The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 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. 81. Outside New York, by mail, $6.0 es Nt as SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, HE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act ef March 3, 1819. 8.00 per year, year. NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1927 BRITISH LABOR DEPOSES RAMSAY MACDONALD a PUBISHING Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO,, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. Current Events -_ By T. J. O’Fianerty. PL Maiehio Woll. HE civil war in China has taken a| dramatic tho expected turn with the betrayal of the revolution by Chiang-Kai-Shek and the right wing elements of which “he is the leader. The workers and peasants who do not relish the idea.of substituting a} new set of imperialist tools for the | nothern militariste are determined to! earry on the struggle for a free China * * * Wats now on Chiang-Kai-Shek who was the object of considerable abuse from the capitalist press will he praised and petted. He has bowed the knee to Baal and taken the thirty pieces of imperial silver, This is the classical way of “describing treason for a cash consideration since Judas turned over his Jeader té the Romans, according to history or mythology. Chiang-Kai-Shek no longer has any quarrel with Chang-Tso-Lin. They are both in the same pew. Perhaps pei pd re en pases eiad ae : imperialists would prefer t ee big gh tyre phic gate American Federation of Labor. ie usiness with Chiang than with} is the leading figure in the attempt Sees Oe Salas Ke ris Lata to railroad Ben Gold, 11 other mem- bes eee sali bers of the Furriers’ Union and more Oo nat e alists ve } 7 N a that Ciegliberinuate oer *nY than 40 members of the International objection to doing business with) bandits. After all they are brothers under the skin. But the imperialists Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to jail. Woll is the link between the Civie Federation, dominated by labor hating big capitalists and the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, ave foreed to make concessions to} what is called public opinion. 1 Lib- Fi eruls who have no serious objection | to living on dividends extracted from | the ill-paid labor of Chinese coolies might feel embarrassed if the princi- pal lieutenant of the big fellows who manage their investments * happened to one who rose in the world from be- ing a common bandit and murderer to dictator. Chiang would fill the bill, ea © Yd foreign editor of one of the great French dailies is writing Chi- nese sketches for his paper from the spot. He describes a gang of coolies loading a Japanese vessel with bales each weighing not less than 250 pounds. ‘Men with hooks lift the baie and a coolie rectives it on his neck | *Continued on Page Pio) ILLINOIS MINERS HUNT OTHER JOBS Fn sacs STRIKE -Coal Diggers | of | They pu bear ea of Dre: tien | Life Insurance, practices are being exposed by The | DAILY WORKER), director of the} | Metropolitan Trust Company, direc-" director of the ©! Virginia Railroad Company, director fields. Green unit: with to railroad workers to fa for winning strikes. Lanidle pane Flouted By Closed Shop Pact To Rig Cities. me The father, who is over 60 and has} CHICAGO, IIL, worked in practically all the distriets| shop agreement has just been signed of the central competitive field and|by the Builders Employers’ Associa in West Virginia before the war, was| tion and the Hod Carriers’ and Build. in a reminiscent mood. ing Laborers’ Executive Council of | Militia March Out. Chicago, which went into effect April “We didn’t fight the bosses in this | 15, 1927. Ment do-nothing way in the old days,”| | The signing of this agreement puts he said. “We protected our jobs|the skids under the Citizens’ Com- “Then the governor sent the militia] mittee to enforce the Landis award from another country to have that/and places the last of the building (Continued on Page Three) trades on a closed shop basis. Millions Withheld from A *Mulcted “Big Four” Customers tf miners from Mc om- » father and son, flivvered to Cl hicago tooktng for j They an- ticipate a mine shut-down. of at least hs. The r they worked of a 90-day lay-off. oY ‘ WHAT'S WHAT IN WORKER INSURANCE EXPOSE \ Today's article étures the second week in The DAILY WORKER exposure of the “Big Four” Insurance Trust which consists of the Metropolitan, Prudential, John Hancock and the Colonial Life Insurance Companies. If the reader is insured with any of these companies he will find. the ensuing articles of great interest. Previous articles have made specific charges of fraud, ey ration and misuse of the public funds. Names prominent in financial and business circles figure largely in this and prior articles. oP * | The “Big Four” makes upwards of fifty million dollars a year on lapsed (forfeited) policies. By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. The advertising literature of the . “Big Four” stresses the fact that these companies are “mutual” com- panies. By giving their swindled pol- ieyholders a measly hand-out which " they are pleased to call a dividend, the directorates of the Insurance Trust feel that they have eased their Wall Street consciences. Actually this dividend is not a divi- dend at all, but is merely a partial refund of the exorbitant premium originally charged for the policyhold- er’s coverage. ‘ The liquid assets of the “Big Four” should normally Two Billions of Dollars. All “Big Four” déath claims, ma- tured endowments and all other ex- penditures are paid out of the. yearly (Continued on Pago Three) 5 ) Co. (ate? grafting ;many of the most é West Side as Railroad Company, | parations by Tiinois bait he for|This is the type of individual with | Ay against the United) whem Woll snd A. F. of L. President April 17.