The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1927, Page 1

HANDS OFF CHINA! WITHDRAW TROOPS AND BATTLESHIPS! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THR UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY Vol. IV. No, 82, Current Events By T. J, O’FLAnerry. HE Monday morning papers carried several important and interesting T stories. From the point of view of local or nationalist interest Alfred E. Smith’s reply to the question whether allegiance to his church might. prevent his full allegiance to the government of the United States comes first. Al replied cautiously and cleverly and convincingly. Al is| as patriotic as the best of them and| more so. Al is right. His allegiance | to his church does not conflict with | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by matl, $6.00 per year, SPY SWEARS USE SCAB UNIONS TO “GET” BEN GOLD Have No Success With | Oral “Confession” | When a detective, stool pigeon, is looking “for informa- | tion” about members of the New) York Joint Board of the Furriers’ | accompanied by a DAILY WORKER Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act ef March 3, 1879. German Communist Youth And Red Front Fighters |) Meet Ruthenberg Ashes | HAMBURG, April 18.—J. Louis Engdahl, conveying the bronze urn containing the ashes of Charles EF. Ruthenberg for burial in front of the Kremlin wall in Moscow, was met on landing. here by a delega- tion from the Young Communists’ congress and the Red Front or- ganizations. A reception takes place today in Berlin. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1927 ANOTHER eae REPUGEE PUBISHING Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER CO., 33 First Street, New York, N. ¥. FINAL CITy | EDITION | Price 3 Cents CHIANG KAI-SHEK ISOLATED FROM MAJORITY OF KUOMINTANG PARTY Treachery Causes Sun ’s Family, Nationalist Leaders, Civilians and Soldiers to Oppose BULL LONDON, April 18.—A second Chinese government is practically c ETIN. five-power note to the Nationalist omplete and will be dispatched as soon as assent is obtained from Japan where the ministerial crisis is delaying approval of the final draft. his duty to American capitalism. * * * Ree E. SMITH, whose reply to. the leading question referred to, was written by a Jesuit hand, is as loyal to his government as Mussolini the former atheist is to the capitalist class of Italy. Religion has no more to do with the loyalty of a capitalist politician to the system on which he fattens than has the religion of one of Ford’s slaves to do with his wage scale. The catholic church is a power- ful ally of capitalism, not only here but in all countries. It supported feudalism with equal loyalty but veered around like a yacht under the} direction of a good helmsman when it saw that obstinate opposition to the. rising capitalist storm would mean disaster. * * ET Al Smith may never occupy the white house as president. Were it a question of a show of hands the men an women who like their beer and wine might give him a majority. But there are mure“votes in the wide * ‘ epen spaces than most people think. | And the millions who believe the pope | is out to overthrow a perfectly good! capitalist government will not vote for Al. And the fat boys in Wall Street don’t particularly care. Al) may be the wisest. available tool on} the political horizon but their system is still sound and if four years from the next presidential election the social weather is stormy a popular fellow like Al wall be still available | barring accidents. * * NOTHER ‘sweet bit of news is the | * .| the old company union; and the Inter- | Union he visits the two scab unions— | 6 Li . | |Greek headquarters, formed by the| orwal rimes | | reactionary A. F. of L. leaders from | } To Be Related at 3 Meetings Sunday tive Benjamin Grebe of Nassau coun- | ea 4 ty who was a witness for the prose-| Spokesmen for the American and jeution yesterday when the trial of | Jewish labor movement in New York | Ben Gold, I. Shapiro, 8. Mencher and | will tell how the Jewish Daily For- |8 other fur workers for an alleged| ward has been betraying the inter- | assault during last year’s strike, was | ests of the workers during many years | resumed before Judge Lewis J. Smith) in three separate halls next Sunday in the court house at Mineola. | attaenoon at 2 o’clock—The Central With Bernard Basoff, the stool | Opera House, 67th St. and Third pigeon, who turned state’s evidence| Ave.; New Star Casino, 107th St., and who over and over against last! and Park Ave.; and Manhattan Ly- Friday, and again yesterday, contra-| ceum, 66 East 4th St. dicted his testimony and stated that | Will Expose “Forward.” he had deliberately lied at his former, Precisely at that hour, too, J. Ram- | trial, Detective Grebe came to New! say MacDonald, just repudiated by | York on a number of days hunting! the influential Independent Labor for the fur workers whom Basoff| Party of Great