The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1927 Furriers Stand 100° As the Police Continue Terror By L. A. SUSKIN Member Fur Workers’ Union, Local 1, | In every nook and corner of each | fur shop the workers are discussing | the manner in which Matthew Woll, Hugh Frayne and the McGrady gang are trying to break up the furriers’ union that was built up upon the energy and blood of the fur work- ers during their bitter struggles. Shall they establish a company unton that shall serve the interests of the manufacturers? They are talking of how the bosses are intimida the workers te go down and register in the seab union that was set up by the official of the Ame Feder- ation of Labor, and th ening the workers that they will lose their jobs if they don’t go register in the scab union. Many .manufacturers have hung up signs that all workers must register or lose their jobs despite the fact that they have worked for them for many years, Don’t Want Sweat-Shops. How the labor fakers are tx reduce the conditions a living of the fur wor! » how they want to give back the fo: ur hour week and give the manufacturers a standard of productoins which means the enslaving of the workers to the| clubbed them and the bosses; how they want to establish | ger arrest, the six day week, instead of five | work that was won in the bitter struggle! searched, clubbed many | squad. of seventeen weeks where workers were clubbed and beaten by the gorillas and police of the manu- facturers and where many workers | were maimed and crippled, serving long prison terms on framed- up charges of the Minister Had Too Many ap the re-| eration of Labor go from shop to/ insula, Manchuria. sult of which many workers are still) shop, hold conferences with the manu- |facturers on schemes for getting the : manufacturers | fur workers to register in the scab / where the judges who served the/ynion and break the Joint Board of | °¢ssion has completely subsided. Two Judges Are — Absent From Trial Of Oil Swindlers Wives; Arrested WASHINGTON, April 14.—Two | justices of the United States Supreme Court are disqualified from. sitting-on the case in the appeal of the Teapot | Dome Oil lease because of their con- nection with the frauds perpetrated against the government in the scan-| | dals that aroused nation-wide inter-| jest two years ago. Justice Harlan F, Stone, former | attorney general, declined to partief- j pate because of his connection with the case in his former office. Justice | Willis Van Devanter absented him-| self from the hearings because his | brother-in-law, John W. Lacey, ap-! peared as a lawyer for the grafters. | The government seeks to cancel! the leases Fall gave Sinclair on the! ground that, like the Doheny lease | |to Elk Hills, it was “grounded in fraud.” The government lost in the Wyoming federal court, but won in the eighth circuit court, An early decision in the case is | hardly expected, as summer recess is | not far off, and there is a belief that | the decision will be delayed in any | | event until after the trial of Sinclair and Fall on the criminal charge of conspiracy. This trial has been set for April 25, but likely will be post- poned until Autumn. Arrested at Detroit on a charge of forgery and turned over to the police of Grand Hayen, Mich., Dobert Alan Mac- | Laren-Brown, former minister,! above, faces charges of bigamy in many states. Declared by’ police to have several aliases, MacLaren-Brown is said to have begun his career‘in the ministry in New Jersey. nm put them un- Many people who do not| in the fur trade were also| and beaten by the Powers Prepare War on) China By Sea and Air) (Continued from Page One) | hai left this morning for Port Arthur, | Labor Fakers Try Bulldozing Methods, 7 my 7 The officials of the American Fed-{‘‘Japanese” port ‘on the Liaotung Pen- | Hankow Quiet. HANKOW, April 14.—The trouble! which occurred in the Japanese con-| All) Japanese marines and machine guns | Jewish Chicken Killers Strike for Union; Rabbis Say It Opposes Religion By IRVING FREEMAN. (Federated Press), NEWARK, N. J., April 14.—Kill- ing chickens is easy to understand, but the Hebrew law is not so easy. The Schoctim, or group of workers who kill the chickens\ and other fowl for the kosher trade have been quietly organizing in,the A. F. of L. for the last six months. But the Berwind White Miners | Win Partial Victory (Continued from Page One) strated that the non-union men are |interested in organization, And they have forced the scab corporations to |be more cautious, For instance, a wage cut had been posted at a near- y mine in Carpenter Park, reduc- ing tonnage rates to 55 cents, The notice was withdrawn. The strike was officially endorsed by the United Mine Workers, Inter- jnational organizer, Fred Thomas, and District No, 2 organizers, Fazio and | Slifeo, arriving promptly. The Wind- |ber miners. themselves called the j Walkout after speeches by Powers Hapgood, Tony Minerich and George Papcun, visiting union miners. | Somerset County struck solidly | with the United Mine Workers in the |great national