The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 13, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1927 rganize the Traction Workers Attack Against Chinese Nationalists Announce Demands CONFERENCE IN O | Sailor Framed Up; idlinds tba lenoeil:, 1 | : : Active Fighter for FIGHT T0 AlD 9 y and many others. ARTICLE XVII—BACK TO THE BEGINNING. | Mexican Soviet The following resolutions were} f | | | | The Labor Movement The letter, addressed to the dent commissioners at the House Of- » Building, Washington, D. C., fol-| the cutting of Chitiese mi es by imperialist troops and the advance of the British lines out- move for peace was instituted. | The company again agreed to take back all the men, This was carried | too much to resist. Now that the strike was over and the income of the union assured it was to be expected ing #0 expect. Also they waited until | Corrects Times Report. |the day before the injunction was to! He also gave our representative a | have been granted before taking up| copy of a letter he mailed to the New | the issue, “T trust you will give such publicity to this letter as will enable such of my friends as are readers of The New : . a ; | York Times, refuting the story they | York Times to know that they can $ lows: side of the “internatiggal settle- | 54, Every man who so desired was | sane Pe ate be made to get | Under pressure from the leaders | carried yesterday ernie to the ef-| still see me in the country of my “My dear Commissioner: ment,” Nationalist officials intimated able to return to the Interborough, |!" 0 the — floor, F | of the local, the Amalgamated organ- | fect that he was in Mexico City. The | birth. " “T have read with indignation the that they had claims of their own to! The leaders did not apply for their} _ In the light of events which have |izers finally attempted to secure some | letter follows: “Very truly yours,—Bertram E. ; message of President Coolidge ve-|™Ke, A raid Dy ean inl! ai positions, however, since they. had | Since developed, it is gueg oat to| support in the Central Trades and | “April 12, 1927.| Wolfe.” Sol the bill for pieheacite of thé iat paging s. ied nity Ching’s | other work to do! {note here that the men on the a Labor Council for the fight against | “Editor, The New York Times, | ; Filipino people on the question of | °° lared to be a violation of China’s| tmmediately there began in earnest | Were at first entirdy scene} nthe injunction. Numerous delegates | “239 West 43 Street, itidependence. territorial picker the task of organizing the men on the|™ove. Lavin and the other leaders | ty this body are witnesses to the fact |“New York City. AN Pp. hlet “We wish to say that we know! |. __ Beat Students. road. The odds which the leaders | consulted in person and by letter) that the chief representatives of the | “Sir: ew amp. that the President's reason for not| The raid on the university occurred had to face in the process of organ- | hundreds of the new union members. | Central Trades and Labor Council] “On page 23 of the Times of today’s allowing a vote, is that the vote |t 5 o'clock on the morningxof April! izing the workers were, if possible,| The memory of the inefficient man-| tried in every way to sabotage ac-|date, which appears to be the page will go against him, We know thi latest repressive act is the culmina- | tion of a whole ser pointing to the preservation of American Im- perialist rule in the Philippine Is lands. pino people are demanding their in- We know also that the Fili- ~ 9th, when, a protest addressed to the British consul general says, 200 Bri- tish soldiers equipped with field guns, searched the building, beat students with the butt ends of their rifles, de- equipment and rsity of some money. robbed the} even greater than those faced during the strike. In the first place, organization had to be carried out in secret in order to protect the men against discrimin- atiori. This is always a great’ disad- vantage and should not be resorted | ner in which the 1916 strike had been conducted, and the failure of the Amalgamated to come to the support of the 1926 strike were still fresh in their minds, But again Lavin, Walsh jand the others did, not the easier, but | the better thing. In spite of the in- | tion on this important