The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1927, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED , FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 78. HANDS OFF THE SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $3.00 per year. Outside Now York, by mail, $6.00 per year. CHINA! DAI NEW Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act ef March 3, 1! YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 14,1927 <> : \ WITHDRAW TROOPS AND BATTLESHIPS! eR. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITY EDITION _ ee | Price 3 Cents HUNDRED THOUSAND SHANGHAI WORKERS STRIKE Organizing New Local Of Miners’. Union in Moundsville, West Va. DILLES BOTTOM, Ohio, April 13,—A meeting of 300 unorgan- ized miners was held here, just across the river from Moundsville, W, Va. The meeting was held in Ohio to avoid an attack by West Virginia police. The miners took up a collection of $16.85 to help pay for the char- ter of a new local, United Mine Workers of America. Among those who spoke at the meeting were William Cooper, J. J. House and J. I. Powell, mem- bers of Local 1256, United Mine | | Company Official Exposes Big Grafters; Gov- ernor Smith Silen’ Previous Events of The following is the fourth of a The DAILY WORKER exposing | payment) life insurance. WALL STREET BEHIND “BIG FOUR” | INSURANCE SWINDLING OF WORKERS | t on Huge Fraud Insurance Exposé series of articles written for} the fraud of industrial (weekly| The attack centers on the “Big Four,” | |2, €, the Metropolitan, Prudential, John Hancock and Colonial | | Life Insurance Companies. | “mutual,” is in reality the most | ganization that ever disgraced a This powerful combine, supposedly | corrupt quasi-public service or- country. The “Big Four’ insure 1.—Fighting in streets of Shanghai between right. wing elements and organized workers, who demand arms against employers. 2.—Soviet Union capital scene of great demonstration by workers against imperialist invasion into China. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CHINESE STRUGGLE of foreign affairs indicates soon will recognize Nationalist Government. 3.—Washington continues to rush transports, but meets with great dissension among even reactionary gro that England is using Coolidge as catspaw, 4.—Chinese Aid appeals to American workers thru DAILY WORKER to prevent Chang against Nationalist sympathizers in North China. Chinese Ask Aid of U. S. CONSERVATIVES Soviet Union About to Demand Right to Bear Arms for protection Commissariat who insist 1ps, continued terrorism Tso-Lin's CHINESE SEAMEN | upwards of 40 million American workers. Huge reserve funds, | jim reality the property of “mutual” policyholders are actually | manipulated by and for the benefit of a crooked Wall Street gang | Of high financiers. Names prominent in the exposé are: Charles M. Schwab, Charles Evans Hughes, ex-Senator William J. Tully, | Workers, Workers Against Terror Reign by Gang Tso-lin In a cable from Shanghai ad- Recognize Nationalist Government of China MOSCOW, April 13.—Karly ree- OF WASHINGTON ISSUE CALL FOR VICTIM OF “RED” \ \, | | HYSTERIA FREE AFTER 5 YEARS U.S. Thwarted in Desire | To Deport Engineer } The details of one of the most brutal examples of American post- war red-baiting hysteria were learne last night by The DAILY WORKER. Nicholas J. Kamisaroff, 44, a me- chanical engineer, and temporarily living at 54 West 124th St., is now free after more than five years o confinement a! hard labor at the New Jersey state penitentiary in Trenton. Hysteria Victim. | Haley Fiske, Joseph P. Day and others. * * * By CHARLES YALE HARRISON | _ How often does one hear the cynical | American business refrain, “I’m not in business for my health?” And when one has heard it frequently enough, the question naturally arises | as to whose health the modern ser- | vice-rendering Rotarian is in busi- |ness for. i The “Big our” industrial (weekly! | payment) life insurance companies are continually prating about the “ser- vice” they render to their 40 million} policyholde: The point is insist- jently stressed that they are “mu-! tual” companies. “Every policy- | j holder shares in the profits of the | company,” reads an announcement | Sent out by the Prudential. | Hid Profits GOLD AND OTHERS ON TRIAL TODAY; ALL HANDCUFFED begins at Mineola, L. I., this morning, |have been held in jail since Monday | at the vequest of a high official of Elvin Edwards, district attorney of Courageous Message to! Fellow Unionists | The ten fur workers whose trial} the New York police department, so/| dressed to The DAILY WORKER, the Chinese Aid Society appeals to American friends of the Chinese liberation movement to help save northern