Britain, will be the! planned to identify. “guest of honor” of the “Forward” Look For Information. which is celebrating the 30th year of “We went thru the fur market be- its existence. tween one o’clock and three,” said the} MacDonald, who declined to com- |detective in discussing the particular | ment on the notorious Sacco-Vanzetti day he was searching for Otto Len-| decision ® on the pretext that he hardt, Jack Schneider, Joseph Katz | doesn’t want to “interfere in Amer- | national’s “ten cent” union formed of | all the old gangsters and other dis- | credited leaders who were driven out of the union by the workers. “Dick” Testifies. This was the testimony of Detec- Decisive. Defeat of MacDonald Forecasts Defeat of Reaction in the American Labor Movement To the list of reactionary refugees fleeing from the wrath of the workers they have incensed and finding asylum in impérialist America the name of Ramsay MacDonald must be added. The working class section of the Independent Labor Party rose in its wrath and repudiated MacDonald and his policies by the astounding vote of 312 to 118. The verdict of the working class delegates to the Independent Labor Party conference must be given the utmost consideration by the Ameri¢an workers. It marks a new phase in the develop- ment of the British labor movement, it expresses the rapid swing of the left among the masses which has been going on sinee the general strike and which now has given to the whole world, by its repudiation of MacDonald, notification that it intends to purge the ranks of labor of the leadership responsible for the betrayal of the miners and the whole labor movement. The main indictment of MacDonald seems to have been made by Fenner Brockway, secretary of the I. L. P., who at the Brussels Conference Against Colonial Oppression, represented the party officially. The ministers of the five powers at Peking have been each sent a copy of the draft by their own governments and, according to infor- mation from the foreign office tonight there will be no difficulty in finding agreement on the note which on htis occasion is expected to be a joint document with even the United States taking part. = * . ” SHANGHAI, April 18.—General Chiang Kai-Shek, right wing Nationalist general, is reported to.be practically isolated in his attempt to split the Kuomintang. Although no news of the much-advertised “anti-Bolshevik” conference at Nanking has yet reached this city, it is confidently predicted that by the end of this week, Chiang’s ambition will |lead him into open war not only with the Northerners but with the majority of the Nationalist civil-7—— a% TR ians, a large portion of the Nation-| jalist army and practically all of the | Kuomintang leaders. Whether or not |Chiang will openly ally himself with the Northern war lords is a problem | for speculation here. Leaders Oppose Chiang. That none of the leaders of the! |Kuomintang attended the Nanking conference has been definitely ascer- tained. Not only the Communists in! the Kuomintang, but Sun Fo, son of Sun Yat-Sen, Eugene Chen, Nation- alist foreign minister, Mrs. Sun Yat- Sen, T. V. Soong, Nationalist min-} ister of finance and Wang Chin Wei, Sun Yat-Sen’s disciple, have de- nounced the Nanking conference as) an attempt to split the Nationalist} movement. Chiang Kai-Shek, who has repre- HIGH CHURCHMEN DEMAND QUIZ ON SACCO, VANZETTI Labor Thruout Country Insists on Freedom BOSTON, April 18.—Bishop Will- iam Lawrence of the local Episcopal diocese and four other prominent Bos- tonians today joined in asking Gov. Alvan T. Fuller to name a commis- sion to inquire into all the vital facts and Joseph Weiss. | “Then when we did not find them there we went first to the Greek} union, and then to the International.” | “You went to the Greek union hunt- | ing Jewish furriers?” asked Attorney Henry Uterhardt. Wanted Squealers. “No, we just went for information.” | It was before ‘this’ testimony that! ican internal politics,” has been brought here by the “Forward” and the reactionary trade-union officials and socialists to assist the white guard, Kerensky, in the campaign to glorify treason to the working class. Indifferent to Verdict. MacDonald’s coolness toward the fate of the two framed-up Italian workers ‘is’ alt tlie more remarkable Brockway charged MacDonald with .aiding British im- perialism and to anyone who has been following the Mac- Donaldites’ policy it is clear that the late leader of the I. L. P, has been of the greatest aid to the tory campaign of ag- gression in China. The Daily Telegraph’s Peking correspondent was able to report for instance, that. MacDonald’s. utterances. “earn approbation here” and the same imperialist sheet could say sented the interests of the wealthy|of the case of, Nicola Sacco and bankers and industrialists in the movement, has been led by personal | ambition to betray his party, it is be- lieved. Since November Chiang has| received