matter. « | devoted to radio news, I find one of | Their support of Al Smith and|the most remarkable examples of | their Tammany connections prevented | telivision on record, in the shape of a} | them from truly serving the interests | special cable from your reporter in| |of the workers. One of the vice pre- | Mexico City to the effect that I am | sidents of the New York State Fed-|in hiding in the home of Mme. Kol-! eration of Labor did his best to refer |lantai, the minister to Mexico from THE THREAT TO THE LABOR MOVEMENT dependence. In the name of the| Scoring thé raid as a violation to except when absolutely necessary. | competence of the old line ped oa the whole matter to a committee in| the Soviet Union, in Mexico City. The The Conspiracy Against Conference for Filipino Independ- |! China’s sovereignty and as a vio-| More difficult still was the condition | ficials, it s essential that tl yea which all action would have been! matter appears, from the news dis- the Trade Unions @hve, an organization with local| lation of all international law, the| of having to work towards organiza-|¢rs join with Lapsed csp od iret m the | killed. It was only through a ruse! patch, to be so serious that the Mex- conimittees in the large cities; Protest addressed to the British con-|tion without funds and without the | °Tganized labor movement. The lead-| of the militants in Central Trades |ican government is taking under ad-| seattered over the United States, | I say to you that we stand with the Filipino people and ainst the United States government. All we" can do to further the immediate, complete and absolute independence | of the Filipino people, we pledge} shall be done. Very sincerely yours, | LUCY ANN WHITAKER, Sec.” Has Wide Influence. | The Conference for Filipino Inde-| pendence is composed of loosely or- ganized committees composed of ac- tive labor men, farmers and prom- inent liberals and has wide influence | threughout the country. The na- tional and local committees include Clarence Darrow, Robert Morss Lov- Soy’ Y | Boswell, Ralphton, Bell, Hooversville, | Section of The 1 ae Corte re ce cnnt| MONCOW, Aghil “Sd= Mie Revie Geman coe ants speakers to or.|| DAILY WORKER will be discon- |found, any hour of the day or eve-| Frnest Uttermann, Scott Nearing, |toreign office today received a tele- ganize rest of the county. Very|| tinued. This step is being taken OME, April 12 Major Zaniboni | U& 8 the headquarters of the} Professor Ellen Hayes, Manuel) seam from Eugene Chen, foreign > i because the Editorial Staff wishes ROME, April 12— Majér Zaniboni| Workers School, 1¢8 East 14th St. | Gomez, President Frank Webber of the Milwaukee Federated Trade Coun- | cil; Secretary-Treasurer Henry Tie} gan of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor | Party; Assistant City Attorney} Nichard Wiggin of Minneapolis, Jack | Frederick of the International Asso-| ciation of Machinists and many others. Urge National Conference | Plans are being completed for a na- | tional conference in the near future | to take up the question of Philippine | independence and to organize senti-| ment in this country to fight against | the shameful imperialist policy ‘of Wall Street and its minions at Wash- | ington and give aid and comfort to the Filipinos in their fight to drive from the Islands their oppressors. Chilean Mussolini in Complete Control SANTIAGO Chile, April 12—With a two months “vacation” forced upon President Emiliano Figueroa-Larrain, General Ibanez, Chilian Mussolini,/er friendship, with the people of| a ton pick coal, and 86 cents a ton| Kate Gitlow, Ray Ragozin, Mrs. Zajl- When this movement was checked ‘. wre etnies » 4 * : y id | by extremists in the fascist party, has established a complete dictator- | China, machine coal. owski (In Polish), A. Wechsler (Hun- |Zaniboni went to the king and de- ship in Chile, A big demonstration against} NOW IS THE TIME to demand | garian), to speak on the present situ- | In addition to arresting Senor] Xavier Figueroa-Larrain, brother of the nominal president and head of the Supreme Court, Ibanez has request- | ed the resignation of Beltram Mat- eieu, Chilean Minister to England. | Judging by his success in the past, General Ibanez will get it, sul general says, “We must there- fore lodge a