Nationalist leaders from death at the hands of Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian war lord. The cable follows: Shanghai, April 13. — Li Tai Chow, Chinese Nationalist leader, and many students who have been arrested in Peking by Chang Tso- lin face execution, Their only crime is sympathy for the Chinese libera- tion movement. Protest meetings are being or- ganized throughout southern China. We appeal to our American friends to protest against Chang Tso-lin’s terrorism; to demonstrate against the attempt of Chiang, who is back- ed by the foreign powers, to drown the Nationalist movement in a sea |] of blood, - SPLIT ON CHINA \Many Dislike Coolidge’s Trailing of Britain By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press). WASHINGTON.—What does Presi- |dent Coolidge mean when he says, in |the joint note of the foreign powers | to the Chinese Nationalist govern- ;ment: “Unless the Nationalist au- thorities demonstrate to the satisfac- |tion of the interested governments |their intention to comply promp‘ly with these terms, the said govern- jments will find themselves compelled to take such measures as they con- | sider appropriate”? * When the powers were about to pounce upon China in reprisal for the ognition of the Nationalist govern- ment in China by Soviet Russia is possible, the People’s Commis- sar for Foreign Affairs said to- day. Rumors are current here that Japan also contemplates early rec- ognition of the Nationalists. More than one hundred thousand workers gathered before the big theater where the Soviet Congress is in session to demonstrate against the provocatory raids on the Soviet embassy at Peking. Speakers declared that the at- tempts of the imperialist powers to draw the U. S, S. R. into a war are doomed to failure. They voiced their full approval of the peaceful note sent Ly the Soviet government to Peking. Kalinin, presiding at the con- gress, declared that the imperialist COMPLETE STRIKE Tell of Workers Shot By Right Wing SHANGHAI, April 13.—Approxi- mat 100,000 work have answer- ed the strike call issued last night to protest against the raids on the labor union halls by right wing ele- ments here. Organized labor is fighting for its tight to hold meetings and to bear arms, as well as to protest against the raids on union halls and the exe- cution of a number of labor leaders. Cotton mills, street car lines and shipping have been completely tied up by the strike. The postal serv- ice, bus lines and stores have only been ‘slightly affected by the strike thus far. x 5 Let us go back to 1905, the year | Koxer killings and Icotings a genera-|| powers would find Russian workers In an appeal to seam and dock- Kamisaroff. at the time a member a a, Nassau County, told Judge Stephen {ge 5 t. t i tay Toh bs 3, of the Novy Mir branch of the social- that the “Big Four” bought their Callahan of the supreme court ‘in | tion ago, John Hay, thet secretary of || ready to @efend the proletarian || workers’ to jom the s the Sea- ist party, was arrested in Jersey City on. May Day, 1922, charged with “criminal anarchy.” An active mem- ber of the International Assoriation of Machinists’ Union, Kamisaroff had | been making talks before Russian workers at clubs, forums, and at strect meetings. Held Incommunicado. Held incommunicado in $25,000 bail | for more than nine months, Kamisar- way out of the famous Armstrong Insurance Investigation. In that year they had a total of THREE BILLIONS of DOLLARS of insur- | ance on their books. Twenty years later this insurance coverage had in- | creased to Twenty Billions of dollars. | It had, as will be seen, increased six and a half times. | Assets twenty years ago were 245 | (Continued on Page Two) Brooklyn yesterday. According to Mr. Edwards, the po- lice official asked for this imprison- ment because workers were being BRITAIN HANDS prevented, by these members of the Furriers’ Joint Board, from register- ing with what he thinks is the legally constituted union—the scab office of the International Fur Workers’ Union, Why The Police? CHANG TSO LIN HUGE WAR CHEST | state, sent a note warning the powers jthat China must not be treated as a |eonquered cquntry. Since that time {| | American prestige in China has been | | relatively high—until Kellogg and | | Coolidge fell in line with British pol-| |iey in this Nanking ultimatum. | Post Criticizes. | In an editorial expressing bitter dis- | appointment at the failure of the ad-/} minstration to take a friendly and in- | state when the proper time came. Arrests Made For | Aiding Sacco and Vanzetti Protest men’s Union says: “Make haste, all Chinese on ships, The workers of Shanghai have ob- tained arms by the sacrifice of their blood. These arms have been takea (Continued on Page Three) SACCO - VANZETTI : neon , ‘ ;_ | dependent attitude toward China, the | off, was not permitted to communicate Just why a New York police of- PEKING, April 13 .