strike of 1922, A | walkout of Berwind-White men was |followed by the (Rockefeller) Con- | solidation Coal Co. and other miners, In central Pennsylvania, just north |of Somerset, the union is working ‘under a temporary truce. But a strike | prevails in the Pittsburgh district, as jin Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. + 8 e Theags Fail To Stop Meeting. BROWNSVILLE, Pa., April 14—A huge mass meeting of miners was |held here under the auspices of Local Unton No, 2399, of Daisytown, United | Mine Workers of America. In spite | | of every attempt to break it up, and) | in spite of the campaign of lies con- | ducted by the local paper, under oper- ators’ control, about 4,000 were in at- | tendence, local orthodox rabbis who bless the kosher killing function claimed that the Hebrew law did not permit the Schoctim to organize. © The workers had to give their own interpretation of the law. They ruled that it did not forbid organi- zations or strikes. They struck against numerous grievances as to working conditions. And after two weeks of strike they are determined to stick out till they win recogni- tion of their bosses operating the Jewish chicken markets in the city of Newark. The union expects to open a cooperative chicken market of its own, Aid Needed for Many Imprisoned Needle Workers | Halt Thirty Men. | The Pittsburgh Coal Company’s {coal and iron police stopped about jthirty non-union miners who heard }of the meeting and tried to attend. |They were working in the Crescent Mine property of the company, and are practical prisoners when the question of joining the union comes up | Only the jealousy of the state po- lice prevented an armed raid on the meeting by coal and iron police (com- By ALEX JACKINSON A sharp struggle is taking place inf the New York needle trades. Those who have dared question the supre- macy of the ruling class have fallen victims of the courts, There are, as a result, more than a score of cloak- makers and furriers in prison today. Families left destitute. Fatherless children. Men locked behind fron Tortures Charged Civil Liberties — To Probe Causes Of “Goose-Siep” WEST CHESTER, Pa., April 14.— The American Civil Liberties Union of New York took a definite place today in the free speech row caused by the dismissal of two liberal pro- fessors from the Normal School here which was inspired by the local American Legion. Dr. R. T. Kerlin and J, A. Kinneman were the two teachers who were accused of making “unpatriotic remarks,” Robert Morse Lovett, associate editor of “The New Republic,” and one of the directors of the union ar- rived here with the view of ascer- taining all the vital facts of the case. Gets Cold Shoulder. Dr. Lovett, who is also professor of English at the University of Chi- cago got his first rebuff here when A. M. Holding, president of the board of trustees of the school told him that he was “too busy” to see him. Back Liberal Students. More messages were received by the Liberal Club, before whom the alleged “unpatriotic remarks” were made congratulating them on their |stand. One came from Sol Auerbach, | president of the forum, of the Uni- | versity of Pennsylvania. Auerbach won the $100 prize in “The Nation” recently for the best apticle contri- buted by a college student giving his experience on a job during the sum- mer vacation, As a penalty for various in- fractions of rules, prisoners’ at the state cement plant at Chel- sea, Mich., have been hung up in the body-racking manner shown in the photo above for as long as eight to twelye hours a day for more than @ month, it is charged in a report handed to a legislative: committee investigat- ing prison. conditions in the state. Experiences of numerous convicts being “disciplined” have been narrated in affidavit form. WASHINGTON, April 14.—Dr. C. C. Pierce, acting esurgeon general of \the United States, summed up the | jazz age tory, casting into the dis- ecard the theories which forecast doom of the race because of the wildness of youth. He declined to be fright- ened by the assertion that every little kiss shortens life by three minutes. bosses persecuted the workers for|the furriers’ union. being active in the strike; the way| ingly stop the factories in the middle the officials of the American Fed-| of the day when the workers are at eration of Labor are instigating a| work so that the officials of the conspiracy to send a way the best| American Federation of Labor can and most active members for long/ hold speeches to those who work in To sid the imprisoned and those prison terms. All this is belng/the factory; and in the evening at|™n and children. a . j : .