more than $90,000,000 from the Nationalist treasury for his northern campaign for which he has rendered. no-accounting. ‘ The attempts of the Nationalist| Bartolomeo Vanzetti, framed-up Ital- ian workers now facing possible death in the electric chair. Included among the signers with Bishop Lawrence were Roland W. Boyden, F. W. Tassig, Henry J. Burr, and Charles T. Curtis, Jr. Boston Labor Demands Quiz Organizéd labor of Boston has Shanghai dispatch that appeared) in the N. Y. World from Vincent Sheean who was Morocco correspon- | dent for the Chicago Tribune until | he got himself fired for writing too, much of the truth. Sheean spills the} chop suey all over Chiang-Kai-Shek’s | imperialist uniform and ties the can! to him, politically. According to} Sheean, Chiang is a deserter from the ! Koumintang, a would-be war-lord | who thot he could ignore the party | and get away with it. As it is he got! away with several millions of dollars | but is lucky if he retains his head. | Detective Grebe, who with Basoff’s in the face of the protests against! ‘help, arrested Ben Gold, I. Shapiro, | the verdict sent to Gov. Fuller of S. Mencher, Jack Schneider, and Otto | Massachusetts by practically all lead-| Lenhardt, swore that every one of | ers of his own party in the British these workers with the exception of | Gold confided to him, almost as soon | as they were arrested, that they had taken part in the Rockville Center ; trip during which an assault was said to have been made on two brothers, | Michael and Jack Barnett. Gold, he} said, acknowledged that the raid took place. “Did you get these confessions in (Continued on Page Five) {sheet presided over by | important counts. Practically all the members of the Koumintang executive are against | him and the great majority of the army. Kiwar Pasha, Premier | the parlianient, A large number of speakers will | offer testimony giving exact details of the consistent treachery of the “Forward” in its relation to the work- | ers of America, and particularly of New York. Many Crimes Listed. The indictment against the yellow Abraham Cahan, contains a large number of Included among them are: The treachery to cloak- makers in 1912 by the “Forward”— “Bisnow affair’; the ‘“Hour- editorially that “We are able to quote MacDonald with satis- faction.” On January 21, when the decision of the imperial mili- tary conferences to send warships and troops to China had been made, and when troops were already embarking on their mission of slaughter, MacDonald endeavored to quiet mass protest by writing in the official organ of the British labor party, the Daily Herald: “It may be assumed that there is no intention whatever of any Western or foreign Eastern power fighting the Canton army. It is not there the danger lies.” MacDonald (in company with other reformist leaders of endorsement to the Chinese leaders to curb his all-embracing| joined in the demand for the freedom governmental activities and money) o¢ Sacco and Vanzetti with a reso- offered him by native industrialists | lution just adopted by the Central for suppressing labor unions are re-/T abor Union here calling upon Gov. ported to have been the causes of his| Fulier to stay their sentence, and to desertion. Pe s have a commission appointed to re- The greatest indignation has been! view the evidence in the case, and to aroused here hy reports from Nank- | fyee them if the committee’s findings ing that Hou Shao-hiu, a professor! ¢ayor the defendants. \in Shanghai University, was executed | ‘in Nanking on April 9th at Chiang’s! orders. Professor Hou was well-|,. ier: | known for his left wing sympathies, | ene eee ee In the meantime Chiang Kai-Shek | manding the “wncéadtional releaial® is continuing his raids on labor! of Sacco and Vanzetti. /unions, Swatow reporting raids by Resolutions Pour in on Governor DOWELL, Ill, April 18.—Resolu- his party) gave unqualified memorandum of the foreign slimy British imperialist diplomacy. {his troops resulting in the arrest of jthe chairman of the General Labor | Union and ten other leaders. Reports office—a typical example of MacDonald indulged in CLEVELAND, April 18.—Resolu- tions were last night adopted by the Cleveland local of the American Negro ee aed |wich affair” in 1913-14; the General} exclamatory lyricism in praising this document—a document | Labor Congress condemning the ver- (Continued on Page Two) } Mtg a adnate staged a fake anti-Bolshevik drive as an excuse | to break with the Koumintang party | and become the tail that wagged the dog. But the Chinese masses know | that the Communists are the steel rods that run thru their revolutionary organization and keep it firm in its purpose, In order to hold the favor of the masses Chiang ha@ to mouth anti-imperialist slogans much to his disgust. Now he cannot serve the imperialists and continue to agitate the Chinese against the robber sys- (Continued on Page Three) Of Egypt, and