—The first in- | ccharwine reactionary Washington | with friends nor to attempt.to retain ficar should be concerned with the stallment of Great Britain’s reward i Saat antes | counsel. He was assigned to defend} ssi to Chang Tso Lin for his raids on the | Rad | him a former district attorney of Sus- | sex county, the county in which he} was being tried. Induced to plead “guilty” on the promise of the state prosecutor that he would receive “a light sentence, Current Events By T. J. O’FLAneERTyY. problem of union registration of fur workers was not explained. Probably the reason could be made clear by the members of the special A. F. of L. investigating and reor- ganization committee, Matthew Woll, Soviet embassy was paid in the form | of a note for £500,000 sterling. It has been definitely learned that the note was handed to Chang by the Shanghai-Hongkong Banking Corpor- the Shanghai customs. retary Kellogg has made a seri- ous mistake-—a mistake that may have appalling consequences—in associat- | ing the United States with other pow- | ers in making demands upon the Chin- ese. The Chinese people, both north For walking with signs announcing the Sacco-Vanzetti mass meeting in} Union Square next Saturday after- noon, Annie Sasnovsky and Lizzie | Brilliant were arrested this after- noon on a charge of disorderly con- BOSTON WORKERS 52 College Teachers Ask HE average American is just Edward F. McGrad d Hugh| 8tion, which had in turn received it f e,” . i . ly an ug! Prana and south, cannot but regard the | ‘uct. ‘ i od Ft Ay ogialig ten Pee, Coen ee tote | Eagan It Wie iy ha Seaeeed sae | recon meceier se Denror RBEral Of. OTe ee ee acraged WICK. the Arrested In Fur Market. New Trial sentence of from 4% to 7 years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Deport Him. Last April, according to Kamisaroff, inspectors of the U. S. department of labor visited the penitentiary and questioned him with the view to ar- ranging his deportation to Soviet Rus- sia, where he was born. When he was | such a place as China. But he does not know what all the fighting is about. Frederick Moore, Shanghai correspondent of the New York Times tells him that the Soviet Union is back of the trouble. If he is a one hundred per center he believes it. Tf he is not that, and does not read the DAILY WORKER he wants to be cently that they had the full co- operation of the New York police in their job of “dissolving” the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union. Threats of Jail. It is also this infamous trio who prophecied several weeks ago that they would very soon have the Joint Board leaders in jail, a few Joint The: situation at the Soviet con- sulate at Shanghaj remains unchanged according to reports received here. The local British press continues to insist upon the occupation of the con- sulate and the expulsion of the Kuo- mintang from the settlement. Oppose Intervention. other powers against them. People Will Object. “The United States in dealing with China has nothing in common with other powers. Its interests are not their interests, and its purposes are not their purposes. They may resort |to force if they wish—the United | States cannot resort to force without When they were arraigned in Jef-| ferson Market Court, they weer given | a suspended sentence and told by the | judge not to go to such crowded sec- | tions as 7th Avenue and 36th Street | where the arrest occurred. Doubtless | they were taken into custody—altho they were acting entirely within the | law—because they appeared in'the fur | BOSTON, April 13.—With the an- nouncement that the Central Labor Union of this city will take action on the Sacco-Vanzetti case at a special meeting called for the purpose next Sunday, organized labor throughout Massachusetts is being mobilized in an effort to save the two framed-up : * n Denying the report that workers ; ; , i ror) 0 released from prison, after serving es ane ae eon og peat Py work soa then contemplated any attack on the In-| arousing a furore of protest from the | ™@rket where virtual martial law has | zeae workers from the’ electria the minimum sentence, Kamisaroff the fight wou over. ternational settlement, and asserting | American people.” been established. chair. was handcuffed and sent to the U. S. detention prison at Gloucester, N. J., pending his deportation. It has been impossible to deport Kamisaroff to Soviet Russia, inasmuch as that government will not accept deportees from this country. The