The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1927, Page 1

Attend Union Square Meeting Saturday! Save Sacco and Vanzetti! ’ “RHE DAILY WORKER Fiauts: | DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORG ZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED POR THE. 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No. 80. 3en Gold, Manager Fur | Workers’ Joint Board! ae PCat) Drawn By Hugo Gellert. A leader beloved by the workers both for his personal qualities and his fearless, militant leadership of “the New York Furriers’ Joint Board. Ben Gold .with 10 of his fellow-workers have been brought to trial in a capital- ist court thru the conspiracy of reac- tionary A. F, of L. officials who fear | and hate his devotion to the union and the interests of the workers. Mineola Audience Disgusted by Stool Pigeon’s Testimony By MICHAEL GOLD. Since Judas hung himself on a sour-apple tree, the feeling has been widespread that a stool pigeon is the meanest form of human life. . THE DAILY Wor Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1927 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year, BOSSES’ PAPER AFFORDS SPACE TO ASSIST WOLL ‘Furriers See Proof of| Right Wing Conspiracy SPEAKERS: Forrest Bailey, Carlo Tresca, Charles Kline, Leonard Abbott, James P. Cannon, William W. Weinstone, Moissaye J. Olgin, and others. TIME: 1P. M. oo 1.5 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBISHING CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. FINAL CITY i ae | Price 3 Cents ALL CHINA LABOR FEDERATION ASKS WORLD'S WORKERS TO AID RESISTANCE HANKOW, 2,200,000 workers declares that on shelled Nanking without warning, kil | the civil population and destroying a TO INTERVENTION April 15.—The All-China La Tabor Federation representing March 23 battleships and gunboats ling and wounding many hundreds of portion of the city. “on, . parent > aap | At the end of March more than 1,000 people were mercilessly killed la ree Gaal with “'Associated,”. Woll | by British gunfire in the Weicho district of Canton. By ge ; = ‘ | On April 3, Japanese machine guns fired on our unarmed people in | In this denial of treachery, printed | Hankow, killing 3 and seriously wounding 15, including women and chil- in yesterday’s “Women’s Wear,” the bates fur workers of New York see the jclearest proof that Matthew Woll, {Edward F. McGrady and Hugh Frayne, the reactionary, union- smashing trio of the A. F. of L., have made a secret agreement with the heads of the Associated Fur Manu- facturers in return for their assis- tance in forcing registration with the seab International union, Sold On 8-Point Basis. The Joint Board officers told the workers several weeks ago that they knew the right wing fakers had | agreed to deal with the employers on |the basis of the infamous “8-point |agreement” which William Green and {his notorious friend, Frayne, had | tried to sign, behind the backs of the workers, in the midst of last year’s | strike. | df any of the fur workers had| {doubts at first about the accuracy of | } | Frayne “made a deal,” and that the) |manufacturers’ association leaders | jare now doing their best to carry out |their promise to make the fur work- jers register. re | of your countries against the Chinese trade union movement, Only Late: st Abuses. These latest occurrences are the climax of a long and bitter experience | of the Chinese people in dealing wit guard the struggle for freedom and ii Away With As the first great step toward u throats. what the cost. The time has gone corruption can be effectively used to But imperialism fias still power also to all the people of the world. present intervention in China occurs, structive than the World War. Don’t Att You workers and trade unionists China! the trade unions of the West! | freedom! h the imperialism of the governments which can ndependence in China. Imperialism. plifting the conditions of our millions of workers and peasants, we must remove the grip of imperialism from our For this we are prepared to struggle to the bitter end, no matter forever when battleships, rifles and enslave China. to do great harm not only to us, but For there will surely follow, if the , a war which will be even more de- We ask you to understand that today it is impossible to coerce a great people of 400,000,000, and any attempt to do so may result in the destruc- tion of what civilization is left in the West. ack China, have no quarrel with the workers of You have nothing but friendship for us; of this we are sure! And you have it in your power, who are in the majority | the farmers to stop this war against us, to prevent this threatened catas- together with |this report, they have none left now. trophe. : / |They know from what is happening | \ We appeal to you! Withdraw all warships and armed forees from in the shops that Woll, McGrady and} China! Establish fraternal union between the Chinese trade unions and Prevent war against the Chinese revolution! | Greet the Chinese revolution as one part of the world struggle for human Stop the outrages of imperialism!—EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE | OF THE ALL-CHINA LABOR ea ATION. This may be superstition, but the| Bosses Failing Too. stool pigeon who testified yesterday | Evident! y the job is not proving so at the trial of Ben Gold and 10 other | easy, for a letter ‘was received yes- furriers at Mineola shifted his eyes| ‘f from side to side and found not Alhos ed s, Phoage sane ed ean Soe ger ‘Chen Refuses Any CHIANG, - BRIBED friendly face in the courtroom. Sickening Court Atmosphere. Everyone seemed a little nauseated, | even the hard-boiled dicks and court attendants, as the slimy, smelly and} jigsawed story dropped from the! twitching, lips of the young Judas on the witness stand. His name was Barnet Basoff, afd! he held the stand for about four hours | before a fascinated audience. In that| time he admitted at least twenty | times tHat he had lied in previous tes- | timony, and had double-crossed the| union, the lawyer who had previously | defenden him, and most of his friends. | His testimony was a bewildering | mass of admitted lies and counter-| lies. In.a previous trial he had been| asked whether he was telling the truth about a certain matter. “I can say it to God alone that this is the truth,” he testified dramatical- ly. Admits Chronic Lying. When asked whether it had been | the truth Basoff said it was not but that he had used the name of God to make his previous lie more impres- | sive. This admission did not help; sweeten the odor of rat in the court-| room. It was a sample of all his testimony. Basoff was not an important mem- | ber of the furriers’ union during the | strike last year, but he has become, important in this trial because it is on his story that the prosecution is chiefly basing its case against Ben Gold and the others. His testimony yesterday went back and forth through the questions levelled at him by the district attor- ney and the attorneys for the defense, but synthezied, the following queer tale, worthy of a Joseph Conrad was unfolded: Testimony Confused. 1.—Basoff said he had been a fur- rier only a year, and then when the \ strike came, he was put on the G. P. ©. three letters which he repeated again and again very mysteriously, until.the defense attorney got him to ., admit they meant only the General ‘\Picketing Committee. 2.—He didn’t belong to the union ile serving on this committee,“ but was employed only for “strong-arm” work, in return for which he was paid his room rent, he said. 3.—Last April, while seated jin the cafeteria at Astoria Hall, Schnieder and Shapiro, two furriers’ union of- ficials, told him he must come up- stairs, to go out with 11 other fur- riers to Long Island, to wreck a shop there, 4.—Then according to his story, he came out in a car with about 12 fur- riers, and they entered a little shop over a chop suey house in Rockville Centre, L. I. To his horror, the stool pigeon said, he discovered the shop was owned by Mike Barnett, a friend of his here and in England for the paste16 years, 5.—Terrible things happened in the shop, cutting of furs, and terrorizing of women, and the beating up of Bar- (Continued on Page Three) « , |ciation, from President Samuel N.| | Samuels, calling upon the bosses to {discharge all fur workers who had| ‘not registered by yesterday after-/| | noon. This letter was obviously sent at|_ the request of Matthew Woll, for | |Mr, Samuels states that complaints | |have been received from the A. F. of | |L. because certain manufacturers are | | employing workérs who have not |registered. According to A. F. of L, reckoning, this means they are not members in good standing in the fur | | workers’ union. Defy Intimidators. | But the workers think otherwise, | and they are continuing to defy the| |methods of intimidation being tried | | (Continued on sad st Three) | | Monster Protest at Union Square Today For Sacco, Vanzetti At least 25,000 people are expected | to join in the monster protest demon- stration for Sacco and Vanzetti at 1 | o’clock today in Union Square. . | All signs tend to indicate that this huge public gathering, arranged by the Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Com- mittee, representing more than 500,- 000 New York organized workers will be one of the greatest in the history of labor in this country. 4 Platforms; 40 Speakers d On the four platforms which are being erected for the occasion, 40 speakers will voice the deep resent- ment of the workers of this city against the vicious verdict just up- held by the highest court in Massa- chusetts. 