strong protest and de- mand a guarantee that such a thing shall not occur again and demand full reparation for all damages, Demand Apology. “Purthermore, we must demand an apology for the dvsecration of our flag and for the British troops cross- ing the boundary into Chinese terri- tory.” The note to the British consul gen- | eral, sent by Kuo Tai-chi, Nationalist | commissioner for foreign affairs in| Shanghai; protests against British airplanes flying over Chinese terri- tory as a violation of international law. * * Chen Scores Peking Raids. minister of the Nationalist govern-| ment, giving assurances that “his government would take the strictest | measures to prevent the international | scandal, the atrocious crime and the} unprecedented insult to the sover-| eignty and authority of the Soviet | government inflicted by Chang Tso| Lin.” The message referred to the raids} made upon the Soviet embassy com-| pound by Peking police and troops | acting under the orders of the Man-} churian war lord, Chen’s message | added that “Chang Tso Lin, although | a lawless robber, is nevertheless a! Chinese.” The Soviet foreign office in its re- ply stated that it did not doubt “that the assaults and the robberies com- mitted by the Peking police will arouse the highest indignation on the part of the Nationalists.” Soviet Congress Endorses Peace. Fully endorsing the government's | peaceful policy in China, the All Rus. | sian Congress of Soviets expressed | the hope that it “would lead to great- Chang’s raids on the embassy in Pek- ing was held today outside of the| theatre where the congress met, * . * Caf Plans China War WASHINGTON, April 12. — The perplexing question of what “mea-| | you wait until strike is settled it | will be too late. The company needs me “3 rf | sures” will be taken by the United the terrorism of the Ibanez dictator- | China to enforce the demands made ship. Wholesale deportations have | uPon Assad ee the event | j |the Nationalists’ ‘ora the ‘results of his COUP | powers? notes is unsatisfactory—oc- - cupied the attention of administra- | tion officials today. Plan Trans-Atlantic Flight. China was again the most import- Floyd Bennett, who flew over the} pole with Commander Byrd, will try | , to pegotiate the Atlantic in a none | eguler ee meeting. " stop flight to Paris next month, as| Although the powers’ notes con- “a » cluded with a warning that “unless pilat for the monoplane, “America, |the Nationalist authorities demon- strate to the satisfaction of the in- Earl Carroll, knight of the bath tub is on his way to Atlanta prison where he will serve one year and one day for perjury. Carroll broke down and wept yesterday after he surrendered to it was stated here. Britain Threatens Bombardment. | In the absence of a joint agree- |ment or policy, the belief prevails in | Washington that the powers will be |left free to take such “measures” as response to the! ant subject before the cabinet at its | United States Marshall William Hecht at the federal building here. Tears rolled down his face and he sobbed. “I want my wife near me in Atlanta, when I’m down there,” he cried. Smeg | AT THE NEWSSTANDS they individually deem apporpriate. Britain has already hinted at a nay- al blockade of the treaty ports, and repri: in the way of gun-fire upon Chinese cities, BUY THE DAILY WORKER 4 support of organized labor. leaders of the movement, it is reliably reported, often went for days with- | out sufficient food. Some of them | sought part time work on buildings and in other trades. | During this time they were never | left free from the attention of spies and company “beakies.” Their homes } The | ers of the new union were not long! tp jin recognizing this necessary princi- ple. Accordingly the men were at last won over and the original Consoli- dated became The Amalgamated ‘As- sociation of Street & Electric Rail- way Employes of America, Division No. 977. at any action was secured on the! visement a proposal to deport Mme. issue, | Kollantai for sheltering me. When finally the meeting to diseuss| ‘The only explanation that I can} injunctions was held, the grand joker! imagine for this remarkable dis-} | of the occasion was the report of alcovery is the fact that I was de-| | bill introduced into the assembly to! ported from