Entire Cabinet Leave Office | LONDON, April 18. The || Egyptian Government, headed by Premier Kiwar Pasha, resigned to- day, according to an exchange telegraph dispatch from Cairo. | The Kiwar Pasha Ministry, in which Kiwar Pasha, held the port- |) folios of premier, foreign minister and minister of the interior, was formed March 13, 1925, Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die! “Big Four” Insurance Directors Elected by Fraud ARTICLE VIII—PAST EVENTS OF INSURANCE EXPOSE. The DAILY WORKER herewith continues its expose of the “Industrial” (weekly payment) insurance trust. Previous ar- ticles have dealt with the methods employed by the “Big Four” in misusing “mutual” assets to the benefit of the banks which \, operate hand in glove with this powerful combine. The Big Four \is composed of the Metropolitan, Prudential, John Hancock and the Colonial Life Insurance Companies. inancial and government circles have figured largely in the series. Charles Evans Hughes, surance James A. Beha, Charles ton and others are among those present. * . * By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. Haiey Fiske, the venerable presi- dent of the gigantic Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, recently made a most remarkable discovery. He has come to the conclusion that | has his 24 million policyholders are all capitalists. He says so in a pam- phlet to his defrauded customers en- titled, “Your Rights as a Capitalist.” Mr. Fiske starts his opus on the newer economics with this statement of fact: “The Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Company has in force more Names prominent in Governor Smith, Supt.’ of In- M. Schwab, Alanson B. Hough- million individual lives—one-fifth of the population of the United States and Canada.” ‘ This statement is perfectly tru jand serves to show to what extent the fraud of industrial life insurance beew. perpetuated upon the worker-insuring public in this coun- try and Canada. If the reader pays for his life or endowment on insurance weekly basis he is a defrauded victim of the “Big ria rag ri of the fact that there are ion weekly payment policyholders throughout the country there is little chance that he is not Strike of 1916; the struggle of the) operators in 1917-18; the campaign | against the waist-makers in 1920; the campaign against joint agreements in| 1922; in the campaign of the Joint) Action Committee in 1925; the gen- eral strike of 1926, the treachery of | the “Forward” toward the furriers | during the strike of 1926. Behind Move to Jail Gold. This culminated in the present at- tempt to railroad Ben Gold and the 10 other leaders of the furriers to} prison, together with 40 other active (Continued on Page Two) Reed Gets Indigestion; Cause of Adjournment ‘of the Ford-Sapiro Suit | |, DETROIT, April 18—A twenty- | four hour adjournment was taken at | the $1,000,000 Ford-Sapiro libel suit in federal court today because of the Iness of Senator James A. Reed, chief of Henry Ford's counsel. Reed was stricken with acute indi- gestion on a train nearing Detroit, as he returned from a week-end trip to Washington. The senator was hurried to a hotel where physicians were called to at- tend him. Counsel for Aaron Sapiro, so-called cooperative king, agreed to the ad- journment. Hang Man to Settle Argument. DELAND, Fia., April 18.—Charlie Brown, alias Pisselli, was hanged in the county jail yard here today for the murder of Hotard Usher, Day- tona Beach taxicab driver. Sheriff Stone, after the execution, wired Brown’s mother, Mrs. Rigsio, in Brooklyn, N. Y., to learn what dis- position she wanted made of the body. It marked the last legal hanging in Volusia county and probably in the state. Several times Brown narrowly issed electrocution in the state pris- on at Raiford, each time a stay being granted on the ground that at the time he was sentenced to die in the electric chair, hanging was the legal than 36 million policies, insuring 24 |a victim. (Continued on Page ae of execution in Florida. ‘New J apanese Premier | which was part of a foreign office maneuver to halt mass protest and gain time for gunboat movements and troop ship- ments. Admirable . admirable . . excellent,” said MacDonald. During his term as premier, MacDonald sent gunboats to China and wrote an official letter to the Indian Nationalist (Continued on Page Two) Central Labor Union Acts on Globerman’s To Be Named Tomorrow | TOKYO, Japan, April 18.—A_new| Japanese premier will be appointed Wednesday, it was expected today, following the resignation of Heipiro Wakatsuki and his entire cabinet. | dict in the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, and demanding their immediate re- | lease. j_ MINERS RESENT SUPPRESSION OF 3 Million Chinese | To Be Represente At Labor Congress. BERLIN, April 18,—(FP)—Three MASS PICKETING million members of labor unions will be represented in the 1927 trade NEW EAGLE, Pa., April 18.