| about to be imprisoned, a joint De- energetically discussed. the gates of the factories they have|_ The Japanese consul here has ex-|/ 00 O° pale Gotamiites was " 3 «4 | pressed appreciation for the effective | ? Beat Workers. their gangsters from the East Bide | cannes which were taken by the | formed by the Joint Boards of the When one passes the fur district; and the industrial squad terrorize | \ aticnalist Government to restore or- | Cloak and fur workers’ unions. The one can see the members of the in- and force the workers to register In) 4.4 and protection to Japanese sub-|Committee has many tasks to per- dustrial squad who are ever ready to| the company union that was organ-| jects In other consular circles this |form. Cases to appeal. Families to beat and slug the workers, Police | ized by Matthew Woll, Hugh Frayne, are stationed near every building and| etc. The workers defy them and | effectiveness of the Nationalist Gov-| take care of. There are injunctions prevent workers from speaking to| stay with the Joint Board. ernment has been commented upon | to fight. each other, and if ene reads a news- Bosses Join With A. F. of L. favorably. At present the Defense Committee Unions Stop Riots. is active in Mineola, trying to save paper or leaflet it is grabbed out of In one of the large shops of the his hands and is arrested in the) fur industry, &. Geller & Sons, the The labor unions have issued an or-| Ben Gold and the other 10 furriers der warning their members against | from being railroaded to prison. bargai Not many days ago the) bosses hung a sign on the wail an- ind al squad of the police depart-| nouncing that the workers must reg- The bosses ee been withdrawn. The gunboats | ial |sent from Shanghai are being with- |drawn from Hankow, except two which are being used as a convoy for | ; | merchantships carrying evacuated wo- Aid Jailed Workers, And the fight is not over. vietims are certain to fall be- | fore the cutting knife of reaction is broken by the working class. pany gunmen), The Pittsburgh Coal | Co. sent its guards down to break up | |the meeting, but the state constabu- | jlary, who were at the meeting in| force, regarded this as an invasion! on their rights, and chased the com- pany thugs back onto company pro- perty, The Brownsville Telegraph pub- lished the next day a fanciful story that only 250 miners attended the| meeting. “Living has been accelerated since ~ the World War and everybody is un- | der a higher hervous tension,” Pierce | said, DID YOU KNOW? That the Workers Month- ly has been replaced by The COMMUNIST surely is change. Backed by-Goy. Fred W Green, a legislative probe is under way. Minnesota Passes State Police Bill Under False Name ST. PAUL, April 14—(FP)—Long- | standing suspicions by organized la- bor that the advocates of state | at ere. HENRIETTA, Okla., April 14.—! Twenty-seven miners entombed in the |Old Wise Coal Company mine near | jthis city had a narrow escape from death by drowning today when the waters of McDonald Creek over-| flowed a lowland section near the quite a disturbances, urging the avoidance of | Then ,are a number of lawyers work- quarrels with foreigners and insist-|ing on the ease ‘whose fees must be , jain 7 ae i ‘i is vi i th of the mine | constabulary systems are not on the ment were ordered to terrorize the ister in the scab union if they do|ing that foreigners’ lives and prop-|met. To carry on this vitally im-|mou' a Laan dtomigthes | ‘i oe workers, and they did a good job/ not want to be discharged from their | erty be protected. jportant work FUNDS ARE| According to officials of the com-| square were verified in the Mirthe- | ~Handy Library Size. of it. They beat and ‘slugged the| job, Upon this the workers immed- Pa ea NEEDED. The committee vad Foe Sie Om, a ak pede sota assembly when a disguised state/] ¢ratistical Material oye ereapreed _ black-|iately got up, dropped their tools,, Prepare For More Intervention. Bodie 2 cao edna scolar high literal Garba Oo be sate In| police bill was spirited through to| ‘acks ar tts of the revolvers, Cos-| declare ri : sou - , 4 red. o . S , eee waika “< haven. Ava feo the TOOEn to Ceancttie a Che ee en SHOTON, “Apel ibn | them is to hold a bazaar on May 12,| As soon as the water which flooded | Passage. It was caught in time in Valuable for References. down to the office of the Joint Board | War and Navy Departments are mak- of Furriers’ Union elected a strike and picketing committee and the strike is now in fuli blast. The work- ers hold huge mass picketing de- monstrations and are joined by other | successful, it is understood, workers. who come down from other President Coolidge is holding daily shops. The bosses tried to provoke | consultations with Charles Evans | must supply them. If you have some a fight with the pickets, so that the) Hughes and Silas Strawn, who repre-| jewelry you can afford to be with- police and the industrial squad should! sented the United States at the con-| out, bring it down and it will be sold. beat and slug the pickets but to no ferences which recommended the {The readers of The DAILY avail, The officials of the American} status quo on the question of extra-| WORKERS are expected to cooperate Federation of Labor are trying high | territoriality. | actively in this venture. Don’t delay. | and low to get scabs for the firm,|] Moscow Paper Suspects Chiang. Special Issue of “Unity.” but cannot get many. The workers} MOSCOW, April 14.