—A closed | |furriers, announces in the capitalist |the small monopoly crafts, dealing Not a cent of|and Hyde role of A. F. of L. vice this money is ever returned to its | president and acting president of the “mutual” policyholders. And this is |Civie Federation, is the chief of the but one item in this enormous frauds |anti-labor caucus. are more than twice as large as they | movement is first his own union of be. They are now] photo-engravers, a small group of nearly Four Billions of Dollars, where- | highly-skilled workers who are or+ as they should actually be about/ ganized on the basis of ‘complete Camus Avonees “Cwranih RXECUTIVE COMMITTEE On the part of the Public :— MUAY, ROOT (tormer Souretary of State), New York RRLED MaGVEAGH, (Cermear’ Seevetary of , the Treasury). © JOHN HAYS usionorD poids ‘Washington, T. COLEMAN po PONT (U. S. Senator), New York b Lawor-Con. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. New York City. NICHOLAS, MURRAY BUTLER (President Colunble intreraity), New York City. Mat M. MARKS (former President, Borour: of tian), New York City. ROBERT M. THOMPSON (President American Olymple ‘Amociation), Washington, D. C TERBMIAN W. JENES (Politica! Ecooombt), New York TALCOTE WILLIAMS, LLD. (Professor Colum WILLIAM RB, WILLCOX (former Chairman, Pablie Utnives Commission), New York City On the part of Employers :— ‘Blevator Co), New York City. SacwoLAs v. ¥, BRADY (President New York Bataon C>., Ory, ont New York Gy . New York City. MARSHALL FIELD (Backer), New York City. *% a usec aio H HOOKER ‘Co.), New York Oty. SAMUEL MATHER (Pickands, Mather & Oo.). Cove OODEN L. MILLS (Director toteraitional Paper Co.), ‘New York Gy AROROE M. REYNOLDS (Chatrmen of the Board. Crm ‘tinental National Bank). Chicago. It. HARRY N. poe eae United States Dustrinut tug Corporation), New York City. On the part of Wage Earners:— ANTHONY J. CHLOPER ‘sboremen's Amociation JAMES DUNCAN {First Vice-President American Ped. Union | W. G. LEE (President Brotherbood Railroad Treinman), Geveian’ Obie THOMAS McMAHON (taternat ‘Textile Workers of America). New York City. 1 iat: | 2 Mery ERY. (President Operative Pisster. zt rislsbere nteruational Asebciation). ‘Stuogeon. Mase ren ne. Conan Sa 2S AAO Ot GST rhiiade DAVID B. ROBERTSON (Pree ‘motive Firemen and Enrinemen). Cleveland Onlo. & &. SHEPPARD. surtany o9 ), Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ravers’ Union). Chicago. xp Manemeas of Exacurtvs Coven played by Woll. |. O'BRIEN (former Judge, New York Court MOND Toesaine New Yor Gaye Se To Emeritus School jalveraity). New York City. wanbuxn 7-3 spopovn taseows Mutwoutes, Wis. || New York | WILLJAM D. BALDWIN (Chairman of the Board, Our CORTELYOU (Fresident Consolidated Gar CROWLEY (Presideot New York Central Lines. ] OTTO M. EIDLITZ (Building Trades Employers Ase dation). BALBY UISKE (Prewdeat Metropolitan Lite teruraace lent American Telephone snd fyetdest Hecker Riectrochemidhs | JOWN, MARELE (Anthracite Coal Operator), Mew York RD (President Baltimore aad‘Oeio patted Ga), Baltsora Ma. La S Barus ¥ . Quincy. Mass. rag? rusia Prado International Uslos of ‘Elevator Coostryctors). PhD: ™ MICHAEL J. KEOUGH (President Intercational Molders of North America). Clactnoat!. Obie. sHonal President. United FILLIAM D. MAHON (President Amalgamated sate ident Brotherhood of He resident Order of Raliway Coo- LL. (President, Teternational Photo Ro- & CHARLES L. EDGAR Chairman Industriel Welfare Department CONDE B. PALLEN, Chairman Department om Subeerses Mowenonta || ARCHIBALD &. STEYENSCR «ice president of the American ) SXECUTIVE CoUNCIL | | Che National Civic Federation = aap FLOOR METROPOLITAN Tower | "New York City JOHN HAYS HAMMOND. Chairetan Departme’ V. BVERIT MACY. Chairman a RVERIT 7, ,Chatrman Departmen MARCUS ‘ jn DL are a GUS 3 MARES. Chctrrion Inductriat. Ekeirman Hseusioe i JEREMIAH W, JENKS, Chairman GERTRUDE BEEKS RASLEY, Becretary Executive Council MRS. COPFIN VAN RENSSELAER, | tary Woman Department |) | PETER J. BRADY. Secretary Department Poldtical Eduection mnt on Politied! Education Department on Current Economice Executive Secretary HVE, GECLEE BEN GOLD Federation of Labor, appearing | tan | With the title of “Acting President” on the letterhead of the Civic Federation with the names of | powerful labor hating capitalists in America shows conclusively the Judas role | Ben Gold of the Furriers Union