Mexico in June, 1925, for More Miners to Strike In Non Union Field (Continued from Page One) Powers Hapgood and many local! miners of Windber. | Miners from other parts of coun- attended meeting, representing ty likely spontaneous strikes will start in other sections. | Key Position | The 4,000 Berwind-White miners are at the gateway of Somerset Coun- ty on the North. | As Berwind-White goes so goes Somerset county, it was said in 1922 when the union drove into the com- pany’s big operations in the north of the county. , The Berwind-White men struck and | the strike then rolled on like a snow- | ball through the region till all the men of the (Rockefeller) Consolida- | tion Coal Co,, the Quemahoning Coal Co, and the rest were out also. To Build Union | The United Front Committee of | Windber miners which is leading the | present movement seeks to enroll | the men under the banner of the! United Mine Workers of America. The leaflets issued by the United | Front Committee appeal to the min- ers as follows: ~ “Now Is The Time” NOW IS THE TIME to demand your old wages of $7.50 a day, $1.28 pay for dead-work and fair weight on your coal. NOW.IS THE TIME TO ACT! If you now'because the coal market is good and would not dare risk a strike, if you organize and send a commit- tee to present your demands of UNION WAGES, PAY FOR DEAD- WORK and HONEST WEIGHT. * * * | Evieting Unionists COVERDALE, Pa—Eighteen miners who have been most active members of the union received notices to move out of the company houses within 10 days time. This is the first step tak- | en by the company in preparation for the opening of the mine under non- union basis. The company is also building temporary barracks appar- minal Coal Co,, and was employing several hundred men. The miners of Coverdale and vicin- ity are engaging in picketing of the Library mines which are located not far from the town and which are owned by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. According to orders from the sheriff no more than 4 pickets are allowed at a time and these must not come within one-half mile limit from the scab mines. |Read The Daily Worker Eyery Day all No Saturday Magazine Section Any Longer; Need: Space for News On and after April 14 the Satur- day Magazine to concentrate its efforts upon the task of turning out the best labor paper in the United States. The regular, full news issue will there- fore come out on Saturday and the price will be 3 cents. At the same time the special popular material will be published on our Feature Page throughout the week. Buy The DAILY WORKER—the National Labor Daily. Business Office, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y., phone Orchard 1680. Women of the Mills, Shops and Homes! The strike is over, but the fight is still on. For more‘ than one year we have fought together, we must come again together, to discuss our problems, come to the big mass meet- at the Workers Home 27 Dayton Ave., \? Passaic, N. J., and hear J. O. Benthal, ation in the union, unemployment and the tasks of the women, Good musical. program. Admission free! “Hands Off China” Meet at San Jose SAN JOSE, Calif., April 12—Un- der the auspices of the Workers’ Educational Club of this city, a large meeting was called to protest against foreign interference in China. T. S. Tsiang, Chinese students at Stanford University of Palo Alto, and editor of the Chinese Guide in America, was the main speaker of the evening. Many questions greeted the speak- er at the conclusion of his remarks and in the speeches in which the Birthday Dates of 3 Class War Prisoners Lansing Kansas Prison—Joe Nill— April 25, Massachusetts State Prison — N. Sacco—April 23. Walla Walla Wash. Prison—Bert Bland—-April 27. Letters written to prisoners help greatly to break the monotony of life, and we are sure it would greatly appreciated by them. strike movement then in progress. | Read: The Daily Worker Every Day | There is now another railway strike |unsettled at that time and additional | {ones since accumulated, and appar-| | without my mysterious presence be- hind the scenes. | in progress in Mexico because of the ‘Mussolini Begins ently your reporter, or his sources of | | i | “I wish to assure the Editor of The | | | |New York Times that I am to be} | “regulate” injunctions! |participation