1 i | 6 Languages. Speeches will be made in six lan- guages,—English, Jewish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and German. Those who will address today’s mass meeting include Forrest Bailey, director of the American Civil Liber- ties Union; Arthur Garfield Hays, prominent liberal attorney; Leonard Age;” McAllister Coleman, Hibben, I. Lattimer, Harry Kelly, Richard Brazier, Lud- wig Lore, editor of the “Volkszet- tung,” Morris E. Taft, I. Wagner, A. Peretz, Mateo Rico, A. Ramuglia, Enea Sormenti, Carlo Tresca. Scott Nearing, Moissaye J. Olgin, Luis Quintiliano, Richard B. Moore, S. Leibowitz, Bishop Paul Jones, Charles Kiss, editor of “Elore;” Charles Kline, James P, Cannon, Re- becca Grecht, Rose Wortis, James Walsh, William F. Dunne, editor “The DAILY WORKER,” Jack Stachel, William W. Weinstone, secretary of the New York district of the Workers’ (Communist) (Continued on Page Three) | urday evening, April Sth at & p. m. | | ere SEC SY ees wes iii ca tla teeta iva irvancangictetioes Tacoma, Police Stop ipanlercnadis ane “Sach, Vanzetti Meeting: for Sacco, Vanzetti Liberation TACOMA, Wash., April. 15. — A} mass meeting under I. W. W. auspices | jwas held at 14th and Pacific Ave., Sat- | to protest against the unjust imprison- | ment and coming execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Arthur Boose an ex-class-war pris- oner was the speaker of the evening | and beginning at 8 o’clock for forty minutes spoke of the Massachusetts frame-up and persecution, The speaker showed how the court, high and low, and all of the law mak- ing and law enforcing power of both the state and federal government, is used as a weapon in the hands of the capitalist class to keep the working class in subjection. Suddenly as though to prove the truth of the speakers’ statement a uniformed Tacoma police officer step- ped up to the speaker and forced him to step down from the box and or- dered the crowd to disperse. Big business advertises Tacoma as the lumber capitol of America, and 14th and Pacific Aves. has been used for years for public meetings. Mrs. Glendower Evans of Boston Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die! dle, misrepresentation, misuse of silence under this attack. By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. Some few years ago, Dr. Lee K. Frankel, Ph, D., a prominent “indus- trial” life insurance man, and at pres- ent second vice-president of the, Met- ropolitan Life, speaking at the Na- tional Conference of Charities and Correction, said: “Today the sole criterion which can . be brought against industrial Jife insurance is that. of cost—after all, Service is not calculable in dollars and cents.” In spite of the learned doctor’s statement, “industrial” life insurance IS calculated in dollars and cents, dollars and cents which are most Assists Workers’ Defense company funds- Envoy to Britain in “Big Four” Scandal PREVIOUS EVENTS OF INSURANCE EXPOSE The DAILY WORKER continues its exposure of the Metropolitan, Prudential, John Hancock and Colonial Life Insurance Companies which constitute the “Big Four” insurance trust. combine insure 40 million American workers. Previous articles have made proof of fraud, swin- | Florida at his own expense to aid in| ~ Innocent,” — Eye Witness Declares BOSTON, April 15.—Coming from | the effort to save Nicola Sacco and | | | | | Apologies Until Guilt is. Proven. WASHINGTON, N, April 15.—De- | claring that the Hankow Government} lis quite willing to make good dam-| jages actually done by Nationalist | troops and scoring the United States for the slaughter of peaceful Chinese | |citizens at Nanking, Eugene Chen, | Nationalist Foreign Minister replied | to the bellicose American note sent | to him several days ago, Suggests Investigation Suggesting that an international | Bartolomeo Vanzetti from the electric | investigation of the Nanking affair chair, Albert Frantello, who saw the two gun-men who shot down a pay- master and his guard in South Brain- tree in 1920, the crime for which Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted | done, the Nationalist Government is | called at the office of Gov. Alvan T, Fuller this afternoon. Sacco, Vanzetti Innocent, He a) Frantello stated emphatically at the | | trial, and he repeated his statement today, that the bandits were not Sac- co and Vanzetti. The man, who has been making his home in Florida, was accompanied by Representative Boland D. Sawyer, of Ware, who failed in an attempt to get the legislature to name a commission | to investigate the Sacco-Vanzetti case. | Police Stop Students’ Test. Harvard students, who planned to re-enact the shooting in South Brain- tree this afternoon, on the seventh an- niversary of the crime, in an effort to determine whether witnesses could | be made, the Nationalist note says: | “In reply to the American demands for ‘complete reparation for the per- sonal injury’ and material damage prepared to make good all damage done to the American consulate at Nanking. Denies Any Guilt. “As regards reparation for personal injuries to American nationals and |other materiak damage done, Nationalist Government is prepared to make all reasonable and necessary reparations, except in case where it can be definitely proven that the | same has been caused by the British- |American naval bombardment of Nanking on March 24, or by North- ern rebels and agents provocateurs. “The demand for the ‘adequate