courts |building to answer questions concern- |ing the alleged bribery of the police} | which was charged in the report of | |the A. F. of L, investigating com- | mittee. Samuel Mencher, chairman of the Strike Picket Committee, another wit- |ness, also denied that he had told the investigating committee he was re- | sponsible for bribing policemen, and | declared: | “They made that all up because |they had failed in settling the strike | Workers’ Union and the Ameri- n plotting to frame up the Joint elected and support. over the heads of the strike commit- tee. If we were bribing the police, why did the police beat up our work- ers and arrest them by the hun- (Continued on Page Two) French Die-Hards Try To Prosecute Doriot For Aid to Chinese PARIS, April 8.—Fearing a re- volt in Indo-China, French reac- tionaries are urging the criminal prosecution of Jacques Doriot, Communist member of the Cham- ber of Deputies. An attempt will be made to prosecute Doriot before his return from China. It is alleged that Doriot has encouraged a sym- pathetic revolt in French Indo- China. Appeal for Unity, Solidarity in Fight for- Lives of Sacco and Vanzetti |Statement Issued by James P. Cannon, Secretary NOTORIOUS SCAB FROM SUPREME COURT OF CAPITAL : GETS ONE MORE TO SUPREME COURT OF THE MASSES 4 The same scab who caused the | International Labor Defense ~ “_ frame-up of Joseph Goretzky, man- }ager of Local 35, yesterday brought jabout the arrest of Jack Scharf on |the charge that he had committeed jassault and larceny during the cloak strike of last summer. Like all these cases connected with the strike, Scharf was arraigned be- fore the notorious Judge Otto Rosal- sky, who held him under $10,000 bail for the grand jury. | Spent the Money. Evidently the judge was in a spend- |ing mood yesterday—that is a mood |for spending the workers’ money— for he put Louis Antonofsky under | $15,000 when he came before the coutt on the frame-up charge that he had assaulted L. Katz, who made the com- | plaint. Antonofsky has been in the Tombs | for two weeke waiting for a day when |it suited Judge Rosalsky to hear his ease. He is one of the paroled cloak strikers who was put into jail by this judge because Katz charged assn | Antonofsky has witnesses. | the boss and the workers in his shop, that at the time of the alleged assault he was, in the shop. This is verified by his time card. Still In Jail. | Twice Judge Rosalsky has refused to listen to this testimony, and has | kept Antonofsky in jail. Twice the boss and the workers have come to court, and spent their day waiting for the judge to hear them. Yesterday, when Antonofsky start- said, he was once more too busy to to await further hearing after his case of alleged assault against Katz |is heard, Ray Epstein and Berta Seid were arrested yesterday for picketing, and when arraigned in Jefferson Market Court, were placed under $500 bail each and are to appear for further hearing on April 12th and 18th, Sardi, Selzman Arraigned. In the Sixth Bronx District Court, Anthony Sardi and Martin Selzman, two clonkmakers were arraigned on charges of assault made by two broth- ers William and Louis Lublellsky. Sardi, who was arrested several weeks was held under $1,000 bail; Selzman was placed under $5,000 and £2,500, on separate complaints made | by each’ brother. The case will be heard on April 14th. ‘Read The Daily Worker Every Day CHICAGO, April 8.—The International Labor Defense, thru its secretary, James P. Cannon, has issued a statement on the Sacco-Vanzetti state supreme court decision, pointing out that no one but a fool would expect other action from the courts of the |ed to tell his story, Judge Rosalsky | | listen, and put him under heavy bail, textile barons of Massachusetts ment to the judgment of the masses of the workers. ment says: “The black robed judges of the Su- preme Court of Massachusetts have pronounced the doom of Sacco and Vanzetti. Evidence of frameup and conspiracy was piled high enough for | the whole world to see, but the judges would not look at it. The New Eng- land bourbons want the blood of in- nocent men. This was decided from the first, only fools expected other- wise, Only fools put faith in the courts of the enemy. “Tt is all planned and decided. Some day soon the two Italian work- ers will be taken into the Dedham Courtroom, where they were falsely convicted of murder six years ago this summer, and there sentenced by » Webster Thayer of the Super- ior Court to die in the electric chair at Charlestown for the crime of re- bellion against the capitalists. “They will take them from their cells and strap them securely in the chair, they will turn on the switch with the hope that when the deadly electric current burns and sears the warm flesh of the two rebel workmen, there will also be consumed within those flames the cause they symbol- iz “So they have decreed, and hope. But the game pot over, there is another power yet to be con- | sidered. There is a higher court than that of the solemn reprobates who de- jereed the death of co and Vanzet- j ti. The laboring * America fand the world n in’ Saeco jand Va ti. It is time now to ap- | peal to the m It is time so they the rkers to say their word. “Such slender legal resources a: yet remain must be utilized. This | goes without ng, but the real {hope for Sacco and Vanzetti must now be placed in the protest move- | ment of the workers, Only the uni- ted protest movement of the workers | | can save Sacco and Vanzetti from the |hands of the executioners. “The defense of Sacco and Vanzetti }is an issue of the class struggle. | They are not eriminals but the sym- | bols and standard bearers of the mil- | (Continued on Page Two) , and appealing from that judg- MINERS ASSEMBLE FORCES TO STOP LATEST SCABBING ‘Avesta Coal Company in Open Shop Attempt PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 8.—Pro- gressives in the United Mine Work- ers of America are now calling upon the rest of the miners in that union to rally their forees immediately and h more organizers and active unionists into the non-union terri- tory, to offset the attack made on by the Vesta Coal Co., which tas just gone non-union. ; Steel Tributary The Vesta Coal Company supplies the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corpor- ation with bituminous coal. Joseph Edwards, general superine tendent, in making his announcement, estimated that 3,000 would be af- fected, that number normally is ems ployed in the Vesta mines. Earlier in the bituminous suspen- sion, the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, one of the largest in western Pennsylvania announced it would operate with non-union miners after signing with the union for years. ther (By Worker Correspondent), Demonstrate For Union. AVELLA, Pa., April 8.—Rain and continued threatening weather could not» prevent the mass demonstration arranged by the local unions of the J. M. W. of A. to celebrate the es- tablishment of the eight-hour day for the miners, and to unveil a monu- ment to the memory of the five meme bers of the U. M. W. of A. that were (Continued on Page Two) The state- 5 4 ¢ he 4 i} psi eS OS ace