in a general railway | grievances of the railway men left} | H H | information, seemed to believe that a| | fla 0 alll Onl, | tailway strike in Mexico is impossible | | yesterday went on trial before a spe-| where a representative of your paper| jcial military tribunal, recently created | can visit me and ascertain the incor: | | by a new Italian law, charged with an pectness of your cable with date 1 | seement upon the life of Premier Mus-| of April 11. It seems to me that if) | solini. |Mme. Kollantai is to | : Major Zaniboni is charged with hav- | from Mexico, Ea Red ptt | ing engaged a hotel room opposite the |the American government, that a! Chigi Palace and to have planned to| more compelling reason must be | Shoot Mussolint when he appeared on | given than the fact that I am sup- |the balcony of the palace to make a} hi i ; j speech. It is alleged that Major Zani- | pens bah ding * the legation of boni aimed to provoke an insurrection | creating a military dictatorship after | the death of Mussolini. } . General Accused. | General Capello and five others are | accused of strengthening Zaniboni’s | |resolve and of supplying him with) | financial aid and weapons. |_ Evidence was put in detailing Zani- | | boni’s connections with the fascist movement and against it. Statements | made by Zaniboni to the police showed that he had cooperated with Mussolini | in 1922 for a peace movement to join WM. F. DUNNE 15 cents sae | ss ae BUY THE DAILY WORKER j a M4 At THE NEWSsTaxps Patronize Our Advertizer | | | | | Asked King to Intervene. |clared he knew of a plot to forcibly cow opposition deputies in the cham- ber. He also called upon the king at the time of the Matteotti murder and declared that it was incumbent upon the crown to intervene. He said he offered to form a league of voluntary ‘officers to* defend the crown in case an attack should be made upon the monarchy, After these efforts Zaniboni said his position became untenable and he withdrew to his native town where he became the butt of fascist persecu- tion, volleys of bullets being fired at his house at night. : Read The Daily Worker Every Day. CURRENT EVENTS (Continued from Page One) volving the attempt of an oppressed people to free themselves from for- eign rule, It is a struggle between two social’ concepts. On one side are ar- rayed the brigands of the capitalist world whose aim is to hold China as a sphere of exploitation; on the other side we see the Soviet Union, like an oasis in the desert, giving aid and comfort to all oppressed peoples. In striking at China the powers are also striking at the Soviet Union, because they know that the Soviet Union is the nucleus of the world socialist state of the future. f to a Better Understanding and a Greater Usefulness in the Revolutionary ; Movement ALL BOOKS CLOTH BOUND. pi MARX AND ENGELS LENIN ON ORGANIZATION ,, $1.80 By D. Riazanov ... 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Saposs .. iiss) CLBD inte, oxiste no agreement between | the eviction notices, ‘The Coverdale today is no ordinary revolution in-| pi EMENTS OF POLITICAL WOMAN WORKER AND ‘THE ‘A the powers upon @ course of action,| mine is owned by the Pittsburg Ter- | TRADE UNIONS EDUCATION ‘ 0 | By Theresa Wolfson ......+4.. $1.75 Berdnikoy-Svetlov (Paper $1), SEND FOR A FREE CATALOGUE OF ALL PUBLICATIONS. THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 33 FIRST STREET, NEW YORK. : adopted at the meeting: ) Were watched and their every move-) The move as such soon justified! | : igre aps THE FILIPINOS | 1—That all organizations affil-| Th By net oh pidbanlas ment reported. On several occasions} itself, The men came into the union} Embassy Exposed | POR’ TLAND, Me., April 12. — | jiated with the league carry on propa-| | csi pi Aa a | some of them were arrested either|in greatly increased numbers, So} Dieoe aee member ae Sea- i i" oe ganda against British imperialism. || aad acitce The leaders were | 10" {stributing literature to the men) much so that the difficulty was soon | PRES, i} me inion, ve bg recen sas | be 1 Tate | 2—That “actual steps be taken tol OCt deceived be the eincumetanans | Of for speaking to them on the job.| faced of preventing a new strike, now| ‘The international capitalist reac-|| leased from the Thomaston Me.