punishment for commanders of the troops responsible for the murder, the pérsonal injuries and indignities and the | the material damage done as also of | all persons found to be implicated,’ | necessarily assumes guilt of the na- tionalist forces who captured Nank- ing. (Continued on Page Two) Northerners Caught. “While this guilt is denied in the | preliminary statement issued on | March 31, a rigid government inquiry is being conducted in order to ascer- tain the exact facts including veri- fication of the outstanding facts in the report to the military council by This | General Chen Chien, who took Nank- often taken from the small store needed for the necessities of life,. dol- lars and cents which are wheedled and scared out of an ignorant public with threats of penury in old age and unburied corpses in death. (Dr. Frankel is a doctor of philosophy calculated in terms of $35,000 a year.) Harsh—Misrepresent. In England a few years ago, Lord Parmoor, a member of the late labor cabinet, conducted an official investi- gation into the malicious “industrial” insurance system as conducted in that country, It was found that “indus- trial” insurance is excessive in cost, harsh in its conditions and misrep- resented and ineffectual as life insur- ance coverage. This is as true of the American brand as it is of the Eng- lish. Among the poor of all countries death has~always been a mysterious visitant, whose coming is usually cel-| ebrated with strange and fantastic rites, The English poor, particularly, have always invested their funeral rites with the most showy, tawdry trappings a meagre pure could af- ford, Ostentation of the Poor. One who has witnessed a Cockney coster’s funeral will never forget the (Continued on Page Two) “aa \ jing, that his forces rounded up and Names mentioned in the exposé to date have| Abbot, Louis Budenz, editor of “Labor | been Charles Evans Hughes, Charles M. Schwab, Supt.. of Insurance James A. Beha and others. Paxton! Dread of nationwide exposure has caused these Wall Street leeches to maintain a frightened captured approximately 30,000 North-| ern soldiers with rifles, besides 1,000 | camp followers inside the city. No Punishment Yet. The Nationalist Government pro- poses that the question of punish ment should await the findings of this Government inquiry now in pro- gress, or of an International Com- mittee of Inquiry, to be immediately instituted by the Nationalist Govern- ment and the United States Govern- ment. As the Jaws of nations and the recognized practice. of civilized States prohibit the bombardment of a city ina friendly state, the Na- tionalist Government propose that the Commission of Inquiry shall also in- vestigate the circumstances of the bombardment of the unfortified city (Continued on Page Two) BY BANKERS, IN ATTACK ON LEFT \avent Protest Strike is Spreading Rapidly Bulletin. | HANKOW, April 15.—The Com- munists are lining up their forces here. A mass meeting today de- nounced Chiang Kai Shek and his followers again as counter-revolu- tionists and invited Feng Yu | Hsiang, once known as the “chris- tian general” to join forces with them to fight Chiang. The Peasants Union is carrying out division of the land in Hunan province, it was reported here to- day. | * * | SHANGHAI, April 15.—With the | adoption of resolutions at the right wing conference at Nanking this af- ternoon calling for the impeachment |of the Hankow Government, Chiang Kai-shek has definitely turned coun- |ter-revolutionary. Reports. received here indicate that he may even at- tempt to split the Nationalist move- ment by setting up another govern- ment at Nanking. Denounce Militarists * | The resolutions adopted at the con- | ference denounced the leaders of the | liberation movement as “disturbers of the public order in China,” according to dispatches received here. Among tho8e denounced in the res- olutions are Michael Borodin, adviser to the Nationalist Government; George Hsu-chien, minister of Jus- tice; Chen Tu-hsiu, leader of the Chi- nese Communist Party; Tung Ping- shen, Minister. of Agriculture and sixteen others, Lefts Ask For Unity A small delegation from Hankow attended the conference and put up a strong plea for unity More In Protest Strike The strike here declared as a pro- test against the attempts of Chiang Kai--shek to smash the Jocal unions is spreading rapidly. The seamen’s and textile workers’ unions, the most | powerful in the city, have succeeded |in tying up cotton mills and ship- ping. Bankers Bribe Chiang It has been definitely established that focal bankers and merchants have offered Chiang 15,000,000 Shanghai dollars for suppressing lo- cal labor organizations. Three mil- lion dollafs have already been paid to him, it is reported. Workers’ organizations have been raided and ruthless attempts at their suppression have been made despite the protests of workers’, students’ and Communist organizations. Protest British Raids The Nationalist News Agency ports that Eugene Chen, Nations (Continued on Page Two)