present lack of diplomatic relations between the two countries also make it difficult to exchange courtesies of this kind. The government thwarted in this \respect, Kamisaroff was finally re- leased on March 10th, \ In U. S. Many Years, The victim of the Americanization program of the United States came to this country in 1906, when he was 2% years old. Since that time, and up to the time that he was railroaded to jail he was employed by a number of large corporations in this city, in- cluding the Mechan Engineering Co., Robert Howe Co., E. W. Bliss, Amer- ican Foundry and Machine Co,, and the American Can Co, Storm Kills Spanish Sailors, MADRID, April 13. — Enormous damage has been done along the coast near Alhucemas and twenty sailors have been drowned, during a cyclone, according to official advices received here today. The cyclone has wrecked many told the truth. . * Te biggest news is coming from China today. There is the cockpit of the battle between imperialism and labor or between the economic sys- tem that is based on the exploitation of the many by the few versus the many led by a few of the many who wish to transpose things and estab- lish a social order where the pro- ducers will dominate, Surely nobody will seriously advance the theory that the non-producers should rule the producers. Thousands of American wage slaves believe that United States gunboats are afichored in the | Whangpoo River to ‘protect Ameri- can citizens from the revolutionary Chinese. If they knew that those gunboats were stationed there to pro- tect the investments of Wall Street bankers they would not be so enthu- siastic about endorsing the belligerent attitude of the government towards | China, * | HEY don’t. Thinking is not among the five leading indystries of the United States. If the working class were addicted to think there would be no need for a column of this na- ture. They are not. They have been trained to have their thinking done They are doing their best to carry out this threat; helping the capitalist court to create an atmosphere of prejudice and hostility which they hope will lead to the conviction of these fur workers who are loyal to the union. Handcuff Unionists. Each day Ben Gold and the other room handcuffed. It. is another Sacco-Vanzetti case in the making. «When Henry Uterhard, attorney for the furriers, urged yesterday that the trial be transferred from Mineola because of the prejudice of the court, Supreme Court Judge Callahan ruled that he considered Judge Lewis J. Smith of Nassau County fully able to conduct the case, Mr. Uterhard pointed out that Dis- trict Attorney Edwards had delivered an impassioned spefch against the defendants, last Monday when he was arguing for withdrawal of bail, when |the panel of prospective jurors were jin the courtroom. “Oh, we can call another jury panel,” said District Attorney Ed- wards yesterday. “Well, will you?” asked Uterhard. “We'll see about that later.” And then the case was ordered back to Mineola, Yet in the midst of this hostile en- workers are brought into the court-| that the military preparations of the British were for offensive rather than defensive, the Shanghai Council of Trade Unions issued a public appeal protesting foreign intervention. Weishord Greeted As Passaic Labor Standard Bearer (Special To The DAILY WORKER.) PASSAIC, N. J., April 13.—The announcement that Albert Weisbord would be a candidate for city com- missioner, running with the endorse- ment of the Passaic Branch of the Workers (Communist) Party, was greeted with one of the most re- markable demonstrations in the his- tory of this city, at two large meet- ings held here tonight. Speaking at meetings that jammed Ukrainian Hall, President St., and Hungarian Workers’ Home, Dayton Ave., to the doors, more than 3,500 workers, most of them textile work- ers cheered lustily when Weisbord When the White House spokesman | was asked whether he would take joint | or separate action, if the threat had | to be made good, he replied that he | anticipated that the Chinese would| make a satisfactory response, and so | he had not considered further meas- | ures. Administration Bluff. The girls were carrying sandwich | signs on one side of which it said, | “Protest Demonstration, Saturday, | April 16, 1 p. m., at Union Square.” On the reverse side were the words “Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die”; “Sacco and Vanzetti we are with you to the end.” Greatest City Demonstration. College Teachers In Protest. Gov. Fuller today received a petie tion signed by Mary S. Wolley, preste dent, and 51 members of Mt. Holyoke / College asking him to appoint an ime partial commission to investigate the vital facts