—The union congress in China, according to | coal and iron police (company police Chen Kuen, general secretary of the | operating under sanction of the state) Chinese Seamen’s Union, who de-| and the Pennsylvania state constabu- livered a lecture in Berlin on the| lary continue to break up picket lines, Until the appointment of a succes- sor, Wakatsuki will coytinue to serve as premier. 7 The resignation of the Wakatsuki cabinet followed action of the privy council in vetoing relief plans for the Bank of Formosa Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Die! “D9 . Smith’s Alibi on - * Catholicism Issue WASHINGTON, April 18.—Gov. Al Smith’s reply to the Marshall letter, while praised by numerous commentators today, did not serve to mollify his chief senatorial critic, Senator J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, ““Gov. Smith’s statement is evasive and unconvincing,” said the Alabama senator. “It is, in some of the essential questions raised by Mr. Marshall, in direct contradiction to the teachings of many of the popes and the priests of the Roman Catholic church. It was intended, of course, to make a favorable im- pression for Gov. Smith on non- catholic citizens.” Candidacy T his Week LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 18.— | The law and legislative committee of the Central Labor Council announced they will recommend to that body! that the candidacy of Sam Glober-| |man for Board of Zduvation be en- dorsed, despite the fact that he is known as a Communist. | It is believed the officials take this | course and intend to fight against the endorsement on the floor of the coun- cil itself, rather than by an unfavor- able committee report, for too many unions are behind him which they cannot ignore, as they have a weather eye on the coming June elections for new council officers. They are still trying to get unions to withdraw the endorsement of Globerman so as to strengthen their own position before the next meeting of the Central Labor Council. Fought By Buzzel. The secretary of the Central La- bor Council, J. W. Buzzel, is desper- ately seeking to prevent the endorse- ment of Globerman. He appeared be- fore the Carpenters District Council last Monday, and charged Globerman with being a member of the Commu- nist Party; he submitted proof in the form of minutes which a stool-pigeon of the police department undoubtedly got for him, and attempted to get } (Continued on Page Two) Vt | Trade Union Center. position™and tendencies of this move- | ment. “On May 1, 1924,” he said “the first trade union congress was attended by 160 delegates representing 200 unions of some 300,000 members. At the) second congress, in May, 1925, the trade unions had a membership of 540,000. This congress was followed by the founding of the Ali-Chinese When the third | congress was held in 1926 the dele- gates represented 1,500,000. This year’s congress will represent 3,000,- 000 members. With R. I. L. U. “The All-Chinese Trade Union Cen- ter is affiliated with the revolution-| ary Red International of Labor Union | It has not the slightest sympathy | with pacifist or reformist principles. | | However, a united front including} | all the workers and the bourgeoisie is | absolutely necessary at the present} moment.” | This statement was made before it! became evident that General Chiang | Kai-Shek, backed by the southern | Chinese merchants and middle class | in general, would repudiate the radi-| cal aims of the All-Chinese Trade | Union Center and seek to crush the growing power of the trade unions in Shanghai, Canton and other cities. WORKERS! PROTEST AGAINST DEATH OF SACCO and VANZETTI! The miners as continually reform them. Local Union No. 280, of the United Mine Workers of America, has passed and made public a resolution which expresses the feeling of the working class section of this community, against the action of the sheriff in issuing an order against picketing. The miners feel that to permit the scabs to operate in numbers of any amount, and to allow whole companies of coal and iron police to parade the highways, and at the same time to permit pickets to go in couples only, | never so much as’ three together, is putting it on rather strong. Their resolution points out that the miners fight for nothing more than a living wage and bearable working conditions, and says: “Whereas, the sheriffs of Allegheny and Washington Counties posted no- tices throughout the counties prohibit- ing picketing of the scab mines ex- cept in groups of not more than two, Resolved, that we Local Union 280 of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica of New Eagle, Pa., protest against this action of the sheriffs of Alle gheny and Washington counties aud request that their order be withdrawn and that the scab mines be allowed to be picketed by the union men on strike, and be it further Resolved, that mass meetings be allowed to be held by the unions,