| | * Denounce Coolidge Veto | xamine British merchandise begin-| however. It weald have been ancat| Also the company instituted a reign| urged, it is believed, by some of the|tion that is trying to incite raids of Teen eee term pa ee { ae - Terms ning next week.” This is interpreted | 4,» te t i ith bd t as 8) | of terror with the purpose of destroy-| more impatient men of the road and| various embassies, after hav- | nection with trouble see, sree } P In Strong Terms by Kuo Tai-chi, Nationalist foreign| Without the support at te tans | ing the union, even by some of the Amalgamated] ing staged thé affair at Pékin in| the 1921 seamen’s strike, was | | ¥ ba Lie pril 1.The Confem | minister here, as a precaution against | Maple hen to wea WA pg In spite of these almost superhuman | Officials, China, and at Paris in France, is now | bp at Wiest Aitins pigt!d a | ¥ Bae AT See ee ihe atey of arms. ting the men back for a later strag.| difficulties the union continued to| But-the incompetence of the Amal-| endeavoring to expel Mme. Alexan-|} 1927 at Portland } Tyo. athe? | ] ‘ ence for Filipino peepee ee hat thie Commiiten: een aie ae Aut Lavin Walsh Sa tha others | BTOW until within two months, it is| @amated organizers again asserted | dria Kollantai from México City. As| he Passel bis a yap ot sisob ins tional organization itt hI : apie uvaianea lar . Reschonil Relations | fad tha Gouiace. 8 fice ike facta |S2id three full departments of the | itself at the first test, a pretext for a raid on the Soviet | men wit Tag da Anis Wallon 7 here, ha one shade ace as, vith the British meet tomorrow. The) realistically, ¥ ; "| Subway, two on the “L” and two in| The Interborough had applied for|/embassy in Mexico the kept press | ged geihs Aa ibe aeae kaa ras h pore ref the Philippine Islands |committee will lay plans for the boy-| ‘The plan was accordingly conceived | the Power House departments were rrp pry a to rarpohao ait forma- circulated the report that Bertram rae oar ike May bata ob ite : » United States, wherein they |cott, it is understood. lof launching a general strike in or-|Co™Pletely signed up. In addition Reg wa ancioas stn © eame|D. Wolfe, the American Commtrenttst; | superior court, He is charged, 8 in the United State bee aes y on sana a cere aoe |there was a lesser number coming| time the leaders were being sued for) who was deported ftom Mexico inf f Supercr. Saare 1 eh intent 40 ; pe nema serie a Min anizatio! SHANGHAI, April 12—The Na- taciaines ven tis eecarborcngH reel te from the B. M. T. and the surface | nd vi eae he deueeion | 198s is now secretly hiding in Mme. | Beta hn ate cee < “ 4 foward the Islands, | ‘They y|tionalist government has expressed | device worked. Every detail’ and | ies. perp etrrsigtac gla eaagemyrsccrnd aim Seat ARE ORKA|| Wr srested heoouns-Inmabantten J censure President Coolidge for his|surprise that the imperialist. powers of the proposed walkout was| At this moment @ new situation | sent can be defeated, by the mass rads Welle ot "the Workers “School, al Labor Defense literature was i wae Ut the Fhitippine request to voye vite Reppin Sh ei ied ecuted as announced. Suitable prop- | 52086: sa “ae a aeoreF resident | power of the aroused workers in the! 108 East 14th Street, and he author. found on him. He is being held at on the question of independence and | Nanking “outrages” without making | goanda was secured even from the|of Street & Electric Railway Em- labor movement. Instead the Amal-| ized us to state, paraphrazing Mark|| the county jail. t add that “we stand with the Filipino | any effort to fix responsibility or to| capitalist press. At the proper mo-| loyes of America whose representa- | a mated organizers chose to fight it! Twain, that the a abe i his i ame | people and against the United States ni padi es bak beets the company Pll tb ape gt per a boys pac! ries jin the courts from which, as we have | in Mme. Kollant home in Mexico! the Soviet Union in Mexico City. My § governmen tar Ree at een te its claim that “we are not worrying” | Ss hi ¢ di _|alteady seen the workers have noth-| City is greatly exaggerated, alibi is too overwhelming. t Rebuke Government. Chinese territory by British vas really pretty well worried, a|new union. The prospect of dues was |