in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti. Hundreds of other messages,—cables, tele- grams, and letters,—are continuing Administration press agents have|_ Thousands of leaflets in English, spread the story that Kellogg and | Jewish, Italian, Spanish are being dis- Minister MacMurray persuaded the | tributed by workers in the shops and British to abandon their plan of | factories,” and near their places of | threatening an immediate blockade of | Work. This is to be the greatest out- Chinese ports held by the Nationalists. | door labor demonstration ever held in Politicians and diplomats in Wash- | ington say that the fact is that Copl- | idge, Kellogg and MacMurray have | | been used by the British as agents | for an attempt to ruin the National- ists and to “save face” for the British in the Orient. It is held significant that the joint demand upon the Nationalists by the British and their associates did not jrovide for investigation as to whether the Nationalists were in fact regpon-\ sible for the outrages against for-! | eigners in Nanking. It is also pointed | out that if the Nationalists had want- ed to kill the foreigners they could have exterminated them all within a few minutes. Instead, after the first mob violence, most of the foreigners } this city, There will be four speakers platforms in Union Square, and prom- inent men and women from the ranks of labor, and from liberal and radical organizations will voice their protest against the sentencing of Sacco, and Vanzetti, and will raise the demand fora new trial. Saturday’s mass meeting is being arranged by the Sacco-Vanzetti Emer- gency Committee, representing over | 500,000 organized workers. | “There is not the slightest doubt of the innocence of Sacco and Van- zetti,” says John Van Vaerenewyck, | president, the Massachusetts Feder- ation of Labor. “Organized labor demands that their lives be saved.” The Bay State trade union i¢ader | knows the Sacco-Vanzetti case from to pour into the executive chamber, urging a new trial for the two vice tims of a,class verdict. . - * Swedes Demand Justice. The Swedish social democratic la- bor party today appealed to Gov, Alva T. Fuller to pardon Sacco and Vanzetti, The Swedish message, received by radio and signed by Hansson Moeller of Stockholm, said: “The Swedish social democratic Ta- bor party, the greatest political party in Sweden, joins with those who are convinced that Sacco and Vanzetti are innocent and have appealed to you to prevent the execution and thereby also prevent a deep offense of the general sense of justice,” | Washington Governor Paroles Many, But Not small crafts and land communication | for them. . The priests do it for them.| vironment sit Ben Gold, I. Shapiro,| appeared on the scene. Many more | Went out unharmed, | beginning to end. His interest began | lines have been disrupted. ee ilo ee ie iv for Fagg a S. Mencher, Otto Lenhardt, J. Katz, were turned away, ty in 1988 when he was making an 1n- The Centralia Victims pigacth aap ps shee Bb a tripe J. Weiss, Martin Rosenberg, Maurice |, Remove The Chairs, Injunction Forbids Strike | vestigation of the case for the fed- yeaah Bars “Elmer Gantry.” BOSTON, April 13.—District At-, torney W. J. Foley today suppressed Sinclair Lewis’ “Elmer Gantry.” He declared that any further sales would be prosecuted under the state statute on “obscene and indecent literature.” read the New York Tribune instead of the New York World. For the special benefit of those who were not brought up in the~catholic faith, penance means saying a prayer to (Continued on Page Two), Malkan, Leo Franklin, J, Schneider, ready to face this court, and the A. F. of L, reactio who brought them there, with the same courage they have shown thruout their whole fight to save the Furriers’ Union (Continued on Page Five) When Weisbord reached Ukrainian Hall, the workers who were standing, the chairs having been removed so more workers could be accommo-| layers, dated, as one man gave him an ova- tion that rivaled those of the strike (Continued on Page Five) COVINGTON, Ky. (FP)—Under a temporary injunction union carpen- ters, sheet-metal workers, brick- hodcarriers and painters are forbidden to strike the Covington high school job. The sheetmetal workers’ international is also named. eration. He visited Lola Andrews, | star witness for District Attorney Katzmann, and heard her break down | and sob and confess that she had lied when she identified Sacco as one of the automobile bandits in front of | the South Braintree sho@factory. OLYMPIA, Wash, April 14, (FP),—Governor Hartley has pa- roled 43 convicts from the state penitentiary at Walla Walla. None ove Centralia victims are on the ist.