and His Prosecutors at C Federation banquets, advocates effici- ency unionism and who appointed Mat- tion of Labor who spe: thew Woll to head the special A. F. of L. committee which has the backing of the powerful civic federation group of capitalists in its attempt to rail- road to jail on framed up charges Ben Gold and other workers whose leader. ship was responsible for the Furriers’ | Union securing the 40-hour week. | Ogden L. Mills. | Member of Executive Committee of the Civie Federation, director of the| | International Paper Company,, reac- Here are the names of the enemies of the labor movement who back Woll in the attack he, able trade unionists to jail. tor of the National Surety Company, | leads on the militant leaders and members of the trade unions liké Ben Gold. sburgh and West! evidence alone is convicted of | this union-wrecking or; Woll, by the above | plotting with labor’s worst enemies—of being actually the head of |by virtue of his silk-stocking ances ganization, the Civic Federation—to smash unions and send active and| ‘ty and wealth wrung from under-| News Agency declared today. and High Salaried Union Officials Works By WILLIAM F. F. DUNNE, THE CIVIC FEDERATION TAKES OVER THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR | that upon which Gompers depended | | destroy. effective trade unionisms. |tionary republican. politician, candi- |date for U. S. senator,in the last election, member of New York’s “40” |paid workers. Another example of! | with whom Woll, Green, Sigman, etc., unite to frame up trade unionists and HANDS OFF CHINA, STOP WORLD WAR, COMMUNISTS SAY, 5 ATTHEW WOLL, vice president | for his balance of power—the secret of the American Federation of La-!of his long reign. President Green’s bor and acting president of the Civic ; principal, base is the United Mine Federation of Labor following the} Workers Union and railway organi- framing of Ben Gold and ten other | zations less fortunately situated than Basoff On Stand to Be Gross Examined : CHICAGO, April 17.—Reviewing he recent world-shaking develop- | — in the struggle of the Chinese | ople against imperialism and the press the formation of ‘Citizens’ Committee to investigate epee dl nistic activities in New York City.! The names of the committee’ will be made known in a few days.” Thus the New York Times, | This mysterious committee, for the | organization of which Woll, Hugh| Frayne, A. F. of L, organizer, and | Edward McGrady, special A. F. of id representative, claim credit, is said to have been formed at a luncheon | “attended by representatives of the | church, law, education, labor and em- | ployers.” NE. need not, in our opinion, look | far afield for the base of this! united front of reaction, Its base is | the Civie Federation, the caucus of | the capitalists and their agents inside | official circles of the Bc sh Fed- eration of Labor. Matthew Woll, acting in the Jexyit| Woll’s base in the American labor cooperation with the bosses, K addition to the photo-engravers Woll is supported by a collection of other small unions—a similar bloc to with powerful corporations and forc- ed at times—like the U. M. W. A. is at present—to struggle to preserve their living standards. Whatever dif- ferences there may be between the policy of Green and Woll—and this difference will become clearer as the offensive of the capitalists is inten- sified—is due largely to difference in | the economic status of the main blocs of supporters. A’ present the war on honest and militant trade unionism operating | under th slogan of “down with the. |Commur/sts and the left wing,” is led by Woll. For him this is a labor of love. By birth, religion and econ- omic position he is opposed to any-' thing smacking of radicalism. Woll, and Frayne and McGrady, his lieutenants, belong to the militia of | Christ wing of the American labor movement. Green is said to have | strong leaning toward the Ku Klux | Klan and both he and Woll find pleas- | ure as well as profit in smashing | needle trades unions composed prin- | cipally of Jewish workers especially | as thousands of these workers are Communists and Communist sym- pathizers. UT Woll is the real leader of this offensive. His position in the Civic Federation assures him of moral and financial support from powerful Ia- bor-hat organizations who fully (Continued on Page Two) ie \ { In Mineola Today The stodl pigeon Barnet Basoff goes back on the witness stand for further cross-examination this morning when the trial of Ben Gold, I. Shapiro, S. Mencher and 8 other members of the New York Furriers’ Joint Board, charged with responsibility for an as- sault said to have occurred in a scab shop. during the strike, is resumed be- fore Judge Lewis J. Smith at the Nassau county court house, Mineola, Contradicted Himself. Basoff was on the stand for four hougs last Friday and contradicted himself so continuously that his tes- timony served as clear evidence of the fact that these fur workers are | in a courtroom, and facing a possible | jail sentence, as a result of a frame- up. Members of the union are in no doubt as to whe has brot about