—Grave fears) A week before the bazaar, UNITY, are solid behind the Joint Board Fur-| are felt here that General Chiang Kai | the militant labor paper issued by the riers’ Union and are ready to stay| Shek, the Chinese Nationalist com-| Joint Boards will issue a special num- out until the bosses get the false|mander, may turn counter-revolution- | ber, explaining the history of the illusion out of their heads of trying| ary and join forces with Chang Tso- | struggle now going on. It will also to break the Joint Board Furriers’ | Lin and the Northerners. contain greetings from imprisoned Union and establish a company union| The government's economic paper, | workers. with the labor fakers. “Economic Life,” today carried a long | Many Ways to Help. Many shops have passed resolu-| discussion of the last month’s accord| The committee is also issuing 100,- |tions of protest on the jailing of our| which placed Chiang Kai-Shek in com-|000 one-dollar defense certificates, leaders Ben Gold and others on fram-|mand of the army and divided the| They will be mailed to most of the the main shaft recedes, the entombed men can wade to the point from which they can be rescued, officials of the mine company said. There was doubt at the mine of- fices as to the exact number of min- ers trapped, The estimates ranged from twenty-three to twenty-seven |men. At the mouth of the shaft, | however, the latter number was be- jlieved correct. | Escape By Miracle. Little hope of rescuing the men workers, armored cars with machine! guns were to be put in use at a signal. the senate. | On the surface the bill was a pro- | posal for a state rogue’s gallery or| bureau of identification, tntended| principally to spot criminals with | past records. Underneath,-as some) of the labor legislators’ pointed out, | it had the machinery for a fullfledged | constabulary system with all the | |trappings for the organized uni- | | formed attack on trade unions during | industrial disputes that were the. alive had been held when the waters |CUTS® of Colorado until recently and | |that are the curse of Pennsylvania | poured through the main shaft. That the group saved their lives by Hep: | 2°? ing -to a place of safety under the | ground was considered a miracle by | |those on the scene. Death had ap- peared inevitable. After a tense silence, rescue work- ers who were trying to communicate with the trapped men through a drill hole, finally heard voices from with- in the tunnel where the men sought 18, 14, and 15, in the New Star Cas-| ino, 107th St. and Park Ave. Bazaar For 4 Days. It is imperative that this event be }a success, To make it so, articles, especially saleable are needed. YOU | ing necessary preparation to “protect | American lives and property” in Pek- {ing and northern China, should the Nationalist drive against Tientsin be The Communist Criterion. Reign of Terror. At a certain restaurant on Sixth} avenue where a good many fur work-| ers eat their noonday lunch, the po. lice pulled the workers from the tables into the strect beat and Increased from 48 pages to Sixty-four Pages. Make all money orders, checks -payable to The Communist. BOOKS For the Trade Unionist All subscriptions, bundle orders, and all other mat- ter. to be addressed to The COMMUNIST * 1113 Washington Blvd., CHICAGO, ILL. Form Special Force. The trick was turned by providing| for a department of law enforcement} headed by a commissioner at $5000 a year, a deputy and “such skilled and unskilled officers and employes as may be necessary.” These officers and employes were to rank above sheriffs dhd chiefs of police, who FOR EVERY WORKER ed-up charges and sent the prisoners,| financial, diplomatic and other prob-| organized workers of: the city. When | safety. would be obliged under the bill to who are jailed in Mineola, L. I. a Klu| lems of the Nationalist government} you receive your certificate enclose| All were safe, a spokesman| obey their commands on pain of re- | Klux town, telegrams os solidarity | among various committees. a dollar and mail it back without de- | shouted. moval or of having their pay held up by the governor. To sew up every- thing as tightly as possible it was further provided that the act “shall be liberally construed.” jand determination to secure their re-| “On the exterior,” says this paper, leases. | “Chiang Kai Shek, who wants to be a The fur workers realize what it| Chinese Napoleon, has subjected him- means to lose their union that they| self to his party's orders, and has have bled for so many years in or-|@ven issued a statement in support of der to build it up. They know what|the party’s decision, and emphasizing & company is ‘controlled by the di-| his loyalty to the cause. rect agents of the nianufacturers| “However, the foreign press con-|many of them. Men and women, boys under the guise of officials of the tinues stubbornly to insist that Chiang | and girls are wanted. American Federation of Labor. Of-| Kai Shek will soon make peace with| ‘Tjekets for the bazaar will cost | ficials who wanted to braak the mili-| the Northern Nationalists and turn) 50 cents each. Address your articles = fully TODAY is the content | tant strike of the fur workers lasting | his forces against the Communists. | for sale, and get your tickets and _ of this book. This little work | seventeen weeks, where the workers | Tite Teper reach us chiefly through bse peewee, from So, Joint = in’ simple language is of-such | won the five day week, increases in|?" Paad 4 efense and Relief Committee, 9 aoe hemrenda i eheata he read | Wages and many other substantial 4 ike re pond appear al makers and Furriers, Room 714, 41 by every worker | The workers are all standing | C¢imtely Tpening some sort o: Union Square, N. Y. C. | gains. fy |solid behind the Joint Board Fur-| eye: Powers Plot Disruption. ® THE WATSON-PARKER LAW Earl Carroll Still > by Wm. Z, Foster —15 cents : * : that the foreign powers are plotting | * : lek : Foreign Domination of \tc create an internal explosion in| Unconscious in S, C. lay. If you are not an organized worker send in your dollar to the ad- dress given below and you will re- ceive a certificate, , To make the bazaar a success a great deal of preliminary work is necessary. Volunteers are needed, Accidents More Numerous. More than forty men were at work in the mine, but about half of them were not in the danger levels, Very little provision against such a flood had been made by the coal operators, the Eagle Picher Smelter Co. The United Mine Workers of America wages a continual fight against dangerous conditions in mines, but lately has been somewhat on the defensive, a situation which miners believe to be responsible for the recently increased number’ of fatal and near fatal accidents, Order Better Service For Long Island R.R. BISHOP BROWN’S NEW ROOK Read The Daily Worker Every Day. Shaw, Enfeebled by Old Age and Fat Royalties, Blesses Babbit Confab LONDON, April 14.— George Bernard Shaw vigorously com- mends the Rotary movement in a letter to the Secretary of the Ro- tary international convention to be held in June at Ostend. = How to wage strikes success- | “There is not the slightest doubt | riers’ Union, | THE THREAT TO THE LABOR i China. ja MOVEMENT by Wm. F. Dunne CLOTH BOUND" THE WOMAN WORKER AND THE TRADE UNIONS by Theresa Wolfson —$1.75 LEFT WING UNIONISM by David J. Sapuss —$1.60 THE WORKER LOOKS AT GOVERNMENT ; by Arthur W, Calhoun —$1.60 THE DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 33 FIRST STREET NEW YORK ~ i RIGGS i. i their own country.” ‘China Must Stop, Says —15 cents Consul General China can restore peace throughout the country the disturbing element of | foreign | must be removed,” said Ziang ’Ling- \chang, Chinese Consul General here| in a speech broadcast by radio sta-)| tion WGL. all | upon which the undue foreign rights | were supposedly founded,” he con- tinued. * | trade, to teach or live in China,” he | said: “But only on condition that no} foreigner should enjoy more rights | “A series of tecent reports from China regarding Chiang Kai Shek’s |consolidation with the extreme right |members of the Kuomintang gives | the reason to fear that the danger of | a counter-revolution remaing extreme- interference |1y serious.”” Although the Pekingese charge d'affaires Chen Yeng Hi has, not yet received a recall to Peking, it was learned today that he is prepared to leave on a moment's notice, Chen told International News Serv- ice that he did not intend to leave at once as he thought that would “be very untimely.” The Soviet charge d'affaires to Peking was recalled several days’ ago as a result of the raid upon the Soyiet embassy compound at Peking by Chi- nese police and soldiers and Marshal Here “New China believes that before influence and “The first thing to do is to abolish unequal and obsolete treaties, “China welcomes all foreigners to m Chinese soil than the Chinese. en- Chang Tso Lin’s forces, The transit commission yesterday ordered the Long Island Railroad in Brooklyn to eliminate two dangerous grade crossings and to provide extra morning rush hour service on the Atlantic Avenue division of the rail- GREENVILLE, 8. C., April 14— Deep in the oblivion of annonestaeeel ness, which has enveloped him now for more than 28 hours, Earl Carroll, New York treatrical producer, who collapsed enroute to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary to serve a term for perjury, lay this afternoon in the Greenville City Hospital, while four physicians sought to probe the mys- tery of his ailment. Faint glimmers of awakening were seen at intervals in vague and form- less mutterings and occasional slight movement. But for the most part Car- roll lay as still as death, pallid and wasted, He was like that, without sign or motion of life, when his wife entered | his room shortly after noon and grees to her knees, weéping at his side. Finnish Tel. Windsor 9052. BAKERY PRODUCTS Tf not, let us know and we'll instruct our driver to call at your home. Co-operative Trading Association, Inc. 4301 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. It has been alleged that Shaw is in his dotage. 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