this! frame-up. They are seeing the day by day attempts of Matthew Woll, Edward F. McGrady and Hugh) Frayne to smash the furriers’ union, | to force registration with the scab | International by methods of terror- | ization, and by having workers dis- chargec from their jobs. They re- member McGrady’s boast that Gold and the other leaders would be put |and the United States, have ‘been fi-\ the working class to death, in jail---and that would end the strug- gle sa the union. y suttetesaine role played by the United | States government tn the reasons, therefore, calling atten- tion to the danger of a new imperial- { ist world war and urging the workers ' and farmers of America to stop ag-! gression against the Chinese masses and end all imperialist war maneu-| vers, the Central Executive Conimit- | tee of the Workers (Communist) Par- ty =has issued the following state- ment: APPEAL TO ‘AMERICAN WORK. | ERS AND FARMERS. | Working Mén and Working Women: Energetic efforts are being made! by the imperialist governments in- cluding the government of our own country to plunge the world into an- other orgy of mass murder, into an- other world war. Thru a new world conflict, the im- perialist powers, particularly Great | Britain and the United States, hope \to destroy the Chinese revolution and to smash the Soviet Union. Let every worker be on his guard! | Not since 1914 has the, world faced | so grave and imminent a danger of | war. Preparing a New World War. Every step that can be taken to! plunge us into war is being taken, For a long time the intéfnational bankers, especially those of Britain nancing the militarists and counter- (Continued on Page Five) cnn sesniitnltnnn tan conjunction ; with the other powers, pointing out | FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents ~ HIS OWN PARTY VOTES NOT TO RUN HIM AGAIN Against Both English And Chinese Labor (The defeat of MacDonald by an overwhelming majority in his own party—the independent labor party | —i severe blow to the socialist party officialdom, the Forward and the right wing of the trade unions who sent B. Chart Viadek to England to escort MacDonald here and who paid h es for the trip in return for agreement to use his prestige against the Con munists and left wing in the labor movement. That prestige has now departed and it is strikingly ap- propriate that the two main charges against MacDonald were his hostility to the Chinese libera- tion movement and his opposition to the wage program of the Bri- tish trade unjons. Kerensky, brought here by Civie Federation labor officialdom to aid their campaign of union destruc- tion, and MacDonald, brought for the same purpose, can now greet orf another with real feeling. They have a common bond. The workers of the two countries with the most powerful labor and revolutionary movements, the Soviet Union and Great Britain, placed them on trial, considered the evidence and rendered their verdict —guilty of treason to the working class.—Editor’s Note.} * * LONDON, April 17.—While he is ow ; vacation in the United States former premier Ramsay MacDonald has ceived a severe rebuff from a section of his followers. After three hours (Continued on Page Five) NEW STRIKE IN SOUTH CHINA 10 PROTEST RAIDS SHANGHAI, Aged 17.—The reso- lutions adopted at the Nanking con- ference calling for the expulsion of the Communist members from the Nationalist government do not repre- sent the views of the rank and file of the Kuomintang, the Nationalist They merely represent the views of | the type of class conscious capitalist | the Central Control Committee, which How the United Front of Labor Hating Capitalists =~" is dominatetl by Chiang Kai Shek and in no way bind the plenary session which is expected to settle down"te | business on Monday. Gunboats Kill Chinese. Reports received here state that papatiel ie gunboats have been sail- ing up and down the river in the (Continued on see Three) SACCO, VANZETTI MUST 60 FREE— DEMAND OF 20,000 The Sacco-Vanzetti Emergency Committee has called a conference of delegates from trade unions, and fraternal and labor organiza> tions, next Friday April 22nd, in Labor Temple, 243 East 84th St., at 8 p. m. to discuss plans for a strike, and for the calling of a Na+ tional Conference of labor. Over 20,000 workers crowded into | Union Square Saturday afternoon, while from four platforms, in varl- ous languages, speakers from many labor groups. : At the close of the demonstration a resolution was adopted calling upon “all working-class organizations, re- gardless of their political differences uniting their forces to free Sacco and Vanzetti; that the movement be sup- ported for a National Conference ‘at which the question of national action be discussed; and that “this meeting is wholeheartedly in favor of a gen- eral strike movement, to free Sacco and Vanzetti.” They stood for hours before the platforms and booed and hissed every mention of the name of the judicial tool of the Boston Back Bay textile aristocraty, Judge Webster, Thayer, who sentenced these two fighters for Wave wave of indignation rolled from _ Continued on Page Two) Y